Put on (Ch. 2: Day 11, pt. II)

Diluss · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:58 pm

Coop walked up to the window and, very slowly, completely rigid, he tipped forward. His head hit the glass with another gentle thoonk noise, and he stayed there, propped against the viewing window like a plank. His face was pressed up against the glass, and his eyes swivelled back and forth as he looked around at the group.

"Do you know," he growled, hoarsely, "I haven't slept for three days?"

Greens · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:05 pm

The serval offered a glance to Sheffer, though more a distracted one than an annoyed one (though not entirely counting out the annoyance). "Paranoid rubbish is the most useful kind of rubbish," he added, and turned back to the crazed bird in question. "Let's get back on track. We didn't suffer the fffascinating walk here just to turn around and leave. I wanna hear this story, too."

psikeout · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:31 pm

"You'll get to," Rock replied to Ace, but with bits of frost hanging in his darkened voice. He flipped the "Talk" switch off, stepped over to the door control and swiped his card. With a press of a button, another display like the previous ones came up. "I'll need somebody who won't do something %*#@ing stupid."

He looked straight back at Sheffer as he said that part with a look that could have killed. His gaze returned to the display. "You three just stand by in case something goes wrong."

The door they had entered through locked and bolted. The cell door then began an elaborate unlocking sequence, then popped open with a hiss and clank. Rock motioned Ace in with him, all the while keeping his right hand resting on his belt, next to his knife.

Greens · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:08 pm

If Sheffer didn't already acknowledge himself being on Rock's shitlist, the glancing yet somehow immodest shrug of the shoulders Ace offered to him might have sealed the deal. He focused on the bird again. If he was telling the truth about being sleep deprived, a surprise attack was pretty unlikely. All the same, it'd probably be his number one chance for escape for... ever.

With that in mind, the serval nodded, and followed in a surprisingly soldierly fashion (but not before sliding his glasses into his breast pocket). "Got your back," he stated.

Diluss · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:57 pm

"Ugh…"

Coop rolled very slowly over sideways until he had ceased to be supported by his forehead and begun to be supported by his temple. He stared at Rock and Ace as they entered, but did nothing else besides that.

"Gonna… man, you… stupid, couldn't even—" he muttered, and slapped one hand against the window.

"Why couldn't… that prancy little… not even some kind of… wouldn't just…"

He slapped his other hand against the window, and pushed himself upright.

He rocked very slightly sideways as his body balanced itself out, and then he stood there, staring at them with a modicum of suspicion and, above all, a heaping helping of bad grace.

"So," he said, gruffly, "your government's crazy."

psikeout · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:17 pm

Rock reached into one of the pouches hanging from his belt (the broad one toward the small of his back) and started producing small discs and depositing them around their vicinity, on the floor and wherever else he could easily reach. Rouge would find them familiar; they were the very same bug interference devices she'd given him for the hotel room.

"So I've noticed," replied the monkey, still with kind of a foul tone, but more because, well, it was true. "That's exactly why we're here, now." He continued laying out the static-hissing devices. "I'm not under any illusion that you and us are on the same side yet, but I think we share some enemies, and... being that we," he motioned to himself, Ace, and vaguely toward the window, "are the only ones who're interested in what you've got to say," click went another disc in place, "we thought you might not mind tellin' us what you've learned."

Diluss · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:55 pm

"You know what happened," Coop looked down. He looked back up. "You know what happened? Some kind of… crazy little kid just… walked in. Said he was the… he said he was the seventh son of something."

"He said he was beyond the world, and that we were all a bunch of feathery, furry freaks and that he was going to fix everything. Then he started… jumping off the ceiling, and… he jumped down a six story stairwell without even feeling it. You saw how fast he could run," he said, looking Rock in the eye.

"You saw those things with him—" Coop gestured vaguely. "Those helmeted freaks, climbing up the walls like they were spiders. Human freakin' hedgehog zombies."

He looked down again.

