Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Afternoon

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Now that Zack was officially done with classes for the summer, it was time for a little getting out and about and being social. It was also, Zack decided, the perfect time to get the gerbil that Deadpool had given him out for some exercise.

And that was why, armed with a hamster ball and a bunch of notebooks, Zack was hard at work constructing the most epic gerbil floor-maze the second floor common room had ever seen!

Poor, poor Mr. Winkles.

[Open, as common rooms tend to be!]

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"And there was the ice-cream run in class last week," Zack added, grinning. "But class assignments hardly count, right? How's your girlfriend doing? Is she still a..."

Red panda, Zack.

"Fuzzy thing?"

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"Oh, yeah!" Hannibal said as the mun smacked her face for being that forgetful. "I guess the ice cream warped my brain. Angela's back to normal! Two legs, two arms, no fur."

[OH MY GOD I APOLOGIZE SO MUCH! BRAIN FAIL!!!]

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"That must be a relief," Zack laughed. "I spent the weekend as a puppy, so you guys have got my total sympathy, man. It isn't something I'd like to do often. I kinda enjoy having thumbs."

Mr. Winkles demonstrated what he thought of the student-to-animal plight by running his hamster ball into one of the notebooks. Humanity would rue the day they invented plastic rodent containment spheres! RUE IT.

[Hee! Totally okay! I didn't remember until I was about halfway through my last ping, either, and even then I had to go back to that class and check, omg. Mutual brain-fail for the win!]

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"You had someone to take care of you, right?" Hannibal wondered because that would have stunk to be sort of a loner puppy. "Someone who wasn't your friend here."

He nodded towards the hamster ball and chuckled.

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"I'm coming to learn that Mr. Winkles isn't much of a babysitter," Zack laughed. "The girl who was around when I changed into a puppy took care of me for a few days, which was nice of her. I kinda owe her one, for that."

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"...did you change back naked too?" he asked and then amended, "You don't have to tell, if you don't want. I'm just trying to see if that's an universal thing. Angela did and I know at least one other person did."

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Zack blushed a little, yes.

"Both times I turned into a puppy, yeah. Last time wasn't so bad, because it was inside and Elena handed me a towel. The time before that, I was in the park with Deadpool."

He'd kind of stolen Deadpool's fox and run. It had been... magical. Or something.

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"Oh wow, public nudity," he said and bit his lip so he didn't laugh. "Public nudity with Professor Deadpool. That must have been...interesting."

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"It was... Awkward." Yes, that was a good word for what it was, right there!

It was also the understatement of the year.

"And not an experience that I want to repeat again. This island, man. I think it's hell-bent on taking away people's clothes."

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"It does seem like that, doesn't it?" Hannibal agreed. "I haven't been an animal but the washing machines going on strike wasn't so great. Clothes are kind of a needed necessity around just to get around without people pointing and laughing."

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"Though, in all fairness," Zack mused, "there aren't really any people around here who I'd laugh at if they were stuck running around wearing next to nothing."

... Well, Hannibal had seen the student body here, right?

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"...true," Hannibal had to agree. "It's not a bad sight, just maybe uncomfortable especially if it's during winter or something."

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"Yeah, I'm guessing that would kinda suck. Most people don't take so well to the cold," Zack noted. "I guess it wouldn't be so bad on really hot days, except for sunburn..."

Zack was overthinking, again. But there were just some places where it would be really, really bad to have a sunburn, and, well, the more he tried not to think about things like that, the harder it was to do.

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Well, now Hannibal was thinking about it and wincing.

"Ow ow ow ow ow," he said, barely resisting the urge to wince. "That would be unpleasant on so many levels."

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"Someone should seriously start setting up emergency clothing stations around the island for things like that," he decided. "I mean, just as much to spare people from the humiliation as the... Uhm. Sunburn."

Zack's brain was officially fired.

Out of a cannon.

Into the sun.

It was the only way.

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"Hell, I might start hiding clothes around the island now," he said, imagining the very painful way a sunburn could affect certain areas. "At least a bathrobe or something."

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"I'm thinking after two runs across the island wearing not-so-much, I might have to do the same," Zack mused. "Just stash a change of clothes in a garbage bag in the park, or the preserve, or whatever. And then hope that nobody makes off with them. It would probably suck to run around looking for clothing that isn't there anymore."

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"We'd have to make sure to label them," he said, laughing a bit now. "So I wouldn't end up in your clothes and you wouldn't end in mine."

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"I dunno," Zack mused, "you'd probably wear a SOLDIER uniform alright, if that was all you had to wear."

A pause for consideration.

"Labels are good anyhow, though. Shirts and pants are one thing. It'd be way too weird to end up swapping off underwear."

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"It would," he agreed with another laughs. "Uniforms, I could do. If I looked good in them, even better. Boxer shorts or whatever you wear, that'd be a little strange even if no one else but you, me and...Layla knew."

Because she knew stuff.

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"She knows stuff," Zack agreed, laughing. "That would be a little on the awkward side, right there."

It would!

"I guess putting all-new underwear into bags like that would make more sense, anyhow. That way, anyone stuck naked could stumble across them and they wouldn't feel weird about putting them on."

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"Sounds like the makings of a plan forming," Hannibal noted, rubbing his chin. "Because seriously, this island seems to love to make the people naked, whether via animal transformations, washing machine strikes, gremlins or girls with sticky fingers."

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"My clothes turned into a person that one time," Zack added. "If Fandom can find a way to leave you nude and making a dash for clothing, I think it will."

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"I had some...magazines turn into people that time," he said, still a little uncomfortable with that. "They were friendly."

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"My uniform got cozy with Deadpool's swords," Zack offered. There was a total note of sympathy in there, honest. "I was chased out of my own room so that they could have some... uh... Alone time."