Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 6:53 pm**

Janice came bopping up the stairs towards Will's office, wearing a pair of headphones, but not her glasses. She wasn't dressed quite in her usual style. Nodding her head to some unheard beat, she knocked on Will's office door.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:09 pm**

"Come in," Will called.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:12 pm**

Janice dances on in, still bobbing to the beat.

"Heeeeeeey," she says, "what's uuuuuup?"

It isn't... quite a horrible American accent. It just isn't certain what she was going for. Is she a surfer? A cowgirl?

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:16 pm**

"....Janice?" Will asked, quizzingly.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:17 pm**

"Yeah?"

"Look Will, I was just thinking, y'know, that we should do something... dude."

She gestures for emphasis.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:20 pm**

"...Oooooook. What did you have in mind?" Will said, casually opening the bottom drawer of his desk.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:21 pm**

"We should, like... go skateboarding," she improvises. "I could catch you. On the flippity flop."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:24 pm**

"...California, late 80s, right? You don't need to actually do the lingo thing, you know, but if you do..." Will said, reaching into the bottom drawer and pulling out a cassette tape, of all things.

"Accent tapes. Got 'em for my acting classes. Southern California is probably the closest I have to what you're going for."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:26 pm**

"What? No, no, I just thought it would be fun for us to do together. And gnarly. And... badical."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:30 pm**

"Radical," Will corrected, standing up.

"But this could work. Do you know how to skateboard?"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:33 pm**

"I'll have you know that I was the South London Tony Hawkins vertical total zero owie fakie grind champion for three years running!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:37 pm**

Will pulled a five-pound note out of his pocket.

"This is yours if you can tell me what any of that means."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:37 pm**

"Look you!" Another Janice came barging into the office, this one dressed more normally. "Sorry about this, Will," she said as she started tugging other Janice away.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:39 pm**

"What are you..." She says in surprise, keeping up the fake accent. "No, you're going to ruin everything!" She struggles against the other Janice.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:40 pm**

Will took a step back into surprise, eyes darting from one to the other.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:42 pm**

"Danger Room accident. You understand, right?" She attempted to subdue the other Janice.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:44 pm**

"No! No!" she exclaims, continuing to struggle even as she's subdued. "You will not stop this unit! This unit loves the huuuu-mohn Will Stan-Ton..."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:45 pm**

Will nodded...and lunged! His body expanded and he jumped over "RoboJanice", attempting to envelop her completely within his clay!

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:54 pm**

There's a brief muffled gasp of surprise, followed by...

"Yes! Embrace your true love, Will Stan-Ton! My circuits are ready!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 7:57 pm**

'Normal' Janice yanks her hands back just in time. "Well, that settles that I guess. Thanks for your help."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:00 pm**

"Bloody danger room," Will swore, encircling Janice as a big ball of clay, attempting to cut her off from the outside. "Don't worry, I think I've got it now."

"What happened?" he said, swiveling his 180 degrees to face the "other" Janice.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:01 pm**

"This unit is safe and secure within the moist confines of Will Stan-Ton!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:03 pm**

Will squeezed a little on the inside, trying to disable the 'robot'.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:07 pm**

"You'll want to be careful with it, I'm sure they'll want to take a look at it," she said, managing to hide her reaction to his strange head rotation. "Was just doing a training simulation against myself and the bloody thing went on the fritz."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:11 pm**

There's an involuntary gasp at the squeeze, followed by a muffled "Ow! Bloody hell!" Then a pause. "Er... ERROR, ERROR."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:14 pm**

Will paused for a moment, eyebrow raised.

Inside the clay sphere, Janice would suddenly find herself poked and prodded by a half-dozen hands.

"Janice, will you come over here and give me a hand? Don't want to have to roll all the way over to the labs, you know," he said, casually.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:16 pm**

"Okay," 'Janice' said, moving closer. "Just let me know when you're ready for me to grab her."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:17 pm**

Within the sphere there's squirming, and the occasional "Eep!" and "Gerroff!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:19 pm**

"OK, on three.

One.

Two...."

And before Will could get to three, he rolled straight for "Janice", planning to envelop HER in the clay, as well! Drag 'em all to a secure location and sort it out, that was his motto.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:22 pm**

"Ack! Good go..." was all she got out before Will engulfed her.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:27 pm**

"Well, then, looks like I can skip lunch," he joked.

Inside the clay sphere, eyes appeared on the outer wall, investigating the Janice, looking for discrepancies.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:28 pm**

Janice looked at the eyes and cringed for a moment before improvising. "This unit only has eyes for Will Stan-Ton!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:32 pm**

"This unit is surprisingly squishy," Will said, with a hand coming inside to pinch robo-Janice.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:33 pm**

"Eep! This unit has... maximized its cuddle coefficient!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:47 pm**

"I don't think you want to SEE maximized cuddle coefficient, whoever or whatever you are."

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:48 pm**

"This unit's formulae are flawless!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:52 pm**

"Alrighty, then..."

And the amount of space between the girls and the outside of the sphere began to get smaller, and smaller, and smaller.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 8:58 pm**

"Okay, okay! Far enough!" Laura said, reverting to her normal purple-haired self and holding up her hands. "Back off!"

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 9:00 pm**

And with that, Will deposited the two on their rear ends in his office.

"I DON'T believe we've had the pleasure," he said, hiding a smile.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2014 9:01 pm**

Janice takes a few deep breaths, pulling off the headphones and holding them up to Laura.

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