[open] party in the atrium

[canadese]

WHO: Ax and YOU (if you happen to be in the atrium)
WHERE: Atrium
WHEN: Morning of 2/14, before and after life support is restored
WHAT: Ax attempts damage control in the way only a disgruntled alien centaur stuck in zero-g can! Come hug a polar bear if you need help staying warm!
WARNINGS: Will update if necessary

[ 0820, shortly after systems failure ]

[He should have known this would happen. A ship with an engine system so volatile it can regularly pull in residents of other dimensions is not going to have life support up to par. This would never happen on an Andalite ship.

After a few moments of undignified flailing (Andalites are not trained in zero-g because the idea that artificial gravity could simply break is laughable) he resigns himself to floating and waiting it out.

And waiting. And waiting. It's dark enough that he won't notice he's about to collide with someone until he does, though even if he did, there would have been little he could have done about it. His hooves will knock the wind out of you and his tail will do worse; be glad he only gets you with the flat of it. Alternately, he'll just barely miss you, casually gliding by as probably the strangest thing you've ever seen.]

<Please remain calm. There should be very little danger as long as life support returns quickly.>

[ 0840, the temperature is getting... unbearable ]

[Of course, it doesn't; it takes long enough that even Ax starts getting a little worried, though he's barely willing to admit it to himself. The biggest problem is that it's getting very cold.

Which Ax can actually do something about, but he's the only one. Probably. The only drawback is that the other people here don't seem to be all that used to morphing. So: they'll just have to learn fast.]

<Stay close to me. I am going to do something that should help with staying warm.>

[That's all he says before his body begins ballooning, changing color, shifting internal organs and bones and tendon... the pop of joints shifting rings out especially loud without the ambient noise of the ship's systems in the way. It's gross.

After a few grotesque minutes he has physically shifted from weird blue centaur alien to Earth-native polar bear. Grab ahold!]

[ 0920, after systems restoration ]

[There's no obvious sign that base power systems has been restored; it's only the natural Andalite ability to keep track of data in the environment that lets Ax know.

He has been in polar bear morph for approximately forty Earth minutes.]

<The ambient temperature has raised several degrees in the last few minutes. It is likely that life support has been restored.>

[There's a moment as he waits expectantly.]

<Which means you can let go of me.>

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[yokunaru]

[And sink in it does. Ax might even be able to pinpoint the exact moment Yuuri realizes what he means, from the way his eyes open wide.]

Ax? You're--but you've always looked human every time I've seen you so far!

[With that appearance, Yuuri hadn't even thought to ask, though he'd known Ax wasn't from Earth.]