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[MattCowens]

"PC, I need to talk to you," 12 Step says seriously. "I don't think this is working any more - you and me. I don't think we should keep seeing each other."

"I'm gonna kill that dinosaur!" PC yells, jumping out of his seat and shadow-boxing a hologram.

"I need someone less crazy, a little... darker," 12 Step confides in Footstep.

Footstep squirms in his seat a little, and clears his throat as if to talk. There is a crashing noise from elsewhere in the theatre, and PC's voice is heard harrassing a passerby.

"That's a real shame about you and Psycho Crazy," Footstep manages.

12 Step leans closer again, only to be once more interrupted by Psycho Crazy leaping into the seat between them.

"I got you some nachos, babe," he declares.

12 Step shudders in her seat, and takes a deep breath.

"So, what's happening in the film?" PC asks.

"Well," replies Footstep, "there are those dinosaurs, see? And they're on a space-ship, going to meet an asteroid that's headed for earth. They're going to blow it up."

"Oh, cool," replies PC.

"And see that dinosaur," says 12 Step gently. "The good looking one? She's dating that other crazy dinosaur..."

"The one with all the piercings and tattoos?"

"Yes PC, that one. And she's not happy dating that dinosaur any more, because he's crazy, and she's met another dinosaur who she likes a lot more."

"You're breaking up with me!" PC yells.

"Finally!" 12 Step sighs.

"You've met someone else! Someone new! I'll kill him!" PC looks around angrily. "Is it him?" he yells, chasing a patron out of the theatre. He returns shortly, and grabs Footstep. "We're not putting up with this," PC declares, dragging him out of his chair. "We're going!"

PC and his good friend Footstep storm out of the theatre, Footstep looking somewhere between relevied and terrifed. 12 Step slumps back into her seat, exhausted.

[MattCowens]

I tag Morgue for the beginning of the race scene!

Note: This write-up is about 2,800 words long so far. That's almost 3000 words of awesome!

[morgue]

[MattCowens]

Random Moments:
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The scene opens in a warehouse type location. There is burning stuff and molten metal and shit around. There is a huge screen floating in the air, with footage of the racers lining up displayed on it. Prezley is mouthing off something chronic about the race that's about to start.

Psycho Crazy is nowhere to be seen. Footstep must take his place in the race!

The racers line up, the siren sounds, and they're off!

Footstep lurches off clumsily.

Baby Mouse and Sato race off, as does 12-Step. Much 'stackling goes on in the backgound.

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Mr Darcy chases Weevil through a maze of girders, his bling and too-white teeth flashing. She sneers at him, and collides with a girder, falling from her board. When she comes round, Mr Darcy is holding her, looking tenderly at her.

"You'd look great in a pretty dress," he declares, helping her back onto her board. Weevil is taken aback by this. They look down at the distant figures of the lead racers.

"Whatever, I'm out of the race now," Weevil sneers.

"Maybe not," Mr Darcy replies, pulling a device from his pocket. He touches it to Weevil's batton, lighting up the markers and allowing Weevil the opportunity to cheat.

"Someone needs to teach my sister a lesson."

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The climax of the race is in a zeppelin graveyard, that is attached to a still operational zeppelin factory. As a tax dodge the factory makes and destroys zeppelins. They explode in an EXTREME way, being destroyed by massive grinders.

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Sato talked to Baby Mouse via cool internet type technology, and encouraged her to raise her game so the race would be worthy of him.

[morgue]

One of the beacons that needed to be tapped was underneath a the path of a heavily-guarded motorcade! A bunch of tactics were used to tag this beacon. This was where Sato and Baby Mouse had their conversation.

The zeppelin graveyard is Dead Man's Apocalypse.

A three-way close finish:
* Baby Mouse, coming in after daring to pass straight through the centre of Dead Man's Apocalypse;
* Weevil, coming off of Mr Darcy's cheating assistance
* 12-step... I forget what 12-Step was coming off.

I also forget who won, who came second, and who lost and got their team eliminated from contention.

Gah. Crappy memory. Shoulda done this months ago. Sorry guys.

[MattCowens]

12 Step had to rescue footstep from a death-by-falling, if I recall correctly. She sacrificed the race to save him. The tension this opens up for future episodes, where Footstep doesn't fancy 12 Step but feels indebted to her (and is secretly in love with Hunter) was fantastic.

The race may have ended in a tie? 12 Step may have pushed herself too far and been unable to race again!


Dead Man's Apocalypse! - such genius