Outside MST3000 [Wednesday afternoon]

[sith_happened]

"Let's do something normal!" Anakin said in a voice that sounded nothing like Obi-Wan's, making a face as his lightsaber sliced through a kriffing flying eel. "Let's go see a movie! Nothing weird will be zooming around the island with their own kriffing anti-grav units trying to eat us or mate with us or whatever the frell these things want

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[furnaceface]

Jono had been about to make his way to Hannibal's place - they had plans to argue about fish and chips together, after all - when two steps outside of the Groovy Tunes, he heard a shrieking, and noticed the commotion down the street.

//Brilliant.//

And he was fairly certain those were lightsabers flashing about, which meant that the situation was probably well under control down that end of the street, but when an eel came up from his right and tried to take a chunk out of his shoulder?

Yeah, that was Jono with his wrappings being yanked off, leaving a few charred husks of eel twitching on the ground as he reluctantly joined the fray.

//I had been wondering when we were due again for something like this.//

[saddeserthermit]

Jono did put off an awful lot of energy; Obi-Wan couldn't say he was entirely surprised by the flames, though the form they took was certainly new.

"How many of these are there?" Obi-Wan called in his direction. "They seem to keep coming!"

A flash of his lightsaber left several chunks of eel scattering across the road, not too far from Jono's feet.

[furnaceface]

//Hundreds, easily,// Jono replied, kicking an incoming eel in the face before firing a blast of flame at the anti-gravity unit that was keeping it aloft. //I'd go out on a limb and say thousands, just given the concentration of them here, but that could just as easily be because you've been at this a while and drawing their attention.//

Lightsaber battles were not exactly quiet, after all.

//If we can manage a lull in the fighting, I can attempt to get a decent idea of numbers across the island, but as it stands, I'd much prefer to keep my attention on not being mauled.//

[saddeserthermit]

"The numbers I can sense keep fluctuating," Obi-Wan explained, hopping nimbly out of the way of a set of eels skidding across the ground. "I had hoped there was a precedent."

[furnaceface]

//A precedent of the 'they'll keep coming so long as it amuses the island,' persuasion, perhaps,// Jono offered, ducking one eel that thought it was going to sneak up on him from behind, and then just punching the bloody thing in an uppercut from below. //Really, if this is something coming from the island and not elsewhere, we'll be beating on these things all day, and it'll have cleared up neatly by tomorrow. Except, possibly, for some rotting seafood smell left over in the streets.//

[saddeserthermit]

Obi-Wan wrinkled his nose.

"Charming," he said. "Sounds like a clean-up."

[furnaceface]

//If we're lucky, it'll be cold enough tomorrow we won't have to worry about the stench,// Jono replied, nodding. //Maybe the gremlins or the alots or a few stray cats will have themselves a heyday eating sushi in the streets.//

He lit another eel on fire. It shrieked its dismay as it writhed away again.

//We're not generally that lucky.//

[saddeserthermit]

Obi-Wan batted a set of eels away from Jono, and then moved, cutting through several at once. His motions were fluid, as if he knew where the eels would be before the fish themselves did.

"Now that's unfortunate," he said. "Perhaps investing in cleaning droids is an idea - or a natural predator of eels."

[furnaceface]

Jono couldn't help but be impressed by that sort of intuition. Jedi really did have a knack for it, didn't they? He let himself watch for only a moment before he got back to it himself, fire twisting through the air around him as though daring more of the creatures to find a way through.

//Cleaning droids seems like the better of the two options, if you know where to find any,// he noted. //I'd pity any animals who were brought to the island only to find out that once these are gone, there aren't any more eels for them to eat. Or any of the island's natural wildlife, once the predators figure out an alternative food source.//

[saddeserthermit]

"Perhaps," Obi-Wan said, and found the Force drawing him closer to Jono's location as the amount of eels near to the entrance of the movie theater began to diminish. "But I'd rather Anakin not overhear me advocating droids as a first solution."

[furnaceface]

//I'd advocate whichever option doesn't put the island in a greater state of ecological turmoil down the road,// Jono noted, a few incoming eels backing him toward Obi-Wan a little more. //Which around here generally means we have to suck it up, go outside the day after, and clean it up our own damn selves.//

Yay, elbow grease.

//At least it isn't the middle of the summer. That'd be positively hellish.//

[saddeserthermit]

"Very uncivilised," Obi-Wan agreed. He cut an eel in half and used its tail to whip another out of the air. "We might have to start choosing our battlegrounds more wisely."

[furnaceface]

//A popular option is generally the park, or along the beaches,// Jono offered, throwing a veritable wall of flame ahead of himself that a few unfortunate eels flew right into. //More room to move about, and the tide generally takes care of whatever gets left on the shoreline, if you get out as far as the beach. Unfortunately, that means more unsuspecting students left to fend for themselves here, so close to the school.//

The fire died down some, just enough for Jono to leap through it to shoulder-check another eel into a wall.

//Bit of a trade-off, there.//

[saddeserthermit]

"The trick would be to bait the vast majority to the beaches and funnel them through one particular street," Obi-Wan mused. "Of course, these don't appear to be interested in much more than the meat of our ankles."

And Anakin's hair, for whatever reason.

[furnaceface]

It was pretty glorious hair.

//Most of the things that invade the island never really amount to more than a minor annoyance,// Jono agreed, snatching a smaller eel from thin-air when it wandered too close, and then sort of holding it away from himself, not completely certain what to do now that he'd actually managed that. The thing screamed bloody murder at him, so after a moment he made a face and just flung it away from himself. //At least for Fandom in general. These would be somewhat more than an inconvenience for somebody who's never had to fight, I imagine.//

[saddeserthermit]

"Have you been up to the school already?" Obi-Wan asked.

He stepped back, on top of the head of the eel Jono had just thrown, striking out with his lightsaber at the same time to stop another. "Some of the students may try to leave the dorms."