The patter of the rain and rolling thunder had lulled me to sleep on the trip home. I was awakened as the bus's brakes squealed into the Transit Center. I gathered up my things and headed out of the bus.
"Thanks again!" I told the bus driver as I hopped of.
"Sure thing. And stay dry!" He called after me, chuckling as I grinned back at him, already soaking wet.
"Not a problem!" I said and spun around on my heels and did an exaggerated march off to the edge of town. His laughter followed me, but was soon drowned out by the rain. I laughed to myself. The rain had tremendously raised my spirits. Almost as if they had been washed clean by it.
I took off at a (very) slow run (normal run for a human though) enjoying the cold rain. Once I reached the edge of town I headed northwest strait into the forest. We had hidden our ship a mile or so deep inside of it. A safe enough distance to keep normal wanderers from finding us. (Besides they'd have to be able to jump over a canyon to get to it from this direction). I might as well do some practicing while I'm here. I leaped into the nearest tree and from there I jumped to the next one. It was good conditioning. Not to mention the treacherous footing made excellent practice. You'd be surprised how slippery wet bark can be. The awkward weight of my backpack added to the 'fun'. I actually did fall out of a tree once on the way (which added mud to the collection of leaves, twigs, bark and whatnot gathering on my clothes)…I hit my head on the way down (although I think I hurt the tree more than it hurt me!)
In no time at all, I made it to the canyon. A short hop over and a minute more found me at my current home. It looked like a rock wall covered in vines. Pushing some vines aside with my left hand (and getting more water on my head, not that it made much difference anymore!), I put my right hand on a smooth rock outcropping. A very slight tingling told me that it was 'reading' my hand. That sensation stopped and the rock wall in front of me pulled back and lifted itself silently into the ceiling.
"You're back, finally." A voice growled from inside the dark. It came from one of the speakers in the first airlock. I grinned and looked up at the camera, waving to it as the lights turned on.
"Hi Sensei!"
"You're wet." He said disapprovingly.
"Have you checked the weather sensors recently?" I asked dryly. He ignored me.
"Dry off before you come inside. We've got bare electronics in here. The last thing they need is to get wet."
"Yes Senso-sama." I said sarcastically but by the sound of the 'pop' from the speakers he hadn't waited around for me to reply. I muttered to myself as I did a slight power-up, just enough to create a warm aura around me to fling the water from my clothes and hair. When I deemed myself dry enough (even for Senso-sama) I exited the airlock and into the main ship. I found Sensei in the main hold, fixing some of the equipment we had 'acquired' from of previous stop.
"The phone's out again." He said without looking up. I went to put away my bag in the corner. He looked at me from whatever he was doing. "Go fix it!" he snapped. I sighed. No use arguing. I was planning on heading over there to do that after I had dumped off my backpack.
"Yes Senso-sama." I growled and about-faced to the Communications Room.
I got there and checked the settings. Everything all right there. I picked up the phone. It sounded as if the phone was hooked up to a receiver outside and was transmitting the rain. Wait a sec…my mind flashed back to the Transit Center. I hadn't heard the driver over the rain. What if I 'couldn't find the problem' until after the fieldtrip! I grinned. I could re-route the line into my room where I could imitate my baka Sensei, telling the school that I was sick! That was it! I switched the wires so that it would head to my room only for a while. I finished up what I could do in the CR and packed everything back neatly. I stood and brushed my hands together in a satisfied manner.
"It works now?" Senso-sama grunted from the doorway. I froze. What's wrong with me? I didn't even sense him! I turned around with my face schooled to stillness.
"I can't fix it now. It would require me to get outside and raise some of the top panels."
"Then do it!" he snapped, "You're not made of Salven!" Salven was a fine powder that almost seemed to instantly disappear in water.
"There are too many delicate parts under those panels. I'd have to wait for a day or two to start pulling those things apart. One drop of water and poof." I used a small gesture to demonstrate the way the parts would crumble apart in a matter of seconds. "Bye-bye to big expensive parts!" I waved them on their 'final farewell'. Senso-sama looked as if he had decided to chew on one of the local fruits called a 'lemon'. He absolutely hated to be proven wrong or unknowledgeable. And I had just done both! I love it! Despite how much I wanted to I managed not to laugh outright. He growled.
