Ch. 7 Memories
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Calvin woke up in a strange room, he couldn't see any walls and it was dark. He saw that he was lying on some strange sleeping bag, and a he wore a medical mask that was attached to a small machine above his head. He took it off and got up, feeling slightly woozy, but it wore off. Having no idea where he was, he started walking off in one direction. After what seemed like an hour, he saw a number of display cases separated out into groups. He went to the nearest one and looked inside it. It contained a human skull with some front teeth missing; a small card was in front of it, containing some strange symbols. He decided it must be a label. Looking at the skull reminded him of something that happened a few years ago.
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3 years earlier
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"Listen shrimp, I want your money now" said a large kid who appeared to be a little old to be in the second grade. He had Calvin cornered in an empty area of school.
"Moe, I'm not giving you my money today." Calvin said.
"You asked for it..." Moe said.
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One hour later
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Calvin sat in the school office with a fat lip and a black eye. However, he held two teeth in his hand that did not belong to him. How he got the strength to punch them out of Moe's mouth he would never know. He looked and saw Moe walking out of the Principal's office with a red cloth in his mouth (it used to be white) and was accompanied by his father, a large man who looked very angry. Calvin later found out that Moe was moved to ALC for "unacceptable behavior" while he got off scott free due to self-defense.
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Present
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Calvin smiled as he rubbed the scar on his right hand caused by Moe's teeth. Calvin moved on to another display case. It contained a small model of what appeared to be a ship made out of wood. Calvin thought back to when he saw something like this...
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Two years earlier
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Many reports of strange things happening in Japan were on global news. The first of these events was when a school blew up, followed by a strange object in the sky. Hours later, something hit a bridge, and the media said it was a meteor. Then, a large unidentified object was seen around the world. A few weeks later, there were a series of mysterious lights in the sky, followed by, hours later, what appeared to be an explosion. Then every week or two afterward, something was seen leaving the planet, returning later at night. The world went into a UFO scare. Calvin, however, was excited. One night he decided to camp out in his tree house, hoping to see something. He nearly gave up in the end, around midnight, when he saw a large object. What startled him most was that it looked like it was made of wood. It was moving to the west at a great speed, and Calvin cursed himself for forgetting a camera. Nobody believed him though...
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Present
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"...Guess I was right." Calvin said aloud with a grin. He moved on to the next case and saw a plastic model of a strange worm. It had many labels with the strange symbols attached to different parts of the worm...
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4 years earlier
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"...Mrs. Wormwood, could I please go to the bathroom?" Calvin said. He could almost see the scales in her eyes weighing the situation.
"Fine, but hurry up." she said. He left the classroom and made a beeline to his locker. He opened it and pulled out a paper bag and a rock. He stealthily made his way to the cafeteria. In the kitchen in the back, he could see the lunch lady making a pasta dish. He looked around and tossed the rock at the door leading outside. The lunch lady walked away, muttering something about food delivery being late. He ran up to the pot and dumped his bag of worms into it, mixed it around for good measure, and snuck off. The lunch lady returned and did not notice any changes to the pot.
" Little pests, this should show 'em." she muttered, and spit in the pot. Calvin then realized why his mother gave him a bag lunch every day. Needless to say, lunch was a catastrophe, and no one had a clue who did it, but he was a suspect, along with others.
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Present
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"That's a Jurian Tree Worm, it cultivates the soil for all of the Royal Trees. Their usual length is about half a meter." Calvin heard a nasally voice say behind him. He turned around and saw a girl a little bit taller than him with wild red hair.
" Who are you?" he asked. She grinned.
" I am Washu, the greatest scientific genius in the universe!" she said in an arrogant tone. " I was the one who treated your concussion." she than said. Calvin was puzzled,
"Oooookay," he said, "um, what's going on?".
"Well, you hit your head on a tree after my daughter startled you. Apparently, you were listening in on Sasami and Ayeka's conversation."
"Wait, what do you mean that woman was your daughter, she's older than you!" Washu hit Calvin on the head with a fan marked 'WRONG!!'
"Actually, I am older than her, I just made myself look younger."
"Oooookay, so, are you..."
"Not from Earth, Correct. Tenchi and his father are the only ones in our group who were raised on Earth, and only his father is a full-blooded Earther."
"Okay, uh..."
"A lot to take in, huh?"
"Yeah..."
