"How many fingers am I holding up?"
"...two, I think. You look double."
"That's a lie!" shouted Mikhail Dornitz, slamming his palm on the table. "Admit your guilt, traitor!"
"...Sweet Guiness, you're
still not over Blueno
yet?" muttered Franz Jaeger. "Sheesh man, that was
4 years ago! What the hell's your problem!"
"I had a great chance to lose my Eternal Virgin status with her, and I didn't take it! That's what! Me and my principles! My goddamn principles! I can't get laid with them!"
None of the few people in the room that had been refitted as the Order's bar paid him any notice. The OFM bar was a place to relax and unwind and to yell and unwind. The beer was subsidised by the OFM out of creative black budget accounting, but if you wanted other drinks, you'd have to bring them yourself, which was how Mikhail and Franz had gotten the VERY large bottle of vodka from Erusia. Erusian vodka had a kick to it that Midchildan liquor just didn't have. The only problem with it was that if you'd gotten the Stier Highlands Vodka, as had both of them, you tended to be a miserable emo drunk.
Mikhail Dornitz leaned back and knocked another shot down, sighing unhappily at his old friend. "What the hell's the matter with us?" he asked sadly. "We're young. We're good looking. We're polite. We're gentlemen. And then guys like Psycho go out and work their way through a brothel, servicing all 21 girls, doing them 4 times each! What the hell is he full of?! All I want is a pair of cheerleader twins! Is that too much to ask? What the hell is Psycho full of??!?!"
"Just lots of jism, you sick fuck," spat Psycho, gazing with something approaching drunken adoration at Leena Tokarev. It had been... well, there was something between him and her. Though she definately didn't reciprocate his... actually, no one was sure what was on Psycho's mind. Though it probably involved bondage and explosives.
"Oh, go to hell," sighed Franz. "I'm waaaaay to tired for insults. Gimme that bottle."
"What, no drink for me?"
"Go fuck Katrina, Mike," said Franz, evidently too drunk to notice or even care that the long-dead Mike Dragunov had taken a seat and set a shotglass on the table. He did fill Mike's glass. "How're things where you are?"
"Being dead sucks," the latter sighed. "I can't escape Katrina... or she who calls herself Bleh."
"...I'm confused and drunk," admitted Franz. "Who's Bleh?"
"She was part of the shitstorm," said Mikhail sadly. "You know. Katrina chasing after you. Me and Mike chasing after Katrina. And Bleh here... she was a loli who was chasing after Mike. She didn't get him though. Something about wanting to rape him and plant her eggs in his stomach."
"I dunno how much more fail you can get, Mike," said Franz, raising his glass in mock salute. "All this and you
STILL can't get laid? Eternal Virgin fits you well."
"Yeah, well, none of you have been laid yet."
"That was mean," said Mihkail, taking another shot. "So how's the afterlife?"
"Bleh chases after me, I'm chasing after Katrina, Katrina's watching over Franz," said Mike, sighing sadly. "it's one madcap neverending chase."
A hoarse cry ripped through the bar, as Franz rubbed his aching eyes and moaned, "For fucks sakes, both of you, just
GO AND FUCK KATRINA ALREADY! Remove that stick up her ass and replace it with the
RODS OF YOUR MANHOODS!"
"We're eternal virgins, remember?" chided Mike. "And she's dead and so is me."
"I don't fucking care; fuck her before she ruins my career! That's why she's after me: I didn't return her affections and my girl called her a bitch, so she's gonna fuck my career from beyond the grave!"
"I'd tap her," mused Mikhail. "Her and her twin sister. At the same time."
"You sick fuck," spat Psycho; nobody paid attention to the demolitions explosive - to him, almost everyone was a sick fuck. (Except the Colonel, the XO, the Sergeant Major, and the Master Chief. You did
NOT fuck with either of them, even if you were Psycho.)
"Look, guys," sighed a Franz, strangely lucid in his drunkeness, "Just sexxor her and turn her attentions to you guys so she leaves me alone. Otherwise she's gonna fuck up my career from beyond the grave. She's a bitch like that."
Mike snorted in derision. "Why didn't
YOU fuck her then?"
"It's against my religion to fuck snarky bitches, because a core tenet of my religion is to fuck women in a way that they enjoy it and come back for more. The guy who created it was merciful enough to point out, don't do it to snarky bitches, else you'll be sucked into a cycle of living hell."
