Chrome's Brother
Part 37
By Blockhed13
A/N: I'm not doing a Valentine's Day special because not only do I not have the time for it, I'm not good at intentional fluff.
Basil opened my door and threw a blue shirt at me. I picked it up and started to inspect it.
"Tis a plain t-shirt." He smiled. I looked at it again. It's just a plain blue cotton t-shirt. Basil was wearing jeans and a red t-shirt, "I figured thou wanted something less... Conspicuous."
"Yes! And normal!" I smiled. My first shirt that's normal! I scrambled to put it on, retracted my trident and threw it in my bag. As I slung it around my arm, Basil handed me what looked like a container of tic-tacs, "What's this?"
"Tis deathperation pills. Use them in an emergency." He informed. I accepted them, and shoved the container in my pocket. He guided me to the door and we were off to the city.
Lal kicked my door open and walked over to my closet. She then proceeded to go into my closet.
She reached into the pockets of my Kokuyo uniform and pulled out nothing.
"There has to be something…. Did he-" She cut herself off and looked at a corner in the room, "He took his trident."
Failing at her investigation, she left my room.
I looked around. It was the first time in about two months I've seen a normal town with normal people. Basil tugged at my sleeve, and I redirected my attention to him.
"Arcade?" he pointed to an open arcade. I shrugged.
"Sure." I accepted. We both walked over to the arcade.
Basil went over to a token machine at took out what I believe is about twenty dollars worth of tokens. I looked around the arcade, and the first game that caught my eye was a war game.
Basil looked at me, then looked at the game, "Okay." He shoved a handful of tokens in my hands, "I want to see thou in single-player."
I shrugged, walked over to the game, and picked up the red plastic gun from the metal holster. I popped in two tokens and shoved the rest in my pocket. The game started up with a poorly CG'd cut scene and the game started right up. I kept my eye at the background, knowing that there would be bad guys hiding behind them.
One popped up, and I wasted no time releasing a bullet in his brain. Another popped up, right in the heart. Another popped up, took two bullets to the chest. Two of them popped up, fired two more bullets into two chests.
Basil looked over, "One-hundred percent kill ratio?"
I shot off screen to reload, "I just started the game. I'm bound to mess up soon."
I moved on to the next screen, to three awaiting bad guys. I instinctively changed my weapon from a pistol to an assault rifle. Before they took aim, I already filled all three with lead. I grinned. As I started to make my way down the next hall, four more bad guys flooded it. Once again, they all fell.
Basil looked over, "Have they shot a bullet at thou yet?"
I thought about it for a moment, "No."