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[theniputitback]

who ; Parker and YOU
what ; Searching for Cindy's Big Daddy Doll.
where ; A theme park in Residential Zone 4.
when ; Immediately following Eleanor's request for help.
warning(s) ; Hey, remember how Abraxas infected an entire amusement park...with death? WHO WANTS TO PLAY?

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[double_discs]

It was a very logical place to return to look for the strange suited User's missing 'daddy'--which he was pretty sure by this point in time was a small representative copy of something much larger that existed in another world. This was the last place he'd seen her, the first place they'd met, and the rough amount of playing they'd spent in the area was rather conducive to dropping and loosing such an item. Besides that he could take another look around at the infection to make sure it wasn't progressing too far out of bounds.

What he wasn't expecting to find here was another curious User wandering around in the park. To himself, he sighed in irritation. Aloud, his white-noise grew to a louder decibel of rumbling.

He approached the User without hesitation in his quick stride. He stopped barely a few feet (possibly even less than two) from her. "Identify, User."

...He was really beginning to get tired of not being certain how to address all of these Users in an appropriate manner. Maybe he needed to see CLU about that...

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Parker backed up, quickly putting more space between herself and the unfamiliar robot. She stared, baffled. Why was a robot calling her that?

"I'm not a user!" she said, sounding offended. "I've never even touched any drugs."

[double_discs]

Rinzler blinked beneath the helmet and then cocked his head to one side. What were drugs and why did the User think he was saying she'd touched any?

"...No. Incorrect. Confirm identity, User. Additional inquiry: what are 'drugs'?"

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Parker tilted her own head, mirroring Rinzler.

"...What?"

What was he asking? Was he trying to tell her she was wrong? But...he didn't even know what drugs were? This didn't make any sense.

"Drugs are bad," she explained - sort of. "I'm not a user." She paused.

"...Who are you?"

[emperorspicer]

Jack had been bored for a little while, since the ship was so empty and there was nothing of significance to conquer. He really just wanted to be back on Earth, running his planet the way he wanted to run it.

He'd built several robots, and that had wasted some time, but they were really low tech, a lot like he built back in his early days of Shen Gong Wu hunting. They even had off switches, which was an amateurish mistake Jack had made for his own reasons.

Currently he was wandering the streets with two trailing as his protective entourage, and that was how he stumbled upon the theme park. It was at least more interesting than empty streets, even it it was very... yellow.

He walked past the empty ticket booths, whistling to himself, when he saw someone moving in the dark. Tensing, he stopped and raised a hand for the Jackbots to halt as well.

"Hey!" he called, eyes narrowed, hand twitching to where the Monkey Staff was strapped to his back. "You!"

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Uh oh.

Parker's instinctive reaction, when someone started yelling "hey you" in her direction, was to make herself scarce. She froze, risking a quick glance over her shoulder to see...and angry-looking teenager?

One with robots following him.

"Robots," Parker muttered to herself. "Why's it always have to be robots?"

And she ducked around the nearest building, pulling herself up to a window ledge and from there to the low roof. She crawled along to the front of the building, trying to get a better look at whoever had yelled at her.

[emperorspicer]

Jack's eyes narrowed as the woman ran off, moving impatiently after her. "Hey! HEY!"

Well, she was off. He walked under the ledge, unaware that she was just above him, still shouting.

"I know you're here; hiding won't help."

He nodded at the robots.

"Jackbots, look for her."

One of them flew off around the building. The other started going up.

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Parker peered over the edge of the building curiously. Good, he wasn't trying to follow her onto the roof. That was a relief. As long as she stayed quiet, he'd get bored eventually and wander away, and then she could -

Oh.

Parker pulled her head back quickly as the robot started up the side of the building. No. No no no, why was he sending his robots after her, what did he want?

She looked frantically around for a place to hide, but there was nothing. The roof was bare.