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.

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[stophamatime]

"Okay, I guess that's fair. That's got to itch, right?"

Not to mention that pole. It might not be getting crucified by a crazy nihilist (Ken's had a weird childhood), but it definitely wasn't a place to keep hanging around. "Do you need help getting down?"

[saltsweet]

"Please," Videl entreated. "There's a big nail driven square in my back." She motioned with one arm toward her back, where she and the pole were held together by a big iron nail the size of a railroad spike. "If you bend that down, I should be able to slide right off."

After giving Ken her instructions, Videl wondered if she was perhaps being too blase about the giant nail in her back. But for some reason, it just didn't seem like a very big deal and she wasn't sure why.

[stophamatime]

"Ouch." He winced; that sounded...uncomfortable, to make a vicious understatement of it. But she didn't sound too in pain or alarmed by it. Side effect of the role, maybe?

He wasn't going to waste the time dwelling on it. He walked around to the other side and reached for the nail. "Like...this?"

[saltsweet]

Videl felt the nail shift in her back but found herself overall unfazed by the sensation.

"Yeah, that's about right." She wiggled about, trying to scoot herself off the nail so she could slip off the pole. "A little more down... That's it!" With another vigorous wiggle, Videl dropped right off the pole and fell in heap onto some stalks of corn.

[stophamatime]

He dropped the nail, immediately coming around the front of the pole and crouching to check on her. "Um, are you okay?"

[saltsweet]

Videl struggled against the corn stalks into a sitting position, breaking a few in the process.

"Much better, thank you!" she replied with a smile. She reached behind her back to the spot where the nail had been, fumbling to cram the straw that made up her insides back inside where it belonged. "It was really quite restrictive, being strung up on a pole like a scarecrow. And before you showed up, some very irritating crows kept flying around and 'caww'ing at me."

[stophamatime]

"That seems...kind of counter to the point of a scarecrow."

Shouldn't they be flying in the other direction?