Sighing as she shifted through the garbage, she wondered, just wondered, why the hell she had to be stuck in this form. "Reincarnation mode sucks." She sighed and kicked the garbage can over. "From top assassin to a child, how pathetic." Gripping at the sheet around her body, she shivered as a cold wind blew in.
Her hair was dirty, her body was filthy, she couldn't recall the last time she had slept in a good bed, or had a hot meal. Not to mention the clothes she stole from that laundry line were in tatters now. "Everyone thinks I'm dead, I bet." She wondered just why it took so long for her Reincarnation Mode to trigger off, before shrugging it off. Sudden death syndrome from a spear to the gut was hard to shrug off after all.
She supposed it wouldn't be hard to find a homeless shelter or something. Maybe she could grab some kid, knock them out and turn into them so she could at least have one night in a warm bed and warm food.
"But it's always so haaaaard!" She whined and pouted. Another thing about Reincarnation Mode she had found out, very quickly, was that she was basically a child in mind and attitude.
Even her transformation abilities suffered for it. She could only turn into a child version of someone, and only for as long as she could keep her attention up. Which was pretty hard when she suffered from Attention Deficit.. "Oooh! A puppy!" Grinning, she ran over to the dog and held her hand out. The dog growled at her before suddenly sticking its tongue out and licking her hand. "Hee hee hee." There was no collar around the dog's neck, so either it had run away after slipping out of its collar, or it was a stray. "You have no home either, huh?" She blinked as the dog turned its head and ran off at a fast clip. "Hey! Don't leave me!" She ran after the dog, stumbling the whole way, until she lost sight of it. Sighing, she turned and walked back into the alley she had been staying in.
She didn't trust anyone out there. If anyone knew who she was, well, she was certain that she wouldn't like the consequences if someone did find her that recognized her. Another cold wind blew and she shivered. Winter time sucked to not have a home, warm clothes and a hot bath.
As she closed her eyes and curled up upon herself, she idly wondered what her sisters were doing.
(---)
"Achoo!"
"You okay, Sein?" Dieci asked the slimmer girl, who nodded.
"Oh yeah, just fine, must have smelled something unpleasant." They both shared a chuckle as Sein caught the time. "Ick! If I'm not back soon, Schach will have my ass."
Dieci gave her a weird grin. "I thought she had your ass all the time anyway."
"Yeah, but it's not as pleasant when she's upset at me." Sein smirked back as Dieci blushed softly. "Come on, let's cut through here."
Rolling her eyes, Dieci followed after her green-haired sister as they ran through a back ally. "Ack!" She nearly stumbled over as she tripped over something. "What the heck?" She turned around and blinked as she saw something with yellow hair, it was dirty, shivering slightly. "Hey! Sein, wait up!"
"Huh?" Sein blinked and turned around. "What?"
"I found a kid..." Dieci gently picked the kid up and blinked. "She's pretty light too..."
Sein winced at that. "Might be a run-away... Come on, let's at least get this one to the church." At least a hot meal, a change of clothes and a bed would help. "At least Sister Schach won't have a reason to come after me."
Though, for some odd reason, both Dieci and Sein felt like they knew the girl.
(---)
For some reason, the cold was gone. "Warm..." She whispered softly and curled up more. Surely this was a dream and she was about to get hypothermia or something.
Something was wrong though, she couldn't feel the cold air anymore... And it felt like she was wrapped up in something... Cracking an eye open she looked around and wondered just why she was in someone's bed. She gulped, remembering the last time she was in this situation. That hadn't been fun. Maybe she could slip out before anyone...
"Are you sure?!" She heard someone's voice, strange, it sounded familiar. Still, no time to ponder. There wasn't a whole lot of places she could hide. Looking around, she just needed some place small enough...
"ah ha!" She grinned and jumped above the door, pressing her body to the ceiling and wall and hoped that they didn't look up.
"No doubt about it." Another female said as the door opened. She could see a woman with short pink hair talking to a green-blue haired woman, both were dressed in church attire. "She has Jail Scagiletti's DNA in her, though slightly modified."
"Eh?" The green-blue haired one, why did she look so familiar to her? Spoke up. "But that's not possible. Uno, Tre and Quattro are in prison, only one other person had the doctor's DNA, and that was Due, but she's dead."
She narrowed her eyes at hearing that. Yeah, everyone thought she was dead, this sucked.
"I know but..." The taller woman trailed off as she got a look at the bed. "She's gone!"
"What?!" The other girl sounded surprised.
"Sein, go check around the hallways, I'll check outside!"
"Got'cha Sister Schach!"
Watching as the pink haired one seemed to teleport through the window and the other one left, she frowned. 'Sein? She lives here now?' Another problem with Reincarnation Mode, she supposed, her memories were scrambled to hell and back. Dropping down, she got a look at herself and blinked, at least they were kind enough to change her clothes into something that wasn't full of holes and cold.
Still, she didn't know what they would do to her if they found her, and she didn't want to find out. Running down the hallway, she just hoped that she didn't get caught by anyone. She came to a screetching halt as she saw Sein's back and gulped, she just knew that Sein was going to turn around and...
"Huh?" Sein spun around and blinked at the young girl that stood in front of her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"
"I'm sorry." The blue-haired, red-eyed girl bowed, though Sein thought she sounded an awful lot like Fate Tesstarossa at that moment, and blushed as she looked around nervously. "I'm new and I got lost."
Sein thought about it, she didn't think there were any new additions lately, but then again, she didn't always pay attention when Carim or Schach told her things. Oh well. "Come on, let's get you to a class until we can figure out what to do with you."
"Okay." The girl followed her as the two walked towards classes.
"Now, here's your class and..." Sein blinked a few times. "Where did she go?" She pouted. If she lost a student, Schach really WOULD have her ass.
From her position behind a pillar, she watched Sein disappear looking for her and cursed the fact that she had seen a penny on the floor, which caused her to drop her transformation. If she could just find her way to the front door, she could just slip away unnoticed.
It wasn't as if she didn't trust Sein. Sein would never harm her.
She didn't trust the OTHER people that Sein was with not to harm her.
After all that Jail did, she wasn't sure that people wouldn't try to use her as a way to get back at him.
"Vivio?" A female voice had her stiffen and slowly turn around. In front of her was a girl with sandy brown hair done up in two pigtails and blue eyes. "Oh, sorry, you just kind of looked like her from the back. Then again, she's wearing different clothes today. You wanna meet her? She's a really nice person."
"Um..." She didn't get much of a chance to say anything when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled into a nearby class.
"Vivio!" The girl waved, getting a smile from a blond haired girl with mis-matched eyes.
"Corona!" The girl grinned happily at her friend. "Hey, who's that?"
"I'm not sure, actually." Corona chuckled and turned to her. "What's your... Are you okay? You look ill."
The Saint Kaiser? Of all the things... She had to run into the Saint Kaiser. "Um, yes, not feeling well... I'll just... Find my way to the infirmiry..." She chuckled nervously and slipped back out of the room, leaving everyone to blink in confusion.
"Weird..." Rio said, wondering why that girl had gone deathly pale when she saw Vivio.
(---)
Panting, she ran down the hallway. She couldn't be caught. After all, after everything she had done before she had died, she just couldn't imagine that anyone would accept her. Not without doing something... She slid and nearly crashed into a wall as she saw two people's shadows moving towards her. Spinning around, she turned a corner and ran down the hall. She hated this tiny body. If she could just find a door outside...
She turned a corner and grinned, there, she could see the door, she was... "OOOMPH!" She crashed into something and found herself on the ground, rubbing her butt. "Oww! That's not fair! I can't do anything! Owwies!"
"I think you hurt her, Cinque." A kind voice was heard, chuckling softly.
"I didn't mean to, Carim..." Cinque knelt down in front of her. "Hey, are you okay?"
Cinque, she remembered Cinque, that girl got hurt years ago, her right eye had been lost. "Uh..."
"Cinque, Knight Carim, I'm sorry, I... Hey!" Sein was heard as she came across the scene. "It's that girl that disappeared from her room!"
She whimpered and looked at Sein and Cinque. She just needed to...
"Who's this?" A soft, almost masculine voice spoke up and she turned to look at a boy with short spiky brown hair in a butler and a girl with a long brown hair wearing a typical nun outfit, she would know, she impersonated a nun for long enough.
Seeing everyone look at her, she did all that she could considering the situation.
"WAAAAAHHHH!!! I'M SORRY!!" She threw her head back and wailed, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic to her.
The small group looked at each other in confusion before looking back at the crying blond girl.
"I looked everywhere but I couldn't..." Schach blinked as she came across the scene. "I see that she's been found."
