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Don't Press The Button on The Plot Device!
Chapter 2 - Crossover That Bridge When You Come to It
Hotaru stormed out of her bedroom, where she was building her invention. Mikan left the room, too, but wandered off in a different direction from Hotaru. Just forget about Mikan for now, since this chapter is about Hotaru. I'll get back to Mikan later.
Anyways, Hotaru decided that she might as well warn some of her (supposed) friends about The Plot Device. She ran to Yuu Tobita's room, because he was the only vaguely sane person in a five kilometre radius.
When Hotaru got there, she saw him sitting on the ground with Ruka Nogi (and his bunny). In an incredibly large pile of comic books and graphic novels. Manga, manhwa, superhero comics, you name it. At that moment, Hotaru concluded that Yuu Tobita did not even deserve to be called vaguely sane. He seemed to be just plain crazy. There was no point even discussing Ruka.
"What the heck are you two doing?" Hotaru asked them.
"These are all the comic books that teachers have confiscated from students." answered Yuu.
"And you have them because...?"
"The teachers think I'm a good kid, so they just give them all too me."
"If you say so, Iincho" said Hotaru, "But why are you sitting with Ruka-kun?"
"I wanted to read them, of course." Ruka replied, "And I wanted to invite Natsume here, too! But all he wanted to do was wreck havoc all over the school!"
Suddenly, a green light wave came into Yuu's room.
Hotaru ducked so that it would miss her. She knew that even if Yuu and Ruka were sitting, they wouldn't be low enough for it to miss them.
"DUCK!" she almost cried.
But she didn't. Hotaru concluded that Ruka would probably say something incredibly dumb, like, "But I'm only holding a bunny right now!", and not follow her command.
The green light wave of fanfiction energy hit Ruka and Yuu. Hotaru hoped that for once in her life that her alice failed her and that the invention did not work. She got up and looked around the room to see if anything changed. It still looked the same. Yuu and Ruka didn't look harmed.
"What just happened?" Yuu said.
"Nothing." mumbled Ruka.
"Phew," Hotaru thought.
"Hey!" screamed Yuu Tobita, picking up an X-men comic, "This comic is a ripoff of Gakuen Alice!"
"Gakuen Alice?" Hotaru exclaimed in a shocked tone, "Isn't our school called "Alice Gakuen", or "Alice Academy" if translated into English?"
"Well, yes," responded Yuu, "But Gakuen Alice is a manga by Tachibana Higuchi which is about some kids with special powers in a special school having a special adventure. It reminds me of this place, actually. But the point is, these 'X-men' have stolen Tachibana-san's idea! I need to meet them! And SUE THEM!"
He continued reading the X-men comic book to see if there were any other "eerie similarities".
"That was odd." said Hotaru in her usual deadpan manner.
"You know what, Hotaru-chan?" yelled Ruka "These comics," pointing to copies of The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, Maus, Persepolis and American Born Chinese, "Need more people like Tohru Honda! The characters need her to help them find hope and happiness with the POWERS OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP!"
Not hearing everything Ruka had said except for the part about Tohru Honda, she replied:
"You read Fruits Basket? "You read FRUITS BASKET? HA HA HA HA HA!" Hotaru fell to the ground and started rolling on the floor, laughing out loud.
"What's wrong with Fruits Basket?" retorted Ruka defensively, "It's a beautiful, well-written, enchanting manga. Besides, Tohru Honda, with her kind and persistent personality reminds me of my Mikan... I mean Mikan!"
"It's a shojo manga. A manga aimed at teenage girls. You are a guy, Ruka-kun."
Ruka intentionally ignored her.
Then, Yuu Tobita stood up and shouted.
"That's it!" cried Yuu, "I'm calling my lawyer! I need to confront these 'X-men' and BRING THEM TO JUSTICE!"
Ruka stood up, too.
"And I need to organize a mass therapy session with Tohru Honda for the characters from these comics!"
The two boys ran out of the room.
Hotaru realized that they had both been hit with the crossover fanfic ray.
THE END OF CHAPTER 2
A/N: The comics that Ruka pointed to are all in my school library (I've only read Persepolis and American Born Chinese). And so are some volumes of Fruits Basket, which I've read and think is a good manga. Apparently, the last time I checked, there are no Gakuen Alice/X-men crossovers on this website. This fic will not become a crossover fic, so don't expect Ruka to be meeting Tohru Honda or anything like that. Oh, and please review. I'm trying to average out to two reviews per chapter (that isn't too ambitious, is it?), so I might need three reviews for this chapter.