A/N: Here's a new original short for my good friend and collaborator RunnerAwaker's birthday today. It also serves as a sneak peak for what we have in store for Universal Runners including the upcoming special. Enjoy!
Kema Gets The Tablet: The Chase
In the world of SRO, within the city of Inceptum, the world's heroes, the Defenders were lounging around, doing what they wanted in their base of operations. With them was their member Yukinari's Luxuria and friend Kema, at his trainer's feet.
"Hey Kema, wanna fetch the Soul Events Tablet (the equivalent of a newspaper in SRO)?," Yukinari asked. Kema mewed, stood up and walked outside the base. He then saw a tablet laying on the ground and rushed to pick it up. Before he could however, a portal suddenly appeared and sucked the tablet in. Kema jumped in after it, and fell through the swirling vortex, until emerging from the other end in a white, black, and blue city.
Upon observing his surroundings, the Luxuria soon saw the tablet lying near a fire hydrant. Kema ran over to it, but before he could grab it, a big greenish blur zoomed by and did just that. When Kema looked over to where the blur had went, he saw a white tiger cub with a green leaf symbol on its forehead and dark green stripes with the tablet in her mouth.
Kema roars at the cub as if saying to give the tablet back, but the cub meows as if saying "No way!" and then takes off running. Kema follows right behind her, chasing her under and over cars, through shops, and finally into an alley.
The cub, now cornered, looked as Kema advanced on her, looking to get that tablet back. Suddenly something swooped down and grabbed the tablet out of her mouth. Looking up they both saw that it was a bat with yellow fur around it's face, with a pink diamond on the center, blue and green ears, dark blue wings with yellow stars on them, blue feet, black eyes with yellow stars as it's pupils, and a smile with pink fangs. The bat laughed as he took off flying with the tablet in his feet. Kema, growled, and took off after him.
This new chase soon lead to a tall building, at which the bat flew to the roof. Kema ran into the building, into the elevator and rode it up to the roof just in time to meet the bat. Seeing that Kema had made it, the bat tried to fly away with the tablet again, but the Luxuria quickly jumped and grabbed the tablet right out of his feet.
The bad news is that Kema then fell twenty stories from the building's roof, the good news is that he managed to land on his feet safely in an another alley. After recovering, and thinking he was in the clear, Kema picked up the tablet and began to walk out of the alley.
Suddenly, a black leopard cub with blue and grey spots strolled up and blocked the way out. Kema roared as if to warn him out of the way, but the cub refused to back down. Kema then dropped the tablet and he and the cub started circling around the alley, waiting to make a move. Suddenly, they lunged at and tackled each other, wrestling all over the ground like wildcats.
The fight was a stalemate until the leopard cub finally managed to pin the Luxuria to the ground. Kema, now frantic, sought for some way to get away. Looking around the alley, he was relieved when a new portal opened up unexpectedly. Throwing the leopard off him, Kema grabbed the tablet and ran and jumped into the portal. The leopard recovered and leapt after him, but the portal closed just before he could reach it, leaving him frustrated.
Back at the base, Kema, with the tablet in his teeth, fell in through a new portal above, which closed up seconds later. He then walked to Yukinari, who was still reclining, and gave him the tablet.
"Attaboy, Kema," he said as he pet the Luxuria, who purred as he lay down and fell asleep.
A/N: Hope you all enjoyed it! Especially you Runner, and Happy Birthday to you! And to all you readers, keep visiting the Project Arcanum Preview for more teasers for the November 3rd special, and Universal Runners for more episodes. And visit Runner's profile to keep tabs on the Arcanum countdown!
And ToonSchool fans, don't worry. The fic will return soon enough. There will not be another year long hiatus like with Revolution Wars, I assure you. So read, review, follow, and watch everyone!
