"School House Rock."
Written By Calum Traveler.
"So lemme get this straight," Ryuuko began, "this Nui girl's your adopted little sister-" Satsuki nodded. "-Your mother is an insane psycopath who wants to cover the world in cloth fibers and blow up the entire planet-" Satsuki nodded again. "-And Nui was sent to murder my father because he was building Senketsu and the scissor blades in resistance, but instead of Nui killing him and returning home with anything, some imaginary friend kills my dad instead and they...what? Run off skipping into the sunset while my house burns behind them?"
"That about sums it up," Satsuki took a sip of her tea. "For years now, Nui has... been unhinged, even more so than before. Or so we thought. Ragyo grew increasingly... concerned that Nui would not follow orders once the time came. When Nui went off the radar, our 'mother' put all of her attention elsewhere. As far as I know, Ragyo hasn't even heard of your appearances here at Honnouji." She paused, "Of course, she did hear of my swiping Junketsu from the family vault, but I managed to pass that off as concern that 'if someone had killed Nui, they may be after me next', and that I'd need it for protection, and after that, Ragyo has completely ignored my actions here... Naturally, if I report to her that Nui was sighted, she'll review everything up until now..."
Ryuuko and Satsuki were currently sitting in Satsuki's grand [Student Council Chamber] after the results of the interupted Naturals Election. Ryuuko had made it to fighting Satsuki, and so the older girl kept good on her promise to explain everything.
"Ah, yeah...this really is quite a pickle, isn't it?" Ryuuko stared flatly ahead at one of the giant television monitors on the wall. "So what exactly are we supposed to do about it?"
"My plan was to get you to work alongside me, and have the Elite Four stand underneath us," Satsuki explained. "We were to stand together and back stab Ragyo all at once when she shows up for the Sports Festival."
"Sports?" Ryuuko asked, raising and eyebrow.
"Essentially a test bed for the Life Fiber overwrite that she plans for the rest of the earth," Satsuki explained. "I don't intend to let that happen, but given Nui's recent involvement..."
"What can we do?" Senketsu asked, and Ryuuko echoed the question.
"For now? Not much except hold back on the report until we actually understand what went down," Satsuki began to plan. "That creature...apparently it's not just a figment of Nui's imagination. It isn't one of her constructs either- it's too... too foreign in its design."
"That's true," Senketsu agreed. "I never sensed a single life fiber coming from that monster. The girl was absolutely humming with them, however."
"So we've got an interloper then," Ryuuko summarized. "You said 'constructs' earlier, does that mean Nui's got some control over Life Fibers?"
"Our 'mother' was actually the 'father' in Nui's birth," Satsuki grimaced. "Ragyo contributed some of her DNA to the Original Life Fiber, and Nui was born as a hybrid."
"Original...?" Ryuuko blinked. "Life Fiber?"
"The [ORIGINAL LIFE FIBER] was the alien creature slash seed ship that descended on earth well before written history had began," Satsuki explained. "They chose a life form to evolve into 'sentient' and 'human' and did such. It's why humans wear clothes while other beasts do not. Life Fibers wove themselves into new clothes and their hosts wore them, feeding off of the life energy of their hosts."
"But why not hybridize like Nui?" Ryuuko asked.
"It's extremely risky," Satsuki glanced to the side. "I once had a younger sister that wasn't Nui. Ragyo experimented on her shortly after birth, implanted life fibers in her... She died in that experiment, and it drove my father mad. He told me what had happened and what I should do to control Junketsu. Life Fibers need to be woven in certain ways into a living body or else they short circuit the nervous system. For them, being worn is the only way to live. ...But my father soon died before I could learn more, or we could plan together. Ragyo had him killed. A 'car accident', I was told."
"What a Bitch!" Ryuuko snarled slightly. "She's just a regular old father killer, isn't she?"
"Apparently so," Satsuki smiled, ever so slightly. Then it was squashed away. "At any rate, I've used Nui's...apparent air-headedness as a distraction away from myself, as I've said. This academy, the Uniforms, everything has been built up all in preparation for the moment we run Ragyo through and through."
"From what I've heard," Ryuuko said, "you can count me in. Even if she didn't deliver the killing blow, she's still responsible for sending Nui at my father. I want that bitch's head on a silver platter."
"Oh we're most definitely going to do that too," Satsuki nodded. "Her connection to the Life Fibers... it may have twisted her beyond human. I only have my suspicions, but given that her hair is practically a rainbow-"
"Wait, what?" Ryuuko went to interrupt when, suddenly, there was a burst of feedback from the P.A. system.
"What now?" Senketsu grumbled.
"Ahhem, Ahhem," came a suave voice that few in this world would recognize as Ryouma Mogami's. "Testing, one two three. Can you hear me?"
"Yup, Ryou~me! Loud and clear!"
"NUI!" Satsuki shot straight up.
"Hello, Honnouji Acadamey," Ryouma began speaking into Principal's microphone. "This is [Mogami, Ryouma] Speaking, you may also know me better by another name, [Quartzmon]."
