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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[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee didn't know what 'cumbersome' meant, but there was no time to dwell on things like that! "But, y'know, all that drinkin' would prolly just make 'em real likely to wanna fight! They're prolly mean."

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"They are," Zack replied, somewhat disappointed at that realization. "You should see the lengths they go through to pull people into the radio station when they're needed."

They bit. And swarmed.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"I remember," she said, wide-eyed. "They're real pushy lil' things, ain't they?"

[puppy_fair]

"There are more of them than there are of us!" Which certainly helped their squirrelly cause, yes. "I don't think they believe in a fair fight."

Which meant that Popples and Mr. Winkles were doomed.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Popples an' Mr. Winkles is scrappy, though," Kaylee declared. "Even if they're lots more noble an' won't stoop to squirrelly levels!"

[puppy_fair]

Ooh. Hey, Zack liked the way Kaylee thought!

"This is true! If they hold on to their dreams and their honor, they can't go wrong!"

Mr. Winkles was now demonstrating his dreams and honor by having a snooze in the bottom of his ball.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

It was okay. That was likely what Popples was up to, up in Kaylee's room.

"They're fightin' on the right side. Everyone knows that good is gonna win against evil drunk squirrels any day!" Kaylee declared.

[puppy_fair]

"They're going to be heroes someday!"

They were delusional, weren't they?

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"All th'other...lil' critters are gonna look up to them!"

So, so delusional.

[puppy_fair]

"Think we should throw them a ticker tape parade?"

At least they were delusional and amusing?

[Gone for a few hours! Bye!]

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"I think they deserve as much!"

And cheerful. So cheerful.

[adios!]

[puppy_fair]

"They'll be the most celebrated gerbil and hedgehog on the island!"

And possibly the only gerbil and hedgehog on the island. Details. Details.

"Victorious and proud in the face of the squirrel scourge!"

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"There'll be songs an' stories 'bout 'em," Kaylee said, nodding solemnly.

Because rodents tell stories. And sing.

[puppy_fair]

Hey, the squirrels totally did! When drunk.

"They'll go down in history," Zack agreed. "Maybe we should build them a little shrine or something?"