"Fine!" he snapped. He swung his hand at my head, palm facedown, as if it was a blade. I took an easy step back (just enough that his hand would pass me by a mere inch) and avoided it. His eyes flashed dangerously and he snorted. "You may go." I bowed.
"What is it you wish me to do Sensei?" I asked and he glared at me.
"Go do…whatever." He said. "Have some free time." He muttered something as he turned away.
"All right! Aregato Gozaimas Sensei!" He only snorted and ignored me. I didn't care. I got 'free time'. So it was time to get some good training in.
I half-skipped, half-ran to the training room where I changed into some training clothes. A sleeve-less black almost-loose shirt and baggy white pants held up with a brown sash. I paused as I was finishing wrapping up the sash. I looked over at my school shirt, a long-sleeved black shirt. Hmm, Black shirt, black shirt. Come to think of it. Most everything I have, clothing-wise were White and Black. I shrugged as I strapped on some wrist- and ankle-weights, I guess Black and White were my colors then.
Flipping on the Gravity Sim (that I had designed and built myself for tougher training) I set it to a light workout for starters and programmed it to increase gradually until I either canceled it or pass out from exhaustion (To which the GSR, or Gravity Simulator Room, is programmed to shut off immediately or I probably would have killed myself training long ago) Kami-sama knows how many times I've worked myself until I 'fell over' as one of my earlier teachers had put it. I grinned remembering as stepped over the threshold into the GSR to begin with some warm-ups. He loved to laugh. 'Aida!' he'd often say, 'You fell over again while training. That's not always good you know. You're gonna brake you're neck when you fall one of these days. And what kind of death is that for a warrior!' and to that he himself would fall over from laughing.
Hours latter I plopped down on my bead after an exhausting workout (even the cool-down had been hard at whatever the Gravity was set at). I was happy. I hadn't done any serious training for a while. It wasn't a matter of 'Ah, I don't feel like training', it was more like 'Aida, you have to do this and that and that other thing. Oh! And don't forget about some other thing that'll take you hours to do!' I get that a lot from Senso-baka. It had only hit me while I was training how little of a 'gakusei*' I am and how much of a 'servant' I've become. I aught to get rid of this 'Sensei' sometime soon. But right now is too early. Maybe another Standard Year or so and I can get moving. I still owe him my debt. He had taken me off of a planet that its citizens had blamed me for something I (for once) had not done! I really didn't feel like killing/hurting anyone on that planet (although had Senso not taken me, there was nothing I could do but kill them). Not like it would have been such a great disaster for the universe had I blasted the entire planet to dust.
I got back to my feet now that I had enough energy to stand for ten minutes (even though I only felt like lying there for the rest of my life in comfortable happiness on my bed). I pulled out some clean clothes (and laughed as I realized that it was a black shirt and pants) and a towel (which was actually red) and headed out to the shower.
After the soothing hot shower that relaxed my muscles and my mind, I plopped back down on my bed and fell into the best sleep I've had in a long time. My troubles could wait till dawn. And in the morning, I was ready for anything.
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I think I got out all the typos (My cat had tried to help me type).
Aida: Speaking of cats, I miss Shadow.
Me: Shadow isn't a cat baka and you know it.
Aida: *grins* I know but he looks like one. Oh! And you forgot to say when the Fieldtrip was! *Laughs at the miscalculation* you're a horrible writer!
Me: Watch it! There are some people who would be after you're blood for that one (even if you're the main character!). C'mon! Even I don't say that I'm horrible.
Aida: You still left out a big detail! (Fieldtrip is tomorrow)
Me: So what are you gonna do about it?
Aida: You're fired! *Laughs*
Me: You're fired! *Aida disappears in a burst of flames*
Flames (Aida): okay. You win.
Me: *victory sign* Anyways incase Aida didn't make it clear when the Fieldtrip was (Or my writing wasn't all too clear), this chapter started off on the first day (when he met Gohan and it was raining and everything) and it ends in the second day. Which is today. So he has today of school and tomorrow is the fieldtrip. There that shoulda cleaned things up for you guys!
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one other thing, I drew some (not all that great) pics of Aida, I figured you guys might want to see what I saw when I write him. I'll try and post them latter, although keep in mind that I drew them over a period of a few days so they may not look exactly like the same guy!....but trust me....they are lol
"Thanks again!" I told the bus driver as I hopped of.
