Recover, Regroup - (1-4)

Kazz · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:41 pm

Mako looked like he was going to say something, but then he paused, seemed to listen to his stomach for a moment, before he replied:
"Yes." He grinned a toothy grin to Toby, giving a thumbsup.

The seven-year-old Mimi at his side acted like a teenager embarassed by her parents as she brought her palm to her forehead, exasperatedly, yet good-naturedly.

"They fixed you up real good, last I saw you, y'were a right mess, y'know?" A pause. "... lizard! Hi!" Mako exclaimed after a moment of delay, waving overenthusiastically to the gecko, greeted with another facepalm from his kid sister. Without even waiting for a rebuttal, or her name, he pointed. "Lead the way, because I have no idea where the heck the so-called food is!"

David · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:15 pm

The pair exchanged puzzled glances, and then looked back at the sharks. Toby laughed under his breath, and turned to his sister. "Frankie, this is Mako. We, uh... We kinda found him." He turned back to the shark. "...And Mako, this is my sister, Francis."

"All my friends call me Frankie. Francis is kind of a lame name, anyway..." The girl rolled her eyes a bit, then turned her attention to the small purple shark. "And who might you be?" She bent down, smiling at the girl.

VJeff · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:24 am

"Can't believe how much I have to keep shelling out for these suits..." Rekk muttered as he walked down the hall, pulling his new suit jacket on (it was quite similar to his old one one). His last suit was obviously ruined, so he'd had a new one sent to his room when he was ready to be discharged. He'd also briefly considered the idea of having more than one suit rather than just regularly cleaning the one he had, but that was something he'd worry about another time.

"Alright..." He said as he made his way towards the exit. "Gotta find my caaauuuurrrrgrggghhhhhhh..." He suddenly groaned as he once again remembered exactly what had happened to his car. "Crap." He growled and looked around. He blinked as he looked into the waiting room, seeing Toby and Mako along with what he assumed was family. He couldn't help but smile a little. ...good for you, Cotton.

"Hey." He said, waving to them as he walked over. "You guys mind if I tag along?"

Kazz · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:01 am

"Heya," Mako said to the gecko, giving a less... zealous wave and a chuckle, before he turned to his sister, as though expectantly, awaiting her introduction of herself to the two.

"I'm Mariah," the younger fish said to Frankie. "But Marcus--"

"Mako! 'Marcus' makes me sound like... an accountant or somethin'..."

"... Jus' calls me Mimi, so that'll work too." She smiled at the gecko, holding out her hand as though for a hand-shake.

Mako chuckled at his sister, muttering something about 'getting along' before Rekk came onto the scene. Tempted, so very tempted, to make a quip about 'do you ever wear anything that isn't a suit?', he quickly thought better of it (even he wasn't that rude), and put both of his hands behind his head, fingers threaded. "Th' more th' merrier. I'm cool with it, 'less someone else has objections?"

David · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:57 pm

Frankie shook the little girl's hand. "You know, Mimi, I have a sister about your age. I bet she'd love to meet you." The gecko stood back up, stretching the kinks out of her back from the less than comfortable couch she'd been napping on.

"Hey, it's you!" Toby turned around once he heard the cat. "Yeah, absolutely! You should definitely come with us! If you hadn't showed up when you did, we'd all be toast right now... Even though we got pretty close anyway..." Toby laughed a bit, smiling sheepishly. "Buy yo, I'm starving. I just spent three weeks in a tube. Let's get some grub." Toby began shuffling down the hall towards the cafeteria, which didn't seem to be all that far away; it was just past the gift shop, coffee stand and a few rows of elevators.

"Sounds good to me." Frankie followed behind her slower-than-usual brother. "I'm sure mom'll call when she gets back."

Greens · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:43 pm

"I'll take that as a form of concern," he responded in a similar sort of deadpan (and coy sort of grin) as he informed Rock further: "But sadly, not every girl comes with her own electro-shield."

