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Just Another Tuesday (+ story existence)
It was another Tuesday morning. Well, quite an ordinary one at least; not much goes on in the city these days and certainly not much happens in the boonies either. A gray cat stood in the garden of his home, with mismatched coloured bubbles in the background, with a very blank, unamused stare. He seemed quite bored, but that was just his usual ‘normal’ expression. He was considering what to do as of today, considering he had no work on the docket in his contractual work as a government mercenary. Though, he was considering hitting someone up for some fun, like he always did. Despite his demeanour, he was actually pretty well connected in this niche fun of bubble bouncing, because of his intense nature as he did so, being able to play for hours on end whenever he felt like he was in the mood, and because he had a tendency to play extremely roughly with his toys as well, it isn’t uncommon for him to be called upon to stress test a new prototype bubble. This also extends to balloons and inflatables but bubbles was the card he held most close to heart, so to speak.
Speaking of one of the people who asked to test their products for them, his phone began to vibrate in his pocket, additionally a rock version of the regular ringtone accompanied it: To him, he knew exactly who was calling then.
“Hey, hey Skele! You know why I’m calling right? I’ve got another bubble that I fine-tuned for you to play with!”
Xaxilars, her tone cheery, energetic, someone who genuinely loved her craft in making bubbles and spreading the gospel of bubble enjoyment all over town. In fact, arguably, she was easily one of the best in town...not that there was much competition to begin with but that never meant she was bad at it. Quite the opposite...she was amazing.
Not that you would be able to tell that from Skele’s face. At the moment at least.
“Oh, really? Shit, well...when would be a good time to come down?”
“As soon as possible if that’s ok!”
*Fwip! CRASH!*
There was a crunch and some splintering of wood as Skele teleported to Xaxilar’s shop.
“SKELE? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?”
It took him a second to realise that he couldn’t see anything, it was just black. And Xaxilar’s sounded oddly angry for some reason...
“Hey man, what’s up? Uh...it’s pitch blank in here...where did I teleport to?”
“HOW DID YOU FUCK UP YOUR TELEPORT THIS BADLY TO THE POINT WHERE YOU PUNCH A HOLE THROUGH THE FLOOR?!”
“...shit.”
He was currently stuck in an upside down position on the floor...which he promptly got out of by teleporting again. This time, to a neat sitting position on the desk.
“Well uh...I’ll pay for that, sorry about that-”
“You better.” Xaxilars glared at him before her expression softened...just a little bit. For her top customer, even she couldn’t be mad at him for the shenanigans he caused...every now and then at least.
“But yeah, I altered my bubbles a little again… and-”
“-you want to let me loose on one, say no more, let me in...let me in-”
Xaxilars just laughed freely as she lead Skele to one of the back rooms, the large hall containing varying items, from gigantic beach balls, to a trampoline here and there, to large random coloured bubbles. All items that are meant to be bounced on at any rate, all items meant to serve in improving the facility that Xaxilars ran: a bubble amusement centre, so to speak. The items here had no particular placement order to them, just spaced out in varying distances. She lead him towards a cobalt coloured bubble that was roughly around 5’.
“Go wild! I want to take some notes.”
Before Xaxilars even finished her first sentence, the cat in Skele took over and saw him pounce claws outstretched towards the bubble. His left claws struck first, they dimped the bubble with in a satisfying manner, without bringing it close to popping it, but it was when his entire body struck the bubble, mere milliseconds later that drew out a satisfying creak out of the bubble.
Now, Skele immediately could tell the bubble was different, years of bubble experience had definitely given him an almost professional critique level of judgement when it came to bubbles. This bubble clung to his body just slightly...no, more than just slightly, as he struggled to have the bubble separate from his body when bouncing. But this never really impeded his movement on it, in fact, this quickly saw him switch up his playstyle with it, crushing it’s smooth surface with his body, it’s taut surface stretching around him as he ferociously bounced on it using his body, taking the bubble with him as he managed to bounce it to the point of it leaving the floor with him.
His expression took on a more determined expression as his hands curled into fists, grabbing the bubble as he bounced more harshly. Unfortunately for him, the way he landed on one particular bounce, bounced him upwards at a slight angle. This then caused the bubble (with Skele on it) to land on a nearby trampoline, which let out a metallic groan as the bending sunk, just a little bit before the bubble catapulted itself, spinning around, with Skele clinging on for dear life, his determined expression quickly replaced with a slight panicked expression, as he then collided next to a beachball.
