Doppocalypse: BABY LION

<Skyler>: BABLYON
<Skyler>: MORE LIKE
<Skyler>: BABY LION
Hubris is now ]
<Hubris>: [anywho]
<Hubris>: Skyler wakes up in a very peculiar way that day in the grand bunker of Babylon. Namely the first thing he sees is the wonderful radiant face of.... a really pissed off looking Envy sitting on his chest and staring at him. Its one of those mornings.
<Hubris>: "Well took your sweet ass time didn't you?"
Skyler is immediately stirred awake by the pain on his chest, not having the strength to actually roll her off of him
<Skyler>: "I, what? What's going on?"
Skyler looks around to see if anything else of note is currently happening
<Hubris>: "You've been out for a day and a half while the boss apparently 'didn't want to rouse you', that's what"
<Hubris>: "Lazy ass. But besides that I actually do have a reason to be here, so wake up" she's definitely playing up the not-liking-you act that she said she would
<Skyler>: "P-please get off my chest I can taste blood"
<Hubris>: Envy blinks, then finally remembers why she shouldn't do that. The green
clad girl climbs off of him and sits on the side of his bed with crossed legs.
Skyler finally inhales, clutching his head and his chest both as he slowly sits himself up
<Skyler>: "Uh, okay, so I was unconscious for almost 2 days. That's... more normal than it should be, probably not ideal... what did you need, again?"
<Hubris>: "We're being sent on patrol and you were personally called up for it. Apparently there might be one of your buddies out there in the desert"
<Hubris>: "And lucky lucky you got stuck with me"
<Skyler>: "Cute. Do I get breakfast or something, first?"
<Skyler>: "Or, like, an IV? Shit..."
<Hubris>: "Hell if I know. You got a fridge in here or something, otherwise go check with the others. I could bring you up a few of those crazy meds that the blue haired guy keeps making"
<Hubris>: "Apparently figured that the mortals among who don't have sentient creatures fixing us at all times of the day deserve to be healthy too"
<Skyler>: "You sound like someone who's openly impressed with how things work around here."
<Hubris>: "I'm impressed things work, really"
Skyler hoists himself out of bed and heads over to the aforementioned fridge to look for something convenient to eat
<Skyler>: "Why wouldn't they?"
<Hubris>: "Because until like a year ago I didn't even know any of this existed, probably"
<Hubris>: "Either way, get yourself dressed and meet me when you're ready to go on patrol. Might be smart to check up with the others to make up for your two days worth of uselessness"
<Skyler>: "I'm glad I can count on you when I need encouragement, Envy."
<Hubris>: "I'm glad I can count on you when I need a smartass" she says as she heads for the door. The second she opens it there's a large booming laughter as a massive hand grabs her by the head and pulls her out. From what you can see Indulgence is a friendly soul who just dropped her off the top floor balcony as a team building exercise. If that's what they call it.
<Hubris>: Luckily for her she's a superhuman, so no damage is actually done except to her pride and a table on the bottom floor. Indulgence is giggling
<Skyler>: "...Heeeeey, buddy. What's, uh... why did you do that?"
Skyler decides to take some additional food out of the fridge and toss it to Indulgence in an attempt to win favor
<Hubris>: The man that... lets face it, he wouldn't fit through the doorway even if he wasn't 10 feet tall, looks in through the door and catches it with surprising speed. "Just some fun is all" the gigantic being scarfs down the food in near to a millisecond. "We got too many kids 'round here, have to reign them in sometimes"
<Skyler>: "Oh. So, for... morale, then."
Skyler [nervous grinning]
<Hubris>: "Yeah, lets just go with that. Morale" Indulgence seems to be fully aware you're bullshitting and is bullshitting right back. "We got you, that Italian, the boss who gets a free pass, and finally that pipsqueak all under 20. Kids need a strong role model to teach them the ropes" he fakes being all responsible
<Skyler>: "Huh, I guess you're right. I'm, uh... close the door, please, I need to shower and all that good stuff."
<Hubris>: "Whatever, kid" the beast of a man says as he shuts the door, you can hear his footsteps from the other side
Skyler lets out a sigh of relief and goes about the normal morning cleanliness routine, plus the additional time to make sure he can remain among the living
Skyler goes on to leave his room once he's as prepared as he's going to be today


<Hubris>: As he steps out he can see a few things on the top floor. Between the pillar going from the bottom of the fort to the top and the ceiling it seems Lust has made a spiderweb type hammock for herself, watching everybody with the expression you'd expect from her. The door to Doppler's office is open, although you can't see much from this angle.
