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Challenge #00802-B071: Diggy Diggy Hole

“Didn’t anybody tell you that when you are in a hole of your own making, Don’t keep digging.”

Hwell called it a ‘fox hole’, but its dimensions were closer to that of an elephant. And it was now very deep, because the native pests had a long reach that went along with their fear of falling.

It was past dawn. They were gone, now.

“We’re in a hole,” said Hwell. “Um. Too wide to climb out. Loose soil, anyway. Wouldn’t work. Even if I hoisted you out, there’s nothing near that’d help you hoist me out…”

“That’s assuming I want to,” added Ax’and’l.

“There’s only one rational solution,” concluded Hwell. “Dig more!”

Ax’and’l hid the shovel behind his back. “Explain to me how digging ourselves deeper is in any way related to progress towards our escape?”

“Who said anything about digging deeper?” He grinned. “We gotta dig sideways.”

Ax’and’l checked the air for any trace of human intoxicants. Then he scanned Hwell’s breath.

The human used this as an opportunity to steal the shovel back and start attacking the walls of their hole. “No worries! I got this!”

*

It was later. They were successfully in orbit.

They were also covered in mud and Hwell had yet to let go of the stasis cage with a representative sample of the aggressively carnivorous birds. He was cackling.

“Gotcha ya little bastards. I gotcha little bastards… I gotcha. I gotcha.”

There was only one thing to do with Hwell when he was in this manic state of victory. That was agree with him until he calmed down.

“Yes,” intoned Ax’and’l. “You got them. And they’re little bastards.”

“That’ll teach ya. Oh yeah.”

“Never mess with a human,” recited Ax’and’l.

“Neeeee-ver mess with a human,” cackled Hwell.

Ax’and’l draped the misaphobic blanket over him and locked the console on autopilot. About all Hwell could do now was interfere with the music player. “Enjoy your victory, O mighty hunter,” he snarked. “I am going to enjoy a wash.”

Hwell continued to cackle. “I got ‘em. I got ‘em.”

It was going to be a long ride back to the gene-samplers.

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Challenge #00801-B070: When Lorraine Met Walter

Is it bird! Is it a plane. No it’s a Plot Bunny!

[AN: This story hails all the way back to story #298 in the first One Year of Instants. Buy your copy now!]

When she first saw Walter, she mistook him for a hobo and pretended she didn’t see him.

Their second meeting was even less auspicious. Her landlord hired her to serve him a writ about the smell. She found him in the middle of a nest of

Challenge #00800-B069: Back Off, We're Celebrating!

“Light blue touch paper! Run like Hell!”

It looked like a cylinder with a cone at one end and a stick at the other. The purpose of the string at the stick end was just as mysterious as the cone. It was painted in toxic stripes, therefore it was dangerous.

“What is this?” said T’reka.

“Humans use it to celebrate,” said Susan. “They’re rockets designed to explode. For art.”

Nobody on Amity could side-eye like a Numidid. T’

Challenge #00799-B068: What, When You Own The World?

The domino effect, as applied to takeovers, and what happens when the last one falls.

This was it. The pinnacle of success. Fortune Incorporated had made its last takeover. With this signing, with this handshake, with this cluster of flashes dazzling his eye… Fortune Inc owned every business in the world… and since he owned Fortune Inc, he owned the world.

For the entire press conference, the glamorous soiree, it was all he could do to maintain a restrained and

Challenge #00798-B067: A Solid What?

That most interesting of currencies, The Favour.

“It is not worth my Time, patience and anguish to even go near that piece of retro insanity you call a personal vehicle.”

Shayde thought she was upping the ante when she said, “I’ll owe ye a solid…”

He glared at her. “A solid what?”

“A solid favour. It’s a thing. Like ye need me tae do som'att ye don’t want

Challenge #00797-B066: The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Really Bad Idea

“This year’s human sacrifice features something very special- actual humans!”

“What were they sacrificing before?” murmured Edilade “Soy humans?”

“Best not to ask,” whispered Janet. “You have any of those smoke bombs I told you to dispose of?”

“Of course not.”

“Well, gimme some of those smoke bombs you don’t have.” Janet had already escaped the natives’ shackles. They all had. Being a scavenger

Challenge #00796-B065: These Humans Are Crazy

An aliens reaction to the punch buggy game

“Punch buggy white!”

“Hey! One, that is clearly blue, and two - we’re in a freaking car museum. Knock it off.”

“Where’s your sense of humour?”

Janice gritted her teeth. “We’re in front of ambassadors,” she grated. “You’re embarrassing your entire species.”

