By Crossroads, ID 11004
Crossroads was walking down one of the many corridors in the orbital BADGE headquarters on her way to the Arboretum to meet Leslie for a Girls’ Night Out. Crossroads was wearing a classic LBD (Little Black Dress) with her favorite pair of heels. She could hear a ruckus coming from one of the offices up ahead and hurried to see what was going on. As she approached the doorway to the office she could clearly hear someone yelling in a gruff and angry voice.
“Blast it EB! You do not have an office on the station! You can’t just hop in and take over someone else’s office!”
“Hah! You said ‘hop’! You made a pun! I knew you had it in you, old buddy!”
“It was not intended and I don’t see anything funny about this! We need those records Agent Justin was working on AND we need Agent Justin! This is his office and NOT yours, you infuriating bunny!”
“Aww, he wasn’t doing anything anyway, he was asleep at his desk!”
“Because you put him in a sugar coma making him taste test your newest chocolate recipes! My people are not YOUR guinea pigs!”
“But Justin is very helpful! I’m sure he volunteered....at least he didn’t say ‘no’.”
“You shoved an egg in his mouth as soon as he opened it to protest!”
“No, I’m sure he was indicating he wanted to taste my chocolate....”
As Crossroads looked into Agent Justin’s office, she say Commander Nova lunge for the Easter Bunny. But EB, was too fast this time and started jumping all over the office, just out of Nova’s grasp. EB suddenly took a right turn and jumped straight out of the office and crashed into Crossroads. She found herself sprawled on the floor of the corridor with a giant, and surprisingly heavy, bunny on top of her smiling from large ear to large ear.
“Crossroads! I’m so happy to see you! Thanks for catching me, I was afraid I was going to hit the wall pretty hard and my buddy Nova hates it when I leave paw prints and dents on the walls! Nice outfit! Are you going somewhere? Can I come, too? it’s getting boring here. Have you been working out again? Your muscles feel pretty firm!” EB rambled on and on.
Crossroads looked up at him in irritation and growing anger. “Get your paws off me! Those aren’t muscles, you perverted bunny! Get off!” So saying, she grabbed the Easter Bunny and hurled him about 30 feet down the corridor, not a bad distance from a prone position. Crossroads got up and dusted herself off, glaring at EB.
“I’m sorry, Crossroads, I get carried away around pretty girls! Here, have one of my newest chocolate creations!” EB handed her a small chocolate egg in a gold foil wrapper. Crossroads gingerly took the egg, looking suspiciously at the EB. “Honest, Crossroads! It’s a new formula for my milk chocolate eggs. It tastes like the best chocolate in the world to non-enhanced humans, but to those who have Morphon-enhancements it has a whole different dimension of flavor added to it! It’s really hard to explain, you gotta try it to understand.”
“Hmm, a different dimension of flavor? Sounds interesting...and I do like your chocolates. Okay, I’ll give it a try.” Crossroads carefully unwrapped the gold-foiled egg and popped it in her mouth just as Nova exited Agent Justin’s office. Initially, she tasted just chocolate, albeit the finest chocolate she’d ever tasted. It was rich and creamy with just the right amount of cacao to give it a dark chocolate bite, but with the smoothness of the smoothest milk chocolate ever made. It coated her tongue in a blanket of chocolatey deliciousness she hoped would never end. Yet it was still only the taste of the finest chocolate, not a ‘different dimension of flavor.’
And then Crossroads swallowed.
Suddenly rampant energy coursed through her, energizing every cell. She felt more powerful than before. It was a rush! Eventually, the feeling faded, but leaving her wide awake and energized, feeling as if she could run a marathon every day for the next week
“Wow, EB!” Crossroads gushed. “That was absolutely amazing! Can I get some more?”
“Sure!” chortled EB. “I love to share my chocolate! But you’ll have to help me deliver this chocolate to the other heroes. They move around so much its hard for even me to keep up with all of them!”
EB waved his paws and suddenly a large basket appeared before Crossroads. “Okay, just take this basket and start handing it out to any BADGE personnel, hero or support, that you see. Once we get everyone on the station, we can move our efforts to the planet.”
Crossroads smiled and said, “Got it! Let’s hop to it!”
EB rolled his eyes and sighed, “Ha ha ha. So funny. Just call my name if you run out of eggs. You shouldn’t I set it up to replenish automatically if it gets empty.”
Crossroads saluted smartly and took off down the hall, looking in rooms as she passed. EB watched her figure recede from sight and thought, “Such a nice pretty girl....did she always have a cottontail?”
