And then a-splish splash
I jumped back in the bath
Well, how was I to know
There was a party goin' on?
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
Getting out of the rain and into Lina's place, Luca was quick to order that first beer, just to get the taste out of his mouth. He tapped the table twice and nodded hurriedly before putting some crumpled notes on the bar. "Two please!" He said, cutting right to the heart of the matter.
"So why does the rain not smell like it, but taste like it?" Lina asked before putting a pint down in front of him.
"Science magic." Luca replied before taking the first chug. He wiped the froth off of his lips and continued as the sound of rain kept on pattering against the roof of the bar. "Like most things this is already out of hand - just like any normal job."
Grumbling she sent the kids on their way and returned to the bar looking to get smashed. The day had been freaking stressful. Ordering the piss they called beer on this planet she sat there staring at her communicator. "Bastard... made me look like an idiot and made me taste the piss rain here." As she drank she grew more and more upset at the only contact on the little device. during her second beer she finally had enough and sent a pissed off message to it, <You're an ass...>
The idiot that she was referring to was sitting a couple of chairs down. His communicator beeped and he picked it up a couple of moments after Tani sent the message.
She looked over at the tinkle of the communicator down the way then up at the man it seemed to belong to. "Naw.. can't be..." she took another drink and glared at hers thinking about sending another message. The idea was just too strong not to give in. She quickly typed out and sent, <You made me look like a fool, who the hell are you...>
"I'm sitting right here." Luca said, leaning against the bar and looking at Tani. "You're sticking out like a crow in a bucket of milk."
To her side, Tani saw another customer sit down at the bar, or attempt to with her long, spindly legs. It was Echelon, the Phoenix's resident freespacer. "0N3 PL34S3, 4LL SYNTH3T1C." Lina put a bottle of motor oil on the bar for the Freespacer.
"Between rain that tastes vaguely like pee and rain that makes you forget who you are and go psycho I'd stick with pee rain any day of the week." Luca told Tani from afar. From where she was standing, she could see that he was slick with a layer of moisture too, just like her.
"I do not... I'm incognito." She pointed at her torn jeans and tight tee-shirt. She looked the soggy man over before considering continuing.
Luca pointed to his ears.
"Yeah well... I did have a hat before... nice one a beret it hid them just fine. But I must have lost it during the full air raid drill we all preformed." She took a drink of her beer and thought, "So what was that all about anyways, besides having me have to yell, run about, and scare a few kids."
"Just wanted to get people inside if the psycho rain fell. Fortunately, the psycho rain did not fall - but at least they're indoors from this too; you did good."
"Yeah, she, Karl and I got everyone rounded up and safe." Lina spoke for her.
Mako blushed it wasn't often that she got praise. "Thank you, but who are you? I got this communicator handed to me and told me to contact you if I wanted to party. No offense but that wasn't much in a way of a party." She took a drink of her beer to hide her blush.
"I'm Captain Luca Pavone of the ISC Phoenix." He introduced with a slight drawl. He didn't need to say anything more.
"That is interesting, you get into trouble like crazy piss rain often," She responded before putting her hand out, "Tani Mako... nice to meet you." She wasn't awed or anything, she really didn't know the man. Never was one to watch the news or Television.
"All the time." He replied before accepting the handshake.
"Why?" she squeezed his hand before letting go and putting a hand on her hip.
Luca thought for a few moments. Why did it always happen to him? "Just 'cause." He replied. "I can't really settle down, and the world has an odd habit of not leaving me alone so I'm just rolling with it."
"Funny... Lately the world seems to want to roll on with out me." she smiled before seating back down on the stool and ordering a few shots of something called reactor fluid, she was pretty sure that it was toxic but she really didn't care.
"So you go around letting trouble find you, and you haven't just found a nice hole to hide in?"
"I don't know. Stuff just happens and I'm in the middle of it most of the time." Luca replied. "So, what do you do for a crust anyway? Must be some reason you're here, ears aside."
"Was a PA driver, but my ship went into dry dock and I got bounced from post to post, each time arriving to find out that I wasn't superposed to be there, so I check my orders and head off again... kind of just dropped of the radar at some point." She smiled, "Been partying in strange places since, then I heard of a huge party... Strange message sent anonymously to me." She took a sip of her drink and noticed how sweet and electric green it was.
"So now you're here. Well. Guess you'll fit right in then. Just be careful of the Gart. He thinks with the wrong head when there's something with cat ears nearby."
Her eyes widened at the thought of a creepy Gartagan coming after her. "What do you mean fit in?" She looked over at the strange man, did he just hire her for something or something. What was this universe coming to.
"Fit right in with the rest of my team. We're all a little bit crazy here." Luca said. "I guess you have to be when your enemies are just as crazy.
The freespacer at the bar turned around to look at Tani. "H1!" It said.
