CoLC crossover RP, main thread

With Ben's encouragement, Twilight flew down.

She intended to simply land in front of the building, but somehow ended up flying down the chimney of a different building. From outside, anyone nearby would hear a bunch of comical crashing and bashing noises coming from the building.

But it wouldn't really be anything to be concerned about, because in the end Twilight and Ben popped out of the building's front door, completely unharmed. (And right next to the grocery store.)

Twilight stood on the sidewalk, unsure of how to comment on the situation.

edited 30th Mar '16 6:34:47 AM by Cybersbe

"Oof!" After Bill had tripped over her, Sadness was knocked flat on her stomach on the floor. She caught a flash of some kind of scrambled signal - what kind of mental state was this triangle guy operating on? - before the triangle floated off and out the door, presumably to rejoin whatever chaos was going on.

She considered following him, but it didn't seem worth the effort to chase after a weird inhuman thing she didn't trust...though it did occur to her that she had literally been standing in the library all day. Time was really weird here.

She stayed there on the floor, her cheek pressed against the ground, and glumly watched Miss Tairee yell at the strange man. Whatever they were arguing about flew right over her head, but she regretted her chance to talk to the librarian. There was someone she wanted to ask about.

edited 30th Mar '16 10:50:06 AM by Syrika

Cole stayed still and quiet in the store, wincing at the sounds of mayhem going on in the aisles and around the place. As much as he wanted to go and try to help, considering how rough things were going for the others, he wasn't sure how much better his odds would be.

Still, he couldn't just stand here, either.

He decided a decent middle ground would be to scoot backwards to guard the front door, so that at the very least one avenue of exit was covered. Though for all he knew the giant mouse would just let itself out through a wall, seeing what had happened with some of the others earlier.

"Is there something I can do to help?" he finally called out, hesitantly moving forward into the store, following the sounds of pursuit. "Mister mouse creature, we mean you no harm!"

Intersection -> Above the Grocery Store

Caro listened carefully to the suggestions that the others made. Zelda said that they shouldn't rush in because it was likely that king had traps ready for them. Even from the little she had seen from the animated mouse's behavior, she could see that he was cunning and mischiveous, so such an approach would be probably for the better. She also suggested looking windows and asked the robot, whose name apparantly was Grimlock if he could break into the building for them.

Garrett then suggested that they could go up by riding Fried and looking for hidden entrances in the roof. To this, Caro nodded her head animatedly and replied, " That's a great idea! Tell you what, I will ride him alone first and look for anything that we could use. If there's indeed such a thing up there, then we will either carry everyone up there a few people at a time or try to find a faster way. But in any case, we will be going for now and I will tell you guys whatever I find in moment."

With this, Fried then took to the air once again, in the direction of the story where the mouse had gone to hide. They began to fly around the building's rooftop, looking for any way in through there.

"Blast it!" Plague Knight cursed when the bomb missed. He ran out of the aisle he was in, trying to get a bead on the mouse, and immediately went into the aisle Mickey jumped on down in. The mouse had already gone in another direction by the time the Knight reached the aisle though, so when he reached the end, he looked left, and then right, then ran. However, it turned out to be the opposite direction Mickey went down......

Meanwhile, the flames from the Tracer bomb continued for several seconds along the floor while burning through whatever items in the path, due to a lack of separating wall between shelves on opposite ends, until going out by themselves. The flames heading towards Rex, however, only managed to slightly single his jeans before they died out.

"MOTHER WAS RIGHT, I AM A FAILURE!" it cried out as it died.

After the right-off-the-bat mishap with the springloaded pie - and the subsequent mad scramble by... well... basically everyone -as far as Morty could remember, at least- the teenager had mostly been left in the dust: literally, in this case, his flattened outline floating lazily through the air, accompanied by a lone accordion and a few cartoon clouds of kicked-up dust. As soon as he had landed, Morty pulled one hand up, wiggled his fingers, and pulled himself back into shape, although not without some effort.

