Wonderland: Paradise

Jude puts his hands in his pockets
Jude: "I...don't like drinking."

(Note to Grim: You mean Albec, right?)

Jude smirks and looks up at the sky.

Jude: "Yeah...let's do that thing."

(Ummmm...)

"To the plant"
Albec spoke with the least amount of enthusiasm as he could muster.
And their amazing journey to the SCION plant in the center of the city began.

As the duo raced to the the plant Albec stuttered conversation through the gaps of time he was near enough to hear him
"So how about-..."
"That wierd-"
"-story Justice was tellin'-......"
-us?"
"Weird huh?"

Jude: "It wasn't weird."

Justice & Illiad
Justice waits on a rooftop (surprised?) in the shadow of another building.
"Noctis, you here? I know you're here. I can smell your playful silence"

kisukeFan_4337 wrote:

Jude: "It wasn't weird."

"No, it was definitive weird. I mean I've heard the name "RoadPunk" floating around but I always
thought of him as more of a figure of youthful revolt, myth or no myth I can respect that. But the 'throne'?
godlike power? S'pretty cool but. Hmmmmm."

Albec and Jude approach the plant*

"Well, you wanna walk right in?"

Jude: "Let's use this marker in my pocket and draw up face mustaches."
Obviously he's joking. Though it is not the time to joke.

Suddenly, Jessica taps Jude on the shoulder, appearing from out of nowhere.
"You left without us!" she whined.
Emily runs up behind her, trying to catch her breath. "You run too fast," she muttered.

Emily laughed dryly. "Psh, no. We've just be following you, for the most part."

"Right, so two hours in and none of us have done our mission"
Albec Laughed
"Alright, let's do this before Justice chews us out."

Jessica glanced once more at Jude, then snapped back into reality. "Yeah, let's get going."

Beep… Beep… Boop… Beep… Beep… Boop…

What the hell... Illy thought, I don't have an alarm clock. She lifted her head from her pillow and examined the immediate surroundings. It was her cell, three missed calls and 1 message. Illy rolled out of bed and noticed something, her lack of clothes. Giving a sideways glance back at her bed she saw the tangled body of two blonds, still asleep on her bed. With a smile Illy thought, Huh, weird, I only remember bringing home one. She turned to get her phone, wiping away the dribble that rolled down her cheek when she was asleep. She heard the message, Justice asking where she was, Oh… that shit was today… Illy hung up the phone and tossed it aside, looking at the bed full of naked blonds. With a sigh she pulled off the sheets and rolled them and the girls up into a big ball of fabric and skin. She could feel them wake and struggle to get free but they were not strong at all and only weighed about 110 each. She opened door to her apartment and tossed the girls and sheets into the hall, shutting the door behind her. Iliad went and got their belongings as she heard them start to pound on her door. She opened the door, and tossed them their bags and what clothing she found before shutting the door on their faces again.

"Well now that that's done, business." Illy cracked her knuckles and hopped into the shower, letting the warm water run down her body. After a good 45 minutes Illy walked out of the shower and dried her hair then body. She allowed herself a quick second to look at her apartment, it was decorated like a mansion, with silk and marble and a 45'' plasma, but it was ironically a small apartment in the slums. She continued her morning ritual by brushing her teeth and tossing a Hot Pocket into the microwave. As the nuke box did its job Illy got dressed. A black sports bra, an open, short sleeved shirt she kept untucked,, a pair of pants that matched her shirt, and a pair of sneakers that started at her knees, but were remarkably light. She finished the look with a Superman belt, just as she finished she heard the microwave ding. Illy pulled out the Hot Pocket and devoured it in seconds. As she finished her food she felt something brush up against her leg. "Right, cat." Tossing the plate in the sink, Illy pulled out some cat food and poured it into Lulu's bowl. As she began to eat she filled her water bowl. Placing it down beside the other bowl she took a second to pet her. "Alright Lulu, time for me to go, love you." The cat meowed back as she stood up. "I know you love me more, you’re a pet, you’re supposed to." Illy chuckled.

Quickly grabbing her keys, and her phone, Illy left her apartment, locking the door behind her. Apparently the girls made off with her silk sheets. Illy sighed, “Those bastards took my sheets… don’t they know how hard it is to find silk sheets to steal?” She said shaking her head.

--

Iliad had made it to “their” usual spot and smiled, Justice was already there, but like hell she was going to let him know that. For all he knew, she was there for ages, and only chose to make herself known now. “Smell?” She said, walking out of a shadow, “I took a shower, if anything, that smell is the remnants of a ménage à trios I had with two playful blonds… jealous?” She said with her smirk. “And what is with this ‘Noctis’ business?” She said with a smile, sitting on the edge of the building. “You know as well as I do that I haven’t used that nickname since we were kids… hell I think you’re the only one that knows that name now.” She smiled, shaking her head, remembering the ‘good ol’ days’. “So!” Illy said, “Sorry I missed your grand speech, but I doubt there was anything I needed to hear… then again, I probably should have showed up just to see Jess and Em. Talk about ‘two playful blonds…’” Illy said with her smirk, leaning back, and closing her eyes as she let her imagination take flight.

With teeth grit through afresh cigarette Justice smiled
"I remember when I was could be as careless as you, Illy.
Anyway, we have our two new soldiers to replace last year's...misplaced.
"I've been listening to the air, you can hear them more now then ever. I suppose you've heard it to, no?"

Iliad let out a long sigh, "You're so serious lately... why can't you just let me fantasize about sex like a regular best friend?" She asked. Iliad let out another sigh and stood up, "That is good news. So, are they as good as the ones we lost, or do we have to break them in?" She asked. When Justice began to talk about listening to the air, Iliad closed her eyes. "I have heard them." Iliad continued, stretching her arms out wide, "I listen for them at night, I guess I still am Noctis, I still am Night." Iliad opened her eyes and dropped her arms to her sides, "Anyway, you're right. I can hear them more often now. I was thinking it might have something to do with old man Hizo, but I can't see Hizo getting the Throne... hell, I won't let him."

"Probably," Jessica said. "But isn't there some sort of elevator we could take?"
Emily shot her a look. "Never mind. Let's just climb," she said, laughing nervously.

Jude: "All right...sound like fun."
He pulls a pair of black gloves out of one of his pant pockets and puts them on slowly. Then he grabs a ledge with his right hand and looks at Albec, Jessica and Emily.

Jude: You ladies and Albec will get up on your own, right?