Caz was likely too enthralled by Jam's prospect of cyborg-monkies to be bothered with her own lack of voltaic protection, as her face clearly showed. "I bet I could," she boasted after the initial sense of wonderment wore off. "I bet I could, that's one of my powers." Her toothy, D-shaped smile was quickly hollowed into a small o as she immediately furrowed her brows and scanned Jam over with a quickly-instigated examination.

"In any case, I'm flattered," Ace went on. "Don' t really talk about that power much..." "Between you two and Caz, this is the second most people I've ever had worried about me." "Not a really... useful power, I s'pose..." "I'm just wondering about one thing." "But, still a power all the same..." "Are we still gonna have Annie Oakley breathing down our necks with every step? I mean we all know the whole Eggman deal isn't over with, right?"

"Wait, what?" Jam's analysis came to an untimely end just as quickly as it began, and the mole switched her from Jam, to Ace, and then back to Jam again (and then Ace again). "...That's another joke, right?"

Ace shrugged.

Jack's father was the least of the sheriff's worries. No sooner had she walked out of the waiting room, was there a muted flush of the nearest restroom toilet... and that was her only warning. The little boy's room door opened, and out strolled a towering behemoth of a man...

...Decked out in white blazer, pink blouse, and matching hat and shoes, and of course his traditional lucha libre mask (very fashionable), Tank the tortoise stepped out in a very solemn frame of mind... His gaze was focused solely on the floor, for he knew the most crushing defeat of all occurred not a week ago. The kind of defeat that can only come from... not participating. It was a shame that he had to bear on his own, but perhaps most reprehensible of all were the means to this shame.

Fortunately, he had already set his alarm clock much louder than it was that faithful day, so it shouldn't be a problem again.

Then, he stopped staring at his impeccably well-groomed footwear, glanced upward, and shouted with a renewed joy: "Mai frieeend!" In a ground-shaking instant, he stomped his way towards the griffin and her company, and wrapping his massive tree-trunk arms around her as well. Yes, this would imply that he was also wrapping his arms around her father from behind, but that didn't seem to bother him, actually.

"Hai was so concarned forhyew! Hai coold not bare, to lose a-nothur!"

psikeout · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:50 pm

Rock first smirked at Jam's misleading lies about anyone having prosthetic replacement parts, then almost grinned as Caz ran (seemingly unwittingly) into the gag. However, her rambling under what Ace was saying soon reduced Rock to glancing at her repeatedly and distractedly, while trying to hear the serval out.

"Jack won't be a problem," said Rock with a couple slow, unconcerned shakes of his head. "But... I dunno about the Eggman thing."

He took a couple ambling steps away from the wall to better face the two, meanwhile stretching. "All the news stories I seen past couple weeks're actin' like nobody knows where he is, but, I'unno. I saw somethin' before I blacked out from the blast." He looked around almost like he was concerned about who might be listening. "I just need to talk to Rekk and find out what's true."

He raised a hand and quickly jumped to another point: "But— Whether he's taken care of or not, that leaves this emerald situation, and I don't know how involved we oughta get in all this again. Know what I mean?"

Mie · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:11 pm

Jam, on the other hand, was decidedly less amused by the end result of her little gag that she had initially thought. Why? Being leered at and examined as enthusiastically as Caz was going about the task (even if it was a contact-less appraisal) was just all kinds of weird, but thankfully, the speeding freight train of reality seemed to hit everyone simultaneously, and divert attention from Jam's legs.

"The way I see it," interrupted the monkey with both palms open and in front of her. "Yes, Sonic is around," Insert subtle eye roll and whoop-dee-doo hand gestures. "and yes, every military faction under Towers' control's probably been mobilized to fuss with this thing; we could easily hop the next barge outta here and seek our fortunes or whatever elsewhere, but."

