FLCL Universe
Chapter 10
Pandy and Retro Act 2: Discovery
(…You're the one I saw first…)
We begin this chapter on the ship, Pandy and Retro are explaining to Naota how and why they know so much about his situation. But to get to that part of the story, they must tell of an adventure that follows into the saga…
Naota: So, what happened next? Whose lab were you talking about?
Pandy: Well, I found an address in my pocket that said "Stixx Laboratories," it had an address and a message that said, "all will be explained here."
Retro: Don't question the coincidence; it wasn't my idea to leave set-ups for key events in pockets!
Pandy: Yeah, but anyway…
Flashback Continued: Meanwhile, in the helicopter, it's the middle of the night, Retro is steering the helicopter while Pandy is watching below for an unusual building of some sort. They've been flying for a while, and they are in the middle of the country area.
Retro: Do you see it yet?
Pandy: Seen it? You've asked that so many times in the last hour and the answer is still no!
Retro: Well pardon me! We're only low on fuel and we've been flying for 4 and-a-half hours!
Pandy stood silent as she continued looking below for an establishment.
Retro: …and what makes you so sure we're not being followed?
Meanwhile, at a military command center of some sort…
Officer 1: Hey, Captain, you better take a look at this.
A tall, elderly man approaches the officer, who is sitting in front of a computer screen.
Captain: Yes, what is it, Private?
The elderly captain spoke very slowly, like if the old man were in his late sixties.
Officer 1: It appears that the Tokyo sky copter we've been tracking has landed about 200 miles north of here…
Captain: Well, hold on, we'll have to alert the general.
The Captain picks up a phone and dials three numbers.
Captain: Yes general, it's Captain Yakumatsu…
General's Voice: What is it?
The General sounded very drunkenly, very heavy southern accent.
Captain: The Deadleaves escapees we've been tracking, well…they've landed in the country…
General's Voice: Dammit! It disappoints me when Tokyo's finest can't get the job done, and I don't like hearing about it every time some freaks are on the loose!
Captain: Should we…dispatch a squad or two?
General's Voice: I'm not wasting my breath on this one, I've already got a guy on the case, from Tokyo's sheriff department of course. He and his assistant should be moving in as we speak.
Captain: Well, then, hopefully they won't leave the planet. I'll let you be on your way.
General's Voice: That's what I thought. *click*
The captain holds on to the phone for a moment, and finally puts it back on the hook.
Captain: That stubborn, no good, general. If it were my way, I'd be the general this time around.
Meanwhile, we join an old car on the side of a two-lane road in the country. There are two people in the car, a man and a young-woman.
Man: You know, there's always justice, especially when I'm in charge. When somebody thinks they can toy with me or my city, well, that's when they're wrong.
Girl: Whatever you say, sheriff.
The old CV radio sitting in the car began to admit static.
Radio: Sher…ray…wha…landed!
The man begins to fiddle with the radio, until the transmission is clear. He then grabs the receiver and responds.
Man: Come again? You were giving me some major static.
Radio: Sheriff Amarao, this is General Miyazaki! You better be moving in on the subjects soon, I don't want them-!
Amarao: Relax…You know I don't mess around when it comes to my hardware.
Radio (General): You better hurr-!
Amarao switches the radio off, then the two figures in the car reveal themselves to the light of their GPS tracker lighting up. His assistant was, of course, none other than Kitsurubami, who was then titled as Assistant.
Amarao: Looks like our guys just landed, we'll wait awhile then make our move.
Kitsurubami: Can we hurry? My feet hurt and we've been in this car for hours!
Amarao: We can't be too hasty, remember, you're in the force now, you just have to think like one.
Kitsurubami: Ummm, hello? I signed on to be a receptionist!
Amarao: Stop saying things.
Kitsurubami: And can we eat soon?
Amarao: …sure.
Now, we return to the helicopter, and it appears that the gang has found the address, but it appears to be a broken down, abandoned house.
Retro: Uhh…are we in the right place?
Pandy: Right town…right address…even though this place barely even has a road to get here, but surely enough!
Retro: Should have tried Google maps…
Pandy walks up to the door to knock on it, but the door slides open as if it were just open already.
Retro: After you…
Pandy: Like always, you big sissy.
The two proceed into the house, Retro turns on a flash light that was inside the helicopter.
Pandy: Check out all the rooms, I'll look in the kitchen.
Retro: Why? Looking to score some stale food?
Pandy: Nope, just looking for clues.
Retro: This sounds more like a Scooby-doo fanfic now…
After a while of searching, the two find absolutely nothing.
Retro: Well, fuck this! This isn't a lab, it's some broke-ass house!
Pandy: I know, let's just keep looking from a bird's eye view I guess.
Retro: I hope you know where we can find some fuel, because well…WE'RE ALLLLL OUT OF GAS!!!
Pandy: AW SHIT. So we're stuck here?
Retro: Yep, and I just know we're going to get arrested soon. They probably tracked their Helicopter!
The two walk outside to look in the helicopter for a gas can, but no hope is found.
Retro: WE ARE SO SCREWED!
He sits down in the back and just whines for a little bit, while Pandy stays outside of the helicopter. After about 5 minutes Pandy notices that there was one more place on the house that they didn't notice.
Pandy: Hey, look! There's a basement!
Retro: What?!
Pandy: Yeah, there's a door on the side of the house, let's try down there.
They run over to the side of the house, they unhitch the door and open it, and surely enough, there's a bright green light at the bottom of a staircase.
Retro: It would be bright green! Damn science fiction nonsense.
Pandy: Yeah, as if it's possible for a human body to have a TV-monitor head.
