#pack it up fellas this might be the coolest thing i ever make

[dragonbma]

“Plenty of time until it’s gone. It’s alright until it’s not.

How many times have I looped this song? When did my hair get so long…”

[Trio triptych frames under cut:]

Hmm something’s fishy here…

Sorry guys. Vos getting caught in the cage is canon to me and I will die on that hill.

WDMHGSL Chapter 2 reference perhaps?

[nbhd-daily]

LILY PATTERSON: Where the fuck is Chip Chrome? I noticed you deactivated your Instagram.

JESSE RUTHERFORD: [Laughs] I like that you turned the “who” to “where.”

PATTERSON: Obviously, there’s one glaring reference for an alien rock star alter ego—

RUTHERFORD: Wait, wait, wait, who though?

PATTERSON: … Ziggy Stardust?

RUTHERFORD: I’m just joking.

PATTERSON: [Laughs] Oh my god, I was like, “Did I say that clearly?” But yeah, you’re channeling an icon. Tell me about bringing Chip to life.

RUTHERFORD: I’ve had the idea for Chip for about two and a half years.

PATTERSON: So it’s been baking.

RUTHERFORD: Yeah, I had the name, the whole shit. Obviously, Bowie is a giant reference… Ugh, I hate that word. A giant inspiration. It’s funny; when I was a kid, people would tell me about him, but I wasn’t really interested. I was gravitating toward hip-hop or modern pop. First, I got really into interviews and just watched the man talk. Then the music. I’ve always been an in-between kind of fella. I’m not quite this, I’m not quite that. I’m not super masc, I’m not super feminine … I’m kind of a confused person, to be honest with you. Bowie has helped me route. Like, here you go, this is a blueprint, an architecture. Not to say I sound like him at all.

PATTERSON: You deployed @chipchrome on Instagram, a platform that’s created so much anxiety around being “real,” being consistent, endlessly delivering your personal brand. And now Chip’s off the grid.

RUTHERFORD: I’m trying to figure out myself in all of this. Maybe I’m expected to have already done that, but I haven’t. I feel like I turned into a “thing” on the Internet. When you work on a piece of music for a long time, you post it, and it gets X amount of likes, then you post a picture with your girlfriend and it gets X amount… It’s just a weird, challenging, confusing feeling. I feel like there’s an opportunity to get off the platform, or at least try it this way.

PATTERSON: How many months ago did you debut Chip? August?

RUTHERFORD: Yes. I killed @jesserutherford when I turned 27. Dead at 27.

PATTERSON: A not-so-subtle 27 Club reference.

RUTHERFORD: Exactly. It’s this ridiculous motif. Really, I want to have fun with this stuff, play with it. Like, yo, nobody paints themselves silver, throws on a Spandex suit and a grill. Then, of course, Kanye West comes along…

PATTERSON: [Laughs] Major Basel ‘fit.

RUTHERFORD: Bowie passed and everyone started to think about him again, riff on him. But no one was taking it to the full Ziggy extreme! There’s a Tekashi69 out there but no Ziggy Stardust? C’mon. It feels comfortable for me. I’m having fun.

PATTERSON: Can you describe the physical process to go full Chip? Side note: I saw a picture of that reflective Marine Serre balaclava you scored recently. Insane.

RUTHERFORD: The makeup itself isn’t too long of a process. I’ve always done it myself. Actually, I have a friend of mine who rips at makeup, Sydney, @sydn4sty on Instagram—

PATTERSON: Good friend plug.

RUTHERFORD: She’s bomb. Me and Dev [Devon Carlson, Rutherford’s partner] met her, she was our neighbor at an apartment we lived at a bit ago. She came over, fucked around and helped me with an eye design. For the most part, though, I’ve always done it on my own. We did a tour recently, and I’d usually start an hour before the show, giving myself time to get in the headspace. I could turn into Chip in 25 minutes. It doesn’t take that long.

PATTERSON: What about the suit?

RUTHERFORD: The silver suit is a stupid Spandex suit from the boulevard. I just ended up going into one of those places, figuring out a suit that worked there. Taking measurements and shit, getting the sizing right.

PATTERSON: Love that.

RUTHERFORD: I premiered Chip at a B-level, crusty, Hollywood, kind of spaghetti Western-y place. Which felt right. But as you can see—you referenced the top Dev got for me—there’s so much opportunity for Chip to grow visually. When we [The Neighbourhood] go on tour later this year, I want to develop this. But there’s also something about the campiness, this B-level visual, that I really like. It feels authentic to me.

PATTERSON: All in a time when people are hiring stylists for their hotel-lobby-to-car looks.

RUTHERFORD: [Laughs] Exactly.

PATTERSON: I feel like the DIY, the physical process of putting yourself together imbues a certain energy, a sort of leveling with your audience.

RUTHERFORD: Right. Thanks so much for noticing.

PATTERSON: Is Chip working its way into your solo act? Or do you think you’ll reserve it for The Neighbourhood?

RUTHERFORD: It was gonna be its own thing. I had no intention of bringing Chip into The Neighbourhood. It sounds corny, but the reason I wanted to do Chip for The Neighbourhood is—I don’t know if you’ve heard our song, “Middle of Somewhere.”

PATTERSON: I did. I watched the video.

RUTHERFORD: That song is a special one to me. I wanted to make sure that I could attach something to it that would make people stop, look, and have to listen. We were gonna do a textural video, like B-roll footage, Super 8, nature-y. I wake up in the morning, and I go to the house we’re recording at, in Coldwater Canyon. Before our director Alex got there I was sitting in the house, looking across the canyon over on this hill, and I actually had a vision of the chrome fuckin’ thing on top of the hill. So I showed up the next day in full Chip regalia, and everyone looked at me like, “Oh, no…”

PATTERSON: [Laughs] So that was the first introduction between Chip and The Neighbourhood, when you made it a part of the universe.

RUTHERFORD: It was, yeah. Actually, this producer duo called Take a Daytrip–they did that Sheck Wes song [“Mo Bamba”], “Panini” by Lil Nas X–they’re doing so well. I’ve known them for a long time. They’ve always sent me beat packs and I’ll just go through, pick ten at a time. I thought Chip was going to be leaning more toward my hip-hop shit.

PATTERSON: Yeah, if you’d gone through with Chip as an independent project, how would it sound?

RUTHERFORD: End of 2017, me and my engineer, Danny, were in the studio, going off on Chip. If you ask my friends, they heard about Chip so long ago, they’re like wow, you actually did it! Chip was going to be hip-hop.

PATTERSON: Daytrip almost feels more aligned with this glitchy, chromed-out look than The Neighbourhood. I’m thinking of the “Panini” video, Lil Nas X in the space suit.

RUTHERFORD: Hip-hop music has been my programming. It’s been my love. When I was a kid, hearing Eminem, G-Unit for the first time, I was like… Bro, that is it. I don’t know if you know where I’m from, Newbury Park—

PATTERSON: Ventura County, right?

RUTHERFORD: Yeah, yeah. I was kind of the odd one out, in my neighborhood, my area, obsessed with rap. I decided to stick with the guitar, and I fell in love with it, not having to use so many goddamn words. In fact, I don’t want Chip to talk, because Jesse talks enough. It’s all in the song, that’s where I’m gonna leave it. And “Middle of Somewhere” is a good jumping off point. That’s probably the purest sound you’re gonna hear; it’s just me and a guitar. I’ve been really into Dolly Parton lately—

PATTERSON: She’s having a revival moment with us younger gens!

RUTHERFORD: She’s a great reference for what I’m doing, because Dolly will tell you, “Yeah, I don’t give a fuck if you think I’m fake on the outside, because I am! That’s what I wanna look like. And that’s fine, because I know what’s coming out of me is more real than anything. So I don’t have to worry about that.”

PATTERSON: People are gonna assume they know what Chip’s about; i.e. my questions about the Ziggy comparisons or the visual continuity with Daytrip’s sound. But the far-out visual is paired back to a fairly stripped sound.

RUTHERFORD: Exactly. It’s not what people are expecting. Right now, Chip’s dedicated to The Neighbourhood. The project is gonna be called—there might be a change—but right now it’s called Chip Chrome and the Monotones. The boys, the way we all look together… They’re shadows, they’re silhouettes.

PATTERSON: They’ve got the reflective two-piece suits, right?

RUTHERFORD: For the most part, I’m the only one who has to say something to express what we collectively feel. So if I say something they’re not into, they tell me. I mean, there’s two thousand songs the world won’t hear because we all didn’t agree. It’s working, though. When I first showed up as Chip, everyone was like “what the fuck are you doing?” Now that we’ve worked on the context, everyone’s down.

PATTERSON: Final question, easily the lamest. Will Jesse/Chip find their way back to Instagram?

RUTHERFORD: I guess I’ll say I don’t know. I’m only a couple weeks off.

PATTERSON: How’s it feeling?

RUTHERFORD: I mean, you know… I’m going through it a bit.

PATTERSON: It’s a hell of a drug. You ingest it, but it can also completely consume you.

RUTHERFORD: Comparing myself to everything, everyone, everybody I love… You can’t look at humans like that. I don’t want to think about what everyone else is doing. I feel my creativity pumping back up again. I mean, I have the queen of social media sleeping in the bed next to me. And it’s the coolest thing ever, the way Devon does it? That’s the way you gotta do it. Not work for it, but make it work for you. And that’s cool, that’s her thing, it doesn’t have to be my thing. Luckily, if I do want to come back…

PATTERSON: It’s all gonna be there.

