"You have two daddies."
"James, quite!"
"You were born in a fish bowl."
"James, quite!"
"Your hair is funny."
"James, quite!"
"You're an angst happy bunny."
"Jude, don't say that!"
This was the usual things that Fuuma heard at the usual ruff reunion, the one that often commented about his parentage was 8 years old James, the one that went "James, Quite" was Butch's wife, Debbie. The one that comment about him being a angst happy bunny is Jude, Boomer's 13 year old daughter. And the person to tell her not to say that is Boomer's wife, Gina.
They both often commented on the hair thought, he really gets annoyed about that. He would be on the park bridge a lot of times trying to escape his annoying cousins, his parents didn't blame him but they came here only out of good fate.
The whole things was a quick get together, than lunch than a little after eating chatter than everyone went back their normal lives.
Fuuma didn't really care for this event, if there wasn't food and the park bridge he wouldn't even go. At the moment he was finished eating and now back to his favorite hide away from the rest of the family, but of course someone was going to find and annoy him.
"Go away," Fuuma said in a manner that only match by Sasuke from Naruto. But even his icy glare could seem to make the slightly bubbly blond take a hint to go away, probably only made her stay.
"Aw, common angst bunny; you gotta interact with others or else people will think you're some kind of nut," Jude said as she lean on the opposite rail across from Fuuma. "You may get the person of your choice in Japan but here you'll just be pumped full of drugs to be normal."
"Are you on drugs?" Fuuma said getting more annoyed, at the moment the two were in a battle of wits and status; whoever leave the bridge of solitude loses. "Because for some reason you babble about nothing and you got a little red eye."
"Ouch, that insult hurts," Jude said in a mock tone. "It's so painful it can never counter the bishounen angst bunny! All bow down to the 'druggie' insult."
"At least I don't use words that is thrown around the internet without knowing what they mean," Fuuma said as he gave the 'look'. "Chi wo suu kodomo."
Jude was confused for a moment and was about to go ask uncle Masahiro what that meant when she looked down and realized she had left the bridge and lost this battle of wits. The shot of "damn you" aimed at Fuuma was enough as she walked away.
"Muki ni naru na yo."
Buttercup was busy in her lab under the house, believe it or not this place was actually her old home only rebuilt. But at the moment she was trying to figure out why the cell mess unit wasn't excepting the teleported attachment at a 100% success; even at 99.1% success she still isn't satisfied.
This was for the N.A.P.D. new enforcement team, she and her ex-wife, Princess, have been assign to created a new type of power suit. On one end Princess wanted to stay with "what works" with the metal threaded material with a stronger metal and customized devices.
The other end Buttercup wanted to through out everything and start from scratch with a new system based on interchanging devices that would combine with a suit structured on some thing that would absorb some damage and "heal" the shelling that she was planning on using.
The results were often e-mailed to a team in weaponry devolvement for better feed back, they were planning on teleporting weapons and armor from a satellite. She knew that this has to be 100% percent or else she has to start all over.
Lucky for her the thin piece of cloth-like material took on more than 20 gigawatts at a time, now she has 100%.
100% was what she shot for but it only reach 10% at best, her suit idea got shoved aside but the idea of implanting battle data into a program that will focus the user's mind on only the battle. But the problem is that the user, in this case a few mice, is sent into a insane fit of rage.
In the end her end of the devolvement was scrapped and she was back at Bio-search labs, her business.
She was angered that first the Neogeoville had thought that Buttercup's idea was better and than toss her aside when her program couldn't produce the results they wanted. But she was more angry at herself, when the city was in the process of being built she had taught Buttercup everything; together they build the first universal armor uniform and together they build the Metal Messiah units.
Well, she thought as she reached over for her tools, if she wants to build N.A.P.D. puppets then I'll build something for the kids.
She sighed, it maybe a stupid idea; her daughters maybe raised as regular kids but superheroing is in their blood and she worried for their safety.
Now was a matter of figuring on where to start.
Translations:
Chi wo suu kodomo - blood sucking child.
Muki ni naru na yo - don't take this so seriously.
Quick (and useless) tidbit.
I don't know if anyone hadn't already figured out the so obvious reference with Neogeoville, but those that don't know much about the game world, SNK made a game machine that went unheard called Neo Geo (there's also Neo Geo CD) that housed many SNK classics and other tons of goodies.
It's also features a feature that all translated text to the system language (I.E. from English to Japanese on a Japanese system and vice versa.)