trickyoutwice: (prepare for trouble)
Niou Masaharu ([personal profile] trickyoutwice) wrote2013-07-23 01:44 am

3rd trick; (voice)

[The setting of the story: A dark and stormy perfectly lovely evening where all good boys and girls are safely tucked away in their beds, dreaming of Mareeps. However, one of the heros of this story (neither of them, in fact) is a good little boy, and the middle of the night sees Niou groggily getting out of bed and trudging down the hall for the bathroom, too half-asleep to even rub the grit out of his eyes.

Which is why it might be understandable that when he flips on the light switch and sees a giant purple Sharpedo grinning very, very toothily at him from the bathtub, he blinks and flips off the lights again. And then turns them back on.

Yeah, the killer shark thing that’d decided upon first sight that he was a tasty treat is still there, still showing way too many razor-sharp teeth. This time, Niou takes a step back, slams the door, and does what any sensible young man in his position would do: shrieks bloody murder for his partner so he’s not the only one miserably awake and dealing with this shit.]


Yagyuu! YAGYUU! The shark’s in the bathroom!

[Naturally, Yagyuu is not currently awake to be hearing this; Yagyuu is at the moment sleeping quite peacefully in his bed, dreaming of mushroom sugarplum fairies and Seigaku losing miserably at middle-school tennis tournaments. However, at the sound of Niou’s frantic shout, he jolts upright and instinctively grabs for his glasses, already half out of bed by the time he’s managed to get them opened and on his face.

Unfortunately, that blind and hurried grab had the misfortune of jolting most of the contents of the table, which in turn knocked into someone’s Gear; the point where it hits the ground and switches on roughly coincides with the moment when Yagyuu’s made it into the hall, which means the recording for the network’s consumption begins just in time to hear: ]


What do you mean, the shark’s in the bathroom? It’s not supposed to—

[A DOOR CREAKS OPEN, THEN ABRUPTLY SLAMS SHUT AGAIN.]

...The shark’s in the bathroom.

Yep. [Having a compatriot to his not-freaking-out restores at least some of Niou’s usual cool, so he manages stunned instead of JESUS CHRIST IT’S A LION SHARK GET IN THE CAR.] Sure is.

[There’s a pause and the sound of footsteps as Niou pads closer to the door again and opens it a crack to peer inside.]

How the fuck did the shark get to the bathroom? There’s stairs.

[Before any more brilliant commentary can be added, something growls and Niou screams as the shark leverages itself out of the bathtub and makes a determined lunge straight for his face, accompanied by the sound of cracking, splintering wood as it propels itself right into the door— and gets stuck in a neat, shark-shaped hole halfway through.

Fortunately, quick reflexes on Yagyuu’s part (honed from years of tennis and supplemented by over two years of stupid Pokemon incidents like this one) save the day, and the thud of bodies hitting the floor quickly follows as he unceremoniously grabs Niou by the collar and forcibly hurls them both backwards, away from the door and the shark now snapping ineffectually in the middle of it.]


...Do you suppose it’s — ah...stuck? There? In the...

[No, but really, though, HOLY SHIT.

Meanwhile, the rapid skittering of sixty-four fuzzy little sets of toenails clicking against floorboards abruptly begins to ring out, sounding like a cross between Flight of the Bumblebee as performed on a typewriter and a Chicago Typewriter gunning down a mass of bumblebees. It is, evidently, Yagyuu’s Eevee Battalion, rushing the scene with a single desperate thought dominating every one of their fuzzy little brains:

GRANDPA MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE.

Clearly the only thing to do is to storm the scene in a mass stampede and find out.]


Do we really wanna wait to find ou— ack!

[Niou, sadly still unaccustomed to the warning signs of a full on Eevee rush, gets bowled over by the stampede just as he’s managed to brush himself off and climb to his feet. He goes down squawking in a wild flail of limbs and only manages to dig himself out of the newly installed carpet of furry bodies, only to yelp and scramble back as he finds himself once again in far too close quarters with his nemesis the shark.

If he’s using Yagyuu for cover at this point, well, luckily for the sake of his dignity, no one can actually see it.]


