Chapter 8b: Okay, we're right where we should be on the timeline now.
Early Wednesday morning (5:00a.m.)...
Myles pulled the Magami's brown Subaru sedan into the campus parking lot. The front fender was mangled and the rear of the sedan was trashed beyond recognizabilty. As Myles circled the parking lot for a parking spot, he found one. _Parallel parking...hmm... Well, before today, I had never driven a car before. I guess there's a first time for everything._ Myles thought. He slammed his foot down onto the gas pedal and yanked the stirring wheel to the left. The sedan squealed and pulled into the parking spot, smashing into the white Honda Civic in front of him. He then threw the car into reverse without depressing the brake. The car screamed its anger at such a request, but complied, smashing into the green Volvo behind him. He then shifted again, straightening the car out, smashing the cars in front of and behind him again, and again.
Myles went to shut the car off, but the car stalled...or more specically, the engine dropped out from under the car. Taking the keys from the ignition and the lead box "dad" had given him for A-ko, he then stepped out of the car and looked at the parking job he had done. Smiling, he raised his hands to the sky.
"LIKE A GLOVE!" he yelled. He then turned to walk to the girls' dormitory and then remembered that he had not eaten since Friday night. _How regretful that Myles Buchanan can even succumb to hunger._ Myles thought and then began to laugh to himself. He then continued his way to the girls' dorm.
* * *
A-ko laid on her bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. She was depressed. She could not even go to her classes. Her mother and father were for some reason not answering the phone, so she could not get her spare arm bands. _Where could they be? I've tried getting a hold of them since Saturday, and still no luck._ She thought for a moment. She was getting depressed even more just thinking about the situation that had put her in this predicament. She then rolled over and buried her face into her pillow, her sobs going uncontrollably. Before she knew it, her pillow no longer existed, she had crushed even that into a pile of shredded fabric and feathers.
C-ko walked over to her and set her head on the edge of A-ko's bed. Her innocent eyes staring widely at her, wishing that she could do something for her. Wishing that an angel would come to rescue her friend. There was a knock at the door. C-ko glowered at it for a moment.
"Who could that be so early in the morning?" she wondered.
"Go answer it, C-ko," A-ko pleaded. C-ko did as she complied and opened the door. Myles stood there with the biggest grin on his face and a lead box in his hand. A-ko's eys widened. _Could it be?_ she wondered.
"What the hell do you want?" C-ko aked, meanly.
"I got yer spare arm bands, lass," he said. C-ko's eyes widened, she grabbed the box from Myles and ran over to A-ko with it. A-ko opened it and to her glee, saw that they were indeed her spare arm bands. She quickly slid them on and felt a relieving drain of power. She was back to her controllable standards. A-ko then jumped up, ran to Myles and embraced him. "Arigato!" she sobbed into his shoulder. She suddenly felt something odd about Myles, it felt as if he had become dead weight. A-ko released her grip and Myles wobbled for a moment, a look of pure pleasure and a trickle of blood on his face. He was then on the floor, unconscious.
"The least I could do for him is take him home," A-ko said. C-ko looked at A-ko angrily as she picked Myles up and left the room. She lifted him and cradled him in her arms. Myles' head hung down to A-ko's perky breasts. She left the dormitory and walked over to the boys' dorm.
* * *
Liza had been awoken by the sound of tires squealing and then a loud smash. She looked up to see a young man in what appeared to be a brown land vehicle of some sort.
"Why don't you watch where you're driving!" a man in another vehicle screamed.
"Shut the hell up, ye drunken sot, or I'll beet yer head in to a bloody pulp! Ye sot!" the man in the brown vehicle yelled back.
Liza laughed at how petty these humans were, especially the males. She then realized the young man in the brown vehicle was not faring any better than she had been the other day in the taxi. _Oh well,_ she thought. She got up off of the park bench and brushed off her blouse. She then looked down to see a primitive media flyer. She bent down to pick it up and began to decipher what the ad said. Liza had been trained on how to speak and read some of the Earthling's languages. There were too many of them, so she settled for what were the most important and influential languages of the planet. They were Japanese, English and German. Fortunately for her, Japanese is very close to her own language, so close in fact, that there is only a slight difference in dialect.