(---)
Looking at the little blond girl as she sat in the office sniffling, Carim shook her head in amusement. "Now... Can you start by telling all of us your name?"
The girl seemed to stiffen and looked around nervously. "Um... Uh..."
"None of us are going to hurt you." Cinque smiled at her, trying to reassure her. Oh how she wanted to tell Cinque who she was, but there was the whole... Killing that priest in her past life, the brains and that general.
...
Well, no one cared about that last person anyway.
(---)
Auris sneezed and felt like she needed to find someone to torment.
(---)
Schach shook her head. "We already know that you're a clone of Jail Scagiletti and..."
"Due?!" Cinque gasped and grasped the girl by her shoulders to look at her closer. "Is that you?!"
She gave a slight nod and was surprised when Cinque hugged her tightly.
"Oh gods! Due!!" Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye. "I missed you so much!"
Before Due could say anything, another pair of arms wrapped around her as Sein joined in on the hug.
Carim looked at Schach, Otto and Deed, all of whom shrugged helplessly. "Due was killed by Zest a few years ago, Cinque... Are you sure that's Due?"
The two pulled away from the tiny blond girl, who looked at Carim and sighed. "I'm Due... Yeah, Zest killed me a few years ago and... Oooh!" Due jumped from where she was and grabbed a pen from the top of the desk. "My pen!"
"...She has ADD?" Cinque asked, dumbfounded. Her older sister, the cold-hearted assassin, had trouble keeping her attention on something more than five seconds?
Carim coughed politely. "Due... If you died, how are you here now?"
"Reincarnation Mode." Due squeezed the pen tightly and rocked slightly. "My body had to canibilize itself and the energy I had in me brought me back to life a couple years ago..."
"Wait... A couple years ago..." Sein blinked. "Then where have you been..?"
"The winters were cold..." Due shivered slightly. "Did you know that a scarf keeps you really warm?" She grinned brightly and put the pen back on the desk. "Hey, Cinque, can I have your eye patch?"
Cinque took off her eye patch and gestured for Due to come over to her. "Yes, scarves are warm and..."
"Hey!" A female voice spoke up and Due suddenly stiffened and went stark white as Vivio poked her head in. "I was wondering if you saw that new... Oh hey! There she is!" Vivio grinned happily. "I'm glad that you're not sick."
Due whimpered. "No... No..." She shook her head and turned, but Cinque grabbed her wrist. "No! Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was under orders! I'm sorry!"
"Due!" Cinque looked at her worriedly as her sister tried to get away from her. "Calm down!" She pulled Due into a hug and for the first time noticed how skinny she was. "Shhh... Calm down."
"Huh? What's going on?"
"Waaaahhh! I tricked the priest into stealing the fabric with Olivie's blood on it and gave it to the doctor to use for cloning!" Due cried out, tears leaking out of her eyes.
Otto looked at Deed, who shrugged. Both of them had heard this from Jail before, well, not who did it, but they knew that the shroud was stolen, so, it was kind of interesting.
"I'll be good! Just let me go! I'll go live behind the pizza place during the winter!" She calmed down and trembled, whimpering. "Maybe the stuff won't be too covered in gunk this winter..."
Schach sighed softly. "Well, I didn't want to bring this up, but she's got several signs of someone who's lived on the streets for awhile... Malnutrition... Mental disorders... And several diseases that we can take care of pretty quickly..."
Carim sighed softly and nodded at Schach. "Thank you. As for you, Ms. Due... I don't think that your sisters are going to let me kick you out into the street, at least not as you are."
Due whimpered, tears falling down her face. "You're going to throw me in prison for killing those people, aren't you? WAHHH!! I'm only six years old right now! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison!"
"I think dying kind of absolves you of your previous crimes, Due..." Sein chuckled softly, before her chuckles died off as Due didn't say anything. "...You've been back alive for two years... Why didn't you search us out?"
"Nnnngh!" Due growled and grabbed her head. "Couldn't remember! All my memories were screwed up and my head hurt! Did you know that mice aren't very tasty?"
"You... Ate mice?" Cinque blanched slightly as Due nodded.
"Uh huh... Last winter, they all crowded in that abandoned condemned apartment building. Kinda chilly, but at least they were food..."
"Which would explain the diseases we found..." Schach shook her head. The more she heard from this kid, the less she wanted to let the girl out of her sight.
"Then they blew up the building in the spring." Due pouted heavily. "My scarf went with it! That nice man gave me that scarf!"
"Nice man?" Cinque looked confused as Due turned to her and nodded.
"Uh huh... He got mad cuz I stole his hot food, but then he saw how I looked, gave me his scarf and some money for food or clothes and left. But he was pretty nice, even if his face was all scarred up and hairy. Hey, did you know that puppies are excellent body warmers?"
Due's stomach growled and the cyborg in question winced. "Sorry... I'll just..."
"Sit down while Otto and I go and get some food, sister." Deed smiled at her. "You aren't going to go anywhere until you have a good meal, understand?"
Due blinked at her as Otto smiled and slipped out of the room. "Huh?"
"Just sit and wait for a few moments." Deed smiled as she left the room.
"Uh..."
Cinque sighed softly. "You aren't going back to the streets, Due. We aren't going to let you."
"Besides..." Carim looked at her seriously. "I can't let you go until I've made sure that you're at least medically healthy, so, you're stuck here until the doctors clear you."
Due looked down and trembled softly. "Thank you."
Vivio scratched her head. "So... Are you going to school with me now?"
"Crap!" Sein paled heavily. "I forgot! There was this blue-haired girl and..." She trailed off as Due turned into the girl that she saw before. "...I should have guessed..." Sein hung her head down. "I forgot you could shape-shift."
Due, in her blue-haired form, giggled softly. "Yeah, my transformation ability is still top-notch but... OOOH! A birdie!" She turned back to normal as a bird flew by the window. "Did you know that normal birds don't taste that good? Not much meat, all bones."
"...I guess she can't keep her transformation up if she gets distracted..." Carim shook her head.
Cinque just smiled as she walked up to Due and hugged the young girl. "Glad to have you back, Due."
The small girl hugged her back. "Thank you, Cinque."
...
I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!
One word for Due-moe-mode. Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...
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To everyone who commented, thanks. ^_^
But...
WHY do you do this to me?!
Now I wanna continue it!
Spoiler for Due 2:
A few days later...
Cinque looked into the room. "Hey..."
"Cinque!" Due cheered and ran for her, hugging her tightly. "Mmmm! You bring me toys? Or maybe a knife set?" Her eyes gleamed. "I found these birds outside, I wanna know what they taste like, no one brings me birds to eat!"
Cinque patted her on the head. She had gotten used to Due's... Odd mental patterns as of late. "No toys, no knives, sorry."
"Drat." She kicked the ground. "I'm bored, they won't let me wander around without someone around. I'm not going to kill anyone, I can barely open the doors around here! I'm not the same Due I was before. I was so meeeeeaaannnn!" She started to whine before she grabbed Cinque's coat. "I'm sorry I made Quattro into such a meanie!"
"It's... Okay, Due. I could have done more myself." Cinque patted her on the head. "I think they want someone with you so that you can open the doors." From what Sein had told her, Due could barely lift a basketball right now.
"But I don't like being stuck in the hospital wing of the Church! It's boring!"
Cinque chuckled softly, Due was nice when she was childish. "I suppose it is boring, huh?" She looked at the table near Due's bed and mentally sighed as she saw the empty pill cups. Most of that was antibiotics to deal with the physical diseases Due had, though Cinque wondered if they were giving her any drugs to help with her ADD or other mental diseases she most likely had.
"Can we go play?" Due's eyes sparkled. "Otto, Deed and Sein keep getting pulled away and Ixy's no fun to talk to, she just sleeps all day. Is Tre still a grumpy face? When can I tell everyone I'm alive again? Can I ride a pony?"
"The last time I saw her, Tre was a bit of a grumpy face, and we can't let you go tell the Doctor that you're still alive, Due, not until you're better, okay?" The girl pouted and nodded at him. "As for the pony, well, I can't get one of those in here."
"Aww!" She pouted and whimpered. "But I want a pony! I wanna ride it until my butt hurts!"
"You're pretty loud for someone who was an assassin." A male voice spoke up gruffly as a blue and white wolf walked into the room, causing Due's eyes to sparkle.
"PUPPY!" She squealed and glomped him. "Oh! Big puppy! Can I keep him?"
Cinque giggled softly. "Sorry, but Zafira doesn't belong to me or you."
"Awww..." Due sniffled and teared up and Zafira shook his head and lowered his body down. "Huh?"
"You wanted to ride something, right?" He asked her and her eyes lit up as she jumped on his back. "You can get on too, Cinque."
