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THEY'RE BAAAAAACK

Who: Junkyard Carnival and Poe Dameron
What: WE'RE TAKING YOU
When: Jan 18th
Where: Some random club.
Warnings: Violence and mayhem? Also some sick beats.

The club is small but packed to the gills. Everyone loves getting in on the latest craze before it goes super public and right now that's a band by the name of New Republic eating up the love on stage. There's a free drink policy for the band and they're bordering on drunk but still having a good set.
Well. Were. Having a good set.

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Poe is trying to be responsible. Which means that before he takes one of the jell-o shots a waitress brought up at the start of the song -- while his other hand taps out the beats of the drum solo going on -- he also makes sure to grab a drink from his water bottle. Not that he's sober, God no. But he's keeping himself from being completely drunk.

A glance at the bassist, three nods to get themselves totally in sync, and both members start playing, joining in with the drums, which fades back to become a synthetic heartbeat.

All blissfully unaware of who is out in the crowd and why they're here.

Edited 2016-01-17 20:20 (UTC)

The Carnival is at least considerate-- they don't let the song get too far in before the sound system cuts out and the lights go out. Fans are plunged into darkness, waves of confused sounds pulse through the crowd until the lights come up slowly to a completely different beat.

"It's your lucky day, Event Horizon," a mid-tone, female voice comes over the music. A couple people in the audience immediately recognize it and start to lose their goddamn minds. "You're bearing witness to the greatest heist performed in front of a live audience."

Finally the lights come up enough to see what's happening-- Luci is leading the charge across the stage from the wings, mic in hand. The rest of the Carnies are, of course, right behind her. They're upstaging this band and taking over their gig. The reason becomes abundantly clear once Luci spins their vocalist out of orbit by his tie and starts singing.

"Kicking down the back door, no one said a word,
Come to take you now Poe Dameron
Found another victim
The Carnival is calling Poe Dameron (Dameron)--"

At first? It's pure confusion. He knows the voice. Not instantly, no, but he knows he knows it. The sight of Luci, though, and things click into place. At least as far as an identity goes. Now why Junkyard Carnvial is here...

Hey. Maybe his band organized something without telling him.

And he's drunk enough to just laugh at hearing his name. This is obviously... some kind of joke or something. Publicity stunt? Sounds about right. He catches the eye of his bassist again and flashes a grin. One, two, three nods.

She must not be in on it either, but she follows his lead.

The beat's easy enough to pick up, so, there goes a guitar and a bass to support the song. As far as Poe knows... Well. He doesn't know what's going on. But it's fun, whatever it is. Yeah, someone wasn't listening or didn't believe the 'hiest' part.

Yuffie, well known problem child to all sound techs, launches from her place up behind Luci and climbs the sound system. She herself bribed the sound guy...and might've flirted a little, to get him to keep an eye out for her signals.

She pulls a cord out of the system and rehooks it to her guitar, playing an E to make sure she's hooked in. There she is. She salutes the sound board, before tossing the bassists to Xanxus, so he can also hook into the system. By this point, Poe's still on, but the poor Bassist for New Republic looks horribly confused as it cuts out.

"Outta my way." She steps down off the speakers, and hip checks the bassist to get her out of the way of the mic. She winks ant the bassist and blows her a kiss before she starts playing.

There are some ohs coming up, and she may not be a great singer but she's their backup. She figures Xanxus will come and join her at the microphone, too.

Yuffie makes way for him and he wants to high five her for it. Instead, he plugs himself in and his bass comes to life, that thrumming undertone as he muscles his way past the other bassist with a smirk and a full of himself murmur of "this is how it's done, bitch." But he doesn't stop where the bassist had been. He makes his way to Yuffie and her mic.

Sure he has to lean down but whatever. He's okay with lending his full booming baritone to the background vocals. He keeps his eyes on the guitarist though. How the guy deals with this sudden upset is pretty telling. The Carnies don't need any pussy that wusses out when they do crazy shit like this.

When his 'partner' (of sorts) gets moved right out of the way and has her cord pulled, that's when Poe really looks around. Because even drunk, he knows something isn't right. He can't make any kind of verbal questioning because... well. Music's still going, and there are still a lot of people watching, but he looks toward his vocalist.

Who seems about ready to lunge at the first Carnie he gets close enough to. Despite how bad of an idea that probably would be.

And -- Hell. He can't even process. So, he gives up on the music for a moment to snatch up another shot and down it. Nothing to do but go with it, even though he's confused as all hell right about now.

In some odd sense of sneakiness Fetch waits until the front liners are all replaced before she snatches the drummer by the back of his shirt and pulls backwards. His balance is mostly on the balls of his feet instead of the stool he's sitting on so he goes flying.

"Don't get up," Fetch's grin is manic as hell and she pulls two drumsticks she had hidden in the back strap of her bra out to start pounding out a rhythmic beat to work against the baseline. It sounds good for something they're doing severely unrehearsed. So she thinks.

