#law almost got a heart attack when it was delivered with the mail

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LawLuffy’s counter list why dating Luffy would be a bad good idea:

Nr. 1:

It’s almost impossible to make plans with him. You never know what’s going to happen and in the end a simple shopping trip ends in another town taking down the shitty rulers.

You can make them but if things go wrong and they always do I’ll reach our final goal. Shopping is boring and beating up shitty rulers is fun.

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S5 Ep 3: Apdnarg is Really Hard to Spell

 Yo guys, people are getting vaccinated, the sun is parting through the clouds, and I felt so nice that I even stopped listening to quite so many throwback 00′s BTS mashups (and yet I keep clicking on these dissonant catastrophes thinking “this time it’s got to be better. This time they’ll figure it out.” and like, no. Turns out you can’t match Brittany’s Toxic with BTS’ Black Swan. You can’t do that.)

This must be a sign that things are getting better. If anything, it means my personal tastes are improving. I mean I only clicked on like 3 “Dark Academia” Playlists where I could pretend I’m some sort of spooky witch in an abandoned library with a bad music player and basic taste in classical music (like can we ban Satie from Youtube for a little while?). Hell, I might even do a prompt update to this blog!

Yeah, you heard me, I’m actually going to stay ahead of the update schedule for Yugioh Abridged (maybe. I haven’t actually watched cuz of spoilers, I just noticed the thumbnail pop up on Youtube and was like “Damn it, they came out of hiatus??? I got hurry UP.”)

Anyway, speaking of the sky parting.

I’ll have you know my bro said this is actually more like a circumcision and it was one of the worst thing I have ever heard.

We get a chance to take in this lineup of confusing and varied character designs, and Joey. who is...still Joey.

The animators probably had to hold a strike in order for them to put Yugi in the audience, lets be real. There are TOO MANY PEOPLE in this shot and one is wearing a turban where you draw every single wrap. I hope those artists charged by the line.

Tea has a subplot where she’s just very frustrated with everyone she knows. They have been traveling together for like many weeks and got trapped in a foreign country so I get it. But at the same time, it’s kind of hard to picture Tea with female friends.

Because right now you got this 12 year old child, the other duelist who does not care about anything besides cards, and Kaiba’s 3 dragon cards that we’ve all collectively decided are female.

Hell it’s almost like the writers are asking themselves why Tea is here. Maybe they forgot. There’s no more ghosts to bus, no more people to knock out with her ass with random Olympic feats. Tea’s just sidelining.

(read more under the cut)

Mokuba is a itty bit bit taller this season, and so I guess that means he can legally climb on top of the cherry picker in order to give a riveting speech.

Really says a lot about Mokuba that he is so unphased about talking to, I dunno...an entire planet of people. Kind of a shame we never see this courage from Mokuba used for anything other than talking really, really big and giving everyone around him a really hard time.

Mokuba takes a moment to dunk on Yugi Muto, as is Kaiba tradition.

And then introduce the first pair of duelists, which obviously must be between the few people in this tournament that we actually know and care about.

Thankfully, in between last episode and this episode, Yugi has figured out who his own Grandpa is. This is a relief, because Yugi is such a mess, that I was fully convinced it would take over half a season for him to recognize it. I mean how long did it take him to figure out he shares a body with a ghost? Like half a season?

Instead Yugi recovered gracefully from not recognizing his grandpa, but it’s not like he bothered to tell anyone else, so the rest of our cast is just gonna be like “Is he my hairdresser? The guy who delivers my mail? Who is this guy who made absolutely no significant changes to his outfit or voice?”

Like sometimes this show goes full Spongebob silly kid’s show and you never know when to take it seriously or not. They might be sacrificing the entire cast next episode. I really don’t know. But for now their big concern is who is grandpa??? Like an innocent card version of “Are you my Mother?”

Faced with public speaking, Yugi decides to have a melt down.

We have seen him face monsters, we’ve seen him on TV dozens of times, he’s been in multiple competitions...but give a speech? Of course he can’t do that. The kid doesn’t attend enough school to know how to do that. Them’s learning skills.

And that was when a newly assembled wife-jet spliced through the sky like a souped up razer scooter and deposited 1 fully equipped Seto Kaiba in a Buzz Lightyear jetsuit.

THE RECOVERY.

Seto always watching over his Brother, ready to save this awkward party if it kills him (and it really should, that suit is held together by two seat-belts), making sure to get on that platform before Yugi starts going off about how he’s half an Ancient Egyptian. (Ah, life before social media. You could just be hella famous and also half a dead dude and people would just not know. I kinda miss the time before I knew literally everything about everyone.)

Please admire how close those flames are to setting Mokuba’s heavily hairsprayed mane completely alight. It would be an unforgettable spectacle.

These were absolutely just random ass jet packs that Gozaburo Kaiba made to kill hell tons of people, right? Like Seto found it in the family cabin, clutched to the heart of some crispy fried corpse and was like “neat! Mokuba! I found a cool toy!” and just plucked that thing out of that skeleton’s clutches and has been flying around for months?

