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Post by Tabitha on Aug 6, 2009 4:08:58 GMT -5
A broad grin spread across her lips as she strolled down the sidewalk. Everything about her from the way she walked to the individual micro expressions on her face practically gave broadcast that she was up to no good. Did she care? Not really. Hell, she knew that everyone expected her to get into trouble. Anyways, it was about that time of the week.
The time of the week to give the piggies some exercise.
She kind of took it as a duty upon herself to keep the Bayville Police in shape. SOMEBODY had to, right? Anyways, if they really had a problem with it, they would have caught her by now, right? Riiight?
Boom Boom gave a small laugh, stifled behind a hand before blowing in her hand in a manner some people did when they were about to throw some dice. Then she threw her hand out, tossing three marble-sized brightly glowing balls of kinetic energy. As she counted down in her head, she ran several feet back.
"Heeeeere piggy piggy piggy~!" Tabitha called out a second before the explosions sounded and the tires blew out from under the cruiser.
There came a flurry of movement. Like some had hit the side of a bee hive with a baseball bat. A squeal came from the trouble-making blonde and she took off running, knowing that the cops would be in hot pursuit. They always took it extra personal when their cars were damaged in the unofficial exercising routine.
Her eyes widened and she gave almost a screech though as she heard something unexpected.
"Oh crap! DOGS!" She blurted out as she looked over her shoulder.
She started running as if her life depended on it.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Aug 6, 2009 16:32:20 GMT -5
School was out and Kurt had actually already done his homework, so he was free to wander the town for the rest of the day. Since nobody else was around to hang with, and he'd already blown the allowvnce the Professor gave them each month, he settled for just wandering around the streets, looking for something to do.
Which was when he heard the explosion up ahead. Nobody was looking, and so he made a quick teleport to look around the corner. Straight into Tabby, charging the other way. It was too quick for Kurt at least to react, except to stick his hvnds out and shout.
"Tabitha, look out!"
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Post by Tabitha on Aug 6, 2009 16:54:56 GMT -5
Dogs! Why the HELL did it have to be DOGS?! She had no problem out-running the angry neighborhood pork patrol but dogs? Not so much! They had too many advantages on her. For one, they were hella fast. For another, they had four legs. SHE had TWO! And last but not least, they had some really really sharp teeth and had absolutely no problem with using them!
Tabitha was just about to shout over her shoulder about the cops cheating in their exercise program when she heard a shout from the direction she had just stopped watching in. Her reaction came a little too little, a little too late, as she practically crashed into the German mutant.
That didn't stop her for long though as without even tripping all the way, she quickly grabbed his hand and started pulling him along.
"No time to talk, fuzzy! Run! We need to run!" She stated before giving a loud laugh that was a cross between excitement and amusement.
Okay, with a tag-along this wasn't as bad. Two dogs, two teens. It was more balanced that way.
"I knew they were lazy, but I didn't think they'd resort to lackeys!" Boom Boom exclaimed with another laugh.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Aug 6, 2009 17:15:57 GMT -5
Kurt barely managed a "Wh-what?!" Before he was dragged along behind her. She was always getting him into situations like this. Then he spotted the dogs and starting running of his own accord, rather than being dragged by her.
"Whoa! What did you do! Why are there dogs?!" He panted as he sprinted along next to her. Teleporting was completely out of the question with the police after them, they'd see him and blow his secret.
"N-Nice doggy!" The young man called fearfully while they ran. The dogs didn't seem inclined to listen, or even to accept that he had nothing to do with this.
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Post by Tabitha on Aug 6, 2009 17:27:57 GMT -5
If she hadn't been laughing a bunch before, she sure was laughing her butt off at hearing Kurt's initial reaction to being dragged along for the ride. Or rather, run. She didn't even break her stride when his questions were tossed her way. Instead, Tabby turned her head to grin at him in her oh so mischievous way, her eyes practically sparkling in excitement. If she grinned any more, she would probably split her cheeks.
"What'd I do? I just kept up in my duties as fitness captain of the pork brigade, that's all! You'd think they'd be more appreciative! They've gotta lost at least ten pounds thanks to me!" She exclaimed.
She took a very quick break in explanations to dart her arms to the side so to tip over a trash can in hopes to slow the dogs down before starting on her one hundred meter dash again.
