[quote], "El Sasquatcho is familiar with the Street Fighter series of games. Mostly, preferring to fight with the large Russian wrestler or the green Brazilian who electrocutes his adversaries. Good combos." 

"Zangief and Blanka are fine, but Ken, Guy and Evil Ryu are where it's at"[/quote]

Caitlyn rolled her eyes, this lot went on about Street Fighter too? How popular could this toy really be? Caitlyn knew what was going to happen next, it always happened between men and their hobbies, they could talk strategy and counter-strategy, like some battle of wits was taking place, for longer than they would actually engage in the hobby.

[i]
"Oh, Zangeif has superior wake up combo into Super and overall better frame data"
"What does that matter? Ree-you has better zoning and poke options, you'll never get close"
"Both Zangeif and Ree-you are inferior Dudley, whos neutral heavy jab into forward heavy jab footsies out perform almost all other moves, and he can counter fireballs"
"Are you insane? Dudley's hitbox is retarded and extends 2 feet infront of him, his profile is to big, he's hit by even the shittiest low kicks"
"All his moves combo into Machine Gun Punch and the EX version is a stage dive, you can't get close without the punish and there is nothing you can do about Rolling Thunder"
"Look, if were talking Ultras Able wins, its a guranteed hit and removes half your health"
[/i]

Yada-yada-yada. And this wasn't exclusive to Street Fighter either, cars, guns, anything with moving parts, real or imaginary. Everything has to be a competition.

[quote] "Psst... If you're still hungry after this, nobody's touched the rice." He then returned to his own meal. [/quote]

Caitlyn was still kinda hungry and rice would be the perfect carbohydrate dense dish to satify herself and Bug. She was dishing herself up when Zero started screaming from the gym. She poked her head round the door to make sure everything was alright. Zero had gone mental and bad touched one of the holo-droids big time. Dude needed to calm down, he'd taken Robin's death really badly.[i]Don't get me wrong, what happened that night was horrifying [/i] but shouldn't have left this much of an impact. Its not like they'd known Robin, known of sure, but actually [b]known[/b] the person? Caitlyn had sympathy of Zero, but not empathy, he needed to pull himself to together.

Caitlyn wished she could have done more for him that night, but she wasn't a brawler. The honorable thing would have been to get laid out by Multiplex and hope they no interest in silly things like "loose ends", but it wasn't the clever thing to do. The clever thing to do was to disappear before she herself was on the recieving end of Deadshot, especially when well aimed bullets were a particular weakness of hers. 

[quote]"No, no... The chocolate is seasonal. El Sasquatcho will not be able to procure it from the Taco Hut until the middle of October. At that time, we have the option of Cayenne or Pumpkin Spice. It is muy dark, thick, and lovely; not unlike the lucky young lady El Sasquatcho escorted to his junior prom." [/quote]

Imagining El Sasquatcho as any younger than he was now was genuinely impossible. Caitlyn's face contorted as she struggled with the concept. Less broad, less hairy and maybe shorter? It was impossible. Caitlyn tried to force those paradoxical thoughts out of her mind lest she break something in there and went back to spooning out rice for herself. As she hopped back onto the counter, El Sasquatcho continued.  

[quote]"If nothing else, let us do [i]something[/i]. We've been training for days." [/quote]

"Arcade it is then, we can go a soon as everyones ready"