As soon as he had regained his normal proportions- whatever that meant in this bastardized world of two dimensions- Morty quickly tried to keep up, hurtling pell mell down a random aisle in pursuit of the cartoon rat. ^note  for some strange reason, the aisle also seemed to suddenly be long enough for him to keep running for a good thirty seconds, and if anyone looked too closely at the background they'd probably notice that the shelves seemed to loop every two seconds or so

"Waaaaaaait!" he called out desperately. "I mean, I-I-I-I-"

Then the entire area in front of him burst into flames. His eyes bugging out of their skull, Morty tried to backpedal and wound up falling flat on his ass again. Out of the corner of his eye- as soon as it had retracted back into the confines of his skull, however that worked- he saw the mouse leaping from one shelf to the next; out of sheer desperation, he fumbled for a lever on Rick's invention hoping that it would do something, anything. There was a cartoonish "sproing as a gigantic, spring-loaded boxing glove shot its way out of a hidden compartment, arcing over Mickey's head and smacking into a nearby wall.

Morty wailed as he desparately tried to retract the boxing glove for another strike... only to push the wrong lever, retracting the spring the wrong way and sending himself flying into the wall, leaving a Morty-shaped imprint in said surface. Tiny Bird People circled around his head as Morty struggled to right himself.

"Wait! I, uh, I you, uh you... you uh... I never liked your dumb cartoons!" he shouted angrily as he shook his head to disperse the little avians, desparately fumbling for an insult in the hopes of turning Mickey hostile- and thus following through on Rick's advice. "Y-y-you, t-these jokes are all- they're all really stupid! And you screwed up generations of child stars!"

Anyone who had already made it all the way to the back of the store would probably see Rick barely paying attention to the pandemonium. He'd somehow managed to swipe a bottle of scotch from one shelf or another, and was currently focussing all of his effort on downing said bottle.

edited 30th Mar '16 7:35:45 PM by Locoman

Miss Tairee's face shifted to a very dull, exasperated expression; a quite clear, 'are you serious right now?' even without the ability to actually verbalize it. Finally letting go of Gon, she decided to try something she should have earlier; after quickly cracking her fingers, she started typing away on the typewriter really fast. So fast that her hands literally became a blur, and that just a second later, she had finished typing an entire long message. Satisfied that that had worked, she tore it out and shoved it into Gon's face to make him read it.

Meanwhile, a human lady with some kind of jury-rigged jet pack touched down just outside with lots of billowing smoke. After entering the library, three intersecting lines drawn on her shirt could be seen; another member of Ruckus. She headed over towards the central desks to read the plaques there. "Hey, so this thing says to 'beat the king at his own game', that means not to kill him?" the woman asked Miss Tairee. Miss Tairee shook her head quickly and once again typed up a response in a blur, tearing it out and putting it on the desk.

The three members of the anti-human gang, having chosen to wander away from Miss Tairee and Gon, had walked over to where Sadness was. Silanea glared with a bit of suspicion towards the Ruckus member, before turning to Sadness. "Do you need help, little human?" Silanea asked, unable to tell Sadness apart from a normal child since everything was black and white; the naga woman reached a hand down towards the emotion...

Landing on the grocery store looked like it could be a little easier said than done, given that the building was bobbing up and down and around a little in tune with the music playing inside. Still certainly possible, just maybe a little tricky; Caro would see a roof access door, and a few vents that could probably be crawled through to get inside.

... She would also see that she wasn't entirely alone in the skies. A handful of other flying individuals, most carrying another individual, seemed to be converging towards the grocery store from different directions and distances. Also, Bill.

Just like before, no sooner had Hol Horse walked onto the street did a book car come racing along, and just like before it impossibly stopped all its momentum right at the stop sign. This time, having a second person with another stop sign facing the other way across the street had the same thing happen, thus keeping Hol Horse safe as he got from one side of the street to the other. One of the book cars shuffled its pages around as Hol got across, though whatever message that was supposed to send was entirely up to their interpretation.

