Little Setsu-chan
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ML: I must say Taiyo-chan, I am impressed at this holiday universe you plan on creating. Even though you only did it on a whim. And since most probably you haven't planned it out all the way.
Why must you always discredit me?!
ML: It's what I do. I keep you in check and stop you from going way over your head.
(grumbling) Whatever. Just do the disclaimer already, Big Sis.
ML: Taiyo-chan does not own Gundam 00- chazu. She is just one of the millions of fans who wish that they could.
Love you guys! Ichinichi wo! Neeeeehhhhh!
Why do I do this again? Oh yeah, because it's so much fun!-
Chapter 7 – A Doctor's Appointment
Setsuna was not a happy camper.
This day has been a series of surprises for him and he did not like being surprised. First, he ended up in some kind of lab far away from his homeland in Krugis (There is no telling how mad Ali will be with him). Next, these three strange men find him and take him in. They acted as if they knew him and, though he was reluctant to admit it, it was kind of nice to be with them. And that little robot they had with them was nice to play with. He even got a chance to ride in the large robots- Gundams, he reminded himself- and it was so amazing. They were so high up and the ocean was so pretty and big he wondered how far it went.
Then he ended up at this island. Green-Eyes had told him it was their 'home base' and Setsuna figured that they were some type of resistance group as well. He wondered why he hadn't heard of them before. Once they were in, they met up with the leader lady. He thinks her name was 'Ms. Sumeragi'. She was really nice, although she seemed a bit scary to Green-Eyes, One-Eye, and Four-Eyes. And their was that little orange robot, Haro. Setsuna liked Haro. Haro made really good company and helped him get out of the meeting room. He wondered again if they could let him keep Haro. Or maybe give him his own. They probably had more of the little robots somewhere.
But right now, he was not happy. So he decided to get a closer look at the Gundams, big deal. However, it apparently was a big deal as Green-Eyes believed he may get himself hurt. And he deemed that reason enough to carry him around. Like a baby.
Setsuna once again kicked at the air, trying to get himself free. He glared up at Lockon. "Would you let go of me?" he demanded.
Lockon gave him a bemused look. "How about you promise first that you won't go running off like last time?"
Setsuna huffed in frustration. "I won't." He answered grudgingly.
Lockon nodded in approval before setting the young boy down. Once standing on solid ground, Setsuna looked up at Lockon before stepping on his foot. Of course, it didn't hurt very much since he was so small, but it still stung a little. Lockon swore under his breath and rubbed at his foot.
"Ow!" the Irish man exclaimed.
"That must have hurt." Allelujah muttered. Haro flew around saying "Must hurt! Must Hurt!"
"You little jerk!" Lockon said as he glared at the child before him. "That wasn't very nice."
Setsuna huffed. "I don't have to be nice to you."
Lockon muttered under his breath about 'jerkish former Gundam pilots who need to gain a sense of humor'. "Whatever. Lets just get you moving." He shepherded his dearest brothers (through heart and mind at least) down the brightly lit corridors once more.
"Where are we going anyways?" Setsuna asked as he grudgingly followed his caretakers.
"Well, first we're taking you to my room to find some clothes for you to where. They will have to do until we find you clothes your size." Allelujah explained as he turned a corner. "Then, we're going to take you to go see Dr. Moreno."
"Dr. Moreno?"
"Yeah. He's just going to give you a little check-up to make sure that you're healthy and all that kind of stuff." 'And make sure that there isn't anything else running around in your blood.' But Lockon didn't say that out loud.
Setsuna shifted back and forth on the balls of his feet, looking a bit uncomfortable. "Is it really necessary for me to visit him?" he asked quietly. He wished that he was able to avoid having a check-up if it wasn't all that necessary.
Lockon noticed the tone he was giving out and kneeled down beside him. "Hey, it'll be alright little guy. Moreno's a really great guy. There's no reason to be scared of him."
At the mention of the word 'scared', Setsuna turned and gave a defiant glare in Lockon's direction. "I'm not scared!" he hissed as he marched forward away from the two adults. He wasn't scared of something as silly as a doctor. He faced scarier things. No way was he afraid. Absolutely not.
…. Okay, maybe just a tiny little bit.
As Setsuna walked away, Allelujah turned towards Lockon and gave a glance that stated 'You need to go talk to him.' Lockon answered him with the 'You're not the boss of me' look. Allelujah retaliated with an 'I'll bring out Hallelujah' stare.
Damn, the Hallelujah stare wins every time.
"Hey little buddy, wait up!" Lockon quickly caught up with the miniature meister and matched steps with him. "I really didn't mean it that way. I was just under the impression that maybe you've never been to the doctors before." Setsuna hid his face under his bangs and Lockon raised his eyebrows disbelievingly. "Wait, you've never been to the doctors?"
"Never never! Never never!" Haro obediently repeated.
Setsuna looked a tad bit nervous as he answered. He couldn't let out too much information about himself. He still didn't know these people very well. Even if they were trying to be nice to him. "No. From where I was from, there were not many doctors to go to." 'Or the fact his family was unable to go to them.' But he didn't say that out loud.
