Welcome back, folks. Tonight, we've got a completely different set of characters to focus on for the entire chapter, Don't worry, We'll redirect the focus back to the kids in the next chapter. But this is important stuff, This will come into play later in the series!
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Today's Music Selection
1: Is a Mole Just a Mole? - Gurren Lagann
2: Soleil - This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
Chapter 11: And now for Someone Completely Different.
1
It was a slow day at the apartment of Japanese military agent Mizumi Tanaka. Though she is inching towards her mid-thirties, you might think she's twenty-eight at best with the way her athletic body has keeping up with her intense military career and the life of exercise. Her body maintaining it's firm tone through regular exercise, her jet-black hair not greying in the slightest, her face smooth as the cheeks of a sprightly schoolgirl with nary a wrinkle in sight. A man in a grey trenchcoat stepped in on her usual treadmill run, directing her attention to the intruder as fellow solder Lt. Tomotsu Seki followed suit.
"Sorry to disturb you, captain. But I come with a guest from overseas." Seki explained as the man in the trenchcoat began analyzing footprints with a magnifying glass held by a Grabbo arm which appeared from the man's left shoulder.
"My sector calls me Inspector Gadget, I was sent in by the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division to analyze the Black Behemoth everyone's been talking about back home, I brought Penny and Brain along so that they can be safe and happy."
"Uncle Gadget, the others are getting impatient!" a voice cried out. "They're asking if they could go to the local diner?"
"Just give me a second, I need to fill in Miss Tanaka on all the details!" Inspector Gadget replied. "And if they try to hijack the gadgetmobile, tell them that only I can-"
"Only you, huh?" chimed a voice in a comlink speaker.
"Gadgetmobile, would you be quiet." Gadget whispered back. "If we want to be a part of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division, you've got to keep things professional around here and that includes your tone of voice!"
"Wait, you're kissing up to a division of the united states govern-" Tanaka was promptly interrupted by Gadget's correction: "an Autonomous division of the United States Government."
"Huh, okay..." Tanaka backed away for a bit as she recollected her composure. "So you flew all the way overseas with these action scientists I've heard about from the higher ups to analyze the black behemoth?"
"And we've hired a tech guru and his laptop persocom to analyze some video interviews I've received upon my arrival." At that moment, in came a fellow with messy black hair in a shirt reading '2 HETERO 4 THE METRO' as well as his pink-haired, handheld persocom partner.
"We heard from the Americans in your van that you've offered them ribs." The man mentioned to the Inspector as the persocom eagerly added: "We want some ribs, too!"
Tanaka would then be acquainted with the American Agents that Inspector Gadget had brought alongside him. The first of these was 'Action Scientist' Joel Dawson, he was quite the technological genius, though you wouldn't know it by his zany demeanor. The next one is a part-time superhero by the name of Phil Argus, a serious fellow who would often drink to stay sane in the face of the increasingly bizarre nature of his normal life back at Charismaville. The last of these Americans picking her up is another redhead, but this time a female who's good at beating you into the ground and is more than willing to verbally rip you apart doing so, This young lady is known to all as Rya.
The group got together to watch the interview video files on Tanaka's home theater system. The first person on the screen was a raven-haired boy clad in a black shirt and rectangular glasses. Tanaka was curious about the boy, almost as if she's seen him before.
"Now, we're going to ask you some questions about what you were doing on that day." Said the man to a messy-haired boy.
A rather overweight young lad looked concerned about something. "You're free to relax."
"Uh... yes, sir." the lad responded.
"I understand how improbable this case might be..." the man stated to a plain girl with blonde hair. "So just tell me what you know so you can move on with your life."
"Okay."
"I hear the entire lot of you attended a school-funded weekend camping trip, Did you not?" asked the man.
"Yeah, around fourty of us or so." replied the kind brown-haired boy who was asked by this man.
"Is there something special that you saw that drew you to that specific trip?" the man asked a tall, tanned young man in an orange tank-top.
