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 Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:58 pm
This time, Painite was going to lay the perfect trap. She told herself this every time she tried anything, of course. Or at least a version of this one mantra: that she would succeed, that she had planned everything out. And if something went wrong, she would just try again. Simple!
So she had her ducks in a row, so to speak. She had the bait laid: a dining room chair she had found at the dump (her favorite 'shopping' areas for gadget building and plot accessorizing) with a body tied to it. Granted, it was a dummy body, an Mr. Saddles was providing the head, but from a distance and with the hoody on, it kind of looked like a wounded civilian.
Or maybe a horse headed monster. Either way, worth investigating by a Senshi, right?
She was situated down a dark alley, another favorite location of hers, and had strung up another nets. Nets were always good. And though she had been told that catching things wasn't quite what they were after these days, she didn't think it would hurt: once they were helpless, everything else would fall into place!
The net's edges were weight down with metal balls, which meant it would drop fast and she had to be ready. The second part of her plan was next to her behind the dumpster, where she was hiding. Once the senshi tripped the wire by going up to the captured civilian/horse headed youma, the net would fall and she would pounce with... a big stick to beat them senseless.
So it wasn't the BEST plan she had ever made, but she hadn't had time to put together any cool and useful gadgets just yet. And anyway, if simple worked, why mess with it?
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:44 am
Scheelite had a pretty good knack at being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It wasn't like he really tried to mess up things! It was just an unfortunate side-effect of being so awesome.
Oh, and he was cursed to be super curious and enjoy poking at everything. Drat.
Unfortunately for Painite it wasn't a Senshi who happened across her very brilliant plan. Rather, it was the brightly colored Negaverse captain who strolled by and did a double-take at whatever that was strapped to the chair. Acid eyes widened, wondering just what kind of disease it took to end up with a horse head.
This he just had to poke at.
Scheelite walked boldly up to the chair, one glove already raised to poke away at Mr. Saddles' face. He had no idea anything else was going on, until at least the weighted net suddenly fell down around him.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:10 pm
Painite watched and waited. The dim, flickering light on the side of one of the buildings cast just enough light to be only almost useless, which was fine by her. She could at least see a shadow as someone with a light step came into the area, the shape stretching across the ground and toward her incredible trap.
She tried not to squee with excitement, her muscles tensing as she gripped the bat, ignoring every impulse to jump out now. She had to wait: it was all in the timing, after all. If she missed her cue or jumped it, the whole thing would be ruined.
Thank you, Mr. Saddles! She saw the target draw closer to investigate her stick horse companion. Just like she planned! The wire was tripped, the net fell! It was beautiful.
She almost missed her cue just watching it all.
"Ah hah!" she yelled in triumph, a wicked laugh of excitement, as she bounced from her hiding place and swung the stick down at the target she had trapped under the net, hitting him hard, but maybe not as hard as she had intended to, on the back. Then she noticed his clothes.
"Oh hey, you've got some bright clothes," she said, sincerely noticing this fact and marking it as important, "but I still caught you! Take that, Senshi!"
She had never seen a Senshi before, but even as she said it she was getting the creeping suspicion that this, no matter how vibrantly dressed, was not one of them. Whoops.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:38 pm
What in the hell was going on? A horse-headed...whatever that was? A net? He didn't know if this was something he wanted to go back and tell Zinkenite about or keep it to himself out of embarrassment. A net. A freaking net. Who the hell in this city used nets anyway?
His questions were all answered with a sudden WHACK right into his back. It was hard enough to rip a loud yelp from the trapped Negaverser and startle him into a teleport. Startled teleports never ended up well. He was, at least, out from under the net.
He just ended up right next to Painite instead.
"What the hell GIVES man? Leaping out and beating someone right in the back is not exactly the best way to introduce yourself. And a Senshi? REALLY? Please tell me you did -not- just call me a Senshi. I might just have to go gag if you confused me with a Senshi."
The blonde was trying to reach an arm behind him to rub at his poor sore back. The pain was coming from a rather awkward angle to reach, so he just ended up looking rather pathetic.
"Not a Senshi. I'm Captain Scheelite. Who the hell are you?"
Rather than carrying any sort of tone of authority like a certain other short captain, his words were filled with whines and grumbles.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:10 am
Painite let out such a yelp when he appeared next to her, throwing herself sideways to get away from him on instinct, hands flying up with the stick gripped above her head. She stared at him, pale seagreen eyes wide and unable to hide the surprise.
She saw him trying to rub his back, though, and immediately felt bad. Particularly because he was on her side, and she had hit him.
But at the same time she was trying not to let it set in that, despite catching the wrong kind of person, her trap had worked. That was impressive and awesome! But the inner party and tinkering to make it even better would have to come later. She dropped the stick sheepishly.
"I just saw all the colors and I thought for sure that- I mean I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you... I mean, I didn't mean to hit you. Er, well, I suppose I did but only because I thought... right, going in circles now."
She shook her head, offering him her hand abruptly.
