Guardian Roommates: Chapter 8: Green Insanity

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Like to take this moment to extend my thanks to all the reviewers who love this story. Rioni Riishu (and for the manga. Love to see more!), Isilhen Daegol, Demented-Demon, Crystal Ketchum Darklight, JimmyDragon, Archaon, Youshou Leviathan, Copy X, darkflame, SSj7Cloud, Ri2, myrmidon, zidet, Khaos Xero, Delta X, Featherdust, and all anonymous reviewers, and even those who like this story but haven't reviewed.

I honestly had no idea that the fic would gain this much praise. Then again, as I said before, I wanted to see a story like this, so what better way than to do it yourself? So everyone's happy.

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Harpuia returned to his apartment late that night, hoping he wouldn't be seen by his bratty sister and annoying brother. Today had been an awesome day. New haircut, fan girls, got to see Zero chased off by Ciel, enjoyed a few good drinks that night. He tried his best to tip toe through the area, when suddenly:

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAGE HARPUIA!"

The sudden explosion of noise and light nearly sent him flying off the balcony. Sure enough, it was Levi and Fefnir, wearing typical birthday caps, balloons surrounding the room, and wearing his clothes? The three just stared at each other.

"Oh wait, you're not Harpuia." an embarrassed Fefnir said, noticing the stranger's new look, before turning to his little sister. "You mean I made this cake for nothing? Damn!"

In his hands was a birthday cake that look like it had been in and out of the oven fifteen times. Also, there was a huge finger dip that took off the 'P' on the cake. That, and the name wasn't even spelled right, "HAPIUA"

Sage tilted his head and lowered one of his eyes. "What in the world are you two doing wearing my clothes?" he asked with a bitter expression in his voice.

"Harpuia? Is that? Oh man." Fefnir said, nearly turning white and falling from shock.

"So after 24 years, you finally get a new hairdo." Leviathan said, crossing her arms. "And why are you wearing red makeup all over your face?"

Sage was almost caught off guard. "Red makeup? It's not makeup, it's- oh wait, it's ketchup. Rib night at the steakhouse." In reality it was some lipstick from the beach and bar. He quickly made a run for his room, only to fall on his back, Leviathan holding his collar with beady puppydog eyes.

She tried to speak as innocent as she could. "We wanted to celebrate your birthday, Harpuia. Fefnir and I made you this cake. And..."

Both Fefnir and Leviathan looked in shock as Sage just took the cake and ate the entire thing in one gulp, before letting out a huge belch. As the two stood there, dumbfounded expressions on both, Sage went to his room.

"Oh, by the way, my birthday's not for another five months, but thanks for the cake. 'night." And with that, the green guardian shut his door, loud snoring heard a second later.

Fefnir finally moved his jaw. "Well, someone's in a good mood."

Leviathan followed. "Yeah, but I told you it wasn't his birthday."

Fefnir moved his head towards her. "No, you didn't."


Sage woke up early that morning, making himself steak and eggs. Leviathan and Fefnir tiptoed their way into the kitchen, observing Harpuia's behavior, who was whistling a tune from a really really old arcade game. Both Fefnir and Levi had their eyes wide open, whispering to each other.

Fefnir started out. "Is it me or is Harpuia, dare I say it, happy?"

Levi whispered back. "Yeah, and it's freaking me out."

They both sweatdropped as Harpuia shook his shoulders to his tune, and both slowly stepped out of the kitchen.


Later, Sage found himself flipping through the channels again. Again, the two just spied on him from behind. As usual, Sage was munching some chips and actually dumped the entire bag in his mouth and ate it all in one gulp. Before they could move, Sage finally spoke out loud, scaring them.

"You guys okay? You've been acting... weird. Well, more weird than usual." Harpuia said, offering them some chips.

Fefnir took one and ate it rather quickly. "Uh, same could be said for you."

Levi hit him with a lamp. "Yeah, you're uh... rather... happy lately." Levi spoke with her beady eyes, almost scared.

"Well, this groovy new haircut's awesome. No one thinks I'm a girl anymore, except for that moron Zero, and you should've seen all the numbers I got last night." he spoke.

Leviathan sweatdropped. "Groovy?"

Fefnir almost lighted up. "Numbers? How?"

"Harp's got the mad skillz, brotha." Harp joked.

Fefnir fainted, while Leviathan's face turned white. "Oh God, now he's trying to speak hip."

"Word." Harp laughed.

She too fainted.