The silver haired cyborg shook her head and blushed. "No, I couldn't..."
"Please, Cinque?" Due looked at her with big eyes that seemed to water up. "I wanna ride with my sister!"
"..." Cinque had a hard time resisting those eyes and she looked at Zafira, who nodded.
Twenty seconds later, Zafira was walking down the hallway of the Saint Church with Cinque and Due on his back, both of them chatting happily with each other.
He nodded to Carim as he walked downstairs so that Due could go near some of the other paitients that were in the hospital. They weren't letting Due go outside, since it had started snowing lately and they weren't sure if she'd go off and find some squirrels to kill to see what they tasted like.
Sighing softly, Carim turned to Fate, who had brought Cinque and Zafira in on Hayate's request. "What are your thoughts?"
"For someone who's cloned from Jail and taught Quattro, she's remarkably... Innocent." Oh sure, Fate had heard what Due had said, granted that had been second-hand information, but she had heard it still. "Why was she in that sheet?"
"She said that it was better than running around naked on the streets." Carim said softly and Fate looked at her in shock. "Apparently, Reincarnation Mode just fixes the body, not the clothes or weapons."
"Still... It's amazing that she can be cohierent at all..."
"I'm still worried about her though." Carim shook her head. "She eats like I expected her to eat, worried that someone will take it, or if she doesn't hurry up, the food will go bad."
"She does know..." Fate trailed off as Carim nodded. "What about her health?"
"It's amazing that she's not down at this moment. By all accounts, her body should have given out so it could work and heal her."
Fate winced, she didn't doubt it. Eating birds, mice, garbage, all those couldn't have been healthy for her, especially since she was only physically six years old.
Carim smiled softly. "Thankfully, she's responding well to treatments. Most kids would probably take a year at least, I think she'll be fully healed in under two months."
Fate nodded, she couldn't imagine how hard it had to have been for the girl out there. "Can't believe that I'm feeling sorry for her..."
"I know." Carim nodded at her. "Still, we've been doing all we can to off-set the malnutrition she suffered." Heck, that first night they had to put Due up on an IV drip overnight because they were worried she wouldn't make it through the night. "Maybe she'll grow up into a productive member of society?"
Fate smiled softly. "It's not how you're born after all, it's the people around you that helps you."
(---)
"Hey!" Sein grinned as she saw Zafira walking down the stairs with Cinque and Due. "Sorry I haven't been around, Due, but Sister Schach won't let me sluff off in my duties at all."
Due pouted at her. "My room's boring! I don't like being there!" Her eyes watered up. "Can you get me a kitty? Please? Then I can talk to someone all the time. Mice aren't good listeners, they alway try to run away and when you catch them all they do is scream until you bite their heads off to make them shut up, but then they don't wanna talk anymore and it's no fun."
Sein sweat-dropped, sure, she was even more used to hearing the odd things that came out of Due's mouth than Cinque was, but it was still... Odd, hearing them come out of a six-year-old's mouth. "I don't think that I'm allowed to get you a kitty."
"Awww!" She crossed her arms and pouted. "That's no fun! Alley cats aren't nice, they scratch your arms up and leave you all scarred, see?" She pulled her sleeves back and revealed lots of white marks on her arms. "Then again, some dogs aren't nice, there was that one dog that bit me before running off, that was no fun at all."
She blinked as she felt Cinque pull her into a hug. "Cinque? What?"
"I'm sorry, Due..." Cinque sniffled softly behind her. "If I had known you could reincarnate, I would have looked for you." Though, now she knew why Jail had called her a masterpiece, if she had this kind of skill.
"I didn't even know I had this mode!" Due pouted more. "The doctor never told me that I could do this!"
"Kind of makes sense, if you think about it..." Sein scratched her head. "It would be pretty hard to make more combat cyborgs, since even cloning them is a tricky business, so, the doctor probably put it into Due, since she was the most likely one to die."
"Don't you think he would have said something though?" Cinque asked, getting a shrug from Sein.
"Don't ask me. Quattro and Uno were the only two that knew what was going through his head at any time."
Cinque was about to say something when she felt Due lean back, her eyes closed as she let out a soft snore. "Huh?"
"I was wondering if the drowziness would catch up with her." Sein chuckled softly. "Those were some powerful antibiotics."
Zafira shook his head and turned around. "I'll stay in her bedroom so that she's not alone."
Cinque smiled at that as he carried them back to Due's room. "Thank you, Zafira."
Okay. Creepiness ensues... Certainly creates a sense of dread for the future, since the girl is so messed up.
As usual, I am wholly dependent on RadiantBeam to give me prompts for NanoFate stories (it's literally true--"Mending" is the only one that wasn't done that wasn't based on something she wrote or something she asked for). So, forthwith, I hereby present the newest entry in the Shadows stories, set directly after "Long Distance Goodbye" Chapter 2:
Location: Pennsylvania. It's sort of like a real state.
Age: 39
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanya01
To everyone who commented, thanks. ^_^
But...
WHY do you do this to me?!
Now I wanna continue it!
Spoiler for Due 2:
A few days later...
Cinque looked into the room. "Hey..."
"Cinque!" Due cheered and ran for her, hugging her tightly. "Mmmm! You bring me toys? Or maybe a knife set?" Her eyes gleamed. "I found these birds outside, I wanna know what they taste like, no one brings me birds to eat!"
Cinque patted her on the head. She had gotten used to Due's... Odd mental patterns as of late. "No toys, no knives, sorry."
"Drat." She kicked the ground. "I'm bored, they won't let me wander around without someone around. I'm not going to kill anyone, I can barely open the doors around here! I'm not the same Due I was before. I was so meeeeeaaannnn!" She started to whine before she grabbed Cinque's coat. "I'm sorry I made Quattro into such a meanie!"
"It's... Okay, Due. I could have done more myself." Cinque patted her on the head. "I think they want someone with you so that you can open the doors." From what Sein had told her, Due could barely lift a basketball right now.
"But I don't like being stuck in the hospital wing of the Church! It's boring!"
Cinque chuckled softly, Due was nice when she was childish. "I suppose it is boring, huh?" She looked at the table near Due's bed and mentally sighed as she saw the empty pill cups. Most of that was antibiotics to deal with the physical diseases Due had, though Cinque wondered if they were giving her any drugs to help with her ADD or other mental diseases she most likely had.
"Can we go play?" Due's eyes sparkled. "Otto, Deed and Sein keep getting pulled away and Ixy's no fun to talk to, she just sleeps all day. Is Tre still a grumpy face? When can I tell everyone I'm alive again? Can I ride a pony?"
"The last time I saw her, Tre was a bit of a grumpy face, and we can't let you go tell the Doctor that you're still alive, Due, not until you're better, okay?" The girl pouted and nodded at him. "As for the pony, well, I can't get one of those in here."
"Aww!" She pouted and whimpered. "But I want a pony! I wanna ride it until my butt hurts!"
"You're pretty loud for someone who was an assassin." A male voice spoke up gruffly as a blue and white wolf walked into the room, causing Due's eyes to sparkle.
"PUPPY!" She squealed and glomped him. "Oh! Big puppy! Can I keep him?"
Cinque giggled softly. "Sorry, but Zafira doesn't belong to me or you."
"Awww..." Due sniffled and teared up and Zafira shook his head and lowered his body down. "Huh?"
"You wanted to ride something, right?" He asked her and her eyes lit up as she jumped on his back. "You can get on too, Cinque."
The silver haired cyborg shook her head and blushed. "No, I couldn't..."
"Please, Cinque?" Due looked at her with big eyes that seemed to water up. "I wanna ride with my sister!"
"..." Cinque had a hard time resisting those eyes and she looked at Zafira, who nodded.
Twenty seconds later, Zafira was walking down the hallway of the Saint Church with Cinque and Due on his back, both of them chatting happily with each other.
He nodded to Carim as he walked downstairs so that Due could go near some of the other paitients that were in the hospital. They weren't letting Due go outside, since it had started snowing lately and they weren't sure if she'd go off and find some squirrels to kill to see what they tasted like.
Sighing softly, Carim turned to Fate, who had brought Cinque and Zafira in on Hayate's request. "What are your thoughts?"
"For someone who's cloned from Jail and taught Quattro, she's remarkably... Innocent." Oh sure, Fate had heard what Due had said, granted that had been second-hand information, but she had heard it still. "Why was she in that sheet?"
"She said that it was better than running around naked on the streets." Carim said softly and Fate looked at her in shock. "Apparently, Reincarnation Mode just fixes the body, not the clothes or weapons."
"Still... It's amazing that she can be cohierent at all..."
"I'm still worried about her though." Carim shook her head. "She eats like I expected her to eat, worried that someone will take it, or if she doesn't hurry up, the food will go bad."
