-last edited on May 5, 2018 16:05:43 GMT by TheGreatCon
Post by TheGreatCon on May 5, 2018 16:05:18 GMT
LEGO raised an eyebrow, obviously unacquainted with the insolence this user was giving him. “Say what?”
“Scram, this is meh territory.” Boomer reinstated. “I ain’t chuckin’ out grub so ya guys can go waltzin in da maze.”
“We just need some basic stuff, and we’ll be gone. Maybe for good.” LEGO said, trying to keep his temper.
“I think not, avvie.” He glanced past him, and noticed me. “Oh, look. It’s da Know-Rank.” He gave me an evil look. “I bet he’s probs brainwashed ya guys and got himself a bunch of followers already.”
LEGO stiffened. “Either ya give us da stuff, or we shall be forced ta take it.”
Boomer yanked out one of the customary sticks, wielded by all the Gallerians. “Through meh, avvie.”
“Or around ya.” LEGO shrugged. “We outnumber you by a lot, hombre.”
“Count again.” Boomer grinned, his skull face glistening in the rising sun. I glanced around. A dark crowd of users had gathered behind him. “Things were fine before Know-Rank showed up. Maybe they’ll go back to fine when he’s gone.”
I could see that LEGO was about to jump him, so I grabbed his arms. “It ain’t worth it.”
His eyes met mine, cold as steel. “I ain’t takin’ this bricker’s banter.”
“Later.” I said, dragging LEGO back a little. “Provisions don’t heal bruises.”
He sighed, drooping a little. “Yar right.”
“Good.” I dropped my grip on his arm.
“AT ‘IM, BOYS!” LEGO charged past me, swirling his stick. The runners dashed past me. I sputtered futilely, before resorting to banging my head against the wall in frustration as my fighting squad of runners threw themselves upon the defenders of this vale. I was starting to realize that my grip on my group was little more than two-fingers worth.
I needed a book on leadership, cause I had to be doing something wrong.
I'll turn nineteen in February, so we got almost a year difference. I simply aged twice as fast this year. I was trying to grow a beard. It kind of worked.
Such is life, I'm always a year from everyone I know. *drama* Hmmm, not sure that's legit but whv. This must be a rite of manhood, because I do not understand why every guy I know desperately attempts this feat. XD
Such is life, I'm always older than everybody I hang with. It is, and I failed it, so now I'm stuck permanently as a teenager. I'm changing my name to Peter Pan.
Such is life, I'm always a year from everyone I know. *drama* Hmmm, not sure that's legit but whv. This must be a rite of manhood, because I do not understand why every guy I know desperately attempts this feat. XD
Such is life, I'm always older than everybody I hang with. It is, and I failed it, so now I'm stuck permanently as a teenager. I'm changing my name to Peter Pan.
*sighs* I shall swear a life long vendetta against life for this! Ah, well....I guess CONdolences?? Teenagers aren't SO bad. Some of them. NO CONNER PAN!!
Such is life, I'm always older than everybody I hang with. It is, and I failed it, so now I'm stuck permanently as a teenager. I'm changing my name to Peter Pan.
*sighs* I shall swear a life long vendetta against life for this! Ah, well....I guess CONdolences?? Teenagers aren't SO bad. Some of them. NO CONNER PAN!!
Oh no, vendetta's are bad. Especially impossible-to-fulfill ones. Nah, it means I'll always be active on brick boards, so I'm quite happy.
-last edited on May 7, 2018 16:23:18 GMT by TheGreatCon
Post by TheGreatCon on May 7, 2018 16:22:57 GMT
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The Runners won. Imagine that. Yay for them. And now they were dragging a tied-up Boomer towards me. “We have da avvie manacled, Con.” Grubbs, one of LEGO’s main men, announced. “What shall we do with ‘im?”
“Eh, throw him over there.” I pointed at the clearing’s only building. “He’ll work his way free eventually, or somebody will free ‘im.”
“You’re not gonna banish him?” Grubbs frowned.
“Or at leaster putter him in da cooler?” A small voice grumpily broke in.
I glanced over to see Ash leaning against the wall, the picture of nonchalance, though behind that was something seething. “Hello there.”
Ash shrugged a greeting. “’ello Con. No cooler?”
“We have no cooler.” I said, glancing around.
“There’s a big pit over there.” Ash rubbed his hands together. “We could putter him in there.”
Now that I was not exactly against. The more of a head start we got on this guy, the better. “Sure.” I finally agreed.
Grubbs nodded, and dragged off Boomer, who was yelling stuff at me that was luckily muted by his gag. They promptly chucked him down the hole, and I winced. I wouldn’t eased him in a bit better, but oh well, the end result was the same.
LEGO appeared behind me. “We got da supplies, let’s skedaddle.”
“I lover skedaaddlering.” Ash broke in chipperly.
LEGO glanced at him. “Where’d ya come from, avvie?”
“Ben’s base.” He said. “He declared martial law and started throwing people in Cooler. He’s gotter a group coming for ya.”
“How soon they gonna be here?” LEGO glanced around.
“Uh, they left before I did.” Ash glanced at the entrance. “I here, they not.”
“Either you got some jets, or they don’t know what they’re doing.” LEGO muttered.
“Jets.” Ash said proudly. “I’m gonna be a Runner!”
LEGO was too distracted to argue that point right now. He quickly gathered his men, and we took off. We exited the clearing without incident, and slipped back into the galleries.
P.S. Well, I'm out of parts folks. Hopefully I CON find time to write tonight.
*sighs* I shall swear a life long vendetta against life for this! Ah, well....I guess CONdolences?? Teenagers aren't SO bad. Some of them. NO CONNER PAN!!
Oh no, vendetta's are bad. Especially impossible-to-fulfill ones. Nah, it means I'll always be active on brick boards, so I'm quite happy.
They are? *swears life long vendetta against vendettas* You doubt me greatly. Huzzah! You must shave your face every hour to keep you ability to stay here.
Oh no, vendetta's are bad. Especially impossible-to-fulfill ones. Nah, it means I'll always be active on brick boards, so I'm quite happy.
They are? *swears life long vendetta against vendettas* You doubt me greatly. Huzzah! You must shave your face every hour to keep you ability to stay here.
*face-palms and gives up* I doubt you not, I just doubt your cause. Shave? Wazzat?
So, here was my strategy: Sweets was in the galleries, right? And she still had her memories, right? So she should remember how she got here, right?
Wrong.
All of a sudden I held up my hand and halted our charge. No point and dashing around pointlessly now that I had to admit I had no clue where we were headed. “LEGO, did you runners keep any sort of, I don’t know… maps? Records?”
“War lost, aren’t we?” LEGO gave me a half-lidded stare.
“Yes.”
“We wrote down everything, every day.” He motioned a guy up. “Wgrubbs, the charts.”
The user heaved a heavy, sweat-soaked backpack onto the ground with a sigh of relief. “Right here.” He unzipped it, and pulled out a sheaf. “Here’s a taste.”
I glanced at them. I turned the paper around, rotating, searching for some hidden meaning.
Cosmic grabbed a second. “It’s different.”
“Galleries shift every night. They tryin’ ta keep us on our toes.” LEGO spat.
“You ever studied these for a pattern or something…?”
“Nope, they’re stupid.” Ash spoke up. “I been tryering to for long timer, they always thrower me out.”
LEGO whipped around to glare at him. “No, you were trying to raid the snack cabinet.”
He shrugged. “Reading makers me hungry.”
I grabbed a stack of papers, and scooted up against the wall.