Recover, Regroup - (1-4)

Rachel · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:06 pm

Andy's brows dropped as he stared the turtle down. He was quiet a moment, then closed his eyes, letting out a long sigh shaking his head. No wonder his daughter was so set on getting herself killed. She hung out with nut jobs. Andy kept shaking his head as he turned away from both Jack and the turtle grabbing the comic from under Hoji's arm. He scribbled his name on it and handed it back with a huff. With that the defeated father walked back to his guitar.

"That boy just ain't right." He muttered as he gathered his belongings to leave.

"Paw?" Jack said, a little confused, her father normally didn't give up so easily.

"You're still a vigilante, but well said." She said softly to the giant turtle. Jack stepped around the pair of 'heros' and walked over to her father, looking concerned.

Andy turned to face her, looking angry again. "I am not buryin' my daughter too." He said firmly, his jaw set, as if he was struggling not to yell, or biting back some bubbling emotion. "Ya die out there... what's that leave me?"

Jack looked down, biting her lip (don't question it folks) as her father scolded her. She wasn't callus enough not to be intimidated by him. Finally though a smirk started to tug at the edges of her frown. "Target?"

Even Andy couldn't suppress the snort at her response. "Target! Have you seen Target?"

"No, Tiny mentioned he got some prototype chassis though."

"Hoo boy." He said rubbing his brow. Jack was relieved to have defused his anger for the moment, though now she couldn't help but wonder what had happened to Target.

"He got a bigger gun, didn't he? Rockets? Please not rockets." She speculated out loud, Andy grinned at her as she speculated what the odd little robot was up to.

"I recken Tiny wanted ta see the surprise on yer face, so I aint tellin' anymore, but I think I'll wait fer him ta show. 'Ee's late."

Kazz · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:08 pm

Mako rubbed the back of his head a bit, a bit awkward. What could he contribute, him having proven himself to be an impressive shade of useless in the events being discussed?
...
A distraction, that's what.

"Now, I'd love to talk more about, uh, heroics and disasters," he said, looking between Toby and Rekk, "but I think we were going to get food? ... or what passes for food here?"

"Is food all you can think of, Marcus?" Truth be told, Mimi was intrigued and wanted to hear more of what had transpired.

"Yes."

Greens · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:57 pm

Ace seemed happy just standing there listening to Rock speak of his plans, and hearing it actually seemed to tilt a corner of his mouth up a bit, as if it was as much a relief to him as it was to the monkey. Jam's words too, had little affect otherwise-- that just moved the other corner. The alley cat wasn't nearly so much an advocate for fate as in his earlier years, but it was hard to ignore an gathering-- an opportunity like this.

Caz herself didn't seem nearly so intrigued at first, merely rubbing at her knuckles as she stood in place. Not so much put off as it seemed merely uncertain. But Jam spoke her piece on the matter, her air slowly moved on from indistinct to... rather inspired, actually. Although her rounded smile indicated she was more galvanized than satisfied, it was still in higher spirits that she turned her gaze to Ace, with a look a child might give to a parent in regards to keeping a stray puppy.

With a jovial grin and a glance to the side, Ace huffed a faux sigh and put his hands on his hips underneath his coat. "Weeell, I guess that means I'm in, too," he deduced. "We all know you'd up $%@& creek without someone else to look after ya'."

"Eeeeyes!" The mole gave a quick fist pump as her beaming smile showed all her teeth again. "We will be there! It's gonna be great!"

Tank's eyes focused themselves on on the departing sheriff before turning back around for another look at his not-as-massive companion.

"She said eet whas well said," he replied with a subtly pleased look about him.

psikeout · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:04 pm

The whole sequence was saturated with a far thicker air of camaraderie than Rock had been adjusted to in recent years. His brows went up a little, he laughed a single puff of air out his nose, and then he just nodded, and smiled.

"I might have a lead or two for where to start," he began, then glanced off toward the waiting area. "Not much to go off of, but, when Rekk gets out, ..." Looking in the direction of the hall where all the "new releases" had been coming out, he caught sight of just the cat he'd been waiting for, standing with Toby, Mako, and some others. (And Jack wasn't far away, either. Frown.)

"... I think I'll go hit him up right now before I lose'im." He started to head off in that direction, but turned to Ace and paused a moment. "I know you just got out, so if you two wanna go do your own thing, eat, or y'know, whatever, me 'n Jam can just... catch up with you later."