"She does know..." Fate trailed off as Carim nodded. "What about her health?"
"It's amazing that she's not down at this moment. By all accounts, her body should have given out so it could work and heal her."
Fate winced, she didn't doubt it. Eating birds, mice, garbage, all those couldn't have been healthy for her, especially since she was only physically six years old.
Carim smiled softly. "Thankfully, she's responding well to treatments. Most kids would probably take a year at least, I think she'll be fully healed in under two months."
Fate nodded, she couldn't imagine how hard it had to have been for the girl out there. "Can't believe that I'm feeling sorry for her..."
"I know." Carim nodded at her. "Still, we've been doing all we can to off-set the malnutrition she suffered." Heck, that first night they had to put Due up on an IV drip overnight because they were worried she wouldn't make it through the night. "Maybe she'll grow up into a productive member of society?"
Fate smiled softly. "It's not how you're born after all, it's the people around you that helps you."
(---)
"Hey!" Sein grinned as she saw Zafira walking down the stairs with Cinque and Due. "Sorry I haven't been around, Due, but Sister Schach won't let me sluff off in my duties at all."
Due pouted at her. "My room's boring! I don't like being there!" Her eyes watered up. "Can you get me a kitty? Please? Then I can talk to someone all the time. Mice aren't good listeners, they alway try to run away and when you catch them all they do is scream until you bite their heads off to make them shut up, but then they don't wanna talk anymore and it's no fun."
Sein sweat-dropped, sure, she was even more used to hearing the odd things that came out of Due's mouth than Cinque was, but it was still... Odd, hearing them come out of a six-year-old's mouth. "I don't think that I'm allowed to get you a kitty."
"Awww!" She crossed her arms and pouted. "That's no fun! Alley cats aren't nice, they scratch your arms up and leave you all scarred, see?" She pulled her sleeves back and revealed lots of white marks on her arms. "Then again, some dogs aren't nice, there was that one dog that bit me before running off, that was no fun at all."
She blinked as she felt Cinque pull her into a hug. "Cinque? What?"
"I'm sorry, Due..." Cinque sniffled softly behind her. "If I had known you could reincarnate, I would have looked for you." Though, now she knew why Jail had called her a masterpiece, if she had this kind of skill.
"I didn't even know I had this mode!" Due pouted more. "The doctor never told me that I could do this!"
"Kind of makes sense, if you think about it..." Sein scratched her head. "It would be pretty hard to make more combat cyborgs, since even cloning them is a tricky business, so, the doctor probably put it into Due, since she was the most likely one to die."
"Don't you think he would have said something though?" Cinque asked, getting a shrug from Sein.
"Don't ask me. Quattro and Uno were the only two that knew what was going through his head at any time."
Cinque was about to say something when she felt Due lean back, her eyes closed as she let out a soft snore. "Huh?"
"I was wondering if the drowziness would catch up with her." Sein chuckled softly. "Those were some powerful antibiotics."
Zafira shook his head and turned around. "I'll stay in her bedroom so that she's not alone."
Cinque smiled at that as he carried them back to Due's room. "Thank you, Zafira."
Aw, Due is cute and scary.
And I liked Fate's line, "Can't believe that I'm feeling sorry for her..." It's like she speaking directly for all of us
Hi there. I'm not back per se... but I'm not longer not here... 'cause makes sense right?
Oh and you can have this too...
Spoiler for All for the sake of science:
This was the day that would be remembered for centuries. Years from now people would be talking about it in hushed whispers because they would still be too shocked by it to speak about it in anything louder. In the future the day would be known as Jailisanawesomescientistandwaybetterthenallthoseje rksattheTSAB Day because it would be that awesome.
Alas genius is hard to spot. While the inner workings of his geniusly genius genius were plain to himself and to his assistant, Jail's mind was a locked puzzle box to others. So while to him, he appeared the gallant mastermind of SCIENCE, to his other creations he looked like a guy with a really big balloon, a bizarre looking cannon and a fixation on the ground.
“As fascinating as watching the Doctor watching the ground is, can someone please explain what we're doing here?” Nove, not content with her front row seat to history, asked.
Wendi shrugged next to her, “I dunno, not making sense seems to be our thing.”
“QUIET!” Quattro shouted from her position beside Jail, a position she had wiggled into by taking it from Uno. “The Doctor is conducting a very important experiment!”
“Really? And how is this an experiment?” Nove crossed her arms, “Come on, where's his procedure? And his hypothesis? And his controlled environment?”
“Umm... it's...” Quattro searched for an answer. “It's um... in that place? Where he does that stuff?”
Jail whirled around, his giant jiggling orange balloon in his hands, “Everyday at exactly eighteen twenty-seven Fate Testarossa, my sworn enemy, walks by on her way home. Today, I, ultra genius Jail Scaglietti, am going to load my Balloon Cannon with this balloon filled with sour milk and fire it at her head! I hypothesize that it will be awesome. And this is merely the first step towards my domination of the entire environment!”
“What?! What's the point of that?!” Nove spat.
“To inconvenience her of course! She'll have to spend hours washing that milk out of her hair! Mau ha ha ha!” Jail cackled, throwing up his hands, the balloon balancing precariously on the edge of the roof.
“Tee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee,” Quattro added it, her laughter was not nearly as maniacal as Jail's.
“Testarossa incoming sir!” Sette reported while staring into her binoculars.
“It's time, it's time,” Jail did a little dance and picked up his balloon, carefully loading it into his cannon. He watched Fate approach and it was definitely clear to everyone watching he was doing advanced scientific calculations in his head and not merely guessing when to fire the balloon. “Begin the countdown Quattro!”
“Yes sir, doctor!”
“This is a horrible idea Doctor, she'll just fly up here and beat you up!” Nove hurriedly tried to get Jail to stop his mad scheme.
“3!”
“Milk's not going to stop the one of the greatest weapons the TSAB has!”
“2!”
“If you're going to fire a cannon at her why don't you pick a substance that can actually hurt her! Like a nuclear weapon or kryptonite or whatever!”
“1!”
“At least put some kind of deadly disease in there! Or at least a rabid ferret!”
“Fire!”
The balloon rocketed out of the cannon. It soared down towards the street and smacked into it's target with a loud sloosh. Milk exploded out of it's former container and rained down, not only on Fate but on everyone walking down the street.
“MAU HA HA HA,” Somewhere between the firing and the slooshing Jail had jumped on top of the roof's barrier wall. “HA HA HA-ack,” Jail choked on his own laughter.
“Scaglietti!” Fate dramatically pointed up at Jail, “Foul villain!”
“You will remember this as the day I, Jail Scaglietti, Supervillain Genius Extraordinaire, defeated you! Fate. Testarossa.”
Fate shook her fist up at him, “I'll get you for this scoundrel! You may have won today-”
“W-what!” Nove sputtered, staring dumbly down at the soggy woman below.
“-but next time you will taste defeat!”
“I'll greet you with my next masterpiece Testarossa!”
“What?”
“I'd like to see you try, Scaglietti. Justice will always win out over villainy! But for now... to the shower!” In a blur of blinding light Fate sped away leaving the triumphant doctor.
“Little do you, Fate Testarossa, know that tomorrow I shall greet you with TWO milk balloons! MAU HA HA HA!”
“WHAT.”
Spoiler for Note:
Basically I wondered what it would be like if Jail was a silver age supervillian. Of course Fate would be the super hero then.
k I'm gonna go back into my corner and be unfunny some more .__.
Last edited by TheShinySword; 2010-09-19 at 20:41.
For those that belittle their favorite characters, complain about pairings, complain about oversexed images. Stop, thank you.
Fear Anxiety Doubt is but a fad. The life of a fad depends entirely on the willingness to support it. Difficulty is a choice. Determination is a path. Your next great idea after your destination is the true goal.
Hi there. I'm not back per se... but I'm not longer not here... 'cause makes sense right?
Oh and you can have this too...
Spoiler for All for the sake of science:
“Milk's going to stop the one of the greatest weapons the TSAB has!”
Spoiler for Note:
Basically I wondered what it would be like if Jail was a silver age supervillian. Of course Fate would be the super hero then.
k I'm gonna go back into my corner and be unfunny some more .__.
Awesome! It's the return of the Shiny Crack! And just in time, too; the withdrawal symptoms were getting to me!
(Editing note: The line I left in the spoiler I believe should either have a "not" in it or end with a question mark.)
And it's so true; psychopaths like Quattro can never get a proper Evil Laugh done right. They're far too in control of themselves to laugh with the requisite wild abandon.
Hi there. I'm not back per se... but I'm not longer not here... 'cause makes sense right?
