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Type: Video
Sender ID: tenrectricity (Surge)
To: Public
Subject: Have You Seen This Bum?
Warnings: n/a

[ immediately the viewer will see a green animal on screen, the camera angled up telling that whoever is holding the camera is shorter than her. don't mind that, because she's leaning forward into the screen with a sharktooth grin, then tapping at the recorder with the tip of her gloved finger. ]

Hey, is this working!?

[ in the background is a very low "yes ma'am!".

surge leans back, her ears twitching as she nods to herself. she shifts to the left a bit, then to the right now sure which side is her best side but... she'll figure that out later. ]

Okay, listen up! Your fellow heroes [ self-proclaimed ] are inna crisis! I got a prop...eristion for anyone willing to take on the challenge!

[ from behind the camera, another voice can be heard: ]

Proposition...

Yeah, that! The reward? We'll get to that later! A N Y way! There's this damn menace on the prowl causin' trouble as we speak, and you all need to be on the lookout. He's out there creatin' monsters and trying to put people in peril, but we know his weakness, and we'll get rid of him for ya before he tries to kill ya next.

[ hands on her hips, the tenrec nods to her own words because it makes sense, why wouldn't it? ]

Hand me the... y'know! [ she's holding out her hand towards the camera person, asking for something. ] So I know you're all curious about who this nefarious fiend is. My cool and artistic sidekick has taken it upon himself to draw this cretin.

[ a flap of a sheet of paper now means the camera screen, revealing the culprit. ]

THIS GUY. Bring him to us and we will beat the shit out of him and you never have to deal with his evil again! So, anyone up for the task?

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Let me guess, same treatment you give Sonic, huh? Let him do whatever!?

[ she spits, the tenrec frowning at this ... advice. just let him do whatever and it's fine, that's the problem, no one here has a damn backbone to fight back.

...somehow she can't stand it. ]

When it's them, it's fine! Stay out their way! No one bats an eye! When it's me, I can't. Why? Why? Why!? What makes me so fuckin' different!?

Surge, it wouldn't matter what I even had to say to that, because you'd find a way to toss it back in my face and tell me you hate me and all of my friends.

[ She shakes her head. ]

I don't know what 'monsters' you're talking about because I've never seen him make anything like that?

...I don't know. You tell me to stay away from him, you say all this without sayin' nothing.

[ why does she have to confess what's going on, give her information when amy will give her nothing back?

...

she doesn't want to be used. ]

Are you trying to use me? Get as much information as you can and hang me out to dry!?

[ because amy has always... appeared in some way, trying to help, so knowing that the other girl may be trying to play her for a fool. it really pisses her off. ]

Shadow isn't a bad person.

[ She will start with that, because she really doesn't want Surge to get the wrong idea about Shadow. Although, it seems like they've already had a run in; which... given how she and Surge have also had two run ins that kinda started out a little on the violent side, she's not surprised. ]

He doesn't mess around, though, either. He's a very straight and narrow person, and once he gets his mind set on something, there isn't any stopping him.

[ Amy blinks, flashing the other girl a confused look. ]

Why would I do that, Surge? What would I have to gain from doing something stupid like that, when this whole time I've been trying to befriend you? [ Her shoulders drop, and she sighs. ] I have no reason to use you, and besides, no offense, but there's not a lot that you could probably tell me about Shadow that I don't already know. He and I go back a little ways.

Then why don't YOU know about that!? Huh? Why do you need me to say! I want him crushed into the dirt.

[ but he's entirely not her issue, he's just a side quest, her main issue is sonic. when she talks so violently about him, she recalls that this is that blue hedgehog's fault. ]

If Sonic didn't exist I wouldn't have to stand here and listen to any of this. I could...

[ surge grits her teeth, growling under her breath as she tries to calm herself down. this would never have happened. she could be living her life away from here. going to school. being someone. no, she's here, being treated like a liar and a fraud, only used for information. ]

Of course you two do. All this is doing is putting a target on my back.

Aaaaand we're done here. I'm not doing this today.

[ Amy's had enough. She's not going to sit here and listen to Surge rant and rave; she's got better things to be doing. Especially so since the other girl is so keen to continue accusing her of putting a damn target on her back. ]

If you want to talk later, hit me up. Otherwise, have a good day.

[ And that's that -- she ends the feed. Sorry, Surge. ]

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