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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the seventh short story in the ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' series anthology ''[[Lineage (anthology)|Lineage]]''. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the seventh short story in the ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' series anthology ''[[Lineage (anthology)|Lineage]]''. It would later be packaged in a short ''[[The Lucy Wilson Mysteries]]'' anthology, ''Attack of the Quarks''. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to | [[Hobo Kostinen|Hobo]] often visits nearby [[Porthcawl]] to visit the old arcades. He convinces [[Lucy Wilson|Lucy]] to travel with him to the Magic Mirror arcade, both to play a vintage [[Pac-Man]] game and then to look at a strange metal cube that has always been at the back. Lucy calls it "a totally Lethbridge-Stewart find". Mentioning [[the Brigadier|her grandfather's]] name causes the cube to come to life and grow legs: it's a long-dormant [[Quark]] and it wants to find Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. | ||
Lucy, Hobo, and the arcade worker Tony try to hide in the arcade as the Quark goes on a rampage. Lucy is sure she's heard of Quark's before but doesn't remember where from. | |||
Hobo decides they can "Pac-Man him", where he'll distract the Quark while Lucy gets behind it and throws a blanket over it. The plan fails as Hobo runs out of cover before Lucy can get in place, so she gets the robot's attention by announcing herself as Lucy Lethbridge-Stewart. She expects to be killed but the Quark turns out to be looking for the Brigadier for orders: she remembers that her grandfather told her about a time he reprogrammed several Quarks to disable [[Rill]] [[Chumbley|defence machines]]. She orders the Quark to shut down. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
'' | *Lucy pretends to be unaware of what eSports are. | ||
*Hobo says she might know the term 'Quark' from [[Quark (fictional character)|the ''Star Trek'' character]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | *The Brigadier once encountered the [[Rill]]s and [[Chumbley|Chumblies]] in battle. The Quarks came from [[the Warehouse]], the setting of [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Auton (home video)|Auton]]''. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||