Oh and you can have this too...
Spoiler for All for the sake of science:
This was the day that would be remembered for centuries. Years from now people would be talking about it in hushed whispers because they would still be too shocked by it to speak about it in anything louder. In the future the day would be known as Jailisanawesomescientistandwaybetterthenallthoseje rksattheTSAB Day because it would be that awesome.
Alas genius is hard to spot. While the inner workings of his geniusly genius genius were plain to himself and to his assistant, Jail's mind was a locked puzzle box to others. So while to him, he appeared the gallant mastermind of SCIENCE, to his other creations he looked like a guy with a really big balloon, a bizarre looking cannon and a fixation on the ground.
“As fascinating as watching the Doctor watching the ground is, can someone please explain what we're doing here?” Nove, not content with her front row seat to history, asked.
Wendi shrugged next to her, “I dunno, not making sense seems to be our thing.”
“QUIET!” Quattro shouted from her position beside Jail, a position she had wiggled into by taking it from Uno. “The Doctor is conducting a very important experiment!”
“Really? And how is this an experiment?” Nove crossed her arms, “Come on, where's his procedure? And his hypothesis? And his controlled environment?”
“Umm... it's...” Quattro searched for an answer. “It's um... in that place? Where he does that stuff?”
Jail whirled around, his giant jiggling orange balloon in his hands, “Everyday at exactly eighteen twenty-seven Fate Testarossa, my sworn enemy, walks by on her way home. Today, I, ultra genius Jail Scaglietti, am going to load my Balloon Cannon with this balloon filled with sour milk and fire it at her head! I hypothesize that it will be awesome. And this is merely the first step towards my domination of the entire environment!”
“What?! What's the point of that?!” Nove spat.
“To inconvenience her of course! She'll have to spend hours washing that milk out of her hair! Mau ha ha ha!” Jail cackled, throwing up his hands, the balloon balancing precariously on the edge of the roof.
“Tee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee,” Quattro added it, her laughter was not nearly as maniacal as Jail's.
“Testarossa incoming sir!” Sette reported while staring into her binoculars.
“It's time, it's time,” Jail did a little dance and picked up his balloon, carefully loading it into his cannon. He watched Fate approach and it was definitely clear to everyone watching he was doing advanced scientific calculations in his head and not merely guessing when to fire the balloon. “Begin the countdown Quattro!”
“Yes sir, doctor!”
“This is a horrible idea Doctor, she'll just fly up here and beat you up!” Nove hurriedly tried to get Jail to stop his mad scheme.
“3!”
“Milk's not going to stop the one of the greatest weapons the TSAB has!”
“2!”
“If you're going to fire a cannon at her why don't you pick a substance that can actually hurt her! Like a nuclear weapon or kryptonite or whatever!”
“1!”
“At least put some kind of deadly disease in there! Or at least a rabid ferret!”
“Fire!”
The balloon rocketed out of the cannon. It soared down towards the street and smacked into it's target with a loud sloosh. Milk exploded out of it's former container and rained down, not only on Fate but on everyone walking down the street.
“MAU HA HA HA,” Somewhere between the firing and the slooshing Jail had jumped on top of the roof's barrier wall. “HA HA HA-ack,” Jail choked on his own laughter.
“Scaglietti!” Fate dramatically pointed up at Jail, “Foul villain!”
“You will remember this as the day I, Jail Scaglietti, Supervillain Genius Extraordinaire, defeated you! Fate. Testarossa.”
Fate shook her fist up at him, “I'll get you for this scoundrel! You may have won today-”
“W-what!” Nove sputtered, staring dumbly down at the soggy woman below.
“-but next time you will taste defeat!”
“I'll greet you with my next masterpiece Testarossa!”
“What?”
“I'd like to see you try, Scaglietti. Justice will always win out over villainy! But for now... to the shower!” In a blur of blinding light Fate sped away leaving the triumphant doctor.
“Little do you, Fate Testarossa, know that tomorrow I shall greet you with TWO milk balloons! MAU HA HA HA!”
“WHAT.”
Spoiler for Note:
Basically I wondered what it would be like if Jail was a silver age supervillian. Of course Fate would be the super hero then.
k I'm gonna go back into my corner and be unfunny some more .__.
I should purchase some of those milk ballooons. They seem to come in handy!
Aw, Nove, don't question it. Just accept. Jail's genuis is too great for you to comprehend.
"Cinque!" Due cheered and ran for her, hugging her tightly. "Mmmm! You bring me toys? Or maybe a knife set?" Her eyes gleamed. "I found these birds outside, I wanna know what they taste like, no one brings me birds to eat!"
Cinque patted her on the head. She had gotten used to Due's... Odd mental patterns as of late. "No toys, no knives, sorry."
"Drat." She kicked the ground. "I'm bored, they won't let me wander around without someone around. I'm not going to kill anyone, I can barely open the doors around here! I'm not the same Due I was before. I was so meeeeeaaannnn!" She started to whine before she grabbed Cinque's coat. "I'm sorry I made Quattro into such a meanie!"
"It's... Okay, Due. I could have done more myself." Cinque patted her on the head. "I think they want someone with you so that you can open the doors." From what Sein had told her, Due could barely lift a basketball right now.
"But I don't like being stuck in the hospital wing of the Church! It's boring!"
Cinque chuckled softly, Due was nice when she was childish. "I suppose it is boring, huh?" She looked at the table near Due's bed and mentally sighed as she saw the empty pill cups. Most of that was antibiotics to deal with the physical diseases Due had, though Cinque wondered if they were giving her any drugs to help with her ADD or other mental diseases she most likely had.
"Can we go play?" Due's eyes sparkled. "Otto, Deed and Sein keep getting pulled away and Ixy's no fun to talk to, she just sleeps all day. Is Tre still a grumpy face? When can I tell everyone I'm alive again? Can I ride a pony?"
"The last time I saw her, Tre was a bit of a grumpy face, and we can't let you go tell the Doctor that you're still alive, Due, not until you're better, okay?" The girl pouted and nodded at him. "As for the pony, well, I can't get one of those in here."
"Aww!" She pouted and whimpered. "But I want a pony! I wanna ride it until my butt hurts!"
"You're pretty loud for someone who was an assassin." A male voice spoke up gruffly as a blue and white wolf walked into the room, causing Due's eyes to sparkle.
"PUPPY!" She squealed and glomped him. "Oh! Big puppy! Can I keep him?"
Cinque giggled softly. "Sorry, but Zafira doesn't belong to me or you."
"Awww..." Due sniffled and teared up and Zafira shook his head and lowered his body down. "Huh?"
"You wanted to ride something, right?" He asked her and her eyes lit up as she jumped on his back. "You can get on too, Cinque."
The silver haired cyborg shook her head and blushed. "No, I couldn't..."
"Please, Cinque?" Due looked at her with big eyes that seemed to water up. "I wanna ride with my sister!"
"..." Cinque had a hard time resisting those eyes and she looked at Zafira, who nodded.
Twenty seconds later, Zafira was walking down the hallway of the Saint Church with Cinque and Due on his back, both of them chatting happily with each other.
He nodded to Carim as he walked downstairs so that Due could go near some of the other paitients that were in the hospital. They weren't letting Due go outside, since it had started snowing lately and they weren't sure if she'd go off and find some squirrels to kill to see what they tasted like.
Sighing softly, Carim turned to Fate, who had brought Cinque and Zafira in on Hayate's request. "What are your thoughts?"
"For someone who's cloned from Jail and taught Quattro, she's remarkably... Innocent." Oh sure, Fate had heard what Due had said, granted that had been second-hand information, but she had heard it still. "Why was she in that sheet?"
"She said that it was better than running around naked on the streets." Carim said softly and Fate looked at her in shock. "Apparently, Reincarnation Mode just fixes the body, not the clothes or weapons."
"Still... It's amazing that she can be cohierent at all..."
"I'm still worried about her though." Carim shook her head. "She eats like I expected her to eat, worried that someone will take it, or if she doesn't hurry up, the food will go bad."
"She does know..." Fate trailed off as Carim nodded. "What about her health?"
"It's amazing that she's not down at this moment. By all accounts, her body should have given out so it could work and heal her."
Fate winced, she didn't doubt it. Eating birds, mice, garbage, all those couldn't have been healthy for her, especially since she was only physically six years old.
Carim smiled softly. "Thankfully, she's responding well to treatments. Most kids would probably take a year at least, I think she'll be fully healed in under two months."
Fate nodded, she couldn't imagine how hard it had to have been for the girl out there. "Can't believe that I'm feeling sorry for her..."
