Scarlet stared blankly at the discarded organ that Cale had coughed up, "... Oops?"<br/><br/>She sighed dejectedly as he summoned his squid and flew away, then gave the organ a sideways glance, "You're just... Gonna leave this here, then? That's sanitary." Delicately, she wrapped the organ in shadow and levitated it several arm's lengths away from herself as she trudged back in the direction she'd come from. Apparently she was too miserable about her equally miserable failings at healing magic to recall that she could just teleport back...<br/><br/>"There are explosions over there," she stated to no one in particular.<br/><br/>"Hyaw, hyaw, hyaw. Yes. I smell a lawsuit coming on."<br/><br/>"Oh, no," Scarlet muttered, "Not you again."<br/>"YES! It is I, I. R. Badd! And stealing organs is against the law, lady shadow demon!"<br/><br/>"I'm not stealing it! I'm returning it!"<br/><br/>"I believe that organs come with a very strict<span style="font-style: italic">no exchanges or returns policy,</span>Miss Carson," I. M. Badd looked as ridiculous as ever, wiggling her painfully obviously fake mustache in disdain.<br/><br/>Scarlet sighed, the imaginary thundercloud over her head downpouring to mirror her mood, "I know I've been kicked into an ill-fated side plot when you two show up."<br/><br/>"Yes, we is the side character committee of side characters!"<br/>"We<span style="font-style: italic">are</span>, you grammatically inferior buffoon. Additionally, that was a redundant statement. Edit it immediately!" Out of nowhere, she whipped out a red marker and scribbled an 'X' on her brother's face.<br/><br/>"My mustache! ... Actually, it looks kinda better now."<br/><br/>"Somewhat, yes... This will not stand! I object!" Without another word, I. M. drew an 'X' on her own face.<br/><br/>"Why do all twins have to be neurotic in some form or another?" Scarlet asked herself, shaking her head and attempting to sneak away while the twins argued over whose 'X' was more decorative and complementary to the mustache.<br/><br/>"Halt!"<br/>"Stop!"<br/>"That's what I just said!"<br/>"But I said it better!"<br/>"I said it best! Halt is much more sophisticated than 'stop.' Clearly, I am the more refined, of the two of us."<br/>"At least everyone knows what stop means!"<br/><br/>"Are... Are you implying that my vocabulary is so small that it doesn't include the word 'halt'?" Scarlet asked dangerously.<br/><br/>"Well, one can never be too sure with shadowy vermin."<br/>"Vermin?"<br/>"Vermin. Noun. Wild mammals or birds believed to carry diseases; parasites and worms, or, most applicably, people who are perceived as despicable and causing problems for the rest of--"<br/><br/>"I know what it means, you obnoxious cow!"<br/>"Cow. Noun. The mature female of cattle. There is a flaw in your reasoning, for I am not bovine."<br/>"But you are female," I.R. interjected.<br/><br/>Scarlet gave a frustrated scream, shadows exploding around her and drawing the attention of the lawyer twins.<br/><br/>"Let the jury find the defendant guilty of lung theft!"<br/>"Innocent, I say. It was only a loan."<br/><br/>"It was not a loan," Scarlet explained, "He coughed it up and left it behind-"<br/>"And you saw fit to take it? Hmmmm?"<br/>"Finder's keeper's?" I. R. supposed.<br/>"Brother, that only works in child's games. We're speaking of organs, here!"<br/><br/>"Then let us review and go over the facts!"<br/>"That's the same thing!" Scarlet and I. M. shouted in unison.<br/><br/>"Er. Right. Correct. They are the same indeed. I was reiterating. To reiterate, so to speak."<br/><br/>Because this is just one of those times when weird things happened, a defendant's stand, judges seat, two lawyer's stations and a bench for a jury sprung up around the group. A few of the vampire-owl-whatever-things filed in to fill the jury. Scarlet felt an eye twitch.<br/><br/>"Miss Carson. You are on trial for negligent medical care and lung theft."<br/><br/>"Because I was already having a brilliant day," Scarlet muttered dryly.<br/><br/>"Let us recap. You attempted to heal your comrade. He awoke, at which point you stole the lung from his body-" the jury gasped, though giving what the jury was comprised of, it sounded more like a strangled gurgle.<br/><br/>"He<span style="font-style: italic">coughed it up</span>!" Scarlet snapped.<br/><br/>"Nonsense and untruth!" I. R. proclaimed, "That's only a mere expression and exaggerated phrase."<br/><br/>"Well, not this time. And aren't you supposed to be defending me?"<br/>"I like to pick, choose, and select my battles."<br/><br/>"Ahem. After the defendant stole the organ-"<br/>"I'm telling you, he coughed it up!"<br/>"-She then proceeded to send the boy, now organless, away on a questionable seafood rocket."<br/>"I don't even know how to respond to that."<br/>"What's more, the defendant then wrapped the organ in shadows and prepared to escape; presumably to an illicit organ market to sell it."<br/>"That... Is actually not a bad idea," Scarlet mused with a fanged grin.<br/><br/>"SHE ADMITS IT! GUILTY! Guilty, I say!"<br/>"At fault! Wrongdoer!"<br/>"Let the jury pronounce their verdict!"<br/><br/>"Let me find something to treat the migraine all this yelling has given me," Scarlet mumbled, intensifying the shadows and focusing them around the small "courtroom." Her eyes flashed as she sank out of the shadowy orb and reappeared just outside it. With a classy snap of her fingers, the orb exploded into darkness, taking out a few more buildings along the block. The demon shook her head, irritated at being caught up in another pseudo-legal side plot and stalked back to the main battleground.<br/><br/>Once there her eyes landed on Cale, and narrowed, "Here," She snapped, throwing the lung, still in shadows, at him, "Next time you have someone babysit an organ, please sign a disclaimer."