Games without Frontiers
Check-In
By LadyRivka
The humming and whirring of the matter generator was enough to make Becky go insane. She plugged her ears and screamed loudly.
"What the HELL is the matter with you?" asked her three-foot-tall mentor. "I Thought cyborgs could stand a little noise!"
"Noise? That thing is making most possibly the loudest din in the Universe." She gave Zyzyx a sour smirk.
"Go upstairs on the balcony then; the first one should be arriving soon, anyways."
Becky marched up the stairs, sulking and growling, her posture oddly rigid.
The matter generator whirred constantly; Becky had decided the noise wasn't so bad from the balcony. Inside, she watched as a human form took shape in the generator.
Suddenly, the noised stopped. Zyzyx opened the hatch, and out stepped a nude male, human-looking, with long black hair.
Could it be…? Becky thought to herself. It sure looks like him…
Nah, can't be. He's just a figment of Akira Toriyama's imagination, a fictional character…this is getting TOO weird…
"Hello, Number Seventeen," greeted Zyzyx.
So it was him…
"You. Green man. What the hell am I doing here, and naked, at that?"
"You fight, my lad. 6ixball. I will fit you for a uniform."
"6ixball?"
"Yes. A competitive cyborg sport. I will send you in to the physician's; he will take your statistics and fit you with the 6ixball uniform."
Becky just stared from the balcony, halfway in shock, halfway in bishounen heaven. God, she'd fantasized about seeing Jinzouningen Juunanagou naked, but…this was much too weird.
Staring at Zyzyx leading the male cyborg out to the doctor's office, Becky fainted.
As soon as she came to, she noted that three other cyborgs she knew from the realms of anime and manga were there, dressed in 6ixball uniform: Juuhachigou, Alita, and Jashugan. This was getting much too weird for her. Did artists have the capacity to see, with their mind's eye, other dimensions? What exactly was going on? Maybe her competition read comics and watched TV shows about her…
Becky just sat on the balcony and tried to calm her nerves, while Zyzyx explained the rules and regulations to the newcomers.
This is what I get for being champion? she thought, as the other four retired to their nightly quarters.
TO BE CONTINUED…
