Scribbly Writings

"It's about time I tided this 'ld place", remarks Jet looking around the projector room.  

It's clear this room is long overdue a spring clean with dust piling up on the high shelves and unused canisters discarded in the floor.  His son must have been up here at some point as there is discarded hamburger wrappers in the table.

Jet signs to himself, "coulda sworn I taught dat boy some manners" Jet cracks his fingers and begins to tidy up starting at reel shelf, this room isn't going to clean itself after all.

"Now how did da?" Jet remarks as he finds a cardboard box stashed on the shelf.  He should know everything in the cinema, it is his cinema, and his home after all.   He takes the box off the shelf and sets it on a free space on the table and blows the dust off it.  He grabs the brown tape and rips it off in one clean movement and bundles it into a ball.  Opening the box reveals a very loved and battered notebook and three reels in canisters.  Jet takes out the notebook and flicks the pages.  Everything is handwritten and the handwriting looks very familiar

"...Blue?  Since when da ya start leavin' ya reels here?" Jet mutters to himself, "lazy bum-" he grumbles before pausing mid-word as he notices a second set of handwriting on the notes " J-J-Junko!" he exclaims. He flicks through the notes some more and sure enough it is his late wife's handwriting alongside Blue's.

The old geezer must have been planning a shoot with her.  His notes are all about camera moment and her's about dialogue changes and actor positions.  Jet realises something and drops the notebook.  He scrambles to the canisters, if he's lucky one of them might have her on film, well that's assuming they survived all these years.  Blue was never one for keeping his rehearsal reels in good condition. Jet opens the first canister and takes out the reel.  The film is a little grotty and a bit, make that a lot scratched as he examines the footage by eye.  In true Blue tradition the rehearsal reels as the home movie 8mm variety.  Jet groans as his cinema projector is a professional 35mm one.

"Blue ya cheap bast-" Jet mumbles "-wait didn't I have one of does' for Joe ta play wit?"  Jet stands up, still clutching the reel, and scans the room.  "I hadta put it up high..." Jet thinks aloud "...wait a minute". Jet sets the film on the table and grabs a chair dragging it to the shelf and stands on it.  It gives him a little boost and he feels around the top of the shelf, knocking off several dust bunnies which make him sneeze. "It's gotta be 'round der" Jet stands on his tippy toes and peers to the top of the shelf "der ya are!" He exclaims and reaches for the smaller projector with both hands.

Jet immediately sets about setting up the smaller projector.  He curses and mutters as he fiddles with the tiny clogs and tightens the loose screws by hand.  This projector hasn't been used in donkey's years and oh boy does it show.  Jet is even wondering if the blasted thing will even power up. "Moment o' truth ol' boy" he mutters as he plugs in the projector with his fingers crossed. The projector takes a moment before the machine lights up and begins whirling as the reels spin crazily.  Jet fiddles with the controls, flipping switches and turning dials until the reels slow down to the usual speed. "Lamp still works, dis crazy idea might work, ya know" he exclaims to himself as he positions the beam from the projector onto a bland part of the wall and reaches to grab the film reel.  He momentarily powers off the projector and sets up the film reel, he crosses his fingers once again as he flips on the power.   The machine whirls and Jet is a little scared in case the footage is mangled to death by the ancient projector, but everything seems to be spinning in time.  As Jet double checks the timing on the dials he hears the younger voice of his old friend Blue. Jet turns to watch the film being projected onto the wall, the image quality is poor, flickering between colour and black and white and the sound is scratchy.

"Right it's all up and going...ready to start?" booms Blue, his clackerboard in hand The woman in shot nods, her shoulder length black hair gleaming at the camera.  

"Junko" Jet whispers

Blue's clackerboard comes into shot and he slams it down while crying "Scene Six, Take one!"

Junko delivers her lines with the voice of an angel.  Her timing is immaculate.  Even though this footage hasn't been kept in the best condition, Junko still comes across with all her beauty, delivering lines that don't even seem scripted.  Her performance is so flawless it brings a tear to Jet's eye, or perhaps that's just down to the fact he though he'd never see her again.

The film comes to an abrupt end and the film spins on the return reel for a few moments before Jet snaps back into reality, wipes his eyes and stops the machine, carefully removing the reel and setting it carefully into the canister.  

He picks up the second canister and examines the footage by hand.  This film is an even worse condition than the first.  It's scratched well beyond play, putting a film like that into the projector is suicide for the reel and Jet knows that.  Even though he can make out his beloved wife on the film it is with a heavy heart he returns that reel to its canister.

"Savin' the best fer last, Ah hope?"  Jet comments as he takes the third canister from the box.  He's surprised it has a tape seal around the edges, which he carefully removes and opens the canister carefully.  Inside is another reel, this one in much better condition than the previous two.  Once again Jet takes the film and examines it by hand.  The reel is in immaculate condition.   "Aum impressed Blue, ya actually looked after somethin fer once" comments Jet.

Jet loads the final reel onto the projector, sets the machine in motion and eagerly awaits for the film to begin.  The first few minutes are just the set and some mumbled conversation between Junko and Blue can be heard in the background.  The voices get louder as the speakers come closer to the camera.

"So you wanted Felicity to do a ballroom sequence?  But you already established her fear of performance" "...I did? But this film calls for a big dance number..."

"Felicity? Who da heck is she?" wonders Jet.  He quickly flicks though the script and sees the name Felicity listed, "ah must be ma Baby's character..."

"This isn't like you Blue, you usually do those films with costumed heroes-" Junko's voice gets louder as she walks into camera shot.  She's somehow even more beautiful than Jet remembers her to be. Blue doesn't say much as he to also gets into shot, his face full of sadness. "-what's wrong Blue?" She quizzes Blue sighs "If you don't tell me Blue, I can't make it better" she responds.

Jet nods and smiles to himself, she used to say that to him every-time he was troubled with something.

"It's my little girl..." Blue sighs "What about her?" "...she's just not interested in those hero films and maybe..." "She'd prefer this kind of movie?" Junko finishes Blue's sentence as he nods in agreement Junko shakes her head, "maybe the movies aren't for her, you know?" Blue sighs. "She's a great kid Blue, you've done great with her, but you know it's time to let her find her own passion in life, we can't all be destined for the movies..." she smiles as she looks at him, "...I'm going to have to give this up soon myself" "W-what?  W-Why?" Blue stutters "you're my best actress!!" he exclaims. "Well it'll be hard to do some many hours in front of the camera with two children..." "Two? But you've only got..." Blue's face turns quizzical momentarily and lights up as he realises the meaning behind her words. "Shhhh!  I've not told my husband just yet" she beams.

"You told 'im befur me?!" Jet exclaims at the footage.

"And when pray tell, are you going to share this news with him, you little Star you?" continues Blue "Tonight...he's taking me out to dinner to celebrate our wedding anniversary...he did ask you to mind Joe tonight didn't he?" "Like Jet would remember something like that" laughs Blue.

"Bite yer tongue Blue" snaps Jet at the screen.

"-of course I will, just drop him off at mine before you go.  Him and Silv' get on so well" "Here's hoping the new little one will too" grins Junko, she pauses as she looks into the camera lens, "hey since when did you leave this rolling?" Blue looks into the lens, "I didn't...must have been Silv', I'll turn it off-" The film ends abruptly as the return reel fills up.

"Oh ma Baby..." mumbles Jet

First off the English once again adds a ton of dialogue.  There is no dialogue in this scene in Japanese, so much that the companion film book skips this entire scene:

The Biankies don’t high five each other yet in Japanese they instead slap each other until they go dizzy:

Again the Biankies are changed from slapping to high fiveing in English after Silivia’s first meal.  They actually knock each other out in Japanese, (just showing the knocked out pic here as it’s a repeat of the above) however if you listen closely the dizzy sound is still present in the English track.  I don’t know why but it’s an interesting oversight.

If you guessed there was a Sprocket dress edit in this episode - you were correct!

In Japanese the music Friendship plays during the first movie screening instead of Joe’s Theme Piano Ver in English.

If you guessed there was another Sprocket dress edit in this episode - you were also correct!

An unusual one here BUGER is written on the sign in Japanese.  I though that was down to the spelling in Japanese バーガー (BaaGaa) but I can’t figure this one out so typo it is!  

It’s fixed in English!

Remember when the Prima Bianky kicked Joe squarely in the face?  Nope?  Ah that’ll be another removed in English image:

One thing of note is Japanese Joe is a lot less chatty that English Joe, he barely says anything in this fight with the Bianky Primas.  

Anyway here we have two removed poses (one after the henshin and the other just before using Slow) and finger edits (really I recommend playing Bingo to these articles):

And another case of English adding dialogue as these two people don’t speak in Japanese:

And the award for best case of editing in the episode goes to the scene in the Cutting Room.  Sprocket says very very little in Japanese and can’t shut up in English and they somehow get away with showing very little of her - I’m impressed!

Did you guess there was going to be another Sprocket dress edit? How about a surprise two near the end? The first cuts to her turned back to avoid it:

and the second quickly zooms up to her bust missing her *ahem* bust

Once again Friendship is played during the screening in Japanese as opposed to a totally different upbeat tune that’s not on the anime soundtrack in English so I can’t link you to it!

Goodness, only one major change from Japanese here - it’s just this finger edit!

Just before this there is an additional line of Joe dialogue which I missed every other time until I had to subtitles on - Alastor doesn’t speak in this section when Joe is deciding that Viewtiful is an actual name in Japanese but he does correct Joe in English:

Actually this episode is one of the very very few that have very few changes from the Japanese, there’s only two, well three if you count the additional dialogue changes in English!

First off Silvia don’t dance around the subject - she just shouts for needing the “トイレ/Toilet” in Japanese instead of asking to use the bathroom.  A lot more direct and to the point IMO

There’s another case of English adding stuff as Joe and Hulk stare each other down in silence in Japanese after they end up at the end of the pit in Charles’s home.

A very strange change what happens in the pit. In English Joe trash talks Hulk before attacking him, while there is a mysterious hole in the wall behind him:

 In Japanese he attempts to use Mach Speed, crashes through the wall, takes a moment to catch his breath, charges at Hulk again, again missing and going through the wall before getting it right...oh Joe:

It's the early in the morning, so early in fact that it's still dark out.  Alastor the demon lies on his back snoring gently in his large double bed.  He rolls over to the center of the bed in his sleep and attempts to cuddle a person he expects to be there next to him, but the space is empty.  He pats down the space waking himself in a panic.   He opens his eyes and panics slightly as there's no one to be found next to him, the only evidence of his boyfriend is the dent on his pillow and his faded and battered yellow baseball cap next to the locker.  Alastor knows Joe wouldn't go anywhere without his cap and climbs out of bed grabbing the cap on the way out.

Joe is busy cooking in the kitchen.  He's wearing a full body apron over his bare chest and pyjama bottoms and is somewhat functioning despite how early it is.   Cooking is exaggeration for what Joe is doing, when what he's truly doing is making a mess and calling it cooking.  There's batter overflowing in a jug with most of it on the countertop although some of it has managed to be cooked in the sloppily covered frying pan.  A coffee pot steaming with the base burnt which can only mean the coffee inside is horrid and only good for stripping paint. None of this truly phases Joe who is happily flipping pancakes attempting to catch a full one in his frying pan.  He's missed three so far and they have all landed on the worktop adding to the mess.