Like this is Seto Kaiba’s Butter Glider, right?

Seriously what type of vehicle license do you need for one of these things? RIP My ‘Seto only has a scooter license’ headcanon.

Which I’m only even thinking about because I’ve had to try and make an appt with the DMV for days to get a freakin REAL ID. I went to sleep in 2019 and I could fly on a plane. I woke up in 2021 and it’s like “Want one last screw you?” and just...can 2020 please stop screwing me over? It’s March.

Anyway, the Jet is removed soon after, so no, this is not part of his new outfit. He goes right back to his Post-S4-Trauma-Normcore.

After wrestling this competition out of his brother’s hands and confusing everyone in the audience, Roland must have gotten the memo to cut the microphone before Seto got too excited and we were quickly ushered on to the next stage of the tournament.

One sec...the BTS Mashup playlist I just clicked on did a Black Swan X 7 rings mashup and it’s the worst thing my ears have ever heard.

Holy crap. I had to actually turn down my volume. Like...Ariana Grande already has music that has way too many overlapping singing parts on it--and then lets just stick a 52-person boy band on top? That’ll fix it. Yeah. Go ahead.

Wow. Even I had to change the song and you know how much I enjoy pop culture mistakes.

Spot the Mickey but like a million times easier because it’s a Massive Dick Shaped Dragon.

Yep. That’s my grocery shopping outfit. Except maybe not a lab coat and a duel disk. Wish I had a duel disk, that would make social distancing just a hell ton earlier. Just a “Yo, only one person in checkout, please” and then bap them on the head with a propelled discuss/hologram.

Anyway, Grocery shopping/Doctor man dueled the Purple Hair Boy, and considering that Purple Hair got screen time and shook Yugi’s hand once--I think that Doctor man doesn’t stand a freakin chance.

Good. I hate him.

Also, every time he breathes he’s gonna fog up his glasses. I have experience in this area. He can’t read his own cards in the same way I can’t read my phone if I’m in the refrigerated aisle.

So the way this tournament works, is everyone has to sit in the stadium to watch the show. Kinda like showing up to a football stadium just to watch a recorded TV monitor...but then again...that is how it feels to watch a football game at a football stadium when it’s live (at least with the tickets I usually get.)

And as we watch Grandpa waiting for his competitor, we find out that his competitor (Joey) is too busy eating snacks to give him the time of day.

Why do cartoon hot dogs always have lettuce? Is that seriously supposed to be relish? Or is there a place in the world where you put lettuce on your hot dog?

Sorry, bro has just informed of his favorite hot dog order, which is absolutely terrible so I will share it with you: a Five Guys hot dog with ketchup, mustard, pickle relish, onions, mushrooms, pickled peppers, and you guessed it--topped with freakin lettuce.

My own kin. How am I over 30 and just finding out that my baby brother thinks it’s normal to walk into a restaurant with normal god-fearing law-abiding people and order lettuce and mushrooms on a hot dog?

I have fully failed him.

The rest of this episode is watching both Joey Wheeler and Mokuba have a shared panic attack while Seto does freakin nothing.

Please remember that Seto has both a jetpack and a dragon wife plane and could have easily solved this problem. But nah.

Then again, Seto Kaiba has given this crew so MANY rides, that maybe he’s tired of being the Soccer Mom for the team?

Like they don’t actually say this episode, but Seto was the one in charge of like...this entire place, do you think he made the 2 for 1 special just to get Joey where it hurts the most? Or does it actually not take any subterfuge to screw Joey Wheeler because he’s just naturally this way?

Like Mokuba wasn’t there when Joey was told “stay right here, and then we will all go together to fight Dartz” and Joey was like “I’mma save Mai from herself although she told me not to!” and then he Hella Died. But, Mokuba did see the result, AKA, Joey’s dead body being carried on the back of Tristan. Maybe Mokuba never realized that Joey died because he went out of his way to be late?

Lets do a tally of every time I can recall with my dodgy memory that Joey was threatened to be DQ’d/pretty much was DQ’d either by his own fault or no fault of his own

-When he wasn’t allowed to go on the boat to Murder Island because he was a stupid nobody kid who did not have a dueling glove

-When he wasn’t actually supposed to be in Pegasus’ tourney and was, in fact, secretly using half of Yugi’s entrance ticket the entire time

-when Bandit Keith stole the ticket that Joey got from Yugi so then Joey had to borrow Mai’s ticket although she had just used it so it really shouldn't have counted. Because, really anyone could have just piggy backed off of each other’s ticket until the whole boat went through that castle.

-When his account was hacked to get entered into Kaiba’s tourney when Kaiba very clearly told him he could not apply solely because he was Joey Wheeler.

-When he was late to his sister’s eye surgery because he got mugged by Marik’s Rare Hunters, so she almost refused to do the surgery.

