interstellar5555 | 002 ┼ THEY LEFT US ALONE / KIDS IN THE DARK / TO BURN OUT FOREVER / OR LIGHT UP A SPARK

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002 ┼ THEY LEFT US ALONE / KIDS IN THE DARK / TO BURN OUT FOREVER / OR LIGHT UP A SPARK

Who: Cosmic Indulgence, Flashstep, Junkyard Carnival, & System Shock + Any Virgo Onlookers
What: The Revenge EP is debuting in a flashmob-style performance. Four bands, four never before heard songs, one massive social media frenzy.
When: November 7th
Where: Sinammon
Warnings: ......sigh. Carnies.

The second the lockdown is lifted, Luci springs into action. She's mass texting everyone involved:

It's time. Tomorrow night, we ride at 7PM for an 8PM start. Get your best shit dry cleaned.

There's already an exodus happening out of Pride HQ given they weren't the only ones on lockdown either, so slipping out is easy enough. They converge on the location, Luci makes good on her suggestion and hands the techbooth a wad of money to stop playing recorded dance mixes and let them take over the stage. She can already see one guy frantically texting into his lap as she explains what's about to happen. Perfect.

"You should tell your manager to call in more bouncers and remove some of the tables, this place is about to be packed."

((OOC: Welcome to the culmination of the EP plot! Not much else to say but here's a description of the stage setup courtesy of Garnet for anyone curious, and LET'S ROCK!))

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[There's a rushing in Kido's ears at that. She sees white she's so angry. Her heart feels like it's going to pound out of her chest and all she can think of is the night Tiger wound up in her room, scared. All she can think is that he's thirteen, he's a child. All she can think is that he's her family and he would have died and the man in front of her would have laughed and she would have lost one of the only people in the world that really mattered.

She tosses the bass away, her knuckles white now. Granted, by tosses it away, I do mean "throws it at him." And it's not the only thing getting thrown at him. Because she's got some surprising strength for a stringy sixteen year old and she's wordlessly launching herself toward him and she doesn't care if she get hurt, she only thinks that this fucker can't be allowed to keep going on.]

[So what he's 13. That's more than old enough to man up or die. This is just more proof for Xanxus. Proof that kids didn't belong in the music business. It's the law of the fucking jungle and little kids don't need to be involved. Children should be home with their mommies and daddies and not trying to pretend to be rock stars. They have time for that later, when they're old enough to understand what they're getting into.

She's a child too. A naive thing that needs to be taught how this world works. That no one is going to coddle some snot-nosed little boy and that no one gives a damn about them unless they make it big. And even then, after a few years, someone better will come along and they'll be replaced as the 'hot new thing'. Fucking fickle ass fans.

And fucking little girl biting off more than she can chew.

He steps aside from the flying bass but that means taking her punch. He doesn't have a glass jaw by any stretch of the imagination, but he wasn't really prepared for just how hard some little girl can actually hit. Hard enough for her to split his lip.]

.... You just signed your death warrant, bitch.

You act like I'm scared. [And she's not. She's shaking all over with rage now, and she's going to try for another hit--she's not going to let up so long as she can keep standing. She might be a child, but she knows how the world works better than most. And she's not going to let someone treat Tiger like her family treated her.]

[Maybe not now, but she should be very very soon. Because he's not going to stand there and let her wail on him. Hell no. He's got a reputation...and he has it for a very good reason. All those rumors about him getting into fights all the time. The one about it taking four cops to subdue him. All true.]

[He steps into her hit. His muscles shifting as he makes a fist and goes for an immediate punch to the face. He's never played fair because he also is going to try to knee her in the stomach. Hopefully she didn't eat too much, else clean up on aisle asskicking.]

[Kido's not really paying enough attention to dodge either. That seeing white thing is a problem. She's seeing stars after as she staggers back, wind knocked out of her. She chokes after a moment, wiping her mouth on her sleeve.]

Hit harder if you're trying to kill me, shithead. [She's smaller than him, and now she's staggered, she's even lower than she was before. She uses that to jam her elbow upward, aiming for his solar plexus.]

Kido!!

[Trucy had been across the club when the scuffle started, but now that she's pushed her way through the crowd, she gasps.

This does not look like it will end well. So she does the first reckless, impulsive thing that comes to mind. Because that'll help. Trucy rushes forward and grabs his arm to try to stop him from hitting her friend.]

Leave her alone!!

GET OFF HIM!

