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It was a dark night. Dark and uneventful after a week of hair-
raising boomer rampages and unsuccessful and/or partially successful
attempts at nude photography.
Mackie Stingray, the only son of the revered creator of boomers,
Katsuhito Stingray, was bored out of his mind. His sister wasn't around
the usual places where she normally holed up whenever she was up to
something, which led him to believe she was doing something _other_ than
thinking up how to lay GENOM lower.
*Must be spending her time either creating more sexual tension
between herself and Fargo or with the rest of the Sabers,* he thought.
He idly tapped the end of the pencil on the keyboard while he
stared at the nude picture of Nene-chan he held in his hand. Something
was wrong with him, as staring at _anything_ hentai would normally give
him some boost.
His stomach grumbled in protest.
Mackie decided to chalk it up to being starved.
Owing to the fact that he couldn't cook any type of meal if his
life depended on it, he quickly dialed up a number from memory.
"Akie's," a young purple-haired woman answered.
<Man! What a looker! Wonder what bust size she has.> A protesting
growl form his belly prompted him to answer. "Uh... I need to order take-
out." He mentally smashed his face on the monitor. Of all the stupid
things to do! Damn!
The woman smiled. "Gomenasai. We are currently unable to offer that
form of service for the time being. Perhaps..."
Mackie shook his head. "No. Don't worry about it. Maybe if you and
- hey! Wait!!!" He grabbed the monitor as if he could try and stop the
woman from hanging up the vidphone.
*sigh*
<Damn! My luck sure hasn't changed! Ah... well.... Maybe some other
time, then...>
He closed his eyes and dialed another phone number. <Gods! I hope
they can do take-out.> His mind remembered the unusual rapidity of Boomer
rampages in the city that had prompted the Sabers to the limits of their
endurance.
*ring!* *ring!*
<Hmm... Strike two. Okaaay. Let's try number three. I hope my
luck's in, otherwise I'll have to cook something on my own.> He shivered
at that thought.
*ring!* *ring!*
<Damn!>
*ring!* *ring!*
<Sorry. Due to certain events, we are unable to....>
"Argh!!! Can't those frigging boomers _not_ destroy every
restaurant in the area??!!" he screeched. He decided to give it one more
try before he decided to cook his own meal.
*ring!* *ring!*
<Goddess Relief Office. Please wait one moment for an operator to
attend to you. Thank you.>
Mackie blinked, wondering just what the heck had just happened.
Now, he was not a stranger to weird happenings now and then. This city
had enough for everyone, anyway! He had more than enough with his sister,
at times.
But this?!!!
He let out a defeated sigh, wincing a bit at the growling protest
coming from his stomach. It would seem that he was now forced to cook his
own food. Not something he relished but, considering he had unwittingly
agreed to look after the building while his sister and the others were
out, something he had coming.
Like it was even needed!! This building had enough security
safeguards built into it, it was all but impossible to stumble into the
Knight Saber's headquarters.
But, noooo... his sister had insisted he stay, giving him that flat
stare of hers.
Sighing, he absently reached out for the mug of hot chocolate on
the table. Had he been paying any attention, he would have noticed the
soft whitish-red glow emanating from the mug.
Of course, when he did, it was too late.
Bubblegum Crisis: Story of the Knight Sabers
Once and Future Goddess
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Chapter One: Wrong Numbers
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Mackie let out a strangled cry as he propelled himself backwards.
The chair toppled backwards, spilling Mackie onto the floor. The mug
crashed against the console spilling chocolate all over the panel.
Mackie blinked as he watched the glow intensify.
Without warning, a figure suddenly hovered in front of his vision.
Mackie blinked. There was a girl in the lab. Said girl popped out
from his drink.
Maybe he was going crazy. It certainly seemed that way. Perhaps it
was due to hunger? After all, he'd spent the last hour or so trying to
find a take-out restaurant.
"Umm... hi?" the girl said shyly.
