A:/N. Ha ha ha, I am back…with a lack of readers…okay I can't say that, you may be readin' it, but you ain't doing the important thing…REVIEWING! What do you think the button is there for? Yup, it's for reviewing, use the button for its intended purpose, please. Anywayz onz with ze story!
Black dress, with the tights underneath.
I got the breath of a last cigarette on my teeth.
And she's an actress (actress)
But she ani't got no need,
She's got money from her parents in a trust fund back east.
I was greeted by the familiar lyrics as I walked through the door. The room was plated in chrome; there were several large machines, and one worker slaking off in a corner near a machine. I assumed the walls were sound-proof because the music was blasting, but I didn't hear it outside. I knew there was one, if not two, songs before this on the album, which I saw spinning in a see-through chamber in the corner.
I heard footsteps behind me; I turned, to see the man from before, Dr. Diggins, standing behind me. He looked over at the CD player with a frown. Dr. Diggins also gave a disgusted look at the worker, he returned his gaze with no more than a sheepish smile. He sighed then looked at me.
"Feel free to change the music before we get started, Jay", He addressed directly. "I have to get everything ready." He walked past me to the desk.
I hesitated for a moment, unsure of whether this was a test of some sort, or not. Dr. Diggins looked back at me, and gave me a serendipitous (A:/N HOW Y'ALL LIKE THAT LINGISTIC ACTION?) smile. He nodded at me, which told me it was fine to do what he said. I walked over to the large music player.
I looked over the selection of CD's. They had, pretty much everything, well that I could think of anyway. I looked over some of the artists: Taylor Swift, Cobra Starship, LMFAO, Owl City, Linkin Park, Weezer, Gorillaz, Boys Like Girls, Toby Keith, All Time Low, The Offspring, Green Day, The Beastie Boys, Ludo, My Chemical Romance, and Fall Out Boy. I picked a button that said 'create custom playlist'. I picked some of my favorite songs. (A:/N: I know, I know, this all seems useless, but music says a lot about a person, and it is much faster than, like, a whole speech about feelings.) I looked over the playlist with satisfaction:
Jay's custom list:
Linkin Park: Leave Out All the Rest
Panic! At the Disco: Nine in the Afternoon
Brokencyde: Booty Call
Far East Movement: G6
LMFAO: I'm in Miami trick
Papa Roach: Scars
Smash Mouth: New Planet
Bullet for My Valentine: Pretty on the Outside
Eminem: Mockingbird
Papa Roach: Do or Die
Ludo: Horror of Our Love
The list would probably change a lot over time. I noticed one thing was off though; it would have to wait; because music started to blare from the large speakers, the first song on my list: Leave Out All the Rest. I never knew why I liked this song; I just did (1). I shrugged and turned to head over to Dr. Diggins who was still organizing papers. He was so engrossed in his work he didn't notice me walk over.
"Um, Dr. Diggins?" I said. His head snapped up to look at me. He nodded over to a large machine at the back of the room. I walked over to it, I looked at the controls, they looked like a video game controller. Believe me; I excel at all types of video games, I've won several tournaments back home. I heard Dr. Diggins walk up behind me.
"Time you learn the very basics that every Fossil Fighter has to know; how to clean and revive fossils." He said to me. I saw a large rock sitting inside the machine.
"This is for the X-Ray." He pressed an orange button, there was a bright flash that caught me off guard and dazed me for a few seconds. Dr. Diggins chuckled. "It's only bad the first time around, when you clean it, you should be fine."
"This button is for the hammer." He pressed a button with a hammer on it. He moved the four-way pad which looked a lot like a D-pad, the hammer attached to a claw at the top of the chamber lowered down, then he hit a blue button, and the hammer swung down. He was very careful not to hit the fossil.
"This button is for the drill." He hit a button with a drill on it, he did the same thing he did with the hammer, only he held down a green button, and the drill whirled to life.
"That is truly all you need to know." He said to me. He looked over his papers and face-palmed himself. "No pressure," he started "but you only have 90 seconds to clean the fossil." He finished giving me a wry smile. I only shrugged in response. "Alright, Jay, ready to give it a shot?" he asked me, smiling.
"I wasn't born ready, but I can do it." I said. I stepped up to the control panel, took a deep breath; and began to clean.
A:/N Aw, lovely performances by everyone, just, just great. So how is it so far? Yup so far, I'm not quite finessed here, so that means I am really bored, or really nice, take your pick readers I don't have. BACK TO ZE STORY! (I VIL MURDERR YOU VIV THE SNIKREZ!)
I won't go into detail about how it all went, but I did clean the fossil perfectly, so if that's any indication, of anything.
"Wow, we have perfects a lot, even on peoples first tries, but that's mostly because they're really, really careful. But cleaning seems to come naturally to you." Dr. Diggins praised showing me how to activate the fossil revival. He pressed some buttons on the machine, there was a low humming noise and a bright flash of light, dazing me again, all these bright flashes can't be good for my eyes.
"Well, it's an Altispinax head fossil. We use the shortened names, to make it easier on everyone, so it's just Spinax." He said. I heard a small clanging noise, in the machine I saw a small silver medal hanging, with a laser pointed at it.
"Now, Jay, it's island custom to give a nickname to your first vivosaur. We encourage you to nickname them all, but it's only customary to nickname your first one, so have at it." Dr. Diggins said, moving out of the way so I could type in my vivosaur nickname.
I decided to go with something easy, something simple, something so expected, no one expects it. I typed in my vivosaur's new name:
Naxis.
A/:N Pfft, that took way longer than I expected it to, but nevertheless, it's done. Now, as to the business of the (1) that may, or may not, come up again, it depends on if I remember, or find a way to have it make sense later in the story (which may, or may not, happen). So another chapter done, another day my friends lose money betting on how many reviews I get. Please be kind, and review…please?