RE: DEATHGAME 9000 [S!3] Round Two: Interplanetary Circus
02-21-2015, 12:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2015, 05:28 PM by Solaris.)
The Housewife sighed, her usual attire replaced with a hastily wrapped towel around her hair and a nice warm looking robe. She was upset. "You know, you guys really know when to pick the worst time to die, I was just about to finish doing my hair, you know how hard it is to get appointments with The Hairdresser?"
Trisha just stood there, confused, and somewhat shocked, as Jax and Ella stood beside her, neither paying attention to the Housewife ramble on and on about how inconvenient this entire thing was. The Housewife didn't even want to do this battle? While Trisha couldn't easily wrap her head around the idea of wanting to run this sort of thing, for some reason The Housewife's attitude towards it just made everything worse...
"Ugh, where do I even send you now, I tried to be nice you know, send you off to nice vacation spots and quiet locales, I never get to go to these kinds of places you know! I'm being generous! But noooo, you all have to go and murder murder murder. Oh well, it's fine, I'll figure out something, just like I always do!"
Wait... If I'm here.. does that mean I'm in the Housewife's battle now? Trisha looked once again at the two remaining contestants in the Bickering Buddyfest, she had enough experience with Ella, that's for sure, but she didn't have Haewl's DNA anymore, or Hippocrates... And even if she did manage to re-create the dampening effect, which wasn't even assured to work, there was the other guy, what could he do? He looked... very slimy... What if he could excrete slime? Did she have anything that could deal with that?
"You know, I can't really think of many places I could send you now that we haven't really covered, it's been so long since I've really looked into that sort of thing, oh gosh..."
Trisha started to worry more, what if she was sent somewhere without animals? What if she couldn't convince anyone to help her? It was at that moment, that Trisha realized that she could actually speak.
"Uhm... pardon me... Miss... The Housewife?"
"Patricia I keep telling you this, you can call me Evelyn, were' both adults here."
"Well, actually uh, Evelyn, you see, I'm kind of... not Patricia... I'm Trisha..."
The Housewife gave Trisha a rather confused look before reaching for her glasses, putting them on, and seeing that yes, Trisha was not Patricia. "Wait a minute... Aren't you from Alan's battle?"
"Well... Yes, I suppose."
"Well, gosh, I'm sorry hun, oh this is embarrassing, how did I manage to pick you out instead of Patricia... and... hold on a moment... how do you know who Patricia is..."
The Housewife's eyes narrowed as she took a look back at the circus and identified the various members of Deathgame 9000.
"OOooooohhh... That lazy son of mine..." The Housewife simmered and took a few breaths, "No. No. Calm down Evelyn, remember The Matriarch's Guide on Child Bearing, don't get mad, teach a lesson. And I know just the lesson."
The Housewife patted Trisha on the head and said, "Thanks dear, I'm very sorry about all this, be right back!" And with that, The Housewife vanished.
---
"So what happened?" Patricia knew what had happened, Trisha had been taken to the next round in her stead, however, she didn't know how she felt about that yet, so she needed some other opinions first.
Vigil was very happy to give his take on matters, "Trisha got taken into the next round of your battle..."
"I guess the Housewife got you two mixed up... But that means that she's stuck with Ella and Jax... Ugh... What's going to happen now..."
"I suppose that either she'll realize her mistake, and switch them back... or... something else."
"Before he died, the psychic said something about you two, it doesn't sound like we're going to split up just yet."
"Then we need to act fast... Lynette, link up to Galatea." Lynette nodded and went back to Galatea as Vigil turned to Patricia.
"If the two of you just switch back, it would be nice to have a line of communication, stand still."
Before she could protest, Vigil's eyes started to glow, and a beam of light shot out, and upon connecting to Patricia's head, materialized a cute rabbit charm pin on her hair.
"This is garish."
"It's going to be the only way we can keep in touch if we get separated."
Lynette came back again, "Alright, done, me and Galatea have a link."
"Good, teach Patricia how to use the pin."
As Vigil went back to finish his conversation with Galatea, and Lynette and Patricia went over the basics in multi-universal communication compliant fashion accessories, Aria and Cat Six wondered exactly what was going on.
"SO... IS JAX GONE?"
"I think so... And so is that Ella girl... But now what?"
"ARE WE FREE?"
"I don't really know... neither of us are... really part of all this... Do you think we should ask?"
"IT... COULDN'T HURT I SUPPOSE."
Aria and Cat edged closer to Patricia, "Uhm... excuse me?"
Lynette was just finishing up her tutorial, "And that's it really! Hmmm, oh hey Aria, good to see you're safe!"
