Trick or Treat, Pt 15
By Jill Weber
Big Guy and Rusty characters owned by Sony and Darkhorse and are used without permission or intent to make a profit.
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Minutes later, the Pit Crew found a large crowd of people gathered outside a bar at the not-so-nice side of town. The bar was bounded by industrial parks to the north and east, the Pacific Ocean to the west and empty desert to the south.
"I don't see anything," Jo reported, scanning her instruments.
"Me, neither," Mack reported. "Maybe they went into the drink."
"I'll go ask some witnesses," Garth said. "The sooner we can clear this up, the sooner we can go help Dwayne." He ejected from Legend One and headed for the crowd.
As he drew nearer, he could hear a hysterical voice. "Lights! In the sky! Dozens of them!" A dirty vagrant was ranting to a nervous audience. After decades of carnivorous mutants, unhinged robots and imperialistic aliens, lights in the sky weren't not taken lightly. "And now a giant robot!" moaned the vagrant.
Everybody looked to where he was pointing.
"Big Guy!" several people chorused at once.
"Oh, I knew that!" the vagrant muttered.
"Where are these lights, Citizen," Big Guy boomed. "Which direction were they headed?"
The vagrant waved his hands around in a circle. Maybe to indicate the lights had gone in every direction. Or maybe to point straight up.
"There are lights! In the sky! Can't you see them?" he wailed.
Big Guy looked up, as did the rest of the audience. After a few minutes, somebody finally spoke up.
"They're called stars, you idiot."
"Oh," the vagrant said. "I knew that."