Don't own Psychonauts. Now read.
Text Guide:
"Go" Normal speech
'Away' normal thoughts
'freak' telepathic speech, broadcasted thoughts, whatever you want to call it.
SC: This is kind of a filler chapter, but they go through Sasha's mind and go to sleep, so… oh! And there's AlxKisa fluff!
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Chapter 10What happened to the cube?
As the kids looked around Sasha's mind, which looked the same as it did last time Kisa, Alphonse, and Sarah were there, and found it quite boring compared to the minds that they'd visited today.
Emily raised her hand. "Um, Sa- er, Agent Nein? What are we supposed to do, exactly?"
Sasha smiled. Sarah and Alphonse suddenly knew that their father was plotting something. "Just one moment, Emily." He stepped on an invisible button, and the large cube they were sitting on suddenly started to shake. Walls the same pattern as the ground they were standing on shot up, separating most of them. Alphonse and Kisa jumped back, and into each other, as walls shot up on either side of them, cutting them off from Emily, Sarah, and Eli. Misha and Tony had been late.
"You will need to find your way through the maze, destroying any obstacle in your path." Sasha, who was sitting on one of the littler cubes floating through his head, smirked to himself. "And just to let you know, all the obstacles are fireproof, Confusion proof, and cannot be destroyed by throwing them into something else via Telekinesis."
Alphonse groaned. "He is so overdoing it."
"Hey, he's your dad." Kisa muttered, starting to walk forward.
Alphonse ran slightly to catch up with her. "Kisa? About earlier, in your dad's mind? I… erm…" 'Oh god, did I just say "erm"? That isn't even a word!' "I wanted to apologize for reading your mind."
Kisa slowed down to a reasonable pace. "It wasn't completely your fault. I should've had my shields up."'
Alphonse sighed. "So, we're good then?"
"Yeah. We're good, Alphonse."
"Al."
"What?"
"You… can call me Al." He blushed slightly.
Sasha, who was watching all of this, couldn't help smiling. But this was a training course, not somewhere for Alphonse to flirt, as much as he needed to practice. In a very out of character moment, Sasha decided 'what the heck', and made a Censor door pop up in front of them. Both of them jumped and PSI Blasted the little, stamp-wielding enemies into pieces.
His eyebrows rose as he saw Kisa's bullet ricochet off of not three Censors, but six! There was no way she could have improved that much within a day… now he was sure of it. Kisa had done something in her mind that released a lot of power. He was going to keep an eye on her.
Al looked at Kisa. "Whoa, when'd you get the next upgrade?"
She shrugged. "Lots of practice paid off I guess." She grabbed his hand in a sudden streak of boldness. "Come on, I wanna go shoot more stuff!"
Sasha chuckled quietly. Kisa Aquato was definitely her father's daughter. 'I had better check on Sarah.' He thought, levitating over to a different cube. Sarah, Sarah… ah, there she was. And she was fighting a Strong Arm Censor. Of course, Sarah had to have found one of the only outlets with one of those. Sasha sat back and watched as she shot at it, then went Invisible as it came closer, ran behind it (he was tracking her psychic energy as she did this; hey, it's Sasha's head!), and started shooting again. Finally, it blew up, releasing Mental Health and Mean Little Balls of Hate.
And so, class proceeded without to many problems, except for when Becky Thorn (who else?) tried to set the wall on fire and it backfired and she got burned up instead, and everyone made it through to get their badges. Whoop dee-freaking doo.
Once out of Sasha's mind, Alphonse turned to Kisa. "Hey, do you want to, um…"
Sarah laughed. "What my brother is trying to say is would you like to take a walk with me?"
Alphonse glared at her, but Kisa laughed. "Sure, I'd love to." They both walked off, Kisa slipping her hand into Alphonse's, making him blush. And causing Eli, Misha, and Emily to start to do silly things like wolf whistles and catcalls while Tony pouted and Sarah sighed happily.
'It sure took him long enough.'
Alphonse glared at his sister over his shoulder. 'You do realize I can hear you?' She grinned and peace signed him. A sudden image of the diving helmet flashed through her mind, and she turned to Eli. He just grinned and offered her his hand, which she took and they ran off.
