Earthbound - Fight Taxi With Taxi
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picture_prompt_funTitle: Fight Taxi With Taxi
"You've got to be out of your mind," snapped Paula, "There are possessed taxis trying to kill us and you want us to get in a taxi?"
"That one's not possessed," declared Jeff, holding up the PKE meter he'd constructed from an empty packet of cornflakes, some twirly wires from his dad's laboratory and a potato. It didn't react to being waved at the motionless taxi, not like the way it had done when he pointed it towards the one that was speeding towards them murderously, honking its horn non-stop and flashing its headlights on and off, "Look, we need to get in a vehicle that can outrun these taxis, like a taxi driving even faster."
"Those ones are driving at full speed," Paula pointed out, "And we don't know that something isn't going to possess that thing later on, with us inside it."
"We can fight off any spirits that try to get in," Jeff insisted, cocking his home-made laser pistol in his other hand, "And they're driving totally crazy. Look, one's already smashed into a wall. I can get us some distance if I find a shortcut."
"You can drive a car, now?"
"Dad lets me test drive all the inventions."
"You crashed the flying one."
"That one didn't have controls," he retorted, shooting the lock on the car door, "Hurry, I can hear them getting closer!"
"We're gonna get arrested for this," muttered Paula as she climbed in beside Jeff.
"The cops are all possessed too," Jeff pointed out.
"Just drive," she growled.
Fandom: Earthbound
Author:tehexile
tehexileRating: PG-13/Gen
Characters: Jeff & Paula
Words: 256
Tags: car theft, underage driving
Summary: In which Jeff attempts to escape from the Mad Taxis in a taxi.
Picture: 143
"You've got to be out of your mind," snapped Paula, "There are possessed taxis trying to kill us and you want us to get in a taxi?"
"That one's not possessed," declared Jeff, holding up the PKE meter he'd constructed from an empty packet of cornflakes, some twirly wires from his dad's laboratory and a potato. It didn't react to being waved at the motionless taxi, not like the way it had done when he pointed it towards the one that was speeding towards them murderously, honking its horn non-stop and flashing its headlights on and off, "Look, we need to get in a vehicle that can outrun these taxis, like a taxi driving even faster."
"Those ones are driving at full speed," Paula pointed out, "And we don't know that something isn't going to possess that thing later on, with us inside it."
"We can fight off any spirits that try to get in," Jeff insisted, cocking his home-made laser pistol in his other hand, "And they're driving totally crazy. Look, one's already smashed into a wall. I can get us some distance if I find a shortcut."
"You can drive a car, now?"
"Dad lets me test drive all the inventions."
"You crashed the flying one."
"That one didn't have controls," he retorted, shooting the lock on the car door, "Hurry, I can hear them getting closer!"
"We're gonna get arrested for this," muttered Paula as she climbed in beside Jeff.
"The cops are all possessed too," Jeff pointed out.
"Just drive," she growled.