"Yeah uhm, well I was wondering if either of you knew what would happen to us?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, if the battle moves on to the next round, what happens to us?"
"Well, all I know is that regardless of how close or far you are to me, you're your own person now, you wouldn't disappear or anything. I wouldn't know about Cat Six or if like, you'd come with us. Patricia, do you know anything about stragglers?"
"Up until now, Jax's vehicles haven't followed us, but a few... natives have come, despite not being a part of the er... Buddyfest. Then again, none of Jax's other cars have had an Artificial Intelligence either."
"So it's all down to whatever The Housewife or uh... Alan decides... great. Sorry Cat."
"IT'S... FINE... THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT, IS THERE."
While the girls waited to face whatever the future held in store, Vigil was preparing for the worst. "Okay Galatea I can't give you the truth, you deserve it, but I can't waste any time."
Galatea was sitting, looking at the people flooding out of the Big Top now that the power issue had been settled and the various circus people had control of things again. There were a few people dealing with She-Boom's corpse, some tending to Yoel, and a lot just sort of standing around wondering if they should question the people who had just been at the center of the chaos that just ensued.
Vigil was drawing something on the sand and started to half talk to her half mutter to himself, "Don't let this mark get disturbed, I should have done this earlier, I'm sorry again, the mark is going to call in my sister. She'll be purple and blue, more catlike than I am, she should be able to help stabilize whatever damage Ella and the others have done."
"What about me?"
"You'll still keep your powers and when she comes, tell Lynette so we can talk to each other and figure out how to stop these battles. In the meantime, just keep the mark safe, and just clean up. I'm sorry."
"You don't... have to keep saying sorry... I just want to know what's going on!"
"Mi is better at explaining these sort of things than I am, she has most of the details. Just promise me that you won't tell Lynette."
"Wait, she doesn't know? She doesn't know about what she can do?"
Vigil finished the mark and then tried to look at Galatea, but couldn't. When they met, she was so happy, innocent, and he ruined it. In more ways than one. "I... made a mistake. I ruined Lynettes's life, just like I have yours."
"Vigil... this isn't your fault."
Before Vigil could respond, he vanished from the circus.
Galatea sighed, she had a lot of work to do.
---
"Well hello and may I formally welcome you all to the Bickering Buddyfest!"
The three remaining members of the Bickering Buddyfest stood together while the six normal members of Deathgame 9000 (and also Hippocrates), Gomorrah's essence behind them, and Aria and Cat Six were separated in their own corner.
"Now, I'm sure that you Deathgamers are wondering what you are doing here! Well, you see, Alan didn't tell me that he was going to invite all of you to my battle! So I figure, if he wants to have you all join in The Bickering Buddyfest! Why not let you continue on in the fun! Now... let's see..."
The Housewife started to count some heads, counting Gomorrah as one, but counting Vigil and Lynette separately, as well as adding in Aira.
"Oh my gosh... there's eight of you? None of you have died? I'm so jealous! That Alan always gets so much more than he deserves. I wish I picked a batch as good as you, oh, not that the three I have left aren't a joy to work with either." The Housewife waved at her battlers, she was the only enjoying any of this.
"Oh... I don't think I've been this excited since my school years... Oh, it was such a time, I spent almost all of my free time reading mystery books... Actually..."
The Housewife left for a moment, then came back with an old looking comic in hand. The title read, MY/S/TORY.
"Oh yes, I've found it! Back in the day, this was all the rage! Let me read the back."
"Oh, this really brings backs memories. You know, I never got to see how it ends, I'm excited! I hope the rest of you are too! Have fun!"
Her summary done, the two groups vanished again, this time into a world of mystery and murder, Fervour Mour.
---
"Darn it!"
As luck would have it, Lynette and Vigil had stayed united, but that didn't mean they had to be happy about anything else.
"Vigil, can Mi even get us if we aren't in a real place?"
"I don't know, but we don't have a choice here, and we have worse things to deal with."
"Ella."
"Yes, we need to get Trisha, Aria, anyone who can't defend themselves, and then incapacitate her as soon as possible. She's dangerous."
"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll come out on top."
Vigil peeked around, it seemed they were in a street, but it was mostly empty, judging from the sun, it was still early. "You should probably change back to normal, blend in a little more."
Lynette nodded and powered down, "Should I try to talk to Patricia?"
"No, she can handle herself, Ella seems to have a special interest in her. Everyone else is the priority."
With Lynette back to normal, the two walked off, into the Fervour Mour business district, hoping that they'd find their friends before Ella, or whatever else lurked in the town, did first...