"As far as the dogs, I think the piggies are trying to tell me they're tired of the same old routine! Hate to burst your bubble, but I don't think the puppies are in the mood to play nice." The blonde laughed out.
"Ow crap! Cramp... cramp!" She blurted out, grabbing her side and limping for a second.
Tabitha grabbed Kurt's arm and quickly darted to the side and into an alley seeing how the alley had more obstacles to use to slow the dogs and the much slower cops down.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Aug 6, 2009 17:53:53 GMT -5
"Hey!" Kurt exclaimed instead of answering. Having to leap the can she knocked over put him off his stride for a second, though it luckily didn't slow the extremely agile young mutant down much at all. Otherwise he might well have been dog chow, the way the mutts were catching up. Luckily they weren't quite so quick to jump the trash cans, giving Kurt a few precious extra yards of lead.
He made another "Whoa!" sound when Tabby suddenly pulled him aside, Kurt had been so intent on running away that he hadn't been looking for anywhere else to go but away from the dogs as quickly as possible.
With superhman grace, he jumped over two more trash cans and knocked them over in passing. His run took him over a big dumpster and high enough to snag the end of a fire escape. The ladder came down with a godawful scraping noise, but it did provide an escape route.
"This way! Come on!" Kurt shouted to Tabby and beckoned her up onto the dumpster. The dogs were just bending around the corner into the alley, they'd definitely need to rush to avoid getting their asses or ankles bitten.
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Post by Tabitha on Aug 6, 2009 18:15:48 GMT -5
There came a yell of complaint when she had first dumped over the trashcan but she knew there was no hard feelings. After all, she knew as well as he did that he would have no problem with a little dodge action being in order. He had to be one of the most agile people she knew besides Toad... Alright, so a little more agile seeing how as soon as she thought about the comparison she instantly had a memory about all the clutz moments that Todd got into. Though, the memories did make her grin even more as they were funny and she wasn't the type to hide the fact that she liked laughing at those very moments. It wasn't a mean laughter, she wasn't out to pick on him. She just had a sense of humor, that's all.
As She dragged Kurt into the alley, she soon found out just how good of an idea it had been to pull him along. Not only was he fast and agile but the blue elf could JUMP! She gave a slight shriek when the ladder came down sounding like someone just clawed their nails down a chalkboard with a microphone right up against it. Apparently, the sound did a good job in distracting the manic mutts as one of them went crashing into one of the toppled over trashcans and its legs tripped up the other dog. But that wasn't a long snag as they were both up and charging in the next second.
"Ya don't have to tell me twice!" Boomers exclaimed as she rushed to the ladder and quickly went on to scrambling up it.
Once up all the way to the roof, she fell on her ass and started laughing, grabbing her sides as she laughed and tried to catch her breath at the same time.
"Hahahaha! I need to drag you along more often!" She laughed out before hopping up to her feet again.
"Jeez, didn't think they'd get that worked up over a couple blown tires. Not like they go anywhere besides the doughnut shop and back anyways." The blonde commented as she went to jogging over to the other side of the roof.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Aug 7, 2009 15:18:58 GMT -5
Having sensitive ears, Kurt didn't like the sound of that ladder coming down any more than the others did. One of the dogs wiped out at least, that was a plus. While Tabby swarmed up the ladder, Kurt had to briefly fend off the other with an improvised trash-can lid shield.
"Haha! Take that!" He shouted in a fair estimation of the cornball swashbuckling hero movies he loved. It wasn't a rapier and a dozen guards, but he'd settle for holding off a dog with a trashcan as his act of derring do for the day. Now that escape was in sight Kurt was over his worry, and back to enjoying the adventure. Though he'd better not admit to Tabby how much he enjoyed getting dragged into stuff by her, or she'd do it more often. and Kurt had sense enough to know that that would make his life too interesting.
Luckily the cops hadn't rounded the corner yet, which neatly solved the problem of how to actually get away from the dog once Tabby was high enough. One little bamf, and Kurt was crouching on top of the roof when Tabby got up there.
Tabby of course was anything but sorry she almost got him in trouble, and Kurt heaved a long, heavy sigh at her ranting. Yes, it was fun, but that girl really didn't know when not to take a risk. and that was coming from Kurt, who got dressed down for recklessness more than often enough.
