[ One | Phone | Action ]

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| A | Morning | 342 Brady Lane |

[Death the Kid wakes up this morning and glances around the room, becoming immediately certain of a few things. One, this is not his house--or his bed, or his pajamas, or anything even remotely resembling his--and two, this room is horrifically asymmetrical

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[bestweaponever]

[Tsubaki stops short of crossing the street behind Black☆Star when she sees Kid out of the corner of her eye.]

Black☆Star, did Soul say Kid was here, too?

[tosurpassgod]

[He looks back at her, unsure of why she's stopped]

No, why?

[bestweaponever]

[She's staring at Kid taking in scenery.]

Uhm, unless there is someone else here who looks like him...he's right down the street.

[If they got here after Soul, why not Kid after them?]

[tosurpassgod]

Huh?

[He follows the trail of her vision down the street - and sure enough, that looks like Death the Kid being... well...]

It IS Kid! And he's acting even crazier than normal! Come on, we have to snap him out of it!

[And now Black☆Star is running at break-neck speed towards Kid to tackle him back to sanity]

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[Kid turns maybe two seconds before Black☆Star is on top of him, and only ducks marginally out of the way, meaning he is now on his back on the sidewalk. And annoyed about it.]

Black☆Star! What do you think you're doing?

[Tackling was definitely unnecessary. But he's only furious for a few seconds, when he realizes that Black☆Star is here--which he hadn't known. Rubbing his head, he sits up, glowering at the other meister.]

You're here as well?

[bestweaponever]

[Tsubaki was seconds short of stopping Black☆Star from tackling Kid, an now found herself staring at the two meisters.]

Sorry, Kid.

[tosurpassgod]

Snapping you out of it! You were going crazy in the middle of the street.

[And there's his good deed for the day - saving Kid's life by snapping him out of whatever mind control he was under]

Yeah, Tsubaki and I are both here. It was a couple days ago we woke up in some weird house.

[equal_shots]

It's all right, Tsubaki.

And I was not going crazy in the middle of the street. I was admiring the architecture.

[Ok so he was staring obsessively at the architecture let him have his fantasies okay. He nods politely at Tsubaki, unwilling to lose Black☆Star's attention while he still had it.]

Did you get here at the same time as Soul, then?

[bestweaponever]

[Of course he was...]

Soul was here before us.

[tosurpassgod]

Yeah, Soul got here first. Then it was us two, now you.

[Hmmm. THERE IS SOME SORT OF CONNECTION HERE! PROBABLY! THINK, BLACK☆STAR!]

Two weapons and two meisters...

[equal_shots]

[That's okay Black☆Star, because Kid is about to make a connection that you really don't want him to. Mostly because he's currently making sense and not wriggling anxiously at the thought of having to use a scythe as a weapon instead of his twin pistols.]

[Now he looks a little bit pale. Just at the thought.]

No signs of Liz and Patti?

[And yes it is Liz and Patti, because he couldn't use one without the other. Just the very thought...]

[bestweaponever]

[She frowns as she shakes her head.]

We haven't seen them, but we haven't been here that long.

[There you go, there is a bit of hope!]

[tosurpassgod]

Yeah, if we're showing up one or two at a time they're probably just behind with Maka.

[equal_shots]

I see.

[Think. One or two at a time? That's a strange way to bring them in. Even more so to continue bringing them in. Any strategist would have only brought meisters, or only brought weapons. To bring both--especially Black☆Star and Tsubaki--was not a logical strategic move.]

That's a strange way to go about things, bringing both weapons and meisters.

[bestweaponever]

[He didn't know?]

We can't resonate...I can't even transform.

[Kid, why are you making her sad? Black☆Star isn't going to like that.]

[tosurpassgod]

[Yep, those are some facts that he doesn't like being reminded of, but he gets a sort of crazy look in his eye]

It's fine. We know who's behind it, and when we're ready I'll go and crush her.