The Gigyas Tapes (Invite Only)

[nintendonut1]

"HOORAY!!!" Ed plopped down immediately in his seat, riggid in giddy anticipation. Raz rolled his eyes, calmly sitting next to him and motioning for Wally to join them.

[gantzgun74]

Wally didn't need to be told twice and immediately sat his butt right down. "Oooooh!! This is gonna be SWEET!!"

[42zombies]

"T-Thank you for coming to the screening of, hopefully, the first of many movies." Nefarious grinned like a ten-year-old in a grade-school play. "Um... as some of you may know, I'm a super-- a super-villain in my world. But filmmaking was always a dream of ours. So, here's hoping you reelly enjoy my movie!"

Dead silence. 4 coughed into his sleeve, embarrassed.

"G-Get it? 'Reel'? Like... like a movie?" After about two minutes of pitiful attempts to make his joke funny, Nefarious signaled Jorge to start the film. He took his seat in the front row, scrunching down in shame.

THE GIGYAS TAPES:
A NEFARIOUS JOINT

"The ghost town..." Professor Nefarious' voice boomed as snapshots of the town were zoomed into slowly, ominous music in the background. "Long abandonned due to... unsightly paranormal activity. But, recently, a squatter has moved into this desolate berg..."

A photograph of what appeared to be a fetus appeared on the screen. "Gigyas," Nefarious said as a caption reading 'DOCTOR'S INTERPRETATION' appeared on the screen, "a being of ultimate evil, has recently infused the town with its psychic essence. But what can this mean? What do we know about Gigyas?

"To find out more, I interviewed an expert on the subject."

4 stared in shock at who appeared on the screen next. "Is that... Bill Murray?"

"Shh!"

"Yeah, I've dealt with ghosts and cosmic abominations; Gigyas would most-likely have an adverse affect on the eat their eyes Ghost Town." The man who might have been Bill Murray, but then again might not have been, nodded calmly. For a brief second, he raised his middle finger to the camera with a sick grin on his face.

"That's... weird." Nefarious mused.

[nintendonut1]

Ed watched with unwavering interest, eyes wide. Raz, on the other hand, was trying so very hard not to burst out laughing. The reference to the classic film (as well as perhaps a more recent one) was totally uncanny.

[mugenginga]

Lucca blinked as the announcement was made. She giggled a bit nervously, and perhaps even cutely, as the failed attempts at a connection occurred. Now probably wasn't the time to be asking the person about her arm, "Can we talk about it later? I'm really into things like this. I once repaired a...," she paused as people began sitting down, "Um... right. Later?" Her eyes were sparkling the way a five year old's might if they'd found a quarter on the street.

She ducked down and found a seat about the middle of the area. It was the optimum spot to not get blown away by the screen and to see the picture. She took off her glasses, which were apparently not as attached to her helmet as they looked, and breathed on them. She wiped them on her tunic before putting them back on as Nefarious went into his speech. Super-villain...? He didn't look that threatening... then again, neither did the Nu. She made a point to keep an eye on his actions. Right now he just seemed to think much of himself. She sighed at his pun, having a feeling Crono would appreciate it.

She had to facepalm at the man on the screen. He certainly didn't look like a teenage boy, but he was acting like one. So far the film seemed a bad attempt at humor. It wasn't that she didn't believe in "ghosts" (Cyrus being a reason why she did) or things people referred to as "cosmic abominations" (Lavos... she shuddered at that thought), but this show seemed rather corny. The moving pictures were the best part, and had Lucca wondering what computer program Nefarious was using...

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Gogo groaned as the movie started.

"...Yeah, they've got me in here watching this weird movie thing. Yes, yes it is totally lame. Say something to keep me distracted. Like give me status updates on the search for Flamel or something," she said into a speaker in her robotic hand's pinky. She was starting to regret coming here...

[gantzgun74]

Wally laughed along with Raz. “Hahahah!!!! Wasn’t that the guy that starred in that one movie? You know the one about ghosts? I didn’t see all of it, but that guy was a total comic genius in that one!” He thought a moment. “I just wish I could remember the name of it, then I could try to find it at a store somewhere.”

[42zombies]

"I think it was Lost in Translation." 4 replied as the movie continued.

Nefarious was on-screen now. He was in the Ghost Town, walking down a street as the camera followed in-front of him. It certainly gave the film a documentary-feel, but Nefarious' general lack of professionalism tore that to shreds.

"Of course, Bill Murray is a horrible person, and we shouldn't listen to anything he says," Nefarious told the camera. "So, I decided to take a team into one of the Ghost Town's most chilling haunts and find out for ourselves. After all, how can you know if you don't experience it for yourself?

"Isn't that right, Razputin?" Nefarious asked, charming and friendly but with a strange tint in his eyes. "You have no idea what it's like to play with your friends in the water. You envy them, don't you, Razputin? You look at them and you think, 'Why can't I be like the normal kids?' And you [glow=red,2,400]hate[/glow]them, don't you? Hate them because they aren't cursed."