"Sure thing. And stay dry!" He called after me, chuckling as I grinned back at him, already soaking wet.
"Not a problem!" I said and spun around on my heels and did an exaggerated march off to the edge of town. His laughter followed me, but was soon drowned out by the rain. I laughed to myself. The rain had tremendously raised my spirits. Almost as if they had been washed clean by it.
I took off at a (very) slow run (normal run for a human though) enjoying the cold rain. Once I reached the edge of town I headed northwest strait into the forest. We had hidden our ship a mile or so deep inside of it. A safe enough distance to keep normal wanderers from finding us. (Besides they'd have to be able to jump over a canyon to get to it from this direction). I might as well do some practicing while I'm here. I leaped into the nearest tree and from there I jumped to the next one. It was good conditioning. Not to mention the treacherous footing made excellent practice. You'd be surprised how slippery wet bark can be. The awkward weight of my backpack added to the 'fun'. I actually did fall out of a tree once on the way (which added mud to the collection of leaves, twigs, bark and whatnot gathering on my clothes)…I hit my head on the way down (although I think I hurt the tree more than it hurt me!)
In no time at all, I made it to the canyon. A short hop over and a minute more found me at my current home. It looked like a rock wall covered in vines. Pushing some vines aside with my left hand (and getting more water on my head, not that it made much difference anymore!), I put my right hand on a smooth rock outcropping. A very slight tingling told me that it was 'reading' my hand. That sensation stopped and the rock wall in front of me pulled back and lifted itself silently into the ceiling.
"You're back, finally." A voice growled from inside the dark. It came from one of the speakers in the first airlock. I grinned and looked up at the camera, waving to it as the lights turned on.
"Hi Sensei!"
"You're wet." He said disapprovingly.
"Have you checked the weather sensors recently?" I asked dryly. He ignored me.
"Dry off before you come inside. We've got bare electronics in here. The last thing they need is to get wet."
"Yes Senso-sama." I said sarcastically but by the sound of the 'pop' from the speakers he hadn't waited around for me to reply. I muttered to myself as I did a slight power-up, just enough to create a warm aura around me to fling the water from my clothes and hair. When I deemed myself dry enough (even for Senso-sama) I exited the airlock and into the main ship. I found Sensei in the main hold, fixing some of the equipment we had 'acquired' from of previous stop.
"The phone's out again." He said without looking up. I went to put away my bag in the corner. He looked at me from whatever he was doing. "Go fix it!" he snapped. I sighed. No use arguing. I was planning on heading over there to do that after I had dumped off my backpack.
"Yes Senso-sama." I growled and about-faced to the Communications Room.
I got there and checked the settings. Everything all right there. I picked up the phone. It sounded as if the phone was hooked up to a receiver outside and was transmitting the rain. Wait a sec…my mind flashed back to the Transit Center. I hadn't heard the driver over the rain. What if I 'couldn't find the problem' until after the fieldtrip! I grinned. I could re-route the line into my room where I could imitate my baka Sensei, telling the school that I was sick! That was it! I switched the wires so that it would head to my room only for a while. I finished up what I could do in the CR and packed everything back neatly. I stood and brushed my hands together in a satisfied manner.
"It works now?" Senso-sama grunted from the doorway. I froze. What's wrong with me? I didn't even sense him! I turned around with my face schooled to stillness.
"I can't fix it now. It would require me to get outside and raise some of the top panels."
"Then do it!" he snapped, "You're not made of Salven!" Salven was a fine powder that almost seemed to instantly disappear in water.
"There are too many delicate parts under those panels. I'd have to wait for a day or two to start pulling those things apart. One drop of water and poof." I used a small gesture to demonstrate the way the parts would crumble apart in a matter of seconds. "Bye-bye to big expensive parts!" I waved them on their 'final farewell'. Senso-sama looked as if he had decided to chew on one of the local fruits called a 'lemon'. He absolutely hated to be proven wrong or unknowledgeable. And I had just done both! I love it! Despite how much I wanted to I managed not to laugh outright. He growled.