This catapulted the beach ball which slammed into Xaxilars, which in turn, knocked her flying onto one of the nearby bubbles, and she bounced off of that, fairly gently, plopping her onto the floor with a mildly stunned expression as her eyes tracked Skele, who was ping-ponging from one side of a room to another, though he did have *some* control over how he bounced, though it was certainly not much as, despite his efforts, his next bounce managed to flip a second trampoline onto its side through the sheer force that he managed to bounce the bubble.
Though, thankfully, Skele’s (unintentional) rampage with the bubble came to an end when he bounced from quite a high height and landed flat on his front on the bubble, this caused the bubble to bulge sharply in front and behind him, with a loud final creak as he then was dropped onto the floor with a force that made him grunt, while the bubble exploded with a loud bang, sending a cloud of mist around him.
Both Xaxilars and Skeletonized sat or lay stunned for a few moments before Xaxilars picked herself up. “That’s...another repair bill on your tab Skele, you fucking nitwit.” She said, indicating to the carnage Skele left behind: He had popped multiple good bubbles that were used for testing, somehow managed to knock a leg off of the trampoline he flipped over and even managed to cause a crater to the final bounce where he slammed down onto the floor on the bubble, to which Skele just responded with a sheepish grimace, which eased into a slight smile, while maintaining said sheepishness.
“That bubble was pretty damn good though...clung to my body quite a bit though.” He commented as brushed himself off. “Could be a springier, not gonna lie.” To which Xaxilars exploded. “OUT.” And Skele was promptly chased out of the store onto the street, the door slamming shut behind him and the sign promptly changing to ‘CLOSED’. Xaxilars could be seen scribbling something furiously while calling someone.
Skeletonized just simply sighed and sauntered off. Yes, he knew he ‘probably’ went a bit too far. But could he control himself with a nice bubble like that. No.
He did feel bad and fairly guilty though. At least he was paying for damages...
But now what?
He walked down the street and turned a corner.
Then he turned left again. Then right. Then left.
And he was now standing in front of the burger joint he went on occasion. He went in and bought himself a cheap meal deal, He sat down outside of the joint and ate in relative silence, save the obvious chewing noises that only he himself would notice, if he cared to. Meanwhile he scrolled through his phone, looking for something that would catch his eyes.
The news? BORING. DEPRESSING. Absolute nono.
Game Store? New Apps? Well, Skele wasn’t really looking for anything new right now…
The Congo App? He wasn’t looking to buy anything either.
Netflick? Why pay for something when he was already paying for a TV license?
Conspiracy Theories? Why would he ever touch those?
Before long, he ate through his meal before he could even find something to look at on his phone. Bluetube was always an option though he didn’t want to use data. No at the moment.
He sighed...there was a good bit of day before evening...because he could teleport, he really wasn’t in a desire to go anywhere either...and in order to teleport anywhere new, he had to actually visualise the place he was teleporting to: meaning he had to actually see the place in order to teleport there.
Teleport.
And he got his idea...
5 seconds later he had teleported again-
“...not quite to where I wanted to teleport to”
He growled as he saw himself standing on the roof of a massive building, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, with a fairly big car park out...sand was blowing on his face as he tried to figure out the best way to get down.
Another 5 seconds, and a flipped car later (he managed to get it back to its original position after a little bit of charging up.), he was walking into the building.
“Skele! How nice of you to visit!”
The voice belonged to Zukralla, who greeted him with a warm smile.
“You really are something, aren’t ya? Wrecked up Xaxilars’ testing room again? It’s only been a month, hahah! She laughed cheerily as she leaned on the desk with her right arm, looking at Skele who now had a very ashamed look on his face; word certainly travelled fast. “Well, Xaxilars wanted me to test a bubble again, and she knows how I’m like…” Skeletonized folded his arms with a hint of defensiveness in his voice. “But maaaan you must have money to throw if you can keep managing to break something inside that shop every time you go there~” Zukralla grinned, to which Skele had no response to that, he just turned away, but not before Zukralla caught a slight pink tinge on his cheeks. “Anyways! Since you’re here you wanna test something out?” Skele turned back around and looked at her wearily. “What’ve you got in mind then? As long as I don’t break another thing that is...I don’t have infinite money, you know.” He huffed as he put his paws on his hips. Zukralla waved her hand dismissively. “No, no! Nothing like that! Though if you could test this thing for me without breaking anything, you can have 30 minutes in the trampoline park! How does that sound?” Skeletonized groaned and against his better judgement (in his opinion but he can’t really deny some time in Zukralla’s excellent park) nodded. “Well, I definitely could agree but what do you want me to test, exactly?”
