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Time to watch Star Wars

Who:

notsosolo and OPEN
When: During the event
Where: Supermarket/Street/Apartment
What: Experiencing Star Wars like you've never experienced it before
Rating/Warning: (None, NSFW etc)

A: Apartment

Preparing sausages for all the kids should be a fairly simple task. Especially since he's been cooking for this crowd for quite some time now. But of course, that would require that standing over the stove, hand on the skillet not send him off into memories for some mysterious reason. And thus the most obvious thing may be a distinct burning smell.

B: Out and About

There's not much to be done about the little spirit fox. Han's been around the spirit block enough times to realize that it's probably something to do with such things. And is also exactly Force blind enough to not be able to do anything about it.

But as an official Responsible Adult, there are errands that can't wait. There are children back at home, and the children have got to be fed. So he's just going to have to risk the fox running into someone.

Which of course is going to happen and cause random passers by to experience Star Wars like they've never experienced it before.

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[Yamato is flopped on the couch with Gabumon, trying to focus on his homework and not on the sad little goat-spirit he can see out of the corner of his eye. It gets a lot more difficult when there's suddenly... a burning smell coming from the direction of the stove?

He jumps to his feet.] H-Han! What are you doing?

[Don't mind him, he'll just be barging in none too politely to turn off the stove and try to rescue the sausages.]

[It takes a moment for him to shake himself out of the moment. The Death Star, of all things.]

I...

[What is he doing?]

Something came over me.

[And then he spots that the stove is off]

Quick thinking

[Ah, what a wonderful feeling to go straight back home after a long day of school! How he can't wait to sit back on the couch and go watch some TV before getting ready for dinner! However, before he could do all of that?

The moment he walked home? That's when he notice something burning! Looking around, he quickly looked at Han!]

Han-san! Are you okay?!

[He shouted all the while attempting to shove him away from said burning sausages]

[Shoving is not terribly effective for moving a grown man. BUt at least it shakes him into awareness. He lifts the frying pan up though they are apparently going to be ordering takeout]

I'm not sure what just happened.

[As soon as Han started to speak up, Takeru only gave a sigh of relief! For a moment, he really thought he was going to get hurt!]

I'm not sure either but you're okay, aren't you? You're not hurt right?

[He shakes his head, setting the pan down on an inactive element and shutting the stove off]

Not hurt. I just got lost for a second there.

[More than a second, Han]

Lost? What do you mean?

[How does one even get 'lost' when they're in the middle of cooking?]

When it got warm, I suddenly started remembering the day the twins were born and forgot where I was.

[Why? That isn't clear. But it was a powerful effect]

Well, that is still a good memory to have but that's really weird. I wonder why that happened!

[Although, it still sucked that their dinner was kind of ruined. Which was why he looked down at the pan and mumbled a little]

It's not normal, that's for sure.

[He remembers that moment often, but it's not usually all consuming.]

What do you think that could mean?

It doesn't mean that you're sick are you? [Granted, he felt like he was missing something but he just didn't know what yet.]

It might be... the way this place gets in our head sometimes. That would explain why it's so strong.

[Not sick, exactly, but he was going to have to deal with this]

Maybe but I think you should still sit down somewhere! Especially when you were just cooking!

[he said before gesturing him to the sofa nearby.]

Duo's own fox isn't something he has any control over, though he does nervously watch it follow him as he heads to the grocery store himself. His run in with death days earlier had meant that his chilled body hadn't really.. well.. felt like keeping up with the grocery shopping for himself and Heero, and finally the day came where they were literally eating noodles with butter for their meals. And it was only then that h decided that they couldn't wait anymore and had to go ahead and get the shopping done, which means braving the super market and...

Well probably giving a few people either some epic views of space or a severe case of depression depending on what they saw.

So hi, Han, there's that long haired kid who chatted with you about aliens not that long ago grabbing at fruits and veggies as fast as he can, trying to escape the store as fast as possible.

Han ends up with a lot of produce as well. There are a lot of growing children in his apartment, after all. Someone has to keep them fed.

He does recognize the braided kid. His story had stuck out. "You managing okay?"

The real question is whose visible only to the 'owner' fox will collide with someone first.

Duo's seems content weaving in the feet of other super market denizens, right then, and has Duo watching him rather anxiously from time to time. He had a lot going on with past memories and stuff - no one can blame him for not wanting to share all of that mess with the whole world, right? Though, if Han and his fox collide he might also get a pretty sweet view of his Gundam which might be pretty cool..

Especially now that his Gundam is Barbie sized. But anyway -

"I'm alive again so that's always a plus - " Ah, yes, there's that complication. "- But yeah, I'm managin' alright. This having a grocery store full of fresh stuff means I'm stuffed all the time though."

"A lot of people don't realize what an adjustment that really is." It's a life it takes time to understand.

Around the time Han's being treated to that view of a GUndam, the fox wanders over to Duo imparting Han's return to the assault on the first Death Star. And the subsequent destruction of that massive station once Luke was all clear.

"I could go without having ever figured it out, to be honest? I mean it ain't like I've never had a few close scrape with death or anything like that, it was kinda par for the course, but - " A small pause, he thinks about how he wants to word this. But there's really no other explanation for it than the one that rolls right off of his tongue next, though Han may not really understand the connection without knowing his partner-in-crime as well as he does.. "- Unless you're Heero Yuy you don't just walk away from a massive explosion like nothin' ever happened a few weeks later.."

