Alois couldn't remember the last time he slept so well. Here, in a secret bunker/superhero training facility beneath Buckingham palace, of all places. Not only were the beds more comfortable, the lack of "roommates" was appreciated as well. At the orphanage, he had to share a room with several other boys. Most of which he had to accredit most of his escapes to, since they agreed to keep their mouths shut and help him. They were okay, but having a room to himself was better by a long-shot. Normally he would also have to worry about nuns waking him up at ironically ungodly hours, but here, he could get up whenever he pleased. So far, he was liking this place.
His blissful rest was interrupted by a knock at the door, and the boy decided to cover his head with a pillow rather than answer it. Even though the knocking didn't cease, the blonde felt his body go numb once again as he feel asleep again. At last the perpetrator realized that the boy forgot to lock his door, and opened it.
It was none other than the bluenette who walked in, looking around the room curiously before setting his eye on the lifeless lump on the bed that was his friend. Ciel tilted his head at the boy's position. Alois was laying flat on his stomach with the blanket wrapped around his midsection, and his head under his pillow rather than on top of it. "Do all humans sleep this way?" he wondered.
The alien boy walked over to the edge of the bed, hesitating before calling the boy. "Al-Ois?" he said. "Al-Ois, you need to wake up." He poked the boy, hoping to get somekind of reaction out of him.
After repeating this action, with a little shaking of the boy, Alois finally woke up, suddenly lifting his head causing the pillow to slide off. He was gasping for air. Apparently he almost suffocated himself falling asleep face-down with a pillow on his head.
"Al-Ois?" the bluenette called, startling the other boy and causing him to retreat to the opposite side of the bed away from where the voice originated.
"What the hell?! You nearly scared the shit outta me!" the blonde shouted, trying to untangle himself from the python-like blanket.
"I was told by the Doctor to inform you that it is 'past noon', and that you still need to be fitted for your 'gear'." the other boy said, only understanding half of what the blonde was saying. "He did not mean that literally, did he?" he thought about the second half of what the blonde said.
"Oh my god! REALLY?!" the blonde asked, nearly sparkling with excitement. With that, he practically jumped out of bed and ran to the closet to get dressed. He turned around to look at the other boy. "Are you just going to watch, or what?" he asked.
"Koriand'r! Like I want to see that!" the other boy cursed with a slight pink hue added to the pigmentation of his face. "I will see you later." Thus, he turned and headed for the door.
"Hey, I don't blame you, man." the blonde said. "It's only natural to be curious about what the native species is packing underneath." Alois grinned as he heard the door slam.
Moments later, he was wondering why he even bothered to get dressed at all, as he was now in Doctor Durless' office stripped down to his underwear. He crossed his arms across his chest and furrowed his brow with a frown. He did not like this.
At first, it was like an ordinary check-up. Madame Red took the boy's temperature, checked is blood pressure, and listened to his heart-beat and such. Now he was being asked to bend over as far as he could and touch his toes, lift weights, run on a treadmill, as well as a series of other seemingly pointless tests all in his underwear. Never before had he been so humiliated- Scratch that. There was one other time, but that is to be revealed at another point in time.
"Your health is excellent, mister Trancy." the woman said, looking at her clipboard. "Now we can actually start measuring you."
"What, may I ask, was the point of all of that?" the boy said. He was not at all happy with this.
"To see if you are even physically capable of doing this job." she said plainly. "Unlike the others, you're just a normal boy. Therefore we're to take the best care that we can in order to ensure your safety."
"Does a 'normal boy' get offered to be a real-life superhero?"
"Well, no. However, it wasn't your strength or ability that got you this position. That was only part of it. The fact of the matter is that you are the only link between us and the Kuronians."
"So I'm just a pawn, then?"
The doctor set her clipboard down for a moment and looked at the boy. "We are all pawns, Alois. You, me, the others, all of us. However, I think you can really do this. The way you handled that robbery with only your wit, and what you had available was incredible. As far as I'm concerned, you really are vital to this team." she said.
"You really have a way with bullshitting people, don't you doc?"
"I try." she laughed. "Now, let's get down to business..."
For what seemed like an eternity, Alois was subjected to an rather long chain of awkward moments (awkward for him, anyway) before being sent along on his merry way. He was apparently the last to be measured, as the others had at least a basic idea of what their new uniforms would even look like. Members Grell Sutcliffe and Elizabeth Midford, however, were in custody for awhile, and actually had their suits.
Grell, was held in prison for a period of time, thus already in the governments hands. He was reclined on the couch with a grin, chainsaw beside him, already suited up. His costume had a red and dark grey colour-scheme to it, with spots of black on his shoes and shoulder, arm, and knee-pads. He wore black wrist-length gloves, with blood red running up his arms stopping just before the shoulder-pads, one of which had a big, red, "P5" on it. His midsection was the same shade of grey, reaching all the way down to his inner thighs and boots with that same, loud red at his sides. Even his mask was red, as was the circle that encased his insignia which was a black skull with heart-shaped eye-sockets, which along with it's teeth, filled in with red, of course.
The other one dolled-up in full superhero attire was Elizabeth, or "Lizzie", or "Lih-Zi", or whatever you want to call her. She too, wore a mask, but it was pink, as was the majority of her outfit, save the elbow-length gloves, knee-high boots, and logo which were all white. Her symbol was a four-pointed star for whatever reason. She was busily talking to Ciel about something.
"So what are your powers?" she asked excitedly. "There wasn't much information on either you, or Ti-An."
"Uh... 'super-strength' as Al-Ois calls it, and 'flight' are the only ones I know of." the bluenette replied. "I didn't have them on Kuron, and we have decided that it was due to the 'oxygen' of Earth."
