Aah, Bacon & Eggs

Just start with the finely chopped green pepper, and onion sauteed in olive oil...add the peeled and sliced pre-boiled potatoes. A little bacon fat....shhh, don't tell...some thyme too, is good.

Sun asks as she drags her still sleeping body into the room. She's smilin'......she did a bad(not that bad) thing last night in chat. So it's one of those evil like smiles. But more important....the Sebacean PMS has left the building(well for now it has), Sun is back to her more chipper self!

"Umm Tick, hurry up with that other apron, efore SWORD gets here! He'll give Rag a hard time about it!" Sun yells at Tick who went to find a more manly apron.

The Gang wonders were SWORD is. They have been up for a while and making noise, but there has been no sign of him. Anni takes a look in at the rumbled heap of blankets where SWORD sleeps and wonders if there can actually be a human being in there some place. She shrugs and rejoins the others.

The Gang agrees it's a great idea and pack themselves a lunch and a frisbee. The set sail down the river and out of the grotto to the beautiful park inside SciFi prime. There they dock and begin to frolic about. Still, no sign of SWORD.

Eventually, the road wearie SWORD wakes up and pulls himself out of the tangled mass of blankets. He wonders to the kitchen area and finds the dirty dishes.

"Hrrrmph," he grumbles in his afternoon morning voice, "I drive all night across New York, and they LEAVE the dirty dishes for ME to wash...."

WORD munches down the leftovers and goes in search of his friends. It's a big park, and he might have trouble. They will probably play hide-and-seek in an attempt to drive him crazy(er). Then again, he thinks with a pause, they are probably waiting to ambush me with super soakers... or silly string... or pies!

sets a can of SWORDS favorite beer. A few yards further along sets another....and past that another. On the first is hung a little note.

"SWORD help! The girls insist I'm not having enough fun. Gonna show me the error of my ways! Had to leave a trail of beer cans. Ticker insisted I clean every brownie crumb off my plate at lunch! Arrgg...they're dragging me off to have fun...."

"So... well... I guess if that's okay with you all..." Ticker mumbles as she pulls off her new pointy toed boots, complete with little bells.

"Man, am I glad you are here! I'm outnumbered with all these girls... TickTick's been my frisbee partner, but-" Ragnar hesitates.

"Let's play some Ultimate Frisbee, gang!" SWORD cuts in, stopping the argument that was guaranteed to happen. As he teams up with Ragnar, he notices...

"This was the best that Ticker could come up with... the other one was too frilly," Ragnar says, wearing a "Kiss the Viking" apron, complete with hearts and horned helmets.

While Sword and Ragnar were debating the merits of various styles of culinary attire and techniques, and SunAeryn took some PK time-out doing PUSHUPS, ANNISETTE wandered over to TICKTICK.

"I LOVE THAT SHADE!" Annisette looked down at Ticker's blue toenails admiringly. "I still go with the pink shades, myself...I'm not really adventuresome as far as the toes go!"

"Well, I was aiming at SunAeryn." Anni pointed to the other side of the field. "I don't know...it just goes the other waay all the time...so I fake it!"

"SSHHH!" Annisette warned Ticker at Ragnar's and Sword's approach. "Just try it, Tick. Act like you know where the thing is gonna go!"

"Well, I don''t know....but MAYBE..." And the Ticker backed up, a thoughtful expression now on her face. "Just Maybe...HMMM."

"See if Tick plays better without her boots is all...I think you will notice an dramatic improvement." Anni chimed in.

"OK, LETS PLAY!" SunAeryn took command in a very PK like manner and the gang obeyed...Anni still winking at Ticker.

"Ultimate frisbee? Oy vey! Did I actually say that?" SWORD thought. Somehow this thing was going to turn bad, he just knew it. He watched as SunAeryn returned from her calisthenic warm up in standard PK commando gear (which suprisingly looks like sweat pants and sport bras--ever notice that?). Yeah, she was pumped and stoked, a little steam coming from her ears in her anticipation of dominating the lesser races.

Trying to cover, SWORD feigns confidence. Yeah, if I look confident, Ragnar will be confident an play without a hitch! Then I can ride along on his coat tails... this could work... barely, but it could possible work...

"But with Leaped MIA, we're outnumbered," Ragnar points out as the three lovely ladies position themselves around the clearing. SWORD swallows.

