"OK guys," Quinn says between his teeth, avoiding any sudden movements, "what's the game plan? That local looks kinda skittish."
Chin-Su, without moving the rest of his body, will stretch a hand down along the ground, the LONG way around to Anthro in a wide arc until his hand is behind the young man, and tap him on the shoulder.
Sam looks around slowly. He relaxes if he doesn't see any wild animals.
Anthro leaps a good two feet off the ground, spinning in mid-air with his fingernails held out like claws.
Seeing no enemy, he pounces on Chin-Su's extended hand. And then runs off with it into the jungle.
Quinn is ready. He'll dash off after Anthro. "BRB, guys". He loosens the silvery rope from his belt and takes off after Prehistoric Mowgli.
Chin-Su will stroll casually in the direction of his ever-extending arm.
Sam shakes his head. "Evac Nam Pots." he shouts at Anthro.
The cave man stops!
He shakes Chin-Su's hand (not like a handshake, more like a wet dog shaking itself) and jumps in place, but doesn't progress further. Because he stopped.
"Anthro run away!" he exclaims, but his words aren't backwards, so he doesn't. "Long hand man girl!"
Chin-Su puts his other hand up defensively, and approaches slowly. "Anthro stay," he says cautiously. "Anthro help long hand man girl find friends."
"Friends?" Anthro replies. "Yellow fish ape with white woman and bald arm men?"
Chin-Su frowns a moment in thought, then turns towards Sam. "Does that sound right?"
Quinn relaxes his stance (but keeps the rope handy, just in case). "Yeah, actually Sam, could you give us a rundown of what we're doing here again? between androids and presidents and serpents and wolves and elves and sea captains and ninjas and whatnot, I kinda lost the thread." He shakes his head. "Honestly I don't know how the regular Justice League keeps track of it all. Who'd have thought the hardest part of being a superhero was the logistics and team management?"
Chin-Su cocks his head and looks up thoughtfully. "Well, actually..."
It couldn't be simpler: Sam tied up the Shaggy Man with Fenris the Wolf's chain, which naturally set Fenris loose to destroy the world. But the Legion of Super-Heroes came back through time to see how we defeated Fenris, since they have a Fenris problem up in the 30th century as well. We defeated Fenris with the Midgard Serpent, summoned by a sea captain, and then the Legion headed back home. But their Time Sphere malfunctioned, sending them to the Stone Age. Here were are to save them! Now honestly, how hard was that to follow?
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ReplyDelete"Ooookay. So *how* many people are we trying to return to the 30th century?"
"Four." answered Sam. "And from what Anthro her said, in English no less, it sounds like Ultra Boy is no with the others. Anyway..." Sam thinks back to try and think of a way to brake his one spell. "YOu will help us, right Anthro?"
ReplyDelete"Anthro find color people friends," he acknowledges. "Let Anthro move now?"
ReplyDelete"Depends. Can I have my hand back?"
Delete"Hand tap Anthro," he says, but he lets Chin-Su's hand go.
ReplyDeleteThis causes Chin-Su's hand to snap back up into his shoulder like a pulled windowshade.
"Great. We're all friends now. I'm Chin-Su, by the way. Nice to meet you. Which way?"
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