Sunday 6-3-07

Okay, I'll admit it; I was being a major slackbitch by not posting this for so long. I mean, seriously. I wrote it back in October or November. I really don't have an excuse for not having posted it before now. But I'll tell you why I didn't anyway.

I was lucky enough to find the 4-disk box set and bought it immediately. Now, before then, I had only seen the first 3 disks. Upon seeing the 4th disk, I fell into a depression. It was so anti-climactic! And all the bloody plot-holes and contradictions! I realize I'm being hypocritical about that but at least I'm not a professional writer! Not only that, but I had already been anticipating how to write to the end of this fanfic and it turns out that I was completely off on my guesses. (Although I did figure out about Saito's assistant long before the end. :D) Okay, it's a pretty lame reason but it's the best I've got.

-sighs- I guess I should stop moaning' and bitchin' already so you can read chapter 3, right? Well too bad. Because I still haven't given my credits yet. I do not own Generator Gawl or its characters, places etc. I only own my OC characters/bots and my personal hentai daydreams. There it's out. Now read chapter 3 already, you mofos.

Chapter 3: Distractions and Misunderstandings

Crystal awoke that September 2nd with a start when Jewels gently shook her, and she would have fallen out of her makeshift bed in the treetop had her elder sister not grabbed hold of her. The better natured cyborg silently pointed down to the ground below them, where the newly arrived time travelers Koji, Gawl and Ryo were talking in hushed tones. Neither Crystal nor her sister had the chance to listen in before the three began to move through the foliage towards the edge of the forest.

The girls silently followed them, eventually watching the three exiting the forest on the opposite side that the two of them had entered it from, though they themselves stayed in the trees to listen in undetected. Ryo, leading the unlikely group, stuck his head out of the shelter of the trees just as a strangely familiar looking girl sped by on her bike.

"I can't believe her!" The brunette yelled. "I'm gonna be so late they're gonna kill me! This day sucks!" and in a moment, she was gone.

Ryo's expression was that of astonishment as he watched her fly by. "Did you see that?" he asked his companions. "That girl was riding a bicycle!"

"Gee, Ryo." Gawl strode up alongside the blonde and glanced around. "I just never had you for an antique kind of guy. Whoo, look at that!" There was absolutely no pause between the two streams of thought. The two sisters were shaking from suppressed laughter at his seeming attention deficit disorder, even as he rushed off to the middle of a nearby bridge over a small river. "Wooow…" Gawl said in wonder as he looked over into the river. "The water's so clear you can see yourself in it!" He motioned to his two friends as they approached. "Hey you guys gotta come look at this! It's awesome!"

'He's so excited over some water.' Crystal thought to herself. 'I knew that the radiation and toxins from the war will leave the planet pretty bad off, but his reaction… it's like the very idea of clean water is astounding. How sad.' She sighed despite herself. 'It's pretty amazing the things we take for granted sometimes.'

Meanwhile Ryo and Koji were ignoring their comrade and discussing other states of affairs. "Everything is how it should be." Ryo said mildly.

"Everything except our guest last night." Koji reminisced.

Ryo sighed and smiled at his tall associate, even as Gawl's expression fell with the downbeat discussion. "You're right… as usual." Ryo conceded. "Let's go."

Gawl brightened up again and pointed downstream. "Hai! That way!"

Ryo sweatdropped slightly, obviously already regretting asking. "Why there?"

Gawl was grinning. "Because Ryo, that's the way she went."

Without even realizing it, Crystal's cheerful look was gone in an instant with that remark from annoyance. 'Males!' was all the thought she needed to mentally articulate her exasperation with the other half of her race. Even by the year 2XXX, when the very human genome had been altered to create generators, the basic one-track mind of the human male was basically the same. 'Hopeless…'

Koji was there to shoot him down in a second. "Newsflash buddy, you didn't travel all this way just to meet girls." He didn't exactly say it in a mean way, but it was enough to get Ryo to try to intervene.

"Okay, you're going to have to be really focused on this, Gawl. This is serious." Ryo finally gave the area around him a look. "Now where do we start looking?" His eyes wandered from building to building, and he hardly even seemed to notice the ring tower structure that defined Ouju. The three looked at each other for a moment and shrugged in unison.

