Imperial Junk Yard, very early Saturday morning

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was annoyed. He'd resorted to violence with someone who hadn't even presented any sort of challenge. He didn't mind accepting consequences for his actions, he just preferred that his actions make any consequences worthwhile.

The best answer for that was some random destruction to work off the annoyance.

[ooc: Open, but the sounds of falling metal and whipping wire would hopefully alert your character to walk cautiously before walking in where Walter's "working." I don't want him to cut any precious bits off of anyone.]

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi was on her way to do some shopping and location scouting for beach fun in the afternoon when she heard the tell-tale sounds of Walter working off some steam.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Which he most definitely was. It's entirely possible he should make some arrangment with the junk yard owners to get paid for his destructive tendencies.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

A ball of crunched up metal went flying between Walter and what he was currently cutting up.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Light flickered across the wires that wrapped the ball, causing it to almost miraculously change direction in a ninety degree angle and pick up speed as it thudded into and through a closed refrigerator door. The refrigerator shook and tipped backward to land propped on a pile of discarded lawnmower parts.

Walter whipped the wires back into his rings and turned around to smile at Pippi.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi was standing there passing another ball of metal between her hands.

"I don't think that'll ever get old." she grinned.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter rolled his shoulders and grinned. "If it does, we've been replaced by boring doubles."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi made a face that suggested being replaced by boring doubles, or by anything really, didn't seem like very much fun at all.

"This doesn't look like your normal diligent practicing." she said tossing the ball in a lazy arc.

It actually looked more like what he was doing the day after that horrid concert. Only not nearly as bad. But she didn't say that out loud.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter gently wrapped this ball and flicked the wires to send it arcing just as lazily back to Pippi.

"I'm annoyed. With Pete Hutter and with myself."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"That guy you had a fight with last night?"

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

There's a lizard sitting on top of a pile of junk, well out of range - she hoped, anyways - watching this display curiously.

It's entirely possible that the lizard belong to the woman's voice that was singing cheerfully from the other end of the junkyard to the accompaniment of clanging bits of metal. "Oh, someone's in the junkyard with Frizzle, someone's in the junkyard I kno-ow-ow . . ."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter noticed the lizard and made a point to keep any bits of metal from flying toward it. You never knew around here whether that might be a student with a species crisis.

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Liz greatly appreciated that. Keeping an eye on the interesting boy, she resumed her task of finding spare parts for the bus. It wasn't feeling too well at the moment, you see. So she picked through the bits of trash, holding up this or that and examining it with a critical reptilian eye.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

The fact that the lizard was examining pieces of trash as though it had some purpose caught Walter's attention again. This time he went to have a look.

"I don't suppose you're a student, are you?"

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Liz gave the impression that she was laughing, pausing with a burned out sparkplug in one claw, and shook her head.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter cocked his head. "Now I'm sorry I haven't studied Lizard. I don't suppose you speak Snake?"

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Liz made a face and shook her head again.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Should I just let you get back to work?" Walter paused, this was an excellent distraction. "I could help you for a while before I have to go."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally wandered into the junkyard, wearing her jumpsuit and toolbelt.

"Somebody called about a bus?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter called her over to where there was a sad looking yellow bus. "Over here."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally headed over and looked. "Huh. What's the matter with it?"

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

The bus coughed.

And looked miserable.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally blinked.

"Did the bus just cough at me?"

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

"Poor thing's been out of sorts since we got here," Ms Frizzle said, surprisingly cheerful as she came around the corner of the bus, brushing her hands off. "Hello!"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Hi," Cally said with a wave. "Out of sorts how? Like, trouble shifting gears, starting up, what?"

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

"Starting up," Ms Frizzle replied, nodding. "Just doesn't seem to want to go anywhere. Liz and I had to practically drag it here!"

The bus wilted behind her a bit, as if sorry to cause so much trouble.