Seventh Trial

[candlelightsflicker]

[Once again the stretching room descends and the Hatbox Ghost seems impatient.]

Ugh where's that Serling guy's stupid death elevator when you need it? This is taking forever.

[But soon enough you arrive in the trial room, now with Freddie and Jyn's voodoo dolls on their podiums. And your 100% new friend Hatbox Ghost is there too!] 

If you guys don't all die next week, I'm installing the death elevator.

[TRIAL START]

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[kickbuttseatnuts]

I guess I'm a bit of a hack too though.

[She gives a final look to Leia before turning to Hatty with a big, goofy grin.]

How much of a hack do you think Ub Iwerks was, compared to us?

[hasit]

[Leia, next to Stan, straightens up.

Is this...

Is this what Allene had planned?

Well, she's got her knife.]

[candlelightsflicker]

[...in a very meek, very human voice:]

What?

[kickbuttseatnuts]

I'm just saying, Ub Iwerks? That's the name of a jerkward right there. Complete tool, hack, and nonsense man. If someone had the name Ub Iwerks, they deserved a good punch in the face or three. That's the name even a mother couldn't love, that name Ub Iwerks Ub Iwerks Ub Iwerks Ub Iwerks Ub Iwerks Ub Iwerks.

[candlelightsflicker]

[...you’ve never seen him move that fast before. but it only takes one or two seconds to have hatbox appear in front of her and have his hands reach out for her throat.]

DON’T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY FATHER THAT WAY!

[hasit]

[Ah. Ah, he's. He's reaching for Allene's throat.

Leia doesn't hesitate, just. Pulls that blade out of her sleeve and goes to stab Hatbox with it in the back.]

[candlelightsflicker]

[just, fucking drops allene, and turns with literal daggers coming out of his eyes. literal.

but it exposes some black, inky skin when it pierced the skinsuit.]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[I mean, if he's turning, she's gonna try and claw through the rest of his stupid suit if she can.]

[candlelightsflicker]

[the suit definitely peels and tears a little bit, but it looks like you’re not gonna be able to get the entire thing off.

might wanna work with what you’ve got.]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[She'll take her cue then, quickly pulling out and opening the bucket she hid in her jacket. Her grin turns slightly maniac as she prepares for this final shot.]

Hey Randy!

I forgot to think of a one-liner!

[And she dumps the paint thinner into the opening in his suit.]

[candlelightsflicker]

[well, that’s surprisingly effective.

because smoke sputters out of his suit. and it smells like rubber burning as the suit falls around him, and he screams in agony.

he seemingly disappears, the second skin crumpled on the floor where he once stood.]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[Well that went better than expected.

Too well.

Her mouth flops like a fish, for a second, processing this gruesome sight.]

Uh. Should we back away or get closer or... what?

[hasit]

[Leia comes to, groggy, leaning against one of the podiums; her vision swims back into focus, and the first thing she sees is—]

...Randy? What happened?

[stanbyme]

[Stan grabs her by the robe and snatches her back the fuck away from that.]

[hasit]

[She struggles a little, because fuck, let her stab this asshole???]

[stanbyme]

[Look, one of them has to live through this!]

[hasit]

[She pulls that knife back out and raises it up in horror, seeing those daggers sticking out of his eye sockets.

Stab again? Yeah, she's gonna go for another stab, wherever she can reach.]

[candlelightsflicker]

[it manages to puncture the chest of his suit - and he seems surprisingly unaffected. his arm is turning into some sort of bat, and he’s gonna try and swing it at her.]

[hasit]

Kriff—

[She gasps, bringing her arm out again, but not before she's completely blindsided by that bat hitting her square across the temple.

She goes limp in Stan's arms.]

[stanbyme]

[Stan was facing the possibility that he was going to lose one of his girls already.

When Leia's knocked into his arms, unconscious, he...

He loses it.

He lets out a primal scream and takes up the knife that she dropped, with the instinct of a man thirty years younger, and tries to just fucking completely tackle Hatbox.]

[candlelightsflicker]

[hatbox manages to hold his own against stan’s tackle, which is at least enough keep on the ground - until squirrel girl does her thing, anyway.]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ IS THERE A FIGHT HAPPENING if there's a fight happening there's no way he's just standing by and watching.

If he manages to save Leia's skin and impress her in the process, well, wouldn't that be a coincidence?

So here's Gaston, taking probably an ill-advised swing at Not-Randy ]

[not_over_yet]

[ Yeah ok, the trial's interesting again. ]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[She starts laughing.] Hey man, not my fault your dad straight up sucks.

[she's being choked now right]

[not_over_yet]

[ ...Can clones break like records? Is that a common clone problem? Wtf is happening to Allene?

So yeah, confused looking around at what all's happening again. ]