***
15 minutes later he found himself a room with Zukralla, the time towards said room passed by with conversations about everything and nothing in between. Zukralla’s trampoline park was everything that Xaxilar’s shop wasn’t, overt, grand, everything large in scale; there was something breathtaking about how this entire building was dedicated as a trampoline park.
“Hey Skele? You paying attention?”
Skeletonized soon snapped back into reality as he just recalled what he was holding, he seemed to be holding a wand of sorts. “Eh? The Dolphins are winning?” Zukralla shook her head exasperately. “How did you bring up American Football when we’re talking about you testing that wand for me?! Have you been really tired recently?” Zukralla responded as Skele scratched his back of head. “Sorry, sorry...Well, I’m paying attention now. Properly. This time. ...probably.” Zukralla shook her head again. “As I was saying Skele...I modified this wand of mine recently...I would have Xaxilars test it out buuut...she’s kinda busy today...from you-know-what.” Zukralla said. “Against my better judgement but can you give that a swing?”
Now Skele did know how to use the bubble wands that Zukralla and Xaxilars used to create bubbles. That being said, naturally, he was nowhere near as good as them at using them...due to; firstly, not owning one of these wands himself aka lack of practice, and secondly, he didn’t exactly need a wand to create bubbles in the first place: so he never really needs one whenever he needs to create bubbles on the fly.
At least, he knew how to use them. Without screwing up.
Skele focused his mind into creating a bubble with the wand...a small bluish sparkle appeared at the tip of the wand before materialising into a solid bubble. A small one, but it was a start...it drifted slowly from the wand before landing on the floor. Skele stared at it briefly before putting his right foot on it, it barely made a peep before it popped. Skele clenched his fist with the wand and tried again...he managed something bigger this time...and he did it again.
And again...and again, each time he popped it using a foot, a claw or otherwise. Everything seemed to be going fine so far.
“Is this satisfactory?” Skele asked after making a 10th bubble. None of them were particularly big but they grew just a little bit more sturdy each time...not by much though. Zukralla nodded with growing interest. “I modified the wand slightly so it’d be slightly easier to create bigger bubbles...can you try making one as big as you can?”
Skele nodded, thinking it wouldn’t hurt to try. He concentrated his energy to the wand, closed his eyes and...
*creaaaak* *thump* *thump*
...
“...huh?”
He suddenly felt himself pinned against the wall by something soft and squishy. He wondered what had happened when-
“Skele...what the fuck?”
Zukralla’s voice made him immediately open his eyes. Oh no.
He could see Zukralla was pinned to the wall on the opposite side of him. And he also shared the same fate as Zukralla...being pinned to the wall as well.
Zukralla sighed, she seemed...oddly amused by the situation, before using a finger to poke the bubble. At least, it seemed like they could move their arms, they had the freedom to do that at least.
“Too big.”
She then reached for a pen in her pocket and
BANG
The resounding explosion temporarily stunned both of them and sent their ears ringing...they both sat on the floor dazed for a few seconds before they noticed all of the furniture and fixtures in the room were scattered haphazardly from the big bang, and the windows also shattered.
Despite this, Zukralla seemed extremely amused by the situation. She picked herself up and walked over to Skele and picked him up.
“You will help me clean this up, right?”
Skele nodded...looking extremely tired but not looking to complain.
“I suppose this is partly my fault...oh well. Still, I will need you to pay for the windows. In return though…”
***
Skele would now be happily bouncing away in the massive trampoline park...and no one dared to get close to him with him bouncing around in a unpredictable manner.
He certainly had a tale to tell Tera when he got home. Well, it wasn’t any more crazy then his normal bubble adventures. After all…
It was just another Tuesday for him.
a friend wrote this as a gift thing-- and then it became a trade, so this is his half of the trade.
THE GUY WHO MADE IT: [redacted™©®]
i found it pretty neat of a little story thing.
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