Tripping As Hard as He Can

[ceasetoexist]

[He’d barely gotten kept himself from pissing his pants the first time he saw it as it was now: a total field of red and black, mobile and immobile, stretching infinitely around him. It took every ounce of willpower not to wet himself this time upon seeing Giygas again. He would’ve questioned it, how it even got here, that it was impossible, but it clearly wasn’t. It felt just like it had when he’d first released Giygas from the Devil’s Machine: fluctuating between bitter cold and unbearable warmth, between utter quiet and ear-drum quaking sound…Nothing at all remained constant.

It shouldn’t be here. Giygas couldn’t be here.

But it was. And it was going to destroy everything in front of it, like it had been meant to.

Including him.

Pleading wouldn’t stop it. Bargaining wouldn’t stop it. The only thing he could do was run to the Phase Distorter and hope that might give him enough protection.

Might keep him safe while everything outside ended.]

[Hey Mayfield.

See pig-boy run. Run, pig-boy, run. Specifically, run incredibly clumsily, constantly looking over your shoulder and muttering and screaming either terrified gibberish or what sounds like pleas of “I’m sorry”, “I didn’t mean to”, or “Please don’t kill me” with the name “Giygas” occasionally thrown in there.

Like so many others, Pokey managed to get a whiff of the gas Luke had been carrying around, and now believes that an unperceivable psychic alien monster is slowly engulfing the town. Feel free to find him either

A) Running in terror, occasionally falling to the ground and willingly just crawling there as he looks behind him and babbles barely coherent apologies
B) Pokey has managed to get over your fence, thinking going through your yard will be a shortcut, and managed to get his dumb ass tripped up somehow, i.e. tangling his leg in a water hose or something ect.
C) If you’re on Ricardo Street, feel free to notice Pokey bumble his way back home, were he’ll immediately head for his Phase Distorter and sit in the cockpit, trying to curl himself up and looking positively terrified.]

Comments

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

Well... if that's true, there's no point in running around in a panic or biting people.

I don't think it is true. You're on the business end of a mind game. It's not fun, is it?

[Duster sounds more sympathetic than sarcastic, although Pokey's face looks more familiar with the full head of crazy on.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He shakes his head wildly, still smiling.]

No. See. That's where you're wrong. I have a BETTER chance of getting out alive, if I get to my Distorter. It can maybe withstand the assault. So I still have a chance.

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

Aren't you sweet.

If you even have your 'Distorter' here and aren't just imagining that, too, how far away is it? At least you can stop trying to jump over fences that are too tall for you. It won't help you if you break your neck before you get to your safe machine.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

A couple of blocks! Over on Ricardo Street! I just need a bit more time, and then I'll be home free.

[He laughs wildly, still shaking.]

And then I'll...I'll be safe...

And alone....

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

You won't be either, but... come on, Pokey. Let's go to Ricardo Street, since Giygas seems to be taking his sweet time on eating our souls.

I owe you for taking those cheap shots. Gigantic idiots make okay bodyguards.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh no.

No.

Iiiiii see what you're doing! You're going to try and steal my Distorter from me when we get there aren't you? AREN'T YOU?

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

I did want to see what...

[Duster catches himself and changes tones!]

I mean... No! No, I'd get distorted or something if I tried. I just want you to stop freaking out! And to, er, admire it.

How could I even use a Distorter? It's complicated, right?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

You can't GET "distorted", you stupid jerkface! It distorts time and space AROUND itself to allow for travel. Can't do that here though. But it can still keep me safe.

...Yeah, you're a big idiot who doesn't know anything about it, so I guess I can show you it.

[And he'll start leading you towards his house, trying to keep a quicker pace. But he's calming at least a LITTLE. After all, he has some peon to show his totally cool awesome time travel device to.]

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

[Duster feels very strange as he winds up following Pokey at a semi-jog. He keeps a grip Pokey doesn't run off, but a little lighter since it isn't as if Pokey can go that fast. And really, it's better for him to go with Pokey than have a crazed, hallucinating Pokey wandering unsupervised, right?]

