The Aftermath
"It wouldn't have been a bother anyways, anything to get me out of this hole" he slammed his log book and walked towards the door "let go" when they got to Ellie's room and she went inside Mathew waited outside as John walked by "Hello Matt" the Prince said and Mathew replied
"How was your night?"
"Fine"
"where you going"
"Me and Ellie are heading down to the training fields, she forgot her wepons in her room"
"Say I havn't been down there in while and I have nothing to do, mind if I join you"
"well I couldn't say no"
"True"
You see Mathew and John were like John had once said "Brothers, all but in blood"

The Aftermath
Ellie and Matt paused outside Ellie's room while she opened the door and slipped inside. She grabbed her sword from where it hung, but debated whether or not to bring her bow and quiver. She drew her knives from the scabbards in the back, but figured she could always grab her bow later if she needed it when she was on duty, so she left it on her bed. She wrapped her belt around her waist, and added the knives to the special scabbards opposite the sword side of her belt. She was attaching her sword while she walked towards the door, and heard Matt talking to John about joining them. For such a restless night, this was turning out to be a pretty good day. "Hi John," she greeted him cheerfully when she walked out the door. "How are you?"

Hamelin

"So how old is he now?" she challenged Caden, raising an eyebrow.

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A Funny Thing

"And that's legal to carry a gun around and shoot squirrels?" I asked carefully, partly because a) after all, he DID have the gun and (b)If NarniaWeb forum rules applied here, I had to be polite.

Funny Thing
I shrugged "In my state it is" I pulled out my lisence "You do have to he one of these though" I waved the slip over paper in front of her nose, this girl was begining to become annoying ((JK!))

HamelinCaden thought for a moment "Around seven" he said after a few moments of thought "All this dithering won't help, you either trust me or you don't, but I'm still going with you. My brother's with them"

A (Slightly) More Normal Life

"Cor," Katie said, her eyes widening as she took in the house. "This 'ere's a nice 'ouse, Miss Lucinda." She skipped up to the door and peered inside, grinning.

"I never seen such loverly flowers." She gestured to the flowerbeds outside as she stepped into the house.

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Jakov stepped forward with a slight frown, looking from the Autobot to Chase and back again.

"What's this about the Ditto Metru?" he asked, curious to know where and what it was. And if Maria Sanchez lived there . . .

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A Funny Thing Happened

"Just to the Realms bookstore," I said to Kari, taking my cup with a grateful smile and sucking on the straw for a few seconds. The water was cool and refreshing, the best I had ever tasted.

"Thanks for the waters," I added, turning then to look expectantly up at Drake.

P.S."Brooklyn!"

A Funny Thing Happened

"You'll give me a paper cut!" I exclaimed, pushing the sheet of paper he was waving in my face away. I took a sip of the water Kari has given us, and was pleasantly surprised it wasn't gross. And.... it was pretty real. Which once again reminded me this wasn't a dream.

"So Sarg is your horse?" I said, playing with my hair tie.

A Funny Thing Happened

"Yeah, thanks!" I said, daintily sipping at my water and then downing it in not-so-dainty gulps. I hadn't realized how thirsty I was. Looking at Drake and Cordelia, I waited to leave along with everyone else.

Kari frowned as she filled the last to-go cup. "I thought it was closed today." She looked curiously at Drake and then at the strangers.

Hamelin

Olivia shifted her weight uneasily. "You don't have a problem with him coming, do you Annie?" she asked in a low voice. "We could use another person; particularly one who knows about living in the woods."

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

Solarflare looked down at Jakov, not sure whether or not he should be annoyed by his eavesdropping. He decided not to.

"We're heading over there," he said. "Why do you ask?"

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"Our future?" Warpath asked incredulously. "What, y'all are time travelers?"

"Ah, no," Bursa said, a little disappointed that the Autobot didn't get it. "We're the next generation of Transformers. In Cybertron's ongoing efforts to conserve energon, a new upgrade program has been introduced. We are the products of that program. We are more fuel-efficient than Autobot chassis, an are capable of taking on organic alternate modes. We are the Maximals."

"Um, 'k," Warpath said, still a little uncertain. "So, you're like Micromasters, then?"

"Absolutely not!" Truffler exclaimed in a wounded tone. "Our technology is hecka better than that!"

"Calm down, Truffler," Bursa said firmly. "Actually, Warpath, the Maximal Upgrade does have similar goals as the Micromaster Program. But, as Truffler so crudely put, ours is much improved over those old methods."