EB jumped in surprise as Nova bellowed, “Get in here you blasted rabbit and give Agent Justin the antidote! “
“Oh, the antidote...yeah, ok....,” stammered EB as he shuffled back into the office.
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Crossroads raced down the halls of the station handing out a chocolate egg to everyone she came across. Most people didn’t even have time to thank her or compliment her on her very fine bunny ears she was wearing. After every 5 eggs she handed out, Crossroads ate another delicious chocolate egg. She knew she was going to pay for it with way more time in the gym, but it was worth it!
Rushing through the arboretum, she found herself hopping along merrily singing “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” and handing out more eggs.
Crossroads came upon a large group of heroes and staff enjoying the peace and natural setting of the arboretum. As she handed out eggs to the bemused members of the group, she noticed that some of them were looking at her strangely and some seemed to be leering at her. She just shrugged it off and waved goodbye to everyone and started to leap away. At that moment Agent Leslie walked in.
“ALLYSON!” Leslie shouted. “Stop handing out the chocolate!”
Crossroads skidded to a halt and hopped over to Leslie to ask why. “What up, Leslie?”
“You need to stop handing out the chocolate, Allyson,“ said Leslie. “Orders from Commander Nova. Apparently, EB didn’t do enough testing of his chocolate. It has some ....um... side effects.” It seemed that Leslie was trying not to laugh about something.
“What kind of side effects?” wondered Crossroads. “I feel perfectly normal and nothing weird has happened.”
“Ummm, come with me for a minute, Allyson,” ordered Leslie. Agent Leslie led Crossroads over to one of the arboretum windows that looked out into space. Touching a control button on the bottom sill, Leslie said, “Mirror mode.”
Leslie took a deep breath and said, “Take a good look Allyson.”
Crossroads looked at the reflection in the mirrored window. She saw the trees and bushes and flowers in the arboretum behind her. She saw Agent Leslie in her normal lab coat, which was thrown over a very figure-hugging dress for a night out on the town with her best friend, looking in the mirror back at her. She saw herself in her LBD, strappy heels, Easter basket over her arm, very long and straight furry rabbit ears swiveling left and right listening to everything in the area, cute little bunny nose and whiskers twitching in curiosity as she tried to figure out what Leslie was talking about.
“I don’t see anything. What should I be seeing?” asked Crossroads.
“Allyson...Ally, ummm... tell me, what color did you paint your nails?” Leslie inquired.
Crossroads reflexively looked down at her paws as she began to say, “Red, of course.....”
Crossroads stared at her paws in silence for a minute. Leslie heard a strange sound as she watched Crossroads turn a deep red, eyes blazing. She realized it was the sound of Crossroads’ teeth grinding.
“I’m going to kill that rabbit.” Crossroads stalked out of the arboretum, very beautiful rabbit ears laid back, cute little rabbit nose and whisker twitching, and very sharp looking teeth bared.
Some of the newer heroes watched her leave, wondering what was going on and why one of the more experienced heroes was dressed like a Playboy Bunny.
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Agent Justin was recovering quickly. He was back at his desk, pulling together the report that Nova wanted. Strange Quark had appeared to speak with Nova while EB continually peppered Justin with questions about how the chocolate tasted? What did he feel? Could he think of anything the flavor was missing? Justin just ignored him. Suddenly from outside the office and down the corridor, Nova, Quark, Justin, and EB could hear yelling.
“EASTER BUNNY! I’m going to kill you! Its Hassenpfeffer for dinner tonight” Crossroads yelled and she bounded down the corridor.
‘Uh-oh .... Umm, hey I gotta go and check on my factories. Make sure they don’t release this last batch of chocolate, “EB said as he looked for the nearest exit. Unfortunately for him, there was only one and it was suddenly blocked by a fuming, rabbit-eared, rabbit-pawed, red-haired beauty in a cocktail dress with red-eyes glaring at the Easter Bunny.
“Wow, hey, Crossroads! You look great! I mean really pretty! Have I said that today? I really like what you done with your ears....I mean hair!” EB started backpedaling as Crossroads leaped across the room towards him. EB dodged her outstretched and raced out of the room. Crossroads tore after him out the door and down the hall, surprising keeping pace with him ans ricocheted off of walls, ceiling and floor.
“Why you little flea-bitten rabbit! I’m gonna turn you into fuzzy bunny slippers by putting my foot so far up your....,” Crossroads voice faded out as their bizarre chase took them out of hearing range.
