Dorm Lobby, Saturday Afternoon

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A trip to Japan might not have ended in some wacky adventures on a normal day, with people who weren't from Fandom or inclined to getting roped into insanity. It might have just ended with some sore feet from walking around and bad souvenirs being purchased.

But that was not to be for the group who had just returned from their little visit. Stan wearing very different clothing than he'd started with, Butters in what appeared to be a maid's outfit and some kitty ears, Toby missing a shoe and his shirt, Jim having some skillfully applied Kabuki make up on and Sam with a glittery eyepatch.

"You know, I've learned something today," Stan said, arms crossed over his chest. "The future may seem pretty cool with all the robots and cyborgs running around. But I've learned that they're just the same douches that have always been around. No one is better because they live in some fruity little cyber-punk world where people ask you what you'd do if you saw a turtle in the middle of the road. And just because you have the technology to heat Pop Tarts instantaneous in someone's chest cavity and create holographic images of sexual fetishs that no one needed to know existed, that doesn't mean you should. Because it's just freakin' weird and everything should be taken in moderation. Besides, it's just going to bite us in the ass in about ten years."

A beat.

"So let's never do this again. Ever. Ever."

Yes. That was a good moral, Stan.

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"I've learned that it's really, really hard to run with only one shoe on," Toby said mournfully, peeling his dripping-wet now matchless shoe off and tossing it to the floor. "Also, I liked that shoe." Well, liked in the sense that he'd only owned the one pair.

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Stan patted him on the arm. "There are other shoes at there, man. It'll be okay."

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"You can get me a new pair, then," Toby decided.

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"It was that robo-geisha's fault, not mine!"

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"Shoe is kinda the best," Butters mused, "so it's no wonder everyone tried to take it from you, Toby."

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"I really didn't expect there to be such a high demand," Toby admitted, peering at his foot to see if he was in danger of contracting some sort of weird future-tetanus or something.

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"Yeah," said Butters with a rueful look down at that bare foot himself, before he shook his head at the inhumanity of the world. "I still don't know why they got your shirt, too, though."

He had been politely trying to ignore that fact, in some sort of respect for Toby's decency. Because Butters, clearly, had so much of his still in tack as a maid-kitten.

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"You know," Jim shared, looking properly fierce in his Kabuki makeup, "you probably could have asked that guy with the extra feet if he had a spare."

When they would have done that, around the running for their lives, was anybody's best guess. But it wouldn't be the worst idea shared today, Jim figured.

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"The one who kept licking his lips every time he saw us?" Toby asked doubtfully. "I'm pretty sure he was a cannibal." The lips-licking had been a big clue, and then there'd been the flickers of thoughts he'd caught involving the five of them in a sandwich.

...Not dirty. That was another person entirely.

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"... Yeah, but I think most of the people we ran into today were probably cannibals. And a few of the turtles. And at least one Pop Tart."

Really, Japan was a terrifying place. Terrifying.

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"I can't argue with that logic at all," Jim agreed, rubbing his cheek, and then wrinkling his nose at the white smear of makeup that came off on his fingers.

Japan was so not on his list of top places to visit again in the future.

"Did anybody even see what happened to the Pop Tarts, after the turtle got to them?"

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That got a little shudder from Stan. "I'm still trying to block that out."

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Jim wrinkled his nose a little at that.

"So, remind me to add Pop Tarts to my brand new list of local wildlife to never take home as a pet," he requested, wide-eyed.

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"The one that attached to the cat and flew through the air spewing rainbow from its bottom?" Butters asked. "Or the other one?"

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Jim winced a little at the memory of that cat. That cat and the horrible noise that it had made as it flew away into the night.

"The other one. That one with the chocolate sprinkles."

Jim had known what chocolate was for all of three weeks, now. And he was already vowing to never eat it again. Ever.

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"Yeah," said Butters, filling in for Kyle's usual part with a faint smile on his face as he mused thoughtfully on Stan's excellent message. His 'paws,' hands cloaked in puffy gloves to make the kitten-maid costume all the more complete, were tucked in front of him delicately, but then they started to rub together a little bit in the remembrance that playing a real-life Salutations Feline hadn't been nearly as fun as he'd hoped.

"I sure wish I'd known that cyborgs had a weak spot for kitten-maid earlier," he muttered, shaking his head. "Else I'd have never put this on in the first place..."

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"Yeah, what is up with that?" Stan asked. "If that's the future of what people find hot, I'm being abstinent."

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"Aww, gee, Stan, I don't know," Butters mused as he fluffed out his short little skirt a little; it wasn't difficult to do with the layers of crinoline. "I think it's kinda cute..."

There was a slight pause.

"I mean, if it were on a girl and everything."

Despite the disclaimer, there might have been a little pose thrown in. See, Stan? Don't you think it's cute? DON'T YOU?

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Sam was going to have to get another skateboard. The one he was holding had graffiti and Hello Kitty stickers all over it and a pair of rockets attached to the back. He couldn't even remember how that happened.

And he really couldn't remember why he was wearing the stupid heart shaped eyepatch over an eye that didn't even need it. Honestly, Sam couldn't even really remember what had just happened out there.

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Which might be for the best, all things considered. "Next trip off island is going to be way less weird."

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"Really?" Sam asked dryly, touching a finger to the eyepatch. He still didn't know why he hadn't just taken it of off. "I think monkeys falling out of the sky and deciding they now ruled the Earth would be less weird than that."

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Jim gave the skateboard a looking over, and then shrugged and offered Sam a small shrug and a crooked smile, made all the more dramatic with the kabuki makeup.

"I could have done a way better job on that," he shared.

... What? Those rockets were totally cheap-looking.

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"Yeah?" Sam eyed his board and flicked one of the rockets with his finger. "I'm more wondering if they'll ever come off. I like skateboarding, not rocketboarding. This'll just make me break my neck."

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"Dude," Toby gave him an amused look. "You're sparkling." you know, in case Sam hadn't already noticed.

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"And you have a tattoo," Sam retorted, making a face though only one of his eyes could be seen because of that eyepatch. "I feel like a stupid pirate."