I awoke to an old man no more then an inch from my face.
"Ahh!!!" That was my first reaction, my second was to club him in the mouth....And I did....With great delight.
He hit the ground with a thud. Rubbing his cheek he said. "Oww, I was just telling you that we were almost there...."
Sighing, I looked at him.
"Gillium could have easily woken me up. You're not my personal wake up service....."
I was grumpy, always was when I first woke up. Coffee would fix that.
I got up and walked to the kitchen, Gene followed.
"You're following me to the kitchen? What next? Watch me take a leak?"
"Only if you want me to....Weirdo."
I grumbled and walked into the kitchen.
"So where the hell do you guys keep the coffee....?"
"Heh, coffee? Ah, we don't have any coffee on the ship!! That's some of the equipment we're picking up!" He laughed so JOYIOUSLY at his statement, while I basted in my own anger.
"You.....Don't....Have.....COFFEE?!?!?! What the HELL is wrong with you guys!! I can NOT believe you don't have coffee! I am SO pissed!!"
Now you see how grumpy I get? Anyways, I reached for my gun, wanting to shoot something.....ANYTHING!!
It was around the third grab at my gun when I found out the lack there of. I sat down while Gene continued to laugh, this time at my stupid mistake.
"I need coffee baaaaaad, Gene. If I don't get coffee the deaths of your crew will be all over the news....."
He sat next to me and grinned. "Ah come on. We'll be there in noooo time. THEN you can have as much java as you can hold. Deal?" He asked, as he stuck his hand out.
I raised my own to meet his but I was stopped at the ship's sudden shake.
"Jim! Status!" Gene yelled at the closest speaker.
"Enemy ship!! Gene! They're docking! There was nothing we could do! They just APPEARED here!! Ah! They're in! Get rea-"
The com went dead and was soon filled with static. Gene and I looked at each other. Oh WHAT a day to go without coffee.
We were both up and to our own rooms. Gene's was closest and he was in it like a flash, I on the other hand, had to run down a couple more feet.
And wouldn't you know it? I found our guests. I half expected it to be that damned pirate guy, which is wasn't. Just some hi-jackers, I was relieved. Whoa, wait.....Relieved?! The only thing guarding me from them was the fine fabric of my boxers! I deeply sighed, curse you coffee-less day.
"Well, well....Looks like we caught our ship-owner with his pants down. That's a shame."
I growled at the women in front of me. Who actually wasn't that bad looking....
"Yeah well I just got up. Didn't have time to dress for visitors."
"Oh well don't worry about it. All we want is the ship, YOU can just go to bed, little boy."
I sighed again. She was pushing it.
"Ok, listen. One, I just got up so I'm a little grumpy to say the least. TWO I haven't had any coffee yet so my attitude is not all the pleasant and YOU hi-jacking our ship is NOT helping."
She grinned. "What's you name, kid?"
"Strife. What's yours?"
"Rose. And this is Blade and Zero. Some of our others are swarming through your ship as we speak."
Then as if on cue, two things happened. First Gillium said that the bridge had been breached, last Gene came out of his own room, guns blazing at the hi-jackers....And PAST me!!
I didn't move an inch as he shot, praying his aim wasn't off. It wasn't thankfully. He scurried behind a corner and I ran towards him receiving another wave of bullets from the enemy.
I ducked next to Gene but felt the hot sting of metal puncher my shoulder. I screamed in pain.....Then I screamed again just for the hell of it.
" I WAAAAANNNNNNNTTTTTTT MY COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
If you can't tell, I was on the verge of a breakdown. Gene smacked me then gave me his hand shotgun.
"Here's some shells too. The recoil is too much for me in the morning. Now cover me because I have to cross the hall way."
I nodded my head and twisted around the corner, firing off the weapon in my hand. Man! Talk about recoil, the thing almost fell right out of my hands!
Luckily I got the one Rose called 'Zero' in the leg, almost ripping it off from the force. He went down pretty quickly. As this whole incident happened Gene ran to the other side of the hall and headed down another corridor.
"After him! Don't let him help his friends!"
She stared at me. I stared back with the look of anger only going without that sweet black liquid could bring me. As I stared I noticed something. She wasn't pointed a gun at me....In fact, she had no weapon at ALL!!
"You're defenseless? Why?!" I asked, without meaning to.
"No, I'm just not in arms. I am NOT defenseless. Come here and I'll show you."
A smirk grew on her face, she wanted a fist fight. Fine, I was mad enough to be crazy and give it to her. I put the hand shotgun down and step towards her.
"Forgive me for having to hit such a fine women....But my wits are just not with me."
"Then let me knock them into you." With that, her right fist came plowing into my jaw, sending me into the cold steel wall. That hurt....That REALLY hurt. Oh coffee, where for art thou?
I turned around and she nailed be again, getting the same result. This time I raised my foot up and kicked her in the gut. No way was a third swing coming at me.
She met her own side of the wall but only used it to push off and come at me.
