Arillena blinked and mumbled a confused thank you as the unfamiliar person shook her hand. "Um...Should I know who that is?" She whispered to those nearby as he walked away muttering to himself. Hm...
As Atomica encouraged her band mates to go wander for a bit, Ari noticed something seemed to be a bit off about the Metallic Girl. She curtsied a bit nervously to Lin before approaching her new friend.
There as slight movement in the tiny bag that hung on the Fae's side. Arillena set the Bass guitar gently on a stand near the stage. Maybe the Confident Band leader still had a bit of nervousness.
"Are you alright, Atomica?" She asked carefully.
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:55 am
Arillena
"Are you alright, Atomica?" She asked carefully.
"Oh, su-*SQUEARK!*-ure!" Atomica replied, trying to look like the very image of confidence. Not only was Arillena now her bass player, she was also dating Atomica's BFF Lin...or at least had agreed to date him at some indeterminate point in the future."I'm just prob-*BING!*-ably standing totally too close to *SQUIRK!* Sally."
Atomica pointed at Sally, who was nearly twenty feet away on the other side of the stage at this point. She gave Sally a friendly wave.
"Lin will run a troubleshooting diagnostic on my spe-*EEEEEEECH*-ech center before we do our final rehear*BLEEP!*-sal."
Atomica manufactured the biggest smile her facial servos could manage. "I'm going to be just FINE! In fact, I'll be *VREEEP* outrageous!"She put a hand on Arillena's shoulder and gestured to the Fearstival."Go play some scarnival games or *PLEEP!* meet with some friends, just be back *SQWONK* here before 2 pm."
Atomica glanced at Lin, who looked confused and a little concerned. She was sure he could figure this out. It was probably just a one that had hackcidentally turned into a zero somewhere in her programming.
Why, oh why did such rotten luck have to hit right before their big performance?!
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"Oh no..."Nero muttered as he glanced at his own iCoffin, having received the latest update from Spectra's gossipy blog.
"What is it?" Kai tore his annoyed gaze from Glen who was cuddling Grumpy Bat in his arms, against his chest and nuzzling the top of her dainty little head with his cheek. Oh how she HATED that!
Nero extended his arm over so that Kai could look at the screen, without having to leave Glen's side and thereby risk his little bluddy doing something, anything, to extend his Grumpy visitation. Not that he might have a choice in the matter considering the headline on Spectra's blog...
"GRUMPY BAT BAT-NAPPED! AUTHORITIES ON HIGH ALERT SEARCH!"
"Oh no..." Kai mimicked Nero's own words, and he turned to address Glen and started to say, "Okay Glen, I'm afraid visiting hours are..."
"Drakie!"Glen called out, having spotted his beastest bluddy in the whole wide world! Wow! First Grumpy Bat -- now Drakie! "Drakie!"Glen jumped up and down, waving his hand and trying to get his BMFF' attention."Over here!"
"Glen... Glen!"
"Mini-bro!"
"Hm, what?"Glen blinked back towards his two beast boos."What's wrong?"
Nero simply pointed at Glen's arm, extended high in the air (or as high as he was able to get it). He looked 'up' and saw the hand he had been waving so enthusiastically -- still holding Grumpy Bat...
Glen slowly lowered her and gave Kai and Nero his best "Silly me!" expression.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:16 am
Draconia's head jerked up - she could have sworn that she heard somemonster calling out her name. But she couldn't see them...in fact, she couldn't see anything except for a large, inky shadow that crossed over her.
"Hrrmph. Hmmmrph."Draconia looked up at the many grouchy grunting sounds to behold the largest squid-creature she had ever seen on land. He was a dark, mottled aquamarine green, with a cuttlefish-esque pointed head and two tiny eyes that clearly could not look straight forward. He had a long path of moist wetness following wherever his many tentacles slithered.
He was also wearing a tiny hat atop his head. It said "MAUL SECURITY" on it in block letters.