Looking downstream again, "Ah!" Gawl said before starting off. Ryo reached out to him to stop him, but Gawl kept on going and interrupted him before he even had a chance to start. "Leave it to me!" Gawl said with a wave. "You want focus, I'll give you focus!"

As Gawl ran downstream a ways to talk to an elderly woman, Jewels made a small noise of surprise. "I forgot!" She whispered tensely, "We need to go find that phone booth!"

"What phone-" Crystal started to ask, but then remembered suddenly part of the dream wherein the mysterious voice told her what to do. The three would hack a phone booth's wire. The information resulting from which would force them to join Ohju's academy. "-Damn! What're we waiting around for? Let's go!"

Jewels and Crystal stayed hidden till they were out of eyeshot of the three boys. They left the safety of the forest and began to urgently look for the red phone booth from their dream. After running for several blocks, they finally found it tucked away behind a corner. "There!" Jewels hollered at Crystal across the road. "Found it!" She waved Crystal over and hopped into the booth. "Okay, I want to check on a few things real quick. What was the name of the original Kubare again?" She asked as she used her bracelet to make a wireless connection with the phone line.

"Auge." Crystal answered, then paused. "You don't think they'll be able to find out anything about that scientist yet, do you?"

"No." Jewels said, closing her eyes for better focus. "This'll take me a minute, make sure they don't walk in on me."

"Will do." Crystal said, turning away. "Keep your 'mental cell' on though. You may need to get out of there in a hurry." These 'mental cells' as the two had come to think of them, was a phone-like connection they shared through their cyborg abilities. With a slightly changed state of mind, they could 'call' each other up mentally and converse. It was very much like telepathy for psychics, though much more clear. Crystal moved back onto the main street for a better view.

She sat at the corner side coffee house on the opposite side of the road, waiting anxiously for Jewels to finish her job and appear. However, she wasn't the first one to appear, Koji, Gawl and Ryo had caught up. 'Jewels!' She mentally cried out to her sister. 'Mayday, mayday! The time travelers are approaching the phone booth!'

The mental response came back in an instant. 'Can't you hold them off for just a minute? I'm almost done!'

'Roger.' Crystal looked around desperately for something she could do without revealing herself, and saw several urchins playing at war with each other. She leapt up from where she sat and rushed over to them. "How'd you four like to make an easy American dollar each?" She asked restlessly.

The four children glanced at each other in curiosity at why this giant of a girl would be offering them money. The biggest of them, apparently their 'leader' threw his shoulders back and asked, "How easy?"

Crystal was getting more and more jumpy as she saw Ryo stop the three and look over at the phone booth. From their angle, Crystal knew they couldn't see inside the booth, but that would change soon if she didn't hurry. "You see those three boys my age over there? In the red and black suits?" She asked, pointing over at the three. "All you'd have to do for me is distract them, er, keep them from getting over to that phone booth for a minute or so."

"Whaddaya care if they get to the phone-" the urchin was about to ask as Crystal interrupted him.

She desperately whipped out four-dollar bills. "This is what we like to call, 'a limited time offer'. Deal?"

The four children's eyes widened and the first child took the bills from Crystal with a grin, waving to his friends. "Deal, lady!"

Crystal sighed in relief as the four rushed off. They hid behind assorted trashcans and streetlights. Just as the three boys were about to turn the corner of the building, the kids began to throw small rocks at them.

She laughed despite herself from the mixture of her adrenaline rush and watching the three steadily growing more annoyed. Gawl eventually became so irked that he chased the kids off as they laughed mischievously.

Jewels then appeared seemingly from out of nowhere at Crystal's side back at the coffee house. "You bribed little kids to do your dirty work?" She asked playfully of her sister.

"It worked didn't it?" Crystal said, pulling out a seat for her. They watched as Koji, Gawl and Ryo finally were allowed to go around the corner and up to the phone booth, out of sight. "So," She said finally. "You want to just get a quick lunch here before we go to the academy for that entrance exam?" She waved at a building across the street. "We'd probably be eating either here or at that burger-joint."

"Sure. Anyway, did you figure out anything important from watching them?" Jewels asked.

"Hai." Crystal said brightly, another trick presenting itself to her. "The blonde one has the cutest butt."