Mackie took a good look at his sudden visitor. She looked
completely human to his experienced eye. She was a young girl who looked
a bit older than him, but not by much. The strange girl had a wealth of
long, glossy raven hair that framed an oval face, with large light brown
eyes that seemed to sparkle with a hint of mischief behind it. She had
what looked like a slim blue diamond-shaped tattoo on her forehead, with
matching triangular ones on her cheeks just situated just below the
corners of her eyes.
Mackie could not help but notice it looked pretty on her, giving
her a somewhat exotic look to her face.
The girl wore a strangely outlandish and yet very stylish dress of
pristine white, shaded with a tinge of red bordering. Over the dress, she
wore a coat of the same strange shade that she seemed to prefer. It
faintly resembled a lab coat with large oversized red lapels. Knee-high
boots and gloves with her preferred color scheme completed her get-up.
She also wore a pair of gold earrings, on which dangled a red
sphere that tinkled as the girl moved her head. Clasped around her slim
waist was a beautifully crafted belt of linked chains of gold,
interrupted only by three blue orbs on the front. Mackie also took note
of the small red and silver mallet she had strapped to her back.
He winced as he mentally pictured getting hit by it.
But what the heck! She was... well... hard to describe, really. She
was beautiful - very beautiful. And, yet, somehow she still managed to
look cute - very cute. Then there were the eyes!!
Oh yeah!!
It was the eyes that really drew him in... Expressive brown eyes
that seemed to take everything in. Slender arms and shapely legs that
seemed to beckon to him...
He was in heaven. What more could he want?
Skuld was getting slightly self-conscious about the way the young
man was staring at her. She was old enough to begin realizing a few
certain things about herself. Having stayed on this world for quite some
time, she had begun to acquire a more worldly knowledge of herself, and
the things around her.
And, right now, the young man was certainly ogling at her.
As for his thoughts...
Skuld suddenly turned a healthy shade of red. She frowned as she
grabbed her mallet, wielding it in a threatening manner at the hentai.
Skuld hefted the mallet and let him have it.
"Hentai no baka!!!" she practically shouted.
Mackie blinked as his eyes locked on to a descending mallet.
"Uh-oh."
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A figure winced in the darkness as he watched the monitor. He
really should reprimand her for doing that to a client of His, but
considered letting the boy handle it on his own.
Still, that mallet strike must have hurt.
He quickly made a note not to get into His daughter's bad side.
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"That's what you get for thinking up such ecchi thoughts!!" she
huffed indignantly at the unconscious hentai.
Mackie lay flat on his back, eyes spiraling like crazy as he
mumbled incoherent words over and over. Skuld sighed, frowning at the
audacity of the man!! Her hands flexed instinctively around the haft of
her mallet. Of all the stupid jerks that she had to grant wishes for, it
had to be a hentai!!
Huffing in anger, she strode towards the bank of terminals in the
room. She marveled at the multitude of computers and other machines that
dotted the walls of the room. Her eyes became twin pools of astonishment
at the size of the monitor.
She'd always wanted one of those!!
Not that she ever could, unless she decided to buy one. Which she
couldn't, considering she did not have a job. She hardly could ask Kami-
sama, since He would assuredly tell her a lot of things that could best
be told in five words: You already have one, Skuld.
But it was just a fourteen-inch monitor. It was an old clunky one
she'd salvaged from the junkyard during her stay on this plane, not like
this one, or the ones that had been recently installed back in heaven!
A groan escaped his lips as Mackie tried to get up, only to
collapse from the throbbing pain in his head. Moaning, he groped around
for an available handhold, anything to aid him in getting up.
A slim hand clasped onto his, pulling him up gently.
Mackie collapsed onto a nearby chair, one hand rubbing his
throbbing head.
"Next time you do that, I'll pound you for real!" she warned.
"What the heck are you?" he asked in a level voice, trying his best
not to gibber in panic.
"I am Skuld. Goddess of the Future. First Class Unlimited License,"
she introduced, bowing low. "I'm here to grant you one single wish."
