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[OOM: Enzo's first Game as a Guardian is more than meets the eye. Rated N for Non-explicit Naughtiness in the prologue and R for ROBOTS!]

One thing no one likes about Games - even those who generally enjoy them, like Enzo - is when they come down in the middle of the night. It may not be bad at the time, but you always pay for it later. On the other hand, no one expects you to be fully functional the day after.

Enzo wants to be, though. He's his system's newest Guardian, for as long as he's still at home, and he owes it to the system to be fully alert and on the ball when he's on duty. And a Guardian is always on duty.

So he's cheating. Hooray for Milliways time-freeze!

In other words: green boy napping onna couch. With a teddy bear. Frisket's curled up on the couch, too, and kind of crowding Enzo's feet.

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Enzo's on his feet now, speeding toward the lake. It's a pretty direct speed race now, with few obstacles save some patrons enjoying the great outdoors. Dani's gonna be hard pressed to catch up.

She's doing her best, you can believe that.

Dani's handling the zipboard a lot better than she did when Enzo first showed it to her. Little by little, she inches up on him.

Wow, she's good.

Surfbauds and boogie bauds, however, have a few things on zipboards. For example, they're more sensitive to local energy fluctuations. If properly harnessed, these can be used to give the baud a temporary speed boost. Bye-bye, Dani!

"Hey!" Dani yelps as Enzo speeds ahead. She tries her best to keep up and close the gap.

The boost is only temporary, but it's enough to carry him well ahead. Sorry, Dani, but it's pretty clear Enzo's going to reach the lake first.

Except that just before he does, he swings sharply upward and disappears from view.

She looks up, equal parts confused and awed, trying to figure out where Enzo went.

Until she realizes that, hey, the path to the lake is free and open. With one last glance in Enzo's wake Dani pushes her zipboard forward. Maybe she'll win this thing after all!

Another advantage of a boogie baud over a zipboard is the fact that it's a large, solid platform. This means that if, say, you execute an unexpected loop-de-loop and come up behind a person, and you aim the front edge at the back of their knees like so...

...you knock them off of their zipboard and they wind up landing on their butt on your boogie baud. Which is just what happens to Dani.

She tips her head back to look up at Enzo. "You did that on purpose," she accuses, laughing a little.

Enzo laughs loudly. "Can you do that by accident?"

They coasts to a halt over the lake. "We'll call it a draw," he says, feeling extremely cocky.

"Dunno; I'm not the one with the boogie baud," Dani teases.

"Fine," she agrees, looking down at the water. "But I'm gonna beat you one of these days."

"I bet you will! You're really good for a newbie!"

He returns smoothly to where her zipboard is still hanging in midair - not for her to get back on it, just so she doesn't lose it. After all, it's rather nice riding around like this.

"Thanks!" Dani's cheeks flush pink at the compliment, and she smiles at Enzo.

It is, at that. She leans out far enough to grab the zipboard and pull it closer before minimizing it and putting it back in her pocket.

Enzo blushes and smiles back; then the smile widens into a grin as he takes off.

Somebody put on some Beach Boys music, the kids are going cruisin'.

As long as its not the one about the girl who gets the keys to her car taken away.

Dani hangs on lightly to the edges of the baud as they zoom along, occasionally looking over the sides to see the scenery pass by below.

Nah, gotta be one of the surfing songs. (And that girl was a totally irresponsible driver and she's just lucky her dad caught her before the police did.)

She may desire to hang on tighter; Enzo's in quite the show-offy mood right now, as though you couldn't tell, and they're flying awfully high and banking quite sharply at times. No stunts, though... yet.

Dani does tighten her grip a bit, shrieking and giggling when appropriate.

And here's a tight spiral up-up-up and SWOOP down! The data slide's got nothin' on this!

Dani can't help but shriek a little on the drop. Poor thing, she's never been on a single carnival ride ~~until now~~.

The poor, deprived child. Never even been on the Vomit Vortex. Better make up for lost time! And now Enzo executes a great big loop-de-loop.

Even though he has a passenger for this one, Enzo isn't worried about either of them falling off - trusting not in the boogie baud's inherent properties, nor in Dani's clinging, nor even in centrifugal force, but in the plain and simple fact that at a moment this wonderful, nothing bad can happen. The multiverse won't allow it.

When Enzo goes into the loop-de-loop, Dani almost gives in to the instinctual urge to go ghost and phase through the thing so she doesn't fall off. So instead she does what any other person on a roller coaster would do - she screams.

"Are you crazy?" Dani asks once everything's rightside-up again.

~~Crazy for you! Awwwwwww.~~

Uh-oh. "Didn't you like it?" he asks, pulling up.

"It was..." kinda cool, actually "okay. Just, could you warn me next time you're going to do that?"

"Sure. Sorry."

He's glad she's not upset with him. But that did rather bring him down off his cloud.

Well, she didn't mean to do that.

"So...are we going to keep going, or are we just gonna hover here?"

"Oh! Sure."

No more stunts for now. Let's go for altitude instead.