[The feed is cutting in an out. The image quality is very poor with static lines everywhere. There is an image of a cat-like robot yelling.]

"Decepticons...FOREVER!!"

[Image cuts out with a few seconds of static. Then you see what looks like Rattrap, only he's blue, silver, and maroon like this. He's speaking to someone else much bigger than him.]

"Oh man! That ship wasn't built; it was poured!"

[The feed is fading. There is sounds of guns being fired and explosions. Finally there is nothing but a black screen followed by just a voice.]

"That, bowser boy, is called the Ark."

((References are from the Beast Wars season 2 finale, "The Agenda".))

[Shia is walking through strangely-constructed hallways that those who've been there would recognize as belonging to Mewtwo's New Island laboratory. She's dressed in one of the dresses Lussuria gave her, because she apparently lives her life to do everything in incredibly impractical outfits. Well, she IS from a shoujo, after all.

She seems to be searching for something-- or following something invisible. A sound, or possibly even a presence. She follows her invisible thread until she reaches a doorway that looks out and into the main room-- there are people there? Unfamiliar young people.

Mewtwo is speaking, and Shia steps into the room, hiding behind something to watch. As though he can't see right through and find her mind-- it would be nearly as familiar to him as his own. But he seems too caught up in what he's doing.

"What he's doing," by the way, appears to be grabbing one of the trainers, a boy, and lifting him into the air. If one watching this didn't know better, it would almost seem like he was smirking up at the boy, who is now in pain by some unseen force. Shia just watches, shocked.

But she breaks out of it just as Mewtwo releases his hold on the boy and slings him carelessly aside into a pool; she runs, dashing out where she will be seen, and she calls to him.]

Mewtwo-sensei, stop!

[Everything hangs still, frozen, everyone in shock at the petite creature daring to tell such a cold and horrifyingly powerful thing to stop; the boy can be heard resurfacing, his voice angry, but he quiets when he notices that something's happened.

The video cuts off.]




((Some foreshadowing for Strikes Back! ... my disclaimer is that it might not happen just like this and also I have permission from Mewtwo-mun to do this :|b

... also, I just realized that this is the first time it's been revealed to the community at large that her sensei is Mewtwo, so, uh, feel free to wtf at that.))

The setting is a modest school auditorium. The audience is already in their seats and the lights have been dimmed. It seems the play already started some time ago.

Ulrich is on stage in Shakespearean costume. A teenaged girl is standing on a balcony set piece a couple feet above him, also in a sort of Medieval dress. Apparently, they're performing a simplified version of Romeo and Juliet, as the leads respectively.

Ulrich is tripping over his lines, and his acting leaves a lot to be desired. The audience can't hear it, but from stage right, hidden behind a stage prop bush, Yumi is feeding him his lines. A "Guard" enters and Romeo!Ulrich takes cover behind the same prop bush. The audience laughs although it's hard to tell if they're laughing at the guard, Ulrich's poor acting, or both.

Suddenly, something apparently goes wrong backstage and the bush prop is pulled up off stage by a rope, as if part of an accidental early scene change. Either way, the end result is both Ulrich and Yumi are exposed on-stage, looking embarassed to say the least.

The audience roars with laughter even more. The girl playing Juliet looks and sounds outraged that the audience is laughing at a great tragedy, but the audience ignores her, filling the room with raucous laughter.

_{[OOC: Video Reference Here for the visual/audio lulz. The fun starts at around 1:48. Enjoy! XD ]}

I think I'm in the mood for another one of those anonymous things, Triple-D. Post your confessions, post your friends' confessions that they're too pussy to post themselves, post your names and then pretend someone else did it to save face... I think you know how it works by now.

And hey, you guys like me better than that Gossip Girl chick, right? She might have more class but I think I'm more approachable. Friendly. You know?

[There you see a closed door in the hallway. If you can recognize the voice, then you know who it is.]

'Aww, Hell no!-How did we ran ouuuut! Hm... And I couldn't say no to those hm, what do they call-- Burritos. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAN-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! ANYONE! It's an emergency! I'll be suck here for the rest of my life!

I need toilet paper!

...Damnit.'

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Oh my! Hello everyone! Has it really been two weeks since I last came here? I've just been so busy with preparing for the wedding and working on new designs. I've missed everyone terribly though! How have you all been? I do hope everyone is well! I also hope everyone who was invited to the wedding received their invitation without problems. Please feel free to send an RSVP either by sending back one with the bird or by replying here!

And I'd like to say hello to anyone new who may have joined during my absence! My name is Giselle and it is very nice to meet you! I do love making new friends here!

In this day and age, it seems that even competence in people is a fleeting cause. When I say "research any known instance of alternative energy resources used in the past fifty years", I get a blank look as if I've told them to electrocute himself - at least they would have been slightly useful.

Like always, it seems that I have to do everything myself. Describe your energy resources on your world: what are they? How do you use them? Are you satisfied with those resources?

( cut to tseng, reno and dark )

[ooc; i know cnd is on hiatus ~ it was okay with her.]

Well, my first virus with this community was certainly wrenching enough. I'd like to hope that the ones after this will be a bit more cheerful?

I have an appointment with the Ministry tomorrow morning. It seems Fudge has decided that underage wizards are not allowed to use magic even if they're threatened with a face worse than death.

Or, rather, that underage wizards who he thinks are a threat should simply lie down and let themselves be killed if the alternative is breaking a minor rule.

Normal procedure is that the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement questions anyone underage. Something tells me Fudge is going to break out the full trial court, as if he'd committed a murder instead of defending himself. I imagine he'll pull a few tricks, if he thinks he can.

((Keeping Dumbledore up to date with canon, though according to the Lexicon, I'm four days off. >.> Let's pretend I'm totally keeping things accurate.))