"I know." Carim nodded at her. "Still, we've been doing all we can to off-set the malnutrition she suffered." Heck, that first night they had to put Due up on an IV drip overnight because they were worried she wouldn't make it through the night. "Maybe she'll grow up into a productive member of society?"
Fate smiled softly. "It's not how you're born after all, it's the people around you that helps you."
(---)
"Hey!" Sein grinned as she saw Zafira walking down the stairs with Cinque and Due. "Sorry I haven't been around, Due, but Sister Schach won't let me sluff off in my duties at all."
Due pouted at her. "My room's boring! I don't like being there!" Her eyes watered up. "Can you get me a kitty? Please? Then I can talk to someone all the time. Mice aren't good listeners, they alway try to run away and when you catch them all they do is scream until you bite their heads off to make them shut up, but then they don't wanna talk anymore and it's no fun."
Sein sweat-dropped, sure, she was even more used to hearing the odd things that came out of Due's mouth than Cinque was, but it was still... Odd, hearing them come out of a six-year-old's mouth. "I don't think that I'm allowed to get you a kitty."
"Awww!" She crossed her arms and pouted. "That's no fun! Alley cats aren't nice, they scratch your arms up and leave you all scarred, see?" She pulled her sleeves back and revealed lots of white marks on her arms. "Then again, some dogs aren't nice, there was that one dog that bit me before running off, that was no fun at all."
She blinked as she felt Cinque pull her into a hug. "Cinque? What?"
"I'm sorry, Due..." Cinque sniffled softly behind her. "If I had known you could reincarnate, I would have looked for you." Though, now she knew why Jail had called her a masterpiece, if she had this kind of skill.
"I didn't even know I had this mode!" Due pouted more. "The doctor never told me that I could do this!"
"Kind of makes sense, if you think about it..." Sein scratched her head. "It would be pretty hard to make more combat cyborgs, since even cloning them is a tricky business, so, the doctor probably put it into Due, since she was the most likely one to die."
"Don't you think he would have said something though?" Cinque asked, getting a shrug from Sein.
"Don't ask me. Quattro and Uno were the only two that knew what was going through his head at any time."
Cinque was about to say something when she felt Due lean back, her eyes closed as she let out a soft snore. "Huh?"
"I was wondering if the drowziness would catch up with her." Sein chuckled softly. "Those were some powerful antibiotics."
Zafira shook his head and turned around. "I'll stay in her bedroom so that she's not alone."
Cinque smiled at that as he carried them back to Due's room. "Thank you, Zafira."
Yeah, some of Due's comments can certainly creep others out. It works, as having a child's mentality she simply doesn't know any better. There's little else they can do outside of doping her up so much.
And Cinque, you know you're just happy you finally have a sister that's smaller than you!
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheShinySword
Hi there. I'm not back per se... but I'm not longer not here... 'cause makes sense right?
Oh and you can have this too...
Spoiler for All for the sake of science:
This was the day that would be remembered for centuries. Years from now people would be talking about it in hushed whispers because they would still be too shocked by it to speak about it in anything louder. In the future the day would be known as Jailisanawesomescientistandwaybetterthenallthoseje rksattheTSAB Day because it would be that awesome.
Alas genius is hard to spot. While the inner workings of his geniusly genius genius were plain to himself and to his assistant, Jail's mind was a locked puzzle box to others. So while to him, he appeared the gallant mastermind of SCIENCE, to his other creations he looked like a guy with a really big balloon, a bizarre looking cannon and a fixation on the ground.
“As fascinating as watching the Doctor watching the ground is, can someone please explain what we're doing here?” Nove, not content with her front row seat to history, asked.
Wendi shrugged next to her, “I dunno, not making sense seems to be our thing.”
“QUIET!” Quattro shouted from her position beside Jail, a position she had wiggled into by taking it from Uno. “The Doctor is conducting a very important experiment!”
“Really? And how is this an experiment?” Nove crossed her arms, “Come on, where's his procedure? And his hypothesis? And his controlled environment?”
“Umm... it's...” Quattro searched for an answer. “It's um... in that place? Where he does that stuff?”
Jail whirled around, his giant jiggling orange balloon in his hands, “Everyday at exactly eighteen twenty-seven Fate Testarossa, my sworn enemy, walks by on her way home. Today, I, ultra genius Jail Scaglietti, am going to load my Balloon Cannon with this balloon filled with sour milk and fire it at her head! I hypothesize that it will be awesome. And this is merely the first step towards my domination of the entire environment!”
“What?! What's the point of that?!” Nove spat.
“To inconvenience her of course! She'll have to spend hours washing that milk out of her hair! Mau ha ha ha!” Jail cackled, throwing up his hands, the balloon balancing precariously on the edge of the roof.
“Tee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee,” Quattro added it, her laughter was not nearly as maniacal as Jail's.
“Testarossa incoming sir!” Sette reported while staring into her binoculars.
“It's time, it's time,” Jail did a little dance and picked up his balloon, carefully loading it into his cannon. He watched Fate approach and it was definitely clear to everyone watching he was doing advanced scientific calculations in his head and not merely guessing when to fire the balloon. “Begin the countdown Quattro!”
“Yes sir, doctor!”
“This is a horrible idea Doctor, she'll just fly up here and beat you up!” Nove hurriedly tried to get Jail to stop his mad scheme.
“3!”
“Milk's not going to stop the one of the greatest weapons the TSAB has!”
“2!”
“If you're going to fire a cannon at her why don't you pick a substance that can actually hurt her! Like a nuclear weapon or kryptonite or whatever!”
“1!”
“At least put some kind of deadly disease in there! Or at least a rabid ferret!”
“Fire!”
The balloon rocketed out of the cannon. It soared down towards the street and smacked into it's target with a loud sloosh. Milk exploded out of it's former container and rained down, not only on Fate but on everyone walking down the street.
“MAU HA HA HA,” Somewhere between the firing and the slooshing Jail had jumped on top of the roof's barrier wall. “HA HA HA-ack,” Jail choked on his own laughter.
“Scaglietti!” Fate dramatically pointed up at Jail, “Foul villain!”
“You will remember this as the day I, Jail Scaglietti, Supervillain Genius Extraordinaire, defeated you! Fate. Testarossa.”
Fate shook her fist up at him, “I'll get you for this scoundrel! You may have won today-”
“W-what!” Nove sputtered, staring dumbly down at the soggy woman below.
“-but next time you will taste defeat!”
“I'll greet you with my next masterpiece Testarossa!”
“What?”
“I'd like to see you try, Scaglietti. Justice will always win out over villainy! But for now... to the shower!” In a blur of blinding light Fate sped away leaving the triumphant doctor.
“Little do you, Fate Testarossa, know that tomorrow I shall greet you with TWO milk balloons! MAU HA HA HA!”
“WHAT.”
Spoiler for Note:
Basically I wondered what it would be like if Jail was a silver age supervillian. Of course Fate would be the super hero then.
k I'm gonna go back into my corner and be unfunny some more .__.
Hi there. I'm not back per se... but I'm not longer not here... 'cause makes sense right?
Oh and you can have this too...
Spoiler for All for the sake of science:
This was the day that would be remembered for centuries. Years from now people would be talking about it in hushed whispers because they would still be too shocked by it to speak about it in anything louder. In the future the day would be known as Jailisanawesomescientistandwaybetterthenallthoseje rksattheTSAB Day because it would be that awesome.
Alas genius is hard to spot. While the inner workings of his geniusly genius genius were plain to himself and to his assistant, Jail's mind was a locked puzzle box to others. So while to him, he appeared the gallant mastermind of SCIENCE, to his other creations he looked like a guy with a really big balloon, a bizarre looking cannon and a fixation on the ground.
“As fascinating as watching the Doctor watching the ground is, can someone please explain what we're doing here?” Nove, not content with her front row seat to history, asked.
Wendi shrugged next to her, “I dunno, not making sense seems to be our thing.”
“QUIET!” Quattro shouted from her position beside Jail, a position she had wiggled into by taking it from Uno. “The Doctor is conducting a very important experiment!”
“Really? And how is this an experiment?” Nove crossed her arms, “Come on, where's his procedure? And his hypothesis? And his controlled environment?”
“Umm... it's...” Quattro searched for an answer. “It's um... in that place? Where he does that stuff?”
Jail whirled around, his giant jiggling orange balloon in his hands, “Everyday at exactly eighteen twenty-seven Fate Testarossa, my sworn enemy, walks by on her way home. Today, I, ultra genius Jail Scaglietti, am going to load my Balloon Cannon with this balloon filled with sour milk and fire it at her head! I hypothesize that it will be awesome. And this is merely the first step towards my domination of the entire environment!”
“What?! What's the point of that?!” Nove spat.
