Trooper Station | Saturday

[knife_bender]

Ralph and Calvin were being super annoying today so Diego had sent them out to go look for more gross portals, since that had apparently been a thing on Tuesday. Did the think those portals existed? No. But would it keep Ralph and Calvin out of his beautiful hair for the rest of the day? Absolutely.

Now he could sit here in peace and do...well, absolutely nothing.

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[grenadesandohana]

"Do I want to know why Calvin and Ralph are sulking through town?" Steve asked as he came into the office.

[knife_bender]

"They were being annoying so I sent them to go find wet portals." That was how the guy from the fire department described it when reporting it to the station. Those words exactly.

[grenadesandohana]

"Wet portals?" Steve repeated. "That sounds gross."

[knife_bender]

"Yeah, and they also sound imaginary," Diego said. "I think the firefighters are getting access to some primo weed."

[grenadesandohana]

"That makes much more sense," Steve said. "They have even less to do than we do."

[knife_bender]

"Yeah, I can't really blame them," Diego admitted. "And it got Ralph and Calvin out of my hair, so if they want to keep sending us weird conspiracy theories to look into I'm all for it."

[grenadesandohana]

Steve snickered. "I can get on board with that," he agreed. "I think the clinic's gone nuts and is now hiring crabs or something."

[knife_bender]

"For, like, surgeries?" He could see where claws would be handy there.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve frowned thoughtfully. "That doesn't seem that hygienic," he said. "Maybe it gives shots?"

[knife_bender]

"Don't you need thumbs for that?" Both the ouchie kind and the drinking kind.

[grenadesandohana]

"I think so, but squirrels are around here writing notes, so there's something weird going on," Steve said.

[knife_bender]

"Oh yeah. I never really thought about that." Diego didn't think really hard into a lot of things, let's be real. "Maybe the wet portals are real then."

If Ralph and Calvin ended up in the Upside Down this would be on you, Hargreeves.

[grenadesandohana]

Could there be a car chase, though?

"I think that's just our brains trying to save us from ourselves," Steve decided.

[knife_bender]

"You think we would have gotten to the point where we'd believe anything," Diego said. "But my brain's still got a block on some stuff."

Like wet portals.

[grenadesandohana]

"Mine too," Steve agreed. "But then I explain something about our jobs to a new person and realize I've adapted a lot more than I think I have."

[knife_bender]

"I don't even bother with that anymore," he said. "I just let new people sink or swim. Some stuff has to be seen to be believed."

[grenadesandohana]

"I like the look I get when I tell them I've brought multiple raccoons in for questioning," Steve admitted.

[knife_bender]

Diego chuckled. "I guess you have to get your entertainment where you can get it."

For such a weird town there could be a lot of downtime.

[grenadesandohana]

"Exactly," Steve said, thrilled that Diego understood. "It's this or a movie or something, and the theater is never showing anything new."