Alastor stands in the kitchen doorway watching the amazing skills on show with his jaw open wide.  He can't quite work out if Joe is trying to be helpful or the biggest pain in the butt ever.  He rubs his forehead in anger before moving towards Joe. "You forgot this" he remarks flopping the cap onto Joe's ruffled flame red hair. "Hmmm?  I did?" Joe looks up, places the frying pan back in the hob and readjusts his cap "thanks Dude I was wondering why my head was feelin' so naked" "What in the world are you doing up this early?  This isn't like you" "Oh ah...erm I wanted to make you breakfast ‘cos you know..." embarrassingly admits Joe turning around to face Alastor who grins back.  Joe grabs Alastor cuddles him tightly and kisses him.  It might be early but both are enjoying this moment which is killed by Joe pushing away as he smells something burning and turns back to the hob saving the pancake from turning into an epic black burnt mess. "Damn damn....oh not bad" mutters Joe as he pours the half cooked pancake onto a plate before pouring more batter into the frying pan. "For you Dude" he exclaims shoving the plate of half cooked pancake into Alastor's clawed hands "eat Dude, it's all for you"

Alastor isn't quite sure what do as he prods the pancake with his claw, it's partially cooked in the center, but the edges are runny and burnt.  Joe just grins at him with his usual childlike innocence.  Alastor isn't sure if eating this...thing is a good idea.  Joe grins at him so Alastor decides that trying a piece wouldn't hurt so skewers the center and swiftly lobs it in his mouth. Joe grins a wider grin awaiting the feedback from Alastor who chews and tries his best not to screw up his face from the disgusting tasting excuse of a food thing he's currently trying to chew into oblivion. "Hmmm so....?" excitedly enquires Joe as Alastor swallows "Well...-" Alastor is careful to choose his words carefully, Joe does take everything he says to heart afterall, "-it's...uh...different..." Joe clicks his fingers as he remembers something "that's right coffee! You like coffee!" Joe rapidly turns back to the hob, while Alastor rapidly tries rubbing the bad taste of the pancake off from his tongue only to stop as Joe turns around holding the burnt coffee pot by the black handle. "I made you coffee too!  I rang Junior to make sure I did it right too!  …Ya know he didn't seem happy to get a call early in the morning for some reason...." "Maybe because it's we live in a different time zone to him and he's two hours behind us?" grumbles Alastor as Joe pours the thick black drink that was once coffee into a tiny espresso mug and shoves it onto Alastor's plate. "Joe are you trying to kill me, that looks poisonous!" Joe's heart sinks as Alastor speaks, his usual smile just dies as all the joy is sucked out of his face, "Oh" he mumbles sadly "-you don't have to drink it if you don't want to Duuuude, I just..." and reaches back for the cup ready to chuck the still steaming drink down the sink.  Alastor swiftly snatches the cup from Joe and downs the whole thing in one gulp, surprising himself and Joe. "Duuuuuude that's still hot...how can you...?" questions a bemused Joe. Alastor swallows again and licks his lips before speaking "you know Joe...that was actually quite good, a hell lot better than your pancake" "B-but you swallowed it hot!" "Oh that, ha" laughs Alastor "it tastes better hot" "B-but that was burning hot!" "Not as hot as you" smirks Alastor as he leans in and kisses the still shocked Joe on the lips.  Joe pulls away from Alastor and wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. "Dude you taste of coffee, yuck" Alastor chuckles as he places the plate and coffee cup in the sink before turning around and wrapping his arms around Joe. "Well now that's your fault, you Dork.  You'll just have to deal with it" giggles Alastor as he smooches Joe some more. "Yuck yuck YUCK, icky demon coffee breath" struggles Joe as he tries to break free from Alastor's affections.

I have to start with the Japanese here as the first here is a missing scene of Joe buying the tickets for the Captain Blue Movie and Silvia gets mad at him, removed in English and replaced with the opening credits:

Second removed scene is Silvia clearly more interested in Joe than the movie and makes this super clear with a little smooch:

And again with the removed scenes, this time it’s Joe’s travel to Movie Land.  It’s really short in English with a train and then a quick picture of (I assume) the Titanic sinking and then he falls into the world.  However there’s more in Japanese, the sequences shows clips of the history of movies including Charlie Chaplin, Wild West movies and the Three Stooges, while playing clips from the songs “Friendship” “Battle Song A” and few others.  English First, then Japanese images:

And that’s it for English.  In Japanese Joe spins around while the mentioned scenes play behind him:

In a strange reversal the English actually adds audio during the first scene in Jadow HQ.  This entire scene has no dialogue in Japanese until Hulk makes his call:

And we have our first Sprocket edit/repaint.  Compare her first appearance in English with Japanese.  In Japanese she is shown on screen as soon as she speaks:

Two last visual edits an interesting audio change (I’m almost there for this episode)

First off the removal of this Biancy punch in English:

The audio edit is an odd one.  It’s Joe’s first choice of superhero name.  In English he suggests “Awesome Joe” for himself but in Japanese he first picks “Captain Joe” he turns both down in the episode of course.

AND FINALLY the last edit is of course his finger during the pose at the end:

First off the episodes open differently:

English: Cold opening (shows a bit of the episode and the opening credits), no title card

Japanese: Kicks straight into the opening credits, shows a little bit then title card

Character names:

Not present in English at all.  Japanese has each character’s name on screen, usually as a reminder on their first appearence in that episode

Cut scenes:

This happens a lot, especially in fight scenes where Joe being injured/attacked

Joe’s transformation:

Middle finger is painted out in English, also painted out in certain scenes:

Scenes will be mentioned as they pop up

Sprocket’s dress:

"Whattyamean I have to take Luka?!  Blue's taking care if things while I'm awa-" Will pauses as the booming voice of Commander Nelson states clearly through the headset microphone.  

Will might be off duty for a few weeks while he moves into his new house, but when Nelson has a duty for Will, it isn't a request that can be turned down.  

"Rodger" Will sighs, he might not be on duty at this current time but his respect for the Commander is deep "-just get P-Star to drop him off at the new address, he can sit on my cardboard boxes or something."

Will sighs as he switches off his microphone, sometimes being a member of the Wonderful 101 meant doing things he wouldn't ordinarily want to do and taking care of Luka on today was one of them.  

Not only was Will busy unpacking his belongings into his new home, today was also the day he was going on a date with Immorta, his alien girlfriend, well she is more of a female friend at the moment.  She was coming back to Earth for a few days especially for Will and he was determined to finally try and ask her out.  He'd failed so many times before, he'd always just lack the courage at the vital moment, he was capable of donning a Wondermask and save countless citizens, jump off buildings, fight giant aliens hell bent on destroying him, but yet unable to ask the lady he truly admired out on a proper date.

Will rips the tape off yet another box and opens it pondering where to place the contents in this room when the doorbell rings.

Will opens the front door and is greeted by P-Star, the Wonderful 101's hovering support mech carrying a small backpack on behalf of the grumpy child standing next to him. "Ah Luka" P-Star pings, beeps and making noises that make no sense to anyone except Will and Luka. "Yeah well I'm not happy about it either" pouts Luka. "Like I don't have enough of you causing mischief in my classes" retorts Will.

P-Star shoves the bag into Will's hands, flies behind Luka and shoves him into Will's house, forcing  Luka to stumble while pinging and dinging some sort of verbal communication.

"Fine, P-Star, I get it, go help Blue!" Will ushers P-Star to leave while Luka continues to glare at the robot. P-Star pings and dings once more before flying off, leaving the two boys standing in the doorway. "So...eh, this is my new house Luk-" "Can I actually go in Mr. Wedgewood or must I stand here all day?" "Uh...er...o-o-of course" Will stammers as he ushers Luka inside and shuts the door behind him.

Luka takes a few steps into the room and looks around.  The room is pretty bare, except for a double sofa that has a bland blanket strewn over it and sealed cardboard boxes scattered everywhere.  There doesn't seem to be any order to the boxes as those marked with "kitchen" are piled under ones marked "bedroom".

"I JUST got the my belongings in about an hour ago-" Will sighs as he sets the safety catch on the front door "-it's not much to look at right now, but this is my new home."

Luka continues to look around the room, more interested in finding somewhere to sit than listening to Will.

"Here Luka," Will lifts up the blanket off the sofa and places Luka's bag on the sofa, "it's possibly the only soft place to sit right now." "Thanks Mr. Wedgewood" Luka climbs over a box and makes himself comfortable on the sofa.

Will begins opening another box "so how's your training coming along?" "Boring...Mr. Nelson is so dull and Mr. Shirogane never does anything except make more machines, that whole ship is full of boring people." "Really? hmm" Will is only half listening and pulls a wrapped up object out the current box "Ah so THAT'S where I put that!"

Luka scrambles to the edge of the sofa and leans over the arm, "whattcha find Mr. Wedgewood?" "Oh just this-" Will unwraps the object to reveal a Wonderful Figure of a different red superhero on a large round yellow bottle-cap base.

"Is that Poseman?" "You know who is this?" "Yeah, he's like the best superhero ever-" Will glares at Luka "-Well after you Mr. Wedgewood, of course..." "I didn't expect you to know who he is" smirks Will as he lays the figure on the flat sofa arm and Luka stares at it in awe admiring the details. "I've read about him, there's a Wonderful File about him on the Virgin Victory, it says no one knows where he comes from or why he's here" states Luka "That's correct" Will comments as he digs deeper into the box.  

Without warning Will's stomach growls loudly.  He and Luka both giggle.

"I guess I forgot to have lunch" Will nervously laughs "Heh.  Are you hungry Luka?" "No, but I'd like some chocolate milk, do you have chocolate milk Mr. Wedgewood?" quizzes the child. "I should do..." Will abandons the box and heads into the kitchen to fix himself a snack "-oh and don't touch my stuff Luka" he calls out from the kitchen. "Yes Mr. Wedgewood" chants Luka already poking his nose into the abandoned box completely ignoring Will's command.

The doorbell rings which startles Luka.

"Hey Mr. Wedgewood-DOOR" yells Luka Will doesn't hear him as he's still faffing around in the kitchen.

"DOOR" continues Luka before sighing and climbing off the sofa.  He moves a box up against the door edge, climbs on it and undoes the latch, which opens the door a bit but the safety latch chain prevents the door from opening fully.

"Luka?" exclaims a female voice, "what are you doing here?" Luka peers out the gap and sees Immorta Oogee, a pink skinned, three eyed alien ally of the Wonderful 101. Her short blonde hair is gelled up smartly with a small heart clip wedged into place, a curled lock of hair flops over the left side of her face.  She's wearing a cute light pink string top which has a faint heart design all over it, skinny black jeans and black boots with neon pink laces.

"I should be asking you the same question, Miss Alien" retorts Luka "how do I know you've not been infected by a space brain worm?"

Immorta sighs, Luka is being so stubborn as usual.

"ルかーくん" she smiles at him, while blinking her third eye rapidly. "イモタちゃん" he nods in agreement and winks with both his eyes. "ワンダフル ワン...." she starts her phase waiting for Luka to finish it. He thinks for a moment and exclaims "...オー ワン!"

"That's right, you remembered our code, you clever thing!" Luka laughs while he undoes the security chain on the door "...well it has been a while" "What's been a while?" questions Will who finally emerges from the kitchen with a glass of chocolate milk in one hand and a cup of tea in the other.

"I-Immy? Y-you're early!" exclaims Will he can barley hold his nerves together. Immorta smiles at Will, "Am I?  I could have sworn I was running late...hmmm the clock on the Daakar must be running fast"

"Oh yummy my milk!" Luka dashes and takes the glass of milk with both hands from the trembling man and perches on the sofa to drink it.

Will is stunned for a moment and stutters while he figures out what to do, Immorta's arrival has really knocked him for six, "So er-um...eh tea?" he asks remembering his hosting manners.

Immorta cutely giggles "you sound just like Nelson-san.  No thanks"  She looks around the room "So this is your new house eh?  It's a bit of a fixer upper isn't it?"

Will nervously drinks his tea "I just moved in today, so uh...p-pardon the mess" "Mess? Haha you should see the Daakar after my brother's been around,  this is nothing" immorta laughs, "well if you need help" sh cracks her fingers "-just say it".

Will blushes slightly at the hough of Immorta helping him to unpack, "so uh...what would you uh, like to do tonight?" "I'm not sure of Derth's courtship rituals to be honest, what is the traditional thing to do?" she enquires. Will sips his tea before it goes cold, "well there's a fairground nearly by, and I think a cinema-" "MOVIE" shouts an excited Luka, "MOVIE!!" he shouts again "-I forgot I had, ahem, baggage tonight" Will retorts throwing Luka a dirty look.

"Well that seems like the most enjoyable outcome, let's do that" chirps Immorta grabbing Will by the arm and leading him out the front door. "W-w-wait I've got to lock it up Immy w-w-w-wait" he stutters as Luka laughs as he follows the adults.

Arriving at the cinema Luka and Will argue over what the group should watch while Immorta is busy taking in the whole scenery.

"But I wanna see this one!" pouts Luka Will sighs, as much as he'd like to see 'Some Like It Red Hot', tonight seems more like the night to watch the movie entitled 'Do Androids Dream Of Romantic Scene?' especially now he's finally has time to spend with his favourite girl.  

Will glances over to Immorta and just admires her as she crouches down and speaks to Luka on his level.  

She's so good with him, he thinks to himself, if only she knew how much of a pain he could be.  

He watches as she nods in agreement to Luka, before she stands up and grabs Will's arm skipping with him to the ticket booth. "Come on Darling, you get the tickets and I'll get the snacks afterwards" "D-Darling..?" Will stammers, he can't help but blush at the pet name. "T-two adults and one child for Andr-" he stammers at the staff member behind the counter. "-Red Hot, he means Red Hot" corrects Immorta chirpily, who grins at Luka, who grins and issues a thumbs up at Immorta. Will sighs as he's defeated once again and pays for the tickets on his Wonderful Credit Card.  Immorta is busy at the other desk buying popcorn and drinks with Luka, leaving Will to gather the tickets and his receipt.

At least I'll be able to sit next to her, he thinks to himself, yeah that's one good thing.