“To inconvenience her of course! She'll have to spend hours washing that milk out of her hair! Mau ha ha ha!” Jail cackled, throwing up his hands, the balloon balancing precariously on the edge of the roof.
“Tee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee,” Quattro added it, her laughter was not nearly as maniacal as Jail's.
“Testarossa incoming sir!” Sette reported while staring into her binoculars.
“It's time, it's time,” Jail did a little dance and picked up his balloon, carefully loading it into his cannon. He watched Fate approach and it was definitely clear to everyone watching he was doing advanced scientific calculations in his head and not merely guessing when to fire the balloon. “Begin the countdown Quattro!”
“Yes sir, doctor!”
“This is a horrible idea Doctor, she'll just fly up here and beat you up!” Nove hurriedly tried to get Jail to stop his mad scheme.
“3!”
“Milk's not going to stop the one of the greatest weapons the TSAB has!”
“2!”
“If you're going to fire a cannon at her why don't you pick a substance that can actually hurt her! Like a nuclear weapon or kryptonite or whatever!”
“1!”
“At least put some kind of deadly disease in there! Or at least a rabid ferret!”
“Fire!”
The balloon rocketed out of the cannon. It soared down towards the street and smacked into it's target with a loud sloosh. Milk exploded out of it's former container and rained down, not only on Fate but on everyone walking down the street.
“MAU HA HA HA,” Somewhere between the firing and the slooshing Jail had jumped on top of the roof's barrier wall. “HA HA HA-ack,” Jail choked on his own laughter.
“Scaglietti!” Fate dramatically pointed up at Jail, “Foul villain!”
“You will remember this as the day I, Jail Scaglietti, Supervillain Genius Extraordinaire, defeated you! Fate. Testarossa.”
Fate shook her fist up at him, “I'll get you for this scoundrel! You may have won today-”
“W-what!” Nove sputtered, staring dumbly down at the soggy woman below.
“-but next time you will taste defeat!”
“I'll greet you with my next masterpiece Testarossa!”
“What?”
“I'd like to see you try, Scaglietti. Justice will always win out over villainy! But for now... to the shower!” In a blur of blinding light Fate sped away leaving the triumphant doctor.
“Little do you, Fate Testarossa, know that tomorrow I shall greet you with TWO milk balloons! MAU HA HA HA!”
“WHAT.”
Spoiler for Note:
Basically I wondered what it would be like if Jail was a silver age supervillian. Of course Fate would be the super hero then.
k I'm gonna go back into my corner and be unfunny some more .__.
*falls over laughing* Oh Shiny! I missed your brand of crack here!
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As usual, I am wholly dependent on RadiantBeam to give me prompts for NanoFate stories (it's literally true--"Mending" is the only one that wasn't done that wasn't based on something she wrote or something she asked for). So, forthwith, I hereby present the newest entry in the Shadows stories, set directly after "Long Distance Goodbye" Chapter 2:
Due looked at Schach as the older woman slipped a bracelett on her wrist. "What's this for?" she asked curiously as Schach put some gloves on Due's hands.
"Well, you're finally healthy enough to go play outside." Schach smiled softly as Due let out a yell of happiness. "But outside is a bit too big, if something happens, or it suddenly storms, the bracelett will let us find you fast."
"Also you wanna make sure that I won't run off, huh?" Due gave her a flat look as Schach finished fixing up her coat.
Schach stared at Due, who looked back at her seriously. "...You're rather sharp when you aren't being silly."
"I *was* an assassin who lived at this church for awhile, remember?" Due deadpanned at Schach. "It's hard to be serious when I have the attention span of a hummingbird on a sugar high." She groaned and rubbed her head. "My head feels like someone put my brain in a blender and hit puree... Maybe I should try that sometime?"
"Huh?" Schach looked at Due, who was thinking seriously.
"Yeah! Make some fake brains and put in the blender, see what happens!" Due giggled as she mentioned something about red food coloring to make it more realistic and Schach let out a sigh, at least that wasn't too bad. There were plenty of students in the school who liked doing stuff like that. Making things get messy was fun apparently.
"Sein! Otto! Deed!" Due grinned and slipped away from Schach, waving at them. "You three going to work again today?"
Deed shook her head and smiled. "Nope. We were putting in extra work these last few days so we could all go and play with you today."
"Really?" Due's eyes sparkled in happiness as Otto nodded at her.
"Yep." Deed's twin sister knelt down and smiled softly. "We all wanted to be there when you finally got to go back outside."
"Yay!" Due threw her hands up in the air and hugged Otto.
After Due let go, Otto chuckled as she, Sein and Deed walked with their sister to the front door. Even though it had been two months, it was still weird seeing Due as a child, not that Otto nor Deed had known her in her real form, but the fact that she was a child cyborg was the weirdest part.
Well, that and the fact that there was a cyborg smaller than Cinque.
"Cinque! Zaffy!" Due grinned as she saw the two by the front door. "Hi!"
Cinque smiled at her, before kneeling down. "Due, close your eyes for a moment, okay?"
Blinking, Due did just that before she felt something warm and fuzzy wrap around her neck. "Cinque?"
"Okay, open your eyes now." She did and saw Cinque smiling at her but holding onto...
"...My scarf?" She stared at it dumbly as she gripped it tightly. "How? It went boom!" She threw her hands up. Everything went boom, my hearing stopped for awhile, was so loud, did you know explosions hurt when you're only four feet from them? All movies lie! They're loud, they throw you down and then you get all cut up from all the stuff thrown around by them! It's not fair! They shouldn't be that loud and..."
"Due!" Cinque grabbed her shoulders to keep from going into another tirade and freaking everyone out again. "Calm down... Zafira came across a piece of your scarf and we had Hayate-san knit you a new one."
"You did?" Due asked, her eyes misting up as Cinque nodded. "Thank you." She hugged Cinque, before letting go and glomping Zafira. "You're my favorite puppy!"
Zafira rolled his eyes. "We should go outside. Nove and Wendi might start doing something crazy if we take too long."
"Huh?" Due blinked. "Nove and Wendi?" She hadn't seen much of her sisters, other than Cinque, who visited every other day, Sein, Otto and Deed, the latter three had been mostly absent for the past few days, since she had gotten at the Saint Church. "...Who are they again?"
"You never met them." Cinque smiled softly. "Don't worry about it, you'll like them, I promise."
Due looked at her, before nodding and grinning. "kay!"
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"I'm glad she can finally go outside." Carim smiled as she and Hayate looked out the window while drinking some hot cocoa. They normally drank tea, but considering how chilly it was, they didn't think it was appropriate for some reason.
"Been a problem?" Hayate was slightly concerned as Carim nodded slightly.
"She hates being alone and gets bored easily." Carim wasn't sure just why Due hated being alone like she did. "She hates waking up alone even." She chuckled softly as Hayate looked at her confused. "One morning, she woke up alone because Sein overslept and when we came to get her for breakfast, she was in tears before grabbing Sein for dear life, saying she thought that she was abandoned."
Hayate winced, she could see why. "Abandonment issues?"
"Considering that she died on a mission and alone, it's understandable why she wouldn't want to be alone."
"She didn't search any of her family out though, did she say why?"
Carim shook her head. "No." She had some suspitions, considering that Due didn't seem to trust anyone but Sein, Otto, Deed or Cinque. Even though she liked Zafira, she kept trying to get away from him when one of her sisters weren't around.
"I see..." Hayate shook her head. "What else can you say about her?"
"Despite her personality and her difficulty sitting still and focusing on anything, she's incredibly intelligent. We gave her some placement tests for school, but she aced each one, except for the ones for the final senior year for civilians." Carim thought about it for a moment. "When we could get her to sit still and calm down at least."
"So, she has all her previous intelligence then?"
Carim nodded and leaned back. "The best way I can explain her now is that she has her memories, intelligence and experiences all mashed together with the personality, innocence and insanity of a child who's been sick, suffering from more than just a couple mental diseases combined with the attention span of a hyperactive kid on a sugar rush makes for a very unusual person. To be honest, I'm sure that she knows she shouldn't be behaiving the way she does, but..."
"But?" Hayate blinked as Carim shook her head.
"She complains about splitting headaches when she stays calm for too long."
"...So it's a coping mechanism?"
"Probably the only one she has." Carim sighed. "When my brother gets back in a couple weeks, I'll see if he can do something to help her cope with it."
Hayate smiled, she missed Verossa, the guy was rather fun to talk to. "It'll be nice to see him again."
Carim nodded and looked outside, giggling softly as Due tried to throw snow at Zafira, who was sitting down, before he suddenly shot up and took off, causing her to fall on the bank in surprise. Hayate joined in her laughter as Wendi pelted her with snow. "That looks fun." Hayate giggled more as Due got onto Zafira's back and the two took off after Wendi and Nove, who were dodging the two as Zafira's running kicked up a lot of snow.