There was a shudder through the building at his true name being spoken.
"Why am I speaking to you?" Ryouma shrugged, "Well, we're just here having fun, really. Me and my girl..." He glanced to Nui and held out the Microphone.
"Hiiiii~!" Nui waved at it, even as she jumped on the hog-tied Principal's back like he was a trampoline. (Thankfully without shoes of any kind, especially the high heels she'd been wearing before.) "[Nui Harime-chan] at your service! Ja-jaan!"
"Isn't she adorable?" Ryouma asked with a chuckle.
From a random Classroom, Mako tried her hardest to pull open the doors, even as Ryouma continued.
"Now, some of you may have noticed that I've locked the doors to every single room in Honnouji. Nui and I happen to be behind just one of them," Ryouma's smirk could be heard as he chuckled. "Find us in time? Well, we'll leave you alone until it suits us to come bug you again. Fail to find us?"
A pause.
"We'll play games every day until the end of time!" Nui's voice followed, giggling all the way.
"What a creepy weirdo!" Mako narrowed her eyes before taking a deep breath and "RAAAAH!" tore the sliding classroom door off of its hingers.
Inside, one Shinjiro Nagita looked over at his side, where Maiko Ogura sat next to him, and said, "Woah! She's pretty strong!"
"Definitely!" Maiko agreed.
~Don't Lose Your Waaayyy~
KABLAM! a Door exploded.
"[LIFE FIBER SYNCHRONIZE! KAMUI SENKETSU!]" Ryuuko stepped out through the exploded door to the room she and Satsuki had been in, and glared out into the hallways. "Alright," she began, "Where the hell is the Principal's office?"
Satsuki stepped out a moment later, glanced around, and then said, "To the left, then the second right, down a floor-"
"Forget that! I'm taking the express route!" Ryuuko just tore out her scissor blade and cut a giant circle in the floor- dropping down one level without actually having to go through the first two steps.
"-Or we could just go cutting holes in the floor, that works too," Satsuki muttered to herself, and mentally added up a talley of expenses that would be needed to fix the damage before jumping down after Ryuuko.
"RYUUKO-CHAAAAN!" Mako yelled out as she ran down the halls- pulling random classroom doors open and quite resoundingly breaking the locks every time as she then looked inside to see if her friend was inside, and then left for the next room just as immediately due to Ryuuko not being there.
Naturally, in the process of doing this, she'd drawn a small following of Gamagori, Ira, and Jakzure, Nonon, plus a handful of One Star students who were just following due to the impressive sight of a No-Star breaking every single door.
"I gotta hand it to that underachiever," Nonon remarked, "she's got a way with tearing down doors."
Gamagori was silent, instead fighting back a blush as he watched Mako tearing doors down with as much ease as he himself had with the door that had suddenly swung shut in his face just a few minutes earlier.
"Okay- Question," Satsuki ventured as Ryuuko slashed a wall open. "Are you just destroying walls now in an effort to find Nui as quickly as possible, or are you just doing it to damage the building? Because there was a perfectly good door right there that you could have just kicked down."
"Bit of both, honestly," Ryuuko chuckled, stepping over a small chunk of wall that was barely hanging onto the aformentioned door into the reception room of the Principal's office. "Oi! Nui! If you're in here, come on out! I want my sword's twin!"
The principal's office door swung open, and the Principal's head peeked out.
"Neigh!" He said, most of his face whited out, and a harnes made up of life fibers grit between his teeth as Nui rode him out through the door- grinning much like a young child would riding on their very own pony.
Ryuuko and Satsuki just stared on in abstract horror. Finally, it was Senketsu who broke them out of their silence with a simple three word statement which made Ryuuko repeat it in slightly different phrasing, "What the hell is wrong with this girl?!"
"Yaaay!" Nui clapped her hands. "You win the game!" She leaned back in her 'mount' and caleld through the door, "Ryou~Me, tell 'em what they won!"
And then out through the door strode Ryouma, wearing a business suit that looked like it belonged on a game show.
"Weeeelll! They've won a whole month of no interfeerence from us whatso ever!" And then a big block of subtitles appeared behind him, practically breaking down the wall in the process, reading:
[Offer subject to change by the whims of the offering parties.
Offer not valid in Sweets Zone, Tokyo City, Canyon Land,
Valenwood, The Shivvering Isles, Hawaii, Alaska, or Canada.]
"CONGRATULATIONS!" the Principal suddenly yelled- even as Nui and Ryouma clapped rapidly...
And then the two of them disappeared in a blink of the eye as the subtitles behind them popped like baloons.
"Now this I can safely report," Satsuki said flatly. "I think..."
Mako came running up mere moments later- "Woah! What a battle! Mako missed it already!" She turned to Ryuuko, "You really blew the place up, didn't you, Ryuuko-chan?"
"neigh," was all the Principal said in the void of silence that was Ryuuko's blank stare.
A.N.: I literally have no idea with this one.