-When Joey got possessed by Marik, and as Marik, threatened to murder everyone else in the tournament including both of the Kaiba brother’s who’s tournament it was, and then chained himself to Yugi Muto to throw both of them to the bottom of the ocean.

-I think there was a point when he threatened to attack Kaiba in Kaiba’s own tourney while not possessed? Like several times?

-when he got struck by Lightning and almost did not stand up fast enough after being struck by lightning, which is apparently a type of DQ in Duel Monsters.

-When he tried to save Mai from getting hit by a fireball, but then Yugi did it instead, and then so many people were standing on the dueling platform that Kaiba couldn’t possibly DQ them all.

-When he entered the restricted area of the blimp in order to hassle Kaiba into landing the Blimp, which Kaiba did not do.

-When Marik killed Joey before Joey could press the “go” button on his duel disk to play the card that should have won Joey the match.

-When he was dueling a lawyer in a digital universe but then the dice was like...weighted? So Noah had to walk over and be like “The hell is this weighted dice? This is my perfect digital world? How did you even do that?” and then Joey won because the match was no longer legit.

-When Joey yelled at Noah too much and so Noah turned Joey to stone for being a rude ass spectator

-When Mai was like “Wheeler and Valon, listen closely: do NOT murder each other” and then Joey did a murder on Valon so she was like “I guess I have no choice, I was very clear” and killed Joey straight up.

-When Joey decided to block Seto’s fireballs while Joey Wheeler WAS a playing card, somehow disrespecting both Dartz and Seto Kaiba at the same time.

-When Joey was playing cards but then got absorbed into a giant Leviathan and basically couldn’t play anymore after that.

-There’s probably hell ton of S0 stuff I just haven’t seen yet.

-This episode

And Joey runs fast for a montage of wacky things that really have no business being in a theme park. Things like this:

(remember when Bakura almost died from a rock that ended up being a balloon? It comes full circle.)

The stuff that the Kaiba brother’s think is normal and fun.

Anyway Joey fights off a bunch of hologram snakes and bats and everyone is like “Should we tell him it’s just holograms???” And it’s like wow, guys, how many times have these ‘holograms’ straight up murdered Joey Wheeler and everyone else on this cast? Too many? Because I have a google doc with so many deaths on it. 7,805,844,048, to be exact.

Anyway, he gets there with five seconds to spare and Mokuba’s like “well at least you were still entertaining while we filmed you in front of a live audience being a total spaz for 15 minutes straight, so I’ll let you go.”

Grandpa and Joey start playing, Joey completely oblivious that this is just an older Muto, while Hawkins walks up awkwardly and is like “hey guys. I’m so sorry about this.”

(welcome to my font choices, for those new here, I have to make weird font color choices to make sure it’s legible for the colorblind and also for the non-colorblind. This one is not much contrast, so I may change it up in the future, but for now, this is Grandpa Muto’s new font. I apologize to every graphic designer reading this. Please don’t tell anyone who has ever hired me for graphic design about this blog.)

What’s funny about this exchange is that after they find out that Yugi’s Grandpa is Apdnarg (HOLY my brain cannot get around the spelling for that, and I will not change it in the caps. I cannot do a ‘pdn’ ever again), they don’t stand on his side of the field or anything. Hawkins is legit Solomon Muto’s only fan during this exchange and like...damn. Way not to back your Grandpa, Yugi.

Yugi immediately strides up to Mokuba to non-confrontation-ally inform him that he has stepped over a line and Mokuba is like “what are these things you say called ‘lines?’”

According to Mokuba, Solomon Muto begged him to be in the competition so he could relive his glory days (glory days making no sense here, because the game has only been released for the past 15 years, so glory days is like...the before times that can only be referring to disgraced archeologists and Pegasus ((who is, in his own way...a disgraced archeologist, too))) and Mokuba was like

“You trained Yugi Muto, right? Hey that’s good enough for me. This drama is gold. People will eat it up. Hell yes. Don’t be afraid to abduct him a little bit. Maybe trap a couple people in a digital hellscape for a little while? Now we go by Pegasus house rules here, so fire as many lasers as you want, but just make sure not to hit anyone in the face. Oh man, we are going to be swimming in cash. Love it, Muto Sr, love it.”

But I dunno, I feel like Grandpa won’t make it past next episode. It is Joey. We kinda need him to make it past Ep 4 of the arc. If Grandpa Muto becomes the new Joey Wheeler, that will be a weird transition for this show to make.

But that’s all for today, as always, here is the link to read these in chrono order becuase there’s SO MANY that you don’t need to read backwards--don’t do it--just use the chrono tag (and I don’t know if you can add compound tags, but I did separate the Season from the Episode, so if you write S4, it should only pop up stuff from S4. I didn't’ do that to seasons 1-3 though because I just...didn’t.)

