[Video] Gotta whine fast

[spinsandneedles]

[What's up, kids. Hope you like THE SKY, because this video opens just starin' right up at it. Not for too long, though, as the guy responsible for this dumb video realizes pretty quickly that he's holding his device backwards and flips it around, revealing a weird blue critter that appears to be laying on his back on a roof. Why??? I mean why not. Y'all are in the mood for a bitchy teenager, right? Well too bad.]

Okay, I'm about to make a less than great first impression to anyone I haven't already bumped into yet, but sometimes you just gotta complain into the void, y'know? Here goes;

[he pauses to clear his throat, and then commences the bitching]

So, I can deal with being kidnapped by aliens, right? That's fine, I guess. Happens to the best of us, keeps life interesting, whatever. I can roll with the unexpected. I can mostly tolerate being tossed onto a dumpy, abandoned planet with extremely limited travel options. I mean, that's less fine than being kidnapped by aliens, but at least this tiny chunk of space we have doesn't have any speed limits. Fine, I can cope.

But, the thing about this that's completely unacceptable is that apparently, I missed a big fight with a bunch of monsters? Seriously!? I've seen movies, aliens aren't supposed to abduct you after the danger's passed. Where's the fun in that? Do our alien overlords accept feedback? I wanna file a complaint!

[Maybe this guy's priorities are just a little skewed. It's fine. He sighs, a little overly dramatic (because missing a monster fight is absolute bullshit), the video jostling a bit as he shrugs.]

Ah well. Anyway! The name's Sonic. I guess if you guys need help with cleanup after all that, hit me up? I have nothing but free time on my hands right now, and I'm already bored out of my mind.

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[spinsandneedles]

[Sonic lets out a whistle as he looks around at the grimy, dusty arcade. It's a pretty cool find! Even if it's, y'know, filthy.]

I'd be real surprised if any of these still worked.

[thepurpleone]

[Totally cringing over here at all the dust.]

Note to self: replicate breathing mask.

[Curiosity wins out over hygienic concerns as Donnie starts to wander and inspect the contents of the place as well.]

Yeah, I'm thinking the same.

[He comes around one of the structures, feeling around the sides for a power switch, giving it a few flicks on and off once he comes across one, making a face as the only thing to show for is dusty fingers.]

[spinsandneedles]

Bummer. Think it can be repaired, or do you think it's all too far gone?

[He doesn't know jack for shit about any of this kinda stuff. Tails would be having a field day if he was here, though.]

[thepurpleone]

At a glance, hard to say...

[Donnie lowers his goggles as he pries open one of the panels on another system, coughing at the brief cloud of dust displaced then.]

The place wasn't completely sealed off so who knows what damage has been sustained from the climate changes and whatever else happened here.

Wouldn't be surprised if everything's basically scrap though.

[spinsandneedles]

Well, maybe we'll get lucky. Or maybe we'll just choke to death on dust. Exciting either way?

[No that's not exciting at all.

Sonic probably can't help at all with the techie stuff, so he does a bit of exploring while Donnie does his nerd thing. Not that there's a lot to look at, everything's covered in like a foot of dust, which is why Sonic makes the brilliant decision to hop up on one of the machines and start trying to wipe dust off of it. This results in him kicking up a cloud of dust, which just gets bigger when he ends up sneezing everywhere.

Don't come to this corner Donnie, it's stupid over here.]

[thepurpleone]

Uh, hard pass on the choking to death on dust. We're already breathing in alien particles as it is.

[Ugh why does that always come up it's so gross and takes forever for him to stop thinking about it.

All the noise from Sonic's corner draws his attention, Donnie glancing over before grimacing at the fog of dust over there.]

Oh come on! What the heck are you even doing over there!

[And here he can't even use his tech-bō's fan mode. So instead he heads over towards the door to shove it open in hopes it'll help air out the place some.]

[spinsandneedles]

I'm turning up the difficulty!

[I mean it's kind of true. He will attempt to actually help by looking for a window to open. It might help??? Or it might just kick up a cross breeze that will disturb the dust even more and make everything EVEN WORSE, who knows.]

Sure could use a dust mop right about now. Or one of those long fuzzy things that people dust ceiling fans with?

[thepurpleone]

I'm pretty sure we don't need to be "turning up the difficulty!"

[One thing's for sure, it's making the dust move a lot more. Donnie waves his hand around to no avail, starting to sneeze as well.]

-vacuum would be more useful with all this!

[spinsandneedles]

Yes, I realize that now!

[Good yes wonderful, now breathing is impossible. Now the real challenge begins!

Well actually, wait, Donnie mentioning a vacuum makes Sonic pause and actually think for a moment.]