What in the would was one of the Maul's Security Squid Squad doing in the catacombs?! "Not here....hrmph, harumph. Close, though..."The hulking squid-monster held up what appeared to be some sort of electronic tracking device in one tentacle. He glanced at it with the eye on one side of his mollusk-like head, while the other one scanned around the cavern Woestock was in.
"YOU."The Security Squid pointed another tentacle at Draconia. "You see bat?"
"I...see...bat?"Draconia tried to pull the question apart to guess it's meaning, but failed. The Security Squid grunted again.
"Not icy bat! Grumpy bat! She here! Tracker say so!" The Security Squid flailed the tracker around, shaking it at Draconia's head as if this was the simplest thing ever to understand. And it probably was. After all, Security Squids had no actual brain in their central nervous system. They always kept things simple.
"No, I think Grumpy Bat was appearing at the maul today..."Draconia tried to clarify. This Security Squid was way out of his jurisdiction. The squid replied with an extra-loud grunt.
"HARUMPH. Know that! Bat-napping! I find. Become hero to interwebs. Grumpy Bat's number one fan." The squid poked himself proudly in the chest as he bragged. "Scardar Sauce chipped; every good fan know that. Use tracker, find Grumpy Bat first. PUNISH bat-napper."
The Security Squid rolled one tentacle and punched it into another with grim resolution.
"Save Grumpy Bat. Grumpy Bat thank. Owner thank. Entire internet thank! Become own meme - Grumpy Matt."He pointed at his nametag, which indeed did read 'Matt.' Draconia nodded lightly, more than a little overwhelmed. "Well, if I....If I see Grumpy Bat I will be sure to tell you."She replied, backing away a step. Grumpy Matt grunted again.
It was at that exact moment that Skeletorrence's jaw bounced in between Draconia and Matt. Skelly was chasing after it.
"Hah-oo-hee-ah!" He shouted at Draconia as he sprinted past."Hee hahk hoon!"
As he ran after his detatched jaw, Skelly's foot landed hard on one of Grumpy Matt's tentacles. The Security Squid howled.
"HEY! He suspicious! Come back! Get questioned!" And leaving a furious trail of slime, the Squid loped after Skelly, waving angry tentacles at the poor skeleton boy.
Draconia tapped her clawtips together nervously. Poor, unlucky Skelletorrence. What sort of insanity was going on now?!
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Nero glanced at the tiny bat grumpily grumping in Glen's hand. She must not be a vampire bat or for sure she's have bitten Glen by now.
Nero began rubbing his temples.
"We just need to get the bat back to the box in the maul and no one needs to know we were the ones that took her, it will be fine, we just need to pry Glen's hand open, no one will ever kn~"
"WHERE YOU LAST SEE GRUMPY BAT?!" shouted a giant squid, loping past the group on his tentacles.
Nero ripped his shirt off and immediately draped it over Glen. The shirt, meant for someone many feet taller and several muscle groups wider, tented over the witchboy. Glen struggled but Nero held it firmly down over minibro. Somehow, alerted to something out of the corner of its eye, the squid turned.
"Nero!" gasped Glen from somewhere in the folds of the shirt.
"SHUT. UP. DON'T. MOVE." Nero hissed.
The squid turned towards them. They could now see his official Security Squid shirt and name tag. The squid was only 10 yards away, surely it wouldn't come over.
"YOU. Suspicious characters, have you seen Grump Bat?!"
Nero gritted his teeth and tightened his grip on his shirt, which squeaked. He hoped that wasn't Grumpy Bat.
"Nn-oooooo, I do not see any Grumpy Bats around here! Ha ha!"
Nero elbowed Kai, who had frozen solid except for his tail, which rattled so hard it buzzed. Kai snapped out of it.
"N...no, no, NO! No bats here!"
Nero's shirt squirmed. The security squid's eyes narrowed.
"What you have under shirt?"
"Shirt rack!" Nero blurted out.
The squid looked at him, then the shirt rack, then Kai.
"Why it move?"
"HAUNTED shirt rack!" Kai blurted.
The squid thought about this for a moment.