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

And because I brought it up: here it is, the best BTS Mashup that I found on my deep dive. Like legit--this one isn’t a mess:

Most of other ones are horrible in a fascinating way. Like I’m not even a BTS fan, I think I sort of age out of that metric, I’m just bored and quarantined. And lets be real, we all appreciate a good bop when we hear it.

[dailyaudiobible]

02/03/2018 DAB Transcript

Exodus 17:8-19:15, Matthew 22:33-23:12, Psalms 27:8-14, Proverbs 6:27-35

Today is the 3rd day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you today at the end of a week. Even though we’re just getting this month going, here we are at the end of another week, and a good week it has been. Plenty for us to think about. So, let’s dive in, go back out into the wilderness with the children of Israel. We’re reading from the English Standard Version. Exodus 17:8 through 19:15.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for another week, another week in Your word as we complete the fifth week together this year, as we take this adventure through the Scriptures. And Father, You have spoken volumes in five weeks. You have touched so many places inside of us in five weeks. We have journeyed through generations, we have journeyed thousands of miles in the stories in the Scriptures and we have journeyed deep within our own hearts as Your word unlocks things, touches things, invites things. So, we take a moment here to thank You for the work that You have begun. We look forward to what the next five weeks will bring because You are comprehensively touching everything about our identity through Your word. And as the children of Israel in the wilderness, You are shaping and reshaping and reforming that identity.  So, Father we invite You. Our hearts remain open. Come, Holy Spirit, and plant the words of the Scriptures in our lives and hearts each and every day, including today. Come, Holy Spirit, we pray. In Jesus name. Amen.

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And that’s it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Daily Audio Bible community. This is Rachel from Georgia. And I just wanted to reach out for prayer. First off, I do want to say I just recently started listening to the Daily Audio Bible, I guess, maybe about three months ago and I am just loving it. So, hello to everybody. I wanted to reach out for prayer and just see if you could lift me up. For the past about 10 to 12 years struggled pretty severely with depression and it basically kind of comes about 1/3 of the month, pretty much on a regular basis. I am just not…it’s just really hard for me to stay focused on the Lord and His love for me. And there’s a whole multitude of reasons for that, but I am just believing and trusting that He can heal me. I don’t want that just to be the way that I live for the rest of my life. I want to trust and believe that He can do this, He can do this work in me. And, so, I’m reaching out to others from prayer to believe with me and pray for me, that I do not have to live like this, and that you would just pray that I would be completely delivered and that I would see a huge change in my life. I am a young mom, I’m a teacher, I have got two young kids, and I just want to be the greatest mom that I can be, and I don’t want to struggle like this. So, thank you so much. God bless you all. And I’m praying for you.

Hi this is Mimi in Atlanta and I was just listening to today, January 26th on the prayer line. And I think the mom’s name is Shannon, the son is Jadrian with a J. So, I just want to pray for him and for her and for her mom. I’ve seen major miracles with drug addicted young people here in Atlanta area and even one was with my roommate. She had a son that was almost 30, a heroin addict, and he’s been delivered. So, let’s just pray for this young man. Father, I just thank You so much for deliverance from every sort. Lord, we know that there’s demonic activity and things happening with these young people and the drugs are just so accessible, and they start, and they don’t even realize what it’s going to cost or where it is going to take them. So, Lord I just pray, just like Jesus coming across to that demon possessed man in the graveyard. Nobody wanted to be around him because he was violent and he was just a horrible human with all the demons that were messing with him, but Father you drove them straight out into the pigs and ran them right over the cliff. So, Lord I just pray now, in Jesus name, the name that is above all names, to deliver this young man, wherever he’s at, and whatever he’s doing. Invade his space Lord, just like you have…and I’ve been seeing it with folks at church…and even my roommate…and even with my son’s, Lord, with the addictions they had. And I just pray a hedge of protection around the sweet mom and for her to understand, just like the man that was in the graveyard, that was not him, it was the result of all of the evil demonic presence that were trying to take his life.

Hey DAB family. This is Michael from Mesa. It’s a beautiful morning. Love you all. Thinking about you all. God impressed upon my heart to call out a few folks today and a little prayer. Shannon, from Michigan, with your son. My family very much understands what you’re going through and I pray God’s peace and wisdom upon your life. We got to the point where we just could not handle what was going on with our son and the Lord just made it very clear that it was no longer us or our church family that you work with them anymore. And at some point we actually had to bring the law into what was going on. And as hard as that is for a parent, when it makes itself really clear that that’s the next step in life, then we have to listen to His call, even that way and trust the Lord for what’s going on. And good things have happened as a result, great things have happened as a result, in our family. I don’t know what your situation is exactly, but if it gets to that point, talk to your church family, your local family, pray with them, understand what’s going on, understand what your options are, keep yourself safe. And to make it make it difference in his life, maybe a different way. But God has created him, he’s created the church, he’s created the judicial system. And, so, we put all of that trust in Him for the right outcome. So, be encouraged that you have options to consider and trust in the Lord and where goes. Jordan from Michigan, buddy, day-to-day school, and the challenges are going through, we’ve all been to school. We understand those things that are out there. And, so, we pray for your protection buddy. And we are there with you every day in the classroom and in the halls, we are there with you. And maybe it helps for you to put some things on your desk remember Jesus. A piece of bread in a baggie that just sits there reminding you that He is the bread…