"Hey Will there you are, I got you a popcorn" Immorta chirpy grins at Will "right let's Swapsies - Luka and I'll get the seats and you just hold these" Before Will can respond she has already shoved the extra large box of popcorn and three drinks in to Will's arms and plucks the two tickets from his hands "See you in there Darling" she giggles as she chases after Luka into the theater.

Am I on the date with Immorta or is it Luka? Will sighs to himself

Struggling with the snacks, WIll stumbles down the steps towards the only set of three free seats.  

I'll be sitting next to her, there's no way the little brat can steal that from me.

"Oi! Mr. Wedgewood, whatta ya think you're doin'?" comments Luka as Will tries to take the seat next to Immorta, "I was sitting there" "Was being the past tense Luka"

Luka pouts and throws a dirty look at Will before turning to Immorta. "Tell him - he stole my seat" Immorta smiles and shrugs " Well you did Will, he did get here first, I believe that is a Dearth custom".

Will attempts to argue with them but just gives up for the easy life. Luka grins as he takes his seat in-between the two adults and grabs the popcorn off Will and chomps nosily into it as the movie starts.

Will pouts to himself as he settles dow to watch the movie, or as much of it that he can enjoy with Luka munching loudly in his ear.

With the movie over Luka jumps out of his seat and re enacts scenes in pew.  He's being so loud that he wakes Will who somehow managed to fall asleep.  "NO COMMANDER I DIDN'T EAT THE SORBET!"  Will cries as he jolts awake.  Immorta laughs at both the activeness of Luka and Will's comment.

"That was such fun, when are you coming back Miss Oogee?" Luka asks as the trio leave the cinema Immorta smiles "well it depends when Will wants me back" she smiles at the now blushing man. "Well I-I-I...uh....whenever you want t-t-to..." Will stutters, his face bright red. Luka nudges Immorta playfully and laughs "he's like Mr. Istochnikov" and they both giggle.

It doesn't take long to walk back to WIll's house. "Are you coming in again Miss Oogee?" asks Luka "No I think it's time I went back to my ship, besides, it's past your bedtime Little Man" she playfully taunts Luka.

"I-i-it was great to spend t-t-time with you" Will stutters "Oh wow I was just "spending time" with you, all this time I thought I was on a date" she responds "Will blushes "well uh I sorta was, I mean uh..."

Immorta grabs Will and snuggles close to him "I was joking I had a great time Red" she whispers into Will's ear before giving him a quick kiss on the lips.

Luka looks repulsed as he pretends not to see the kiss.

"School?  But I'm smarter than Joe!" protests the freckled pale ginger headed child with the pale yellow t-shirt, pale red sweater vest, light brown shorts, black fingerless gloves and black shoes with white socks. "I know that Junior, but the law's clear here in Blossom City, kids have to got to go to school" explains Sprocket, her clipboard in hand "I'll get Jasmine to to drop you off, since everyone else is busy on set, get your things ready as you'll be heading off soon" "Don't I get a say in this?" pouts Junior "Of course not" retorts Sprocket while she zips up the front of her white dress, which has once again unzipped itself "put that down RIGHT NOW" she screams at a wandering Bianky "that goes over here not there" she points the clueless stage hand to the side ignoring Junior's protests.

Junior sighs to himself, the location film set is a hive of activity with Biankies, Flaties and Clownies of all shapes and sizes running around carrying film equipment, booms, microphones, film canisters and clacker boards.  Even Silvia is busy setting up sets as her father oversees the equipment set up.  Once again Joe is no where to be seen, but it's early in the morning and he does't surface from the main trailer until at least the afternoon.

A red haired girl with short pigtails, sunglasses on her head, a pale yellow long sleeved blouse and a green skirt and red sneakers sneaks up behind Junior and ruffles his hair. "Hey" he snarls swatting her hands away "Hey to you too Kid" laughs the girl "I'm not a kid Jasmine" pouts Junior "Well if you're not a kid then why did you forget you bag as usual?" laughs Jasmine as she hands Junior a small rucksack "I didn't forget it...cos I knew you'd remember it" smirks Junior as he slings the bag over his shoulder "You two, get going already" shouts Sprocket "She's bossy as always" retorts Jasmine "OKAY AUNTY SPROCKET - LATER" shouts Jasmine ushering Junior off the set.

"THIS is Blossom Elementary?  It's bigger than the Girl's school I have to go to" remarks Jasmine, "well good luck Junior, I'll see you at four, right back here you hear" "Sure, later Jazzy" Junior fist bumps Jasmine and pulling away they make the Viewtiful finger sign at each other "Later Junior!" she waves as she walks away, leaving Junior alone in the large forecourt .

Junior walks past the large statue of a Professor that is in the center of the central court, he must be famous to have such a statue in this school, Junior thinks. The other kids are playing football and hanging out and chatting in their little clicks. I wouldn't bother them, Junior thinks to himself, we wouldn't be here long enough for me to get to know them anyway. Junior opens the letter given to him by Sprocket earlier, it contains a map, a cover letter for the teachers and a note stating the room his first classes will be in.

Junior gasps in awe as he walks in the large front doors, this building is way bigger than he expected it to be. Now where was his first class again?  Junior checks his note and starts wandering around the corridors trying to find his class.  Junior isn't looking where he's going and bumps into another kid while turning the corner. "Watch where you're going" snaps the kid as he pouts while rubbing his nose This kid seems like the kinda boy that doesn't take any crap from anyone even if his has the sweetest looking freckled face.  His big blue eyes are slightly hidden by his ruffled strawberry blonde hair, held in place with his aviator's cap which has a pair of goggles on top.  The kid wears the longest blue, red and white striped scarf that Junior has ever seen.  He also wears a three quarter long t-shirt under his dungarees and black boots. "Oh jees, I'm so-" "Whatcha got there?" The kid snaps up the map from Junior's hand "Hey give that-" "Oh!  You're in my class, come on you're gonna be late" the kid grabs Junior's arm and dashes down the corridor dragging him "I'm perfectly capable of walking there myself" exclaims Junior "But we're here now" boasts the kid releasing his grip "come on before everyone nabs the seats in the back" Junior gingerly follows the kid into the classroom where so far it's just the two of them and the teacher standing at his desk preparing his notes.

"Hey Mr. Wedgewood!" the kid greets The teacher barely looks up, "Luka, you're early...for once" "Meh-" retorts Luka as he pulls back the chair in his favourite desk at the back of the room and sits on it resting his feet on the desk "-besides someone's gonna show the new kid around" "New kid?" asks Mr. Wedgewood, finally looking up from his papers. Mr. Will Wedgewood, or just Will to his friends, wears the thickest black glasses you've ever seen on a man, his blonde hair is neatly gelled from the left side over the top of his head.  He wears a red sweater vest over his white shirt and tie and black plain trousers and glossy black shoes. "Ah come in young lad" Will invites Junior into the room "and you are?" "J-J-Junior" stammers Junior nervously walking up to Will's desk and hands him the cover letter "Don't be shy boy, I wouldn't eat you" laughs Will taking the paper from Junior's shaking hands and reads it "hmmm...Blue Junior....didn't know Blue had family..." Will mutters to himself as Junior nervously takes a seat at a desk a row above Luka "Your name is Blue?" mocks Luka "Blue Junior, yes" states Junior "I have a friend called Blue" laughs Luka rubbing his nose "Luka, not here" snaps Will "Whaaaaaat can't I have any fun?" "You know well why not here" Junior is a little lost but those two seem to have a language of their own as they glare at each other ignoring his presence. Will turns back to his papers and gathers them all together just as the bell for class rings and the other kids herd into the classroom.

The day is just like every other school day Junior has ever attended.  He excels at all the work, it's barely even a challenge for him anymore, Mathematics especially.  He's always secretly loved those sums.  Those quick calculations have helped him out both in and out of the classroom many many times.

About midday, Will weirdly seems on edge.  He keeps looking out the window on the door as if expecting someone or something to arrive and he keeps looking at something on his desk that's out of sight to the children. The classroom door opens and another teacher walks in. "Ah Mr. Lee, finally you're here" Will lays out his papers and grabs something small from the desk "Class this is Mr. Lee, he'll be in charge during my short absence" "Hi Mr. Lee" the children chant as the new teacher waves. Will stares at Luka who nods, "Luka, come on" Luka leaves his desk and exits the room with Will "What was all that about?" Junior whispers to the kids next to him "Oh that happens from time to time" responds the kid "Mr. Wedgewood and Luka often do that, you get used to it" "Weird school" sighs Junior

The class continues as before, with the mathematics continuing as before.  That is until a loud crash comes from outside.  Despite Mr. Lee's protest all the kids run to the window to watch. Outside is a battle between a large robot with squat legs and really, really big hands.  It has armour plating covering it's shoulders and out of its flat head runs a cable that connects to it's over powered arms.  It's rampage is being stalled by two costumed heroes.  One is clad in red with blonde hair and a trailing pink scarf and the second smaller one has a cap and steampunk style googles and a long white, red and blue scarf. Both are wearing black masks on their faces that cover their eyes.

One hero in particular stands out to Junior "Joe?" questions Junior Junior scans the area for Silvia and the Viewtiful Camera required for Joe to transform in the real world.  Junior knows he's capable of his henshin transformation here, something about being born in Movie World makes it possible, but Joe needs the assistance of the camera being on him.  Something that frustrates Joe to no end.

"It's Wonder Red!" exclaim the children and cheer "Wonder Red? Who's Wonder Red?" asks Junior "Wow have you been living under a rock kid?  He's the leader of the Wonderful 101" responds a kid "The greatest hero ever!" shouts another. "Oh it's Wonder Googles too! Go Googles Go!" cheers a girl.

The two heroes continue their fight ignorant to the class watching and cheering them on, one child takes out a notebook and looks up the robot.  Junior leans it and reads the page. "Diedough-Goo, 13.5 meters tall, 307 tons, danger quotient 60%" Junior reads "but there's only two of them and that thing is huge!" "One now" corrects one of the children at the window Junior dashes to the window and sees that the one the kids call Wonder Red has his smaller ally, who is clearly taken a bad hit, slung over his shoulder while he attempts to defend himself against the juggernaut of a robot attempting to stomp him. Junior knows he has to help them somehow, but he can't just henshin in the classroom, last time he did that he got expelled and that didn't go down well with his family. Looking quickly around the room Junior spots a smoke detector, and quickly hits it with one of his yo-yos which he hid in his pocket.  The detector sets off an alarm and sprinkles water in the classroom. "Now how did that...?  Come on class lets get out of here" commands Mr. Lee, grabbing his notes and opening the door. The kids scramble out the door and Junior uses the confusion to dash down the opposite corridor towards the exit closest to the robot battle. Kicking the door open, he grabs his second V Yo-Yo and transforms into his blue superhero suit complete with blue helmet complete with green visor, preparing himself for the danger he's about to face.  Of course this would be useful if actually knew his way around, but Junior is totally lost and has no idea where to go. Hearing something heavy stomping in the distance Junior dashes in the direction, hopefully there will be someone left to help by the time he gets there.

Red is struggling to hold his own against the juggernaut that is the Diedough-Goo.  His punches seem to bounce off the robot's thick armour as it swings it's giant arms attempting to swat him away like a fly.  Red leaps out of the way, carefully not to let Googles slip from his grip.  The little hero has done well so far, but he just isn't ready for something like this. Heck, Red isn't even sure he's ready to take on something this big without the support of his team, but it's not like he has a choice, his communicator to the Virgin Victory hasn't been working, something must be interfering with the signal and what a bad time for that to happen.  The only thing that has worked today has been the custom blocks in his Shinogane Drive chest piece and boy is he glad for that to continue to function.  The slow down effect of Hero Time is what has allowed him to avoid blow after blow in this battle, but he can't keep dodging punches like this, Red knows he has to attack this thing to take it out.