"Well then, lucky for you Doc Moreno is the best at what he does." Lockon assured him as he looked at the surrounding hallway. "But enough of that, here we are!" Setsuna was pulled along to an electronic door. It was a light gray color, a sign at the top center reading "Lockon Stratos". The door was decorated with multiple stamps depicting numerous shamrocks, soccer balls, and photos of the rest of the Celestial being crew, along with photos of the Gundams. Setsuna raised an eyebrow at him as if saying 'What the heck is up with your door?'
Lockon smiled lightly at the child. "Don't judge my taste in decorations. Now then, let's find you some decent looking clothes. And Allelujah, try and find something in your room too!" the Irish man added to his friend. Allelujah just rolled his eyes slightly and walked further down the hallway to his bedroom. It looked just like Lockon's door except the nameplate had 'Allelujah Haptism' written on it. There were no decorations on the door (yet, for some odd reason, there were various indentions across the door.) Setsuna stopped staring when Lockon assured him into the small room.
While Setsuna looked around the room, Lockon went towards the dresser on the right wall and began sifting through it. He muttered to himself as he tried to find suitable clothing. "No, no, too big, too many dots, wait why do I even have this?" He pulled out a pink Hawaiian shirt with yellow flowers dotted all over it. He grimaced and threw the shirt behind him, not noticing that the shirt had landed on Haro.
Haro flew around the room, making many distressed noises that only Haro seemed to make. Setsuna watched the robot fly around blindly before he rammed into the wall and fell to the floor. The young boy stared as Haro flailed around in the brightly colored shirt before he became bored with the spectacle. He turned towards Lockon when he heard the older man let out a triumphant shout.
"Aha!" he cried as he pulled out a piece of clothing. It was a small short sleeved white shirt that had two blue stripes running down the sides. The ginger-haired man crouched down to Setsuna and held it out for him. "Here, try this on. It may be a little big, but it should fit you. It will be better than what you have on now." Setsuna nodded in agreement, shedding off the oversized flight suit and putting on the shirt. He wondered what he was doing with the suit anyways. It was much too large for him.
Allelujah's single gray eye peeked from around the doorframe before his entire head came out. "Hey, Lockon? I think I have something we could use." He pulled out from behind him a small pair of brown pants. The bottom of the legs was raggedly cut with jagged edges.
Lockon raised an eyebrow at the ragged cuts. "Where did you get that?"
Allelujah's cheeks went just a little bit pink (though it is mostly hidden by his dark skin) and explained. "They were a bit too long for him, so I cut off parts of the pants legs." Lockon had a feeling that he used one of the oh-so convenient knives that Hallelujah leaves after he has a fit. He wonders where they all go afterwards. Allelujah probably just sighs, shakes his head, and stores them somewhere in his room. Maybe. He's not really sure.
While Lockon was wondering where the location of the sharp objects his teammate's other personality has around, Allelujah decided to take initiative and help Setsuna get dressed into his temporary clothing. The shirt hangs just above his knees and the pants hang loose around his waist. Allelujah grabs something from off Lockon's desk – he thinks it's a piece of plastic, no wait it's a belt – and uses it to hold up the pants more securely on his body. When he was done, Setsuna now looked more like a street kid. Yet with his ruffled black hair and large eyes, he looked oddly adorable.
The child looked down at himself and wrinkled his nose at the attire he was wearing. "They're all too big."
"Don't worry about it. You'll probably only have them on for today." Allelujah reassured him as he got up from the floor. He grabbed Setsuna by his hand and led him out the door, while calling out to Lockon. "Come on, Lockon. We need to get going."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming." He muttered as he followed after them. He stopped and looked towards Haro. "Haro, stop fooling around and let's go."
"Haro need help. Haro need help." The robot flailed around pitifully on the floor, covered up by the pink monstrosity of a shirt.
Linebreak! Linebreak!
"Hmmmm." Dr. Moreno looked over Setsuna, taking his pulse, checking his reflexes and noting down everything he saw as examined the boy before him. Curious, he thought, very curious.
"So what's the prognosis, Doc?" Lockon asked from across the room where he and Allelujah had settled themselves in.
Dr. Moreno removed his stethoscope and turned around to look at both men. "Well gentlemen, I really do not know what to say. He's a little small for someone his age, which may be due to some malnutrition. I'll prescribe some vitamin supplements to help with that. His feet are covered with cuts; I'll contribute that to a lack of shoes. I'll just put some peroxide on them to keep out the chance of infection. Also, he is somewhat underweight, which I am sure can be fixed with a few good meals. Otherwise, he is perfectly fine." The doctor concluded this with a nod and looking through notes as he picked up his clipboard.
Lockon grinned at Setsuna and patted him on the head. "Did you hear that little buddy? He says you're all right."
Setsuna crossed his arms across his chest and gave Lockon a firm glare (pout).