Nova, Justin, and Quark looked at each other and laughed. Quark suddenly turned into a blue duck and quacked “Rabbit season!”
“Blast it EB! You do not have an office on the station! You can’t just hop in and take over someone else’s office!”
“Hah! You said ‘hop’! You made a pun! I knew you had it in you, old buddy!”
“It was not intended and I don’t see anything funny about this! We need those records Agent Justin was working on AND we need Agent Justin! This is his office and NOT yours, you infuriating bunny!”
“Aww, he wasn’t doing anything anyway, he was asleep at his desk!”
“Because you put him in a sugar coma making him taste test your newest chocolate recipes! My people are not YOUR guinea pigs!”
“But Justin is very helpful! I’m sure he volunteered....at least he didn’t say ‘no’.”
“You shoved an egg in his mouth as soon as he opened it to protest!”
“No, I’m sure he was indicating he wanted to taste my chocolate....”
As Crossroads looked into Agent Justin’s office, she say Commander Nova lunge for the Easter Bunny. But EB, was too fast this time and started jumping all over the office, just out of Nova’s grasp. EB suddenly took a right turn and jumped straight out of the office and crashed into Crossroads. She found herself sprawled on the floor of the corridor with a giant, and surprisingly heavy, bunny on top of her smiling from large ear to large ear.
“Crossroads! I’m so happy to see you! Thanks for catching me, I was afraid I was going to hit the wall pretty hard and my buddy Nova hates it when I leave paw prints and dents on the walls! Nice outfit! Are you going somewhere? Can I come, too? it’s getting boring here. Have you been working out again? Your muscles feel pretty firm!” EB rambled on and on.
Crossroads looked up at him in irritation and growing anger. “Get your paws off me! Those aren’t muscles, you perverted bunny! Get off!” So saying, she grabbed the Easter Bunny and hurled him about 30 feet down the corridor, not a bad distance from a prone position. Crossroads got up and dusted herself off, glaring at EB.
“I’m sorry, Crossroads, I get carried away around pretty girls! Here, have one of my newest chocolate creations!” EB handed her a small chocolate egg in a gold foil wrapper. Crossroads gingerly took the egg, looking suspiciously at the EB. “Honest, Crossroads! It’s a new formula for my milk chocolate eggs. It tastes like the best chocolate in the world to non-enhanced humans, but to those who have Morphon-enhancements it has a whole different dimension of flavor added to it! It’s really hard to explain, you gotta try it to understand.”
“Hmm, a different dimension of flavor? Sounds interesting...and I do like your chocolates. Okay, I’ll give it a try.” Crossroads carefully unwrapped the gold-foiled egg and popped it in her mouth just as Nova exited Agent Justin’s office. Initially, she tasted just chocolate, albeit the finest chocolate she’d ever tasted. It was rich and creamy with just the right amount of cacao to give it a dark chocolate bite, but with the smoothness of the smoothest milk chocolate ever made. It coated her tongue in a blanket of chocolatey deliciousness she hoped would never end. Yet it was still only the taste of the finest chocolate, not a ‘different dimension of flavor.’
And then Crossroads swallowed.
Suddenly rampant energy coursed through her, energizing every cell. She felt more powerful than before. It was a rush! Eventually, the feeling faded, but leaving her wide awake and energized, feeling as if she could run a marathon every day for the next week
“Wow, EB!” Crossroads gushed. “That was absolutely amazing! Can I get some more?”
“Sure!” chortled EB. “I love to share my chocolate! But you’ll have to help me deliver this chocolate to the other heroes. They move around so much its hard for even me to keep up with all of them!”
EB waved his paws and suddenly a large basket appeared before Crossroads. “Okay, just take this basket and start handing it out to any BADGE personnel, hero or support, that you see. Once we get everyone on the station, we can move our efforts to the planet.”
Crossroads smiled and said, “Got it! Let’s hop to it!”
EB rolled his eyes and sighed, “Ha ha ha. So funny. Just call my name if you run out of eggs. You shouldn’t I set it up to replenish automatically if it gets empty.”
Crossroads saluted smartly and took off down the hall, looking in rooms as she passed. EB watched her figure recede from sight and thought, “Such a nice pretty girl....did she always have a cottontail?”
EB jumped in surprise as Nova bellowed, “Get in here you blasted rabbit and give Agent Justin the antidote! “
“Oh, the antidote...yeah, ok....,” stammered EB as he shuffled back into the office.