Out of nowhere zips two bullets smacking the robot hard in the back of the leg causing it to stagger and wobble, Red takes this opportunity to punch the robot with his Vulcan Knuckles, causing it to fall over backwards and crash onto the ground with a loud thunk. "Thanks for the assist Green" Red calls out, taking a moment to catch his breath. "Green?  I'm not green, I'm clearly dressed in blue" responds Junior as he races closer. "My apologies little hero" continues Red as he takes in this little hero now joining him in battle. "It's Junior, Captain Blue Junior" boasts Junior, posing with his V Yo-Yos ready to shoot again. "I am Wonder Red of the CENTINELS Planetary Secret Service, and this-" Red motions to Googles who moans slightly "-is Wonder Googles" "Hmmm....no big title for me?" mumbles Goggles as he wakes up slightly rubbing his head. "Luka?" questions Junior. "No idea who you are talking about" mutters Googles. "Yeah you look sorta like-" Red picks up Junior and dashes to safety as the robot staggers to it's feet.  He places Googles down on the ground and crouches down so he's at eye level with Junior. "I don't know why the wondermask's facial recognition scramble isn't working on you, but never call any of us by our true names while are masks are on, anyone could hear" Red explains firmly to Junior. Junior gasps in amazement as he works out Red's identity, the hair might be different, but that's his teacher all right, and he nods agreeing with Red.  Back home is different, everyone knew and was happy to greet Junior like a true hero, but things must work differently in these big cities. "RED!" screams Goggles as he struggles using his goggle lasers to hold back the giant robot. Red quickly turns on the spot and leaps into action and racing toward the Diedough-Goo his fists ready to strike it "aim for its neck Goggles!" "It has a neck?" "Do it!" Goggles does what he's told and aims his goggle lasers at what could only be classified as the robot's neck, Red leaps high and launches a flying uppercut the area Goggles aims at.  The combination of both attacks causes a large crack to appear in the Diedough-Goo's armour, the robot stumbles backwards as Red lands on the ground. Junior turns to Googles and they nod at each other before unleashing their attacks right at the exposted chest piece of the robot.  Goggle's lasers rip through the robot plating and Junior's yo-yo's smash though the exposted boards and circuit. It doesn't take long for the two boys to have ripped a hole in the center of the Diedough-Goo's chest. The robot stumbles forward and Red adds to the damage by landing a flurry of blows into the exposed chest stopping only when he has come out it's back, causing the robot to crackle and spark all over. Junior and Googles grin and high five each other, obvious to the damaged DieDough-Goo dangerously leaning over them.

"GOOGLES!" roars Red, too far away to reach the boys in time. Googles and Junior glance up seconds before the Diedough-Goo is about to flatten them.  Junior grabs Googles with his right hand and using his left aims a yo-yo at a nearby tree, wrapping the yo-yo around the trunk, and with a sharp pull on the string pulls them both out of the shadow of the defeated robot seconds before it lands with a deafening clang.

"Nice job, you boys alright?" asks Red as the Diedough-Goo's remains teleport away. "Where did it go?" asks a puzzled Junior "Oh that? Possibly back to the Kahkoo-Regah, we're never quite sure" Red states as he helps the boys to their feet "all that matters is that no one was hurt" "Hey what about me?  It hit me" pouts Googles "Comes with the work" laughs Red as he checks Googles over for injuries "looks like you got off lightly this time"

Junior undoes his henshin and returns to his normal clothes and clips his yo-yo's back into his belt clips.  Red and Googles stare in amazement. "How can you do that?" asks a bewildered Googles "Oh this, easy enough, can't you change back at will?" asks Junior Red laughs "our civilan clothes are destroyed during our transformation, such is the downside of being a Wonderful One" shrugs Red. "Not just destroyed - burnt" adds Googles angrily. "Come on Googles, let's get changed before heading back, you know how odd Mr. Lee gets" remarks Red, "Junior we'll see you back in class, go on before anyone goes looking for you" "Okay, later guys!" waves Junior as he races back to the school.

"YEAH DUDE NOW THAT'S THE TRUE STING OF THE VALIANTIUM BLADE!" "Cocky as always Blue" Wonder Red sighs as his second in command slices through the last Dough-Goo, the small alien robot exploding as Wonder Blue swiftly removes his blade from it's robotic exoskeleton. "Dude that's like the only way to be" Blue retords flicking back his light blue fringe like a male model. P-Star, the ever loyal support droid hovers close to Red and relays detailed information of the Dough-Goo via it's language of P-dings that only fully fledged members of the Wonderful 101 can understand. "You know Blue, you could have left some for the team instead of taking down the lot yourself" Red pouts "But Red-Dude, that's no fun, it's so boring here now, let me at least have this fun" Blue tries explaining his actions. "Have you forgot you're still part of a team or is that word not in your vocabulary, ahem Dude?" Red mocks Blue pouts "Ya know Red, I could have taken the whole GEATHJERK armada by myself" "Like how you were able to take on Vijonne all by yourself?" Red crosses his arms "T-THAT was different and you know it" Blue fumes. Blue holds his beloved Valiantum Blade in front of him, admiring the shine from the blade.  He catches a glimps of his handsome reflection and grins to himself.  He pauses as he sees the refection of an unknown figure standing behind him in the blade's smooth surface, "Red, we're not the only ones here" he whispers "Are you sure? P-Star's scanners arent showing up anythi-"

Blue shoves Red down to the ground as a lighting blot desents out of no where, it scorches the ground where the two were standing. "That was some mighty fine sword play back there" Turning around to face the figure clad in a purple battlesuit with a horned helmet, with a black tail and wings wielding a blade with an odd winged hilth. Blue is flabbergasted by who he sees "Hey Vorkken, whatcha doin' in that get up, it ain't Halloween yet" The figure laughs "this from Sonic and Knuckles?" P-Star scans the mysterious swordsman and starting p-dinging in panic. "Whattya mean no data?" Blue questions the levitating support droid, before smacking it playfully "must be broken again Red, it can't even identify Vorkken" Red doesn't answer Blue, instead speaks to the swordsman "Stranger, are you friend or foe to the Wonderful 101?" "Depends on who wants to know" the swordsman crosses his arms. "Allow me to introduce myself-" Blue sighs as Red starts his long introduction "-I'm Special Combat Agent, leader of the CENTINELS Planetary Secret Service,  Wonder-Red -" Red pauses for breath before continuing "- you've met my colleague, the Super Sonic Blade, Wonder-Blue" Blue grins at the mention of his name. "That was shorter than before Red, you sick or somethin'?" Blue mockingly jokes. "Well then, suppose it would be rude not to introduce myself after those fine titles, I am Alastor,-" Alastor cockily spins his blade with his wrist before continuing "-Blade Master Alastor" "Vorkken's really out of it this time, "Blade Master" HA! I'm the only "Blade Master" around here!" Blue boasts drawing the Valiantium Blade for battle. "Got some skills to do with that boast...Blue was it?  You'll be black and blue by the time I've finished with you" Alastor jokes Blue rushes towards Alastor sword drawn ready to strike down the demon for impeding his honour.  Red just groans to P-Star and mutters something about diplomacy failing again as the blades clash behind him.

It's clear than Blue and Alastor are well matched for each other, each strike is well blocked by the other's blade.  Not even Alastor's electrical abilities give him an advantage over Blue as Blue catches each electrical blast with his beloved blade using them to electrify the Valiantium Blade increasing its power. Not even having wings gives Alastor an advantage, which he learns while attempting an aerial strike.  Blue chases after him with his mighty Wonder Rising attack which launches him into the air while swinging his blade upwards.  An aerial battle was something Alastor had not counted on with this swordsman. "It seems I may have found a new rival" exclaims Alastor carefully dodging Blue's swings "I'm surprised you can hold your own against me you winged rat" laughs Blue, as cocky as ever.

Alastor prepares a well timed kick, knocking the Valiantium Blade out of Blue's hand and sends it crashing to the ground.  Without his blade to keep him air bound, Blue drops to the ground like a stone and lands hard on his butt.  Alastor descends quickly, and before Blue can get to his feet, kicks Blue over while placing his own blade on Blue's neck. "However still not good enough to be my rival" Alastor states sadly.

Blue closes his eyes, expecting the end to come swiftly but it never does.  Instead all he hears is the clang of a blade on the concrete ground and the pressure removed from his neck.  Opening his eyes he sees Alastor no longer standing above him. "Wha...?" he exclaims looking around.

"VOOOOOORKIE VOKKIE VORKKIE VORKKKKKKKIE" screams Wonder Pink snuggling Alastor like an excited child cuddles a kitten. "UNHAND ME" shouts Alastor squirming from Pink's tight grip.

The stillness of the night, the pure stillness.  The stars gleam in the cloudless night, while the moon shines brightly against the backdrop of the cold summer night.  It's an unusually cold summer night, as the weather in this region has been unusually cold recently.  While most people would find this the perfect night to curl up with hot cocoa, reflecting on the day and wishing for the real summer to come along, Alastor is not most people.  Even on this cold night he stays strict to his training, meditating on the highest spire, on the rooftop of this creepy castle carefully balancing himself on one barefoot while the cold wind whips against his hair, tail and wings.  One would think that given the coldness Alastor would be wearing something nice and warm, but not Alastor, he's simply wearing a tracksuit bottoms and his stylish scarf, wrapped around his neck once and the edges flapping in the wind.

He's so focused that he doesn't notice the strange person fumbling with keys at the front door.  Then again, Alastor is so high up on the roof top and so focused it's possible he wouldn't even notice if the heavens opened and drenched him in cold thick rain.

Time seems to flow differently for Alastor when he is mediating like this.  Hours seem to slip away in the blink of eye.  His face full of concentration, its almost as if he is sleeping upright but no one could sleep like that, not even a demon.  Without warning Alastor's eyes open wide.  He stretches his wings wide and like a cat leaps off the spire and clears the roof.  In a strange way Alastor seems happy with falling towards the ground at breakneck speeds, at the seemingly last moment he opens his wings wide once more, filling them with air and rapidly breaking his fall.  He lands on the ground on his right foot ever so gracefully, followed by his left before stretching.  He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a key with a purple octopus keychain on the end and opens the huge front door.

Closing the door behind him and listening for the lock to click Alastor senses something is different about the huge hallway or perhaps he spent too much time meditating this time and his eyes are playing tricks on him.  No something is different alright, and then he hears a clang coming from the kitchen.  Racing towards the kitchen Alastor summons his blade to his right hand, whoever decided to break in is in for a world of pain.  Alastor smiles to himself, he hasn't had the chance the beat someone up in a very LONG time.

Alastor slides through the open kitchen door itching for a fight, however the scene is certainly not when he expected. "Joe? is that...DAMN IT JOE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" "Looking for the cheeseburgers dude", calmly states Joe, his head buried in a cupboard, "what's it look like I'm doing?" "-DESTROYING MY KITCHEN!!," Alastor twitches angrily, his tail smacking the table leg.  Alastor commands his blade back the the demon plane, he can teach Joe a lesson with his fists this time. "Hey what's this?" Joe emerges from to the cupboard holding a wok proudly and plonking it on top of his backwards baseball cap, "why are you keeping such a sweet hat in here?" Alastor just can't contain his rage any longer, and grabs Joe by the shirt slamming him flat against the wall, the wok loudly banging against the tiled floor.   Alastor takes a deep calming breath, this is his house and he is a mature adult after all, now facing Joe, Alastor asks once again in a calmer tone "Joe, what are you doing here?" "Dude being pinned to a wall by my freaky host-" Alastor releases Joe from his clawed grip, and Joe continues as he adjusts his t-shirt, "-how could you have forgotten YOU invited me for intense training Dude?" Alastor squints "but that's in a few days time?" Joe scratches his head "you sure Dude?  Pretty sure you said this today, I got all my stuff ready and all". Joe motions to the small bag slumped in the corner, it's so tiny it seems like it can only hold about two days worth of clothing. "Joe, you do realise it was a week's long training...and that bag is tiny..." "Yeah Dude, I only need the essentials...you know", Joe pulls a red shirt exactly like the blue HMD one he is wearing out of the bag "wash one, wear one!" "Joe you are such a slob, you know that?" Joe grins "you know THAT'S exactly what Silvia says" Alastor sighs, it might have been a year since he last met him, but Joe hasn't changed one bit. Joe fumbles in his bag and produces a small wrapped package wrapped in paper with tiny bats and stuck together with what seems like rolls of sticky tape and shoves it in Alastor's hands "Silvia said this is for you" Alastor blinks in confusion "why?" Joe zips up his bag and Alastor attempts to unwrap the package "she said you'd like it, dunno must be a girl thing...where's my cheeseburgers?" "I still don't have any tonight" Alastor is still ripping at the package and is getting his claws stuck on the tape. "WHAT DUUUUUUUUUUUDE I'M GONNA STARVE" Joe flops on the floor on his belly "Well you should have come on the right day" Alastor has managed to get at least some of the paper off and loose bits are now sticking to his scarf. "But I'm here nooooooow" "Well I've got rice" "Cheeseburger flavoured? "Rice flavoured" Joe sighs his face flat on the floor, "I'm gonna die here" "Well you're gumma haveta po ou wit it" Alastor attempts to open the package with his teeth, his sharp fangs ripping into the paper. Joe now rises and sits cross legged on the floor and watches patiently as Alastor finally rips the final piece of wrapping paper. "Dude what is that?" Joe cocks his head to one side as Alastor unfolds the black fluffy item.  He holds it out and two pieces flop down, he puts his clawed hand in the large part and puffs it out where two floppy wings pop out the top "It's a bat hat with floppy arms?" answers a very puzzled demon, "I want to see what it looks like, Joe stay still" he plonks it on Joe's head. "Dude you're messing up my hair!" "Shuddap Joe" Alastor twists and turns the bat hat and fondles with it.  Once he's happy with knowing what it looks like he takes it off Joe's head, accidentally removing Joe's cap in the process. "Hey!" Joe grabs his cap at a speed faster than his speediest Mach Speed and sets it back on his floppy flame red hair "It's cute, please send my thanks to Silvia" Alastor hangs the bat hat on a hook on the wall and unhooks a small apron with a bat design and wraps it around his waist, "now didn't you say you were hungry?" "Oh cheeseburgers?" "Still no cheeseburgers Joe, it's still rice tonight" "I'm gonnnnnnna starve" Joe moans as he lies face down on the floor again.

