Collision Course [+ Additional Levels]

Level Ten - Unhappy Reunion

"So what brings you here, to our humble dwelling?" the chubby man cut in. The green man shot him a scowl.

"I needed a plasse to lay low," Coily said, looking around.

"You?" The green man with the glasses looked at him with a mixture of mild amusement and surprise. "How is tha—"

"Came to the right place, then!" the chubby man shouted with a grin, throwing his arms out.

"Ugg."

The short magenta man stared at the person across the room. "What was that? You not happy with—"

"I said 'Ugg', not 'Ugh', you deaf idiot," he snapped.

The short man blinked. "Oh. Well maybe you should make that more clear then, next time you go pronouncing my name."

"Well, maybe you should realize when there's another person talking."

"What's that supposed t'mean?"

"I mean, that you kept cutting me off, like you always do!"

"What? I do no such thing, Greeny."

"I've told you not to call me that."

"... But you're all green."

"Oh! So I guess I should just start calling you Pinky, then?"

"How dare you call me after that blasted gho—"

"ENOUGH!"

The auguring men stopped short and stared at Coily.

"I did not come all the way over here jusst to lissten to you two ssquabble like two little human children!" Coily hissed at them.

The green man pressed his lips together, and the other looked downward shamefully.

Coily sighed in exasperation. "Goodnesss! Iss thiss how you two sspend all of your time?" Coily looked at each of them in turn. "Sslick? Ugg?"

"Sorry," Slick said.

Ugg looked up. "You better be."

"Oh shaddup already!" Slick spat.

"Where'ss my room?" Coily suddenly asked.

Slick pointed behind him, down the hallway where he came from. "Back there. Why?"

Coily started walking across the room. "Becausse if I have to lissten to anymore of your bickering, my earss are going to bursst."

Ugg hopped onto a black office chair in the middle of the room. It had patches stitched into it, and it creaked to the magenta man's weight. "Alrighty," he said a bit cheerfully.

Slick groaned. "I can't believe you," he told Ugg.

"I can't wait until Wrongway shows up," Ugg said suddenly.

Coily paused in the middle of the room. "And why'ss that?" he asked.

"Perhaps he could back me up when Slick starts getting snotty," Ugg replied. Then he laughed. "Get it? Snotty? Cuz, cuz Q*bert was originally gonna be called Snots and Boogers?" He stared at them.

They didn't laugh.

"No? Okay."

"Well, if anyone's gonna show up first, I think it'd be Sam," Slick told them, glaring at Ugg through his black sunglasses.

"Oh yeah? What's your reasoning for that one?" Ugg asked, noticing the challenge in Slick's voice. "Thought he'd be busy hopping down the staircase."