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[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Ever since he'd talked to Aang and watched the guy swimming around with an imaginary dolphin, Marco had been kinda missing his dolphin morph. The dolphin morph was, without fail, always fun. And hey, Marco was definitely a fan of fun.

So he'd called up the pier over the ocean again, jumped into the water, and morphed dolphin. Marco clicked happily as the dolphin's bubbly personality rose up. He needed to play a game!

Angling his fins, Marco started swimming around underneath the pier, swerving inbetween the poles. He needed to go faster!

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[zouichi.livejournal.com]

The Sensoriums certainly seemed to get a lot of use from the crew. Zouichi looked around, curious as to who might be inside, but saw only a long pier and what he recognized from his lessons as an ocean.

As far as he could tell, there was no one else here. Did the Sensoriums continue creating illusions even after its users had already left?

He scanned the horizon, listening to the sound of the distant waves crashing up against the surf.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Marco stopped, when he heard someone walking up to the pier. Peering up, he could see Zoichi form in between the boards.

Looks like Marco had someone to play with! With a dolphin grin, Marco swam right underneath Zoichi, and jumped up, hitting the boards right underneath Zoichi's feet with his nose.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

At the force of the impact, Zouichi lept backwards, quickly rebalancing himself on the pier. There was something in the water; he'd seen the telltale flash of silver. An animal?

Or an enemy?

His hand went immediately to his side, where his pistol was holstered, as he scanned the water for additional movement.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Ha! Success!

But the game wasn't over yet: Marco waited a few moments - just enough to try and lull Zoichi into a false sense of security - before coming up at the side of the pier and slamming his head into the water, creating a giant splash that was going to completely cover Zoichi with water.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi raised an arm to shield himself from the sea spray, turning to see... a dolphin? It certainly looked like one, though it didn't look like any others were around. He was soaking wet, but he didn't mind -- a little water never hurt anyone.

The dolphin couldn't be the one running this simulation, could it?

...doubtful.

"You think this pier belongs to you or something?" he asked, not really expecting an answer.

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

It hasn't been that Eva's been avoiding Marco, but they haven't seen much of each other in the last few weeks. Eva's been having a rough time of it since her psych eval and the whole business with Tom and Iniss, and she never likes to stay in the house to mope and look frazzled when that's the case.

And such is the case again, when Cassie's house has felt too small and foreign, so she's once again looking to make a beach or vista or some kind of vacation spot at the Sensoriums. It seems someone's beaten her to it, but looking around she sees no one - except the occasional flash of a dolphin in the water.

Well, only a few people that could be, and as far as Eva remembers Rachel's preferred flying. "Well, that's one way to save money on swimming lessons."

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

<Who needs to learn backstroke when you've got flippers?> Marco agreed, swimming up so that he could look at Eva. <You after the sensorium?>

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

"Professional Olympians, obviously. I think they disqualify dolphins from the Summer Games." She dangles her legs in to check the temperature, seeing if she wants to jump in. "Actually, I was planning on the ocean anyway. Going to practice my clownfish impression."

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

<Psht, they're just jealous of our awesome swimming ability. Dolphin races would be so much cooler,> Marco said. <And jump on in. But my clownfish impression always gonna be better than yours.>

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

This was going to be an even better day for Marco. Why? Because not only had Sofia walked in to enjoy the scene, but she also let Stacy transform her clothes into a bikini.

She stared down at the pier, considering how cold the water might be.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Helloooooooooo Sofia. Yes, this was a good day.

And you were about to find out how cold the water was, because Marco was going to splash you with his tail. Just give him a moment to ogle first.

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" Sofia giggled and looked down to see the source of the splash. "Oh! Hello." Not that she expected a response- as far as she was concerned this was just a dolphin. "Lonely?" She leaned against the pier ramp.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

<Not anymore,> Marco said, giving her a dolphin grin.

[makeherblue]

The Sensoriums. Not exactly his favorite place to be, but he did pass by every now and then, took a little bit of a peek, that sort of thing. Helped to know if any of his friends were there or if that man from before was needing more help with the map retrieved from the last mission. Odd fellow, very serious. The Doctor tried to picture him laughing -- much less smiling -- and found he couldn't quite do it. Like everyone on this ship, the Doctor had so many questions. If he'd sometimes entertained thoughts of being sometimes bored with existence, he couldn't say he was bored now. There were just so many interesting things and people and the ship herself, oh the ship, and in all actuality, it was a bit difficult to concentrate, it was that terribly interesting.

It wasn't just a backyard anymore. Assuming he could find Amy, he knew at least that he could take back.

