Frog and Toad are Friends (Toad)

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Kurt had the day off of classes, since he had pre-done his work and was just generally needing a break from all the homework. He had convinced his room mate, Vincent, aka Pacman, to take off as well. And so, with their day off, since it was in the middle of the day and few were out to gawk at Kurt's appearance, they headed to the amusement park.

Of course, before they had left, Kurt had dropped a line to Toad and told him about it, also telling him he could bring some friends along if he wanted. The place wasn't too terribly huge, so he guessed that they could find each other if Toad showed up.

Getting in, Kurt first got them some cotton candy to nibble on while trying to decide what to do.

"Letz go on zeh Farriz vheel firzt..." he said to Vincent.

"Nah. Roller coasters first, then we can do the childish Ferris wheel." As they walked along on the beautiful day, the two continued to bicker back and forth playfully.

"But your jav alvayz unhingez on zeh roller coazter, and you knov zome day I von't be around to help you put it back..." Kurt said with a chuckle, but did start over that way.

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Toad was looking for the only other miscolored person in the park. After all, how hard could it be to find his blue friend? Emphasis on blue. He had been invited to show up and bring a friend. Well...after only barely escaping the last encounter, Toad decided not to bring anybody. That would be...problematic.

Aha, there was Kurt, talking with someone else Toad didn't recognize. "Hiya Kurt!" Toad yelled with a leap onto his back. Except Toad miscalculated and landed 3 feet in front of Kurt's feet. Oops.

"Oof...and this is whoi Oi can't floi..." Toad muttered, standing up.

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Kurt smiled at seeing Toad, saying, "Hey, Toad! I zhink you mizzed..." It was right about then that Vincent pulled Kurt back.

"What are you doing here?" he said to Toad nastily.

Smiling, Kurt pulled away, saying, "Chill, Vincent. Zhiz iz Toad. Toad, zhiz iz Vincent, my room mate. You can call him 'Pacman' if you vant to, but he hitz me if I do zhat..." It was right then, that Vincent hit Kurt lightly. "Zee," Kurt said.

"Kurt...I hate to point this out, but Toad's a Brotherhood member..." Vincent said.

"I knov, Vincent, but he'z a lot of fun to hang out vizh. Come on, juzt truzt me on zhiz vone. I mean...iz he killing you yet? No, zo he'z okay..."

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"Hallo Vince!" Toad said, "Oi'm really not all bad. Just enough to be fun..." he explained. Even if Vince was giving him the cold shoulder, he would warm up to Toad...or at least, Toad hoped so. He didn't need another to try to kill him.

"So, wot are we doin' first? Oi heard 'The Twister' is fast and fun...and that's from someone with speed powers..." Toad said. Pietro had suggested it once. And Pietro knew fun. "Plus there's no line roight now."

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Vincent glared at Toad, disliking the mutant just because of the side he had chosen. Still, he nodded politely, remaining sulky.

Kurt nudged Vincent as he said, "Don't mind him. He'z too black and vhite on zome zhingz..." With a smile at 'The Twister', Kurt nodded. "Zhat zoundz great! Come on, letz get going!" He headed off towards it with his two friends...even if one of them was being moody and not very fun.

As they walked, Vincent asked, "So how did you two decide to meet up, Toad? I'm pretty sure there wasn't a 'befriend your enemy' party any time lately..."

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Toad hopped close behind Kurt. He listened to Vince's question, which was pretty legitimate. After all, it's rare that a Brotherhood member decides not to kill someone. Let alone befriend an enemy.

"Well it started out on a prank site...then we got tolkin' on IM...and then moi friend...er...convinced...me to meet up with Kurt. And then...well...we teamed up with a run in with a gang and...ta da! 'Ere we are..." Toad said, trying to leave out as many of the details as possible. Vince didn't have to know every detail of that little escapade. ((Plus I really don't wanna resummarize it.))

Vince stopped for a minute. "A prank site? Are you the one that gave Kurt the idea to put crazy string on my pillow?"

