Chapter 6
Author's notes
1: I'm really sorry it took so long for this chapter to come up and I decide to skip the clothes shopping part because I couldn't decide exactly what I wanted to do with it.
2: I still don't own any copyrights.
3: Mike ILLER if you look ay my notes from the end of chapter 4 I mentioned that James was modeled after myself. If trusting my government about as far as I could throw the White House and having recurring nightmares involving nuclear war and futures similar to the worlds from 1984 and Fahrenheit 511 make me crazy then so be it.
Two hours later James and the others had left the clothing store, Lucca had changed into a dark-green skirt and a white shirt, the rest of the clothes had been put in Scott's car, and the group had made it too the food court where they planned to eat and figure out what else they would do while they were there.
"Each of these is a restaurant that serves a different kind of food." James explained to Lucca. "Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of food you like but there's a Subway over there and you should be able to get something similar to the sandwiches from your time there or you could try something new in which case you just have to pick something that looks good and try your luck."
Lucca stops to think why Scott and Roger go to order their food. "I'll guess I'll try whatever you're having James."
James shrugged, "In that case why don't you sit down why I get the food?" James then walked over to the Sonic and ordered two cheeseburgers. He hesitated briefly but decided that sooner or later they would have to find out if Lucca liked spicy food so he ordered two orders of cheddar peppers and a pair of large Dr. Peppers. After picking their orders up James walked back to the table to find that Scott and Roger had returned while he was gone. He sorted out the two orders and handed Lucca her food and drink. As was typical James was through with all of his food before any of the others had finished whatever they had decided to eat first. He started wondering what impact the events of today would have on his future then paused to watch Lucca take her first bite of a cheddar pepper, hoping that getting them for her hadn't been a mistake
Lucca coughed briefly, "It's making my mouth burn."
"It's supposed to do that," James answered. "Do you like it?"
"It's certainly interesting' Lucca replied.
"Good." James picked up her drink and gave it to her. "Here this should help relieve the burning"
At this point Roger asked what they were going to do next. "Hit the arcade of course. Crossroads has the best arcade in this portion of the state there's no way we can pass up a chance to visit it. After that we can see a movie." By this point Scott had finished eating so the guys began to discuss what movie they would go see while Lucca finished her meal. With that finished they headed to the arcade while James explained what an arcade was to Lucca.
"Basically an arcade is a place with a lot of different games that you can play against a A.I. A lot of them also allow you to compete against another human or to team up with other humans to compete against the A.I." At this point they walked into the arcade itself. "Well Lucca do you see anything that looks interesting?" After looking around for a couple of minutes she stopped next to an Aerofighters machine. "Great I need to go get some tokens." On the way back from the token machine James stopped by the Marvel vs. Capcom machine where Scott and Roger were beating each other's character's brains out. After that match was over he asked how it was going.
"Me two, Roger one", Scott replied "Did Lucca find anything interesting?"
"Yeah, she's waiting for me over at the Aerofighters machine. I just wanted to remind you two that if we end up playing any games against her hold back a little okay. If we annihilate her she'll get discouraged. You don't need to let her win but there is a line between a victory and a massacre and we shouldn't cross it. Also if we are playing a fighting game against her it would probably be best if we use our worst characters okay? Scott and Roger nodded. "Great see you later."
James headed back to the Aerofighters machine thinking about which plane he would recommend to Lucca when he got there. When he arrived he explained the controls to Lucca and quickly convinced her to take the F-14 while he took the Harrier.
The first stage was Japan. They both made it through on their second credit though he intentionally made some of the dodges closer then he normally would and both of them were fried by the boss's opening laser attack, which James had forgotten about. The rest of the game followed the same basic pattern and when they were fighting the final boss James fired off his last super weapon then veered left so that Lucca could claim the kill. "Well done," he told her then he pointed out a couple of things. "Still all in all you did a lot better then most beginners" He gave her a simile that he only wore when he was completely relaxed. Unfortunately these periods were usually brief, few, and far between. "Why don't you see if there are any other games that you want to play?"
After another minute or so Lucca decided that she wanted to try Tekken 3 partially due to the fact that there was a 15-person line waiting to play the Tekken 5 machine and a slightly smaller line at Tekken 4. James picked Paul while Lucca picked Julia, who was ironically James's favorite Tekken 4 character. James let Lucca get the first hit in and then began to fight back. James expected to have to go easy on her and was mildly shocked to realize that she was holding her own. Lucca won the first round after blocking one of James's punches and countering with a low kick. James barely won the second round by catching Lucca with a jump kick at range. Lucca won the third round by catching James with a dashing attack.
At this point James looked at his watch and realized that they needed to get going if they were going to see a movie so James and Lucca found the others and they left discussing what movie they should see and how their games had went at the arcade.
Author's notes part 2
4: I'm going to see a movie Friday and whatever movie I see will be the one they see.
5: Some people might complain that it should be harder to teach Lucca how to play a video game but if she can handle the controls on the Epoch it shouldn't be very hard to teach her how to play a video game in my opinion.