<Hubris>: The sound of Wrath being EXTRA ANGRY downstairs can be heard alongside the roaring laughter of Indulgence
<Hubris>: Blasphemy is no doubt in his lab, as per the usual.
<Hubris>: While Envy most likely is waitin by the main gate without any real hurry Skyler looks up at Lust with a sigh, and then decides he should go to Doppler's throne room
<Hubris>: Lust gives him a seductive wave and a wink that makes one's skin crawl as he goes by. Inside the throne room Doppler paces back and forth in front of the massive glass window that makes up an entire wall of the room, looking troubled. "Good morning, Skyler" he says right before Sky can enter the room
<Skyler>: "Heeeey duuuuude.... what's up?"
<Hubris>: "Well, if you must ask, we have made several surgical strikes around the globe to raise tensions while leaving little trace of our attacks to make it seem the work of other nations, the takeover of Iraq itself has begun and soon our domain will have miles of land and defense to keep our core protected"
<Hubris>: "the s-men have begun their campaign against us with our attacks, the brotherhood and several other groups have reacted as well, and we have evidence of two agents somewhere around the nearby area that might pose a threat to our progress"
<Hubris>: "They've lived far longer than the average spy in the frontier, which at best seem to manage a few hours before death. We're talking from all over the
world. So these are especially dangerous"
<Hubris>: Doppler is talking a million miles a minute as he says all this as well
<Hubris>: "Luckily enough I think we'll be able to finally provoke outright war before they can even make a difference" He finally finishes as if Sky had any idea what he was talking about Skyler understands most of it, not knowing anything about the specific implications they would entail Skyler walks over to put a hand on Doppler's shoulder
<Skyler>: "You feeling okay, dude?"
<Hubris>: Doppler
sighs deeply, relaxing a bit. "Its stressful and I haven't slept since I
got here, you tell me. But I have to get things done as soon as I can"
<Skyler>: "Dude, you need to sleep a /little/. Do you even have a bed?"
<Hubris>: "Yes. Its still completely untouched"
<Skyler>: "You ought to change that. Preferably with a tight enough lock on the door that none of these fucking creeps get in..."
Skyler looks back to the general direction Lust was outside
<Hubris>: "They wouldn't touch me. Even Lust knows her place. But I don't have time to sleep, I have to be organizing at all moments. Can't stop thinking or else they stop working"
<Hubris>: Doppler is going back and forth kind of erratically. "Its terrible, but I gotta keep going. I need to keep them all in line and organize the attacks and the defenses"
<Hubris>: "But it'll be worth it, I swear"
<Skyler>: "Get some sleep. If you die, then... uh... the operation dies. So you can't just let exhaustion destroy you from the inside out, dude."
<Hubris>: "Well, I can't die. I'm powered up by all this at the same time, regenerate and all that."
<Skyler>: "It's clearly having an effect on you. Even when you're nto human, you're, well, you're human anyways."
Skyler is clearly uncomfortable and meticulously cherry-picking his words
<Hubris>: "...I guess" he sits down on the throne, looking up at Skyler.
Skyler looks back down at Doppler, combing his hand through his hair roughly
<Hubris>: "Are you doing alright?"
<Skyler>: "I was out for a day and a half, dude."
<Hubris>: "Yeah, it was worrying"
<Hubris>: "I was close to getting the science team in on it"
<Hubris>: "But you're conscious now. I'd still suggest getting checked up"
<Skyler>: "Uh... dude, I think I need to tell you something."
<Hubris>: "Yeah?"
<Skyler>: "Actually, how about- your powers basically allow you to function as a human ultrasound, right?"
<Hubris>: "I can, yes"
<Skyler>: "Then do that, to me."
<Hubris>: "...Alright. Take off your shirt"
Skyler does a half-laugh smile at the oddness of the situation, and unbuttons his shirt and then removes it
Hubris stands up, pulling up his sleeves. Gently he presses his fingertips against Skyler's chest and a strange vibrating sensation fills his entire body.