RUTHERFORD: The weirdest twist to it all—which I love, which is wonderful—is that I get off of it, and a week later I get an email that Lily from Interview fuckin’ Magazine… I mean, it’s Interview Magazine! If that isn’t a sign to pay attention, then I’m an asshole and I need to recalibrate my vision.

[dcmissionaries]

DokiDokiCon V2: Time to Save the World!

"Welcome to Daten City's AMAZING Annual Anime Con: DokiDoki Con!" The reporter greeted on the screen, many people milling around behind her, "This is such an amazing time of year, isn't it? Hopefully you people back home can find the time to attend our funnest and most loved convention!" Yes, many cosplayers, weeaboos, and casual fans alike were excitedly reporting to the convention center to attend their beloved con. A quick look around could easily spot some sinister grins and dashing heroic smiles! However... Strappon sat at the Abbey, shutting the television off and sighing. The last DokiDoki Con was a mess. Why did they keep these things going...? "Hey, any news on ghosts or anything?" Overshirt asked, wandering into the Rec Room. "Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I wonder what they're up to... They must have something planned if the city has been safe for so long..." Strappon grumbled, scratching the back of his head. There was a rumble above the Abbey, causing the two to look up. Strappon was struck by a thunderbolt. Overshirt caught the paper and looked it over while Strappon coughed the soot out of his lungs and shook himself of. "Hero." The boy read, giving Strap a perplexed look, "Well, then. Spoke too soon?" "I have a feeling I know exactly where this is going..." The Pink-haired Templar said, his gaze moving to the television.

DOKIDOKICON: HERO EDITION! What is this place filled with so many wonders~? Anime cons are the best place for Angels-- And Ghosts. --------

The convention was just as lively as you would consider one to be- Large amounts of people both big and small of all varieties and scents conglomerated into one large convention center. Some cosplaying, some just wearing what they would consider their best or coolest outfits. Yes, it was an atmosphere filled with excitement!

BRIT:  Strappon looked around the crowd, almost in disappointment. How the  hell would they be able to find a disguised ghost here? There were so  many... People in costumes.

 "Don't worry, Strap!" Overshirt chuckled with a pat to his cousin's  back, "We brought the Angels! We should have a relative amount of  success."  "Relative." Strappon repeated.

KUMA:  Pasties was at the main floor of the convention. She had gotten caught  up with a group of cosplayers and was currently posing for a photo.  When that one was done, another set of fans with phones and cameras  came up. She gave a smile as more pictures were taken. Of course she  didn't mind the attention.

OSCARK9:  Gloves walks in the DokiDoki Con for his first time ever in Daten  City. He was dress up as Ragna from BlazBlue, his favorite character  to be in. For his first time in the Con was excited for him. Seeing  all his favorite characters in the convention was inspire to see. Not  only that you can see your favorite characters in cosplay, but to  bring a cool weapon in a covention. Which he brings in 'Ragna Sword'  in the convention, (don't worry, its only plastic).

 "Wow! First time ever in a Convention. I can't wait to see what they  have here." He said in his happy tone and off he went in the crowd of  cosplays.

KRO:  Another excuse to show off how obsessed he is with a particular MOBA,  Shades was more than excited to participate in the con again. The last  time was interesting to say the least. He scanned the perimeter to  spot a familiar face but all he got was Strappon's familiar hair  color. Sneaking up behind the templar, he leaned in and whispered, "  ___Death comes... ___ "

COFFINCAT:  Mary was looking around in the crowd for a familiar face, having not  found anyone he hides under a vacant booth. He hugs  his teddy bear.  The little one was cosplaying Honey senpai from Ouran highschool host  club. He takes out his little sketch book and he draws Gloves.

BRIT:  Strappon screamed and spun around, punching Shades in the face as hard  as he could.  "YOU BLOODY WANKER. I WILL END YOU if you come THAT CLOSe to me--" He  hissed before realizing what he had done, "--Oh, I am so sorry."

EMI-DESU:  Tee hung close to his brother (much to his dismay) and looked  uninterestedly at Shady.

 "Wow, another Kylo Ren. I can't believe it."

 Tee insisted on having him and Ovy cosplay together, and something  simple. He adjusted Ovy's hat and black shirt (with a signature red R  on it) and pulled out a couple Pokeballs.  "Atop goofing around! We got a Ghost to catch right? Can't be that  hard to find..."

EMI-DESU:  *Stop

GAMER-GODDESS:  "So this is a 'Con', it is rather wonderful to see so many people so  eager to participate." Fib'yuh'luh giggled as they skipped up to the  entrance. They were clad in a Sailor Moon costume that Thigh High had  spent at least a week or so putting together for them.

 "Yeah yeah, just try not to mess up your outfit will ya? It'd be a  shame if something happened to it. I spent a lot of time putting this  together, I totally forgot to get something for myself!" Thigh High  stated as she kept smoothing over the Throne's outfit to make sure it  looked just right.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Fascinator walked into Doki Doki con dress as Rin Kagamine, second  design. He was wearing a skirt that were also shorts with a blonde wig  and sailor top. His white bows twitched happily as he skipped in. He  looked so androgynous that many people whispered if he was a man or a  young Japanese girl. Knittens walked next to him as Midoriya Izuku,  proud of his look.  Fascinator looked around and pouted, he was about to scream for  Jeokori, but said alien waved over to him, relaxing.  Headphones, dressed as the fairy Kyu from Hunie Pop and reading his  newly bought hentai. Life is sweet.

KRO:  "No, you're not!" Shades was lucky enough to remove his mask before  getting what he probablu deserved. He felt his eye shut from the  swelling. Touching it stung, guess an ice pack is required.  

  "What a bossy Rocket Grunt," Shades commented, "Anyways, I agree. We  should keep an eye out for... cosplays stars..." he said, squinting  one sole eye.

OSCARK9:  While walking around in the convention, he was looking around to  different booths to see what they have here in the convention. While  doing that, he spotted a little boy that was under the vacant booth  with a sketch book in his hand. He wonders to himself if he's having  any fun in the convention. So he walks over too him and ask him a  question.

 "Hey there, little fella. Are you having fun in a convention?" He  asked him while giving him a smile.

BRIT:  "Tee, we can't catch it with balls." Overshirt sighed, "Patience is  going to be the best option at the moment. Maybe we can lure it out!  But we have no idea what it does..."

 "Doesn't matter, still gonna find it!" Jacket laughed, adjusting his  Rocket Grunt attire. He grinned at Trenchcoat. "And we're gonna beat  its face in."

 "Shades, oh god. I am so sorry." Strappon whispered, holding his hand  out to help him up.

SAIYAN:  "We're gonna have great success now that I'm here" Tuxedo Jacket said  to Strap. Dressed up as Gohan from the Cell Games, cape and all. The  new kid on the block really made a reputation for himself for the  short time in the Abbey.

 Undershirt dressed as Vegito looked at him with a raised eyebrow.  "Please we're all gonna work together and find this thing" Undershirt  said.

 Wristband got dressed up as Android 18 because why not. "Yeah besides,  last time this happened it took a whole team effort to take down  Yurei-chan." She wasn't there to witness it herself, but she heard  Undershirt tell the story. She still giggled about Baby Cop to this  day.

 Meanwhile, Bowtie was dressed as Satsuki in her kamui, trying to see  if there was any of her comrades around.

KUMA:  Eventually Pasties pulled herself away from the fellow Love Live  cosplayers, giving them a friendly wave. If a ghost /was/ going to  show up, she wanted to enjoy the con a bit before that. Since  everything would probably slow down or stop completely after that. She  looked back towards the Angels and others that she had arrived with.  She could always go exploring the con by herself, but that might be  less fun. To her, it'd be a bonus for the other person since they  would get to hang out with her.

KRO:  "Damn, you were aiming to make me blind again... I deserve this..."  Shades held up his hands a litte defensively, trying to make sure  Strappon at least touched the injury carefully.

COFFINCAT:  A limo pulls up to the main entrance and Sneaker heels steps out of  it. She adjusts her red glasses  and she pats her dress. Camera men  flocked to her and she sighs , walking right past just about everyone  of them. She'd decided to go as Rize Kamishiro from Tokyo Ghoul. She  stretched and walked over to her booth, sitting down as her assistance  set everything up.     Fox Stole dawned her best Tomb Raider cosplay and sauntered around,  taking pictures with people who'd walked up to her.   Mary moved out from under the unoccupied booth and ran to a stand. He  took out  his piggy bank and he bought an ice pack. He walks over to  shades and he hides behind Strappon, holding out the ice pack to  Shades, "H-here you go Mr."

EMI-DESU:  Tee frowned deeply and shook his balls at Ovy. This was his first time  out with his brother in a long while and he doesn't even take it  seriously.  "Let's go, gang! Last one to find a Ghost gets a bullet in the knee!!"

 Trench crossed his arms and got tugged along begrudgingly by his  parner, wondering how Jacket got him out of bed today at all. Oh,  that's right. He BROKE it. He BROKE his bed.  "Let's just get this over with already..." He grumbled.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens ran from Fascinator as he does in every crowded place and  runs past Strappon and Shady before screeching to a stop and looking  at Shades with awe. He exclaims with excitement  "You look cool! What're you?"  Fascinator was about to stop Knittens but after seeing where he went  he didn't bother afterwards. Turning back to his alien friend, he  asks,  "So how're you liking your first con, Cho-cho?"  Jeokori took a minute to write down his answer and replied,  "Didn't you say that celebration of costumes was a week from now?"

