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 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:37 am
He REALLY needed to consider investing in a cell phone. Or even maybe, just 'borrowing' one: this entire waiting aimlessly for someone to show up thing was getting a little ridiculous. Granted when he had talked to Eve the week before, he had forgotten to set up the exact time, but that was just a minor complication, right?
Toby checked the clock: it was just hitting fifteen minutes to showing, which meant that most people had already filed in and gotten all the 'good spots'. Aw man, at this rate, they might not be able to catch Night of the Dead Unliving at all!
He looked around, left and right, trying to spot anyone who seemed to look even remotely like a high-school girl. Now that he actually paid attention to his surroundings, there were quite a few high-schoolers around period, from various campuses. Oh great, maybe he should just gi-
- A scream interrupted this train of thought. It wasn't even that loud a scream, unlike those B-rate Hollywood movies, and Toby only noticed even then due to the collective yelling of people from the distance. He squinted, trying to get a good look at whatever was happening in the alleyway a little ways to the left. What the heck was going on?
Curiousity finally got the better of him, and he couldn't help but head in the direction of the fuss, despite his regular flee-and-run logic.
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:14 am
Eve herself had almost forgotten that she had arranged to meet Toby for the movie until she spotted the keychain he had given her. It wasn't her fault; she had been so busy and preoccupied with...er...other things, and some had inadvertently slipped her mind. Cursing under her breath, she hurriedly packed up and rushed over to where the Free Movies Night was. She hoped she wasn't late, or hadn't kept him waiting. She would feel awful if that was the case; Eve disliked being late for things. And she couldn't even call him to ask where he was waiting!
Unfortunately, while approaching the cinema, something else had to catch her attention. Eve Summers winced at the screams coming from not far where she was currently standing and turned to run towards that direction instead. Sorry, Toby. She thought, while her fingers closed around the henshin pen in her pocket. Saving the city from the youma came first; and she was not about to let this youma hurt any citizens. Not when one of them had hurt her uncle.
She skidded into an abandoned alley. "Flora Power, Make Up!" And soon emerged as Sailor Flora, shivering slightly in the sudden lack of a warm coat. Still, she gritted her teeth and ran, hoping this youma wouldn't be so difficult to beat.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:35 pm
To be honest, he was having a hard time slipping through the wall of panicking people, who were running from from god knows what. A little irritated, he finally relinquished into abusing just a tad of his Negaverse powers, shifting into Lieutenant Mode in order to elevate himself up and over one of the shorter walls blocking his vision from whatever-it-was.
Hopping down rather successfully, he made his way across the dead-end carefully, poking his head out towards where the chaos should have been, at the small intersection coming out of this alleyway. Short of some upturned trash cans, and the remainder of people fleeing the scene, there really was nothing else.
Huh. Lieutenant Torbernite scratched his head, taking one more look around to make sure he wasn't being watched before stepping boldly into the 'crime scene'. He nearly didn't catch himself as he stumbled over something soft and rather large. Clambering back on his feet, he looked down at-
- a body. It wasn't moving, and he could bet his whole box collection that whatever-it-had-been had taken a certain Star Seed as well. Maybe another Lieutenant, or more likely, some sort of youma (though he really hated to see those things up close, it was like talking to a vicious pittbull while wrapping oneself up in steaks). Wrinkling his nose in disgust a little at the, well, 'leftovers', he decided now would be a good time to make an exit, especially before the police came.
Nothing else to see here after all.
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:40 am
Luckily, there was no huge youma towering over the citizens of Destiny City when she arrived, though the senshi was suspicious as to what caused the uproar. Usually, this sort of panic occurred only when a youma was attacking, trying to kill people for their starseeds or just plain bent on destroying the city. Most of the time it seemed to be the latter, thank goodness, and she only said 'thank goodness' because she wouldn't want the guilt of letting a youma kill people weigh on her conscience simply because she sucked at being a senshi.
Fortunately, things went pretty well for the previous fights she got into, but it was nearing winter, and Flora hated winter.
There had to be a reason why they were screaming though. She winced, ignoring the small voice that told her to just go back and enjoy the movie, then froze. A boy, in a very strange uniform had just stood up from a body that lay limp on the ground. Oh god, could it be? "Hey!" She called out to the boy. "Hey, what did you do?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:09 am
Years, well really, just a couple of months, of hearing random female voices yelling out to him in the dark had made him very, very wary. Slowly, almost comically slow, he winced and turned his head.
Sure enough, there was, in the dead of winter, a girl standing there in a short pleated skirt. A irritated part of him wondered on the injustice of meeting girls in the dead of an alleyway and still being scared shitless. Apparently villanious figures just weren't the same anymore.