VJeff · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:44 am

Rekk took Frankie's hand and shook it. "Name's Rekk. Pleased to meet you." He said. He then slowly glanced over towards the door and noticed Rock. He's out already, huh...? He waved Rock over towards him, then looked back at the others.

"Hey - you guys go ahead. I get the feeling I'm about to get hit with a whole buncha work-related crap and I don't wanna keep you all, so I'll have to take a raincheck."

David · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:38 pm

"Oh, okay. It was nice meeting you!" Frankie withdrew her hand, smiling and waving at the cat.

"Hey, and take this..." Toby searched his person, and realized all his stuff had been totally nuked. "...Aww, man. I haven't got 'em on me! Frankie, can you give 'im our business card?"

Frankie dug down into a small bag she had draped over her shoulder, and pulled out a card, handing it to the cat. "Here you go. Our numbers are on the back. Our family takes care of the chao garden in Emerald town. Stop by if you're ever in the neighborhood!"

Toby waved to Rekk, and turned back to the shark. "Now it's food time. Let's get while the getting's good. I'm starving, too, man."

Greens · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:39 pm

"A'right, thanks," the cat replied. He gave a friendly nod of his head in the direction Rock was off to. "Get outta here, then. You got my number." And with that, he started walking off down the hall, but not before offering Jam a single wave goodbye and an "I'll see you later" as he departed. Caz's enthusiasm more than made up for Ace's, with several waves given to each of the monkeys as she skipped backwards in pursuit of the serval in the midst of her goodbyes. "Bye Rock! Bye Jam!" And soon, they were strolling side-by-side down the too-white hospital hallway.

"Ehmh. Heh."
He turned his head back around to face her. "What?"
"Ah, s'just, nothin'."
"No, tell me."
Her toothy grin was still just as ever-present as always. "W'll just, the way you said that, it sounded like he was gonna pick you up for a date, or something."
He stopped to offer a quick stare that somehow seemed to last longer than it actually did. "You keep your fantasies to yourself, will you?"
"I'm no-I'm not fantasizing, I just thought it sounded funny!"
"Whaaatever."

And they almost made it fifteen feet away before the mole stopped in her tracks. "Oh! One sec." Rather suddenly, she quickly jogged her way back to the more prismatic of primates and said: "By the way, Jam. Yoouu don't have any cybernetics." She crossed her arms and gave a look a parent might give a child caught stealing from the cookie jar. "...I'm very dissapointed."

"Caz, my stomach's not gonna wait for you!"

"Okay, alright! Bye!"

Aaaand they were off.

Sheff · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:31 pm

As the survivors of the nuclear explosion conversed within the hospital's rooms, the doors to the visiting area opened for a moment, a green hedgehog slipping in. The said hedgehog would be familiar to some of the people talking in the room if they took the chance to look his way, but he didn't do anything to try to gain anyone's attention just yet, only looking around the room.

Dressed a bit differently since last time, his hair was a bit windswept, as though he'd been riding his currently absent board for some time. His expression was mainly blank, maybe even a little glum, hinting only slightly at the trouble he had gone through, but otherwise looked fine.

He simply stood there, right before the doors, glancing at the few familiar faces he saw, debating if he really wanted to talk to any of them.

Mie · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:59 pm

Despite her former eagerness to bounce, and move, and display whatever other external cues of restlessness she could think of, as Rock left to take care of... something she was entirely in the dark about, she remained where she was, backing slowly towards the wall, and slumping against it with a breathy sigh, wondering if she'd really considered what she just signed up for.

Those heavy thoughts quickly evaporated though, when the ivory mole popped rather unexpectedly back into existence right in front of Jam's face. She only barely came out of her reverie in time to hear something about cybernetics, raised both brows well into her fur, and suppressed a confused but mildly entertained grin as Caz, derailer of thought trains, skipped off out the hospital doors.

And somehow, for some reason after that, she wasn't really worried anymore.

So it was with a relatively easy-going smirk that she nodded wordlessly to the familiar-looking green hedgehog that stepped into the lobby.

psikeout · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:07 pm

Rock stopped abruptly some distance away from Rekk, as if suddenly remembering something. He had kind of a wry look about him as he fished around in his pocket for a second, then came out with a kind of crumpled-looking piece of paper. After a little bit of unrolling and unfolding, he held it in front of him:

MR. REKQ'UAZ'A ROGERZZ

He put on his best loitering airport chauffeur impersonation and stared vacantly off into space. Yeah, okay—When Rock wasn't in a bad mood, he could be kind of a goof.

