Post #54 [Zero X. Diamond]

Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :

Bob kicked back and relaxed. He held up a hand and began to ramble nonchalantly.

"Hey there lady. I think the big lug here isn't out to get you. He seems pretty nice to... me?"

[XD. "to... me?" looks a bit odd when I read it over in my head for some reason]

Bob opened his eyes and looked at Sandra. The strange feeling he'd been having seemed to change a bit. His body started tingling. He really was beginning to doubt his health. Sandra looked up at him.

[Oh noes! Sandra is killing Bob with her mind!! D:]

"Do you realize who this is? This is NEBIROTH! NEB IR OTH! He's a vicious monster from the Phantom Zone!"

[Techincally Nebiroth is pronounced "Neb-bi-roth", but I digress. >.>]

"Me no mean no more. Me only hungry. Need food for tummy."

[For some reason I imagine Nebi talking with a sad, subdued tone when he says this line. XD]

Bob sat there, staring down at Sandra. He didn't know what to do. He started to clutch his head.

Agh! What is this strange feeling that envelops me? Why is it that I must be at a loss to explain it?

[Sandra, stop trying to kill him with your mind-bullets! D:]

It was as if he were burning up. He felt his heart rate skyrocketing. His blood was pumping faster than ever. Zac suddenly approached Bob with a strange look on his face.

"Hey, you okay over here?"

Bob grabbed Zac by the collar.

[Oh yes, this is a staple of Bob as well, the grab-someone-by-the-collar thing. :P]

"TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!!"

"Wrong?" questioned Zac. "You sure don't look like there's anything wrong with you."

"I feel so warm and tingly. And my heart feels like it's going to burst. It all started when I saw her."

[Sandra's mentally giving Bob a heart attack? :O]

Bob pointed at Sandra. Zac couldn't help but giggle. It broke out, and he began outwardly laughing.

"Bob, you dog, you!" he joked.

"Are you," questioned Bob angrily, "trying to pick a fight by calling me a dog?"

[Um.... *blink blink* >.>]

Zac's face suddenly went blank.

[Mirrors my thoughts completely, Zac. :P]

"Uh, Bob? You ever heard of a little thing called 'love?'"

"... L... ove? What is this... love?"

["is it another one of these powers I can't have?" :(]

Zac explained the whole thing as best as he could to Bob. Bob's face suddenly turned bright red and his muscles constricted. He fell off of Nebiroth's shoulder and several feet into the pavement. Sandra looked down at the lovestruck maniac.

"Wow, that looked like it hurt. You need any help getting up?"

Bob stood right up and dusted himself off, coughing up a few clots of blood and some dust.

[Ouch, what a fall. D:]

"No, no... I'll... be... fine..."

He started turning red. It was all he could do. This love thing sure did confuse him.

"Oh, heh, I forgot to ask... What's... uh... your name?"

"My name is Sandra, and you are?"

"Happy Bob... the uh... the Homicidal... Maniac."

[Yes, this is Bob's general full name: "Happy Bob the Homicidal Maniac". Also Zero swears up and down to me that Bob was conceived before the idea of JOHNNY the Homicidal Maniac came into existance. :o]

"Homicidal!?"

"Nonono... uh... not always. I tend to... be nicer... anymore..."

[Well, he does make a point there Sandra... he did help fight Smidgen, even if only because Smidgen pissed him off. :P]

Sandra just didn't get this guy. A homicidal maniac who is turning red and stuttering while talking to her. Oh well, she'd seen stranger, most of which during her stay in the Phantom Zone.

EDIT: Ugh, I hate it when someone posts while I'm writing...

[Yeah, DrAndonuts and ZXD were writing out their posts at the same time, and DrAndounts beat him to the post, and this ZXD had to rewrite some of his own post to make up for it. So this edit DOES have an explaination to it... for once. <_<]

[ June 15, 2002, 12:20 AM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]

[Now to some big info. That "it" I kept refering to in ZXD's last posts is Bob beginning to understand the notion of positive emotions. More specfically, it lead to the beginning of Bob FALLING IN LOVE with Sandra, an extremely important plot point for both of them in this IF.

This is even more important though on a real life basis. This post was what inspired me to make more contact with ZXD in the overall of things, and thus leading to the birth of my 6-7 year job as Co-Webmaster at http://www.zxdware.net/, ZXD's webserver. I'll elaborate even more on other possible things that came out of this 'union' between me and ZXD later in more posts. :o]

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