At the resistance base, Zero was making repairs to his helmet from the previous day. Apparently, Ciel had somehow managed to throw a car on him. No one knew how, but they all knew why. Ciel didn't recall the incident ever happening, so he blasted his headphones so he wouldn't hear the whining and desperate apologetic human blonde outside his door, which was still blocked by just about everything in his room.

"And that's about it." Zero claimed, hugging his fixed helmet. "Now I can just block out any audio just by touching here, and voila, no more noise!" He was extremely tempted to try it out.

Ciel was crying outside his room. "I'm telling you Zero, it's impossible for a girl my size and age to be able to physically lift up a car and toss it on you! I'm so sorry! Please please please please please please please..."

As she went on, a rather smug red reploid came out of his room. He looked at her for one second, seeing her mouth move, but nothing was heard.

"Please please please please please please..."

He heard none of it. His modification was a success! Now he could do all the stuff he wanted.

He went to get himself a soda.

"Please please please please please please..."

He went to read a book.

"Please please please please please please..."

He took a nap on the top bunk of his bed, Ciel laying down on the lower one.

"Please please please please please please..."

He cooked a marshmellow on the heater.

"Please please please please please please..."

He invaded Ciel's room and read her diary, sipping some apple juice.

"Please please please please please please..."

But everyone had started to give Zero an annoyed look. Ciel was still following him, so he didn't bother. Suddenly, a vase shattered on his head, damaging his helmet. Ciel was still going on.

"All right! I forgive you! I was better already!" Zero screamed.

Ciel's eyes lit up. "Oh Zero, you're too sweet!" and she followed with a hug, Zero's bones crunching could be heard by everyone.

He noticed the two operators, Ms. Joan and Ms. Rouge (their real names, surprise), were standing outside the command room, heat coming from their heads.

"Mr. Zero, we've been trying to call you for the last two hours."

"You have a transmission waiting, you insensitive jerk."

Zero almost turned blue from embarrassment. "Hehehehe... oops."


Zero stood in the center of the command room, trying to pop his back and neck back into place. The operators were typing, and gave Zero an aggravated look.

"Please leave the inventions to Mr. Cerveau and Ms. Ciel, Zero."

"It's really not nice to ignore people who need you for two hours, Mr. Zero."

Zero sighed. "But I had... never mind. Just roll the tape."

He looked at the screen, not surprised to see who was calling. Leviathan and Fefnir, both crying.

"Zero, you gotta help us!" Fefnir frantically cried.

"It's Sage, he's... he's...happy!" Levi finished, and turned their camera to Harpuia.

Harpuia had been cooking, wearing a cowboy hat, an apron with the phrase, 'Hippie Deathmarch Appreciation Week 2109', whistling the same tune as before, and making... pancakes?

Sage just turned to the camera. "Are you guys making home movies?"

Fefnir and Leviathan cried more into the camera as the batteries went dead.

Zero's expression and stance was the exact same as before.

"Freeze frame at 21:12, and get everyone in here."

In a few minutes, all the resistance members were in the room, looking at the stillshot of Harpuia cooking, winking at the camera. Zero couldn't hold it in any longer, laughing so hard he found himself choking and on the floor, giving himself a headache. Unfortunately, he realized he was the only one laughing when everyone had left the room, even the operators. Someone even took the time to write "Legendary Dork" on his head.

"I swear, the whole world's against me." he said, standing up and patting the dirt off his shoulder.


Fefnir was in his room listening to an audio tape, a How-To on dates and girlfriends. Harpuia's dates seemed to be a daily thing, and it drove him mad. Meanwhile, Leviathan had nightmares of Harpuia's crazy-looking smile every night, and they knew something had to be done.

Harpuia opened the door. "I'm baaaaack!"

Leviathan reluctantly opened her door. "How... was it?" she asked with no excitement for her brother.

"You'll find this hilarious." Harpuia said, taking off his jacket and putting it on the couch. "Okay, she's been married three times, and all those ended in divorce because she tried to kill all her husbands, yet she never got arrested. Funniest thing? They're not even human or reploids. All imaginary."

Leviathan just stared at Harpuia. 'He's lost it.' she thought. She knew she had to stop this somehow, but couldn't think of anything good. "Um, Harpuia, did you ever consider getting a job since you moved here?"

He laughed. "Are you kidding? You remember the last time I tried to get a job."


Flashback. Harpuia's sitting on a chair while a man on a desk reads his resume.

