h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[Bass stumbles back as he is struck.]

[Bass] You did NOT just do that!


[Vegeta] Wow. He's getting as mad as I do sometimes!


[Bass gestures to Treble, who merges with him to form Magna Bass.]


[Trunks] And Bass goes SSJ.


[Bass] It's showtime!

[He fires a large blast from his arm cannon at Zakkry.]

*A rift in the space/time continuum opens, and a grenade hurtles out of it! The grenade collides with the Althian Bounty Hunter so that he flinches and falls short of attacking Caer. The grenade, meanwhile, ricochets off of the Althian Bounty Hunter's head, falls back into the wormhole, and vanishes. The wormhole itself dissapears without a trace*


It's just easier this way. Thanks for the info, Lil.

*Kudos's Binary Blaster finally runs out of energy, and one of the cribs pounces on him, capturing him with a sound strangely close to a satisfied "gulp".*

(somewhat muffled) Lemme OUTTA here!!! Somebody!! Anybody!!! CorRUPT! Don't leave me here!!!

[Vegeta] [as the grenade appears] Ah, /there/ it went.

FACE-And there it goes again....


*As the one Althian Telekinetic Crib has contained Kudos, it simply sits on the ground, looking very much like the hyper-strong transparent cube that it is. The other five cubes that were surrounding Kudos stop swarming and all return to the Althian Telekinetic Bounty Hunter who is standing up and recovering his bearings. As they shrink to an easily held size, he places them all in his Crib pocket except for one. He eyes the other adventurers, pondering*

*Zakkry rolls to the side, just barely avoiding the blast and wondering if it'll hit Lil*

Zakkry-Sorry pal, but I've had years of dodging experience. It's easy to learn when almost no one in the Galaxy can look at you well enough to aim properly anyway.

*Zakkry fires back as Lil's crib attempts to close the distance between them*

[Bass] Dodge THIS.

[He switches to Dynamo Man's weapon and shoots several small devices into the air. They immediately shoot several Lightning Bolts shoot outward towards the ground in a circle twenty feet across with Zakkry in the center.]

*grips the cleat tightly and tries to merge with the flooring*

In desperation at the situation, Sol's rumaging causes her to fumble whatever she was trying to get out of her pockets and instead a jauntily coloured ball flies up and arcs towards the ground*

Oh NO! Someone catch that before it hits the...

*The end of the sentence is swallowed up by the burst of white noise that issues from the ball as soon as it touches down. If you have particularly insensitive ears, you might notice that the sound appears to be composed of an entire junior school at play. After too much sugar. And a year's quota of e numbers*

*The blast of white noise doesn't seem to harm the Bounty Hunter at all, but Zakkry collapses to the ground in the fetal position, inadvertantly stumbling out of the way of the lightning bolts by just barely falling into on of the few vacant spots. He does seem to be the current home of a good deal of static cling now, however*

Zakkry-*muttering* So many clients....so many clients....they want....they want....fundraisers! A FUNDRAISING ARMY! Thousands of sugar-filled children just waiting to walk door to door with products in exchange for a cheap CD player, lava lamp, or penny bank in the shape of a giant tootsie-roll, with ten-percent of the proceeds going to a trip to Disney Planet! Yes, the children *AND* the Rodentars will be pleased....heh-heh-heh....heh-heh.....

*The Althian Bounty Hunter watches Zakkry for a few moments before realising that the poor guy couldn't stand the thought of such a profitable scheme in one huge gulp. He throws the crib in his twelfth tentacle at Sol, and fires a blast from his primary laser gun at the ball, hoping to destroy it*

Sorry, forgot this one.


*As Lil is simply standing there, the Crib opens only its bottom wall, flies over Lil and begins descending rapidly. It hasn't touched ground yet, but it did block the Bass' laser blast that was about to hit her*

[Bass uses the Timestopper again. Nothing happens.]

[Bass] Aww, dammit, outta energy ...

[He instead zips very fast and dives down towards Zakkry in an attempt to put him in a headlock.]

*Zakkry blinks and opens his eyes. Fast as bad news, he whips out a large poster and leaps at Bass, ensuring that Bass will see the poster, maybe crashing his head through it*

Zakkry-*Still halucinating* Hey, kid! Wanna raise some FUNDS????

[Bass does, indeed, get his face put through the poster. He aims his buster towards Zakkry's face, but then pauses long enough for Vegeta to say:]


[Vegeta] [as Bass] Not really. Wanna see explosions? Like, in your face?


[Bass] ... Nah.

[He pulls away from Zakkry's still hallucinating form and fires a plasma blast at the Althian Bounty Hunter.]

For the last 2 posts, Lil has been lying on the floor, clinging to a cleat along the base of the wall.

*...seemingly not noticing that the Crib that has been descending on her, sliding down the wall as it does so, and that it's practically touching her by now....*

*The Althian Bounty Hunter sees the shot coming and rolls to the side before returning a blast of his own*

*the crib finishes its descent and engulfs Lil*

No! No! I have acute claustrophobia! I can't even handle tunnels!!


*Inside the crib Lil dissociates and begins to scream*

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

etc.



I may not get a chance to post again till Monday -- got a house guest.

*Zakkry shakes his head and stands up. He still seems distracted by the noise that may still be issuing (depending on whether or not it's decide that the laser destroys it....goodness, light travels at selective speeds in these forums....mainly my fault, of course, but still....), but has apparently regained his grip with reality. He takes a look around and notices Kudos and Lil*

Zakkry-Two down! Great work, ABH!

*Meanwhile, Dr. Harvey and the Arithmancer decide to finally interact again, and sneak up on Zakkry*

Harvey-Er, Zakkry....The Arithmancer, Greklas and myself are kinda....you know....honor bound to protect these guys, so....you're not actually going to do anything to 'em, are ya?

*Zakkry turns to Harvey *

Zakkry-That really depends, I suppose. Stephanie might've gotten their identities wrong. Those two robots might've gotten away scott free, she seemed to recall their design or something, but seeing as they've been fairly active in the fight they may have a decent amount of pain coming their way.

*Dr. Harvey and The Arithmancer fall silent, neither really sure of how to proceed at the moment. Harvey sighs and turns his battle suit on as the Arithmancer pulls out his leather-bound grimoiriffic text book*

[Bass simply shrugs off the shot.]

[Bass] Was that the best you can do?


[Trunks] Wow. He really /did/ go SSJ!

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