Entrance Post: A Long Time Coming

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky wanders into the bar, once he notices where he is he pauses for a moment and then sighs. "Not this again..." He says to himself. He hasn't been to the bar in a long while and maybe he was getting used to it. Who knows other than Sky himself. He heads over to Bar and smiles a moment. "Can I get a coffee?" As it appears before him, he bites his lower lip and takes a look around. He thinks and then turns back to the bar.

This'll be interesting... He thought.

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[foxglove_eyes]

And Lamia's sitting nearby, with a daiquiri, waiting for things to happen.

They always do, eventually.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

And with a Kitsune on his leg, Lamia gets her wish.

He tries to smile but fails miserably.

[foxglove_eyes]

Lamia tilts her head. "Is something wrong?"

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky just looks at her as if saying You've got to be kidding me? but instead says,

"I guess foxes attack your shoelaces on a regular basis?"

[foxglove_eyes]

She makes a D'AWW face, common in women all across the universe, and scratches its ears.

"No, but this one's so adorable. You'd be inhuman not to appreciate that."

She looks up, and smiles.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky facepalms at that.

"A little warning might have been appreciated though."

[foxglove_eyes]

"Well, I'm sure she'll ask you permission next time."

She sips her drink.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

"I would hope so."

Sky helps himself to some more coffee.

"What's your name?"

[foxglove_eyes]

"Lamia," she says, offering a hand. "And yours?"

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

"Sky Tate." He shakes the offered hand. Being a little more gentle than usual. "You come around here often?"

[foxglove_eyes]

"Not on purpose," she says, with a quick roll of the eyes. "But you do meet all sorts here, so I suppose it's for the best."

[kinshou-kitsune.livejournal.com]

WHHAAAAAA! Flying kitsune attack!

Well, not really, but there is a white fox clinging to Sky's leg upside down chewing on whatever sort of shoelace she can find.

Really.

Laces are love.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky suddenly gets the WTF?!?!!!!111!! look on his face and starts shaking his leg vigorously.

"What the hell, Bar? I mean, you can never leave me in peace when I come in here?"

He shakes his leg some more.

[kinshou-kitsune.livejournal.com]

No. Sorry. Peace is not in the Milliways Inter-Pan-Worldly-Galactic Dictionary.

The fox seems to have stopped chewing for now and is clinging on to dear life, tail wrapping about Sky's leg and panting with fear. It was like being in a blender. Upside down. But more shaking and things moving faster with an OMG!HALP! sort ZOMG! movement.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky stops shaking his leg when the tail wraps around. He thinks for a moment and then reaches down to detach the fox from his leg.

"Come on there. I kind of need that for walking, y'know?"

[kinshou-kitsune.livejournal.com]

"Meep!" the fox says as she is yanked from the leg, curling up a little and swatting at Sky with pawed feet. "Dude! Like! My laces! Miiiiiinnneeee!" Who ever said the 60s and kitsunes never met Inari before.

However upon seeing the pawing isn't going to work she tries to swish him with her tail.

Ha ha! An garde! Or something.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky promptly sneezes as the kitsune tail swashes at him. He drops the kitsune and then when he realizes, tries to put his feet up on the stool.

"Man, those laces are mine!"

He scowls.

[kinshou-kitsune.livejournal.com]

With a page taken from Puss in Boots the fox starts to wibble her bottom lip a little giving him puppy-eyes in the most pathetic of senses. "Mine?"

Nope. Not going to back down on this one. Inari will get a lace..maybe not his! but a set of laces.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky rolls his eyes at the cute act. He could never avoid it when Syd did it and now this cursed little fox is learning from her.

"How about some scratching instead?"

He offers and he begins scratching behind the ears.

[kinshou-kitsune.livejournal.com]

"Yes! Wait! No- bu!"

It's a total fit of trying to figure out what to do while scritches make one of her legs twitch a little. So. Not. FAIR.

"Myyyy preeeecious! Mine, mine, mine!" Panting she soon gives way to purring.

"I hate you, you know." Why? Sky has won the freedom of his laces. For now.

[first-sixth.livejournal.com]

What a coincidence that Sky is here, because another Ranger has just arrived, albeit from twenty-odd years in Sky's past - at least in the form he's currently in. Tommy's had what one might consider a difficult afternoon, and right now a drink sounds like a very good thing. As such, he makes directly for the bar proper, and suddenly there's a fully uniformed Black Dino Ranger seated on a barstool right next to Sky.

