IC: Clan House

[charli]

~Sara~

"Th-thank you," Sara blushed. Was every guy here going to hit on her? Frowning slightly, she gripped the warmer Dan had made her and briefly toyed with the idea of sticking it in her shoe. "Hey, wait a minute," she glared at the wombat. "I know that evil laugh from my brother. Did you take my socks?"

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

The wombat suddenly leaped to Dylan's head, standing there with his arms crossed. "Yes. Yes I did. Because I'm an evil wombat with a sock collection." He nodded in approval of himself as Dylan rolled his eyes, clapping his hands together and opening them again, revealing a brand new fuzzy pink slipper in each hand. He handed them over to Sara and huffed. "Don't mind him. He's just evil. Sorry if I made you uncomfortable with the whole pretty compliment by the way. I just kinda...say what I think a lot. And I happen to think you look beautiful to...day? Or is it night...I don't even remember."

[charli]

-Eric-

Sara accepted the slippers from the guy, saying, "Oh, well, that's okay. Thank you for the compliment. I'm not entirely sure what time of day it is either."

"Wait a minute," Eric said, coming over to insert himself in the conversation. "His wombat just stole your socks, and you're okay with that because he conjured up slippers for you?"

"Don't start more shit, Eric," Sara growled, looking extremely not intimidating with her hair clipped back with that silver barrette like it was. Actually, she looked like she had been coming home from a sport when she was zapped here. Very Kung-Fu Barbie. "I will not let you be incinerated on the first day."

"Good to know you care, babe," Eric smiled wryly before turning back to that Dylan kid. "You're part of this online club, too? Is this game like friends vs. strangers?"

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

"Well, you're one to skip right to the chase aren't you? So impolite though." Dylan remarked before grabbing the wombat and taking him off of his head, sitting him down on the floor. "Did you know...Eric was it? That...as to temper, the Jubjub's a desperate bird, since it lives in perpetual passion. Its taste in costume is entirely absurd, it is ages ahead of the fashion."

At the finish of his rhyming statement, a large, colorful bird appeared, sitting calmly on top of Eric's head. The wombat chuckled at Dylan's action while he turned back to Sara. "So. Huh...didn't expect to meet you guys here..." His voice trailed off as he pondered the situation for a second then tilted his head to get a better look at Sara.

He reached slowly into his sleeve, pulling it back out, along with a large, white, porcelain mug full to the brim with steaming hot chocolate. He handed it to her, smiling. "You look cold. The least I could do is help you warm up a bit. I can assure you it tastes magical." He couldn't help but crack up a bit at the obviously bad pun.

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan

Evan eyed Dylan, his wombat, and now his new bird with interest.

"He must have magical powers of some kind. I wonder if Nav-E would be interested in him. He doesn't really like social intereaction that much, so I doubt it. Knowing him, he'd rather be at home or in Midtown Madness somewhere. I wonder if the DeLoreans could even find their way to this time period. They know the year, but not the place. We could be on a distant planet or even in another galaxy or universe for that matter."

[charli]

~Sara~

She accepted the hot-chocolate gratefully. Chocolate was chocolate. "But, wait a minute, Dylan. What about Kat?" Sara hated being in fights with her friends even more than she hated seeing them fight each other.

Eric latched on to that simple statement, and after swiping the strange bird off of his head, laid his hand over Sara's, keeping her from raising the mug to her lips, as he rounded on Dylan again. "What's with the parlor tricks if you already have a girl, man?"

[Yetisarge]

"Wow.. the two of us are the only ones who aren't hitting on you Sara." Aj chuckled to himself and to Sara. "Well have fun being the popular one Aj said slightly annoyed as he headed off to where he figured where the meeting room was.

"Hmm he does seem to have a point, guess there is no place in the world anymore for gentlemen." Zerb said following him.

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

"Oh really, I never said one thing that even so much as hinted that I'm hitting on Sara." Dylan said, looking up at Eric for a second before looking down at the wombat. "Would you do the honors friend?" He asked the furry little rodent which quickly got to it's feet and pointed it's hands towards Eric, wiggling it's fingers before a plate of Jello suddenly fell from the sky onto his head.

The bird then quickly jumped back onto his head, pecking at the boy for swiping him off. The wombat sat back down as Dylan looked over to Sara. "So yeah. I do love my Kat...she's a great girl. Need anything else Sara?"