Tony grinned, an evil plot forming in his mind. "Well, looks like it's just us." He put an arm around Emily's shoulders. Or he tried to put an arm around her shoulders at least. Emily ducked beneath it just in time. And in accordance with gravity, and because Tony was trying to lean on a body that was no longer there, he fell on the ground, leaving him with a face full of broken up pinecones, dirt, and pine needles.
"Keep dreaming. Misha, you wanna go get something to eat?"
Misha, who was still laughing as Tony spat out pine needles, nodded and walked off behind Emily.
-Over with Kisa and Alphonse…-
"So how many girlfriends have you had?" Kisa asked, her feet dangling off the tree branch they were sitting on.
Al paused. "Um, two. One was back in kindergarten and lasted for about five minutes, and the other was… unofficial."
"Unofficial?"
He rolled his eyes. "This girl had a crush on me and started spreading it around the school that we were going out last year."
'Sounds like Jacob.' Kisa thought privately. "I can see why." Oh, wait a second. Had she just said that out loud? Crap, she had. Might as well finish embarrassing herself. "I mean, you are pretty cute." 'Okay, that without a doubt the dorkiest statement I have ever made…'
Alphonse blushed. "What about you?"
"Huh?" 'Nope, I take it back. That was the dorkiest statement I've ever made. "Oh, you mean boyfriends? None." Alphonse stared. "What?"
"Nothing, I'm just… surprised."
Kisa tilted her head a little. "About?"
He paused. Great, now he'd painted himself into a corner. Nice one, Alphonse, now you have to tell her… well, there's no better approach than the direct one. (a/n: Sasha could argue that point, I bet.) "That someone as cute as you hasn't ever dated someone."
The Aquato's face flushed. "Oh… wow. Um, Alphonse, I, um…" 'I want you to just shut up and kiss me already!' She thought, immediately blushing darker when she realized he heard that.
A bit awkwardly, Alphonse leaned in to kiss her, but jumped away when an explosion came from the area of the Main Lodge. "What the hell-!"
XXX
Kisa and Alphonse ran up to see a large crowd of other kids already at the lodge. "What's going on?" Kisa asked aloud.
Sarah, who had been standing on Emily and Misha's shoulders to get a better look inside the lodge windows, shrugged. "I don't know, I can't see anything."
The doors opened suddenly, and Ember walked out. "Nothing to see here, kids, so get back to your cabins, and I mean YOUR cabins." The railing next to me started to smoke, and the group dispersed toward the Kids Cabins immediately.
XXX
Ember walked back inside. "Okay, the munchkins are gone, Sasha."
"Good." He muttered, occupied with Milla, who was lying on the ground, her eyes glazed over and her expression dazed.
Raz and Hazel were occupied holding back a very angry Nala Sanders, while Lili and Akiko tried to disable her powers. Suddenly, the fighting woman slumped in the two Psychonauts grips. Lili sighed as she pulled out of Nala's mind. "She's okay now, her mind's back to it's… err… normal state."
Akiko turned around, her big, anime-ish eyes wide(r). "Is Milla okay yet?"
As if on cue, the Mental Minx sat up in her husband's arms and put a hand to her pounding head. "Oh, my head… Sasha, darling, what happened?"
Sasha sighed with relief. Then, telepathically, 'Nala had one of her fits. She hit you with a Confusion Grenade before we managed to restrain her.' Milla nodded and floated up, albeit a bit more shakily and lower to the ground than usual.
"You sure you're okay Milla?" Raz asked. She nodded.
"I'll be fine darling. This isn't the first time I've been hit by a Confusion Grenade." 'This isn't the first time I've been hit by one of Nala's, either.' She added to herself.
XThat nightX
"What do you think was happening?" Kisa asked as she pulled her covers up to her chin.
Sarah shrugged. "I dunno. Me and Eli were just eating our burgers, then we heard a really angry scream, then dad and the rest of the teachers ran in and made all of us get out of there."
"Well, whatever it is, I'm sure they handled it, so can we please get some sleep?" Emily asked.
"Sure. G'night guys." Misha yawned.
"Night Misha. Night Sarah, Emily."
"Good night Kisa."
"Good night Kisa. Night Emily."
"Night Sarah. Night Mish-"
"Okay, no more. Just go to sleep already."
Silence. "Goodnight Sarah."
"Grr…"
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SC: There is your almost completely pointless chapter ten. But I got an almost-kiss in there, so be proud of me! R&R, onegai!
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PS: Yes, I realize that there's a three there. I think it looks cool.