Mackie blinked.
The room was suddenly plunged into total silence.
"You're kidding, right?" came Mackie's confused reply.
Skuld shook her head. "No. I'm a goddess. I can't lie. So hurry up
with that wish of yours! You can wish for anything, except maybe
destroying the world."
"Wish??"
"Uh-huh," she answered flatly whilst she began tapping her foot on
the metal floor.
She was getting extremely nervous. This was her first time on the
job. Actually, she wasn't even supposed to be here, if not for a little
promise she'd made to a friend. Not to mention the load of ice cream Yuki
had promised.
Skuld was head debugger on Yggdrassil and, although she was capable
of wish granting, she normally tried to stay away from this line of work.
Still, she'd given Yuki her promise and she was hardly one to go back on
a promise.
Besides, Yuki-chan promised her ice cream. All you can eat!!!
For Mackie, that moment the pretty woman had said something about
granting wishes made him wonder if the woman was insane. He certainly
hoped not!! The girl was so beautiful! It would be a crime if such a babe
would be missing a few in the head.
*Wish?!!* a small part of his mind suddenly repeated, as if hearing
the word for the first time. His mind suddenly went over dozens upon
dozens of things he might want.
Super powers like those he read from all those American imported
manga stuff? Or something saner, like getting laid by anyone he wanted.
He shook his head. For some reason, the thought did not sound well
for him. Images of Nene wearing bondage and leather wielding a whip, as
she demanded to be called Mistress, or Priss doing so and so to him ran
across his hentai-filled mind.
Still, he could not help shake off the feeling like this was some
sort of prank by Priss after that little shower incident a couple of days
ago. But something like this would require his sister's help, not to
mention a great deal of planning. Not that such an undertaking would be
of any problem with Sylia.
He frowned.
A wish. Anything his heart desired - as long as he didn't destroy
the world or something to that effect.
Mackie smiled.
Skuld felt suddenly cold all over. Things like these always had a
way of upsetting her. Disasters usually followed soon after. Being
Goddess of the Future didn't help one bit, with those crude precognitive
senses of hers deciding to kick her in the rear.
Mackie's resolve hardened as he had made up his mind what to wish
for. A part of him asked if he was _sure_ of his decision.
"Okay, Goddess Skuld," he began, as he drew his breath for what he
was about to say. "I wish... for you to be with me forever!!" The last
words were said in a rush.
"NANI?!!!!!!!!!"
Of all the things anyone could wish, it just _had_ to be that one!
You'd think the Kami would have forbidden that one after what her sister,
Belldandy, had gone through with Keiichi. And now, just her luck she had
to be the one to process this wish!!
A thousand thoughts flashed through her mind, most of which
involved painful retribution to her good old friend. She wanted words
with Dad!!
Skuld found herself suddenly enveloped in a field of white as her
forehead marking began to glow brightly. Cursing her luck, she closed her
eyes and began to process the wish. She hated it, but right now was not
the time to be angry. She could do that later.
Mackie gulped as he tried unsuccessfully to stay calm amidst the
growing maelstrom of events he had suddenly found himself in.
*Why do I get myself into these things?* he asked no one in
particular.
The hairs on the back of his neck rose as faint swirls of energy
surrounded the young goddess he had inadvertently wished to be with him
forever. He hugged the wall even tighter as the wind began to pick up in
the room.
Skuld tilted her head upwards as the wind grew to gale-force
strength. A beam of light burst from her forehead marking, shooting
through the building and into the heavens.
The light show ended after a while, leaving a very startled and
very shocked Skuld.
Her eyes were wide as her mouth worked the wordings of the
contract. One hand idly toyed with the handle of her mallet, itching for
someone to use it on - like on a certain friend's head.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE KAMI-SAMA'S DOING THIS TO ME!!!" she cried out,
one hand gripping the haft of her mallet tightly.
Mackie was privately glad she didn't choose to wield it, much less
use him for practice. The first one had hurt like hell.