Even so, Carim watched and worried slightly. They had only just began to give Due vaccinations, mostly because they didn't want to over-tax her body while she had been taking antibiotics.
"Carim?" Hayate blinked at her. "What's wrong?"
The blond nodded her head at Due, who was laughing as she made a snow angel. "You know how she often times goes off on tangents and seems to be in a world of her own, right?"
"Yeah..?" Hayate blinked as Carim sighed. "What about it?"
"In her more... Lucid moments she's asked about Jail and her other sisters and wonders what happened to them."
"Have you told her?"
Carim shook her head. "No... I... I didn't think it was a good idea to tell her, not yet."
"You'll have to tell her, sooner or later..." Hayate sighed and Carim nodded.
"I know." The two looked back outside and smiled softly as Due, Nove and Otto were making a snowman while Deed, Cinque and wendi built some sort of snow fort.
"I hope you're taking pictures of this." Hayate giggled as Carim winked at her.
"Schach's got the camera."
After all, this was too cute to not record.
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My fics Due to certain things, I am not here, find me over on TFF.
Hehe, looks like I have another fic to follow here not sure where you can take this story, but it continues to be cute
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Fear Anxiety Doubt is but a fad. The life of a fad depends entirely on the willingness to support it. Difficulty is a choice. Determination is a path. Your next great idea after your destination is the true goal.
Location: Pennsylvania. It's sort of like a real state.
Age: 39
I can agree with itanshi's sentiment. I'm not sure exactly where the story is going, but child-Due remains consistently cute, lovable, and just a bit scary.
... you must show us Quattro's reaction to this, that goes without saying.
I can agree with itanshi's sentiment. I'm not sure exactly where the story is going, but child-Due remains consistently cute, lovable, and just a bit scary.
... you must show us Quattro's reaction to this, that goes without saying.
"no! my deadly, sadistic Due is an innocent child! why?!"
Latest drabble for "Shadowfire" is up and running: It Only Hurts.
Hmm, according to my story links the drabble right after this one is the one I wrote from the challenge DC gave me. Now to actually remember what those requirements were...
Due looked up at Cinque as the latter smiled at her softly. "What are we doing here?" There were armed guards and people in prison clothes being led around and she gripped Cinque tightly. "I don't wanna go to prison! No! Don't make me go!" She started crying against Cinque's body. "Please! I don't know what I did, but please! I'm sorry! Don't make me go!"
"Due! Due!" Cinque knelt down to look at her sniffling sister. "It's okay. We're just here to visit someone, that's all."
"We are?" Her voice was timid and meek as Cinque nodded. "Kay!" She started to smile brightly even as Cinque pulled out a tissue and wiped Due's face down with it.
Even though she was smiling at Due as they walked, hand in hand, into the building, Cinque couldn't help but feel sad for her, since she reacted so... Violently to the thought of even going into a prison.
She wanted to say something, anything, to promise Due that she wouldn't be going to prison, but for some reason the words wouldn't form, nor could she get any sound out of her throat.
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"Well, well..." Quattro narrowed her eyes at the screen. "If it isn't the leader of that batch of traitors..." She sighed as she looked at the other screens in front of her, since this was a teleconference call, more than one person was on the screen at one time.
"Quattro!" Uno yelled at her from her own screen. "At least say hello before you start criticizing Cinque." Turning to the small cyborg, Uno smiled. "I'm sorry, it's been too long, Cinque."
"Tsk... What brings you here anyway?" Tre asked as she leaned against the wall in her cell. "I'm not ungrateful for the call, it's just that I didn't expect anyone to call today."
"Yes, it... Was a surprise." Jail chuckled from his view screen. "It is rather nice to see you again, Cinque. Tell me, have your sisters adjusted to normal life yet?"
"For the most part, yes." Cinque nodded at him. "Actually, I'm here because I have someone to show to you." Mentally, she smiled brightly as the four looked at her in curiosity. "Come here." She gestured to someone that they couldn't see. "Say hello." She smiled as a little blond girl walked up to her.
"WAI!!" The girl jumped up and down. "Doctor, Un-nee, Tre, Quattro! You're all alive!"
"Uh... Huh?" Tre looked at the blond, wondering what the hell was going on here. "Cinque, who is that?"
"You're still a frowny face, Tre." The child pouted at her. "And, Un-nee, you're still bland... And Quattro... Didn't I teach you better than that? Seriously, if you're going to try and use two people to kill each other, make sure that you can't be found first!"
"D...Due?!" Quattro had a rare expression of complete and utter astonishment on her face. "What the hell?!"
"That's riiiiiight!" Due grinned, her eyes closed as she waved her hands up and down. "I came back from the dead to torment all of you with visions of dead squirrels that go peep, mice that don't make for good conversations and birds that are extra crunchy when you eat them!"
"...I agree with Quattro, what the hell?"
"She's... Been like this for the past few months, actually..." Cinque shook her head in amusement. "She has a hard time focusing..."
"Winters are cold, you know there's more snow this year than last year? I would know, I ended up sleeping under two feet of it, my feet felt like they'd freeze off." Due stomped the ground, grumbling. "That wasn't very nice, winter! Can't you put less snow out?!"
"And she tends to go off into tangents..." Cinque sweat-dropped heavily.
Jail frowned thoughtfully. "Due..."
"Huh?" She blinked at him innocently as she smiled.
"How are you still alive?"
"Reincarnation Mode!" She grinned as his face took on a look of sudden clarity. "I'm back and smaller than ever! And look!" She suddenly transformed into a small version of Jail. "I still have my shape shifting!"
Jail chuckled and started laughing hard. "Oh... Oh my goodness! I can't believe it! It actually worked?!"
"Doctor?" Quattro looked at his screen in confusion.
Jail chuckled heavily. "I remember now! I installed that mode into Due, in case something happened, since she would be alone more than the rest of her sisters. However, the only way to test that would be..."
"To kill me..." Due looked at him, her eyes suddenly watering up. "You didn't kill me, did you? I don't remember you killing me, please tell me that you didn't kill me! I don't want to know that you killed me!"
Jail chuckled softly. "No, I didn't kill you. I didn't want to risk it not working, so I just decided to abandon it."
"Hmph!" Quattro huffed and turned away. "I bet she's going to go live like the rest of the traitors now."
"Quattro!!" Uno yelled at her and the glasses-wearing cyborg turned to her with a look of disdain.
"What? It's true, isn't it? She's not going to stay in prison and she's going to just live with them." She then looked at Due, who was looking at her with some fear and confusion and snorted. "Probably for the better anyway, I'd rather not know this snivelling, whimpering, pathetic pile of scrap as Due anyway."
"...You mean it?" Due asked in a small voice as Quattro narrowed her eyes at her.
"That's what I'm talking about! The Due I knew and loved was cold-hearted, ruthless and wouldn't take this kind of crap from anyone. As far as I'm concerned, you're not Due, just someone who took her name!"
Due's lips trembled slightly as she looked at Jail. "Doctor..?"
"Well, I can't prove that you're the same Due, but then again, I can't prove that you're not the same Due, so..." He shrugged and leaned back. "Go ahead and do what you want."
Even though Jail smiled at her, she felt her eyes burning. She turned to Uno. "Un-nee..?"
The eldest cyborg shook her head. "It's probably for the best that you turned into that form... Otherwise you'd be in here with us, I'm pretty sure that's not what you'd want."
"Un-nee?"
she smiled sadly at the little cyborg. "I'm sorry, Due, but seeing you like this... It is painful to look at."
"Don't look at me." Tre held her hands up as Due looked at her screen. "We weren't very close to begin with."
As the screens turned off, Cinque frowned and wished that she had listened to Schach and Carim. They had said that this would be a bad idea, but she had thought that it would do Due some good to know that all her sisters were alive. "Come on, Due..." She grabbed the young girl's hand and led her out of the building.
As they got to the street, Cinque winced, the weather had suddenly taken a turn for the worst. She had to pull her hood over her head and tighten it up. She turned to Due to do the same, but the girl was looking down, trembling. "Due?" There were tears falling down Due's face, which wasn't a good thing at all.
"They... They abandoned me!" Due suddenly let out a wail and fled, causing Cinque to fall down.
"DUE!" Cinque got up and ran after her, but quickly lost her after only two street turns. "DUE!"
All Cinque saw were crowds of people, snow starting to fall quickly and the winds picking up. "DUE!"
Page claim for Due
Edit: Previous parts are found at the following links.
2010-09-19, 16:45
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Awesome work as always, Dezo. Thank uoi so much for writing this!
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