<Hubris>: (at this point you tell me what I see : D )
Skyler 's insides are a jumbled mess. His middle-ish area, mainly his stomach, isn't too badly damaged. Everything else is some horrific flesh-mush that's just kinda sloshing around in there
<Skyler>: "...Uh, medically speaking, I'm dead."
Hubris pulls back, looking surprised
<Skyler>: "No heartbeat. I breathe, but my lung don't really... /use/ it. I eat, but I don't think my body's actually using any nutrients..."
<Hubris>: "....How... How are you alive?"
Skyler begins putting his shirt again
<Skyler>: "Well, technically, I'm not. Also, I dunno."
<Skyler>: "Maybe I was cursed by some wizard at the school to stick around forever."
<Hubris>: "....That's really worrying, man"
Skyler shrugs
<Hubris>: "You sure you're going to be..... 'alright'? As much as you can be when you're, uh, dead"
<Skyler>: "Well, I mean, I survived 'against' Wrath for the amount of time it took for you to finally get him off me."
<Hubris>: "That was only a few seconds, though"
<Hubris>: "You're about to be sent out on scouting patrol. Are you sure you're able?"
<Skyler>: "Doesn't matter who dies as long as your plan goes forward, right?"
<Hubris>: "....I don't want you to die though"
<Skyler>: "Whatever you say, man."
Skyler readjusts his shirt and walks out of the room
<Hubris>: Doppler watches him leave, blinking
Skyler once again avoids Lust as he walks down to the first floor
<Hubris>: She watches him go by and definitely isn't looking at his face.
Skyler feels like a piece of meat, which is probably ironic because that's sort of what he's become
<Hubris>: As if she can read his thoughts she gives a playful cat call whistle
<Hubris>: Meanwhile
downstairs the ruckus of Wrath can still be heard, looking down one can
see that he's even more pissed than usual if that's possible. Everybody
else is taking their usual places
Skyler does his best to avoid the commotion from Wrath and tries to find the exit Envy would be at


<Hubris>: Envy is waiting by the main exit, a few of her personalized green monsters at her sides.
<Skyler>: "Nice goblins. Do they do tricks?"
<Hubris>: "Yeah. For their first trick you're getting a razor sharp prostate exam"
<Hubris>: "You ready or what?"
<Skyler>: "Well, I don't really feel like undoing my belt since I already went through all the trouble of putting on pants..."
<Hubris>: "I'll do it for you if its really too much trouble"
<Hubris>: "But are you going on patrol or not?"
<Skyler>: "That's still a thing? It's been like a whole half hour. Sure, why not."
<Hubris>: "Good" Envy barked back before turning to the slowly opening gate. The green three eyed demons stay close to Skyler, obviously watching his every movement as the door opens and the bright blinding light of the desert sun is revealed.
Skyler shields his eyes from the sun as he looks around at the demon things
<Skyler>: "Can you please keep your minions from checking me out?"
<Hubris>: "Nope" the girl answers blankly as she steps out into the barren sands that the massive one eyed giants stand vigil far apart from one another around the base. "This your first scout?"
<Skyler>: "Ugh, fine. And yes. Well, I mean, other than the type that sells cookies."
<Hubris>: "Knew you were a girl scout"
<Hubris>: "But, anyway, since I am guessing you don't have your fancy wings anymore you won't be able to keep up on your own. We're meant to cross Iraq and back in a few hours"
<Skyler>: "So, what, you carry me?"
<Hubris>: "I was kind of hoping I could stick you on one of the lil' ones so I wouldn't have your light sexual tension and endless quips from a two dollar book you bought, but its probably smarter to leave your little delicate form with my oh so caring hands"
<Skyler>: "Oh, all my quips are totally original. Books don't teach you how to banter with the type of inane bullshit you like spewing out."
<Hubris>: "On some level that makes it even worse. You're fully aware of how bad they are"
<Hubris>: "But enough chat, we have some crystal bitch to find"
<Hubris>: Envy has green veins shoot throughout her body before a similarly colored biological mass seems to cover the surface of her body except for her head, looking similar to the same fleshy muscle material the monsters are made out of.
<Skyler>: "...Neat?"
<Hubris>: And with one swoop she manages to get Skyler on her back holding on for dear life in the small moment he blinked. Part of the symbiotic costume spreads out and creates a belt to keep him attached. "Ready?"
<Skyler>: "No, this is when you say something about keeping your hands and feet inside the ride at all times. Also yeah, I'm good."
