*Jelynne has now finally decided on a weapon: her trusted wizard's staff*
*finally looking up* Okay, I'm ready now... hey! where'd the roaches go?
Verity: They dropped into a plot hole.
But I didn't summon any...
Rebopp: Hello. I'm here to kill you now.
Why would you want to do that?
Rebopp: I was created specifically to kill you. So why doncha just give up now, and I won't make your death too painful.
*Jelynne thinks about it for a minute*
Verity: I could really get to hate you, rat.
Rebopp: I am just so hurt by your rejection.
Excuse me? I've made up my mind about what to do.
Rebopp: Gonna give up quietly, huh?
Not exactly.
Rebopp: Then what are you gonna do?
This. *takes a deep breath, tightens her grip on her staff and...*
Yieee! Assassin!! *WHAK!!*
Sports Announcer From Out of Nowhere: And it's a beautiful line drive, way, way out down the street...
Verity: Oh, be quiet. *hits the announcer with the flat of her sword. BZAP! No more announcer* Boy, are these guys flimsy.
*in the meantime, Jelynne has run away, vanishing into one of her own plotholes*
Rebopp: *peeling himself from the skidmarks he left on the street* Hey! You're supposed to give up and die nobly! Come back here and surrender! *runs into another plothole*
*Verity is left alone in the street
Verity: Umn...
*suddenly, a plothole opens up beneath her feet*
Verity: Aiee! *drops into the plothole, which closes up behind her*
*moments later, the group of roaches from before drop out of another plothole onto the street*
Roach: Well, that was surreal... where'd they go?
To be continued...
And now, for nothing worth nothing ...
Self-insert vs. Last Minute Replacement Assassin
Flying Cat vs. Ratboy
It's ...
ATTACK OF THE KILLER HEADLINE!!
Err ... I mean ...
CHATTY VS. KRYCEK
Double Round!
(*Meanwhile, in EGCity, a rather annoyed Assassin is chasing Chatty de Italics-Comments ...*)
Mwa ha ha ... yoooooou caaaaaan't geeeeeet meeeeee!!
Krycek: Shut up and stand still.
Don't mind if I do. (*stops running*)
Krycek: What the heck..?
Go ahead. Eat my salami.
Krycek: You are very weird, you know that?
And a bad guy from the X-Files is telling me this?
Krycek: Point taken and withdrawn. Bang.
My, you are a lousy shot.
Krycek: That was point blank range! You're supposed to be dead!
Well, I'm still standing here talking to you, aren't I?
Krycek: Fine then. Bang.
Missed again. No firearms training, huh?
Krycek: Wh--? (*blink*) Oh, wait ... I get it. You're using your RL-powers to cheat, right?
Took you long enough to figure that out ...
Krycek: Well, two can play at that game. (*yanks out a copy of "RL-ing for Dummies" and begins to peruse*)
Uh ... what?
Krycek: I'm a temporary Anti-insert. I have to oppose the self-insert, ergo, I have the same spatial influence as a self-insert.
No, I knew that. But ... "RL-ing for Dummies"? Really, now ...
Krycek: Shush up. Lesse ... (*flips a few pages*) Aha! Now I have -- huh? (*glances around*) Now where..?
(*Heh heh heh ... he'll never find me here ...*)
Krycek: Oh, there you are, in the brackets.
(*Doh!*)
Krycek: You do know that once you're in those things, you can't get back out, right?
(*Oh, shi--*)
Krycek: AHEM.
(*-matta ...*)
Krycek: That still counts as swearing, you know.
(*Bite me hard, Ratboy.*)
Krycek: I'll ignore that. And since Gerbil froze the second-to-last RL-Chatty-Rep in time, it's onward to killing the Self-Insert! Joy!
(*Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...*)
(*Err, make that the middle of the street in front of the Café-Mieke ...*)
Over the last 1,000 years, adventurers mapped the visible universe. And now they just fight for survival against kute arachnids/demonic hosts/anthropomorphic insects ... ain't it grand?
Hanpan: You forgot Anti-RL Assassins.
I did?
Hanpan: Indeed, particularly the one coming this way. (*points*)
Wha--
Krycek: Bang.
AAAH! Watch where you point that thing!
Hanpan: (*Hindu accent*) Too closs, a little too closs.
Huh? One of those refs from you?
Hanpan: For the life of me, I cannot say why. It's probably Gerbil ... you sent by Gerbil?
Krycek: A-yup.
Hanpan: 'S Gerbil, then.
And this is a subspace hole! So long, Ratboy!
Hanpan: Hey! I didn't say anything to you, ignoramus!
(*meekly*) I meant the assassin.
Hanpan: Oh.
Krycek: AHEM.
Oh, right, now I flee! (*jumps through subspace hole .....*)
(*...... and attempts to disembark in front of the EGC Bar, only to be yanked back in through the hole by a prosthetic arm.*)
What the heck?
Krycek: 'S a good thing I studied that chapter, eh? (*Both holes seals.*)
Um ... not necessarily, no.
Krycek: Well, of course it's bad for you. I being here to kill you and all ...
Well, that, and the probability is likely that we're both now ...
(*Looooooost iiiiiiiiiiiiin Subspaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!!*)
Thankee, Italics, 's much appreciated.