If Poe looks her way she'll make a kissy face at him, hoping to unnerve him because she lives for that kind of crap.

This is, unfortunately, what Luci lives for. Even though it's about getting this guy to come into the fold, the Carnies are at the center of the ensuing chaos. The bassist is horrified, the drummer is on his back, Luci is circling Poe as Xanxus and Yuffie take the backup vocals. The takeover is more or less complete.

Luci had expected some trouble with security, but apparently there's more of their beloved Freaks in the audience than Luci originally thought there would be. Security is having too much trouble keeping a few off the stage to be concerned with who's on it.

"Your fingers fly across your fret, your crowd they scream out
Your chords are sinful and so you have caught our eye now
Just pack your suitcase,
Come with us and make 'em bow down
Giving you the time of your life (You have caught our eye now)

You cut a pretty figure pacing 'cross the stage dear
Though if we only needed that, we wouldn't be here
Four is great, five will take us to the stratosphere
Jump on, we'll take you for a ride (party in the stratosphere)"

While she sings, she tries to herd Poe towards the center of the stage where he can stay surrounded by the Carnies-- but she can't shut off the flirtatious energy she gives off when she's performing, so it probably looks like Luci is either trying to seduce the guitarist or eat him alive. Depending on which tabloid one believed in, it could be either one.

She lets Xanxus and Yuffie take more of the backup vocalizations and comes in on her cue.

"Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning?"

And that was definitely a wink, accompanied by shrill screams and maybe a fan just fainting off her feet.

"Room for one more, jump on, now the Carnival's in town
The Carnival's in town
The Carnival's in town
Room for one more, jump on, now the Carnival's in town"

The vocalist from Poe's band is getting no backup from his bandmates, for whatever reason, so he decides to take matters into his own hands. Luci seems to be running this show, so it makes the most sense to grab her by the back of her jacket and pull her backwards. He's not giving Poe up that easily--if he can even make it to her before someone intervenes.

When Xan meets her at the mic that gives her the ability to back off for a moment to check over her shoulder and make sure that Fetch doesn't have any problems coming up. The NR drummer looks like the little birdies in his head are going to be keeping him busy for a moment at least so that's taken care of. She grins at their drummer, and then at NR's bassist, because this is just too good.

She turns back around to harmonize away with Xanxus as the come up on the chorus. Between the two of them they make a very good team in a lot of ways. And unlike the Vocalist for the New Republic, Lucifer absolutely has backup from her band. Yuffie can see the moment where the Vocalist is attempting to grab Luci, and Yuffie loops her guitar cord around her wrist and pulls, creating a tripline between him and their girl.

"Xan!" She backs off the mic to call his name and get his attention on the asshole trying to grab Luci, at the same time she gestures with her head to make sure he sees what she does, even if she's positive they're on the same page. They usually are.

He doesn't have to be told twice. He knows that Luci can take care of herself. He knows the woman can fight, but this is his band, his family and he is their bass player. Their floor. He is their muscle.

The mic probably picks up the growl. It's something more at home in Death Metal than punk and he's doing a guitar flourish to swing his bass around to his back to protect it. "On it."

Making it part of the show, he starts a little dancing move towards Luci, like he's going to join her in singing the chorus. He's been doing that more and more. Adding his Operatic training to her powerful vocals.

No one gonna stop us,
No one gonna get in our way
We take what we want,
try it and you'll pay.

You're ours now, Poe Dameron
We've come for you, Poe Dameron
Cause there's room for one more,
and the Carnival's in town.

That vocalist isn't going to get any closer to Luci because Xanxus is suddenly there between them, looming at his full height, all scars and burning red eyes and an elbow to the face hidden as a fancy little flourish to get his bass back into place.

Fetch is watching everything proceed like a kid in a candy shop and cackles just under the noise of their song watching Xan bash the other other guy in the nose. She thinks she sees blood when he goes down and man that's fucking metal and her scene.

It's awesome.

Poe's drummer scrambles to his feet behind Fetch, and looks like he's about to make a move on one of them - but who?

Luci looks over her shoulder at Xanxus when he joins in the chorus with her. She does love it when she can pull him into vocals, their voices work well together with his baritone and her alto.

But she also sees exactly what he's doing-- getting between her and the super-pissed vocalist. Luci grins and blows him a kiss from his spot on the floor while she refocuses on getting in Poe's personal space. This isn't a joke, she's trying to seduce Poe right on the stage.

'Poe Dameron, Poe Dameron, Poe Dameron
Are you coming?
Poe Dameron, Poe Dameron, Poe Dameron
Are you coming?
Poe Dameron, Poe Dameron, Poe Dameron
Are you coming?
The carnival's in town.'

If that drummer is up to something, perhaps it's Yuffie's turn to take down the next troublemaker.

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