J, GoB's, Tuesday Afternoon

[deadly_little]

Miho stopped by Jeff's to terrorize the clerk and pick up some cheesecake. Mmm, delicious cheesecake. She was in a good mood, so as she waited for the clerk to box up her cheesecake, she decided to share it with the girls at the Sin. She thought Becky in particular needed cheesecake for some reason.

((Open for all your pastry needs.))

Comments

[multiplez]

"I hope you would have noticed giant robots. Maybe they've evolved past giant robots by your time."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Giant robots are probably very last century. Probably only the least fashionable of the alien megalomaniacs use them, and they're probably too embarrassed to show them to anyone."

[multiplez]

"They're not exactly fashionable-looking to start with, so I can totally buy that. Think if I spread the word back home giant robots are going to go out of fashion, they'd give up trying to stomp us?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"That might do the trick. Or they might come back with spiffy new paint jobs. Besides, there's something to be said for bad guys that can't exactly hide."

[multiplez]

"That's true. In the giant robots we can always find them, and the Power Rangers have Zords to fight the giant robots in." Z popped a bit of danish in her mouth before adding, "And they usually manage to contain the fights to the abandoned warehouse district."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"That's convenient. Might also explain why the warehouses are abandoned, if giant robots and - Power Rangers? - regularly come rampaging through it."

[multiplez]

"Probably. The insurance rates must be killer, for one thing."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"But abandoned, so who's paying it? And who's dumb enough to keep rebuilding them once they get squashed flat? You'd think the city would just declare it an official giant robot preserve or something. Cordon it off on a permanent basis and sell tickets."

[multiplez]

"Hey, yeah. They could build bleachers and sell popsicles shaped like robots and stuff. Make a killing."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"But then it would all turn nasty. The robots would be demanding a cut of the money, and they'd refuse to perform unless they got a bigger billling." Jack laughed. "Then you'd be out of a future career, 'cause there'd be no more giant robots to fight."

[multiplez]

"And then I'd turn bitter and evil myself and build a giant robot to rampage through the city in--if I knew how to build a giant robot, which of course I don't--and the whole cycle begins again." Z sighed. "You're right. It would all go terribly awry."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, the whole giant robot rampage as entertainment maybe isn't such a good idea," Jack laughed. "Though if you did turn to a life of crime and giant robot building, you could multiply and battle yourself. It would have a certain synchronicity."

[multiplez]

"Then one of me could be a Power Ranger, and another one could dye her hair purple or something and be a supervillain. Ess. It'd be like when I played Cops and Robbers against myself when I was wee."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack grinned at the thought of several wee Zs dashing about the place. "You used to play Cops and Robbers with yourself?"

[multiplez]

"Sure. If I couldn't find anyone else to play with me, I could always just play with myself. Hide and Seek, too, but that got kind of boring because I always knew where I would hide. Do they still play Hide and Seek and stuff in the 51st century?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I guess that would kind of remove the challenge." Jack snagged a bite of danish before answering. "I think some things are always going to be universal, and childhood games are one of them."

[multiplez]

"That's probably true. And a good thing for this school, because otherwise we'd have nothing to relate with. Seems like we're all so different."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack looked at her thoughtfully. "We're not, you know. Different. Everyone here is pretty much the same."

[multiplez]

"Which is kind of amazing, when you think about it. We're all from the future and the past and other planets and other realities...and we're all so much alike."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"It really is. Just goes to show you, people are the same wherever you go." He smiled. "I think the next year's going to be pretty good. What do you think?"

[multiplez]

"When I got here, I was trying for 'cautiously optimistic,' but so far so good, so...yeah. I think it's going to be great."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack glanced down at what was left of his danish, laughing quietly. "I feel like we should make a toast, but there's not really anything to use. I don't think the remnants of a raspberry danish quite cut it."

[multiplez]

Z frowned at the sad, small remnants of the danishes. "It is kinda hard to toast with crumbs."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretending that I didn't just have the urge to make a really bad joke about toast crumbs." Jack shook hs head, chuckling at himself. "But we could try?" He picked up a tiny piece of danish and held it out, well aware that he was being incredibly silly. "To a great year?"

[multiplez]

Z tapped her tiny piece of danish against Jack's and said with a wide grin, "To a great year. And new friends?"