"Give it a moment." "
Were those symbols on the cards..."
"An alien language, yes and no. It's Jurian standard, or Japanese, in your terms."
"Why..."
"Is it like that? Because myself and the others usually speak it."
" Then why..."
" Are we speaking English? Well, I learned it the hard way, as for the others, let's just say I slipped something in their food a while back. Looks like it worked." Washu then cackled. Calvin was wondering if meeting her was good or bad. He hoped for the former.
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CH. 8 Missing Fingers
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Calvin was getting a little annoyed at the fact that Washu kept finishing his sentences, but decided not to say anything, not knowing what she might do. She kept talking about some "Language Serum" but lost him as soon as she said "Eukaryotic Cell Swapping". He was wondering how long he would stand there when he saw Sasami look around and run up.
" There you are, I was hoping nothing happened to you!" Sasami said.
" Don't worry, all the dangerous animals are on floor three, were still on floor one." Washu said. Sasami grabbed Calvin's arm and dragged him off while waving at Washu.
"Hope to see you at dinner!" Sasami yelled.
" I'll see you later then." Washu said. After gaining some distance, Sasami stopped.
" She didn't do anything to you, did she?" Sasami whispered. Calvin shook his head.
" No, why?"
" Well, I trust Washu, but sometimes she is a little...eccentric."
" You mean crazy?"
" She does call herself a mad scientist."
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A little later...
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They had left the lab quickly, however, Calvin had lingered at some displays.
" I hope you don't think I'm weird." Sasami said.
" It's not every day you meet a family of aliens." Calvin commented. Sasami frowned.
" But hey, I thinks it's kinda cool," he quickly said, " so what do you have to do around here?"
" Not much, I brought some board games. Why don't we see what everyone else is doing?" Sasami said. They looked around outside and saw Ryoko napping on the table Washu set up. Aeka left a note stating she was washing some of her clothes in the lake, since Washu had not set up a washing system. Tenchi and his father were nowhere to be found, so Sasami decided they were off fishing again. Sasami went back inside and checked Mihoshi's room (she was still sleeping). Calvin went and got a moderate sized box from his bag. He was waiting outside when Sasami came back out (she was cleaning up the game they left earlier). Calvin had a grin on his face (you know, The Grin) and Sasami was puzzled. " What's in the box?" she asked warily.
" Well, since your friend over there on the table jumped me, I decided to have a little payback." he said, and rattled the box. He opened it up and Sasami looked in. It contained a menagerie of fireworks; firecrackers, bottle rockets, ladyfingers, cherry bombs, m-80's, the works. He pulled out an M-80 and dug out a suspicious lighter from his pocket, it was white with a red crab.
" YOU DIDN'T TAKE THA..mmmph!" Sasami started to say before Calvin covered her mouth.
"SHHHH! Don't wake her up. Yeah I took it from her lab, I don't have any matches." Calvin whispered.
" But who knows what that could do!" Sasami said frantically.
" Lets find out!" Calvin said eagerly. He lit the M-80 and tossed it under the table. A loud pop was heard a few seconds later.
" AHHHH!" Ryoko yelled as she jumped from her slumber. Sasami had ran and hid behind a tree. Calvin was in doubled over laughing as she flew over steaming. " WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!" she screamed.
" An M-80!" Calvin said grinning. Sasami had a headache from watching this. ' He must be an idiot!' she thought.
" Really? I thought those were illegal in America." Ryoko said, surprisingly calm (she would never intentionally hurt a kid, you think she would start now?).
" They're the weaker type." Calvin said.
" Say, could I borrow one of them?" Ryoko asked. He dug one out of his box and held it out. She took it and disappeared, which startled Calvin. About ten seconds later he heard a small pop, followed by the loudest yell he had ever heard.
" YOU FOUL WRETCHED DEMON! YOU SHALL PAY FOR THIS!" he heard a female voice scream. Sasami, still behind the tree for shelter, sighed. Ryoko reappeared laughing.
" Thanks kid," she said, and ruffled Calvin's hair, " your not half bad." she then went off to the cooler, pulled out a large bottle, and went into the tent. " Tell me when Tenchi's back." she said over to Sasami, who had just now ventured from her hiding spot.
" Okay Ryoko." she said.
" Does something like this happen everyday?" Calvin asked as Aeka stormed into the tent with her hair smoking.
" Yeah." Sasami sighed.
