Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
One day, when she comes in for her fight with Ari, she finds that he apparently got bored of waiting for her, and decided to fight the wall instead.
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" He screams, as he headbuts the wall yet again.
Or maybe he has finally given into the full crazy, like the rest of the erasers.
He stops fighting the wall, and begins to cry into his hands.
This is weirdly uncomfortable.
It's not that their friends, not that Max has any real experience with friendship, but Ari isn't as bad as she thought. She doesn't hate him.
Yes, he likes nothing better than to fight her, but he also materialized a gameboy from seemingly nowhere, and battled her by link cable.
It was pretty weird, and he didn't really seem to buy her explanation of the nintendo DS, but it was fun to fight him virtually for a change.
She decides to ask. The worst he could do is start again, or leave.
"So why are you fighting the wall?"
"Why would I be fighting the wall?"
"Well, what are you doing then?"
"Do you ever just want the voice in your head to shut up?"
"All the time, but I've never tried self harm to achieve that effect."
"It doesn't work." He replies bluntly. Then he looks at her strangely.
"Did… you just admit to having a voice in your head too?"
She would deny it, but it's been driving her even more stir crazy lately, and she needs to talk about it with someone, even if its Ari.
"Yes. It keeps telling me, I have to save the world , but never specifically tells me what I am supposed to save it from, or how I should go about doing that."
"That's funny. My voice, among all the other crazy things it tells me, says you might save the world too. And alternates between telling me to stop you, and help you. I had hoped getting to know you better would offer some clarity. "
"Getting to know me better by fighting me?"
"How else do you get to know someone well?"
She's not going to even touch on that point.
"That… doesn't seem to have worked out for you."
"Not really. It's still as conflicting as it ever was."
"Then how about this? Ari, will you help me save the world?"
He looks at her strangely.
"Why are you asking me?"
"Maybe the reason your voice is conflicted, is that you yourself have not picked a direction. So I'm asking you, are you going to to help me save the world?"
"Are we sure it isn't Angel, messing with us?"
"Why in the world would it be Angel?"
"She's Psychic. And she likes to mess with me."
"She wouldn't."
"She definitely would Max. What would you even know about it?"
"The voice doesn't sound like Angel. It's too loud to start with. Angel has better control than that. "
"If you say so. What do you even need me for?" He asked, abruptly switching back to the original topic.
"Well, I seem to be a bit short on allies at the moment. And I can't fly like I once did. I hate to say it, but I need help."
"Have you ever molted feathers?"
"That's an odd question. I don't recall doing so. Why?"
"Maybe bird kids are slower to molt then? Or do they not need to?"
He stays lost in that thought for a bit, while Max awkwardly fidgets.
"Ari." She calls out, grabbing his attention, lest he muse on that forever. "Will you help me save the world."
He stands there, and for an agonizing moment, Max thinks he is going to say no, and demand to fight her again.
He smiles a bit. "Well, I can certainly try. In the meantime, let's have one last fight in here!"
Ari has some weird views on friendship. But, she's not unhappy to indulge him in this, so clearly she has some weird views on it too.
Well finally, some things got said!