Megatokyo Campfire 2: School Days Part 3, A parting of ways, or a new beginning?

(( And we come to the third installment of our dear little campfire story...

For future reference, the previous 2 parts:
Part 1
Part 2

Aaand go~ ))

Smith smiled blackly as Junko made her speech and show. Then he was next to her again. "Patronizing? Junko-san, do I really seem the type to do that? Heh. I may pretend to be chivalrous and all that crap, but in the end, I'm hanging out with you for two reasons. One, I can't teleport either, so I may as well hang out with the person who is like me in that respect. And two," Smith's smile widened cruelly. "I figure that you're as much a magnet for trouble as I am. I dunno about wanting to protect others and all that stuff, but I do like to fight. So I'll be with whoever makes my chances for kicking some ass go up."

They walked along in silence for a few minutes before they reached a door. Smith held it open for Junko, and let her pass through before him. While he was behind her still, he said, "And besides, you're cute when you're pissed off."

The kick Junko delivered to the door ripped it out of his hand and very nearly slammed it into his face.

"Yes," she conceded, turning to face him again as he rubbed his wrist, "yes I am. But no-one knows and do you know why? Because everyone who's in a position to know that is already dead so keep your wisecracks to yourself unless you want to join them! Jerk."

"But if there's a fight, you can be as gentlemanly as you like and go right on ahead. Your skull should make a fine shield against anything short of a plasma cannon and your ego is probably proof against even that."

God! He's so annoying! she seethed.

'He is, but you quite like that. He's not some timid punchbag like most of the boys in this school.' Amy Rose replied.

You don't know any of the boys in this school! Junko protested.

'You do though and I saw how you felt about them today. Oh I agree about them - mostly - but this foreigner doesn't even have their attitude to you. Admit it - it makes a change.'

Yeah, yeah - whatever. But Junko was smiling, just a touch. D'you think he can play that thing?

'How should I know - why don't you ask him?'

Maldrul chuckled. "Of course, Teramoto-san. You have misunderstood my intentions, I'm afraid. You ARE a very cute girl and all, but you really aren't my type either. Ever since our first encounter, I have felt responsible for you. Like a big brother would for his younger sister. Please accept my gifts in that manner. And try not to worry, the boy for you is out there." Maldrul winked at Mami and smiled.

((Retconed per mistersaxon's edit))

This post has been edited by maldrul on Oct 19 2009, 01:45 PM

[Time: Tuesday, Early Afternoon]
[Location: Cave of Evil]

Miho was thinking deeply as she went down the stairs to the entrance of the Cave of Evil. It's very odd how Noihara-san agreed so readily. She usually prefers that everything be scheduled and prepared for in advance. Miho tried the door and found that it had already been unlocked.

??? Who is here at this hour? She opened her shields as she went inside. What she found surprised her. "Manager-san?" Miho's words echoed in the empty room. The other woman smiled at her in amusement from her seat at the bar. "You are surprised? I am the master of this place, after all. It is only proper that I greet our guests." She then got up from her seat and walked torward Miho. Miho noticed that she was wearing one of those chinese dresses with the stiff collar. The red and gold dress was slit down one side, revealing one of Sakura Noihara's long legs and a high-heeled shoe that matched her dress.

"My apologies, Manager-san, I should have known." Sakura waved her apology away. "It matters not, Tohya-san. Do you have an adult chaperone amongst your group?" "Yes, Manager-san. Our gym teacher, Gabriel-Sensei is with us."

Miho then noticed that the other woman's long and straight black hair was pulled back and tied into a complex knot that had two lacquered chopsticks inserted in an X pattern into the knot. The knot wasn't nearly long enough to contain the entire length of Sakura's hair, and the rest fell loosely from the knot. Not for the first time, Miho couldn't help but admire her employer's skill in making even one of those chinese dresses look good.

Sakura thought for a moment. "Ah, she was the foreign woman I met at Momoko-san's house, correct?" "Yes." "Good, I was worried that I'd have to sit in on your meeting." "I see." The manager, despite her model-like looks, was a stickler for propriety. "Come, help me set up." "Yes, Manager-san."

Smith looked at the broken door and shook his head, but followed Junko all the same. He considered playing a little song for her, but decided not to for now. He had riled her up enough. Making her upset with him for being himself was one thing. Getting her angry for the sake of getting her angry was stupid.

"Sooooo... Do you like anything other than making little boys piss themselves with fear and older men have heart attacks?" He wanted to add, "Eating kittens and the dreams of children perhaps?" but he held that much back.

This post has been edited by magi_wildcard on Oct 19 2009, 12:27 PM

((Sorry about the absence - Horrible case of writers block))

Jacob mulled over the information, even as the others talked amongst themselves. Their small coalition was kaput, at least officially. Now was the time to get out. Not that it would stop the people after me. . For now, it was probably best if he - and everyone else, for that matter - stuck together.

"Moving in several groups would be best." Jacob agreed. "If one group gets caught, then the others could go rescue them - or at least not be compromised. redundancy is a wonderful thing." Jacob leaned back. "Of course, I don't have a clue where this club is..."

(( Lifi went and started the next thread without me... baaw~ ))

Kira had watched the shadow-being with interest before the group started to separate. Glancing around quickly she noticed the Gym Teacher leaning against the wall still and walked over to her after brushing her skirt straight. Kira had just begun to start using sign language when she realized the problem with that and taking out her phone she quickly typed up a message and sent it to Gabriel's phone.

The girl smiled to Gabriel and waited for a response.

((OOC: Actually she did reply but she can do so again - one or other post needs to be retconned))

Mami hesitated as if weighing up an easy option and a hard one. She sighed.

