Outside Dennis' House and Inside. Despicable Dennis?

[dens_extra_pups]

Aoife: Here, Dennis. *gives him an orange datachip*

Dennis: *blinks and reaches for the chip* What's this?

Aoife: It's a theme for your house. :D

Dennis: ... A theme for my house? What's wrong with the current theme?

Aoife: I don't know. I guess it's not orange. I didn't ask.

Dennis: Let me guess. Den said something?

Aoife: Den bought it. I'm not supposed to tell you. :p No, it's not a prank. At least not the stupid kind.

Dennis: That may be, but it's a gift from Den, and you know how she can be sometimes.

Aoife: *shrugs and listens to cussing in the distance* She wasn't malicious when she commissioned it.

Dennis: She doesn't do malicious pranks. She just does weird ones.

Aoife: She also wasn't thinking you're a dork. Or that you'd wet your pants. Or that you would yell. Or that it was payback. Or...

Dennis: Alright, alright. You made your point, Aoife.

Aoife: It was just "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEORANGE!", and Cora said she couldn't stop giggling.

Dennis: That could be for any number of reasons.

Aoife: Only one way to find out. *distracted now by lack of cussing* *cranes her neck to try and see what's happening behind the hedge*

Dennis: ... I don't want to know why the cussing stopped. *will duck inside his house*

Lucy: *rolls over behind an excitedly chatting Wall-E* Welcome back, Dennis. Did you have a nice visit?

Wall-E: Keeeeyyys!

Dennis: Yeah... Den got me a theme for the house.

Lucy: *face scrunches to show doubt* Not another prank?

Wall-E: *happy jingle* Keeeeeeyyyys.

Dennis: According to Aoife, she was just gleeing over it being orange.

Lucy: ...Is that a good thing?

Wall-E: *turns and looks toward the sound of vacuum cleaner beeping in the depths of the house* *trundles off still waving the keys to see if he can save the little race car shaped robot*

Dennis: We'll have to see.

Lucy: Are you trying it now?

Dennis: Might as well. *moves to put the chip into the console in the living room*

Wall-E: *vigorously tugging on the roomba*

roomba: *wedged under the fancy coffee table and beeping vehemently*

Dennis: *sigh* *will move the coffee table first*

roomba: *scoots off toward its charger*

Wall-E: *cheers* Daaad! *happy!* *now has Dennis's mini-me running around and around him because he's turned the key fob on*

Dennis: *snerks, will move to put the chip Aoife gave him into the console* Let's see what Den did this time.

house: *you know the lair of that punk villain on 'Despicable Me'? Yeah. Just like that, only with D instead of V. There's even a holographic shark under the living room floor, and the huge TV*

roomba: *falls down the stairs*

Dennis: ... *facepalm*

Lucy: *rolls up the robot ramp to one side of the stairs* I don't get the joke.

Dennis: She must have been watching 'Despicable Me' again.

Lucy: Is that bad?

Dennis: Well, Buddy fell down the stairs...

roomba: *trundles up the robot ramp, then over to the upper stairs and up that ramp too*

Wall-E: *down to the kitchen* WEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Lucy: ...It's not just the house that reminds me of that movie.

Dennis: *hesitates* Do I want to know?

Wall-E: *back up, mini-Dennis orbiting gleefully*

Dennis: Good grief.

Lucy: *pauses as her alarm beeps* Oh. You wanted to go to bed early tonight because of the test tomorrow.

Dennis: *facepalm* That's right. Wall-E, bed time.

Wall-E: *pauses and looks around uncertainly* Beeeed? *looks at Dennis* Daaad?

Dennis: *nods* Bed.

Lucy: *looks at the smaller bot and pauses to compute for a moment. Then* I think he doesn't know where it is.

Dennis: ... *sigh*

Wall-E: *decides to look upstairs* *up he goes* *happy sounds from up there!*

Dennis: *will follow after Wall-E, to see what else has changed*

bedroom: *all his stuff is there. And so is Wall-E's bushel basket. But his bed is now a huge orange half circle built into the expansive white room*

Dennis: ... Good grief.

Wall-E: *sitting happily under his basket, as always. Except that Mini-Dennis is running around and around him*

Lucy: Here's my charger. *backs onto it* Goodnight, Dennis.

Dennis: Goodnight, Lucy. Wall-E, turn Mini-Dennis off, please.

Wall-E: Keeys. *mini-Dennis winks out*

Dennis: *changes into his pajamas and then moves to settle into bed with a sigh*

bed: *memory foam. The stuff Den laughed at you for insisting was best sleeps space*

Dennis: *soft snerk* Hey, Lucy, lights off, please?

Lucy: Alright, Dennis. *lights off except for a dim one over by the bathroom door*

Dennis: *closes his eyes and settles into sleep*

((Written with random_xtras))