BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE, YOU MUST KNOW...
The reason I haven't updated in lawd-knows-how-long is because I typed everything on my phone. I hade five other chapters on my phone, totally ready to send to my email to be able to post. Then, I made the mistake of dancing to music in the kitchen with my baby sister, letting my beautiful phone slip out out of my pocket and plummet to it's untimely DEATH. Which is, in fact, FATAL.
So basically, I lost everything.
But I'm rewriting it all, so were good! (:
anyway... emjoy~
"Uh, Mordecai? I gotta go again." Rigby squirmed, dropping his washcloth. Mordecai sighed and tossed his sponge at his shorter friend. The bean burritos they had for lunch couldn't have been bad, he'd had some too and felt fine. Did Rigby honestly have to take a dump for the fifth time?
"Jeez, how bad, dude?"
The shorter of the two frowned and momentarily stopped twitching. He put his hand to his chin, gaze thoughtfully serious. "Well, pretty bad."
The blue jay rolled his eyes and ignored Rigby. Taking the hint, the raccoon scampered off, leaving Mordecai alone to wash the car.
Rigby scurried into the house, only to go strait through to the back door where another raccoon, lighter and feminine, waited.
Luna raised one brow, a smirk forming on her face. "Slow poke. I've been here for a whole entire minute already."
"Step OFF!" He scowled, karate chopping just in front of her.
"Oh, now that's just too cute." She giggled and smiled warmly at the darker furred guy. "We better hurry or we'll miss the match."
Rigby nodded and they ran strait to Muscle Man and HFG's trailer, keeping watch for either Mordicai or Benson. They didn't have to worry about Charlotte, since she knew where they were headed.
Once inside, they pushed through the tiny crowd to see who the competitors were today; Skips versus some random guy with brown hair. They sat on either side of nine three-by-three squares drawn on a table made of cardboard. Luna and Rigby shared a look and walked up to HFG to place a combined total of ten bucks on the yeti.
Muscle Man yelled for everyone's attention, and the room went silent. He stood up on a recliner and had High-Five Ghost hold up a microphone.
"Alright you losers! Today we have the reigning champ Skips-" He was cut of by shouts and applause that shook the entire trailor. "Hey, shut your faces! Anyway, we've got him against a new guy called Joel. There's no WAY this lady will beat Skips! You know who ELSE this guy couldn't beat? MY MOM!"
Muscle Man laughed at his terrible jokeuntil the recliner tilted back and he fell off. HFG shook his head and continued. "On your marks, get set, GO!"
Skips threw down a strategically placed X, right in the middle. Joel followed with an O up in the right-hand corner. The game went on from there until the formidable yeti chuckled and ended it.
"Tic-tac-toe. Loser."
"NOOOOOOoooooo..." Joel slid down in his seat as he tasted defeat. Standing up, Joel glared feebly at Skips seconds before his entire body exploded.
"Rig, we should prob'ly head back... Mordecai will have realized you're not in the bathroom by now." Luna tugged on his paw, pulling him towards the door.
"Alright! After we collect our... wi-nnings!" Rigby flashed her a smile.
"Oh! Hell yes, let's get our cash on!"
"We can get the new "PONG Adventures" game- Live Free, PONG Hard!"
"I already have all the others! There's SpiderPONG, Harry PONGer, Batman and PONGin', Lord of the PONG, PONG Wars, Gone With The PONG, Beauty and the PONG, Catcher and the PONG, Original PONG Adventure, Regular PONG, The Fast and the PONG, The Karate PONG, Indiana PONG, Ready Or Not Here Comes PONG, Kung-Fu PONG, The League of Extraordinary PONG..." Luna rattled them off as they went to collect their winnings.
Rigby shoved half of it in his wallet with a grin. "Okay, now we can split."
Mordecai turned on the hose, ready to give the truck a good rinse. He didn't even care that Rigby had abandoned him, because he hardly noticed his friend was gone. The blue jay was really getting into the song playing in his head, but he wished he had a real player to hear the song out loud.
Completely absorbed, he failed to noticed the lavender-coloured bird walking up.
"I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation." Mordecai sang out loud, hosing off the vehicle.
"Quit livin' in the past, it's a new generation!" Someone chimed in.
Totally freaked at the feminine voice, Mordecai screamed (in a manly way, of course) and accidentally sprayed the newcomer and himself, tripping over the hose and flying into the girl.
"Oh, jeez, sorry!" Mordecai fluttered around, trying to disentangle them.
"Mordecai, chill! It's just water, now get up."
He stilled at his name. Was this someone he knew? He looked up, tapping beaks with a lavender partridge. Mordecai stood quickly and offered her a wing.
He got a good look at her as she accepted his hand and he pulled her up. The feathers at the top of her head were curled forward. She wore a dark purple tank top (covering nice lady-pecs) and a magenta pleated skirt with a red-and-black striped belt exactly like Charlotte's.
All in all, she was very pretty.
