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Post by Leedzie on Apr 28, 2007 19:18:08 GMT -5
"Because Chocolate insists on waxing our chests." Chili now tended, Uncle Chuck turned back to the line of customers, and spotted a new one at the far end. The hedgehog cleaned his hands on a towel -- hopefully not the one he snotted on -- and approached Lance, leaning against the counter opposite the wolf. "Hey there, stranger! What can I get for ya?"
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Post by Raki on Apr 28, 2007 19:56:09 GMT -5
They were joking, right? Yeah, yeah they had to be. Keeping his mind off of bizarre stories, the tenrec turned his attention back to his food. Meanwhile, a certain weasel had finished his own food and was considering what to do next. No idea where he was, no idea where to go... he might be sitting here and considering for awhile. And Bogert? Apparently taken to reading a newspaper.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 28, 2007 20:19:12 GMT -5
Bunnie just snerked, burying her face into her palm "Ah shoulda known bettah," and then, glancing back at Dash "So where do you come from anyway, strangah?" "Yo," the wolf said in a disinterested voice, giving a passing glance to Chuck before looking back up at the menu "I'll have some chili cheese fries and a cherry cola," he paused for a moment "Extra chili, extra cheese."
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Post by Raki on Apr 28, 2007 20:37:50 GMT -5
Oh. That's an awkward one to answer. "Well, I'm sorta from-" "Space.", Bogert finished, flipping another page in the newspaper he brought. Blink. Bogert paused, and put the paper down. "Oh, no wait. That's me. He's from a parallel world where fish fly and people get turned into robots." And then Bogert grinned. With the way the people here told stories, who'd know if it was the truth or not? "..." Except for him. And he wasn't paying attention.
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 28, 2007 20:50:42 GMT -5
"Parallel universe, eh?" Chuck called over his shoulder, dumping a gigantic load of chili onto a comparitively small batch of fries. "Doesn't sound so parallel to me; just the other day a great white shark flew right into my restaurant here while I was serving some customers and ate me! The bits of me that weren't shredded by the razor teeth were swallowed whole in an instant." A mountain of molten cheese followed after the chili, and found its way in front of Lance. As the hedgehog filled the remaining fountain drink, he added, "Oh, and it was a ROBOT shark, by the way. I actually didn't in that attack; I just crawled out the maintenance hatch in the back." Uncle Chuck nodded seriously. "I died a little while afterwards of blood loss!"
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 28, 2007 21:14:21 GMT -5
Bunnie snapped her fingers "Ah think Ah've heard of that place! Why, in fact, hey Charlie, didn't ya'll get turned into a robot while ya were vacationin' there once?" Lance mumbled a thanks to Chuck as his food was delivered, pulling a few rings out and slapping them down on the counter for him. He just eyed the group quizzically as they took turns telling outrageous tales. Sounds like he'd stumbled onto a bunch of fruitcakes. ... Ignoring that, he decided to distract himself by eyeing Bunnie.
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 28, 2007 21:36:16 GMT -5
"Sure did. Lemme tell ya, it really burns. When I was done I was running around like my quills were on fire." Upon filling a cup with fizzy cherry delights, Chuck slid Lance's cup down the counter to him, then leaned on one elbow to tell 'Tade' the latest batch of unrelated thoughts that happened to be passing his mind at that moment. "Y'know what sucked the most? I kept having a short circuit right at the base of my back! Isn't that always the way it is? Things always happen on that one part of your back you NEVER can reach! But the cool thing was that I could decorate myself with magnets! Or at least I could for a few minutes, until the magnetic pulls began deleting the memory of my hard drive. But I had prepared for just such an occasion, and kept a back-up of my RAM on a disk that I stored in my stomach! You'd think I'd have wised up and stopped using all those magnets and having to re-install my memory, but old habits die hard, I suppose. Especially eating chili dogs; even though I was a robot, I kept eating those things by the truckload, although some periodically wonder where the hell they went after I swallowed them." He paused and glanced around the kitchen. "I've got vacation photos of it somewhere around here!" Around the end of the hedgehog's story, another semi-familiar face appeared from around the corner. "Hey Chuck, hey Bunnie. You guys wouldn't happen to have seen--" Just then the weasel caught her eye, and Rouge bolted for his end of the counter. "THERE you are!! I've been looking all over for you!! How the hell did you get here from Metal City so damn fast?!"