"Fine!" he snapped. He swung his hand at my head, palm facedown, as if it was a blade. I took an easy step back (just enough that his hand would pass me by a mere inch) and avoided it. His eyes flashed dangerously and he snorted. "You may go." I bowed.
"What is it you wish me to do Sensei?" I asked and he glared at me.
"Go do…whatever." He said. "Have some free time." He muttered something as he turned away.
"All right! Aregato Gozaimas Sensei!" He only snorted and ignored me. I didn't care. I got 'free time'. So it was time to get some good training in.
I half-skipped, half-ran to the training room where I changed into some training clothes. A sleeve-less black almost-loose shirt and baggy white pants held up with a brown sash. I paused as I was finishing wrapping up the sash. I looked over at my school shirt, a long-sleeved black shirt. Hmm, Black shirt, black shirt. Come to think of it. Most everything I have, clothing-wise were White and Black. I shrugged as I strapped on some wrist- and ankle-weights, I guess Black and White were my colors then.
Flipping on the Gravity Sim (that I had designed and built myself for tougher training) I set it to a light workout for starters and programmed it to increase gradually until I either canceled it or pass out from exhaustion (To which the GSR, or Gravity Simulator Room, is programmed to shut off immediately or I probably would have killed myself training long ago) Kami-sama knows how many times I've worked myself until I 'fell over' as one of my earlier teachers had put it. I grinned remembering as stepped over the threshold into the GSR to begin with some warm-ups. He loved to laugh. 'Aida!' he'd often say, 'You fell over again while training. That's not always good you know. You're gonna brake you're neck when you fall one of these days. And what kind of death is that for a warrior!' and to that he himself would fall over from laughing.
Hours latter I plopped down on my bead after an exhausting workout (even the cool-down had been hard at whatever the Gravity was set at). I was happy. I hadn't done any serious training for a while. It wasn't a matter of 'Ah, I don't feel like training', it was more like 'Aida, you have to do this and that and that other thing. Oh! And don't forget about some other thing that'll take you hours to do!' I get that a lot from Senso-baka. It had only hit me while I was training how little of a 'gakusei*' I am and how much of a 'servant' I've become. I aught to get rid of this 'Sensei' sometime soon. But right now is too early. Maybe another Standard Year or so and I can get moving. I still owe him my debt. He had taken me off of a planet that its citizens had blamed me for something I (for once) had not done! I really didn't feel like killing/hurting anyone on that planet (although had Senso not taken me, there was nothing I could do but kill them). Not like it would have been such a great disaster for the universe had I blasted the entire planet to dust.
I got back to my feet now that I had enough energy to stand for ten minutes (even though I only felt like lying there for the rest of my life in comfortable happiness on my bed). I pulled out some clean clothes (and laughed as I realized that it was a black shirt and pants) and a towel (which was actually red) and headed out to the shower.
After the soothing hot shower that relaxed my muscles and my mind, I plopped back down on my bed and fell into the best sleep I've had in a long time. My troubles could wait till dawn. And in the morning, I was ready for anything.
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I think I got out all the typos (My cat had tried to help me type).
Aida: Speaking of cats, I miss Shadow.
Me: Shadow isn't a cat baka and you know it.
Aida: *grins* I know but he looks like one. Oh! And you forgot to say when the Fieldtrip was! *Laughs at the miscalculation* you're a horrible writer!
Me: Watch it! There are some people who would be after you're blood for that one (even if you're the main character!). C'mon! Even I don't say that I'm horrible.
Aida: You still left out a big detail! (Fieldtrip is tomorrow)
Me: So what are you gonna do about it?
Aida: You're fired! *Laughs*
Me: You're fired! *Aida disappears in a burst of flames*
Flames (Aida): okay. You win.
Me: *victory sign* Anyways incase Aida didn't make it clear when the Fieldtrip was (Or my writing wasn't all too clear), this chapter started off on the first day (when he met Gohan and it was raining and everything) and it ends in the second day. Which is today. So he has today of school and tomorrow is the fieldtrip. There that shoulda cleaned things up for you guys!
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one other thing, I drew some (not all that great) pics of Aida, I figured you guys might want to see what I saw when I write him. I'll try and post them latter, although keep in mind that I drew them over a period of a few days so they may not look exactly like the same guy!....but trust me....they are lol