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[itmeanstruth]

They might have been in different positions, but their methods of steering (or not steering, technically) were completely the same.

“Woohooo!! THIS IS AWESOME!!” Minoru screamed as he pushed himself into another spin.

This was less of a race now, and more like a game of human pinball, but he didn’t care. He easily settled into that sweet spot of engaging his core enough to stay on the board while being relaxed enough to absorb the impact with his arms or legs.

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Aarne had sent himself into a continuous spin like some wild teacup ride at an amusement park. He felt dizzy but every time he saw Minoru in his spins he got the same idea. How could this be effectively turned into a bumper car scenario?

Aarne isn't screaming but laughing like he's off his rocker, which is probably at least partially true. As he comes toward the wall this time he shoves with both his hands and feet right into the direction Minoru is moving. Like everything up to this point in the night, this may be a fun idea that is also an incredibly bad idea.

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Using skateboards welded on rolling chairs as go karts was one thing. Using them as bumper cars? That was definitely not what any of they were designed for...

Aarne hit Minoru right on the ass. But instead of knocking him further down the ramp or even into another wall, the impact sent him and the skateboard chair toppling over. He flew forward, head first with a surprised shriek, but instinctively managed to tuck and roll. A couple of times actually.

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Aarne thought it would be fun and wasn't thinking about the inevitable wreck. He's laughing as he bumps into the back of Minoru's chair but that is short lived.

One of his chair's wheels locked up on the leg of Minoru's and stopped instantly. Aarne pitched forward at the same speed he had been moving. He screams as he careens face first toward the ramp. Unlike Minoru, the Fin doesn't know to tuck but long arms and legs means he has plenty of time to catch himself before he face plants.

Vars is laughing and taking pictures of the madness taking place on the ramp. He can't wait to see the photos he gets. Hopefully, some of the ridiculous expressions as they wrecked.

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Minoru came to a surprisingly soft stop on his back. He sat up, shaking his head and the resulting dizziness away. There was little damage to assess, just a few scrapes with their all-too-familiar sting. It felt like his shirt had torn around the back of his right shoulder, but he couldn’t get a good glimpse of that just looking back.

And when he looked, he was far more distracted by his fellow racer-turned-speedbump. And Vars with his camera.

“That was like, what, a floor and a half? Two? Hardly a photo finish.” He scoffed. His tone was serious, though, when he asked, “You okay, Aarne?”

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"Wrecks best part of race." Vars tells Minoru, partially because Aarne and Rik have dragged him to motorcycle and car races enough that he appreciates huge wrecks. Both of them are moving or Vars would check on them.

Aarne is starting to get up and shaking out his, now even crazier, hair. He's not bleeding except a little road rash on his one elbow but it isn't bad at all.

"Are you?" He asks as he sits up against the wall. He was starting to get back up and get back on the board chair.

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“Yeah.” Minoru climbed back to his feet, stretching things out and rolling his shoulders a few times. “But my ride’s not.”

He righted his skateboard chair, only to find the board hanging loosely to the side. Aarne must have hit at just the right angle to do some damage. That, or the ground did.

Minoru was more bummed about that than the crash, obviously. Could it be fixed? Could it be fixed quickly enough that no one in a position of authority had time to put a stop to their awesomely terrible idea?

Then suddenly, he looked up with a big grin. “Guess that means we’re riding tandem after all!! Come on! Scoot up! Let me on!”

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"Fuck." Aarne frowns at the broken board then the bassist.

"Photographs or fix." Vars tells him and the Fin turns away defeated. Maybe later.

Aarne gets on his board and crosses his legs. "Sit in my lap. You can steer."

This seemed like it might be the safest bet to balance everything out and have a best ability to steer.

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“All right!” Minoru saw no problems with that idea whatsoever, and quickly bounced over. “This time, you gotta hold onto me.”

He got himself situated, pausing only long enough to pose for Vars. Then, he pushed off with his legs to get the chair moving again. It took a little bit to build up the momentum, but with two of them on one board-chair, once they got going, they’d really get going!

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Aarne wraps his arms around Stardust's boyfriend and laughs at the posing, nuzzling his face against Minoru's laughing like they're crazy because they surely are.

"Do you think we could maintain a spin without flipping?" Aarne asks as they start picking up speed. It was going to happen faster and faster because of the added weight.

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"Only one way to find out." he grinned.

He leaned into the corner so they wouldn't go crashing into the wall. But still tried to push off a little with his foot. Hopefully that would get them turning too.

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This is probably a stupid idea given the extra weight but with one arm, and longer reach, he gives an added push to get them spinning. If they spin, they do, and if not he will still be giggling.

"Do you go to amusement parks?" He's been to a few since Rik was a rollercoaster addict. They hit every park they could, every coaster they could find.