"Ok. Where that suspicious skeleton boy go?" he muttered, and then resumed his previous chase.
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:16 am
Kai let out the biggest breath of relief he'd ever held in. As the security squid lumbered away, no doubt to cause chaos hopefully FAR away from them, he turned to the rest of the band.
"I can't believe that worked! We're so lucky!"
"Did some brother say....luck?"Nero smushed his shirt down again on top of Glen and Grumpy Bat as another tall figure meandered over to the boo band group. It was a slender, indigo-colored witch manster, covered in fringe and a huge purple afro.
"Uh...I said we're lucky, that's all." Kai replied, stepping in front of the be-shirted Glen. "So lucky to be performing tonight at Woestock...right guys?!"
Kai looked at Dashner, Nero and the pile of Glen for reinforcement. Dashner pumped a fist in the air.
"Yeah! Tonight's our big break! The first big live performance of our band! Woo!'
"Woo!" Kai replied, pumping his fist in the air too. He looked at Nero and the shirtpile of Glen.
Nero let out a sigh.
"Woo." It sounded more like a groan, but there it was.
"Woo!"Glen added in from underneath Nero's shirt.
"Mew."Something else added in. Kai did a double take at them.
"Did....did the bat just go 'mew?' Is that the sound bats make?"
"SHHHH." Nero nudged him, pointing at the tall stranger who was looking at the band like he was sizing them up.
"So, you werecats are performing tonight too, huh? Boy, that event coordinator sure dipped deep in the well to find talent."
"Yeah, we're going to be-OH MY GHOUL YOU'RE JIMI HEXDRIX."Nero came to the realization as Glen finally got out from under his shirt. Glen wisely kept it over his hands, shielding Grumpy Bat from view.
"Guilty as charged."Jimi gave them all a slick, pointed smile. "I'm just oozin' along, checking out the talent for tonight and wishing them all some...'luck.'"
"Yes. Luck. We can use ALL the luck we can get!" Nero replied, emphatically. Jimi held out his hand and gave Nero's claws a shake. Then he shook Kai and Dashner's claws.
Glen poked one hand out from under Nero's shirt for a shake. Grumpy Bat gave Jimi the grumpiest look ever forged on the face of a small bat.
"Oops!"Glen withdrew the Grumpy-batted hand and put out his other one for a shake instead. "Don't mind my...Grumpy Bat themed hand puppet! It's for our act later!"
"Groovy." Jimi took his hand back from Glen's enthusiastic shake and gave them all the peace sign."See you brothers on the other side. Time to go check out all the other acts."
As Jimi strolled off, the boos all looked at their hands in awe.
"Brutha...we just shook hands with an UNLIVING LEGEND!" Kai hexclaimed to his band-mates. "There is no way anything can go wrong tonight after that!"
"Mew."Grumpy Bat replied. Not like she was going to say anything, but it was possible the tiny bat suspected that the purple haze dissipating from the handshakes meant something completely different...
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:26 pm
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Lin looked to Ari and clucked his tongue and pointed a foreclaw toward her.
"I'll be right back to plan a proper fright to remember."Lin winked."Won't be but a moment."
Lin walked over to where Atomica was standing, open fright registered on her illuminated eye sensors as her digits covered her mouth. As he stepped up to his pseudo-sister/beastie, he removed his Hackme "Li'l Gremlin" tool kit.
"Okay lass, we probably just need to give your synthesizers a proper tune up."Lin set his took kit down and then straightened up with a funny look on his face."Be better if we don't have to lube those up again."
"That wasn't myACHRRTGH! fault."Atomica protested, only to hurriedly slap her hands over her mouth again. She fidgeted openly as if to silently implore the little gremlin to DO something!
Lin flipped the lid of his toolbox open and removed a ssmal, flat focus took and beckoned Atomica to lean down. "Okay, now open your mouth."
Atomica did as instructed. Lin set a small flash light cap atop his scalp, the better to see her inner vocal synthesizer in these dark catacombs.
