FIRST STORY I HAVE EVER POSTED! I have been meaning to but this is like the second time i have ever been on my profile. ENOUGH! Read...
"Bekuku, I need you in my office a.s.a.p. And bring me my coffee!" yelled my boss from the intercom on the desk. I was just going through some paperwork when it suddenly rang angrily. By the way, Bekuku is me.
"Right away, sir. Decaf or black?" I always have to ask that even though he always says black. It was just polite that way, you never know when he might suddenly get a sweet tooth.
"Forget the coffee. Hurry up!" boss said. Wow, this was serious. He didn't need his lowly intern to clean his fish tank like usual. I rushed up to his office within five minutes. That was an impressive feat, however, because I have my desk on the other side of the building in a use-to-be broom closet. I worked as an intern for the P.I.P, Planet Invasion Program. This month we are focused on Jupiter, the place was a pickle though. It's made of mostly gases so we've lost a lot of platoons trying to find a way to actually breath while there. Six months ago we were on Pokopen, also called Earth by those who don't know our terms.
Oh yeah, this would make a heck of a lot more sense if I tell you that I am an alien of Keron. It's several thousand million light-years away from this solar system, and better actually, this place called the Milky-way? Where's the milk? Sheesh.
Anyways, we had sent five frogs, from the A.R.M.P.I.T. Platoon. It contained a worthless Sergeant, a bi-polar Private, a short-tempered Corporal, a cynical Major Sergeant, and… um… oh yeah a forgettable Lance Corporal. I almost always forget about him, I have no idea why. I personally don't think we should have sent them; mainly the sergeant, he's just a waste of Keron rubber. They are not very productive. This brings me to why the boss called me down here.
"So, uh, Bekuku, we need to send somebody down to Pokopen to check up on the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon. And-we think you are fit for the job, you also need the chance to try and get promoted. I don't think you'd want to be an intern forever do you?" he asked with an amused sparkle in his eyes. I could tell he was silently making fun of my reaction. At the moment I was jumping up and down like I was nothing more than a little eggling.
"I'd be more than happy to sir!" I saluted him with what felt like a gigantic smile on my face. I was off by the end of the day with nine minutes left minutes left before I had to leave exactly, I liked to be prompt; it was a habit that came with being an intern. If you didn't do something fast enough, they'd boot you to the curb.
It took a while to fly to Tokyo on my spaceship; Jupiter was farther than I thought from the little blue planet. Then I had to park in a convenient place so that no Pokopenian's would accidentally bump into it, get out my hovercraft and find the address. Tokyo is huge! Took me most of the planets day to find the correct address, the house they were occupying was actually pretty nice. I was surprised they picked a place like this to make their headquarters; it was a little too crowded for my tastes. But then again, I am claustrophobic, so I am a little biased.
I snuck around the back; and saw a red tent with eyes on it. I paused, staring at it for a moment, wondering what in the blazing frog that this was out in the open. Soon a white fuzzy thing with four legs came out from the tent, it barely even glanced my way as it passed me by, as if it was used to seeing something like me. Odd. With that pushed out of my mind, the fuzzy thing and the tent, I walked toward the huge window, and peeked in.
What I found took me by surprise; everybody from the A.R.M.P.I.T Platoon was surrounding a coffee table-PLAYING CARDS-WITH POKOPENIANS! Frozen with shock, it took my brain and body about five minutes to finally realize that I had to report this, ASAP. "I've got to go tell HQ!" I quickly turned my hover craft around and slammed on the gas. I heard the sound of shattering glass first and then felt all the cuts all over my body in the measly point five seconds that it took to change my life forever.
My craft was somehow put in reverse, what the frog?! And I didn't figure that out until after I was lying on top of their card game, though, I think I kind of ruined that. I was out cold for just a second. When I could focus my eyes I saw that they were all surrounding me. Like I said before, I am claustrophobic, SUPER claustrophobic. So I might have flipped backwards and accidentally kicked Corporal in the face; on accident I swear.
"Stupid intruder!" he shouted as he pulled out a gun, from out of nowhere, and shot the coffee table I was now standing on.
'That was uncalled for,' I thought, and then jumped up to the ceiling fan which was a very bad idea. He turned on the fan as high as it could go and everyone from the room watched me fly into the unbroken side of the large window I flew into just a minute before. I was unconscious once again but this time on the floor, instead of the table, and again, just for a second. As weak as I am, I drew up all the strength I had to get up.
"Being attacked by my own kind? That's despicable!" I sneered while trying to show them that I was stronger than I looked.
