Monsuno one shot: What I Want
Summary: Everyone on TCT wants something. Chase wants to save the world, Beyal wants to save the Monsuno, Jinja wants Beyal, Dax wants Jinja and Bren wants to stay on the Core Tab on his butt for the rest of forever. But what is the one thing that is preventing them all from achieving happiness? WARNING this fic is based on Combat Chaos and may contain spoilers!
Bren plopped onto his backside after a long day of walking to meet Jeredy at the next train station, which happened to be in the sweltering Banjli Jungle. He whipped out the Core Tab and stared at it for a couple of seconds, before his fingers began to succumb to their usual excitement of being near a really awesome piece of tech. Expertly, his digits flitted across the screen, managing various tasks at once. His gaze was intensely trained on the bright flickers before him, which were reflected in his glasses. Nothing would deter him from his 'fun'. Bren was so absorbed in the electronic marvel before him that he didn't even notice Jinja moving silently beside him. "Playtime's over, Bren!" she stated maliciously before whisking the Core Tab away from him.
"Noooooooo!" Bren cried, as he witnessed Jinja launching the Core Tab, his Core Tab, across the clearing of which they had decided to set up camp. The Core Tab spun as it zipped through the air towards Dax. The lowlander, who was attending to the fire with Chase at the time, barley looked up to the high-tech assailant coming towards him, but caught it with one hand, mere inches from the open flames. He focused his gaze on the Core Tab, then on a disappointed Jinja. "Blazes, Princess! What were you trying to achieve here?"
"What do you think? I was trying to melt it." Jinja declared matter-of-factly.
"Well, if you did that, Glasses over here would- He-hey, Glasses?" Dax looked around, concern lacing his words. Chase looked up from the fire wood he and Beyal had been stacking and looked around too, to face Bren on his position on the log. Bren's eyes were down cast and his fists were clenched so tightly, his knuckles had gone white. "Yo, B? You alright, Brother?" Chase inquired gently as he moved forward to comfort an obviously distraught Bren. Bren, however, was having none of it, for his next words were riddled with fury and agitation.
"No, Brother, I'm not 'ALRIGHT'. In fact, I'm the opposite of alright! All I want is a couple of hours on the Core Tab, to ENJOY MYSELF. But for some reason these two," he points accusingly at Jinja and Dax, "Won't allow me to enjoy myself! Actually, it's not these two; it's something much bigger, preventing ALL of us from getting what we want!" Bren's voice reached an ear-splitting pitch as he reached the conclusion of his rant. "IT'S LIFE!"
Chase, Dax and Jinja all looked to Beyal, to hopefully instil some of his wisdom into the hysterical Bren. The white haired monk took Bren by the shoulders and leant in close, his pale locks swishing into Bren's field of vision as he sat beside him. "Bren, if were not for life, we would not be Team Core Tech. We could not fulfil our roles in the destiny of the five. We would not be able to fight with Monsuno. We would not be the ones to save the world. We would-"
"Blazes Monkfish, I think Glasses here gets the idea."
"Yeah Beyal, you're so wise" Jinja sighed, dreamily.
"Jin?" Chase inquired, exchanging a sleazy grin with Dax, as the dark skinned boy nudged him.
"Well, at least we know what Princess wants." Dax stated, "So Glasses, how does 'life' get in the way of that?"
Bren was completely thrown by this inquest, unsure of how to respond, considering that his crazy raving was actually being taken seriously, especially by Dax. He scratched the back of his head, " Er… Well…I er…" Suddenly Bren flicked an incriminating finger to point at Beyal, "It's because he doesn't get social cues! It's totally obvious that Jinja is crushing on him bu-" Suddenly, Bren was cut short when an eerie crack echoed throughout their clearing, causing all the boys of TCT to flinch in unison.
Jinja was pissed. "You wanna say that a little louder, Bren?" she demanded with a sickly-sweet tone of voice and smile as she dangerously approached Bren, malice emanating from her bodice in waves as she cracked her knuckles again.
Dax chuckled as he stated to no one in particular, "Well, now we know how someone's life gets affected when it comes to Princess' love life…"
Beyal perked up, finally seeing a window of opportunity to voice his thought. " I think I know what you want Dax, it is her, is it not?"
"What?!" Dax gasped, caught off guard as a brilliant blush blossomed across his expression of horror and embarrassment, "Me and…" he trailed off as he looked to Jinja.
The girls blushed as darkly as BackSlash, she scoffed and spluttered before managing to produce a dignified Jinja-like response, "Yeah, I'd only consider dating you if all other life forms on earth were dead and we were the only two living at the-" her insult was cut short, as she realised that Dax looked offended, and was staring at his hands her blush became even deeper as she tried to back track. "Dax, I didn't mean… um…"
"No, it's clear, innit? I'm just that sleaze that no one trusts or wants to be around because I'm the lowlander, you know the guy…" Dax began to mutter darkly to himself as the mood of the gathering in their clearing became soured and, " Whoa… Tense… Er, don't you guys think this is going a little too far?" Chase rested a hand on both Jinja's and Dax's shoulders as he looked between them.
Beyal came up to whisper to Chase "I believe I have been misunderstood. I meant that Dax wanted his mother, not Jinja…". Chase nervously laughed at the chain of events that had caused such a heavy attitude between his comrades. He looked pointedly at Bren as he nudged Beyal to also giggle. As their chuckles filled the clearing, Jinja and Dax's faces dropped the animosity and hot embarrassment as they too succumbed to the not really humorous nature of the situation they had found themselves in, laughing heartily along with the rest. Jinja wiped a tear forming at her left eye before turning to Dax again. "I guess laughter really is contagious! I'm sorry about what I said, Daxie." Her voice became syrupy as she patted his cheek with a smile, "You're only an ickle baby who misses his mummy right?"