The flyer read; "Come visit the newly re-opened Spaceship Land Casinos and Resort!" Liza frowned. She crumpled up the paper and flung it over her shoulder.
"How dare they make an Egota-class Starship into an amusement park for these... these...*Earthlings*!! Why didn't the Queen destroy them for their failures while she was here?" Liza took a look toward the center of Graviton City and saw the main spire. Sure enough, the city was definitely the lost Egota-class, and the one that had come to her aid was supposedly in the harbor next to it. She then began to walk toward the center of the city.
* * *
Craig stared at his computer screen. He was in a chat room with a fellow from Indiana, USA. "[So, how's *your* story coming along?]" he typed. Within a few moments an answer flashed across his screen. "[Not bad, I'm at a point where 'S-boy' and the girls try to fight Olkon]" <shameless plug! :) > He leaned back and stretched. _I suppose I should get ready for class,_ he thought looking at the cronometer on the computer screen. He typed in the message to his 'net bud'; "[Listen, I don't mean to be rude 'er nothin', but I got to go to class in a few hours.]" His answer returned shortly after; "[Okay, same time tomorrow?]" "[Okay, if I can't make it, I'll e-mail ya.] Ja ne!" His answer; "[Later!]" And with that, he signed off. As he stood up, there was a knock at the door.
"If that's Myles or Kei, their dead men," he said, walking over to door. Upon opening it, he saw the most bizzare sight he had ever seen, and one that he had thought he would never see. A-ko stood before him, wearing a tee-shirt, blue jeans and a new pair of arm bands. Cradled in her arms, was Myles. His head leaning against A-ko's chest. "[Mien Got!] What happened?" Craig said, moving out of the way for A-ko to enter.
"He brought me my new arm bands and then passed out," she replied.
"You've got a lot of explaining to do, mister!" Craig gestured for A-ko to set Myles on his bed. When she had laid him on his bed A-ko began to look around the room for a moment. Craig followed her gaze and saw where it was headed. _Shit! The shrine!_ He jumped over Myles and his bed and knocked his night stand over, spilling the shrine onto the floor, before A-ko even saw it.
"What'd you do *that* for?"
"Umm..." _Think fast shit-head._ "His medicine was in his night stand, I thought he might need it."
"Oh, why'd you knock it over?"
"Accident?" Craig replied, trying to act innocent. _You're a fucking smart one, you are. Baka!_
"Oh, will he be up in time for classes?"
"Don't see why not."
"Okay, see you in class then."
"Uh, listen, A-ko." Craig said, stopping A-ko before she left the room. She turned and looked him in the eyes. "Let me buy you lunch at first break. I need to talk to you... in private."
"Is this your way of asking me out?" A-ko blanched.
"Um...well, not exactly..." Craig stammered, also blushing, straying his gaze from A-ko.
"Sure, I think I can convince C-ko to leave me alone for a little bit."
"Arigato." With that, A-ko left the room, closing the door behind her. Craig looked to his friend for a moment. "Yeah, A-ko, he'll be up in time for classes." He then turned and grabbed an empty bottle of whiskey and smashed it over his friend's head. Myles shot up.
"[DAMMIT, WOMAN! WILL YE STOP THAT!]" Myles suddenly realized where he was and saw Craig standing before him with his arms crossed.
"Little man, you've got a *lot* of explaining to do," he said. Myles sighed and began to tell his friend the story of his quest.
By the time he was finished, it was 8:15a.m. Time to get up for classes, for those who had classes at 9:00a.m., which Myles and Craig both did. It was Miss Ayumi's American-English class. Craig came out of the bathroom wearing a pair of clean blue jeans and a pressed white button-down cotton shirt. His hair was neatly combed back and set into a ponytail. He was also clean-shaven. A definite change, especially for Craig. Myles noticed it the second he walked out of the bathroom.
"So let me get this straight," Craig said. "You went all the way to Metropolis and back just to kill Superman, only to find out that he's A-ko's father. At which point, upon meeting Superman and...WonderWoman, was it? They take you on as their future son-in-law?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, aside from the facts that you had A-ko's arm bands, and that you're my friend and I can trust just about anything you tell me, I still find that a little hard to swallow."