Despite Joe's protests, he happily wolfs down every grain of rice, Alastor has never seen anyone eat like that before, seeing someone tip a bowl of rice into his mouth is a new one on him.  Once his belly is full Alastor sends Joe off to bed, pointing to the direction of the bedrooms.  He protests slightly but still grabs his bag, and heads off in the direction the demon points him in.

Later on with the kitchen all tidied, Alastor shuffles towards his bedroom.  Rubbing his eyes and sighing deeply he realises it's going to be one heck of a long week.  He simply kicks the door open while yawning.  

Joe is sprawled across the bed on his back, wearing only his boxers and oddly enough still wearing his hat while snoring quietly.  Although he looks kind cute sleeping so peacefully, Alastor isn't happy with his house guest taking over HIS room.  Alastor climbs onto the bed and kneels next to Joe's head and leaning towards Joe's ear speaks to him in an irritated tone "Joe...Get...Up" Much to Alastor's surprise Joe actually replies, but his speech his slightly slurred, "but I don't wanna get up..." "Joe, don't MAKE me have to-" Joe suddenly rolls over in his sleep and wraps his arms around Alastor, grabbing the demon like a small child grabs a kitten and pinning him down with his back on the bed. "JOE LET GO OF ME", Alastor squirms trying to get free, but damn Joe's got one strong grip "...Silvia..." "I'M NOT BLOODLY SILVIA, JOE!", Alastor continues to squirm, but Joe just continues to cuddle him tighter, "JOE, JOE,-" Joe snores loudly and Alastor realises he's stuck with this dork cuddling him and sleeping on his chest.  Yeah, Alastor sighs to himself, it's going to be a LONG week.

***** *****

Dawn, the morning light seeps through the window, the gap in the curtains allowing a single sunbeam to sneak into the room.  The angle just right to shine directly into Alastor's face.  Alastor mumbles as a wakes,  he's now on his side cuddling the blanket, he blinks a few times as he sits up his tail wagging and pokes Joe, who is once again sleeping on his back, in the nose several times. "No Dad, I don't want to go to school today..." Alastor realises that Joe is still in his room and grabs his tail swooping it away from Joe, after all he doesn't want to be stuck pinned to his own bed for another few hours.  It's early and training must be started, not to mention buying bloody burgers for this dork, but first a nice hot shower and change of clothes would be a good start to the day.

It's mid afternoon, Alastor is busy attacking the training dummies with a wooden sword within his training room.  The smack of wooden blade hitting the stuffed dummies almost sounds like the beat of some song that only Alastor can hear.  Joe stands barefoot in the doorway, leaning on the door frame, bowl of cereal in one hand and a spoon in the other, he sloppily munches on his cereal, thinking about interrupting the demon.  Joe isn't really not paying attention to his food and drips milk on his goatee and hits the spoon on the edge of the bowl.  He glances down at the bowl and realises why he hasn't been munching anything in the last few mouthfuls, he cups the bowl in both hands and loudly slurps the milk. Alastor pauses mid-strike, readying to strike the next dummy, when he hears the slurp, the noise catches him off guard and he swings the sword missing the dummy and he looses his footing, stumbles and falls head first onto the dusty floor. Joe lowers the bowl from his mouth and calls out to Alastor, "you okay dude?" "DAMN IT JOE" Alastor picks himself up and dusts down his shirt, and wipes the dust from his face with his wings, "what time do you call this?" "Hmm breakfast?" "Half the day is gone already!" Alastor stomps towards Joe, Joe slowly backs out the door. "Well you never said WHEN to get up..." "It's training it's always EARLY, what did you expect a vacation?" "Well now that would be nic-" Alastor takes a sharp intake of breath, it's clear he's not in a good mood, "YOU'RE the hero of Movie Land, and just look at you" he pokes Joe in the belly and Joe giggles quietly "you're turning more and more into your chubby hero" "Blue's not chubby...he's just well padded" states Joe, ever so quick to defend his lifelong hero "Well padded?  Hahaha don't make me laugh, he's fat Joe, fat and l-" "Don't say it Alastor" Joe's face becomes serious for once, it's clear he doesn't like anyone trash talking his life time hero. "Lazy, L-A-Z-Y" Alastor spells out the word slowly and smugly, enjoying the anger spreading across Joe's face "You take that back RIGHT NOW" Alastor picks another wooden sword off the wall and casually throws it to Joe, "make me hero boy". As Joe struggles remembering how to hold the wooden sword correctly Alastor prepares himself by extending his one and pointing it at Joe "show me how you defend your hero's honour without your powers, of course we both know you can't defeat me without your henshi-" Joe swings his sword at Alastor which such force it takes all the demon's strength to block the blow aimed right at his face.  It's been a long time since Alastor has seen Joe take a practice match so seriously. "Is that it?" Alastor smirks behind his gritted teeth, and pushes Joe back, where he stumbles a little.  Alastor leaps towards him, his wooden sword held over his head ready to strike.  Joe rolls to the side just in time to dodge the hit, and as Alastor lands an empty blow to the dusty floor,  pulls back his sword and strikes Alastor in the lower right leg. "Good Joe", Alastor smirks through the pain, "disabling your foe is a powerful ally, glad you remembered that" "I had a good teacher" Joe grins and pauses to help Alastor up from the dusty floor, Alastor takes the opportunity to swipe at Joe's ankles tripping him.  Joe falls backward into the floor, where Alastor places his right foot on his chest and aims his sword at Joe's Adam's apple.  "Your friendliness has always been your downfall Joe, I've clearly not taught you well enough.  While I may be your ally during these peaceful times, I will not hold back in the future," Alastor points the tip closer to Joe's Adam's apple poking it slightly, "do I make myself clear?" "Yeah you win for now, however -" Joe grabs Alastor's barefoot and begins to tickle it, Alastor starts giggling and stumbles backwards, Joe pulls himself up and pins Alastor to the floor tickling him "- you shouldn't fight me barefoot you ticklish thing you" "DA-HA-DAMN YOU-HA J-JOE!"

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Alastor leans against the kitchen wall sipping green tea while Joe sits at the table scoffing cheeseburgers.  Alastor sips the final piece of his tea and places the cup on the table. "Go to bed Joe-" "But it's still early and" Joe stuffs another piece of cheeseburger into his mouth and talks with his mouth full of food "I've omly hab du cheeseborgers" "I WILL be waking you up at dawn this time, do you prefer being dragged off the bed by your toes-" Alastor cracks his fingers a manically grin spreading across his face, "- or waking up to an ice cold bucket of water in your face?" Joe squints at Alastor, not quite sure if the demon is making a strange joke or not, best not to wind him up, after all he did nearly stab Joe with a wooden sword earlier.  "Fine" Joe stands up still eating the cheeseburger in his hand and shuffles out the kitchen towards the largest bedroom. Alastor begins tiding up the kitchen, picking up the dirty dishes and running the hot water in the sink.  He gets on his yellow washing up gloves and starts the washing up and then suddenly realises Joe is once again heading towards his room, not again, he thinks, I'm not having a repeat of last night and drops the dirty dishes into the sink and races towards his room. The door is shut and Alastor sighs and puts his head against the door, "Joe...you in there?" A muffled voice comes from the other side "Yeah..." "Joe get out" "Why?" "Because that's MY room" "Really 'cos there's no sign on the door or nothin'-" "Joe, OUT" "Nope" "Don't make me come in there" "You can come in if you want, I'm not gonna stop you but I will warn ya-" Alastor slams the door wide open, sees Joe naked and clutching a small white towel around his waist and very quickly closes the door again and hides behind it. "-I was just going for a shower" "FINE" "Do you want any of your stuff?" "NOPE NOPE", Alastor is panicking slightly while shaking his head trying to erase the image of seeing his rival naked in his room, "in morning...yeah...ah something...NII-IIIGHT" Alastor dashes away from his room, he's gonna have to seriously bleach that room when Joe leaves...or maybe burn it to cleanse it, right now he can't just decide.  Alastor calms himself by focusing on the important things while heading back to the kitchen, he's still got the washing up to do after all, yeah that's something that needs doing.  Reaching the kitchen and dunking his hands straight into the now lukewarm water Alastor moans to himself, why did he agree to have Joe over again?

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In the small Lounge room. Alastor lies on his back covered with a ragged fluffy blanket.    He tosses in his sleep and moans softly.  His bare feet and tail tip dangle of the end of the tiny sofa.  He tosses more violently now and rolls first into the back of the sofa and rebounding rolls off the sofa and landed face down on the hard wooden floor.  He groans loudly as he gets up, swearing and muttering under his breath which he fixes up the cushions and draws the blanket over the sofa back.  He has no idea what time it is but being awake means it's time for training, those pre-breakfast push-ups aren't going to do themselves.

Alastor sits in his kitchen table, siping green tea and finishes off his slice of melon.  The rising sun's beams creep through the window and light up the room.  Time to wake up that idiot, Alastor thinks to himself, now is it going to be a bucket of ice or the air horn, wherever he put it?   Alastor gets up and opens the fridge, the top is covered with a thick layer of ice, well the fridge DOES need to be defrosted... He takes the plastic washing up bowl out of the sink, holds it under the ice and flicking out his concealed claws, swipes at the ice cutting it off where it hits the bowl with a satisfying thunk.  Alastor grins to himself as he moves back and shuts the fridge door with his foot, he's going to enjoy this, he thinks to himself as he smashes the block of ice with his fist.

Alastor arrives at his now guest's bedroom, he opens the door slowly and quietly, sneaking towards the bed where Joe is sleeping soundly careful not the shake the ice in the bowl. "Hey Joe, you awake yet?"  he asks quietly "NO" Joe grabs the duvet burying himself and rolls away "It's up-time joe" "It's a weekend" "No it's not Joe, are you getting up now or not?" "Not" "Fine" With one swift moment Alastor grabs the duvet off the bed and onto the floor with his clawed foot and chucks the entire bucket of ice on Joe's 90% naked body. Joe screams like a little girl and scrambles off the bed landing with a thump on the other side. "You're awake now, so get dressed and meet me in the kitchen, training starts promptly"  Alastor opens a drawer and takes some fresh clothes out while Joe shakes off the ice cubes, "if you take too long Joe you'll get another shower - do I make myself clear?" "Y-y-yess" Joe shivers, he's not sure where Alastor is joking or not as the demon slams the door, but best to stay in his good books and do what he's told for now.

By the time Joe gets to the kitchen Alastor is fully dressed, well if wearing a muscle vest and tracksuit bottoms counts as fully dressed, and is munching a small apple "I was nearly going to fill the bucket again" Alastor states, his mouth full of chewed apple "Remind me why I came here again?" Joe sighs as he makes himself a bowl of cereal "Wasn't it to spend fabulous time with your bestest best friend in the whole wide world?" Alastor sarcastically laughs as Joe glares at him "You know I hate you right?" "Yeah yeah I luv ya too you idiot" Alastor mockingly smirks while polishing off his apple, he devours it core and all "why Blue thought you'd make the perfect hero, I'll never know...he must have been drunk at the time" Joe sighs angrily as he adds the milk to his cereal, he knows Alastor is just trying to wind him up today, he sits down at the table as Alastor grabs a second little apple from the fruit bowl. "So what's the torture today?" Joe asks, purposely crunching the cereal as loud as he can Alastor bites into his apple "Meditation, it's simple-" Alastor swallows "-even for you-" "Are you kidding me?  You dragged me all the way out here to do some-" "-on the roof top Joe" Alastor bites into his apple once more Joe slurps his cereal "why on the roof?" Alastor chews and swallows "less distractions there.  I can simply fly up, it'll be amusing to see you climb up" Alastor tosses the remaining part of the apple into the air and catches it in his mouth, chewing as he leaves the room "see you out there loser" Joe huffs and returns to his cereal.

