While Lovely gabs it up with Megami, Band just sits back and takes one last pull of the scotch. He makes a gesture for a Sam Adams towards the barkeep. He takes a pull as Lovely mentions the Battle with William, The Mech Brawl in Pullman and other fun times of yesteryear. A wave of nostalgia grips him and he feels truly at home.
Suddenly, he's broken out of his train of thought when Lovely does a twist of her wrist and pulls something out of Hammerspace.
"Whaaa? A present for me?"
He then observes the generous gift. It wasn't super big, in fact it was no higher than 6 inches, no wider than 12 and no deeper than 8. The red bow & ribbon secured the wrapping paper that had a beautiful image of Lovely in her Sizzler and Band next to her in his comparatively dimunitive Virsyon Gundam. The anime-inspired sweatdrop on Virsyon's head as he glared in envy of the Sizzler's size made it very funny.
He made sure to be careful with unwrapping it so as to keep the paper in good enough shape to keep the image, but to anyone else who saw him, it looked like a kid trying to get his hands on some toy on Christmas Day. Inside he sees some electronics that he never saw before. It had the Sony name on it, but it said Playstation 5. Needless to say, the thought just didn't click what with the recent release of the PS3. The perplexed and puzzled look upon his face spoke volumes.
Lovely proceeded to explain & wrote:
"Yeah, I was on another training mission in the future... and I happened to nab one of these. What's cool is that it still operates on 120VAC. You don't need an HDTV or anything -- the holographic displayspace projects right above the console. You won't be able to connect online to the Hypernet, which doesn't exist yet, so you can't play any of the online games. But there are some pretty cool single player virtual world games, RPGs, space battle games, and a few others I collected. The controller consists of special gloves and goggles. Anyway, I hope you have fun with what Santa brought you."
She embraced him in a hug of friendship and caring. He very quickly returned the hug and whispered in her ear.
"Thanks, kiddo. Good to know I'm still on your mind occasionally."
Then, placing one hand on her cheek, he gave a light kiss on her head.
"Well, now I've got something to do when the Harem needs to get some time off. You've made quite a number of ladies very happy and relieved to be getting some vacation time."
After everyone investigated and started using their new gifts, Band gets up and heads to the dark stage. Flipping a few switches, he is able to get it up, running, and staffed with a whole Swing band. After the song on the jukebox got done, he pulled the plug on it then took to the mic.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of Bimbo's Bar & Grill. I thank you all for coming and drowing your holiday sorrows here. Remember, this is also Ladies Night so you gals should be pounding the booze away. It needs to go so we can get a new shipment in."
Some of the people laughed or smirked, others honestly thought about the fact of the booze having been here for so long and at least one guy got slapped by his girlfriend after she realized it was Ladies Night that made him think of this place instead of a nice restaurant for their anniversary. Band then resumed.
"Well, I'm in a bit of a party mood and I think we need some decent dancin' music so with the help of The Brain Setzer Orchestra I give you...
The Dirty Boogie!"
And with that, the dance floor got rockin'!