CoLC crossover RP, main thread

The man's smile went away, but he didn't look particularly upset; more... Contemplative, placing a hand to his chin and tapping his index finger on his cheek. "Jerks like us, huh?" the man muttered, standing up straight and taking a few steps forward into the room before turning to face Ben again. "But what have we really done, huh? Tossed eggs at windows? Shot off some fireworks on a day nobody could get hurt?" he asked rhetorically, holding his hands out to either side while turning his head to one side.

"This place ain't like back in our homes; nobody paid money for those buildings. And once midnight rolled around, everything was fine again. Well, in black and white, but fine" the man pointed out, turning his head back towards Ben and grinning again, leaning forward a bit. "So really, no harm no foul, right? All ya' did was spoil the fun of a couple a' guys trying to take their minds off being kidnapped to another universe. And all I did was ask ya' a simple question, yet here ya' are treating me like some kinda 'bad guy'. Would ya' rather I be yelling at ya' about how ya' trespassing in what is essentially our house? I was just trying to have some good manners" he continued, raising an eyebrow slightly to go with his sly grin.

edited 27th Mar '16 4:24:39 AM by FirockFinion

Inside the library

"Nothing in particular, I was just wondering why you were mad at him or he was mad at you. I may be a smart guy but I'm not omniscient!" He turned his head to the sadsack that talked to all three of them. "Don't worry, small... girl? I've got this han..." He saw Miss Tairee. "...dled. Oh man. Uh... no hard feelings about the car on fire, right?*

Gon, trying to get his guard up:

"You should look at yourself at the mirror some time before..."

Gon was interrupted by Billy's arrival.

"This is a very complicated situation based on a follow up investigation that I was doing on a previous day."

The Ruckus guy's nonchalant response to his bombastic heroic speech caught him off guard. He had expected him to threaten Ben or sic the other Ruckus members on him and Twilight, gloating like a bad guy. Instead, he talked it over surprisingly calmly. The energy seeped out of Ben's stance and he frowned.

"I... I didn't know this was your house but..." Ben muttered. He blinked, then glared again. "...but Miss Tairee told me about you guys! She said you guys were gonna put the city into a kill-or-be-killed madhouse!" Ben responded, not sure how to continue. "...And I can't let you guys hurt anyone to get your sick kicks!"

Twilight watched the back-and-forth between Ben and the man who showed up, feeling a bit concerned. Especially after Ben claimed the goals of this Ruckus organization was to create a kill-or-be-killed madhouse out of the city. She stepped to Ben's side.

"Whatever these people are planning, if they haven't done anything yet, then maybe we can afford to leave them alone. We don't need any trouble right now. We need to find the king."

Ben nodded at Twilight, frowning deeper. She was right... they really hadn't done anything yet, and they had more pressing matters to attend to. Ben turned back towards the group. "I'll deal with you guys later," Ben told them, trying to sound like he had weight behind his claim. He really didn't and they probably didn't think much of him being just a little kid with a silly-looking watch and a horse with wings behind him.

He looked back towards Twilight. "You see any stairs?" he asked her.

"Um..."

Twilight looked around the area for some stairs.

"YES!! Let us commence in the application for our feet into the fiend's hindquarters!" Plague Knight cheered. He then heard Cole complaints and Rex's reassurances. "Seven feet of the ground is a mere trifle, my boy," the knight said to Cole. "I have traversed up to heights far grander! I have hiked up a thousand foot mountain to infiltrate an airship capable of taking to the skies even higher, and then on the ship I had to jump over gaps and dodge traps that directly led to the outside, risking plummeting into the mountain range below, all while braving harsh winds that can push a man right off the edge as easily a child pushes a toy wagon.

"And when I fought the Captain of the ship itself, it was right on top of the airship, and I had to fend against him while his minions shoot cannon balls and bombs at me, opening holes into the platform that I had to jump over while my opponent himself had his own means of flight!" he continued. "Thus, when compared to that, seven feet is not all that bad in comparison."

"Seven feet is nothing. "

Shiara spoke with a dismissive tone.

"Can we please get a move on?"

Outside

Before Lune could ask what those ships were like, she was interrupted by the peaceful melody of a harp and Zelda bumping into a wall by accident. Caro, concerned for Zelda, apologized to her for causing that indirectly. Lune still wondered what those ships like. Were they like the Hagane and the Hiryu Custom in that they were able to carry and support an army in an instant?

Zelda asked if they heard the harp playing in the background. In response, Sans and Caro confirmed they heard the harp play in the background. Sans even noted that it was possible that someone had taken it in the chaos. As if to confirm Sans’s theory, there was a cartoonish mouse (holding Zelda’s harp in his hands) trying to avoid Grimlock’s clutches by clinging to the top of the streetlight. Lune pointed at the mouse with the harp in a comically over-the-top manner.

