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Ahhh...my wonderful fans. How I do apreciate you.
Special thanks to my totally patient reviewers:
mattb3671 - Ta da! Here you go!
xXQuicksilverXx - I know, I know, I'm sooooooo terrible! Btw, I'm not planning on ending this. I just am focusing on my other stories right now.
Shoradragon7 - May I ask why?
and the unsigned one known as
Imomo - OK.
I thank everyone else who reviewed last year as well.
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As she was signing in, Sheryl's boss Mr. Lloyd spotted her and made his way over to her in purposeful strides. Oh, great. I hope this isn't going to be one of those longwinded rants on how I should take my job more seriously or something else unfounded.
Plastering on a fake and friendly smile she was so talented at she asked, "Mr. Lloyd! Is something wrong?"
Expecting something about her extended absence or not arriving early, she was shocked when the usually composed manager suddenly blurted out, "Thank god you're here Sheryl! I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't shown up. You're trained as a teller right?"
"Of course. Why?", she refrained from telling him that she had been so since just after her first week there.
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As she walked back to the employee lounge to drop off her stuff, he filled her in, "Janice, Marco, and Erick are the only ones who showed up today. That means we're three tellers short. I can fill in for one, but I need you to try to take care of the other two. Also, I don't expect we'll be getting any reinforcements because Lizzy, Fran, Melly, and Juan all called in sick at the last minute. Karen went into labor last night, I still haven't heard how that went, and Derrick finally quit like he threatened."
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This is my big chance! If she cut it today, maybe he would promote her to working as a teller full time. After all, if Derrick had quit, then there would now be a spot open.
Her boss's next words both filled her with both excitement and dread, "Since we're so low on staff, that means you'll have to run two counters the whole day. If you somehow manage that miracle, I'll not only pay you for both positions today, but double the pay as well."
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He logged her into both computers and then took off down the counter to the last open one on the far end, leaving her to overcome her sudden shock alone. The click as Janice unlocked the doors, before hurrying back to her station shook her from her reverie. Just in time for the first morning rush.
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Hours after weary hours later, it was finally lunch time for the employees of the bank. This was around one in the afternoon and the bank was now closed until two. Moaning with fatigue, four of the five exhausted figures that remained within the building made their way back to the employeelounge. They fell into the couches and furniture there like rag dolls.
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After a few moments rest one gathered the energy to speak, "God, I never thought I'd say this, but payday sucks!" Mumbles of agreement soon followed Erick's statement.
"Hey, where's Mr. Lloyd?", Marco rasped out of his dry throat, too tired to even get up to go to the drinking fountain three feet from his seat, let alone the Pepsi machine across the room.
Everyone shrugged. "I hope he didn't collapse out in the lobby after locking up or something.", Janice mumbled from her position at the table. Mumbled, because her head was currently pillowed in her arms with her face down.
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Just then, a delicious aroma reached the lounge, perking up the slumping employees. Moments later the source came into view. Into the lounge stumbled the weary Mr. Lloyd followed by a pizza delivery dude with loaded arms. Sighs of appreciation were soon heard.
As the delivery dude unloaded onto the table where a now partially revived Janice sat up at, Mr. Lloyd grinned and explained, "Since we all have been working so incredibly hard and with such rushed circumstances, I figured we all deserved a treat and bit of rest. Besides this little pizza party, I'm extending our lunches by a half an hour." There was a muffled cheer to follow that statement. Muffled, because the others were already digging in and it's kind of hard to cheer around pizza in your mouth.
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Almost an hour and a half later of eating, talking and relaxing, the employees of the bank were nearly recovered from the morning stampede of customers. They lounged contented and full. Swallowing the last bite of her last Hawaiian pizza slice, Sheryl reached for another one of the 20oz bottles of Pepsi products that had come with the pizzas. Untwisting the lid and taking a gulp, she had to force herself to swallow and not choke when Janice asked her, "Hey Sheryl, what's with the new hairdo?"
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Smirking as numerous civilians caught sight of him and either shrieked or gasped before they fled in terror, Hot Streak sauntered towards his destination. I wonder if I'll even make it to the bank before the static twerp gang shows up. The way the civvies were freaking, he had doubted it would be long before they came for him, so was quite surprised when he found himself a mere block away from the stone facade of one of the larger banks in Dakota. The granite edifice had no recent signs of repair and looked like none of the Bang Baby thugs had hit it recently. A quick flash of regret that such an unsuspecting, but prime, target was going to be only an excuse to get caught ran through him.
He shrugged, "Oh well, where there's one there must be others."
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Flaming up, he raised his hand and summoned a fireball to his palm. He winced as a few patches on his back were burned, but ignored it as he stepped forward to begin his assault.
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Hope you like. Hope you forgive me for such rude lateness in updating.
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Oh, and I was wondering... could you guys help me out?
It's been well over a year now since I watched any actual episodes. The last one I saw was the one with Brainiac taking over Richie so, needless to say, I am a bit out of date.
Sure my story is an alternate one with many smaller differnces, not the least of which is the Shock Troops or my own charecter, but I still need a fair amount of... background to base events on.
I did see the Second Big Bang, but I'm not sure where that fits in the timeline... my memories a bit hazy since it was so long ago I watched it.
I'd apreciate it if someone would e-mail me with a few details from some of the key episodes and some of the main villains as well as some of the more obscure Bang Babies.
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Thanks!
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