13675/The Year in Review: Stuff Happened

The Year in Review: Stuff Happened
Date of Scene:	29 December 2022
Location:	Rupert's Pizza, NYC
Synopsis:	The trio tries to have a Pizza at Rupert's with no issue, then they find out Kainashi has been kidnapped and mind-controlled by NULL.
Cast of Characters:	Alopex, Sundance, Sally Pride

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Alopex has posed:
Welcome to Rupert's. Mutant friendly, pizza crazy, and an easy place to meet up with folks to talk about THINGS. Maybe the group can get through a meal without insanity for once.

Sundance has posed:
Probably not. Sundance had gotten a message through to Alopex finally by pinning a note to a wall he knew she'd see, "You really need a smartphone." Sundance says as he plops down in his seat. He at the very least maybe needs to get her number if she DOES have a phone.

Sally Pride has posed:
It's worth the effort. Sally for once doesn't have anything super weird going on so she's in a plenty good mood for a little get together and just catching up. That's the sort of thing friends do, after all. Besides, they still need to let Sundance in on all the mutant safe places to go to. That aren't rundown fight bars on the edge of Mutant Town. The lioness sits back in her seat, pulling off her gloves so they don't get so dirty. "She could, but that's not very ninja-like."

Alopex has posed:
"I have one," Alopex calls to the others once she can see them inside Rupert's. "Glad to see you found this place. It's pretty great and the people here serve literally everyone." Pause. Sit. Settle. Relax. "Hope you two had a good holiday."

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride shrugs. "Pretty quiet. I think the most exciting thing we did was had the fruitcake before Pidgeon Pete could try to hand it out." Fruitcake is bad enough without his well-meaning but gross effort to add bugs and worms to everything.

Sundance has posed:
"We had a tree. Never got to have one before." Sundance replies to Alopex, as he motions for her to take a seat, and grins a little, "Not a fan of fruitcake though." He notes, clearly making a face.

Alopex has posed:
"I had a fruitcake once. Never again," Alopex muses, shuddering. Mikey made it for Christmas. It was well intended but... well.. yeah.. At this point the fox pulls out the cellphone she has, brings up her number, and sets it on the table. "Here you go."

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride chuckles as the fox puts her number out for the yote to get. "But don't expect her to stop tacking notes in odd corners that only you would look in, that's still a thing they do." Ninjas. "Well the brothers aren't here so at least we can get pizzas with less... experimental toppings."

Sundance has posed:
"Lots of meat on mine." Sundance responds, as he takes the phone and jots it into his own phone too, marking it with Alopex's name, "So anyway, before the holidays I had a weird thing. Y'all see on the news about that pipe that exploded in the Bronx? Wasn't an accident."

Alopex has posed:
The phone is slid back into a pocket, "When me and Sally meet up here, we tend to go full carnivore, yeah, so unless you had something else in mind, that's usually what we get," Alopex points out as Woody wanders over.

"The usual then?" He probably overheard.

Alopex looks curious. "I heard something happened but I hadn't really looked into it yet. Purple dragons are still hanging around my place. Been trying to get them to leave but they're being ... persistent."

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride jabs a thumb in Woody's direction. "Nice to be known that well isn't it?" Then makes a face at the mention of Alopex's unwanted company. "Getting their asses kicked once wasn't enough? Must really be something there they want, you or otherwise." She shrugs. Attention shifts back over to Sundance. "Stuff like that isn't an accident very often. But that still leaves a lot of possibilities open in this town."

Sundance has posed:
"Yeah but this time it was Null." Sundance replies, as he looks back at the two of them, "They had some kinda mutant. Not one I'd seen before but definitely part of the program. Put somethin' in their head that made 'em go crazy."

He shakes his head a little bit, "I was tryin' to get through to 'em but they were gone. The Null bastards got some kinda control system back online and the brute calmed down but hell they hurt when they hit."

Alopex has posed:
The yote gets a grunt from Alopex, "It figures Null has yet another wrecker-mutant running around doing dirty for them.." blink. "Er, sorry, Sally, you know I don't mean you," the fox quickly points out before Woody comes back with a massive meatlover's pizza for the table. "Perfect."

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride sits up at the mention of Null. Quickly shakes her head at Alopex. "I know what I meant." It's followed by a sigh. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised they'd resort to some manner of mind control, they've lost enough 'weapons'," she says with the same amount of disgust in her tone. But then there's pizza, and that lightens the mood a bit as they can dig in. And no interruptions so far, either.

Though even as they chow down there's still a thought on Sally's mind, that she eventually gets to between mouthfuls. "Did you get a good gander of what this new mutant strongarm looked like?"

Sundance has posed:
"Yeah it was..I dunno some kind of canine. Pitbull maybe? Red and white color. Looked like it might have been like a fighting dog of some kind. Not sure." He says, with a faint shrug, "Was kinda hard to make out details. Had a hood on over their eyes. Female though."

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride was just about to help herself to another pizza slice. Fortunately she doesn't get to actually biting into it, because the way she stops abruptly would of possibly turned it into a choking hazard.

"Fucking Null," is all she growls out.

While -immeadiately- reaching over to grabs Alopex by the shoulder. Both to keep her down and to keep her from pulling any ninja tricks to abruptly disappear on them. And to be a reassurance. "Should of known there'd be something with our usual luck," she adds sardonically. Just can't have a normal meal out.

Alopex has posed:
Ah, the pizza was -so good-, but then it just turned to metaphorical ash in her muzzle. The bone of that slice is dropped, but before she can even fully stand up, Sally sets a hand, and rather forcefully makes sure the fox is kept in place. Sundance may not understand just yet, but it's clear that Fox. Is. ANGRY. "God . damnit. I told her to be careful.."

Sundance has posed:
Sundance is eating a slice of Pizza when both Sally and Alopex suddenly react to what he said. He takes a moment to swallow and tilt his head like a curious canine, "Did I miss something?"

Sally Pride has posed:
"That description matchs a mutant we know. She's practically Alopex's surrogate little sister," Sally explains, giving Alopex a moment to calm down hopefully a little bit. But not letting go yet.

Alopex has posed:
Breathing helps. Its probably a really short, focused, meditation session. A number of breaths, then she heaves a longer one, and then she can probably be felt, by Sally, relaxing under the grip. "I was training her, as well as keeping her safe after saving her from the way the Foot Clan was treating her... and now NULL has her," okay maybe still a little tense, but she isn't about to bolt in a fury over it, now. "I had a feeling the dragons may have been searching for her, for The Foot or someone else but.. that's clearly not the case.. Ngh.. Wonderful."

Sundance has posed:
"Well shit, if I'd known I would have tried harder to get her out of their hands. The odds weren't great but I could have tried." He frowns, very clearly upset that he got himself out of there instead of trying to save her.

"Well they ain't gonna keep her I promise you that."

Sally Pride has posed:
"You didn't know, Sundance, it's... well it's good you were able to tell us." She gives Alopex's shoulder a reassuring squeeze, before letting go. "We'll get her back, don't worry. But we can't just go in roaring on a rampage. We need a -plan-, or we're going to be no help to her if we end up in the same situation." She sighs, and finally shoves the last slice of pizza into her mouth.