savetheearth | town meeting, alien breaking hoa rules

"No chance you can wind up bricking the thing? It's something I've always wanted to try, but never really got around to..."

The mention of a mantis--he hadn't shown that card to anyone yet--along with the continued poking made Hajime grimace a bit. "Actually, I'm some kind of beetle. Kind of like a roach. Maybe a longhorn beetle." Hajime had to reflect that at that age, he might have thought turning into a gigantic bug-thing was significantly more awesome than it had turned out to be. "It wasn't that fun when I got stuck like that for a few weeks. I got the ability to change without the ability to change back."

[So much enthusiasm. He's not even sure where they store it all.

Still...this couple wouldn't be who they are without it]

Thanks. I'll do my best.

Hajime forced a laugh. "Me? I'd have to be crazy to do something stupid like that." Did he sound guilty? He hoped he didn't sound guilty. He was trying very hard not to sound guilty. He hadn't been out trying to kill anyone, at least. He was just looking for trouble in progress he could put a stop to. It was a very sensible form of vigilantism.

He nodded sadly. "Yeah. It's not easy, but I think it's doable."

Ravi winced as he watched Marisa awkwardly redirect the spell, but hey, at least the warning had worked.

Unfortunately, at that point he realized he'd cornered himself into interacting with strangers. Executing a plan of action with people he was reasonably familiar with in a high-intensity situation, he could handle that. Stopping to exchange words with a group of people he didn't know? Hello social anxiety welcome to the party

He froze up for a second, staring at Marisa, completely blanking on what to say even though he knew what he needed to tell them. He gestured awkwardly toward the house, where most of the snakes were. "They--ah. They will explode." It was not as loud as the initial warning, but still a bit louder than a normal conversational tone, so hopefully it was audible.

"We are going to lead them away." Another vague gesture, this time toward Kotetsu and Danny absconding with David Proud across the lawn.

Yeah, Phillip's not sure about this plan either. "But what if the aliens have mice and the elephants get scared?"

"It's been like that for me, too. Like, once I have time to get used to something-ing, it seems okay." Alex thinks for a moment, and makes a face. "The playing with sounds-zuh thing is still annoying, though."

Wait, he has to ask about some of those. "You don't like smelling-ing bread?"

Well, at least they don't have to go intangible to get into the car. Having now experienced it, he'd rather avoid it unless necessary.

"We are kinda kidnapping him, to be fair." With good reason, of course, and Kotetsu has no idea why he'd want to go back in there ('away from them' would at least be understandable), but he supposes it doesn't really matter anymore. Proud had his chance to go willingly, and now they're taking it out of his hands.

Kotetsu turns to sit down sideways in the backseat before pulling his legs in, and uses the hand he was using to keep Proud's mouth covered to close the door and lock it again. Only then does he somewhat-release Proud, though he does attempt to keep Proud pinned with a knee as he adjusts himself in the seat so he can lean over and prop Alex up and put his seatbelt on for him before getting himself and Proud buckled in as well. Man, this was such a mess.

After his conversation with the girls, Ravi ran to his car to join the others. He remembered way too late that he'd forgotten to hand Danny his keys and they were probably waiting around for him to open the car and--

Oh, they were already in. ...Right, Danny didn't need keys to get into an enclosed space. He felt like an idiot for forgetting that, even if literally nobody could ever know except for himself. Having to actually talk to people had left him a little on-edge (and giant pink snakes plus a kidnapping hadn't? anxiety is weird okay).

He yanked open the door and slid into the driver's seat, getting it started up and onto the street as quickly as possible. "They are going to destroy the snakes for us," he informed the others, jerking his head toward the girls.

So, best place to blow up some bombs without damaging anything important--the old abandoned mine was the first place he could think of, so that was where they were going.

Not in a huge hurry, though. Because Ravi was paranoid enough to know that when you're in a hurry, the last thing you want to do is get pulled over. Obey every traffic rule and every speed limit, no matter how much the adrenaline screams at you to go faster.

He parked the car at the outskirts of the mine and killed the engine. He turned in his seat to look back at Kotetsu. "Alright. Let's get him out there."

"I'm sure it would!" Julien shakes his head in sympathy. "And I don't like smelling like bread. I had a normal smell, you know, it was fine. Here, play courtier a moment."

He extends his hand, palm down, with a grin. "This is probably the least creepy way to smell someone."