Hi this is Drew from Kansas. I called in a week or two ago asking for prayers. I’ve been struggling with depression since I had to leave my husband due to his abuse and then he divorced me and I’ve had to move a couple times, but I did end up with a paid for house. I ask for help to deliver hurt and resentment that I struggle with and anger turned inward causing depression. The loneliness and hopelessness is a struggle to overcome. The low self-esteem and self-pity that plagues me, God has been working in my life and my situation has improved. Thank you for all of your prayers and thank you Brian for your sensitive expressive reading of God’s word and your comments that I really like. Thank you for the community we hear each day as we take turns calling in. I think of the lady who asked for prayer who is struggling with an angry or __ son. I pray that she will find good ways to protect herself and still communicate love and forgiveness toward her son. That is so hard to do. It takes God’s hand. So, I pray for God’s hand in the matter and protection and peace and blessing for the mom. I pray that the son will come to the Father soon in a realization of where his anger and rebellion is leading him will smack him in the face and wake him up to reality. I pray that he will get the help he needs in overcome his addiction to drugs, that God will get a hold of him and he will become a servant of God, totally devoted to God and thankful for God. I pray that he will turn away from being an attacker of his mom to a protector and thankful for his mom. Until that happens, I pray for you, the mom, that God will get a hold of you so you can have peace, wisdom to take care of yourself, and realization that you are daughter of God, very precious in his sight and worthy of protection and blessing. Back to my situation. I asked the community of DAB to pray for me as I work on a project I believe God has given to minister to myself and every depressed people…

Hi this is Linda and New Hampshire and today’s January 26th and I just listen to the message from the mom __ . And I just want to know it just touched my heart and I’m praying, praying, praying. I’m actually going write it down and pray every day for your boy, your son. And I know that he might be a bit older but he still our boy, isn’t he? And I’m the mother of a son and two grandsons. And my heart is committed to praying for Jadrian and for peace for you mom. In Jesus’ name Amen.

Hello daily audio Bible family. This is Linda from Charlotte North Carolina. I’m, a new listener and a first-time caller. I am loving this community. I am calling in today to pray specifically for Shannon from Texas and her son Jadrian who is struggling with drug addiction. Shannon, your prayer request touched my heart and resonates with my soul. I am a mother who is experienced the pain of a child with severe drug addiction. My son is in a wonderful recovery program and has been clean and sober since September 2017. As I continue to pray against the spirit of relapse for my son, Jackson, I’m here to encourage you and to tell you that there is hope. Shannon, God hears her crying sees every tear. Stand strong and do not let your faith be shaken by his addiction. You are not dealing with who your son was created to be. You’re dealing with the demon of drug addiction and I rebuke that spirit in the precious name of Jesus. Father, I command your Angels of protection around Jadrian. Protect his mind, body, and spiri,t and bring him to the life-saving realization that he needs to flee from this destructive lifestyle and cling to you. I plead the blood of Jesus over to Jadrian from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. Give his mother Shannon Your perfect peace beyond understanding today. We thank You in advance for deliverance For Jadrian as he walks towards his God-given destiny. We proclaim that Jadrian is working on his testimony and it is going to be a powerful one when he is delivered. And we will be oh so careful to give You all the glory. In Jesus name. Amen. I love you DABbers have a glorious day.

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PROMPT: Being a serpent now meant it was easier to protect Betty too. and when something happens where she needs it most, that's exactly what he does.

Hope this is kind of what you wanted! Thanks for requesting! Enjoy!

Title: Riding Into Danger

Summary: Betty has been busy searching for her long lost brother while Jughead has spent most of his time trying to find his footing in his new role as a Serpent. When Betty and Kevin take a road trip to visit said brother, things get dangerous when a mysterious man is seen following them through a dive bar.

*Adding a keep reading cut so if you’re on mobile, the story gets cut off. Sorry!*

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“Betty? Where are you, what’s wrong?”

Jughead could tell something was off the second he heard the odd tone in her voice - uncertain, a little high pitched, on the verge of panic. The last time he remembered her sounding like this, they were in the middle of uncovering the murder of Jason Blossom and, for reasons that warranted zero explanation, this did not sit well with him.

“I don’t know, Kevin and I were on our way to meet with my brother and-” Betty scrambled to explain their situation, her words coming out rushed and slurred from the the overload of adrenaline surging through her body.

“Wait what?” Jughead cut her off, his fingers clenching tighter around the cellphone as he tried to fathom the idea of Betty actually meeting the brother she didn’t even know she had until a few months before. “Since when?”