"No, Not really..." the boy replied.
"Did you think the trip would be a fine addition to your permanent record?" the man asked another brown-haired boy, the differences (The differences being that this boy was bigger than the last one, donned a black muscle shirt, and had a darker shade of brown hair.)
"Probably."
"Boy, that's a toughie. It could look good, depending on where I end up going to..." responded the boy in the orange tank top. "but it ain't the only reason I headed there in the first place."
"I wanted to meet new friends!" the african-american girl chimed.
"Spend some time with my cousins!" smiled the farm boy.
"Personally, I came because there was just nothing else for me to do." said the purple-haired boy... or at least Tanaka thinks it was a boy.
"Well, it clearly depends on who you ask..." said the smaller of the brown-haired boys. "...but there are some people who want to mingle with kids from other schools."
"We all started this subreddit just to keep in touch with one another." said the kind-sounding brunette girl with a ponytail.
"I dunno, I just did it to pass the time." The brunette in yellow slyly spoke.
"We all got the usual classes for such a trip." Said the brunette boy with wavy shoulder-length hair. "The environment of these classes is rather nice, I might add."
"I take it you wanted to flirt, eh?" the man asked a boy with blue hair.
"The babes are pretty fine if I do say so myself," remarked the boy. "But I find it unnecessary to tap what's already been tapped."
"So we all know you've been at a local Freddy Fazbear outlet in Moperville during last night's attack." The man said to a depressed-looking boy in a blue shirt with a single red line in the middle. "Where were you when the last attack happened?"
"..."
"At first there was this big earthquake, It was thi-i-is Big!" exclaimed the eight year old girl as she stood on the table with her arms spread out. The blonde 'action scientist' noted that the ceiling fan was off and the girl was clad in a pair of those creature-coated yellow pajama jeans that actually exist.
Seriously, look it up.
"I was afraid for my little brother so I rushed outside to see what the commotion was about." detailed a well-endowed young woman with short blue hair.
"You do realize the lodge was made of wood, right?" said a tanned young girl with spikey black hair. "I thought it was gonna collapse."
"And that's when I saw it, the giant robot you described!" spoke a lad with a shaved head and white T-Shirt.
"Ah, I see."
"I wanted to get a better look. so naturally, I went out to somewhere I could get a great view of the ocean." Spoke a girl in a wheelchair.
"I could tell it was around 500 meters tall." said the boy in orange.
"Of course it was, you've heard it on TV, right?" asked the man.
"Yeah, but I just know, alright." stated the boy. "Mom works in architecture with the high-rise buildings surrounding the city."
This impressed the man as well as the group watching the recordings.
Phil was taking a sip of coffee as Seki stepped forward to ask him a question. "So, what do you make of the intel we've gathered?"
"Somewhat informative for a group of mostly children." remarked Seki. "The fact that one of them couldn't be contacted due to the obvious reasons is... understandable at best."
"To be honest, I don't really get how we wound up on this case in the first place?" Phil sighed in befuddlement. "Joel signed us up because it could make us relevant again..."
"Ah, yeah, the whole 'Bonus Stage' thing." recalled Seki "I think that was before YouTube was a thing."
"Yeah, whiny fanbase and a prima-donna lead animator pretty much sank Season 8." said Phil as he sipped his coffee. "Not that the show was any funny to begin with."
"Yeah, Family Guy Cutaways? C'mon..." moaned Seki.
"Have you written the report, Leautenant." asked Tanaka in her militaristic tone of voice.
"Yeah, well. We might have hit a little snag." replied Seki.
"I'm too stuffed with data from the interrogations of these crazy kids to save even a single page of Data." spoke Sumomo as she yawned with exhaustion.
This made Tanaka ask the small laptop-class persocom: "Shouldn't we delete whatever irrelevant files on your-"
"NO!" Yelled Shinbo, "Only I can touch the files in my darling Sumomo! Each and every bit of code is what makes her who she is!"
