Ye 'ol Tin Pin Slammer (2/4)

[Max]

Once again Z awoke in the middle of the road, people walking over him. Although this time he wasn't in the business area, it was… the amusement park? Why would he wake up here? As the blond looked around he noticed how many kids where around, so it must have been around late afternoon. Oh well… 

Z's phone beeped loudly and vibrated, although he could only feel the vibration. He flipped open the screen and saw the mission for the day. Tin Pin? That game that he and his friends used to play as kids? Well they played it every now and then when they where drunk, but it is more of a kids game anyway. 

Z looked down at his sleeping partner as his hand began to burn. Gripping it tightly and hissing, Z awaited his partner to wake up. 

[Midna]

Vex woke up with a hiss as her hand burned. What an alarm clock. She'd never be late to anything ever again. After growling at the timer for a moment, she sighed and faced Z. "Morning. What do we have to do today?"

She then remembered it was on her phone and glanced at her message. Sure enough, there was another message with the creepy writing. Oh no. Nonono.

"Tin Pin?!" she squawked, "I can't play that. That stopped being cool a year ago. Sure, I know how to play pretty well, but what if someone sees me!?"

[Snow]

Vinyl, sitting on the base of the light post, watched the Players in amusement. Tin Pin was a rather fun game, all the little spinning pieces absolutely delightful to chase. Blue tail flicking, the low-level Noise cat got up and stretched before padding closer to the Players. Sure, he couldn't understand most of what they were screeching at each other, but that didn't mean he couldn't be a human-watcher.

He prided himself on escaping from the headquarters this morning and settled back down, content to just watch. Though, he did love a good petting session...

[Max]

Z looked down at Vex, holding his hand out to help her up. "Well, I'm pretty good at Tin Pin myself, it shouldn't be too incredibly hard…" He yawned again, stretching his arms over his head. Why was he so tired? Maybe it was from all the noise he fought yesterday…. now that he thought about it, his right leg hurt too. Hopefully he could just ignore it for now, they had a whole pay of Tin Pin ahead of them.

Z looked over to see a cat with blue markings. He immediately was scared of a noise being there, but it was too cute. Z had a soft spot for cats… and this one was no exception.

[Midna]

Vex took Z's hand, still frowning, and she calmed down a bit. Relax. Nobody will see you. Hopefully. Now that she'd thought about it, nobody had seen her for these whole four days. They just walked right by without even a look. She still wasn't sure what was going on, but maybe by the end of the week she'd figure it out...

She opened her mouth, probably to say something like "Let's get this over with," but then she saw the Noise. This one was different. It was a cat? Her eyes widened and she slowly moved into her fighting stance, hands reaching for her Pins. But then she stopped. It hadn't jumped at them or anything. "You see it too, right?"

Maybe this was the Vinyl thing that had gotten loose? The message had made it sound dangerous.

[Snow]

Vinyl perked up at their notice of him. So maybe he'd be getting those pets, yeah? Standing up, he sauntered right over because why should he be afraid? If they attacked him, he'd simply dart out of the way. He was quick like that; he could get out of the way and be on the other end of the street in a few seconds.

Vinyl pressed his cheek against the male's leg, purring. Whoever said that Noise don't purr was a liar and should be subjected to unfavorable pets for three weeks. Meowing, Vinyl proceeded to rub against the male. He would take what attention he could get, since the Reapers didn't really tend to pay much attention to him.

[Max]

Z's eyes widened at the sudden feeling of pressure on the bottom of his leg. He stiffened as he looked down, seeing the tabby cat rubbing against him. "V-v-vex…. The kitty…. the kitty is rubbing my leg… I want to pet it can I pet it?" He looked over at his partner with puppy dog eyes, wanting to pick the cat up and love on it. "Vex please I will do the Tin Pin for you if you will let me pet this damn cat I swear to god."

He jumped a slight bit, awaiting her answer.

