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As you consider your options, a rogue thought appears inside your head… no, not just a thought, but a <span class="mu-i">memory!</span>
It starts with a frumpy-looking girl in coveralls and a dumb hat…wait, no, a <span class="mu-s">RACCOON… THING.</span> There’s no way in hell it’s <span class="mu-i">human</span>... and it’s surrounded by machines! Conveyor belts, hydraulic crushers, flashing red lights–you can almost taste the panic building in the thing’s head as it charts out a route to a distant ‘<span class="mu-s">EMERGENCY STOP</span>’ button!
That’s when a word brushes against your brain folds:
‘<span class="mu-i">PARKOUR.</span>’
Like the starting gun at a race, the word sends the raccoon-thing shuffling towards the edge of the guardrail with a look of utter determination on its face! Time slows to a crawl–its feet push off of the rail and leap towards the first of many conveyor belts…
… but one of its yellow-booted feet catches on the side of the belt. Tumbling onto the machine, the raccoon-thing is rolled like pizza dough into a pile of <span class="mu-i">very</span> painful-looking bones!
The image fades as quickly as it appeared, but the adrenaline that horrible creature felt along with the sudden spurt of pain–it still lingers in your mind!
… that and the fading memory of the freak’s sweet bod stuffed into those coveralls. If it were human… well, <span class="mu-i">dang</span>!
For some reason or other all of this inspires you to give it a shot as well! Motioning for Raj to put down the metal bars he just happened to find, you give your pal a cocky wink and a ‘<span class="mu-i">watch THIS</span>’ before breaking into a run!
‘<span class="mu-i">Parkour</span>’... you’ve seen some of that crap on <span class="mu-s">MeTube</span> before–it started with some stupid Frenchies running around rooftops and stuff and turned into this whole… <span class="mu-i">sport</span> thing? The part that got you was the ‘<span class="mu-i">Getting from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible</span>’--as a Pizza Delivery Guy that last bit really spoke to you… until an ad with girls wearing those ‘<span class="mu-i">bunny suits</span>’ came on. That was probably the last time you really researched it!
Leaping over the pit, however, it almost feels like you’ve been doing this for ages! Bend your legs. Push off the corner. Grab the swinging lamp!
Like a garlic-scented ape you swing across the yawning abyss to safety on the side and smoothly land into a somersault upon landing! You barely have time to be proud of yourself before your pal arrives the same way you came, only this time he’s got Linda with him!
Leaping off of the swinging lamp just like you did, Raj adds his own personal spice to his proverbial ‘<span class="mu-i">pizza</span>’: kicking his skateboard so that it performs a barrel-roll in mid-air, the skater lands on it just as both of them finish their flight on the other side of the pit!
“Sweet Parkour, dude!”
Same to you, you grin! <span class="mu-i">And</span> Kickflip!
“S’what I do!” He adds, beaming with pride!
In any case, you made it across–getting back is gonna be another story…
>CONTD.
