01-08-2017, 07:58 PM
This is getting along rather smoothly. But what to do about this Okuu girl? This is some otherworldly power we’re dealing with. Then again, you did make a pen out of thin air, and you saw another man make a moose, and Hound made a hover bike.
But… why does it feel so familiar? To see fantastical things like this?
Aadibah stayed to Tony’s rear, Okuu at her side. Around her, a few civilian bodies lay in the street, but most were raiders. Men and women in white, shiny armor hustled passed the trio, in formations that were three wide and six deep each. Each column would break off to a different street at the order of a single commander at the head of the marching squad, who would jog off with the middle column to the where the raiders had come in.
While the strategist and the trooper walked quietly and in unison, the Japanese schoolgirl with wings skipped along with a rhythmic flutter of wings in each step. She hummed some random tune and kept a wide grin plastered across her cheeks. She also hopped over corpses without skipping a beat.
When they had reached the garrison building, twere a brunette woman came up to Tony carrying her helmet under one arm, long and black rifle slung over one shoulder. Aadibah squinted her eyes at her, and her desert camouflage armor. The helmet’s visor was also different, more narrow and jutting outward from the eyes. She also had fewer plates attached to her compared to all the other troopers Aadibah had seen.
Tony did not even break stride as she fell into formation next to him, giving a report. “That was the last of them. I checked, and took care of the stragglers.”
“Gary will like this. It’ll make an example to other gangs.”
“Well when you put it like that, it makes me feel like we’re the bad guys.” They both opened the main door to the garrison building, turning to address the two primes.
“You two, stand right here-“ Tony pointed to a spot precisely five meters away from the doors, “-and don’t move until I come back out here. I’m also giving my troopers orders to shoot you on sight if you deviate from my polite request. Is that understood?”
“Sir, yessir.” Aadibah replied with practiced formality.
“Roger roger!” Okuu brought her control rod up to her forehead, tongue hanging out slightly from her lips.
***
The Arabian woman slid down against the sandstone, plopping her rear end in the dirt. She let out a long and sharp exhale, eyes scanning the people milling about in the streets.
Okuu remained standing, kicking out one foot and letting it swing forward before falling back, corium boot thudding against the wall she leaned on with her wings.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
“Could you stop that, please?” Aadibah spoke up, rubbing her temples. “It’s annoying and completely unnecessary.”
The other prime went a little red in the cheeks and looked down, twiddling her pointer fingers together and shuffling her feet, “S-sorry… I’m just really bored…”
Aadibah raised an eyebrow at the teenage girl. “We just started waiting here. It hasn’t even been five minutes.”
“I know!” Okuu put her fist on her hip and let her control rod hang lazily, continuing to stare at the ground. “I just don’t like sitting still for so long. At least I hope it’s not long. But usually when you have to wait for someone it always feels like it takes a really, really long time even though it doesn’t.”
“That’s… Relateable, I guess.”
“Where are you from, anyways?”
“The Arabian Peninsula. That’s all I’ll say.”
“Where’s that?”
The strategist sighed and let her head fall back. “It’s the big ass desert between Asia, Africa, and Europe.”
“Where’re those?”
Aadibah’s head snapped and her jaw dropped a little as she looked at the prime, eyelids squinting. “You’re kidding right?”
“I’ve never been outside of Gensokyo!”
“You mean you know all this shit about nuclear energy and physics but no one taught you about basic geography?”
“Unyuu?”
“I don’t speak Japanese.”
“I don’t get you what you mean!”
“You know, like, the world! Outside of Japan!”
“You mean places other than Gensokyo?”
“Yes!”
“I’ve been in hell as long as I can remember though… so I never really even knew much Gensokyo itself.”
“Wait wh-“
“Primes!” A low, gravelly voice barked into the street, causing both of the females to jump in their spots. They turned to see a tall man with red striped armor sticking his head out the main door of the garrison building.
***
A squad of five members was organized around a table in the room Aadibah and Okuu were lead into by Kurt, as he had introduced himself earlier.
Gary straightened up at the sight of the two, and gestured to the table. “Up front, the both of you.”
As Aadibah stepped closer, she could see not only her three rifle magazines on the table but also two thick black bags, two handcuffs, and two white pills.
“Listen up, because you’re going to want to give us your full cooperation with this one.” The squad commander directed his voice into the both of them.
“At exactly o-six-hundred hours tomorrow morning you two will first put on these handcuffs, then take these pills, then put these bags over your heads.” He pointed to each item as they were listed off. “These are heavy doses of melatonin, a sleep aide drug. It should be enough to knock the both of you clean out. But before that happens, you will report to the motor pool and hop in one of the prowlers.”
It was here that Tony spoke up, “The one with seats and straps in said seats, I know you saw it Aadibah.”
