Zzzz...zzzz...
Snort.
Grumble-rumble...Zzzz.
Hiccup-hiccup!
Zzz...zzzzz...zzzz...
Ahem! Cough...
Zzz...zzz...
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I must stay awake...I must stay awake... -.-
But after all, how can I? A) No one else is. B) It's getting rather boring listening to Fae drone on about our tale through the seas. C) It's been a rather long day...
"And...yeah. Now we're here. Right, guys?" =D
We all manage to rouse ourselves with those words. We mutter something unintelligible but affirmative, and the jellyfish pretends to take little notice of our ignorance to current affairs.
"I have never heard of this LO place...or of this 'Barton Town'...above water, you say? The strangest idea!" The jellyfish raps our bubble heads with its tentacles in turn. "Not to say, of course, that you yourselves aren't strange."
"Erm, but can you help us?"
"Perhaps. It does sound like a long way! First, of course, in all of our interests, is to get rid of those floating rice particles. Bothersome, they are."
My goodness, but such a windbag that jellyfish is! o.o Nerfe narrows his eyes at the creature floating before us.
"Getting rid of the anti-sushi regime is in your best interests, not ours. Remember?"
"No no, my boy, you've got it all wrong!"
"How?" Sar asks, narrowing her eyes as well.
"Well, do you really expect to escape? Those rice thingies made those bubbles, right?"
YYugi and Chibi-bunni nod vigorously, clacking their heads against each other once or twice.
"Well, then you've gotta get them to tell you how to make them bubbles last!"
"So we're going to get rid of them?" Adri asks, skeptical.
"Nah, you gather them together and get your info, and I'll get rid of them. I've wondered over the course of a short lifetime whether or not they'll taste yummy, you know."
"Be careful not to eat the brains, then. It'll make you dumb," Des informs him. Mebbe he's had encounters with eating dumb brains. C:
"And so they may, so they may."
"Well, then, perhaps we should execute our plans?"
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Maps, maps, and more maps. If anyone tells you that proper information only exists on land, then they've got it all wrong. Proper information only exists underwater.
I mean, how many other things are hidden under the sea? Floating pieces of rice, candy towns...and now this.
An entire networking system.
We followed our newfound jellyfish friend outside of his home (still on the lookout for vicious particles afloat). Beyond the jellybean fountain and the chocolate post, there's a little sandhill. If you pull on the second to last pieces of half-seaweed towards the viewer's left and your right with 3.85 joules at a 78.66 degree angle, exactly, the trapdoor will open.
"Welcome to my 'Project: Anti-anti-sushi regime', beta version 2.1," the jellyfish beams at us.
"Dude...this is all yours?" o.<
"Hey, look! A flwiuetphlnwouthg cable!" O:
"A wha?" ^^;
"This place is bigger than LO..." o=
"SHINY!!!" >.<!
"How do you hide all of this?" =S
The sea creature prances along, pressing buttons and flipping switches and peering into screens, all the while elaborating on this ingenious device. It's as if all the beeping and bonking is really rather musical.
"It's all hidden. Tapes rolled up like kelp, cameras installed in the eyes of those two clams that needed new retinas, gigantic silicon screens underneath their lack of feet. Ha ha, bunch of floating idiots, those rice thingies are! Each of my candy houses protects their own clump of servers."
"The admins need to come here some day..." I whisper to Fae. "Think about it! We'd be the superheros of a new and improved Gaia community!"
I turn to see that she's disappeared with all of the others. Their hands are wrapped around controllers and their eyes glued to screens, testing out the cool gadgets. I'm about to protest when my own searching eyes catch a kind of silver probe.
"Ooh...what's this? Ouch!" I rub my eye where I've been poked. There's a movement sensor, I notice.
"All of this, made out of that trash those humans dump down the sewers! Even the landfills are emptied out sometimes, and I've taken every last piece of metal and plastic for my own." >D
I inch away from the jellyfish. Is it possible for it to look rabid? To think about it, the lights are glowing kinda greenish-like... o.o
"Ohmygod! My purple and yellow stuffed armchair!" Des gushes, holding up the stuffing.
"Hey, tis your fishie tank!" Adri shakes it upside down.
"Remember the moldie tiles in your bathroom?" I ask Des. Indeed, there they are, lying flat and growing several species of plants on the mounds of dirt that have accumulated there.
"Oh yes," the jellyfish bubbles. "My garden. It adds a little more life, you know?"
"Whoa, guys...look."
Suddenly, it's all quiet, except for the hum of machines. We slowly make our way to the large screen, peering up in awe at the scene before us. A crackly, staticky voice sounds out from the speakers.
"Gather, troops! Protect the anti-sushi regime! And...march!"
Coming towards the candy town are hoards of rice, the masses converging dangerously over the entire sea floor.
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Author's Notes:
Wah! Nitemares! The rice are attacking! xDDD
I hope the networking system sounds really cool. =D It should play a large part in demolishing the ricey empire. C:
SnowPheonix · Sun Mar 11, 2007 @ 11:03pm · 11 Comments |