"Lieutenant Painite! And I'm sorry, again! Can I do anything for you? Want me to look at your back, make sure it's all there? None caught in the net, I'm sure. Which worked brilliantly. You went right for Mr. Saddles!" She was honestly upset for hurting one of, as she saw it, her own, but also genuinely excited about her trap, and the two were at war.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:59 am
A lieutenant. Scheelite had to soften a bit for that. While other Captains and the Generals would probably be rough on new lieutenants, much like General King Charonite had been rough on them all, Scheelite just found them kind of precious. If he could, he'd adopt them all.
It was likely the Negaverse wouldn't like that too much.
That and his friggin back still hurt.
"You must be new..."
He had straightened back up with a bit of a wince, quickly grabbing her hand with his own and shaking it.
"Only newbies haven't heard of my awesomeness. Yeah, I wear bright colors, I guess I stand out in the crowd. Totally -not- a Senshi though. Which reminds me you..might want to be careful about hitting anyone in a colorful kimono with a stick too. Serandite isn't a Senshi either."
Scheelite pulled his hand back and moved over to examine 'Mr. Saddles'. The poor horse...thing was still trapped under the net had he previously been under. Curious as ever the captain reached out and poked at the net and horse again.
"So uh...do you try and trap Senshi often? I gotta say the whole net thing is different at least."
He wasn't so sure different was a good thing, but hey! He'd just have to keep on his toes from now on.
"You won't catch me so easily ever again..."
The blonde had turned to shoot her a grin. He wasn't angry about being trapped. Being hit with a stick...yeah, that sucked. But the trap thing was kind of fun. He'd just have to make it harder to catch him next time.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:57 am
Painite watched him, feeling guilty still. But she was delighted when he shook her hand, taking it as a sign that he held no ill will toward her. She shook his hand vigorously, nodding her head.
"Fresh to the scene, I'm afraid! I suppose it is a bit obvious. Ah well! I'll get used to the way things run, I'm sure," she was eager to learn and master all the basics of her new duties, so she could move on and do something incredible. Catching other Negas, of course, wasn't quite what she had hoped for.
Still, at least she knew she could build a working trap!
"No hitting kimonos, gotcha," she said, watching as he went back to the net. She walked over as well, hands on her hips, admiring the scene. The net had fallen when the trip wire was pulled, and Mr. Saddles had done his job very well. She nodded her approval, though her mind was already turning with ways to improve. Maybe if she could get the net on the floor, and rig it to pull up from the bottom...
At his words, though, her eyes flashed.
"You don't think I could catch you again? You were the first thing I successfully caught, after all, and that was on accident. If I was trying to get you, I bet I could!" She grinned, feeling a challenge coming on, "so long as you don't go poofing around. But even then, I could come up with something. I bet you!"
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:58 pm
"Hey it's okay! We were all new once, yeah? As long as you don't mind being quick on your toes and learning then what's the harm. You're already pretty different from what I've seen before...but hey, that's good! Negaverse needs all kinds, ya know?"
Scheelite pulled at the net a bit, intrigued by the weights added to the ends. So that's how it came down so far, and why it had been harder to pull it off. Interesting.
"Nope, don't think you could catch me again. In fact, I'll bet you you can't catch me again. Wanna make a game of it Lieutenant? Could be fuuuuun."
Well, if anything she had run across what was likely the most playful captain in the Negaverse. No orders or screams from this one, just promises of games! Fun fun fun!
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:21 pm
Painite brightened considerably when he said the magic words. She nodded her head furiously, grinning ear to ear. She lived for competition like this, the chance to prove herself and plan something really cool that worked and was impressive. She was all over this new game.
"You bet I want to make it a game," she said, offering her his hand again, but this time to seal the deal. She liked this guy, he was just the kind of person she kept an eye out for. A rival, and someone who didn't mind having fun in the middle of all the work.
As far as she was concerned, if the work still got done, no matter what that 'work' was, there was nothing wrong with having a good time with it. And anyway, wasn't competition healthy? She'd call it a training exercise, and feel fully justified.
"But I won't go easy! And you won't know when I'll pounce!" She grinned wickedly. She was already wondering what she could do. She would have to learn more about this Captain, that was for sure, as she was fairly sure he wouldn't fall for Mr. Saddles twice. Right?
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:03 pm
"Alright! We've got a game!"
Scheelite extended his hand, quickly sealing the deal with a handshake.
"I don't want you to go easy. Try your best! It's going to be tricky to catch me again, promise! I learn quick."
And he had a rather crafty partner he could maybe go beg some pointers from. Hopefully Zinkenite would be willing to help him out with this. It was a perfect opportunity to prove how totally awesome he was.
"Soooo...you like this whole..trapping thing huh? My partner's big on smoke bombing people and hitting in the confusion and I was always just better at rushing in and doing stuff. Kinda neat how we all have our own style yeah?"
He had dropped the weighted net, now stuck staring at the horse dummy inside.