"I think we kinda know by now that once the emeralds're involved, s**t gets messed up, and it's everyone's problem. Can the military handle this? Can the great Sonic the Hedgehog single-handedly save the world?"

Offering time for little more than her own shrug in reply, the strawberry simian continued; "Me? I ain't bettin' money on it. This wise old guy in a movie about an army of ninjas or something once said, 'A single grain of rice can tip the scales; one man could be the difference between victory and defeat.'"

With a sagely nod that was probably more comical that it was supposed to be, the punch red primate folded her arms across her chest, and awaited the majority vote.

Rachel · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:10 pm

"WOAAaah!" Andy croaked before being scooped up into a crushing hug between tank and Jack. Jack squirmed, she wasn't a such a big hug person and this really filled her quota. From under tanks trunk-like arms jacks legs squirmed and her wings fluttered uselessly as she tried to wiggle free.

"Who the f*** is this?!" Her father demanded as he shoved against tanks hold to pry himself and his daughter free. "You better not be dating this caveman."

Jack laughed at her father and at Tank. Her father wasn't a very touchie-feelie type of person so to have some gigantic turtle in pink to come over and give him a hug, well it didn't sit right. Jacks father glared at Tank, Jack could only smile. "It's good to see you too, Tank. This is my father, Andy. Paw, Tank. Make nice."

Andy snorted and glared up at the turtle. "Touch me again and see if I don't-"

"PAW." Jack warned her father, cutting him off from threatening the sevral times larger then him turtle.

"Lets just git home, Jackie." He finally said, looking away from the turtle.

"I'm not heading home yet." Jack replied after a moment's hesitation. "I've got too much to do."

"WHERE? There ain't nothin' left ah-" He started but this time he cut himself off when he saw the cheer drain from his daughters face, and he suddenly understood why it took so long for her to pull herself together. Andy looked down with a heavy sigh, his jaw set. "Ya'll shouldn't be messin' with this Eggman-crap. It'll git ya killed. Ya got lucky this time, and ya know it!"

Jack had nothing, he was right about that, they where all very lucky. She instead offered him a forced smile and shrugged. "It's what I do, Paw."

Andy didn't like her answer, a firm and somewhat frightening scowl set on his face. Luckily Jack was immune to his angry face and She wasn't going to disguss it. The Sheriff was as stubborn as her mother, and she wouldn't move on the point. But it didn't mean Andy had to agree with it in any way shape or form.

VJeff · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 6:23 pm

"I dunno about that...in the end, I think I might've just pissed Eggman off even more." He said with a nervous chuckle. "But - hey." He slapped a hand on to Toby's shoulder. "Y'did a good job, yourself Cotton. Thanks a lot."

He smirked at Frankie. "Your brother's a hell of a guy. He got so mad at Eggman's mech, he jump-kicked the thing and took out one of it's legs. Ended up getting nearly blown up because of it, though."

Greens · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:01 pm

"Somethin', huh," Ace muttered off to the side. "Somethin's never good..." It seemed he was thinking about what the two of them said, himself, but all he could offer was a scratch to the back of his neck and closed-lids, furrowed-brows glance at the floor. "Mmmh..." Never was Ace the go-to guy for a pre-coordinated plan of action, and with practically philosophical stuff like this?

Caz silently wove her fingers together as Jam spoke, holding her hands to her chest, and taking her words into what looked like actual, ample consideration. "I do love that movie," she commented only half off to the side. "And, I really do hope that doesn't have to happen. Buuuut..." She tilted her head off to the side, and adopted a grin that seemed to say something like 'what can ya do'. "If Sonic and the military can't do it," she began, and put her chin up in sync with a playful smacking of fist in palm. "There's always... ...u-us. And, I, would be willing to help. However I can."

She too crossed her arms, though not so much in a sagely manner as much as it was vaguely uncertain determination.

Her companion dispensed but a subtle puff of air through his nostrils at her suggestion in response, but quickly offered: "Tell you what, he comes knocking on our doors again, he won't like what he gets."