BRIT:  Surrounded by so many people, Duster really just wanted to find Hot  Pants and find this dumb ghost. People kept stopping him and asking  him for pictures, calling him "Sephiroth" or something like that. He  let them take pictures and moved on, hoping it would appease the  strange people.

 "You're too self-punishing." Strap sighed, and looked around for those  medic people they always have at large gatherings. "At least Angels  can enjoy themselves now... I wonder if Ampallang made it here  alright."

 "Yep! I'd rather not get a bullet to the knee..." Jacket said, visibly  wilting for only a half-second before springing up again and grabbing  Trench's arm. "LET'S EXPLORE!"

KRO:  "I'm sure he made it here fine..." He blinked, looking behind Strap  and smiled at the young child offering him the ice back.

  "Hey, thanks." He said, gently placing it on his eye. Suddenly  Knittens entered the frame as Tee's gang  seemed to be off on their  own shenanigans. Shades beamed with light, not literally, at his  question, "Oh well, I'm a character called Reaper. I'm wearing an  alternate outfit for him."

COFFINCAT:  Mary nods with a little smile and he hugs his teddy bear close to him.  He sees Kittens and he waves . He gently boops him to say hello .

KRO:  A force yanked Duster from wherever the man was standing to the  ground. The source? A grumpy Hot Pants who looked more than tired. In  front of him, there was Chocobo in a baby carrier taking in the sights  of the con.  "Jesus, where were __you__ ? I like, turn around for one second and  the next you were just gone. I have tiny legs, I can't keep up!"

BRIT:  Strappon gave Tuxedo Jacket a look of disinterest and then put his  attention back to the other Angels.  "If you all want, we can separate and make sure we cover more ground?"  He looked particularly at Pasties, who was... New and seemed to want  to explore.

 "I... Well, I got swallowed up by the crowd. So many people wanted my  picture." Duster said, pushing Hot Pants off him and dusting himself  off. "I heard there's supposed to be a ghost in this area... And I'd  like to go back to Heaven sometime."

EMI-DESU:  "Dear Ampallang won't be making it, I'm afraid..." A voice replied  from behind Strappon. Out stepped a tall pale man, flicking his pink  and purple hair. "I've been looking for you, tiny human man."

OSCARK9:  "I guess that was a yes." Seeing him run off to do something leaves  him a unanswered thought from him. ("Oh well, at least he's having  fun.") He said to himself and continues walking in the convention.

KUMA:  Pasties caught Strappon's look towards her.

 "I'm okay with anyone else joining me. Just as long as they can keep  up. There's a lot of things I want to see."

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens was about to answer until he got booped. Well, someone  started the boop war. Knittens bops him back in self defense, but it  was gentle to infer friendliness. Unlike Fasci, where Knittens tries  to break his nose.  Jekoroi followed up with another note,  "Also... Are you a young girl or?"  Fascinator chuckles, avoiding the question as he takes out a small box  from god knows where, revealing the small figurine set. Jeokori's eyes  lit up and his soul threads were almost wagging in happiness. After  watching Sailor Moon together, Jeokori almost couldn't believe Fasci  when he said he could get a mini version of his favorite character but  there she was. If Jeokori could make a sound, he would be squealing.  Headphones was chillind on the fountain as he flipped the pages of his  hentai, every now and then remarking,  "Nice."

KRO:  Suddenly a sparkly and well decorated cardboard box slid into the  scene. This was getting to be too much for Shades, but he just let it  happen. Daten's weird enough. The box then sprouted two legs and stood  up all proud and tall as two arms, one holding a microphone, popped  out.  "Hello, lovely monsters of the Underground! I'm just here to introduce  a lovely little friend that's been looking for the priest. Be  niiiice."

 Shades squinted even harder at the person in the cardboard box, you  can hear it. It was indeed Go-Go Boots as Mettaton. How befitting.

COFFINCAT:  Mary makes a smol gasp and he giggles , returning  a soft boop. He  smiled and his cheeks dusted pink, "H-hi , I'm M-Mary. "  He said as  he offered the other his teddy bear for a hug. He sees Go-Go and he  almost squeels in delight.

BRIT:  "Lots of things to see?" Jacket mused, "Sounds like we'll work well  together-- Uh... What's your name?"  The Rocket Grunt tilted his head at Pasties.

 Strappon blinked, turning to see a stranger and a... Box.  "How do you know where Ampallang is?" He asked, crossing his arms. It  was obvious the box was someone he knew.

KRO:  Seeing Bowtie waiting around, what appears to be an old lady that came  straight out of Mad Max: Fury Road came up to her. They grabbed  Bowtie's hand and handed some homemade candy to her in the shape of  little ghosts and bats.  "Nice Satsuki outfit, nerd." The voice didn't match the face. That's  because it was actually Hairpin dressed up as none other than Ana  Amari. He just wanted to do a group cosplay group with Shades, don't  mind him.

 "Have ya seen anybody else from work around here?" He asked Bowtie.

 Hot Pants would have crossed his arms if Chocobo wasn't strapped on to  his chest, so he simply ruffled the bird's feathers, "Well, you do  look like my figurine that I ordered some time ago.. ANYWAYS. You have  a plan of action for that? Because I'm just thinking of blowing this  week's paycheck on some stuff I've wanted."

KUMA:  "Me? I'm Pasties," she said with a little wink. "Do you want go with  me then?"

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens looked at the teddy and patted it's head. He wasn't too sure  what to do but he

EMI-DESU:  The white-clad man bowed lightly. "My name would be Dermal." He  gestured to the peircing on his collarbone. "Ampallang is a brother of  mine, and he's gone off to do important Seraph business, so I  volunteered to take his place for now."

 Dermal straightened up and looked around at the scattered fallen  angels about, having themselves a merry old time. "Quite an organized  bunch, I see. I think I have a lot of work to do..."

 Trenchcoat pulled his arm out of Jacket's grip and pushed him out of  the way, clearing his throat and smiling at Pasties. "Hi, I'm  Trenchcoat. Jacket's got a lot of things to do too, so I'll go with  you instead!"

OSCARK9:  Walking back to the booths. He was looking at the booths to see what  they have here in DokiDoki Con. So far for him was some comic books,  action figures, and some video games. He wanted to buy something for  himself, but it was so hard for him to choose.

 "Hmm? What to choose? What to choose?" He said to himself while  scratching his head next to the booth.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  was friendly, atleast.  Fascinator and Jeokori looked at the sights with Fasci mostly talking.  But when Jeokori bothered to look at him, Fasci was cosplaying as a  completely different outfit and seemed to just magically transform  into 707.  What.  Jeokori blinked in disbelief as he poked Fasci, making sure he wasn't  seeing things. Fascinator tried to ignore the poke as he waved to  Go-Go and screamed,  "HEY NICE LEGS!"

KUMA:  Pasties blinked at Trenchcoat's interuption, but didn't seemed  bothered by it.

 "Its too bad that he's busy when there's so much fun stuff to do here!  Oh well!" She addressed Jacket, "If you find some time, you could meet  up with me later."

 She then turned back to Trenchcoat, "Thanks for coming with me."

KRO:  Go-Go removed the box, as it was getting a little too hot. "But no  daisy dukes to make a man go, sadly."  At least Go-Go was appropriately dressed as Mettaton EX.

BRIT:  "I didn't know you were that kind of dork." Duster mused, "Huh."  He pet Chocobo before hearing another set of girls squeel somewhere  behind him. Oh no, it begins again.

 "Oh... I see." Strappon replied, rubbing his chin. "I wish he'd told  me ahead of time... I guess you'll do in his place. You're a lot  nicer."  The Templar held out his hand to Dermal.  "I'm Strappon. This boy next to me is my cousin, Overshirt."  Overshirt gave him a small wave.

 Jacket blinked and snorted at Trenchcoat.  "Nah, he always acts like a dweeb around pretty ladies. We'll all go  together! Pasties, huh? That's a weird name. Anyway, let's get goin!"  He blabbered off, grabbing them both by the hands and skipping off in  another direction.

SAIYAN:  "Hey HP. Didn't know you were into Cross Dressing" Bowtie said as she  grabbed the candy. "No, didn't actually. No one came with you I take  it?"

 "Damn son" Undershirt said as he watched Shades grab his face. He then  looked at Dermal. "That's interesting. I didn

COFFINCAT:  Heels exits her booth and she sneaks over to the doujinshi section of  the con. She casually buys some Love Stage manga and she goes off ,  leaving her body guards in charge. She hears her name called on the  loud speaker and she curses , going off to perform some anime  openings. Out of many she was asked to perform , Lithium from Elfen  Lied was  the first.

   Mary fiddles with his hands and he looks up at him, " D-Do you wanna  um be partners ..for t-the ghost hunt?" He asked shyly.

BRIT:  "Not into crossdressing? He's basically a woman." Amulet snorted,  adjusting part of his coat. He was cosplaying Sephiroth, so he was  showing more skin than he was used to.

SAIYAN:  't know that he had a brother" he said.

 Wristband and Tuxedo looked at each other and then shrugged. They were  in the same boat as Undershirt was.

SAIYAN:  "OOOOH MOM GET THE CAMERA" Bowtie yelled at Amulet's comment. That was  fucking savage Amulet.