"Mr. Sage Harpuia. Yes, former guardian of Mega Man X, who was killed by extremists."

"Yeah, about that, he kinda fired all of us, and then he got killed."

"And why did you get fired?"

"Because Weil was a friggin dick."

"Oh. Well, Mr. Harpuia, your resume says that you've been sued by animal rights activists seven times in the last five days, it says that you control the winds, which have created a slew of complaints from people trying to work on their lawns, and knocking satellites off peoples' houses, temporarily disabling cable TV."

Harpuia turned pink, forgetting all that he's done.

"Mr. Harpuia, you do realize that taking cable TV from people is the greatest crime ever, do you not?"

Harp's eyes widened in surprise. "Um, it is?"

"You're not hired. Have a nice day."


Harpuia laughed at the memory. "It's not as bad as me getting a date before this haircut. You remember that too, don't you?"
Flashback 2: Harpuia's sitting across the table from a small brunette reploid with glasses.

"So, what do you do?" she asked, telling herself it was a stupid question.

"Used to serve Master X, but some assclown named Weil somehow managed to manipulate him and make him think we were the bad guys, so he fired us, and just as he fires his GUARDIANS, he dies. So right now, well, I don't know. So what do you do?"

"I work two jobs, one at a library, and one at a pet shop." she said shyly.

"Oh, fun." he said, void of any kind of excitement.

Suddenly, Harpuia found a load of mashed potatoes on his neck.

"Hey, check it out, man. You got fired! Ha ha hah!"

Sage turned around, eyes flaming. The reploid who threw the potatoes was waving his rear at Harp, clearly taunting him. "You got fired because you suck! Think you can hit me? Take your best shot!"

Without thinking, Harpuia just picked up the object next to him, a chair. An occupied chair. Without even looking what it was, he tossed the chair and hit the reploid straight on his huge rear, causing laughter throughout the restaurant. Harpuia got back in his seat and turned around.

"So, now that that's taken care of, you like showtunes? Uh..."

He noticed his date was gone. Well, her whole chair was gone. He sheepishly looked to his side, finding her next to him, broken glasses, stained outfit, and messed up hair.

Glass shattered as Harp's body was tossed out of the restaurant.


Leviathan wasn't even in front of him anymore. She had gone to cook a burrito. Suddenly, she remembered the mail call the other day.

"Um, Harpuia? Did you call to see if you have jury duty yet?" she asked, staring the microwave.

"What jury duty?" he asked with a puzzled face.

"Don't you remember? You got a letter for jury duty a week ago. It said to call in a week to verify if you have to go to the trial."

Harpuia dived into the couch, finding the letter and calling the number on his cell phone.

Leviathan leaned over the couch to find a disgruntled Harpuia slouching on it.

"So what time?" she asked.

"Eight in the morning. The trial is about some online predator, literally. This guy found out a way to get onto the internet and pop out of people's monitors and kidnap them and trap them in some computer program."

"Have fun." Leviathan said, letting out a 10-second long belch as she walked to her room.

"I swear, the whole world's against me." Harpuia grumbled. He sucked down two bottles of whiskey as he turned on the TV.

"Today on "Kids say the Damndest Things', 'My mommie told me my daddie put his head up his bootie!" -click-

"Redneck Reploids go on a rampage as-" -click-

"Oh my God, they killed Zero! Again! Next time on the Wacky Adventures of Axl." -click-

"Thousands of years ago before the dinosaur evolved into the cow-" -click-

"Your singing is crap. I've heard better singing on 'An Action Film Stars' Christmas'." -click-

"I like chicks with big ole...big ole... hair." -click-

"What's the worst that can happen? The resistance reploid Zero going on another huge adventure and the guardians not getting involved?" -click-

"I'm Dr. Cornelius Weil. Do you want to earn money for your vehicle? Well too bad!" -click-

Harpuia sighed as the doorbell went off.

He answered the door to a delivery boy. "Uh, hi. I was told to give this to someone named Sage Harpuia." He gave Harpuia a pizza, with all the pepperonis forming a smiley face, opposite of Harpuia's current face. "And this."

It was a bouquet of roses. Harpuia looked puzzled. There was a note attached to it. "To my favorite green chica."

The delivey boy yelled as he was thrown off the balcony. "Don't kill the messenger!"


Meanwhile...

"Hey Zero, you think it worked?"

"Yup."


Well, that's it for this chapter. I have finals! Boo! So expect the next chapter a week from now at least.