Peering into the used sensorium, the Doctor took in a pier jutting out from the door into a sparkling blue ocean. He started to pull away when he spotted what looked like a --

"Dolphin!" The Doctor's face brightened. "I haven't seen one of your lot in awhile!"

Was it real? Where was the person who'd summoned the setting? The Doctor stepped inside, automatically tested the weight threshold of the pier because you tended to just do that after falling through enough weak floors, and headed to the edge of the pier. The Doctor crouched at the end, hands slung over his knees as he watched the dolphin.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Marco eyed the Doctor with one big dolphin eye. Huh. This guy again.

Well, Marco magnanimously decided that the Doctor was forgiven for inflicting That Otter upon him. Besides, they had more important things to like right now. Like playing around! Marco slapped the water with his nose twice, splashing the Doctor with water, before opening his mouth into a big grin and clicking.

Why yes, Marco was laughing at you.

[makeherblue]

The Doctor laughed right back. More accurately, he laughed at the splash, trying to shield himself with his hands and still getting a good dose of fake sea water right in the face. It felt real enough, despite knowing better. Now he couldn't understand that dialect of clicking, which was odd: he'd made it a point to understand dolphin (shark, on the other hand. Probably ought to work on that).

Trying to decide if he felt like trying to click back and see where it got him, the Doctor stripped out of his jacket. He knew by experience that soggy tweed wasn't a very nice smell, after all...that was assuming the water here wouldn't just vanish once he left the sensorium.

Jacket off, the Doctor got on his hands and knees on the pier and gave a test series of clicks and whistles at his dolphin friend. Well, possibly fake dolphin friend, considering the fake pier; fake water; fake everything in the sensorium.

"Good morning, wonderful fake weather we're having", would have been what he would have tried to say, if he was using the correct dialect of Bottlenose Dolphin.

Or maybe that was in Spinner Dolphin and not Bottlenose...

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

If Marco wasn't already convinced that this guy was nuts, this would have convinced him. Seriously, who goes around clicking at dolphins?

Course, the fact that Marco wasn't a real dolphin at all might have had something to do with the fact that he couldn't understand one click the Doctor was saying. And the fact that he didn't even realise that the Doctor was trying to speak an actual language, rather than just making random clicky noises.

Marco clicked back again - and while he wasn't actually trying to say anything, the clicks did have the general tone of, You idiot, what the hell are you doing trying to talk to a dolphin.

[encourage]

Three months, and she'd managed to avoid the sensoriums. Reality and illusion were interchangeable enough as it was, seeking out an area where one could lose themselves, even temporarily, in another place... felt like the kind of lie Sakura wasn't comfortable living with.

On the other hand, avoidance was also not something she favored, which is why she'd let herself wander this way today. She knew how these worked, in theory. She hadn't expected that she'd find one currently in use when she'd walked in.

She was vaguely embarrassed that she had, if it didn't stop her from looking around at the beach setting, straightening up as she called out. "Hello? Anyone in here?"

Moving further in, she wondered at the setting. It was different than the beaches she'd seen in her lifetime. This was an interesting contrast to observe as she made her way toward the pier.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Marco was still under the pier, dodging poles when Sakura walked in. While he couldn't see her that well through the gaps in the boards, he could hear her well enough to know who it was.

<No,> Marco answered, making a big dolphin grin.

[encourage]

Mole. Sakura's head whipped around, even if she knew she was hearing something from within her head, and not by ear. Where was he?

"Does that make you a nobody?" She walked out on the pier itself, still looking around for Marco. "I wouldn't want confusion over that point in the future."

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Not mole, Sakura. Dolphin. In fact, said dolphin was going to appear right in front of you, and splash you by hitting the surface of the water with it's nose.

<I'm somebody enough,> he said, making dolphin clicks and whistles that sounded suspiciously like laughing.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

Aang'd just happened to be looking for one of his friends and--oh HEY!

"Just-dolphin!"

And yes, he was stripping his robes off again, slipping off his shoes, and jumping in for a swim alongside the fascinating critter, wearing only his plant-suit pants.

Who cared of it was imaginary?

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Wait, Magic Arrow Ball? For a moment, Marco worried whether Aang would realise that this was the same pier that Marco had called up when he'd wondered into Aang's sensorium illusion - but then the guy just jumped into the water again, and Marco snorted. The guy wasn't figuring out anything.

And hey, he could be fun to play with! Especially if he did some of that funky water moving stuff. He was around Aang in circles, clicking, and wondered how he was going to get Aang to make some waves without actually talking to him.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

It actually didn't take much to figure out that the dolphin might like some fun waves to flip off of.

And despite the apparent power behind his...well, power, they were anything but rough.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Hah! Waves! Marco dove straight into them, trying to see how many times he could jump over them.

Okay, he had to admit: Aang's powers? Cool.