"Oh, like yer poppin' Miss Ayumi story was any bloody better."
"IT DID HAPPEN! And I'll prove it to you, too!"
"Hah." Myles regarded his friend once again and laughed to himself. "I doon't suppose that's why yuir dollin' yerself up?"
"In a manner of speaking." Myles tried to suppress a laugh. "Fine, be that way."
* * *
Miss Ayumi looked up to her students. Classes had been cancelled on Monday due to certain events that had transpired during the past week, so she had not seen the majority of them since the previous Wednesday. Miss Ayumi took attendance and when she called off Craig's name, she blushed. Myles stared for a moment, as Miss Ayumi's eyes met Craig's, if only for a split second. Craig smuggly leaned back in his chair and smiles broadly.
"Ye've no proved anyt'ing yet, ye know," Myles commented.
"[Ye've no seen nothing *yet*, lad,]" Craig retorted, poking fun of Myles' accent. Ire burned through Myles. No one had ever made fun of the way he had spoken, not even Craig. Myles stretched his leg and tripped up Craig's seat. Craig fell head over heels, backwards. He got up and glared at his friend, he then picked up his chair and sat back down.
Looking from student to student, she noticed something different in the air with all of them. A-ko did not seem herself. C-ko was not quite acting like C-ko. Craig was acting full of himself. Myles was not acting like Myles. Asa, Ine, Ume and Mari were all wearing bandages, casts and splints. B-ko seemed to be the only one who was herself, other than the fact that she kept staring at A-ko and growling under her breath. which seemed to happen just about everyday, anyway.
"Okay, class," she started. "Today's lecture will be on the works of Poe, Zahn, Byron and Bradbury. Please turn in your texts to page 414."
During the lecture on what was arguably about literature from the twentieth, nineteenth, eighteenth, and seventeenth centuries, sparks flew between B-ko's eyes and A-ko's. _What's her problem?_ A-ko thought. B-ko huffed. _How can that little slut act as if there's nothing wrong. I can't endanger C-ko's innocence to such a...a...whore! I must strike at her soon, but when she's not expecting it, that will be the only way to prove a sure victory,_ B-ko thought, smirking to herself. _And this time, A-ko, I will have a little surprise for you._
The class was dismissed some hour and a half later. Not all of the students were exactly sure what that day's lecture was all about. Before the students left, Miss Ayumi turned back to the class. "Don't forget, there's your first exam on Monday, be sure to study hard." The entire class fell to the ground, most of them groaning. At least they would have the weekend.
The class poured out of the lecture room except for A-ko, C-ko, Craig, Myles and Miss Ayumi. A-ko and C-ko spoke for a moment. A-ko looked at Myles and Craig and then turned back to C-ko. C-ko seemed upset about something she had said, but conceeded. C-ko looked up at the two young men, evily glaring at both of them. C-ko stormed out and A-ko soon followed. Craig looked to Myles and shrugged. Myles stood up and brushed his shirt off.
"So, what's this yer goina prove, lad?" he said. Craig stood up, straightened his coat and made sure his hair was neat.
"Act as if you're going to leave. I'm going to 'talk' to Miss Ayumi, just stick around long enough to watch her make goo-goo eyes at me."
"Yuir sick," Myles started, and then turned back to his friend. "And I still don' beleive ye." Craig lifted his right arm and extended his middle finger in the direction of his friend and made a kissing sound with his lips. Myles smirked and started for the door. Craig walked over to Miss Ayumi, who was standing at her desk preparing her things.
"Sensei, can I have a word with you?" he asked, coolly. Miss Ayumi hesitated for a moment and then looked Craig straight in the eyes. _Dear God! Could it be he wasne kiddin' after all?_ Myles thought. Craig walked behind Miss Ayumi's desk and then gave her a passionate kiss on the lips. Miss Ayumi gave in to him. Myles left the room, completely astonished. _Nae...I dinnae see that...WAY TA GO, CRAIG!!!_ he thought.