Though - god damn, that explosion of that ship - Duo looks stunned for a moment, then remembers what that colony looked like as it blew up and fell from the sky and back to Earth -

"Wow. Explosions are the same across all universes, aren't they?"

"Anywhere the laws of physics are vaguely the same. Usually they mean a bacta dunk if you're too close." The explosion thing was pretty clear. But there were definitely some things that are very different. "Those things you fight with are pretty unique though." He's not even quite sure what to call them. Too big to be droids.

"Bacta dunk?" Well, thankfully Han hadn't seen anything too damn depressing. He'd hate for anyone else to see something that may cause anything like a pity party for him and that weird lost childhood thing. There had ben times where he had almost forgotten that he hadn't really grown up the same to anyone until they mentioned simple things like only using playgrounds for well.. playing... when he remembered using them for shelter and places to sleep when he had to sleep rough, those kinds of things. There was no grudge held there, just.. a quiet reverence for how different things could've been.

"They're called Gundams. You might've seen a uh... much smaller version of mine in my video chats... Small, black and grey.. has wings like a bat.."

"It's a sort of medicine. It can heal a lot of injuries if you get people into it quickly enough. It's saved a lot of our pilots in a bad state." Mostly Hobbie. Well, not just Hobbie, but he was a disproportionate portion of their usage.

"Oh... they almost look like droids, but that big?" Hard to get his head around that. Oddly enough, Duo's childhood would have only reminded him of his own.

"... That.. actually sounds pretty damn handy." How many times could they have used something to heal a lot of injuries quickly? A couple hundred? He's distinctly reminded of that time where Heero self-destructed, even though he really hates thinking about it at the moment. It could've saved his skin a couple of times, too, but then again it probably would've made them a few hundred times more deadly too.

"Yeah, they're like skyscraper big."

[Oh, don't mind this girl just happily wandering down the street, passing you by without so much as a care in the world. She's got a staff and carries herself with a little bit of a slouch, and...she's basically stopped in place. Because guess what she's just walked into?

If you guessed a TRAP you'd be wrong. Sorry Ackbar, but it's actually a ghost-fox...]

Edited 2016-06-17 02:09 (UTC)

[A ghost fox who suddenly imparts some memories of somewhere very cold. Where the hallways themselves are still half made of ice because too much activity being likely to attract attention.

But the most memorable part of this memory has to be the words "Stuck up half witted scruffy looking nerf herder". Alderaanian culture prizes poetry, and Leia certainly does know how to turn a phrase.]

Watch it, fox.

[The fox doesn't listen. The fox never listens.]

[Yuna stops. Just. Stops. She turns towards Han, and blinks.]

N-Nerf herder?!

[She's shivering because it was cold there, okay? Not because she's extremely confused.]

I don't even know what a nerf is.

Leia calls me that sometimes...

[Though suddenly he can't remember why she calls him that]

They're herd animals on a lot of planets in my galaxy.

...Was that the woman I saw?

[You have officially baffled the person from the technophobic world. But she thinks she has a handle on this.]

And...are you good at your job?

[He's figured out by now that the fox is sharing memories with people. Important memories. And a lot of those do involve Leia.]

My wife. I never actually herded nerfs... she just calls me that.

Oh.

[Well, then she just sounds more confused. Why...call him that unless...]

When she's angry, right?

Most of our nicknames became sincere somewhere along the line.

[That's just how their relationship works]

Ah…well, that’s good then. Sorry for…ah…intruding on your memory.

[And she’s not really paying much attention to her goat, which seems to be heading towards his foot. If he moves, he’ll miss it, but does he…?]

That seems to be going around right now.

[Such as right now, when the goat crosses his path unseen.]

[The memory that Han gets is decidedly less pleasant...and the emotions coming with it are resignation and fear. Along with the phrase I will defeat you, Sin....]

[Hikari recognized that smell. She also recognized that nobody was screaming...yet...and so there was still time before panic need set in.]

[So, instead, she pointed towards the stove.]

I think your sausages are burning, Han-san.

[Han shakes his head, as if suddenly noticing this to be the situation.]

When did that...

[He lifts the pan up. How long has he been standing here?]

About the time the smoke started getting really big. I think.

[He did ask.]

Maybe you should let Yamato-san help. He's really good at cooking. He would cook for all of us back in the Digital World.

I'm not sure what came over me there.

[Something definitely had there]

That's a good idea... with someone else making sure the same thing doesn't happen.

Are you sick?

I know I get that look on my face sometimes when I'm feeling sick.

[Which she definitely wasn't this time. But maybe Han was?]

[Han's not the sort of person who admits something like that easily. And he's not sure that's what's going on anyway]

Not sick. Suddenly I was remembering my wedding, but I'm not sure why. We didn't eat sausages for that.

[Her face brightened. She'd been worried at first, thinking that he'd been remembering something that upset him. But this seemed to be the opposite.]

Maybe you like the smell. And it made you happy. So you thought of something that makes you happy.

I know if I ever got married, it would always make me happy to think about it.

[Of course, she was only eight, so dreams of a fairy tale wedding were still in the distant future for her.]

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Time to watch Star Wars

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B because Duo needs his mind blown

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B. Give me something good.

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