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timepiececlock1. An amusing Dr. Horrible/Billy music video, very spoilery. Love the song choice.
2. So. Dialogue bits for Dr. Horrible fic. Minor Highlander crossover, minor surprise crossover. Very rough; 3 drabble conversations.
6 years later
Penny looked at the door, took a deep breath, and knocked on it.
After a brief period, a blond man opened it. He looked older, around the eyes, but she was never sure quite how old he was, before. She knew she looked the same. She smiled. He slammed the door in her face.
Thirty seconds later he opened it again, and the business end of two shiny, strange looking guns were pointed at her. He twitched one, which was larger and had blue knobs on it.
"This sprays a combination of garlic, blessed water, and citrus, followed by an accelerant. The p.h. level is off the charts, so don't move if you don't want to burn!"
"Billy--" Penny began, and leaned forward.
"AahaaAAh! Back!" He pushed them both into Penny's face until she stepped backward again."Back!"
"I'm not a vampi---"
"Well this one is for poltergeists!" He brandished the second, which was as shiny as the first but tinted with a strange orange hue.
"I'm not a--"
"And zombies!"
"BILLY!"
To both their surprise, the man's hands stopped shaking.
"Put down the guns. I'm not the undead here to eat your brains."
He didn't put them down. "You're dead."
"I got over it. It's really confusing, and very personal, and I don't want to talk about it on your doorstep."
"Oh. Um, right." Billy tossed guns into the corner behind the door. "Course. Come in."
***
"I saw on the news that Bad Horse was murdered."
"That was four years ago."
"Were you still..."
"I did it."
"Oh."
"He kicked my friend in the head. Not for messing up or talking back, just because he was sweating on Bad Horse's carpet. His face was completely caved in."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't say that. He helped me do everything evil that I did in the league. You wouldn't have liked what he stood for. You didn't know him."
"I'm still sorry."
"I was standing next to Bad Horse when he did it. I'd been carrying a gun for three months, since the Gelf Pixies tried to have me assassinated. I didn't even think about it. I saw Moist's face crumble in, and I took my gun out of my jacket, and I shot 'the thoroughbred of sin'."
"Ah."
"It was terrible. Moist died instantly...Bad Horse didn't. He shrieked, and there was a lot of purple fire. Eventually he stopped."
"What did you do?"
"I told the rest of the League that I was going underground and if they tried to follow me or hunt me, I'd kill them. Then I left. I don't know what happened after that; I guess Fury Leika took over. Probably."
***
"Why did you create a vampire gun? And a poltergeist zombie gun?"
"Why do you think? To shoot the vampires. Anyway, I'm an inventor. I'm not meant to take over the world, I invent things. I have a PhD in..."
"What?"
"In particle physics."
"That sounds..." Penny, who had gotten her AA in history before losing interest in college life, barely caught herself from saying it sounded horrible. "...heavy," she settled on.
"I have a B.A. in the occult, too, but I always wished I'd spent that one on psychology instead. Not that it matters now."
"So what do you do?"
"I invent things, then I sell my inventions to undisclosed parties for heaps of money." Penny couldn't help herself; her eyes tracked the modest interior of the house before settling back on Billy guiltily.
"Investments, and stuff."
"Oh."
"Most of my investment lately have gone to the future. There's a kid in Iowa, John, who grows up to lead the world in a devastating revolution. I'm his silent benefactor."
"That's... very Dickens..."
"A couple years ago he was prophesied to be president, but something happened and now he's supposed to lead a revolution instead."
"Put the power in different hands."
"Yeah."
***
I haven't decided yet what Penny is up to. Except that she totally has a sword now (she's in the Game), and she probably still does philanthropy.
I'm listening to the rip of "On the Rise" and damn if I don't love NPH's voice. Although "Brand New Day" is probably the more difficult song to sing... my player just clicked over to that one, and it's really quite well done. It might even be my favorite song. How is it that Act II rocked so hard but Act III didn't?
-signed Bad Horse!
p.s. I still want the keys to a shiny new Australia.
---------------
And as I said before, the song "One Headlight" is my "angsty" song for them, especially Billy>>Penny.
So long ago, I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees
----------
"Do you know anything about the Game?"
"Which Game?"
"The immortal's Game."
"There's always been theory that certain superpowers can be conducted through lightning or channels of intensified energy...I hear once that there was a highly exclusive group of supers who devoted years or decades to a complicated suicide game. Like Russian Roullette, with lightning. I thought it was too ridiculous. To waste that kind of power, I mean. Especially if there's a whole group of you with the same abilities. You could be an army."
The natural number of any immortal is one.
----
five people
"I killed you.--Even if you're alive now, I'm still responsible.
"I was going to say you didn't kill me, because it was an accident."
"It's my fault.Doubly so, for not killing Captain Hammer when I had the chance."
"Do you regret not hesitating?"
"I used to. For the first year in the ELE, I told myself it all would have been different if I'd just killed him first. But after the bomb... no, i don't regret it."
"Bomb?"
professor normal felt theatened by my work
temporal phase bomb in my basement, almost killed moist and me. But I disarmed it, and planted it in his house instead.
moves a percentage of the surrounding matter out of time for a few microseconds. Flattens buildings, liquifies...everything living.
It killed him, but I wasn't careful, and it killed two of his neighbors two. Completely innocent people. That's when I decided to kill Bad Horse and get out.
