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[beccaelizabeth]

This morning's dream had lots of interesting elements. There was a bit where I was head of a team that was recruiting people with special powers for some kind of mission. I went to a place where we were going to recruit Wesley Wyndham-Pryce. The early version, with all the shiny and none of the common sense. For some reason (and this makes me look at my subconscious with very raised eyebrow) he was wearing one of them black suits with the zip up face. Like a ninja suit, only just slightly different in the connotations...

So there was this big hall where there was going to be a ceremony, but we were having the actual important bit of welcome to the team backstage beforehand, which was giving him a matching bracelet. Because they were actually portable time slicers, and if they activated all at once me and my team existed all in the same split second and could move around that space without moving in time at all, and effectively nobody else could get in, because if they were as much as a femtosecond out they'd be in a whole different slice. They'd see us when we popped out, but that didn't have to be for ages in personal experience time. Very good for planning and escapes.
So, he got a bracelet with a little shiny stone in it.

Then an alarm went off and there was lots of screaming etc. Something about biological contaminents. Everyone was in the hall for the ceremony but had to start rushing around to get to their posts. Nobody had looked in the back of the hall, where there were huge great fireplaces. We could see them from the stage. Someone was dropping baskets of eggs down them. And when the first one hatched out, well, it was not a cute fluffy chick. There were scales involved. And possibly slime. And it was half as tall as a person in seconds.
So I use my first hand of power, and send huge great stream of fire at it.
cooooooooool. or, er, you know, hot, but anyways...

Then there's a fight, and my team all pull together as you do, and there's lots of fried eggs.
The hall defences come slamming down, big metal screens to shut off the fireplaces, but with enough holes in we can still send the fire through. So that's fun.

But in this fight we discover another local with a really useful power, a guy who nearly got hit by the flames but automatically shielded himself and used an extension of the shield to redirect the flames so they were tidier. Now that's nifty. So I take my team outside time a step to ask if they think he should join. And much to my surprise another local girl follows us there!
She has a shiny stone in her hand. Hand of power is to timeslice. Still a very neat trick to sync it to the rest of us.

So we figure we'll take both of them with us.

But when I shake hands with them to welcome them to the team, my other power shows up, and I realise this girl doesn't have a natural timeslice ability, she's been modified with an implanted stone. And also, she's a spy.

... and then I woke up, so that scenario went away.

Then later there was a dream where we were evacuating a citadel that had been infiltrated.
... by towels and curtains that could wrap around your neck and mind control you.
... yes, my brain is made of so many kinds of weird.
But it was all tragic, because even if the infecting towel was burned, what it left in your system would gradually take control. So people were having to leave their siblings behind and stuff. Big tragedy.

So then there was running around and collecting up everyone with a hand of power, or another sort of power, like I knew there was a healer in one room but they thought it was one girl and I was going to say it was another so we took them both along. So there's these ships to evacuate in, kind of like puddlejumpers but more Time Lord-y. And we're all piling in to them, but even with the ultratech there wasn't enough room for everyone, so we had to leave behind the ones without the power to make their own way overland. We had to go fight, they'd have got munched anyway.

Left my mum the Queen behind to be in charge of that. She looked like Romana I, in that hat from Tara. We had a touching speech about how my power levels were so much higher than hers obviously I had to go lead the resistance. She had power suitable to her day, I had power for mine. Where we had to fight invaders from another galaxy that we'd been running away from, rather than stupid politics fights with other citadels, so, big difference. It was like our touching reconciliation scene, with a side order of 'haha, I rule, plus was always right'. So, you know, more like smug.

ANYways, to drive the puddlejumpers there was Jack, and Ianto with a clipboard was counting people in as they loaded up. And the silly boy was planning to stay behind. Didn't think he had a power. I said not to be stupid, he had at least one hand of power, and a heart. We needed him. He made us better.
See he was like a catalyst or amplifier, didn't seem able to do anything himself, but everyone else worked better for having him on the team. Only with more magic. Cool.

So then I gathered my strength and sort of mind-shouted at everyone who had the magic and could therefore hear me, and set a rendevous point to pick them up at, and used up all my strength so of course I passed out.

And woke up here again.

I tell you, dreams is weird. Very highly weird.
... but definitely writeable, with some tweaking.