Retro: Touché.
The two walk down the stairs, they rap circular and go down for a while. It's almost as if the stairs went down about ten stories. After walking for a few minutes, it leads to a door, that appears to be heavily locked, but a green light shines right through.
Retro: What are you waiting for? Knock for fuck sake!
Pandy: Why do you always want me to take incentive?
Pandy knocks violently onto the heavily secured door, when an old voice yells in reply.
Voice: Who goes there??!
Retro: No YOU!
Pandy: Let me handle this. *ahem*
She clears her throat.
Pandy: It's Pandy and Retro, I found something in my pocket asking me to come here!
Retro: Ever stop and think that this could be a trap?
Pandy: What was your bright idea?
Retro: I would have said our names were Pablo and Shaneequa or something!
Just then, the door opens.
Voice: Come in! Make it snappy! Lock the door behind you!
The two come in through the door to find a huge room consisting of random experiments, staircases, tunnels, just everything you would expect from a 'Frankenstein's Monster' type of story. But all the experiments for space based, and the science is more modern of course.
Old Man: Hurry up! Close the door! Get in!
Retro: Ok, calm down, old man!
The man runs up to the door, closes it, then locks about 12 locks.
Old Man: Were you followed?
Retro: Does it matter?
Old Man: Not really, I suppose.
Pandy is still absolutely taken by all the devices in laying around the room.
Pandy: What is all this stuff?
The old man was a quick thinker, fairly short and hunchbacked, had gray hair of course, but he spoke very quickly and had a sadistic sense of humor.
Old Man: Oh, you mean this stuff? It's my life! The work of my life that which creates me!
Retro: Uhh…
Old Man: Oh, that's right you're just meeting me for the first time again, 'supposedly.'
Retro: Supposedly??
Old Man: Call me Dr. Stixx! No relation to Mr. Stixx or, Stixx Jr.; that old coot and his son.
Pandy: …okay…
Dr. Stixx: So you two escaped, huh? How did you manage to do that??
Retro: How did you know about that…
Dr. Stixx: Well…I created you two of course! But you were a bit looney post birth, so I erased your memories and dumped you off for a while. Then, I watched you get arrested on national television. Quite a shame, really…
Retro: So, you're the reason why we're so confused?
Retro grabs Dr. Stixx by his shirt collar and throws him against the wall.
Retro: Is there anything else you need to tell us, bastard?!
Pandy: Put him down!
Dr. Stixx: Yes, Actually, but if you'd put me down I'd be delighted! *cough*
Retro sighs, then releases the short man. Dr. Stixx then brushes off his lab coat.
Dr. Stixx: Thank you! Now walk with me.
He begins to walk down a hallway that was poorly lit, almost to where the strung lights aren't really creating much light at all.
Retro: Watch out, Pandy, I think he's up to something.
The two follow Dr. Stixx into the dark hallway, confused, naturally.
Dr. Stixx: So, I created you two so I can take you with me on a mission.
Pandy: What kind of mission?
Dr. Stixx: One into which our life forms get to see other neutral points in other star systems. I'm talking, of course, about intergalactic travel!
Retro: Oh please, I could have made that in my sleep!
Dr. Stixx: No, that's false! Because modern physicists believed that light speed was absolute; meaning it's the fastest any matter, or of course light, could travel!
Pandy: Yeah, Einstein's properties of light speed travel…
Dr. Stixx: They argued that Warp-2 or Warp-3, like in star trek, was impossible, but I did some calculations and completely demolished Einstein's theory!
Pandy and Retro: Wha???
Their mouths were wide open.
Dr. Stixx: It's a little something I'd like to call…STIXX'S LAW! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
Pandy: Ok, I'm impressed, but when is this mission going on; and where's the ship?
Dr. Stixx: Right here, my dear!
The tunnel finally ends and leads them into yet another big room that has a giant aircraft along with plenty of other machines and computers surrounding it.
Dr. Stixx: This body is capable of reaching Warp-6! Any faster and the ship, along with any matter inside of it, instantly vaporizes! Not to mention how the temperature reaches absolute zero outside of galaxies, but there's also how hot it gets when you get near certain parts of galaxies, it's practically suicide! But I've changed that, oh yes, Have I changed that!
Pandy and Retro are still speechless about the situation.
Dr. Stixx: By the way, I had your helicopter move itself into the other aerial garage, just down that tunnel, and she's all fueled up. I also disarmed the tracking device, oh yes! Nothing gets by Dr. Julian Stixx.
He walks over into a dark corner and disappears, but then drives by with a golf cart after about thirty seconds of a silent awaiting Pandy and Retro.
Dr. Stixx: You better hop in, I'll take you to the common area, a nice meal and bed awaits the both of you! You better get some shut eye tonight, you're going to need it for briefing tomorrow morning.
The two are dropped off at the common area, which is basically a nice modern apartment that leads from the darkness of the dungeon behind the door.
Pandy: Wow…this is really nice.
Retro: I had no idea why I'm so speechless. All of this, just underneath some piece of shit house in the middle of nowhere? I don't understand how this is possible, this place is monstrous!
Pandy: Not to mention this apartment is like a luxury spa…I never want to leave.
Retro: I wonder where we're going tomorrow…
Pandy: I hope we're not leaving the Milky Way. I wouldn't feel right about that.
Retro: That would be fucking creepy.
Pandy yawns deeply.
Pandy: Ah, let's see what happens. Well, I'll see you in the morning, I'm tired and there's a comfy bed waiting for me; night.
Retro: Yeah, yeah, yeah…whatever.
To Be Continued…