"I see," Warpath said in a tone that left some doubt as to how much he did see. "So... what brings you here, exactly?"

"Why, the Upgrade, of course," Bursa said. "It's been mandated by the Autobot High Council that all Transformers are to be upgraded. We've come to upgrade all of you."

Hamelin

"No, no, that's fine," Annika said, shaking her head. "Sorry. You're right."

"I'm just...tired," she tried, looking at her friend, then back to Caden.

Hamelin

Olivia smiled in relief. "Caden, I don't think your horse can carry three. If you want to go on ahead without us, I'll understand; but I think it's best if we stick together."

Restart

Nate took Alyson's cell phone and started scrolling through her phonebook. He skipped over the movie star's number twice, anxiousness slowing his hand-eye coordination that only made him more frustrated than his nerves could handle, before he finally pressed the green button and pressed the cell on his ear. He leaned back in his seat, but then after a few rings he lurched out of his seat and started pacing as he waited for this famous Tyler Waters to answer.

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Mary Jane stood looking sensibly bewildered as Chase ran for his truck. None of this was making much sense to her, especially since she did not understand how this was supposed to make sense for anyone else getting a bowling ball on their front door step. But, then again, she had never understood the logistics of a prank.

Shifting the ball to hold better in her arms, she pondered this as she walked over to the next house over.

Restart

Ty picked up his phone, frowning when he saw the name scrolling across his screen. With a sigh, he flipped it open and ground out an annoyed, "hello?"

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Chase watched in anticipation as MJ made her way to the next house. He drove forward slightly so she would be able to get into the car faster. He nodded when he saw her approach the door.

"That's right, just put it down and run back," he called out, kind of ruining the secrecy of the prank.

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

Jakov raised an eyebrow, having not been eavesdropping but having simply stood where he had been standing next to Chase for the past few minutes and overhearing everything. "Maria Sanchez the Jedi Knight lives there, yes?"

P.S."Brooklyn!"

Restart

There were two things Nathan King was never good at and could never fix about himself. One was staying in one place long enough to get his name in a phone book. Not something he personally really cared about, but it was a solid fact.

The second was remembering civility when he was upset, and at the moment he didn't really care about that.

So when someone did answer, Nate nearly busted a gut in demanding, "WHERE IS SHE!?" at the top of his voice in his mic.

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At Chase's encouragement, Mary Jane nodded his way and knelt down to place the bowling ball on the front stoop. She frowned as it started to roll on the step, thinking that it was very odd that there wasn't a welcome mat at the front door. Looking around for something to keep it from rolling and breaking on the steps, she took a flower pot and tried position it in front of the bowling ball.

It was a large and heavy pot, so she was distracted from noticing that the door was opening.

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

"Give me that!" Sylvia snapped and yanked the piece of wood away from Grump. "You're going to get blood on the floor and then you'll just have a bigger mess to clean up."

Instead of the normal reaction to insane house elves and shrieking goddesses, which tends to run along the lines of backing away slowly and running for your life, the girl at the door just looked interested and a little excited. Clearly living in Ditto Town had diminished her self-preservation instinct.

"Um, hello? I was looking for some books. I can come back if now is a bad time," she said hesitantly.

The lure of a sale had apparently set off some sort of latent teleportation ability in Cordelia and she reappeared the the front of the store, causing the new customer to jump in surprise.

"What kind of a book are you looking for?"

"Oh, true crime. Forensics. Detective-y stuff. Got anything like that?"

"Sure. Not a whole lot. They're in the back corner, on the shelf labeled Mystery/Crime. You're the first one in awhile looking for them. People in this town tend not to be too interested in normal things like crime. Probably because we don't have any."

"That's what everyone thinks. Thanks Cordelia! The name's Kluu, Detective Mandy Kluu," the girl said before marching off into the bookstore.

Miss Lucinda had already hurried into the kitchen and was bustling around with eggs and bacon and tucking away various evil relics that innocent children shouldn't be handling.

"Oh, I can't take credit for those flowers, dearie. My vampire minions do the gardening. At night, of course. They tend to explode into flame if they try gardening in the daylight. Although I've noticed vampire ashes do seem to make the flowers grow faster. Might be something to recommend at the next meeting of the Botany Society," Miss Lucinda replied. She hurried back into the living room and gave Katie a big hug. "Now you just come right into the dining room and I'll get you a nice big glass of milk and I'll whip you up that breakfast."