Hokuto: Hiiiiii everyone! Welcome back! Look, Seishiro's jealous!
(Seishiro, pacing back and forth in front of Kamui's door, doesn't even notice)
Vanyel: What's the point of his denial, anyway? I mean, from what Subaru said earlier, Seishiro confessed his love before he died anyway.
Hokuto: *floats over and pokes Seishiro experimentally. He doesn't notice.* Well, denial is deeply rooted in him. He probably forgot or something when he arrived in the afterlife.
(Lan and Relena are playing crazy eights in the corner of the room)
Lan: Hah! I win!
Relena: *pout* You always win! You bratty little eights hoarder! Let's play something different!
Lan: How about war?
Relena: I object!
(Seishiro is progressively pacing further from the door each round, walks right through Relena)
Relena: Ack! Cold!
Lucia: *blinks, as yet another fax comes in* Um...guys, thanks a bunch, but you can stop sending in suggestions now, at least until the point where I decide to bump off one of the crew members.
(Shinji, unpacking his clothes in his room, hears, since the door was open and Lucia wasn't exactly being discreet. He drops his cello case on his foot.)
Shinji: Ow! Lucia, please tell me you were kidding.
Lucia: ...Mostly. *proceeds to eat the fax*
Relena: ...I thought my brother was weird, until I met her...
Lucia: Want some? *offers it to Relena*
Relena: No, that's OK, thank you.
Lucia: *shrugs, and then goes to bring up a map on the console* Well, anyway, we should probably start out on our mission. *mutters something about looking up maps and navigating being Kamui's job*
Hokuto: *stops harassing Seishiro momentarily* Hey, Lucia, before we leave, can I get my boyfriend? I think he would contribute suitable angst to the atmosphere.
Lucia: You mean Kakyou? Sure, just make it snappy.
Hokuto: Well, I kinda need some help. See, he's in a coma, and I can't really carry him, and besides that, I don't think Fuuma will be too happy to give up one of his Dragons. I mean, have you seen the December Asuka? Seishiro's wish my ass, he just wants a replacement!
Lucia: *rolls her eyes* Fine, Vanyel, can you go with her? Blast everything in sight, if you have to.
Vanyel: You know, that's not really my style.
Lucia: *rolls her eyes again, and pushes him out the door* Just go!
Vanyel: Yeah, yeah...(rubs his bottom where he fell on it, as Hokuto floats off after him.)
Lucia: Well, while we're waiting for him, Lan, Relena, can you go take inventory? *hands them a list*
Relena: *reading list* 50,000 CLAMP manga; 50,000 copies of various Mercedes Lackey books; 30,000 copies of the Eva subs; two boxes of string cheese- sting cheese?
Lucia: You can never have too much string cheese!
Relena: ...Whatever. Plus 10,000 copies of various other angsty materials; various food supplies; knives- oh, that could be a problem; and hard copies of several hundred Digimon fanfics?
(Everyone stops what they're doing to stare at Lucia)
Lucia: What? Do I have food between my teeth?
Relena: Never mind.
Hokuto: *bounds back in, closely followed by Vanyel, who is carrying a comatose body with him*
Lucia: Getting kidnapped and hauled around is just a regular occurrence for the poor guy, isn't it?
Hokuto: I'd prefer to think of it as un-kidnapping, in this case. Can you put him in my bedroom, Van-chan?
Vanyel: *sweatdrops* Sure...
Relena: Just out of curiosity, aren't a lot of the people here dead? How can Vanyel carry Kakyou around?
Lucia: Well, I suppose he's not technically dead in this universe...
Relena: Oh...
Lucia: *falls over* Dammit, I just thought of this great angsty character. Way too late. Oh well. There's the whole bumping off factor. Or we could always use more cabin boys. *snaps her fingers, and a lavender-haired guy appears, looking confused.* Author powers! Yaaay!
Mirai Trunks: *confused* Where am I?
Seishiro: *finally snaps out of his daze a little* Hell. *heavily sarcastic*
Trunks: Nice guy.
Lucia: Wanna come run around the universe with us and spread angst?
Trunks: Sure, haven't got anything better to do.
Lucia: *suddenly smacks her forehead again, and somehow manages to fall over* Yo, we need to have you and Shinji introduce yourself to those fans unfamiliar with your series. In the mean time, it would be nice if we could get the ship taking off, but the captain and first mate seem to be conspicuously absent. *glances at Kamui's door, where the noise has gotten considerably louder*
Seishiro: *since his attention is drawn back to the door, he begins pacing again.* *muttermutter*WillkillKamui*muttermutter*
Lucia: And before Shinji and Mirai Trunks introduce themselves, I'd like to establish that there are serious DBZ and Eva spoilers ahead. OK, Shinji, go ahead.