Meanwhile, Ambassador Vrex was taking notes. Humans are instinctually violent. Even their games and

Challenge #00795-B064: Come to Scenic Gravity Falls

Mabel Pines and Francouer.
(if you don’t watch Gravity Falls a. Do it and b. this is now a free prompt day)

[AN: I do watch, I’m just not into the decoding stuff because I’m daft. I let everyone else do that.]

“I’ll show you all! I’ll summon a monster from ages past to destroy you all! Destroy you all! Destroy you all! Destroy you all!”

“Uh…” said Dipper. “Was it necessary

Challenge #00794-B063: The Arboretum of Death

Bunya Pines. That is all.

[AN: SO very tempted to add a distant relative to Gravity Falls…]

People came from all over to see the deadly plants. They did not come to experience personal encounters with them. Just to see, and goggle in amazement that they existed at all.

Of course, it was no shock to many that the majority of these deadly plants came from Earth

Most of the protected walkways were surrounded on all sides by the best of

Challenge #00793-B062: One Puzzling Afternoon in the Ambassador's Lounge

http://eighthdoctor.tumblr.com/post/104127747867/okay-but-i-spent-the-afternoon-reading-about-venus

“Wait. Wait. I need to understand this.”

Shayde sighed. It wasn’t the first time she’d had to explain it in depth. “Go on.”

“Your people took seven goes to find a planet.”

“Yeh, the thing aboot space is… it’s big. There’s loads o’ stuff in it ye ken…”

“It was your intra-stellar neighbour on an

Challenge #00792-B061: One Smoke-Filled Evening in a Dimly-Lit Room

Vetenari being a tidy soul, would have made certain that the mess he’d tidied up Stayed tidy.

Republican Secret Congress, the not-too-distant future…

“Okay, so the Thin Man is gone, and so is President Gunther. The question now is, how do we reverse the damage to America?”

“We can’t use the old arguments,” said one of the shadowy figures. “The Thin Man gave them dang Liberals all the ammo they’ll ever

Challenge #00788-90 - B057-59: The Human Answer

“What the Heck are they doing?”
“They’re having Fun.”
This is a line from a Very old Movie called The Boatnicks„ See what you can do with it, not necessarily to do with boats, could be anything us humans think of as fun.
2. . Jam, treacle, puffed rice. Who would have thought it could be used as a weapon.
3. “Once you open a can of worms, it takes two cans to get them back.” have fun.

Still in South Park

Kurt and Todd, still in South Park. The “184th” line has pretty much become their soundtrack. Todd is rolling with the weirdness, but Kurt is nearing a breakdown (shot at by Jimbo and Ned, witnessing Kenny die multiple times, constantly stalked by geneticist Dr, Mephisto). They’re walking down the street discussing this, when they see Jesus and Satan at a cafe having coffee. Cue freak-out.

(#00787 - B056)

“…so hungry…”

“Yo, hungry’s your default

AMiP again. Francoeur vs. a laser pointer.

(#00786 - B055)

After their strange friends from a different future left, Raoul found a tiny trinket in one of their bunks. It looked like a cylinder… and it had a button, but beyond that, there was no clue of how it worked or what it was.

So, naturally, he pressed the button.

There was no hum. No whirr. No noise of anything mechanical going on, and no hint of what it was supposed to do. Raoul jiggled it. Pressed it against

Prompt: SPG and A Monster In Paris. The band comes to visit the best cabaret in Paris and see the famous Masked Musician...

(#00785 - B054)

[AN: I already have a much longer one in progress here, so I’ll pretend it doesn’t exist in my continuity just for you. (Seriously, keeping a continuity is vastly important to me and registers on my OCD) You’re welcome]

1912

There was a small dirigible docked with the Eiffel Tower, which some Parisians still called “the tragic coat hanger”. But even they had to admit that it did come in handy as a dock for dirigibles,

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Challenge #00802-B071: Diggy Diggy Hole

Challenge #00801-B070: When Lorraine Met Walter

Challenge #00800-B069: Back Off, We're Celebrating!

Challenge #00799-B068: What, When You Own The World?

Challenge #00798-B067: A Solid What?

Challenge #00797-B066: The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Really Bad Idea

Challenge #00796-B065: These Humans Are Crazy

Challenge #00795-B064: Come to Scenic Gravity Falls

Challenge #00794-B063: The Arboretum of Death

Challenge #00793-B062: One Puzzling Afternoon in the Ambassador's Lounge

Challenge #00792-B061: One Smoke-Filled Evening in a Dimly-Lit Room

Challenge #00788-90 - B057-59: The Human Answer

Still in South Park

AMiP again. Francoeur vs. a laser pointer.

Prompt: SPG and A Monster In Paris. The band comes to visit the best cabaret in Paris and see the famous Masked Musician...