...they’re kinda late for a rescue. [If he acts like he didn’t nearly just leap into Yagyuu’s arms, then it didn’t happen, right? Right.]

“Rescue” isn’t the word I would use an—

[And there’s probably more conversation ensuing from that point on, but it’s not like the Gear’s microphone can pick any of it up, what with the newly-arrived cacophony of clicking nails, rustling fur, and sixteen bitty Eeveelutions yapping incessantly at the snarling, trapped glittershark in their midst.]
paladinlost: (curious)

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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-23 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
...Considering that Magikarps can somehow fight on land, a Sharpedo that can climb stairs is not that surprising.

[Still a bit freaky, though.]
paladinlost: (err)

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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-23 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
They learn Tackle if you are patient enough. Not everyone is.

[Cecil's had it easy; his were Gyarados from the beginning.]
paladinlost: (confused)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-24 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
They do have some very impressive teeth, even as unevolved fish. No one would ever call them helpless.

[Even stuck in a door like that. Especially stuck in a door like that.]
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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-25 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...Could it be agoraphobia, somehow? Or is it more likely to be a mere desire to frighten you?

[He personally thinks it's number two, but you never know.]
paladinlost: (err)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-26 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you tried telling it that humans cannot die here and that its attempts will be fruitless? That might stop it.

[Or not, if it matches its description in any way.]
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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-30 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
...Being eaten by a Sharpedo over and over with no way of being put out of our misery, or always fearing fishy assassination attempts. Perhaps it's best not to try after all.
paladinlost: (curious)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-08-01 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you not worried it'll eat its way out of the door and into your bedroom while you're gone?
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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-08-03 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...Until you return and find it waiting under your bed.

[Significant chunk or not, he'd bet on the shark instead of whoever they manage to call. Those teeth are nasty.]

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usedlaserbeam: (CRANKY Φ nobody left cake in the rain)

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[personal profile] usedlaserbeam 2013-07-24 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
I have to imagine someone would've noticed a shark climbing the stairs, though.

[CECIL WHY DO YOU DO THIS. THE THOUGHT IS HORRIFYING. It's like Sharknado meets The Shining, jesus christ.]
paladinlost: (thoughtful)

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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-24 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
If it had done so completely by itself, yes. But it might have been helped by a Flying-type or a Pokémon with Levitate.

[Isn't that such a cheerful thought?]
usedlaserbeam: (ADJUST Φ they totally said wakame-yarou)

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[personal profile] usedlaserbeam 2013-07-25 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
I believe the resident Pokemon with Levitate is the man-eating plant, and she generally prefers the outdoors, not the interior of the house.

[NO THAT IS NOT CHEERFUL, THAT IS HORRIFYING.]
paladinlost: (curious)

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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-25 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Could she have been bribed or convinced in any way?

[Man-eating shark. Man-eating plant. It all fits!]
usedlaserbeam: (GENTLEMAN Φ accept no imitations)

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[personal profile] usedlaserbeam 2013-07-25 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
...Now that's a terrifying thought. I suspect it'd be somewhat difficult, though; it seems the only thing she's particularly passionate about is defending the garden.
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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-25 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It might have offered to help her with that task, but that does not sound particularly likely.
usedlaserbeam: (LOUNGE Φ does it look like i'm flirting)

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[personal profile] usedlaserbeam 2013-07-26 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
As best I can tell, the only thing the shark is particularly interested in is being exceedingly proud and insufferable. I imagine the noise she's making at the moment has as much to do with offense at the indignity of being stuck in the door as it does with the physical sensation of actually being stuck.
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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-26 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Would it help if I told her that she still looks powerful and menacing? Perhaps it'll be enough to cheer her up.
usedlaserbeam: (BOOK Φ it won't study itself)

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[personal profile] usedlaserbeam 2013-07-28 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's just gonna...turn the Gear right toward her at that, man.]

You're certainly welcome to try, if you like.

[Go, sarcasm, go.]
paladinlost: (uh)

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[personal profile] paladinlost 2013-07-28 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Oh, great. How does he tell her that in a believable manner?]

You know, all those wooden splinters work wonders for your fearsome aura. The way you managed to break that door is quite impressive.

[He doesn't sound convinced at all.]