Toad laughed. "Did 'e really do that? Oi didn't think it would work..." he paused a second. "Oops. Oi guess that was me..."

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((lol, yay laziness))

Kurt had given Vincent a dirty look, but was glad that Toad seemed understanding. It was still sort of embarrassing to have Vincent being so suspicious of Toad.

Vincent smirked a bit at hearing that. "Well...I guess anyone who comes up with one that good can't be all bad..." He was trying to relax a little, sensing that Kurt was getting mad at him. It took a lot to get the blue kid annoyed, but Vincent had a knack of doing it (after all, that's what room mates are for).

Getting over to the ride, Kurt smiled as they saw how it worked as it spun down. "Zhiz lookz like a blazt!" he was obviously very excited about it, trying to forget about Vincent's comments to Toad. When they got on, though, there was a little bit of a problem...Kurt's tail.

As the bar cam down to hold them in place, the guy running it came over. "Sir, you need to...um...do something with...that..." he said, motioning to Kurt's tail, which was laying on the seat behind him to stay out of the way.

Kurt looked at him before trying to fit his tail behind him. Since it was a snug-fitting seat, though, he had a bit of a hard time. Wrapping it around his leg, he said, "It'll be fine, don't vorry about it."

The man gave a reluctant look, but since they were the only ones who had gotten on for that ride, he shrugged a bit. "Fine, whatever..." as he walked away, the mumbling of, "They don't pay me enough to deal with freaks," could be heard.

Looking to them, Kurt mumbled, "Zorry guyz..." Life wasn't designed for life with a tail, including most amazement park rides.

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((Heh heh...yeah. I loved your post...tails must be a pain...))

Toad face lit up. "You're tellin' me..." he replied to Kur as he saw the ride in action. Pietro had good taste...

And then the guy came over to complain about Kurt's tail. And he said something he shouldn't have. He called the three of them freaks...which was enough to make Toad's blood boil. "You don't 'ave to be sorry for anythin'. 'E does..." Toad replied.

Toad stuck out his tongue and thumped the guy on the back of the head...really, really hard. The guy cried out in pain and turned around, but Toad's tongue had already been retracted. Toad simply smiled and waved. The guy just grumbled and started out the ride.

"Wot? 'E deserved it...Not loike Oi killed 'im..." Toad said, turning to Vince and Kurt. Both of them probably were pretty mad at him, but Toad didn't care. The man had just insulted the three of them. That was unforgivable in Toad's book.

The ride started out anyway. It clanked its way to the top...and then dropped its way into a dizzying spiral...

Toad made his way off the ride after it finished. "Does anyone else 'sides me 'ave a 'ead rush?" he asked, barely able to walk in a straight line.

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Vincent had chuckled, acutally, at what Toad did to the man running it. “Well, I thought it was deserved,” he said to Kurt who was giving both of them a dirty look.

Kurt shrugged a bit as the ride started, “Yeah…I guezz…”

Afterwards, they were all sort of not walking straight. Vincent was fighting with his jaw, which was sort of stuck open far more than any normal human could manage. The guy had flipped out a bit, but Kurt just waved him off. “Ya, id ish shange…”

Snapping his jaw back in place, he said, “That was fun…” He said this right before leaning against a lamp post to stay upright.

Kurt was grinning like a maniac. “Zhat vaz great! Ve vill have to go back on zhat before ve leave today. Zo…vhat next? Zeh vorlvind to make ourzelvez zick too?” Even though his tail was moving wildly to keep him upright, Kurt had absolutely had a blast on that ride.

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Toad nodded in agreement. That was a lot of fun...and Vince seemed not to be breathing down Toad's neck now. Even if Kurt was for a little bit... he'd shrug it off later.

"The whoirlwind? Sounds good to me..." Toad said. He hopped towards the ride, but something only Scarlet Witch ((or a writer that is devious enough)) could do happened. Toad landed on a paper, which preceded to cause him to slide into a lamppost.