[charli]

-Eric-

Eric stopped dead, every muscle in his body tensing as the bird pecked at his head and his pendant healed the cuts as quickly as they were formed. "When you're feeling mad, count to ten," a memory of a kindergarten teacher reminded him. Alright. One... Two... Three... Fou- "Fuck you, rat!" Eric yelled, throwing the bird at the wombat. He was wet and cold from the jello. He was in pain from the bird. He was fucking pissed that Sara wouldn't give him the time of day. He was-

He was stopped by a cold hand on his arm. "Stop it, Eric," Sara said sternly. But her face wasn't angry or frustrated with him or reproachful. It was pleading, her eyes were searching his for God knows what. "Please, I hate it when people fight," she said. "Stop losing your temper." She turned to Dylan and gestured to the four robots still monitoring the room. "Stop provoking him, man. Rules say we're not allowed to fight, and things already got ugly today."

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

"Of course." Dylan said simply as he leaned back. "Really though, do you need anything else Sara? If I don't have it on hand it would be simple enough to make." The bird had disappeared without so much as a finger raised from anyone before it even hit the wombat. T

he wombat however was now feeling evil. "Chill out Eric." The rodent said as he snapped his fingers, a bubble of zero gravity forming around Eric before he sat back much like Dylan was and just relaxed.

[Nekoman]

Zach stood, clamping his book shut.
"It's really hard to learn about poisonous species of lizards when you guys keep ARGUING!" In one swift movement, he skidded up behind Eric, placing his hand on his shoulder.
"Look, if you want to be an idiot, fine. We'll send you home early. But really, I would prefer you get booted in the real competition, not from a stupid fight. Especially when it's over something as stupid as inter-competitor romance." a controlling overtone in his voice.

[charli]

~Sara~

"You've gotta be kidding me," Eric laughed, his face calm again.

Sara suddenly decided that she didn't like it when he was calm like that in a situation like this. It meant that he was bottling everything up and would explode soon. But what harm could he do when he was stuck in a bubble like that? "Thanks for the offer, Dylan," Sara said, shooting another concerned glance at Eric, "but I think I'm good."

Frowning, she checked her watch and asked again, "Hey, are we sure that this is the meeting room?" She just had this nagging feeling that they weren't in the right place...

[Nekoman]

-Zach-

"Had anyone been paying attention, as opposed to pointless arguments, you'd know the answer to that. I have to say though, If they have waited this long, why not drag it out a bit? The whole thought of jumping into this is kind of.. unappealing." Zach took his hand off of Eric's shoulder, and instead extended it in a handshake.
"Zach Phillips. You?"

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

"Well I don't know myself. Never got a schematic of the place. Think we should stay put or go looking around?" Dylan asked as the wombat got up and paced randomly. He had no reason for pacing, he was just pacing in an overly dramatic way. Then he randomly pulled out a wedge of cheese from his pocket and munched at it while he paced. Odd...

[charli]

~Sara~

"Zach, I'm Sara," she said, taking his hand. "Oh, hey, we've been noticing a trend in the competitors here. Do you by any chance know of the website RowdyRuff Clan?" She then turned to Dylan. "Well, I'm getting bored here. I'll go wandering if people'll come with me."

[Nekoman]

-Zach-

"Yeah, but it ain't worth mentioning, you'd call me a nerd.." Zach flipped open his book and mashed the screen with his fingers a few times, then adjusted his glasses as he started reading.
"There's a blueprint right here, and according to it, meeting/ briefing room is.. two rights down this hall, and then.. upstairs." He held the book out for the others to see.

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

"Well I'll come with you Sara. No sense for me to stay around here anymore anyway. You're right too. It is getting boring." Dylan replied, the wombat stopping his random, erratic pace of pacing and suddenly raising his cheese triumphantly in the air...put it back into his pocket and jumped up into Dylan's backpack. "I'll come too. It's boring around here. I third that statement. Mmm...Prada..."

[charli]

~Sara~

Sara cocked an eyebrow at Zach and grinned. "Call you a nerd? More like call you a friend. Half of us here know each other through Clan. I'm Charli. Dylan's Ups. Yeti and Angel left already, but Helz and Rin are around here somewhere." Overjoyed to be surrounded by friends, Sara couldn't help but suddenly pirouette on the spot. "Come on!" she smiled, taking Dylan and Zach by their wrists. "Let's go find the meeting room!"

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan and Nav-E


Evan watched Sara drag Dylan and the one called Zach up the stairs towards the meeting room.

"Oh sure, forget about me, why don’tcha!"

Evan rolled his eyes and laughed to himself before walking down the hall to Nav-E's room. His brother's door was open and Nav-E was singing and dancing along to the Numa Numa video featuring Gary Brolsma on YouTube with his pair of silver-colored earphones.

"Enjoying yourself, Nav-E?" Evan asked with a smirk.

