Christmas Stuff!

[crossover_chick]

First, more of "A Week of Secundus Christmas:"


Day Four: Gingerbread
“Mmm! This is very good!”
Victor took another bite of the hunk of gingerbread. “You have to say, whoever baked this knew how to make an excellent gingerbread,” he continued.
“You do,” Sir Christopher nodded, sampling his own piece. “It’s a pity they chose to bake it into a gigantic rampaging cookie monster.”
“Do we have any idea who did it?” Victoria commented, gathering up more gingerbread from the ground.
“Not yet, but I’m sure we’ll figure it out,” Doc said, helping her. “I’d offer up Helen Narbon as a suspect if I didn’t already know she’s a rather bad cook.”
“How do you know?” Emily asked, picking up a large raisin that had previously served as an eye.
“We’ve seen what she considers to be a casserole when she invited some of her colleagues on a picnic,” Marty said, nibbling on a giant gumdrop. “Plus her math guy, Dave, told us about the time she made him a sandwich. It took three of Mell’s grenades to stop it and its offspring.”
“Off– actually, no, I don’t want to know.” Emily looked at Alice, who was still holding the smoking blunderbuss. “Good thing we were all walking down the street when it came by, hmm?”
“I suppose,” Alice said, just a touch too loudly. She rubbed an ear. “Shooting cookies wasn’t exactly on my list of things to do today.”
“In my opinion, it deserved it,” Richard said, licking frosting off his hat. “The instant it announced its presence with ‘Run run run as fast you can. . . .’”

Let's get one thing out of the way right now -- yes, this was inspired by Shrek 2. I was trying to think of things that reminded me of Christmas, and gingerbread popped into my head. (Probably helped by the fact Mom and I made a gingerbread house recently.) This immediately led to the idea of the rampaging giant cookie as in Shrek 2, because -- well, it's Secundus. This is almost normal. The rest just flowed from there. I decided to put everybody (so to speak) in this one just because. The one main injoke (besides this whole thing being pulled from a Dreamworks movie) is the mention of the sandwich Helen made Dave -- that's actually something that happened in one of the Narbonic books' bonus stories. In that case, though, it was modern-day Helen and Dave, and Dave stopped it on his own (Mell doesn't actually show up in the story at all -- weird). I just thought it was funny and threw it in.
-HD: Rampaging gingerbread. What a waste.-
Indeed. *solemn nodding*


And a bonus -- a 12 Days Meme from tea_holic:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, docsgirl sent to me...

Twelve tea_holics drumming

Eleven foxywriters piping

Ten smudge_pots a-leaping

Nine deadgirlsliekmes dancing

Eight werewolves a-milking

Seven vampires a-swimming

Six computers a-writing

Five rpgs

Four girl genius

Three dvd movies

Two mad scientists

...and a steampunk in a british comedy.

Get your own Twelve Days:

*giggles*


-RPM: Er -- shouldn't you be playing the Telltale game about now?-
Oh yes, the one annoying spot in this day. First, the site goes down, then I discover my coupon code doesn't work. Turns out if I want the free episode, I have to wait until February to get it. First time I've heard about this limitation -- though maybe it's my own fault for not poking around the order screen earlier. As you might imagine, my enthusiasm for this game has plummeted. But hey, annoyed me seems to translate well into angry!Victor in "Secundus," so it all works out. (Not to mention 8butterflyboy8 having a nice long thread in charloft, and the Nostalgia Critic's latest holiday special. . . .)

Comments

[tea-holic.livejournal.com]

Haha I love how yours came out! "A steampunk in a British comedy" seems to fit nicely, though "werewolves a-milking" is an image I'm not sure I want to see. xD

[docsgirl.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I know! And yeah, tell me about it. *eyes the werewolves* XD