"Race superiority," he grunted, "didn't see that coming, right? Dr. Eggman, running around, treating little fuzzballs like they were batteries. Figures someone else would get the same idea and start trying to clean us off the world altogether."

Greens · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:39 pm

"Clean us off the world?..." Ace echoed, with that rise of incredulousness in his voice. He didn't want to give Coop the satisfaction of hearing him say 'But that's insane!', and he couldn't be sure of everything the eagle was saying in the first place. Maybe some kind of tip on the balance of power, but, global genocide? With a husky in the president's seat? Still, something else caught his attention-- he hadn't let his guard down with the bird just yet.

"You said 'someone else'." he stated. "So you know it's not Eggman..." He gave Coop a suspicious sort of leer. "There something else you wanna say?"

Diluss · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:51 pm

Coop looked at him.

"He said he took care of Eggman. I don't know what that means. Want to guess?"

psikeout · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:52 pm

Rock sighed, and massaged his temple. A waste of time?

"So you don't have any clue better than we do who... created, or trained, or modified, or whatevered this guy."

Diluss · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:12 am

"An army of crazy, genetically modified soldiers with a drop-ship?" Coop asked in grim rhetoric, "who has the money for that kind of stuff? GUN practically owns the east coast. There was—" he paused, "some kind of thing flying up in the air, too. Like a smaller ship. Kept taking pot-shots at me. That couldn't have been cheap. Small things are always expensive."

NPC · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:22 am

The lights went out and everything instantaneously fell utterly pitch black and silent as the grave.

After a few seconds, red emergency lights came on along with backup power, an alarm siren began to sound, and the door they entered through opened. In fact, it sounded like a lot of doors were opening...

"Warning. Security breech. Cell blocks: all: compromised."

Gunshots, yelling, screaming, and explosions gave all the lovely ambiance of homey, just-like-mom-used-to-make prison riot.

Sheff · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:38 am

"Oh for the love of- ...just- ...of course! Of #!%@ing course!"

Red light glowed across the hedgehog, his fists clenched as he looked at the open door and heard the sounds beyond, the business with the bomber now long forgotten. The sudden demeaning nature from Rock had been one thing to light the fuse, but what sounded like the whole prison unleashing its hell spawn out, along with all the uneasiness that loomed above them on their way down? Sheffer snapped just slightly.

"Always! I can't take one step anywhere anymore without some sort of $%@& blowing up in my face!"

Promptly, he marched forward to look straight out the door from which they had entered the cell originally, eyes peering out into the red glow that now graced the bowels of the prison. He refused to let anything sneak up on him now, being robot or possibly escaped prisoner.

Greens · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:45 am

Between the low lighting of the cell, the dangerous character of both members of his company, and the sheer tension of their whole exchange, Ace couldn't really be blamed for snapping up at the sudden bom of the lights shorting out. He spared only a second to take his eyes off Coop, before mentally slapping himself and making a quick hop back to save himself and Rock from any potential backstabs.

When the emergency lights fading in and the alarm sounded off, the expression on his face said 'incredulous', plain and simple. A thousand thoughts were running through his head, most of them asking how and why, but he managed to summarize them all with three words:

"What the Hell!?"

Mie · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:43 pm

Already irritable about being left in the hallway to be a "look-out," the sudden increase in the atmospheric tension and all its causes drew a solitary f-bomb from the waiting primate. She smiled mirthlessly in a way that silently screamed, "Well, that just figures."

Coercing her cynicism into unreadable blankness, Jam crossed her arms, and took a long, slow breath in and out her nose, gradually oscillating her sweeping gaze towards the window looking into Coop's cell. Since one couldn't imagine such a fuss without warrant, the monkey at least found solace in the fact that the eagle must've said something really good.

Strangely calm in the storm, when she'd been apprehensive of the clouds, the redder-than-usual simian turned to Rouge, and in a very level tone, asked, "We're boned, aren't we?"

Put on (Ch. 2: Day 11, pt. II)

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