Microbots. Sushi Restaurant. Karen's Homecoming Part 4

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Rachel: *calls up an image on her phone and holds it up*

Warren: *from the recording* //Popcorn feels really weird in your belly button!//

Joe: *just snorted his tea out his nose, is now apologizing and wiping his face*

Karen: *startled squeak*

Felicity: *sage nod of agreement with her husband* So do peas.

Joe: *shoulders shaking as he holds his head*

Rachel: *gentle and affectionate grin* This is Warren.

Karen: Oh, goodness. Peas and popcorn in belly buttons?

Rachel: Yup. And beetle bugs. *switches the picture to Warren in his Cookie Man costume*

Karen: ... *sees the picture* Aww.

Felicity: Beetle bugs tickle. *grimacing*

Karen: *will glance to Felicity, thinking of how innocent she and Warren seem. Is reminded of Legacy, in a way*

Rachel: *looks at the phone as it rings, then snerks softly and hits speaker* Hi, Warren, were you sneezing?

Warren: //Huh? Nooo, why?//

Felicity: Hi, Warren!

Karen: *muffles her snerk at the confused tone to Warren's voice*

Rachel: *grin* Because we were talking about you. And your belly button.

Warren: //Ohhh!// *happy laugh* //Yeah. Guess what, Ferdy! I found Teeny Purple Squishy Horse! He's not lost after all.//

Rachel: 0_0 *face-palm*

Felicity: Oh, yay! Where was Teeny Purple Squishy Horse?

Warren: //In my belly button!//

Joe: *ded*

Felicity: *surprised squeak*

Karen: *muffled sniggerfitdie*

Warren: //But he's back in the squishy things house now.//

Felicity: Well, that's good, at least. *nodnod*

Rachel: How did he get in your belly button?

Warren: //Um. Hmm.// *voice perks* //Think he jumped?//

Karen: *so much muffled snickerfit*

Rachel: No... He probably didn't.

Warren: //Oh. Um. What do you think, Ferdy?//

Felicity: *blinkblink* I don't know...

Warren: *voice perks again* //I'm gonna go ask Sky. See you soon, guys!// *click*

Rachel: *soft sniggerfit*

Felicity: *innocently* I wonder how it happened?

Ruth: *leans around Rachel* He stuck it there 'n forgot again.

Felicity: *blink blink. Surprised expression is a go* Oh!

Karen: *so-ded*

Rachel: *elbows Ruth and is companionably cussed at*

Joe: *wheezing sound that makes Rachel crack up*

Karen: *soveryded*

Felicity: *small frown as she tries to work out what's funny*

Joe: *wheezes again* I love Warren. Nobody else has those things happen to him.

Rachel: *sees the frown* *softly* We're loving the Warren stuff, Ferdy. We're not laughing at him.

Ruth: Anybody tries to put 'im down and I'll clean their clocker. *eats food*

Felicity: Oh. *small nod*

Karen: *reminded yet again that Felicity and Warren are innocent*

Ruth: *thoughtfully* This time it wasn't even funny because he was dumb.

Felicity: Is this like how he told the mean girls at school that I have my own stupid guy?

Rachel: *nods* Yup. But trust me, even if his IQ's low, your hubby's not stupid.

Felicity: *small nod of understanding*

Ruth: The people that hate 'im 're the stupid ones.

Rachel: *elbow*

Joe: *Ferdy hug!*

Karen: *chuckles at the little squeak Felicity does*

Joe: *gives her a serious smile with dancing eyes, and then wiggly fingers invite her to hug too*

Karen: *more chuckle as she adds herself to the hug*

Felicity: *happy little clicks as she's hugged, then she's making a little squee as she spots something really good coming along the conveyor belt*

Joe: *lets go the hug and looks at the belt. Sees no cute fishcake* Which one?

Felicity: Mackerel!

Joe: Oh! *grabs both the plates of it and sets them down*

Rachel: Any more questions, Karen?

Karen: I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

Rachel: *surprised* Really?

Karen: I'll write things down as I think of them.

Rachel: *grin* Okay. *once more shows her willingness to eat ALL the squid*

Joe: *quiet and serious* Do you think you might have any trouble with people who don't look human?

Karen: No, I don't think that will be a problem.

Joe: *gets more seaweed salad off the lower belt* We have one friend that looks like a tree with stringy tentacles on top. It never stops talking, except to listen to your replies.

Karen: ... *blinking a bit as she tries to picture what Joe is describing* *soft snerk* Goodness.

Joe: *searches for his phone, and then sheepishly just lifts his hand and lets a little 3D image appear on his palm* It's going to have a baby. Felicity's the godmother.

Karen: Awww. *shares a smile with the girl*

Felicity: *happy eyes, but she's chipmunking and so can't comment verbally*

Joe: *makes Lou's picture go away, and replaces it with an image of a hulking pink bruiser with a dark scowl*

Karen: *attention going to the changing of pictures* *surprised sound*

Rachel: *glances toward the surprised sound and chuckles as she swallows her bite* That's one of my daughters' other mom.

Karen: *blink* Other mom?

Rachel: *nods* Her papa's wife.

Karen: ... *trying to make sense of this* Her papa?

Felicity: *muffled* Kup is really nice.

Rachel: *simply* Cybertronian families can get pretty complex, even when you don't have alternates from other realities added in. Destiny's family's actually simpler than some. She's only got two sets of parents, and a few other adults that she hangs out with.

Karen: Huh. *thinking about this now*

Rachel: One of the sets of adults is her older twin sister and that sister's husband.

Karen: ...

Joe: *shows image of the twin sisters standing together*

Karen: ... Huh.

Rachel: *quietly* If parts of us break away, they can survive and become someone new.

Karen: ... *wincing now*

Joe: *another image- Magnus and Dion*

Karen: *soft 'Aww' as she studies the image of the blond man sitting on what looks like a round ottoman, can see that the little baby sitting on the man's shoulders is nomming on the man's head*

Rachel: *proudly* Dion was tiny, but just look at him now.

Karen: He's nomming on the man's head.

Rachel: Yup. He started using his teeth right after that picture, too.

Karen: Oh, dear.

Rachel: *produces phone, shows picture*

Karen: *muffles her snerk with her hand, because the man in the picture is pulling a spectacularly hilarious expression*

Rachel: *grins, and then changes the picture to Dion doing a belly moon and pointer finger moment*

Felicity: *overcome by gigglefit!*

Karen: Awww.

Joe: *leans over to see* Ohhh. That's when Pat mentioned Michael Bay.

Karen: ... Who?

Rachel: *thinks of what she knows about Norman Bates* The guy who did 'Deadly Reconfiguration'.

Karen: ... That movie was so noisy.

Rachel: It's also illegal. And our lawyers are talking to him about it.

Joe: *frowning nod*

Karen: Illegal?

Rachel: We told him no.

Joe: The movie's based on comic books written by one of ours.

Rachel: Loosely based.

Felicity: It's potty stuff. *frown*

Karen: Oh... I knew it was bad.

Rachel: Set to a backdrop of boobs, butts, and boom, it tells all humankind that Nijika is here to hypnotize them by seduction, and the rest of us are only here to take over the world and cyberform it.

Karen: ... *lips pressed thin in a frown*

Rachel: By the way, this is Nijika. No double Ds. *shows picture on phone*

Karen: Awww!

Rachel: *grins* That's her daddy.

Karen: ...Is he playing with her fan?

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