[Thread] The Great Escape

[lady_bounty]

Characters: Faye Valentine (OU), OPEN
Where: The empty lot next to apartment building two
When: Midnight, after this post.
Summary: The hopeful, the curious, and the skeptics gather in the empty lot to observe and take part in the anonymous poster's escape attempt.
Warnings: I HAVE NO IDEA. :D A note: I know this is kind of unusual, but Faye will

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[ned_piemaker]

The Piemaker showed up a little early, skulking along in a ridiculous parody of a man trying to avoid being seen, his hands in his pockets and his shoulders hunched up. He had abandoned the apron and oven mitts since Faye has last seen him, and acquired a black jacket somewhere which his mun will requisition later wtf.

When he did not see anyone else in the parking lot Ned whirled around as though uncertain, bending at the knees and exhaling loudly. He looked from his watch to the empty parking lot and then back the way he came, clearly contemplating ducking out of this scheme.

[feel_da_bito]

Beat came surprisingly early for someone accustomed to arriving either at the last second or downright late--whatever was going on with him and this place, he was more than ready to bounce the joint and try and get somewhere that was anywhere but here. The fact that if he found Shibuya at all it might not be the same Shibuya he was used to really wasn't a concern; he just wanted out of Econtra, so that alone was a plus compared to sitting around here waiting for the aliens to descend on them.

Dying was not in his plans.

There were surprisingly few people when Beat got there, considering the number of them he'd seen around. And one of the guys...looked like the aliens were already after him. What was that about? "Yo man, what's with the spazzing?" he called out.

[ned_piemaker]

Ned whirled around, surprised to realize he was the one being addressed by a punk-looking teenager who he had not seen before. He scuffed his shoes against the ground, shrugging and shivering a little, looking around. "I- uh. I don't know if I should be here."

The Piemaker tried to find the words to express his apprehension, his reluctance to get involved in anything that might lead to violence. He was in a bad enough spot just being here. The last thing he needed was to get dragged into some kind of uprising against the aliens...

[feel_da_bito]

"Why not? 'S a chance to get outta here! What, you wanna stick around and wait for them aliens to come in an' get us?" Beat was willing to take any chance he had to escape. As far as he remembered he'd just woken up around here a couple days ago, and as much of a drag being around home was it was a hell lot better than sticking around--especially when his own sister didn't seem to know who he was.

[ned_piemaker]

"I do want to get out of here. I want to get out of here very badly. But ... are they going to let us?" The Piemaker envied the young man's recklessness, but knew that that kind of nonchalance would get you more trouble than it was worth. Better not to make waves. No one liked waves or the people who made them. "Is this going to be an uprising of some sort?"

[feel_da_bito]

"I dunno. All I know is, someone's got a way out and I ain't gonna let that pass! If it comes to a fight, then aight. I'll take 'em!" Beat was putting on a little extra bravado--he'd been in a couple fights in the past couple of years, but nothing against freakin' doomsday movie aliens--but hey, he wasn't about to back down. That wasn't his style. It was almost midnight anyhow, right? Now or never and all that.

[ned_piemaker]

The Piemaker saw nothing wrong with backing down. He found that in most situations backing down was not only perfectly acceptable, it was logical. Trying to fight against circumstances and make your life better only made it worse in different ways.

"I don't do fighting."

[feel_da_bito]

Beat shrugged. "Your problem, yo. You don't got the stones, hope we all get out quick an' easy so we don't gotta deal with the aliens." Beat was sort of hoping for that himself, but his hesitation wasn't quite so open. Acting all scared now would make stuff that much worse later if the aliens picked a fight. And they didn't exactly look like a friendly bunch.

[ned_piemaker]

Ned crossed his arms over his chest tightly vacillating between running away back to the barracks and sticking it out. He wanted back home. But did he want to see Chuck badly enough to risk this?

But then, The Piemaker didn't have much to lose any more. Or anything, even.

But he certainly wasn't going to stick around and be sassed at by a cocky teenager. He had gotten plenty of that when he was at school, and wasn't about to put up with it if it could be avoided, in a passive sort of way. He turned his back on Beat, rolling his eyes and wandering off to wait in peace.