2. So. Dialogue bits for Dr. Horrible fic. Minor Highlander crossover, minor surprise crossover. Very rough; 3 drabble conversations.
6 years later
Penny looked at the door, took a deep breath, and knocked on it.
After a brief period, a blond man opened it. He looked older, around the eyes, but she was never sure quite how old he was, before. She knew she looked the same. She smiled. He slammed the door in her face.
Thirty seconds later he opened it again, and the business end of two shiny, strange looking guns were pointed at her. He twitched one, which was larger and had blue knobs on it.
"This sprays a combination of garlic, blessed water, and citrus, followed by an accelerant. The p.h. level is off the charts, so don't move if you don't want to burn!"
"Billy--" Penny began, and leaned forward.
"AahaaAAh! Back!" He pushed them both into Penny's face until she stepped backward again."Back!"
"I'm not a vampi---"
"Well this one is for poltergeists!" He brandished the second, which was as shiny as the first but tinted with a strange orange hue.
"I'm not a--"
"And zombies!"
"BILLY!"
To both their surprise, the man's hands stopped shaking.
"Put down the guns. I'm not the undead here to eat your brains."
He didn't put them down. "You're dead."
"I got over it. It's really confusing, and very personal, and I don't want to talk about it on your doorstep."
"Oh. Um, right." Billy tossed guns into the corner behind the door. "Course. Come in."
***
"I saw on the news that Bad Horse was murdered."
"That was four years ago."
"Were you still..."
"I did it."
"Oh."
"He kicked my friend in the head. Not for messing up or talking back, just because he was sweating on Bad Horse's carpet. His face was completely caved in."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't say that. He helped me do everything evil that I did in the league. You wouldn't have liked what he stood for. You didn't know him."
"I'm still sorry."
"I was standing next to Bad Horse when he did it. I'd been carrying a gun for three months, since the Gelf Pixies tried to have me assassinated. I didn't even think about it. I saw Moist's face crumble in, and I took my gun out of my jacket, and I shot 'the thoroughbred of sin'."
"Ah."
"It was terrible. Moist died instantly...Bad Horse didn't. He shrieked, and there was a lot of purple fire. Eventually he stopped."
"What did you do?"
"I told the rest of the League that I was going underground and if they tried to follow me or hunt me, I'd kill them. Then I left. I don't know what happened after that; I guess Fury Leika took over. Probably."
***
"Why did you create a vampire gun? And a poltergeist zombie gun?"
"Why do you think? To shoot the vampires. Anyway, I'm an inventor. I'm not meant to take over the world, I invent things. I have a PhD in..."
"What?"
"In particle physics."
"That sounds..." Penny, who had gotten her AA in history before losing interest in college life, barely caught herself from saying it sounded horrible. "...heavy," she settled on.
"I have a B.A. in the occult, too, but I always wished I'd spent that one on psychology instead. Not that it matters now."
"So what do you do?"
"I invent things, then I sell my inventions to undisclosed parties for heaps of money." Penny couldn't help herself; her eyes tracked the modest interior of the house before settling back on Billy guiltily.
"Investments, and stuff."
"Oh."
"Most of my investment lately have gone to the future. There's a kid in Iowa, John, who grows up to lead the world in a devastating revolution. I'm his silent benefactor."
"That's... very Dickens..."
"A couple years ago he was prophesied to be president, but something happened and now he's supposed to lead a revolution instead."
"Put the power in different hands."
"Yeah."
***
I haven't decided yet what Penny is up to. Except that she totally has a sword now (she's in the Game), and she probably still does philanthropy.
I'm listening to the rip of "On the Rise" and damn if I don't love NPH's voice. Although "Brand New Day" is probably the more difficult song to sing... my player just clicked over to that one, and it's really quite well done. It might even be my favorite song. How is it that Act II rocked so hard but Act III didn't?
-signed Bad Horse!
p.s. I still want the keys to a shiny new Australia.
---------------
And as I said before, the song "One Headlight" is my "angsty" song for them, especially Billy>>Penny.
So long ago, I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees
----------
"Do you know anything about the Game?"
"Which Game?"
"The immortal's Game."
"There's always been theory that certain superpowers can be conducted through lightning or channels of intensified energy...I hear once that there was a highly exclusive group of supers who devoted years or decades to a complicated suicide game. Like Russian Roullette, with lightning. I thought it was too ridiculous. To waste that kind of power, I mean. Especially if there's a whole group of you with the same abilities. You could be an army."
The natural number of any immortal is one.
----
five people
"I killed you.--Even if you're alive now, I'm still responsible.
"I was going to say you didn't kill me, because it was an accident."
"It's my fault.Doubly so, for not killing Captain Hammer when I had the chance."
"Do you regret not hesitating?"
"I used to. For the first year in the ELE, I told myself it all would have been different if I'd just killed him first. But after the bomb... no, i don't regret it."
"Bomb?"
professor normal felt theatened by my work
temporal phase bomb in my basement, almost killed moist and me. But I disarmed it, and planted it in his house instead.
moves a percentage of the surrounding matter out of time for a few microseconds. Flattens buildings, liquifies...everything living.
It killed him, but I wasn't careful, and it killed two of his neighbors two. Completely innocent people. That's when I decided to kill Bad Horse and get out.