If it's taken, his skin is soft and fine and thin, and several degrees warmer than it should be. His smell... is not quite like bread, but more like it than anything else. A sort of mix of yeast, heat, sweetness, something like egg yolk.

Rachel tries to maintain her hold on it, hoping to keep its structure together. She moves it away from the orb of light and further away from the escaping group. A shadow casts up around the orb, blocking out its glow and forming a shield to contain it.

Simply destroying this snake was not a good idea, not when they didn't know what effect that might have. She had always been a bit too cautious.

The stillness of the car seems to prompt Alex's awakening. Formerly slouched forward, kept up only by the seatbelt, he leans backwards into the seat and automatically lifts his hand to nurse his head. He groans once before the severity of the situation he'd previously been in slams into his consciousness like a train.

He lurches forward, but the seatbelt restricts him. Hands flying to undo the belt, he turns to face the nearest person and finds an unpleasant surprise in the presence of one David Proud.

"Cripes!" What the hell is going on?

"Guys, we should really get out of here," Ez shouts, dragging Harper along at a run.

Flings a pin of a look back at his fellow passenger (in a state he does not want to be in) and drags it forward. From there between the front seat and the window. Says nothing, getting himself tight-wound like a spring to bolt, once there's room.

Well, that answered the question of whether he'd gotten control of them yet. She was grateful for him covering his eyes so quickly- the reflection off the inside of the windshield would have been distracting at best.

"You said you could turn them off!"

Sorry, Wheats. She'd be more sympathetic if they weren't in mid-car chase.

A quick look in the rearview mirror showed that they were gaining some breathing room. As she swung the car too fast around the corner, she hoped dearly for two things: One, that there weren't any pedestrians, and two, that Stinky would lose track of them.

For a brief moment, he considers letting the wolf bite him, and solving things that way. But he doesn't know how much power a werewolf has in its jaws, and before he can think through it, instinct takes over. He dodges, rolling out of the way at the same time as he swings the rolling pin at the wolf, attempting to hit him in the head.

"I understand the feeling. This is the first outing I've been to that I've actually talked to people at. I guess people just know not to bother someone that's sunbathing."

And she'd really, really needed it.

Ah, now for the part where he had to get Proud out of the car without him bolting the moment he opened the door. But before Kotetsu can think of the best way to do so, Alex stirs in his seat and calls out in surprise.

"Yo. Welcome to the kidnapping of David Proud."

Slightly cheeky grin, and he'll leave the details for Ravi to explain, considering it is his plan.

ALEX. Ravi's attention snapped to him, elated, and then relieved, and then concerned, flitting from one to the next with hardly enough time in between to register the shift. "Thank god, I was getting worried about you. How are you, headache, nausea, neck pain? You have a concussion, probably. I didn't check for a spinal injury--" WHICH HE REALLY SHOULD HAVE but you know, the situation had been a little hectic, and Alex had vampire healing anyway so he probably would've been fine regardless? It seemed like a stupid risk to have taken now that it actually came to his attention.

His eyes darted to Kotetsu when he spoke. Ah. Right. The thing Alex was actually reacting to. Back to Alex, his initial babble forgotten in favour of a succinct explanation. "The snakes were there for him. So we got him out, and we are going to get rid of them here."

Miranda is already getting the heck out of there!

It's just going a little slowly, is all.

Henry had now only stopped the poking because the grimace is enough not to continue. He'd rather not have a shouty adult on his hands. He would probably get kicked out if he upset an adult and then he couldn't be in the meeting. But, the whole not being able to turn back into a human? Yeah that's when Henry line faces. "...Hopefully no one tried to step on you." Because wow that does sound like it would suck. "At least you can turn back now."

"Phillip, don't be dumb elephants aren't afraid of mice." Because the rest of this plan is totally sound and great.

"Yeah, but he's been really...not helpful about this whole thing. Uh, at all. Which is kind of why he's getting restrained now." Danny doesn't look or sound particularly pleased about it, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

He then opens the car door and starts stepping out of it. "So, um--we're getting him into the mines now, right?" He points with one finger straight at the area.

Oh, good, and now there was a snake coming at them. For all that it was small-

Elian instinctively grips Arthur a bit tighter, managing a hoarse "Look out!"

Yes! Good! That's how you make conversation, kid. "Oh? What position?" He knows a bit about soccer - not overly much, but enough to talk about it, he hopes. Or at least not to make too much of a fool of himself, since it doesn't look like the boy has the sense of humor to laugh at such. Even if he knew Elian was playing it up for laughs.

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