As Rex narrowly avoided getting comically burned, Plague Knight managed to run the wrong direction, and Morty tried throwing insults, there was a sound like brakes being applied on a car near Cole; Micky Mouse emerged from the end of the aisle near him, and glanced at him with a incredulous expression. Like with Vendral, Mickey still had the ability to think, though of course was unable to go against the direction that had been put into his mind; right now he was simply thinking that Cole couldn't possibly be telling the truth. There was one lady so mad that her hair was fire, Morty was throwing insults at him, and one of them had thrown a bomb at Mickey; not to mention the little cat chasing after him, and he already had bad experiences with cats.

Speaking of which, he glanced back and then started running again before Nightwitch could catch up with him, running away from Cole to another aisle to duck into. Another banana peel went through the air thanks to Sans, and as cartoon physics basically demanded it managed to land right in front of Nightwitch. Again. This time she was sent sliding directly towards a display of stacked up laundry detergent.

edited 30th Mar '16 11:21:19 PM by FirockFinion

Ben hung on tightly as they began to land.... in the wrong area. He winced and closed his eyes. As he felt them go through a tight space, he coughed as what felt like ashes and soot surrounded them. Finally, he was dumped unceremoniously outside the grocery store. He opened his eyes, covered in soot, then shook himself off comically and looked at the alicorn. "You all right?" Ben asked Twilight.

Shiara began walking slowly, trying to find Mickey.

Nightwitch let out an alarmed "MROOWWW!" before skidding into the washing powder, which coated her very thoroughly, turning her white. Little birds chased each other around her head, but scattered quickly when she began to snap at them. She got up and went into a hunter-like prowl, ready to spring on Mickey.

Twilight took a few seconds to respond.

"I'm fine..."

"Uh, sorry about that, I didn't mean to land there."

The chimney of magic

He flew down into the chimney behind Ben and Twilight...

Outside the grocery store

...and landed right on top of them. Eyebats flew around his head as he muttered "Gee, why are there llamas smoking weed all over the place right now? Or is this the 4th dimension?" He shook his head then realized who he was on top of. "Oh. Uh. Hi."

Ben glared at Bill as he realized he was nearby. He shook the demon off. "Get off me!" With that, he balled up his fists and stood, staring angrily at Bill.

"YOU!!" Ben exclaimed. "Were you following us?! Don't make me stick you back to the ground like I did earlier, you one-eyed corn chip!" he shouted at Bill, restraining himself from throttling the little monster right then and there.

Cole flinched just as much as Mickey did when he appeared nearby, but called out again. "Wait! You don't-," But the mouse had already taken off in a new direction, and Cole hurried after him, yelling to the others. "No, everyone stop! We don't have to fight, just try to catch him! Don't hurt him, it isn't his fault!"

The grocery store

"Where else could I go? The librarian is pissed off, no one is willing to join me, and all this chaos isn't my own doing. I had no choice! Also, if you were back at my home turf, you would be nothing but a literal CD player floating towards the sun."

edited 30th Mar '16 9:29:42 PM by Weirdguy149

Sans got to the sodas and decided to pick a couple of Diet Colas and went to one of the more open areas of the store, then he got one of the packets of the candy and opened the bottle of soda, looking around himself to see if there was anything going on

"well, let's see how cartoon logic interacts with this thing," said Sans, looking somewhat excited to see what would happen.

Sans then dumped an entire packets of the candies into the soda and quickly grabbed it and began to shake it, however he misjudged the time he had and the reaction inside the bottle made it start flying off like a rocket towards a random direction. He was half expecting the bottle to actually explode once it crashed into something, hopefully it crashed into the right thing. Either way, it was probably not a good idea to stay in place for too long so he just bolted out of the place he currently was into a random aisle.

There was a definite temptation to give the car a solid kick in the "bumper" as it ruffled at him, something he interpreted as a threatening rev of the engine The temptation was so strong in fact, that he actually did it, giving the "car" a swift book to the front as payback for all the grief it had been causing them the last few minutes.

He successfully planted both feet firmly on the sidewalk, and a brief fanfare of brass sounded off in the distance somewhere to congratulate him on a job well done. Despite a love of this kind of stuff in his childhood, Hol Horse was getting annoyed with the cartoon aesthetic and sound effects, and tried his best to ignore it. He called over to Sawyer, not very loudly considering this was just a two-lane road, saying "Works just fine for me, then! We've got this in the bag!"