"I-" he began, at the other's quite demanding request. Why the heck was he justifying himself when he just got here?- "I didn't do anything. It was like that when I came here!"
Which was true enough. I mean geez, at this rate, they might as well just blame him for the world famine and the bad state of the country's economy as well. Another thought struck him for a second. "Wait a second, what are you doing here?"
Perhaps if it had been another day, or another senshi, he wouldn't have been so bold, but he was missing his movie for crying out loud! He didn't have time for these stupid not-conflicts.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:16 pm
She stared at him, wondering if she should believe him or not. He seemed to be in a pretty ridiculous getup, ridiculous meaning not normal. It was not normal for one to wear short sleeves in this cold weather. Which meant...he was either a Senshi or part of the Negaverse. The first option was discarded; he didn't seem to have the uniform that in any way resembled that of a Senshi's.
Negaverse it was, then.
"What?" She repeated. "I asked you the question first!" Blue eyes narrowed. "You're a Negaverse agent. Did you help the youma get away? Or are you trying to tell me everyone else ran away screaming because of an empty space?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:16 pm
"No I'm not!" He immediately rebuked at the other's rather straightforward conclusion. It had honestly been just a totally Negaverse-free movie night, albeit a little sidetracked by his bad taste in entertainment, half-dead body included.
Actually, yes you are, the better part of his brain interjected. A cold feeling passed through him as he looked at the well, lack of prior sweater he was wearing. Oh crap, he had forgotten about that uniform complication.
Ok ok, there was no need to panic at all! Backing up ever so slowly, as far as one could against a dead-end alleyway, he put on his best convincing smile. "I.. err... was going to run away screaming but got sidetracked?" Seriously what did a guy have to do to prove they were innocent these days. He tried tactic number two now: play dumb. "Um... what is this 'yoh-ma' thing anyway?" Cue innocent, wide eyes, and a rather convincing stricken expression. "W-wait a second, are you a terrorist?"
That's right, two could play at this game.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:31 pm
"Then what are you doing here?" She asked. The only Negaverse agent she had met so far was Serandite, and that didn't really teach her how to tell a civilian apart from a Negaverse lieutenant. There was one thing though... "I mean, how can you be the only one who gets sidetracked when everyone else is running away?"
She drew closer to him as she took a few steps forward and then glanced down at the body. "What were you doing to him?" Flora sounded a bit curious; the only experience she had with star seeds were by word of mouth. It was still funny to think that Negaverse agents could shove their hands into chest and pull out the source of life, a starseed. That certainly put a few years of studying biology into severe doubt. "I'm not a terrorist!" She said, looking a little horrified. "Haven't you heard that Sailor Nea wasn't really a senshi?"
What was it with people and not paying attention to the news, anyway?
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:47 pm
Torbernite could not help but gape at the senshi for a second. Was this really even a senshi, or maybe just some high school girl who really liked short skirts (and pink)?
All doubts about senshi-dom however, were erased at the other's remark about this 'Sailor Nea' character. "Who the heck is Sailor Nea?" He honestly had no idea who or what they were talking about: as far as he concerned half the senshi that were parading around shouldn't be senshi anyway.
Once again, he stood by his 'innocent bystander' guise: maybe at this rate he wouldn't even be attacked before this evening was over. Taking a deep breath, he tried to play the right cards on the table to secure his escape. "I told you, there was this huge crowd stampeding, and I thought I'd catch a photo of the terrorist for my school news project-"
And suddenly his brain made a totally unrelated correlation. "Oh god, you mean Sailor Nealite?!?!", he thought to himself. Or rather, he thought he did.
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:46 pm
Flora still continued to stare at the boy rather suspiciously. She wasn't getting a very good vibe from him, dammit, she needed a lesson in 'Identifying those from the Negaverse 101'. It wasn't as easy as it seemed; Rea had seemed to know Serandite was a Lieutenant right off the bat. Still, it wouldn't be safe to do anything to him. What if he was really just a civilian? She didn't want to encourage those terrorist rumors.
...That is, until he spoke again. Nealite? Alarm bells went off in her head. She had pestered Rea about the Negaverse agents she had encountered, and she was pretty sure Nealite was one. That confirmed her suspicions.
"So, Lieutenant," She began, looking rather angry that he had tried to squirm his way out of this. "Nealite huh? Been too busy gathering starseeds that you didn't realize your colleague was rampaging around as a senshi?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:17 am
Man, he should have KNOWN that she was a latent mind reader: he had read graphic novels about those type of people who stalled for time while searching in one's mind for the right information. Maybe he should have started chanting the national anthem really loud as to drown out her mind-probing thoughts.