Jewels turned bright red and looked away. "I did not need to know…"

Surprised that she had fallen for such an obvious joke Crystal said quickly and indignantly. "I was kidding!"

Jewels smiled weakly and with some embarrassment & looked away again.

"Oh look, there's Gawl again." Jewels pointed across the street to where Gawl had stomped out from the alleyway.

They both automatically enhanced their hearing to focus on what he was muttering to himself. "-don't know how much it takes outta me!" He finished with a sigh. Finished with his moping, he looked around and spotted… the burger joint? Crystal and Jewels glanced at each other as he went right up to the entrance, but then crouched down to peek inside through the glass doors. "Perfect. There's still a monetary system." He growled under his breath. "I knew I should have paid more attention in history!"

Both Gawl and the two sisters jumped a little when a girl with reddish brown hair dressed in a ridiculous pink and orange uniform yelled, "HEY!" Both girls had a ringing in their ears from the volume of her yell as the girl glared down at Gawl with an ugly expression. Several moments passed before she continued. "So what can I get for you, Sir? Listen pal, this ain't Sonic. If you wanna order something, I'm not bringing it out to you!"

"I-I'm just looking at the menu." Gawl stuttered, still on his knees with his hands on the glass. "That's all!"

"Geez, what's her problem?" Jewels muttered.

"What I want to know is what in all the seven hells is that thing on her head?" Crystal said quietly back. "Looks like a freaking coffee can… and what is with those bubble things?"

"They are weird." Jewels giggled, agreeing. "But, hey, doesn't she seem familiar?"

"You're looking from all the way out here?" The girl asked sarcastically of him. "What d'you have, superpower sight or something?"

Gawl glanced away from the angry girl. "Aw, kid, you don't even know the half of it." He said to himself quietly. "Uh, I said I was just looking!" Gawl was apparently getting pretty irritated too.

"I got it!" Jewels said, sitting up in her chair. "She's that girl on the bike from this morning! The one who was yelling something or other about how she was late for work. That must be why she's being so snotty."

"No…" Crystal said mildly in an undertone. "I mean, hai, it's the same girl, but I think we're remembering her from somewhere else."

Crystal and Jewels looked at each other for a moment, then understanding shot between them "It's her!"

"Well, quit looking, and come in and get something to eat!" The girl hissed.

Gawl livened up immediately. "You'll let me eat here!?" He nearly shouted with excitement.

The girl pulled back with a surprised cry. Then, composing herself said with a strained smile. "Well, hai. Why wouldn't I?"

"She's the one whose house we're all going to be living in?!" Jewels asked Crystal excitedly. "No way. That's just too weird!"

"Says the cyborg?" Crystal said back. "Maybe it's not so weird. I mean, there's coincidence, and there's co-incidence." Seeing Jewels' confused expression she continued. "There are things that just happen to happen at the same time, then there are things that happen for a reason, even if we simpleminded humans can't see what that reason is… Ah, never mind. I'll explain it to you later, let's keep watching."

Gawl's expression fell to depression again; so dramatically different from the happy one that Jewels and Crystal could see the difference even without enhanced vision. "So uhm… Did, did you… Did you feed all those people?" He asked timidly, pointing inside.

The girl glanced inside for a moment before looking back down again. "Well duh."

"But I, uh, don't have any money…" Gawl said.

"You don't?" The girl asked, suddenly curious. "So what are you, broke?"

Gawl just nodded unhappily. "But, maybe you can help me out?"

She was back on the defensive again. "Huh?" She looked at Gawl closely for a moment. "Huh… wait a sec… I believe I know just who you are." Gawl, Crystal and Jewels all stiffened for a moment in apprehension. "You're that hentai who's been stalking all the fast food places around town!" She pointed at him accusingly as she yelled at him. "Hold it right there, you little freak!" She looked around quickly. "How come there's never a cop around when you need one?" She pondered aloud before yelling again. "Help help, police!"

"Keep it down you crazy-" Gawl yelped as he turned to get away from the shrieking girl.

Her voice was near demonic as she grabbed hold of Gawl's shirt collar and dragged him back, "Get back here!"

"Hey!"

