since it's Sunday here already, and I'm in an impatient mood, I'm posting my prompt now so here it is....... Been there done that! Now, what I want to know is - where has who been, what did they do and did they purchase the t-shirt????

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Oh this was great KT! Chewing feathers, eh? ROTFL! Poor Joe! His reputation precedes him. Pulling rank on the ISO guard--I can *so* see that. Just perfect. Ken and Joe out on the town and on the prowl! Love it. Can't wait to see what happens next!

Hmmm...good prompt KT. Here's mine for the week: ***************** Prompt# 147-Been there, done that... Leaning back in his tall leather chair, Hakase's face slowly turned red as he went down the list and began reading. "Misappropriation of specialized government property, assaulting two Military Police Officers, theft of an ISO vehicle, and theft and use of unauthorized ordinance." Joe merely listened, leaning against the wall chewing on a shuriken, arms crossed over his chest. Nonchalantly he shifted his weight and continued staring at a spot on the wall behind the doctors head. He knew exactly what he did, and he didn't need someone else reading him a list of his "transgressions". "Shall I go on...?" Hakase questioned, gesturing at him from behind his desk, papers in hand. The doctor cleared his throat and continued, his voice sounding strained. "Excessive dangerous speeding in a business section, wrecking said stolen vehicle, inciting a riot and the destruction of public property...." He took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose a moment. "Of course there's more, but I won't bother to waste my breath ...." He picked his head up, taking good long look at the man whom he had raised from a young child. The child of a long time acquaintance. The man who now stood there throwing dark shadows against the wall. "Do you have anything to say for yourself? Anything at all?"he questioned, placing his glasses back on. he paused a moment, trying to reign in his anger. "Do you have any idea of what this means? This could mean much more than just jail time!" Joe let out a soft snort. "Yeah, yeah. Been there, done that..." "What were you thinking Joe?!" Hakase shouted at him. "Do you ever take a moment to think before you act?" Joe'e eyes snapped up, meeting the doctor's. "Yeah I did. It's a hell of a lot better than sitting around here waiting for the other shoe to drop. At least I made a decision and stuck to it!" "You may have very well compromised our entire situation!" Hakase rose up from his chair, fists balled on the desktop. "We were waiting on intelligence from one of our undercover agents!" "Well unless you have a phone that dials into Hell, you'll be waiting an awfully long time Hakase considering that man is already dead!"

What can I say about this? I'm too busy sitting back and chuckling to come up with any good comments...

KT- I'm wondering how clueless Ken will do in the role of " wingman"... LOL! Redbird- you've written a very believable defiant Joe! I'm wondering what consequences he will face!

RB - sounds like a typical Condor day, eh? love it EW - Can't wait to see what you come up with

Well, KT, how does this strike you? ========== ElectricWhite sat on the patio of the Fennic Room with an elderly fox named Flash curled up on her lap. He let out a contented sigh as she stroked his long ears. Every now and then she'd glance up to see the progress of a lone figure approaching the patio from deeper within the room -- since that room was large enough to fit at least 12 Vatican Cities within it, the unidentified person took a while to get close to the patio. "Hey, Chris, what's going on?" EW called as soon as Chris was close enough. "Have you seen Kat?" Chris sat down on a pile of rocks near the patio and rubbed her aching legs; she wasn't used to walking through so much sand. But she might have even crawled through the entire site if that's what it took to find the Fennec kit she'd formed a bond with. "No." EW replied, "Is something wrong?" "Some of the kits were eating puppy food when they decided to lie down in it." "Just like little puppies or kittens would do." EW chuckled a bit. "Why do they do that, anyway?" "I dunno. Maybe they like the squishy feel of the food." "Anyway," Chris said with a sigh, "we were able to give the others a bath, but Kat took off." "Did she have a bad experience?" "She doesn't have any experience! She's never been in a tub in her life." "That's a shame." Something off to her left caught EW's eye. Between a small pile of rocks and a wall were a pair of ears...the ears a kit...the ears that were beginning to grow from the kitten-sized to the satellite dish-looking variety that was a major characteristic of a Fennec. And this Fennec was, clearly, playing by the little kids' rule of hide-and-seek: If I can't see you, then you can't see me. EW placed a finger to her lips in a shushing gesture and then pointed to her left. Chris forgot her complaining legs and quietly rushed over to the wheelchair. As soon as she saw what EW saw, her lips parted in a wide grin. "Yeah, it's a real shame." Chris said as she slowly moved around to slip in behind the kit, "I even got her a little ducky." "Oh that sounds great!" EW picked up the banter, hoping Kat wouldn't notice Chris moving in, "Splashing around in that nice, warm water...playing with the ducky...getting a rub-down in a big, fluffy, warm towel..." Flash looked up at EW as if to say, Ooh, I like that! Are you giving me a bath now, or are you going to give me a treat first? "Gotcha!" Chris cried as she grabbed Kat from behind. When EW saw the kit's expression, she could almost hear a small voice say, Aww, but I don' wanna take a baff! "Now, Kat," EW said, "you can't say you've been there and done that until you've actually been there and done that!" "And I know" Chris said, lapsing into baby talk, "you'll just be adowable in the cute widdle t-shirt I'll have made for you!" As Chris walked away, babbling to the kit, EW muttered to the fox in her lap, "You know, I seriously doubt that much baby talk's good for the little one."

