2nd Joke - Video/Action for Rocket Base

[used_trick]

[The Pokegear is on its side, at an awkward angle -- Harley doesn't seem to be aware that it's filming. She's happily dancing around a large, bushy Christmas tree in one corner of the room. Said tree appears to be holding roughly three times its own weight in lights, tinsel, and candy-canes, and Harley's adding more to it. She's singing quietly under her breath; careful listeners might pick out the lyrics.]

[Stan the Poochyena can barely be made out on Harley's bed. He's looking more resigned than usual and gnawing disconsolately on a large candy-cane, a massive red and green bow tied around his neck. A Koffing occasionally floats into view, wearing a Santa hat and apparently okay with that.]

[Harley tops off the tree with a surprisingly-simple star and flops back on the bed, dislodging Stan with a yelp. She picks up the Poochyena, who makes a half-hearted attempt to bite her face off, apparently more out of habit at this point than anything.]

We got a tree, Stanny!

[She's obviously very happy about this. It's been a while since she's been able to have an honest-to-God Christmas tree.]

Whatcha want for Christmas? You been a good dog, so I'm gonna getcha somethin' nice.

Comments

Re: [Video]

[used-trick.livejournal.com]

Christmas trees always look pretty! But thanks, I'm makin' up for lost time with this one.

Re: [Video]

[buckyouup.livejournal.com]

Lost time? You don't celebrate Hearth's Warmin' Eve in your world?

Re: [Video]

[used-trick.livejournal.com]

Hearth's Warmin' Eve? Izzat like Christmas?

[Confused Harley confused is.]

We celebrate it, it's just been a while since I been able to have a tree. Ivy din' like 'em an' the doctors at Arkham said we couldn't have one no more cause Mister J turned the last one into a rocket.

[Video]

[buckyouup.livejournal.com]

Christmas? S'that what hue-mans call it?

[And Applejack will share in the confusion.]

An'... what's a "rocket"? [She isn't sure what it is, but she's pretty sure a tree isn't supposed to be one.]

Re: [Video]

[used-trick.livejournal.com]

Human? Y'mean you ain't?

[Must be one of the aliens she's heard are wandering around.]

Oh! A rocket's this big thing that goes FWOOSH an' flies off inta the sky!

[Video]

[buckyouup.livejournal.com]

No ma'am. Erm... that is t'say, that I am a hue-man right now, unfortunately. But back home, me an' all my friends are ponies.

Re: [Video] 1/2

[used-trick.livejournal.com]

[This look. Just... this look.]

Ponies?

Re: [Video]

[used-trick.livejournal.com]

That sounds adorable! Were you like alien ponies on another planet or somethin' or just regular ponies from Earth?!

[Video]

[buckyouup.livejournal.com]

Uh... aliens? [What are?]

Some of us are earth ponies. That's what I am. But we got unicorn an' pegasus ponies, too.

Re: [Video]

[used-trick.livejournal.com]

[What Harley is gleaning from all this is that some ponies came from Earth and other from some vaguely Greco-Roman mythological type-place.]

An' ya just turned human when ya got here? I heard people lost superpowers an' stuff but that's somethin' else, ain't it?

[Video]

[buckyouup.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what happened. Can't say I'm too happy with the change, neither.

I mean, how d'you hue-mans deal with walkin' on two legs all the time? That balancin' act gets real tired, real fast.

Re: [Video]

[used-trick.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's easy!

[This is something she definitely knows.]

Y'just keep puttin' one foot in front of the other! After a while, it's just habit.

[She's a helper.]