After 30 minutes, SWORD and Ragnar find themselves running to and fro. How is that the ladies are able to do so well? TickTick seemed to be missing everything before, but now, she is hitting her targets with precision. She must have been faking it.

"...sword... you jump around... and dive real well,... but... ...are you... left handed... or something?" Ragnar asks him. "...I kept thinking... that you were... right handed..."

"...then WHY?" Ragnar says as he grabs SWORD by the shirt, "...do you always... drop the frisbee... when you catch it... with your RIGHT hand?"

SWORD makes a weak shrugging gesture of "just happens that way" and then notes that the game is once again afoot. Thinking that it is going to be an even more embarrasing showing, he is surprised when an errant throw comes in his direction. He reaches and catches it (left handed) and pulls the frisbee down. He finally notes an oddity.

Leaped laughed maniacally as he shot pies at the Scooby gang. TickTick, Annisette and SunAeryn ducked for cover- most of the pies were hitting Ragnar and Sword.

"Oh, Ragnar!" SunAeryn said. "My PK calisthenic suit! It's got pie on it!" She fingered a piece of the pie and tasted it. "Hmm... chocolate cream. Yum!"

only he doesn't know it yet," Sword thought to himself. Meanwhile the now pie-filling-encrusted Scoobies, were hiding under the thickest, and low-lieing Oak tree they could find. Peeking out periodically to see if the crazed pie-pitcher was still hovering above them.

"Leaped screamed between ourbursts of uncontrollable laughter. Meanwhile, unbeknowinst to Leaped, Ragnar, and TickTilck had followed Sword up the branches of the oak tree with a supply of Boston Cremes. Perched there, each was balancing a pie in their throwing-hands, waiting for a clear shot at Leaped. Just as leaped started to hover dangerously close to his would-be pie-sasons, strange sputtering noises started to emit from Leaped's jet-pack. "Uh OH! Leaped cried", "I knew I should have checked my fuel supply in this sucker!"

From his vantage point in the fore, SWORD saw that Leaped was getting read for a crash and burn. "Darn," SWORD mutters, "I wanted to make that happen!"

"We have to break his fall!" She jumps down from the tree, quickly followed by Ragnar. "SWORD, gently drop your pies!"

Grumbling, SWORD lowers the pies, thinking all the while that it would be fun to just throw them at Ticker and Ragnar. Gauging Leaped sputtering trajectory, TickTick arranges the pies in a stack upon the ground and barely finishes as the last of Leaped's jetpack fuel exhausts itself. He sees what awaits him, his salvation and is not certain whether to cheer or cry.

SunAeryn yells at the heap of leaped and pies. "Is this how our hero Harrison would treat his fellow commrads?" Sun asks looking down at leaped, hands behind her back."I can't belive that you, of all people would behave in such a fashion." Sun continued at the pile of pie covered leaped. Unbeknowest to leaped SunAeryn had a banana cream pie behind her back and was waiting for the proper moment to hit him with it. She looked pretty ticked at leaped. He was strugglin to get up.

"No, I was just kidding, Sun. Are you sure your over that case of Sebacean PMS?" leaped looked up. Just as he did......WHAM! right in the kisser! Sun had hit leaped with the hidden pie. Sun threw back her head and laughed...."BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! And you fell for that act! Man I got you!" Sun said as she continued to laugh.

Sun looked at leaped and offered her hand, firmly planting her feet on the ground. Not trusting him to NOT pull her into the mess around him.

SunAeryn grasps Leaped's hand and expertly pulling him vertical from the stack of Bostom Creme pies, leaving a Leaped-shaped silhouette behind. He struggles to tip her over in the process, but her determination is firm and her stance firmer. The pie bestrewn Gangers gather about, giving Leaped the evil eye. Their eyes then drift to SunAeryn, who has remarkably escaped the fray unscathed by pie shrapnel. Ragnar and SWORD exchange determined glances from either side of Sun, reach forward, pick her up, and drop her into the remains of the pie pile.

trusty PIE loaded Pulse Rifle and bombbards SWORD & Ragnar with Chocolate cream pies. The pies are coming so fast and furious that they quickly loose their balance and fall in a pile. Sun doesn't let up.....soon all there is to see is pie covered SWORD & Ragnar. An evil laugh can be heard coming from Sun....she had lost it. Or has she.....maybe she's been infected by (dum dum dum) an evil intellent virus! You be the judge.

