[When Liquid tossed the Pokegear onto the bed next to the egg he'd mysteriously gotten for Christmas, it turned on and started the feed. The egg had been wrapped up to keep it warm, and now it was making little cracking noises and was rocking slightly where it lay; Liquid had already hatched one Pokemon by now, so he wasn't too concerned. The
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What, what happened--
[Beat. Suddenly he was much less concerned.]
Oh wow, an Aerodactyl.
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[How was this not unusual to him? He was a fucking scientist, for Christ's sake. And Liquid just hatched a dinosaur.]
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[Dammit Jim, he's a mechanical engineer, not a paleontologist.]
Funny, I didn't think you could find eggs of those--they're supposed to be extinct in the original games.
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[Do you not have eyes, Hal, how can't you see that this is a dinosaur?]
Of course they're extinct, because it's a dinosaur!
[Which decided to make another peeping noise. Y U YELLIN MOM.]
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I thought a levitating rock hatching from an egg was bizarre enough, but a pterodactyl? This place makes no sense at all.
{This is coming from the woman wrapped in blankets up to her neck, with bandages everwhere.}
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[Liquid doesn't look a hell of a lot better than she does, considering that he looked kind of like one giant bruise and had a broken arm. In a pink cast.]
I'm not really quite sure what to make of this.
[Hatching a dinosaur was pretty fantastic, but at the same time, it was a fucking dinosaur.]
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{She notices.} Nice cast. How'd it happen - a gang of Pokemon ambush you?
...It's adorable, but it looks like it could take your fingers off if you weren't careful.
{Dinosaurs, moons, what the hell went wrong with the biology of this place?!}
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[Have a dry look.] I fell off of Sprout Tower, actually. [You know, the ten-story building in Violet. That Sprout Tower.]
Probably. It seems docile enough, though.
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[There was a pterodactyl crawling around on Liquid's comforter. He wasn't quite sure how to handle this-- this was not a situation that ever came up in basic training.]
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[He picked up the tiny dinosaur; it wrapped itself around his arm.]
What do I feed a pterodactyl?
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[She's already poking her head in through the door.]
Holy shit did you seriously just get a dinosaur!
... Oh, also, hi.
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[GET YOUR ASS IN HERE AND SEE HIS DINOSAUR, HEATHER. Not like that.]
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[Heather proceeded to get her ass in there.]
Oh. My. God.
It's so little!
[Did you know that your little sister was in fact capable of going into girly OMG PUPPY mode? Well. If you didn't, you do now.]
It's like a little BAT.
But NOT.
[EEEEE.]
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It'll get bigger.
[And then it will strike fear into the hearts of the innocent and all that.]
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What?
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