"Uh...thanks Tabby." He mumbled uncomfortably, not sounding too enthusiastic about her offer. Going out playing with Boom Boom was going to get him in big trouble some day. But he still always ended up going with her, and he usually ended up having fun. Shrugging a little to himself, Kurt followed her across the roof.
"So now what to do we do?" He asked her when he caught up. "Something without explosions." He added quickly.
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Post by Tabitha on Aug 7, 2009 15:39:05 GMT -5
She'd heard his pirate imitation down below her while she scrambled up the ladder and that left the biggest grin on Tabitha's lips that lasted even until Kurt had bamfed his way up to the rooftop. As she heard his reply to her comment about dragging him along more often, the blonde gave a laugh.
"Aw, you know you loved it, capn' Kurt!" She teased moving over to ruffle his hair.
When the fuzzy elf asked her what they would be doing next with the added comment about the lack of explosions, Tabitha gave a mock reaction of shock. She then put her hands over her chest as if he'd wounded her deeply on an emotional level.
"No explosions!? But don'tcha know everything's better with a bit of fireworks? I mean, the Fourth of July ain't nothin' if there's no explosions so that's just proof!"
It wasn't proof, she knew that. But she liked using that as an excuse anyways.
Boom Boom gave a dramatic sigh before smirking at him.
"All this runnin's worked up an appetite. Gut-bomb would sure hit the spot huh?"
The mention of 'bomb' had been intentional and it showed in the way she was smirking more after having said it. Sure, with being a Brotherhood and all she wasn't supposed to be hanging out with the kids from Xavier's. But if they teased her, she'd just explode their pillows or something. Anyways, they hadn't exactly become serious enemies or anything like that. Just pranks and bullying for now. Even if she had the feeling that might all change before long.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Aug 7, 2009 16:03:57 GMT -5
Kurt hunched his shoulders when she ruffled his hair. There probably wasn't a teenager alive who liked that. He could really argue with her about him liking the chase though. Even if he knew that if he wanted to stay out of trouble he probably should.
One other thing he found hard to argue with was her line of reasoning about explosions. Not because he agreed with her, he knew she was wrong, but he just couldn't phrase a good counter-argument. Boistrous though he might be most of the time, Kurt tended to back down in front of strong personalities, and Tabby was one of the strongest he knew. He couldn't find the right words, and she probably wouldn't listen anyway. So he just sighed again, briefly let his shoulders droop and accepted his fate. There was no escape anyway.
Food was a good idea, the ever-hunger young boy immediately perked up.
"Oh yeah! let's do it!" He exclaimed, and excitedly hopped from the edge of that roof over to the next. He'd spotted a ladder over there they could use to get down, and now he wanted to go get food.
"You buy your own though." He added with a touch of suspicion borne from previous encounters with Tabby. "and if you run off to not pay, then tell me first!"
Despite the admonishments, it was pretty easy to tell that Kurt was ina good mood and enjoyed Tabby's company.
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Post by Tabitha on Aug 7, 2009 16:17:22 GMT -5
She knew he didn't like the hair ruffling, but hair ruffling wasn't meant to be liked most of the time. It was more of a playful thing to annoy the person and see if she could get a rise out of them. Some took it well, some submitted to it, and some rose up. It all depended on the person. Then, there was the added thing of you never knew if the person would react the same all the time. Sometimes, you'd hit the jackpot and get a surprise. That, and even if Tabs would never admit it, it was kind of a gesture of affection. Not saying she had a crush on the fuzzy dude, it was a friend kind of thing.
In seeing his reaction to her mentioning the gut-bombs, Boomers laughed. It seemed like he was about as excited about the concept of getting a meal... Alright, so he was more excited, but it was hard to find anyone else that hyped up about food unless you included Freddy. Now Freddy, his whole world was food. Even if she teased him by stealing and hiding his snacks sometimes, she didn't mean much by it. It was playful pranking. If she heard anyone making fun of his weight behind his back, they'd find something wrong with their cars or she'd "randomly" select them for a mailbox explosion.
"I thought you'd like the sounds of that!" She laughed out.
When he mentioned paying for her own meal, she looked at him like he'd asked her to run over a puppy.