KRO:  Hot Pants jumped in front of Duster protectively, hissing at the mob  of girls, "___BACK OFF, he's mine. ___ Come on, let's go before they  actually catch up with us."

 "Let me express myself how I want, dear. And I want to be a murderous  old woman, so nyeh," Hairpin stuck his tongue out at Bowtie before  looking away, thinking. "Well, at least there's the three of us." He  said, handing Amulet a ghost shaped candy, "Here, try this one out."

 "Yeah, Amp's got brothers," Shades chimed in, "I actually had the  privilege of meeting one of his brothers that resides in Northern  Heaven. Pretty cool dude."

EMI-DESU:  "Well, it's nice for you to meet me, then." Dermal said flashing a  sparkling grin, tentitively taking Strappon's hand. "Humans are so  fascinating, it's a wonder how they could be so easy to manipulate."

 He released his hand and placed it on his hip, gently wiping it on his  pants. "But you are God's precious children and must be protected at  all costs, I suppose. Anyway, we're looking for a Ghost that seems to  blend in with THIS crowd. It could be anywhere, so let's stay on our  toes?"

 Trenchcoat's grin turned sour again when Jacket grabbed them both and  tugged. He was the biggest cockblock ever...

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  "I don't know, I'm sure at least one guy man." Fascinator replied,  ignoring that Jeokori was currently questioning if the human knew  black magic. Seriously, a costume change that fast?  "Plus I'm sure your daisy dukes makes boys into men."  Knittens nods to mark as he replied,  Sure, I mean mom said no weapons until Christmas so... Hope you got  something."

SAIYAN:  '

KUMA:  "Hmph, I don't think my name is weird at all," Pasties said with a  little pout. She did go along with Jacket and Trenchcoat as she was  was pulled. She looked around at the things they passed and decided  she'd stop the two if anything grabbed her attention.

 "So what are you two dressed up as?"

COFFINCAT:  Mary nods and smiles ," My teddy is a tazer too!" He  stood beside him  and held his teddy close. "Do you wanna look anywhere in particular?"  He tilts his head.

BRIT:  "Follow you dreams, _dear._" Amulet said, taking the candy and tossing  it into his mouth, "Where's the ghost, anyway? Didn't Shroud want us  to keep tabs?"  Something felt off about this atmosphere... He could see the Angels in  the distance, along with Gogo and a new face...

 "Yes... Staying on our toes is advisable. Well, let's get a move on  and see if we can't find it before it causes to much damage." Strappon  said, quirking a brow.

 "Oh, we're Rocket Grunts from Pokemon!" Jacket said with a huge grin,  "Our whole gang is dressed alike! Not my usual costume 'cuz I like to  be unique and stuff."  Considering his last costume...

 Duster nodded in agreement with Hot Pants, still a little stunned by  his reaction.  "You know, I'm used to the atention. It's not terrible." He said,  "You're weird."

SAIYAN:  “Whatever” Bowtie said to HP as she munched on her chocolate. That  still didn't change the fact that he was a cross dresser and she knew  it.

 Undershirt looked at Shades. “Huh, I never knew that��� he said. He  felt that it would be something he would mention to them.

 “Maybe he has some kind of dark past” Tuxedo whispered to  Wristband, causing her to giggle in her hand”

KUMA:  "Oh Team Rocket!" Pasties was familiar with what that was, but she had  never played a Pokemon game herself.

 "Please don't steal my Pokemon then!" she said playfully and jokingly,  "But what do you normally dress up as?"

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens shakes his head and replies,  "If it's a ghost then it'll show up. Trust me. Wanna check out the  latest edition of that mecha cartoon?"  Fascinator changed once again into Viktor in a blink of an eye.  Seriously. Can he stop? Like its so sudden.  Jeokori was frightened at this point. How could this even happen? Is  anyone gonna notice? Seriously?  Headphones glanced over and waved to whoever and finished his first  book. To the next volume.

Meanwhile, people throughout the convention were experiencing some... Odd difficulties. Some people were found and being detained by the con staff for their strange behavior. Someone had literally had to be fetched from the cieling.

EMI-DESU:  "A pile of Garbage," Trenchcoat replied for him. "But that's his usual  attire, not a costume."  Trench tried to pull his arm out of Jacket's iron grip with no avail.

BRIT:  "Hey, now!" Jacket shouted at him, "I was a couple things last time...  A couple things at once. I was a duelist, Akira, Ness..." He counted  the things we was, but it was difficult to remember.

COFFINCAT:  His eyes light up and he nods eagerly. "O-oh boy.. Um s-sure, can we  check out the stuffed animals next?" He gulps a little bit , seeing  someone floating on the ceiling ,"Do people here..n-normally do that?"  He points to the random pedestrian.

KUMA:  Pasties stopped moving and pointed at a booth that was selling various  figurines.

 "Hey let's stop here!" she said, starting to move in the direction  towards it. She seemed to either have been ignoring the tension  between the two or trying to find a distraction to stop them from  arguing.

OSCARK9:  "Man. What to choose for myself?" He said to himself again. Thinking  of what to buy in the convention was tough for him. There was so many  cool things to buy here, that one can't decide on what to buy. When he  walk over to the next booth where a bunch of clothes is at, his eyes  was caught his interest on a shirt that has a picture of 'Ash-Greninja  and Ash' in front of the picture and its telling him that he found  what he's looking for. "Ah, yes!" He said in his happy tone.

OSCARK9:  *In front of the shirt

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  "Nope! Unless they discovered anti-gravity stuff. So uh... Found it!"  Knittens announced for anyone to hear. He should be captain obvious.  Fascinator was definitely attracting attention as Viktor. Mostly Yuri  on Ice fans. Good luck boy.  "Anything good at con this year?" he asks, unknowing if he was even  talking to someone at this point. The contacts he's wearing is messing  with his vision.

KRO:  "Well I think /you're/ weird," Hot Pants replied, "What, you want me  to confess my undying love for you? Cause I'm not doing that. Too...  /cliche/ ."  He pulled along Duster to some merchant stands, looking at particular  plushies and figurines.  "Uh.. You want anything. Not this, but like food or a drink?"

 "My, why thank you dear," Go-Go didn't know whether to take that as a  compliment or not. But they did have shapely legs.

 What should be a simple cosplay had a fully functional mask. He  activated it but nothing seemed to be getting picked up, "If there's a  ghost here, I'll see it before it can see us."

 Shades took off the ice pack from his eye and donned his mask back on,  "Anyways, I'm gonna go into the booths to buy stuff. If you wanna  come, knock yourself out."

SUPERBIO:  Flying around the convention, The Greatest Hero was giving the  honorable citizens of Daten City what they deserve! Everyone here  wanted to be a Hero, right? That's why they were so willing to dress  like them!

 "Halt, Citizen!" He said to someone, "You look like you would love to  join me in my quest to destroy the scum of this earth!"

 The person looked around and pointed to himself.

 With that, he was zapped with Super Beams and given a special power of  his own.

 He didn't feel any different, but taking a step forward zoomed him  straight into a wall.

 "Another satisfied customer!" Superbio boomed before flying away to  find more heroes.

SAIYAN:  Bowtie looked at HP as he activated his scanner thing.

 “Didn’t it not work the last time you tried this?” Bowtie asked  him, folding her arms. She wasn’t convinced that it still wouldn’t  work.  Meanwhile, back at the ranch. The gang mulled over Shades’ offer to  go look at stuff. Undershirt seemed to be on board but T.J. seemed to  have a different idea.  “You guys are such nerds!” Tuxedo said to Shades and the rest of  them.

 Undershirt sighed. “Yeah let’s go. It beats standing around here.  You want to come too, Wristband?”

 Wristband nodded her head and T.J. begrudgingly decided to go too.

COFFINCAT:  Mary hides behind knittens and holds the teddy bear close, the fur  started to fluff up  and Mary's hair fluffed with it, the little fella  was charging up. "  S-so do we attack it or d-do we run?" He asked a  bit spooked.

BRIT:  "Oh shit, whaddup?" Jacket said, backing it up to look over the  figurines. "They got one of ULTRAMAAAAAAAN!"  He posed like Ultraman. Way to break character.

 "Thanks." Duster snorted, "Yes, I would love food. I'm starving and  everything here is... Expensive."

 Amulet peered over HP's shoulder.  "Uh... Dear. There's a child that ran himself into a wall at breakneck  speed." He said, pointing in that direction.

 Strappon looked over at Knittens and then up at the person on the  cieling.  "Oh, bloody hell." He said, "Good job, lad."  He gestured for everyone to follow him. That would be best.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Headband looked at the ghost, and slowly rolls off the fountain and  decided to help for once. Following the others, he adjusted his fairy  panties.  Knittens stood like a rock in bravery and responds,  "Well it didn't notice us so let's stay away."  Fascinator was just wandering around lost, his vision was blurring too  much and he was tempted to take the contacts off. Jeokori stood behind  Strappon and pointed at the person and held up a note asking,  "Do humans do this?"

KUMA:  Pasties got distracted looking at figures of well, cute anime girls.  She didn't seem bothered by ones in revealing clothes or provocative  poses. None of them were full on explicit, but they were getting  there.

 "I totally have to have some of these," she said, looking them over.