Startled out of watching the puffs of smoke, Sadness looked up at Silanea with a trace of alarm. "Um, wait, that's—not a good—"

She attempted to roll out of the way, but her short legs prevented her from getting up very easily. At it was, she flailed around for a second (little clouds of dust included) before managing to sit up. Sadness clutched her hands to her chest protectively, but the damage was done; she had accidentally grazed against Silanea.

Twilight didn't say anything when Bill showed up. She simply glared at him.

Back over to the intersection

Caro looked around the rooftop of the store for quite some, eventually spotting both a roof acess door and some vents. Either of those could be useful for making a stealthy entrance. The problem was that, like almost every other normally inanimated object, the building had gained a life of its own and was constantly bobbing up and down, which would it somewhat tricky to land on its top.

With this in mind, Caro then rode Fried back to the intersection where Zelda, Lune and others still were. Once the dragon had landed and she had dismounted from him, she informed, " OK so, there is a roof acess door and several vents up there, which given how our bodies should work today, we could easily move through. The problem is that the store keeps moving, so it will be a bit harder to land on top of it. We also have to decide how to get all of us up there. We could ride Fried, but that would require at least three trips. Alternatively, I could try making a bridge directly from here to the rooftop, but given how the building is behaving, it would probably quite unstable as. Does anyone else have any suggestions?"

Yay

Well, looks like it was gonna work this time.

Taking a deep breath, Sawyer wasted no time and followed in Hol Horse's footsteps, hoping that there won't be any troublesome developments from this situation.

Ben rolled his eyes at Bill's strange threat, then simply turned around and walked towards the grocery store. He peeked his head in, eyes wide at the chaos that was going on inside. He couldn't even follow most of it. There was a strangely-familiar-looking mouse running around in the area and people were chasing him... could this be the king?? Ben thought for a moment.

"Okay, I'm in a cartoon, what's a cartoon thing to do?" Ben asked himself. Then a light bulb appeared over his head for a brief moment. Sneaking into the grocery store, he made his way to the dessert section. Hopefully he would find some sort of pie to toss at the king, if this was indeed him.

The grocery store

Bill looked inside. Weird that they were all trying to get to a mouse... which he felt that he was bound to serve at some point in time. He decided to float to the ceiling, in the shape of an anvil, then positioned himself so that the mouse could pass under him.

Plague Knight had ran off in a complete different direction than the mouse. Cole stood near a door and called for him, saying that they could help him. The rodent approached him and seemed to wnat to accept the offer but continued running down the aisle.

Rex still followed the mouse but stopped near Cole when he asked everyone to not hurt Mickey. Cole was right about Marcus being honorable enough to hold his side of the bargain and a self proclaimed hero. So, Rex felt like listening for once, it's not like Mickey could kick the butt of such a highly trained (and handsome) Providence agent. And then he realized it...

Mickey Mouse wasn't known for being a fighter, as least that's was Rex knew about the character. He only remembered less than two years of his life and he was more of a telenovela sort of guy, so he could always be wrong. Still, this meant that kicking his ass probably wasn't what the guy up there meant by beating him at his own game.

"Catch him? I've got this"

A gray mist appeared in Rex's back and right arm and after some cheap sound effects, he now had a giant tentacle perfect to grab Mickey and stop him from running away.

He launched the tentacle in the rodent's direction trying to aim for his feet and pull him.

edited 31st Mar '16 7:31:17 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Those still outside the grocery store looking towards it would see a few of those people going around the sky had landed at the front entrance, convening with a few people who had come along on the sidewalk. After a very brief meetup, they went inside.