Allelujah reached over and rested his hand on the young boy's arm. "Come now, it wasn't that bad."
"Not that bad! Not that bad!" Haro repeated dutifully from his place on the ground.
Setsuna continued to frown at them though a small part of his mind admitted that it was not as bad as he thought it would be. He is still unsure about the office they have him in. So much light and color and various tools hanging around. Though the smell of antiseptic in the air bothered him though. He was so used to the smells of gunpowder and dirt that the sharp scent in the doctor's office made his nose sting just a little. He fought down the urge to rub furiously at his nose.
"Lockon, Allelujah, can I speak to you for a few moments please?" Dr. Moreno called to them from his desk.
"Sure thing, Doc. Hey little buddy, could you just stay there for a little while?" Lockon turned to Setsuna who raised an unimpressed eyebrow at him but obliged to the request nonetheless. The two Meisters walked over to the doctor and waited for him to begin talking.
"This is truly one of the strangest cases that I have ever seen." Dr. Moreno started. "Not only has his mental state been regressed to when he was nine years of age, but his physiology as well. It is like his body has been regressed to the state that it originally was when he was this age. Every characteristic from there, he has it. I have a sneaking suspicion that even though he does not remember any of us, they are not gone completely."
Lockon's forehead crinkled as Allelujah asked "How far have you gotten with decrypting the disk of Dokuma's Tieria gave you?"
The blonde shook his head as he began typing on his computer. "I will tell you one thing. Even though he is a psychopath, Dokuma was a very smart psychopath. The number of firewalls and viruses this disk holds would make even the universes' best technician think twice before going into it."
"But you could break it right?" Lockon questioned further.
"Perhaps." Dr. Moreno pursed his lips. "I will have to call in a few friends of mine, but I believe I will be able to decrypt the disk. However, it will take me about a week, two weeks earliest to be able to get inside. Only then will I be able to gain information on the serum he used and create an antidote."
Lockon sighed. "Thanks Doc."
Suddenly, there was a crash behind them and the sound of many objects falling to the ground. The three adults turned around to where they left the sole child and robot.
Apparently Haro had flown up to Setsuna and the two of them were playing a rousing game of catch with Haro bouncing himself off the wall at various angles and Setsuna catching him and throwing him back. However, it appeared that Haro had launched himself a little too hard and bounced out of control. A tray loaded with medical instruments went spiraling into the air and clattered onto the ground.
Setsuna looked surprised at the mess he adversely created before he noticed the stares of the adults in the room.
The four of them stared at each other for an indefinite amount of time before Haro began flopping around on the floor.
Setsuna instantly pointed a finger at the tiny robot. "He did it."
"Did not! Did not!" Haro spluttered around on the floor indignantly at the accusation.
Setsuna, however, countered with a serious face. "Yes you did."
Lockon let out a few surprised chuckles as he listened to the exchange. Allelujah shook his head in exasperation as he reached to pick up the tools while Dr. Moreno looked on with an amused expression on his face.
"All right you two enough playing around. The good doctor is a very busy man. Let's get out of his hair." Lockon stated as he walked over to the troublemakers. Haro hopped around his feet eagerly as Setsuna hopped down from the examination table. "Later Doc."
"Goodbye Doctor." Allelujah waved at him. "Sorry about the mess."
Haro shouted "Bye bye! Bye bye!" while Setsuna silently waved back to him.
The four of them exited the office, leaving Dr. Moreno alone in his office.
"Curioser and curioser." Dr. Moreno mumbled under his breath as he set to work on decrypting the disk. It was going to be a long night.
- All of this is still such a fun thing to do!-
WOOOOOO! (Performs cartwheels across the room) WOOOOOO! (Does another lap of cartwheels across the room) WOOOOOO!
(ML and Setsu-chan walk into the room)
WOOOOOO! (Cartwheels again)
Setsu-chan: How long do you think she can keep that up?
WOOOOOO!
ML: I'm not sure. She's been trying to get this chapter done for ages so she's a bit excited-chazu.
WOOOOOO!
Setsu-chan: A bit?
WOOOOOO!
ML: ….Yeah you're right she's way hopped up. I blame the sweets that she gets in the middle of the night.
Setsu-chan: Sweets?
ML: Midnight snacker. Sometimes-chazu.
Setsu-chan: Ah.
WOOOOOO!
ML: Well since it looks like she won't be coherent for a while so I guess I'll do the talking. We hoped that you all enjoyed this chapter. We know that you all have been waiting for this for a very, very long time. Sorry for making you wait for so long-chazu.
WOOOOOO!
Setsu-chan: Is she going to be like this all day?
ML: Most likely. This has probably inspired her to finish the rest of the chapters she's working on at the moment today-chazu.
(Stops momentarily) Your damn right it makes me want to finish everything else! (Continues on with cartwheels) WOOOOOO!
Setsu-chan: (Deadpan) Crazy person.
ML: Goodbye everyone and have a nice day. Look out for more posts.
Later guys! WOOOOOO!