Red's Open

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Red padded down the stairs, the cubs practically underfoot as they trotted along. Giving him worried looks, they had been surprisingly quiet since he returned from the City Hall.

He hadn't been injured nor was he sore, but Red was contemplative. The confrontation with Tex wasn't pleasant and he knew it wouldn't be long before she would try again. For all the ludicrous rantings she spewed, he was bothered that even without her guns, which he found the lack thereof rather suspicious, she was quite formidable and one person (or being) going against her may not be enough next time.

Regardless, he felt like he might have a few days before worrying about that. Pushing it aside, he set his calls from the town hall to forward to the shop and he opened for business.



((ooc: mun will be afk most of the day. if you comment, I'll get to you asap.))

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Seeing the shop open after a long night politely waiting outside, The Tick walked in and addressed the mayor. "Hello, Mayor Red! I need to talk to you about something."

[OOC: Slowplay works for me as I'm heading out the door to go to work right now.]

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"Well, hello, Tick." Red was confused as to why the large blue guy would be waiting outside his shop as he opened. "Please, come in. What can I do for you?"

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"Thank you, Mr. Mayor," Tick said as he walked into the shop. "I assume you know about the situation with Tex, sir. I'm here to help! And I have information!"

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Red grimaced. "Yes. I do know about Tex although my information is somewhat sketchy. Your offer of help is appreciated." He flopped onto the counter and looked up at Tick. "What can you tell me?"

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Tick took a deep breath before launching into what he knew. "The other day, Tex - who is not herself, I've been told - had a duck army attack one of my students. Last night I found out about this, and on my way to City Hall to offer my help to you, I was stopped by a ghost named Church - who knows Tex from her home, I guess - who is currently possessing another student. According to Church, Tex is being possessed by someone named O'Malley, who is evil and crazy, and wants to get into Tex's weapons locker and kill everyone in Fandom. The only way to stop O'Malley is to have somebody who can stand up to him in a fight - which would be me - fight her until Church can also possess Tex and defeat O'Malley from within Tex. Or something like that." Tick took another breath, hoping that all made some kind of sense despite the jumbled gendered pronouns. He wasn't sure what pronoun to use in reference to a male consciousness possessing a female body.

"Oh, and apparently O'Malley can escape the Justice that is coming to him by using radio waves somehow, so we need to get all of the radio signals on the island turned off before we attempt this. Church told me to talk to you about doing that."

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What surprised Red was that he had, indeed, followed all that. He nodded thoughtfully. "Turning off radio signals will blind the police, affecting their ability to do their jobs."

However, if it would prevent this O'Malley whosywhatsit from escaping, it might be worth the risk. "How long would the signal need to be silent?"

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Tick thought for a moment, then shook his head. "I'm actually not sure about that. Church's briefing was, well, brief. He did say that the radios were the only thing stopping him from going after O'Malley already. You'd have to talk to Church to get more detail."

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Red noticed something out of the corner of his eye (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomtownies/493951.html?thread=19496063#t19496063) and casually, leapt down off the counter.

Taking a wide path around his shop, at the last minute, he lunged for the duck.

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"Duck!" Tick yelled, as he saw the fowl villain. "You know, this would probably be more terrifying if it wasn't a duck army," he pondered out loud.

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((ooc: wonder if I should mod the duck being chased from the shop...))

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[OOC: Well, Tex-mun is asleep and we've already cleared the major exposition, so I doubt there'd be a problem with it.]

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Snapping at the ducks tailfeathers and watching it honk and squawk back into the street, Red bunny kicked the door shut. "Stupid ducks are messing up my town."

He sighed and went back to stand in front of the Tick. "If we can coordinate when the radio signals need to be cut, I will do that if it will fix whatever is wrong with Tex and bring order back to town."

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"Sounds good to me, Mr. Mayor." Tick started to walk to the door, looking for duck spies. "I'll talk to Church. We'll get coordinated. And then we'll thwart whatever this O'Malley guy is planning. I'll be in touch."

The Tick was really feeling quite superheroey these past couple days. He thought it was probably the dramatic statements that added the extra bit of excitement that he thrived on.

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"Thank you, Tick." Red nodded to the big guy and trotted back around his counter to leap up on the stool. He wasn't sure this idea would work but seeing how Red had no other good ideas to go on, there was nothing wrong with giving it a try.

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Unnoticed by either speaker, a duck wedged himself into the doorway before it shut all the way. He listened intently to their conversation, hoping to learn something he could report back to Benedict.