She swung again but this time I blocked it with me own right hand, sending my left dead center in her face. She stumbled back and spat some red liquid on the ground.
"Ohhhh, don't spit in my ship...." I said with fake remorse.
She came at me again, punching at me twice. I blocked both, her foot came up to meet my head but I ducked and caught her leg. She spun up and around and put her knee right into my teeth. Now I was the one spitting up blood.
"Hypocrite." She said with a smug look on her face.
I decided to wipe that look off. I took a right hook but got nothing but air. Her own right was firmly packed in my stomach, I gasped for breathe but only got her other fist as my reply. I fell back and hit the wall yet AGAIN!
I stood up and wiped the blood from my lip. After done, she charged again. It was now that I remembered the little trick Gene pulled on me before. I decided to use it on her. I caught her right arm and twisted my body around, pulling her arm, and her along with it up and over my shoulder. Her hard head met with MUCH harder steel and she was out in seconds.
I didn't stop to look at my work. The others needed me. I ran to my room, grabbed my gun and left. Shortly after I ran back in and grabbed some pants. Maybe if I only had some.....Well, you get it by now.
I dressed and strapped the belt on, running down the corridor. I reached the ladder and climbed as fast as I could, maybe even faster.
When I reached the bridge, I saw something I wasn't expecting. five men, Zero included, tied to a pole in the corner of the bridge. A laughed since I didn't have anything to else to say.
"What?" Jess said to me. "You expected US to be tied up and for you to be like some big hero and save us? Sorry but that's not how this story goes." She stuck her tongue at me.
I just shook my head and sat in my seat, my head was pounding and my shoulder was throbbing, I WAS just shot after all.....Guess I would have to take care of that when we docked. At least it wasn't THAT bad.
Gene was in his pilot's chair and didn't look up from the main screen while he spoke to me.
"Where's the chick?"
"Oh her? She's taking a nap, and I'll tell you one thing....She'll need more then just coffee when she wakes up."
Everyone around gave a small laugh as Sentinel III's docking bay came into sight.
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Author's note: Well golly gee do ba! I'm back to being healthy!! Sure I still have the sniffles and what-not but that goes with winter so I'm allllll good. Lol.
Anyways, this means everything's back up to date. Normal updates and all. This chapter obviously didn't bear a lot of plot BUT I was really tired and thinking about coffee and how BAD people need it. So I did this. Anyways, think of it as a crappy filler chapter or just think of it as a filler episode like from the actual anime! Yay! Ok, I' done. Actual plot will commence next time around.
Until then, this is Blades. "Good reading equals good times." I'm out.
"Ahh!!!" That was my first reaction, my second was to club him in the mouth....And I did....With great delight.
He hit the ground with a thud. Rubbing his cheek he said. "Oww, I was just telling you that we were almost there...."
Sighing, I looked at him.
"Gillium could have easily woken me up. You're not my personal wake up service....."
I was grumpy, always was when I first woke up. Coffee would fix that.
I got up and walked to the kitchen, Gene followed.
"You're following me to the kitchen? What next? Watch me take a leak?"
"Only if you want me to....Weirdo."
I grumbled and walked into the kitchen.
"So where the hell do you guys keep the coffee....?"
"Heh, coffee? Ah, we don't have any coffee on the ship!! That's some of the equipment we're picking up!" He laughed so JOYIOUSLY at his statement, while I basted in my own anger.
"You.....Don't....Have.....COFFEE?!?!?! What the HELL is wrong with you guys!! I can NOT believe you don't have coffee! I am SO pissed!!"
Now you see how grumpy I get? Anyways, I reached for my gun, wanting to shoot something.....ANYTHING!!
It was around the third grab at my gun when I found out the lack there of. I sat down while Gene continued to laugh, this time at my stupid mistake.
"I need coffee baaaaaad, Gene. If I don't get coffee the deaths of your crew will be all over the news....."
He sat next to me and grinned. "Ah come on. We'll be there in noooo time. THEN you can have as much java as you can hold. Deal?" He asked, as he stuck his hand out.
I raised my own to meet his but I was stopped at the ship's sudden shake.
"Jim! Status!" Gene yelled at the closest speaker.
"Enemy ship!! Gene! They're docking! There was nothing we could do! They just APPEARED here!! Ah! They're in! Get rea-"
The com went dead and was soon filled with static. Gene and I looked at each other. Oh WHAT a day to go without coffee.
We were both up and to our own rooms. Gene's was closest and he was in it like a flash, I on the other hand, had to run down a couple more feet.
And wouldn't you know it? I found our guests. I half expected it to be that damned pirate guy, which is wasn't. Just some hi-jackers, I was relieved. Whoa, wait.....Relieved?! The only thing guarding me from them was the fine fabric of my boxers! I deeply sighed, curse you coffee-less day.
"Well, well....Looks like we caught our ship-owner with his pants down. That's a shame."
I growled at the women in front of me. Who actually wasn't that bad looking....
"Yeah well I just got up. Didn't have time to dress for visitors."
