Blitzwing awoke to the smell of
freshly cut grass, most likely because he was flat on his face.
"Uhn,
ok, who spiked ze High-Grade?" he questioned, sitting up and
feeling his face.
He stopped, feeling his face again, it
felt...warm, smooth and...squishy.
He jumped up, glancing at every
part of his teenage body...
"Vat's zis, boots, helmet..."
He
felt his face, knocking of a red monocle with his glove...
"Monocle,
goggles..."
He span, his deep purple trench coat swirled
around...
"Und a velly nice outfit..."
But something was
missing...
"Random...Hothead?" he called out, rapping his
helmet in case they were asleep.
Blitzwing knew that he'd be
stuck on Icy, the downside being not being able to talk with them
until...
"Vat do zou mean, I look fett?!" shouted a
voice, a notable source of ill-temper.
Icy was certain that was
Hothead, the accent notably thicker and even bordering German
itself.
Running to the source of the ranting, Icy found Hothead
arguing with Random.
What surprised Icy was that the completely
opposite personalities looked almost the same; he began to observe
the two teens with mild fascination.
Random was a few inches
shorter than Icy, wore a mask round his mouth that was painted to
imitate his jack 'o' lantern grin and the helmet was tilted so
his eyes were shrouded in shadow.
Hothead however, was huge,
easily reaching six feet tall and back-up muscle to prove it, with
his visor clamped over his eyes and his tanned face scrunched into a
vicious glare.
"I'm juzt saying zat purple izn't zour
colour!" the crazy doppelganger remarked, holding up his hands in
defence. Not that it would do much good, Hothead was stronger than he
and Icy put together...
"Graah, ven did zou become a
modeschöpfer kritiker?!" growled Hothead, raising his fists to
bury the person in front of him into the ground.
That was another
thing Icy noticed; Hothead was using more German words than Random,
while Random was presumably blurting out whatever appeared in his
head at the time in a thicker accent than Icy...
'Now to make mein move...' he
thought, stepping through the bushes to greet his new
comrades.
Hothead tackled Random to the floor, getting ready with
the insulting punches when Random saw Icy...
"Icy!" he
squealed, overjoyed at his comrades entrance.
Hothead looked
confused, giving Random an odd look...
"Who, who do zou see?"
he roared, whipping his head from left to right so fast his helmet
span round.
Random took this opportunity to crawl from underneath
Hothead and pull off a large branch from a nearby tree...
"I
vill zerstören ze ungläubig who turned out ze light!" screamed
Hothead, his fists flailing around as if fighting thin air.
Random
happily skipped back over to Hothead, who was now being consulted by
Icy...
"Ok Hothead, zis vont hurt ein stange..." he said,
laughing evilly as he bought the branch over his shoulder in a
baseball position.
Icy retreated to behind a tree, waiting for
Hothead to pull Random's head off.
There he saw a billboard,
saying...
FREE SPACE TO RENT, CONTAINS THREE BEDROOMS AND ALL
THE ESSENTIALS! APPLY IN BUILDING BELOW!
Icy wandered over to
the shabby building, giving the outside a critical look...
"Hmm,
shabby, old, crumbling remains of a factory..." he muttered,
inspecting the buildings front and shrugging his shoulders...
"Ay,
was der hölle?" he said as he walked inside, now confronted by a
small man with an equally small desk. The little man looked at Icy
with scared eyes, as if his whole world had just slowly collapsed
into a sorry puddle...
"C-can I h-help y-y-you, s-sir?" he
asked in a tiny voice, clearly not having a customer for years.
Icy
was about to unload some ice blasts when he slapped himself
mentally...
Du idiot! Du ar vermutet zu betragen inkognito!
Icy
steadied himself, leaning down to the little man...
"Ja, I vould
like to buy zis building..."
Before he knew it the little man
had thrown him the keys, grabbed his jacket, shook Icy's hand and
had taken off down the street like a hare shouting "Fools, the
world is full of fools!"
This left Icy holding the keys with a
slightly disturbed look on his face...
"Uh, sank you?" he
questioned the air, before looking down at the keys and realising
that Random and Hothead were outside, together, in broad
daylight...
"Oh scheiße!" he growled, locking the door and
running to the top of a nearby hill to get a good look round.
He didn't have to look far; the
sound of clashing metal was all he needed to hear.
Well, that and
a few screams of nearby bystanders that were witnessing a death match
between a lumpy-und-pissed-off Hothead and a random-as-hell
psychomaniac holding a tree branch like a club...
"Aw c'mon
Hothead, iz zat ze best zou've got?" cackled Random, whirling the
branch through the air expertly...
"Graah!" roared Hothead,
picking up metal pipe "I vill melt zou into schlacke!"
"Bring
it on mädchen!" shouted Random as he sprinted at Hothead, branch
spinning above his head...
