Chuck E. Cheese's: where a kid can be a kid.

[ruffntumblenut]

Who: Ruffnut, OTA, Venus, Sigma
Where: Freddy Fasbear's The Pizza Fire Explosion Arcade and Fun Emporium!!!
When: Near the end of week 2
What: Ruffnut's gonna die, come hang out with her before the inevitable end.
Warnings: Well death, presumably violence, creepy singing robots and rotten moldy anchovies.

The place was noisy and messy and kind of creepy.

It was perfect.

The only way it could be more perfect for Ruffnut was if it was a cold, dark, wet place. But she would take what she could get.

As much as she loved having a couple friends from her world around, Hiccup and Astrid could be impossible to tolerate sometimes. They were all over each other with disgustingly delicate touches and starring into each others eyes. Watching Astrid braid little twists of Hiccups hair made Ruffnut's insides churn with unfamiliar and unpleasant feelings.

Well...maybe not too unfamiliar. It felt alot like jealousy and that baffled her. She'd never been that jealous of Astrid before! Astrid was always stronger, smarter, and faster then Ruffnut. But so long as they were friends it didn't matter because that just meant people didn't expect as much from Ruffnut.

But now? Something had changed. Seeing them together struck Ruffnut in the pit of her stomach and reminded her that she was still alone in a way. They had each other but who did she have?

A ratty looking plush doll she'd modified to look like her brother.

She hadn't figured out where the off switch...if there was one...was for the mechanical singing monsters. So instead she sat in front of the stage in a inflatable pool full of brightly colored balls. the music wasn't really that bad if the machines weren't so creepy.

She had found some cans of anchovies but they were moldy and rotten. This used to never bother the girl with an iron stomach who had grown up eating preserved fish all her life...but Capitol food had spoiled her and now just the smell alone was enough to make her stomach twitch.

So this combined with her dislike of the creepy singing monster machines provided the perfect opportunity for Ruffnut to make a mess and she was flinging cans at the things from her ball pit. The cans would connect with one of the animals and spark before exploding all over the stage in a sizzling mess of little fish and juice. the bolts of electricity burnt the fish beyond recognition and arched along the dripping juices as they ran over the furry bodies of her targets.

The music did not stop, or even hesitate no matter how many cans she threw.

But the stench of burnt fish was better then watching Astrid fawn over Hiccup so Ruffnut made herself comfortable.

Comments

For Venus and Sigma

[ruffntumblenut]

After having her fill of creepy robots and running out of things to throw at them, Ruffnut was exploring the rest of the area, seeking out food or weapons of a sort. Currently she was behind the prize counter studying the bins of plastic arm men, squirt guns, stickers, and plastic fangs. It was a bright and colorful horde of useless crap and she was amazed by it.

So much so she failed to notice she was not alone.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Know who else was looking for dark places? This girl.

Specifically, she was AWOL from the comic shop right now because she was in a substantial amount of pain. The explosion had knocked her on her ass, and some of that fryer had hit her face. She ran to the bathroom quick, because God knew that if she didn't do something quick she was screwed. It pained her, considering she saw Clementine out there, but with luck she had someone watching for her. Chibi Usa, she knew, would also be all right.

For now, Mindy was ducking here, her face, she knew, a mess. It was splotchy, second degree, but not compared to the worst news. She now could not see out of her right eye, and she donned an eye patch now, furious and feeling like killing someone.

Narrowly missing being hit by a can, for instance, left her on edge.

"Watch that shit, will you?"

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut tilted her head enough to see Mindy off to the side and blinked with recognition before appreciation settled in.

"Didn't hear ya come in...what the Hel happened to you?"

The music from the machines was probably why she hadn't heard Mindy show up...or the explosions.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Figures," she said, shaking her head. God, her reason to survive was worse than Harley's.

"Didn't hear the explosions? Someone decided to fuck around with the food court and blow up some bombs. It got me in the eye, so...I have an eye patch now."

[ruffntumblenut]

"Aw!" Her face fell "There were more explosions and I missed them? I have GOT to learn how to make bombs." She pouted and displayed her priorities with painful clarity.

Stretching out in her ball pit she waved. "Well if you're looking for more eyeballs those things up there have some but you'll get zapped if you try to take them. It's like those force fields but stronger."

Because if she wasn't sure it would kill her Ruffnut would be up on the stage zapping herself for thrills.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Mindy stopped and gave Ruffnut a stare that would have turned milk sour.

"When bombs start blowing up and your friends are in it, it won't seem so damn cool to you, trust me. It'll be pretty fucked up. I'm sure some people thought it was 'cool' when you were being eaten too."

As it was, she was starting to wonder if there was another place to go.

"I'm not touching those fucking things. I'll make do with the eyepatch. Those look possessed."

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut's face flat lined again and she rolled her eyes in an exaggerated way.

"If my friends were there and got hurt there's nothing I can do about it now. You gotta expect stuff like that's gonna happen. I mean look at how the arena started! That guy with the bushy eyebrows blew up right next to me."

She simply did not understand this girls poor attitude.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Ugh, why was she even talking to this idiot. Fucking thinking explosions were cool.

"I fucking know those things are going to happen, I won one, remember. You can tell me all about it when your ass isn't taken out earlier. Right now I'm missing a fucking eye and a friend of mine is knocked out somewhere."

She hoped Clementine was OK.

[ruffntumblenut]

Yes because Mindy was much too mature and serious to appreciate an explosion.

