With A Friend Like You...

[soulintheshell]

Well, that had been taken care of easily enough.

Since he decided on an extended stay in this time period, Nate had to keep an eye on the timestream. His presence alone was making waves, and he had to carefully agitate them further. Tonight, that happened to mean that he could play the hero and save the day. Other nights, though...He had stopped

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[soulintheshell]

Well, not entirely abandoned anymore. There was something there that Robo!Nate never would have felt, but caused the hairs on the back of fleshy lad's neck to stand. Nate already didn't like this place. And he liked it even less when he noticed that a certain someone else was there.

"Oh. You."

[soulintheshell]

"Bite me."

In other words, he's not going anywhere.

"But if you're going to be here, let's hope you can make yourself useful. For once."

[soulintheshell]

"How about I swear with this finger instead?"

You can guess which finger Nate raised at him, then headed further into the park.

[soulintheshell]

"But its still swearing, and I mean every word of it."

The strange readings seemed to be stronger as they got closer to the center of the part, so of course that's where he went.

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Of course, as they approach it, a disembodied voice has talk to them.

Boys... boys... you don't seem like you're having any fun. This is a place of joy and happiness, and you're not getting into the spirit.

The first guests I've had in years, and you're so awfully rude. Perhaps this will help you get into the right frame of mind.

And with that, everything went bright white...

[soulintheshell]

...and everything hurt like hell.

When Nate woke up, his whole body was sore. He wasn't sure how long he was out cold, but it was clearly too long. After the soreness, the next thing he felt was a draft.

Someone had taken his armor.

He started to move, which is when he noticed that he was laying on top of someone else. And he saw that it was definitely not Cassie.

Oh. My. GOD.

[soulintheshell]

"...Danny?"

There was an actual look of confusion on Nate's face. That was definitely Danny's voice, and face... only now with black hair and blue eyes.

"You actually look human."

The confusion quickly gave way to repulsion as he realized that he was on top of Danny. He quickly and roughly shoved himself away the other boy, only to find that he couldn't get far. There was something binding their wrists together.

[soulintheshell]

Irritated, Nate yanked his hand back.

"I don't know!"

He felt naked without his armor. And he almost was naked. He was down to a dark pair of boxer-briefs, and a wife-beater. There was a rather hideous scar on the lower part of his neck, and thanks to his joyous stay with Apocalypse some time back, there were scores of scars along a lot of the rest of his exposed skin. Most of them had faded, but they were many, and more than a couple still stood out.

To say he was annoyed at being exposed like this was an understatement, especially in front of Danny.

"So, great, I'm armorless and you're useless."

Now what?