"Ow..." Toad said, getting up and rubbing his head. "That hurt..." He inspected the paper a minute, then smiled with glee.

"Guys, Oi think the whoirlwind can wait. Look wot Oi found!" he said, showing them the paper. It was an ad for a hot dog eating contest in the park today. "Are you guys thinkin' wot Oi'm thinkin'?" Toad asked gleefully.

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((Kurt: Toad, you’ve gone blue on me. I zhink I’m a bad influence.))

Kurt had at first asked. “Are you okay?” And then Toad held up the flyer that he had slipped on. Grinning in a way that only Kurt could, he replied, “yeah…I believe zhat ‘oi’m zhinkin’ vhat you’re zhinking’.” He mimicked Toad (of course, in his own slaughtered way), but just in a good-natured fashion.

Vincent actually laughed a bit, saying, “Kurt, never do that again. I can’t understand you normally, that was just plain jibberish.” Looking at the flyer, he said, “We should go in together…”

Shaking his head, Kurt said, “Nah, I’d get zick if I tried zhat. I zhink you tvo zhould enter into zhiz. I’d be interezted to zee vhich of you could eat more…”

Vincent looked to Toad as he asked, “So, what do you say, up for a bit of an eating challenge?”

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((Toad: Oi what?! Oh...no...))

Toad laughed at Kurt's bad imitation of his voice. "Yez Kurt. Oi zhink zat impressions are not your zin'" Toad replied in an equally bad imitation of Kurt's accent. It came out more French than anything else. Perhaps they should not do that often...

"'Course Oi am! But you think they'll let us in? After oll...we got the unfair advantage..." Toad said. Vincent reassured them he'd come up with something.

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"Oi still can't believe you threatened to sue for discrimination..." Toad said in astonishment to Vincent. "'Ave you ever considered law school?" And it was a much better solution than Toad having to beat their way in...even though he easily could. They were now at a long table with three other people, and the competition would begin any minute...

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((your name is blue, admin. ))

Vincent laughed as he sat at the table with Toad. "My goodness no. My jaw unhinges when I'm nervous. That would be a little bit embarrassing in front of a jury," he said, playfully just letting his jaw fall lax before popping it back into place. Chuckling a bit, he added, "Besides, I'm not sure if I could actually get away with something like that or not. It just sounded intimidating."

Kurt sat out in the seats to watch as everyone got themselves ready. He thought this would be hilariously entertaining.

When the hot dogs were brought out and placed in front of everyone, Vincent looked to Toad with a grin as he said, "If you need to steal some from others, take them from the other guys." And with that, the bell sounded for them to start eating. Vincent grabbed a few, starting to eat them as quickly as he could.

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((*Smacks forehead* Oh...that's what you meant... ))

"Sounds good...but Kurt's got a thin' 'gainst me cheatin'" Toad said, mock glaring at Kurt. Kurt would figure out that Toad was just joking. The bell sounded, and Toad began scarfing down as much as he could.

He used his tongue wrapped around some hotdogs to fit more in his mouth in one gulp. Unfortunately this made a woman in the competition turn as green as him and run off. Oh well...one down, 3 more to beat. 2 if you didn't count Vince...

Vince and Toad were pretty much neck and neck and neck and neck and...well you get the idea. After about 5 minutes, another guy passed out from heat exhaustion. That just left...oh no.

It was a short Asain man...the ever cliche winner of hot dog eating contests.

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Vincent kept up for quite a while, but after 17 hot dogs, he couldn't manage any more and dropped out. He really didn't feel like making himself sick over a competition. Though, watching him shove more hot dogs than anyone should be able to in his mouth had proved entertaining.

Which left just Toad and the Asian man. Well...though Kurt did like Toad as a friend, if anyone was taking a poll right then, he'd probably put his money on the Asian man. It was just the sort of thing they manage to do constantly.

Vincent pushed the rest of his towards Toad incase the green dude ran out. Sitting back a bit, he continued to watch from where he was, not wanting to miss anything.