Streets of Fandom, Sunday Morning

[suitably_heroic]

It had been a long time since the last time Atton's instincts had screamed at him this hard. And he'd only been taking a stroll down to the stores to grab something to eat, too. Not that he was going to keep standing there wondering about it.

... Too long.

If he'd moved a fraction of a moment later, the shark would've chomped right down on his head. As it stood, he rolled out of the way, twisting around to see what the hell had just triggered that instinct and-- "What the--"

A couple of unprintable Twi'lek words followed.

He paced closer to the animal, planning to nudge it with his foot. ... bad plan, as it turned out, as it chomped at him. He hopped back (which looked faintly ridiculous) and stared.

"I am not sober enough to deal with this," he muttered.

Then his instincts started screaming again. He ran.

[[ can be open for interaction or for other business, sure! | Cade | Sparkle | Navaan | Batman ]]

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[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade (and his big effing blaster because Cade) were around the next corner. "What the karking kark," Cade bitched, shooting at a shark as it plummeted to the ground.

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"I'm not sure I wanna know!" Atton said, darting right at him. "Please tell me you've got another blaster!"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"It's like you don't even know me," Cade said, tossing another blaster out to Atton. "Of course I do. And four vibroblades."

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"Gimme one of those, too," Atton said, catching the blaster and immediately turning around so he could fire away with impunity.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"If they're close enough to get with a vibroblade, they're too karking close," Cade decided, tossing the vibroblade with scary accuracy at Atton's hand.

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And Atton caught it with a plain bizarre kind of elegance.

Weird how that worked. "Hey, I'm not waiting for them to do that," he yelled back, "But what if one of those things eats me--?!"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"What, you're going to karking cut yourself out?" Cade snorted derisively. "Like that will work."

[suitably_heroic]

"Stranger things have happened!"

Like sharks, falling out of the sky!

Like Atton hitting a shark falling out of the sky right in the head!

[myownface]

Lo, see who else was out there running, today?

"WhatTheFuckingFuckShitFuckingSharksGetOuttaMyWayFUCK!"

Look, he had a shift today at the clothing store, and it wasn't like he had tuned into the weather to hear that today was going to be cloudy with a chance of fucking shark tornadoes, so Sparkle was outside, where he least wanted to be, making a mad break for Demon Marcus, where he was fully intending to bar the door and probably never come out again.

"I hate this fucking island!"

In case nobody was aware of that, yet.

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"Who doesn't?!" Atton shouted back, firing the blaster Cade had given him.

You were welcome for the dead shark with a hole in it that just flopped onto the ground right behind you, Sparkle.

[myownface]

And you, Atton, were welcome for that high-pitched shriek that Sparkle loosed as that dead shark hit the ground with a good, solid thud.

"Fucking crazy people! Fucking crazy assholes seem to love this place!"

Truth.

[suitably_heroic]

... To be fair, Atton was here voluntarily and had no real plans to leave, so Sparkle was kind of spot on there.

"Just find some cover!" he hollered, "And don't wet yourself!"

[myownface]

"Yeah, I wasn't planning to!" There were just some things that Sparkle did his damnedest to avoid. Pissing himself in the middle of town while giant man-eating fish fell from the sky? Just so happened to be one of those things.

Another shark fell not far from Sparkle and flopped around a bit, snapping its teeth at him.

Sparkle yelped, kicked the damn thing in the eye, and then kept on running.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton had no problem helping him out by shooting the shark in the head. Really, he was starting to get the hang of it.

He raced after Sparkle right afterwards, because the kid was going to get himself killed. Hell, anybody who didn't have, uh-- special talents... was liable to get killed.

[myownface]

Yup. One of a million reasons why Sparkle hated this place, seriously.

"My hero," he called back, around the time he came to a skidding stop outside the Demon Marcus, thumping face-first against the door while furiously digging through his pockets for his keys.

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Yeah, yeah. Atton just hoped nobody saw this and started expecting him to be a nice guy who went around saving people all the time or something.

"Space! Can you hurry the hell up?" he yelled, firing at a shark before ducking away 'cause it hit the ground right where he'd just been.

[doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com]

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

The sun was well and truly hidden and Navaan had a powerful thirst. A few flying sharks weren't about to keep her in, no way.

Which was why she was riding one of the sharks. Yep. Riding. Look, one predator knew another and even sharks could scent batshit crazy. Any other shark that came near Navaan and her trusty steed were gonna get punched. Aww yeah.

And, uhh, no, sorry. Navaan was not going to stop her shark from eating you.

[suitably_heroic]

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

Atton bellowed that.

After he had leaped out of the way.

[doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com]

"I'm all out of booze!" Navaan called back. Because what else could Atton mean? "And I haven't gotten laid in forever! Why, what's wrong with you?"

[suitably_heroic]

"You're riding a flying--"

What were these things again?

"... Selkath! Don't you see anything wrong with that?!"

This level of crazy was the Sith all over again. He knew one or two who'd have loved a flying Selkath.

[doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com]

Navaan would make an awesome Sith.

"Ummm, duh, I do!" God, Atton, Navaan wasn't stupid! "This is a real bitch to steer and it doesn't know how to get to the bar!"

If she'd paid for this shark, she'd be demanding a refund.

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Atton opened his mouth. Then he shut it.

"You know, I don't even have anything to say to that."

[doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com]

"I know, right? Total rip-off!"

From the vampire riding the shark through the streets of Fandom. Yup.

"Hey, you got anything to drink to tide me over till I reach the bar? Get it? Tide?" Now she was punning at you, Atton.

"...But, really, if you've got something to drink, that'd be cool."

[amthenight.livejournal.com]

Just up the street, a shark crashed to the ground. On top of it, throwing one final punch, was Batman. Once the shark stopped moving, Batman rose, pointed his grapple at the nearest building, and swung away.

There were more sharks here. He would find them before they could hurt anyone.

[suitably_heroic]

"Everyone in this town is crazy," Atton muttered, pausing for about five seconds to watch that... whatever... happening. "Everyone. How did you even find the time to put on tights?!"

You could argue that yelling at thin air was just as crazy, but Atton would listen to you if you did.