Beep Beep we're going to Sparby's

[airlockedmods]

Once everyone's in the dick limo and they've watched the Fantasy Sweet burn down behind them (dodging the flaming debris once the pressure builds up enough inside to make the whole thing go nuclear), it's off to the nearest fast food planet.

Which...is about five lightdays away.

Luckily for you, you have your very own Personal Artistic License to keep you entertained. So PAL bounces around the back of the limo, sitting in every lap that will have him, as he tells the story of Kip from the day he hatched as a tiny, impressionable smeet to present.

Sparing absolutely no detail.

Especially about the part where Kip failed his navigator's exam because he stopped at Then-Foodcourtia and crashed the ship into one of the greasy pustules that had sprouted on the planet's surface, destroying the aircraft and boiling his instructor alive in the fiery grease of hell.

So now there's a dick limo parked in the Sparby's parking lot. For anyone who had Arby's or Arby's-adjacent restaurants on their home planet... The menu's not much different. Everything meat-based is 100% beef, the milkshakes look delicious, and of course there are turnovers (apple, cherry, and chocolate).

Which... well, catch Kip and PAL in the corner shoving milkshakes and turnovers in their faces tbh.]

Welcome to Sparby's, Survivors.
You earned it.

Comments

[goteachother]

You should never call someone a "what" either way.

[Siiigh]

Morgana

[cyan_maid]

S-Sorry...still...getting used to space.

[Fuck. She fucked up. Queenie will never be her friend or teach her how to make challah or anything YOU FUCKED IT UP JANE]

But, uh...I'm...glad to see that you're alive, that...that so many of you are alive. It's...all I've been hoping for, for months.

[goteachother]

[Say that in front of a Centaur and there'd be problems. She's just trying to educate.

Jane have you learned nothing from watching this show? The apology gets a smile and the fact that this girl's been worried, clearly just-

Well... Jane you're getting hugged now.]

We're alright. You're alright... everythin's gonna be fine, sweetie.

[cyan_maid]

[Jane has learned a lot of things but there are some habits and stubborn skeptic tendencies that take a lot of time and thinking to relearn from.

And then she gets hugged. As much as she's been watching, it's not something she expects, but...Queenie is getting a hug back all the same, a very strong hug for such a small girl.]

Oh God...oh, God...

[goteachother]

[Hugs are how Queenie conveys most things, she's a very tactile creature.]

Hey... we're here now. All of us. Even Kip and PAL and Cece's got plans fer all the friends we lost so-

It's all gonna be okay.

[cyan_maid]

[Her brain's just gliding over a lot of that and honing in on the "It's all gonna be okay" bit because that's the bit Jane's wanted for everyone the most.]

...I...was so scared...that we'd get there, and no one would...

[goteachother]

Oh honey...

You folks were lookin fer us? All you went through and-

[It would be so easy for them to get captured trying to break into the mansion, trying to orchestrate a rescue. For them to risk getting taken back to the people that started this just to save strangers from it.

She gets squeezed tighter.]

Thank you, sweetie.

[cyan_maid]

Of course. We couldn't just - couldn't just leave you all there...

[She wants to say more, wants to say they'd of been there faster if they could have. Right from the start, immediately, if it was possible. But as it was, it took an entire space mansion burning down and the perfectly coincidental Sparby's just to bring them together and Jane is grateful just for that.

...Queenie, you give amazing hugs. And you're getting hugged tightly back by this small teenage girl.]

N-No need to thank us - it's just. The right thing to do.