Scarlet groaned as he was awoken by a violent barrage of knocks on his team's door. A glance over revealed to him that Neptune had practically dove under his bed with uncharacteristically messy hair and his shirt only half done up. Sun was heard through the bathroom door, a muffled and slightly mumbled what the fu— cluing Scarlet into the fact that Sun was brushing his teeth, already ready to go due to his early rising tendencies, and Sage, ever the calm one of Team SSSN, slowly rose up from his resting position so he was sitting up on his bed.

"What the—"

"Neptune, someone is knocking on the door. Calm yourself and get out from under the bed." Sage sighed, an almost disappointed look in his eyes at the sight of the blue haired teen's predicament.

"Hey, I'm calm," Neptune quickly crawled out from under the bed to stand straight. He shook his hair until it magically fixed into its perfect look, and he buttoned his blue night shirt swiftly. "I just thought it uh… came from underneath my bed!"

"That's just pathetic dude," Sun commented as he swung the bathroom door open, fixing the collar of his shirt while his tail tied his shoe. "But yeah, someone gonna get that?"

"Nose goes!" Scarlet yelled, touching his nose with his pointer finger. Sage and Sun quickly followed, leaving Neptune to glare at the redhead.

"You know I'm not good at that, Scar!"

"That's why I call it all the time, Nep." Scarlet grinned. "Now go greet out guest."

After some grumbling from Neptune, he shuffled reluctantly over to the door. Scarlet stretched and threw the covers off of himself, reaching underneath the bed to pull out his boots as he listened to Neptune's conversation with the guest.

"Huh? Oh, hey there Ny— ahh!"

Scarlet turned his head just in time to see Neptune fall to ground while flailing his arms, and a blur of black and white sped towards him before slamming into him full force. The sudden new weight had him falling on his back as a bright blurry thing was shoved into his face.

"Who are— what the bloody hell Nyx?!"

The small girl that was sitting on top of him had her cheeks puffed out as she shook her scroll violently in front of his face, and he squinted to read her message.

{Listen here handsome, this is an EMERGENCY!}

"What is it?" Scarlet coughed. "Actually, can you be a great lass and get off me? I… can't breathe."

Nyx winked as he gasped out the last couple words once she purposely pushed her weight down on him before she showed him mercy and rolled off of the redhead. She ended up somersaulting backwards and sitting on the edge of Neptune's bed, kicking one leg over the other with beaming confidence. Scarlet shook his head before sitting up again, taking in the faces of confusion from his teammates. He ignored that for now.

"Alright love, hopefully this was worth near giving me a heart attack."

{It is! I can't find Emerald and she was supposed to come with me to get ice cream! I tried to find Mercury and Ruby or someone else, but I couldn't find anyone and then I found your dorm so here I am} Neo's sentences slowly began to blur together as she typed at such a fast pace. {Ice cream is a necessity for me to live and I need someone to come with meee}

"…can't you go on your own though?" Scarlet asked in confusion.

{EVERYONE DESERVES A BUDDY}

"Alright, bloody hell!" Scarlet raised his hand in placation at Nyx's smoldering look. "I'll go with you then. Just give me a couple minutes to change—"

{Okay I'll be in the courtyard hurry!}

And with a whoosh of air, Nyx was suddenly gone, leaving all four men to be staring at the door she just exited.

Three pairs of eyes all turned to Scarlet.

"Uh… dude?" Neptune prompted.

"She can't find her friends to go with her to get ice cream." Scarlet shrugged, standing with a large yawn. "Gotta change."

"Woah woah woah, hold up." Sun stepped into the very middle of the room as Neptune stood beside him, already attuned with each other's thoughts on the matter. "That girl just judo kicked Neptune out of the way and straight up tackled you just to go out for ice cream?"

Scarlet frowned, looking at Neptune. "Did she kick you?"

Neptune raised his eyebrows before nodding with an expectant expression.

"Oh. Sorry mate, I didn't know. You alright?"

"Eh, she didn't hit too hard." Neptune rolled his neck casually with false bravado, since Scarlet could tell that Neptune was favoring the side that Nyx no doubt kicked with her booted foot. "But that's not what we're getting at."

Scarlet had changed into his regular attire at this point, strapping his boots to his feet as he arched a brow. "You were actually getting at something?"

"Scar, you seriously can't be that dense," Sun cut in with crossed arms. At his silence, Sun groaned. "Nevermind, forgot who I was talking to for a second."

"Hey!" Scarlet yelped, automatically turning to the most straightforward and level-headed of the team. "Sage, what are they saying?"

"They are trying to imply that the ice cream girl likes you." Sage rolled his eyes as he said this. "It's not that hard to figure out, Scarlet."

"I— wha–? Are you havin' a bloody laugh?" Scarlet squawked with wide eyes. "Nyx is a sweet bird, but I highly doubt she likes me in that way."

"For the love of dust, stop calling girls birds." Sun groaned into his hands.

"Ey!" Scarlet threw his arms out. "Would you calm down? Not five minutes after I wake up and all of you are against me."

"Don't be an idiot next time, Scar." Sun shrugged before patting the redhead hard on the back. "Have fun on your date."

Scarlet stared at him blankly. "Tell me, if Nyx came barreling in our room and tackled you, the mute short girl that rode an Ursa during the Breach, and demanded you to go get ice cream with her, would you say no?"

"…I see your point."

"But if I remember right, you jumped on that Ursa with her." Neptune smirked.

"Leaving now." Scarlet ignored Neptune before stepping out the dorm and heading towards the courtyard.

Yeah, today was going to be interesting.

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Hey there, welcome back to the only story that has the NeoxScarlet tag! Woo, uniqueness!

MyLittleSnowFfake: THANKS SIS I FREAKING LOVE THIS SHIP EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVEN'T EVEN MET SOMEONE STOP ME

Warhawk07: Lol true! Ah, I got a few things planned, it should be fun!

CrackPairingLover: Ah yes, the craziness of Scarlet and Neo is underfoot! I hope I can meet your expectations!

demonwolfXIII: HAHA SAME I have too many crack ships man, but MercxRubes and NeoxScarlet are my top two lol! HUGSSS!

Dragon Lord Draco: Here's hoping, since I plan to just let my brain spew stuff and see what happens haha XD

See you in the next one! It'll be coming either Thursday or Saturday!

Happy writing to all, and Lonessa out!