Trisha just stood there, confused, and somewhat shocked, as Jax and Ella stood beside her, neither paying attention to the Housewife ramble on and on about how inconvenient this entire thing was. The Housewife didn't even want to do this battle? While Trisha couldn't easily wrap her head around the idea of wanting to run this sort of thing, for some reason The Housewife's attitude towards it just made everything worse...
"Ugh, where do I even send you now, I tried to be nice you know, send you off to nice vacation spots and quiet locales, I never get to go to these kinds of places you know! I'm being generous! But noooo, you all have to go and murder murder murder. Oh well, it's fine, I'll figure out something, just like I always do!"
Wait... If I'm here.. does that mean I'm in the Housewife's battle now? Trisha looked once again at the two remaining contestants in the Bickering Buddyfest, she had enough experience with Ella, that's for sure, but she didn't have Haewl's DNA anymore, or Hippocrates... And even if she did manage to re-create the dampening effect, which wasn't even assured to work, there was the other guy, what could he do? He looked... very slimy... What if he could excrete slime? Did she have anything that could deal with that?
"You know, I can't really think of many places I could send you now that we haven't really covered, it's been so long since I've really looked into that sort of thing, oh gosh..."
Trisha started to worry more, what if she was sent somewhere without animals? What if she couldn't convince anyone to help her? It was at that moment, that Trisha realized that she could actually speak.
"Uhm... pardon me... Miss... The Housewife?"
"Patricia I keep telling you this, you can call me Evelyn, were' both adults here."
"Well, actually uh, Evelyn, you see, I'm kind of... not Patricia... I'm Trisha..."
The Housewife gave Trisha a rather confused look before reaching for her glasses, putting them on, and seeing that yes, Trisha was not Patricia. "Wait a minute... Aren't you from Alan's battle?"
"Well... Yes, I suppose."
"Well, gosh, I'm sorry hun, oh this is embarrassing, how did I manage to pick you out instead of Patricia... and... hold on a moment... how do you know who Patricia is..."
The Housewife's eyes narrowed as she took a look back at the circus and identified the various members of Deathgame 9000.
"OOooooohhh... That lazy son of mine..." The Housewife simmered and took a few breaths, "No. No. Calm down Evelyn, remember The Matriarch's Guide on Child Bearing, don't get mad, teach a lesson. And I know just the lesson."
The Housewife patted Trisha on the head and said, "Thanks dear, I'm very sorry about all this, be right back!" And with that, The Housewife vanished.
---
"So what happened?" Patricia knew what had happened, Trisha had been taken to the next round in her stead, however, she didn't know how she felt about that yet, so she needed some other opinions first.
Vigil was very happy to give his take on matters, "Trisha got taken into the next round of your battle..."
"I guess the Housewife got you two mixed up... But that means that she's stuck with Ella and Jax... Ugh... What's going to happen now..."
"I suppose that either she'll realize her mistake, and switch them back... or... something else."
"Before he died, the psychic said something about you two, it doesn't sound like we're going to split up just yet."
"Then we need to act fast... Lynette, link up to Galatea." Lynette nodded and went back to Galatea as Vigil turned to Patricia.
"If the two of you just switch back, it would be nice to have a line of communication, stand still."
Before she could protest, Vigil's eyes started to glow, and a beam of light shot out, and upon connecting to Patricia's head, materialized a cute rabbit charm pin on her hair.
"This is garish."
"It's going to be the only way we can keep in touch if we get separated."
Lynette came back again, "Alright, done, me and Galatea have a link."
"Good, teach Patricia how to use the pin."
As Vigil went back to finish his conversation with Galatea, and Lynette and Patricia went over the basics in multi-universal communication compliant fashion accessories, Aria and Cat Six wondered exactly what was going on.
"SO... IS JAX GONE?"
"I think so... And so is that Ella girl... But now what?"
"ARE WE FREE?"
"I don't really know... neither of us are... really part of all this... Do you think we should ask?"
"IT... COULDN'T HURT I SUPPOSE."
Aria and Cat edged closer to Patricia, "Uhm... excuse me?"
Lynette was just finishing up her tutorial, "And that's it really! Hmmm, oh hey Aria, good to see you're safe!"
"Yeah uhm, well I was wondering if either of you knew what would happen to us?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, if the battle moves on to the next round, what happens to us?"
"Well, all I know is that regardless of how close or far you are to me, you're your own person now, you wouldn't disappear or anything. I wouldn't know about Cat Six or if like, you'd come with us. Patricia, do you know anything about stragglers?"
"Up until now, Jax's vehicles haven't followed us, but a few... natives have come, despite not being a part of the er... Buddyfest. Then again, none of Jax's other cars have had an Artificial Intelligence either."
"So it's all down to whatever The Housewife or uh... Alan decides... great. Sorry Cat."
