3277/Home of the Spatula

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Home of the Spatula
Date of Scene: 30 November 2017
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: Jubilee, Rogue, X-Man




Jubilee has posed:
Wednesday night. Time? 11:30 PM. Thirty minutes until Jubilee's shift at Spatula City is over. There hasn't been a customer in the store in hours. And in the center of the store, there is a huge tower of empty boxes with windows cut into them, doors, a drawbridge, and a little flag sticking out the top of a tower that reads "Yay!" Inside, Jubilee peers out of a window she just cut with a utility knife. Complete with shutters.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue wanted to get out of the city and go driving a bit and there was no better place to drive than through Westchester, she'd loved just walking around the beautiful landscape but now that she had a car? She was enjoying one of thoe zen drives...

Her green Bentley pulled into the parking lot of the Spat-Cit to try and find out if her friend was still her, she hadn't caught up with Jubilee since she'd been at the cabin a while back to meet Nate.

The Bentley pulled into a spot and the lights flicked off.

The front doors went to open automatically for Rogue, but only the right one opened while the left one faulted and hitched-up causing Rogue to stutter step around the broken door and sigh a little.

She arrived just in time to hear the 'Yay' from inside the boxes and she just put her hands in her pockets and a smile went over her lips. "If the box fort is a rockin'..."

Jubilee has posed:
"HALT! Who goes there?!" Jubilee demands, closing the shutters and lifting the drawbridge. There's a spilled water bottle on the floor that passes lamely for a moat.

"Be you friend, or be you fooooooe?"

Rogue has posed:
Rogue leaned over against the front counter and she watched the box fort talk to her and move around a little too. She grinned then and leaned forward to pick up the spilled bottle of water. She inspected it for a moment and then took a drink of what was left inside the bottle.

"Me be friend. Me haf come t'buy your Holiday Special on spatula christmas tree ornaments for my Wizard Sugah Daddy."

Rogue had heard the radio commercial while driving, its what brought here and reminded her that Jubilee often had to work late on tehse shit shifts!

Jubilee has posed:
"I know not of these spatulas of which you speak...Now AWAY WITH YOU OR I SHALL BEGIN TO LAUNCH THESE SMALL SCRAPING UTENSILS!" With that, handfuls of the spatula ornaments are hurled over the top of the fort in Rogue's general direction, bouncing off her friend, the counter, the water bottle, and anything else in the way.

"That'll teach you!" And over the wall comes the cow. You knew it was comin'. You were waitin' for it. The toy rubber cow lands with a spat in the spilled water, bounces up and hits the drawbridge. The cardboard, wet from lying in the "moat," buckles and flops in half.

Jubilee pops up over the top and looks down at the flaccid drawbridge. "Awwwww."

Rogue has posed:
Rogue laughed and yelped as the spatulas came flying over the cardboard castle at her. She didn't resist them, just averted her eyes and let them pelt her and the area all around her. She only looked back again once they'd stopped and she'd heard the little rubber cow make a soft and depressing little 'moooooo' like its batteries were dying...

"Man... You ain't had a customer like, all damn DAY have you?" She said then, asking Jubes once she popped up over the wall. "I mean, you put a lotta time inta this... I'm surprised that pack'a rowdy teenagers from town didn't come in here and start like, kickin' it all down."

Jubilee has posed:
"Not ONE damn customer all day. But look!" Jubilee jiggles the "rope" (chain of rubber bands) that was used to raise and lower the drawbridge. Instead of the drawbridge raising and lowering now, the top, flopped over part just flaps like a dimwitted muppet.

"AH'M THE SPIRIT OF BOX FORT PAST. AND AH'M HUNGREH. GIMME SOME CANDEH." Jubilee doesn't even try to be a good ventriloquist. She just hides her mouth behind her hand.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue watched this 'trick' with the box fort drawbridge and she just grinned like a doofus and shook her head back and forth. "This is startin' t'creep me out. LIke those videos online'a those old Chuck-E-Cheese places that had the robot band? Those fuckin' things were terrifyin'."

Rogue would then lean down and start to pick up the Christmas Tree ornament spatulas that she'd thrown at her. One by one she gathered them up. "I'm gonna decorate the tree in Stephen's place with these. I figure it'll confuse him enough t'make him think I've gone crazy... but then again... this box fort you've designed might do the trick even more..."