"Stick out your tongue."She does as told and Lin places the took atop her "tongue"."Now say 'ah'."
AAEEEAAAGHRTHHATHHHHHH!!!!!"
The force and volume of that feedback shakes the entire cavern and sends Lin flying backwards in a roll like a tumble weed until he crash lands upside down against the far cavern wall!
"Good grief lass! What have you been eating!?"
Lin righted himself, scrunching up his nose.
"That is one serious case of Howlitosis!..." And that's the thing about caverns...
They echo.
"Howlitosis... ...tosis... ...tosis...."
Lin looked back at a fuming, blushing Atomica and smiled his oddball 'watermelon grin.
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:08 pm
Arillena stepped back to let Lin help Atomica- though she had no idea what they were talking about. Howlitosis? That sounded bad... She hoped Her new Metallic friend would be okay. More shuffling in her bag brought the faerie to quickly opening it. Out flew her familiar white bat friend. Damyn circled her for a moment and with a POOF of silver dusted smoke returned to his Satyr-ish form and stood next her her-
-holding a familiar hand mirror.
"..."
"This thing is acting up again."
"Again?" The Changeling took it from him and cautiously glanced at where a reflection should be. Seeing the mirror lack one, Ari examined it closer. The humming did seem louder than before.
"....?"
"Should we be concerned?"
"I don't think so... Maybe this is normal here?" Damyn shrugged silently. Ari handed the Mirror back and he Pocketed it.
"..."
"Can I go back to hiding now?
Ari noticed he seem rather uncomfortable. She kindly shook her head. "Nope." The Fae shook her head. Her guardian looked around boredly. "I am going to stick around a bit to make sure Atomica is okay..." The Fae girl told him. "If you want you should go look around~ There is supposed to be a lot of fun events happening here." She smiled. "If I can do it you can~ And stop being afraid to speak"
Hypocrite...
"..."
"......I'm doing this for you, you know..."
Ari smiled as her friend sighed in defeat. "Go have Fun! I shall find you in a bit~"
The expressionless Fae Boy nodded and turned to head in some random direction. "And don't forget to talk!" Damyn waved silently and disappeared down one of the caverns.
Peggy was walking along happily, playing with the Rainbow Tofu fluff in her hands.
"very fluffy.. very.. rainbow. Too bad it's tofu"
Heimdal came trotting up, her backpack on his back, bigger than he was, dragging the ground a bit.
"PEGGY! How dare you leave me. I told you I was just going to use the little ram's room and when I came back, you were GONE!" Peggy laughed. She could all but see the smoke coming from his ears.
"oh hey, want some rainbow fluff?" she offered it to Heimdal but he turned his nose up at it.
She turned to Rory "here, taste this" and popped a piece into his mouth. "can you taste rainbow? I couldn't. Kinda lemony though" she shrugged.
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:25 am
"You!""Grumpy Matt" pointed a slithering tentacle towards Heath Burns who was watching a handful of goblin ghouls set up an arrrts and crafts booth.
"Heath jumped and turned around,"Who, me?"
"Yes you! Why your head burst into flames like that?"
"Uh, it just... does?"
"You suspicious! Where Grumpy Bat!?"
"Grumpy Bat?"
"Yes, Grumpy Bat! Grumpy Bat bat-napped from maul! As her biggest fan, it my sworn duty to save her! Now where is she??"
"I don't know! I'm not even a fan of Grumpy Bat!"
"Not a fan... NOT A FAN OF GRUMPY BAT!?!?"
Not possible! Such a thing is simply not possible! EVERYBLUDDY loves Grumpy Bat! That must mean...
"YOU! You have Grumpy Bat!"
And Grumpy Matt immediately lunged! Heath let out his typical shriek and took off running, with Grumpy Matt giving chase -- as best a squid can give chase that is. Which is surprisingly effective considering he's on land!
You know what one of the best things is about being in the catacombs for Woestock? Sooooo many cool shadows in which to make a fangulous entrance!