Aww..that's sooo cute EW! Love the photo you included.

EW, It's so sweet, and it reminds me of the little kitties my daughter is currently rearing right now too. Love it!

KT: LOL, I love how Joe's reaction is "huh wonder if I should look her up again." And there's no discussion of how Joe is on the rebound too. At least Ken found someone to take his "I don't want to be here" misery out on early, heh heh heh. They should also worry that a security guard with gambling debts is vulnerable to being pushed around by Galactor! Can't wait to see what trouble this night will bring them. Redbird: Oh boy, Joe's really gone and done it, hasn't he? Inciting a riot?? That must have been quite a day! Wonder what Nambu's going to do to him. EW: Baby talk is totally fine for something that cute! LOL

KT, I'm curious about this guard. It all sounds very suspicious how he lost his money and had to take on another job... It seems to me like there's something more there. Redbird, this is so typical, and perfect for the prompt! I can see that Joe doesn't appreciate the 'deja vu' either!

The once-inspiring city was now a pile of smoking rubble, its buildings smashed, its few surviving citizens poking amongst the wreckage for anything they could salvage. The light from the rising sun, rather than symbolizing hope, as it often did, today only highlighted the disaster that had occurred here. "We were too late." Ken scowled, his hands clenching into fists. "We did the best we could. The attack just happened so fast. In the few minutes it took us to assemble..." Jun's attempt to soothe him clearly wasn't working. "It's not like this hasn't happened before." Joe growled. "Galactor will pay." "I know, I know!" Ken shouted, throwing his hands up into the air in frustration. "Been there, done that! Same old, same old! Well I've had enough of it! We can't take this anymore! I won't take this anymore!" "What do you propose, Ken?" Jun asked, concern etched into the weary lines of her face. "We're taking the fight to them." Ken declared. "Before the day is through, Galactor will regret every terrible thing they've ever done."

Heheh. "Gatchaman Burns With Rage!" Watch out Galactor! Here comes Gatchaman!

Thanks for the reviews! When I saw the prompt, I could just hear the multitude of charges rattling off in my head. Joe doesn't own that T-shirt...he wrote the book!

KT - Ok we snigger at Joe but seriously, how is the guy expected to have a social life in this kind of work? RB - the possibilities of your story are endless! What did Joe do? Has he actually been to jail?

EW: I ll just ooooooooh along with the others! TJ: finally they go on the attack! This could turn into a great fic!

EW- cute! TJ- Oooo...it's not often that they go on the offensive...go get 'em, team!

BTW, EW, I am using this thread to thank you for warning me not to open the post in the other thread! I read the first line, and was out of there...and not going back! (If you haven't guessed which post I'm talking about, all you brave people can go over to the thread titled "Just it time").

DT: Not exactly sure what he did (he refused to tell me LOL), but it sounds like it was pretty bad!

KT - what luck to find a bouncer that they could intimidate. Of course it makes you wonder what other bad decisions that guard has made and will make. RB - Oh My! Joe's been busy... Makes you wonder just what he was up to and why Nambu can't pull some strings to make it go away... EW - I don't know much about fennic foxes, but that picture is so cute! TJ - uh-oh... Gatchaman's had all he can take - he can't takes no more... Watch out Galactor!

