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Blue Balloons



     I like the idea of cross-overs in comic books or tv shows or what have you.  I also like little cameo appearance bits.  Like how the Simpsons made a very brief appearance in an episode of King Of The Hill, and vice versa.  There was also a Bart Simpson doll in an episode of Futurama, as well as a Bender appearance in as episode of The Simpsons.

     I also like the idea of putting something extraordinary in the background of something mundane.

     My would-be story, Blue Balloons, is something like those.  This story features Telly Porter, from the C-Files, and his group, The Liberators.  I'll first tell you about the members.

     First of all, there's the leader, alias: Telly Porter, whose abilities include expertise in various forms of martial arts, swords, hand projectiles, firearms, explosives, but also the ability to open portals for teleportation.

     His second in command is a tall, very muscular, black man (think Michael Clark Duncan) who, when not on the job, has a great, friendly personality and is outgoing.  On the job, he's muscle, firearms, and explosives.

     I don't have a name for him or any of the other characters.

The other two members are a man and a woman who are a couple.  Both superior in martial arts, swords, and throwing weapons.  They are very calm, quiet, collected people with great will and inner strength.

  On to the story.

     The setting is in a college dorm room shared by a white female with dark hair, and a Mexican female who came to America to go to college.

     The Mexican's father is the best chef in Mexico, highly sought after, and works in one of Mexico's finest vacation resorts.

     The girl grew up eating various foods from various countries all her life, and rather ironically, can't handle Mexican food, even though she likes the taste.

     The story begins with the Mexican girl having eaten a burrito, because it was all she could find, and she was very hungery.  There's some dialogue about it, but she eventually goes into the bathroom with a serious case of the shits.

     There's a knock at the door, and it's a male character who is a sort of nerdy, geeky type, but with an unpleasant attitude.  The college is having a dance, and both he and the white dark haired girl are part of the decoration crew.

     He is taking it far more seriously and has no problem voicing his displeasure at her limited involvement.  He has come to her room to get her to finally help him decide on which color balloons to use: the red ones or the blue ones.

     They both sit at a coffee table and begin debating the matter, when the front door opens and in comes The Liberators (don't cringe yet).  The two girls know about The Liberators, for the most part, but the geek knows nothing.  As far as he knows, four non-students, that he's never seen before (and he knows a lot about the goings-on at the college) have just barged into the room.

     White girl looks up and smiles, says hello, but stays seated, but geek is confused and slightly perturbed, and then becomes little worried when he notices one of the guys (of the couple) is mostly being carried in.

     Geek is the only one who seems to be finding it a big deal.  Black guy is being friendly with white girl, while the rest are going into the little kitchen area to tend to the injured guy.

     Black guy asks where mexican girl is, and white girl tells him she's in the bathroom with diarhea, because she ate a burrito.  He finds this amusing, because he knows about her intolerance to Mexican food, plus mexican girl has a bit of a crush on him.

     Basically, she's trapped in the bathroom, producing embarassing noises and odors while the guy she has a crush on is on the other side of the door talking to her.

     Under normal circumstances, they'll flirt with each other a little.  Nothing serious; almost teasing, but good natured.  With her stuck in the bathroom, it's a little more teasing than usual, just by the facts of the situation.

     Black guy is talking to mexican girl, and white girl is talking to both geek and Telly, and geek is on the verge of a coniption fit because of the weirdness of the situaion, what is, in his mind, chaos, and the fact that he's not getting her full attention to finally get a descision made.

     While in the kitchen area, the female of the couple is intimately dabbing alcohol on the cuts covering her man.

     Black guy also comes over to be friendly with geek, who feels quite intimidated, but even more so when black guy, a little later, confronts him about being abrupt with white girl, but black guy is only joking with him (for the most part).

     Eventually, The Liberators leave, with mexican girl still stuck in the bathroom, sad she didn't get to see black guy, because she didn't know when the next time would be, if ever.  But the worst part is that she was just cleaning up as they were leaving.

     She comes out, their gone, but geek and white girl finally decide on blue balloons, so geek leaves.

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     It's a story heavy on dialogue with that of geek and white girl at the intended forefront.

     As for why The Liberator's were there, white girl and mexican girl were part of a group rescued during a previous mission, and they kind of hit it off with The Liberators.  If they should ever need to, The Liberators can pit stop at their dorm, or just drop by for a visit, which they have done.



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