A day in the life of Pururu. – By The-Derp-We-Call-Taruru

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{{A/N: HELLO AGAIN FRIENDS. Author is back.
I am SO sorry for the chapter delay.
It's exam season. I've been overworked. Exams in this country are hard core okay. Ninety six kids in our sixthform alone have already either been kicked out for not having "sufficient" grades (it's a private school. Either get A* to C, or don't bother turning up in the morning. XD), had mental breakdowns and sent off on sick leave, or passed out in class (or in a few cases in exams, and been disqualified). I mean, we had a fifteen hour art exam the other day. Fifteen hours strait. I'm not kidding. I was exhausted afterwards. I even cut my hands to shreds on my etching tool and got blood in my fabric. ;3;
After it's all over. I shall dedicate the majority of my summer holidays to goofing off and writing fanfics and entertaining you all. :D
But right now I need to study like crazy. WOO STUDENT LIFE! (/^3^)/
I promise I will get back to doing these chapters regularly once I've finished my work.
I love you readers and I hope you guys can forgive me for all the delays.
Thanks~
I only actually managed to write this chapter because I was smacked in the face with inspiration. When people update their fanfics, I suddenly get the urge to write my own. Plus it's midnight so it's not like I can get any other decent work done anyway. XD
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter. *cough*BecauseIdon'tknowwhenIcanupdateagainItdepen ds*cough*.
Sorry if there are any problems with this chapter, grammatical, punctual, spelling, or 'out of character' related issues.
Okay I feel like this chapter really is very VERY VERY out of character. I'm sorry, forgive me. I promise I will do better next time.
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Work diary: day 28

Greetings again headquarters.
I bet you're wondering why my report today is all soggy?
Well.
Those co-ordinates you sent us for landing were wrong. We ended up at the bottom of the ocean.
Nice going headquarters. Thanks for that. =_=

Urgh.

Okay it has been a long day. Pardon my bitterness and sarcasm. I'm cold and wet and really sleepy. Let me start from the beginning…

We set the ship to auto pilot last night, setting up the system with the co-ordinates you sent us for this new ice planet.
It was about 3am when we all woke up and realized something was wrong. It was freezing. And dark. There was no power. And the floor was wet. Taruru slipped over sixty four times. He has so many bruises. o.o'
The rest of us were all very careful where we were going, so everyone else managed to avoid injury.

So yeah…turns out we sinking towards the bottom of the ocean. Luckily the ship is built for outer space, so the walls were resisting the water pressure pretty well. Although the further we sank, the more the ship started making funny creaking noises. At about 500ft the walls started leaking a little. It started to get a bit scary I have to admit.
I think everyone started feeling a little bit…'under pressure'.
…Oh goodness that was a terrible pun, I'm sorry. ^^'

Anyway the ship got caught on an ice ledge at about 700ft and we stopped sinking for a while. The problem was that it was freezing. And although we have a machine that creates fresh air for us to breathe while we are in space. There was no power. So it wasn't working.
I'm pretty sure even the captain was a little hysterical, although he didn't really show it. He just had this…on edge kind of look, and he kept snapping at everyone. Normally he can be pretty lenient. Although he probably had reason to snap at everyone, we were all kind of silently freaking out. I mean, we couldn't get in contact with you guys at headquarters, as I said, no power. The ship couldn't even start up, and it just seemed like we were in one of those hopeless situations like in old movies, where all the characters try and find a way out but end up running out of air and suffocating. Tororo had a panic attack and started hyperventilating, I had to go and find him a paper bag to breath into. It didn't help that Taruru kept yelling at him saying he was wasting the air. Poor little guy.

I didn't notice until much later, but at this point Zoruru disappeared. Hopped off into the ceiling or something. I think everyone was panicking a little too much to care what everyone else was up to really. We found out where he had gone a little while later. Anyway I'll get to that in a minute, I'm getting ahead of myself here.

The lieutenant eventually managed to calm everyone down a little. Turns out the demanding yell of a leader is more terrifying than the prospect of freezing and suffocating under the ocean. He shouted at everyone and got us to all line up, and then told us in the calmest way possible that he would figure out a way to get us out of this mess, but we needed to stay calm. I think we all felt a whole lot better after that. None of us knew what on keron he could possibly do to save us. But…he's our leader. I felt safe under his promised care. We all did.
Garuru is an amazing leader.