"Hahh!" Tank exhaled, not so much as a laugh, as an exaggerated breath. His arms immediately removed themselves from the pair of griffins as he stepped back and... actually bowed down on one knee. He gazed up at the elder man through the tops of his eyes.

"Please, forgife me, señor. Hai em but a humble sarlvent of justiccce," he explained. "End ai wcheel do anything een mai power to keep thee pop-ulace safe from harm." He stood himself up and faced the old cowboy eye-to-eye (or rather, somewhere around eye-to-abdomen) and gave him an assuring kind of look. "Theese eencludes, hyour daughter."

psikeout · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:59 am

Somewhere in the middle of what Jam was saying, Rock's gaze strayed, lost somewhere in the bright glare of the sunlit outdoors beyond those nearby glass panels.

Jam was pretty awful at presenting an argument. That wasn't the bulk of what he was thinking, though. It was instead a point that laid between the lines of what both she and Ace were saying that reached him and made the greatest impact.

He looked like he was in another world for a few, there. Anyone who was familiar with Rock would know that he wasn't much of a daydreamer, though. When he looked like that, he was crunching the facts.

He suddenly looked back to his companions pointedly.

"... Screw it all. I'm goin' all in."

The way he huffed those words through a sigh, it was like he was resigned to his fate. He somehow looked relieved to have made the decision, though, as if a burden of conflict was lifted.

"I ain't worried 'bout no mad scientists," explained the stony-faced primate. "I'm worried 'bout what happens if the wrong 'good guys' win. You do what you wanna do, and I won't fault you, but if you ask me, facts aren't linin' up. Somebody's got an agenda, and I'm not gonna sit around and wait 'til the s*** hits the fan to get involved again."

Seafarinhare · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:41 am

It wasn't long into the conversation before Hoji came to the conclusion that he'd been had. Probably between the argument, and Tank barging in to show his concern. With a sigh, he tucked his comic away under his arm. He then turned his attention toward the big tortoise with a wave.

"Hey, big guy. I trust you've been stepping up your game since Wild Badge's absence." He said with a grin. It quickly subsided though. It was clear what happened in Yellow Desert still weighed on him. "We can't let what happened to Yellow Desert happen anywhere else. Dr. Eggman must be brought to justice."

David · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:18 pm

Toby shrugged and smirked. "He munched my board. Couldn't let him get away with that." The thought returned to the boy like a little grey rain cloud hovering just above his head. His smile turned upside down. "I'm still pissed about that, by the way." He crossed his arms, a bit perturbed.

"...He what?" Frankie's eyebrows raised a bit as she turned to her brother. "You what?!"

"I...uh... heh..." Toby began to feverishly kneed his ear with his hand.

The gecko paused for a moment, and then quickly grabbed a nearby health and fitness magazine off a table and began whacking Toby over the head. "What were you thinking?! I'd kill you if you weren't practically dead!!"

"Ow ow ow, hahaha!!! Lay off!!" Toby swatted the magazine from the girl's hand. He smiled and laughed a bit. "Come on, now!"

She sighed. "...Mom would have a stroke if she knew." She began to chuckle a bit in turn. She looked at the cat. "He's always pulling this crap." She shook her head. "I swear, it's like he gets his jollies from defying death."

"I thought we figured that out years ago..."

She rolled her eyes. "I'm Frankie. It's nice to meet'cha." The girl extended her hand to the cat.

Mie · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:01 pm

And much as Rock's weariness with Jam's heavily fallible arguments was evident, so too was her eye-rolling exasperation with his multitudinous "I" statements.

"Listen to 'im talking like he don't think I'm goin' anywhere he goes," she told the mole and her cat in an amused tone, as though the great white primate wasn't there.

Jam's arms were still crossed when she turned a pointed, "you know better" sort of lofty-browed stare back to Rock, but moved to set her hands on her hips as she asked simply, "What's the plan?"

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