"Prepare for vergessenheit!"
Hothead screamed the metal whizzing through the air in blind
rage.
Icy had joined the chanting crowd that had ringed round the
two brawlers...
"Vat's going on viz zeze two?" he asked a
bystander who was next to him...
"I don't know they just
started fighting..." said the girl, looking at him with an
uninterested glance "Hey, you sound just like them..."
Icy
sharply straightened up, trying to think up an answer at the speed of
sound.
It didn't help that he was blushing either, and the best
he could come up with was...
"Uhh...brozzers?"
The girl
stared at him for a while before smacking her forehead...
"Of
course! That's why you share the accent!" she said, extending her
hand "My name's Marie, Marie Hamton...you are?"
Icy took
under a second to come up with a name, and one that couldn't be
more obvious...
"Eisig Von Blitz, ze vun wiz
ze metal pipe iz Hitzig Von Blitz, und ze vun zat cackles iz Planlos
Von Blitz."
He took her hand, meanfully shaking it and
asking...
"Could zou...help me to separate zem before zey kill
each ozzer?"
Marie grinned and nodded, ready for action.
Five seconds later and Random was
pinned to the floor with Hothead ready to beat his face into a bloody
pulp, when Icy tackled him off.
The two former personalities
rolled about on the floor, dealing many verbal abuses while Marie
helped Random out of the crowd...
"Here, grab my hand and I'll
get you cleaned up..." she said carefully slipping her hand into
his.
To Random sanity was a word that meant nothing to him, but as
the femme slipped her hand into his he felt the world start revolving
around him, and make more sense than
normal...
"Umm...err...Sank...You?" he stuttered, his vision
starting to blur into blackness "I...I...feel...ick..."
And
then he collapsed.
Marie turned to see the sudden increase of
weight, screamed at the sight of Random completely
out-cold...
"Eisig, Planlos just collapsed!" she shouted at
the middle of the crowd, to which a few outside rushed over to get a
look.
Above the chanting and the yelling Icy and Hothead both
heard her cry and thought the same thing...
"Scheiße!" they
both shouted, barging through the stragglers to Random's
position.
Icy managed to slide to his "brother's" side,
while Hothead screamed at everyone to back away by using an
assortment of German curses that came at his disposal.
Icy checked
him over, rapping on the side of Random's helmet in case he was
still functioning.
Muttering a few German words he turned and gave
the oddest request in the whole situation...
"Hitzig, abholen
mich ein auto batterie!" he yelled at the top of his voice, to
which Hothead ran to the nearest car, tore off the bonnet and
snatched out the battery before running over and landing beside
him.
Marie watched in confusion as Hothead plugged two wires into
the car and Icy asked for the owner's keys and plugged the
remaining two wires into a small wound that he had made in Random's
chest.
Throwing Hothead the keys and clearing the area, he pulled
on his goggles and shouted...
"Hitzig, vorsprung dass maschine!"
he yelled, a dangerous smile forming on his lips as electricity
surged along the cables until...
To two of Blitzwing's
personalities the world was a mass of strobe lights, to the other
one, the feeling of wind was being sprayed at his face by an air
cannon.
To everyone else, there was a cackle along the lines
of...
"HE AWAKES! HAHAHAHAHA!"
...and the recumbent body
that once lay on the floor was now over 30 feet into the air and
continuing to climb until the magical 40 feet, where gravity got its
say and started to pull him downwards at 150 miles per hour.
Hothead
and Marie moved over to Icy, watched the body bury itself in a tree
and cause a very cliché nuclear explosion...
"Eisig, is he
going to be alright?" asked Marie, an eyebrow raising to influence
the question.
Icy gave her a Couldn't-care-less expression,
clearly tired from today's events...
"Trust me, he's been
head-butted, maimed, blown to pieces and pretty much anyzing else zou
can sink of..." said Icy, before asking...
"Zou haff a
home?"
Marie blushed, rubbing the back of her head in
embarrassment...
"Not really..."
Hothead stepped in at that
moment...
"Zou may liff vis uz until ve depart!" he exclaimed,
taking her shoulder and leading her towards the building...
"Az
long az zou don't piss me off, or touch mein stuff,
or beat up Random because zat's
mein job..."
Icy sighed, and when things were already
getting off to a bad start he suddenly remembered Random, pausing for
only a second until shaking his head...
"Aah, he'll be fine if
I leave ze door unlocked..." he said to the sky in general, before
running to catch up with Hothead...
Meanwhile, an unfamiliar shape
flickered in the shadows, but a familiar voice sniggered and
said...
"Extremely promising..."
The shape burst into a fit
of laughter, at least until someone threw a flower pot at his head...
Phew, done on day one!
Day two
is up next!
And for those who don't know the German language,
the link for the dictionary I used is below...
./English-German-Dictionary/
Thanks for reading!
NTM