"Well, it is and it isn't about the gifts. No, okay it is. It's just that, well, I know you keep giving me these gifts - and they're lovely and I really really like them - but . . well . . " she sighed and patted him on the arm,"you're just really not my type, I'm sorry! I did try to think of you that way but I just can't. Can we still be friends?"

((Retconned my previous post per mistersaxon's edit. terribly sorry about that.))

(OOC: Don't forget that there's a group of four waiting for you guys outside the premises of SDHS…)

((Good thing that Smith and Junko are out the door first then.))

((Miho won't be joining in this fight, seeing as she has already left the school. ))

Maldrul sent a mental message to Sakaki. You and your brother will be safe with me. I'd like us to take a shortcut through my world to get to my house to change before we meet the others. I think I have something for Taro to wear that would be appropriate for the venue. Is that OK?

((Gonna be on our own then for a bit. Probably. You ready for this?


Actually Mami will turn up and they won't be expecting Boing will they? And who else will be walking out? Not Yuki, Maldrul, Taro, Sakaki, Miho, (Kiyo) so - Gabriel, David, Jacob, Mami, Lifi. Umm was Kouro there? That's still enough of the team to pwnz these creeps.))

((And Akito. Actually, I will have Akito following just after Smith and Junko, by about ten meters.))

Gabriel pulled out her old phone and smiled at the text. "He's our main healer for now, so no exploding his head. He can be oblivious sometimes, but he's honestly not that bad. You are welcome to ride with me as long as you don't mind motorcycles. Oh, and I have a new number." She quickly sent Kira a text from the Lph0ne. "Shall we?"

The two headed for the door, giving Maldrul and Mami a wide berth to avoid disrupting them.

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Akito followed the angry girl and the boy with the guitar outside. He found her display interesting, though hardly out of character. However, he did not miss the slight smile she tried to prevent the boy from seeing. Akito sighed, and began pulling off his overshirt and stuffing it into his backpack, just in case something went wrong.

And something would go wrong, of course.

The gang of four waited some distance outside the school, waiting for any of those identified to be part of the 'group'.

They didn't know that the Coalition had been disbanded…

…but frankly, they wouldn't care if they did know.

Two were close to the exit. They decided to start simple; a gun aimed at the head by Bureka and a simple question:

"We don't want trouble. Tell us where the little one is."

((Have your boys spotted Akito yet, Ryo?))

(OOC: He's a long ways behind, right? They won't notice him until he gets closer.)

((Ten meters, so basically a flight of stairs time if they had to come down steps to get out. The gun is then pointed at.. Junko?))

((Hmmm, it doth appear that Junpei is going to be entertaining his mysterious guest longer than he thought, man, but Maldrul is gonna owe him BIG. Especially for the bloodstained matresse.))

Going to the roof, Wayne changed into his ATs, ignoring the glances he received from the guards there. Standing, he made a standing jump up and over the security fencing and alighted on the flagpole, spinning around it to the ground. coming around the corner, he zipped out the gates and down the street. As he went, he pulled his hair tie out to fix his hair.

Wayne slowed to a stop, hair tie in hand. Across the street from him, two of the guys from the club were being confronted by four people. One of the adults glanced his way then back to the ones before him. Shaking his head, Wayne continued up the block and around the corner. Then straight up the wall to the roof, where he pulled his hair back and his Regalia on.

Silently rolling over to the edge, he looked down. If anything happened, he'd jump in. If they couldn't handle it anyways.

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[Moments Earlier]
[School primitar]
"Sir! Gotta hit!" said Agent Kagura Sohma. Leaving the comp station he was at, Lacronton moved down the cramped TPCD van to Sohma.

"You're kidding me!" he exclaimed, staring at the screen. "That one's already registered!"

"I know sir, that's why I've triple-checked the results before alerting you." said Kagura. "Uh, what are you going to do?"

Crossing his arms, Lacronton sighed. "I'll hafta confront her folks. They're in the know about her. But two signatures from one MG?"

"I know sir, it shouldn't be possible." Kagura replied, her mind still trying to cope with all the crazy stuff she's seen and heard since joining the TPCD.

"Sohma, take us over to the Minato District." he said, sitting back down at his comp station.

"Isn't that out near Tokyo Bay?" she asked, strapping herself in the driver's seat.

"Yes it is, and that's where one of her folks work." he said, mulling over what he was going to discuss.

This post has been edited by Lacronton on Oct 19 2009, 10:29 PM

(OOC: Uh, one of the four, Artemis, is a woman. The rest are guys, but, still, you should know…

Shoot, 1000th post is coming up soon. Better have something ready by then…)

Sure. I was looking for Wayne to tell him something, first. Y'know where he is?

Oh, and now that you mention costumes, how big is your collection?

This post has been edited by Ryo0955 on Oct 19 2009, 09:47 PM

((OOC I'm assuming the gun is being pointed at Smith. That makes more sense to me, since I don't think they've really seen Junko in action with the Witchblade.))

Smith looked at the gun. He had seen many in his life, and many had been this close to him. Not many had been in his face. In his memory, he had never been shot in the face before. "They are taking a different route. You won't see them. And you can't go where they are headed. Can we go now?" Smith's smiled widely, his grin somehow perfectly innocent and so full of malice it could kill a small animal. "Or should I forcibly remove you from your weapon?"

This post has been edited by magi_wildcard on Oct 19 2009, 10:28 PM

((See, to me, you point the gun at the girl. Then again, I've seen too many Hollywood movies....))

Akito slid to a stop at the bottom of the stairs, peering out the window in the damaged door at the scene outside. He carefully bent, keeping his eye on the gunman, and slipped off his shoes, sliding them into his backpack. Next, he slid off the belt. He was hoping that no one would do anything stupid. He hated calling attention to himself, but if someone was in trouble he would have to. Probably.