(*'S no problem.*)
(*Elsewhere, in Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuubspace ...*)
(*... where the mumbles and echos of memory still reverberate ... rather like the falling tree in the forest, except that here, someone is listening ...*)
(*faintly*) Friends, Cameos, Regs, lend me your ears! A threat we had thought long vanished has reappeared, a foe we fought long and hard to defeat has resurfaced. Evil has returned to our lands, this time en masse, and this time it has absconded with our friends... this, my people, we must not allow... we must band together, we free Regs and Cameos we must form the Free Genesis Insurrection, and we must strike like lightning, in a concentraited attack, to free each and every captured cameo at once, and not give them time to make good on their threats of violence twards our captive friends... then we must band together and take the roach menace down, once and for all. Together we can form an army, and together we can take this threat down... Join me, my friends, and we will set what has been made wrong to rights, PERMANENTLY...
(*And another echo ...*)
Institution on the hill
like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor
to ignite our people's will
there's a shadowed stain on the west facade
it has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
and the decendants find it oh so odd
oh so odd...
what pretention everlasting peace
everything must cease
(*And more ...*)
(*faintly*) 'Allo Mr. Chatty ... you listening out there? I do know you're out there ...
(*faintly*) You again?!
(*faintly*) Ah, yes ... you do remember me, don't you?
(*faintly*) As if I wouldn't remember having my own EVA hijacked with me inside it.
(*faintly*) Ah, well ... the ends justify the means, right?
(*The watcher chuckles softly.*)
(*yet another echo*) I agree totally. It is obvious to me sat se events we encounter must take place in some sort of a electronic network covering se whole planet, and all of us are merely the fantasies of over-inventive minds.
(*To this, she nods enthusiastically.*)
(*And then ... suddenly ...*)
(*faintly*) What the heck?
(*faintly*) 'S a good thing I studied that chapter, eh?
(*... the watcher finds reason to depart.*)
(*And back to our show!*)
Krycek: You aren't a poet, are you?
(*No, I'm not. And don't talk to me, talk to --*)
ME!
Krycek: Oh, right, you. Well, prepare to die, blah blah blah ...
Hey! I'm not dying without a fight!
Krycek: Yes, but you're a flying cat.
So wh... oh. Yeah. ^^;;
Krycek: Well, for the sake of dramatic convention, I oughta take my time. Last wish?
No last wishes, 'cause I'm not going to die.
Krycek: You have a foolproof escape plan?
Nope.
Krycek: You have a lot of faith in your RL..?
Nope.
Krycek: You've been eating limburger...?
No, I just believe in the last minute save. And, uh, reincarnation. It hasn't been good to me but, heck, it seems to like me, so I'm all set and such ...
Krycek: Good, because you're about to go through it again. Ready, set, ba--
Voice: (*echo*) Well spank my ass and call me Charlie! What have we here..?
Krycek: That's your last minute save, isn't it?
Sounds like it.
Krycek: Oh he--
(*[Un?]fortunately, the sentence is cut off by the Assassin being hit a wall of vaguely familiar emerald fire. The inferno engulfs him, and Kentucky Fried Krycek is the picturesque result ...*)
Eeeeew ...
Woman: Ah, darnit ... garbage disposal!
(*The K.F.K. falls into a dumpser through a subspace hole, which quickly closes again.*)
Woman: There! (*brushes off hands a la the cliché*) So ... Chatty! Long time no see, kid!
Huh?
Woman: Yeah, long time no ... whoops, waitamin, different Chatty. Silly me. (*chuckles*)
What? Who are you, anyway?
Woman: (*yanking ahold of Chats's paw and shaking it vigorously*) Ah, nice to meetcha, I'm God! But you can call me Lost!
Wha-wha -- Lost..? What the ...
Lost: It's my attribute, y'see. Gotta humor the RLs, they're such silly things, y'know?
A..attribute..?
Lost: Yes, my attri-- (*blink*) Oh, wait, I forgot my font color! Silly me, my brain's all hubris today ... (*poke poke prod prod*) There.
Oh ... m..my ... G..g...
Lost: Now, as I was saying --
(*The Delayed Reaction finally kicks in.*)
OHMYGOD!!
Lost: Yes! No need to be so formal!
NO! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!
Lost: Ah, who needed that Nietsche guy anyway ...
AAAAAAHHH!!! (*faints*)
Lost: (*blink blink*) Allo? That was swift ... ah well, I needed a familiar anywho. What's a mage without an animal familiar, I dunno ... probably a loner, but there's room for editing that ...
(*And so, Lost picks up Chatty the Lunar Dragon/Flying Cat, and this is ... end of Part One? Huh? Who the @#$% wrote this script?!*)
(*Oh, wait. 'Twas me. Eh heh ... heh ...*)
Wow. I am seriously loving this. Everybody's posts are really good! Really, I'm wondering how such a silly idear o' mine could've had such a magically revitalizing effect! Heh ... in any event, I think the Rats are quite past and beyond mere "being memorable" now. May, Lava, Raba, Yen, Rebopp, & Guu ... and only Guu-chan down so far ... (*smirk*)
And no, that's not God. It's a last minute character upchuck. She never existed until this afternoon, I swaer!