Unholy Intervention: Legend of the LOL's

Blake took the book "Thanks."

"No worries. Be sure and let me know what you think of it when you're done, I haven't had a chance to talk Dresden Files with a new reader in forever." Jeff said with a winning smile a la Gilderoy Lockhart, declaring his good deed for the day to have been done - giving someone a concussion for being a racist shitcrumb was all well and good but ultimately a Chaotic Neutral Deed at best.

"Oh, so... how's Beacon treating the two of you?" Kon asks, trying to steer the conversation away from what he thought was a sensitive subject.

"Has everyone else you know read it?" Blake asks.

"It has been... an experience." Ren says.

"Oh it's awesome! You should know! We're on the same team, you're leading us correctly and everything is going smoothly!"

"Nick, Mark and Kon all have, yes. My team and friends I've made since arriving here I've known for all of like two rather busy days. Haven't had a chance to get any of them into the series yet."

"How many series do you have to show everyone?" Blake asks.

"Just the good ones. Discworld, Dresden Files, Worm, the Ender Saga (first couple books anyway), the Worldwar Tetralogy, the Lord of the Rings. That sort of thing." Jeff shrugged. Honestly when he thought of epic stories more of what jumped to mind was anime, movies, TV and video games lately, he hadn't read a decent book in a while.

"Oh yeah, and everything Stephen King ever wrote, pretty much. Jeez, I forgot Stephen freaking King, I have to give up reading now." Jeff thought for a moment. "Ooh! Michael Crichton's work is really good too. Clancy's stuff is alright...better if you're Atlesian I guess because the guy has a love affair with military hardware but you know. Ah...Hunger Games was good for the first two books but then the damn publisher got involved and messed up the last one. Harry Potter's pretty good but if you look too close there are some plot holes. Nice character development though, gotta give credit for that. Guardians of Ga'Hoole is pretty good too. Then there's A Song of Ice And Fire. Good reading, just...ah, very dark and gritty. And I'd go so far as to say I liked World War Z. But dear GOD the plotholes, you need to justify why high-powered Dust weaponry and Hunters don't chew up loads of zombies MUCH better than that."


...

"still liked it, damn it all."

"... that is a lot of books." Blake says.

She tapped the spine of the book she was reading "You wouldn't happen to have all of those books do you?"

"I do yeah. Somewhere. Why, how fast do you read?"

"A book every few days." Blake answered.

"Cool. Yeah, I'll keep the books organized so you can borrow them if you need to." Jeff checked on Harbinger and Sovereign to make sure they were cool with the people in the room. They seemed intrigued - one was hovering in a position that made it evident it was watching the newcomers while the other was nearly invisible blending into the rocks to one side though also watching.

"If they are as good as you say they are, there won't be a problem." Blake said with a slight smile.

"Alight everyone!" Mark called "Get your food, get your seats, movies starting!"

At the sound of his words, the projector bursts to life and shown the picture on the celing.

'A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...'

"Why is it far away?"

"Wiess... stop questioning these things."

"Suspension of disbelief dammit." Jeff said as he snagged a slice of pizza. "Anyway, shush"

Kon stared at the ceeling. thinking onething in particular

<Damnit Kon! Now I'm going to have to explain Code Meant to these people!> Mark screamed mentally in abridged Lulu's voice.

<...are you implying that's a bad thing?>

<They don't know what I thought just now.>

<But I feel compelled to tell them now!>

<Again: how is this a bad thing?>

<It isn't! I'M JUST MENTALLY SCREAMING FOR NO REASON!>

<YOU SHOULD REALLY KEEP IT DOWN>

Jeff exhausted his supply of pizza and grabbed another one as the Imperial Star Destroyer drew the Tantive IV in and began boarding. He noted, with a raised eyebrow, that they were missing a pizza box - searching around the room he found it. The fish pizza box was sitting next to Blake. Well alright then, she was welcome to it - Nick knows he certainly wasn't going to touch it.

On second thought he snagged another slice - better to make sure he'd had a decent amount of the meatlover's before Nick plowed through it like a skinny horned Pac-Man.

Mark reached for a slice, but found that there was no more meatlovers. He looked at his brother, who around him lie several uneaten crust.

"What?" The faunus asked his brother.

"Nothing."

Kon blindly reaches down for another slice and, upon taking a bite, came to the realization that the slice of pizza was indeed not pepperoni, but fish. Kon's face turned an unpleasant shade of green before he calmly stands up and leaves the room to vomit in a garbage can down the hall.

<Swearing profusely>