One such shadow amidst the throngs of monsters of all ages, shapes and sizes proceeds to swing outward like a "door" -- and out steps none other than our beloved and most 'trippy' shrieknik, (and sackboo), Shadeaux (Shad to his fiends) D. Gloom, with his beast fiend, miss Lilith Van Hellscream, tagging along for a fun filled day with boosic and food!
"Well!"Shad swung an arm out toward the many booths, the stage, and various monsters."Here we are my fangulous werekitten! Woestock!"
"Do you really think Jimi Hexdrix is here?" Lilith asked.
"That's what the posters say!"Shad answered."Now how about we...?"
"HELLLLLP!"Came the shriek of fear and thudding of feet in pursuit! The sound startled Shad and he jumped, right into Lilith's arms just as Heath darted past them and right into the open "shadow door" -- and it closed with a snap just as Grumpy Matt lunged -- and hit the cavern wall with a wet splat!
Mat slid down the wall and onto the cavern floor, with Shad and Lilith's eyes slowly following the movement. Lilith turned to look at her fiend in her arms and Shad giggled nervously before she dropped him to his feet.
Shad nervously picked the beret off of his scalp and scratched his head.
"So... care for a drink?"
"Love one." She replied regally and the two stepped over Matt and headed for the nearest drink stand.
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Damyn waved silently and disappeared down one of the caverns.
"Skelly?"Draconia called down one cavern branching from the large cave that Woestock was in. She was having no luck tracking down her wayward date. "Skeletorrence?"She cupped a claw next to her mouth and listened for an answer down another corridor, but all she heard echoing back was her own voice. "Torrence...torrence...ence..."
Well...this was getting frustrated. Draconia had hoped to find Skelly, at least before that Security Squid did, but she wasn't having any luck. She turned to the third cavern nearest to her and tried her beast to peer inside.
"Skelly? Are you down there?" She asked. This time she was certain she could see movement in the passage."Skelly, I think I saw where your jaw wen-OOP!"
Loose rocks on the floor of the passage rolled underneath Draconia's very-cute-but-not-super-practical-for-cave-exploring 7-inch black-and-purple heels and she wheeled around and flipped over. Draconia flipped open her wings to try to slow her fall, but instead she bonked completely into whatever monster she had inadvertently followed into the passage. The two bodies hit the floor in a pile.
"Bloody..bats..."Draconia groaned. From now on, anytime she entered the catacombs, she was going to wear SENSIBLE footwear. "I am so sorry! I didn't mean to crash into....you?"
Draconia looked at the monster she'd hit. He was a pale, willowy Satyr-looking boo. Draconia blushed deeply. How embarrassing!
"You're...definitely not Skelly..."
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:46 am
Layla held her instrument up so that she might peer closely with a squinted eye in the end, the end from which a barrage of messy spit balls had emerged. Thus far roughly three of her school mates had been clobbered, and perhaps ten to twelve goblins.
"Where on urrth where they coming from?" The lamia princess silently pondered.
She held the instrument up and gave it a good, solid whack, and nothing else fell out or emerged. Satisfied all was right, she put the pungi to her lips again and blew -- and a roaring, billowing blast of flame and black smoke that would make ANY dragon proud blew out!!!
Layla held her pungi out and looked at it with wide eyes, then to her "band mates".
"Can inssstruments go bad!?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:08 pm
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Peggy was walking along happily, playing with the Rainbow Tofu fluff in her hands.
"very fluffy.. very.. rainbow. Too bad it's tofu"
Rory trailed behind Peggy looking rather worn out. Peggy seemed to be powered by pure adrenaline at all times. So far they had visited every booth (twice), poked every thing that was poke-able at least three times, and narrowly avoided being #RKOouttanoscare-ed twice.
Blissful relief had come when some nice goblin handed out samples of a snack-on-a-stick, a cotton candy-like tofu fluff dyed all the colors of the rainbow.
At some point during their poke-filled exploration, Rory had heard someone shout something about the rainbow fluff, but Peggy had been too busy yelling about how 'hextreme' it would be to climb to the top of the cavern walls and drop onto one of the giant mushroom caps that dotted the landscape to hear what the announcement had been about.
