Somewhere in the deep recesses of YWS, Audy sat peeling a lemon. It was going to be a very happy Christmas indeed. She laughed maniacally, rubbing her hands together in derisive glee.
As my vision slowly came back to me I realized that I was surrounded. I jumped up into a fighting stance to see that everyone was crying and depressed. A lowly figure dressed up in rags came limping forward and croaked "Christmas is ruined, YWS is in jeopardy, leave now, before you still can!"
I awoke in a puzzled thought, because for one it isn't Christmas Day and just before I left I remembered seeing everyone singing and dancing, with a jolly smile on each of there faces, there wasn't a fault in sight. I looked up from the snowy ground, now I was even more puzzled. I was at the welcome mat, I was considering this was a dream when I saw a hand lift me up from the snowy ground. I recognized the person at once, I smiled and we greeted each-other. But I had only one topic of conversation in mind: "How did I get here?"
Post-it notes. This would need a lot of post-it notes. Lucky for Skorp that there tended to be a lot of post-it notes lying about at this time of year.
Skorp opened her trademark red umbrella, and began to stock it with the needed post-it notes. By holding it upside down, she could quite easily carry everything she needed.
Ah, now there was her first target, looming up out of the snow. Skorp hastened towards it, picking out a post-it note in preparation.
It was a perfectly normal brick wall, plonked straight in the middle of the snowy forest. A perfectly normal brick wall that just happened to have the words "Charlie II" stencilled across the top in glowing letters.
Skorp hurriedly scribbled a "Merry christmas!" on the post-it note, and stuck it on Charlie's wall.
I've learned so much from people who never existed - Unknown
After unloading the huge mountain of presents from Aet's robot suit, Lumi took a break while Bolt consulted with The Boss. Walking up to chibibo, who was staring a reindeer dead in the eye, he pulled out a candy cane and leaned back against the sleigh. "What do you plan to do with these reindeer, anyway?"
Chibibo took his eyes off the reindeer and thought for a moment, and then his stomach grumbled.
"Ew, dude, no. Just no. No eating the reindeer."
Chibibo looked disappointed. A door slammed deeper into the warehouse, and Bolt came bolting out with an arm full of what looked like grocery bags. "Now we get to tetht and thee if thethe reindeer can evolve!" He pulled out a leaf stone from one of the bags and tossed it at the deer staring at chibibo. The animal just turned to him and grunted, returning his gaze to cheeb.
"You do know they're not pokemon, right?"
"You can't prove that."
"Tru--" Lumi's phone began beeping in his pocket. He took it out and switched open the screen, accepting the call to roars of excitement and worry--and Jabber's tremulous alto.
"Oh Luuuuumibunny!"
He looked at his two friends, who were holding in their enormous laughs, and walked out of the warehouse, holding his phone to his ear. "Hey, Jabsy. What's wrong?"
"Ohhh, absolutely nothing...except that we just got a report from one of the SPEW ships that..." She stepped away from the crowd and whispered so no one would hear, "Someone stole all of the presents for YWS. I need you to meet Charlie at JM Headquarters immediately."
He hesitated. "Can't it wait, Jabs? I'm, uh. Reviewing something."
"It's an order from the Big Chimp himself, Lumi. I have to man things with decorating. Get to HQ and get ready to investigate."
Lumi closed his phone and rested his head against the wall of the warehouse, shivering. He tried to pull away, but he found his forehead frozen to the steel wall. "Great," he murmured, and jerked back from the wall, yelping. The better parts of his eyebrows were still on the wall.
He ran inside the warehouse and grabbed his duffel bag, starting to change into his Agent tuxedo while the deer watched. Chibibo covered one's eyes while Bolt kept throwing evolutionary stones at them. Lumi stepped into the light, dressed head-to-toe in the finest tux a JM could afford. "Tell the boss I'll be back before sundown. Gonna lead the trail away from us."
Chibibo nodded while the reindeer licked his face.
"And Bolt--" He stopped, turned around, and put on his sunglasses. "Make a call and get Frost on the line. I'll need a diversion."
I am a forest fire and an ocean, and I will burn you just as much as I will drown everything you have inside.
-Shinji Moon
I am the property of Rydia, please return me to her ship.
Ribbit, sensing trouble in the air with his amphibian extra-sensory abilities, decided that Rachael needed to be awakened immediately.
"Ribbit," he ribbited. "Ribbibbibbibbibbibbit."
Rach muttered at him and waved him away. The spot underneath the workbench was quite comfortable. She had half a dozen unfinished reviews on it, and their rambly length fell down to the ground and conveniently hid her from view. Not that this stopped Ribbit.
"Ribbbbbbbbbbbbbbit. Ribbbbbbbbbbit."
Rach opened an eye and glared. "Ribbit, ribbity ribbit!"
As this was quite rude, Ribbit said nothing for a while. Then, with all the seriousness he was capable of summoning, he took a breath and said, "Ribbit."
This one word zapped Rachael awake indeed. She bolted upright, in fact, and clunked her head so hard on the workbench above her that she knocked herself unconscious, but not before she fell sideways and landed sprawled in the workroom aisle.
Ribbit shook his head and went to find help.
I don't fangirl. I fandragon.
Have you thanked a teacher lately? You should. Their bladder control alone is legend.
Scar chatted happily with the others in their little group, a smile on her face as she was introduced to the newbies. She patiently answered their questions and welcomed them to the site. After a few minutes, a beeping sound that seemed to be coming from her pocket made her withdraw from the group and she slipped away to half-hide in the shadows. Cautiously, she pulled her phone out of her pocket and answered it. “Hello?” she asked, then paused as she listened to the voice on the other end. Slowly, a rather not-so-nice smile crept onto her face. “Really, a distraction?” She listened again before laughing. “How big?” Suddenly, her smile turned into a vindictive grin. “Big. I can do that.”
Glancing back towards the group, she wiped the grin off her face and hung up. Scar considered the situation for a moment before she smirked and disappeared into the shadows after making sure no one was looking for her. She was rather good at sneaking away when she wanted to be. Besides, they were busy talking to the newbies. Scar counted the mods and frowned. Isha, Jabs, Smy and-- Was that who she though it was? She stared at the scene before her from her hiding place in the shadows. Well, well. She did need to cause a distraction indeed.
Scar swiftly exchanged her normal clothes for dark blue ones and a mask. No one could know who she was when she wasn’t Scar---well, there was a few alternates of hers, but this one was the most secret. Now changed into her alias, Scar crept back towards the group, still in the shadows. Her breath misted in the air as she watched the group, counting the mods again. She was going to have to freeze them all as a distraction, and she was friends with them, too. Scar sighed. She might as well get on with it; they’d melt in a few hours anyway.
She jumped out of the shadows, grinning. “Hello kiddies, Jack Frost is here!” she shouted, and proceeded to freeze the few mods she could see and a few others before racing off down the street, kicking up snow as she went. She was well aware of the people chasing her, but hey. It was fun--and it was the perfect distraction, wasn’t it? Now the others could get on with the plan while she led the mods on a merry chase through the streets of YWS.
"With friends like you, who needs a medical license?" - Paimon, Aether's Heart
“It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” - Grace Hopper.