X-Man has posed:
Nate had been stumbling around the store for the last twenty minutes, going from aisle to aisle, and shaking his head in confusion. "Really.. so many spatulas..." following his link to where Jubilee is with Rogue, "...I didn't even know what the hell a spatula /was/ until Jubilee showed me..." Talking to yourself, definitely the sign of a telepath.

Eventually, he comes across the two, the Fort, and bites the side of his lip as he considers what is going on. "Uhm..." he says in his eloquent manner, "...nevermind. I'll just go with it..." and adds as he moves closer to the shenanigans, "I found this area of spatulas that were all rubber, with weird bumps, and vibrated... They don't seem really useful for spatulas, though..."

Jubilee has posed:
The drawbridge continues with its ominous creepy quasi-Jubi voice, "That's the pain and pleasure collection, Nate! You must have found the back waaaallll..."

Then Jubilee looks back to Rogue. "Yeah the Guthries came by earlier. But they didn't even come into the store. They grabbed Spatula Steve from the parking lot and shoved him into the back of the station wagon, and drove off. Flyers went everywhere." She shrugs. "I figure somebody will find him tied up in his underwear with spatulas superglued all over him again."

Rogue has posed:
Rogue looked over at Nate holding a couple of gloved hands-full of ornamental spatulas. "Thats my favorite part'a the store." She said at him before showing him a sly grin and raising her left hand'o'spatulas and waved it lightly at him. "Heya, Miste'ah. Good t'see ya."

At Jubilee's rundown of the Guthrie boys and what they'd done to Stevey she just sighed all disappointedly. "God damn them... They're not gonna stop until they turn him inta some kinda Bell Tower gunman. I'm gonna have'ta go find them and beat the shit outta whatever car their parents bought them this week."

Rogue smirked then. "You guys doin' okay though...? Hadn't heard from ya'll in a bit. The city is going eff'in crazy with all thats been happenin'."

X-Man has posed:
"Oh..." Nate replies slowly, considering what Jubilee told him, and eventually it seems to dawn on him and he adds "ooohhhh..." He shakes his head of the image, "Guess can figure out a way to usin' anythin' for that..." and then Rogue's comment stops him dead in his tracks.

He narrows his eyes at her, "Hmm..." He grunts simply, "...I'm not sure to be surprised or not." Then he gives her a lopsided grin, "Nice to see you too, Rogue. Been meanin' to drag Jubes out your way in New York for night out when you've got time."

"What's a Guthries?!" Nate asks, and then "Or a Spatula Steve?!" He moves over to the Fort, taking a tentative look around, "We've been out of town. I took her to the Alps and we found a Christmas Tree. You should come by and see it.." He frowns a little, "What's happenin' in the City?" Yep, no real T.V. watching at Jubilee's Cabin.

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee answers tentatively. Her bored telepathic antenna was scanning the minds of everyone who came past the door. Past, not in. Because nobody came in. Like some bored teenager scanning the radio for a good song, she flipped from one mind to the next. "Somebody tried to kill the president. I...don't know if he succeeded." She doesn't -want- to tell Nate who. But she's pretty sure her mental energies are screaming it too loudly to squelch at this point.

To Rogue, she nods. "They were driving an Outback station wagon. Subaru, y'know? You can't trust anybody who drives one of those." As she talks, she seems to have forgotten to stop moving the flappy drawbridge mouth, so the box fort continues to mock her, mouthing the words along with her as she speaks.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue looked to Nate and then listened to what they both said. "Yeah, its not a good idea t'come inta the city right now. Especially for mutants... at least the ones that are visibly mutants, ya know?" She smirked softly and set the tiny spatulas down on the counter top.

"Guthries is the family'a lugheads that go around teasin' and prankin' people around here. They love Steve who's one'a Jubes' co-workers here. How this place pays for its employees is beyond me." She grinned a bit.

But, the topic on the more serious side of things made her frown. "President is dead." She told Jubilee. "White House is... pretty fucked up. It was Magneto and... Mystique." Rogue lifted her hands up then, palms out. "I'm stayin' the FUCK outta this one too. I don't want ANY part'a the president's assassination t'be near me. I mean that is some, next, level, shit... Right?"

X-Man has posed:
"Oh.. wow..." Nate shakes his head, and then he catches just the briefest glimpse of what's going through Jubilee's mind. His brow furrows as his face darkens at what he thinks he caught, and he lets out a long breath as he mutters to himself "Not my world..." accompanied by a long sigh.

