Act 2: Chapter 12 - The Midsummer Festival II (Part 1)
August 2, 2023 (Earth Calendar)
His alarm clock beeps loudly for like the ninth time, finally getting a groggy Theron up. He rubs his tired looking eyes and noticed that it's thirty minutes after eight in the morning. His eyes pop open, realizing what day it is.
"Oh Karabast!" He curses loudly as he falls off the bed and quickly zooms into his shower with his clean clothes on. "I'm going to be late!"
A few minutes later, he is already out of the shower wearing the same clothes from his trip to Argos - now all cleaned from last night. The child outside of his room sees him take his backpack and stuffs his disassembled disintegrator and blaster pistol inside along with his belt.
"About time." R4 says to him. "You have about 20 minutes left before you're late."
"Yeah, yeah. Listen, keep an eye on the baby. Read the baby books carefully and make sure he's fed properly. Make bone broth if you have to but keep him away from anything thst might get him sick." Theron instructs his droid in a hurry as he then grabs his bag and rushes out the door. "Later!"
"Bu-!" R4 begins to argue but Theron has already left when the door closed behind the teen.
The astromech grumbled again, questioning why he has to put up with a meatbag like Theron.
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In her apartment, Saten finally shines up her toe and finger nails with clear nail polish and puts on the white summer dress with an up close look of her white lingerie bra busting up her C cup boobs and panties. She then heads to the front door and puts on her 2-3 inch white ankle strap heel sandals. The girl stands up and takes a look at the mirror. She has her hair tied into a pony tail and she gives a twirl around before covering her short skirt down to hide her panties, blushing in embarrassment. To be honest, she looks like a princess.
"Well," She sighs as she grabs her phone and keys. "Here goes nothing."
Exiting her apartment and locking the door, Saten puts away her keys and phone in a pocket of her dress when she drops her good luck charm. She picks it up and looks at it briefly before tucking it away in her pocket. She then puts on a flower bracelet and heads off to the Tokiwadai School Dormitory where the festival is being held.
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Academy City
School District 7
Tokiwadai Middle School Girls Dormitory (Outside of the Garden of Learning)
"So this is Misaka and Shirai's dorms, huh?" Theron comments the outside appearance of the building. "Looks like a not so flashy, two story five-star hotel to me."
Shrugging, he heads inside the front lobby where the other guests are greeted by a middle school girls wearing black housekeeping maid attires with white aprons as they hand out pamphlets listing different activities or events for the said guests.
Just as he decides to have a look around for his friends, someone calls out to him.
"Welcome to our dorm!" A familiar girl in her maid outfit greets. "Would you like a pamphlet listing this year's events?"
Theron turns around and accepts the pamphlet from her hands.
"Thank you. I-." He begins but looks up to see that it's none other Mikoto Misaka. "Wait a minute. Misaka?!"
"Theron?!" She exclaims after she didn't recognize him at first.
"What's with the maid outfit? Are you participating in helping out with the other girls doing the same thing?" He asks, confused.
"More importantly, why are you wearing that?" She counters questions him. "You're supposed to be dressed properly for the festival."
"So?" He shrugs. "It's not like anyone else is caring about how I dress. Plus, I don't have my hood on."
"We're here, you guys!" Theron and Mikoto turned their heads and saw Uiharu and Saten coming up to them. However, they were completely shocked of the appearance of Saten for what she's wearing.
"S-Saten?" Theron asking while blushing.
"Oh, hey there Theron." Saten said, with a similar blush on her face, still feeling embarrassed of her appearance.
"You decided to try on a new look today?" Theron concluded.
"Y-Yeah, so what do you think?" She asked him.
"Like a princess." He answers with honesty.
"Thank you, Theron." Saten said, while continuing to blush.
Just then, camera flashes are hitting the girl.
"Huh? Shirai?" Theron asked, wondering how the teleporter got here.
The Level 4 herself has a camera strapped around her neck and is really impressed.
"Shirai!" Saten questions her. "Why are you taking photos of me?"
"I thought I might take pictures of my friends this time since I already have pictures of Sissy in a maid outfit from last year." She explains.
"Like when you were checking out underneath my skirt?" Misaka roasts with annoyance, which Shirai ignores.
Theron was confused.
"She did what?"
"It's a long story." The Railgun confirms.
"But aside from that," Shirai changes the topic as she looks at the pictures she has taken. "I'm impressed that Saten has the courage to wear that. And that she's actually wearing lingerie she was trying to convince Uiharu to wear. A little out of character. Unless..."
Shirai then has a smug look on her face.
"I-I lost a bet with Uiharu." Saten looks away, ashamed with herself as her cheeks were as red as a tomato.
"I warned you not to get so caught up in the moment, Saten." Uiharu reminds her before beaming with joy. "Now I can finally be free of your skirt flipping for a day!"
"That still doesn't explain the dress Saten's wearing." Theron deadpans.