"You're the one that crashed through our window!" the Private argued back. I let my guard down; so that I could argue with the knuckle head; because, what kind of an excuse was that? He was the one, out of many, who was fraternizing with the enemy, playing cards nonetheless! I was going to make my point when the Corporal somehow got in my face; holding a gun to my head!
"Don't you think that, uh, that is a little too extreme?" I asked, because seriously, I was one of them! Why treat me this way, all I did was break a window! A rather large window, which might be expensive, but still!
"If you tell us who you are and why you are here you can go home." He growled, his eyes looked strangely narrower than they should be.
"I will tell you; when you take that thing away from my head." I tried to say calmly, though I was pretty sure there was some shakiness in my voice.
"You will answer me now!" he shouted, in return I flinched. His type of person was scary, all anger and little to tame. Just then the enemy walked in, I've never seen such beats, sure they were there around the table earlier, but up close they were even more monstrous. I stared straight at her and she looked right back at me, her brown eyes seemed to see right through my soul. I straighten my spine and lifted my head up high; feeling like someone had shouted 'Attention!'
I started to sweat, the air was tense. "Giroro! Quit it!" she finally yelled, and yet again I flinched at a high pitched voice, though she was a lot more threatening than the gun to my head, for some odd reason. 'Corporal's name is Giroro? Okay.' I thought to myself, storing that piece of information in my brain.
"Fine." He huffed angrily, and I felt the cool metal withdraw from my skull. I let out a deep breath of relief, then took one back in fear as the female Pokopenian took a step towards me. My thoughts swirled with the evil that she could do to me, if she could get highly trained Keronian's to bend to her every whim, what could she do to a simple intern?
I stood completely still as she bandaged up my right leg, both arms, and my forehead; because of the ceiling fan incident and crashing threw of the large window. I was too scared to say anything, move anything, even breath. I had no idea why she was being so nice to me, the supposed enemy.
"Now what?" asked the Lance Corporal, shocking me out of frozen state, I had forgotten he was there. As well as the others. The other space frogs were staring at me as the female finished up treating my wounds, and I suddenly felt as if I were being choked.
"We should probably find out who she is." said the Private, his wide eyes were full of curiosity.
"She's not answering us." the Sergeant Major complained, then laughed a sinister laugh.
"We know that. She is as stubborn as you, Keroro." Giroro said. Oh, so that's sergeant's name? Glad to know.
"I'M NOT STUBBORN!" Keroro said, his voice gave me a sudden headache that wasn't there a second ago. Great. The glass and that didn't give me a headache, but their leader with his overbearing tone did. Awesome.
"Anyways, she was fine before-than Natsumi walked in! And she hasn't said a word since." the Private finally figured out why I wasn't doing anything, let alone talking. Natsumi must have been the name of the female Pokopenian, that's an odd name.
"Um...Natsumi, if you could please leave us-so that we may figure out this situation. " the Lance Corporal asked, very politely I may add. Surprising from someone who was in the Elite.
"Fine." She sighed, and stomped out of the room, slamming the door behind her. That was kind of rude, she was asked nicely. After that thought my legs finally gave out and I landed on the floor with a soft thump. At that moment all I could think was that I couldn't witness anything worse. If there was any worse, I just might have a mental break down. But obviously I had not read any stories like this before. And yet again, that knuckle headed Giroro threatened me with a gun to the head. Didn't he say he would stop?
"If you don't tell us who you are, and why you are here, I can kill you right now." He snarled, obviously taking advantage of that female not being here anymore, another note to file away.
"I'm not talking to the likes of you idiots." I snapped back, I'm sure what I said may have hurt them but I was more than true. They were being disgraceful for treating a fellow Keronian this way.
"Yeah! So don't mind me at all, I'm just an idiot with a gun that's just about to blow your brains out!'" he spat.
"Now, Corporal. Let's not stoop to her levels." Sergeant Major said eerily calm. The insanity! He looked as if he's a mad scientist, which from the rumors he actually is. "She's just a brat. I vote we send her back home to Keron." He laughed quietly.
"Me too! Crap; did I say that out loud?" I asked nervously.
"Well you can't go back until you tell us who you are and why you are here. It's not like we're asking for much." Keroro tried to reason with me. I pretended like I was thinking about it, by putting my hand up to my chin. But then I yelled,
"Forget about it!" I smacked the gun away from my head, and jumped in the wrong direction from broken window which would have been my only escape route. "Crap." I cursed under my breath. Sergeant Major randomly pulled out a ray gun, again from seemingly nowhere. Is there this type of invisible backpack which you can pull out your weapons that I haven't been informed of yet?!
"One shot from this, and the victim will instantly become unconscious. Click" he said advertising his gun as it sounded like, his mischievous grin was the last thing I saw before it all blacked out once again.