His silioquey was soon interrupted by the loudest crack he had ever heard, followed by Miss Ayumi running from the classroom, tears streaming from her eyes. Myles' eyes buldged against his thick glasses. He turned and ran back into the classroom, only to find his friend lying on the floor, smiling gratuitously with the teacher's desk smashed into two halves just above him. Myles slapped his hand to his face and shook his head slowly.
"Och, Craig...ye dinnae 'ave te try an' prove dat te me," Myles said. "Everyone knows yer no ladies' man..." The next thing he knew, Craig was in his face. This threw Myles aback, he lost his footing and fell flat on his back.
"I'LL SHOW YOU! I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!! OHOHOHOHOHOHOOO!!!" And with that, Craig blindly fled the classroom, oddly enough as his laugh had changed, black rose pedals fluttered to the ground in his wake, leaving only Myles with his thoughts.
_That man is completely insane..._
* * *
C-ko had said something to A-ko about not going to met some boy in the cafeteria during break. Myles' fingers ripped through his desk. _Could this get any worse?_ he screamed to himself mentally.
"It's not like I'm going to do anything with him, C-ko," A-ko said.
"I was going to make you a special lunch today, A-ko. How could you do this to me?"
"I'm sorry, C-ko, but he asked me for a favor, and I feel I owe him one...sort of..."
"You better not have sex with him...that's all men want, you know..."
There was a bit of silence in the classroom and then two loud cracks as two desks crumbled and then two loud thuds, as the two students who held those seats, hit the floor.
"Ite!" Myles and A-ko yelped in unison.
* * *
C-ko followed A-ko to the cafeteria. She was going to make sure nothing happened to A-ko. She knew how to beat up boys, she did beat up that one boy in the boys' dorm room the other day, after all. C-ko suddenly realized that the young man she was thinking of, was hiding behind a bush just a few feet from her.
Myles noticed C-ko glaring at him. He then smiled, cautiously and waved. C-ko charged him and began to kick him into submission. She had definitely felt that something was up with him...she never did like him either...he was always hanging around A-ko...too much for his own good.
Myles pulled his hand back down. He noticed that C-ko was acting very oddly lately. He began to look around for A-ko. He noticed Craig sitting in a booth as if waiting for someone. Myles knew he could trust his friend, Craig knew how he felt about A-ko and knew that Craig would never dare move in on Myles' 'territory'. He spotted A-ko walking towards the boothes. The next thing he knew he was pulled back by the collar of his shirt and kicked into submission. Myles only saw black.
Craig sat in a booth and waited for A-ko. He had bought some snacks for her, but was almost tempted to start digging into them himself. _Okay...if A-ko isn't a lesbian, which I know she ain't...I hope... But then, why did she have sex with Kei? She wasn't drunk enough to make stupid decisions. Bi? Hmm..._ he thought. A shadow soon fell over him and he looked up. A-ko stood there, smiling kindly. Craig gestured for her to sit down. He then motioned to the snacks on the table. "Those are for you, if you like."
"Arigato," A-ko smiled. She picked up some chop sticks and began to eat what was a cookie of some sort. "So, what's on you're mind?"
"A lot of things actually, but only a couple things that worry me the most, and that, I think, will be good for you to get off your...um...chest. First off, this one will be this easiest I think. I know about your parents." A-ko dropped her chop sticks down on the table.
"Wha...how did..." Craig help up a silencing finger.
"Actually, Myles kind of...stumbled upon it. That's how he got your arm bands." A-ko looked at her arm bands and blushed.
"I suppose I couldn't have kept that a secret forever. How did he 'stumble upon it'?"
"It's a long story, perhaps another time. Only he and I know, and I don't think you or your parents will ever have to worry otherwise."
"What about the other thing?"
"Well...you see..." Craig hesitated, averting his eyes and running his fingers through his moppy brownish hair. Taking a deep breath, he continued. "I know what happened at the party on Friday night. More over, what happened between you and Kei ." A-ko set the bowl of what looked like chocolate covered marshmellows or something back on the table and then looked down. She was silent for a moment. Suddenly, tears began to drop onto the table. Craig leaned forward and set a comforting hand on A-ko's shoulder. A-ko reached up and placed her hand over his.