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Post by Raki on Apr 28, 2007 21:45:23 GMT -5
Well, that snapped Fang out of his thoughts. "OH GOD NOT YOU AGAIN". And then he promptly fled. Dash, meanwhile, had gone pale. But, once again to the benefit of having fur covering him all over, it didn't show. " That's... that's not funny." He fidgeted, then went back to scarfing down onion rings, saying nothing more.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 28, 2007 22:32:12 GMT -5
Bunnie's sat there grinning at the old hedgehog's story. However, the grin quickly vanished and one of her eyebrows hiked up when she heard Dash speak, noting the suddenly change in his demeanor "... Somethin' wrong, hon?" She noted Rouge, but didn't seem to concern herself much with the sudden scene between her and Fang. Lance, on the other hand, jumped at the sudden commotion and looked around quickly. Realizing that the yelling hadn't been directed at him, he just rolled his eyes into his head and went on with his business of eating.
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 28, 2007 22:48:07 GMT -5
"Ooooooh no you don't!!" Rouge's brow lowered determinedly as she sprang into the air, easily catching up with the fleeing felon and dive-bombing him from above. The pair tumbled to the ground and rolled forward a couple of feet, but in the end Rouge stradled Fang's back, twisting his wrists backwards and leaning all of her weight onto them to keep him in place. "STOP STRUGGLING FOR A MINUTE AND LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON, YOU FREAK!!" Rouge chose to ignore that her own behavior in that moment wasn't exactly typical, either. Chuck leaned over the counter to look past his patrons at the scuffle just a stone's throw from his stand. "...Well. Looks like she's over Knuckles," he commented in passing.
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Post by Raki on Apr 28, 2007 23:20:48 GMT -5
"Nothing, it's fine. I don't want to talk about it, it's behind me n-" But, once again, before he could finish what he was saying he was distracted by the DRAMATIC BATTLE between Rouge and Fang. Or, his fleeing and her tackling. Dramatic or not. He gawked at the scene and turned to Bogert. "Should someone do something?" Bogert did not even bother looking up from his newspaper to reply. "No." Fang, of course, was struggling desperately. As one does when a psychotic bat apprehends you. " I'M NOT THE FREAK! YOU ARE!" ... no, u.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 28, 2007 23:36:57 GMT -5
The rabbit arched her brow at Dash, then shrugged, turning her attention to the pair squabbling on the sidewalk "... That sure happens a lot 'round here." Lance idly sipped at his soda watching the two, smirking ever so slightly. His ear twisted when he thought he'd heard a familiar voice though, and glanced over toward the group socializing on the opposite end of the stand with an inquisitive quirk in his brow.
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 28, 2007 23:48:54 GMT -5
"FANG!! STOP... FLAILING... AND... LISTEN... TO ME!!" What a pain, Rouge irritably thought to herself as she struggled to keep the weasel-wolf pinned. Her upper body strength was only average at best. "SIT... STILL!! Or else I'm going to screech at you again!!" "Keep on 'im, Rouge!! He still hasn't paid yet!" Not that Uncle Chuck's finances would be all that impacted if Fang skipped out on his bill, but it was the principle of the matter! Chuck grabbed his soda cup from under the counter and slurped loudly at the straw. "o20 says she knocks him out complete instead of calming him down," he wagered to Bunnie.
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Post by Raki on Apr 28, 2007 23:51:27 GMT -5
And the weasel... went still. If there was one thing he didn't want, it was to have his ears explode again. The first time was not pleasant. He didn't want to buy a ticket for a second trip. "I guess I shouldn't ask then...", replied the tenrec, picking up his drink before pausing and remembering what was actually in it, and placing the glass down again.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 29, 2007 0:25:27 GMT -5
Bunnie chuckled "Looks like yer bet's already been lost, Sugah." His ear twitched when he heard the voice again, tilting his head to one side in curiosity. Then he calmly stood up and began walking over toward the person perking his interest. While Dash had his focus turned toward Fang and Rouge, the wolf strolled up behind him and reached a hand out, grabbing his hood and quickly pulling it back to expose the tenrec's face. "Ah ha!" he said with a triumphant smirk "I thought that was you!"