"...can I join this religion?" asked Mike eagerly. "Anything to keep me from Katrina. Any religion has got to be better than none."
"Sure, so long as you only have sex with one woman. That's what really turns people off. My religion's kink is a loving het relationship. That's the sickest kink out there, so I understand."
"...shit, i'd better be a godless heathen."
"Don't, you'll end up like Psycho."
"Dude, he
HAS religion," retorted Mikhail. "You never seen his rosary or hear him sing his praise songs?"
"Right, but his is the Cult of the Explosive, worshipping the Detonation God."
Mike shuddered visibly, his visage appearing to flicker. "Okay, change of subject. What guns are ya bringing with ya to RF6 tomorrow, Mikhail?"
"Well, Franz wanted me to just bring a small pistol. But I need to defend myself against all those Gadgets. I've got my pistol and HEAP and TTR ammo... but I can't decide what my primary is gonna be. MA5C. M7. MA5C. M7. I cannot choose! MA5C! M7!
I WOULD DATE YOU BOTH!"
"Don't shout. Please. It hurts. Do you want to get Katrina and Bleh's attention?"
"I don't care Mike, you're dead," said Mikhail bitterly. "I... I think I'll bring the Assault rifle and two SMGs. Twin SMGs. Everything is better with twins."
"Go to hell, you sick fuck!"
"You too, Psycho!"
Franz groaned and slumped, letting his head rest on the table. "Being drunk is not supposed to be depressing, guys. Wait, I'm already depressed to start with. Well, I thi-"
Whatever he would have said, however, was interrupted by an icy wind and a shout of terrifying cold fury:
"ONII-CHAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
"Wow, your sister is HOT," grinned Mike, toasting Naomi as she stalked into the bar. "Man, I'd tap her... she got any twins? Twins make everything better."
"Amen, brother," agreed Mikhail wholeheartedly, appreciating the sway of Naomi's hips as she drew nearer to their table. "Not much on top, but damn, that's one helluva fine ass. Mm-hmmm, I'd do it all night long."
"...I'm going to kill both of you," said Franz calmly. "Nobody talks like that about my girl."
"ONII-CHAN! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HOME THREE HOURS AGO!"
"...why, hello there, Naomi."
Franz really should have figured out that if Glen used that on Emili and it didn't work, he had no chance of using it sucessfully on Naomi. Indeed, that simple phrase merely set off the tsuntsun levels even higher.
"DON'T YOU WHY HELLO THERE ME! YOU'RE COMING BACK WITH ME NOW!!!"
Both Mikhail and Mike laughed as Naomi dragged Franz out of the bar, and then sighed ruefully. "He'll probably be the first to get laid. Even if it is to his sister," said Mike. "Goddamnit all."
"Yeah, so I'm thinking I'll bring twin Assault Rifles, twin SMGs, twin pistols..."
"Yeah, twins are god's gift to us all," agreed Mike whole-heartedly; their shared fetish for twins was what had drawn him to Mikhail, after all.
"Dragunov, Dortniz. Stop talking about twins, you sick fucks!"
"Go to hell, Nagant, twins make
EVERYTHING BETTER!" they shouted.
* * * * *
"So, all set to go?" grinned Franz cheerily, gazing at the bright sun. "Beautiful day, isn't it?"
"...urgh."
"Hey, don't feel too bad. New place. Lotsa hawt girls. I'm sure you'll finally get laid, buddy."
"...urgh."
"Yeah, gotta pity you REMFs though. Don't have the iron livers of us guys on the tip of the spear, the pointy end of the sword."
"Yeah..." agreed Mikhail reluctantly, chewing Motrin pills to relieve his headache. "Well, I'd better be going."
"Hey, Dornitz," said Psycho, walking up. "Do us a favor, alright? Tell Dragunov that he should stay where he is, fuckin' Mosin, instead of comin' to our bar and making everyone all emo, okay?"
"...what was that all about?" asked Franz, confused. "I mean, I thought I saw Mike last night, but I was sure I was hallucinating..."
"I thought I was hallucinating him too," said Mikhail, staring off at Psycho. "But if Psycho saw him...."
The two men looked at each other for a moment, then shook their heads.
"Nah."