Happy Valentines! Your Love Is Toxic!

[iamtheeggman]

Who: EVERYONE
What: CUPIDBOTS
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: VALENTIMES DAY
Warnings: None yet, but will be updated if that changes

Ah, February 14th. A day for loving lovers to love... But at Smash Academy, it meant something else...

At the crack of dawn, they appeared. Tiny robotic cherubs wielding bows and arrows. Those who had been at the academy for some time knew what they were: The Cupidbots. Obnoxious, potentially life-ruining robots with one mission: Fire their arrows at unsuspecting passers-by, causing them to fall in love with the first person they saw for the next 24 hours. They would be gone by the next day, but still for the best to try and avoid them.

WHAT DO?

[[Go ahead and start up your own threads for random happenings, planned ships, or just throw your characters out and see who bites!]]

Comments

YOU'RE MINE - as I almost tag him with Sonic

[hellofriend]

Vivian's patrols were on a fixed schedule when she wasn't catching anyone wandering around without a pass. At the time, Shadow had ushered most everyone into the classroom before going about his own business, so most of her preliminary work had been done for her with him around. Here was when it got tricky, however, as anyone who left the rooms needed her immediate attention. As such, she was moving quick, alert to every flicker of movement and whisper of a sound.

When it was Ishimaru she spotted while rounding the corner, Vivian, for just a moment, forgot about her set regimen for catching the regular offenders. There was just a need to try and be like the humans. She just had to try!

"Hey!" She chirped, an arm in the air giving her partner an over-exaggerated wave. By now she was within the acceptable range of cleanliness for anyone to get close to her without cringing, so there's at least that. "Heyheyhey!"

Sonic goes too fast...

[forgetbeam]

"Vivian! Hello!"

It was good to see her in such a good mood even after pretty much having her entire life turned upside down. But it was the kind of sudden change that Ishimaru knew was for the best, so maybe Vivian had picked up on that as well.

She was clean, too. Thank goodness.

He met her with a salute and a smile, but then it was down to BUSINESS. They were on duty, after all.

"So, how has your patrol been so far today? Is there anything to report?"

Like the little flying mischief makers going around? One of which was now aiming an arrow right at Ishimaru's butt?

[hellofriend]

Vivian had seen them and seemed to have pretty solid luck in just getting free of their arrows. One took a bullet to the brain once she finally noticed, but it had been out of Ishimaru's ear shot, which I'm sure he'd appreciate if he knew.

As his salute came about, Vivian slapped her foot to the floor (bare feet in the halls, shoes left by the door for someone to steal if they dared) in attention and fumbled to get her hand up to her forehead. She almost forgot! A little too late, it would seem, as he spoke to her before she could get it right, so she dropped her arms and laxed her figure. Ishimaru's fat tall figure blocked her from noticing his match-making assailant.

"There are no illegal operations to report." Both her hands folded against the front of her skirt, waves of white swallowing up pale fingers. Aah, she looked so pleased! Ishimaru was one of the only people she got to see frequently. It felt less lonely when he was around.

[forgetbeam]

"Ah, excellent! But remember not to let your guard down, even while things seem peaceful!"

She was certainly getting better at the whole salute thing, even if there was a lot to be desired. There was something satisfying about tracking Vivian's progress and knowing that yes, he'd helped her with this, they were both doing such a wonderful job.

(Twang, went a tiny bow.)

So, if there was nothing to report, that should have been that. It was time to part ways and keep up the hard work!

But that smile... Ishimaru decided he wouldn't mind hanging around and seeing it just a little more. Not that that meant he was going to let them slack off or anything! There had to be something they could accomplish as a pair.

He scratched one of his ears, which were both pinkening considerably.

"...Have you remembered to eat today?"

Keeping his partner fed was pretty important.

Remember that picture I drew that involved a butt

[hellofriend]

Vivian wasn't used to delivering more than the concise report before the two of them proceeded with their day, but if Ishimaru was going to address her, she would speak when spoken to.

Though she looked mildly nervous to answer, which would make her response clear before it was even revealed. "I haven't. I'm sorry!"

Her attention deviated for just a moment as she saw one of those sneaky little trespassers flying away from behind Ishimaru. She leaned around him to try and get a better look at it, and though she shot one out of the sky, this one didn't seem to be doing anything at all that warranted retaliation. ... Was it snickering as it took off?

HOW COULD I FORGET

[forgetbeam]

Of course. Ishimaru had a feeling that would be the case. He'd definitely have to tape a memo to the inside of her door so she could be reminded to have breakfast before even leaving the batcave dorm in the morning.

For now he was just thankful for the opportunity to spend a little more time with her. He let out a quick sigh of self-satisfaction at his quick thinking, not noticing at first exactly what Vivian was doing. "In that case, let us eat lunch together! ...What are you looking at?"

He turned, but... nothing seemed out of the ordinary. HOW MYSTERIOUS.

Good.

[hellofriend]

Vivian took a couple more steps forward to follow the robot and see if it had its pass on hand (Besides staff, no one was exempt from having a hall pass, dangit) but what stopped her was the stick up his ass protruding from her partner's behind. Not much different. That didn't belong there, did it?

Vivian relaxed one hand on his hip and wrapped the free one 'round the arrow before simply yanking it out without warning of her intentions. It lasted all but a few seconds and she wasn't very sorry for it.

This thing... was a funny-lookin' bullet.

[forgetbeam]

The resulting yelping was less than dignified. Ishimaru jerked back, completely unaware of what just happened besides the fact that A) Vivian had touched his general butt area and B) caused him a lot of pain somehow.

"What do you think you're doing?!"

guess who's back, back again (Can drop if you like but HERE YOU GO)

[hellofriend]

Vivian stepped back calmly to reveal the arrow gripped in her tiny little fist, prepared to announce her assistance and be rewarded with praise, however she was promptly cut short but a bolt of pain rattling her own spine. Her reaction was but a flinch before a dance of bullets went spiraling out behind her. Another one of those cupids was down for the count, but with an arrow sticking out of her own butt, the deed was done.

She turned back to Ishimaru and quietly stared at him. ... Then ever so slowly smiled. (That's creepy, Viv.)