Dax shoved her hand away from his face, trying to look irritated, but failed miserably as he caught Jinja's eye, and decided to nudge her playfully away from him in mock agitation. Jinja giggledand pushed him back, with slightly more intensity. "Eh, easy princess! I like my arms, all right? I need them to spin cores!"
Chase watched with a smile, glad that everybody was on good terms again, as he turned back to managing the fire. It was nearly sundown and the jungle got pretty cold at night. Besides, the canopy was so thick, the smoke couldn't escape in a direct plume from their camp sight, signalling where they were. As he stacked some more wood beside it for them to dry, he realised that everyone was quiet.
"What the…?" Chase stood up, his hand on Lock's core as he slowly turned around, expecting some kind of horror. He surveyed the clearing with a thorough 360 degree turn. But they were all gone? "Must be in a vision or something," Chase muttered to himself. But that wasn't even possible, he hadn't even been mediating! And wasn't he crouched over a fire when it had happened? What if he fell into it?! In a sporadic attempt to get himself out his dreaming, Chase began to slap himself, cursing as pain flooded his cheeks, or when his wrists turned red from the pinches.
Deciding that he was fully awake, Chase decided to observe the situation more carefully. He walked around the outskirts of the clearing, looking for any signs of his missing friends. "What the crag?" he muttered as he peered out into the undergrowth. Then he had an idea. "I know!" he stated triumphantly, whipping out a dark blue core. "NightStone, LAUNCH!" He lobbed the core across the grassy area, spinning as it hit a tree and the midnight blue hybrid wolf was released, bowing dutifully before Chase. "I need you to track down TCT. You up for it?" he inquired. With an affirmative sniff, NightStone set about investigating the path that the four missing companions had taken. Suddenly chase heard a rustling above him. He only managed an, "Ah, crag..." before what seemed like the every individual leaf from the Bangli was dumped on top of him. "Yes!" Jinja cried, hi-fiving Dax and giving Beyal a hug, as they watched Chase struggle to dig himself out of the pile of greenery.
Coughing and spluttering, he emerged, flinging himself onto his hands and knees, breathing heavily. "Crag you guys..." he gasped, as his mischievous companions scuttled down the tree. Chase noticed a hand before him, belonging to Bren. "Need a hand, brother?" he asked.
Chase nodded and smiled, "You know it!" he said, grasping his hand tightly as Bren pulled him up onto his feet. "NightStone, RETURN!" the green eyed boy called before looked around, "So you guys planned all this?"
"Actually," Jinja said, "It was Beyal's idea." Chase looked to their monk with a mixture of awe and admiration strewn across his features.
"You shoulda seen the monkfish! He had this whole plan-"
"Yeah! Beyal was-"
The voices of Jinja, Dax and Bren overlapped and were lost in each other as they all explained to Chase how their little monkfish had planned the elaborate prank. Thewhite haired boy blushe lightly, but hid it with his bangs as he set about poking at the fire.
Time Skip:
After an unspeakably lavish meal of s'mores, warm fires and far to much time of Chase's awful jokes, (Knock Knock. Who's there? Cana. Cana, who? Cana wanna sleep!) Dax lay onto his back and stared up at the starry obsidian sky. Bren sat down next to him. "You know, I think after today, we've found out what everyone wants!" he exclaimed cheerily. Dax heaved himself up onto one elbow and stared at Bren, a cue to continue, while the other members of TCT gathered around.
"Well, we all know that Chase wants to save the world, Beyal wants to save all Monsuno, Jinja wants..." he trailed off as he wiggled his eyebrows meaningfully at Beyal, earning him a chuckle from Chase, a punch from Jinja and a confused glance from Beyal, "and Dax wants his mummy-poo!" leaving him with a bruised arm, courtesy of Dax.
As they all went quiet, considering this revelation from their techy guru, Jinja's voice broke through the silence. "Wait, Bren, what do you want?"
Bren sighed and folded his arms knowingly, "That's easy," he stated moving his hands into his shoulder bag for his most prized possession, "I want, I want..." Bren's voice began to falter when he failed to lay his hands on, "The CORE TAB! Where is it?!" he screeched, wringing his hands as he panicked. Chase grabbed him by the shoulders, "Its alright, B, we'll find it, right guys?" he asked as he addressed the remaining members of TCT who all mummered in agreement.
The five spread out in the clearing, looking in bushes and under logs for what was really the only piece of technology they had. But no one cared to look up, because if they did, they may have noticed a couple leaves drift down from the tree they had climbed earlier. The Core Tab was nestled between the branches, and vibrated again, as Jeredy sent another message, asking why they hadn't messaged him yet.
A/N: My first one-shot! Please, go easy on me when you review, don't want to be put off writing so soon after I've begun! Well, that's that I suppose, but for all of you who managed to get to the authors note and wrote a review, I am taking ideas for one shots, so anything Monsuno related and I'll turn it into a story! For example, my sister had just finished watching a monsuno marathon with me, and was looking forher charger, since her phone was about to die. As she ripped open the drawers in the dining room, she suddenly found what she was looking for and cried, "Charger LAUNCH!" when she plugged in her phone. Then she realised, it was the wrong charger and threw it back into the draw she had left open screaming, "Charge,r RETURN!" in a very Jinja like voice.
well, thanks for being gusty enough to make it to the bottom of the page. Let me know what you guys think! Don't forget to R&R,
-JimStar.