16th Invasion

[moemoetentacles]

[Action; around town]

[Squid Girl's got a new project she's working on, so today she's excitedly running around town sidelining random people on the streets to see if they want to help her out.  She might also be coming up to your door and knocking excitedly.  Special attention is paid to mousy, shy, or nervous looking types, but she's harassing more or less everyone she can find about this.]

Hey, hey!  Do you want to be in a movie?  My neighbor and I are making one, and it's gonna be great!

[Action for 1245 Williams Road]

[She also pays a visit to Taiwan's place in particular, because she's pretty sure she's gonna need a favor from her to make this thing go off without a hitch.  So she's knock-knock-knockin' on your door too.]

Taiwan!  Are you home?

Comments

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

A movie?

[Pause.]

Aahhhhh! You're the monster that's gonna rampage on the set?! I-I spent a lot of effort on it, so . . . please be careful! And they weren't one-liners, either, so don't say it, OK?!

[This is probably incomprehensible to Squid Girl.]

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm the giant squid!

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . You look more like a girl. But still, why are squids and sharks fighting on land?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

So that they can smash the town while they fight! It's way more exciting that way.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

B-But . . . ! That doesn't make any sense. They would both die . . .

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

But I'm a squid, and I can live on land...

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . Your hat looks a little like a squid . . .

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I've even got tentacles! See?

[waving them around and whatnot]

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Aaagh! Lucas steps back a little in shock.]

But that's your hair . . . How do you do that?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I just do it. I've always been able to.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

But . . . are all squids in your world like you?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Well, not all of them. I guess I'm just special.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . And you came from the water and everything?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Yup! Right out of the ocean.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Well, this is a little much for Lucas to believe but it's not like she has any reason to lie. After a bit . . . ]

Does it really have to be such a violent movie?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be very exciting if they didn't fight.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . It could be heartwarming and touching instead of exciting.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Like what? The squid and the shark make friends or something?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . .

Yes! And then . . . they decide they'd rather help the farmers and the citizens instead of murdering them.

[pause. Lucas fills the rest in with a rush as he thinks about what would be appealing.]

And then for a hundred generations after that the people of the city worship the mighty squid and the mighty shark that saved them from devastation and burn offerings to them and everything but the mighty squid a little more because it had more arms so it needs more offerings to be satisfied.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Well, I like the part about humans worshipping me, but the shark isn't allowed to share any of that. He has to go back to the ocean because he's a jerk.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

That's fine. It's just someone dressed up like one anyway right?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. But I hate sharks, so it has to lose the fight.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

But the rest of the idea is good, right?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why the squid would want to help the humans. I mean, they've never done anything for her!

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

It's because. Um.

. . .

While she's rampaging through the town she suddenly sees a little boy and she's about to stomp on his house and then he cries out and leaps forward to selflessly save his beloved pet squid from her crushing tentacles! And so she . . . has a change of heart! Uh-huh!