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Continuing from Last Checkpoint...; Julia's back in the game...almost.
Topic Started: Jun 28 2009, 08:14 PM (89 Views)
Julia Peach

[It is early evening on a quiet Thursday, and the cold expanse of space is glittering before us, comets burning trails of red-hot gas through the black, stars spinning at thousands of miles per hour; endlessly moving. Endlessly beautiful. Endlessly alive. And through this maelstrom of silent wonder soars a solitary human figure, arms held out to the side like a small child pretending to fly, hair fluttering in the cosmic breeze and a massive grin plastered upon her face. This is Julia Peach, sometime pro wrestler and all-the-time geek - and she's having a whale of a time.]

JP: Whoa - !

[Then gravity suddenly reasserts itself, and the GamesMistress loses her balance before landing straight on her chin with a THUNK.

Connection lost.]


~+~

???: JOO-JOO! WHAT'RE YOU DOIN' UP THERE?!

[Sprawled on the floor of her room now, with one leg half-laying upon her bed, Julia tugs her Virtual Boy headset off with a sour grimace. In the time since the fall of ACW, her appearance has changed; her skin has a more healthy glow to it, after actually spending some of her free time outside for a change, although on the flipside, what muscle tone she once gained has now vanished; with no reason to spend time near a gym, she instead chose to simply sit around the house and rot. Propping herself up onto her elbows, she bellows in the general direction of the door...]

JP: NOTHING, MOM!

Mommy Peach: DOESN'T SOUND LIKE NOTHIN'!

JP: IT'S FINE! JUST GO WATCH LOST OR SOMETHING!

[Crawling across to her favourite bean-bag, Julia picks up a discarded DualShock 3 pad and unpauses Prototype - but she barely gets to run halfway up the nearest building before her mother once again shouts up the stair at her.]

MP: ARE YOU DOIN' YOUR SIT-UPS?!

[The sheer random value of this statement hits Julia like a level 65 Blastoise's Hydro Pump. For a moment, the nerdy chick looks to her dust-coated Wii Balance Board, left untouched since Shaun White Snowboarding lost its appeal, then shrugs.]

JP: Uh...NO?!

MP: BUT YOU GOT A SHOW TO GO TO!

JP: I DO WHAT NOW?!

MP: SOMETHIN' CALLED GEE-SEE-DOUBLE-YEW! GOT A THING IN THE MAIL ABOUT IT! MENTIONED GETTIN YOUR CONTRACT WHEN A-SEE-DOUBLE-YEW WENT KAPUT!

[This is enough to make Julia actually put down her controller. Her gaze drifts away from the TV and off into space, as the shadow of a smile stretches her pasty-white face.]

JP: Wrestling again, huh?

MP: WHATCHA SAY?!

JP: NOTHING, MOM!

[With a sudden burst of energy, Julia pulls herself up to her feet, and draws one finger along the spines of the many (many many MANY) games stacked upon a nearby shelf unit. She zeroes in on Wii Fit...then shakes her head and moves past it, before withdrawing Punch-Out!! with a contented giggle.]

JP: Time for a training montage!

[Which is exactly what we get, as blurry-edited shots of Julia wobbling back and forth on a Balance Board greet our eyes, followed by our heroine skulking through long grass, attempting to crush squirrels into small red balls...trying to lift a whole Xbox 360 above her head, and failing miserably...jogging through the muck and mire of Normandy circa 1942, skipping neatly over barbed wire and the rapidly-disappearing bodies of Nazis...pulling off an EWGF all over Kazuya Mishima's smug evil face...and finally leaping onto a large flagpole, and giving herself rope burns after sliding to the ground.]

~One Week Later~

[As the yellow cab pulls away from the kerb, Julia looks up towards the Mohegan Sun Casino with a determined grimace.

On goes the Mario cap with the 'J' emblem.

And a leather, fingerless glove on the left hand, with a Triforce emblem on the back of the fist.

She brushes down her 'Nintendo Rehabilition Clinic' tee-shirt.

And finally, on comes the Power Glove, its buttons glowing with an orange backlight. Julia taps the 3 action buttons in sequence, then smiles as the glove emits a Game Boy-eque 'Ba-ding!' in response.]


JP: Kai-Kai, huh? Prepare to learn the meaning of the words 'epic fail'.


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