Shinji: *pops out* Hi, I'm Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, and yes I am somewhat crazy (like everyone else in the series) but I was really angsty even before the crazy thing. My mom's dead, my dad is mean, I have to live with an emotionally unstable and somewhat crazy woman, I work with a really emotionally unstable and crazy girl, and another emotionless girl who happens to be a clone of my mother. Then I have to pilot a big mecha thing, which sucks, cause I'm a wuss and my dad tried to make me kill a friend of mine, and almost everyone I know ends up either crazy or dead. And there was one guy who kind of liked me, except I had to kill him. That really sucked. *takes deep breath*
Lucia: Uh...thank you. Trunks?
Trunks: I show up in Dragonball from the future, where the world got pretty much destroyed. My dad died when I was really little, and all the other good guys were killed too, except for my friend Gohan. He tried to train me to kick some major ass on the cyborgs who were destroying the world, but the only way he could get me to be strong enough was to go get killed. And that just sucked.
Lucia: Thanks, Trunks. *glances at Kamui's room. OK, I give up. Trunks, you're a smart guy, you can be captain for now.
Trunks: Thanks. *goes to sit down, and has the ship figured out in minutes* OK, everybody sit down. We're taking off! *pushes a few buttons, and the ship rumbles and takes off*
Lucia: Cool! Good job!
Trunks: Thanks. Not bad if I say so myself.
Seishiro: *growls in frustration* I am going to _kill_ Kamui!
Hokuto: Thank you for that interjection, Seishiro. *ignores the fact that he can't kill anyone, being dead and immaterial* Why?
Seishiro: Because he- *cuts off*
Hokuto: *sweetly* He what?
Seishiro: He- oh, never mind! You know, I've heard of not giving up, but this is ridiculous!
Relena: *starts sing-songing in the background* Denial is not just a river in Egypt....
Seishiro: Now I see why the Gundam yaoi fans think you're annoying. -_-;
Relena: Hey-!
Lucia: How would you know, Seishiro? Do you habitually read yaoi fanfics?
Seishiro: Um...well...the afterlife is rather boring...and...well...
Lucia: *snickering* Whatever. And they only think she's annoying because she *gasp* hits on Heero! And you know, that's a real threat to his relationship to Duo! *snorts* I mean, come on, Heero's not the type to juggle lovers. Either he likes Duo, or he likes Relena. They are not threats to each other. -_-;;
Relena: Tell that to the fans...besides, haven't you been known to write some lovely fics where I get rather abused?
Lucia: *objecting* All in good fun! And it was only that one time...besides, I pick on the characters I like best. Look what I did to Yamato and Taichi in Mirai no Namida!
Relena: ...Point.
Lucia: Hey...look...we stopped. Trunks, where are we?
Trunks: How would I know? I just pushed the auto pilot button and let the ship go where it wanted to.
Lucia: ...Oh. Well, who wants to get Kamui and Subaru out of there? I think as the most angsty crew members, they definitely need to come with us on our angst-spreading mission. Besides, Subaru is the _captain_!
Hokuto: *goes briefly starry-eyed* My brother is all grown up and spreading angst as captain of his _own ship_!
Seishiro: *cheerfully* _I'll_ go get Subaru-kun out.
Lucia: And kill Kamui, huh? No, I'd like _both_ of them out here, thankyouverymuch. *Seishiro starts to say something, but Lucia glares at him and interrupts* Alive. Well...this can't go on much longer....
Two hours later:
Hokuto: Go fish.
Lan: Nuts! *picks up a card and adds it to his hand*
Lucia: *groanins and buries her head in her hands, which makes her hand show, though she doesn't realize it* How much longer are they gonna be in there?
(Seishiro, the only one not playing, has now paced a rut in the floor. He mutters something incoherent, but it's probably rude, judging by the context and tone of voice.)
Hokuto: *grinning* Lucia...got any fours?
Lucia: *groans, glancing at her hand and pulling the three fours out* How do you guys do that?
Hokuto: *looks innocent* Lucky guesses, I guess!
Lucia: *buries her head in her hands again, moaning*
(Behind Kamui's door)
Subaru: Go fish.
Kamui: OK, Subaru, I'm getting kind of tired of Go Fish. Why don't we turn off the gay porn now and go out there? I'm sure Seishiro is sufficiently jealous.
Subaru: Guess I can't really object at this point. Thanks for doing me this favor, Kamui.
Kamui: *waves it off* No problem. Next time we should bring some chocolate ice cream in, too. I mean, we can still eat it...
Subaru: Good idea! I knew I hung around you for something! *giggles, as much as Subaru is capable of giggling* I love seeing him get all jealous! Revenge is sweet...^_^ Now, we just have to go muss ourselves up a bit, and make our re-entrance!
Next time on MS Angst: The cast learns why using autopilot is a bad idea, and Relena has a fit when she sees the chocolate stains in Subaru's covers.
