Lonely Rolling Star~ [OPEN]

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

Anyone paying attention in the City today will notice a bizarre sight-- a small lump of garbage, roughly a foot and a half in diameter, rolling up and down the streets. It's mostly made out of bits of rubble, broken glass and garbage, the odd misplaced or discarded item, the occasional loose cobblestone that's been dragged up from the street. Several crew members innocently dropped something they were carrying and found it suddenly snatched by the trashy menace and on its way down the street.

Behind the ball of garbage, pushing it along, is a well-meaning but rather misguided little space person with a pad of paper and a magenta colored pencil strapped to him like a backpack. On the paper is written a message:

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WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE!
WE WILL HAVE YOUR PLANETS RESTORED SOON!

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He looks hard at work, but he would be happy to stop and chat with his subjects.

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because I enjoy being mean to Setsuna

[bladesinflight.livejournal.com]

The meatship was huge. Even that was an understatement. It was gigantic, enormous, colossal even. Setsuna had been on airships in the magical world, but none of them had held a candle to Stacy. She was exploring the City on her own at the moment, looking for interesting sights and landmarks and just getting a feel for Stacy's layout.

As she walked, Setsuna pulled her Pactio card with Konoka from a pocket, intending to use its magic to contact her friend. But just as she was about to lift the card to her forehead and send a telepathic message Konoka's way, her foot slipped into a small pothole in the street. Setsuna stumbled and managed to catch herself without falling, but the Pactio card slid out of her hand and fluttered down to the ground.

Where a ball of garbage promptly rolled over it and rolled away with it.

For a few long moments, Setsuna could only stare, mouth hanging open, brain valiantly attempting to process what had just happened. Then she snapped out of it as she realized that the strange rolling ball was escaping. "Aaaahh, w-wait! Stop!" she exclaimed, running after it at top speed.

Bwahahahaha

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The Prince shoved with all his might to keep it rolling, picking up a few more cobblestones as he continued on his way without even noticing.

And true, it was rather persistent for a ball of garbage, but it wasn't hard to catch up to it.

[bladesinflight.livejournal.com]

Setsuna had always been quick on her feet, and the katamari was still relatively small, so indeed, it didn't take her long to catch up. She glanced down at the note on the Prince's back, but there wasn't time to try to figure out what it meant. With a mighty leap, she soared over the still-rolling ball, turning in mid-air, and landed directly in front of it, one hand on the ground. "Halt!"

The Prince's proximity alarm would probably start blaring right about now.


((Bed, but I shall pick up!))

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The katamari bonked into the girl's leg, bounced off and sent the Prince sprawling on the ground behind him. Fortunately, he was a very durable prince and the katamari was surprisingly soft for being full of rocks and broken glass.

The Prince sat up and rubbed his head, glancing up and noticing the human girl for the first time. Oh, whoops. She was halting at him.

He stood up, waved to her and then gave a noble little bow of greeting.

[bladesinflight.livejournal.com]

The katamari bounced off of Setsuna's leg, knocking the tiny creature that was pushing it backward. Setsuna immediately began to feel a little guilty. She had meant for him to stop, not to be stopped. And then he was so polite in greeting her, even though she had just knocked him down...

"Ah, good day," Setsuna managed, bowing in turn to the diminutive Prince before crouching in front of him. "I, er... I apologize for stopping you so suddenly, but this... ball of yours... has picked up an item that is very important to me." It felt a little odd, addressing such a tiny being, but honestly Setsuna had met much stranger beings than him, both before and after her arrival on the ship.

[fail-umbrella.livejournal.com]

Kogasa had been thoroughly exploring the meatship, hoping she could derive inspiration from any particularly foreboding-looking corridors. She had found a few satisfactory spots, and the City was the only place she had yet to check.

Kogasa faced forward and her umbrella faced backward, just in case she missed something. So it was the umbrella that noticed the ball of garbage rolling toward Kogasa. It was strange, certainly, but nothing to write home about, so the umbrella casually watched the garbage ball until it had almost caught up with them before giving it an exploratory poke with its tongue.

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The Prince tripped as his katamari rolled a few inches to the side, landing flat on his face. He sat up quickly and rushed to get his hands back on it--

-- but then noticed the strange... thing with the tongue staring at him. His head tilted as he regarded it curiously. How odd... he had seen more than a few umbrellas in his time, but they rarely came attached to sponges. Long, moving sponges. That were kind of gross.

[fail-umbrella.livejournal.com]

The umbrella looked back toward Kogasa, who turned around, asking, "What do you mean, you found something strange? I didn't see anyth - what is THAT?"

She, too, stared at the ball of garbage, and then turned her attention to the small...person next to it. She knelt down to get a closer look. "Is this how the ship cleans herself? I thought she'd have something better than tiny people...that's surprising."

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The Prince looked heavily relieved to see a human attached to the... tonguebrella thing. At least she must be able to control it. He waved at her, then stood up, dusted himself and gave a little bow.

He reached back to the pad of paper on his back and pulled off the next sheet underneath the displayed message, which had been conveniently pre-written in various colors of colored pencil.

[GREETINGS AND HELLO!

WE ARE THE PRINCE OF ALL COSMOS, SON OF THE MAGNIFICENT KING OF ALL COSMOS AND THE BEAUTIFUL QUEEN OF ALL COSMOS. WE ARE SORRY FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF YOUR WORLDS AND WE WILL HAVE THEM PUT BACK TOGETHER IN NO TIME ONCE WE GATHER THINGS.

