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“Hey look, you offended the narrator,” Tyler said, shaking his head at Ally.
“Big deal, it’s not like we need him to do an introduction. Here watch me do one: There is a city on the east coast of America. It’s a normal city, except for the giant robots and guild factions. Oh the magical girls. That is Random Nexus and I am Batman,” Ally said looking pleased with herself.
“Stop looking so smug, your intro was too blunt,” Tyler said annoyed.
“Hey! Stop arguing, you two are cutting into my screen time,” said an older blonde woman with a bob cut. “Older!? I’m only 27!”
Chapter 3
There’s Noelle in Captain
It looked liked the aftermath of a bombing. The streets were burned, windows were blown out, and not to mention the huge crater in the middle of the street.
“I don’t see anything, Captain” a lean, silver haired guy in a black tank top said.
“You know, maybe if you got a haircut, you could see better,” the captain, a blonde woman with a bob cut said. She was wearing a long dress with white boots underneath and a sword slung across her back.
“You’re making fun of my haircut? Your haircut makes you look a like teenage, at least when I look like a teenager it is because I really am,” the silver haired guy said.
“You know, Slash, if you bring up the fact that you’re younger than me again: I will cut you,” the captain said glaring at him.
“It’s not like my hair is that long. Just my bangs you know. Huh?” Slash said noticing something on the ground under some rubble. “Hey Captain, look, I think I found something!”
The captain walked over to where Slash was pointing. She looked down and wave of disgust washed over her face. “What a shoddy job. Alright let’s gather him up and take him back to the base,” she yelled to Slash. She looked up to the NARF Building and said something under her breath and smiled. “Okay, heave ho!” she said looked back down.
They picked up the body and carried him all the way back to their base of operations. The captain left Slash in charge of fixing him and she went out shopping.
“Ugh,” the boy groaned.
“Hey, you’re awake!” Slash said excitedly. “Do you remember your name? Usually with this type of trauma some memory loss is normal.”
“Huh? Uhh…yeah my name is Tyler. Wait, what trauma?” he bolted out of the bed they laid him in.
“You were kidnapped by The Seraphim and forced into a Super Robot fight with NARF. They self-destructed your machine hoping to take you and the NARF robot together. The quick thinking of Kenneth, he the leader of NARF by the way, had you eject at the last moment. Kenneth usually comes off as immature, you sometimes forget why he’s in charge of NARF until something like this happens. Oh yea, this is The Resistance. We don’t have any Super Robots; in fact it’s just me, Captain Noelle, and two other members and you if you join us,” Slash explained everything to Tyler.
“Super Robots, Resistance, Seraphim? This all sounds like a really bad plot from those Japanese cartoons Ally watches all the time. I don’t think I’ll be joining anytime soon,” Tyler said and started getting up. He doubled over in pain.
“Yea, not so fast, you owe us,” Noelle stepped into the room. “We spent our precious time putting you back together and you won’t give us the time of day. I’m telling you to join, or I’ll kill you again.”
“She’s serious dude, she’ll kill you,” Slash whispered into Tyler’s ear.
Tyler looked around nervously and weighed his options and asked, “What are you …umm I mean, ‘what are we resisting?’”
“That’s what I like to hear. We aren’t really resisting anything. Every other group as a cool name, so why not us? In all reality we’re more like a Warrior’s Guild. We do odd jobs for most anyone who would hire us. That’s why our numbers are so small, we try to keep everyone together on missions. Our biggest client is NARF,” the Captain was explaining to Tyler.
Somewhere outside the room a door opened and two people walked in, “That must be the rest of us,” Slash said and walked out the door and waved. “Everyone this is Tyler, he’s gonna be joining us for awhile. Tyler,” he looked him and pointed to a girl in jeans and long black hair, “this is Fuka, and this is,” he pointed to the guy standing next to her, he was a bit more than a little overweight,” Sasuke or something. It was Greg, but he changed recently.”
“Come on! My name is Suke Sai, if you’d say it right you wouldn’t get confused,” he sounded a little annoyed. “You know what I mean don’t you Yami Fuka?”
“Not really, I was born here so I’ve been called Fuka Yami my whole life and so are my parents. Wait! I don’t mean my parents have the same name as me. I mean the Yami part comes last and I don’t mean I was born here. I was born in Denver. I moved out here the other day!” she was getting flustered and started talking faster.
“Okay, now that all this introduction crap is taken care off, I’m going to take a nap!” Noelle exclaimed and got up and left.
“Hey…umm…your captain is a little weird,” Tyler said getting up.