<Hubris>: "Hands I'm fine with but I'm not into feet. Anyway, first squad out" She quickly slaps a pair of goggles on Skyler and with that Envy and the posse of the small symbiotes burst off into the surrounding landscape ungodly fast speeds
Skyler leans in close and grips Envy for dear life, not accustomed to reaching such high speeds without some sort of external protection
<Hubris>: Envy has a laugh at how quickly he reacted and makes a teasing little 'dawww' sound to mess with him, but then goes back to serious and focuses on the mission at hand. Their speed only seems to be increasing as they effortlessly traverse over hills and rocks. Skyler can barely see through the goggles that they first seem to be heading... right to a cliff.
<Skyler>: "Can you fly?"
<Hubris>: "No, can you?"
<Hubris>: ( #shotsfired )
Skyler doesn't say anything
<Hubris>: Finally they reach the cliff and she... jumps riiiiight off. The monsters follow suit as well, and its one hell of a drop as well as they plummet closer and closer to the ground
<Skyler>: "I don't know if I can sustain thousands of feet worth of drop the same way you can."
<Hubris>: She seems to reply by actively flipping and spinning in the air, making it seem all the more dangerous and confusing.
Skyler reluctantly holds onto her tighter, pretty sure he'll fall apart if he doesn't
<Skyler>: "You're having too much fun."
<Hubris>: "You aren't having enough" she seems to reach back and tussle his hair right before they would hit the ground. With a final spin she lands on her feet... and Skyler doesn't feel any force from the impact at all. A crater is formed underneath her to boot. The second they hit the ground the squad bolt forward on the new turf as they did before above
Skyler would complain about his hair but it's already a mess from going [large number] miles per hour
<Skyler>: "I- but, argh. Stop that."
<Hubris>: "No, its too cute" Envy is having far too much fun. The speeding creatures begin to approach a settlement of some kind next to an elevated hill, looking somewhat damaged from a recent battle. The hill seems to be littered with the corpses of the giant symbiotes
<Skyler>: "So, like, your boss can't hear us anymore, right?"
Hubris subtly points out the monsters that have flanked them the entire time. They are purposely being watched.
<Skyler>: "Hahahfuck right okay"
<Hubris>: Skyler can feel a little prick in his arm where he is holding on (hopefully somewhere appropriate) coming from the suit. His head feels a little woozy for a second but then he starts to hear things
<Hubris>: "Luckily we have this" Envy's voice seems to ring in his head
Skyler was holding onto around the upper non-lewd overbooob area
<Skyler>: "Oh damn that's cool. By that I mean weird. Am I infected now?"
<Hubris>: "No, I just hijacked one of your nerves to send signals to your brain"
<Hubris>: "Hope you're cool with that"
<Skyler>: "Sure, I guess. Is this permanent?"
<Hubris>: "No. Its just a quick connection"
<Hubris>: "This is the only way I could do it without rousing suspicion"
<Skyler>: "Awh, I thought I'd get to hear the sweet, sweet sound of your crude rasping voice at all hours of the day."
<Hubris>: "After you save the world or something"
<Skyler>: "Oh boy, I wasn't motivated to end Armageddon before, but /now/ I am."
<Hubris>: "I have that effect on people. But anyway you got something to say?"
<Skyler>: "What? No, I was just going to see if I was n the clear to more aggressively flirt with you."
<Skyler>: "And by that I mean, what the /fuck/, Reverb's out here?"
<Hubris>: "A gentleman if I've ever heard one. And yeah, Wrath reported /killing/ her personally but there was evidence of other crystal shit so clearly he didn't. Must be why he's so angry"
<Hubris>: "Whats her deal outside of being crazier than me?"
<Skyler>: "I read her file. Her grandparents tried making her into a crazy killmachine or something, so she's rebelling by joining a superhero team and then doing exactly what her grandparents originally told her to do."
<Hubris>: "I mean what the hell is she doing here"
<Skyler>: "...Oh. Finding me?"
<Hubris>: "Romantic"
<Skyler>: "Oh, wait no, finding your boss. She wants to dick him."
<Hubris>: "Romantic"
<Skyler>: "Yeah, she's a charmer."
