Carbuncle! The SD Gundam Story, Chapter 4
GAH! I'M SO HAPPY! DOUBLE F JUST GOT TRANSFERRED TO MY SCHOOL! AAAAAAA! WE'RE GONNA HAVE SO MUCH FUN! But, anyway, Shute has trouble staying in human mindset, and Captain has trouble remembering that Shute is Shute.
Shute sniffed as an unfamiliar smell hit his nose; he somehow knew it was his mother. She sniffled into her son's ear, hugging him tightly and squeezing his shoulders. "I should never have laughed. I'm so sorry."
He sighed mournfully; not now, Momma. Shute let loose a low growl that made Keiko jump and run out of the room. It took him three full minutes to realize that he had just scared his own mother away.
He jumped straight up in bed, his large ears (they were now about as long as his forearm) bouncing around his head due to lack of stronger ear muscles. He shuddered and held his knees to his chest, gulping and swallowing in fear. "That's it then... I'm turning into a dog..." He gulped. "No, I can't be! I am NOT an animal! I'M (YARP)!"
He whimpered when he realized that he had just barked. "Oh man..."
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:command.exe.facialrecognition/Shute
File Error. File not found.
"Captain?"
Captain Gundam shook his head at stared at the figure before him. He performed a quick scan; it was 84.9387 Carbuncle, 15.0613 unidentifiable human. Despite this fact, it peeked out from its blanket at him and spoke to him as if it knew him.
"Captain? What's wrong?"
:command.exe.vocalrecognition/Shute
File Found.
It sounded like Shute. Captain touched his v-fins in worry, then looked back up. "Nothing's wrong."
:command.exe.vocalrecognition/Shute.-.facialrecognition/Shute
Syntax error. No file match.
It stared at him, its eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "You don't look yourself, Captain. Is something wrong?"
:command.exe.neutralmode/UnknownFigure
"Nothing is wrong."
The Carbuncle-like creature whimpered and slipped out of its hospital bed, adjusting its uncomfortable hospital gown. "Captain, you wouldn't believe what they're doing to me here! Doctors keep coming in here and trying to take blood samples, and I keep growling at them! I don't mean to, I just do! Captain, I'm acting like a dog at the vet!"
Captain nodded, trying best not to look directly into the thing's eyes. It felt wrong doing so, however; Captain tried again to make sure that, for certain, he didn't know this thing.
:command.exe.facialrecognition/Shute
Syntax Error.
"Syntax error?" Captain asked himself. The thing before him kept on talking, his words fumbling a bit due to his lips slowly splitting as he spoke.
"I mean, seriously, Captain, I've started snapping at people without realizing it! I'm turning into the dog, I swear, I am no better than that thing that attacked me!" He rubbed his long, long ears in worry, noticing that his short fingers were loosing their dexterity. "I think I'm growing paws now... I've already got the tails!"
He turned his hips towards Captain and waved three, long, bushy tails in his direction. Several of Captain's basic systems logged this entry for future reference and study; right now, for whatever reason, his head was in too much turmoil to think clearly.
The blue thing looked deeply into Captain's eyes, placing two paws on each of his shoulders to make sure he didn't look away. "Captain, promise me, if I do anything remotely animal-like in front of you, you'll smack me in the head as hard as you can. Come on, promise!"
Captain tried to look away, but couldn't. Something in the alien, black eyes was familiar to him. His systems ran the file again, colon-slash-slash-command-dot-execute, the whole file, but it said the same thing: Syntax Error. He did it again, the blue thing that may-or-may-not-have-been Shute still looking into his eyes, colon-slash-slash NOTHING! He turned his head away, forcing the boy to let go of him.
"Captain... I know that look..." The Carbuncle-like thing gulped audibly, the fur on his back ruffling. "That's the 'what-the-heck-is-that' look... Captain, you do recognize me, right?"
Captain began to say something to the effect of "No", but his throat collapsed on him. He knew it was Shute, something was telling him it was him, but everything else from his head to his feet said "No No No No NO!" He stuttered for a bit before the blue thing backed away from him.
"No... no, this is impossible..." the creature cried in fear, rubbing his ears again. "Captain doesn't even know me anymore... no, no, it's not true, this is all a bad dream...." He smacked himself twice in the forehead with the protuding part of his lower wrist before the pain was too intense to keep doing it. "Yume desu, YUME DESU!"
He kept smacking himself in the head, trying to force himself to wake up. Captain's arm lunged out and snatched him by the wrist, pulling him forward to stop the senseless violence. "Please, calm down!"
"Let me go!"
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Not one second afterwards, there were footsteps outside his door; Zero and Baku, Shute could tell by the rhythm of their footsteps. They teased the door open and peeked in, Baku hanging back while Zero stuck his head through. "Is Shute still in here?"
"Hi, guys..." Shute slipped out of the surprised Captain's wrist and walked, with some difficulty, over to the two Gundams. Zero took Shute's head in his hands and held it to his mouth, kissing him on his forehead, knowing that his inorganic body was impervious to the Carbuncle ruby.
"Oh Shute, thank Maana you're still here!" The Winged Knight held the human/Carbuncle boy at arm's length. "They're going to move you to another place; I thought we'd missed you!"
"Another place?" Captain asked.
"Where?" Shute followed.
Bakunetsumaru gave Zero's back a quick jab, which Zero reacted badly to. "Ow! You said you were going to tell him!"
"Nuh uh! You said you were gonna tell him where he's going!" Baku hissed.
Shute began to shiver, that weird knot in his stomach coming back. Captain held his shoulder for support, and at that time both his body and Shute's forehead ruby began to glow. Captain shone a magical blue, the energy coming directly from Shute, not from him. He merely channeled what magic the frightened one gave off. Why the ruby was glowing, though, was anyone's guess. "Where am I going?"
"Shute, they-"
Zero pushed Baku out of the way. "The doctor's don't think you're not human enough to stay in the hospital! They're taking you to-"
And then the door slid open, three men and two burly women stepping in the room. One of the women held a leash, and the other was holding either side of a muzzle....
The realization hit Shute like a ton of bricks. "A VET!"
What happened next, no one was quite sure. All that the present group of people knew what that Captain suddenly erupted in an outpour of blue which was sliced through by a blade of red. A scream penetrated the air, the wind without warning rushed out of the room, and by the time everyone could see, Shute was gone!
But it was easy enough to follow him. Shute was changing more into a Carbuncle with every stride, his legs slowly melting into his sides as his leaps became more even. Magical and Carbuncle-le energy flowed from his body, snapping lightbulbs and frying any type of electric device, even mobile citizens, as he ran past.
He could barely see out of his own eyes, much less tell where he was going. All he knew was that those evil, EVIL humans were going to put him in a vet! A VET! With all those animals that hated him because they knew he hated them and would attack him at any minute, and now he was no better than THEM!
A dash of pink in the corner of his eyes suddenly kicked his brain into gear; NANA! Without thinking, his legs quickly turned in her direction, his jaws clamping around her and his legs furiously pumping to get him out of that terrible hospital.
CRIPES! Now even Captain, poor baby walking computer, doesn't recognize Shute! Next chapter may or may not come soon, depending on Double F's continuation of Carbuncle in the following weeks or days or whatnot.
Notes: I think Captain wouldn't recognize Shute because he probably thinks like a computer, relying on things like the shape of a face and distance between eyes and such instead of just looking and knowing like a human would. Of course, other things within him might contradict said program (coughsouldrivecough).
Check it out, my story has formatting! Yeah for formatting!
Oh, and a quick little thingy: That "Legendary" fic on is cool! It's about time Captain got some love. Rescue Shute quick!
DONE!