"What if we upgrade her Chassis and make her a desktop?" Joel asked.
"Sure, Joel, Let's make her a desktop." answered Phil sarcastically.
Sumomo opened her eyes to find the group are at eye level with her, either the shrunk or she-
No! The only logical explination would be if she-
A glance at the mirror confirmed the cause: She had been upgraded from a laptop class to a full blown desktop-class persocom! She glanced at her hair to find that it was in strands! Not like the interchangeable plastic of her now abandoned laptop chassis. She pinched herself to see if there were any-"Ah!" Nerve endings! Yes! Her smile grew so wide and so eager to face the world and make a difference!
2
"Oh, Thank you! Gadget-Sempai! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Sumomo cheered.
"No thanks is nessessary, Miss Sumomo," retorted the inspector. "We're just doing what's best for the job!"
"You look awesome, Sumomo!" complimented Shinbo as he read the specs for her new Chassis "30 terrabytes of memory, 20 more for RAM, iQ Core Processor, 64 gallons, 128 miles to the gallon, up to 42 miles an hour, Beiber 6G Fever, you're beautiful!"
"But I'm still me, right?" asked Sumomo, with her hand on her breasts. "Sure, I feel better and smarter than ever, but I still feel the same things, I still enjoy the same stuff, I still want to be the same person... In many ways, I have been changed, But that's all in the hardware..."
"You're right, Sumomo." Shinbo sighed. "It doesn't matter how much you've been tricked out with the latest tech, You'll always be you, Sumomo... That's all that matters."
Sumomo smiled.
"Okay, we've had some laughs, engaged in Friendship is Magic-level tenderness, demonstrated how sarcasm holds no power over a certain someone." Phil recapped before glaring at everypony's favorite action scientist, "We can now head home and file that report, right."
"Alright, Let's do this!" Cheered Sumomo, eager to get this job done as soon as possible so she can return to her normal life, well... as normal as she can get considering her newfound size. "So now that I've got more than enough Memory to hold your report, are you ready to write it down? You do remember what the kids said in the interrogations, right?"
Phil merely sat and rubbed his temples with his right hand as they sat and watched the Kids explain what they did on that one Labor Day weekend.
The man had asked the kids who they were with that weekend.
"Well... let's see, there was Moji, Masaru," Said the girl with the ponytail.
"There was Honda and a Kirie there," continued a Boy with chocolate brown bangs.
"This Ushiro Kid, His friend Yoshikawa," the strong-looking young lad.
"Not to mention a ton of family members!" chimed a girl with silver-blue hair.
"There's this Capulet Kid, Rockbell Twins..." A Dark-Blue haired kid remarked before sighing to himself "And they're not even my kind of twins."
"Sarah, Xion, Kairi and..." a blonde girl in a white dress continued before running into a mental wall "And uh..."
"uhhhm..." the pleasently plump commoner shied from the question.
"It's on the tip of my tongue..." The Blue haired kid again. "Just can't figure it out yet,"
The other silver-blue haired girl sang to herself "Peachy-keen, Gotta-be..."
"Takashi!" spouted the boy in bangs.
"Takashi, as in Miss Waku's younger brother."
"He wasn't with us, Mister." The raven-haired boy with glasses spoke. "Not in the sense you described."
"Is that a fact?" asked the man.
"I'm dead serious. Waku is not among my list of classmates."
"But you shared the same room, did you not? Didn't you kids leave that room together?"
The boy in the striped shirt remarked: "I just do my own thing outside when I get restless, alright?"
"He would always take his soccer ball and head off somewhere by himself." Described the groomed boy in the black dress shirt.
"He does his own thing on his own terms." added the ponytail girl. "He's just that type of guy, y'know?"
"He's shown himself to be hot-headed, bursting with energy."
