HQ of the Wicked - Curious Dogs

[L]

The day's usual unnecessary musical number had come to an end, and the small android dog, despite his usefulness in repairing the roboband, had almost gotten them discovered due to added noise. That and within fifteen minutes of returning to normal activities, all of the plumbing in the lair had ceased functioning correctly. Bandora wasn't completely sure, but their piping had never had issues prior to the android's arrvial. That and she'd actually caught him dismantling a her powder room's sink, much to her dismay. Needless to say, the canine android was quickly proving to be much more of a nuisance than an asset, and unfortunately this wasn't the type of dog you could drive two miles out of town and abandon in the woods ala many corny old films.

Such matters in mind, she had no idea how to dispose of the eskie. That brought her what she'd learned over the years to be the simplest solution to everything: Make the hornet do it. "Sting, get your malicious orange hide in here before I reshape your skull into a balloon animal!!"

The lair shook for a few seconds after the command echoed throughout it.

[Raki]

And once that died down, there was the unmistakable thrum of the wingbeats of a very, very large insect. A few moments later, a hornet was hovering a few feet away from the sheep, head tilted slightly to the side and bearing a slightly bemused expression.

"What?"

[L]

"While I was undergoing my daily recreation, 'this' suddenly appeared in the lair." She said, pointing toward Dart.

The tiny eskie had preoccupied himself dismantling the fog machine hooked up to her decorative throne, muttering to himself about tubing and the like. He accidentally undid a live line and ended up getting drown in a blast of cold fog.

Bandora rolled her eyes, using her gift to contain the fog within a small bubble around the android until it dissipated. "It's been nothing but a nuisance since it arrived." She explained. "I -did- at one point hope that we could make use of it, but its creator seems to have had a rather... twisted sense of humor (at least judging by the personality he endowed it with). Needless to say, I require your assistance in getting rid of it."

[Raki]

"Want me to throw it off a bridge?"

Judging by the hornet's expression, he was entirely serious about that.

[L]

"I'd prefer that you didn't." She replied. "I'd like you to find and return it to its owner. Seeing how it DID manage to slip into the lair undetected, it might be wise to ID the creator."

The forcefield around Dart had dissipated, allowing the remaining machine-fog to clear. The small android gagged and coughed up a ball of dry ice.

Bandora looked back at the android witnessing the phenomenon. "This person will either make a worth ally or a formidable foe..." She commented, turning back to Sting. "The android informed me that his creator's name was Resson. Do we know anyone in the department of science by that name?"

[Raki]

"Nah. Not anyone we know of. But maybe someone from the Chaos universe. Want me to go check records?"

His gaze shifted over to the eskie for a moment before he chuckled a bit at it's dry ice antics.

[L]

Bandora pondered her minion's response. The Chaos dimension WAS a possibility, though the rift between Sol and Chaos wasn't currently open; at least to her knowledge. "The former sounds like a interesting possiblity." She replied. "Do you know if the rift is still open, though? That's the question. Furthermore, how does such a rift allow an android to land in the middle of the lair?"

The sheep laced her fingers, still pondering.

Dart, aware of the new arrival in the lair, swiftly approached Sting and began examining him out of curiosity. He was unsure of what to make of the creature's arrival.

[Raki]

"Didn't get the news? There's a portal or two these days. Like a whole immigration deal. Not sure what it has to do with thin air though."

At that point, the hornet turned to face the now near android dog.

"HEY. What do you have to do with appearing out of thin air?"

[L]

The dog looked Sting straight in the eye. "My daddy took me and my brother on a mission to another universe, where the sky was all dark and dirty-lookin'. " Dart explained. "While we were fighting, one opened up and I fell through and landed here."

[Raki]

The hornet turned to Bandora and gestured towards the dog.

"Well, there you go."

[L]

Bandora tapped her fingers upon the throne's armrest in, pondering the discovery. "Do you suppose we should investigate this new world?" She proposed.

And possibly rid ourselves of this nuisance before it destroys something else? She added in mind-speak.

[Raki]

Sting scrunched his face up a bit, as if he was thinking very hard about it... and then rather casually shrugged with a smirk

"Yeah, sure, why not?"

[L]

"Very well." She said, nodding to Sting.

"Child." She said, grabbing Dart's attention. "Show us this mode of transit between worlds."

The eskie turned and pointed to a portal on the other end of the room. "There it is!"

"... How convenient."

[Raki]

The hornet wrinkled his 'nose' (well, more of a spike in a convienent nose-like location)

"Oh, that thing. Yeah I was wondering about that. So should I go get the hiking boots and trail mix?"

[L]

"As long as you don't forget my aspirin, I'll be content either way." She said, rising from her seat and approaching the portal to examine it further. "... There seems to be no way to tell where it leads."

The dog, however, had taken Sting far too seriously and had produced a large bag of trail mix out of nowhere. "SALTED NUTS!"

"... On the other hand, there are worse things that we could be facing." She commented, turning a gaze toward the odd dog.

[Raki]

"We could tie someone to a rope and throw them in there, then pull them back to report."

He paused to think about that.

"Nah, that'd be stupid."

[L]

"Or maybe not..." The sheep uttered. "BLUR! BURGER! GET YOUR USELESS HIDES TO WORK AND BRING ME THE UTILITY TETHER!"


Momentarily, a very terrified duo, consisting of a befuddled cat and nervous spiny mouse, wheeled a large tethered bale of rope into the lair. Their job being done, the fled back to the reaches of the lair whence they came.

"Now, Sting." She commanded. "Secure yourself. Once we've confirmed it's safe, we'll then decide what to do.

[Raki]

Sting's expression went blank.

"I'm sorry, did you miss the part where I said that was a stupid idea? ... hell if you're really going to do it, pick someone expendable..." He then gestured towards where Blur and Burger had run off, and then at Dart. And then continued to gesture at Dart.

[L]

"What makes you think you aren't expendable?" She raising a brow.


Dart, meanwhile, was toying with the tether, and had subsequently tangled himself in the rope.

[Raki]

The hornet smirked.

"That was a mistake."

[L]

"Indeed it was." She said, turning to leave, hoping that the hornet would have the sense to follow her orders. "Now, if you'll excuse me... I think I'll go tap into my supply of aspirin."

The sheep turned and left the lair.

It was as she did that, that a large portal opened up beneath the small dogbot, engulfing him and the tether. "SAYONARA!"