SunAeryn stops pumeling the guys and runs off...pulse rifle in hand. Her evil laugh can be heard trailing behind her as she disappears.

SWORD sits up amidst the chocolate creme, looking very much like a tar baby. He looks over at Ragnar, who lays leaning on his arm, drumming his fingers, looking quite similar.\

"Rag," SWORD asks, "when everyone else is shooting at us, have you ever noticed that their weapons never run out of ammo? It's like being in a Chuck Norris movie!"

"Well I think you guys look like glazed doughnuts...chocolate glazed peanuts, chocolate covered caramels...chocolate chocolate chocolate!"

"HUH? Oh yea, the Brownie overdose! Right!" Sword was apprehensive but not altogether unhappy at the prospect of being mistaken for a Brownie. Still caution was in order.

Annisette stood looking on grinning like a cheshire cat. TickTick was by her side rocking back and forth on her heels. Her hands clasped behind her back trying desperately to suppress giggles. She looked imanently pleased with herself.

Ragnar continued to lay there, in no real hurry to go anywhere. Sword leaned back on his elbows, Leaped was wiping off the fedora, grinning. Off in the distance a commotion stired in the direction of SunAeryn. The girls were exchanging looks.

Maybe Ragnar should have been paying more attention to TickTicks hands behind her back. He and Sword had already been 'tarred' they weren't about to get.....

"Attack!!!!!!!" Ticker cries. The pillows burst open and feathers fly... Sword and Ragnar scramble to their feet and drag the still-laughing leaped with them as they run.

"Come back here you cowards!" SunAeryn shouts. Anni and TickTick laugh maniacally under the influence of BROWNIES OF DOOM as they chase the guys.

is all the guys heard as they ran like the big chickens they are! "I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!" SunAeryn yelled as she ran after the guys.

Little did the guys now that when Sun disappeared.....she set up a little surprise for them. And to reload her pulse rifle...."Chuck Norris indeed! Ever wonder why they show the bad guys shooting then him? Well when you see the bad guys....that's when Chuck reloads......I thought everyone knew that! Geez! And you call your self Chuck fans! Ok maybe you didn't" Sun called out as she chased the guys to right where she wanted them. She pulled the rope only she could see and.............................................

Wham! Kablaam! Pow! The guys got covered in lime green Jello! "BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You guys fell for it again!" Sun laughed as she ran back to join Tick and Anni. "Suckers!" is all they heard as they stood in the Jello and watched Sun's retreating back.

Ragnar brushed at his beard. "I do believe we've been gotten again." Shaking his head and smiling he looks over at Leaped. "See what you started? At least you were on the recieving end this time."

"Um, Sun, don't you think your getting a littel carried away?" Tick asked after hearing Sun's plan with the fire hose.

"Yeah so? If they can't take a little friendly Jello dumping....then what good are they? And they did say they wanted our help getting cleaned up. So why not help them?" SunAeryn grinned.

TickTick shakes her head. "VERY weird. I think all the PUNCH and BROWNIES have had permanent effects on them. I blame myself..." she says as she looks at the guys. Ragnar actually has the guts to WINK at her!

Ticker grins at the guys. "Well, since I missed seeing all of you last night... and we girls have been EVER so cruel to you today... I thought I'd come over and make peace." She smiles sweetly at Sword. "Wish you could've seen me last night, man. My Chiana hair was glow in the dark and everything." Then she glances over to Ragnar. "By the way... did I tell you you're a FABULOUS dancer?" she says, winking.

Sword and Ragnar are lost for words- Ticker is in rare form. They are so enraptured by her fullscale flirting that they don't notice Anni and Sun hauling over a big firehose that they've hooked up to Reddog's Apache.

Caught in a torential downpour of PUNCH O DOOM!, Leaped and Ragnar cry out with the typical Charlie Brown "WAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!" The chocolate creme and pudding pie filling and lime green jello covering them beginning to carbonate when mixed with the volatile ingredients of PUNCH.

"Supply me with the power that I crave!" he says in a deep evil Christopher Plummer voice as he drops his head back to drink in the rain.