<Hubris>: "So, what happens if we /do/ find her? I doubt she knows our plan"
<Hubris>: "Or at least that I'm on your side"
<Skyler>: "Can you prick her, too? I doubt she can kill us both, especially if I use myself as a meat shield."
<Skyler>: "I get the impression she's slightly less willing to murder me than she would other people."
<Hubris>: "Well she'd need to get rid of our company first"
<Skyler>: "Easy enough to arrange, right?"
<Skyler>: "Just do the thing where you send them to fight and then watch them get slaughtered for a bit, then we should be free to talk."
Skyler looks around at the minions around them and wonders if their extended period of silence is suspicious


<Hubris>: "Fine, fine. That works. Then our scheming duo becomes a threesome, wonderful. I just got one question"
<Skyler>: "Yeah?"
<Hubris>: "Should you succeed with your plan and save your friends, what becomes of me and the others? Am I going to lose this power?"
<Hubris>: "....Will your colleagues kill me?"
<Skyler>: "...Uhm... Well, first of all, rape-woman and science-italian are actually both also in on this. They approached /me/ about wanting my help killing your boss, actually."
<Skyler>: "So, we've got that going for us."
<Hubris>: "Oh Christ don't tell me that purple sweater is on my side"
<Skyler>: "You're not the one she tried molesting when you were powerless, so shut it."
<Skyler>: "And, uh, anyways... iunno. I don't know what will happen. I think there's a way to get your powers out without hurting you guys."
<Hubris>: "I hope so... I'm tired of this feeling. I hear all this stuff about having friends or a school or a job or this or that and I feel heartbreakingly jealous. Can't fucking help it and I'm forced to do this too"
<Hubris>: "I just want to get out of here"
<Hubris>: "Your friends better be quick cleaning this shit up"
Skyler loosens up from what was previously a terrified death grip into a semi-legitimate hug from his awkward position
<Skyler>: "I'll get you out of here safe and sound, don't worry about it."
<Hubris>: "...Thanks, I appreciate it"
<Skyler>: "Don't worry about it. In the meantime my success rides - er, hinges - on you being ridiculously overpowered. Which means you need to feel like shit until the foreseeable end of whatever plan I, uh, am currently working on. So hang in there."
<Hubris>: "I can bare through it if there's at least an end in sight. Just try your damn hardest to actually succeed so there can be that end"
<Skyler>: "Yeah yeah, you're lucky everything's been falling into my lap recently, so we might actually have a shot at this."
<Hubris>: "Good, then its settled, Skyler" she actually uses his name for once
<Skyler>: "You didn't ever tell me your name, did you?"
<Hubris>: "Very few names get passed around here. Fluer Delacroix, rising French rockstar forcefully turned international terrorist"
<Skyler>: "French girl stuck in Iraq because she's working for a Filipino boy, while she and her American love interest search for some crazy Japenese woman..."
<Skyler>: "Holy shit, it's like living in one of those old super politically-correct television shows."
<Skyler>: "Or maybe a racist political cartoon."
<Hubris>: "Its looking a lot more like the ladder"
<Skyler>: "If it's of any consolidation, your name doesn't suit you at all. Which is a good thing."
<Hubris>: "Whats that supposed to mean? I'll be honest its not much of a rocker name but I still got it. Parents probably envisioned I'd be a nice young catholic girl that blushed at the thought of holding hands when they named me"
<Skyler>: "I was supposed to be implying that it was an attractive name, whilst still managing to imply you yourself were not a desirable mate. Guess it fell a little flat."
<Hubris>: "Shut it, you. I'll show you desirable mate. Also hold on, we're about to actually find something soon"
<Skyler>: "Oh, you know it's all just banter. And, what, does the telepathy thing get in the way of your basic human eyesight or something?"
<Hubris>: "No, I mean actually hold on tighter. I appreciate the nice warm hug but I don't need you flying off of me when I come to a stop"
<Skyler>: "Oh, yeah, that does sound good."
Skyler goes back to the less affectionate but more secure grip
<Hubris>: [I'M SATAN SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO CONTINUE FOR MOTE THAN 40 MINUTES AFTER WHAT I TOLD YOU I WOULD STOP]

<Envy>: Where we last left off Skyler was holding on for dear life onto the admittedly smaller Envy as she sprinted through the desert in search of his lost classmate.