"Alright, My son asked me to be the Good Cop that's comforting you in this hour of need, so tell me what's your baggage with this Kamijiha chick and I'll be out of your hair..."
Two young adults from two vary different points of college life merely glared at the fiery redhead in front of them, looking no older than 24 and apparently already a mother...
"Well, she first found me at the airport, but I didn't really remember telling her my name until we hit the beach." the japatina recalled. "I've kinda been lacking in dopamine, so If you could get me some seafood on the way back that'd-."
"Well, to sum up what we know..." the promising young man interrupted. "She signed us up for this labor day camping trip like they tend to do with Nature Schools in Japan. She seemed real excited to meet all of us, even going as far as being as much of a guide as, if not more than... more than we could ever hope to be."
"Oh, so you got all buddy-buddy with her, huh?" exclaimed the woman in charge of the interrogation.
"Well, during that saturday and early sunday. We sang campfire songs, we told scary stories, even told each other about our favorite Disney Movie!" smiled the girl in nostalgic bliss, "Mine's Winnie the Pooh."
"Still can't believe you'd still be into that." chuckled the young man.
"Well, Rescuers and it's sequel Down Under reach a close second!" blurted the girl before she sighed. "They bring me back to a sweeter time in my life, y'know..."
"Don't all Disney Movies do that?" retorted the woman.
"Just the ones that click to you, you'll understand." corrected the girl, before glaring at the man, "What about you, dude?"
"Personally, I'd go with Treasure Planet." replied the man to the girl's curiousity
"Why?"
"Dad took away my brother when my younger sister Molly was born..." the man sighed, depressed that he had to think back to such a bleak moment in his life. "I'm amazed that one of my charges actually resembled him... Maybe that was the nostalgia doing things to my head. Gosh, you're right, I need something to tighten up my brain right now. What about you, do you need any seafo-I mean, Any disney movies you like."
"Five off the top of my head." humored the woman. "Up, Lion King, Big Hero 6, Fox and the Hound, Little Mermaid."
"that last one's was Sarah's, too..." the girl muttered.
"She liked the Little Mermaid?" the woman stared deep at the two before closing the book on her interrogation "Welp, we're off to get some Long John Silver!"
"Okay, we've written down the report and I'm just about ready to send it!" declared Gadget.
"It better go to it's intended recipient or so help me, you won't work in this organization again!" Joel scolded.
"oh, ha-ha." Phil deadpanned. "You know it's a serious situation but you act so serious it jumps back to-"
"Well it's serious, man! 1010% serious! Hundreds of people have died in the crossfire! The government's planning an evacuation route to prevent that number from growing!" Joel spoke to Gadget up close in his personal space. "Do you think you're hardcore enough for this hardcore job of hardcover circumstance?"
"Not to worry, Dr. Dawson, I'm always on duty!" Gadget replied.
"Well you better be, we absolutely cannot get side-tracked!"
-ONE ICE CREAM TRUCK CRASH LATER-
"Okay, Seriously! We can't get side-tracked!" Joel reminded his group who have pigged out on the Ice Cream to varying degrees, Phil and Tanaka eating the least of the Ice Cream.
"Picnic Time!" chimed the rest of the Bonus Stage Cast who showed up out of nowhere.
"Picnic Time?" said Joel.
"Picnic Time?!" yelped Phil.
"...picnic time?" Tanaka fumed.
"Which Jar of Peanut Butter should we bring?!" Phil asked to his co-star as they rushed back to the kitchen.
"What kind of Pizza should I bring?!" inquired Elly Strife
"How many hamburgers should I cook?!" mused Gadget to which Joel replied: "Let's bring 'em all!"
Wait, did she just say 'Picnic time?' Oh! I wanna join!
Reevee21: Me, Too!
Well, that was your sneak peek into Team Gov, what do you like about this group, let us know in the review sections what you think. Also, I've finally received the results for. Thanks for reading and Hug an Eevee or two. Saint Zearth Duet out!
