Response Center 999

Response Center 999 is the first spin-off by Neshomeh. It stars Agents Supernumerary and Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill of the Department of Implausible Crossovers with recurring guest appearances by Nurse Jennifer Robinson of FicPsych.

The first story in the series is "Introducing Ilraen," published circa January 6, 2007. The first mission is "Family Ties" (June 24, 2007).

About the Spin-off
Response Center 999 is the home of Supernumerary, a man with an eidetic memory, and Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill, an Andalite from an Animorphs badfic. They work in the Department of Implausible Crossovers. Whenever a careless writer smashes two or more universes together for no good reason, it's their job to untangle the worlds, put the canon characters back where they belong, and remove any original characters and other anachronisms that don't belong anywhere at all. Between Ilraen's inexperience and Nume's prickly personality, they often have their work cut out for them.

Supernumerary is a veteran agent who joined up in early 2003. Before being partnered with Ilraen in 2007, he worked with Agent Cameo in the Department of Floaters. Some of their exploits are recorded in "The (Plot)Hole-ish Adventures of Cameo and Supernumerary." However, their final mission together ended in disaster, and Cameo hasn't been seen or heard from since. She was a bit of a psycho who liked to play with the neuralyzer a little too much, though, so she is not missed.

Nume and Ilraen are friends with Jennifer Robinson, a nurse in the Department of Fictional Psychology who has known them each for nearly their whole careers and was partly responsible for getting them assigned together. She occasionally helps them out on tricky missions.

Nume and Ilraen are both sci-fi fans, but with the Harry Potter series being crossed over with everything else in the multiverse, they tend to get a lot of missions there. Nume also particularly favors The Lord of the Rings, and thanks to Cameo, he has experience with quite a bit of anime, too. Since both agents spend lots of time reading and keeping up with popular movies and TV shows, there is very little this team can't cover effectively.

Until the subject matter starts getting a little more, ahem, adult, that is. Ilraen knows nothing about such things and Nume wants nothing to do with them, so it's always fun when they come up.

The RC
The response center itself is similar to a dormitory, with sliding Star Trek-style doors. It consists of a main room, a bathroom, and a closet.

The main work/living area is shaped like the state of Utah flipped sideways. The shorter left wall is dominated by the console, but there is some room on the near side for bookshelves and on the far side for a mini-replicator, which is based on the larger TNG replicator. (Some previous inhabitants of the RC worked in the Trek Division of the DMS.)

Against the longer right wall, there is a bunk bed with a spread of blueish-green grass from the Animorphs universe in the place of a bottom bunk. At the foot of the bed, there is another set of bookshelves. There are even more bookshelves against the wall by the head of the bed.

Against the near wall beside the door, Ilraen has a worktable where he spends some of his free time on his hobby of reconstructing a working CAD. In the "nook" at the back, there are doors to the bathroom and a storage closet. Between them, against the far wall, Nume keeps his dresser.

Links
Response Center 999 may be read in either of two places:


 * Neshomeh's Archive
 * Archive of Our Own