COFFINCAT:  Mary swoons a little bit and he shakes his head, "R-right! I-I mean  right." He holds his teddy. "I-I found a hiding spot , but you gotta  keep it a secret." He holds out his pinkie for the ultimate promise.

KRO:  "I refined the technology, so now it's fully operational. You're  talking to a genius after all, these things get worked out pretty  fast," Hairpin boasted. He was proud of finally making his scanner  work. Hopefully it didn't fry his face, this is the first finished  scanner he finished so anything goes.  Hairpin quickly turned to the direction Amulet pointed to, "Shit." Too  bad Hairpin didn't have a biotic rifle for healing.

 Shades shrugged at Tuxedo Jacket, "You're saying that as if it hurts  me," says the guy whose Twitter handle is currently cyborg fucker  2k16, "Oh right, you're the new guy. I think I heard some mentions of  you from these two," He said, pointing at the twins.  His plans were changed as Strappon seemed to have picked something up  and skedaddled his way back to the Templar, "What's up."

 "You're lucky I feel like spoiling you today and willing to blow my  entire paycheck...I don't think you want something from Mickey D's,  huh?" Hot Pants asked, looking around to see if the other Angels  caught the ghost's trail.

OSCARK9:  "One XL shirt, please." The man at the booth gave him the shirt that  he want the most and Gloves pay the man $59.99 for the shirt.  Expensive as it is, it was worth spending on. "You're coming home with  me." He said to the shirt. While enjoying his buying shirt, he heard  some commotion from the Angels right behind his back. So he runs over  to them to see what's up.  "What did I miss?"

BRIT:  "I think I can afford something a little higher class." Duster  snorted, "Really."

 Strappon pointed to the kid on the cieling.  "Our ghost is hard at work." He said, "Let's try to track it down. I  think I heard some commotion about a kid running himself into a wall.  We may get more information out of him."

 "Those are silly!" Jacket said, trying to copy one of the sexy poses  of the figures, "Wow-- This is hard!"

KUMA:  "I think they're cute," Pasties commented while paying the person at  the booth for the two figures she decided to buy. She turned around  and laughed slightly at Jacket's imitation of the pose. She set her  bag down for a moment and copied the pose herself.

 "If you bend like this its more comfortable, see?"

KRO:  "What, you want to go to those fancy restaurants? In all seriousness."  This guy wouldn't settle for something like Mickey D's, huh.

 "Hopefully the kid isn't knocked out," Shades added.

EMI-DESU:  Trenchcoat spat out the drink he just bought all over Jacket.

 Dermal watched Strappon as the other angels sort of gathered together,  following their own agendas. He pulled out a PDA and started taking  notes.

SAIYAN:  “Did they tell you how awesome I was?” Tuxedo asked to Shades. Of  course, it would only be good things. He was just that awesome.

 Undershirt looked up at the ceiling and saw the man up there. “How  the hell did that happen?” he asked.  That was something new. He was pretty sure that that shouldn’t  normally happen.  “Well you don’t see that every day” Wristband said as she too  looked up at the poor man stuck on the ceiling. “Think we should  help him?”

 “HAHAHA look at that!” Tuxedo laughed. He really wasn’t being  productive. That dude on the ceiling was having a bad day.

KRO:  "Really? A PDA? Honey, that's sooooo 2002. Here, have one of these  instead." Go-Go handed Dermal an expensive tablet that must have been  pulled from the ether, "Don't let me catch you with outdated  /anything/ . Otherwise I'll provide for you."

KUMA:  Pasties turned towards Trenchcoat and raised an eyebrow. "Is  everything okay over there? You didn't choke did you?"

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens nods and exclaims,  "Lead the way!"  Did he know the meaning of secrets?  Fascinator finally took off his contacts and could see. Strangely, he  again changed his cosplay into Hampnie Hambert. Bless. That's when he  spotted one of his favorite otome games apparently has a booth. He was  literally a blur as he sprinted over to buy all the merch. That nerd.

OSCARK9:  Gloves looked up at the ceiling where Strappon pointed to and saw a  Men up there. "Ouch." He said to himself. If he was him, he'll be in  so much pain. Poor man.

EMI-DESU:  Dermal turned to Go-Go with a soft smiled and swiped the device out of  his hand. "My, how helpful you are. I think we're going to get along  just fine..." He said, staring at him with a grin for a full minute  before turning back to the activities before him.  "They still haven't caught the Ghost. How wonderful. I want to see  what these broken angels can do..."

COFFINCAT:  Mary raises an eyebrow and he shrugs, must be a custom here. He takes  the others hand and he leads him to the empty booth. Mary crawls under  and holds up the black table skirt for him to crawl under. "Y-you  gotta be quiet o-okay? So the ghost can't find us." He whispers and  pats the space next to him.

EMI-DESU:  Trenchcoat wiped his face off and threw his cup at Jacket.  "OH, NOPE. I'M JUST FINE. JUST... THIRSTY HAHA." He said half  screaming. He kind of yelled when he was nervous.

KRO:  "You're just saying that in hopes of making me feel better after  your... /idol blunder/ that broke us apart." Go-Go promptly shoved the  tablet back into Dermal's hands. If this kid wants to go, they'll go  alright. To a nice restaurant.

BRIT:  Jacket- now covered in sticky soda or something- wrung out his  costume. He gave the guy a glare as the cup bounced off his forhead.  "Yeah... Thirsty." He said.

TIMERIFTS:  Onesie looked around the convention, extremely lost but ready to take  on the challange. She was dressed up as the blue powerpuff girl,  Bubbles. She skipped happily, not aware of the hell breaking loose  around her, how could she miss it, who knows but she is. She wondered  if any of her friends were here, since she wouldn't really recognize  them when they were all dressed up

EMI-DESU:  "Please, Go-Go, I know you missed me and my gorgeous face, but there  are more important things at the moment. We can make up later, you  know." Dermal waved dismissively at him.

KUMA:  "It sucks if you're thirsty, since your drink is all over Jacket now.  You can always buy another one though."

 Pasties gathered up her stuff. She seemed a bit unaware of the real  cause of Trenchoat being 'thirsty' and looked around. "Did you two  want to buy anything from this booth or should we keep looking?"

KRO:  "Oh, /missed you/? Not really since at least after you left, Daddy  started giving me more attention. Anyways, I'll see you in a nice  restaurant later, ciao~" And there goes Go-Go.

EMI-DESU:  Dermal's head snapped around. "/Do not/." He hissed in a slightly  lower tone than normal, snapping the old PDA he had. Oh, this was  going to be fun with him around...

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  "Sure!!" Knittens shouted, being an unhelpful child. Crawling  underneath, he peeked out to see what was happening every now and  then.Seeing Onesie, he waved underneath the table excitedly and  shouting that he was there. Knittens is the definition of secrecy.  Fasciantor literally had several bag fulls of merch of animes he liked  like a dork and tackled Jeokori's back with a hug. Noticing  Headphones, he shouts at his friend,  "Dude, I can see your junk through that transparent lingerie, you  wanna get decent?!"  Headphones shouts back with his fairy wings fluttering in the breeze,  "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME DAD!"  "Nor do I want to!" Fascinator replies, changing into Beli cosplay to  fit his friend's theme.  Can Fasci even socialize with anyone else at  this point?

TIMERIFTS:  Onesie noticed her best friend, squealing excitedly, racing over  "Knittens!!" she exclaimed happily "look I'm Bubbles" she smiled,  crawling under the table with him, she just went with the flow.  "Why  are we hiding?" she asked him, settling in and lying beside him

BRIT:  "Honestly, I'm for anything. But now I think there's a large  commotion..." Duster said, looking idly off in the direction of the  poor man that was in a wall.

 "Let's go to another booth!" Jacket suggested, seemingly fine now.  "I'd love to buy some cool merch for Ultraman!"  He grinned at Trenchcoat, pulling him away from the booth.

 Strappon furrowed his brow at the interraction between Go-Go and  Dermal. Well, maybe they were old friends...  "We can deal with the man on the cieling later, let's just go  interview the man in the wall and pray he's still intact for  questioning." He said, motioning them along with him and heading in  the direction of the poor man.

EMI-DESU:  Trenchcoat groaned, knowing it was his money he was going to be  spending. Being wealthy was a curse sometimes, at least when you  weren't in your cosy mansion in Heaven...

KUMA:  Pasties walked along with them, trailing slightly behind.

 "So what's Ultraman? Is he from an anime? A game?" she asked.

COFFINCAT:  "Um.." he hides behind Knittens and he holds his bear tightly. "The  ghost might get us if we aren't quiet m-ms. " He whispers as he gently  boops Knittens with his bear.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens proudly claims,  "Well we're hiding from the ghost right now and letting everyone else  handle it."  He bravely accepts that he is the most cowardly right now. He pouted  at the boop and grumbles,  "I knooow..."  "Anyways, I think the ghost is making people fly? I don't know saw a  guy in the ceiling though."  Fascinator was now carried bridal style by Jeokori who walked him over  anything he wanted to see since he was done here and Cufflink wasn't  gonna pick him up any time soon. Headphones forgot why he was there so  he tagged along, even though a lot of people looked at his not so well  hidden crotch area. He bought some new samples of yaoi and just sins  in public view. Fasci waved to Jacket and Trenchcoat, giving a  friendly greeting,  "Hey! What's up guys?"

BRIT:  "He's only from one of _the best_ Hero series in the entire universe!"  Jacket said, waving his arms around a little, "He's a Super Hero from  a show in the 60s that's been ridiculosuly popular ever since. He's  only the best."  He was grinning like a dork.  "Oh, hey, Fascinator!" He waved at him.

