The Fish

[dishevelment]

Who: Anyone around Pride HQ
What: A weird fish has popped up in the lobby
When: After the South Vista Music Festival
Where: Pride HQ
Warnings: Carnies and MÄNTICORE




[It popped up one day without warning-- a little fish asking for money in order to live.

What are the folks in Pride HQ going to do?]

Comments

[twoscompany]

Yup.

[Garnet, meanwhile, puts up her gun. Her very deadly finger guns.]

This is a stick up. We're here for the swear jar.

[...

She totally isn't making a "pew pew" sound under her breath.]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

[...they are both totally baked, aren't they?]

[Luci looks between Squalo's intensely fake gun and Garnet trying to make her fingers seem more threatening via sound effects. She is 3000% not in the mood for this, but clearly both of them are not in the driver's seat, so to speak.]

Yeah, sure. Just let me get it for you. [She closes the switchblade and stands up. Her hair has seen better days, she's parading around in boxers and one of her dress shirts. Luci goes to the kitchen and opens up the cabinet.]

Hang on, we keep it in here somewhere... [Luci pulls out a bag of chips, a bag of popcorn, a box of Cheezits... and then her arms are full.] Fuck, Squalo, be a dear and hold these for me for a mo', would you?

[sharktrash]

[ LOOKS LIKE. ]

[ Squalo doesn't even get annoyed at the lack of impression they seem to leave on Luci, because as far as he's concerned, everything is going according to plan. He actually lowers the console and follows Luci into the kitchen, blinking at the request in confusion before baring his teeth a bit. ]

A stick up. Not a hold-me-up.

[ He takes the bags anyway, though, and inspects them with great interest. ]

Ooh, sourcream and onion?

[twoscompany]

[Ironically, Garnet is the complete opposite of baked. There's just a life in danger, that's all. A plastic, non-real life. Mmm hmm. Also she might be bored.

So Garnet just kind of stands where she is, waiting patiently.]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

Yeah-- this brand's great. It's the kind with the little ridges? Help yourself.

[She casts a glance towards Garnet. Hm. Maybe more aware than Squalo is right now...]

You ever tried those with some tuna salad? I could eat that all day, honestly.

[And now her arms are full of a package of cookies, a jar of pickles, and a couple cans of cheese-whiz. Luci looks at Squalo, then at Garnet.]

Hey Garnet, can you put this on the counter for me? I think I need the step-ladder after all...

[sharktrash]

[ Squalo visibly perks up at the mention of tuna, however as Luci proceeds to call for Garnet, he scowls and drops everything on the counter to prod her with the hilariously fake weapon again. ]

Hey. Heeeeey! I know what you're trying to do. Don't think we'll forget what we came here for. It's a matter of life and death!

[ He's not sure he remembers whose life and death, but surely it's important. ]

[twoscompany]

Sure.

[She takes the items to put them on the counter. Why not?]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

[What.]

[Did he just.]

[Touch her with.]

[Luci turns suddenly on Squalo getting very close into his personal bubble.]

Hey. Don't be an impatient prick and start poking at me, I'm doing you a favor right now. You'd have to search this whole damn suite if I wasn't helping. And let me tell you, if you wake Yuffie up before she's ready, you will be sorry. Eat your damn chips.

[She lets Garnet take the rest of it from her.] Thank you Garnet-- at least you're being polite. [Luci shoots a haughty look in Squalo's direction and goes a couple steps to the refrigerator for the stepstool.]

Ah, here we go.

[She swings the step ladder up and clobbers Squalo with it.]

[sharktrash]

[ H-HEY CHILL IT'S JUST A PIECE OF PLASTIC?? That would be an understandable reaction if he poked her with his dick or something. Whoa. ]

[ That outburst seems to take him aback so much that without saying anything, he slowly puts down the toy, picks up the potato chips bag and opens it, maintaining eye contact all the while. ]

[ -- and then he's getting hit with a fucking ladder. ]

-- VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIII!!!!!!!

[twoscompany]

[Aaaand down goes Squalo.

Oops?

At least she had put her items on the counter nicely, so if worse comes to worse she can at least throw her hands up. This is technically a stick up where Luci is their unfortunate victim...]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

[Luci immediately backs up and opens the stool, looking like a sharkliontamer with a chair.]

And there's more where that fucking came from! If you want to take the bail jar, you're going to have to do it over my cold, dead carcass because I'm not letting anybody take any more of him!

[She breathes through her teeth, looking wildly from Garnet to Squalo and back again. 'High-strung' is an understatement, Luci is clearly borderline psychotic over this breach in their suite, but she's also exhausted from feeling responsible for it.]

[sharktrash]

[ Yeah he's sitting on the floor still holding the chips bag and probably bleeding from the head, but he doesn't actually look surprised by any of it. Is that weird? Has he gotten hit a lot? Who knows. ]

More of who?

[ Whoa Luci you really need to chill, what the fuck. ]

[twoscompany]

[Huh. Interesting. Something about this has Garnet's hackles up. Something's not right.]

Luci, what are you talking about?

[stylistic_disloyalty]

[Bless you Garnet for not raising an eyebrow after Luci beat someone with a step ladder.]

Xanxus. He set Predator's trailer on fire, and now I can't find him. The party line is 'rehab', but that's a load of bullshit if I ever heard it, and every time I ask if I can get a line to Predator everyone clams up. They have him, I know they do, and I can't--

[Luci slams the stool down on the floor and sits in it, burying her face in her hands.] I can't help him.

[sharktrash]

[ Okay, setting the chips down. ]

What the fuck? They just kidnapped someone?

[ Sorry, he wasn't here for last time and nobody really filled him in. Probably because he didn't look innocent nor lost back at the Vista. ]