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[werejusttall.livejournal.com]

It's been a long, hard day in the Nursery Crimes Division. Two new 'straw-into-gold' dens have popped up, and there's been trouble amongst the bears, to say nothing (and please, please say nothing) about the public nuisance complaints about the mold growing from the Old Lady's shoe-shaped house.

But at least he's caught one criminal today.

Alright, fine, it's just a PDR, and one of particularly dubious reality thanks to very poor plot development, but it was causing complaints, and now he won't have to hear about it for a while since getting a tooth fairy through lockup is probably going to take at least a month, what with all the paperwork.

With a sigh he dredges a jam jar out of his coat and unscrews it, releasing the tiny occupant.

"Here you go, now don't... get into trouble?" His instruction ends on a dubious note when he realizes, belatedly, that this is not lockup. "Oh."


"Shit."


(OOC: The challenge: This post is open to tagging by everybody! But there's a catch: You can only tag in with each of your pups once, and that one post has to move the plot along a bit. Srsly, the crazier, the better. This is Milliways, after all. :D Here's your chance to use all of your pups!)

(tinytag list: Jack Spratt, Dan Vasser)

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[creator_raven]

The little thing flutters toward the ceiling before darting left, the sound of--

Is that tinkling bells? chattering teeth?--

Echoing in its wake.

It ricochets off Raven's shoulder, tumbling down toward the floor. And then slips into his pocket.

Raven attempts to fish it out.

It--seems to be bigger coming out than going in.

And also blazing with a corona of power.

Oops?

[sam_iam]

Someone sees the corona of power.

And thinks: FRIEND!

A yellow haze materializes in front of Raven's pocket and says, "I am Sam! Sam I am! Do you like green eggs and ham?"

It offers a tempting plate of ethereal eggs and ham to the thing, trying to lure it out of the pocket.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_romana_/]

"MISTRESS?"

If small metal dogs could sound distressed, this is what that would sound like. K9's antennae ears rotate madly as he tries to discern just what the heck is going on with the pocket and the glowing and TALKING YELLOW HAZE THAT CAN'T BE GOOD.

"MISTRESS, I BELIEVE THERE IS A UNIDENTIFIABLE ... TWO UNIDENTIFIABLE ... THREE UNIDENTIFIABLE ..." K9 flounders while trying to warn his beloved mistress about the danger. Look, we can't all be Lassie.

"Do be quiet, K9, I will update your data banks after I finish this report." Romana huffs from behind her scattered and piled notes.

K9 takes matters into his own... um. Wheels.

COMMENCE FIRING! Except his aim needs to be recalibrated, so all he really succeeds in doing is knocking loose a few of the hanging lanterns. Oops?

[cutting_edgex23]

X dives out of her seat, neatly dodging the hanging lanterns.

She does not take into account the enlarged tooth fairy gorging itself on green eggs and ham, however.

Which means that shortly thereafter both the plate and the fairy are dodging the sharp edges of her claws.

The plate, at least, does not make it, and half-eaten green eggs soar rafter-wards.

The fairy--now approximately three feet tall and crackling with green energy--attempts to follow it.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

It's bright! It's shiny! It's...

It has the potential of going boom.

Yes, Ace is going after it. Someone has to, after all.

(That's what she tells herself. Mostly her reasoning involves bright, shiny, and boom. Nutter.)

This, of course, goes about as well as one might expect when one mostly unarmed pyro goes up against a three-foot-tall energy-bound green-eggs-and-ham fiend.

That's right.

Teeth all over the damn floor. Evidently the fairy had pockets, who knew? So now there's lots and lots of teeth, a somewhat pissed off giant fairy, and a pyro over in the corner who will get around to waking up in a bit, the narration promises.

[wolflord_andain]

"Teeth."

Galadan looks down at the pile of molars scattered over his boots. One eyebrow arches upward. It hits his hairline.

"I do hope they don't belong to--"

Then he catches sight of the giant glowing fairy.

"Ah."

This, it seems, explains a great deal.

His eyes narrow, just slightly.

This would be when the fairy screams, bounces twice off the wall, and shrinks noticeably.

It looks like it has a headache, now. A very big headache.

Galadan's work here is done. Unless the fairy attacks him. Or someone else.

Perhaps.

[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

. . . Mary doesn't like fairies.

They do things like turn her into rocks. Or give her antlers.

So when a small and fairy-like creature seems to have a very big headache, and to be at her tutor's mercy - well. In the interests of science, it seems only fair that she should be able to investigate.

Anyways it is certainly causing a disturbance of the peace (it knocked out Ace!) and should probably be placed in the cells.

Empty teacup in one hand and saucer in the other, she stalks after the fairy.

[hopeitsworthit]

"Oh Jesus Christ," Dean mutters.

So much for having a nice relaxing beer at the end of the universe.

Looks like work followed him.

Not that he's got a lot of experience with fairies. Or--whatever the fuck that is.