(Seishiro, pacing back and forth in front of Kamui's door, doesn't even notice)
Vanyel: What's the point of his denial, anyway? I mean, from what Subaru said earlier, Seishiro confessed his love before he died anyway.
Hokuto: *floats over and pokes Seishiro experimentally. He doesn't notice.* Well, denial is deeply rooted in him. He probably forgot or something when he arrived in the afterlife.
(Lan and Relena are playing crazy eights in the corner of the room)
Lan: Hah! I win!
Relena: *pout* You always win! You bratty little eights hoarder! Let's play something different!
Lan: How about war?
Relena: I object!
(Seishiro is progressively pacing further from the door each round, walks right through Relena)
Relena: Ack! Cold!
Lucia: *blinks, as yet another fax comes in* Um...guys, thanks a bunch, but you can stop sending in suggestions now, at least until the point where I decide to bump off one of the crew members.
(Shinji, unpacking his clothes in his room, hears, since the door was open and Lucia wasn't exactly being discreet. He drops his cello case on his foot.)
Shinji: Ow! Lucia, please tell me you were kidding.
Lucia: ...Mostly. *proceeds to eat the fax*
Relena: ...I thought my brother was weird, until I met her...
Lucia: Want some? *offers it to Relena*
Relena: No, that's OK, thank you.
Lucia: *shrugs, and then goes to bring up a map on the console* Well, anyway, we should probably start out on our mission. *mutters something about looking up maps and navigating being Kamui's job*
Hokuto: *stops harassing Seishiro momentarily* Hey, Lucia, before we leave, can I get my boyfriend? I think he would contribute suitable angst to the atmosphere.
Lucia: You mean Kakyou? Sure, just make it snappy.
Hokuto: Well, I kinda need some help. See, he's in a coma, and I can't really carry him, and besides that, I don't think Fuuma will be too happy to give up one of his Dragons. I mean, have you seen the December Asuka? Seishiro's wish my ass, he just wants a replacement!
Lucia: *rolls her eyes* Fine, Vanyel, can you go with her? Blast everything in sight, if you have to.
Vanyel: You know, that's not really my style.
Lucia: *rolls her eyes again, and pushes him out the door* Just go!
Vanyel: Yeah, yeah...(rubs his bottom where he fell on it, as Hokuto floats off after him.)
Lucia: Well, while we're waiting for him, Lan, Relena, can you go take inventory? *hands them a list*
Relena: *reading list* 50,000 CLAMP manga; 50,000 copies of various Mercedes Lackey books; 30,000 copies of the Eva subs; two boxes of string cheese- sting cheese?
Lucia: You can never have too much string cheese!
Relena: ...Whatever. Plus 10,000 copies of various other angsty materials; various food supplies; knives- oh, that could be a problem; and hard copies of several hundred Digimon fanfics?
(Everyone stops what they're doing to stare at Lucia)
Lucia: What? Do I have food between my teeth?
Relena: Never mind.
Hokuto: *bounds back in, closely followed by Vanyel, who is carrying a comatose body with him*
Lucia: Getting kidnapped and hauled around is just a regular occurrence for the poor guy, isn't it?
Hokuto: I'd prefer to think of it as un-kidnapping, in this case. Can you put him in my bedroom, Van-chan?
Vanyel: *sweatdrops* Sure...
Relena: Just out of curiosity, aren't a lot of the people here dead? How can Vanyel carry Kakyou around?
Lucia: Well, I suppose he's not technically dead in this universe...
Relena: Oh...
Lucia: *falls over* Dammit, I just thought of this great angsty character. Way too late. Oh well. There's the whole bumping off factor. Or we could always use more cabin boys. *snaps her fingers, and a lavender-haired guy appears, looking confused.* Author powers! Yaaay!
Mirai Trunks: *confused* Where am I?
Seishiro: *finally snaps out of his daze a little* Hell. *heavily sarcastic*
Trunks: Nice guy.
Lucia: Wanna come run around the universe with us and spread angst?
Trunks: Sure, haven't got anything better to do.
Lucia: *suddenly smacks her forehead again, and somehow manages to fall over* Yo, we need to have you and Shinji introduce yourself to those fans unfamiliar with your series. In the mean time, it would be nice if we could get the ship taking off, but the captain and first mate seem to be conspicuously absent. *glances at Kamui's door, where the noise has gotten considerably louder*
Seishiro: *since his attention is drawn back to the door, he begins pacing again.* *muttermutter*WillkillKamui*muttermutter*
Lucia: And before Shinji and Mirai Trunks introduce themselves, I'd like to establish that there are serious DBZ and Eva spoilers ahead. OK, Shinji, go ahead.
