I'm baaaaaaaaack! from the grave. geez. sorry for the uber long wait. summer was…. strange and school has started. AGAIN. meaning my computer access is restricted to weekends. grr. meaning, I'll be working my butt off to keep up with school work, then trying to get SOME writing in. I didn't know school could be so challenging, sheesh.
and I still have this random disclaimer here…. telling you about my non-owning off my fav game.
Cube and Rhyth stood outside the police office, watching who went in and out. Some police officers had told them to shoo, but they had all been suddenly called off for duty and couldn't enforce their demands.
Rhyth was constantly rambling on about her love for donuts while Cube pretended to be listening, occasionally nodding and saying, "Yeah, uh huh," at random intervals so that it sounded like she was participating in the conversation.
"But I always get confused. Which one's the donut and which one's the hole? I mean, the 'donut' has a hole, but the other one doesn't but they still call it a hole?"
"Yeah, uh huh." Cube replied.
"Oh. Okay." Rhyth shrugged. "So any ways, I love glazed donuts, but they get really messy so just regular is okay, but they don't have much flavor. And also, the glazed ones have more sugar so they give you boosts of energy!"
"Great." Cube muttered, scanning the streets for any patrol cars. "I've never heard better news."
"What?" Rhyth cocked an eyebrow. "You're weirder than I am."
"Yeah, uh huh." Cube replied automatically. A patrol car turned into the parking lot from Hikage Street. Rhyth was about to say something else when Cube interrupted. "There's our man."
Kanaye was getting out of his patrol car, his partner quickly following behind. By the looks of it, the partner was new because he had a notepad and pencil, jotting down things and talking fast. Kanaye was rolling his eyes.
"Lets get him!" Rhyth replied enthusiastically. She took out a spray can, just in case.
"Hey you!" Cube called out and the two skated over to the cops. The partner dropped his notepad and pencil and fumbled with his gun. Kanaye rubbed his forehead.
"Take a break, Jeremy."
"Sir?"
"Just go away!" Kanaye snapped. Cube and Rhyth arched eyebrows at the two.
"Yes sir!" he replied quickly and hurried away.
"Someone's got issues." Rhyth whispered in Cubes ear.
"Stop. That tickles." Cube hissed, swatting at her. Rhyth just giggled.
"So what do you two want?" Kanaye asked, sounding impatient.
"Don't play smart with me." Cube warned. "We know that you know about what really happened to Chicka."
"Really now? I was wondering if you'd show up." the captain replied. "We'd better go someplace more private.
"We prefer the parking lot." Cube replied shortly.
"Yeah. Word." Rhyth backed her up, striking a pose.
"Just pretend she's not there." Cube told the cop, waving her hand in a dismissive manner. "So what do you know?"
"That she asked me not to tell you." Kanaye replied, moving to walk past them. Rhyth jumped in his way.
"Nice try, but you probably don't want to make Cube angry!" she giggled. Kanaye glanced at Cube, who was drumming her fingers on his patrol car, shaking her spray can in the other hand. He sighed and shook his head.
"Look, girls, Chicka is alive and well and wants to prove it to your little posse in her own way. That's all I'm going to tell you."
"Not the answer I wanted to hear, gramps." Cube growled.
"Well you're just going to have to deal with it, then wont you?" Kanaye replied, unperturbed. "It's not going to take Chicka very long to show herself."
"Well why's she taking so long?" Rhyth asked. Kanaye shrugged.
"Ask her. She's mental, in my opinion, but then again I think all you rudies are." He shrugged again. "Now get out of this parking lot before I arrest you."
"Puh. Yeah right." Cube muttered but turned to go.
"In your dreams! Nighty night!" Rhyth giggled and skated after the other rudie, leaving the police captain standing and staring.
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"So what'd you find out?" Yoyo demanded, almost tackling Cube when she skated in.
"Get off me!" Cube snapped, shoving him away. "Your girlfriend is mental."
"What?" Yoyo jerked his head back in confusion. Cube shrugged.
"That's what the idiot cop said."
"Cube, seriously." Corn said. "What'd he say?"
"Why don't you ask Rhyth? She heard just as much as I did." Cube said stubbornly.
"You kidding? It'll take months to get it out of her." Tape said from the couch. Soda was sitting next to her.
"Yeah." Corn said in his monotone voice. "She'll get sidetracked and try to tell jokes along the way." There were some snickers and a few smiles. Rhyth started cracking up and that ruined it.
"What?" she asked, looking around. "I can be sane."
"Yeah. Uh huh." Cube muttered, staring at the sky. "Looks like another hot one." Yoyo lost it and jumped on her and pinned her in the armchair.
"TELL ME WHERE SHE IS YO!" he yelled in her face.
"Ow. That was my eardrum." Boogie muttered, covering one ear.
"Get off me, you love sick fool!" Cube snapped. Yoyo jumped up. "You have some major issues you need to work on."
"Yeah, yeah, shut up." Yoyo replied.
"Okay. The secret of Chicka is sealed behind my lips forever." She smirked as Yoyo looked horrified. All the other rudies rolled their eyes and shook their heads.
"No wait, yo! I didn't mean it like that!" he yelped He got down on his knees in a begging position. "Pleeeeeaaaassseee tell me!" Cube continued to smirk and was about to say no when Combo said,
"Stop torturing the kid and give the info."
"Fine. Party pooper." She waited awhile, enjoying the momentary silence. "He wouldn't give us much. Chicka swore him to secrecy. But he did say that Chicka was planning some crazy way of showing herself. What she's doing, she didn't say, but he did say that we're all mental."