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 29, 2007 0:42:21 GMT -5
"I'm sorry, dear, but my grandmother's on fire." With that, Chuck abruptly walked away from Bunnie's section of the counter, continuing to slurp his drink and refusing to admit defeat. The theif let out a sigh of relief... but still wasn't ready to release her prize just yet. Keeping a firm grip on Fang's wrists, and still pressing them firmly into the small of his own back, Rouge lowly and carefully said, "Good... Now listen up: I know what's going on now. You got pulled through a portal into an alternate version of your home world. I mistook you for this world's version of you earlier today. Our government is currently working on a way to make a portal leading back to your dimension, and I've been hired to gather up all the out-of-place people, such as yourself. "So, you've got two options." The bat pressed her claws just slightly into Fang's flesh. Even through her gloves, it was probably uncomfortable. "One, you can behave yourself and come with me to the compound, where you can wait for a way back home in a place with free food, shelter, and recreation... Or two, you can continue to make an ass of yourself around here and probably never make it back to your world." Rouge failed the mention the third option, which would be a direct result of the second, in which she released another sonar wave if he resisted and dragged him back to G.U.N. unconscious, where she would recommend he be imprisoned until he's sent back. "So what's it going to be?" Just then Lance pulled down Dash's hood, and Chuck did a double take. "I THOUGHT that was you under there! Dash, what are you doing hiding your face? You know I'm not going to call the cops on you! I might call Leda on you, but other than that... ..." The old hedgehog paused and rubbed his chin, as though he were considering doing exactly that.
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Post by Raki on Apr 29, 2007 0:51:45 GMT -5
"... I'll go with the first." Really what he was thinking now was that people here were DEFINITELY crazy. Alternative dimensions? As if! However, it was still best not to argue with the looneys. Bogert frowned and glanced at the wolf that just ruined the BRILLIANT DISGUISE he'd given Dash. With a sigh, he went back to reading his paper. Nothing he could really do now. The tenrec in question squirmed in his seat, glancing nervously from Lance to Chuck. It surprised him first to see Lance, and especially to see him in a partially roboticized state... at least, until he remembered again that there were doubles of folks here.javascript:add(" ","") Italicize " I... I... er... I'm... not who you think I am, really..." Ah yes. Some things were incredibly awkward to explain.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 29, 2007 1:25:41 GMT -5
"Damn right you aren't!" Lance said in a convictive tone "You've been running around hanging out with hotties and you don't even bother to tell me about it?!" Bunnie looked between the two several times in confusion. She had to admit it. They seemed familiar "... Ain't you two from that Dark Legion group?" she paused for a moment, her eyes widening and her face flushing at the wolf's comment "... Hey bucko, ya'll wanna care to repeat that?"
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 29, 2007 12:54:17 GMT -5
"Good." Slowly and cautiously, Rouge released Fang's wrists, and a moment later got off his back. The bat wrinkled her nose. "Your garbage smell better not have rubbed off onto me..." Letting out an annoyed sigh, the theif made her way back to the chili dog stand. Just then Chuck hung up the phone he'd apparently been talking into. Spotting Rouge taking her seat at the counter, the hedgehog snickered and asked, "Lovers' quarrel?" "Don't start with me today, Chuckles," Rouge replied in a warning tone. "Can I just get a chili dog to go, please?" He couldn't contain his snicker. "Sure, kiddo. Coming right up."