Crystal and Jewels stared in pure astonishment, and just a bit of trepidation at the scene in front of them. At the small Japanese girl holding onto Gawl by his shirt and shrieking at the top of her lungs until the police arrived. "What took you so long?!" She asked angrily.

"We got here as fast as we could…" A police officer with massive sideburns and a strange accent was saying before the girl started yapping again.

"On what? A camel? Here I am, risking life and limb to apprehend this criminal. And what are you guys doing? Eating doughnuts?"

"Well, waffles actually…" The other officer said timidly as the first took custody of Gawl.

"I could have been killed!" She yelled at them. "Look at him! You can tell by looking at him he's crazy!"

People from all over the area were grouping around to watch the 'fast-food-stalker' being detained by the police. So only Jewels noticed Koji and Ryo come around the side of the building and see the scene, and she nudged Crystal to alert her to their presence.

"Now, now, why don't you just calm down and tell us what happened." The second cop said.

"What happened? What happened? I'll tell you what happened!" The girl was yelling as Koji and Ryo hesitantly approached the crowd. "He's a hentai!" She made a face to make her point. "He's the fast-food-stalker!"

"She's nuts, officer! And don't flatter yourself, babe!" Gawl yelled, more at her than the cops.

One of them tried to get him into the police car that was parked on the street. "Let's go, lover boy."

Crystal and Jewels overheard Koji and Ryo as they came right up to the scene. "Oh no…" Ryo moaned.

His statement was followed by Koji's "I'll kill him."

Gawl looked up at the cop pleadingly, "I'm innocent, officer."

"Hai, that's just what they all say, son." The cop interrupted him. Gawl was just about to get into the police car when he saw Koji and Ryo, and shot up again promptly. A little too suddenly for the policeman, as Gawl's head whacked into him and knocked the officer out cold. "Uggghhhh…"

"Ryo! Koji!" Gawl cried out excitedly before noticing the policeman unconscious on the ground behind him. Everyone stared at Gawl in disbelief. Gawl sweatdropped and scratched his head as he looked back to his friends apologetically. "Eh-heh-heh-heh…"

The policeman was eventually revived and they drove Gawl away, to be followed by Koji and Ryo on foot. Jewels and Crystal just sat stock still as they absorbed what had just happened.

"What would you two like to drink?" The waitress at the coffee shop asked, holding her little notebook up, ready to write. Seeing their dazed faces, she laughed and walked away. "A little thrown off by all the excitement, huh? I'll be back in a few."

Jewels and Crystal sighed in unison and shook their heads. "This is going to be an… interesting few months, isn't it, Onee-chan?" Jewels asked.

"Somehow, I get the feeling that we have no idea how interesting." Crystal replied uncertainly. "Too late to think about now though." She continued and picked up a menu. "Got to get some brain food before the entrance exam!"

Jewels smiled back at her and did the same. "That's the plan. We take the exam, pass with flying colors,"

"-But not too high scores." Crystal interrupted warningly. "What say, no higher than 92?"

"fine." Jewels answered without skipping a beat. "Then we can go get our room at that crazy girl's house. Hey, do you get the feeling that we weren't the only ones watching that little incident over there? I mean, like us, who actually knows who Gawl is?"

"No, and I'm getting okonomiaki." Crystal said distractedly as she grinned at a far off store. "Before we take the test though… there's something I want to get."

END CHAPTER 3

Yeah, hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Wow, re-reading this reminds me of how much this story has changed from the original! For instance, in the original Jewels went and bought Gawl a burger herself before Masami could freak out and call the police. But where would the fun be in that?

You may also notice that I've started incorporating a few Japanese words into the story. Here is what they mean. (to the best of my admittedly limited knowledge.)

Hai: yes or yeah

Onee-San: Elder sister

Onee-Chan: Younger sister

Okonomiaki: (a Japanese pizza-like dish)

Hentai: pervert or perverted

Ummm-kay. I dunno what else to put here… Oh, yeah. I've drawn some pictures to represent each chapter and I'll be posting the htmls for each chapter soon so you can see them. : ) They're not particularly well drawn, even for me, but the idea was just to show 3 significant things about each chapter. (and to show ya'll what some of the characters look like. :D )

I guess that's all. Now I have to go finish that English paper that was due two weeks ago… (Sorry Mr. Lord…)