goodbye to rosie, the queen of corona ...what. [booster, open]
Once upon a time, Booster Carter thought it would be an awesome idea to be trapped semi-nude in a small space with Noriko Ashida and a camera. And let's face it, it WAS an awesome idea. Men have KILLED to be in similar positions
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And of course, the first thing he does upon escaping is to make a beeline for the Bug (... pun intended) and then swerve over to whichever surface Ted is chilling on. He also sits down, although that's mostly so he ceases to TOWER OVER MERE MORTALS and Ted.
"Hey, I'm all done. Thanks for waiting, Rip would probably kill me if I called him for a pick up." As if he wasn't going to die for getting detention in the first place.
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Anyway, now that Booster is here he collects his stuff and tucks it into his backpack, which of course is blue. Ted is fond of it. >_> LET US JOURNEY TO THE BUG.
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To the Bug they go! And on the way, Booster waves EPAC pamphlets annoyingly at Ted. "Maybe I can soften the blow by telling him I signed up to help save planet Earth and lots of fuzzy endangered animals. You should too! It'll look really good on college applications and stuff." That is TOTALLY Booster's reason for joining. Really. ... Okay, that's a lie too.
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But enough of that. (SERIOUSLY.) Ted tosses his bookbag into the back seat, which is spotless, and ducks away from Booster's flailing enthusiasm. "What is that--here, give it." Eloquence from teenaged boys. He peruses one pamphlet with some trepidation, holding it by the edges as though it might burst into flame. If he knew these had come from Vic, he would be using forceps.
"Rip will just tell you--" Ted actually does a fairly credible impression here, which is horrible, "'It is man's destiny to conquer the planet, Michael.' Or something like that." He is SKEPTICAL of these pamphlets, Booster.
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ANYWAY. Booster gives up the pamphlets easily enough, since that was the point, and decides it's more amusing not to tell Ted where they came from just yet. Although he might consider it just revenge for that impression of Rip, because that's just wrong. "Brr, could you not do that? It's bad enough dealing with the real thing. And anyway, everyone's destiny is different even as they contribute to the flow of the overreaching human destiny, which Rip should know, and there's nothing saying that my destiny doesn't involve sabotaging construction equipment to save the environment. Which totally involves science somehow, I bet, so it's a win-win situation ( ... )
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Meanwhile, each and every one of those "wait, whats" is visible on Ted's face, in decreasing stages of calm, sort of like the Rock Meter on Guitar Hero, going from 'green: cruising along,' to 'yellow: ....wait a second' to 'red: WHAT' to BLINKING RED ABORT ABORT ABORT and then you fail the song and you were NINETY PERCENT OF THE WAY THROUGH--anyway.
He jerks open the driver's side door and leans his head in, eyes boggling around behind his glasses, sort of like a human pinball machine!* "Is it your destiny to be in prison for a very long time?"
*patently impossible description
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Booster gets a shiftily worried look in his eyes for a second, like... okay, like someone looking both worried and shifty for some reason. The only metaphor which springs to mind is something involving pool, and those cues in the context of eye movements are just PAINFUL sounding D: He takes the opportunity of stowing his bag on the backseat to hide this expression, however, and when he turns back to face Ted it is with his customary grin - you know the one, Ted, it's the grin that always leads to mild trouble that's fun to get into.
"I sure hope not! Going to prison would really limit my chances to see Nori's chest. Anyway, we'd need to get caught first, and the first time they'd probably just give you a slap on the wrist or some community service or something, and Vic isn't in prison so he must know what he's doing. It'll be fun!" That's right, he's using 'we' already. Isn't it nice to be included? :D
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But anyway. Ted eyeballs him with growing suspicion, undercut by a merry buffet of 'totally going to end up doing whatever this is anyway, aren't you' because...that is how they roll. It's always fun until J'onn shows up detention!
"Yeah, but Vic has that 'fade mysteriously into the background' thing." He scrunches up his face and flicks his amazing scarab hood ornament a couple times; it is a thinking tic thing. "Obviously we need another plan."
......yes. Good. You moron.
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"It's true, Vic is a ninja." He adopts a thinking pose, before snapping his fingers and declaring merrily "But we have a get away vehicle."
... He cannot possibly mean what that sounded like he means, can hYES, of course he can.
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The point is he can't openly admit this, so basically there's a massive amount of eyeshifting for an extended period of time while Ted drums the steering wheel. Who knows what other people in the vicinity think they're talking about. "Well...yeees. There is that. But I'm driving, okay, we're never ever letting Vic drive. And he has to sit in the back."
Presumably this will prevent Vic from wildly exiting the vehicle in motion or something.*
*no it won't
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He also cannot sit still whilst Ted is busy non-verbally prevaricating on the matter. Hence Booster is all fidgety and stretches as much as possible within the confined space, so really, those other people in the vicinity are going to have a completely warped idea of the conversation no matter what. If they're even paying attention, of course. And of course, Booster snaps to attention once an answer is forthcoming. "Sure! Sounds good to me, I mean, and I don't see why he'd disagree. Although I could so take a turn once I get my license, right?" Why is he rummaging in his pocket OH GOD IS IT it's just a piece of paper. "I brought you a form! Here."
Oh look, official documentation. That's always fun, right? Even when it involves signing away your sanity for the weekend.
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Ted glances at the form entirely too briefly for what it is and pockets it, like those people who don't read the fine print on their plastic surgery waivers. CAN CAUSE DEATH OR ACCIDENTAL VISITATION OF A GAY BAR. Anyway, he'll show it to his dad, who....won't read it either. "No one drives my Bug." >:E That's usually true, but it is entirely possible Booster will finagle his way into something here. Just not right now. "Besides, you know they make you parallel park now."
He has his suspicions about Booster's ability to do this without reducing other cars to rubble, you see.
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Booster makes a note of this worrying tendency for Ted to skip over official documentation when he's distracted, entirely for his own good of course. Yes. ... Well, Booster's own good, anyway, since there must be some other way he can take advantage of this. As long as he doesn't get distracted by something else and forget, like all the other ti-- oh hey a conversation :O "They make you do what now?"
That is clearly the most reassuring thing he has ever said.
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Porn. What. WHERE ARE WE. Yes, in the middle of a sentence. "So you just slide your car in there--you don't have any idea how to do that, do you. Do you know how to properly signal when changing lanes? Or check your mirrors when reversing? Or how long to stop at a stop sign?" B|!!! Driving a car is A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR, BOOSTER ( ... )
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Aaaaany time now. "I do! I totally do, I know... at least some of that stuff! Maybe not the parawhatever parking part but it doesn't sound all that hard to pick up." Lies. If Ted was listening very carefully, he will have heard the whooshing sound as everything he said went flying neatly over Booster's head just like cars in the FUTURE. "I bet I could do it after one lesson."
No, he couldn't.
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