Nonetheless, he found himself a once-suspicious-turned-angry senshi. Again.
The silence was almost deafening, penetrated only by the blood rushing to his ears. Ok, maybe mentioning Lieu- or rather - Captain Nealite was also not the smartest thing in his books, though in the world of The Potentially Most Lazy Lieutenant In The Negaverse, this "smartness" seemed a rare thing to come by.
Very rapidly his brain began firing all sorts of suggestions. One part of it suggested that perhaps she was not that dangerous - after all how dangerous could a senshi be who talked more than attacked? Another larger portion was considering the running away thing, if there wasn't a dead end behind him, and and a very small, tiny portion of his brain was peeved that he would have to wait next week for the movie to screen again.
"Well, I did try." He shrugged and assumed his best battle stance, eyeing more the opening behind her than the actual senshi herself, trying to buy himself even a moment's worth of time to think. "So whom do I owe the righteous honour of being attacked by?" The sentence was said with the utmost sarcasm: maybe one day he would even consider fighting for actual star seeds rather than escape, but right now, he was hungry, he was cold, he was missing his freaking movie, and just wanted out. Asap.
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:24 pm
Silence fell and she had time to properly appraise her opponent. God, he was just a boy! Were the Negaverse bent on recruiting kids? Then again, he looked a little older than Serandite; but she estimated that he seemed to be younger than her. It was also strange that he wasn't attacking at all. Sure, Serandite and her had talked, but not as long as this boy had...though Pegasus had also been taken into consideration there.
"Sailor Flora." She said crisply, deciding not to mention the whole Senshi of Spring thing or he would make some wise cracks about it being Winter. Better yet, let him think she was the Senshi of Flowers or something and was about to throw flower petals to disorient him. "And you are?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:58 am
When attempting to stall an opponent and possibly intimidate them into not attacking one's very vulnerable and exposed self "Uh," was definitely not what he had meant to say, in hindsight.
Ok, it wasn't as if he didn't know who he was (which only happened once, when there was nothing in the fridge but cheap beer that one day his mom conveniently 'forgot to pay the groceries' ), but rather, he'd always been opposed to painting a giant red 'come here and get me' target on his head, if he managed to escape to another day.
Insert mind rewind, back-to-cheap-lying-theatrics technique post dazed remark. After all, she wasn't attacking (quite yet), this was a good sign. He gave his best resigned sigh. "All right, you got me about the Negaverse thing, but it's not what it seems!" It was a little too cold to attempt the tears-in-eyes trick, yet he still conjured up his best choked sob, trying not to dab too overdramatically at his eyes. "I-I was threatened to do this by those dark agents of the Negaverse. They said if I didn't they..." here, he lowered his voice just a bit, "would kill my family. I didn't know what else to do! "
Cue the ball back on the court. He had yet to meet a senshi that wasn't a sucker for the entire Negaverse-injustice-must-save-those-in-danger ploys.
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:03 am
Flora stared.
It seemed like she was doing this a lot; she was looking at him in a mixture of "oh really now" in the suspicious sort of way and doubt. He seemed like a cute boy and for a moment, she considered his plea... he was in the Negaverse because they threatened to kill his family? Then again, there was Serandite. She had been cute, and rather pretty too, Flora had to admit, but she had still engaged them in a battle. What, were the Negaverse recruiting children so that the senshi would lower down their guard?
She sighed. "And so you agreed to become a killer yourself?" She was still giving him the benefit of the doubt, but this would change if he tried to attack her.
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:03 pm
While the proverbial ball had sure enough rolled (possibly, see: flayed, beaten, skinned) back into his side of the court, Torbernite was at a slight loss as to how to respond.
Was he supposed to say yes or not at this rate? The immediate response was to lie and pretend no, but would that be considered too 'fake' and pure, as opposed to a 'Sob, they made me do it, sob?' And if so, how likely would he be in surviving for the latter?
Great, now his brain hurt. He couldn't believe he was missing one of his favourite movie equals for this. Maybe if he combined both answers, it would be more plausible at this rate?
"Yes!" he managed to burst out, after what seemed like a fit of brain-constipated stupor. "-Wait I mean no! I mean, they MADE me do it! There was this ahh.. really bad, evil man, yes. And he wanted me to kill some person, but I didn't want to do it so I ran away, but they were going to kill my uh... puppy if I didn't!"
He made for another tragic arm-in-eyes teary sob, but he was really just eyeing the time on his watch. Okay, it had only been half an hour, he could still catch the ending finale right? "Anyway, so, now that I've revealed my horribly sad story, can I go now? You senshi people are in charge of all the a**-kicking and justice stuff right?"
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