I'm the best at space!

[aboutpower]

Who: Buffy, Spike, and YOU. YES, YOU.
What: Day in the life fun in spaaaaace!
When: Today, all day, in port!
Warnings: TBD.

((This day in the life will have Spike and Buffy together to run into/interact with, and some other threads to run into them separately! Tag in anywhere, multiple threads encouraged, up for anything! :D))

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Buffy AND Spike - WEAPONS SHOPPING - OPEN!

[breakmychest]

[After wandering a bit more, Buffy and Spike found themselves in a particularly shifty looking area of the station. They might have considered turning back to look for more shoes, except then they noticed the weapons for sale. They don't look particularly legal, but they do look like fun. Considering how often the two of them fight, they both enjoy a good weapon.

Spike picks up a sword and presses a button on the side. Immediately, the entire thing lights up with a hot, red glow.]

It's a sodding lightsaber!

[Or, at least, an off brand knock-off.]

Spike alone - missing inmate - OPEN!

[breakmychest]

[After lunch, Spike had decided to see if his inmate wanted to come out. Of course, in the process, he'd somehow managed to get press-ganged into service bringing Buffy's many shopping bags back to the Barge. This was one of those many times he was grateful for superstrength.

Once he arrived, he realized with some alarm that his inmate was missing. After searching the Barge and sending a message in hopes she'd hear it, he went back out to look for her.]

Buffy alone - Finding trouble, because that's how she rolls. - OPEN!

[aboutpower]

[With Spike heading back to the Barge to drop off their things, Buffy's more than happy to continue to explore. In the seedy, dangerous part of the station. Part of her almost wishes to find trouble, because she's sure there is some somewhere. And she wants to help. After a few minutes of wandering and getting a few very strange looks, sure enough, Buffy runs into trouble.

A smaller, skinny alien with green-tinted skin is being forced out of his makeshift tent on the side of the large hallway by two, armed, really huge red-skinned aliens. He's crying out in pain, and they're hitting him. Buffy has no idea what language they are speaking or what is going on, but she knows badness when she sees it.

So she strolls right up and grabs the two red-skinned big guys from the back of their shirts and tugs them back and away from the little guy.] Bullying? Big turn-off. What's that saying? Pick on someone your own size.

[The red brutish aliens respond in some strange clicking language.. Before they both draw their knock-off lightsaber

Re: Buffy alone - Finding trouble, because that's how she rolls. - OPEN!

[knowsthepeople]

[Patrick Kelis has been spending most of his time looking for Shego, because the sooner he nabs her, the sooner he can get out of OS19, hand her over to the people who'd taken out the bounty on her head, and get his money. He's not no particular love for the space station, and he doesn't really care one way or the other about the new arrivals.

That said, at the sound of a fight, he's hopping off the roof of the structure he's been lurking on, checking his communicator for any updates about his quarry to see what's going on, immediately spotting Buffy and the aliens.

He's got a pretty big blaster rifle, but he's kind of content with lurking on this fire escape instead of jumping down and helping out, because port Patrick is a self involved asshole like that. Although he's not wearing the helmet, he's got the rest of his bounty hunter body suit on, and he basically looks like he just stepped off the set of some Sci-fi show or a Star Wars movie.

The disarming of one of the aliens gets a smirk out of him.]

Not bad.

[aboutpower]

[Buffy turns a quick glance to the new arrival. And at first she doesn't recognize him. In the heat of battle, Patrick looking all sci-fy-y, and his voice sounds different.] Thanks! [She jumps to avoid a swipe from brute #2's sword, falls into a roll, and sweeps brute #1's feet out from under him while she's down there. Buffy flips to a standing position. The aliens continue to make clicking noises, communicating with each other.]

You wouldn't happen to know- [Dodges another sword-swipe.] What these guys are saying- [Buffy sidesteps, then when brute #2 swings at her again with the hot blazing sword, Buffy punches him in the face twice, making him stagger back. Brute #1 is getting up and charging her from behind.] Would you? [Brute #1 successfully grabs her around her middle and holds her up. Buffy struggles to get free. She's so tiny in comparison to these huge red guys. Her voice is strained as she kicks and squirms.] Might really clear some things up for me.