"How do you expect ME to get up there?" Joe exclaims pointing towards the roof "Climb?" "On what Alastor?  The walls are smooth" "Not my problem" Alastor retorts as he opens his wings wide and stretches them out and flaps them twice before bouncing up into the air.  Joe grabs his tail preventing Alastor from gaining any true height. "Whattya think you're doing? Let go of me!" Alastor squirms and tries to pul his tail from Joe's grip "I can't climb up there, you can't fly and carry me and you don't want me summoning Six Machine.  If you want me to get up there then YOU are going to have to come up with a way or I'm going back to bed" Alastor pouts, Joe has a good point for once, he descends to the ground and lands where Joe releases his tail.  He looks up and puts his hand to his chin to think. "Hmm...well I can climb it with my claws...Joe how heavy are you? "Excuse me?!" "I'm trying to work out if I can keep my grip with your deadweight..." "You cheeky bugger you" Alastor flicks all his claws out and grips the stone wall by digging his hands and feet into the stonework "Come on Dork, you're getting a lift today" Alastor sighs as Joe climbs onto his back wrapping his arms around the demon's neck "erk...not so tight idiot" Joe laughs nervously as he loosens his grip a tiny bit as Alastor begins to scale the wall grumbling something about a deadweight that's a little too mumbled for Joe to make out

The climb takes Alastor the best part of an hour, he climbs over the roof edge and shakes a now sleeping Joe off his back onto the hard cold floor.  He removes Joe's V-watch and places it in his pocket before poking Joe in the ribs with his foot. "Joe wake up" Joe murmurs as he wakes up "Huh? We're there?" "Yeah Joe" Alastor walks away as Joe gets up and yawns "So what do we do up here?" Joe asks. The rooftop is flat and bare except for a few spires, Joe contemplates dangling his legs over the edge, but it's a long way down. "I told you Joe, meditate" Alastor sighs as he easily climbs to the top of the tallest spire, and balancing on one foot watches Joe. "On that thing?  How are you even doing that?" Joe attempts to climb a spire but can't get a grip and slides down. "You know this is quite amusing to watch" Alastor laughs as he assumes his usual mediation posture "I hate you at times you know that?" Joe glares, but Alastor just closes his eyes and ignores him. "How long are we going to be up here for?" Joe asks while admiring the view Alastor fails to respond, so Joe repeats himself.  Again there is no answer from Alastor he's lost to his mediation. "Great" Joe pouts and he sits on the cold stone floor just watching the clouds go by.

To relieve the hours long boredom Joe paces, throwing stones both off the roof top and towards Alastor, hitting him a few times but the demon is so lost in his mediation he doesn't notice a single thing.  Joe doesn't do well being trapped on this roof top.  The view is stunning, he can see almost every part of Movieland from here.  Each world operates in its own little bubble.  All the worlds are close to each other but it seems like it would be a struggle to cross into another by foot.  It is beautiful watching the sun cross the sky of the the different worlds but he's too bored to appreciate it fully. It feels like an eternity passes before Alastor moves of his own free will again.  He stretches and leaps off the spire and lands gracefully next to an agitated Joe. "Dude you were so out of it" "Yeah that's the point Joe" Alastor states rubbing his left arm "odd, it hurts a bit..." "Huhh...it was a bird...yeah..a bird flew into it" Joe rapidly lies "Really now?" Alastor states at Joe "nothing lives out here except me" "Huh...yeah...it was a small one..." "A small, perhaps, annoying red one?" "Maybe..." Alastor sneers at Joe and notices how low the sun is in this world "Oh I woke up at the right time" "What?" Joe asks puzzled "Joe shut up, just watch" Alastor sits back and watches as the sun sets over the edge of his section of Movieland, the sky becomes filled with the brightest most colourful oranges and red "It's just beautiful isn't it?" Alastor lovingly sighs enjoying the sights "Hmmm...I just don't get it-" Joe shrugs "-it's more a Silvia thing, yeah she'd like this" "Why didn't she come this time?  I've not seen her in ages" Joe sighs heavily, not sure what to say "well..thing is..." Alastor turns to look at Joe, he doesn't often struggle to speak so he must have something important to say "...she doesn't want to come back, ever.  She's got new friends back home...and well..." Joe sighs "...would rather go shopping with them". "Cut her credit cards Joe or she'll make you bankrupt!" Alastor laughs "If only it was that easy," Joe shrugs as he imitates Silvia, his head bobbing from side to side as he does so "They don't need us Joe, we did our duty, they don't need us heroes anymore, we're just wasting our time going back" "Hmmm" Alastor ponders that statement and leans back balancing on his arms "while it is partially true Joe, we don't need heroes as much now, well not since you guys defeated the Dark Emperor...but there's still a need..."  He pauses, slapping the ground motioning for Joe to sit before continuing "Jeez don't say that to Junior, that'll break his heart" Joe's face lights up at the mention of his old sidekick as he sits down next to Alastor "How is Junior?  Goodness I missed those adventures with him" Alastor smiles "that little runt is still working so hard to be a hero Joe.  You'd be proud of him" Alastor sighs "There just aren't many threats these days, but the Trio take turns terrorising Blue Town just to keep him on his toes" he laughs at the last statement "The Trio?" "Bruce, Charles and Hulk" Alastor explains, "they might be total pure idiots but they seem to know how important it is to keep Junior's spirits up.  They ain't much of a challenge for the Runt anymore.  Hmm...I haven't seen them in a while now that I think about it..." The sky changes into the most beautiful dark night, the stars shine brightly against the dark blue sky. "That was nice to see" Alastor sighs as he stands up "come on Joe, let's go" "Wait was that it?" Joe asks as he also stands "Yeah, today was mediation" "But you did NOTHING" Joe exclaims "Fine if that's how you want to look at it" Alastor shrugs as he walks off the roof top and falls Joe leans over the roof top "ALASTOR!!!" he yells watching his friend hurtle towards the ground at an alarming speed and powerless to stop him.  Alastor opens his wings near the end of the fall and lands gracefully. "IT'S NOT LIKE I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING" Alastor yells back at Joe "DUDE YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME! GET ME DOWN!" "I GOT YOU UP, YOU CAN GET YOURSELF DOWN JOE" "ALASTOR!!" Alastor ignores Joe's yells and swearing as he opens the front door with his key and shuts the door behind him "ALASTOR!" Joe yells, defeatedly he sits down again.  Joe sighs before clicking his fingers, "Oh I know!" Joe jumps up and holds his right arm up in the air "COME ON SIX MACHINE!" Joe pauses waiting for his beloved vehicle to arrive to rescue him, but it doesn't come "SIX MACHINE WHERE ARE YOOOOOU?" He calls out and notices something missing from his wrist "Alastor" he hisses "ALASTOR I HATE YOU"

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Joe awakens and opens his eyes.  His vision focuses and he finds himself lying in his back staring at the cream ceiling.  Looking around he makes out thats he's somehow back in Alastor's room, fully clothed and lying on the bed.  He usually would spend more time trying to figure out how he go there, but he catches the smell of something nice on the air, he sniffs trying to work out the smell. "CHEESEBURGER" he exclaims and rushes out the room allowing his nose to lead him.

Joe eventually wanders in the house blindly sniffing his way around, before finding himself in the kitchen. Alastor stands in the kitchen, once again wearing a vest and tracksuit bottoms, with his apron around his waist humming to himself as he cooks a single burger on the gas grill. "man that smells good yo" Joe drools as he stands next to Alastor while staring into the grill, Alastor flips the burger over the grill "I knew that would get you out of bed" jokes Alastor "Yeeeeeeah" Joe drools Alastor presses the burger with his spatula the blood drips onto the pan "It's cooked over the open grill Joe, it's dripping with flavour-" Joe drools some more, his mouth open now hanging over every word Alastor continues with "-slow cooked to bring out the best juicy taste, it's the leanest-". Alastor leans in and sniffs the burger "- and perhaps one of the best smelling burgers I've ever cooked". Alastor takes the buns and places flat open ends on the grill, while on the barbecue shelf begins to chop the lettuce and tomatoes. Joe's eyes dilate and he chews slowly preparing his mouth for this delicious impending treat.   He drools watching as Alastor assembles the burger in the bun, first placing the lettuce, followed by the meat, then grates a deep red chunk of cheddar and allowing the cheese to melt into the meat before placing the tomatoes on top and closing the bun.  He presses down the top of the bun, the burger dripping and oozing with flavour. Joe watches fixated on his favourite food made so lovingly in front of his eyes. "Duuuuude I think I'm in love" he drools inching closer "Ah ah-" Alastor snatches the burger away from Joe, Joe looks at him with the biggest puppy dog eyes "-Now now Joe, you can't have it yet" "Duuuuuuuuuude" Joe protests, his stomach growling loudly "I've not eaten in forever!!!" "If you want it Joe-" Alastor flaps his wings ascending into the air "-come and get it" "Duuuuuuuude!!!" Joe moans Alastor flies backwards motioning for Joe to follow.  Joe reluctantly follows groaning loudly, but it's unsure if the moaning is coming from his mouth or his empty stomach

"You've got to be kidding me..." joe moans as he follows the airborne Alastor and the cheeseburger outside.  The yard has been transformed into an obstacle course with hoops, hurdles, a climbing wall and even a log bridge to cross. "Alastor how long did it take you to set this up?" "Too long" the demon responds flying to the end, "which is why you're going to do it" Joe sits on the ground and crosses his arms "NOPE" Alastor pauses in the air, his wings flapping like a panicked pigeon keeping him hovering in one spot "whatya mean NOPE?" "I'm not doing it dude" "I WAS UP ALL NIGHT BUILDING THIS-" "should have gone to sleep" "JOE! GET UP AND RUN THE COURSE" "Make me" Joe pouts "THAT'S WHAT THE CHEESEBURGER IS FOR..." Alastor pauses remembering how much Joe loves his cheeseburgers, flying back to Joe "Don't you want this succulent cheeseburger?" Alastor teases, waving the still warm meat in Joe's face Joe eyes are fixated on the cheeseburger and he tries snapping at it, but still refuses to budge from the ground "Joe you are such a child, get up" Alastor demands "Make me" challenges Joe Alastor pouts and flies behind Joe, tugging at his shirt with his free hand trying to pull him up, but Joe isn't budging an inch.  Defeated Alastor sits on the ground across from Joe, far enough away so joe can't reach across and grab the cheeseburger from his clawed hands. "You must be sick if you're refusing to jump through hoops for a cheeseburger, so what's wrong?" Alastor enquires Joe pouts and refuses to look at Alastor, instead stares loving at the cheeseburger "Don't worry I'll rescue you" he coos at the cheeseburger "Joe, it's a damn cheeseburger, it can't hear you" "Dude you gotta be respectful to the cheeseburger" Alastor opens the bun making the cheeseburger "speak" to Joe "No Joe, I'm just an inanimate food stuff, I can't actually speak or hear you" "Yo quit being mean to the most luscious food on the planet dude" Joe scowls at Alastor Alastor pokes the meat with his finger and sighs "So much for the bait, it's already gone cold" Alastor moves closer to Joe and offers the cold cheeseburger to him "do you still want it?" he enquires Joe's eyes light up and he opens his mouth as wide as it can go and clamps his mouth around the cheeseburger and Alastor's hand.  The demon freaks out and panicky pulls his hand from Joe's drooling mouth "THAT WAS THE MOST DISGUSTING THING EVER!  I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST DID THAT!" he screams feverishly shaking his hand to remove the Joe drool from his claws Joe is mentally a million miles away as he enjoys every single chew of the cheeseburger "Yo war rite" he speaks while chewing his mouth full of cheeseburger chunks "it is tha best cheeseborger yo've cooked"

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Alastor paces the floor waiting by the front door impatiently. "They should be here by now" he mumbles to himself, he checks the time on the clock on the wall, it's only a few seconds different from when he checked it last time.  He paces some more grumbling quietly. A quite knock comes from the door and he dashes to open it a tiny bit, "You're late" The guest pushes the door into Alastor's face "Oh shut up you Dork" "Let yourself in why don't you?" "Fine then, I will" retorts his guest, forcing the door open followed by his companion "Hey Al-ass-taru" Rachel the golden robot happily waves at Alastor, her small mouth smiling "Rachel, charming as always" Alastor takes her hand a kisses it, before glaring at his human guest "I see Junior still hasn't fixed that pronunciation error yet" "Well she has no problem with my name, Al-ass-taru" Junior laughs as Alastor playfully punches him in the arm. "Last time that would have been your face - look how tall you've gotten!" Alastor exclaims Junior is significantly taller nowadays, he's almost as tall as Alastor.  His floppy light ginger mop hair has been trimmed back a bit at the front, but his ponytail is still there, longer and a little floppier now.  His child clothes of a sweater vest, shorts and braces are long gone as he's far taller now, replaced by a baby blue shirt with V Yo-Yo cuff links, dark navy smart waistcoat with dark blue buttons and black smart trousers and shoes.  He still wears the twin pouches containing the V Yo-Yos on his belt.  Other than the obvious height the major changes have been Junior changing into a young man, his body now has a proper manly shape and his jaw line has whiskers of light ginger facial hair. "I'll be taller than you some day" Junior pokes Alastor in the chest "wouldn't that be fun?" "I'll break your shins if that happens" Alastor and Junior both laugh, that seems to be a running joke with those two.  Alastor puts his arm around Junior and motions to Rachel to follow "come on you two, Joe's not awake yet, we can catch up for a bit"