SUPERBIO:  Another few people started springing up around the convention with...  Strange powers.  Superbio started looking for new people to recruit when he spotted a  rather menacing looking tall man carrying a smaller, more effeminate  man.

 "Halt!" He said, flying right up to them, "Sir, I do believe this  innocent man can walk on his own. Unless you need me to help you!"

BRIT:  Jacket stared in awe. This was the first time a ghost _came to them_.  It was the most perfect time!  He turned his Rocket hat backwards.

COFFINCAT:  Mary feels the cowardly aura ooze off of Knittens and he pouts, how is  he supposed to swoon when he's being a baby? Mary is the baby here. He  shakes his head and crawls out from under the table, teddy in hand.  "If I ever wanna be an a-angel I've gotta fight like one !" He  exclaims with his chest puffed out. "Knittens, Ms Onesie c'mon!"

KUMA:  Pasties also looked at Superbio. That was guy was /flying/. Talk about  to dedication. When she looked at Jacket, she realized that guy might  be the ghost they were here for in the first place. She pulled the top  of her dress away from her chest, reached her hand in, and peeled off  one her sparkly pink pasties. (It matched her cosplay nicely).

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens looked at Mary and crawled out with now resupplied courage.  "Alright! Chaaaarge!!" he shouted, like he could do something.  Fascinator changed cosplay into Yuno Gasai as Jeokori, bored out of  his mind carried Fasci next to Jacket. Headphones followed slowly as  he got to the very... Intense part. The explicit cover was tame  compared to the raw stuff inside.  "Yo! What're you-"  Fascinator blinked at the ghost before clearing his throat,  "Well I'm okay! Really."  Jeokori was in no mood for anything. Glaring coldly, you could almost  see the rage building inside of his soul. Well, who pissed in his  cheerios?

COFFINCAT:  Mary took Knittens hand and he charged at the ghost , swinging around  his teddy tazer like his life depended on it. His hair was puffed out  from the static the bear created. He lets out a girly battle cry  while running with Knittens , in hot pursuit of that ghost booty.

SUPERBIO:  "I see how sinister you are! Fiend, I shall make you pay!" Superbio  boomed, igniting lazer in his eyes. This hit both Fascinator and  Jeokori.

 [FASCINATOR: Shoots eye Lazers at anyone he's attracted to]  [JEOKORI:Lazer eyes that just cause the target limb to go numb]

 He turned to the others in shock and Jacket and the others looked well  ready for FISTICUFFS.  "You want some too? HAVE AT YOU!"

 He shot his lazers at them, seeming not to see little Knittens JUST  YET.

 [PASTIES: Stop time, but only when you're holding your breath]  [JACKET: the ability to control another person's limbs, but only  through the power of dance]  [TRENCHCOAT: See into the future but only all the possibilities your  current decision will do]

KUMA:  Pasties braced herself for the impact of the laser beam. In doing so,  she subconsciously held her breath. When she opened her eyes and  realized she was wasn't injured, she let out a sigh of relief,  breathing normally. She did, however, notice that until she exhaled,  everything seemed like it was paused.

BRIT:  Jacket screamed, but it didn't hurt. He blinked and looked around.  What just fucking happened???  He whipped off his jacket.  "Whatevs, dude!" He shouted, "We're gonna take you out!"  He felt the urge to dance with someone, but it didn't seem like a good  time... But he wanted to.

KRO:  Shades blinked.

(( OOC: FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO FIGHT, we have our thread: http://dcmissionaries.boards.net/thread/155/ghost-superbio To new members; Please read the guide or ask a mod if you're not sure how it works! ))

EMI-DESU:  Dermal, watching this hell unleashed before him from the window he was  adoring his reflection in, slowly slid behind something more sturdy  and started furiously taking notes.

 Trenchcoat tried, shocked at the tingling that overcame him, started  thinking of pushing Jacket in the way of another blast when he  stopped. It was like switching through channels quickly and he could  see before him the repercussions of his actions.  All the death and distruction, he could see people he loved and cared  about getting seriously hurt and those he could trust betraying him.  All of this. All of it. He just slowly sat down on the ground and  moved his hands a way from Jacket.

KUMA:  Deciding not to hesitate, Pasties removed her other pasty. With a  quick flourish, both of them turned into her knives.

 "I can handle this one! A foe who can't hurt me will be easy to take  down!"

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Fascinator yells in shock at the laser but after seeing that he was  fine as well as his friend, he didn't understand what happened. He was  about to say something but then he felt something stir in his heart.  He flashed to every time he ever felt a crush but it seemed to pass.  Fasci looked around in panic before he saw a rather nice looking  gentleman.  He felt his heart flutter, and burning feelings of attraction as his  feelings gathered together and formed a mysterious ray of light from  his eyes! It struck the innocent bystander and vaporized him. Rest in  peace good looking guy, may you rest in peace. Fasci was in utter  shock, but another ray shot out as these feelings continued! Causing  an explosion of a far off wall.  Jeokori looked down at Fasciantor in shock. Seriously, could humans  really do this!? Biting his lip he felt a sensation coming from his  eyes as well but he won't let this ghost thing manipulate him!  Headphones groaned and took of his namesake. Looks like it's time to  rumble!

COFFINCAT:  MJ he continues his now silent sprint and he swings his teddy as hard  as he can , aiming at the ass of Superbio. Moms spankings usually hurt  so he figured this would probably hurt like the dickins. He runs and  he trips! Falling right on his face.

(( OOC: Just a reminder for people, here's the Combat System! It's been updated: http://dcmissionaries.boards.net/thread/100/combat-system-works ))

KUMA:  With both of her knives ready, Pasties ran towards the ghost. She  intended to go for some quick slashes, but noticed everything had  paused around her again. Then she realized she was holding her breath.  She exhaled for a moment and then took in a deeper breath. She then  went to town with her quick slashes and stabs, able to get in more  hits then she could have normally. With an exhale, Pasties jumped back  and admired her work.

 "Perfect."

MLLERMANDA:  A bad time to look for ghosts.                                        

      Gauges was very sick and had to force himself to come to this  convention. Something about a ghost that the angels have to hunt down.  "Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan..." He whines to himself as he dressed up as Liang  Qi from Cannan. " Out of all the days I could had been sick, it had to  be during a mission, looking for a ghost." He wobbles side to side as  others were busy fighting the ghost that caused trouble or seeing the  scene with a superhero ghost.  Gauges didn't like this and turns his  head, noticing how the ghost fought. " And the worst part of all is  that no one is notic-" He sneezes, " Me." And like that, hewhen he saw  that, it caught his eye as he takes out his weapon, getting ready to  fight even though he felt terrible and was weaker than normally. "Ey!  Mr. Super Hero ghost? What you doing he-" He sneezes loudly as he  drops his weapon. Stumbling around, he tries to attack the ghost.

SUPERBIO:  Superbio couldn't move when she paused time and it left him with a  large chunk out of him.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens politely helps Mary up and pats off the dirt. He's seen Fasci  mess up enough to know what to do. But speaking of Fasci, he gawked at ��his cousin and asked,  "Fasci did you just kill someone?!"  Fascinator looked at Knittens in panic and stumbled,  "No! He's just uh.... In a pocket dimension. I swear!"  Knittens shook his head, at least take responsibility. But lasers?! To  all of the people, the most undisciplined!?  Fascinator felt his heart beating of control as more lasers shot of  his eyes, unable to control how he feels. The chaos caused only  because he loves too many people.  {HP: 25}  Headphones scratched his head as he shrugs, may as well throw Lucky  Hit around. Twirling his grappling hook he swings at Superbio, the  sharp ends meeting with the ghost. Looks like Lucky Hit stood true  with it's name!

SUPERBIO:  He turned to look at all those around him and gasped. There were so  many villains, even a sick one!!  He tried to fly into the air, away from them to recollect his  thoughts.

 "You fiends! You're using your gifts against me!" He shouted at them.

KRO:  Clearly ignoring his duties, Shades pretends to just now see the chaos  unfolding in the convention. He sighed as he went back to look at the  wares, not wanting another ghost to ruin this con. It was the best  local con, after all!  Hairpin walked up to Shades, immediately recognizing the guy's dumb  bird-like cosplay. "....Candy for these trying times?" he asked,  handing Shades a chocolate candy.

 "Thanks, granny."

 "Uh, well. I'm currently an ineffective human. You gonna do anything  about that?" asked Hot Pants. First of all he doesn't have an  appropriate weapon due to the rules. Second of all, he had his baby  with him, he's not putting the rascal in danger.

BRIT:  Jacket looked at Trenchcoat in concern. Was he going to be alright...?  He summoned Dual Pride and threw it toward Superbio, just nicking him.  Damn!  He heard music started playing over the loudspeakers and got and idea,  starting to dance instead of attack. He pointed over at Trenchcoat,  and watched him start to dance.  "Heyyy! It works!" He laughed.

MLLERMANDA:  Gauges turns his head, becoming more confused than ever on what was  going on. He tries to speak to Superbio as he tries to move closer to  him. He whines as he speaks, " What gifts? I want one!" He tries to  swing his weapon but just drags it with him instead. " Gimme a gif-"  He coughs as he takes a breather and tries to take care of himself.

