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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 3, 2010 2:07:12 GMT -5
From what he remembered, there was a big FLASH.[/b]
Then there was silence.
Then his head started to hurt.
Then he was thirsty.
Maybe that was because there was sand in his mouth.
The silence was quickly replaced by childish laughter as the doctor pulled his head out of the sandbox, industrial-grade sand pouring out of his wide jaw disgustedly.
"...geh... blungh..." he sputtered, swaying dizzily from the effects of dimensional travel.
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Post by shiftyPotentate on Jun 3, 2010 2:15:09 GMT -5
Some what close to where the doctor had landed, another flash signaled the arrival of yet another guest... and yet no one seemed to be there. Just a slight heat shimmer.
Then the heat shimmer moaned from the shock of travel.
"Urgh... what happened..."
The shimmer slowly faded, and a figure emerged in its place. A small-ish figure, in a jet-black jumpsuit.
She immediately became aware of her visibility, and looked around.
Just a bunch of kids, she thought. And their attention is all being focused on something else... Then she noticed the person - at least she was pretty sure it was one - they were laughing at.
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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 3, 2010 2:47:54 GMT -5
"Ngh~!" The doctor straightened up, finally noticing the laughter around him. Groaning, he began to glare at each child, mentally cataloguing their faces into his 'destroy list.'
"S...stop that," he weakly tried, his eye twitching as he sat in the sand, too wobbly to attempt to stand. "...I mean it...!"
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Post by shiftyPotentate on Jun 3, 2010 3:00:48 GMT -5
The auburn-haired woman tried hard to reactivate her shield before she was spotted by anyone, but she failed. She could feel the magic inside her, but for some reason she couldn't draw on its energy.
"Aaah, d'arvit," she swore to herself. Then it occurred to her. She was nowhere near home. That she knew. Her visor's lack of reception to Lower Elements Police's signal attested to that. So it's not as if she was in danger of revealing the rest of her race.
She decided to help out the clearly-dazed doctor. Activating her suit's mechanical wings, she gently hovered over to him.
"All right, you kids," she said, trying English first, hoping it was the language of the area. If not, she could always try again. "Leave the poor... guy" I think, she thought to herself, "alone." Her hand strayed to her Neutrino laser handgun. She didn't intend to use it, rather hoping it would succeed in keeping the children at bay.
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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 3, 2010 11:31:04 GMT -5
He straightened up as the kids made small 'oh!' faces and began to back away, and he smirked to himself. Ha! Of COURSE they would back off once they recognized his infamously evil face!
His illusions of granduer faltered when someone small landed atop his gigantic, ideally-flat-surfaced head. "...what?" he grunted, waving his tiny arms up in futile attmepts to reach the top of his head. "Who DARES...!?!"
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Post by shiftyPotentate on Jun 3, 2010 15:17:47 GMT -5
"Hmm?" The auburn-haired elf looked down. "Who dares? Yes, who dares to demand something of the fairy who just helped you," she said snidely. She did, however, hop off his head and lithely landed in the sandbox and turned to face him. Her mismatched hazel-and-blue eyes stared right at the strange doctor.
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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 3, 2010 17:40:55 GMT -5
He gaped at the sprite, pouting. Oh, JUST what he needed, yet ANOTHER assertive female breaking his mojo.
"For YOUR information, I didn't NEED your help," he bit back, finally standing and brushing the sand off his boots and classily as possible. "One shot from my blaster would've had them running for the hills."
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Post by shiftyPotentate on Jun 3, 2010 18:06:00 GMT -5
The sprite in question wasn't at all moved by his attempts to maintain his dignity. That was lost the second children began mocking him.
"Uh huh," she said, half-sarcastically. "Look, we could go on for hours and hours about who would have done what, but a more important matter is, where the heck are we?" She narrowed her eyes. "People will notice if I'm gone and I need a way back home. You look like the science type. So tell me where I am."
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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 4, 2010 11:30:20 GMT -5
The doctor half-considered not telling her, glaring inwardly at her. Still... how could he resist flaunting his knowledge? It'd sure show HER!