Skuld's eyes flashed angrily as she gritted her teeth in anger.
"Of all the times this had to happen!! What the heck am I supposed to do?
Now how am I gonna get home now?!!!" she moaned as she thought of all
that ice cream uneaten. "Someone's going to pay for this!!" she demanded
with one raised fist.
"Uh.... What happened?" Mackie wanted to know; his eyes watched the
irate goddess.
Skuld's attention turned towards the mortal that had so
thoughtlessly stuck her in this plane. Her eyes blazed with anger at this
mortal's thoughtless wish! Why in the name of God did these mortals not
take these things seriously?! Of all the things that he could have
gained, he had to choose that one!!!
Anything was preferable to that one!
ARGH!!!
First, it was her sister, but she could let _that_ incident go,
since her sister was in love with the mortal! But now, it seemed she was
on the same boat as her sister!! And with a hentai no less!!
She glared at the young man who appeared to be cringing at her. Her
temper fled at the sight, mentally berating herself for getting too
worked up as she approached Mackie.
She sighed as she extended her hand. "Don't be afraid. I _was_
angry... " Her sentence trailed away as she considered what she had just
said. "Errr... Okay, so I'm _still_ sorta angry. But I guess He must have
done this for some reason." Her tone of voice promised dire retribution
should said reasons not be to her liking.
<Whatever it is, I hope its a _good_ one,> she thought glumly as
she promised herself to have words with her father.
She stared the young man for a while before she continued. "Don't
worry. I'm not going to bite your head off or turn you into something."
Skuld giggled at the thought.
The young man visibly relaxed. Still, the human owed her for that
wish of his. "Only demons do those kinds of things," she quipped.
The way she said it made Mackie somewhat nervous. Mackie gulped in
distress. "D... de... demons?"
Skuld grinned. "Yep. Not to worry, though. As I'll be stuck here
for quite some time, depending on what Kami-sama has decided, I guess
I'll have to take care of you."
Mackie started to protest, claiming he did well on his own.
Skuld raised one eyebrow. "Yeah, right! That's why you were
ordering take out."
Mackie suddenly laughed and Skuld joined in after a while.
Tension between the two had eased up and both had decided to sit
around and they discussed quite a few things.
For once, Skuld was happy to get stuck in the mortal plane again.
From what she heard from Mackie, this new Tokyo held wonders that a
Goddess of the Future would definitely take interest in. She did frown on
his little hobby though. She hoped he wouldn't try anything funny with
her. Not unless he wanted a taste of mallet food.
Overall, Mackie seemed to be a nice person. Intelligent, too!
Something that the other deities back in heaven tended not likely to be.
At last, someone she could actually talk shop with!!
Mackie was very nervous about this sudden turn of events. He looked
like a kitten that'd fallen into a barrel of cream, not knowing if he
should lap it all up or swim for his life.
He had wished for a goddess to stay with him forever!! What the
heck was he thinking?! He was never overly comfortable around women too
much, unless his hentai attitude kicked in, like last time. And now, he
had a goddess under his own home.
Skuld seemed to be a very nice person. Kinda reminded him of Nene
actually, with a bit of Priss thrown in. And she was very smart! Perhaps
the only girl he had managed to talk to for any length of time, apart
from the other Knight Sabers.
That aside, he was going to be in serious trouble if his sister got
back and saw him with her.
As if an answer to his musings, the sound of an elevator sliding
open with a pneumatic hiss alerted him to the presence of the others.
Mackie suddenly bolted out of his chair. "Shit! If my sis finds
out..." He spun around and scampered to lock the door.
Skuld, meanwhile, spent the time staring at her partner, whom she
found a most intriguing person, despite his quirks. She _might_ actually
enjoy her stay here. She hoped it wasn't too long though.
Skuld frowned, watching Mackie running about the lab. "What are you
doing?" she asked pointedly.
"Errr...." He glanced nervously at the door. A few more minutes and
her sister would break the code on the lock. Damn! "Skuld. Please hide!