"Pay? Me? Aw come on..." She gasped out. "You SO know I'm gonna leave the bill for the next guy. I'm broke." She told him with a grin even as she went to the next ladder.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Aug 7, 2009 16:39:43 GMT -5
Food was definitely good, but that wasn't what was exciting Kurt so much. Or at least not specifically. It was more that any good idea was worth getting into all the way. He was just generally exciteable.
Tabby's declaration that she wasn't going to pay sounded like less of a good idea though, and Kurt pulled a face at it.
"Oh man, that's even more running then. Can we at least eat in? I don't want to carry take-out." He complained in a slightly weary tone of voice.
Despite the complaints he didn't actually think of not going eating with her. Sure, he felt guilty about it, and nervous about getting caught, but when Tabby was around it somehow didn't seem quite as wrong. She broke rules with such good spirit, and without malice, that Kurt found it easier to get over his misgivings. Normally he had a pretty good sense of right and wrong, but the way Tabby made being bad fun somehow blurred the lines.
Once they got to the other side of the roof he let down the next ladder, which was luckily not as rusty and slid down quietly. The cops had just run past, and it looked like they'd give up soon enough. So Kurt unhurriedly gestured for Tabby to go first, again with just a touch of that Errol Flynn-style gallantry.
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Post by Tabitha on Aug 7, 2009 17:58:58 GMT -5
"Ah, what's a little exercize? Runnin's good for ya!" She retorted at Kurt's complaint about running.
Even if he did have his complaints and tried to talk her out of the things she's gotten them into now and then, she knew that he enjoyed the adventure as much as she did. That's what made her like hanging out with him even if she wouldn't call it that in front of the other Brotherhood members. Sure he had his dork moments but who didn't? She was tempted to see if she could get him to be one of the Brotherhooders even if he seemed to... alright, not seemed to but did clash with some of them.
"Yeah, we can eat in. But, we'll have to take a corner seat or one near the door." Boomers told him with a broad grin.
"They might still be raw about me giving myself a fifty percent self-made discount when I grubbed down at the place last tuesday." She said.
When the ladder was lowered and Kurt gave her the gesture to go on ahead first, Tabitha smirked then ruffled his hair again before practically sliding all the way down the ladder, slowing herself with the last three rungs and stepping off onto the pavement.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Aug 8, 2009 1:39:32 GMT -5
Getting a door near the entrance or corner was okay, Kurt could live with that, so he shrugged and nodded. He didn't slide down the ladder so much as down one of the handrails, landing gracefully in a crouch before straightening up. Had anyone seen that posture, the best image inducer in the world couldn't have convinced them he was human.
When she mentioned that she'd hit the burger joint just 4 days beforehand, Kurt's jaw just dropped. Being daring was one thing, Kurt liked daring, but that was just asking for trouble.
"Uh, can we go somewhere else then?" He asked her doubtfully. Rooting in his pockets he cam up with enough change from the remains of his allowance to go for something else.
"How about pizza?" Hopefully the enthusiastic (though halfway nervous) grin he gave her would convince Tabby to come along to somewhere where they wouldn't get busted just walking in the door.
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Post by Tabitha on Aug 11, 2009 11:09:21 GMT -5
With the way Kurt landed, there was barely even any noise and Tabitha found herself a little envious of how agile he was. She tried not to show it though, simply cramming her hands in her pockets and kicking a little random something that had been on it way tumbling by anyways thanks to the breeze. Compared to him, she was pretty ungraceful.
Luckily for her, before she could get too mad at herself, Kurt went to distracting her with his question on if they could go someplace else. Tabitha grinned wildly then pulled her hands out of her pockets before placing them on her hips and giving him a look full of mischief.
"Aw come on, where's your sense of adventure. It could be like a more filling, teenaged version of somethin' along the lines of mission impossible or somethin'. See if we can go through the whole meal without a rent-a-cop popping up or us getting found out before we bail the check." She half-joked with an even bigger grin than before.
She was only half joking because if it ended up that he'd changed his mind, it wouldn't be a joke anymore now would it.
"You really want pizza over a gut-bomb?" She asked, almost trying to coax him.
Either was good with her as long as she got something to eat and didn't need to pay for it. It wasn't like she could go tot he boarding house and grab a snack. The fridge there was either too dangerous to open thanks to its residents that once used to be leftovers from who knew when, or the place was gutted due to everyone pigging out.
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