After the debris had settled, and Astro had spit out the last few feathers he'd suck in his mouth, both boys returned to glue their eyes to the television oblivious to the mess around them.

"Crash!" A rack of glass beakers tipped over and fell to the floor. "Well...we kinda overdid it a little huh?" Reno said with a smirk.

Astro tapped his fingers together..."A bit."

Reno lay back after he wrapped a few blankets into a ball and allowed Astro to snuggle back against him...

Adult Swim

Kimba the White Lion

1:30 am

"This is an old one." Reno remarked as he wrapped his arms around Astro's chest. "Way too kiddish for me."

"Touch the remote and it's on again." Astro warned. "This time I'll use the mattress."

"But it's a little kid's cartoon..." Reno said snorting. "Oh I forgot...technically you're four years old so it's about your speed any way."

"Kimba's cool." Astro said as he took a sip of oil. "He protects all the weaker animals, kicks butt and doesn't get his mane messed up."

"He looks like a High School punk." Reno said smiling. "Wonder if he uses hair wax?"

Astro butted Reno's chest. "Less talking..."

Adult Swim

Star Blazers

2:00 am

"You know...technically speaking, such a big ship wouldn't be able to fly?" Astro said with a questioning look. "Especially with wings on the hull in Earth's atmosphere, they'd break off."

"Stop being a buzz kill?" Reno replied as he nookied Astro in the head.

"I was only appealing to your technical savvy." Astro said smirking. "And a wave motion gun? Kinda overdoing the power factors, I mean such a big energy weapon would produce so much radiation that..."

"Cut it out!" Reno warned as he threw a head lock around Astro. "Just watch the cartoons, don't analyse em!"

"You do understand that doing a head lock on me is kinda worthless?...not to mention a waste of energy."

"But it's fun!" Reno snorted as the two boys tangled again and fell off the bed.

"Don't make me tie you into a knot." Astro said as he sat on Reno and held him down.

"Hey! I'm missing the rest of the toon!" Reno said as he struggled.

Astro dipped his finger into his mouth and smirked evilly..."Now...where were we?...WET WILLY!"

"ARGH! THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Reno yelped as he struggled against Astro's ear assault. After another tussle and tumble session, Reno sat on Astro rubbing his ear. "That was disgusting! Where's that finger been?"

"Giggles"..."Foot jam, what else?" Astro replied smiling.

Reno tapped a finger on Astro's chest. "So...when are you going to quit school?"

"Huh?" Astro replied. "I'm only in the 6th grade."

"The question is...when will you stop?" Reno replied. "You don't intend to go all the way to college do you?"

"You don't think I should keep going?" Astro said scratching his head.

"Well...after 8th grade we could just input everything you'd need and you wouldn't have to spend all day in a classroom. After all you're part of the Ministry and there's a lot of things here you could be doing."

Astro got up and sat on the bed. "How many types of behavior are humans capable of?"

"Are you going to get deep on me because it's like almost 2am." Reno replied as he lay back.

"School's very important Reno. How else will I learn so much about humans than spending time with them as they evolve? And lets face it, you don't get stranger evolution than in public schools."

Reno smirked. "You're starting to make me snore here."

Astro huffed. "I wanna experiance things! Like my first driving lesson..."

"You can drive already."

"Not legally!" Astro snapped. "And then there's Prom nights, dates, the classic rivalry between Jocks and Academics, detention, annoying teachers, cliques, gangs..."

"ZZZZZZZZ..."

"Reno! I'm being serious!"

"Well...schools are expensive." Reno said shurgging his shoulders.

"Duh! I'll get a job." Astro said crossing his arms and pooching his lips. "How hard can that be?"

"Yeah..." Reno remarked evilly. "Hmmm...Horse stable cleaner! You can do that easilly since you're an expert at slinging horse crap!"

Astro gave him a menacing look. "Where's your salt? I want a pretzel."

"Bring it on stable boy."

After another fifteen minutes worth of bulldozing, the boys found themselves sitting on the paddless couch looking over the devistating of Reno's apartment...

"Wow...it looks better." Astro said smirking.

"We missed that poster over there..." Reno remarked. Astro shot his finger lazer and cut it down from the wall. "Ok...now it's improved."

Reno wrapped an arm around Astro's shoulders and pulled him into a snuggle. "Gonna take all Sunday to clean this mess up."

"Like usual." Astro replied. "I'm jelious...Princess Abby sent you a betroval letter. She's going to take you away from me...I think that sucks."

"It's only till after I turn 18 silly." Reno replied. "Besides I'm not a big fan of "Princely duties" especially wearing some of the get up some of her court ministers wear? Uh, uh...I'm not wearing spandex tights and French frills...no way in hell."

"But you'd look cute in them." Astro said giggling.

"Do you wanna die?" Reno replied as he pulled Astro into his lap and noogied his head.

"That's pointless." Astro remarked. He rolled around in Reno's lap and tapped his chin. "What I mean is...I don't think I could get used to any other human as well as I have you. Certainly the fun would be kinda abscent..."

Reno tweeked Astro's nose. "Same here "Bucky Bolts". You're like my kid brother you know...But who knows what might happen, I mean I'm only 14 and getting married right now is kinda low on my priority list."

"You think we should put the mattress back on the bed? Doctor O'Shay might ask why it's hanging from the top of the flag pole." Astro said as he closed his eyes and hugged his arms around one of Reno's legs.

"Oh the heck with it." Reno snorted back as he adjusted his back against the back of the couch. "He can deal with it on Monday."

"Night Reno." Astro said smiling.

"Night..." Reno replied as he closed his eyes.

"Uh...do me one favor?" Astro asked softly. "Don't fart?"

"Good luck with that one." Reno said chuckling before falling asleep. Outside, the sun was just starting to peak over the horizen.

The end