Episode 1: Reunions Part 2
It was lunchtime at Sooga village and every townsfolk walk to the goh-rong restaurant to have lunch. Pucca is asking the people's orders and serving them alone. Even though Anika is not with her to help her there, she's alright. While serving jajangmeon noodles to the customer she's acting strange. Her face was blank while serving and asking orders than smiling and it is obvious why; she's worried. She's worried about something or yet, someone. There's something off about Garu. He's change a bit. Well, his features have changed yes, but... He's not like the Garu she knows. He's still longing for honour but she didn't see his shine while fighting. Heck, he can even fight girls now! At their little 'reunion', she can't believe that he can fight her and at the training, he even accepted to spar with Ching. He refused them to join at his daily training. It's like she's facing another person every time she saw his face now.
She accidentally bumped into someone. The Jajangmeon noodles she's holding comes flying to the air. When it falls, every bowl landed on her hands and the noodles land back at the bowls as if nothing happens. She looked up and saw the similar raven-haired boy and he just walk away after seeing that she's alright. Her blood is boiling. She told you! She just forced to ignore it and get back to her work. While working, Dada approached Garu and asked for his order. And the raven haired gave an answer that resulted everyone in the restaurant to gasp.
"Dumplings."
Dada shivered and walked away slowly telling the Chiefs his order scared. Is he facing the right Garu? He don't know anymore. Abyo called his best bro to invite him to the table but he rejected it.
"Please! It's been a long time we didn't hang out!"
Abyo kept begging him until he stands up and put some coins on the table.
"I lost my appetite. I have to go." And that, he walked away.
Pucca turned red. This is the last straw! He never rejected Abyo that way. It's only two fudgn' years and he's acting this way.
'I think it's time for us to have a little heart-to-heart talk' And by that, she means fist-to-face talk.
She followed Garu and called him but he kept walking as if he heard nothing. A light bulb popped above her head. This'll make him stop;
"Running away like you heard nothing? You're not manly! You have no honour."
When Garu heard that, he stopped and approached the noodle waitress. He stands in front of her and looked down.
"So... What are you whining about?" Garu asked
Pucca was going to talk but she sensed something. She rose her hand and Garu caught off guard. What is she doing? Is she going to hurt him? He'd done nothing wrong with her. He flinched when her hand moved but saw that she caught an arrow with a letter pierced through it. She took the letter off the arrow and opened it. Her eyes winded. Garu raised a brow and looked at the message. His eyes winded too to see that the letter was a letter for them. A picture of a man was attached on the middle and surrounding it was a list of information of him.
"Well this is surprising." Pucca said after she's finished reading.
"Well yeah.. I mean It's been decades since ninjas receive a letter of assassination." Garu said.
"Well whoever that person is, were sure that it's so powerful that two ninjas are needed to kill it."
"I don't care. I'm going to kill it."
"Umm... WE...And when did you become so careless like Abyo?"
"When stuff happen."
"Stuffs like..."
"Let's plan this stuff up." Garu walked away changing the subject.
"You're still not answering the question Garu!" Garu just waved his hand signalling that he doesn't care.
"Anika here's your..." Dipper opened the door holding a bag full of her stuff and saw the room already a mess and the person who caused it is just playing with her cell phone. His jaw dropped.
"You're only here in four minutes and the room is now a dumpster?!" Dipper said in shock.
"Yeah now will you please arrange my stuff there?" Anika said still playing.
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"SERIOUSLY?!"
"Does my face look like it's not serious?"
"It always looks serious."
"Good now after that, clean my mess."
"I'm not your butler! Man! Pucca maybe really tired from cleaning the house."
"That's rude."
"What?! It's true. From looking at your room; you have a 110% chance that you're gonna trash the house for just 74 minutes and 5 seconds."
"Now that's harsh... But you're still gonna clean it. I'm older than you so sometimes, do as I told."
Dipper groaned and cleaned her mess. Anika smirked and went back to her cell phone. The male brunette returned to his room and lie down his bed. Mabel noticed her brother's annoyed by something. I mean, he's chewing his shirt again!
"Why the long face bro-bro?" Mabel asked.
"Four minutes. Four fridgn' minutes that Anika live in with us, she already trashed her room." Dipper continued writing his journal.
"Wow! That's a world record. Don't act like you're not used to her." Mabel put down her boys magazine and looked at her brother. "Lemme guess, she forced you to clean her room huh?"
"What's not new? She's always lazy. I doubt that she'll help us at the shack tomorrow." Dipper said.
"Dude, take a chill pill. You're always like that after she told you to clean her room."
"That's because sometimes she always shove my face about my age gap to her to have an advantage for me to get what she wants. It's unfair."
"You know, someone told me to learn to say 'no' sometimes. Why won't you do it Dipper?" Mabel asked with a teasing smirk.