[Midna]

Vex was seconds from screaming the noise away from her partner when it got close to them, but then it was rubbing against Ze's legs and purring. She hadn't expected Noise to be able to do that. This one was certainly nicer than most were.

"I think we both still have to do it," she said uncertainly, "But fine, if you want to pet it, sure." It would either burn him or not burn him. The thing was kinda cute, but she knew how dangerous Noise were already. "Just... hurry. We should get going."

[Snow]

Vinyl meowed loudly. Hey, he was right here! He demanded attention! The sound floating through the amusement park was actually quite soothing to listen to, like... jazz. He quite liked jazz. Jazz was nice to listen to.

"Hey!" he chirped, though he was quite sure that the Players couldn't understand him since he only spoke Cat. "I'm right here! Pay attention to me, I would like to be pet!"

Over everything else, Vinyl was an attention hog and demanded all of any possible attention to be given to him. Since the Reapers ignored him, he had turned to Players for his attention fix.

[Max]

Z smiled wide, leaning down to stroke the cats neck and down his back. "He's so soft oh my god I want to keep him." He continued to pet the cat, scratching the base of his tail He continued for a few more seconds before picking the cat up, holding it in both his arms softly.

[Midna]

"Wellll... I guess we could take him with us. But come on." Impatient, she started towards a map. This was an amusement park. There was probably a place to play Tin Pin, or some bored kids doing it. When it had been popular, she'd played it everywhere. Even though she hadn't liked it that much, it had added to her image.

She quickly found a map, one of those huge ones that are all over theme parks, and searched for a convenient place to play Tin Pin. "See anything, Z?"

[Snow]

Vinyl purred as loud as he could the moment he was being petted, because who didn't purr when they were pet? Well, dogs didn't purr, but he was better than any mangy dog. Though his feet leaving the causing him to falter for a second, he soon returned to purring loudly. He could get used to this, yeah. He liked attention.

The cat looked over at the female and and narrowed his eyes at her, smirking a cat smirk. He had effectively taken the attention away from her and he loved it. He assumed that the male was her mate and, while Vinyl didn't really have interest in much else besides food and attention, he was not going to let the opportunity to rub it in the female's face go to waste.

Hey, he just rhymed.

[Max]

Z continued to pet the cat "How's that little buddy?" He hummed, smiling down at the feline. As his partner spoke Z jumped up "Alright then, you can stay on my shoulder as we do things, or if you need to, you can walk beside you. Then you get pets whenever we stop."

Z continued to pet the cat as he looked around "I remember that there is a booth over in that direction that has it set up." He said, nodding to indicate that the booth was in front of them.

[Midna]

Vex nodded. That Noise was kind of unnerving. It seemed too smart for some reason, and was it... mocking her? Rolling her eyes, she headed off in the direction Z had mentioned. Sure enough, there was a Tin Pin booth not too far off. "There it is."

Walking towards it, she noticed that there were several people there. There was more than one table set up. Most were occupied. Eager to finish the mission and get away from that Noise, Vex headed for a table. "I'll take this one, good luck."

A few seconds later, this girl with big eyes walked over to the table. "Excuse me, do you have a partner yet?"

Vex shook her head no, a little surprised. "Not yet, no," she said. She hadn't expected kids that young to play Tin Pin. This kid had to be younger than 13. Well, she could have been 14. Maybe.

"May I play then? I'm not too good, but I'm trying to get better. My cousin's teaching me."

"Sure." Hoping this would be an easy win, Vex pulled her Pin off of her shirt. "Umm, I only have one..."

"That's fine!" The girl put down a pin of her own. "I'll play with one too."

And so, the game began.

((sorry for the rush, guys!))

[Snow]

Vinyl climbed onto the male's shoulders, purring still. Something about the human was off, though not in the Player-off. More like... disability-off. Oh well. The female could help him, right? Right. Though... he supposed if he really had to, he'd help out. A little. If only for the attention.