"Oh well don't worry about it. All we want is the ship, YOU can just go to bed, little boy."
I sighed again. She was pushing it.
"Ok, listen. One, I just got up so I'm a little grumpy to say the least. TWO I haven't had any coffee yet so my attitude is not all the pleasant and YOU hi-jacking our ship is NOT helping."
She grinned. "What's you name, kid?"
"Strife. What's yours?"
"Rose. And this is Blade and Zero. Some of our others are swarming through your ship as we speak."
Then as if on cue, two things happened. First Gillium said that the bridge had been breached, last Gene came out of his own room, guns blazing at the hi-jackers....And PAST me!!
I didn't move an inch as he shot, praying his aim wasn't off. It wasn't thankfully. He scurried behind a corner and I ran towards him receiving another wave of bullets from the enemy.
I ducked next to Gene but felt the hot sting of metal puncher my shoulder. I screamed in pain.....Then I screamed again just for the hell of it.
" I WAAAAANNNNNNNTTTTTTT MY COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
If you can't tell, I was on the verge of a breakdown. Gene smacked me then gave me his hand shotgun.
"Here's some shells too. The recoil is too much for me in the morning. Now cover me because I have to cross the hall way."
I nodded my head and twisted around the corner, firing off the weapon in my hand. Man! Talk about recoil, the thing almost fell right out of my hands!
Luckily I got the one Rose called 'Zero' in the leg, almost ripping it off from the force. He went down pretty quickly. As this whole incident happened Gene ran to the other side of the hall and headed down another corridor.
"After him! Don't let him help his friends!"
She stared at me. I stared back with the look of anger only going without that sweet black liquid could bring me. As I stared I noticed something. She wasn't pointed a gun at me....In fact, she had no weapon at ALL!!
"You're defenseless? Why?!" I asked, without meaning to.
"No, I'm just not in arms. I am NOT defenseless. Come here and I'll show you."
A smirk grew on her face, she wanted a fist fight. Fine, I was mad enough to be crazy and give it to her. I put the hand shotgun down and step towards her.
"Forgive me for having to hit such a fine women....But my wits are just not with me."
"Then let me knock them into you." With that, her right fist came plowing into my jaw, sending me into the cold steel wall. That hurt....That REALLY hurt. Oh coffee, where for art thou?
I turned around and she nailed be again, getting the same result. This time I raised my foot up and kicked her in the gut. No way was a third swing coming at me.
She met her own side of the wall but only used it to push off and come at me.
She swung again but this time I blocked it with me own right hand, sending my left dead center in her face. She stumbled back and spat some red liquid on the ground.
"Ohhhh, don't spit in my ship...." I said with fake remorse.
She came at me again, punching at me twice. I blocked both, her foot came up to meet my head but I ducked and caught her leg. She spun up and around and put her knee right into my teeth. Now I was the one spitting up blood.
"Hypocrite." She said with a smug look on her face.
I decided to wipe that look off. I took a right hook but got nothing but air. Her own right was firmly packed in my stomach, I gasped for breathe but only got her other fist as my reply. I fell back and hit the wall yet AGAIN!
I stood up and wiped the blood from my lip. After done, she charged again. It was now that I remembered the little trick Gene pulled on me before. I decided to use it on her. I caught her right arm and twisted my body around, pulling her arm, and her along with it up and over my shoulder. Her hard head met with MUCH harder steel and she was out in seconds.
I didn't stop to look at my work. The others needed me. I ran to my room, grabbed my gun and left. Shortly after I ran back in and grabbed some pants. Maybe if I only had some.....Well, you get it by now.
I dressed and strapped the belt on, running down the corridor. I reached the ladder and climbed as fast as I could, maybe even faster.
When I reached the bridge, I saw something I wasn't expecting. five men, Zero included, tied to a pole in the corner of the bridge. A laughed since I didn't have anything to else to say.
"What?" Jess said to me. "You expected US to be tied up and for you to be like some big hero and save us? Sorry but that's not how this story goes." She stuck her tongue at me.
I just shook my head and sat in my seat, my head was pounding and my shoulder was throbbing, I WAS just shot after all.....Guess I would have to take care of that when we docked. At least it wasn't THAT bad.
Gene was in his pilot's chair and didn't look up from the main screen while he spoke to me.
"Where's the chick?"
"Oh her? She's taking a nap, and I'll tell you one thing....She'll need more then just coffee when she wakes up."
Everyone around gave a small laugh as Sentinel III's docking bay came into sight.
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Author's note: Well golly gee do ba! I'm back to being healthy!! Sure I still have the sniffles and what-not but that goes with winter so I'm allllll good. Lol.
Anyways, this means everything's back up to date. Normal updates and all. This chapter obviously didn't bear a lot of plot BUT I was really tired and thinking about coffee and how BAD people need it. So I did this. Anyways, think of it as a crappy filler chapter or just think of it as a filler episode like from the actual anime! Yay! Ok, I' done. Actual plot will commence next time around.
Until then, this is Blades. "Good reading equals good times." I'm out.