Myles awoke. He looked up to see A-ko looking down at a table. He could not make out who it was with her. A hand reached across the table and laid on her shoulder. Ire burned through Myles like fire through gasoline. He began to stand up and see who it was that would dare try to steal his love. He got a glimpse of someone wearing a black coat, and was suddenly struck in the face by a small arm, Myles fell back and went unconscious again.
C-ko flailed her arms in the air, violently. Her right arm struck the boy she had beaten up earlier and knocked him unconscious again. She was angry, in fact, she was furious. Not only that A-ko was with a boy, but that he had made her cry and that he was now touching her.
"It's okay, let it all out," Craig said, trying to sound comforting. Acting as a shoulder to cry on was not one of his best traits. Of course, growing up with someone like Rally Vincent, not to mention someone like his father, surely did not help his sensitive side either. A-ko looked up to Craig. "Are you going to be alright now?"
"Y-yes," she choked. Craig removed his hand and then realized what he had just done. _Chikuso! I hope to God Myles isn't watching,_ he thought, glancing about the room.
"Do you want to talk about it? If it's too hard for you, it's okay."
"Actually, I think you're the only one I can talk to. C-ko wouldn't understand. My mom and dad would kill me..."
"You don't have any brothers or sisters? Surely, you've got more friends." A-ko chuckled at that comment.
"C-ko kept running them off, just like the few boyfriends...well, boyfriend, I did have. You're the only other friend I've got...in fact, you always seemed to be there for me just when I needed some help...like a knight in armor." Craig's eyes buldged, he jumped out of the booth, slipped and fell onto his ass. "What's the matter?"
"G-gomen," Craig blushed, picking himself up off the floor. "Actually, M-Myles... was...umm...well...that is to say..." A-ko smiled.
"Myles, huh? You and he are such good friends, it seems that you two are always hanging around each other."
"We've been through alot, you could say. Anyway...about Friday night, are you sure you want to talk about it?" A-ko nodded, looking away from Craig.
"I knew Kei before I even got into college. It was love at first sight for me and him, except his love was for C-ko and not me." Craig's upper lip jerked a little and his left eye began to twitch. _He's a dead man...Oh, how I'd love to sic Myles on him for what he's done._ "I was at that party to meet boys, but along came Kei and he swept me off my feet, again." A-ko blushed again. "One...one thing led another and well..." Tears began to run freely down her face again. "I-I was a vi...uh...I-I'd never b-been with a m-m-man b-b-before then..."
"I know." A-ko glared at Craig, she did not like the way he said that.
"H-how did..."
"It's a guy thing, it's like we can smell it, or something...D'OH!" Craig said, realizing what he had just said. He smacked himself in the forehead. "I'm sorry, acting as a shoulder to cry on has never been my best quality." A-ko blushed again. "So what happened the morning after?"
"As it turned out, he thought he had slept with C-ko..." A-ko's tears of sorrow had turned to ones of burning anger. "She doesn't even like him, in fact, she hates him. I'd almost go as far as to say she hates men altogether. Although, with Myles around, it's hard to say. I'm glad I can play match-maker for anyone but myself." Craig remembered what C-ko had said in the dorm room to him, and what she had done to Myles. He was about to ask but decided not to. "I guess I *did* get a little carried away with what I did to him afterwards."
"I figured that had to have been your doing." Tears began to flow again. _Beauty, Craig. You fuckin' insensative jerk,_ he thought, scolding himself. A-ko slammed her fists into the table, cracking it evenly through the center, soon followed by her head and uncontrollable sobs. Craig looked around the room, people were starting to stare. Craig placed a hand on A-ko's arm and tried to calm her down.
"I know how frustrating it can be for a young girl to lose her virginity to some jerk." A-ko lifted her head from the table.
"That's not the half of it...I-I think I'm p-p-pregnant." Craig sat back for a moment and tried to decipher what she meant. <duh!>
"NANI?!?!"
"He didn't use a condom or nothing and I felt sick the morning after..." Craig calmed down and began to laugh quietly.
"It takes a helluva lot longer for morning sickness to kick in, A-ko-chan. When you miss your period, *that's* when you start to worry. You were probably sick at the thought that you had given yourself for the first time to a complete asshole." A-ko's eyes began to glimmer. She had renewed hope again. She then began to glower at Craig, looking at him sceptically.
