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DOCTOR HORRIBLE! (i_sing) wrote in we_coexist,
@ 2008-12-19 14:41:00

Entry tags:

doctor horrible, kaylee frye, laura kinney

Is this thing on? [Narrative/Open?]
Billy sat in the basement of his rented house, staring forlornly into the lens of his webcam. He noticed a sharp decrease in the number of hits on his blog. It depressed him. He straightened his posture and adjusted his goggles with gloved hands. Billy practiced what was supposed to be an evil smile which only looked mildly mischievous at best. So he stopped.

With a heavy sigh he spoke, "Apparently no one at the hospital recognized me, Doctor Horrible, member of the ELE. They let me walk right out the front door. No word from The League yet, B-T-W. Apparently Bad Horse and the others have been unsuccessful in their attempts to rescue me from this pocket dimension. Obviously this is all some sort of mistake. Not on my part. At least, I don't think. I'm pretty sure the Transporter Beam isn't capable of ... transporting anything. At least not without complications. It's obvious to me in recent light of the Undead Epidemic that The City must be stopped. So, look out for something big! Something evil. Uh, this is normally the part where I respond to reader e-mail but since no one seems to have heard of me here I don't actually have any."

Horrible cleared his throat.

"That's it for now. Those of you interested in joining The City's brand new and improved Evil League of Evil or the Henchman's Union, send me an e-mail with your resume. Maybe a video tape. Just a warning though, yes killing people is impressive but if you're going to do that you have to make it classy. I can't let just any idiot with a gun into The League. I mean, who do you take us for? The cops? There have to be standards. Okay, peace out.... in pieces!"

Horrible tried his best evil laugh (thought it sounded a little half-hearted) before reaching forward and turning the camera off. One post to YouTube later and Horrible stared at his in-box. Twenty minutes passed and still there was not a single e-mail. Billy sighed dejectedly before deciding to slip into his mild-mannered civilian attire and head to the grocery store in a white, unmarked van that doubled as his dastardly get-away car.

His grocery list read as follows: mayo, milk, butter, bread, eggs, english muffins, frozen dinners, and noz-ola cola. About halfway to Winco he realized that The City had him completely lost. Billy slammed on his breaks and pulled over. Getting out of the van he waved his fist in the air, "Alright City, laugh now but pretty soon I will take you over and put in a comprehensive light rail system! An evil light rail system! Run on renewable energy! So go on and laugh, you jerk! Laugh it up now while you can!"

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i_fixthings
2008-12-19 08:36 pm UTC (link)

Kaylee laughed out loud, an evil light rail system? Who used light rail systems anymore anyway? And who used wheels, for that matter. Cars could fly, ships could fly. But it still made her laugh. "You know if you fixed it the right way, and only made it stop to pick up passangers then ran it on one of those perpetual loops you could make everyone kinda sick." Kaylee quipped, standing there in her green cover-alls complete with a teddy bear sewn into them. She was wearing a fur lined jacket over it because it was a bit cold as well.

"Although.. if it were a flying rail system, that'd be even more 'nteresting." Kaylee's face had a smudge of grease on it, she looked every part a mechanic, which is what she was. And right now, she was shopping for parts for serenity. Mal was no good at it, and it's not like every old automobile was equipped with things like pressure coils for ships.

It was mighty depressing really.

"City's a funny thing, isn't it? I don't like it much myself. Though I never was particularly a fan of anything in the atmo."

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i_sing
2008-12-19 10:56 pm UTC (link)

"...Why are you laughing at me?"

Despite being out on an open street, Billy suddenly felt very cornered and uncomfortable. Small, might have been another way of putting it. The girl in front of him was like an incarnation of everything that he hated about The City. She didn't know who he was, she wasn't afraid of him, and she didn't believe in him, either.

When his eyes squinted open and shut a few times, he might have been actually blinking an SOS signal.

When he spoke it was barely audible: "A flying rail system isn't fiscally possible or practical. It wouldn't even be on a rail, it wouldn't even be able to navigate the shifting streets of The City without getting lost like everyone else. You people don't even care, do you? You got your big... darn... heroes and the rest doesn't even matter."

Billy was backed up against the van as though half expecting to find out she was some sort of super hero herself. Then there would be a beating. Maybe a car thrown at his head. That was never fun.

	i_sing 2008-12-22 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	"I cannot believe my eyes. How the world’s filled with filth and lies. But it’s plain to seeeee my plans for this cruel city are on the rise." For a moment, Billy almost looked comfortable in his own skin as he sang, but as if realizing he'd just gotten carried away on an embarrassing tangent he appeared to revert back to his shy, uncomfortable self. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_sing 2008-12-23 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Billy." He managed a small, awkward smile. (Reply to this) (Parent)