I'll talk to you later and explain a few other things."
Skuld pondered this for a few heart-stopping moments. She nodded
briefly and opened a path into the heavens via the coffee. "Sure. I'll be
back first thing in the morning. Just leave a glass of water in your
room. I'll snatch a few things that I might need to settle down around
here."
Mackie blinked. "What? You'll be staying here????!!!"
"Uh-huh. You _did_ wish for me to be with you forever. Remember??"
came the reply.
Mackie suddenly felt like fainting.
She smiled at him. "Better make a good excuse to your sister,
Mackie. Or the contract might _just_ get nullified." With that, Skuld
disappeared into the spilled drink.
Just in time, too, as the door slid open to admit a irate Sylia and
the rest of the Knight Sabers, who were glaring at the man.
"What happened?!!" asked Sylia, who was dressed in a black business
dress that, as always, greatly accented her 'ice queen' look.
"Errr.... I accidentally locked the door?"
Sylia glanced at the room, frowning at the mess of scattered papers
and whatnot in the room. Something had happened here. And Mackie was
acting way too nervous. Something was up and she intended to wring it out
of her brother in private.
Sylia sighed in exasperation. "One night, I leave you alone and
here you are, practically making us worry. Do you realize just how scared
I was that something might have happened to you?"
Mackie nodded. Time to swing the conversation away while his sister
was off-balance. "Well, I was trying to get some take-out while you were
banging on the door."
Four pairs of eyes bored into his own, making Mackie feel like some
lab rat under those heated gazes. "Can't you women give a lone guy a
break?" he asked, trying to look as innocent as he could.
Priss smacked him on the head. "Yeah, right, kid. Keep dreaming up
more toys to use and we'll think up of more ways to get back at you four-
fold!"
The others eased up on him then. Mackie sighed, silently thanking
Priss for what she had said. Clearly, the others - save his sister - had
been thinking along the lines of his usual hentai habits. He never would
have thought _that_ habit would save his skin one day.
Sylia made a shooing gesture at her brother. "Go. There's a bag of
take-out in the kitchen. Eat your fill, but leave some for us, too. We'll
be down here for quite a while in the training room."
"Uh... sure."
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"He's hiding something," Nene concluded differently when the
younger Stingray had left the lab.
Sylia nodded. "I know. But what?"
Priss shrugged. "Who cares. From the looks of it, it can't be
anything _that_ bad. We'd better finish up quick. I still have to get
back to Hot Legs before long."
"Another midnight extravaganza?" Linna asked.
"Yep. My career's been picking up lately." Priss looked thoughtful
for a moment. "Even with the recent boomer rampages and all."
Nene pouted cutely. "Mackie's probably up to something hentai
again. Like that stunt he pulled on us yesterday."
Linna nodded, while Priss merely doffed her leather jacket.
Sylia shook her head. "You three are still going to go ahead with
it?" She stared at all three whom she considered her family outside
Mackie.
All three nodded, their eager grins proof of just how much they
wanted her brother's head.
"I still do not approve of what you plan to do to him tonight," she
reprimanded.
Linna snickered, while Nene smiled an unholy smile. To think such a
cute face could have such a mean streak in her bones. Priss was just
watching and laughing. Sylia knew she was the one who had suggested the
whole thing.
"Fine," said Sylia. "Just don't overdo it like the last one. He had
to stay indoors for two weeks before that paint wore off."
Nene chuckled. "Don't worry, Sylia! We won't do anything too
lasting. Maybe a little of this and a little of that. You know."
Sylia groaned, shaking her head. Priss was becoming an unholy
influence on sweet Nene-chan. Next thing she'll know, Nene'll be riding
bikes and blowing boomers up.
end part 1
OOOoooohhhh.... revised this thing after such a long time under the
BLOCK. hoped this one came out better than the first few I came up with
last year when I first released this one.
Any C&Cs can be routed to my email: radler@tri-isys.com.
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