She jumped and looked at the cyclopic armored being next to her... "Are... are..are you a," she was whispering at this point. "a psylon?" She eyed the being that reminded her of the bad guys from a show called Bubblestar Galaxites, the girls in her batch watched it religiously. Tani was expecting the thing to fold out a gun from it's hand and shoot her.
"WH4T, SH0ULD 1 C0SPL4Y 4S 0N3?" Echelon responded, leaning in so her faceplate was only inches away from Tani's nose. A holographic smile in red appeared in front of it. "G00D ID34!"
A shiver ran down her spine, if it wasn't the fact she was a neko she would have pissed herself... "Yeah... yeah sure..." As she stared down the smile, she able to gather back her confidence and gently reached forward with a small sliver of plastik. "I bet you would cause a riot at a convention..."
"D1D Y0U G0 T0 4STR0N4B '34? 1 W4S TH3R3!" Echelon replied enthusiastically. Luca and Lina meanwhile rolled their eyes, mumbling something to the effect of 'oh no'. The Echelon nerd-gush train was now rolling and it had no brakes. "D1D Y0U S33 TH3 4W4RD W1NN1NG C0SPL4Y F0R C4PT41N 1RV1NGS0N?"
"No I wasn't there... I was still stuck on ship at that point." she reached into her pants pocket making sure the detonator was still there. "But I was planning trying to make it there this year... I was planning on cosplaying a pilot, maybe Novabuck...." With the fact that she felt that the worry of the creepy psylon thing could be taken out before she would be in danger she was able to enjoy the bit of nerding with it.
"00H! TH4T'D B3 4D0RBS!" Echelon replied. Her faceplate's holograms kept switching between various happy faces, as well as the logo for Bubblestar Galaxites. "1 C4N M4K3 TH3 P1L0T J4CK3T!"
The rain was starting to slow down and it eventually stopped raining altogether, almost as suddenly as it started.
"Alright ladies nerd time over." Luca said. "How about I show you around town... also what's the explosion bit for?"
Echelon looked at the plastic in Mako's hands and a question mark appeared on her faceplate. "4R3 Y0U CH4LL3NG1NG M3 T0 4 B0MB F1GHT?"
Mako frown... "Sorry... She.. You're a bit intimidating... That show scared me when I was young, my sisters love watching it though..." she gently took the bomblet back and dusted off the spot... "I thought you were going to exterminate me..." She smiled trying to look like she truly meant it.
"0H D0N'T W0RRY, H4PP3NS 4LL TH3 T1M3 0N Y4M4T41."
I jumped back in the bath
Well, how was I to know
There was a party goin' on?
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
Getting out of the rain and into Lina's place, Luca was quick to order that first beer, just to get the taste out of his mouth. He tapped the table twice and nodded hurriedly before putting some crumpled notes on the bar. "Two please!" He said, cutting right to the heart of the matter.
"So why does the rain not smell like it, but taste like it?" Lina asked before putting a pint down in front of him.
"Science magic." Luca replied before taking the first chug. He wiped the froth off of his lips and continued as the sound of rain kept on pattering against the roof of the bar. "Like most things this is already out of hand - just like any normal job."
Grumbling she sent the kids on their way and returned to the bar looking to get smashed. The day had been freaking stressful. Ordering the piss they called beer on this planet she sat there staring at her communicator. "Bastard... made me look like an idiot and made me taste the piss rain here." As she drank she grew more and more upset at the only contact on the little device. during her second beer she finally had enough and sent a pissed off message to it, <You're an ass...>
The idiot that she was referring to was sitting a couple of chairs down. His communicator beeped and he picked it up a couple of moments after Tani sent the message.
She looked over at the tinkle of the communicator down the way then up at the man it seemed to belong to. "Naw.. can't be..." she took another drink and glared at hers thinking about sending another message. The idea was just too strong not to give in. She quickly typed out and sent, <You made me look like a fool, who the hell are you...>
"I'm sitting right here." Luca said, leaning against the bar and looking at Tani. "You're sticking out like a crow in a bucket of milk."
To her side, Tani saw another customer sit down at the bar, or attempt to with her long, spindly legs. It was Echelon, the Phoenix's resident freespacer. "0N3 PL34S3, 4LL SYNTH3T1C." Lina put a bottle of motor oil on the bar for the Freespacer.
"Between rain that tastes vaguely like pee and rain that makes you forget who you are and go psycho I'd stick with pee rain any day of the week." Luca told Tani from afar. From where she was standing, she could see that he was slick with a layer of moisture too, just like her.
"I do not... I'm incognito." She pointed at her torn jeans and tight tee-shirt. She looked the soggy man over before considering continuing.
Luca pointed to his ears.
"Yeah well... I did have a hat before... nice one a beret it hid them just fine. But I must have lost it during the full air raid drill we all preformed." She took a drink of her beer and thought, "So what was that all about anyways, besides having me have to yell, run about, and scare a few kids."
