"Ananas, Kokoro, Jamielee, Ayamu, and Noah, I'm sorry," Ryou said, tears welling up in his eyes. He knew the hell the five girls that had walked the road before them had faced, and he knew it would be harder for these five. Having mew mews running around the café again would be rough on his heart, he missed the girls desperately, in particular Zakuro, his wife. "I still love you, you know?" he asked, looking towards the sky. He coughed and pushed the button as the alarm started to sound, signifying the approaching aliens were nearing the atmosphere.
"Pap, the phones for you!" his 24 year old granddaughter called down to him in a singsong voice.
"Ugh, can you tell them to wait? It'll take awhile for me to get up the stairs!" he called back irritably; he grabbed his cane, took a little a quick look back at the screen and started the climb up the stairs. His granddaughter came down and helped him up the remaining stairs. He mumbled a thanks and she smiled at him, and handed the phone to him. The dial tone sounded, he glared at her, "You're so full of it, Rina."
She giggled, "Pap, you would've been down there all night otherwise, I had to get you up here, I'm leaving tomorrow, and if you stayed down there so late that I didn't get say goodbye I'd never forgive you," she gave him a hug, "or myself."
He grumbled something about adolescents and gave her a smirk, "I guess I can take a break tonight," and he actually could, he could trace the new pain in the asses tomorrow. He had hoped to have his granddaughter go pick out the mews, but he wouldn't have to explain it now.
"We'll visit Grandma tomorrow morning and then you can see me off on my flight," she explained, "for now, it's late, let's go to bed," she said and the earth started to shake. She quickly got her grandfather into a chair and just as he was in she fell down. As soon as the ground stopped jumping about she began laughing, and her crotchety old grandfather did too. "I think you're right, Pap," she gave him a kiss on the cheek and helped him up the next flight of stairs to his bedroom.
"And I think I need to pay someone to get an elevator in here," he grumbled and Rina smiled at him, her grandfather was such a curmudgeon but she loved him anyway. She only got to see him at Thanksgiving, so she treasured any moment with her seventy-seven year old grandfather.
"And I think it'd be easier to just extend one of your rooms down here and add a shower to one of the bathrooms," she smiled, "I'll see you in the morning."
Recruse and Alpha were bickering about which course to take for landing, "Re-Ru, I've been helping my dad debate military tactics for nearly 17 years, I think I know what I'm saying when I say we need to land somewhere discreetly disguised as a plane so we can avoid suspicion. A Hokkaido field is close enough to Tokyo and in a place where no one will think it odd that a couple of pilots in training landed because of a malfunction with the plane."
"Yes, Alpha, but I've been at a specialized academy for 15 and I think I know what I'm saying when I say we can leave the ship floating out of sight and teleport the rest of the way we'll be fine, and it won't be odd that we're in regular human clothing."
"We're in training, and there was an accident, besides, we'd have to rest for days if we teleported from here."
"That's not really a big deal, it's better than getting caught," Recruse objected.
"We don't have that kind of time, and it's not like anything will happen, we aren't likely to run into anyone anyway."
"Would you both shut up?! The ways you propose it we lose the ship, what we ought to do is get into the atmosphere where it will be close enough to teleport to the warehouse we're staying at, then it won't exhaust us and we won't have to deal with people." Makoto snapped at them.
"Je, Toto, don't get so snippy," Recruse said, putting her hands on her hips and sighing.
His eye twitched, "Don't call me that," he said slowly, he was getting sick of these girls and they had only been stuck together a week.
He turned to the servant, who had just come in with a tray of snacks, that had been sent with them, "Saeka, what do you think?"
"Oh, um, well, i-it isn't really my place to say," she said shyly, walking around with everyone's favorite sweets and hot beverages.
"Well Kota asked you a question, Shinguru, it's your place to answer," Alpha said curtly with a flip of her hair.
"W-well, I think Makoto-san's idea is best," she said, and it was silent for a moment, "Gomen Nasai! Gomen Nasai! It was a bad thing to side with someone! Gomen Nasai!"
"Stop it, Saeka, it's fine, two against two, let's go get one of the others to break the tie," he responded and left to get Ithaca. These people were driving him insane! Not that he was the only one that felt that way. No one really liked each other yet because no one knew each other. Well Hibiki and Saeka were distantly related, but even they didn't really know each other. It was annoying, but he knew they'd eventually have an annoying comradeship. He could've gotten anyone, but he couldn't stand Coventry, Hibiki would've just proposed another option and been a jerk about it, and Ithaca would just smirk and say a person's name and leave.
"Oi, Ithaca, come 'ere, we need you to settle something. Ithaca's characteristic smirk showed itself as he took a puff of his cigarette. He followed Kota without a word.
"All right, we have three proposals, you pick which one you like," Alpha explained slowly.
"I'm not defective Alpha, so what the hell are they?" he leaned against the wall, a smirk ever present on his pale face.
"Toto thinks we should stop once we break the atmosphere and are near enough to the place we're staying to teleport without wearing ourselves out. Alpha thinks we ought to disguise the ship as plane and land it and fake a training accident, and I think we ought to just teleport form here."
His cocky smile grew and he chuckled as he took a drag, "Kota has it figure out," he said and turned and left the room without explaining.
"See, compromise always works," Kota muttered and redirected the ship, "we'll be arriving in 4 hours," he informed them.
Well I'm glad it finally started, it wasn't the longest, but it could've been a hell of a lot shorter too. So Review Please!
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