"IT'S... FINE... THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT, IS THERE."
While the girls waited to face whatever the future held in store, Vigil was preparing for the worst. "Okay Galatea I can't give you the truth, you deserve it, but I can't waste any time."
Galatea was sitting, looking at the people flooding out of the Big Top now that the power issue had been settled and the various circus people had control of things again. There were a few people dealing with She-Boom's corpse, some tending to Yoel, and a lot just sort of standing around wondering if they should question the people who had just been at the center of the chaos that just ensued.
Vigil was drawing something on the sand and started to half talk to her half mutter to himself, "Don't let this mark get disturbed, I should have done this earlier, I'm sorry again, the mark is going to call in my sister. She'll be purple and blue, more catlike than I am, she should be able to help stabilize whatever damage Ella and the others have done."
"What about me?"
"You'll still keep your powers and when she comes, tell Lynette so we can talk to each other and figure out how to stop these battles. In the meantime, just keep the mark safe, and just clean up. I'm sorry."
"You don't... have to keep saying sorry... I just want to know what's going on!"
"Mi is better at explaining these sort of things than I am, she has most of the details. Just promise me that you won't tell Lynette."
"Wait, she doesn't know? She doesn't know about what she can do?"
Vigil finished the mark and then tried to look at Galatea, but couldn't. When they met, she was so happy, innocent, and he ruined it. In more ways than one. "I... made a mistake. I ruined Lynettes's life, just like I have yours."
"Vigil... this isn't your fault."
Before Vigil could respond, he vanished from the circus.
Galatea sighed, she had a lot of work to do.
---
"Well hello and may I formally welcome you all to the Bickering Buddyfest!"
The three remaining members of the Bickering Buddyfest stood together while the six normal members of Deathgame 9000 (and also Hippocrates), Gomorrah's essence behind them, and Aria and Cat Six were separated in their own corner.
"Now, I'm sure that you Deathgamers are wondering what you are doing here! Well, you see, Alan didn't tell me that he was going to invite all of you to my battle! So I figure, if he wants to have you all join in The Bickering Buddyfest! Why not let you continue on in the fun! Now... let's see..."
The Housewife started to count some heads, counting Gomorrah as one, but counting Vigil and Lynette separately, as well as adding in Aira.
"Oh my gosh... there's eight of you? None of you have died? I'm so jealous! That Alan always gets so much more than he deserves. I wish I picked a batch as good as you, oh, not that the three I have left aren't a joy to work with either." The Housewife waved at her battlers, she was the only enjoying any of this.
"Oh... I don't think I've been this excited since my school years... Oh, it was such a time, I spent almost all of my free time reading mystery books... Actually..."
The Housewife left for a moment, then came back with an old looking comic in hand. The title read, MY/S/TORY.
"Oh yes, I've found it! Back in the day, this was all the rage! Let me read the back."
Quote:A timeless tale that will leave you on the edge of your seat! A story like no other! Taking advantage of the medium like no other! Crafted by the best of the best!
MY/S/TORY is a suspenseful comic that takes place in the small quiet town of Fervour Mour, where nothing is ever as it seems! As of late, mysterious things keep happening in the town, and various people take it upon themselves to find out how and why!
IN THIS VOLUME! Things in Fervour Mour start to take a turn for the sudden as everything begins to link up... Only vital pieces remain missing. It's the crossover you've been waiting for, when the many mystery solvers unite once and for all! But could there be a traitor among them? And who will lead the path to the truth? Find out!
AND REMEMBER. THE QUESTION ISN'T WHO DID IT, IT'S HOW DID IT!
"Oh, this really brings backs memories. You know, I never got to see how it ends, I'm excited! I hope the rest of you are too! Have fun!"
Her summary done, the two groups vanished again, this time into a world of mystery and murder, Fervour Mour.
---
"Darn it!"
As luck would have it, Lynette and Vigil had stayed united, but that didn't mean they had to be happy about anything else.
"Vigil, can Mi even get us if we aren't in a real place?"
"I don't know, but we don't have a choice here, and we have worse things to deal with."
"Ella."
"Yes, we need to get Trisha, Aria, anyone who can't defend themselves, and then incapacitate her as soon as possible. She's dangerous."
"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll come out on top."
Vigil peeked around, it seemed they were in a street, but it was mostly empty, judging from the sun, it was still early. "You should probably change back to normal, blend in a little more."
Lynette nodded and powered down, "Should I try to talk to Patricia?"
"No, she can handle herself, Ella seems to have a special interest in her. Everyone else is the priority."
With Lynette back to normal, the two walked off, into the Fervour Mour business district, hoping that they'd find their friends before Ella, or whatever else lurked in the town, did first...