"It's because I lost the bet." She answers his question. "That's all you need to know."
"Well whatever happened between you and Uiharu, that's on you." He shrugs. "But damn, R4 was right about one thing. Your body is really appealing."
Saten blushes again at his comment before perking up at the boy's droid being mentioned.
"Wait, he said that?"
"When he was teasing me about liking you, yeah." He answers.
Before Saten could say anything else, Uiharu steps in.
"Alright, I think it's time to enjoy the festival." Uiharu announces.
"Sure, let's get going."
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Back at home...
R4 has already finished reading the books and goes to check on the child. When he got there, however, the kid wasn't where he was. The droid searches everywhere, but couldn't find him, resulting in R4 panicking.
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Meanwhile, the friends are participating in an embroidery event, this time with Shirai and Theron.
"There." Uiharu finishes proudly. "I managed to improve on my flower this time around."
Uiharu has managed to rework on the flower she made from last year's festival and is about to show it to her friends, but then sees what her friends made.
"I may not have skill, but at least I made Sissy. Heh, heh." Shirai creepily shows off her embroidery of her roommate, in which the Teleporter received getting her cheeks being pulled by Misaka herself.
Uiharu sweatdrops at her Judgement partner, a little creeped out. She then looks at Saten's who made a blue bladed lightsaber.
"I guess all that practicing paid off after all." Saten smiles at her finest work.
The Level 1 sighs in relief that she is now on par with her best friend's skills. Unfortunately, Misaka still topped them with ease with another Gekota-related embroidery.
"Hey Theron, how's yours?" Saten asks.
"Just about..." He murmurs before setting the needle and thread down. "There! That should do it."
The girls all looked at his embroidery work. It is a gold emblem with a pair of curved wings on opposite sides along with a lightsaber resembling a star in the center. The outlines of the embroidery is mostly white and blue.
"Wow!" They said in awe.
"You're skills might even be better than mine." Misaka admits, slightly jealous of his fast learning skills.
"Meh. It's not perfect, but it is badass looking." He shrugs.
"So what does that emblem represent?" The Level 0 asks curiously.
"It's the symbol of the Jedi Order." He answers.
"Cool!" They said in awe once more.
"I could even say the same thing about yours, Saten. Nice skills you got there."
"Aw, that's sweet of you, Theron. Thanks." She smiles.
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After that, the group are looking at a display of flowers.
"I have to say, these flowers are so well arrange." Theron concludes, impressed with them.
"I know, right?" Saten agrees.
"I was wondering something. Did Uiharu arranged the flowers on her head herself, or something like that?" He curiously asks.
"Not sure." She shrugs before turning towards her. "Hey Uiharu, how do you arrange your flowers?"
"What are you talking about?"
Theron, Saten, Misaka, and Shirai blinked in confusion.
"Excuse me." A Tokiwadai student and her friends in maid outfits politely asks, getting their attention. "Is that dress your wearing yours?"
Saten immediately gets flustered.
"Oh, it's meant for my friend Uiharu since it's her size." She nervously answers while blushing. "Surprisingly, it fits me but the skirt is so small that it gets a bit breezy underneath."
"It looks lovely on you." Another Tokiwadai girl compliments. "And I think your boyfriend is impressed with it as well."
"W-Wha?! D-Did you just call him my boyfriend!?" Saten blushes.
Theron looks away, doing his best to hide his own blush on his face as the Tokiwadai maids and the blushing teens' friends giggle at their cute reaction.
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We now see a montage of the five friends enjoying with the rest of the festival.
From looking at paintings to enjoying talking to each other as friends normally would, the group seems to be having a great time. Not mention, Uiharu's hyper alter ego that Theron describes her as a mild-mannered girl similar to a certain Man of Steel from the comics he's read once before giving up on reading them due to his OP status.
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Meanwhile...
Although he searched the whole household, R4 isn't giving up on finding the child. He continues looking around until he heard something in the kitchen.
CLANG!
The droid suspiciously grumbles and heads for the kitchen, only to see that it's all messy with dishes piled on the clean floors. He looks up to learn that something is in one of the top cabinets, rustling through its contents. Firing a cable at the cabinet doors, R4 pulls it open and discovers that the child is eating nothing but oatmeal raisin cookies.
The baby immediately looks down at the astromech while the former has a cookie in its mouth. R4 attempts to call Theron, but the child Force pushes him into a wall that knocks him down flat.
The little green infant laughs and hops down onto the floor before scurrying away into another room. R4, however, is pissed off that the droid hovers back up straight with his jet boosters on his legs and strolls after him beeping angrily for doing that to him.
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Back at the Midsummer Festival, the teens had recently finished an event up when Theron's stomach rumbles loudly, getting the girls' attention.
"Uhhhh..." He sheepishly chuckles in embarrassment. "Sorry about that, guys. Didn't had time to get a small bite before leaving."
"That's okay. Why don't we all stopped for lunch?" Mikoto announced to everyone.
To be continued...