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Mylari: Having lots of fun trying to imagine what he's going to find there.

Mylari- Can't wait to see what happens next! I have a feeling Mark is about to be in an awkward situation!

I think I have an idea of where this is heading, but still not sure if Jason & I are on the same page...

Errr...why am I having flashbacks of the shower scene from Psycho! LOL. Hopefully that won't be the case here!

I'm not into horror stories. I scare *entirely* too easily for that... So I don't foresee any Psycho type events coming up, but this little story is teaching me never to say never as we've already ventured out of my usual operating zone...

...Or it could turn out to be the shower scene from "High Anxiety", Mel Brooks' take on Hitchcock movies...

So..... It's either Jason and Princess in the shower together... Or Jason and Princess are hiding and going to jump Mark from behind, teaching him a lesson!

Mylari -- someone is scrubbing someone else's back...we just need to find out who... However, wouldn't it be a twist if he found Jason with a different girl?

OK, my take for the week: //The commander of the new mecha stands in front of me. He looks nervous. I look impatient, and I feel impatient. Another fool who's going to make me look like a fool as well, if history is anything to go by. Another fool who's going to get killed for Spectra. The commander salutes as I stand, purple robes flowing. "I will not disappoint you, sire!" he says. Yeah, been there, done that. Sure he will.//

DT: Aw, Zolar's having a down day, poor thing ...

Zoltar needs a glass of wine.... (I didn't see a wine glass smiley..) And say, in Gatch we see Katse imbibing from time to time, I don't remember about Zoltar. Did they cut those scenes from BOTP to avoid "damaging" our young impressionable minds?

Originally posted by Redbird And say, in Gatch we see Katse imbibing from time to time, I don't remember about Zoltar. Did they cut those scenes from BOTP to avoid "damaging" our young impressionable minds?

And would this surprise you? Heck, that still goes on! In one episode of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pegasus (the bad guy) is clearly drinking a glass of wine, but they make it a point to say he's "sipping a glass of fruit juice".

Lol! Poor Zoltar doesn't have much to choose from, does he? Good one, Daniella!

If Zoltar knows the guy is going to fail, why wouldn't he recruit someone else? Hmmmm... that could be a story in itself: why goons are so dumb and they don't recruit smarter people...

Daniella - too funny. Makes you wonder why Zoltar keeps trying sometimes, doesn't it?