Nav-E immediately let out a yell and fell over backwards in his black rocker chair in surprise, his laptop hitting the carpeted floor with a thud.

"Dude, what the hell?! You nearly gave me a freakin' heart attack!"

Evan grinned and crossed his arms. "That was the whole point."

Nav-E glared and picked himself off the floor. "What do you want?"

"Everyone's starting to head towards the meeting room so we can find out what we're all doing here and what we need to do next. I thought I would take it upon myself to inform you before you went off and did something stupid."

"Whoa, whoa, you really think I would go off and do something stupid just as soon as we got here?"

"Yeeeesss."

Nav-E grinned. "You know me too well, bro."

Evan grinned back. "That I do. So, are you coming?"

Nav-E shrugged. “Eh, why not? I don’t really have anything better to do at the moment and besides, there might be some girls that I can come across in the meeting room.” =) He then walked out of his room and proceeded down the hall to the stairs with Evan right behind him.

Evan sighed. “Why is it that at any type of social gathering we attend you feel the need to try to hit on girls?”

“Hey, what can I say? I just have a certain trait that women find irresistible.”

“You mean your lack of social interaction?” laughed Evan as he started to climb the stairs first.

Nav-E glared at his twin. “Ha ha, very funny.”

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

Dylan was quickly dragged along by Sara, the boy's book providing them their map. "Well. Wombat, wanna give us a better display? I'd do it but one of my hands is full." The wombat quickly hopped to Dylan's shoulder, tapping the face of the watch on his left wrist twice, a holographic display popping up.

He began typing like a madman...er...wombat, until at last he finished transferring the files and tapped the side of the amulet around Dylan's neck, a large holographic schematic, indicating their position with a green dot and their destination with a red X floating in front of them as the walked.

"Thanks." Dylan commented to the wombat's flawless efforts. But the wombat, in all his evilness, hopped not only back to Dylan's left shoulder, but down to his right arm, easily balancing as he moved Sara's hand into Dylan's before jumping back into his backpack.

[tomaszavenger]

Clan House Bot

"The meeting is about to commence, prepare for teleportation to the meeting room if you are not there already!" the announcer sang.

The little robots quickly scattered their beams around the place, attempting to locate and then relocate any person they could find.

Sweeping throughout the sector, everybody had soon entered the meeting room.

"If anybody has any questions before the first meeting officially begins, now is the time to ask" said the holographic apparition of a human, although it really was a robot.

[TrickyLA]

Leyla and Lilly

Leyla looked around the meeting room, noticing most of the people she had seen before were there. She also saw a few she didn't recognize, but she figured she just hadn't met them again. Glaring at the hologram, Leyla decided that if nobody else would voice the question then she would.

"What the hell are we doing here? Some signed up, but I didn't exactly sign up. Actually, why is it that I keep meeting people from Clan Rowdyruff here!? Is this some weird CRR vs everyone else competition? Seriously, I'd like to know why US?"

Looking around, she noticed a few people with the same confused expression as her, looked like she asked a good question for starters. Still, she couldn't help but wonder why they were REALLY here. Competition, sure, but what else. Maybe they were all supposed to meet or something. But in the future? It made no sense to her.

Lilly smirked, placing a hand on her shoulder. Seemed she had located her pretty well in all the chaos.

"Miss me, little miss worry wart?"

Leyla rolled her eyes, a hint of a scowl on her face.

"Whatever Lilly, we need answers, I'm trying to get them."

[tomaszavenger]

Clan House Bot

"Good question... the randomization protocol for contestant selection may have experienced a glitch. We were supposed to have random contestants, although a large cluster of you are from Clan Rowdyruff. We apologize for that, but for those who didn't sign up, it was something we did to bring more contestants for our show" the hologram said.

"Any more questions?" he asked, his head moving around to look for people.

[Yetisarge]

"Yeah I got a question. How bad of a glitch did your program experience because it seems like a fair amount of the guys here are trying to hit on one girl in particular. So does your fan base enjoy such things I take it then hmm?" AJ asked the bot figuring that once he was voted off he could just go since as the nonpopular one no one wanted him around for very long.

Zerb just chuckled softly to himself and just looked around figuring he might not last past the first few arounds, nor would Aaron even though they might be useful later he doubted they would stay since popularity usually won these things regardless of how you can help the teams. But since this was free for all they would be gone fast when it came time to vote.

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan and Nav-E


Evan was intrigued by the news from the Clan House Bot.

"So, we were all brought here by some random chance. Interesting. It might be fun to compete against one another." Evan then addressed the Bot with a question. "What kinds of competition will we be doing? Dancing, singing, endurance, video games?"