[Luci is equal parts panicked and pissed. She saw Kido hit Xanxus with her bass, and now Trucy is getting involved. Luci likes Trucy, she doesn't want Trucy's face bashed in. She'll leave Xanxus to Yuffie for now, now Luci will be making a grab for Trucy around her middle to pull her off of Xanxus. This is an act of kindness.]

Edited 2015-11-17 05:31 (UTC)

Hey!

[Yuffie is hot on Luci's heels, and her immediate response is to try and grab on to Xanxus because someone needs to, and Yuffie probably has a pretty good chance of not getting hit. She's also probably got best reflexes of the people here, so if he does swing she'll at least probably get out of the way, right?

...Okay so that is a LOT of probably-s and Possibly-s, way too many in her opinion, but Yuffie throws all of her weight into trying to drag him in the opposite direction of everyone else in the mess. She's not sure how helpful it will be but she will fucking try.]

I leave you alone for ten fucking minutes!

H- hey!!

[Trucy is actually pretty small so it's not too hard for Luci to just yank her away. She'll struggle a little, but it won't help.]

Let me go!

Normally I would immediately comply with your wishes, Trucy, but you have so much to live for. [Luci kneels down once they've cleared Xanxus and puts Trucy over her shoulder. Then she's carrying the other away from the fight as quickly as she can.]

It's escalating real damn quickly and he doesn't give a fuck. He's going to pound Kido into a bloody pulp for daring to hit him. He might not have started this fight, but he's sure as hell going to end it. He doesn't care that Trucy grabbed him. He's still lunging forward to grab Kido. She's trying to punch him. Well, fuck that because he's grabbing her and lifting her to body slam her into the floor.

But there's Yuffie, grabbing him and he won't ignore her like he does Trucy. But dragging him is like dragging a semi-truck. He's not going.]

Let go, Yuffie... This bitch started shit with me and I ain't going to stand here and take it.

[That fucking hurts. She doesn't even register that Yuffie and Luci are there. Her eyes are narrowed and even though shit she can barely breathe, she's still trying to get back up.]

Stay out of it. [She's not talking to anyone other than Trucy, really. Because nobody else except for her own stupid ass needs to get hurt in an act of self-destruction. She takes a deep breath, as deep as she can manage.] This fucker watched Tiger drown and laughed.

[She doesn't care if he kills her in all honesty. But she'd never live with herself if she didn't at least try to get back at Xanxus. It's revenge night, and even if she fails she knows she tried.]

[Yuffie, in a state of irritation and half panic that watching your bandmate attempt to murder someone tends to bring on, just starts babbling and doesn't really stop.]

staydownstaydownstaydown- Oh my god this would be so much easier if you stayed down.

[Never mind that Yuffie is giving advice that she would never take. And she pretty much hangs her entire body weight off of Xan's arm to try and at least pull him off balance if nothing else. This is the problem of being the smallest member of the band. She's also irritated because it's like she knows there's something she could do but can't put her finger on it.]

I don't care who started it! She's done. She's pissed, and you're pissed and you already caved her face in! She's got a good reason, you were an ass, she threw a bass at your head, fair's fair! It's all over! So stop!

[Listen to Yuffie. Stay down. Because Xanxus is perfectly okay with the idea of breaking Kido so that she can't stand back up ever again. So if Kido stands up, he's just going to punch her as hard as he can in the face. Probably knee her in the kidneys too. If she's not peeing blood for a week after this, he would be surprised.

Of course wearing Yuffie like a backpack does slow him down a little. He might be able to bench twice his bodyweight, but it's still hard to fight when you have a band member dangling off him like a tiny Christmas Ornament.]

She's not done until she's wheeled into a fucking ambulance.

[He doesn't care about Tiger and being an ass. Mostly because he's surprised anyone is even surprised that he acted like that. Did anyone really expect him to save someone]

[Yeah, Kido's got no chance at this point. She manages to duck away from his punch, but it only brings her closer to the knee in her gut--and that downs her. Self preservation keeps her on one knee at least, senses swimming and the world dark around the corners.

Oh shit. Oh shit.

Still she can't bring herself to regret doing this. She manages to choke out a word--along with some blood. Where the blood's come from is anyone's guess.] Fuck you.

[She's going to die here.]

XANXUS!

[Look who's back-- Luci's deposited Trucy somewhere out of the blast radius and went back in of course. Because Yuffie is an attractive manpurse right now, despite her best efforts. Which Luci appreciates, it's distracted him enough from killing System Crash's bassist outright.]

[Yuffie's got his back, Luci's standing between Xanxus and Kido, inches from his face, so she's got his front. Her teeth are bared as she meets his eyes, because she's fairly sure Xanxus isn't going to respond to anything that isn't violence-based at the moment.]

