[ don’t worry, levi, it’s not like they can’t come back to the beach once they both change back... although that may be a little awkward, since it’ll have to be done in the nude. ]
[ but clearly that’s a future d.va and levi problem. ]
[ she’s still on the colder side, so she needs to find somewhere to warm up, but not only that she needs to make sure the tiny dragon is protected. should anybody try to hurt him, then they’re going to have to get through her first. ]
[ she climbs the pier and spots the quadski, instantly growling at it as she shuffled in a wide arc around it. ]
[ it’s not moving, but clearly it’s poised to attack. ]
[ The quadski... she's nervous. He's pressed against her chest so he can hear not only the rumbling of her low growl revibrating against him but also the slight uptick in her heartbeat. ]
[ To a small dragon, it does kind of look intimidating. Mostly because Miss Meka likes such fast and dangerous things. But this does not fly so it doesn't seem so bad. Before anything crazy happens, maybe he ought to show her that it's safe...? ]
[ He wriggles a bunch in her claws before he manages to make an escape and bounds toward the quadski in an effort to show her that it is safe! ]
[ she tries to keep a hold on him, but he's a squirmy little dragon, so he's able to break free. she figured he was nervous too, and would simply shuffle back behind her and let her take care of this strange thing, but when he breaks off into a run towards it she lets out an inhuman shriek. she chases him, because, ohno!, she doesn't want him to get hurt!!! ]
[ he better figure out how to show her fast! you got this, levi! ]
[ she starts heading down the stairs, but pauses after the first few to look back at the two of them. ] Four, including my bedroom. [ and then she just keeps on going, hitting a button on the way down. ]
[ The staircase itself is styled more like an airlock, with an almost featureless room to wait in while it's cycling. Besides the switch to start the process, the only other feature of the airlock is the wall mural depicting a scene from the bible: the serpent convincing Eve to eat from the tree of life. Except Eve in this case has cool bunnymech armour, which surely doesn't actually mean anything. The apple is movable and does not have to remain in the box. ]
Well. Okay she is. But he doesn't think she's chasing to harm him. PROBABLY??? But when something as big as a horse is chasing after you and you're only the size of a cat that sure does spur you to run even faster!!! ]
[ He makes a flying leap for the seat of the quadski and nearly slides right off the other side. Digging his claws into the fabric, he just manages to catch himself from tumbling over the edge.
Righting himself, he sits back on his hind legs, placing his front claws up onto the bars. ]
...mm. [ in response to king. ] It's meant to be a lot more private than the other rooms I have, which I generally don't mind sharing with other people.
[ and then she looks at intensity out of the corner of her eye, shrugging. ] Don't ask me, I didn't paint it.
[ This room is richly furnished, with dark walls accented in bubblegum and...okay, well actually, the entire room is the same color, but with darker shades to depict murals of flowers and fruit (pomegranates, split figs, branches of olives) entwined with serpents. Interrupting the murals are flickering computer monitors set into the walls, and the useless knobs and switches (okay, some actually just drop robosnakes on you, but details!) that can be found everywhere else in the dorm. Four capsule chairs with attached keyboards (some of the keys are just different snake emoji?) sit in two neat rows, and at the end of the room is one swivel chair. It's cream coloured - unlike the entire rest of the room, oddly - and random areas of the plastic part of the chair are scorched with burn marks.
Windows provide a view out into a black void with countless points of light glistening therein - this seems to be a spaceship. A mantle over a screen depicting a raging fire is hung with actual branches of olives, and the "fireplace" itself somehow fills the room with the gentle haze of spiced smoke. From somewhere beyond the walls you can hear the occasional hissing of a snake.
A monitor centered in the wall opposite the firescreen displays a message:
Welcome, MeKA crew. Contact with anomaly in: ?$@!!!$********* ]
[ there's also a long wrap around couch that she'd purchased sitting in the room just before all of the chairs, which she heads over to immediately and flops onto. ]
[ she kind of chasing him... but also not really. she's more interesting in saving him from DOOM. ]
[ at least that's how she's seeing the situation. that quadski isn't something she recognizes and it looks like it could hurt him and he's just running towards it like he's got a death wish or something. ]
[ as soon as he leaps onto it she manages to pump the breaks ( by some miracle ), skidding to a stop right in front of it and looking at both him and the quad as... nothing happens. did he... tame the mysterious thing??? ]
[ she tilts her head and then sniffs at it. ]
[ wow, he must have, because it's not doing a damn thing. ]
[ she circles the quad again, before making a really pleased sound. damn, levi, that's really impressive! he sure is something else for a smol dragon!!! so he gets an affectionate lick for his troubles. ]
[He is pulled down with the both of them, but becoming increasingly agitated as he sees serpent after serpent after SERPENT motif. And the monitor which clearly is reminiscent of a certain host's very first game.]
So what exactly did you request for your upgrade to get---
[And he makes a gesture with his arm not commandeered by King at the moment]
[ she moves into place across both of their laps, so king can also remain attached to intensity. ]
I was drunk when I made the request, soooo I'm not 100% sure... [ searches for her phone, which is at the beach. whelp. ] ...
But I thiiiink I had described her apartment, since it had been pretty nice. I definitely didn't ask for a spaceship and I wouldn't have thought to ask for... whatever this is.
[Shifts so that she can get comfortable as she can using two bony card game boys as makeshift bed.]
...
Well, when you've fished your phone out of the ocean, I'd like to see that request. To understand how much of this was the producers' artistic license.
I did a lot of stuff that... [ she makes some sort of vague hand gesture. ] time. [ like buy intensity a dragon shaped motorcycle. ]
It's not the dumbest thing I've bought. Like, until I find a cool use for it I think that would have to be the cannon. [ said as casually as anything else. ]
If you send Blue-Eyes to get it, then I could just show you it now. Or... I could just put a picture of her place up on the screen and we can compare.
[ her tail flops uselessly behind her and her tentacles slither around the both of them to secure them all in place. "hug" time. ]
[ she doesn't seem the least bit concerned for reasons she's not going to bother explaining to either of them, so she'll just hum and give a nod. ] Later then. Just let me know when or whatever.
...
If this room bothers you guys, then we can move to another. It's not like I have any shortage of them. Or if it makes you some sort of uncomfortable, then... [ sits up just a little bit, giving them bother a questioning look. ] I know it's weird.
...true. [ said in response to king. that is the most important thing. ]
[ but she's also kind of worried that intensity's going to get all weird again, so she wants to make him some sort of comfortable, but maybe she should just stop worrying. if he'd wanted to leave, then he would have done so already. ]
I like being fussy though. [ jokingly. ]
...you know, I'm hoping the next time I wake up sore, in a pillow pile, with you two, and with virtually no memory it's not because I turned into some dumb monster.
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