3rd Fix

[technohippie]

[Quinn's still trying to get used to a "normal" day-to-day life in Mayfield... and just can't. This wholesome 1950s living is about the exact opposite of what he's used to. He's getting a bit stir-crazy. And now it's Halloween! His favorite holiday! Someone's got to be doing something, he hoped...]


H-Hey! Uh, I know I'm new and all here, and things were just kinda, shall we say, "hectic" in town, but don't tell me none of ya'll are havin' a Halloween party? Someone is, right? Talk about a waste... we should be partyin' it up. Time to kick back and have some fun after all that, ya know?


[Not exactly sure what to do with himself, Quinn will be sitting on his front porch handing out candy. He'll be dressed in an angel costume, because he thought it was kind of funny. He looks a bit mopey though. He doesn't remember the last time he's had a Halloween this lame, and he was starting to miss his family back home.]

Comments

[electrowhipit]

Right! Nice to actually meet you.

... Eh, been better, but I think that sort of comes with being stuck here.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Likewise, man.

I hear ya. Man, I ain't sure if I can handle this whole dad-and-husband, 9-to-5 thing they got goin' here. How did people in the 50s not go crazy with boredom?

[electrowhipit]

Do you have drones or actual people living in your house?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

One actual, two drones. I hear the town shuffles people through a lot, so I can only hope we fill up the house soon. The real kid in the house is pretty cool though. His name's Raz.

[electrowhipit]

It gets easier once the drones go away. Then they don't expect you to be a dad or a husband.

Having to go to work is still a bummer, though.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. They made me a teacher. Gotta say, that's... that's takin' some getting used to. Calc is easy, I just ain't ever thought about teaching it. What they got you doing here?

[electrowhipit]

Mechanic. It's not completely different from the stuff our medic was teaching me back home, but it's still weird sometimes.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Mechanic! Geez, now there's a job I would have rather had! That's more my area.

...Wait. A medic taught you mechanics?

[electrowhipit]

Ah, yeah. Remember the part where I'm an alien? Mayfield made me human, but I'm usually 25 feet tall and made of metal.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're-- metal? Okay, when I was thinkin' "alien", that's not what I had in mind!

[electrowhipit]

Usually! I'm squishy right now, though.

But yeah. To put it bluntly, I'm a giant alien robot.

1/2

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is so weird that they can do that to people here. I swear it's like somethin' out of a--

2/3 I LIED

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[Movie? MOVIE. Wait. Giant alien robot. Made of metal. JOLT.

No way. NO WAY.]

and now i have to go to bed, /sob

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[He looks a little confused. And surprised. And horrified. This doesn't make sense!]

....WAIT, what planet are you from?!

Sleep tight! XD

[electrowhipit]

... Cybertron. Why?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[....

THIS IS SO CONFUSING.]



....Let's just say.... I've heard of it.

[electrowhipit]

Let me guess. TV show?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[OH. HE GETS IT NOW! Haha what a fool he's been. RIGHT.]


...wait. So you--? Am I just the world's biggest sucker or somethin'?

[electrowhipit]

Huh? No, I really am a Cybertronian. I can prove it if you want.

I just had a talking cowboy doll tell me about the TV show.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

A talking... okay, so.... yeah. A TV show. And movies. And... damn, this is just weird!

... I even talked with a guy here about dressin' up as an Autobot for Halloween. Kinda ran out of time though, so I ended up with this. [Taps the wire halo sitting on his head.]

[electrowhipit]

I guess it's to be expected, when you're in a place that shoves so many worlds together.

Really, you could have not dressed up at all and said you were dressed up as an Autobot trapped in Mayfield.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but.... I never expected other people's worlds to be fiction in mine, ya know?

Ha! I guess that's true, huh? Wow, I wonder if there's anyone else in town I'd recognize then. I may end up gettin' starstruck.

[electrowhipit]

[ shrug ] Sideswipe's here too.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

What, really?! Talk about unbelievable. Man... does this mean somewhere out there, I'm the star of some movie? The Jet-Set Life of Quinn Hatch?

[electrowhipit]

[ He laughs ] Could be!