There's also a wet, meaty thump, followed by a metallic clang, as Tommy slings something up onto the bar's surface. It looks like an arm, though what's leaking out of it to form a blackish green puddle is really anyone's guess. The Ranger winces a bit as he feels a sense of disapproval at his actions.

'Could you just, er, put that on ice for me?' he asks contritely. 'I couldn't very well leave it in the street, or throw it in the trash. People'd start talking.'

There's the silent echo of a sigh and then both the arm and mess disappear, to be replaced by a glass full of something green, glowing and frothy, along with a dish of fried paradoxes. Tommy removes his helmet, sets it aside, and picks up the glass. It's only when it's about halfway to his mouth that he realises he has company, and pauses.

'Oh, hey. Sky Tate, was it?'

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky blinks and mutters, "That can't be kosher." He then shakes his head at the request and sips his coffee. He studies the arm as it disappears with the mess and smirks.

"Yeah... Tommy, right?" He double checks as well. He was pretty sure but at the same time, who knows what lurks within the shadows of the bar.

[first-sixth.livejournal.com]

'It's probably not, you're right,' Tommy replies. 'Good thing clean-up's easy around here.' He gives Sky a weird look, then takes a gulp of his drink. 'And yeah, the last time I checked, I was.'

He's kinda hoping that Sky is playing silly buggers, here, because if not, then someone with a worse memory than the Earth's most legendary and powerful Power Ranger has just been located.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Memory of a goldfish...

Nah, Sky rolls his eyes and just laughs. "It's been a while."

He finishes his coffee and smiles as Bar fills it up.

"Too long if you ask me. I get the feeling Bar's going to take it out on me."

[first-sixth.livejournal.com]

Tommy grins as the electric green sparks begin to crackle on the tips of his hair, and his eyes begin to glow a similar shade.

'A few months, at least,' he agrees, helping himself to a paradox. 'Which means that yeah, Bar's very likely going to be having a bit of fun at your expense in the foreseeable future. Just be glad we're not due for any major holidays - you could find yourself a lot worse off.'

The Black Ranger still remembers, with keen displeasure, the dress incident.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky gets a scared look on his face.

"You mean she celebrates too?"

He winces visibly.

"I don't even want to ponder that."

[first-sixth.livejournal.com]

'Oh, yes. Yes, she does. And no, you really, really don't. Just hope that you're lucky enough to avoid it.'

There's an odd chord of familiarity in Tommy's voice, something to suggest that he knows very well how poorly things can go for a man when the Bar is feeling festive.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Mun headdesks at the icon while Sky on the other hand just facepalms.

"So what's the next holiday she celebrates? 4th of July? Halloween? This way I know to avoid her like the PLAGUE."

Sky looks like this. o.o

[first-sixth.livejournal.com]

'Halloween's a good possibility. I'm not sure whether she'll be doing anything for the Fourth; I haven't been around here for one yet. She got me on April Fool's Day in October. We've got a bit of timeline discrepancy, I think. Let me just recommend that you avoid coming here in uniform on days like that. Bar has some pretty... inventive ideas about what to do to you. Trust me, I know.'

Inventive, and potentially traumatic.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky sighs and orders another coffee, "So any other news I should know of in the bar at the end of the universe?"

[first-sixth.livejournal.com]

'Don't eat anything if it's free.'

That's also said very firmly. Tommy finishes his smoothie and applies himself a bit more seriously to the paradoxes.

'The first, and only, time I did, I got turned into a woman for about a week.'

Bet you didn't learn that about him in the Academy, Sky.

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

"Hey there." Pause. "I don't think I've seen you here before."

That would be Bonzo Madrid. He's sitting at the Bar when Sky walks in, and therefore notices as he strolls up to the Bar.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky lifts his head to Bonzo.

"Don't think we have. It's been a while since I've been around."

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

That would explain why he doesn't remember this man. "Ah. Well...nice to meet you, then." Pause. "Bonzo Madrid." And he extends a handshake.

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

Sky shakes the hand briskly.

"Sky... Sky Tate. Nice to meet you."

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you, too." Pause. "So, where are you from?"

[exspdblue.livejournal.com]

"New Tech City... Earth. You?"

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

"Originally Cartagena, Spain." Pause. "I've never heard of that city."