“You’ve been busy, Jug, we haven’t really had time to dish it out and spill our latest gossip these past few weeks,” Betty pointed out, the ancient payphone she was using crackling in protest at the unexpected movement that came with her gesticulating hands.

“I know, and I’m sorry for that but I’ve only been a Serpent for a few months, Bets,” Jughead reminded her. “I have to be around when they need me, I can’t afford to be a no-show, especially when things have been so tense around here lately.”

“Look we can talk about this later,” Betty told him, the phone pulling away from her ear slightly as she glanced behind her shoulder at the man sitting in a far corner of the building they had stumbled into looking for help. “But right now, we’re in this dive bar in the middle of nowhere, there’s this guy that’s been following us for the past two hours, and I think Kevin is on the verge of having a panic attack-”

Jughead furrowed his brows in confusion at the rustling coming from the other end of the receiver as Kevin dove forward to take the phone from Betty’s grasp.

“This place is worse than the White Worm and that fear-inducing cobra they keep as a mascot,” Kevin spat, his voice rising an octave higher with each syllable that came out of his mouth. “I swear there are rats the size of Shetland ponies crawling on this disease infested floor, get us the hell out of here!”

Betty snatched the phone away from Kevin, glaring at him from her spot in the phone booth before turning her back to him completely.

“What are you guys doing in a dive bar anyway?” Jughead asked, his brows knitting together as he pushed away the half-eaten basket of fries sitting on the counter in front of him.

“It’s a long story,” Betty sighed. “But basically Kevin forgot to fill up the tank before we left and we got stranded on some back road with no cell service where we spent most of the day pushing his Dad’s truck through the desert.”

“Okay, and the guy who’s following you?” Jughead wondered, his senses beginning to prickle with worry. “What’s the story there?”

“He followed us into the bar and hasn’t stopped watching us since,” Betty explained, her eyes wandering subtly to the man in question, but then quickly darting back to stare at the silver buttons on the payphone. “Part of me felt like he looked familiar, but I don’t think I would be able to place where I knew him from.”

“Betty, tell me where you are so I can come meet you,” Jughead told her, hopping off the stool and reaching for his leather jacket sitting on the seat next to him.

“Uh, hold on let me get an address.” There was a moment of silence in which Betty ran from the phone booth to ask the surly bartender the name of the strange place that they had stumbled into, and a second later she was back, breathing heavily into the phone as she tried to slow her heart rate.

“We’re in this little town just past Greendale and the bar we’re at is on 609 West Carm-” Before she could finish, the phone started producing an ear-splitting screeching noise, cutting in and out and making it almost impossible for Jughead to understand her.

“Betty?” Jughead yelled into the phone, holding it away from his ear slightly as the screeching increased in volume.

“Jug-? an - you- ear- me?”

“Betty, you’re breaking up I can’t-” Jughead tried to tell her, but the before he could get the words out, the screeching stopped and the phone cut out all together.

“Damnit,” he cursed, shoving his phone in the back pocket of his jeans and sliding his arms through his jacket sleeves.

“Somethin’ up, Jug?” One of the head members of the gang, Viper, asked as he emerged from one of pool rooms located at the back of the Serpents’ hangout, the White Worm, coming around Jughead to clap a firm hand on his shoulder.

“It’s my girlfriend,” Jughead explained, his brow furrowing in concern as he glanced up to meet Viper’s gaze. “I think she might be in trouble.”

“Did you get an address?” Viper wondered, stepping to the side of Jughead to lean against the counter, one massive elbow propped up on the surface as his other hand gestured for the barman to make him his usual drink. “Maybe we can be of service.”

“Half of one,” Jughead admitted, glancing up at Viper to watch him take his beer in his hands, tossing back a big swig before setting it down on the counter with a satisfied clunk. “She says they’re in some dive bar in a small town just past Greendale.”

“The Helix in Portersville,” he said without hesitation, signaling for the rest of his crew to meet him at the back door with a simple signaling of his right hand. “I know it well. Let’s ride.”

“Viper, are you sure? What about-”

“You’re family Jughead,” Viper reminded him. “That means your girl is family too. And we always help our kind out of trouble. Let’s go.” Jughead gave him a grateful nod and Viper handed him the key to the motorcycle waiting for him in the parking lot.

As they made their way out of the bar, Jughead ran a hand through his thick head of dark hair and adjusted the leather jacket on his shoulders. Swinging one leg over the bike and settling back into the seat, Jughead couldn’t help smile to himself as he started the engine and heard the motor roar to life. This feeling, riding down the open road with the wind through his beanie-less hair and a crew full of family members backing him up, made him feel powerful. It made him feel in control. And he had to admit, it felt pretty damn good.

–

“I swear I just felt something run across my foot, Betty,” Kevin squealed, scooting his chair back from the table and glancing down at the dirt and grime-coated floor. “It had toes and creepy little claws - oh god its tail just brushed my leg! We have to get out of here now.”