As the improvised bottle rocket took off into the store, turning sharply and wildly and spewing soda foam out the back, it suddenly had a mouth on one side that started speaking up. "IMPACT IN TEN, NINE, EIGHT-" It went off in the direction Mickey was, shooting right over Cole and dousing him in soda foam. Mickey, seemingly ever aware of his surroundings, jumped just in time to perch himself on the bottle rocket, speeding him away from Rex's tentacle and underneath Bill Cipher too fast for the triangle-turned-anvil to fall on him in time; instead he just landed on Rex's tentacle. All the while the bottle rocket was still counting down, "-SIX, FIVE, FOUR-"

Mickey jumped off the rocket onto another shelf and watched it go along right towards the dessert section. "-TWO, ONE, IMPACT!" Just as he got a good looking pie, the shelf right in front of Ben suddenly jerked as the bottle rocket exploded right on the other side of it, sending items from the top shelf tumbling down towards him. Mickey let out another breath of relief, then turned and noticed that a certain medieval alchemist and inventor's grandson were each down either direction of the aisle on the other side of where the rocket mayhem had just taken place.

Meanwhile, back over at the front end of the store, the doors opened up automatically and a group of five Ruckus members walked in. All of them were armed, though the quality of their armaments ranged wildly. One of the human members, a teenage boy, spotted Mickey towards the other side of the store on top of the shelf, and pointed his way. "The cartoon mouse; that's definitely him! Let's get him!" the teenager said, and the five of them started to head towards Mickey.

"What do you me-" Silanea's confused question cut off as she got brushed by the emotion. Her eyes went wide, though not comically so, as her pupils contracted, then dilated. She stared forward off at nothing as her worst memory was forced to the forefront.

"Mother!?" she yelped, her whole body stiffening. "NOOOOO!!!!!" she then screamed, gripping at her hair as she collapsed forward slightly.

Over at the central desks, the Ruckus member was just giving Miss Tairee a nod and a smile. "I'll be sure to let the rest of Ruckus know before-" she was cut off by Silanea's scream, glancing over with a raised eyebrow and starting to back away slowly. Miss Tairee wheeled around to look with a surprised, somewhat frustrated expression.

So much sadness, but also disgust, a little fear, and anger...

... Then lots of anger. Too much anger. It drowned out everything else, even the sadness.

Breathing heavily, Silanea started to rear back up, her body shaking as the aura of magic started to envelop her again. "Humans... They're the same in every universe" Silanea muttered, her eyes blanking out as they started glowing. "Hurting and murdering and treating everyone else like monsters just because they're not human!" she went on, her voice getting louder until she was yelling.

"WE SHOULD KILL THEM ALL!" Silanea roared, turning around to face where Gon and Miss Tairee were, and reaching an arm back to cast a spell. But then suddenly the two-headed ogre grabbed her, holding her arms in a bear hug.

"Hey, snap out of it!" both of the ogre's heads yelled at once.

"GET OFF ME!" Silanea yelled, and with a blast of magic sent the ogre flying back onto one of the smaller tables, which collapsed under his weight. Free once more, she charged forward again-

And was yanked off the floor and trapped inside a slightly transparent gray bubble. "wah wah wuh" Miss Tairee muttered, taking her hands away from the typewriter and brushing them off. Silanea, now muffled, tumbled around inside the bubble, pounding against the inside and screaming angrily. Probably seeing this as a situation best left alone, the Ruckus member quickly ducked out one of the doors and started taking off with her jet pack again.

edited 31st Mar '16 10:44:10 PM by FirockFinion

The bottle rocket exploded as expected, the science behind cartoon physics wasn't too difficult to grasp after all.

"hehe, i'm having such a blast with this day," said Sans, thinking outloud

However, things were getting more complicated now that a third party entered the store, specifically a bunch of humans who were also after the mouse. Well, the best way to deal with the situation was to get rid of the inconveniences first.

The skeleton went to an open area and began trying to draw the mouse's attention to him, after all whoever that guy was sure seemed to be very aware of his surroundings. He raised his arms and began waving them to see if the mouse would notice and, if he did, the skeleton would then gesture for him to come over to where he was. He hadn't gone after him like everyone else did, so it was worth a shot to see if the mouse could end up seeing him as a potential ally.

If that failed, there was always the brute force solution anyway.

edited 31st Mar '16 10:52:53 PM by FullMoon