"Hey! You're stealing my line!" Dipper said.
He threw his pillow to Mabel and Mabel did the same to Dipper. They kept throwing back and started a pillow fight. They laughed and laughed and a different designed of a pillow hit Mabel.
"Dipper... Is this yours?" Mabel asked.
"Nope." Dipper replied.
Another pillow hit Dipper. He looked around and back at Mabel. Dipper was now annoyed.
"Mabel! No more tricks! Ok?" Dipper said.
"Me?! I have no pillow that almost assembles Robbie's." She held up the pillow.
It's too late for Dipper to know who throw the pillow because when they heard a click,
Anika showed up and fired them with mini pillows. The mystery twins hid under the bed quickly.
"Hey! That's unfair! Put down that bazooka and fight like a man!" Mabel screamed.
The bazooka separated in a thousand pieces and it forms into a cell phone in her pocket. Anika then smirked. She picked up her pillow and so are the twins.
"With pleasure." She then started her attack.
Ching is having her daily jogging to condition herself for the upcoming day. Her target is to circle the whole town while passing by her favourite places; the goh-rong restaurant, the bamboo forest, the lake, beach, almost every place at the whole village. Seeing beautiful places really makes many people relaxed and made a smile plastered on their face. Ching also is one of those people and it is more special and effective if those places is filled with beautiful memories. It's a good thing that she had a surplus places that she's passing by. Calm before the storm, Ching unfortunately passed by a street where Abyo's chatting (or most likely flirting...) with a cute girl. The girl giggled by
Abyo's whispers so, with flipping her hair and fluttering eyes, she made Abyo a smirking and blushing mess.
Great... all hard work from making big fort made from a good start and mood crushed and fell 6 feet underground and joined her already dead heart that's used to have hopes and dreams of being noticed by her own so-called "senpai". Welp... She's not gonna pass by this street ever again.
Ching walked slowly back to her home but on her way she bumped at Pucca's cousin.
"Anika! I thought you're at America." Ching said.
"Well can I visit my cousin even for a few hours?" Anika asked.
"But is that getting you restless?"
"If I can be in two places at once I won't. Wait... I already did that. Anyway, you didn't seem like in a good mood what gives?"
Ching is at pause for a moment. Anika shook her head and smirk seeming to know her problem by the woman's actions.
"Lemme guess... Abyo." Anika said confidently.
"Are boys really that numb Anika?" Ching asked.
"No. They're just sometimes a complete innocent idiot." Anika put her arm around Ching's neck.
"Don't worry. I am a hundred percent he'll know your awaiting answer someday. But in making your mood okay, let's talk about Pucca and Garu. What happen to those two?" Anika changed the subject.
"They're working together in killing an assassin. New quest and something like that." Ching said.
"Well, That's a progress. Next thing you know, Pucca will be walking in the Isle." and by that, the two laughed.
Pucca bit her tongue accidentally. She let out a soft ouch. Garu heard Pucca and asked what's wrong.
"Doubt that you care. I just bit my tongue." Pucca said.
"I accidentally bit myself too. Maybe someone's talking about us." Garu said.
"Enough chit chatting. So... This 'man's name must never been said'... He's pretty tough." Pucca said.
"He has an unknown record of age and family. He has a skin of nature and his face is unknown. Even what he's capable?! How can we assassinate him if everything about him is unknown? It's like were hunting down some member of a freakshow." Garu rubbed its head.
"You know what? Sometimes, think. If the information they gave us aren't enough, then are we just gonna sit here and think of a million possibilities who he is and never use what ninjas are great at?" Pucca asked.
"It's not that easy Pucca. We don't know what he's capable of." Garu said.
"Then that gives us more reason to spy him." Pucca said.
She stood up and faced the stubborn co-worker.
"Are you planning to shut me out like on what you did to Ching and Abyo? Come on Garu! Be mature! I'm the only one who can be immature in here." Pucca crossed her arms.
"I'm not shutting you out. I'm just being practical."
"Like being gone in two years without telling the townsfolk, coming back another person and make everyone miss the real Garu? That's really practical don't you think?"
Garu got nothing to say. Pucca's face is pure red and boiling hot. She didn't know the reason why he left. Everyone don't know except him and her cousin. And he's planning to keep it that way. It's okay if she's just angry at him. He's afraid that someday, she'll defy him. She needs to be safe. For the sake of everybody, he needs to shut his emotions down.
"I'll be back if I had an idea and if I cooled down." Pucca said.
And with that she walked away. She returned to the goh-rong restaurant and when she went inside, she saw Anika.
"First day in your babysitting and you left the kids? That's harsh." Pucca said.
"It's night at that place so whatever." Anika said.
She noticed her cousin's features and punched her arm.
"Gone badly?" Anika asked.