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That first corner didn't quite get them spinning, but he'd try it again on the next one, with a little more push and a little less lean.

"When I get the chance, yeah!" he laughed. "There weren't any good amusement parks in Seattle. But there was one not too far from where Isamu did undergrad!"

Clearly, Minoru made up for some lost time at Six Flags America and didn't get himself kicked out for any outlandish stunts. (not permanently, anyway...)

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Aarne will do what he can to help get the chair spinning, if they can.

"You should have told us." Aarne feels sad that he didn't know. "Rik and I go all the time. He has rode most of the rollercoasters in the world. Next is the Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan."

Aarne had rode most of the roller coasters too because Rik always wanted someone to come along.

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"Next time!!" he insisted, but couldn't say much more. The words were drowned out by an energetic cheer, as their next attempt at getting the chair-board spinning was a resounding success!

Not that they could really steer while spinning. As if they actually needed to steer in the first place. Get that camera ready Vars - there's a wall dead ahead!

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Next time for sure, now that they knew. Aarne is enjoying the spinning until he realizes the wall is coming up fast. His instinct is to put one of his feet out, but Minoru is in his lap, sitting on them.

"FUUUUCK!" He's hoping the spin lets him get his arms out to the wall or this is going to be a spectacular wreck right into the wall.

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Minoru has his hands free to brace and his legs free to push off, but whether that'll do any good will depend entirely on what direction they just happen to be when they collide. And spinning like an out-of-control amusement park teacup, that was anybody's guess.

They were lucky that they hit toward the side, making for a surprisingly effective push off!

From one wall.

Right into the path of the other wall. Because that's how physics works. (Minoru could hear Isamu lecturing him about it now...)

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They have gone directly maniac teacup to pinball. The benefit to doing something like this is his arms long and very strong from drumming. He manages to get an arm out to push when they almost collide into the other wall but it now has them going down the ramp backwards with no sign of spinning to get them to a more advantageous position.

Vars can't keep up unless they wreck but he is looking down from above with the camera laughing at Aarne screaming profanities as they are now in a prime position to wipe-out spectacularly.

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At least they stopped spinning!

That gave Minoru enough time to get his bearings and quickly gauge his surroundings - most notably, the upper levels of the walkway that were starting to cross overhead...

"Next stop, everybody off!"

Without any more warning than that, he sprung up as best he could and seized one of the support bars on the underside of the ramp. It was a jerky motion that definitely didn't feel great on the shoulders, but he'd been working on strange catches for some of the American Ninja Warrior obstacles. Plus, with Aarne's hands no longer wrapped around his waist, he didn't have that much holding him down.

From above, his sudden disappearance would be just as much, if not more, of a surprise!

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Aarne cried out in surprise from Minoru suddenly jumping away. However, it's not too long after that Aarne notices the wall rushing at him. Definitely lacking the grace of abandonment that Minoru possessed, he puts his feet down on the ground. The sudden jerk of the stop topples the board and Aarne with it. It's not a pretty landing but he's caught himself and it is certainly better than wrecking into the wall.

The giggling where he's just sitting on the floor evidence that there hasn't been any injury.

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Minoru dropped down, rolling his shoulders and shaking out his wrists. He's laughing too, because that was probably the coolest dismount he'd ever done off a skateboard. (And that thing was barely still a skateboard.)

"Oh man... That was epic!" he sauntered over to Aarne, holding out a hand for the drummer.

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"It was." Aarne looks up shaking his hair out of his face.

Then he is taking Minoru's hand but instead of getting up the drummer does what he would to Rik. Firm grip on Minoru's hand he pulls sharply, intent on pulling him down and finding out if Minoru is ticklish like the Dane.

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Spoiler alert: He is.

Minoru was not expecting that, and fell right on top of Aarne and his waiting hands. (At least Aarne couldn’t tickle telepathically. Ziggy could, and sometimes did. At least, whenever Minoru got the bright idea to tickle him first.)

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Well! Now he is being tickled. In The Hammers tickling was a weapon used mostly against Rik who was incredibly ticklish. Aarne is but only on the neck, behind the ears and, well, high on the legs where Minoru isn't likely to go for.

No, he's not telepathic and the world is probably lucky he isn't. He doesn't tickle for too long, just enough to get a squeal and maybe some red in the cheeks from laughing.

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As a veritable acrobat, Minoru certainly could squirm. But he was at the mercy of Aarne until they both started laughing too hard to tickle or try to escape.

“Okay... okay...” he gasped. “You win!”

He rolled back, and pushed himself up.

“And you really won too. You went farther than I did!”

Which was technically true. Minoru bailed out before the resulting crash. No photo finish needed this time. Aarne was the clear winner.