This sprang from a comment TJ made earlier in this thread.... ========== "Things might look peaceful here at Center Neptune as fish blissfully swim by, but let me tell you," 7-Zark-7 proclaimed to an nonexistent audience, "things couldn't be farther from the truth! Why, who knows what kind of evil deeds Spectra would try if I wasn't monitoring the whole of the known universe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year!" "Yip yap yap!" 1-Rover-1's electronic voice chimed in. "Of course, Rover," Zark replied, "366 days during leap years! That's usually implied." "Yap yip yip!" "Anyway, there is a question that has been burning in the minds of G-Force. And, after considerable research, I have found the answer! And, as luck would have it, they are in their Ready Room now, so I don't have to summon them and then wait for them to come together...I know that makes me sound impatient, but I'm so eager to share this information with them! Why, my diodes are just tingling with anticipation at seeing their faces light up as I tell them what they've wanted to know for such a long time now! I'm sure not knowing has caused them to have many sleepless nights, and the thought of finally putting them at ease --" "YAP!" "Of course, Rover, you're right! I shouldn't delay any longer." In the Ready Room, the members of G-Force were going through their usual routines: Mark and Jason played table tennis, Princess strummed her guitar while Keyop kept the beat on his drum set, and Tiny worked on emptying a plate of Spaceburgers. A monitor screen roughly 1/4 the size of one of the Ready Room walls flickered to life, displaying the head of 7-Zark-7. "7-Zark-7 to G-Force...attention G-Force!" G-Force instantly stopped what they were doing, rushed over to the monitor, and stood at attention. "Has Spectra launched an attack, Zark?" Mark asked. "No, Commander," the robot replied, "But, after considerable research --" Jason stepped out of the line and headed toward the door. He remembered the last time the team stood before the monitor after Zark had done "considerable research" -- been there, done that, not interested in another lecture on the average number of hairs on a Goliath Birdeater Spider. He reached the door...and found it locked. " -- I have found the answer to a question I know you have all been asking yourselves." Zark's artificially sweet voice jabbed Jason's eardrums. G-Force's second leaned against the wall by the door and folded his arms. "Well, that was nice of you, Zark!" Princess has become quite good at faking enthusiasm toward the robot. There was a small, nervous giggle. "Why, thank you, Princess!" He paused a moment. "I've even used the latest, state-of-the-art technology to illustrate and animate the answer." With that, Zark's image was replaced with what looked like some sort of Neanderthal wearing an orange cheetah skin entering a cave. At the bottom of the picture were the words: Spectra: Long Ago. "Why does this look like an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon?" Tiny asked. No response came. The Neanderthal went deeper into the cave. About halfway in, he stopped and prostrated himself. There was a flash of light and the head of a blue pterosaur appeared. The image glared down at the man. "Speak, Jonkey." the pterosaur's voice boomed. "Oh Great Spirit," Jonkey said without looking up, "what is your desire?" "Why is my work not being done?" "Oh Great Light, there are problems in Pohjoen, Norđurn, Talameh, and Ziemia." "What kind of problems?" the Great Spirit spoke as if he were coaxing a very dim child to take a step toward an empty swimming pool. "There are some people that are considered wise and knowing." Jonkey raised his head just enough to be better heard, "People like Tarsaul, Konqiu, and Ibnsina, and others, who dare question if you are divine, if your will is good, and if we should work toward your happiness." Jonkey trembled as he quickly returned his forehead to the dirt. The image of boiling lava formed within the pterosaur's eyes. The being seethed for a moment. "This is my command: all those who have questioned me must be sacrificed at sunset as is the custom for all who displease me." "As you command, oh Great Spirit." "And if any children show exceptional intelligence, bring them to me." "You do not wish them to be sacrificed as well?" "I wish to sort them. Some will be used to fulfill my wishes in ways you ordinary peons could never do, the rest will feed the sacrificial flames. I will be the one to decide." "It is as you wish, oh Wondrous One!" "And the question this was supposed to answer?" Jason sounded unimpressed. "Why," Zark sounded a bit stunned by the lack of enthusiasm Jason displayed, "you've all said you couldn't understand why Spectra's soldiers always seemed so unintelligent!" No immediate response came. "It's clear that intelligence was bred out of the general population, and any advances came from a few that were removed and isolated from the rest." "Well, that would explain it!" Tiny replied with an overwrought enthusiasm. "Yes, thank you, Zark." Mark added, trying to politely break communications with the robot before the matter degenerated into a two-hour monologue from the AI. He wasn't successful.

EW - that was great! It would certainly explain why Spectra is always scraping the bottom of the barrel for goons and captains...

LOL, it could very well be true ... the poor team, they work so hard and also have to put up with this ... again, I'll say that it's amazing they don't defect

EW - I don't know who to feel sorry first, Zoltar or G-Force! CW is right, Zark could be a valid reason for defection, and who could blame them?

That's a great explanation, EW! I could easily see it happening! Question is, how did Zark get the footage?

TJ, that question will be answered when I submit the expanded story to gatchfanfic.com!

This has been swimming around in my brain for some time now...and I finally got around to making it!

LOLOL ... that's a much needed giggle today, Springie, thanks

I agree with Chris! I needed that laugh today. They all look like kids that have just been grounded.

That is just hilarious. Love the pimp suit and Jinpei bundled up like a toddler

Glad to give you guys some giggles! I got bored drawing regular coats...so Ryu and Jinpei got the silly items. I actually meant to give all of them some type of hat over their helmets, just for silliness, but I forgot. I often wondered how they survived in those episodes where they were exposed to extreme cold in those thin birdstyles!

Maybe the team will be careful what they wish for in future, Springie? Love the new outfits though, and thanks for putting a smile on my face on a chilly Monday morning

Exactly, KT! I think they have regrets...but at least they're warm...and color coordinated! LOL

That's great, Springie! If Galactor shows up, they can have the snowball battle of all time!

Hahaha! Yeah, that "Snowman" mech could lob snowballs at them...hope they have their arsenal ready!

Jinpei with the 'Christmas Story' snowsuit is my favorite!

Jinpei should be glad he didn't get stuck with a Maggie Simpson-style snowsuit!