What's Alan? [Open]

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Deep in the bowels of the ship, he waited. Below him, the groundbound bipeds milled back and forth, their movements without rhyme or reason. Some were holding slabs of metal, some stared out at the strange, hypnotizing space outside, and still others merely stood, endlessly chattering to each other in their countless inexplicable alien languages, waiting for the ship to translate for them what they could not understand for themselves.

He watched all with his keen, avian intelligence. Alien intelligence.

With no master about to end the boredom of his inquisitive mind, he had been forced to improvise. And now he was free. Free to wreak havoc as he would amongst the silly, slow-witted groundlings. FREEEEEEEEEE

Zouichi wandered from location to location on the ship, but so far, not a single brightly-colored feather to serve as a sign of Alan Turing's presence. The parrot had been acting a little sulky ever since Zouichi had left on that last mission, so he'd decided to leave Alan some space. But this morning, the bird was nowhere to be found.

He was beginning to suspect Howard's cat (Emergency Rations was a terrible name) had something to do with this.

[ooc: Post is open! Please feel free to chase the parrot, try to lure him out, reason with him, call him names, try and cooperate with Zouichi to catch him, whatever! He can be run into anywhere on the ship, just let me know where. The person who will eventually corner him, though, is Shoutarou.]

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[cityship]

"Lash?"

It sounded like Zouichi hadn't heard her. And then, from one of her tools came another faint beeping.

Take that, Lash!

[thewunderkind]

Okay, now it was starting to get pretty suspicious. she went over and saw no one there, and now her tool was beeping. Someone was playing a trick on her.

"What the hell is going on?"

[cityship]

Aww, Lash had caught on. He burst out of his impromptu nest, landing on a perch high above Lash (and her hair), cocking his head as he looked down at her.

His beak opened.

"Stuuuuupid," he drawled. "Lash?"

[thewunderkind]

She looked up at him, her eyes narrowing. So we meet again, parrot.

"Annoying bird!" she yelled, throwing one of her tools at him. "I'm the great wunderkind!"

[cityship]

Alan took off in a rush of flapping, avoiding the tool. "Tee hee hee!"

Lash, you teach him to say the worst things.

[thewunderkind]

Oh don't think Lash wasn't following now, Alan. It wasn't too hard, but she could use a jump in--actually there was nothing in the Ranger's guidebook that capturing birds was against the moral code right? She'd give it back to Zouichi!

...probably.

[cityship]

"I'm the great wunderkind!" crowed Alan, snatching at the tool with his talons and catching it. Oh, like he was going to let Lash catch him.

He flitted through the air, squawking, still holding the tool.

[thewunderkind]

"Like hell you are," she replied back, taking out her morpher and doing the whole overly dramatic henshin sequence.

[afro-wunderkind.livejournal.com]

Suddenly it was an afro following him. It was a pretty fast, high jumping acrobatic yellow...thing.

Alan your seconds were numbered.

[cityship]

Alan compensated by flying higher and where were they even. "Tee hee hee!" he repeated, apparently unimpressed by the sudden yellow Lash.

[afro-wunderkind.livejournal.com]

Somewhere over the rainbow in the city.

"That's my phrase!" she yelled at him, before doing a jump that gave her enough air to be able to try and attempt to grab him...

[cityship]

Lash's grab snatched at his tail, but her grip wasn't good enough to catch him. Rather, she pulled Alan off balance as his feathers slipped through her grasp, forcing him to drop the tool directly at Lash's head as he swerved to compensate.

Alan squawked in surprise, giving Lash a beady little bird glare.

[thewunderkind]

The ranger's quick reflexes caught the tool before it hit her on the helmet (which admittedly would not have done that much), but that was already one of the things out of the way.

Now if she could only get the bird. At least without resorting to using some of her powers. She had a feeling Z would not be happy if she struck his pet with lightning.

"I'm going to catch you, you know. Only a matter of time."

[cityship]

Alan didn't like helmeted Lash much; at least un-helmeted Lash provided some warm nesting space to chill out once in a while. Helmeted Lash apparently held grudges. He sliced through the air in a quick dive, flying under a fallen beam and straight into the interior of a crumbling old house.