"What the hell...?" Nefarious muttered as the events unfolded on-screen. He hadn't said that... had he? He didn't even know anybody named Razputin! So what was going on?

[nintendonut1]

"No! It was Ghostbusters!! Bill Murray!!" Ed instantaneously corrected. Raz wasn't in the least bit surprised, continuing to watch the film.

He WAS surprised, however, when the film started to talk back to him.

"Wha...what!?" He sat aghast. "What in the...!?"

"Wow! You're famous, Raz!" Ed cluelessly cheered.

[gantzgun74]

Wally, however, was LESS then enthusiastic. He spared a quick look at Nefarious, whom sat in the front row. He could see the good doctor looking up at the screen with confusion...

Wait a minute... This was HIS movie, he made it!

Didn't he?

After from the professor, he took another look at the screen as the movie continued. He may not have been the smartest guy around, but his mind was definately in overdrive. "Raz..." He looked at Raz, whom's look of surprise at the screen was still apparent. Turns out he didn't need to ask.

Something was eerily wrong here...

[Wally's innate fear of horror movies is helping this so you know. But don't worry, he's only barely started figuring that something's going wrong. Also, I apologize for not waiting my turn, but I felt I needed to put this in.]

[mugenginga]

Lucca blinked a few times before adjusting her glasses, which anyone that knew her knew was a nervous tick of sorts. Whenever she found something interesting or was trying to figure something out, her hands went to her glasses. She didn't recognize any of the people in the video, but the horribly unprofessional presentation of the on screen Nefarious had seemed to... surprise the off screen one.

She glanced around to gauge the reaction others had to this. One member of the group especially seemed rattled, but she was too slow in looking around to even try to read lips. The "movie" was loud, so she was having trouble hearing exact words of the others. She turned her focus back to the screen. Now, the odd reaction to the film could have been explained by Nefarious being off balance, he didn't seem to have the largest grasp on things. But the others in the theater were rattled, which meant that perhaps this was less normal of an occurrance than it seemed. She began to split her attention between the movie and Nefarious.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Okay, this was new.

"...You two, remember what I said about my hand? Keep on alert, something's up here," Gogo said into her hand communicator. By this time, the more alert members of this little group probably would have noticed her talking to her hand. She looked up, and looked at Raz.

"Is the movie talking to you?" she asked.

[nintendonut1]

"Sure as heck SOUNDS like it!" Raz scratched the back of his neck nervously, looking at Nefarious. "...doesn't look like he planned it, though, and frankly, that's what worries me the most."

[42zombies]

Nefarious casually put his finger to the communicator in his ear. "Jorge," he whispered, "What the hell is going on?" No response. Desperately, he tried again. "Jorge! Answer me right now, damn it!"

"...t...r...s..."

"What?" Nefarious hissed. He couldn't make out Jorge's answer; there was too much static and he was whispering. "Jorge, what did you say?!"

"...it...hurts..."

The line buzzed for a few seconds before Nefarious hung up. God, something was wrong here-- people had tried to warn him not to take the film crew into the Ghost Town. Bill Murray had warned him, for Christ's sake! Why hadn't he listened?

Still, no time to panic-- he had to get the situation under control.

Time for his villain voice...

"YOU FOOLS!" He exclaimed in his harshest tone. "YOU'VE FALLEN INTO MY TRAP! Did you really think this was a movie premiere?! I lured you here so I could... um... use your negative emotions to power my robot army!"

Complete bullshit, of course. But he needed to say something to keep them calm. From his experience, an almost cartoonish mad scientist was better than an eldritch abomination of pure evil.

While everyone had been distracted, the movie had shifted focus to an interview with some gritty Englishman. The caption on the bottom of the screen read his name as 'JOHN CONSTANTINE'.

"The thing is," he said, "when this Nefarious guy told me about the job, I was more than a little... worried about his sanity. Still, I guess it's my job to do this kind of thing. Better than being an assassin, I suppose.

"Ain't that right, 4? I mean, the things you've seen must be gnawing away inside at you like a bunch of rabit rats." Constantine's expression wasn't even changing. It was just his voice, warping in the same way that Nefarious' was earlier.

"You can't lead a normal life-- in fact, you can barely connect with people. You went to that funeral for your girlfriend's dad, 4, do you remember? Everyone was crying when they played his favorite song and you... you were so confused. It was just a death. What's the big deal?"

4 leaned back in his seat-- his dark clothes made him blend in easily. Furiously, he clutched the grip of his gun in its holster.

[nintendonut1]

Raz gave Nefarious a very strange look, one that shifted to incredulty. Robot army my foot.

"Hey, now the movie's talking to YOU!" Ed gleefully exclaimed to 4.