EMI-DESU:  Trenchcoat gets up an shouts.  "I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO ME BUT I'M GONNA--" He shouted, about to  run and throw a kick when his mind filled with thoughts of failure,  missing and hitting the ground like a moron, people laughing. Going  broke, doing illegal things. So illegal he accidentally sells his soul  to a demon. His brothers cackling at him as they dragged him down to  Hell. He choked back a sob and sat back down.

OSCARK9:  Gloves heard some fighting going on in the convention. Maybe the  others found the ghost already. "Finally some action!" Gloves runs to  the scene of the fight and spotted a Superhero ghost attacking his  friends. "Well if he want to fight, then here I come!" He said to  himself while he spread his wing from his back and flys into the  battle.

 "Alright Ghost..." He said to him while he change his gloves into  Gauntlets. "Lets do this!" He shouted at him. Gloves flew towards to  the ghost and punch his right hand into his abdomen.

COFFINCAT:  Mary thanks him and he picks his cheek, dashing off to cut some ghost  ass. He twirls his tazer and his bunny ears flow behind him.  He  throws it up at him and it  wacks the ghost as hard as it can on the  rump.

SUPERBIO:  In an attempt to thwart his attackers, Superbio let out a sonic scream  that would at the very least give them a small knick.

COFFINCAT:  Pecks-

SUPERBIO:  He took the hit from Gauntlets and shot him with a beam, giving him a  terrrible superpower.  [GAUNTLETS: Flying but only backwards!]

 He turned to punch Mary-Janes, but stopped and took the hit when he  realized he was just a child.

BRIT:  Jacket sighed, picked Trenchcoat up off the floor, and started dancing  again.  "C'MON BUDDY. I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY!" he started singing along.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens cheered for Mary and gave an encouraging thumbs-up.  Jeokori grabs Fascinator, trying to prevent him from looking at people  but when Fasci faces him, another laser shoots straight at him.  Jeokori dodges in time but his claws suffered greatly, his four claw  fingers vaporized. Looking at his declawed hand, Jeokori's adrenaline  spiked and a laser shot straight at Fasci's arm, causing it to go  completely limp.  Fasciantor shakes his now dead arm and gulped.  {HP: 22}  Headphones cursed as the scream pierced his ear drums, man did he wish  he had his namesake on to drown out this noise. He swung again at the  ghost but it just the wall instead and got stuck.

SAIYAN:  The amount of commotion going on caused Undershirt, Wristband and T.J.  to look over and saw the ghost being battled by the angels. "Oh look  it's Super Man" Undershirt said unconcerned as he took a seat on a  bench near by.

 "And you're just going to do nothing?" Wristband asked.

 "Yep" Undershirt replied. "Look they've got everything under control."

 T.J. looked over and saw that indeed that the Angels had the ghost on  the ropes.

 "Looks like they don't even need my help" he said with a cocky smile.

 The three of them continued to watch the fight progress.

KUMA:  Taking the sonic scream attack but not too shaken up by it, Pasties  moved in for another attack. The set up seemed like everything would  go according to her plan, but she forgot to inhale enough air and had  to stop and breathe. Caught off guard by this, her attack missed.

 She turned to look over at Jacket and Trenchcoat. "You can dance later  you know!"

BRIT:  "Holy shit." Duster said, watching the fight go down."Seems pretty  weak. We should just go get food."  He looked down at Hot Pants.

BRIT:  "NO I HAVE A PLAN!" Jacket shouted at Pasties.

MLLERMANDA:  Gauges takes a deep breath as he attempts once more to attack the  ghost. Totally hating the ghost right now for not giving Gauge what he  wants but was too passive to argue. He coughs harshly as he aims for  the ghost, or at least tries too.

EMI-DESU:  Suddenly, Trenchcoat couldn't control his own limbs. He felt his body  moving on it's own, DANCING on it's own. He panicked slightly and  looked back at Jacket, who was boogieing to the same beat.

 "WHAT ARE-- YOU DOING?!" He shouted through the funky fresh beat  Jacket was shrieking to.

 Before he could struggle more, he felt his body lurch toward Superbio,  and he punched him in the face with all of his (not really his) force.  He felt the crack of his weak knuckles under his force and then  crane-kicked him in the jaw.

 He slumped on the floor.

COFFINCAT:  MJ's cheeks turn red from Knittens encouragement and he trys again,  missing! He pouts and runs, picking up his teddy. He runs back to  protect Knittens.

SUPERBIO:  Superbio screamed at the sudden lurching toward him-- WHAT WAS GOING  ON??  He got a really hard kick to the jaw, and apparently a final slash  from someone's blade. He hit the ground, almost in slow-motion...

 "Curse... YOU!" He whispered from the ground, reaching his hand up  before...

 Exploding.

OSCARK9:  "Ahh! My ears!" He said in a painful tone. Gloves was push back from  the sonic scream and was hit by the beam. He blink and didn't feel  anything different from that attack. He shocked his head from his  confusion and tries to attack. However, instead of going forwards, his  flying went backwards and went straight towards the wall. Ouch.

BRIT:  "Good job, Angels!" Strappon shouted over to them, running up to the  group. "Wow, that was surprisingly quick. You should work together  more often..."

 "Yeah, even if it was Jacket." Overshirt said, kind of in the  background, "Good joooooob!"

COFFINCAT:  Mary turns seeing the ghost blow up. He watches in awe and he smiles.  In a fit of excitement he  runs around with his teddy ," This'll be  the best comic page ever!"

KUMA:  The explosion was very satisfying. Pasties' weapons returned back to  their previous form and she down into her dress to put them back on.

 "Wow that dancing really did work, but of course my first attack was  pretty great right? Like loosening up a really tight pickle jar! No  need to thank me."

BRIT:  "People should be back to normal, now." Jacket said, his dancing  stopping, "I would have loved to keep that power..."

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Fascinator's eyes finally went back to normal and went red before all  the trouble he caused. Oh boy... This wasn't good at all.  Jeokori stared at his hand in shock, his claws were now stumps on his  left hand. He wasn't mad, just.... Horrified.  Knittens cheered and hugged Mary,  "You did great!!"  headphones finally got Lucky Hit unstuck before realizing it was  already dead. Well that was a waste of time. Oh well. Back to reading  porn.

KRO:  "Make up your mind. Fine, we'll go to Gouda. There's one across the  road," Hot Pants looked down at Chocobo, ruffling it's feathers as he  started walking towards the exit. Scratch that, the ghost exploded, he  took cover by a table, not wanting his precious child getting injured.  "HEY. WATCH WHERE YA BLOWING YA BITS."

 Shades tapped Undershirt's shoulder, "Hey dude, which one," he asked  in reference to two identical figures but each having different  colors. This was important.

 Hairpin looked on at the poor ghost and snapped his fingers in  disappointment, "Damn. Well, at least we know that ghost wasn't worth  it."

COFFINCAT:  Mary has little fireworks go off in his head and he hugs Knittens  back,"Y-you really t-think so?" He pulled away with the biggest smile  ever.

  Fox walks over with  a crap ton of hentai and a body pillow. "I leave  for like two seconds."

EMI-DESU:  Dermal walked out clapping.  "Well done! Such coordination! I didn't think Fallen Angels were  capable of taking down even a weak Ghost such as that! I could have  helped you, but I felt like it would be a waste of your potential." He  flicked his hair again. "Good job, Angels."

MLLERMANDA:  Gauges turns away as he was happy that someone killed the ghost.  However, he was irritated that all these angels were getting attention  which in return makes him jealous.  "Those lucky angels....Hmph." He  tries to sneeze at the ground but ends up sneezing on himself, messing  up the outfit. "Ugh. Why me."  He wobbles towards a stand where food  was at and decides to stay there for now, trying to get a snack during  the process.

BRIT:  "Yeah, but they got quite a few Heavens for that..." Amulet snorted,  crossing his arms, "What a waste."

 "Sounds... Gouda to me." Duster said with a completely straight face.  He walked away from Hot Pants in the direction of the restaurant.

 Strappon looked over at Dermal.  "You... I take back what I said about you being nice. That was really  back-handed." He said, shaking his head and looking over the  convention, "There's so much destruction, and people are still having  fun..."

SAIYAN:  Bowtie looked at her watch. "Look at that time, it's a new record" She  said. Those angels managed to kill that thing nearly instantly. "All  that build up for nothing. Kind of disappointing, wouldn't you agree?"  she asked HP and Amulet.

 "Hmmmm...the right one" Undershirt said as the ghost exploded behind  him.

 The others just looked at the light dissipating and the heavens  raining down from the sky.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Jeokori bent his newly freed fingers, studying how they bent now and  worked. Flashes of being just a boy went through his mind as he didn't  know how to take this.  Fascinator crept behind Jeokori and shakily apologized,  "O-Oh... I'm so sorry Cho-cho,,, I didn't mean to, I swear! You're my  best friend, I'd never want to hurt you-"  Jeokori hugged Fasci, accepting his apology quite easily. Carrying him  again he went towards the other demons, just not.... Looking at  anyone.  Headphones rolled his eyes at the Heavens and trots towards Fox Stole.

 "Neat stuff, where'd you get it?"

OSCARK9:  Gloves feels the pain from his back, but manage to stand with his  legs. "Ouch! Now I know what flying towards the wall feels like." He  said as he walking slowly towards a sitting booth while rubbing his  back.

