Living in the City

[Chadin]

[ O.O I hope you realize that you're the one asking for this Huu, I'm just playing out my character]
That tore it. I lashed out at the cocky little raccoon with a hard kick towards the gut before yelling at him, having now lost my patience. "Don't give me that crap! We have eyewitnesses, right guys?" I turned around towards Jack and Tutley, hoping they'd lend some help to my case since I really hadn't seen Huu when he was mimicking as the deer. "And besides, the hushed lips aren't exactly giving me any reason to believe you aren't involved. Now start talking or I'm going to show you how to make a colour a raccoon's eyes blue to go along with the black.!"

I felt a bit more at ease seeing that Jack was at least giving me the opportunity to hear me out. I closed my eyes, the strain of thinking quite visible to Jack who no doubt would be watching me closely. I... don't know... I remember a fight..." As I sifted through my memory, images passed across my minds' eye, voices, emotions. It all felt so vivid, and yet, everything seemed to be all jumbled together. Then as I focused more specifically on a particular image, some things suddenly snapped together again, like watching a water droplet splashing against a surface in slow motion suddenly return to its original droplet form when watched in reverse.

"There... there was an explosion... A wall blew up right above me... Bricks were falling every where, so I dove behind a dumpster.... Laser shots cut right through the dumpster, barely missed me. I peeked 'round the corner... and I fired... I think I got one... Then, I saw someone, a friend of mine... one of them was about to attack her... I ran out to help and then... nothing..." My voice was soft, collective the whole time I spoke. I had opened my eyes as I recounted what I could, but all the while I had kept them half-lidded and looking towards the ground, still deep in thought. Somehow, none of it made sense right now, nothing made any sense right now. Something was missing from my memory, I could feel it hiding there somewhere, aching at the back of my skull trying to be remembered. It was infuriating! I felt so bloody helpless right now, like... in that dream... a victim of my own mind.

[Jack-the-Hedgie]

"Yup" Jack said, responding to Cutters question as he glanced briefly to the raccoon. He did his best to sound helpful and restrained as he spoke. "I saw you change from this guys twin brother into what you look like now. There are a lot of things wrong with me, but bad eyes aren't one of them. Unless you have some way to explain that, you might want to just answer her questions..."

That being said, the hedgehog took a minute to mull over what the deer had told him. If this guy was telling the truth, then there might be more to this than a simple assault. Still, he decided to press for a little more information.

"Do you remember anything about the people you were fighting? And what about this friend of yours? If there's anything like that around the city, maybe we can learn more about it, and it'll help explain what's happening to you."

[Huu B.]

Huu took the kick and hit the roof, but didn't seem particularly fazed. As he got up, he picked up his pendant which had escaped his neck during the fall, and put it back around his neck. He stayed on the defensive in case Cutter tried a follow-up.

"I suppose I could do with a little chat. What was your question again?" Mm, she's strong. I should mirror her if I get the chance.

((I can never keep track. Cutter's the one with purple text, right? Cutter's a she, right? Cutter's a... what species is Cutter? Anything else I should know?))

[Chadin]

[Short version: read Slick's profile. Long version: Yes, Yes, German Shepard, and nothing that will help you out of this situation. I should also like to remind you that you ARE handcuffed. However, since whether in the back or front was never specified by Tutley so I'm allowing this to slide. Oh, and FYI, you have a remarkable ability to take hits for a thief and actor. I'm pretty sure even Cutter would have been wheezing and rolling on the ground for a minute if someone kicked her in the gut don't you? Hint, hint.]

"Jack, I seem to have loosened this creep's tongue. You want to have a go with him?" I asked, taking a few steps away from the raccoon while still keeping a sharp eye on him. Stepping away from Huu for the moment I heard the last bit of what the deer and Jack were talking about. I didn't buy this amnesia thing for a second though. To darn convenient. And what he was talking about now seemed even more ridiculous. None of what he'd described happened just now and none of it made sense anyways.