Skyler is clinging to Envy as tightly as he can manage as they achieve GOESFAST speeds
<Envy>: The town they see in the distance appears to be lightly damaged and near the hill is littered with the corpses of the beasts alongside copious amount of crystals embedded in them.
<Skyler>: "Oh, I could never guess who did this."
<Envy>: "Well, I know where she /was/"
<Skyler>: "Totally know who did this."
<Skyler>: "Good enough, I guess."
Envy starts to approach at gofast speed before bullets start to whir past them coming from the town. It seems the local militia has taken back control after the monsters were thrown out
Skyler ducks down as far as he can, making a small surprised yelp
<Skyler>: "You didn't say we were going to be shot at!"
<Envy>: "I didn't expect we'd get shot at either!"
<Skyler>: "Oh, great."
<Skyler>: "So, what, do we have a way around these guys without just murdering them?"
Envy swerves to the side to dodge bullets, turning away from them. Normally they'd be able to outrun said bullets but this is 2024. Shits technological now! As if to prove a point, one of the bullets crashes into the heads of one of the symbiotes following them, crashing into the desert lifelessly
<Envy>: "I don't think we can get into the town itself, they're aggressive to anything from Babylon and we aren't equipped to handle this nonlethally. We have to follow the trail somewhere else"
<Skyler>: "If it's vital to our success I can probably go in, otherwise yeah I'm game for a more bullet-free environment
<Envy>: "They think you're from there too, you know"
<Skyler>: "They'd probably be less hostile when they see I'm not a veiny, color-coded metahuman" Envy and the group turn away from the town, instead following in the direction of the massive hill next to the settlement where much of the crystals jut out.
<Skyler>: "She sure has kept herself busy, huh..."

<Greene>: Envy heads off into the desert, fleeing the incoming gunfire raining down on them as they pass. In an instant the ground itself seems to explode, its mortar fire.
<Greene>: Bombs rain down at them as they escape the area, unable to reach their goal under the heavy crossfire.
<Skyler>: "This is fun. I'm having fun."
<Greene>: "You are a sicko, boy" Envy says up to him as they finally make it out of their range and behind a hill.
<Skyler>: "I was being facetious. This is awful."
<Greene>: She lets Skyler down, giving him some time to stretch after holding on for dear life for so long.
Skyler wobbles for a second and sits down in the sand
<Greene>: "Alright, first things first we know she's been here, but we can't actually get there without getting shot" Envy sounds a little peeved as she gets a breather
<Skyler>: "We're safe here, right? They can't still like, iunno, /bomb/ us from here, right?"
<Greene>: "They can't. At least for now. They probably only just got back into action the artillery still needs to be prepared"
<Skyler>: "That really doesn't make me feel better. Do we have a plan, or what?"
Skyler rubs his joints some
<Greene>: "Well... we could always go in disguised"
<Greene>: "By we I mean you and me"
<Greene>: "Buddies have to stay"
<Skyler>: "Oh, right. I forgot it's physically impossible for you to dress in anything other than green punk Hot Topic attire."
<Greene>: "Fuck you too. But seriously" one of the demons hands her a bag that she ruffles around in, throwing a set of local robes his way to cover up how white he is.
<Skyler>: "...Are you actually required to color-code yourselves or is that just a /you/ thing?"
Skyler sifts through the sack of native clothes
<Greene>: "Its actually required but I had the green thing beforehand" she says as she quickly changes clothes into the conservative cloth garb
<Greene>: "Sweater too, but you can probably guess why"
<Skyler>: "...So the goblins are gonna watch us change?"
<Greene>: Envy didn't even seem to care that Skyler or the Goblins saw as she switched attire. "Eh? I guess. What, do you think they're judging you?"
Skyler looks over to one of the random minions with a bit of nervousness
<Skyler>: "Uh... Tony? Can you like, avert your eyes?"
<Skyler>: "That's who watches these, right? Your boss?"
<Greene>: "Yeah, something like that" she said as the camera chooses a good angle to hide anything inappropriate for children, struggling to fit the damn thing. The demons seem to sigh and look away finally
<Skyler>: "Thanks, bro."
Skyler quickly has his changing scene, all the girls were disappointed when the remembered he's wearing underwear and his a load of bandages on his torso
<Skyler>: "And, uh, next time you oughta give a little warning before you just strip down."