"What gone badly?" Pucca asked back.
"The meeting."
"You know?"
"I didn't know anything. I'm a big dumb person."
Pucca glared at her identical but scary looking cousin.
"Garu and I fought about spying an unknown target." Pucca said. "He said that we didn't know if the target is capable of but that's the reason why we should spy him right?"
"Want some shots while you talk?"
"You know I'm not a fan of alcohol!"
"Well... Both of you are right and wrong with that." Anika put her hand under her chin.
"Want some help?"
Pucca crossed her legs and said all of the information she knew.
"Looking at all news and internet pages, people didn't know anything about him. He's not even popular at any known freaks. Maybe what your assassinating is the government's top secret." Anika typed at her cell phone about the ninjas' target and there's only a little information popped out. "If you two are going to spy him, I recommend you to look at the government files. No hacking system will unlock it. The security's very tight."
"But it's okay to have one than nothing. Thanks for your help Cuz'-cuz!" Pucca hugged her cousin.
"Don't call me that. And would you please, get off me." Anika said pushing her cousin away.
Pucca walked out the goh-rong and so does Anika. She teleported herself back to the shack, yawned and fell asleep. Dipper came in the girl's room. He's relieved that the room's still clean but the woman inside it is still sleeping. He groaned and went to the kitchen. Mabel caught up to Dipper.
"Hey bro-bro! It's too early to be grumpy. What is it now?" Mabel asked.
"Anika's still asleep. She's the earliest that went inside her room. Bet she's up all night playing with her cell." Dipper said.
"You know? I noticed that you're being tough with her what's up?" Mabel once again asked.
"Me? Am I being tough? No! I've never been tough with her! We had a pillow fight last night remember? How am I angry with her?"
"I never said that you're angry with her."
"W-well the way you're saying it means that I'm angry at her or anything so whatever."
"Hmm... Stuttering. So it's true."
"Just shut up."
Stan faced the kids and placed the food at the table. It's filled with pancakes, omelette, and waffles.
"Who's Birthday is it Grunkle Stan?" Dipper asked.
"No one! I just missed you two knuckleheads." Stan said.
"We always came back here every summer Grunkle Stan." Mabel said
"But it's you're first day in staying here for good. So... Yeah."
Ting!
A sound of an oven echoed the room. Stan opened it and put a red looking soup at the table. The twins looked curiously.
"What's this? Is it in the refrigerator for a few days?" Dipper asked.
"I don't know." Stan said.
Mabel was about to reach the soup but Dipper prevented her.
"We don't know what that is." Dipper said.
"But it smells good. Admit it." Mabel said.
Mabel poured a little at her bowl and tasted it. Dipper is about to faint because of what Mabel did. Mabel smiled after tasting. She snatched Dipper's bowl and pour some soup at it.
"What are you making me eat?" Dipper is pushing the soup away from him.
"Come on! It's delicious!" Mabel kept shoving the soup at her brother's face.
Stanford came in the scene.
"Ah! I finally have a peaceful sleep without any noise from certain two noisy co-workers." Ford said.
"Hey! I heard that Piondexter!" Stan shouted.
Anika also came in.
"Finally. After 10 years." Dipper said.
"Sorry to get your hopes up, but I'm just a clone. Anika made me from the copier to substitute. She's still there sleeping." Clone Anika said.
"Knew it." Dipper said.
He poured some milk and cereal to his bowl with some amount of soup not knowing and ate it. Mabel tried to stop him but it's too late. Clone Anika whisper something to Mabel that made her relieved. Dipper smiled while eating. He swallowed the food and that almost made Mabel laugh.
"Hey, this tasted nice. What brand of milk did you guys bought?" Dipper asked.
"It's our top secret right Fordsy?" Stan asked.
"Don't call me that." Ford said.
Dipper finished the cereal and started working and Anika's clone caught up and started her work. They started prepared the gift shop, stocked the empty slots and cleaned the attractions. Soos will be starting the tour so they needed to be ready.
"Uh... Soos? Do we need to clean the statue?" Dipper asked.
"Mr. Pines is Soos' idol. How can we not clean it?" Clone Anika said.
Dipper shrugged and started to dust off the statue. The fake Anika noticed Dipper's attitude so she approached him.
"I know there's something wrong. What is it?" Clone Anika asked.
"You're just the fake Anika. Why would I tell you?" Dipper asked back.
"Man! You've done this to yourself many times when you're twelve and you're what? You're telling me is this?" Clone Anika said.
Silence and a click of a cash register were heard. A sigh escaped out of the fake Anika's mouth.
"People doesn't trust me these days huh?" Anika just walked away and continued her work.
Mabel walked in. The female brunette really needed to talk to her twin later to avoid the most awkward summer of their lives.
Opposites will be right back after the break