This is a side story to my last one, A Hundred Ladies. The last one was focused on General Blackout, this time, let us see what our heroes were doing at the same time….
And I don't own any of the Meta Slug characters. They are owned by SNK Playmore.
Chapter 1: A lovely discovery
Tarma and Marco were brawling over the cheating Marco had done in Age of Mythology The Titans. The situation was definitely spinning out of control as Tarma tossed chairs at Marco, and he tried to smack Tarma with a baseball bat. The fight was at its peak when they both pulled out their handguns and shot at one another. Even though they missed, Marco saw how serious the fight had become.
"Tarma! Stop!" Marco raised his hands in the air, "It's Valentine's Day! Don't you at least wanna find a Valentine to spend the day with?" Tarma put down his AR-10 rifle loaded with Laser Shots, slapped his forehead, and said, "I totally forgot!" They both walked out of the lounge and into the Quarters, and were surprised to see Trevor talking to General Blackout. Ignoring them, the two men walked into the hallways.
"So let me guess," Marco said with a tone of calmness (as if the brawl had never happened), "You want Eri as your Valentine this year?" "Yep," Tarma said with a crooked grin, "and this time I have decided to use the same method you used last year to woo Fio." Marco still remembered that technique last year; he stood by the doorway, leaning against it coolly, then threw Fio a rose and said, "4 o clock," and Fio and Marco went on Valentine's Day together. They were several feet away from the door leading to the SPARROWS quarters, when Marco said, "I'll stay here, because, when you get close to Eri, in distance, something disastrous always happens.
"That's not true!" Tarma protested.
The door swung open, and the three ladies, Fio, Eri, and Nadia turned their heads. Standing by the doorway was Tarma Roving III, looking as cool as he could be with his back slumped on the doorway. He then pulled a rose out of thin air. Fio and Nadia turned their heads toward Eri, who was blushing.
"Four o clock," Tarma said. And he threw the rose towards the Eri. The rose flew through the air, and lightly touched Eri on the nose…. and stayed there. Everybody kept looking. The rose had definitely stopped on Eri's nose. And her nose began bleeding! "AAAH!" She screamed, "The thorn got stuck on my nose!" IF you don't know, roses have thorns, and that's exactly why the rose stuck to Eri's nose. "I'll pull it off!" Tarma said, panicked. There was no way she was gonna forgive for this. He tried to jerk on the rose, but it seemed to have glued itself to Eri's nose. She let out more squeals of pain. "Tarma, let's split man!" Marco said, poking his head in.
Drill Instructor Quarters
"Gosh is it boring," Lily said. "Talk about it," Cynthia said, as she brushed her hair in front of the mirror. "Where's Mary?" "I haven't seen her all day," Lily replied. "Maybe she went out or something," Cynthia suggested, then with a sigh said, "Do I wish something would happen…"
The door burst open, Tarma ducked underneath the bed, and Marco slammed the door shut, and pushing a dresser and a four poster bed to the door. "Oh hey ladies," Marco said, turning his head, "Can we stay here for, I don't know, a few days?"
"Speak of the devil," Cynthia commented, "Sorry but this place is off limits. And what are you two running from?"
"Tarma got a rose's thorn stuck on Eri's nose," Marco blurted out. Both Cynthia and Lily gasped. "And you survived?" Lily asked. "Got away on time," Tarma said from under the bed, "I don't think she's going to forgive me for that." "I don't think so either," Cynthia agreed, "Eri's just too aggressive for that."
"Agreed," Ralf Jones said poking his head in through the window, and scaring the shit out of everyone. "Ralf, what the hell are you doing?!" Tarma demanded, since the scare caused him to jump and his head hit the roof of the bed he was hiding under. "You guys… have got… to see… this…" Ralf said, slowly and excitedly. He then put his head out of the window, and everybody climbed out of it. They then looked to the right, and saw something that made them gasp.
Clark Still, Ralf's partner and brother-in-arm, was holding a net, and the net contained a person. This person was 5 inches shorter than the average human, was wearing armor of amazing quality, since it was so shiny and the design was simply remarkable. He had a bow and a quiver. But the most unique thing about this man was his angel-like wings.
"What… is that?" Marco sputtered. "I don't know," Clark said, "We-" "Whoa whoa whoa," Ralf said, raising his hand in the air, "whoa. What's with the 'I?' We're the Ikari Warriors man! There's no 'I.' Only we. We don't know what it is," Ralf said, smiling and showing his teeth awkwardly. (LAME).
"Uh huh," Cynthia said, confused, "and how did you catch it?" "I'm a HIM, for your information," the armored man said in an agitated tone. Ralf and Clark were taken aback by this. "No way, it talks?" Clark said, impressed. "Of course I talk!" The man said, "What did you expect? Would somebody please free me from these two muscleheads?"
"We're right here you know…" Ralf said.
"Are you Cupid?" Marco asked, getting excited. "Nah, I'm a Cupix," the Cupix said, "a co-worker for Cupid. There are at least ten thousand of us. Our job is exactly as Cupid does; spreading love," he said, and spread his hands out. "We're human beings granted with this job." "Humans? You're human?" Lily asked. "Not anymore," the Cupix said, "Now would you PLEASE let me go?" "Not until you hit Leona with a love arrow!" Ralf said. "Dude, I though we discussed that I was going out with her," Clark snorted. "Well I've changed my mind," Ralf spat, and shouted at the Cupix, "now shoot her with an arrow!"
"No!" Clark said, and let go of the net and lunged at Ralf (what girls can do to friendships of boys…) and the Cupix broke free and shouted, "Freedom!" He then jumped in the air, but his wings were still entangled in the net, and he fell with a loud CLANK. "Wait!" Tarma said, and leapt right on top of the Cupix, "Could you please do me one solid favor?" The Cupix, disgusted, said, "All right, all right, now get off!"
A few minutes later
The Cupix sat, cross-legged. He had drawn a pattern right in front of him in thin air with a finger, and he sat there, meditating. Everybody (Marco, Tarma, Lily, Cynthia, Ralf, and Clark) stood several feet away. The Cupix started saying some unintelligible words. The pattern then grew brighter.
"What are we doing this for again?" Ralf asked Marco. "Well, we're looking for the right Valentine for Tarma, so this guy is gonna help us out," Marco explained.
"Because I doubt Eri would want him for her Valentine after what happened."
The pattern then kept glowing brighter, and brighter, and brighter, until the Cupix shouted, "Wolololololo!" and there was a bright flash. When that was over, everybody saw the pattern had disappeared. In it's place was a note. Marco was the first one to pick it up, said, "She is the perfect Valentine!" reading the name on the paper. He then passed it to Cynthia, who passed it to Lily, who passed it to Ralf, who passed it to Clark. They all agreed that whoever's name was written on the note was indeed Tarma's Valentine.
Clark then gave it to Tarma. He then read the name on it, and dropped the note. Of course, he thought. But his legs then got wobbly. The Cupix was probably right. Let me tell you one thing. The name on the note wasn't Eri Kasamoto (obviously). It was the name of an engineer who had appeared in the Metal Slug mobile series. Don't know it yet? Let me tell you than.
The name on the note was Alisa Stewart.
And that's the end of chapter 1! Stay tuned for Chapter 2!
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