"B-but you're a guy! How would you know about things like th--" A-ko began to think. _He's more sensative than most men, he knows alot about women's anatomy and gestation, he mentioned something about how frustrating it is for a young girl losing her virginity, and he sort of acts like a girl's best friend..._ "Craig...you don't mind my asking, but...are you a...a...cross-dresser?" Craig fell over and hit the floor.
"EEEEEEEHHHH!?!?!?!?" Craig sat in his seat, perfectly still.
"Well, the things you were saying, it just seemed..." A-ko was stopped by Craig hitting the floor. He then jumped up off the floor flapping his arms in the air.
"NO! AND I'LL PROVE IT TO YOU IF YOU WANT!" A-ko was thrown aback by this. Tears began to spring up again. Craig bowed before A-ko "Gomen nasai," he said, bowing deeply before her.
"I should be the one who is apologizing," A-ko replied, wiping the tears from her eyes. "Just how *do* you know about women like that?" Craig hesitated, his face as red as A-ko's hair. He had to think fast.
"(koff)Anatomy (koff)class?" he replied, looking away from her. A-ko caught it, and knew he was not telling the whole truth, if at all. "I hope I haven't upset you too much today. It's just, I thought you may have wanted to talk about it, or something." "It's okay, I guess I really did need to talk about it," A-ko replied and looked around. "Except maybe in a less-than-public-place..."
"We should get going, the next classes are due to start soon." Craig stood up to leave. As he did he took A-ko's hand in his and then bent to kiss it, only to have it snatched away.
Craig looked up, confused. What he saw, he never would have expected, well, maybe. C-ko was holding A-ko by her breasts, holding her back from Craig. A-ko was wiggling, attempting to get herself loose, which proved easy. C-ko glared at Craig. If looks could kill, Craig would have long since been dead. <Or incinerated.>
"Keep your dirty hands off my woman!" she yelled.
"NANI?!?" A-ko and Craig shouted in unison.
"I said, keep your dirty, ill-breed, *male* hands off my girlfriend!" A-ko and Craig were both thrown aback by this, she even made th word "male" sound like a dirty word. Craig stumbled, knocked over a potted plant that landed on his head. He clambered to the floor, only to be kicked in his crotch by C-ko. C-ko then grabbed A-ko by the arm and pulled her out of the cafeteria.
* * *
D and Captain Napolipita sat in what was once the main bridge of the large starship. They were now the only Alpha Cygni's left on the ship. The others had either left, been taken home when the Queen arrived or have been killed by the various events that occurred ever since they had come to this miserable planet. The worst of it, was that they did not even have the chance to go a second time when the Alpha Cygni Armada had returned only to drop the Princess back off, the Captain was too busy drowning in Sake again.
There was a muffled boom coming from outside of the ship. Only the Captain heard it. With her hangover, even a fly landing on a flower in Nagasaki would be too loud. There was a second boom. This one closer, and this one D heard. Yet another boom followed.
"What is that noise?" Naplipita asked, holding her head as if she was trying to keep it from exploding.
"I don't know, Captain, but it sounds like it's getting closer," D replied. Then another boom. This one sounding like it was a few hallways down. Then another. And finally, the door the the main bridge caved in. Amist the dust arose a purple haired girl, wearing a Chinese silk dress, carrying what looked like a food delivery box.
"Nihao! Someone order deluxe ramen, yes?" she said, smiling and raising her right hand in the air. The purple-haired girl was quickly kicked out of the way and through the main window of the bridge, sending her flying out of the spaceship and into Graviton Bay. The one to do the kicking was a very tall blond Amazon of a woman. She was wearing typical street clothes. Blue jeans and a form-fitting tee-shirt that read; "Red Hot!" in bold red letters.
"So this is what's left of the Queen's first fleet to find the Fourth Princess of the Fifth Queen of the Lepton Kingdom of Alpha Cygni?" the blond said.
"Who the hell are you?" D asked standing up.
"I am Major Liza of the Queen's Royal Strike Force. I have come back for the Princess. And also to rid the Lepton Kingdom of its embarrassment."