“I know and we will,” Betty promised, tossing her dead cellphone from one hand to the other without glancing up to witness Kevin pulling his feet up onto the chair with a look of complete and utter fear on his face. “As soon as our tow truck gets here.”

“Or Jughead,” Kevin pointed out, his voice much calmer now that his feet were off the ground and safe from any creatures roaming the bar’s floor. “You know he’s going to bring the Serpents here to come to our rescue right? You have to admit it’s kind of sexy thinking about him in that leather jacket, riding down the road on his motorcycle-”

“Kev,” Betty warned, raising an eyebrow at Kevin as she reached forward to place a reassuring hand on his jacket sleeve. “We don’t need rescuing okay? Everything’s under control.”

“Nice night for a drink, isn’t it?”

Both teenagers froze as a deep voice coming from behind them sent a chill down their spines, causing them to turn to each other with panicked eyes as the figure took a step closer to them.

“Either Jughead broke an insane amount of traffic laws getting down here or our stalker is standing right behind us,” Kevin whispered, closing his eyes tightly and clenching his teeth as Betty turned around to find the man who had been following them for the better part of the day standing a few feet from their table, his tall and broad stature looming over them in a dauntingly wicked manner.

Without wasting another second, Betty swiped the steak knife sitting on the table and pushed back from her chair, rushing forward to pin the man against the wall in one swift motion. “Why are you following us?”

“Holy shit, it’s Betty the Stalker Slayer,” Kevin muttered under his breath, pushing back from his own chair to stand behind them in fascinated horror. “I kind of love it.”

“You’re much feistier than you look, young lady,” the man admitted, lightly pushing the knife away from his throat and smiling smugly down at her. “You’re the girlfriend of one of the Southside Serpents aren’t you?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Betty mumbled, her eyes boring into his as she kept one hand firmly on his chest and the other gripping the knife just in case she needed to use it at moment’s notice.

“Oh I think you do,” he whispered. “And I have a message that I’d like you to deliver to one of them.”

“We don’t have a pen and paper, sorry, try using the mail service like every other-” Kevin tried to pull Betty back so they could make a break for the door, but the man reached past her to pull Kevin by the collar of his shirt, cutting off anything else he was going to say with a strangled gasp.

“Shut up, kid,” he warned, giving him a threatening look before pushing him backwards so that he stumbled into a table.

“Shutting up,” Kevin muttered, grasping at his throat as he attempted to smooth the crumpled fabric that the man had ruined with his giant fist.

“A message for who?” Betty asked, her voice low and steady as she used every bit of strength she had left to keep this man pinned to the wall while still remaining calm.

“FP Jones,” he confessed, causing Betty’s heart to stop beating for a moment as she tried to process what he was saying. “He has something of mine that I’d like back.”

“And what is that?”

“I don’t think that’s any of your business little girl,” he hissed, his thick eyebrows knitting together in anger as he met her gaze with a menacing glare.

“Anything to do with the Jones’ is my business,” she said through gritted teeth, flinging him harder against the wall and bringing the knife back up to his throat.

“I know who you are,” the man breathed, his expression softening the slightest bit as realization took over his features. “You’re Alice Cooper’s daughter, the one who’s dating the Jones boy.”

“How do you know my mother?” Betty narrowed her eyes at this stranger, trying to remember if she had ever met him before.

“So it’s true,” he concluded, a satisfied smile creeping up onto his lips. “Well this just got a lot more interesting.”

“Kevin, we’re leaving,” Betty announced, pulling away from the man and grabbing her coat from the chair behind them. “Let’s go.”

“I’m already eight steps ahead of you, get me out of this hell hole,” Kevin told her, crossing the length of the bar with long and determined strides as Betty hurried to keep up behind him.

“Not so fast,” the man yelled, pushing the tables and chairs out of his way so he could cut off Betty’s path to the door. “If you’re not going to deliver my message for me, I guess I’ll just have to make you.”

Taking her by the arms, the man started dragging her towards the back of the establishment, lifting her in the air so that her feet dangled slightly above the ground. But before he could get anywhere, Kevin picked up an empty glass sitting on the counter and lunged towards him with it raised high above his head.

“Get off her, you buck-toothed Shrek!” Kevin demanded, crashing the glass against his skull and stumbling backwards at the impact.

“Son of a bitch!” the man shrieked, clutching his head in pain as the bits of glass cascaded down his shoulders to litter the already-dirty floor.

“Go, go, go!” Kevin yelled, grabbing Betty by the arm and pushing her out of the bar as they ignored the man’s protests echoing from behind them.  

“Kev, I can’t believe you did that!” Betty gasped, her heart beating a million miles a minute as they sprinted down the dark alleyway leading to nowhere. “That was awesome!”

“Being the Sheriff’s son comes with mandatory combat training starting at the age of nine,” Kevin explained, his breath coming out in raspy spurts as he tried his best to slow his breathing. “But I totally almost peed my pants back there, that was terrifying!”

