First Inning

[ways_diamond]

Top of the Inning
Pitching: Crowley
At Bat: Sari, Raguel, and Alice
On the Field: The Enigmas (Castiel's Team)

Bottom of the Inning
Pitching: Alice
At Bat: Father Mulcahy, Edward, Teja, and Crowley
On the Field: The Paradoxes (Carlisle's Team)

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Top of the First

[ways_diamond]

The pre-game traditions have been observed, the End of the Universe Enigmas have taken their places on the diamond, the first batters for the Milliways Paradoxes are ready, and Abner Doubleday has no doubt sat up in his grave in at least one continuity.

Time to get started, then.

Meg Ford, umpire, takes a deep breath and announces, "Play ball."

#75, Sari Sumdac

[im_so_sari]

This is it. The first pitch of the game.

Sari swaggers up to home plate. (Or tries to. Swaggering kind of loses its effectiveness when you have pigtails that jiggle with every step you take.) She taps the bat once against each shoe, and readies herself to swing.

"Bring it."

Re: #75, Sari Sumdac

[aj_crawley]

Crowley's waiting on the mound. He doesn't really do cramps, but he's nevertheless been making some concession to stretching, ball in hand, as he prepares to Bring It.

When he sees the size of his first batter, though, pigtails inclusive, he kind of deflates a little.

On the other hand: Milliways. Who knows what kind of awesome cosmic powers she might be hiding that Crowley can't pick up on?

Welp. Time to put that practice into use.

He mediates his pitch: fast, but humanly fast. Testing.

Re: #75, Sari Sumdac

[im_so_sari]

If Sari knew that she was being patronized in this fashion, she would be extremely upset.

It's a moot point, though, as she swings and misses by a significant margin.

Strike one.

Re: #75, Sari Sumdac

[aj_crawley]

Oh.

Scratch those cosmic powers, then.

Crowley's second pitch is substantially slower, but he throws it with a pointedness that defies anyone to attribute it to a sense of charity. He's got a point to prove, that's all.

Re: #75, Sari Sumdac

[im_so_sari]

She's closer this time, but swings just a little too late. Strike two.

Re: #75, Sari Sumdac

[aj_crawley]

:/

Crowley's beginning to feel a bit of a prick.

Or at least - he feels a bit of a prick for precisely as long as it takes him to actually identify the sensation (realisation arriving along with the ball as it returns to the mound). Bugger that for a game of soldiers, he thinks.

Crowley sizes up the kid's stance for a third and final time, winds up -

- and throws.

Re: #75, Sari Sumdac

[im_so_sari]

Whiff.

And it's one, two, three strikes, yer out in the old ball game.

Re: #75, Sari Sumdac

[ways_diamond]

One out, nobody on, and that brings the Paradoxes' second baseman, Raguel to the plate.

#60 - Raguel

[un_fallen]

A hush falls over the raucous crowd at the drama of the next batter's approach. The birds stop singing, the moles stop digging and the demon bunnies stop gnawing the fresh corpses of their victims.

All right, none of that happens, but it makes no difference. Raguel's focus narrows until he can't hear any of it, right down to the pitcher's demonic yellow eyes and the tiny white ball concealed in his glove.

Raguel taps the bat on home plate a couple of times, then raises it and gives Crowley his best glare.

Re: #60 - Raguel

[aj_crawley]

 

Re: #60 - Raguel

[un_fallen]

Re: #60 - Raguel

[aj_crawley]

 

Re: #60 - Raguel

[un_fallen]

Re: #60 - Raguel

[aj_crawley]

Woomch.

Re: #60 - Raguel

[un_fallen]

It's a ball pitch, close and inside. Raguel jumps back from it. Glares harder.

After a moment's tension, he steps deliberately around to the other side of the plate.