I woke up some 30 minutes later with my hands tied behind my back and I was on this weird converter belt thing; why was I on this thing? It didn't make any sense. The Lance Corporal and Giroro were just standing there on both sides of me, and the Sergeant Major was behind where my head laid. He had his stupid little ray gun thingy, ready to fire when necessary and/or ordered to. It wouldn't surprise me if he just fired for his own amusement; he seemed like the type. I sat up as best as I could, it was a little difficult, because being tied up can make that job a hassle. The knuckle headed Keronian lunged for my forearm, the second I started to move; like I was going to run away...like I even could. I wouldn't though. I was too drained; all that traveling and crashing into things and getting shot can really take the energy out a frog...the Lance Corporal also grabbed my other arm, but he wasn't cutting off my circulation like the other one. For that I thanked him mentally.
"So..." I started off, "Where are we going?" I wanted to try and say causally.
"We are taking you into the interrogation room." the short tempered Corporal mumbled back, well at least he answered me. Even if he was avoiding eye contact and gripping my arm tighter. Ugh. He hated me. They all hated me. Why though? "You're going to meet Tamama first and then Keroro last. So don't even think about running off!" he sneered looking ahead; his hand cutting off even more circulation, my fingers were starting to feel numb.
I couldn't see the end of the hallway, and I had enough of this. I viciously yanked my arm away from Giroro, and gently pulled away from the Lance Corporal; since he was the only one being remotely nice to me. I heard a sinister laugh and looked behind me to see that Sergeant Major was holding the scope up of his ray gun to his eye, targeting me. An idea popped in my head at that moment. And I just slumped down.
"Pft!" Giroro scolded, "You're a disgrace to soldiers everywhere. I would fight you, but you just gave up, you don't even care do you?" he rolled his eyes at me, and then looked back toward the never-ending hallway. With new determination, I flipped onto my back, and rolled over to Giroro, making him stumble into the wall knocking his head hard enough to make even me see the stars spinning around his head.
"A disgrace, huh?" I chuckled. And suddenly I heard a hum from behind me, I swung around just in time to see Sergeant Major aiming the large ray gun right at me. I rolled to the side just in time to avoid it, and again, and again, and again. This gun didn't seem to have very good aim, or maybe it was the frog? Who knows. But it was all right by me. Thrusting my upper body up, I somehow landed on my small feet just about perfectly. I stumbled a little of course. I was actually really surprised I could do that! Score one for me. Zero for the cocky "perfect" solider and for the crazy gun wielding scientist.
Now as for the third frog, who I keep forgetting about, but if you go backward to a few paragraph's you'll remember the little blue assassin. He started to chase after me, but I managed to stay just ahead of him for a few seconds, which is an impressive feat since interns are ridiculously slower than the elite. But it could also be that he was running on the other belt which was going to the opposite way. This just shows how fantastic they really are, because he was catching up to me! Wow! Once he was about a foot ahead of me, he unsheathed his sword it gleamed dangerously against the lights as he begun to maneuver it, he glanced at me first before he turned around sharply and slashed at a button that made the belt come to a slow stop. Twirling at high speeds, he threw his sword; it spun several times, as it got closer to me with alarming velocity I closed my eyes and dug my heels into the now halted belt.
I hesitantly opened my eyes only to see my amethysts orbs staring back at me, the sword was right in front of my face indented to the wall. I started to sweat and I collapsed on my knees thinking about how close it was to being inside of my head.
"Dororo! We cannot kill her!" the red Keronian shouted.
'Nice to know that the guy who almost cut off my face is named Dororo.' I thought as I let out a sigh of relief that I was to not get killed, yet.
"I knew she would stop running," he said, with some sort of tone in his voice, I couldn't really tell what it was at the moment. My brain too fried by recent events. But that just made me think even more.
"What if I hadn't?" I asked him, looking at the ground with my eyes wide as I thought more and more of it. "What if you actually-" I was cut off from my little accusation by Sergeant Major, who was standing over me with his stupid little grin.
"I think it'll be much easier to transport you while you are unconscious."
I couldn't deny that statement, even though I don't think I had the energy anymore to even try. There wasn't a point in running; there wasn't even enough time to even contemplate it. Before I knew it, I heard the hum of the giant ray gun and looked up to see the Sergeant Major smiling as he said;
"Click."
I woke up again, but I don't know how much time has passed. It was hard to tell in the pitch dark room I was placed in. I was taking it all in with stride when the lights suddenly shot on, and I was momentarily blinded and dazed. My head was starting to spin, but then it started to ache tenfold when a voice came from the wall. I was assuming it was a speaker and that the darkened window is where the other space frogs were.