As Peggy squished the tofu fluff between her fingers, her tiny pet/companion/keeper Heimdal had trotted up, looking out of breath and justifiably angry.
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"PEGGY! How dare you leave me. I told you I was just going to use the little ram's room and when I came back, you were GONE!"
Rory wondered just where the 'Little Ram's Room' was. Maybe this was his chance. While Peggy was distracted with Heimdal, Rory could engage in a little Disappearing Club extra practice...and disappear from her!
He started to slowly back away...
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"oh hey, want some rainbow fluff?" she offered it to Heimdal but he turned his nose up at it.
She turned to Rory "here, taste this" and popped a piece into his mouth. "can you taste rainbow? I couldn't. Kinda lemony though" she shrugged.
Peggy had an uhhh-mazing ability to just...sort of...APPEAR wherever Rory didn't want her to be, and before he could react, a giant piece of rainbow tofu fluff was stuffed into his mouth. Rory suppressed gagging - after all, that had just been all over Peggy's fingers, and she had poked EVERYTHING with them today without washing up once- but somehow he ended up swallowing instead of coughing.
"Gwaaah...."Rory groaned as soon as he was able to make noise again."You shouldn't poke your fingers into somemonster else's mouth! That could be....dan...ger...ous..."
Rory blinked a couple of times. He thought he heard another announcement float through the air...
"I repeat, do NOT eat the rainbow tofu fluff....fluff.....fluff.......fluuuufffffffff...."
Rory looked up at the ceiling of the catacombs. It was really, really impressive how they'd manage to get rainbows....DOUBLE rainbows...to trace all the way across the caverns like that! It was uhhh-mazing!
In fact....everything was uhhh-mazing!
Rory smiled. He'd never felt so relaxed. It must have been because of the disguise. Yes, that was it. The disguise meant that he didn't look like Rory...so maybe he wasn't ACTUALLY Rory. Which meant, he could do all sorts of things that RORY would never do!
Rory turned to Peggy and grinned.
"Dude, you know what we should do? We should go find the end of that double rainbow....and POKE it."
"The end of what double rain-did you say poking things?!" Peggy asked, suddenly hexcited again.
"I did! I did say poking things! C'mon!"Rory grabbed Peggy by the hand and took two giant, enormous, floaty steps. Sparkles and rainbows seemed to fill the air all around him as time slowed down.
He hoped they could get some more of that rainbow tofu fluff later. It didn't really taste like lemon like Peggy had insisted. It tasted...like magical freedom.
"Double rainbows...I bet that they end over there!"
He pointed to where the bands that were going to perform later had been practicing. He and Peggy started skipping over that way.
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:10 pm
"So, this is it." Kai was telling his band-mates, as he unwrapped a smallish electronic device that was about the size (and shape) of a wok. "This is the hologram device my dad modified so that Roswell can be part of The Band tonight."
"Cooool!"Dashner admired its shiny surface, checking out his reflection in the parabolic curve of the transmitting dish."But, I thought your dad was a geneticist, not a...hologramisist."
"Well, the hologram was originally for exploring DNA models or something like that." Kai hexplained as best he could. Science of any kind was his weakest suit. It may as well have all been magic to him. "He modified it, and uploaded some video from Frighttube of Roswell singing and dancing, and there you go!" "I don't know," Nero added in, hesitantly. He still had chills running down his back of fangxiety about letting The Band perform live. Their previous attempts at creating something resembling music had been....traumatic to him to say the very least. "Maybe Roswell wouldn't appreciate us using a hologram of him instead of the genuine article."
"Oh, come on, Nero!"Glen piped up. He'd stowed Grumpy Bat underneath his shirt, which gave him a somewhat lumpy appearance. Every now and then he giggled as the tiny bat fuzzed up against him. "You know that Roswell would give his left glorgnat to be here performing with us!"
