Test Drive Meme

[scramasax]

HEL-LO, EARTH'S NEW HEROES.

Test Drive Meme!

Scenarios:

> Cleanup of downtown Locke City still has a ways to go. It looks like that shop you were planning on another trip to this week is closed for the time being. Or the entire block is trashed and you'll be needing an alternate route to work. Or your workplace is trashed, if not some real estate you had in the area, and you'll be needing a helping hand - or are trying to offer one!
> Help, help, I've been robbed - your bag or wallet's just been snatched, or is in the process of being snatched. Catch the snatcher or rough them up - you may or may not be surprised, if you come to blows or a chase, to find on throwing a punch that they're much quicker and/or sturdier than you'd have expected. Maybe someone will dive in to back you up.
> Monster encounter! The above or you were robbed (or, for all you could tell, misplaced something) a while ago, and one of the objects you lost seems to have come back to you, if not the way you recognize it. Ayup, getting backup might be a good idea.
> Transportation/travel. You're at an airport or train station, whether to escape or take a tour to a strange-events hotspot, or plain go on an innocent vacation. Mix up your bags or timetables, grab a pre-ride snack, chat up those with the same destination, get or give directions, find yourself receiving an ill-timed item Echo in front of security - whatever you can think up!
> Say - is that one of those superhumans you've spied on the street? Yes, I do believe it is - you've seen them on the news/read about them, that or their looks give them away! Go on and ask questions of them, be it for serious answers or an autograph, depending on who you are.
> ...And it looks like you're a superhuman yourself. Looks like that hollowed-out feeling you got was followed by a mutation, or some strange thing in your brain. How're you going to come to grips with it?
> Wildcard/Etc. Make up your own!

Prompts suggested by Alec and Zero.

Comments

[fouettes]

[She would take all complaints with absolute grace and dignity. Though that wouldn't mean she'd forget their utter rudeness.

Regina hurries to grab the other side of the bag before Yuna drops it and perhaps accidentally busts it open, giving a rather unladylike grunt of effort before brushing it off with a graceful smile.]

Oh, I'm certain two pretty girls can handle a bag of trash, if they work together. I do appreciate your help, but are you certain it's not going to hold you up at all?

[She certainly hopes not. Regina isn't afraid of hard work, but she's had enough of dragging garbage down the street.]

[aeons]

It's fine. I'm just on the way home from class. I prefer to walk.

[ She walked everywhere, back when she was on base in Okinawa. It was a Japanese thing, to walk most places. She found that you missed so much about a city when you drove everywhere or took the bus. If she hadn't walked home today, she never would have been able to help this girl!

Yuna looks down at her blouse for a brief moment, releasing a relieved noise after seeing its still pristine condition. ] Let's get this done! We'll pick them up together, okay?

[ Yuna bends forward a bit, getting a tight grip on one side of the trash bag. ]

[fouettes]

I should be thankful for your preference, then! Your help is welcome, if you're certain you're fine with it.

[Regina bends down with her, taking a hold of the other side.] They are heavy, but the dumpster isn't much further. No doubt I would have taken up the sidewalk for ages longer, though.

[aeons]

Of course! [ This job would go a lot more quickly if their conversation wasn't so mired in politeness. Yuna hefts her half of the trash bag, slowly trudging over to the dumpster. Once they reach it, though.. ] —Oh. We hadn't thought about who was going to open the lid. Um..

[ If there was ever a possibility of a vocalization of head scratching, Yuna had just made it. ]

[fouettes]

[Forging relationships are just as important as getting the job done! Even if she'll possibly never see this girl again. But whatever.

...But admittedly she hasn't thought of that either. But she can do it!!! I may take some finagling, but...]

Oh, it shouldn't be a problem. Just let me set this down for a moment...

[Setting the bag down, Regina makes her way to the dumpster with the intention to open it herself. Unfortunately, being as tiny as she is, it proves to be a somewhat difficult task. Not because she's not strong enough; being a dancer has at least granted her a decent amount of upper body strength (though not enough to carry three garbage bags by herself). She just simply can't push the lid up to the top.]