5. Voice

[kickpushbaby]

 [ Hey look!  A voice entry!  But hahah no, you can absolutely hear the life ending embarrassment in her voice. ]

You ever have a pretty good day and then everything goes to hell?  There should be rules against that kind of bullshit.

[ Wow, she should just come out and say it.  There's some suspicious leaf rustling in the background. ]

So.  Yeah.

I'm kinda stuck.  In a tree.

I might need help down.

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PERMAVID | LATE LATE SORRY AHH I hope that's all right

[weightoftheworld]

[ the response is rather delayed, but Alex figures, better safe than sorry. ]

Uh, hey, Jesse. This is Alex Power. I've been sick the past few days, but, I figured I oughta make sure--you get down okay? From the tree, that is.

PERMAVID | NO WORRIES I'M ALWAYS LATE ALWAYS

[kickpushbaby]

[ Jesse is on her couch. The embarrassment has since faded a bit, but it's since been replaced with ABJECT. BOREDOM. ]

No, dude, they totally left me up in the tree till like an hour ago. What's up, what were you sick with?

PERMAVID | DON'T WORRY ME TOO

[weightoftheworld]

Yeah, right! I know they didn't really. [ a beat. ] An' I just had a summer cold, no big deal.

[ SO SUPER LAME that he couldn't just borrow some of his siblings' energy and insta-heal like back home, but whatever, he can handle germs like a big kid. ]

So how'd you get stuck in the first place, anyway? For a ninja-fighter that sure seems like a rookie mistake. [ smiiiiiiirk. ]

[kickpushbaby]

[ scowling. ]

Shut up. I wasn't ninja fighting, I was skateboarding and I fell.

[weightoftheworld]

You can't fall up, dummy! Gravity doesn't work that way! Everyone knows that.

[ him better than most, what with the G-Power. ]

[kickpushbaby]

[ She makes a face at him. ]

I didn't say I fell up! I fell off a building when I was skateboarding down it.

[weightoftheworld]

[ well. Alex wasn't expecting that.

his eyes widen a bit, but his voice gets a little louder, accusingly: ]

Nuh-uh! You'd be dead if you tried to skateboard down a whole building– [ wait ] –unless--wait a sec--is that your superpower or something?

[kickpushbaby]

[ The smuggest of smirks. ]

Totally is. I jumped City Hall once.