The Call

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

Jaime Reyes voice sounds over the comm-rings--all of them--and it sounds very urgent.

« Everyone on the ship, listen up! This is Jaime Reyes, your local 'Blowing this pop stand' coordinator and escape facilitation engineer. I need everyone on the ship to come to the City, in front of the Precinct, immediately. Grab people who don't have their comm rings with them--and tell them to grab their comm rings, people who are sleeping, whoever you find, and try to make sure everyone on the ship knows to come. This is very important. This is "getting the heck out of here" important. »

When they arrive, they arrive to find the Command Staff waiting, and a tiny, tiny young man standing on stone ledge from a fountain, waiting for them.

Here goes nothing.

Comments

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"It could be a ghost or something else intangible," she offers. "But then, I guess one of those could just stick their head through your mask anyway."

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"I can kick a ghosts ass, yo. Done it once, can do it twice, ya dig?"

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"How do you kick it if you can't touch it?"

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"....it's a figure of speech, yo."

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"You still sound ridiculous."

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"And you talk like a whack geek, G."

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"Geeks rule the world, diggity homie," Roxie says, tone dry enough to be practically dehydrated.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"Only cause they got the dough to hire ninjas, yo," he said. He was aware how much money they had.

Also a reason why he didn't want his parents to know. They might think he was going to be like them.

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"If they need the money, then obviously the geeks are in a better position."

Roxie is faintly smug about it.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"The ninjas don't NEED the money, yo. We just don't sell our services to any dude with a fiver on the street, ya dig?"

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"If you don't need the money, then why do you sell your services at all?"

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"Because it's tradition and honorable, yo."