We Need To Talk

by **Natalya Romanov** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:06 pm

Natalya blinked at the erasing paperwork. Then her hair went pure white as she dropped the temperature around the paperwork well below zero.

by **Narrator** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:04 am

The process had been slow to begin with, but any sort of analysis (minus perhaps 'just looking at it') would show that the rate had crawled to near, but not quite, zero levels.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:49 am

"Damn it," she frowned, picking up her phone. "This is Romanov. I need some of the brain trust from the labs to come to my office. Stanton at the very least, Bowen if he's handy. Tell them to dress warmly."

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:52 am

A little while later Sara knocks on the door.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:01 pm

Natalya opened the door, her hair still white and frost on various pieces of equipment around the documents she was trying to hold in stasis. "Thanks for coming."

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:10 pm

"No problem. Ooph... you weren't joking, huh?" she says, slipping into the jacket she'd slung over her arm.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:14 pm

"Yeah," she said, gesturing towards the papers and documents. "These documents are erasing themselves. The epicenter seems to be here," she indicated the box where the agents' files had been placed. "I'm not sure what's going on, but I've managed to nearly halt it for the moment."

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:15 pm

"Erasing themselves? Those are Will's personal things. How is that possible?"

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:19 pm

"Do you know where he was keeping these things? When he got them?" She motioned and the frost that had gathered picked itself up and slithered into a small pile well away from everything else or as away from everything else as it could get in the office.

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:23 pm

"They were just in the closet. Last time I checked it didn't have any reality altering powers."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:25 pm

"Well, I'd still like to get these into the lab and see what you can figure out. We're dealing with organization that have the ability to mess with things on a cellular level and I wouldn't put anything past them. How do you want to do this? I'm not keen to just pick these things up."

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:40 pm

"I can get tongs and isolation containers from the lab."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:47 pm

"Sounds good. Grab whatever help you need."

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:54 pm

A little while later she comes back with gloves, tongs and the tubes they'd grabbed from the Black Air facility.

"They're a little small but most of these things should fit in there."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:56 pm

"Okay, I'll let up on the cold so you can work. I'll start at the left and work my way across."

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:04 pm

"Oh that's fine. No need for that." she says, shifting her arms into stone and going to work.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:06 pm

Once everything was bottled up, Natalya gave another look around the room. "Do you want me to follow you down to the lab or are you good?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:11 pm

"It'd actually help a lot if you could keep things frozen while I work on it."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:16 pm

"Sure thing," she said, grabbing a tablet that didn't seemed bothered by the cold, checking its charge and then nodding to her. "Let's go."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:27 pm

In the lab Sara transfers most of the tubes into liquid nitrogen for storage before getting out one of the papers that so happens to be Will's birth certificate and transfers it into a vacuum chamber.

"Can you keep it frozen in there?" she asks Natalya.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:00 pm

Natalya looked up from where she was making notes about something. Her hair had reverted to blue as Sara had finished getting things isolated, but it rolled back to white as she concentrated on the vacuum chamber, dropping the temperature. "Let me know if it's too cold."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:04 pm

"Let's go ahead and say there's no 'too cold' here." she says as she takes the chamber and inserts it into an electron microscope, tapping a couple buttons on the console next to it and bringing up the view of the greatly magnified piece of paper.

by **Narrator** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:29 pm

ZOooooom SCIENCE

There certainly wasn't any evidence of any ink having ever been on said paper -- but there WAS something. Something almost...viral.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:34 pm

"Okay this makes no sense. How could there have never been any ink on this? I've seen it." she mumbles and adjusts a couple settings to try and clear up the image.

by **Narrator** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:37 pm

ZOOOM Science.

There was definitely something THERE, interacting with the paper on a molecular level, but only where the important info was -- name, date of birth, etc. You'd think it'd erase the entire paper, but no...

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:32 pm

"Something's removing the ink. Scratch that, something is removing the ink's molecular matrix."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:12 am

"Any way to tell what it is?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:59 am

"Whatever it is apparently it's still moving too fast to get a picture of it. How cold can you make it in there?"

by **Natalya Romanov** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:09 pm

"We'll see," Natalya said, her forehead creasing in concentration as the temperature in the chamber began dropping rapidly. It was cold enough for the chill to be felt beyond the walls of the vacuum chamber. "I'm not going to be able to hold this for long, so take your pictures while you can."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:15 pm

Sara keeps her eyes on the temperature indicator and when it seems like it's about to bottom out hits a switch to take a snapshot with the massive microscope array.

by **Narrator** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:03 pm

I suppose the closest description to what it looks like would be a virus of some sort -- though obviously artificial in nature. There were quite a few examples there, all focused around the areas of key information, as opposed to, say, the line just reading "Birth Certificate".

There was a strange reading of chronal flux with them, too.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:14 pm

"Bloody hell? What is that?"

by **Natalya Romanov** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:19 pm

"I... I don't know," Natalya said, her voice sounding somewhat strained. "Little out of my league on this one."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:24 pm

"Some kind of... temporal nano-virus? I'm afraid this is a little out of my league as well." she says, pulling out her phone and sending a quick message to Dr. Bowen.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:29 pm

Natalya was slowly having to relinquish her hold on the temperature. "Hopefully we can find someone who knows about these things."

by **Stan Bowen** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:31 pm

About ten minutes later, Stan entered the lab wearing a slightly worn Arsenal Jersey.

"Sara, Nat. What's the commotion?" He asked, headed to the electron microscope.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:43 pm

"Yeah, Sara's going to have to explain this one to you."

by **Stan Bowen** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:55 pm

Stan, meanwhile, took a look at the view screen.

"It looks like paper... Wait, there's something else.."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:17 pm

"They're some kind of temporal nanites. This is Will's birth certificate they're erasing."

by **Stan Bowen** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:38 pm

"Are they totally contained?" He asked, looking a little worried.

"Temporal nannites are really scary words when put together.."

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