He asked me to look after Tororo and Taruru and then he wandered off back to his office. I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do with the two of them, so I just ended up getting them to assist me in finding blankets and making cocoa. V(o-o)v
What? It was really cold okay…

It was about an hour later when we noticed the air starting to run low. Everyone started feeling light headed, I noticed Taruru wasn't walking strait anymore, he kept swaying a bit, and Tororo kept yawning and saying he didn't feel good. I was getting a little paranoid, I mean, lack of oxygen can really cause people damage. I got them both to sit down and distracted them by giving them some dominos to play with. Neither of them seemed keen to do anything, in fact, I think that was the first time since joining the platoon I have seem Taruru not being hyperactive…

I decided to go and see how Garuru was doing, I mean, he had to be almost done with an escape plan, right?
Well no. He was not almost done. At all.
I knocked on his office door but he didn't answer, so I let myself in. He was running back and forth and scribbling things on a blackboard, he looked really serious and so caught up in his work. I've never seen anyone look so serious before. It took him about five minutes before he noticed me standing there watching him. He stared at me for about a minute strait and I swear his expression just broke from being serious to being…just lost. I'm sure for a brief second he looked genuinely scared. It really shook me up… Seeing the leader with that kind of look on his face. Even though it was just for a split second. I suddenly felt all the terror rush back to me, I'm sure all the colour ran from my face. I thought I was going to faint for a moment.

I watched him as he sat down and just put his hands on his head. I didn't really know what to do so I went and sat with him. He explained to me that he had no idea what to do. We actually talked for a really long time. For the first time I really got to see behind the leaders tough exterior. I think it was the lack of air. I didn't feel like myself either. Lack of oxygen really messes with your head. He sat there and talked to me. All about how this was his first platoon. His first 'real' platoon. How being a leader was difficult. He told me about how he was always good at being a leader, but sometimes everyone just expects you to solve everything and you just can't… You just feel helpless and useless and under pressure and no matter how hard you try you just…can't.
He…actually confided something deep and personal in me. I wasn't sure how to process this. He actually sounded like a person, rather than just a high ranking hard core soldier for once. I felt as if it was an unspoken demand that I could never tell anyone about this. Ever. But I figure since I'm almost sure you don't actually read these reports, this hardly counts as telling anyone. Besides, I'm not going into much detail on what he told me.
After he finished talking to me he put back on a very serious expression and went back to trying to come up with a plan on the blackboard. Occasionally mumbling about how we didn't have many options because there was no electricity or power sources.
I could tell he was very stressed. I didn't want to be in the way so I left to go back to looking after Taruru and Tororo. Honestly a part of me really wanted to stay there and being re-assuring. But I didn't want to be a bother and besides, he's our strong and fearless leader. Of course he's still a Keronjin, and like everyone else he must have feelings, even if he hides them very well. And of course he must have fear inside him somewhere, despair, pain, and everything else. Everyone does right? But he is our leader. The strongest, bravest person I know. I knew he could handle anything the universe threw at us. Even if he had doubt in himself.
I believed in him.

Anyway, I returned to Taruru and Tororo and to my great concern, they were both lying on the ground. Luckily, they hadn't fallen asleep. Everyone knows that if you fall asleep when there isn't much oxygen, there's a chance you won't ever wake back up. For a moment they really had me scared though. They were just lying there and staring at the ceiling. Tororo mumbled something to me about being too tired to play dominos. I have to admit, I felt really tired as well. Every now and then my vision would go for a few seconds and I thought I was going to faint, I had to sit down a lot. I ended up going and getting a book from my bedroom. I have a few books, just things I've picked up from planets we've visited mostly. But this one was from home. Just an old Keronjin fairy tale I had when I was small, I only brought it along with me when I joined up because I was a little worried I would get homesick. You know, that classic story, 'The tadpole princess and the invisible margarinefly'. I brought it out and sat there reading it to Taruru and Tororo. I know they weren't that interested, but I thought maybe if I could just get them listening to something I could keep them awake.
It did keep them awake.
It got them arguing about how 'stupid' and 'girly' the book was. I guess their boy-ish ability to start an argument over the smallest things got them angry. After a while they were up and wrestling each other. Normally I would have objected to this, but hey, at least they weren't sleeping.
I kept reading my book to myself. It made me feel calmer. I forgot how much I love that story.