"What is THAT thing?  It's so not your style Alastor" Junior remarks on the floppy bat hat which is still hanging up in the kitchen "It's something Silvia sent over, it's odd-" Alastor thinks out loud "-she usually sends over seasonal gifts...hmmm perhaps the seasons are desynced again" Junior shrugs while helping himself to a banana from the fruit bowl and starts peeling it while leaning on the wall "or maybe Joe has broken the film reel again" "Don't say such things" Alastor exclaims "last time he did that the different movies spilt up and we still haven't been able to fix that" Junior chews into his banana "and least we can cross into them now, so they must have fixed something on his end!" Alastor sits down and the table and rubs his forehead, Rachel sits sits to him "you know Joe's stupidity never fails to amaze me" "Oh you've not seen him when he falls asleep" Junior retorts, "he gets worse" "How is that even POSSIBLE?" Alastor questions Junior finishes off his banana "he used to have this dream where he was eating a cheeseburger-" he sits down at the table across from Alastor and Rachel before continuing "-and would end up eating part of his pillow" Alastor covers his mouth with his hand attempting to stifle his giggles "he what?" Junior grins "he did it so often during our adventures, it sorta became the norm to get him a new pillow every other week" Joe groggily enters the kitchen, it's clear he's not fully woken up yet as he stumbles into the worktop and somehow hasn't noticed anyone and goes straight for the cupboard with the cereal bowls.  He picks a piece of stuffing from his mouth "Hey Alastor, that pillow of yours has a hole in it dude, might wanna look at it" Junior and Alastor look at each other, grin and burst into laughter. "Hey what's so funny?" Joe turns to look at Alastor and is surprised at the crowd in the small kitchen.   He blinks and rubs his eyes making sure what he sees is real. "Rachel!" he exclaims rushing over to the table, reaches over and rubs her head. "Hi Joe" she beams "Oh fine ignore me why don't you" Junior pouts Joe turns to look at Junior, but is puzzled at this person next to him "Do I know you dude?" He asks "Wow Joe, you really are an idiot, he grows a few inches and you forget all about him" Alastor sneers "Leave him alone Alastor, I wouldn't have recognised me either" Joe stares at Junior a little longer "it's the hair Dude, you cut it most of it, what happened to that mop thing you had goin' on?" "Oh" Junior laughs brushing his hair back "it got in the way a bit haha" "And this!" Joe rubs Junior's chin hair "ah man just look AT YOU!" "Hehe glad you noticed, Alastor doesn't want me to grow it" Junior laughs "Because you'll look sloppy" Alastor snaps Junior grins ignoring Alastor's remark "...wow even Silvia wouldn't recognised you either!" Joe playfully ruffles Junior's hair "Joe quit it, I'm not a child anymore" Junior pouts "Just had to make sure it was you buddy" Joe laughs "ah man look at you, you're gonna make Captain Blue so proud" "You really think so Joe?" Junior blushes "I know so Dude" Joe grins and holds his closed fist up to Junior who fist bumps it, pulling their hands away they grin and while doing Joe's signature finger pose at each other "Good to see you again little dude" "Don't call me little Joe" Junior jokes Alastor just rolls his eyes, these boys just act like brothers at time, it's hard to believe that a few years ago Junior was just some helpless kid following Joe around on some wild adventure. "Al-ass-tor -" "Al-is-tor" the demon grumpily corrects "- Junior has upgraded my battle output, he has suggested today would be a good day for testing" Alastor's ears prick up and his eyes light up "now I like the sound of that" Racheal robotically giggles " Junior said you would, however I will need sufficient space to demonstrate this new upgrade" "Well why are we sitting around here then" Alastor excitedly stands up and motions for the others to follow, "let's get going" "But I've not had breakfast yet" moans Joe "Should have gotten up earlier" laughs Alastor "don't make me drag you by the scruff" echoes Alastor halfway down the corridor with Rachel hot on his heals. Junior laughs while Joe sighs. Junior tosses an apple from the fruit bowl to Joe "don't forget to eat something, I've seen that face of his before, he's not going to give us a break today once he gets started" "Thanks Junior" Joe munches "Come on Joe, he will get angry if you dawdle too much" "I've noticed" smirks Joe

"Wow Rachel, that's just...just viewtiful" Alastor has brought Rachel into the largest training room.  This one has spikes on the floor and walls and ropes hanging from the ceiling.  there is a row of weapons on the wall, both decorative and real.  The floor has a battle ground markings painted on and walls are very plain coloured.  It's clear this is a room used for duels.

Alastor stands mesmerised, his eyes open are wide as possible as he admires the three hard holographic satellites Rachel has summoned which are currently flying around the room. "They are capable for plasma shots and also the generation of electrical fields" Alastor hangs on her every word "I think I'm in love..." he murmurs "Careful there Al, people will talk Junior laughs as he enters the room followed by Joe "SHUT UP RUNT" Alastor snaps Junior laughs and playfully punches Alastor "They are cool eh?  Just finished the hard code last night" "Hard code?" Joe asks "The code that makes the holograms tangible Joe" replies Rachel, "until it was perfected one could not touch the holograms" Alastor excitedly hops on the ground "Let's fight them Rachel!  Come on Active Combat Mode!" Rachel's eyes change colour from Blue to Red upon hearing the Combat Mode activation and her posture changes to a crouched battle pose. Junior rushes to the wall and grabs a weapon, he quickly chooses his favourite, a set of large metal claws and equips them to his hands "Joe" Junior calls out "you'll need something, Rachel doesn't pull any punches, you've got a minute before she starts" "Uh sure" Joe is unsure of which weapon to choose, there's just too much choice, from staffs, to bows, to swords, to morning stars Alastor has pretty much every weapon Joe has ever seen and even never seen before on these walls. Alastor just laughs and summons his usual sword from the demon plane, he's all fired up to battle and his body crackles with electricity.

The satellites beep as Rachel initialise them for combat, they float around the room erratically.  Without warning they start shooting at the boys, Alastor gracefully leaps out of the way, Junior blocks the shoot by crossing the metal claws in front of his face and Joe wildly panically dances out of the shot's way. "Joe get a weapon before you get shot" Junior cries Joe races us to the wall and grabs the first thing his hands lay on - a wooden staff. Alastor laughs at Joe's choice "Hahaha THAT's your choice?" Alastor dashed towards a satellite attempting to slice it in two, but it zips out of his way "Yeah yeah" Joe panics using his staff to poke at and attempt to push away the satellite that decided to chase him Junior dashes to Joe's aid and slashes at the satellite, the hologram flickers and vanishes into thin air as Joe's momentum causes him to fall flat on the floor. "You okay Joe? I'd offer to help you up, but heh claws" Joe picks himself up and dusts down his shirt "it's cold little dud-" Joe grabs Junior and pulls him down to the floor narrowly missing the third satellite that was dive bombing him. "That was close, thanks Joe" Joe grins and getting to his feet picks up the staff and smacks the satellite hard where it flies against the wall, flickers and disappears "So all that's left is Alastor's one?" Joe asks helping Junior up, being careful to avoid grabbing his metal claws "Yeah" Junior responds "Rachel can only summon three at a time" "COME ON ALASTOR" Joe shouts encouragingly "SHOW THAT THING WHO'S BOSS!"

Alastor is however enjoying fighting against the holographic satellite to let his battle end to easily, he blocks it's shots by using his sword and slashes at it, careful not to destroy it too easily.  For Alastor the battle is all about enjoyment,and he wants to spread this out as long as he can.  With only one satellite out Rachel is has even quicker control over this one, she makes it fly faster and shoot more aggressively that she was able to previously.  Alastor is enjoying the battle so much he has simply forgotten that Joe and Junior exist.

Joe and Junior have given up on fighting have now sat down on the floor and are watching Alastor spar with the hologram.  Junior removes his claws "I bet Rachel wins" "Oh no Dude, I'm not betting with you again, it always goes badly for me" "But if Rachel loses that means Alastor wins, that's an easy bet for you to win" laughs Junior "Na nah I'm not doin' it this time Junior" "Not even if I promise to make you cheeseburgers three times a day for a week?" Joe slyly glances at Junior, since they made their first silly bet a few years ago, he's always itching to turn anything into a contest "No still not biting" Junior puts his hand to Joe's forehead "turning down cheeseburgers! You must be sick!"

Rachel crackles and falls to her knees,  slumping onto the ground.  The boys freeze, Alastor drops his blade and leaps across the room straight towards her.  He picks her up under the arms and stares into her dull flickering eyes. "Why didn't you mention your power level was so low you dumb droid?!" Rachel's eyes flicker as she speaks "I didn't want you to worry about me" Alastor sighs and shakes his head, "you know what I have to do now, you know how much I hate it" "You don't have to-" Alastor flicks his claws out and places them into the tiniest gaps in Rachel's chest piece.  He closes his eyes as he channels electrical energy through his body, the power flowing from his body into his arms and into Rachel.  She glows as she powers up, she straights her posture as the energy flows through her.  Her eyes glow and flash bright blue as Alastor pulls his fingers away and opens his eyes as the electricity dulls. "Better?" "Yes Al-ass-taru" "Good, now -", woozily Alastor blinks oddly as he tries getting to his feet but his legs give out, Rachel scoops him up in her arms "...sleep" before he even finishes the word he is fast asleep.

Junior and Joe rush over to help. "Rachel, you should have said your power was low, Alastor wouldn't push you that hard if he knew" Junior scolds "Wait what? What's going on?" Joe is even more confused "Sorry Junior, I didn't know the satellites would drain so much of my power" Joe picks up Alastor's arm, holds it up high and lets it go where it limply flops right down "Wow he's really out of it" "Yeah Joe, he just used up all his power to recharge Rachel, he's going to be out cold for a while" states Junior Rachel stares at Alastor, she's never seen him so helpless before. "He needs rest" she carries him back into the lounge leaving the other two to clean up the training room.

Rachel carefully lays Alastor on the sofa and wraps him up in his ragged blanket.  It's so strange to see him so helpless.  She sits on the floor next to him and switching her program to standard to guarding mode, ready to protect him from any danger.

An hour passes, Rachel is still guardingA helpless Alastor when she hears voices next door in the kitchen, she becomes more alert.  Her eyes scan the wall, and identifying the voices as Joe and Junior, relaxes a little.  She scans Alastor, his vital signs are stronger now, but he is still asleep.