WE WILL DO OUR BEST FOR YOU!

~ THE PRINCE OF ALL COSMOS]

[fail-umbrella.livejournal.com]

Kogasa read the note a few times, confused. "So, wait...you're the person who destroyed all the worlds? That's not what I was told...oh, but if you're putting them all back together, could you do Gensokyo first? That's where I come from."

The umbrella prodded her with its tongue. "Right! Introductions! I'm Kogasa Tatara, and this is also me." She waved the umbrella, which smiled. "Nice to meet you, Prince!"

[galacticfairy.livejournal.com]

"What..."

Sure, it was short, but it summed up her feelings pretty well.

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

One too-abrupt turn sends the ball of garbage ricocheting off the woman's leg. A few small pieces fly off, and then the ball awkwardly turns and heads off down the street again-- little guy in the back push push pushing along.

eeeee 83

[talks2stoplight.livejournal.com]

Ratchet had seen tumbleweeds before, but this was a little different. Was there some kind of out of control waste problem in the City or did Stacy have garbage that picked itself up? That would actually be pretty amazing.

Stepping out in front of the rolling ball, he crouched down and held his hands out, waiting for the little collection to roll into his palms. The fact that there's a tiny person behind it has escaped his notice so far.

BIG ROBOT, TINY PRINCE

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The Prince apparently didn't notice that his path had changed courses, right up until he felt the katamari almost fall off of something. Then he noticed that he was up in the air and standing on someone's hands.

Yikes! He dragged the katamari to a stop, then shyly peered out from behind it to see who had captured him.

THE NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

[talks2stoplight.livejournal.com]

It was a self-propelling Ball of Stuff! Fascinating! Maybe it was someone's idea of a joke and there was some kind of gyro mechanism inside- it's possible that there was some kind of clutter removal system aboard Stacy, not unlike organic immune systems or nanobot repair technology--

Or there could be a tiny little person behind the ball. "Primus' parts!" Ratchet holds the katamari up and peers at the Prince. "Were you pushing this thing around?"

STARRING J. RICHARD PRINCINGTON AS THE PRINCE OF ALL COSMOS

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The Prince stared up at the robot with a curious glance, but since he had been asked a question, he answered with a polite nod to the affirmative.

He removed the pad of paper backpack from his back, flipped past the first page and pulled out a pre-written message in purple colored pencil, holding it up for the other to read.

[GREETINGS AND HELLO!

WE ARE THE PRINCE OF ALL COSMOS, SON OF THE MAGNIFICENT KING OF ALL COSMOS AND THE BEAUTIFUL QUEEN OF ALL COSMOS. WE ARE SORRY FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF YOUR WORLDS AND WE WILL HAVE THEM PUT BACK TOGETHER IN NO TIME ONCE WE GATHER THINGS.

WE WILL DO OUR BEST FOR YOU!

~ THE PRINCE OF ALL COSMOS]

AND CHUCK NORRIS AS RATCHET- oh. wait.

[talks2stoplight.livejournal.com]

The Prince of All Cosmos? Did that make this little guy a deity? Ratchet had thought people like that were... well... bigger.

"Um, thanks for your concern- I'm sorry about yours too. No offense, though, but how are you going to collect enough things to put a whole planet back together?" After all, the Prince was very small and his collection wasn't much bigger. Planets were very large.

[ms_pepperpotts]

Pepper was not happy. She had lost a shoe, and Pepper has never lost anything until she woke up in that pod.

She had returned from her appointment with Rein, and had noticed she only had one shoe when she entered her quarters.

Pepper was retracing her steps, trying to locate her missing shoe, something that had strangely survived even her world being destroyed, when she saw something that looked like her shoe stuck to a ball of garbage?

"Wait!" She called, dashing after to stop the ball and get her shoe.

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The Prince was on a roll (ha ha) and in his own little world of pushing and rolling, paying no attention to the human woman behind him.

He was just a very focused little guy.

[ms_pepperpotts]

"Excuse me!" Pepper called, running to catch up, and managing to get in front of the ball. "Can I have my shoe back, please?"

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The Prince slowed to a stop, pulling on the katamari to halt it before it ran into this poor woman too. Oh, how clumsy of him!

He bowed apologetically and climbed up on top of the katamari, rolling it from side to side by walking on top until he found a small section of the clump made almost entirely of various types of shoes. He glanced up at the woman quizzically. Which was hers?

[ms_pepperpotts]

Pepper smiled, as the little green man rotated his ball to the pile of shoes that she had seen her shoe in.

Plucking out her shoe, that beautiful Louboutin that was nearly the only thing left from her world, Pepper waved it in the air.

"This one, and thank you."

[diabolic-ace.livejournal.com]

"Oh wow," Hayate stared as the junk-ball-thing came rolling her way. She was slowly getting used to the idea that things were very, very different here, and it was almost fun to guess what the purpose of everything was. Maybe it was some kind of street cleaning, litter collecting device. She knelt down to watch it approach, putting an empty juice box and an apple core in its path.

[rollwthechanges.livejournal.com]

The juice box and the apple core got picked up by the katamari as it rolled over them, and as it passed by it became apparent that the ball of garbage was not self-propelling-- it was the work of a tiny person pushing it along.

[diabolic-ace.livejournal.com]

Hayate waved to the little green humanoid, wondering if her tiny lovable Reinforce Zwei knew ... him? Her? It was really androgynous. "Thank you, mister or miss street sweep~"

... it was cute. It'd be kind of fun to put it in random outfits...