“She is your captain now too, buddy,” Slash said and laughed.
“Hey, umm… I was wondering if—“ Fuka started.
“I heard that! I’m not the weird one, you are!” Noelle came storming back in. “Why am I weird, huh? Is it because I speak my mind, huh? I do what I want without hesitation! You only have one like to live, so you better live it! A life lived wondering ‘what if’ is a pretty sucky life! You want to eat cake before dinner, eat you cake! You want the new Playstation game, go get the new game! You want to kill that guy who cut you off, go kill that guy! I say **** on consequence! You know what? Sasuke come here!” Noelle pointed at Sai setting in the corner.
“Huh? My name is Suke Sai!” he yelled.
“I don’t care!” she yelled back and stabbed him in the chest. “See look at that, I just killed a guy!” she said patting herself on the back. Tyler was thinking she was nuts for sticking around this long. He just witnessed a murder, he was going to try and make a break for it. “Uh-oh,” Noelle said looking embarrassed, “I can’t seem to find any of my Phoenix Life Balm. Slash take of it for me.”
“Yes ma’am. Here watch this and you may understand why the captain acts the way she does,” Slash said and walked over to Sai’s corpse. He bent over it and started chanting, “Mother, breathe air back into the lungs of the fallen! Holy Arte: Resurrection!” He said and a bright light came out of Sai’s wound and the blood and everything seemed to disappear, except for the stain on his shirt.
“So you see, I can kill as much as I want as long as they can come back. Speaking of which, Fuka go and get me some more Phoenix Life Balm. Oh and some eggs I want omelets tomorrow,” Noelle said and left the room again.
“Hey, umm would you like to go with me? Earlier I was going to ask you to give me a tour of the town. But I guess we could knock that out of the way and get the stuff Noelle wants too. Umm, that is if you don’t mind,” it looks like Fuka really wants to get to know Tyler.
“Huh, oh yea, sure,” Tyler, who was still a little in shock by the events that just happened said. He was also curious to what kind of shop carries Phoenix Balm and Eggs.
“Great! I’ll grab my things and meet you in the lounge!” she said and rushed off.
“The Lounge?” Tyler said and looked around.
“Oh yea, you have no idea about this place. I guess she’ll give you tour if you ask, but for now the Lounge is just to the left at the end of the hall. You can’t miss it, it has a couch and big TV,” Slash explained pointing out the door.
“You can follow me, I’m heading out there to play Playstation,” Sai said calmly, like he didn’t just die a few moments ago.
“Don’t worry about me, I’m gonna stay in here and try to regain some of the mana I just lost,” he said and opened a little fridge in the corner. “Oh, by the way I’m an Alchemist on top of being a Cleric, so if there’s anything ailing you don’t be a stranger.”
“Yea, yea, you’re an over achiever,” Sai said and laughed. “Now come on, I’ll show you to the Lounge,” he said waving at Tyler to come.
Tyler followed him out to the hall. It was normal looking hallway, the walls were painted white and carpet laid down was crimson. It had a pleasant smell too. Sai must have noticed Tyler smelling and said, “Yea I’m glad Fuka-chan came. She brought with her some smelly potpourri stuff. I’m not saying it smelt bad before, but this is a lot better than Doritto’s,” he said and laughed again. They passed a door on the right and Sai pointed at it and said, “That’s Noelle’s room, no one is allowed in.” They kept on going and came out into a big open room. There was a couch in the middle of the room a big chair to the left of it and a TV against the wall with a few systems hooked into it. “Well here’s the lounge,” he said and turned on the Playstation and grabbed a controller.
“Okay, I’m ready!” Fuka yelled at the end of the hallway. She came running down the hall and tripped when she entered the lounge. “I always do that,” she said getting up. Tyler didn’t notice anything different about what she was wearing and wonder what she did back there. “Okay let’s go,” Fuka said and she and Tyler headed out the door.
TO BE CONTINUED…
“What the crap? I didn’t get any screen time,” Ally yelled.
“What do you expect, this is still the introduction story arc and there are a lot of characters to introduce,” Tyler explained.
“Well how long is it?” Ally asked.
“It’ll be over after Headmistress and the magical girl are introduced,” Tyler explained more.
“If that’s all, I’m going to do a preview!” Ally exclaimed!
“A what?” Tyler asked.
“You know a preview of the next chapter,” Ally explained.
“Can’t they, you know just turn the page,” Tyler asked.
“Nope! Now stand back and watch! Next time on Random Nexus: they introduce the rest of the cast and I get more lines!” Ally yelled. |