They turned to each other for a brief moment of relieved laughter, when the sound of thudding feet on pavement startled them back into reality.

“Shit, he’s following us!”

“And he brought friends!” Kevin pointed out, his neck craning to see at least a dozen surly men bounding towards them with ruthless determination and anger contorting their faces. “That’s why no one in that damn bar was stopping him, they were all a part of the gang-up-on-two-defenseless-teenagers squad! Come on, this way!”

Kevin gestured to a side street that led back to the main road, and Betty picked up her pace to sprint down the alley and away from the herd of men barreling towards them at top speed.

“Shh, Betty do you hear that?” Kevin grabbed Betty’s arm to stop her, straining his ears to hear the grumbling coming from the road they were headed for.

“Motorcycle engines,” Betty remembered the sound from the various times the Serpents had dropped Jughead off at her high school so that he could walk her home from school.

“Holy Hells Angels, your Serpent boyfriend really did come to rescue us!”

“We can’t stop moving, come on!” Betty shoved Kevin out of the alleyway and they started stumbling through the abandoned field that led up to the old highway just as a flood of headlights poured in from the darkness behind them.

“Betty!” Jughead called out to her just as she had climbed her way up the hill and was jogging down the side of the road, her pace slowing the slightest bit as she turned to look up at him with frightened eyes.

“He was sent to deliver a message to your Dad,” she explained through heavy breaths. “When he found out I was your girlfriend, he totally flipped out and started chasing us. He said that your father had something of his, Jug.”

“Shit, I knew that our relationship was going to cause trouble for you,” Jughead cursed, his hand adjusting itself on the bike’s handle as he struggled to balance its weight on the road. “I thought I was going to be able to protect you but it’s just made things worse.”

“Guys, can we have this heart to heart a little later?” Kevin shouted from behind Betty. “If you haven’t noticed, a gang of long-haired goons are chasing us and they look really angry - and I don’t meant the Serpents!”

The herd of angry men poured out of the alley just as Betty and Kevin had done only a few moments before, crawling their way up the hill at a much quicker pace than they had been keeping when they first spilled out of the dive bar.

Just then, Viper, Jughead’s mentor and close friend, pulled up from behind them. “You kids go! You take your girl, Jug, and the boy can ride with Emerson,” Viper insisted, gesturing to Kevin and pointed to the younger Serpent who was trailing behind the lot on a smaller and much skinnier bike. “We’ll take care of them. They’re Hiram Lodge’s crew. Their business is with us, not you two.”

“What are you going to do?” Jughead yelled over the roar of the engines, glancing over at Viper in concern as he met his gaze with skeptical eyes.

“That’s not your concern,” Viper reminded him. “Now go on, before you get yourselves in even more trouble!”

Viper slowed his pace to let Jughead pass him by, looping around on his motorcycle so that he was now facing the men that had been chasing Betty and Kevin.

“Hop on, Bets!” Jughead yelled, holding out his hand for her to take as they continued down the abandoned highway, the wind whipping his hair back behind him and the moonlight lighting his features in a way that made him look like a completely different person.

“What?” Betty gasped, turning slightly to eye the beast of a motorized vehicle trailing along beside her with a wave of overwhelming trepidation that caused her throat to close up in fear.

“It’s now or never,” Jughead told her, glancing back at the war unfolding in the background before turning to meet her gaze as best he could. “Do you trust me?”

“More than anyone,” Betty said without hesitation, her pace quickening to match the increasing speed of his motorcycle.

“Okay, then take my hand,” Jughead instructed, reaching out in her direction as he picked up even more speed. “One…”

Betty’s heart pounded hard in her chest, the thumping so loud that it almost drowned out the roar of motorcycle engines.

“Two,” Jughead called out, his arm ready and waiting for her to take as they continued down the road.

Betty thought about chickening out and letting the men who were still fighting their way towards them despite the Serpents’ retaliations. She thought about giving up right then and there. But this was the boy she loved. This was the boy she trusted. And if she was going to do anything so daring that it could potentially end her life, she was going to do it with him.

“Three!” Without another second of hesitation, Betty sprinted forward and took Jughead’s arm by the elbow, hoisting herself up onto the leather seat and steadying herself by clamping her arms around Jughead’s shoulders as he sped down the road and away from battle that was only just beginning.

Betty didn’t know she could ever feel this safe riding on a death trap on wheels with absolutely no padding or helmets. But as her golden hair whipped behind her shoulders, her grip tightening around her boyfriend’s shoulders as they picked up even more speed rounding a corner, she realized that for the first time in her entire sixteen years on this planet, she felt dangerous. For the first time in her life she felt free. And despite every instinct screaming at her to be afraid, she couldn’t help but tilt her head back and close her eyes, letting the chilly night air prickle her smooth skin in the best ways possible. She liked this feeling. And she never wanted it to go away.  

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