"Hide not your heads, my fine boon companions! Drink up! Drink up! The party is not yet over! The day may yet be won!" He begins to demonstrate more annoyingly scripted behavior.

this thing?" Sun askes Anni. Sun's mind was racing......she and Tick where still holding on to the hose.....which was attached to reddogjack's Apache. 'Is the hose secure enough to hold us both?'Sun was thinkin' when she noticed that Ragnar and leaped where also drinking in the PUNCH OF DOOM.

"Well if you can't fly this thing......and I don't think Tick can....she was at the Party last night....I saw her.....she still isn't 100% then I have to try." Sun explained while the guys crept closer.

"Yeah. You to wanna get what the guys are gonna give? I don't, so you have a choice. Stay on the ground or hang on tight and fly with me." Sun said with a gleam in her eye.

Sword and Ragnar and Leaped see the Apache rise, hover, set down, then rise again...."WHAT ARE THEY DOING????" Leaped was anxiously eyeing the sky.

"I'm not sure, but I bet they have something sneaky planned." Ragnar was still shocked at the VAMPING Ticker could pull off.

"I'm not sure, but the ladies seem to be able to do anything they need to!!" Sword felt a growing pride that these ladies were his friends....well, most of the time.

"ME TOO!" Anni felt the hose sliding from her grip. The two ladies swung in spirals as the Apache now leveled and turned into a dive.

"Leaped, it looks like they are FALLING!!!" Ragnar thought this didn't look good. He was worried even though the girls had pied and jello coated them.

SunAeryn was now flying like an ACE pilot, but the hot-dogging was causing Anni and Ticker to slide to the end of the hose.

"YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING....NOW ITS GONE GONE GONE WHOA AH HOA......BA DUM BA DUM BA DUM" came back from Sun.

"We might make it so long as she doesn't try to go inverted...OH WE ARE IN HEZMANA NOW!" Anni could feel her grsp slipping as Sun started the roll over.

"Who knows....Sun is in TOP GUN mode...Tom Cruise inverted his jet!" Anni and Ticker now swung wildly whipping about behind the helicopter.

As the Apache flew over inverted the guys could swear they heard singing...."BABY BABY I'D GET DOWN ON MY KNEES FOR YOU, BA DUM BA DUM......"

There is this moment of euphoria as the weightless sensation enraptures the mind and the body seems to dangle in the air. This is quickly replaced by the terrifying realization that the ground is rushing up to meet one.

Ragnar catches TickTick first as he is at a higher altitude (hey! he is 6 feet plus, okay?). She lands gracefully in his arms with a "oomph" and smiles weakly, uncertain of what reception to expect. He stands there dazed with the conflict of Ticker's vamping escapade and the confusion brought on by PUNCH O DOOM delirium.

SWORD, being much closer to the ground and further away, runs and leaps (yes, Leaped, I realize that I am invading your idiom--but this is an emergency!!!) to snatch Anni from the air. With a triple sommersault, he flips over and lands clean! The judges award them 9.0, 9.0, 9.3, and 10!!!!

"See? That wasn't so baAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" and Anni screams with him as they are swept away in a PUNCH O DOOM created mudslide.

"Uh Hi Rag." Ticker put on her most innocent smile and wiggled her fingers at him, hand held tight against her chest. She chuckled softly. Ragnar blinked...then did it again, like his mind was changing gears and missing something in the traction department.He was not letting go. She squirmed uselessly. He could really cling when it was important! Maybe she had flirted to much? Never!

"Hehe..Hehe..."TickTick patted him soothingly on the chest. She might still have a chance to escape. Continueing to speak through smiling teeth..."PUNCH right?" more eye blinking, "Yeah PUNCH."

Tick ventured to look around. Her head and shoulders were free but the rest of her was held tight. She pried a little at his arm. If nothing else he was thourough. He'd been determined to catch her, but how to get him to let go? Men.

"Rag..." wait her brain said. Why am I flying again? Yet the ground isn't moving. Flashback? Then it hit her as Ragnars arms, chest, then head slid out from under her.

Was that they were being Vamped again.....it was all part of Sun, Anni, and Ticks clever plan. See this is what went on in that huddle a couple of posts back.