The soldier nodded, and Gary continued, “You will strap yourselves down and wait for the pills to take effect. They will keep you sedated long enough for us to get so far out in the dunes you won’t have any damn clue where you are. This is a contingency plan, as well as a way for you two to earn our trust. Is that understood?”
“Sir, yessir.” Aadibah affirmed.
“You betcha!” Okuu gave the commander a wide smile.
“Good. Now, Kurt will escort you two to an empty cell we have. But don’t worry, we’ve thrown some sleeping bags in there.”
“Thank you, sir.”
“Arigatou gozaimasu!”
***
“Uggh, what’s that stink?” Okuu smooshed her control rod into her nose.
“Just the cells.” Kurt gestured to the men and women cooped up in the prison, most of them covered in dirt and shooting glares at the primes and the trooper. “People here have a hard time keeping clean even without being in jail. There’s just no water to go around.”
“I know what you mean.” Aadibah commented, gazing into a cell with a thin man slumped against the wall.
Eventually they came to a set of open bars, two green sleeping bags laid out on either side of the small room.
“Good night, ladies. We will see you in the morning. Make sure to get some rest.” The trooper made his way back down the row of cells, the massive door at the end of the hall opening and closing with a massive metallic slam.
“Welp! I’m bushed!” Okuu gave a quick beat of her wings, throwing herself into one of the sleeping bags. Aadibah reached behind and into her pants, removing her magnum. She flick out the revolver, pulling out all the rounds before slapping it back in and cocking the hammer. The soldier then sat down crossed legged on her own bag, cocking the hammer and dry firing the weapon.
“Oooohhhh! You’re not supposed to have that are you!” Okuu’s grin widened and her eyes narrowed.
“What makes you think that?”
“Cause you were hiding it!”
“What makes you think that?”
“You totally were! You had it in your pants right next to your butt cause you know no one would look there!”
Aadibah paused for a small moment, eyes peering down the iron sights of the magnum. “…You’re observant.”
“I have to be! People who handle highly radioactive and otherwise dangerous materials have to be!”
“I guess so.” Aadibah opened her rucksack, depositing the bullets into a smaller pocket and burying the weapon deep under the rest of her personal items. “You can keep a secret, right kid?” The soldier shot her eyes at the girl, hardening her gaze.
Okuu drew two fingers across her lips, making a “zzzzzzp!” sound effect in her throat.
“Good. Now get to sleep. We have to be on our toes tomorrow. I’ll wake you up if you’re not already.”
“What’s gonna wake you up then?”
“I just will in time. Don’t worry. Now lay down.”
No, you just don’t sleep that much anymore though, do you?
But… why does it feel so familiar? To see fantastical things like this?
Aadibah stayed to Tony’s rear, Okuu at her side. Around her, a few civilian bodies lay in the street, but most were raiders. Men and women in white, shiny armor hustled passed the trio, in formations that were three wide and six deep each. Each column would break off to a different street at the order of a single commander at the head of the marching squad, who would jog off with the middle column to the where the raiders had come in.
While the strategist and the trooper walked quietly and in unison, the Japanese schoolgirl with wings skipped along with a rhythmic flutter of wings in each step. She hummed some random tune and kept a wide grin plastered across her cheeks. She also hopped over corpses without skipping a beat.
When they had reached the garrison building, twere a brunette woman came up to Tony carrying her helmet under one arm, long and black rifle slung over one shoulder. Aadibah squinted her eyes at her, and her desert camouflage armor. The helmet’s visor was also different, more narrow and jutting outward from the eyes. She also had fewer plates attached to her compared to all the other troopers Aadibah had seen.
Tony did not even break stride as she fell into formation next to him, giving a report. “That was the last of them. I checked, and took care of the stragglers.”
“Gary will like this. It’ll make an example to other gangs.”
“Well when you put it like that, it makes me feel like we’re the bad guys.” They both opened the main door to the garrison building, turning to address the two primes.
“You two, stand right here-“ Tony pointed to a spot precisely five meters away from the doors, “-and don’t move until I come back out here. I’m also giving my troopers orders to shoot you on sight if you deviate from my polite request. Is that understood?”
“Sir, yessir.” Aadibah replied with practiced formality.
“Roger roger!” Okuu brought her control rod up to her forehead, tongue hanging out slightly from her lips.
***
The Arabian woman slid down against the sandstone, plopping her rear end in the dirt. She let out a long and sharp exhale, eyes scanning the people milling about in the streets.
Okuu remained standing, kicking out one foot and letting it swing forward before falling back, corium boot thudding against the wall she leaned on with her wings.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
“Could you stop that, please?” Aadibah spoke up, rubbing her temples. “It’s annoying and completely unnecessary.”
The other prime went a little red in the cheeks and looked down, twiddling her pointer fingers together and shuffling her feet, “S-sorry… I’m just really bored…”
Aadibah raised an eyebrow at the teenage girl. “We just started waiting here. It hasn’t even been five minutes.”