"Just wanted to get people inside if the psycho rain fell. Fortunately, the psycho rain did not fall - but at least they're indoors from this too; you did good."
"Yeah, she, Karl and I got everyone rounded up and safe." Lina spoke for her.
Mako blushed it wasn't often that she got praise. "Thank you, but who are you? I got this communicator handed to me and told me to contact you if I wanted to party. No offense but that wasn't much in a way of a party." She took a drink of her beer to hide her blush.
"I'm Captain Luca Pavone of the ISC Phoenix." He introduced with a slight drawl. He didn't need to say anything more.
"That is interesting, you get into trouble like crazy piss rain often," She responded before putting her hand out, "Tani Mako... nice to meet you." She wasn't awed or anything, she really didn't know the man. Never was one to watch the news or Television.
"All the time." He replied before accepting the handshake.
"Why?" she squeezed his hand before letting go and putting a hand on her hip.
Luca thought for a few moments. Why did it always happen to him? "Just 'cause." He replied. "I can't really settle down, and the world has an odd habit of not leaving me alone so I'm just rolling with it."
"Funny... Lately the world seems to want to roll on with out me." she smiled before seating back down on the stool and ordering a few shots of something called reactor fluid, she was pretty sure that it was toxic but she really didn't care.
"So you go around letting trouble find you, and you haven't just found a nice hole to hide in?"
"I don't know. Stuff just happens and I'm in the middle of it most of the time." Luca replied. "So, what do you do for a crust anyway? Must be some reason you're here, ears aside."
"Was a PA driver, but my ship went into dry dock and I got bounced from post to post, each time arriving to find out that I wasn't superposed to be there, so I check my orders and head off again... kind of just dropped of the radar at some point." She smiled, "Been partying in strange places since, then I heard of a huge party... Strange message sent anonymously to me." She took a sip of her drink and noticed how sweet and electric green it was.
"So now you're here. Well. Guess you'll fit right in then. Just be careful of the Gart. He thinks with the wrong head when there's something with cat ears nearby."
Her eyes widened at the thought of a creepy Gartagan coming after her. "What do you mean fit in?" She looked over at the strange man, did he just hire her for something or something. What was this universe coming to.
"Fit right in with the rest of my team. We're all a little bit crazy here." Luca said. "I guess you have to be when your enemies are just as crazy.
The freespacer at the bar turned around to look at Tani. "H1!" It said.
She jumped and looked at the cyclopic armored being next to her... "Are... are..are you a," she was whispering at this point. "a psylon?" She eyed the being that reminded her of the bad guys from a show called Bubblestar Galaxites, the girls in her batch watched it religiously. Tani was expecting the thing to fold out a gun from it's hand and shoot her.
"WH4T, SH0ULD 1 C0SPL4Y 4S 0N3?" Echelon responded, leaning in so her faceplate was only inches away from Tani's nose. A holographic smile in red appeared in front of it. "G00D ID34!"
A shiver ran down her spine, if it wasn't the fact she was a neko she would have pissed herself... "Yeah... yeah sure..." As she stared down the smile, she able to gather back her confidence and gently reached forward with a small sliver of plastik. "I bet you would cause a riot at a convention..."
"D1D Y0U G0 T0 4STR0N4B '34? 1 W4S TH3R3!" Echelon replied enthusiastically. Luca and Lina meanwhile rolled their eyes, mumbling something to the effect of 'oh no'. The Echelon nerd-gush train was now rolling and it had no brakes. "D1D Y0U S33 TH3 4W4RD W1NN1NG C0SPL4Y F0R C4PT41N 1RV1NGS0N?"
"No I wasn't there... I was still stuck on ship at that point." she reached into her pants pocket making sure the detonator was still there. "But I was planning trying to make it there this year... I was planning on cosplaying a pilot, maybe Novabuck...." With the fact that she felt that the worry of the creepy psylon thing could be taken out before she would be in danger she was able to enjoy the bit of nerding with it.
"00H! TH4T'D B3 4D0RBS!" Echelon replied. Her faceplate's holograms kept switching between various happy faces, as well as the logo for Bubblestar Galaxites. "1 C4N M4K3 TH3 P1L0T J4CK3T!"
The rain was starting to slow down and it eventually stopped raining altogether, almost as suddenly as it started.
"Alright ladies nerd time over." Luca said. "How about I show you around town... also what's the explosion bit for?"
Echelon looked at the plastic in Mako's hands and a question mark appeared on her faceplate. "4R3 Y0U CH4LL3NG1NG M3 T0 4 B0MB F1GHT?"
Mako frown... "Sorry... She.. You're a bit intimidating... That show scared me when I was young, my sisters love watching it though..." she gently took the bomblet back and dusted off the spot... "I thought you were going to exterminate me..." She smiled trying to look like she truly meant it.
"0H D0N'T W0RRY, H4PP3NS 4LL TH3 T1M3 0N Y4M4T41."