Obviously, Nav-E was less than thrilled to be along for this ride, especially wiht his brother, but when Evan asked about a video game competition, he became excited.

"Alright! If this is going to be a video game competition, I'm all for it. Although, it will depend on what genre. Hmm, racing, first-person-shooter, racing, first-person-shooter..."

Nav-E was about to suggest that maybe they should do a DDR competition instead, when AJ's comment made him snicker.

"The guy does propose an interesting question. Maybe she's giving off one of those vibes that we guys find irresistible."

Nav-E continued to snicker until Evan smacked him upside his head.

"Ow! What the hell?"

"That was for being a dumbass. Now, apologize to her and next time, keep your comments to yourself."

Nav-E then glared at his brother before mumbling a 'sorry' to Sara.

[tomaszavenger]

Clan House Bot

"That will be quite interesting indeed... but that was not intended by us. I don't think it's really a problem do you?" the hologram said.

"That one girl must be attractive or something... I can't tell... I'm only a robot, but I can always calculate based on Attractiveness-Index if you want, but everyone knows that's not exactly a perfect measure!" the robot said.

"Any more questions?" he asked rather impatiently.

The camera robots hovered around, seemingly enjoying themselves.

Tom and Boot

"Yeah... I have a question..." Tom said, picking himself up. His surrounding armor looked quite menacing when he had the helmet on.

"What is the prize for winning this competition?" he asked. There had to be some initiative for surviving this ordeal. Well it was an ordeal before... now he had a reason for being here, a secret one.

He took a glance in the distance of the room before continuing.

"Surely you don't expect us to want to win for those who didn't enter, we'd want our freedom. The sooner evicted... the better." Tom said.

"Actually... the prize for the person will be a mansion in the richer sector of the metropolis of Napoleonita. And those taken from the past... I'm afraid you cannot return. Time travelling guideline laws" the bot said.

"GREAT!" Tom said with disappointment. He sat down onto the bench he was on with a thud.

"Why would you want to return. The future is a much better place according to my calculations." Boot said.

"Shut up tin can..." Tom said in anger at the robot.

"Somebody disconnected a transistor today!" Boot said, wondering why Tom was so angry.

[charli]

Sara was still slightly disoriented from the teleportation, but on the bright side, the transport had pulled her hand out of Dylan's. AJ's question about the guys caught her attention, but any embarrassment she would have felt was overruled by annoyance at Nav-E's comment. She accepted his apology, though, and then rounded on the robot briefing them. "What do you mean we can't go back? They didn't tell me that when I signed up for this. I had a good life back home!"

"And what am I supposed to do?" Eric demanded. "It's not like anyone back home knows what happened to me!"

[TheTimeSweeper]

Evan and Nav-E


“So, we can’t go back to the past, huh? Bah, that’s not so bad. We can go back there anytime with the DeLorean’s help,” said Nav-E.

“If the DeLoreans cannot get to this time period or find out where we are, then it won’t matter anyway,” replied Evan.

“Oh, right…damn.”

“Besides, I’ve always wondered what the future would be like.”

“We’ve been to the future before, stupid.”

“Yeah, but not this far.”

“That’s true. We’ve only been as far as 2015. The year that San Francisco invaded London. What an epic battle that was.”

Evan shut his eyes and sighed. “Please don’t remind me of that. We nearly got ourselves killed trying to help the Aston Martin reclaim her city. However, we did manage to set things right and return to the past, so it wasn’t so bad.”

“True, true.”

[upsilon]

-Dylan and THE WOMBAT-

Dylan was glad to be free of Sara's hand as well in the teleportation. He shook his head slightly but he wasn't too disoriented by it really. He laughed hysterically at the robot's comment of them not being able to return to the past, but more so it was due to everyone's adverse reactions to the fact. "You guys want to go back? Hahaha. You guys are a riot. You might've had good lives in the past but the future is great."

The wombat suddenly shot out of the backpack again, motioning like a hand model to the boy's Rolex and the Prada backpack he had on, then the amulet around his neck. "You see, Dylan here is rich and everything. But in any sense, the future is way better than your time, especially from what the kid told me." He spoke aloud to everyone before hopping back in the backpack, poking just his head out to listen closer to the conversation.

[TheTimeSweeper]

Nav-E


Nav-E eyed the wombat with distaste.

"Weird-looking furry marsupial… And you’re saying that he’s rich? Eh, I’m not impressed. I could have anything I could ever want anyway.”

“Except a girlfriend,” Evan snickered.

Nav-E shot a glare at his twin.

“Shut up.”