"Sun, I talked to reddog and he seems to think that you can handle the Apache better that either of us." Anni told Sun as Tick looked on

"Then Anni and I can lose our grip on the hose and do a free fall, while you go "Top Gun" and ....." Tick included but Sun interrupted

"and you're vamping will lull them into a false sense of security and Wham! I'll unload the skim milk on them and that should take care of most of the PUNCH over load." Sun declared.

Anni had gotten away from SWORD rather gracefully and without him catching on about why she was in a hurry to get away from him.

"Hey SWORD, thanks alot for catching me.(bats eyelashes) I was really scared.(small giggle) Anni was getting into this vamping 'Focus Anni! Sun is gonna drop the bomb soon. Get outa there' Anni thought to herself

She tried the finger wiggle again....nothing.....she decided to try.....the kiss on the cheek vamp. Well it worked.......and Ragnar dropped her. The shock of her kissing his cheek was too much for the Viking! Well that and the PUNCH, what a combo for our trusty Viking. Tick looked at Rag, he was speechless. Just as she was about to say something, Tick noticed Sun was finished with the roll over and the singing had stopped. That was the sign.....Tick wiggled her fingers at Ragnar and said "Thanks you great big Viking!" and ran as fast as she could before the "bomb" hit.

Anni and Tick could hear Sun singing "You drop the Bomb on me." They guys looked up and Sun was dropping a huge red and black colored balloon from the Apache.......it was headed straight for them......leaped tried to warn them......but it was too late!

The balloon hit all three of the guys and the only thing they could hear from the girls was.........................

The ladies were not the only ones to think ahead. Even in a PUNCHen haze the guys knew how to keep their priorities strait. As the balloon dropped they flew into action.

SWORD was a blur, the super powers of punch granting him the speed of the wind. Chairs and a table suddenly appeared.

Leaped struck out with his trusty whip and snagged a large picnic basket that had lain unobserved in a nearby bush. With a flick of a wrist it sailed through the air and landed with perfection on the side table SWORD had just aquired.

Ragnar quickly snatched a stainless steel pitcher and held it aloft as the milk drew closer. Leaped's whip snapped again the the balloon burst showering the three with the precious elixor and filling the crucible in the process.

With his free hand Ragnar whiped Tickers silly choice or apron out across the table, the I love Vikings insignia forming the middle of a table cloth. Sword quickly set the table.

TickTick says blithely as she approaches the picnic table. She winks at SunAeryn and Anni, hoping they'll get the hint. 'Show no fear, no surprise; meet 'em head on' she thinks to herself.

"So, uhh, Ragnar... where'd you get all the Lucky Charms?" SunAeryn asks casually, sitting down at the Viking apron-covered table.

"Full scale PUNCH warfare sure does give one an appetite, doesn't it?" TickTick murmurs as she accepts a bowl from Ragnar.

"Hee hee hee... look at all the marshmellows," Ticker comments, her eyes a little glazed. "Hearts, stars, moons, diamonds, horseshoes... little Moyas.."

TickTick smiles beatifically and munches cereal, oblivious to the Scooby Gang's concerns... but her pointed ears seem to be twitching a little TOO much...

They watch the Ticker warily as her eyes grow wide and her face becomes flushed... what will full BROWNIE MODE do to the Ticker...?

Sun looked at Ticker closely. "Tick, what happens when Elves eat TOO MANY Punch of Doom Brownies?" Anni looked concerned (Annisette was very good at looking concerned since law school, but that's another story.)

"What do you mean *usually*?" Ragnar was almost looking at Ticker eye to eye, which was very odd since both were standing on the ground.

Annisette had noticed the strange effect on Ticker...who seemed to be more IMPOSING than normal. "UH oh! How could we have been so careless?"

I know YOU ARE RIGHT I should have stopped when the meteor shower started!" Ticker was apologetic and a bit embarrassed."But we were having so much fun!"

....."ELVES, in the presence of meteor activity may experience changes in density, weightlessness, photoreactivity..."

"AND SIZE and may experience the potentiated effects of pixie dust, faerie glitter, and other extraterrestrial hallucinogens....THE USE of PUNCH OF DOOM containing products AT THIS TIME IS CONTRA-INDICATED as A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN HEIGHT IS PARTICULARY NOTICEABLE....."

"Rag, can I borrow some tall clothes?" Tick smiled at Ragnar as her own outfit became shorter and shorter.... and her friends got lower and lower.