He's a bit distracted at the moment on what he caught from Jubilee, but will look up to Rogue "Oh. Got it. they don't hurt anyone right?" He asks, assuming that if they were trouble one of the two of them wouldn't have let them get away with it... and then Rogue confirms what he 'heard' from Jubilee and nods his head slowly "Why would they want to kill the president? He do somethin' to mutants?"

Jubilee has posed:
Shaking her head, Jubilee looks to Nate. "I told ya...he's just bad here. No good at all. Most everything he does is out of some perceived slight on mutants. Mystique, too." Boxy the Castle continues its silent commentary below. Jubilee seems to have forgotten that she's wearing a paper Burger King crown, as well.

"As for the Guthries...well, I mean Steve needs to toughen up. They drag him out into the middle of somewhere, tie him up, and leave him for someone to find. If he'd ever once just stand up for himself. But noooo. He's more a silicone spatula, when he really needs to be melamine." The Castle seems to agree.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue looked between the two of them when they talked about Mags and Mys. "Well... see. I went t'talk t'some'a my friends from the Brotherhood who're in the city. They said that Mystique and Magneto had a big fallin' out over all'a this shit. Said that they both found out that the Presiden twas killin' mutants, found some evidence t'prove it, and then had a huge debate on how t'deal with it. Debate as in... fight."

The young southern girl with the black wool knit beanie ontop of her head just shook her head side to side. "Some say Magneto was tryin' t'stop Mystique from doin' what she was doin' and thats why he wrecked the White House t'get inside t'stop her, but it was just, ya know... too little too late kinda thing. Now he's in prison and she's on the run. Its really fucked up."

Rogue paused then and dropped some money on the counter for the ornaments. "Pardon my language." She added then.

X-Man has posed:
Nodding his head slowly, Nate tells Jubilee, "I know, I can't let the two worlds get mixed up, but he was such a big hero where I'm from..." moving up to Jubilee, and fixing her crown so it sits a bit straighter "...he was the leader of the X-men..." a sign of resignation can be heard from him.

"I know the words you're using, but I'm positive I don't understand what you just said..." Nate replies back to Jubilee and her analogy of Steve to Spatula. "I get the gist, I think, that they aren't all bad."

"So, I'm bettin' this is going to cause even more issue between Mutants and other people, and that's going to hurt the Mutants who can't protect themselves the most." Shaking his head, and wondering what he can do to watch out for the people who can't protect themselves. "Well, now it's everyones problem..."

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilee waves off Rogue's money and shakes her head. "No, don't. All the money from the ornaments goes into Petit Cash, and you know where THAT goes. It's almost Friday. Just keep 'em, I'll tell Guido the Guthries held me upside down and shook 'em outta my pockets. Cause he won't know the difference. See that?" She points up in the corner at the surveillance camera, and holds up a small remote control. A stream of water squirts out of the "lens" and the whole thing turns into a super soaker. "Useless. Unless I'm held up by the Wicked With of the West."

Jubilee looks at Nate with a bit of a sorrowful expression. "Yeah. It's everybody's problem now. I think...well...I think someone needs to find Mystique." She hates that she just said that. HATES it. But she believes it's true.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue took her money back when Jubilee reminded her of how this place operated. "Oh..." She exhaled heavily. "God. I love and hate this place. I really do." She muttered under her breath while watching the water drip off the security camera. "I mean this place is the weirdest, and coolest, and worst, and best store... I've ever been inside'a."

Rogue grabbed a plastic bag off the counter beside the register and put all of the spatula ornaments in it that Jubilee threw at her as attack barage from inside the cardboard castle and she looked at Nate.

"Its already becomin' a warzone in the city. Especially down in Bushwick.. ol' Mutie Town... as they like t'call it." She softly shook her head side to side. "I was gonna go see if Scott needed help with, ya know, stuff... But I heard he's doin' his own thing and not really gettin' the 'band together' so t'seak."

X-Man has posed:
"Well, if you want help, I'm sure Jubes and I will do what we can." Nate looks to Rogue, obviously concerned about her trying to do something, and not getting support from the Mansion. "We're here for you, Rogue. No need to do it on your own."

He walks over, picks up Jubilee, and adds "Hey, lets show Rogue our Christmas Tree. We can put some of those sparkly spatula things on it..." And he starts to head out to the exit with a Jubilee over his shoulder, "...and we can eat some more cookies. Mmmm... I like cookies..."