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Crossroads raced down the halls of the station handing out a chocolate egg to everyone she came across. Most people didn’t even have time to thank her or compliment her on her very fine bunny ears she was wearing. After every 5 eggs she handed out, Crossroads ate another delicious chocolate egg. She knew she was going to pay for it with way more time in the gym, but it was worth it!
Rushing through the arboretum, she found herself hopping along merrily singing “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” and handing out more eggs.
Crossroads came upon a large group of heroes and staff enjoying the peace and natural setting of the arboretum. As she handed out eggs to the bemused members of the group, she noticed that some of them were looking at her strangely and some seemed to be leering at her. She just shrugged it off and waved goodbye to everyone and started to leap away. At that moment Agent Leslie walked in.
“ALLYSON!” Leslie shouted. “Stop handing out the chocolate!”
Crossroads skidded to a halt and hopped over to Leslie to ask why. “What up, Leslie?”
“You need to stop handing out the chocolate, Allyson,“ said Leslie. “Orders from Commander Nova. Apparently, EB didn’t do enough testing of his chocolate. It has some ....um... side effects.” It seemed that Leslie was trying not to laugh about something.
“What kind of side effects?” wondered Crossroads. “I feel perfectly normal and nothing weird has happened.”
“Ummm, come with me for a minute, Allyson,” ordered Leslie. Agent Leslie led Crossroads over to one of the arboretum windows that looked out into space. Touching a control button on the bottom sill, Leslie said, “Mirror mode.”
Leslie took a deep breath and said, “Take a good look Allyson.”
Crossroads looked at the reflection in the mirrored window. She saw the trees and bushes and flowers in the arboretum behind her. She saw Agent Leslie in her normal lab coat, which was thrown over a very figure-hugging dress for a night out on the town with her best friend, looking in the mirror back at her. She saw herself in her LBD, strappy heels, Easter basket over her arm, very long and straight furry rabbit ears swiveling left and right listening to everything in the area, cute little bunny nose and whiskers twitching in curiosity as she tried to figure out what Leslie was talking about.
“I don’t see anything. What should I be seeing?” asked Crossroads.
“Allyson...Ally, ummm... tell me, what color did you paint your nails?” Leslie inquired.
Crossroads reflexively looked down at her paws as she began to say, “Red, of course.....”
Crossroads stared at her paws in silence for a minute. Leslie heard a strange sound as she watched Crossroads turn a deep red, eyes blazing. She realized it was the sound of Crossroads’ teeth grinding.
“I’m going to kill that rabbit.” Crossroads stalked out of the arboretum, very beautiful rabbit ears laid back, cute little rabbit nose and whisker twitching, and very sharp looking teeth bared.
Some of the newer heroes watched her leave, wondering what was going on and why one of the more experienced heroes was dressed like a Playboy Bunny.
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Agent Justin was recovering quickly. He was back at his desk, pulling together the report that Nova wanted. Strange Quark had appeared to speak with Nova while EB continually peppered Justin with questions about how the chocolate tasted? What did he feel? Could he think of anything the flavor was missing? Justin just ignored him. Suddenly from outside the office and down the corridor, Nova, Quark, Justin, and EB could hear yelling.
“EASTER BUNNY! I’m going to kill you! Its Hassenpfeffer for dinner tonight” Crossroads yelled and she bounded down the corridor.
‘Uh-oh .... Umm, hey I gotta go and check on my factories. Make sure they don’t release this last batch of chocolate, “EB said as he looked for the nearest exit. Unfortunately for him, there was only one and it was suddenly blocked by a fuming, rabbit-eared, rabbit-pawed, red-haired beauty in a cocktail dress with red-eyes glaring at the Easter Bunny.
“Wow, hey, Crossroads! You look great! I mean really pretty! Have I said that today? I really like what you done with your ears....I mean hair!” EB started backpedaling as Crossroads leaped across the room towards him. EB dodged her outstretched and raced out of the room. Crossroads tore after him out the door and down the hall, surprising keeping pace with him ans ricocheted off of walls, ceiling and floor.
“Why you little flea-bitten rabbit! I’m gonna turn you into fuzzy bunny slippers by putting my foot so far up your....,” Crossroads voice faded out as their bizarre chase took them out of hearing range.
Nova, Justin, and Quark looked at each other and laughed. Quark suddenly turned into a blue duck and quacked “Rabbit season!”
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