"That was random." Gram commented.
"So are you, but do I tell you?" Cube replied shortly.
"That was it?" Corn asked, ignoring the little spat. It wasn't uncommon for Cube to start little wars inside the group. Things always evened out.
"Yeah." Cube replied, glancing at her nails. "Nothing we can do know huh, oh mighty leader?" Corn wanted to tell her to shut up, which is what she wanted him to say, but he ignored the comment.
"We'll wait for Chicka to pull something. Until then, I'm going to find some shade." There were a few murmurs of agreement and the group dispersed. Clutch skated up to Cube.
"Corn always ruins my fun." she muttered.
"Hey, that's why he's leader. He can ignore you." Clutch replied. They both smirked and headed to Rokaku-dai Heights to find a nice house to hide under.
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Yoyo sat down under a staircase in the Fortified Residential Zone, Pots panting next to him.
"Well, boy," Yoyo said, talking to himself more than to the dog. "Looks like we have a couple more lonely days out here." The dog cocked his head, staring at him. After a few minutes, the two fell asleep.
Yoyo didn't know what time it was when he woke up, but he did know that Pots was barking too loud for his comfort. He looked around, seeing a rudie he didn't recognize skating around the pipes of the residential zone. Yoyo at first was angry at them for disturbing his sleep, but then had a spark of hope that it was Chicka.
"Yo! What are you doing?" the boy yelled. Pots continued to bark and ran at the rudie, who turned and skated towards them. The person scooped Pots up and turned to run away. "HEY! That's my dog!" Yoyo yelled, rushing after the dog-snatcher. The rudie's hat fell off, blowing into Yoyo's face. The hat was yellow and had a purple duck on it. Yoyo almost fell down. He looked up and saw Chicka standing there grinning.
"Race ya!" she called and turned around and headed back to the sewers. Yoyo grinned and skated after her. He chased her through the swears then through Rokaku-dai Heights and back to the garage, where he grabbed her shoulder and turned her around. She opened her mouth to say something but Yoyo full on kissed her. When he pulled away, her face was pink and she was speechless.
"There." Yoyo huffed, exhausted from chasing her in the heat. "Now give me my dog." Chicka grinned and shook her head.
"Not until we catch up on what we've missed." She kissed him back. They stood their for a moment, but were interrupted.
"You guys sure do get back together quick." They turned and saw Gum sitting on the pinball machine and Beat leaning up against the wall. Yoyo and Chicka both turned red and started stammering incoherently.
"You don't even say hi before you start making out. Gross." Beat said, pretending to be disgusted.
"I think it's cute." Gum replied, grinning. Chicka finally gained her voice.
"I could say the same about you two! What are you two still doing here?" she challenged.
"Waiting for you." Gum replied, jumping off the machine and skating forward. "We knew you'd probably show up sometime today." She and Beat grinned.
"So what took you so long?" Beat asked. Yoyo suddenly remembered the long wait too.
"Yeah, yo! I could've died…. or something." Chicka grinned, embarrassed.
"I wanted to make it dramatic. I've always wanted to be the producer of a scary movie or something…." The other three rudies stared at her.
"That's it?"
"That's why you waited?"
"That is so lame."
"Geez, thanks. Was it that bad?" Chicka asked, trying to sound offended.
"Uh, yeah." Gum replied. "The duck on the pizza was a little too bizarre."
"But the headphones thing was cool." Beat commented. Yoyo nodded.
"Yeah, well I wasn't done. I intended to have a much more dramatic finish, but Yoyo ruined that." Chicka replied.
"It was a good way to ruin it though, wasn't it?"
"Yes, very good." Chicka replied with a grin."
"You two are strange." Beat said, eyeing them.
"Not as strange as other hair dyed people we know…" Gum replied, referring to Rhyth.
"Maybe it does something to the brain cells…" Beat said, rubbing his chin in an attempt to look scientific.
"So where's everyone else?" Chicka asked, ignoring them. "I've missed everyone!"
"Yeah, same here." Yoyo replied. "Everyone's trying to get some shade."
"Gotcha." Chicka replied. "So how is everyone?"
"We can talk about that later." Beat said, waving his hand. "Right now I wanna get out of this sun."
"Yeah, we can have story time when the rest of the gang gets back." Gum agreed. The other two shrugged.
"Okay." Gum and Beat over to the turntable and hid in its shade. Yoyo lead Chicka over to one of the speakers and they sat against it in the shade.
"You scared me with that fake death thing, you know." Yoyo said softly after a long moment of silence. Chicka nodded absentmindedly.
"It was to protect you, though." she replied, leaning closer to him.
"Really?" he asked. The girl nodded again.
"To stop the Turf War and all." There was another long moment of silence.
"What'd you do for two years?" the green-hared rudie asked. Chicka yawned.
"Worked with the police. Kanaye agreed to hiding me for two years from the other rudies as long as I worked for my keep." she replied. "But mostly I thought about you."
"Really?" he repeated. Chicka nodded then put her head on his shoulder.
"Yeah. What did you expect for me to do? Actually concentrate on that police paperwork?" she joked, chuckling to herself. Yoyo smiled and there was another long silence. After a while, Yoyo put his head on hers and they fell asleep, leaning against the stereo.
kinda mushy gushy, yeah. sorry if it sounded like crap. you know, I thought up some sorta cool thing for chicka to do, but I forgot all about it by the time I get to writing it. so I made up this mushy chapter. but then I spruced it up with some (possibly lame) humor from cube and rhyth. :) I'll be trying to get the next chapter up faster, but don't get too hopefull! ;)
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