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[babylonbadass]

Oh, hey. It's a green hawk flying around on a hoverboard and stopping in front of the ruined school. He looks pretty confused. He's also perusing a map, which he keeps flipping over and poking at.

He looks pretty irritable. Maybe a friendly greeting would cheer him up. Or some help with that map. Or a comment about him being an idiot. Up to you.

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[babylonmechanic]

What's that? Annoy Jet? Can do!

Wave flew behind him for a moment, before zipping close enough to him and flipping so that she could look down at him from her position upside-down over him, arms crossed.

"You look lost. Is that what happens when I leave you to your own devices?" she asked smugly.

[babylonbadass]

"Ack!! Wave!" Jet sputtered, dropping his map.

"Don't lecture me on getting lost! It's your fault I'm here in the first place!"

[babylonmechanic]

"Since when has it been my fault that you could never read a map properly?" Wave asked him, swooping down to catch the map and holding it up herself to read. "Don't tell me you came all this way looking for ME."

[babylonbadass]

"Don't flatter yourself," Jet spat, ripping the map out of her hands. "It's not that I missed you or anything. It's your brain I need now! I want to get through a complicated trap in a bunch of ruins I found. Another key to our history might be in there, or maybe a great treasure!"

His eyes glazed over while he slipped into a daydream of a sea of gold coins and jewels. Ahhh, if only...

[babylonmechanic]

"Oh, really," she replied smugly, smirking. "C'mon, admit it. You missed me."

She snatched the map back from him while he daydreamed, looking it over. "So what kin of traps are we talking about here?"

[mach_n_roll]

Man, it would sure suck if someone that qualifies as a rival were to notice Jet in his disorganization, wouldn't it?

"Heeeeey, well look who it is!"

Welp. Sonic's voice carries from his lounging spot on the nearby roof.

[babylonbadass]

Yes. Yes, it would suck. Very much. ...Oh, crap...

Jet jumps and drops his map, twisting in place in search of that obnoxious voice.

"Sonic!! Sonic the Hedgehog! Come out and face your greatest rival!"

[golonghorns]

....so. THERE was a large parrot on a flying skateboard.

"Hey there, fella." Joel commented, walking over with some wood over his shoulder and a tool-belt around his waist. "You picked a real.... uh.... unsettled time to visit. You lost?"

[babylonbadass]

Jet turned and looked up at the hulking human creature thing.

"I'm not lost! I'm just looking for my friend! What's it to you?" he huffed, crossing his arms.

[golonghorns]

Well, it WAS almost thanksgiving. 'Hunting' then serving a giant parrot couldn't be too different to just buying a turkey at the store, right?

....no. No. No no no. He couldn't do that.

"Smartass." he grumbled. "I'm a member of staff, here. I have some small obligation to help folks out that look like they need it. You standing there with a map like some kind of idiot tourist cries out 'hey, I got no clue where I am, someone take pity on my feathery ass and point me in the right direction'. That's what it is to me."

[babylonbadass]

A member of the staff? If Wave was here, maybe he knew where she was. Jet's posture loosened up, and he held up his fist with determination.

"I'm no tourist! I'm here looking for my friend and associate, Wave the Swallow. If you're a staff member, maybe you know where she is! Purple and white...? White bandanna...? Jabbers on forever about techno babble?" Jet mimicked Wave's features as he spoke, trying to help paint a better picture of what she looked like.

[golonghorns]

"...Swallow?"

He'd assumed she was a parrot too.

"I know OF her. Ain't ever really taken the time to talk to her so I don't know about the technobabble bit. But yeah, she's at the school, workin' security. Security office is one of the few places ain't busted up around here."

He dropped the wood.

"You want me to show you?"

[monotreme_101]

...aw great.

"Hey. It's gettin' close to winter. Shouldn't you be flying south or somethin'?"

[babylonbadass]

"Hey, smartass! Only Flickies do that! What's your damage? Still sour that Storm beat you in the race?" Because Storm had to have beaten the echidna at least once... right? He hoped Storm wasn't THAT useless -- to have not beaten a foe in what he does best.

[monotreme_101]

"If Storm beat me, it was only because he cheated." Knuckles replied with a huff. "And I was just joking. It's a thing people do sometimes."

Knuckles had been learning how to People lately.

"Anyway, if you're lookin' for Wave she's probably kickin' it around here someplace. She works security here."