shellphones | video / please send this beast to your local authorities (us)

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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[ it's not necessarily that kit thinks sonic is colluding with eggman as buddies, but... ]

He thinks he's right.

[ kit mumbles it more under his breath than anything, but the shellphone picks it up all the same. that's the worst part of sonic and his little crew—they do this over and over again, and they think it's the right thing to do.

and nobody else matters as long as they get to feel like that. ]

Well, we don't have licenses or anything like that. It's a dog eat dog world where I'm from, and they've cannibalized us because of letting the villain escape.

[ she rolls her eyes, then looks off to the side as she thinks about how many years those two have been at it. how sonic has failed her, how eggman has assisted in her suffering, and how a fanboy found the mind of the villain so fascinating that it led to their pain. ]

You handle things as it comes, but him, he only does what he thinks, and none of his damn friends would say he's wrong.

[ surge lives in hell with kit, there's no one to help them, so all they can do is help themselves. ]

They say if you want anythin' done right, ya gotta do it yourself.

[ Hawks looks like he's thinking for a moment. It's not something he can fix, obviously, it's also not technically his job to fix things like this - although that's never stopped him before. He doesn't like to watch suffering and people who aren't him suffering is the worst thing he can think of. Clearly this cycle they're in is not working, and he understands completely why she wants to take care of it herself. ]

I can't say I've never encountered people like that, but they usually end up being in the wrong too. It's a pretty delicate balance, but at no point should anyone accept people getting hurt. Something's not working if that's happening.

I don't blame you for wanting to handle it and showing him how a hero is supposed to do things but I feel I should caution you to be careful. It's dangerous work to throw yourself into, and also, it's much easier to operate if you take the time and investigate first. That way, people can't question why you're doing what you're doing.

[ She's more of a vigilante, but that's still concerning, because it's dangerous. ]

[ kit watches quietly, with a look on his face that reads as distrustful of whatever this guy might have to say. but while he started off on a poor foot, it does seem like his opinion is shifting somewhat—rather than condemning surge, he seems to be trying to understand where they're coming from.

...

kit guesses he can try to do the same. ]

He has a point...

[ not about the danger—that's one of the last things kit is worried about, but about others questioning them. he already suspects that amy and all of sonic's other friends are going to try to frame them as bad guys, especially with how adamant and stubborn they've been since he and surge showed up here. but surge? he wants to see the people praise her again—he wants to see her smile the same way she did when she first realized she could be a hero, during the races.

that's why he'll look to her, wondering what she makes of it. ]

Ha! That's nothing; I can handle the danger. My entire life has been nothing but that.

[ she's seen the videos, the areas where she had "died" over and over and over again just for starline to try again and get it right. surge has watched herself evade all sorts of death traps, she got to see the error of her mistakes, the outcome of her choices, and where her anger sparked with every moment of being used until readjusted by just a wave of that platypus' hand. she's far past danger. ]

Whatever happens will happen as long as we're the ones doing it.

[ clearly she's not afraid of what comes after. she hardly has a future since there's no past for her to rely on. all she got is what she has now, and is she going to let that go? never. however, time and investigation isn't really her thing, but if it's par the course of doing this hero thing right, she looks at him without accepting without anything to argue. ]

Sheesh... I guess... we need to do a 'lil more before we can blame 'em.

[ who? well, that hedgehog, of course. ]

[ A lot of people are confident they can handle the danger and the danger is rarely as simple as it seems. He's never feared it, he and danger are old friends because he's never lived in any situation that wasn't. He doesn't know her experiences, so he worries. Danger always comes for new heroes one way or another, and it can be harsh. ]

A little bit more information would do you good, so you can answer a few more questions about why they're someone to look out for. That will help you with your reputation.

[ Reputation shouldn't matter, but it absolutely does. ]

That, and avoid getting targeted in return, for the most part.

We don't care if we're targeted.

[ why would they be scared of that? ]

But we do need to take down the bad guys, so we'll look for more information now.

[ thanks for your help, hawks. it can be kind of hard to get surge to remember that optics are a thing with heroism—as long as she takes down the bad guy, that's the important part. but they really should tell others that the person they're after is a bad guy first, even if... kit has to do a little manoeuvring to convince them of such. ]

We'll take ya advice, so I guess we should get it now. The less we look like liars the better.

[ it's been a learning experience, while the guy is right, surge doesn't like to be wrong. it's why she's pointing at the screen one more time. ]

We're gunna get some truth and then you'll see we were SO right about this post.

[ hopefully they can do that, if unable, then they can always look into what's important... the struggles of everyone else. ]

I guess if our paths cross, you'll catch us at our coolest moment ever.

[ He's landed on being helpful and he admires both of them taking a moment to hear him out and take his feedback, so he will reward them with a smile. ]

I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do.

[ Hawks won't stop worrying though, but that's just who he is. ]

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