But openly staring at her wouldn't tell him how she knew his name. Upon asking, she told him she was Vayda. How she knew him was explained when she told him she was a friend of Luna and Charlotte's. They talked about their coworkers/new friends all the time to her and Margaret.
"I came by to give Luna back her Zombie-Crushers games. Most importantly, her Zombie-Crushers5: Return of the Alien Zombies since I've had it long enough."
"She had the fifth one? Dude, sweet!" Vayda's heart beat slightly faster as he came up closer to her. She shook it off as Mordecai stared in awe at the cover of number five- hords of zombies beamed down from UFOs. "Aw man, I SO need to get my game on with this series!"
Vayda laughed and handed it to him. "Good, because I'm coming over later for a Zombie Crushers marathon with the girls. You guys gonna be there?"
Mordecai's cheeks tinged pink and her shy question. "Sure I guess. Me and Rigby would never pass up a good Zombie Crushers marathon."
She was in the middle of handing him the bag with the rest when a loud voice came through the front door of the house.
"Hey Mordo, wh- Vayda!" Charlotte tripped out the door, somehow catching herself, and shot towards the two avians. Charlotte pulled her purple friend into a tight hug. "Oiy Birdo, why didn't you tell me you were stopping by?"
"Birdo?" He shot a small smile to a blushing Vayda.
"A high school nickname, let's just leave it at that. Lottie? I must breath now."
"Sorry." Charlotte relinquished her hold on her female friend. "You're here awfully early though, dearlin'. I finished the work for today, wanna start the marathon?"
Vayda shot Charlotte a look. Understanding dawned on the burgandy-haired human as she glanced stealthily over at Mordecai. She winked at Vayda before turning to the confused blue jay.
"You in, dude?" Charlotte tapped the game he still held, mischevious glint in her eye barely noticed by him. "Of course you are!"
She pulled both of them in for a group hug and squished them together. Charlotte left them there, walking away with all the games. The two birds laughed at their weird friend, Mordecai rubbing the back of his head nervously and Vayda tugging on the hem of her skirt.
Upon entering the house, Charlotte tossed the games on the couch, telling them to set up. "I'll make coffee! Lottie gotta have her coffee, you know." She called from the kitchen.
Rigby and Luna made their entrance, the lighter raccoon babbling something about "trans-ponger" and "horton hears a pong". Both imiidiatly pulled up controllers. Charlotte sat on the back of the couch, waiting her turn patiently.
"Let's get down to business!" Vayda whooped.
"To defeat, bum bum, the huns!" Charlotte sang. Four sets of eyes turned on her. "What?"
Six hours, 15 soda cans, and 37 rounds of zombie-alien crushing later, the gang was pooped!
Charlotte nudged Luna and whispered in her ears, casting conspirative glaces at Vayda and Mordecai talking animatedly about cartoons. They giggled once before adopting super-tired expressions. Luna dragged Rigby upstairs, hand over his mouth, so he wouldn't ruin anything by talking and being himself.
Charlotte abled sleepily over the the remaining two.
"Hey, Mordo?" She said with and incredibly exausted-sounding (but partially faked) yawn. "Can you take Vayda home? It's dark and I don't want her walking.
"Uh, sure. No problem, Lottie." He smiled at the two girls.
She grinned a thanks, hugging them both and wishing a goodnight. Charlotte zipped up the stairs, laying flat at the top of them to watch them walk out side.
She saw both Vayda's and Mordecai's faces tint a rosey pink as the lavender bird tripped over the threshold, caught by the blue bird. Vayda laughed it off nervously as she righted herself and followed Mordecai out and into the golf cart.
He jumped out and ran back up the steps to shut the door, successfully sending Charlotte to bed. Since she was certain her matchmaking skills weren't rusty, and that Vayda was in good hands, she hopped up and headed to bed.
The next few days went much the same- that gang staying up late playing video games, Charlotte silently sqealing in glee at Mordecai and Vayda. The only thing that changed was when Charlotte needed a partner for a game that had a three-way team battle. She somehow convinced Benson to join in on the fun.
Sorry about the weird way I left it off; I honestly couldn't think of anything else to add, so I just... Stopped. But! chaptah three! 1,569 (yeah, I laughed...) words of pure word-y-ness. Dedicated to resident Mordo-fan StarCat188 (on dA)! This whole story is for StarCat188 and CybertronianGirl01 (on , deviantart com,since neither of them be rockin' with the fanfiction). I've got a dA too, same name as on here if ya wanna check it out(:
So, a romance brewing (your welcome, starcat188) between Mordo and Vayda? How quaint! Those lovebirds (HA. How punny of me, huh?) totally had a *MOMENT*! Lottie playing matchmaker and junk! Meh, it could be better... Ha ha(: And some LunaxRigby (for cybertroniangirl01) if you turn your head and squint... :3
I promise to not to have a technical disaster before I update! In fact... Chapter four is brewing and *nearly* almost done, I promise(:
Hope you enjoyed reading, please reveiw!
Thanks! Miss Awesome, signing off~