There you go, I'm nothing to worry about... if it's that safe, I'm surprised you ever come out of it.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[...That's true. Why does he go out of it.]

Well, I guess it's because I-

You see-

Shut up! It doesn't matter! I'll do what I want!

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

No, you're right.

[When dealing with loudly abusive people, arguing almost never helps. At least Pokey isn't biting.]

Sometimes everybody has to choose between what's safe and what's better for them. I'm not really good at making that kind of choice. Are we close to your house yet?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He points to one of the houses, smiling.]

There.

[And he'll lead Duster into the backyard. And shows him that, yes, he does in fact have his Distorter.]

See? I'll be nice and PERFECTLY safe.

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

[Duster stares at the Distorter, which is not helped by the fact that the Distorter can stare back. It might not be the bed, but the idea of Pork... Pokey in any kind of spider-themed doom vehicle is a little worrisome.]

It's very... very... lively-looking. Can I climb on? I won't try to get in it or escape Giygas with it, I just want to see what it looks like in there.

[And asking for a demonstration sounds like a request for an ass-kicking.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Oh, that get's some immediate distrust and glaring.]

...Maybe. I'm coming up with you, just to make sure you don't do anything even accidentally. Cause you ARE a pretty big goof up and...goofy...looking guy.

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, you... okay, maybe I am.

[Judging from that look, suggesting he could just knock Pokey down again and climb up himself if he liked wouldn't go over well. Duster starts to climb up with a hand to help Pokey up as well.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Pokey ignores it entirely, climbing up on his own after fumbling a bit. Still, he just looks proudly down at the mech as they get on it.]

Yeah, Josephine's pretty cool, isn't she?

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

Josephine? You named it? Uh, her?

You seem to have calmed down a whole lot. So, this is stronger than the Giygas you were worried about?

[Duster isn't offended at his hand not being taken. He just uses it to support himself on the back of the strange, life-like machine.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Of course I named it, pig's butt? Why wouldn't I? She's my-

Well, she's MINE.

[He just looks at you Duster. And then he starts to laugh. Crazily again.]

Stronger? Then GIGYAS?

NOTHING is stronger then Giygas! Absolutely nothing! It's just that Josephine has a better chance of riding out the storm then anything else!

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

Spoke too soon. If it's the only one around, it could be 'The Distorter'...

Okay, okay, I should have known better. But you have your Josephine, so there's no reason to be upset now. Right?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah I-

Actually, no. There is something.

[He narrows his eyes at Duster.]

How'd you know a nickname I got in school that I hate?

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

[Duster is momentarily worried. He's been called out, and Pokey looks creepy like that. Then he makes himself remember who he's talking to, easier when it's not a shaky, weepy little boy.]

I don't know.

Why are you practically blue?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I don't owe you an explanation, cause that isn't your business.

...You're one of his friends, aren't you? AREN'T YOU?

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

How can I answer a question when you put it like that?

[Duster frowns, because he knows very well who Pokey means. Drawing it out probably will just make it worse in the long run.]

I'm not your enemy right now. Didn't I help you get back to Josephine, after I found out what you were doing?

I do have a friend who's got a reason to hold a grudge against you. It's his choice how to handle that. I can only decide on my own actions. Maybe I'll feel stupid later for helping you, but you might be better off if I just feel guilty for kicking you.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He just looks at you, distrusting.]

Yeah, you will feel stupid probably.

[And he's going to hop into the cockpit of the Distorter, staring at the horizon for a minute. Like he's just watching Giygas continue to stretch out into anything. He looks up at Duster for a moment.]

Anything else you want?

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

It definitely won't be the first time.

[Duster takes a last look in the Distorter out of curiosity, not really understanding anything he sees, then looks up at the sky where Pokey is looking. Still no signs of doom.]

I suppose I'll head off... to be devoured by Giygas. And if that doesn't happen, and you stop having paranoid delusions, assuming that ever happens, maybe we can talk again.

[Duster jumps off to the ground.]