"So uh.........is that your...weapon?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:59 pm
Painite shook his hand vigorously, with both of her hands. She beamed at him, then nodded and looked as serious as she was capable of at the moment. It was a deal. A rivalry! Kind of. But she was ready! She'd show him she was more than capable of catching him again.
Oh, she was going to come up with something great.
"Good! But as quick as you learn, I can adjust faster," she grinned broadly, just goading him now, though she believed it. How was she to know how fast he learned? She nodded her head at his question, "I love it! And it's useful, and there's nothing better than a plan coming together- hmm?"
She looked at the hobby horse, then went to it and picked it up, smiling and taking a bit of alley gunk off of its ear.
"Yeah, this is it. I call him Mr. Saddles. He's mostly a good distraction, or bait. He got you, after all! But as far as hitting people with... uh. Well the top part of him, at least, is a bit... squishy. Your weapon is probably a lot cooler, right? Not that I don't love mine." She did.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:25 am
"Mr. Saddles huh? He is definitely an attention grabber."
Scheelite had to laugh at the mention of his weapon being cooler. Laugh.
"You know, when I was a lieutenant my weapon was a Guitar Hero controller. Like the video game, yeah? It did the job but it was a pretty funny weapon. I've seen worse. You could probably trip up people with the stick! Or...well yeah the whole distraction thing works pretty good."
The blonde captain held out a hand, and his new weapon materialized in it. Gone was the silly Guitar Hero controller (though he really had loved Starpower!), replaced with a large blue and white electric guitar, it's appearance as loud and in your face as it's wielder.
"This is my weapon now. Much better for bashing! And..see this right here?"
Here he gestured to the pointed head of the guitar.
"It can zap people, sorta like a tazer! Hurts like a b***h, I kinda accidently zapped myself when I first got it, but how was I supposed to know it was suddenly magical? My old weapon hadn't been."
He shrugged, like zapping one's self with their own equipment was really no big deal. In his mind it really wasn't.
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:27 pm
"Guitar Hero? Brilliant! I've never played, but I want to. I only have older systems, though. Like, old ones that I found on the computer. Oh! That's not important, why am I babbling?"
She couldn't help but like games from the bit war era. There was just something simple but alluring about them, and some of them were so impossibly challenging it was stunning. Some were made meanly difficult, of course, with artificial challenges rather than puzzles or wit, but there were more than enough that did it well.
She was getting distracted.
She stared at his guitar once it appeared, clapping her hands when he said it zapped people. "That's amazing!" She couldn't wait to see what might happen to Mr. Saddles, then. Unless he turned out to be smarter than she was, or something. Then she might not enjoy working with it quite as much.
Painite didn't see a big deal with zapping oneself either. While building and tinkering with things, she often hurt herself. And she had been caught in her own traps once or twice or thirty times. "I would probably have done the same thing! That's brilliant, though." She grinned, thinking the guitar was damn near the most awesome thing she had seen.
And now she had a few more notes about him, for the next time they met, which was always good.
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:55 pm
"Guitar Hero is ALWAYS important! Maybe we can meet up sometime and play it yeah? I could teach you! It's loads of fun!"
Seems in this case, rambling was fun! Then again, Scheelite could ramble with the best of them.
"Thanks! It's pretty awesome, TONS of fun to zap Senshi with, hehehe.."
-And- the occasional Negaverser, but hey! That taught them to be touching his stuff yeah? Zink had never really forgiven him for the 'accidental' zap. Oops.
"Maybe yours will turn into a real horse or something. Dude that'd be pretty badass. You could ride it and stuff! If not, you could always make a horse youma and ride THAT and use Mr. Saddles as like...a jousting stick! I'd love to see the Senshi protect themselves from -that-!"
Yep, there was the rambling. Now he was off on some tangent about horse heads and their odds of making good jousting rods and how maybe she could sharpen the other end of the stick or SOMETHING...
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:59 pm
"That would be awesome!" Painite said with a big grin, genuinely excited. She had, as she said, wanted to play it, but didn't own it and didn't know anyone who did. Or maybe she did, but it had just never come up in conversation? Either way, she wanted to play it, and was excited at the chance.
"That," she said, looking wistful as she imagined a horse she could ride on, Mr. Saddles her proud lance, "would be awesome. Yeah, I definitely like the way you think. Even if it doesn't turn out that way, I will have to make something like that happen."
Any excuse to build things, really. She grinned, her mind whirling with all the excitement and ideas. A new challenge, guitar hero, lancing. It was almost too much for one day, this level of awesome in her head now.
She babbled along with him, telling him how she had been thinking of building some attachments for Mr. Saddles, extensions that might equip it with something more useful than a plush head, or trying to hide something in the plush head, or something. She got so wrapped up in talking to him, sometimes jumping up and down in her excitement, that she lost all track of time.
When an alarm on a hidden watch went off, she looked surprised.
"Damn! I need to get home, so I can get some sleep. Huh!"
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