Anyway. There was this sudden noise. It made me jump out of my skin, I'm pretty sure the others seemed to have the same reaction. It was like a crash. A really loud crash. Then there was silence for a really long time. It was only as Taruru went to break the silence, asking the question we all had in our heads, "What in the hells of quadrant five was that?", that the ship suddenly started jolted to the side very harshly, sending us all flying into the wall. After a few minutes the ship returned to its normal angle and we all flopped back on the floor. I bruised my tail. Tororo was fine, he landed on Taruru. Apparently Taruru makes a good landing pillow. Taruru somehow managed to get covered in cuts, scrapes and bruises. Boy, it's not a good day for him. Then again, he seems to find some way to get injured whatever we do. We could go to a planet made of marshmallows and he's still find a way to injure himself and others. Honestly, that boy is a disaster waiting to happen.
My first thought was to run in and see if Garuru was okay, but he ran out to us before I even had the chance. He had a bump on his head, but apart from that he was fine. He had no idea what was going on either.

I think we all had the same idea to go and look out the window at the exact same time because we all rushed off at once. Taruru tripped over Tororo and we went down like dominos. Then the ship twisted again and everyone got thrown into the wall in a pile. Luckily for me I landed on top of the boys. Taruru was at the back and he got crushed. It was such a mess. Everyone was already dizzy and lightheaded from the lack of air, and now we were all being thrown around and confused.

Eventually the ship got back to its normal angle again and we managed to get to the window.
The ship was moving….up.
I was confused. I thought maybe it was just the lack of air making me see things. But no, we were really moving back up. Faster and faster.

The others were just as confused as I was. We all just watched for a while, then Garuru ordered for us all to go to the engine room. Well, something must have been making us go upwards. The engine was the only logical explanation we could think of.

Getting to the engine room was a struggle in itself. We had to go down several sets of stairs in the dark, the floor was wet and slippery and none of us could see where we were going. The lieutenant made us hold hands. I didn't mind…..I didn't mind holding hands with the lieutenant…this was fine with me.
…um you know. For….safety, while going down the dark hallways….so no-one got lost. ./ / / .

Taruru still kept slipping over, and this time he kept pulling us down with him. Then a few times the ship started spinning or being jolted harshly to one side and it would send us flying. At one point the ship spun for about three minutes. Goodness, I thought I was going to be sick. The others looked a little green too. Although maybe it was just the lack of light playing tricks on my eyes.

We eventually made it.
Long story short, inside the control room was Zoruru. That's where he'd snuck away to. ^^'
He'd managed to wire his cybernetic body to the engine, donating all the charge he had inside himself to function, to the ship. Honestly, I think that's the most selfless thing I've ever seen anyone do. And of all people, Zoruru?! The rude and grumpy robotic guy that acts like he hates us all sometimes?
I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure I wasn't seeing things.

Moving past that initial shock. The reason the ship was spinning and jolting was because he was having trouble piloting it with only half his body, and not being able to even move that very well under the circumstances. So we all got down to piloting the ship instead so he could just focus on powering it.

So in the end we reached the surface and managed to fly up high enough to land on an iceberg. Zoruru didn't have enough energy left to get the ship to go any further. He lost consciousness not long after we unplugged him. Poor guy.
Still, I think my whole perspective of his has been changed. Maybe he's not as much of a violent jerk as he pretends to be most of the time after all.

Anyway, the platoon spent most of the evening sitting outside on the iceberg, wrapped in blankets. I know it's below freezing out here, but it's fresh air, and we all REALLY needed fresh air after all that. Taruru was kissing the ground for a while, until he realized the ground was ice and his lips got stuck. Quite frankly all of us were too tired to help, so we just left him there for a while. Besides, it was pretty amusing to watch.
The lieutenant came and sat with me privately and asked me what he'd said before in his office. Apparently he couldn't remember at all. As I said, lack of oxygen makes your brain go funny. I decided not to tell him about him opening up and confessing how stressed he was. Knowing how hard headed he can be sometimes, I figured it would just embarrass him anyway. Still…I feel much better that I know the leader actually has feelings now. Ahaha, sometimes he seems kind of like a robot or something, the way he's so serious all the time. XD

Urgh, I really want to sleep right now. Today was exhausting. Can't go to bed yet though, me, Tororo and the lieutenant are still trying to get Zoruru back online. Tororo says it should be really easy, I guess me and Garuru are just here for support. Besides, I want to say thank you when he wakes up. I know he probably won't want our attention, but dammit he's going to get it anyway. He saved our skins.

I wonder where Taruru is….oh… please tell me we didn't leave him outside….

…

Oh damn it.

I better go now. I will update again soon.

Sincerely, Pururu~