"Weird, how something so ordinary can change a person's life." Alois said. The bluenette turned around and looked at him with a pleading look, so the boy walked over. "You have superpowers too, don't you, Lizzie?"
"Yeah, though they aren't as fun as flight or as useful as super-strength." she said sheepishly. Obviously, she was a bit nervous about talking about it, which is understandable. After gaining superpowers, would you want to tell the world? They might shun you or something!
"I can fire these 'lazer-things' from my hands." she finally said.
"No way!" the blonde said excitedly. "Like Starfire's 'starbolts'?!"
"Um... maybe?" she said, obviously not getting the reference.
"How'd you get 'em?"
"Well, my daddy's a general, and sometimes I would go to 'work' with him because he wants me to follow in his footsteps someday." she explained. "So I went to a lab with him, and there was an accident... It sounds stupid, I know..."
"No way! That's totally awesome!" the boy said, giving her a thumbs-up. He was really geeking out, now.
"Besides, if we are up against a foe who uses long-range attacks, I might not be able to get close at all." the bluenette added. "That's when you could be our only hope."
"Really?" the girl asked. "You guys are so nice! We're going to be the bestest friends ever!" she squealed, trapping both boys in a group hug from which there was no escape. While the blonde was quite calm about it, the alien boy was not so. Apparently, this is not something Kuronians do, as he tried to shrink away from the weird earth-girl's grasp.
Eventually she let go, and the other boy was able to see his face. He smirks at the other boy. "Clash of culture?" he asked. "Or something else?"
Ciel furrowed his brow. "It is unacceptable for males and females to embrace in such a way in public!" he said.
"Welcome to Earth, shorty." While he was in Madame Red's "lair", he was able to sneak a peek at the woman's clipboard, discovering that the blonde was slightly taller than his alien friend.
"But I saw Alois hug you yesterday, and you didn't seem mind at all." Elizabeth pointed out.
"Those are completely different things." Ciel said, crossing his arms. "On Kuron, men 'hug' all the time to show brotherly kinship or familiarity. That's different." he emphasized with a slight blush.
"Gay~!" the blonde said in a sing-song voice. The other boy tilted his head, waiting for an explanation. After all, his translator didn't pick up slang.
"What?"
"Alois! That's not nice!" Elizabeth shouted at the other blonde as he stuck out his tongue.
"I missed something, did I not?" asked Ciel.
"'Gay', as in 'homosexual', Ciel." the blonde said plainly. Elizabeth blushed, and Ciel had another confused look on his face.
"Is that wrong on Earth?" he asked. Now both of the humans blushed. Alois thought back to what was said right after the alien boy woke him up.
As a quick explanation, there are- excuse me, were statistically fewer females on Kuron as opposed to males. In fact this was so much of a problem, that the population would have died out after several hundred years or so had the planet survived at all. Naturally, there would be some... different interests developed over time. It was actually quite common to be in love with a female one day, and a male the next or vice versa. These cultural differences would naturally be misunderstood.
"Oh, well, uhm... It isn't really 'wrong', but it's, uh... uncommon." the blonde boy said awkwardly. He began to stare at the ground mid-sentence.
Suddenly, an eruption of laughter came from over on the couch, the "Crimson Death", being the culprit, of course. "'It isn't wrong', he says!" the man said through chuckles. "Face it, kid. There's people on Earth who downright hate the gays. You're just going to have to get used to it!"
"Why?" the bluenette asked.
"Because they're stupid, that's why." the blonde said, putting his hands in his pockets. "Anyone who is that afraid of someone they hardly know for the simple reason that they're different, are just plain stupid. So don't worry about it." he said, playfully punching the alien's arm.
"You're funny, blondie." the man with the shark-teeth said from his seat. "He has super strength! Why does he need to worry? I'd be worried more about myself, if I were you, kiddo!" Funny, how the most flamboyant of all of them seemed to be the most bigoted. His remarks made three of the teens blush.
"Look, you do not need to worry about me- ahem, 'attacking' you, Al-Ois." the bluenette said with his hands up. "It is only due to the fewer amount of women on Kuron. Most Kuronian men like both males, and females, if that makes you feel any better. The chance that I pose a threat to either of you because of that is absolutely none."
Alois nodded, and smiled, as did Lizzie. "So... how do the Kuronians, you know, have intercourse?" the blonde said, jokingly.
"Alois, that's gross!" shouted Elizabeth.
"Koriand'r, Al-Ois! What is wrong with you?!" demanded the alien boy.
"I'd kind of like to know, actually." said the rude ginger.
A/N: Dafuq?
Still not sure if there will be any actual CielXAlois yet, but this is setup for it, just in case. (It has been requested that Ciel be the seme...) If I get more requests for it, I'll toss it in there.
LIZZIE SHOOTS FREAKIN' LAZERS WHAT THE HAYLE?!
Grell's kind of a shithead, and Madame Red is pretty down with everythang, yo.
Meanwhile, Sebastian is nowhere to be found... (Hiding from Grell, probably...)
I have decided to myself that one of Ciel's alien swear-words is "Koriand'r!", as a reference to Starfire (that's her "alien name", peeps) from Teen Titans, who was also mentioned in this chapter.
I reference Teen Titans a lot, because Teen Titans is awesome.
If you have any reccomendations for more swears, feel free to shoot them my way~! Also, I'm not sure if I'll keep Sebastian as "The Black Star" (Soul Eater reference?) or which name I'll use for Alois. "The Purple Spider" or "Kid Dynamite"? What do you think? I seriously can't decide!
I feel like the audience should be involved. Since I posted it on the internet, it's no longer really just solely "mine", now is it?
It's everybody's shit now~!
Yeah, I'm totally a philosiphor, you guys/gals/Grells(?)
Until the next chapter, my duckies!