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Post by Raki on Apr 29, 2007 13:27:30 GMT -5
Dash flustered. Not only did he have to deal with a version of Lance that apparently knew his alternative self, but he had to deal with Chuck calling the police or something, and Bunnie saying he was part of some 'Dark Legion' group- and whatever THAT was, it probably wasn't good. ... Probably why Chuck was on the phone. At least, so he assumed. "N-no! Really! I'm not who you think I am! And I have on idea what a 'Dark Legion' is supposed to be, and I'm DEFINITELY not part of it! You've got me mixed up with someone else! ... BOGERT! HELP ME OUT HERE!" And... Bogert continued to read his paper. " BOGERT!" Bogert didn't look up from his paper then either. "Sometimes, the truth is stranger then what can be believed."
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 29, 2007 15:13:02 GMT -5
"Yeah babe," Lance said, giving her a quizzical look mixed with what appeared to be genuine confusion "I think you've got us both confused," and with that, he grabbed Dash by an arm with his own hologrammed hand and held it up for everyone to see "I mean, do we look like a couple of cybernetic freaks?" Bunnie gasped, her eyes flying wide open at the wolf's comment "Why of all the nerve!" she said furiously. Uh... whoops...
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 29, 2007 18:25:40 GMT -5
"Dash," Chuck mused, handing the waiting bat her to-go carton, "I may be an old fart, but I'm not senile." Rouge couldn't have cared less about the crisis going on just beside her. Ironic, really, considering that the tenrec at her side was yet another transplant for her to round up. OH WELL. "Thanks," she mumbled distractedly while dumping a pile of rings on the counter. "That should cover Fang, too; I can assure you he doesn't have any money of his own. I'll catch you guys later." Giving a short wave, Rouge met back up with Fang and briskly headed down the street. "Come on, let's get going." Meanwhile, Chuck had taken to eyeing his wrist watch intently. Several minutes passed, until suddenly the aging hedgehog announced, "Three... Two... One." Aaand just as the countdown predicted, a pangolin the colour of cotton candy knocked Dash completely off his stool and stradled him on the ground. "DASH!!" Leda screeched excitingly, wrapping him in a delighted hug. "I'm so glad you've dropped by!!! I wish you wouldn't stay away so much!!" Suddenly she blinked, and tilted her head to one side. "Where's your scarf?"
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Post by Raki on Apr 29, 2007 19:26:36 GMT -5
"No, that's not what I mean! You're confused too because I'm n-" Unfortunately, at this time Leda glomped him. This was unfortunate mostly for one reason- at the moment, Lance had been holding his arm. And though it wasn't visable at the time due a hologram, Lance's limbs were made of metal. A metal grip is a strong grip. And when you have one of your limbs in, more or less, a vice, and someone comes and tackles you bringing you the opposite direction... Well, the results are not pleasant, but they were, however, extremely typical of Dash's luck. Extremely. "#%(@#)^#OW" Even if this version of Dash was familiar with having bones dislocated, it still hurt like a mofo.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 29, 2007 19:45:20 GMT -5
Lance blinked in surprise, not really having been expecting some chick to come flying out of nowhere and tackle Dash, and as a result hadn't thought to release his grip until the damage had already been done. ... Uh. Double whoops? Bunnie gasped in surprise, her mind now taken off the smartass wolf as she hopped off her stool and kneeled down beside Dash and Leda "Oh mah stars, Sugah!" she exclaimed "Are you okay?! Don't try to move!"
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 29, 2007 20:46:18 GMT -5
A look of horror spreading across her face, Leda quickly scrambled off of Dash, struggling to find any words. "Dash, I-- Dash, I'm sorry!! I guess I gained weight again or something! Are you okay??" The pangolin leaned over the victim and examined him as best she could, but may as well have been looking at Chinese arithmetic. "Uncle Chuck, you know weird crap! Is he okay??" Chuck, who was surprisingly calm, leaned over the counter with a grim expression. "I doubt it's broken; it's probably just dislocated. But I'm no doctor either way, so keep him still while I call an ambulance." Broken?? Dislocated?? Ambulance?? Leda started to spiral into guilt, but before she could get very far, a boiling anger twisted her face into a snarl. Before she could restrain herself, the pissed off pangolin popped to her feet and gave Lance a hard shove. "WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LET HIM GO YOU IDIOT?!"
