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[bring_a_sponge]

Zed is down in the bowels of MiB HQ, sitting in his usual spot in the bureau's main cafeteria, glowering at a defenseless bagel that had the audacity to be wheat instead of cinnamon-raisin

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[maxwellsdemon02]

Duo slams through the double doors and points an accusatory finger at Zed from across the room.

"YOU," he thunders, startling Agent B into dropping his coffee. The Annelids scatter to avoid getting splashed. They flip Duo off cheerfully and hurl insults in their native language.

He ignores all and sundry, stalking up to Zed and glaring down at him. He doesn't look very intimidating with grime smeared on his face and on the borrowed MiB jumpsuit, but he tries very hard.

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Did too."

[bring_a_sponge]

"Didn't."

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Did!"

[bring_a_sponge]

"Didn't."

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Did."

[bring_a_sponge]

"Didn--ahh, that's right," Zed points back. "We did throw in that programming to make you all bugfuck with obsessing about it."

*smirk*

[maxwellsdemon02]

There is a brief, ominous silence while all and sundry digest this remark.

"...okay, that's just mean."

[bring_a_sponge]

"Maxwell, who the hell told you you've been neuralyzed?"

[3rdtimelucky]

At a nearby table, a certain blonde part-time Agent is busy tapping away on her MiBlackberry over a danish and some coffee. She's a picture of innocence. There's no way she's eavesdropping, nor is she highly amused by what she is hearing.

Oh wait... yes, she is.

[maxwellsdemon02]

"That mech is way too easy to fix for a piece of alien tech. I always have the perfect tool on hand and it's hardly taking any time at all! I must have done it before."

[bring_a_sponge]

"Or maybe you just know what the fuck you're doing. Which might have something to do with why I brought you in in the first place."

[maxwellsdemon02]

"I know your game, big man," Duo says. "Flattery will get you many places, but I am on to you."

Zed had better watch his back!

[bring_a_sponge]

"Maxwell. Why the hell would I have your ass neuralyzed when we'd just have to brief you all over again on everything around here, not to mention all the specs on the Stiletto and a couple of dozen other pieces of tech, when you know how much I fucking hate repeating myself?"

[maxwellsdemon02]

Duo's paranoia takes a few moments to work through this.

"Because you wouldn't have zapped everything, and as much as you hate repeating yourself, you also like mocking me."

[bring_a_sponge]

"Yeah, but I don't need a neuralyzer for that."

"Look. Maxwell. You have never been neuralyzed. Word of honor."

"There. Now you've got the same vow we give everyone after they've been wipe--. I mean, when their memories have been left completely intact."

Zed. Sometimes the man just can't help himself.