the airplane

[instar]

Bella, Andi, and Robin all get on the plane. Bella and Robin have toothbrush caps in their pockets containing flies. Nothing in particular happens when they go through security. They fly for an hour, and then Bella, rather than risk crunch time due to turbulence or a line for the bathroom a little later on, gets up to take Trouble into privacy for demorphing and remorphing.

She takes the toothbrush cap out of her pocket and sets it on the tiny little counter, and then flattens herself against a wall to give him room.

Comments

[palmofyourhand]

And of course, if he keeps backing up like that, he's going to run straight into the other one.

[sundayfish]

He backs away more... sideways.

[palmofyourhand]

The first bear heads him off.

[sundayfish]

For a moment he cranes his neck to look for the girls, who are well away by this point.

Then he resumes looking at the bears and the terrain.

[palmofyourhand]

The bear with a sugary nose now seems interested in finding out if Charlie has any more cookies hidden in his pockets.

[sundayfish]

He does not. No cookies here. He holds very still when investigated.

[palmofyourhand]

Snuffle snuffle.

No cookies?

[aeskhyne]

Maybe they will just sit right here and stare at him until he produces some.

[sundayfish]

He is not very well going to bake cookies in the middle of a national park.

Siiiiidestep?

[aeskhyne]

The sugarless bear headbutts him gently in the chest.

[sundayfish]

"Andalite," he growls.

He tries the gun.

It doesn't work.

[aeskhyne]

Indeed it does not!

[palmofyourhand]

Sugar Bear shuffles closer.

[sundayfish]

"What do you want?" he asks, holstering the gun. "Why don't you just kill me? Concern for the host? That's not going to get you far."

[palmofyourhand]

No response.

[sundayfish]

Well, if they aren't Andalites, they're bears, right? So he's not really making a fool of himself. The girls are out of earshot by now.

Trying stepping away again...

[aeskhyne]

Headbutted again.

[sundayfish]

This really won't do.

He tries making a run for it, the other direction.

[palmofyourhand]

The bears chase him. And they can easily keep up.

[sundayfish]

"What do you want?" he demands again.

[morphbox]

(Off in the woods, twins morph pigeons.)

[hold_infinity]

(And Robin morphs a bear.)

[aeskhyne]

Charlie's new friends decline to say anything.

[morphbox]

Pigeons supervise unobtrusively from the trees.

[sundayfish]

Charlie continues evaluating bears, periodically asking what they want, and trying to get away.