~based on real events~
- Keith tries to get a picture of an interesting rock and gets a blurry bicyclist in the foreground
- Hunk says it looks like a bigfoot picture
- Lance and Keith suddenly have a competition to take the most “cryptid” pictures
- There’re increasingly complex rules
- It only counts if blurry
- They have to yell out “cryptid!” to give the other a chance at it
- There’s a fifteen minute debate about whether a jogger counts or not
- Especially since all Lance got was an orange blur heading out of frame
- Levels are invented
- Joggers are declared a rare variant (at Lance’s insistence)
- Kids on bikes are larval stage
- Bike racks are nests
- Shiro spots a tandem bike
- No one is sure what to make of it
- They kinda just coast by it in silence, all six (paladins and Allura) staring out the windows
- There’s a couple in east Texas who feel a slight shiver when they see an old van overtaking them on the road from now on
- They overtake a flock of around 25 in the bike lane. As they slow down to pass them Pidge rolls down their window and blasts the X-files theme on their bluetooth speakers
- Everyone laughs until they can’t breathe, including Shiro
- At the end of the day Lance and Keith are comparing photos and arguing over who won. Pidge trumps them both
- They argue that Pidge’s don’t count because they didn’t call them out for everyone to see
- However the existence of 297 blurry photos of cyclists on their phone cements their victory
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