You and I did not bust our ASSES to have a fucking BAR FIGHT overshadow what we did here. You want to shit on that, fine, but you're going to have to go through me to do it.

[And she's ready to go toe-to-toe with him if she has to. He has the strength advantage, hands down, but she's fast and she can take a beating when she needs to.]

[Yuffie goes from hanging her entire body weight off of him to pretty much climbing him in an attempt to keep his attention off Kido and on them.

She's more than happy to have the assistance because as much as Yuffie can and will happily handle herself, she's literally half Xanxus' size and there's only so much one girl can do, okay?]

You heard Luci, Xan! Come on.

[At the moment, Yuffie may be a very stylish backpack more than anything else but she is very high pitched and very loud, and she uses that to her advantage.]

If you freaking break her even I can't keep that outta the news, you fuckwad!

[At this rate, Yuffie is going to have one hell of a time spinning this mess enough as it is, and she's more than sure someone's going to have this up on youtube before the night is out.]

[To be honest, it's probably already streaming live somewhere. Fans are probably taking bets as to how many more seconds until he actually kills her. Not the best PR for this event, but hey, Pride Records does go by the addage that any publicity is good publicity. Still, he's he's not going to beat on Family.... Weird. It feels like he normally totally would...]

DON'T YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT! [A deafening roar but his shoulders sag.] Fine. Fine. You win. But she EVER starts shit with me again I will end her.

[He might just turn around to storm out of the bar still wearing the latest in Yuffie jackets]

Edited 2015-11-19 15:29 (UTC)

[Trucy has the sense to both allow herself to be taken away from the conflict and to wait for Xanxus to leave before rushing back to check on Kido.]

Oh my God, Kido! Are you okay? Should... I call the cops or an ambulance or the fire department or something?!?

I'm fine. [She's a liar. But she's just scowling. She's still furious.]

He would've let Tiger die and he would've laughed about it. [Kido's just very over protective. She really is. She tries to stand again and... fails a little. It's when she falls that her face finally falters in surprise. And she grasps whatever part of Trucy is closest to her.]

... I need to get home. Help me up.

[She'll apologize for being short with Trucy tomorrow, but she's not in a state to now.]

[Luci barely manages to avoid taking a step back when Xanxus roars in her face like that. She might've had more muscle on her than Yuffie and run in here willingly, but that didn't mean she was entirely sure she could stop him if he wanted to go through her.]

[Her shoulders relax as Xanxus walks off with the Yuffiecape, then she turns around to check on Kido and Trucy.]

And I'll let him, honestly. [Luci says, nodding her head back at Xanxus. She turns to Trucy for a quick aside before continuing with Kido:] Call your manager Trucy, have her get a doctor to meet you at your suite at least. No police unless you want Xanxus featured tomorrow instead of all of us.

That was a really stupid thing you just did here, kid. By all rights I should've let him beat the hell out of you for being so dumb. You're not the morality police, and you're definitely not going to change Xanxus' behavior no matter what you do. Suck it up and deal with it-- not everybody you meet is going to be a good person.

I don't give a shit about morality, or Xanxus. [She does her best to at least stagger to his feet. She's trying to recover enough for a glare.]

So don't fucking lecture me. I'm not gonna sit back if he hurts the people I care about. He's worse than Predator. [Kido apparently has neither pride nor shame as she doesn't seem to be getting a lesson out of this event.]

...I'm going to pretend you didn't just say that about my bassist. [Luci says, barely containing her anger. Comparing him to Predator-- where the fuck did Kido get off?]

As for sitting back-- you don't have a goddamn choice. This is not some David and Goliath bullshit where you can throw a bass and through loving and caring, knock out a man three times your size. No, that doesn't happen in the real world, and all you succeeded in doing was getting the shit beaten out of you. 'Pointless' doesn't even begin to describe what happened here. Unless you actually think Tiger is going to feel warm and fuzzy about you spitting blood for him-- in which case, bravo. Mission accomplished.

[Honestly Xanxus is a big fat jerk and Trucy is pretty sure he deserves to be hit in the face with a guitar. But she'd rather have a big jerk go unpunished than lose a member of her surrogate family. But for now she just nods and helps the other girl up.]

Okay. Let's go...

[Still those wounds look bad.]

Are you sure you don't want to go to the hospital?

It won't kill me. I just--I need to get home, Trucy. [She's sounding a little desperate.]

Please. Get me out of here. There's too many people. [And her mind's racing now and please get her out of here.]

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