That was true. Roswell was the truest friend in all of the galaxy, and only being several star-systems away was the only thing keeping him from performing with his friends tonight. He would probably give both his left AND right glorgnat to be with his beasties on stage.
"Watch. My dad showed me how it works." Kai turned the device on, and it gave off a high-pitched hum. Suddenly, an unlife-sized, slightly transparent image of Roswell Gray blipped into view in between all of them.
"Oooh!"
"Aaah!"
"EEP! Grumpy Bat's claws are digging into my belly button!"
"Come on, everymonster!"Holo-Ros raised his hands in the air, raised them like he just didn't care."It's time to party like a supernova!"
"It's...it's a lot like having Roswell here..." Nero admitted, still looking nervous. Roswell was the ONE member of the band (besides Nero) who had actual musical talent. And there was no way a pre-recorded hologram was going to enhance the performance....was there?
"Yeah, it's perfect! Relax, brutha! Nothing can go wrong." Kai patted the hologram machine lightly as he spoke. Suddenly, sparks shot out of the machine and it made a large, metallic *CLUNKALUNK* sound.
"AGH!" Kai jumped away from the machine. Nero's eyes lit up.
"Ohno,it'sbrokenwhatadisaster,guesswecan'tgoon-"
"P-p-p-party like a s-s-s-supernova!" The holo-Roswell stuttered. His dance skipped a few times and then started looping...repeating....over and over again.
Roswell's hips thrusted and his hands flew up in the air, flew up like he just didn't care, over and over and over again-
"Wow, that's....that's oddly hypnotic..." Dashner mumbled as he gaped at the 'Roswell Remix'.
"Yeah...it's kind of a funky beat." Kai nodded. The heads of all four boo band members moved in unison as they watched holo-Roswell gyrate.
"P-p-party! S-s-supernova!" Holo-Roswell sung. Some nearby technitian goblins started bobbing their heads to the beat."Par-par-party! Su-su-supernova!"
"Yeah, I can really dig this!"Glen snapped his fingers. "This could totally work with our opening number! It kind of reminds me of that one commercial...Max Headdoom!"
"Yeah!" Kai punched his fist into his opened claw. "It sounds great! Whew! I was so worried there for a second that this was going to be some sort of disaster that would keep us from going on!"
"Yeah...worried...." Nero replied glumly."But the show must go on....I guess...."
"P-P-Party! S-S-Supernova!"
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"So, did that fix it?"Lin asked Atomica as he tinkered around inside of her back panel. She was sitting on the ground,and he was sitting on the stage, putting him at the perfect height to dig around in her hardware.
Lin's iCoffin beeped with a text.
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No. And now my vocal subroutine is completely offline!!!!!!!!11
"Aw, sprockets."Lin snapped a claw and dug in there again. This wasn't making any sense. He'd prodded and tinkered with Atomica dozens of times since he'd first rebooted her, and she'd always worked (mostly) perfectly. And that was a heck of an accomplishment for a gremlin - normally, their machinery-hexing abilities made them great at destroying electronics, rather than repairing them.
In fact, Lin's father was employed by Zapple, the manufacturers of the iCoffin as a product tester. If his touch didn't fry a circuitboard, they knew it was ready for beta testing.
But Atomica, other than some glitches and surprises that cropped up due to the fact that she was a 1980's piece of technology receiving modern updates, had never exploded in his face when Lin worked with her. And the fact that every adjustment he made right now seemed to make things WORSE was frustrating the heck out of the little gremlin.
"How about now?" Lin asked after he reversed the polarity of Atomica's neutron flow. She opened her mouth.
"Fright-day, fright-day, gotta get down on fright-day-"A recording of a terrible viral song from a couple years ago played, but not Atomica's normal, metallic voice. She clapped her mouth shut again.
Lin's iCoffin beeped again.
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From: Atomica Servo
THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND WE GO ON IN JUST ABOUT AN HOUR!
"I'm doing the beast I can, you don't have to yell!"Lin scolded Atomica and started digging around again in her back."If worse comes t'worse, why not have one'a the other ghouls do the singin'?"
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