“So let me just make sure I heard you right,” Bastard clears his throat, “Your sister gets super uncomfortable with anybody she doesn’t really know and you want us to help her feel more at ease here?”
Bastard is in the lobby talking to Razor Smirnov, next to him are Tire Bosch, Red Tucker, & Violet Tucker.
“Yep,” Razor sighs, “Though I thought there’d be others willing to help.”
“Anastasia & Walker are stuck at the office, Dmitri is going around trying some pelmeni, Destiny just wanted a break from Bastard, X-Calli is at his day job as a therapist, Xavier is at a therapy session, and Katina’s out,” Tire explains.
“How come you know all thi-that sword is a what now?” Razor asks.
Ignoring him, Violet inquires, “Are you saying we are not capable of handling this situation you nincompoop?”
Razor looks at the sassy twelve-year-old before letting out a simple yet resolute, “Yes.”
“We’ll see about that,” Red remarks, “I’ll make her the most sociable person you’ve ever seen in no time flat!”
RED TUCKER’S ATTEMPT
Nadia is in the dorm’s kitchen when Red Tucker swoops in, Red has her hands in her pajama’s pockets as a toothpick sticks out of her mouth.
“I got a weird question,” Red proclaims, “when you go to cook a meal, what do you tend to use more; pots or pans.”
Nadia stares at Red bewildered.
“Because me personally, I got a ton of both but there’s something ‘bout a pan that’s more versatile. Y’feel me?” Red remarks.
“Uhhhh,” Nadia murmurs.
Feeling the tension in the room, Red gets an idea as she takes out a plastic see-through squeeze bottle filled with oil.
“Hey, you wanna see what my blast can do?” Red asks, though before Nadia can respond, Red chimes in, “Here lemme show you.”
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Red squeezes the bottle causing some oil to squirt out and onto a pan. The pan then begins to levitate before it starts to orbit around Red.
“I call this Stir Fry,” Red remarks, “Currently I can only levitate as much as I can bench press which is like 55 kilos.”
“Wow,” Nadia says impressed.
“Yeah and check this out,” Red says before she presses her fingertips together and shouts, “Speed up!”
The pan orbits faster and faster around her.
Red presses her fingertips together once more before shouting “RELEASE!”
The pan is no longer being levitated as it shoots out across the room towards the direction of the door.
It’s just then that Razor enters the kitchen and asks, “Hey guys has anyone seen my leftove-EEEERRRSS!!!”
TWONG-ONG-ong
Red & Nadia stare at Razor who has the metal pan pressed against his face. As the pan falls to the ground, Razor has a big red mark across his face. He falls backward, unconscious from the hit.
Red looks at Nadia.
Nadia looks at Red.
Red still looks at Nadia.
Nadia still looks at Red.
“First one out of the kitchen has to help your bro,” Red says before booking it out.
“Wait but-” Nadia tries to say before groaning and looking down at Razor.
VIOLET TUCKER’S ATTEMPT
Violet is staring at Nadia from across the lobby. Nadia, who sees this, moves to a different room, however Violet follows.
When Nadia goes into the kitchen, Violet follows.
When Nadia heads to school, Violet follows.
When Nadia is trying to sleep, Violet is watching.
Eventually, Nadia is hiding amongst several blankets in the lobby as Violet watches, Razor looks down at Violet.
“What are you doing?” Razor asks.
“I’m trying to analyze my opponent so I can beat them into friendship,” Violet affirms.
“Nadia isn’t your-” Razor groans, “I don’t think you’re really succeeding.”
“Nonsense you nincompoop,” Violet hisses.
Razor rolls his eyes as he goes over to make sure Nadia is okay.
BASTIEN BASTARD’S ATTEMPT
“So madam I heard you like playing games,” Bastard says as he is standing by Nadia.
“Uh yeah?” Nadia admits.
“Well have no fear because I’m quite the gamer myself!” Bastard admits, “When I was a kid I always was the last to be found in every game of hide & seek!”
Sitting in the room is Red who shouts, “IS IT BECAUSE THEY JUST DIDN’T WANT TO FIND YOU?”
“SHUT UP RED!!!!!!!!” Bastard screeches before clearing his throat and continuing, “When playing caraway, nobody could break through my defenses! And when playing rubber twist I never made a single mistake!”
“What even is that?” Nadia asks.
“You’ve never played rubber twist before?” Bastard asks.
“No,” Nadia says.
“Oh,” Bastard pouts, “Never mind then.”
TIRE BOSCH’S ATTEMPT
Tire is on his phone texting Nadia as Razor watches him.
“I asked if she’d rather text instead of talk and she said yes,” Tire tells Razor, “Hope this helps.”
“Oh…. wow, thanks man,” Razor says, impressed at how quickly he was able to resolve this.
In fact, it was resolved so quickly that there wasn’t time to make a proper ending to this inbetweener. I guess all that’s left to say is…
See You Next Chapter!~