“Look! That mouse has your harp, Zelda!”

edited 27th Mar '16 1:59:11 PM by josh6243

The library

"Oh, that's all? All you've done was stand stoically in the corner like you're some brooding superhero. I should know, I was here for most of the day yesterday too."

"Right, take a seat" Rex stopped floating and pointed at his back expecting the group to grab to his wings.

edited 27th Mar '16 1:48:33 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Shiara grabbed hold of one of Rex's wings, and pulled herself up onto the top of it and sat down. She did this with practiced ease.

Looking down upon the others, she smiled mockingly.

"Well?"

Outside the Library - This Isn't Going to Work, Is It?

"It's all right, Caro," Zelda said to Caro with a warm smile after she apologized, "I think it's more the day's fault, or maybe even my own, than anything you did."

She then turned in the rough direction she had heard the music coming from. "I'm not sure how long we should wait for Fried, though. If we wait too long, then it might get too far ahead of us. And I think we all know just how confusing this city is to navigate, so there's no guarantee that we'll catch up to it in time...."

Then Lune pointed in some other direction, claiming that a mouse had her harp.

"Mouse?" Zelda asked as she followed Lune's gaze. True to her words, there was indeed a large rodent-like creature clutching her harp on top of a nearby streetlight, apparently trying to stay away from a person she quickly recognized as Grimlock (albeit changed in accordance with the rest of the day's themes).

Zelda's eyes grew to literally the size of dinner plates for a brief moment, before she turned back to the others. "I'm sorry, but I think I should at least try to get it back from that mouse. I don't think he's going to stay there very long with Grimlock around."

She then turned and ran towards the scene, leaving behind a bunch of cartoony dust clouds and her own shadow. The shadow looked around for a couple moments before realizing its owner was far ahead of it before following suit.

As soon as she arrived she skidded to a stop with a screeching break sound before looking up at the mouse.

"Excuse me," she said politely, "But that harp you're carrying belongs to me. I lost it earlier during an...incident." She frowned. "If it wouldn't be too much to ask, could I have it back, please?"

Given how the rest of the day had gone, she highly doubted that it was going to be that simple. It was still worth a shot, though.

Plague Knight climbed up next and took a seat next to Shiara. "FOR SCIENCE!!!" he proudly proclaimed.

Outside the library-Can we get a move on?

Shiara burst out laughing.

Cole let out a soft sigh, and moved to hang on as well. "I'll...need to focus, to be able to...to sense anything amiss. I'm sorry if I have to be quiet."

Grimlock; Dino mode

Intersection

"Hey!" he shouted as the mouse went up a traffic pole.

He tried to jump up to catch him, but when he did, the mouse was just out of his reach at the top of the pole. He growled. And jumped again, failing his arms comically.

"Give...me...back...Zelda's...harp!" he said, each word punctuated wih him jumping in te same silly fashion.

He did his several times, each unsuccessful. After doing that, he stopped and panted from the exertion. He then quickly went back to glaring at him.

"Why you little piece of scrap! Get down her or I'll—"

Thankfully, he didn't get to finish his threat as it was at his moment that Zelda appeared. He shouted and jumped about a hundred feet into the air, startled by her appearance. There was a whistling sound as he came back and a THUD appeared in front of him when he landed. It dissapeared quickly afterwards, so he decided to ignore that.

He also decided to wait along with Zelda.

"'look in a mirror'? Did you, just-" Silanea couldn't even finish the sentence, as her whole body started shaking and smoke shot out of her ears. Meanwhile, after Bill's comment to Miss Tairee, she narrowed her eyes again and then started typing away on her typewriter. After a couple moments, she tore out the piece of paper and got up from the desk to walk over to the two of them. First, she just about shoved the message right into Bill's eye.

Next, she looked at Gon and said, "wuh, wuh wah!" before grabbing him by the ear and dragged him over towards her desk; literally dragging Gon's whole body along the floor behind him as his ear stretched comically and painfully. This left all three of the anti-human gang members looking somewhat perplexed.

Ben and Twilight didn't see any stairs in the current room, but there were some doorways to other rooms, and certainly enough space for a second floor; it seemed likely there was stairs going up somewhere. But more important at the moment was the Ruckus lead member still literally right in front of them.

"Now hang on just a minute, you think I'm just gonna let you into the place after you've been so rude? It's really impolite to act like I'm not here" the Ruckus member said insistently, grabbing the top of Ben's head, lifting the ten year old up about an inch off the floor, turning him around 180 degrees, and setting the boy back down; that went much faster and took far less effort than it normally should have. "Also, those are some really bold accusations; just who in the heck is this 'Miss Tairee' lady, and why do you just accept what she says with no evidence?" the man asked, folding his arms.