Hey, so. If something were to kick up the dust in here and then take off out the door real fast, would that help suck some of the dust out?

[thepurpleone]

[Hang on, he's trying not to die over here.]

-not a fan of the kicking up more dust, but if a mini-cyclone somehow managed to make its way in and out of here, theoretically it could work!

[spinsandneedles]

[Just stop breathing bro, it'll totally work!]

Mini-cyclone, huh. Sounds good. You go wait outside, I'll take care of it!

[thepurpleone]

[He has objections with your science.

But at the suggestion to go outside, Donnie doesn't argue that as he lurches for the door, coughing and hacking all the way.]

[spinsandneedles]

[There's a reason Sonic leaves all the nerd shit to Tails. Except for this time, because going fast is involved.

Sonic will wait until Donnie is safely outside away from the dust disaster before shoving a few things around to give himself some room. Once that's done, he begins jogging in a tight circle, gradually picking up speed until there's just a big ring shaped blue blur in the middle of the arcade. Sure enough it's kicking up a ton of dust. Now he just needs to get it outside, which he manages to do by scooching towards the door and continuing zooming around in a circle outside for a bit. He gradually slows down and hops out of the dust path.]

There, that oughta clear it out a bit.

[thepurpleone]

[Donnie's more or less collapsed outside off to the side of the door as he tries to gulp in some fresh air.]

Ohhh just what I needed, some questionable century-old particles in my lungs- whoa!

[He glances back inside at the sound and can't help but stare a bit. Sonic's making his own cyclone. How about that.

Except now he's moving this way, so Donnie flinches farther back from the doorway as the dusty cyclone comes spiraling out with the hedgehog. He gapes as he watches the thing disperse once Sonic starts slowing down.]

...okay, that was pretty cool.

[spinsandneedles]

[Sonic grins and dusts his hands off, watching the arcade's dust settle now that it's been sucked out the door with wacky speed hacks]

Thanks! I doubt that got it all out, but at least it won't be as bad in there.

[thepurpleone]

Better than nothing!

[Donnie picks himself up, dusting himself off before he kicks up his staff from the ground. He hesitantly pokes his head back into the arcade, noting some definite improvement.]

Sort of takes care of one problem, anyway. I'm still not sure about how repairable these systems might be. The insides likely need a complete rehaul and that basically boils down to coming up with video games from scratch unless we can find some alternatives...

[spinsandneedles]

Unfortunately, I don't know if I can be of too much help there. This computery stuff's above my head, and I don't know where we'd find alternatives to something like this here anyway. Now, if you need something to be broken, I'm your guy. I'm real good at breakin' stuff.

[Maybe don't let him near your cool stick, Donnie.]

[thepurpleone]

[Don't you dare break his high-grade titanium weapon!!]

I'll...keep that in mind if I ever need anything broken...

[While simultaneously noting not to let Sonic near any delicate engineering projects!]

Hm. [Donnie sighs as he looks around the place.]

Maybe the Agrii have video games they can send us? This was supposedly their city, after all, right?

Anyway, at least it'll be something to do, going through all this old equipment. Maybe there'll be something salvageable.

[spinsandneedles]

[Don't worry, he actually does know how to be respectful of high tech doodads built by people he likes. It'll probably be fine!]

Yeah, I guess it was.

Ah well. I mean, at the very least, I guess I can give this place a good deep clean while you handle the smart guy stuff. Someone's gotta have cleaning supplies here, right?

[thepurpleone]

It would be easier to work without whatever dust is still sticking around. [Also Donnie being a typical teenager doesn't really want to deal with cleaning someone else's mess.]

I think I saw some cleaning equipment in the department store.

[spinsandneedles]

[Sonic also isn't a huge fan of cleaning, but he hates not being useful even more. He will do Donnie a solid and get this place less gross.]

Department store, huh? Got it. Did all the cleaning stuff look really old like everything else around here?

[thepurpleone]

A lot of things there are still relatively serviceable, surprisingly enough. It's a good place in general to look for things. All the clothing sizes are really long and tops have four arms because Agrii are tall and have extra limbs though.

[spinsandneedles]

Guess it's a good thing I don't really wear a lot of clothes, then. I usually just end up puttin' holes in 'em. Anyway, I'll go check the store out and see what I can find. Need me to look for anything else while I'm there?

[thepurpleone]

Not particularly? Well...maybe something to use as a dust mask, and a duster or a something to use for inside these things.

[spinsandneedles]

Got it, I'll see what I can turn up. I'll be back before you know it!

[unless he manages to get hopelessly lost somehow. He takes off to go loot the store, accidentally leaving a big cloud of dust in his wake. At least it's outside their time? Anyway, he'll be back soonish.]