"Wait since when can he do that?" "He's gotta Joe, if he doesn't..." "What happens Dude?" "I default to my factory settings" replies Rachel entering the kitchen. "Oh hey Rachel" Joe pets her on the head and she smiles "so what's the big problem?" Junior sighs, "if she runs out of power she defaults back to Dr. Kranken's original program when she powers back up, it happened once and it wasn't pretty", Junior embarrassingly grins "heh last time she destroyed four rooms before Alastor shut her down by impaling her on his sword" "Yeah, and it took me six weeks to fix her back up" Alastor states leading on the doorframe, he looks exhausted "Al-ass-taru, you should be resting" "And I need to fix that pronunciation in your software Rachel" Alastor stumbles to the kitchen table and flops onto the spare chair, "hey Junior don't I at least get a proper coffee for nearly killing myself over your 'bot?" "Hehe I thought you'd never ask", Junior gets up and turns on the hob "hey Joe you want one?" "I think I'm good Junior-" Junior fills the coffee pot with a little more coffee that usual, fills the water pot and screws it all together placing it delicately on the flame hob "-aren't you a little young to be drinking coffee Junior?" "If he's old enough to defend Movie Land, then he's old enough to drink coffee Joe" retorts Alastor, "besides he makes one heck of a brew, don't 'cha little dude?" "The best" beams Junior proudly Joe smiles, it's nice to see those two getting on.  Last time he met them they were at each other's throats fighting over something that seems insignificant now, but quite important at the time. Junior opens the cupboard and takes out the large glass latte mugs, he puts them on the countertop and opens the fridge and stares at the contents, "Alastor you forgot to get cream again" "I told you, I don't need it" "But I want it" "You don't live here, when you live here you can dictate what lives in the fridge" Junior pouts, he may be older now, but he still has a certain immaturity about him at times.  He takes out the milk, undoes the cap, pours it into the milk pan, sets it on the hob next to the coffee pot and waits for both to heat up fully. "anyway since when do you drink coffee, Mr. Health-Freak?" Joe questions Alastor who is desperately trying not to fall asleep on the table. "How else am I going to stay awake long enough to want to beat you up again Joe?" Alastor laughs, "Besides Junior makes the best coffee this side of Chromatown" "Chromatown?" Junior laughs "just like you Joe to forget everything as usual, it's the culture capital here, you know the arty town?  The one where the Monochromatolids were sucking the colour from?" "Oh that place? Is is okay now?" Alastor groans "Joe just shut up, your stupidity is giving me a headache" Junior slides Alastor's full coffee mug down the table to him, where Alastor stops it by holding out his hand.  Junior holds up his glass "drink up, it'll make Joe seem less idiotic" and takes a swig.  Alastor laughs while Joe huffs and takes a swig his coffee, he pauses and swallows making a weird face. "Junior you put sugar in it again" "You need the energy, now shut up and drink it" "But I hate sugar in my coffee" "Shut up or I'll make Rachel do the thing "You wouldn't..." "Wouldn't I?" Junior glares at Alastor, the tension between the two is even making Joe uncomfortable "What's the thing?" Joe asks "IT'S NOTHING" Alastor pouts as he swigs more coffee "absolutely nothing..." "Good demon" Junior jokes.  Joe has never seen anyone put Alastor in his place before least not Junior, the little chap who at one point used to hide behind Joe whenever Alastor would appear all fired up for a proper battle.  Things have certainly changed between those two. Junior sits at the table and sips his coffee slowly truly enjoying the taste "Hey Assy, want me to fix that error?" Alastor glares at Junior, "Call me that again and I'll rip your entrails out" he growls Joe has never seen Alastor so angry before, he might actually follow through with that threat, but Junior just laughs it off "Rachel" he commands, the robot lady turns to him "Yes Junior?" "Run Program comma verbal pronunciation correction, authorisation Captain Blue Junior" Rachel's eyes turn green and lifeless "Verbal Authorisation Acknowledged" she speaks in a monotonous tone "Proceeding...Input Error" Junior points at Alastor and Rachel turns to look at the demon "Register comma Ally comma Bl-" Junior pauses and whispers to Alastor "how do you want her to address you? You've got dumb titles" "Alastor is fine, just get it right this time" Alastor pouts and Junior nods in acknowledgement "Correction comma Register comma Ally comma Alastor" Junior continues "Ally Al-ass-tour" Rachel slowly speaks each syllable slowly "Pronunciation override Ali-es-tour" "Correction Recorded Ally Ali-es-tour" Junior shrugs at Alastor, "fine" the demon replies, "it's better than what she used to call me" "Save Data and resume regular program" Junior sips more of his coffee "S-A-V-I-N-G" Rachel's eyes flash green before blinking off and finally returning to their regular blue "Now Rachel" the robot turns to look at Junior, "who is that?" He says pointing to Alastor who is doubting the whole thing worked "Have you forgotten our ally Ali-es-stor so quickly Junior?  He is not going to be amused, in fact he looks quite grumpy and exhausted.  I believe he should rest" "Aw" Joe sounds disappointed "it was amazing when she called you Al-ass-tor" Alastor throws his now empty coffee glass at Joe hitting him in the face.  The glass lands on the table and interestingly doesn't break and just rolls on the table top. Junior laughs as Alastor scowls while Joe whines and rubs his now painful face. "Ah" Rachel exclaims "male bonding is such a fascinating act to observe"

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Despite Alastor's protests Junior and Rachel stay the night, Joe stays up all night happily chatting to Junior in the kitchen while Rachel takes it upon herself to guard the premises from intruders.  Joe and Junior are so loud that Alastor can't get any sleep, despite him shouting at them to shut up at several points during the night. It may have been a long time since Joe last saw Junior, but it's clear their friendship is still as strong if not stronger than before. Just slightly after dawn Junior decides it's time for him and Rachel to return to Blue Town.  Alastor just shouts at them to get out so he can get some sleep and Junior just laughs, he knows Alastor misses having him around. Joe follows Junior and Rachel to the door and awkwardly says good bye to his most trusted friends.  Rachel prepares the portal to Blue Town and hugs Joe before entering. Joe's not sure if he should shake Junior's hand or fist bump him but Junior just hugs him tightly, before playfully punching Joe in the arm and dashing through the portal.  Joe just smiles to himself watching the portal shut upon itself before heading to bed.  If he's lucky Alastor will also sleep through the day too.

***** *****

"Glad you made it somewhat in time Joe" Alastor sets his purple Blade Master helmet on completing his armour and readjusts the helmet as Joe enters the large training room. "Whatcha wearing all that get up for?" Alastor summons his blade to his right hand "You didn't think this was just a vacation did you Joe? I want to see how much you've improved and what better way in a no-hold-back Henshin battle" "Well I would except someone borrowed my V-watch" Joe glares at Alastor Alastor pats his pockets and pulls out Joe's V-watch "Catch!" he laughs as he tosses the watch to Joe "Ah yeah" Joe jumps excitedly into the air and holding V-watch up shouts "HENSHIN A GO GO BABY!" His baggy clothes transform into his famous red power suit, with his white boots and gloves contrasting the bright red.  The V-emblem flies into his forehead and his crimson helmet materialises out of nowhere, his pink scarf trails out of his helmet.  Transformation complete Joe excitedly hops on the floor. "So how do I win?" "You says you are going to win?" laughs Alastor, he coughs clearing his throat "The rules are simple, even for you Joe-" Joe pouts and his eyes narrow Alastor cracks his fingers as he speaks "-whoever can remove the other's helmet wins" "Is that all? That's easy Baby, just don't cry when I beat you" Joe laughs assuming his battle pose "Ready Joe?" Alastor points his blade menacingly at Joe "Let's get it ON!" exclaims Joe

Alastor charges straight at Joe, it's clear he's taking this showdown very seriously, Joe leaps majestically out of the way, forcing Alastor to skid to avoid crashing into the wall. "Haha you're worse that that rhino dude" Joe mocks Alastor spins around to face Joe and unleashes a electrified stinger attack at him.  Joe hops backwards avoiding the blade aimed right at his face, but is forced to grab the blade to prevent it connecting with his head.  He winces as the sharp blade digs into his hand cutting through the gloves and onto his palms.  As the blood from his hands stains both his gloves and Alastor's blade, and aims a kick right at the demon's stomach.  Alastor presses his blade harder and moves towards Joe, unfortunately Joe's kick misses it's intended target and he kicks the demon hard in the crotch. Alastor drops the blade and takes a few steps backwards while grabbing his most delicate body part with both hands. "Hey t-t-that's low" Alastor winces with tears in his eyes "You're the one that stated no-hold-back" Joe jokes as he clenches his fists attempting to stop the bleeding "What was I supposed to do to disarm you?" "Kick me ANYWHERE BUT THERE IDIOT!" "Dude...I am SO SORRY...I WAS aiming for your stomach" Joe rubs his palms together generating a small fireball, now is the best time to attack while Alastor while he is distracted.

Joe charges at Alastor, his right fist engulfed in flames.  Still wincing Alastor dodges Joe's fist, however hasn't avoided the attack fully as Joe lands the punch on Alastor's tail tip setting it on fire "Do you smell burnin-" Alastor sniffs before seeing his tail on fire " MY TAIL!!" Alastor screams while running high speed from Joe, before diving to the dusty floor and rolls extinguishing the flames with the dust. "That's it!  No more Mr. Nice Demon" Alastor exclaims while charging at Joe with his fists clenched.

Alastor punches Joe right in the visor, the impact so strong he dents the left side. Alastor unleashes a flurry of punches aimed right at Joe's head, aiming at the dent attempting the smash the helmet.  Joe moves backwards weaving in and out of Alastor's fists as if dancing to some upbeat song. Alastor snarls "You little bas-" "Now now, is that anyway to speak to me?" Joe laughs irritating Alastor as he gets more frustrated "I don't even need to use my powers with you anymore" Joe reaches and grabs both of Alastor's fists in his hands, and pushes against him, the demon snarls in Joe's face "This whole time - you were just pretending to be an idiot" "Not really" Joe laughs "you just assumed I wasn't doing any training back home" Joe knees Alastor in the stomach winding the demon, as Alastor bends down to struggling to breath, Joe elbows him in the spine knocking him to the ground.  Joe kneels down and grabs a horn on Alastor's helmet forcing his head up and glares into his eyes. "I will always be stronger than you and I will always beat you" Joe states "Now to finish this-" As Joe begins to remove Alastor's helmet, he is unaware of the crackle in the air as a demon blade spins over his head, it stops and rushes straight towards him.  Joe glances up briefly and rolls away narrowly avoid the sword which becomes lodged in his trailing cape. Alastor flaps his wings scattering dust and ascends into the air. "Do you think I would have made it that easy for you?" Alastor mocks flying high and readjusts his helmet, he's still injured but refuses to give up. Joe pulls the sword free from his cape and throws it straight at Alastor's head, the demon ducks to the side and the sword slices through his right wing membrane before continuing on and getting stuck in the ceiling.  Alastor yelps falling to the floor landing hard on his left elbow. "Daaam-" he screeches Joe hurtles towards the fallen demon with another flaming fist, Alastor struggles to his feet, but stumbles and instead rolls on the dusty floor narrowly escaping Joe's punch which hits the floor forcing a large amount of dust into the air covering both warriors in a light dusting. Alastor coughs as wipes his visor clearing his vision, he can hear Joe wheezing nearby.   Hoisting himself up using his right arm he grips his left which is aching badly.  He can't quite tell if it's broken as the adrenalin is numbing the pain, his wing however has no problem reminding him how painful it is as the dust lodges into the open wound stinging with every move. Alastor is too preoccupied with the pain that he hasn't noticed Joe who has now grabbed his tail and using all his strength, pulls Alastor back and swings him around releasing his grip only to throw him straight into the wall where his helmet horns get stuck. Alastor struggles trying to unstick his horns, but the tips are stuck fast.  Slumped on the ground and realising the only way to leave this situation is to remove his helmet, Alastor sighs admitting defeat. "Joe, it's well stuck...help?" Alastor sighs Joe moves closer very weary "This better not be another trick" "I would dislodge myself if I could" Alastor pouts Joe grabs the demon's shoulder padding with his blood stained gloves pulls his head free from his dusty helmet. "I win" Joe states removing his own helmet, dropping it in the floor.  Wiping his brow, he is unaware of the bloody mark on his face as he gets fresh blood on his gloves "Oh, didn't realise you hit me that hard" "Payback for setting my tail on fire" Alastor growls, his arm aches and he winces.  Joe grabs Alastor's wounded arm, removes the demon's glove and feels up the bones.  Alastor snarls at him "Oh shut up, unless you want me to break it some more" Joe jeers Begrudgingly Alastor stops and allows Joe to continue "Well nothing's broken that I can feel, but that does look like its gonna hurt for a while" Joe removes his scarf and uses it the wrap Alastor's arm in an improvised sling "I hate pink" the demon states Joe pokes him in the arm "Get over it-" Alastor glares at him "-come on-" Joe continues as he helps Alastor to his feet and helps him walk "-I'd better patch you up" "I can look after myself" Alastor growls "I know you can-" Joe states "-but Silvia is gonna kill me when she finds out about this"

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"Come on Alastor...please!" "Well it is your last few days and I'm in no condition to fight..." sighs Alastor, his arm still in Joe's scarf sling Alastor looks worn out and looks a sorry state after being patched up by Joe his tail and right wing are all bandaged up.  Joe has bandages wrapped on his palms and a large plaster on his forehead where Alastor hit him. "Yeah!" Joe grabs Alastor's good arm and drags him into the lounge and shoves him onto the sofa.  Alastor pouts, he does not like being treated like a rag doll in his own home.  Joe pulls a disc out from under his T-shirt, blows the dust off it and shoves it into the DVD player and starts fiddling with the buttons on Alastor's TV to find the right channel. "Joe how EXACTLY do you keep a disc in your t-shirt?" "I just do, Dude you never know when you'll get the chance to watch Captain Blue - ah got it!" The opening credits for Captain Blue flashes onto the screen, Alastor sighs as Joe excitedly leaps onto the sofa and bounces around in excitement.  Alastor is more worried about Joe breaking the sofa in his jittery excitement that he hasn't noticed how close they are on the small sofa, any closer and anyone would think they were a couple. "Joe how many times have you seen this?" "Not enough dude, come on it's Captain Blue, you can't watch Captain Blue enough" Alastor sighs, this must be the twentieth time he'd seen this movie, yet to Joe it's like the first time every time, well at least he can get a nice nap in, Joe isn't going to notice, the flame haired idiot is still acting like an excited child at Christmas. Alastor stretches his arms upwards, flopping his arms over his chest wraps his wings around his arms and settles his head into the sofa arm ready for a good sleep.