The mouse held the harp up and kept leaning away with a worried expression every time Grimlock jumped, up until the transformer suddenly launched himself skyward as Zelda startled him. After her polite request, the mouse looked at the harp as if a little puzzled, then back at Zelda, then at the harp again, then at Zelda. Finally he gave a nod with a big grin, and dropped the harp down, where it promptly landed right on top of Zelda's noggin with a loud clunk. The mouse looked surprised and then smiled a bit nervously, before suddenly turning to make his exit by way of springboarding the traffic light like he had the stop sign earlier, aiming across the intersection.

But in the air he collided with the finally airborne group that Rex was carrying, sending them scattering onto the sidewalk in front of the grocery store. Getting up and shaking his head with an exaggerated sound, the mouse got up and looked around at the recovering group, noticing that he was right next to a certain spirit of compassion in a large hat. Without Jurgen right next to him cancelling out his abilities, and the mouse so close, Cole was able to identify him as 'hollow', just like the dragon and spriggans of the other day. Like them he held a full set of memories and various pains, mostly of seemingly bizarre and mostly disconnected adventures of a 'wacky' variety, and like them he seemed to only have one purpose here... To subconsciously humiliate people in the most comical ways possible, while avoiding being humiliated himself?

Giving them another nervous and slightly sheepish grin, the mouse abruptly bolted towards the grocery store. Stopping at the door, he turned and gave them all a wave and bigger smile as the music playing over the speaker system suddenly changed.

Black & White Mickey Mouse

Then Mickey ran into the grocery store, slipping into the aisles to hide.

edited 27th Mar '16 8:20:10 PM by FirockFinion

Hol Horse was entirely sure he was going to give the rack a bullet in the head no matter what he said, preferably with a nice quip about his bullets not actually being lead-based or the CDC actually being responsible for that kind of stuff. He had shot people for a lot less than this...

But, there was a kid here, and despite her freakish abnormalities it would be a bad influence to shoot someone like that. Boingo was a different case, he and his brother had already gotten down to some real bad shit and Hol Horse had a very compelling reason to pull him into helping with an assassination. This situation had nothing in similarity (it was a coat rack for cryin' out loud) and Ranma was probably a lot less jaded.

He sent away Emperor, and stood over the rack imposingly. "You learn quick," he said. He took his hat roughly out of Ranma's hand, put it on his head and tried to lead Ranma out of the store by the hand like a belligerent parent. "Ranma, let's go. We've got some streets to cross."

Ben glared at the man who turned him around and balled up his fists. "I'd believe Miss Tairee over you! She's the librarian at the center of the city. And she knows all about this city and the people in it!" Admittedly, Ben was bluffing a tad here, because he wasn't sure if Miss Tairee had that much knowledge about the city's denizens. She was certainly receiving quite a bit of intel from the Boss, but that didn't change the fact that he... really wasn't sure about Miss Tairee's capabilities at this point.

Still, she was much more trustworthy than these jokers. He looked at his watch. Darn, still on cooldown. He looked back up, continuing to glare at the guy. "Also, you said it yourself. Nobody paid for these houses, you clearly didn't! And neither did any of these guys! You guys are just as much trespassing as I am then! So what gives you the right to stop me looking around if I wanna?"

edited 27th Mar '16 8:45:15 PM by AllHailThrall

The man physically turned Ben around. And then Ben got mad. A somewhat panicked Twilight stepped in between.

"Woah woah woah! Let's not start a fight here, please!"

Shiara sat dazed, little dragons circling round her head. When she had recovered, one roosted on her shoulders and the rest disappeared.

"What the-@$#(% €$/@!!!"

She had just seen whatever hit her walk into some kind of store. Sje followed just in time to see him duck into an aisle.

"You bloody, annoying, ridiculous, thing!!"

And her hair burst into flames.

Taking off was a bit difficult due to all the weight Rex had to carry. Plague Knight, Shiara, her cat, and Cole didn't look that heavy but their added weight and the fact that Jurgen and Cain were a little on the heavy side made it harder for him to fly without tilting on one side.

"Can you sense him, Cole?"

After what seemed like hours, something hit Rex and everyone he was carrying making the group plummet to the sidewalk. Rex shook his head trying to focus on what had collided with them.

"Ok, next time we try something like this it should be at least ten feet off the ground. Who hit us?"

Rex looked up and saw a black and white (like everything else) mouse without a shirt and oversized shoes running to the grocery store, evidently escaping from something.

"Was that...?"

edited 27th Mar '16 10:05:40 PM by DeisTheAlcano

"Ow, ow, ow!!!"

Gon was trying to fight off the librarian's grip on his ear while he was being dragged away.

"What did I do?! I'm investigating.... that thing!"

Gon pointed out Silenea.

"It's a thing of interest in a rally I'm investigating!"