VJeff · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:39 pm

After saying his goodbyes to Toby, Mako and their respective siblings, Rekk headed in Rock's direction and was about to say something when he say him take out a piece of paper and...Rekk paused to scan the paper. He then glanced up at Rock.

"Ah ha. Ah ha. Give me that." He snapped as he snatched the paper out of Rock's hand and re-crumpled it. "I don't ever recall making fun of your name. Lazarus."

psikeout · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:51 pm

"S'cause my name's pretty awesome," Rock replied, grinning. He started ambling for the front door, waving his guest along. "C'mon, your limo awaits, Your Majesty."

Rachel · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:45 pm

Jack and her father had a quiet conversation about the weather, neither one approaching the topic of what happened in the desert, nor Jacks all but suicidal decision to take matters into her own hands and pursue the deadly doctor. It was small talk, neither seemed to know what else to say without starting an argument. That was until the doors opened, Jack glanced over and saw Sheff. Sheffer was the one who was carrying the crystal. And the one who had hid it from her. Jack starred at him, her father trailed off when he realized his daughter was no longer paying any attention to him.

Jack started to wards Sheffer, she had questions for him. Lots of them. She couldn't help but feel him partially at fault for not telling her about the weapon of mass destruction he'd been carrying around that lead to the eventual cataclysm that consumed the city she had sworn to protect.

The doors to the hospital abruptly swung open when a metal foot hit the doors squarely on the metal frames between them. Making both doors swing inward towards the unsuspecting (and previously unseen unfortunately for them) people milling around the door. In stepped the pinkest robot Jack had ever seen, it's armor reminiscent of a standard robot but it was all too... feminine. Once it dawns that its a robotic facsimile to the fairer of the sexes things just get weirder from there.

"SHERIFF!" It yelled in a familiar high pitched voice, walking past anyone who may of been in the way of it's fabulous entrance into the hospital lobby. "Boy am I glad to see you! They can't just rebuild you meat-bags."

The stunned griffin had stopped mid-step to stare at the strange robot. She started to shake her head and opened her mouth to say something then realization struck her. "T....T..." She stammered trying to get the words out as she looked wide-eyed at the robot.

"Taaaarrrr-" It sounded it out slowly for Jack who seemed to be having trouble "-get.. Maybe I should go by Targete! Or-or Targetta!"

"WHAT IN BLUE BLAZES DID YA DO TO YERSELF?!" She suddenly yelled at the pink robot. Who seemed unsurprised by her response. Perhaps it was getting a lot of that yelling in utter bewilderment thing.

"Weeeeeelll," Target said, adjusting it's hat. "That'sa long story. But baasssicly, I was like 'I wanna be different!' and they where all like 'No.' and I was like 'But It'd be cool!' And they finally where all 'Well, we have one prototype', and I was like 'sweet!' and now I'm a PROTOTYPE. That makes me special."

"You're retarded, you mean." Jack said, her voice flat, she might of been in shock. She really could hardly believe her eyes, but after a moment of consideration she wasn't entirely surprised.

Kazz · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:52 pm

Mako looked like he was going to say something, preparing to go off, get some food. And then Sheffer entered, and he was surprised, a bit pleased, to see that the hedgehog was... okay. And then Tartgeeeeeeeeee--

"WHAT."
Okay, that was a new one.
He seemed to flounder for a moment, no fish pun intended, before his bewildered sister brought him back to reality-- and seemed to share the sentiment.

"Marcus, I am going to go to the cafeteria and pretend I didn't see anything, 'kay?"

Mako was not listening, instead walking up to Target and unceremoniously poking the robot. "Wha-- I don't even-- h-- wha-- HOW?"

Bewildered shark was bewildered.

Mie · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:07 am

Between the surprise of Surly the Hedgehog's and the hilarity of Trannybot 9000's entrances, Jam -- normally oozing with commentary -- was rendered utterly speechless. She barely managed to stifle her amusement until she barreled though the stunned gawkers and out the doors, mere seconds after Targette's grand entrance.

She caught up to Rock and Rekk looking the epitome of the cat who ate the canary. Grinning from ear to ear, and momentarily oblivious to the weight of the ordeals ahead of them, she giggled obnoxiously "to herself" every few seconds, obviously waiting on tenterhooks for someone to dare to open the "what's so funny?" can of worms.

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