"How dare you speak to us in such a manner!" Captain Napolipita snapped, standing up from her command seat. "D! Teach this *slut* some manners!"
"With pleasure, Captain!" D replied, cracking her knuckles. D then ripped away her Amani suit to reveal the uniform of the Alpha Cygni, complete with sheild and sheathed sword. "DIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" D cried as she charged Liza, sword ready to fillet its target. Liza brought up her arms and blocked D's attack. She then brought her leg up and flipped D into the air.
"My, she's a strong one." the Captain mumbled, pouring herself another drink.
D swung her blade through the air and then directed it towards Liza. It connected, cutting at least an inch of hair. Liza began to growl. She lept at D with her hands curled downward like claws. She landed on D and began to claw at her.
"Don't you *ever* mess with my hair again!" she shrieked. D brought her sheild up and knocked Liza back with it. The Captain, feeling a little sober, drew her gun and took aim at Liza. Liza grabbed a hold of D's sword and yanked it out of her hand. The Captain fired, Liza blocked the shot with the sword, even though she had not realized it. Liza threw the sword at the Captain, slicing through her cloak. D had already drew the back up sword from her sheild and had struck Liza with it.
Liza held her arm, blood slowly began to seep from the wound beneath her hand. She glared at D who approached Liza, katana in hand, ready to deal the death-blow. Liza would not give in so easily. Liza leaned back for a moment and then brought herself up, swinging full force into D, sending her flying into the air. "Smug bitch!" she screamed. D crashed into a control panel on the bridge, sending sparks every which way, electrifying D. After the sparks died down, D only groaned and passed out.
Liza glared at the Captain, still ready to kill. She began to walk toward the Captain, growling lowly. Liza's vision soon, began to blur and she then passed out from lack of blood. The last thing she saw before blacking out, was Captain Napolipita standing over her, sidearm drawn.
* * *
Craig woke up, feeling dazed and confused. He looked around and then remembered what had happened. _Feh. To think I go through all this trouble to protect myself and I don't wear a fuckin' groin guard,_ he thought. He stood himself up and noticed Myles regaining consciousness behind a bush. Craig walked over and helped his friend up.
"What in blue blazes, happened?" he asked.
"I wish I knew, lad," Myles responded, rubbing his head. "Wait, now I remember! C-ko kicked the stuffing outta me again."
"C-ko... *C-KO*?" Craig stood there, trying to suppress his laughter. Craig failed at that attempt and was soon on the floor, laughing his ass off. Myles was a little more than irked by this. He then kicked his friend where it counted. "EEEEEEE-HEEE-HEEEEE! WOOOO!!!!" he yelped. Craig regained his composure and jumped up, looking Myles in the eyes. "You realize that I hate you."
"Oh, I'm so scared," Myles replied, attempting to sound prim. Myles then smiled and patted Craig on the shoulder. "Now, what was this aboot showing me what kind of a ladies' man ye are?"
"You'll see...I'll show you...I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!!! OHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!"
"Stoop it, Craig, yuir scarin' me..."
* * *
"C-KO!! WOULD YOU STOP FOR A MINUTE!" A-ko screamed at C-ko. C-ko stopped and glared at her friend, her eyes already moist.
"How-how could you, A-ko?"
"How could I what?"
"He was going to kiss you, and you were going to let him."
"It was a gentlemanly gesture!"
"Exactly! Kissing leads to...well you know the rest!"
"C-ko...I..." A-ko thought for a moment. "What the hell did you mean by 'your woman'!?!"
"What?"
"You called me your girlfriend and your woman!"
"Does this mean you don't like...Does this mean you don't want to be my...my...A-KO YOU'RE SO CRUEL!!! WHAAAAAAAAAAA!!" A-ko was stunned. Her eyes rolled back into her head and she passed out. C-ko was able to catch her, but was only brought to the ground by the force of A-ko landing on her.
"A-KO!! GET OFF!!"
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B-ko watched the commotion from her penthouse-style dorm room. She was very angered by what she saw. A-ko falling on top of C-ko the way she was. _The nerve of that slut,_ she thought. _A-ko, you will pay. Oh yes, you will pay dearly!_