Time for the bad cop to play. I reached down and grabbed the deer by the collar of his shirt and hauled him to his feet before slamming his back into the side of a roof-top stairs enclosure. "Enough with the tire old amnesia sob story already. I want the truth! NOW! Lets start with a name, huh? You remember your own name don't you?"

When Cutter slammed by back into the wall I nearly blacked out again from the pain returning with a vengeance. But with the canine tugging and jerking me around as she continued to press me into the wall was about the only thing that kept me conscious. That, and the fear. The pain was intense right now, but after seeing her dealing with the raccoon, I felt certain she'd do far worse then just aggravating old injuries. "I don't know! I don't know!!" I insisted in a terrified voice amidst the rough handling; looking about as scared as I could possibly get before wetting myself. "All I can tell you is that my name, is Chadin."

"Well, Chadin, you better start telling me why you decided to start playing William Tell with my friends, or I'll make sure you won't be able to remember how to even make a full sentence once I'm finished with you!"

[Jack-the-Hedgie]

((Tut hasn't been able to post for a while. I know RL > Board, so if it's cool with everyone else, I'm just going to go ahead and post until he gets back.))

"Cutter!" Jack exclaimed, a mixture of surprise and a twinge of annoyance. In reality, he wasn't fully sure if such a feeling was part of the act, or genuine. Perhaps it was the mention of amnesia that rattled him so. Only two years had passed since he woke up from... wherever he was before getting himself stuck under a pile of burning wreckage and dead bodies. One couldn't expect him to really become settled into his new life so soon. He knew how it felt to forget. He knew that only a fool would believe this story unquestioningly, but he couldn't dismiss it entirely.

"...Call me crazy, but I have reason to believe that 'amnesia sob story'. Can you at least try to take it easy on him...?"

With that, the hedgehog shifted his stance to face the raccoon. Still, he remained in his abnormal, animal-like pose as he sat. While he believed Chadins claims may have had some truth to them, Jack deduced that he could trust this raccoon about as far as he could throw him for the time being. Perhaps it was just sore feelings from the scrap they had a short while ago. Then again, his outright defiant attitude while Cutter wailed on him made it pretty difficult to sympathize with him.

"Now for you. You don't look like your memory was messed with. So... Who are you, and why were you using us as target practice?"

[Jack-the-Hedgie]

((Just giving this thread a poke. Where is everyone?))

[Huu B.]

((Sorry. I got distracted by... stuff.))

"Hey, I didn't start this show," Huu explained. "The other guy did. I just joined in because I thought it'd be fun. And it was until some joker used me as a lightning rod."

[Chadin]

"I didn't do ANYTHING!!" I shouted back at the german shepard in exasperation. "How many times do I have to tell you psychos!"

Quote:"Hey, I didn't start this show," Huu explained. "The other guy did. I just joined in because I thought it'd be fun. And it was until some joker used me as a lightning rod."

"You lying son of a-!!! I didn't do a darn thing!!" I pulling against my handcuffs, as if thinking they might break free so I could strangle that infuriating raccoon.

[Jack-the-Hedgie]

"Hold on" Jack said with a raise of the eyebrow as he continued to squeeze information out of the raccoon. "You mean to tell me that you joined up with this guy, and randomly decided to try and kill someone you don't even know... for fun...?

Hands clenched into angered fists as his face contorted into an enraged expression. He didn't attack the raccoon, as much as he would have liked. That wouldn't be right. Instead, all he did in response was mutter a "What... the HELL is wrong with you? Do you not even care that you were trying to kill an innocent person for no reason!?"

He didn't change his gaze, but his attention went briefly to Chadin and his infuriated struggles.

"As for you, Chadin, you can say you didn't do anything all you want, but we all saw you. Hell. I have a hole in my gut because we decided to come up here and stop you two. I have reason to believe your story, that you don't remember doing it... But can you remember anything other than your name and all that stuff about your friend?"

[Huu B.]

Huu ignored Jack's questions, assuming they were rhetorical. He looked back and forth between him, Chadin, and Cutter, playing with the handcuffs on his wrists in the meantime.

I could probably get rid of these things just by copying someone. But whom?

((Hey, have we just about forgotten Tutley's existence or what?))