failures | 034 [video]

[The feed opens to a very sickly Larry, who is covered in a mountain of blankets. His skin his flushed, and he's visibly shivering and sniffling. Basically, he's been dealing with a killer fever for a few days now. And with all of this weird power and mutation business going on, something's crossed his mind more than once. He decided to take to the network about it.]

So uh... [sniffle] Has anyone else gotten really sick but didn't get freaky powers and stuff? 'cause I've been sick and really cold for forever and a half and I feel kinda cheated...

[And just as he trails off, he starts coughing. And since he's Larry, he doesn't cover his coughs so he tilts his head to get it out of the way.

Just when he thinks he's done, one last cough comes out...and so does a gob of fire.

He stares down off-screen where the Ember attack landed, frightened and in awe at the same time. Did he seriously just cough up a fireball?]

... Never mind.

[Still staring, he then realizes oh god fire in the bed FIRE IN AN INN. As he dives to put the fire out, the feed cuts out.]

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[So, Ur's alright which only leaves Larry to check on. Barney heads back to the inn to do just that and as he approaches the room...oh god is that smoke? Does Larry have powers too?]

Larry? You okay bro? Do I need to get a fire extinguisher or something?

[From inside the room, Larry responds in a panicked voice,]

Yes! Grab anything!

[Leave it to Barney to overreact. He grabs a nearby fire extinguisher, breaks the door down with it, pulls out the pin and is ready to spray.]

Larry? You okay, get your head down!

[When Barney enters, he'll see Larry trying to jump on the fire with blankets. Panicked, he jumps out of the way when Barney calls for him to get down.]

Fire in the hole!

[Not really checking to see if Larry got out of the way, Barney lets loose with the fire extinguisher. Well, at least the fire's out. Too bad about the hotel room though.]</small.

[As fire extinguisher foam settles after the fire is out, Larry peers out from behind the bed. A big glob of foam sits on the top of his hair like a scoop of ice cream.]

Uh. I think you got it.

You sure? You're a hazard now, so we have to take every precaution.

[The power that comes with wielding a pressurized device.]

I...I am a hazard now, aren't I?

[Now he feels really bad. What if he accidentally hurts someone?]

Maybe I should try to control this power...

Yeah, that'd be a good plan. We don't need to burn this place down.

[Don't worry Larry. Barney's here for you.]

Yeah. I definitely don't wanna deal with that damage bill.

[He stares around the room. There is foam everywhere. At the thought of having to clean it up, he sneezes.]

Ughn...maybe when I don't feel like I'm gonna freeze to death...

[The moment Larry sneezes Barney has the extinguisher pointed at him, just in case.]

How can you feel like freezing when you're spitting fire. And literally spitting.

I feel like I have a really bad fever. And y'know how fevers make you cold even though your body is really hot? Yeah, that's what's going on.

[Also now Larry's staring at Barney because he realizes Barney was ready to shoot him in the face with foam. Wow.]

I kinda wonder where my body's getting this fire though.

[Precautions dude.]

So, should I be wrapping you in blankets or what?

[He thinks for a moment, tentatively putting the extinguisher down.]

There's something on the news about an epidemic going around. Maybe that's what's causing it.

Yeah...but I'm probably gonna need new ones though. [He motions to a charred pile of...what used to be blankets.] I used all my other ones trying to put the fire one.

[To what Barney said next,] That's what I'm guessing too. It's still weird that we suddenly have powers though.

Guess I'll contact room service. Hopefully they won't cost too much.

Dude, has this place ever made sense?

Good point... [He plops back down on the bed, avoiding the fire extinguisher foam.] Going by that logic, I'm surprised it took this long for us to get 'em.

They must be running out of things to throw at us.

Seriously.

[He glances at Barney for a moment.]

How are you holding up, by the way? Doesn't look like you caught the bug.

I feel great. You know me, man. I'm too awesome to get sick.

Oh yeah. Something about how your sheer amount of awesome deflects all sickness.

And any germs that managed to get by simply can't survive being that near to my awesome cells.

Edited 2012-08-17 23:23 (UTC)

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