[knowsthepeople]

[He shrugs nonchalantly, like this is totally not a big deal at all to be standing on a ledge watching two aliens fight a young human woman.] It's been a few years since I brushed up on my Xobullian, but I can catch a word here and there.

[But he's not totally heartless - relatively speaking - so he's raising his blaster, taking quick and careful aim and shooting the alien holding Buffy in the shoulder, the blast clipping him solidly. He howls and releases Buffy, although the sudden assistance doesn't seem to deter him or his buddy from continuing the fight.]

They'd like to know where you learned to fight like that, for one.

Buffy AND Spike - Dinner - CLOSED!

[aboutpower]

[Sitting across from Spike in a little restaurant on the richer side of the space station, she has trouble tearing her eyes away from the large window with the view of the stars and various spaceships whirring by. Her confusing menu forgotten for the time being. She eventually looks back at Spike.]

Does any of this make sense to you? [She gestures to the menu she's holding with a furrowed brow.]

[breakmychest]

[Spike has been more interested in the menu than the stars for his part. The stars are shiny and interesting, of course, but is that even a language?

He holds his over to Buffy.]

I recognize that bit. That's the drinks menu. [Some of them he had in the bar. He points at a different area.]

Think that part's fish. But that's just a guess.

[aboutpower]

[Slight frown. She tries to make some kind of sense of what she's looking at.] And here I thought that running into violent squirmy aliens would be the most of my troubles here. I'm gonna have to order a mystery dish, aren't I?

They should have pictures.

[breakmychest]

[Spike shrugs.] There was that one waiter who spoke English to us. We could ask him.

[Then he glances up at her.] Violent squirmy aliens?

Spike AND Buffy - getting into trouble - OPEN!

[breakmychest]

[It's possible that Spike was his usual somewhat unpleasant self at the bar. It's possible that pissed someone off. It's also possible that someone, who was already large and bulky to begin with, has brought some even larger and bulkier friends along with him.

Spike's not sure how they found him, but as he and Buffy start to leave the restaurant, they don't need to say anything to make their intentions known.]

Bugger. [Spike reaches for the knock-off lightsaber he's got tucked into his coat and looks at Buffy.] Fancy a bit of violence, pet?

Ask, and ye shall receive. :)

[betrayalswager]

[How fortunate for the managers of this restaurant that the majority shareholder is none other than Ambassador Achilles de Flandres, corporate powerbroker and one of the most influential men in this sector of space. More fortunate still that this restaurant has an upper level with a lavish penthouse set aside for Achilles himself. And that he happens to be in said penthouse when a panicked Iskoort begs his attention, saying that two strange aliens are causing an awful commotion on the ground level.]

[Achilles briefly plays with the idea of having the Orff haul the aliens away, but he reconsiders when he sees they are human. His curiosity piqued, Achilles waves away the Iskoort manager's servile fawning, telling him he'll take care of it.]

[So when Spike throws that ugly Hork-Bajir through the window, an echoing gong sounds, reverberating throughout the restaurant. Most of the patrons have fled in the chaos, but the ones who didn't stop in their tracks, knowing what it means. Even the Hork-Bajir hesitate

ILU <3

[aboutpower]

[Buffy seemed to find enough trouble on her own, but when she was with Spike, that likelihood pretty much tripled. He had that special charm about him that made people and, in this case, aliens, want to bash his face in. She'd rolled her eyes and made sure to complain to Spike about bringing this rather large group to their metaphorical doorstep. But she wasn't gonna let him fight alone

[breakmychest]

[Spike had been enjoying the fight. He so rarely got to let loose like this on the barge. And fighting next to Buffy was always a treat. She moved so nicely. Perfect end to their not-quite-a-date.

So when everyone backed off at the sound of the gong, Spike was a little disappointed and tempted to move forward on the fight. But he doesn't. He wants to figure out what's going on first.

He immediately dislikes the man. The way he makes his dramatic entrance just shouts "waiting for his moment," and though Spike can respect that normally, his moment would have made a lot more sense before the fight started. Of course, Spike wouldn't have appreciated that either. Maybe after would have been best. Let him finish off the aliens and get that catharsis that comes after having won a fight.

Also, he seems like some sort of authority figure, and Spike doesn't usually get along with those.]

Earth. Terra Firma's Earth. [Spike has enough literary background to know that, at least. He looks up at the man, definitely still on guard, and waits to