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Post by Raki on Apr 29, 2007 20:55:27 GMT -5
Bogert sighed and folded up his newspaper. Things were getting out of hand- he'd probably have to explain things soon... but for now he wouldn't say anything unless it was truly necessary. Dash, meanwhile, was writhing in considerable pain. The fact that he hadn't felt pain in such a long time didn't help it's sudden reappearance. He was also quite confused on what exactly had just happened. It had a lot to do with this world's version of Lance, he was sure. And this girl that appeared out of no where. But it was oh so much easier to pin the blame for things on Lance. Even alternative versions of him. "WTF! DO YOU HAVE A VICE FOR A HAND OR SOMETHING?!"
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 29, 2007 21:16:34 GMT -5
And some pangolin was shoving him. Sheesh. Were ALL pangolins insane?! "Hey, get off me you crazy dame!" Lance yelled, throwing his hands up in defense "I'm not the one who came flying out of nowhere and BODYSLAMMED him!" The wolf's brow arched in curiosity, peering around her at Dash. Why was he writhing around like that anyway? It was his mechanical arm he'd grabbed! While Leda confronted Lance, Bunnie had kneeled down by Dash's side trying as best as she could to make sure he remained still.
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Post by Leedzie on Apr 29, 2007 21:53:11 GMT -5
"YOU SHOULDA JUST LET GO YOU BIG JERK!!" Without warning the pangolin whipped around and slammed into Lance with her massive tail. "LEDA," Chuck announced in a parental tone as he hung up the phone, "either settle down or leave the restaurant. We've already got one injured, we don't need a second." The elder hedgehog leaned over the counter to look at Dash, giving him a piercing, almost scolding look. His goofy attitude had disappeared, replaced with a grim dissatisfaction. It was a side of him the Dash he knew saw every time he visited the chili dog stand. "Don't worry 'Tade', help will be here soon."
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Post by Raki on Apr 29, 2007 22:34:28 GMT -5
At least Bunnie was successful- he didn’t really want to move around much anyway, it only took him a few moments to come to the conclusion that moving around only made things worse. Thinking back, there was a time that he actually MISSED feeling pain. Apparently he’d forgotten how it, well, hurt. He certainly didn’t remember pain being so… painful. He apparently didn’t notice Chuck’s change in demeanor either, instead giving a nod (and a wince from the movement that caused for his shoulder). “Thanks.” A few moments later, he came to the conclusion that something wasn’t right. Something other then the dislocated shoulder, that was. Mainly, the sudden appearance of a sharp pang of pain appearing on his side, fading into strangely familiar burn. Now, where’d he feel that before? Realizing just where, he gasped, pulling and looking down the front of the hoodie so that he could see the sight of the pain and hopefully put his fears to rest. However, his expression changed to one of pure horror as he saw just what he’d feared- a patch of metal was seemed to of appeared on his side, and it was rapidly growing, as well as the level of pain it caused. “NO!”He jerked away from Bunnie, no longer caring that the sudden motion would cause further stress to his injured arm. “NO, NO, NO!”He scrambled to his feet. And ran. As fast as he could. No place in mind. As if it’d help. As the pain increased he found himself stumbling as he did so, but he ran. Bogert blinked in surprise at the sudden outburst. Things, apparently, had gone from bad to worse. Jumping from his seat, he glanced around at the others. "I'll take care of it." And ran off in pursuit.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Apr 29, 2007 23:09:33 GMT -5
"Whoa!" Lance gasped as the girl's tail came flying at him, leaning backward and stumbling into the counter as he felt the wind tug at his fur, missing her swing by inches "Dude, it happened in, like, a split second! What do you expect from me?!" And then his face melted into confusion, as all of a sudden Dash had begun screaming and, without warning, had jumped up and taken off running. His mouth gaped open slightly. "Sugah?!" Bunnie said in alarm when Dash tugged away. As he took off running she stretched an arm out in his direction as if it would stop him, accompanied by a look of wild surprise. When Bogert ran off after him, Bunnie rose to her feet and began to take up chase as well "Wait, ya'll git back here!" she yelled.
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