It's kind of pulsing now, and still emitting a piercing shriek.

At least when he throws the salt--and salt-shaker--at it, it stops screaming?






Is it supposed to keep running into a table leg like that?

[walksthebounds]

At which point Jamie takes advantage of the confusion to dive in neatly, grabs it by the ears and scoop it up, ignoring its flailings and kickings.

Helen will love thi-



"OW!"

Shaking his wrist, he drops the creature onto the nearest table and backs away.

"Bloody little bastard bit me!"

[doublingdown.livejournal.com]

The front door opens, and a man in pajama bottoms and very little else wanders into the bar, sleepy-eyed and decidedly needing that first cup of coffee.

Too bad his feet find shards of the ex-plate first.

The resulting cry of agony is the result of trying very very hard not to swear, since he still thinks he's in a house where his very young son can hear him. Of course, when in pain and not at all awake and incoordinated, this leads to falling next over the bulky robot dog (... robot dog. whut.) and cracking your head against a table to boot.

It isn't Dan's fault the table is the one the fairy had been on. Now it has room to run free! Run, little fairy, run!

[iopenthings]

Door, who really had intended a quiet evening with a book and a bourbon, sighs wearily and gets to her feet.

She makes it to the table just moments after the fairy has vacated the premises. Vexed, she blows out a breath, rubs one hand through her hair, lifts up her skirts, and dashes toward the next table the fairy is spiraling toward.

It's a matter of seconds between the moment her hand rests on the back of the booth and the moment the fairy smacks into it.

This is, of course, more than time enough for her to Open the back of the cushion and provide a comfortable resting place for the fairy.

It's really too bad the booth starts rocking back and forth a bare few moments after that.

Who knew fairies were so strong?

[foxy-rogue.livejournal.com]

"Fear not!" Cries the bold English archer (with fur), who leaps up onto the table, landing in a crouch. "I will save you from your imprisonment, poor soul!"

Robin's really in fine form today. There's that certain sort of flair in the way he draws his knife and slices open the back of the booth's cushion, the overhead lights causing the blade to flash dramatically.

The effect is entirely ruined when the fox gets a mouthful of stuffing for his pains, white fabricy foam spewing everywhere as the fairy flits to freedom.

[timedeniedme.livejournal.com]

Charlie has the misfortune to be walking by just as the fairy bursts free. She tries, desperately, to get out of the way. She would have been successful, too, if it weren't for the pie in each hand that she tries to maneuver with. Even someone of Charlie's skill can't maneuver effectively with pies.

Which is why she slips and is falling, squawking in panic, and a pair of pies sail across the room.

It's not entirely clear how one of them managed to end up with a fairy in it.

[will_scarlett]

A cheery pie with a fairy in it hit Will in the face.

He falls into a table as the fairy scrambles away thought not terribly quickly due to all the pie its stuck in.

Will curses and tosses the rest of the pie after the fairy, hopefully that will slow it down.

[victoryisboring.livejournal.com]

The pie, with its fair cargo, lands on a table at which a tall, thin girl is seated sipping tea.

Except for the pie that was thrown after, which lands in her hair.

Mai's eyes look up at the dripping mess, then down at the table.

"I hate this place," she sighs resignedly. The fairy shakes itself free of the pie and makes what seems to be a sound of agreement before darting off toward the rafters.

[ostro_goth]

There are cats in the rafters, as there often are; and when the tabby cat is startled up from her usual dozing by that creature whirring towards her, definitely not a waitrat which she was instructed to leave alone, she swipes at it with a well-clawed paw, swiping soundly, and smacking it back downwards with that.

[ubertracker.livejournal.com]

There is another cat on the floor, following the trail of pie, and licking the filling off of the floor.

Mm, cherry.

"The heck is this stuff, anyway?"

Yeah, the sabre can talk and the OOH WHAT WAS THAT FLYING ACROSS THE ROOM.

Diego is now in hot pursuit.

[gorgonfondness]

Diego pursues, Mia watches.

She remembers a big cat from last summer. Not the same one, but she's not quite sure yet.

Then she notices what he's chasing.

"No! Leave that fairy alone!" she calls to Diego as she rushes in front of him, gently blocking his path with her staff.

Giving the fairy ample time to escape once again.

[notimenow.livejournal.com]

THERE IS SOME PRETTY FREAKY SHIT GOING ON HERE.

Kiden slips on some pie-filling and then there's a giant cat who isn't Tatiana and everyone just needs to slow--

--the hell--

--down.

Ahhh, the quiet of no time. Now she can see the thing everyone's chasing-- is that Wasp? Wait. Nope, it's definitely a fairy. What the hell.

Kiden grabs a bowl from a nearby table and dumps the candy that was inside -- it scatters over the floor -- but before she can reach the tiny thing to trap it, she bumps into a frozen patron and everything starts moving again. She throws the bowl to try anyway, but the fairy is long gone.