"So why are you in here yelling at me if you're worried about her? She's not in here obviously." She gestured at the area around them. "Unless one of those things came to life and stuffed her inside a suit when I wasn't looking. But then there'd be blood and guts and stuff so...probably not."

Either Ruffnut was so thick she didn't realize how irritating she was being, or she was really really enjoying it.

[hit_girl_mindy]

When said explosion made you half blind, and you're already nursing a pretty bad cheek wound? You appreciate something like that a little less.

ESPECIALLY around the food, which was the only means Mindy had to get fed.

"My face," Mindy said, gesturing to it. "Besides, I couldn't find her afterward. Have no idea if the fucker that set off the bombs has a gun. That way he could just snipe us off easy."

Mindy was going with thick. Thick as bricks. Thick as shit.

[ruffntumblenut]

"I guess that makes sense." But she didn't particularly care. Instead she twisted about in her ball pit to watch Mindy.

"I dunno what in here would be good for your face though...except maybe something to hide it. There's some paper back behind the counter you could make a mask with." She gestured with her fingertips and an amused smirk.

[hit_girl_mindy]

God, someone needed to go and strike fear in this girl. Again. You'd think a cannibal would have already done that.

"The eye patch is good enough. Long as I don't get infected, I'll be all right. Hope you got yourself some kind of weapon."

Or not. Who knew if this girl had a plan?

[ruffntumblenut]

Well the Cannibal is gone now isn't he?

"Oh yeah sure, it's one of those boom sticks. I left it with my chief though. He's good with complicated stuff I thought it might help him focus."

She clearly did not consider Mindy a threat if she didn't mind admitting she was unarmed.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Hmm." She said. "Should think about learning to use one of those yourself. I mean, you don't want to be taken by surprise here. If I'd been looking to kill, I would have just slit your throat, quick and easy. Sure that wouldn't have sat well with your viking lifestyle."

After all, she hadn't shown mercy to Shion when she took him out.

[ruffntumblenut]

"You could have tried. Doesn't mean you would have succeeded." Ruffnut commented idly. "One eye and all." She tapped her face blinking both her eyes in show.

"I'm not exactly a helpless baby without a boom stick. I killed like...four people last arena." A respectable number even if most of them had been accidents.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Mindy snickered. "You can't be that stupid. You think having one eye would stop me? Tried? Maybe you don't get it because your other viking pals have all the brains, but a lot of people here are trained killers, me included. Compared to me you're just a crippled cow, even with only one eye."

She was just telling it like it was. "Doubt it was on purpose. You're loud as fuck with no finesse. Maybe you had some bombs or something."

[ruffntumblenut]

She made a rude snorting sound.

"I wish. Bombs would be so cool! But I did alright. Killed people with Rats and lightning and stuff. It was pretty gruesome."

She sighed and stretched like a content cat playing up her comfort.

"Even if Astrid and Hiccup are normally better at me, this time they aren't and I've been taking care of them. So you can take your crippled cow and blow it out your ass. I'm obviously doing better then you right now. The only wounds I got came from before the arena." She tapped her cheek on the branding and despite herself winced. It was still tender.

"Or maybe it just bugs you that someone like me is doing better then you with all your smarts and skills and trained killer spookyness?"

[hit_girl_mindy]

Mindy let out a similar noise.

"Oh, I got hit with bad luck. I've still beaten this shit before, so I'm automatically doing better than you. And FYI? You got that from a jail break. I got caught ahead of time. So I have one of those."

She got up. "And you'll be dead before me. This is proof. Last place you want to be is somewhere like this where there's too much noise. You can't hear anyone sneaking up on you. That's fucking stupid."

[ruffntumblenut]

"Maybe, maybe not." She didn't seem bothered. "But at least my branding came from something I actually did. Not for being arrested for something I didn't do. And if you already won once and got kicked back here I think that means you're worse off because you had your win and you lost it."

She may have had a point about how noisy it was but Ruffnut could care less.

"I'd rather be lucky and dead then a cranky know it all."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"You don't know what I got arrested for, so you're better off not talking shit," Mindy said, shrugging. "AS for being worse off, that depends on how you really felt about being in here again in the first place."

She assumed a lot.

"Yeah? Oh, you'll get your wish soon enough. Besides, better to know something than nothing. Keeps me alive longer."

[ruffntumblenut]

"A life of being a cranky know-it-all instead of a fast and fun death? Yeah I can see why you'd like to keeping living with such a stick up your ass."

She tucked her long fingers under chin smirking.

"What are you even still doing here? Is there some point you're trying to make? We both know you beat me in the bar. Who cares? If you want me to fight you again that's fine but I'm sure you've got things you'd rather be doing."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"I do my wild stuff with crazy people, not reckless morons that have no plans," she said. "There actually IS a difference."

She smirked.

"I should leave, but you know what? You talk so much bullshit, I want to see exactly what you WOULD do, if someone came on and went after you directly."

[ruffntumblenut]

She rolled her eyes once more.

"Well then you better find someone willing to come at me runt because the more time you waste in here the longer it'll take for you to get back out there and find your friend."

A stunning bit of logic from the listless Viking.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"I was talking about me you moron." God, her head hurt now. "Christ, just...just get killed, quickly. There has to be smarter people around here somewhere."

She was leaving. UGH. It was like talking to a brick.

[ruffntumblenut]

"Probably." She stood up with a grunt letting brightly colored balls fall off her and roll about on the floor "But you're the one who's forcing yourself to talk to someone you don't like so how smart is that?"

She remained standing in the ball pit apparently perfectly content to let Mindy come to her.