<Greene>: "Aw come on, its not like its anything you haven't seen before. Unless, you haven't seen it before. In which case that's adorable" the girl says now that she's completely covered up. "Besides, your choice to look."
<Greene>: "Yours wasn't even that good though. All covered up and everything"
<Greene>: "Teaaase"
<Skyler>: "Weren't you the one who said we should be less obvious about hitting on each other?"
<Greene>: "Yeah. But then the opportunity presented itself"
<Greene>: "Now come on and lets actually do our job"
<Skyler>: "Oh yeah, we have one of those."
<Skyler>: "Also, bro, you're free to look again."
<Greene>: The demons seem preoccupied playing tic tac toe in the sand.
Skyler feels like he needs to react to this but he's not sure how he'd go about that.
<Greene>: Envy gives Skyler a strong pat on the shoulder and then starts walking out from behind the hill towards the settlement.
<Skyler>: "Wouldn't they know the terrorists who just went over this hill would be the ones walking back out of it? Do you know any, uh... whatever they speak in Iraq?"
<Greene>: "We're runners. They see us and they never see us stop moving, if you catch my drift. We just look like a bunch of lucky refugees that didn't get eviscerated when we passed by"
<Greene>: "And yes, I know Arabic"
<Skyler>: "Okay, cool. So you can do everything, and I'll be your retarded crippled white friend."
<Skyler>: "What was the point of bringing me here, again?"
<Greene>: "So that when we run into your friend we can make actual contact"
<Greene>: "You're right about that whole self description" she flicks his nose. The two start to approach the town, the guard watching them closely at first but eventually seeing no harm in them. Just a bunch of drifters. Slowly but surely they're able to approach the corpses
<Greene>: The bodies of the giants are covered in the shards of crystal alongside the torn bodyparts of their comrades. There doesn't seem to be any sign of survivors among the monsters. The trail of bodies seems to lead uphill, though. Before they can make anymore progress they get called out by one of the guards
<Greene>: "مهلا، ماذا تفعل هناك!" the man yells as they approach them, a few others following him
<Skyler>: "Holy shit. These giants are useless."
<Greene>: "They normally are a lot more effective, but apparently she's good at killing things violently. How the fuck old is she again?"
<Skyler>: "Shit, I forget. She looks 12. She's like... 16? 17?"
<Greene>: "Not that much younger than us but still, that's just fucked up"
<Skyler>: "You're telling me. She sleeps like, less than 100 feet away from my dorm."
<Skyler>: "Not much worse then how I have it with you guys around, now that I think about it."
<Greene>: Envy blinked, looking at Skyler then to the guards. "اه، ونحن هنا للبحث عن أحبائنا. نعتقد أنهم قد لقوا مصرعهم في الهجوم. من فضلك ... فقط اسمحوا لنا من خلال." she says in a desperate and pleading tone, even putting on a bit of tears and gripping onto Skyler as if she has a broken heart.
<Greene>: "Look really sad and mourning, goddamnit"
<Skyler>: "Oh, thanks for the warning."
Skyler immediately gets into character, putting on a tearful facade and clutching Envy like he was incapable of physically holding himself up with such OVERWHELMING EMOTION.
<Greene>: She's outright bawling now, hugging him dearly as she looked up at the guards. They stand awkwardly, wondering what the hell they just walked in on. "يخطئ، يمكنك تمرير. لديك تعازينا." the main guard says, letting them go through and returning to his post.
<Skyler>: "What the hell is anyone saying right now"
<Greene>: "We can go past, but keep pretending like you're grief stricken"
<Skyler>: "Why am I sad? What's my /motivation/?"
Skyler takes the slightly-less-emotional husband persona and silently guides himself and Envy forward
<Greene>: "Our children were lost in the attack"
<Skyler>: "Oh man, I didn't know we'd gotten to that part of our relationship."
<Greene>: "I can't believe you forgot our wedding and all 13 kids we had. You're so absent minded"
<Skyler>: "Only 13? That doesn't sound right."
<Greene>: The two of them follow up the hill with the bodies of the Babylonians surrounding them in the sand. It seems like they were all chasing after something, well you know what that is, in a single direction that creates a somewhat neat trail to the top of the hill
<Greene>: "Okay, it might have been 20"
<Greene>: "I lost count"
<Skyler>: "Would our kids be green, too?"
<Greene>: "Only one of them. The really pretentious one. The rest would probably have better color sense"