They're off to see the Wizard...

[gonebyebye]

Who| Ray, Ken, Koromaru, Tadashi, and Videl
What| The Wonderful Legion of Oz
Where| The Land of Oz
When| Through the Looking Glass
Warnings/Notes| N/A

The tornado appears in the middle of New Metropolis without any sort of warning. Everything that crosses it's path quickly gets sucked into the sky. Trees, benches, hot dog carts, cars, and even Legionnaires rapidly vanish into the twirling vortex of wind. Tadashi is the first to go, followed by Ray, and then Videl. Ken and Koromaru are the last to be sent flying away, before the tornado disappears just as quickly as it arrived.

Comments

[gonebyebye]

"'ahn owuh ehre. Ah eh uh."

Sitting on a stump, there is in fact a can. It isn't, however, oil. Rather, it's a can of the WD-40 Ray was asking for.

[stophamatime]

Tomato, to-mah-to?

Koromaru walks up to the stump and barks once, and Ken moves over and grabs the can. "Good boy."

[saltsweet]

Videl tilts her head to the side as she watches the exchange, for some reason finding herself exceptionally confused.

"What do you need a can of lubricant for? I thought you didn't understand all his 'oogly googly' talk."

[stophamatime]

"I didn't, but I've read this book before. Well, watched the anime. When I was a kid, I mean."

(Because he is totally a Mature Young Man and no longer a kid, and he has definitely outgrown things like anime, of course. Why does anyone doubt this.)

[gonebyebye]

Usually Ray was a kind and goodnatured soul. However, being stuck in one place was starting to get on his nerves, and Ken could probably feel Ray's glare boring into his back. The Ghostbuster really wanted out of this.

[saltsweet]

Videl looks blankly between Ken and Ray. "What's anime got to do with anything?"

She fixes her attention in Ray, studying him intently. Ken has clearly already figured out what's wrong here, so why can't she? Burlap brows knitting together in concentration, Videl tries to break down the problem. There's a metal man who speaks in gibberish and Ken thinks this has something to do with lubricant. But why?

Suddenly, the metaphorical light turns on in Videl's straw-filled head. "Oh, I get it now! He's all rusted and can't move. That's why he talks so funny."

[stophamatime]

He's getting there, sheesh.

Still, getting stared at was annoying enough to get him moving a little faster as he started squirting the stuff into all the appropriate joints. Legs, arms, waist, neck...

Yeah, okay, jaw, and hopefully that one wasn't about to bite him in the butt.

"Better?"

[gonebyebye]

"Yeah. Small-scale reality warping that alters the form of anybody trapped within is fascinating, but I could've done without being rusted stiff." Ray says, working his jaw and flexing each of his parts to make sure everything is in working order.