2-21-17: Edited.
Challenge: Rude, Reno, Tseng, Post-its, Rubber duck. Both from Shiri Matakami
"Hey Rude?" Reno asks, poking his head into Rude's office and staring at the bald headed man. Rude looks up from playing solitaire and raises an eyebrow. "Where do you get your post-it notes?" He points at the pocket, which contains the sunglasses wearing Turk's ever present neon-pink post-it notes.
"Why?" Rude asks, tilting his sunglasses to look Reno straight in the eye. Reno grins at him, green eyes flashing.
"Cause I had an idea," Reno says, Rude stares at him. The twentieth floor was still recovering from his last idea; god knows what possessed him to start playing with a flame-thrower in a crowded hallway. Exactly where he had gotten the flame-thrower was still a big mystery.
"I get them from the supply office just down the hall…" Rude says, praying that this wasn't one of Reno's more violent ideas. Reno suddenly brightens and grins cheerily at the bald man.
"Thanks man," Reno says, running out towards the office leaving a somewhat confused Rude behind him. Rude watches him go, his red pony-tail swaying behind him like a cat tail.
Five minutes later found Rude cowering behind his door with his rubber duckie clutched tightly in one hand. He should've known Reno's idea was something destructive and disturbing. But who would've thought that he would've used them in such … an ingenious way.
He winced as another flying post-it came into contact with a random passerby and from the sounds of it, it was Tseng who had been hit. Thinking it over carefully, he opened his door and waved his boss in, dodging random post-its as shot from a tennis ball machine hooked up at the end of the hall.
"Was I just hit by a neon pink post-it note?" Tseng demands blinking and inspecting the post-it note and raising an eyebrow. "An insulting neon pink post-it note…. This can only be the work of Reno."
"I'm afraid he's declared war on this hallway, sir." Rude says, recalling the random shouting he had heard before he had been assaulted by pink post-it notes. It was rather disturbing to get hit by things insulting you and those things hurt when they smacked into you. Though Rude would've loved to know how Reno had fixed it so the post-it notes hit the person they were meant for.
"And I don't suppose you know where our wayward companion is?" Tseng asks as he hears the machine make the strange noises it makes when it's empty. Rude shrugs.
"Last I heard he was going to the storage room to get post-it notes…" Rude says, standing up and peering around the door and into the battleground that was the hallway. Tseng rolls his eyes, at least they knew where the post-it notes came from this time though where he got the tennis ball machine would forever remain a mystery.
"What's with the rubber duck Rude?" Tseng asks, noticing what was in his subordinate's hand and eyeing it with curiosity. Rude flushes red, pocketing his precious duck and muttering something that sounded close enough to an excuse before rushing out with Tseng's laughter following him out.
This is one of my favorites, not my top one, but certainly in the top ten.
Thanks to all who read and review.
