91. [Video/Action for Cianwood City]

[foolishwren]

Okay-- OKAY, OKAY, hang on, I got it!

All right, get back.

<sub>[The sound of big reptilian feet plodding backwards through wet sand can be heard as the camera shows a wobbly view of.... Sunny the Togekiss standing on an appropriately sunny Cianwood beach. The water's lapping at the shore, the sky is bright blue, it's totally beautiful.]

[A PERFECT day to test out the new, hard-earned skill gotten from beating Chuck in a furious fist-fight (and some obligatory after-battle arm-wrestling): Fly.]

[Perched precariously on the back of the big white marshmallow-bird is Heather, kneeling and holding onto the thick white plumage with both hands. She's got a determined expression.]</sub>

Okay. Let's give it a try. I-- no, Dad, it's gonna be FINE, that's why I'm practicing on the BEACH, remember? Sand is soft!

OKAY.

Ready, girl?

Let's-- oh shit aw HELL--

<sub>[With some gentle but powerful WHOMPS, the Togekiss had begun to serenely flap its pillowy wings and take off. ... Without Heather, because Heather has no idea how the hell to ride a flying thing and was promptly jostled off by the wing motion.]

[Touching down again, Sunny trills and lovingly sits upon the face-down Heather like any caring bird mother might with a stupid bird baby that crash-landed after trying to fly.]</sub>

... Okay.

This could take a little practice.

Comments

[video]

[foolishwren]

You kiddin'?

We hardly got three feet off the ground.

_{[Yes, she IS doing better. She's Heather. She doesn't stay down for long. ... Well, at least not all the way down.]}

[video]

[thinkimsuperman]

[he laughs warmly]

But for a first time tryin', it was pretty graceful. Reminded me a little of the first time I tried to ride a motorcycle.

Get up and try again, Heather. This time, try, holdin' on.

[amused old man is amused, and grinning fondly at her]

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[She's picking herself up off the ground already, but she stops when he mentions the word 'motorcycle'.]}

... You?

On a motorcycle?

_{[She's trying not to faint, Douglas. She's trying HARD.]}

[video]

[thinkimsuperman]

Well, yeah. I used to ride all the time, if you can believe that.

[he can tell she's trying not to faint and he doesn't know if it's amusing or if he should be a little offended]

I wasn't always an old man, ya know.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[She pauses, taking a moment to decide whether or not she can, in fact, 'believe that'.]}

... Nope.

Nah.

I'm pretty sure you came outta the womb looking like a sharpei.

_{[SORRY DOUGLAS, YOUR FRIEND IS AGEIST. ... AND ALSO A JERK. But she loves you <3]}

[video]

[thinkimsuperman]

A sharpei?

[he frowns a little]

I dunno if I look like a dog, Heather. A bear, maybe I can admit. But a dog?

[okay so he's honestly pretty amused but he's going to give her as hard of a time as he possibly can, as a friend always should. They are both jerks and therefore the perfect friends]

[video]

[foolishwren]

It's the wrinkles.

_{[Said in a bright, chipper tone. <3]}

[video]

[thinkimsuperman]

[excuse him while he puts a hand to his face, looking a little offended]

Wrinkles? Naw, I don't have those. These are just a subway map, so I don't get lost. It's handier to keep it on my face.

[video]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[... this is why they're such good friends.]

[Heather takes on a look of mock-outrage.]</sub>

A map of the subway?

Why didn't you offer to come with me when I went to go home that night, jerk? It would've saved me so much time!

I'll never forgive you.

... And you're not invited to my birthday party anymore.

[video]

[thinkimsuperman]

[brb trying not to laugh]

Awww, come on. I gotta come to your birthday party. I was gonna wear a dress and everything.

[video]

[foolishwren]

No.

Nothing you could possibly wear would make up for this betrayal.

Sssssorry.