COFFINCAT:  Fox stretches ,"Me? OH the last vendor by the corner. You should hurry  if you want stuff they're packin up." She blows a gum bubble.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Headphones nods as he waltzes towards the sin. Considering a job in  porn dealing since god damn these people charge top dollar.  Fascinator waved at Amulet and HP meekly, still feeling guilty about  what he did to Jeokori.  Jeokori still did not look at anyone.  Knittens replies excited,  "Yeah! So cool!!"

KRO:  Hot Pants kept leading, only to stop abruptly to hit Duster on the  arm, "I swear." How dare he pun to him.

 "I agree with the both of you," Hairpin said, "Anyways, I want to get  rid of this candy basket, so I'm gonna hand this off to the Angels.  Unless the two of you want to keep it for yourselves."  Seeing a hand being waved in their general direction, Hairpin pointed  at the three of them to make sure Fascinator was referring to them.

 Shades nodded and payed the clerk, "You have good taste in colors,  just needed a second opinion."

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Fascinator nods as he tapped Jeokori to walk towards them, he joked a  little flustered,  "Lack luster ghost guys, but uh... interesting side effects."  Jeokori finally began to accept his trimmed nails as he now started to  appreciate how handy hands were. Neat. But he finally faced other  people so that was nice. Today wasn't a good day for him, so excuse  the sour expression.

COFFINCAT:  Mary giggles and holds his teddy close , " You think my moms gonna  believe my adventures today? " he happily twerls around.

  Heels had sneakily recorded the fight and of course posted it on  twitter, freakin worldstar kinda shit these days. She walks down the  sidewalk, her body guards in random locations watching her.

SAIYAN:  "I can taste the rainbow Shades" Undershirt said. The best comeback

 "Yeah, I'll take candy" Bowtie said. "I need something sweet in my  house. Unless Amulet wants some."

TIMERIFTS:  Onesie looked at the two friends, feeling herself heat up. She was not  happy about this new development "Hey, uh I gotta go. You know  convention stuff" she flashed a smile before scurrying to her feet and  making off so she wouldn't have to deal with this situation. She  didn't like sharing and Knittens was her friend, and she wasn't going  to deal with that.

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens was pumped and he remarks,  "I hope mine does!- Onesie? Hey wait! I can join you! I'll be quieter  I swear! Is it the shoe thing?!" He chased after Onesie, not getting  those 'I don't want to see you' hints.

KRO:  Hairpin shrugged, "Well, it wasn't ours. If we managed to tame it  before it went on the offensive, it could have lasted a little  longer."

 "Haha, real funny," Shades crossed his arms, "What are you, the  skittles guy now?"

 Before Hot Pants could open the door to the exit, it burst open.  Policemen entered the scene like swarming flies with one in particular  pointing his finger like a gun. As if that can do damage.  "ALRIGHT, WHAT'S THE EMERGENCY!" All the policemen including Necktie,  the one sticking his finger out, looked for any signs of a scuffle  but... everything appeared to be normal. How embarrassing.

 "Oh...Uh. Wow. This was less destruction than from last time..."

MLLERMANDA:  Gauges eats his snack lazily as he eventually goes to the bathroom for  the moment to change back into his normal clothes."Hmph. Maybe someone  will notice me." He notices some strangers who were with the bathroom  with him and tries to get thier attetion by flanuting at them. "Like  what you se--" However he accidently coughs on to them and they get  disgusted, leaving the scene.  "Crap." He gets out of the bathroom  after trying to fix himself up with some tissues or in this case,  toilet paper.  He coughs and sniffles the whole way as he heads back  to a bench that was at the corner of the convention. "Maaaan, today  suckkkkkkksss." He whines to himself as he sneezes some more.                                                                     Once, he  did that he lays on the bench, trying to get some sleep. However, he  hears the policemen and tries to turn his head, trying to see what was  going on but quits. "FML." He whines to himself as he snuggles himself  up, trying to get some sleep.

BRIT:  "Well I hope the next ghost is more... I dunno, fun?" Jacket asked,  looking at the other Angels."WELL NOW I CAN BUY MERCH!"

 Amulet took the entire bowl.  "Thanks." He said, stuffing a handful in his mouth.

 Duster was a little shocked at the sudden influx of cops past himself  and Hot Pants... Hoo boy.

 "Can we help you, officers?" Strappon asked, "It's been a while since  we've seen you here. Thanks for coming by, but we've got it handled."  He kinda liked being cheeky.

COFFINCAT:  Mary he laughs and he tilts his head, his smile fading as Knittens  left. He frowns and looks down at his teddy , walking off to the booth  of plushies. Ouchy.

TIMERIFTS:  Onesie shrugged "Oh you don't have too!" she smiled sweetly, waving at  him, even though she wanted to clench her teeth and make a scene "Keep  being happy with your new friend, it's okay~" she giggled "Not the  shoe thing don't worry. Hey they are leaving, they look pretty bummed  out, better go save them!!" she shrugged, she should find red to talk  about this weird feeling in her tummy, dad would know what to do.

KUMA:  "Yeah the con isn't over yet and I still want to look around!" Pasties  agreed. "Let's keep going then."

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Fasci just hoped they don't discover he killed a person, hopefully  it'll be like last time where they had no evidence. Fascinator didn't  need to be threatened with jail time. He kinda got a phobia of cops  since... The incident. He snuggled closer to Jeokori and the alien  seemed to get the idea as he protectively held him closer. Seriously,  did they have a thing for each other or...?  Knittens was out of breathe as he looked at both of them. If he  couldn't even vote for the president, he is not choosing friends.  Swallowing his spit, he grabs Onesie's arm and drags her to Mary and  announces,  "We should have fun at the con as a group! C'mon I think they have the  space cartoon I like, you know the one right Onesie?"

KRO:  "I gotta give you guys props for not destroying the place like last  time..." Necktie admitted. "ALRIGHT MEN. DISPERSE."  And as quick as they appeared, they disappeared. Into the day. Like  majestic eagles.

 This was too much for Hot Pants, he just wanted to eat, "Ugh. Let's  just GO."

 Hairpin snickered a little at Amulet, "Well I'm glad you guys like my  candy. If you want, Bowtie, I can make you another bucket? Like just  give me like a couple of bucks and we got a deal."

COFFINCAT:  Mary was pretty shocked when onesie was dragged over too."W..we  should?" He looked down at his teddy, feeling a bit uncomfortable. He  was the awkward boner in the room. " Um..I-if you want to..." You  could cut through that uncomfortable atmosphere with a dull plastic  spork.

TIMERIFTS:  Onesie flashed him a smile "Oh yeah, if that's what knittens thinks we  should do" she did her best to not show how salty she was "Yeah let's  go find that cartoons booth, an extra set of eyes couldn't hurt!!" she  exclaimed, lowkey throwing glares at knittens, hoping no one would  notice. She Really hated sharing

CRACKEMWALNUTS:  Knittens dragged both of them around, oblivious to the fact that this  was just a not so good time. Dear god, please let this end not in  blood.  Fascinator spotted Knittens and the uh... Scary atmosphere. Calling  out to his younger cousin,  "Hey Knittens! Cufflink is gonna picks us up soon! So maybe say good  bye to your friends (?)"  Knittens nods and waves good bye to both of them; smiling happy and  saying that he'd like to hang out with them again. how could this  child just not get the message?  They all walked out of the con where Cufflink begrudgingly drove them  all home.

COFFINCAT:  Mj he waves goodbye to Knittens and he makes his teddy wave too. " Bye  Knittens!" He smiled a little bit. He looked up at onesie and he  backed away a little bit. "U-um.."

TIMERIFTS:  "Byee!!" she exclaimedOnesie waved to knittens as he left, then turned  to MJ "It was nice meeting you, What's your teddies name?" she asked,  being the best fake nice our there.

OSCARK9:  "Well, that was fun." He said to himself. "Even though that was epic,  I'm going home early and get my 9 hrs nap." Gloves slowly got up from  the sitting booth, walked to the nearest food stand to order some  Vanilla Milkshake, got his 'Ash-Greninja with Ash' shirt, call the  cab, and off he went back to the Abbey.

COFFINCAT:  "Nice..meeting you too I guess.." MJ hugs his teddy close to him.  "It's Mommy's love.." he moved away from her. "M- Ms Onesie..if you  um..don't like me..you don't have to pretend.." He said quietly.

TIMERIFTS:  Onesie nodded "Ohh nice! Very cute" she smiled at him "Oh no see I  just don't do well with sharing. I have no issue with you as a person"  she shrugged, leaning in closer to him "wanna go check out the  convention? I spent a long time working on this costume and it would  be a shame if it went to waste hmm? I'm sure you put a lotta effort  into yours as well"

COFFINCAT:  Mary manages to make the cutest 'really bitch?' face possible. "But  Knitten's is my friend too.." he pouts and squeezes his teddy, moving  away. " And I think I'll be just f-fine on my own Ms. Onesie..enjoy  your con!" Mj bows and basically drops the mic of the conversation.

TIMERIFTS:  Onesie kept a smile throughout the whole thing "Oh if that's what  you'd like" she shrugged "Oh that's nice" she turned, then skipped  away after MJ had finished "Have fun!! See you around" she turned back  "call me if you need anything though, protecting innocents is what I  do as an angel" she waved sweetly before turning to go find some  stuffed animals

COFFINCAT:  Fox watched in the bushes, softly whispering, " Yo you just got told  by a twelve year old fetus!"