"Tell us what we want to know, and then, and only then, can you go home." the speaker told me. I sneered at it,
"You realize this is completely unnecessary?" I asked, hoping I get talk some sense into them.
"You want unnecessary?! I'll give you unnecessary!" the voice shrieked.
The walls started to move into each other, slowly but surely, like it was wanting to draw out my torture. I started to panic a little, as they got closer and closer together. I was giving faith that they would stop the walls as it got a little too close, however they just kept coming. By the time it was only about seven feet away from me, I broke from my frozen state and ran to one of the walls pushing it back hoping that I could stop it somehow. It wouldn't even budge. Why did I think I could move a wall? But at least it was worth a shot. I finally reached my breaking point when I could literally feel my soul starting to fly away from me.
"Stop! Please! Just please stop! I'll tell you!" I screamed into the room, tears were starting to fill my eyes as my heart was going into overdrive mode. Too small! This was way too tiny! I needed space, room to breathe!
"Perfect."
The walls started to go backward as the speaker voice got all smug and watched me break down. I sighed another sigh of relief today, it was strange how many times I had almost died. First by window, gun and then sword. Now these walls which were only about three feet away from poor little squishable me. I shakily fell down on my butt and glared at the dark window. I didn't even have to see the speaker to know that he was smirking from this satisfaction that he broke me. I huffed out some air as I knew I had been defeated my phobia.
"My name is Bekuku. I work for the P.I.P. I was sent here to this disgusting polluted planet to check up on you, and how much progress you had made. Since it has been a while since we have actually heard from you. From what I can tell you haven't done worth frog!" I snapped, angry at this place, these creatures and these frogs that I was supposed to call kin. "Can I go home now?" The silence was killing as I waited for a reply.
"No." the voice speaker said flatly.
"What?! But you said that I could go home!" I yelled back, "This is totally not fair!"
"Life's not fair, deal with it."
Life is not fair...I've learned that lesson many times, even when I was a little eggling. And it hurts, a lot. To be betrayed like that all over again. I am beginning to hate this speaker voice, and whoever is speaking into it. That's when Giroro walked into the room and tied my hands behind my back again, this kept me too busy to find a retort back at the speaker, not that I cared too much anymore.
"You can't go! Because you will give HQ a bad report, and then they will make us come back home. We will be the laughingstock of all of Keron! Therefore, you cannot leave until we finish our mission." the voice once again crackled into the room, frog, that was getting really annoying. Having to hear it but not see the perpetrator. As I was contemplating ways to kill the speaker, Giroro started to shove me out of the door. I was about to complain when out of nowhere this yellow flash came from behind us and the rope that was bind my hands was cut. The doors also shut closed, then locked all on their own seemingly. Giroro and I both jumped back trying not to get squished; now I was stuck with this knuckle head.
"Ugh! Keroro! What's this?! Get us out!" he barked angrily, toward the speaker.
Keroro was it? The Sergeant? He did this to me; he condemned me to live on this disgusting planet until he finally conquered this place? It didn't even look like he had control of his platoon with the way this corporal was yelling at him. Seems like I'd be here for a very long time.
"We can't figure out why it's closed." the voi-no Keroro-tried to explain.
"Something in there caused it to shut." laughed the Sergeant Major. Giroro glanced at me, and I shrugged, I honestly had no idea. And it seemed to me that he didn't believe me. Then out of nowhere Dororo dropped from the ceiling, landing a little too close to me for my liking. I had flinched at how close he came to landing on my head.
"Keroro, you said that she could go home. Why are you going against her-" Dororo started to defend me, which was awfully sweet of him.
"Stand down!" yelled Keroro,
'They treat him like crap!' I thought to myself, the poor guy. He looked a little gloomy now, like a dark cloud of depression was hanging over his head.
"Just open the doors Dororo!"
And so the blue elite just slumped toward the doors, and started to mess around with them trying to get them to open. I couldn't stay quiet anymore.
"So, you guys are just going to keep me here until you conquer this stupid planet?" I asked again just to make sure, never know when someone changes their mind.
"I don't know," Giroro replied.
"Where are we going after this?"
"Kululu's lab."
"Why?" I asked while thinking that Kululu must be that yellow frog, creepy frog has a creepy name.
"Shut up! Just quit asking questions! You will do what we tell you to do!" the red frog answered back with anger showing in his eyes.
'Well fine then!' I thought to myself, and stayed silent the rest of the way.
I only have one other chapter i was planning to do... but if i get excellent reviews i will do more. Until next time my pretties!