“I know!” Okuu put her fist on her hip and let her control rod hang lazily, continuing to stare at the ground. “I just don’t like sitting still for so long. At least I hope it’s not long. But usually when you have to wait for someone it always feels like it takes a really, really long time even though it doesn’t.”
“That’s… Relateable, I guess.”
“Where are you from, anyways?”
“The Arabian Peninsula. That’s all I’ll say.”
“Where’s that?”
The strategist sighed and let her head fall back. “It’s the big ass desert between Asia, Africa, and Europe.”
“Where’re those?”
Aadibah’s head snapped and her jaw dropped a little as she looked at the prime, eyelids squinting. “You’re kidding right?”
“I’ve never been outside of Gensokyo!”
“You mean you know all this shit about nuclear energy and physics but no one taught you about basic geography?”
“Unyuu?”
“I don’t speak Japanese.”
“I don’t get you what you mean!”
“You know, like, the world! Outside of Japan!”
“You mean places other than Gensokyo?”
“Yes!”
“I’ve been in hell as long as I can remember though… so I never really even knew much Gensokyo itself.”
“Wait wh-“
“Primes!” A low, gravelly voice barked into the street, causing both of the females to jump in their spots. They turned to see a tall man with red striped armor sticking his head out the main door of the garrison building.
***
A squad of five members was organized around a table in the room Aadibah and Okuu were lead into by Kurt, as he had introduced himself earlier.
Gary straightened up at the sight of the two, and gestured to the table. “Up front, the both of you.”
As Aadibah stepped closer, she could see not only her three rifle magazines on the table but also two thick black bags, two handcuffs, and two white pills.
“Listen up, because you’re going to want to give us your full cooperation with this one.” The squad commander directed his voice into the both of them.
“At exactly o-six-hundred hours tomorrow morning you two will first put on these handcuffs, then take these pills, then put these bags over your heads.” He pointed to each item as they were listed off. “These are heavy doses of melatonin, a sleep aide drug. It should be enough to knock the both of you clean out. But before that happens, you will report to the motor pool and hop in one of the prowlers.”
It was here that Tony spoke up, “The one with seats and straps in said seats, I know you saw it Aadibah.”
The soldier nodded, and Gary continued, “You will strap yourselves down and wait for the pills to take effect. They will keep you sedated long enough for us to get so far out in the dunes you won’t have any damn clue where you are. This is a contingency plan, as well as a way for you two to earn our trust. Is that understood?”
“Sir, yessir.” Aadibah affirmed.
“You betcha!” Okuu gave the commander a wide smile.
“Good. Now, Kurt will escort you two to an empty cell we have. But don’t worry, we’ve thrown some sleeping bags in there.”
“Thank you, sir.”
“Arigatou gozaimasu!”
***
“Uggh, what’s that stink?” Okuu smooshed her control rod into her nose.
“Just the cells.” Kurt gestured to the men and women cooped up in the prison, most of them covered in dirt and shooting glares at the primes and the trooper. “People here have a hard time keeping clean even without being in jail. There’s just no water to go around.”
“I know what you mean.” Aadibah commented, gazing into a cell with a thin man slumped against the wall.
Eventually they came to a set of open bars, two green sleeping bags laid out on either side of the small room.
“Good night, ladies. We will see you in the morning. Make sure to get some rest.” The trooper made his way back down the row of cells, the massive door at the end of the hall opening and closing with a massive metallic slam.
“Welp! I’m bushed!” Okuu gave a quick beat of her wings, throwing herself into one of the sleeping bags. Aadibah reached behind and into her pants, removing her magnum. She flick out the revolver, pulling out all the rounds before slapping it back in and cocking the hammer. The soldier then sat down crossed legged on her own bag, cocking the hammer and dry firing the weapon.
“Oooohhhh! You’re not supposed to have that are you!” Okuu’s grin widened and her eyes narrowed.
“What makes you think that?”
“Cause you were hiding it!”
“What makes you think that?”
“You totally were! You had it in your pants right next to your butt cause you know no one would look there!”
Aadibah paused for a small moment, eyes peering down the iron sights of the magnum. “…You’re observant.”
“I have to be! People who handle highly radioactive and otherwise dangerous materials have to be!”
“I guess so.” Aadibah opened her rucksack, depositing the bullets into a smaller pocket and burying the weapon deep under the rest of her personal items. “You can keep a secret, right kid?” The soldier shot her eyes at the girl, hardening her gaze.
Okuu drew two fingers across her lips, making a “zzzzzzp!” sound effect in her throat.
“Good. Now get to sleep. We have to be on our toes tomorrow. I’ll wake you up if you’re not already.”
“What’s gonna wake you up then?”
“I just will in time. Don’t worry. Now lay down.”
No, you just don’t sleep that much anymore though, do you?
Such terror you are facing
Isn't it wonderful?
Isn't it wonderful?