[Date: October 3, 2020. Time 1:06 PM. Tim is sitting on his bed with his laptop in his lap of all places. By the sounds it's making and the look of concentration on his face he's playing a game on it when his cell phone rings! Brain Explody Minisession START!] * Tim starts when the phone goes off and then starts madly hitting keys. "Nononono I nearly had him! C'mon ...C'mon YES! Jenny! Get that! I only need a few more seconds!" ['Jenny', which would be the plush hummingbird in question, looks up from her preening. She blinks as the phone rings. She blinks again as the phone rings a second time. And then she flies down, hovering at where it sits face up on Tim's dresser, and presses the receive button with her beak, followed by the one for speakerphone.] * Tim calls out over the sounds of badly digitised gunshots, "Tim, future overlord of the world, here. You may speak." [A long moment later a familiar (to him anyway) womans voice speak from the phone. "Tim?"] * Tim freezes up, and less than a second later his computer starts playing synth taps. [The hummingbird hovers over to Tim and perches in his hair.] * Tim still doesn't react. [The phone speaks again. "Tim? Are you there? I... Is this a bad time?"] * Tim slowly lifts the laptop and then sets it down on the bed next to him. "Mom? Why on earth are you calling me? Did Ant Kathy put you up to this?" (ant -> aunt, unless she became an insect.) (^^; Sorry I don't usualy mess that one up.) * Taki speaks through the phone. "No... she doesn't actualy know I'm calling you. I was ... worried actualy. I haven't heard much from her lately... and well... curiosity finaly got the best of me. I can't open a newspaper anymore and know that a story is about you anymore." * Tim stands up and walks to his dresser, mostly oblivious to the bird on his head. He picks up the phone and switches it back to normal mode. "Wait, wait... You are calling... me... because I'm NOT headlining her card any more? That's it?" [Jenny is making herself comfortable all right.] (*realizes something and changes that Ant Kathy to Aunt Katherine) Nno. That's not all of it at all. I ... just wanted to hear first hand how you were doing. * Tim snorts. "How I'm doing? Maybe I should tell you what she's doing..." * Taki blurts out "No! ... No... that's not why I called. I called about you. Not her." * Tim shakes his head and pushes a few things off his chair and onto the floor so he can sit down. "Yeah yeah. If you say so. So me?" He grins. "You know? I'm not sure how much of this I can talk to you over the phone about..." Then ... just what you think you can get away with. * Tim laughs. "Oh that's all? Well the first thing I had to do was save this idiot from one of the other branches. He showed up and claimed to be with us and then he up and gets kidnapped by this stupid flying saucer.. and I say stupid because it took the car he was standing too and it was too heavy for it to fly off with." * Taki laughs softly. "So what did you do?" Well it was still faster than then the cars and bikes everybody brought... but one of the other guys there had this watch that slowed down time, or made things heavy or something so I put that in the trunk of the other car and the saucer kinda stopped. And then Ari did something to it's electronics and it stopped shooting at us. Then it was all over. ... Sounds like you had fun... Ari is the girl you're going out with now? * Tim laughs again. "What? No! Ari's kinda cute in her own way but she's either a human with a robot body or the other way around or something. She's cool but kinda creepy sometimes. No I'm going out with Yvonne. And why are you making me tell you this if Aunt Katherine already told you everything?" She... doesn't tell me everything. Just little bits and pieces. * Tim rolls his eyes. "I'll bet there's some stuff she hasn't told you, but you don't want me to tell you about that. You just want to hear about me. I'm touched." That's ... the truth. What happened with your next mission? Well, the next one... you heard about the plot to steal the Crown Jewels right? The whole ebay thing? They didn't get them 'cause I stole them first. YOU WHAT?! [Jenny starts from her nap and stirs in Tim's hair.] * Tim winces and hold the phone away from his ear. "Relax, I gave them back and after they counted they were all still there. Aunt Katherine was there too. Ask her, she'll tell you." She... she was? She didn't mention... Of course not. Anyway there were a bunch of other people there who helped too. Like Ari and uhm... what was that jerks name... * Tim drums his fingers on his desk, "Oh yeah! Ben. Total asshole throwning grenades off the top of a building and stuff." (Says the kid who teleported grenades all over London.) (Says the kid who hit what he was aiming for) (except for the pants... let's not talk about the pants.) (I still think DtCJ is, like, the OOC mission of doom.) (Did Nic tell you what my theory on that was?) (Nope. What is?) (The entire room was filled with OOC gas as a defensive precaution against people smart enough to bypass the defenses. Ari (who I'm pretty sure doesn't breath) wasn't affected, but everybody else was.) (Fascinating! You may be right.) Are... there a lot of people like that there? Nah, he's pretty much the only one left. We used to have another one, but she's wanted dead or alive now, so I figure it's just a matter of time. (Tim hasn't spent enough time around Jason to know better.) (What about Margie?) (Maggy agreed with him about Angel and Tim hasn't seen her blow real stuff up.) (Heheh.) I see. That's good I suppose. Noo... it isn't but I'm not going to tell you why yet. Tim? You know better than this. Yes! And the story does get better! See even though I got the jewels there were still a bunch of mercinaries who were trying to take them even if they wern't there any more. There was a giant, and a ninja and a cyborg, and their leader who was just a holograph. Uh... huh. Oh and we had this magic little kid, 'cept he's not actualy a little kid. The kid can make plants grow so he tangled up the giant. And Ari hacked the cyborg and the crazy hologram lady let us watch a gaint robot fight in his head or something. And your wonderous Kathy got herself cut by the ninja and the then she and some other guy pinned him to the wall with her wind. And Ben just kept chucking grenades out the window... I don't think he ever h (Cut off.) (And Ben just kept chucking grenades out the window... I don't think he ever h) (one nice thing about having two connecitions.. I can see that!) I don't think he ever hit the giant with them. It was sad. (Hee. Does Taki call Katherine "Kathy"?) (Yes.) (Which is why I keept messing that up) (Okay. I know Saki calls her Katie; I was wondering.) (It's part of Taki accepting that Katie isn't who she thought she was and has changed.) (*nods*) She what? Is she okay? She didn't kill him did she? She... Uh...er... what were you doing during all this? * Tim rolls his eyes again. "I knew if I waited long enough you'd get back to me. I was catching Ben's grenades and watching Ari's show." And just because you asked, no she didn't kill him while I was watching, and she's just fine now and working for SAB. Isn't that grand? * Taki sighs and swallows audibly. "I I'm sorry Tim... You probibly arn't too happy with that are you?" Sorry I told you or sorry you arn't the one here, or sorry you forgot who you were talking to, or just sorry in general? * Taki 's voice goes icy cold. "Tim." Yes mom? What are you going to do? Show up here and freeze everthing I own in ice? Whine? Make empty threats? [Jenna hops down, ending up on Tim's shoulder. She peers around his face at the other side, towards the phone.] * Taki 's voice remains the same. "I had hoped you learned, some of what she said made me think so. Everything you said up untill now reinfoced that, but I see now that I was wrong. I will not stoop to anything so petty mearly for your amusement. I want to know how you are doing, and Kathy as well, but you cannot maintain a civil conversation... * Tim glances at Jenna. "Empty threats it is!" * Taki sighs. "Goodby Tim. I do love you. Perhaps in a few months we can try this again." * Taki hangs up. * Tim blinks at his phone. "The hell was that all about?" * Tim shrugs and goes back to his computer. [Minisession from hell end!]