"Well, if my calculations are correct--ahem, and they usually ARE--then we would find ourselves at a place called 'Dimensional Island,' a portal world to all other dimensions in existance!"
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Post by shiftyPotentate on Jun 4, 2010 21:15:18 GMT -5
"Dimensional Island?" She was in a bit of disbelief, but a cursory glance around, and the fact that her communications to Police Plaza were out of range - something Foaly assured her would require going all the way to Neptune to accomplish - seemed to support his claim.
"That WOULD explain why I'm here..." She paused to think for a moment. For now, I don't have any known means of getting back to my dimension... I don't have nearly enough magic to create any kind of portal. Not only that, my magic doesn't seem to be responding here. I suppose I have no choice but to trust in this... man. "All right, then. As long as I'm stuck here... I'm Captain Holly Short, of the Lower Elements Police," she introduced herself. "How about you?" said Holly.
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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 6, 2010 0:03:35 GMT -5
Ahhh... this one was clearly not of his world. And the poor thing looked so lost and confused. If the doctor was any different kind of man, he'd hold sympathy for the vertically-challanged woman.
Buuuuut... he wasn't. And so he didn't. Instead, he saw this as a chance to get a new lackey on his side. A tough, take-no-prisoners lackey to aid him in his conquest of this more-than-likely nutty place. Oooooh, he liked that idea.
Firmly clearing his throat, he bowed, which seemed almost impossible with the size of his gargantuan head. "Doctor Neo Cortex, at your service, Captain." That's it. Butter her up. Get on her good sign. Oh, no, this doctor was not without class. Maybe he lacked proper sanity, but never class. Not at all.
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Post by shiftyPotentate on Jun 6, 2010 1:45:45 GMT -5
((LOVELY portrayal of his narcissism XDDDDD))
And it might have worked, too. Might have. If only Holly hadn't been a supernatural police officer trained to notice extremely subtle differences in someone's body language and inflection. And Cortex's voice was absolutely dripping with charm. In the interest of having a little fun, and stringing him along a bit, two things she was always wont to do, Holly played along.
"Ooh, Doctor Cortex?" she said in as awed a voice as she could manage without sounding like a bad PTV actress, widening her eyes slightly for effect. "Well that sounds real important. You must be pretty smart!" she said, figuring he was a self-loving delusional. Boy had she met a lot of those in her lifetime.
Well, now, as long as I can keep myself from laughing out loud, this should be a hoot, she thought, with a mental Cheshire grin.
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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 7, 2010 1:03:33 GMT -5
Cortex's ego swelled like a balloon. Well, at least this disgusting peon had the eyes to spot a true genius when she saw one!
"Indeed, indeed." Having fully regained his pompous air, Cortex turned, whipped out his Palmcom, and started walking. He expected Holly to be following faithfully behind him like a lovesick puppy. "Now, according to my research, somewhere in this city lies a television station that broadcasts across the entire island. That should be a good vantage point to--" Here he was stuck. He had to keep her convinced he was just a genius, not an EVIL genius. For safety measures. "...to overlook the island and see where the ideal place to unlock portals to send you HOME, of course."
He turned breifly, not caring how far away she was. "...that IS what you wanted, right?"
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Post by shiftyPotentate on Jun 7, 2010 1:17:44 GMT -5
Holly figured Cortex wanted her to follow like an obedient puppy. No, no, a lovesick puppy. So she did follow him. And when he stopped to suddenly change his intent, Holly picked up on it easily.
"Oh, of course it is~" she said, playing the helpless victim, something she normally despised, but for some reason was having fun with this time. "Please, take me to the television tower, Dr. Cortex." Then maybe I can use the comms rider cable Foaly gave me to get a message out to him... somehow. Holly stuck behind Cortex, faithfully, even if it was only a ploy.
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Post by nintendonut1 on Jun 7, 2010 10:17:47 GMT -5
"Of course, my dear." This was much too easy. She was almost as oblivious and gullible as that infernal bandicoot. ALMOST. It was pretty hard to top that mutant's sheer stupidity and dumb luck.
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