Shinji: *pops out* Hi, I'm Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, and yes I am somewhat crazy (like everyone else in the series) but I was really angsty even before the crazy thing. My mom's dead, my dad is mean, I have to live with an emotionally unstable and somewhat crazy woman, I work with a really emotionally unstable and crazy girl, and another emotionless girl who happens to be a clone of my mother. Then I have to pilot a big mecha thing, which sucks, cause I'm a wuss and my dad tried to make me kill a friend of mine, and almost everyone I know ends up either crazy or dead. And there was one guy who kind of liked me, except I had to kill him. That really sucked. *takes deep breath*
Lucia: Uh...thank you. Trunks?
Trunks: I show up in Dragonball from the future, where the world got pretty much destroyed. My dad died when I was really little, and all the other good guys were killed too, except for my friend Gohan. He tried to train me to kick some major ass on the cyborgs who were destroying the world, but the only way he could get me to be strong enough was to go get killed. And that just sucked.
Lucia: Thanks, Trunks. *glances at Kamui's room. OK, I give up. Trunks, you're a smart guy, you can be captain for now.
Trunks: Thanks. *goes to sit down, and has the ship figured out in minutes* OK, everybody sit down. We're taking off! *pushes a few buttons, and the ship rumbles and takes off*
Lucia: Cool! Good job!
Trunks: Thanks. Not bad if I say so myself.
Seishiro: *growls in frustration* I am going to _kill_ Kamui!
Hokuto: Thank you for that interjection, Seishiro. *ignores the fact that he can't kill anyone, being dead and immaterial* Why?
Seishiro: Because he- *cuts off*
Hokuto: *sweetly* He what?
Seishiro: He- oh, never mind! You know, I've heard of not giving up, but this is ridiculous!
Relena: *starts sing-songing in the background* Denial is not just a river in Egypt....
Seishiro: Now I see why the Gundam yaoi fans think you're annoying. -_-;
Relena: Hey-!
Lucia: How would you know, Seishiro? Do you habitually read yaoi fanfics?
Seishiro: Um...well...the afterlife is rather boring...and...well...
Lucia: *snickering* Whatever. And they only think she's annoying because she *gasp* hits on Heero! And you know, that's a real threat to his relationship to Duo! *snorts* I mean, come on, Heero's not the type to juggle lovers. Either he likes Duo, or he likes Relena. They are not threats to each other. -_-;;
Relena: Tell that to the fans...besides, haven't you been known to write some lovely fics where I get rather abused?
Lucia: *objecting* All in good fun! And it was only that one time...besides, I pick on the characters I like best. Look what I did to Yamato and Taichi in Mirai no Namida!
Relena: ...Point.
Lucia: Hey...look...we stopped. Trunks, where are we?
Trunks: How would I know? I just pushed the auto pilot button and let the ship go where it wanted to.
Lucia: ...Oh. Well, who wants to get Kamui and Subaru out of there? I think as the most angsty crew members, they definitely need to come with us on our angst-spreading mission. Besides, Subaru is the _captain_!
Hokuto: *goes briefly starry-eyed* My brother is all grown up and spreading angst as captain of his _own ship_!
Seishiro: *cheerfully* _I'll_ go get Subaru-kun out.
Lucia: And kill Kamui, huh? No, I'd like _both_ of them out here, thankyouverymuch. *Seishiro starts to say something, but Lucia glares at him and interrupts* Alive. Well...this can't go on much longer....
Two hours later:
Hokuto: Go fish.
Lan: Nuts! *picks up a card and adds it to his hand*
Lucia: *groanins and buries her head in her hands, which makes her hand show, though she doesn't realize it* How much longer are they gonna be in there?
(Seishiro, the only one not playing, has now paced a rut in the floor. He mutters something incoherent, but it's probably rude, judging by the context and tone of voice.)
Hokuto: *grinning* Lucia...got any fours?
Lucia: *groans, glancing at her hand and pulling the three fours out* How do you guys do that?
Hokuto: *looks innocent* Lucky guesses, I guess!
Lucia: *buries her head in her hands again, moaning*
(Behind Kamui's door)
Subaru: Go fish.
Kamui: OK, Subaru, I'm getting kind of tired of Go Fish. Why don't we turn off the gay porn now and go out there? I'm sure Seishiro is sufficiently jealous.
Subaru: Guess I can't really object at this point. Thanks for doing me this favor, Kamui.
Kamui: *waves it off* No problem. Next time we should bring some chocolate ice cream in, too. I mean, we can still eat it...
Subaru: Good idea! I knew I hung around you for something! *giggles, as much as Subaru is capable of giggling* I love seeing him get all jealous! Revenge is sweet...^_^ Now, we just have to go muss ourselves up a bit, and make our re-entrance!
Next time on MS Angst: The cast learns why using autopilot is a bad idea, and Relena has a fit when she sees the chocolate stains in Subaru's covers.