GW: Here's the next chapter, which is a request from Iron-Mantis. It has to deal with a mute werewolf, Chad getting infected, and CPIS' part-time spy. Enjoy!
Mission Two, Part One
AKA: When Going Werewolf Hunting Make Sure You're Prepared
"Ed, stop stuffing your face!" Double D scolded his dumb friend, who stuffed his face with a sandwich. The Eds, the new recruits, and the Lucky Star girls were having lunch in the kitchen.
"You know, I always wondered why the chicken crossed the road," Ed mumbled through cheese and munched-up bread.
"That's great, lumpy," Eddy deadpanned as he played with his mac and cheese in a bored manner.
The recruits, however, were talking feverishly amongst themselves. The topic was which was better: manga or comic books.
"MANGA! The authoress loves it, and its more actiony and dramatic than any comic will ever be!" Wrath snarled at Calvin who retorted, "Hello? What about superhero comics like Batman and Superman!? Those are actiony and dramatic, too! Plus, the authoress loves comics as well!"
As the two boys argued, Kira, Sam, the LS girls, Feral, and Hobbes looked bored with the fight. Kagami, having enough of this nonsense, slammed her hand down on the table and barked, "Hey!" The boys looked at her as she continued, "Look, both are equally good and the authoress likes both of them the same. Got it?" Wrath and Calvin shrugged, "Whatever," and they both continued eating.
"Well, guess what?" Tsukasa said in an excited tone. "Boys really are stupid?" Kira deadpanned.
"There's going to be another Saw movie?" Samara asked boredly.
"Tuna's been banned!?" Hobbes and Feral gasped.
"My mommy finally got pregnant?" Wrath asked.
"Glowworm's a crazy nut who can't make up her mind about things?" Calvin asked.
"We struck oil!?" the Eds asked simultaneously.
"They're making this series into a real show?" Konata asked.
"Hughes is really alive?" Miyuki asked hopefully.
"Edward and the FMA male characters are finally killing those annoying yaoi fangirls?" Kagami asked hopefully.
Tsukasa sweat-dropped. "You guys are really weird. No, it's the Harvest Moon Festival coming up this weekend. I was wondering if Hal might let us all go to it."
The group looked a bit crestfallen that none of their news wasn't true, but they perked up at the idea of going to a festival.
But, their hopes were dashed when Anju walked in and said, "We have a new mission."
"And you have silver hair now," Edd noticed that Anju had silver hair. The girl nodded, "Yes, it was just a mishap that will never happen again, the authoress swears to it. Anyways, let's go to the main room."
The group got up as they followed the girl out of the room.
As they arrived at the main room where the others were already accounted for, four other people were in the room. One was a black humanoid duck with an orange bill and feet, and he wore a grey business jacket over a white shirt, and a red tie.
The second and third were teenage boys both wearing a black uniform, one with black hair and the other with a purple mohawk that moved on its own.
The last was a robot with yellow eyes and wearing a red shirt under a black jacket.
"Glad you could join us," Hal deadpanned. "Hey, we gotta eat too, freckles," Eddy scowled at Hal, who scowled right back. Hal then sighed and introduced to the recruits, "Newbies, the duck is Mayor Daffy Duck of ToonCity. And the three deli-I mean, boys are Kamiyama, Hayashida, and Mechazawa. They have asked us an important favor."
"Hey," the black-haired boy, Kamiyama, greeted as Hayashida, the purple mohawk, said, "'Sup."
"Its nice meeting new representatives of CPIS," the robot, Mechazawa, said. All the recruits could think of Mechazawa was, 'What a soothing voice he has.'
"Yeah, great meeting you," Mayor Daffy said brusquely. "Now then, here's the mission. These three boys here have a buddy who's on a rampage."
"Like, what? Hormones or something?" Ichigo asked.
Kamiyama shook his head. "Worse than that. Freddie-" "That's our friend who needs help," Hayashida interrupted.
Kamiyama continued, "Anyways, something bit him when he was walking and now he started acting weird. He grew more hair than usual, had this feral look in his eye, and he disappears every night, returning home looking beat…"
"He was bit by a werewolf," Anju and Bunnie deadpanned. Mechazawa nodded, "We believed the worse, which turned out to be true when my friends and I saw Freddie for ourselves as a monster. He's usually quiet, with a microphone in his hand and has a lovely voice."
Daffy then squawked, "Yeah, and now that wolf-guy is missing and causing rampage. I'm afraid that when the Harvest Moon Festival comes, Freddie might ruin it and my ratings go down! Can you accept this mission?"
Hal ordered his mates into a huddle as he asked Anju, "Maaka, is there an antidote for werewolves?"
Anju replied, "No, but don't worry; Komui, Bunnie, and I will solve it soon enough." "No challenge can escape the Great Komui," Komui added.
Hal nodded slightly as he unhuddled and said to the Mayor and delinquents, "We have the case."
Everyone deadpanned as Hero sighed, "You'll still take it even if we can't cure the guy?"
Mayor Daffy nodded as he and the delinquents left. "Bring Freddie back, dudes," Hayashida told the group as he left. "'Cause without him, Cromartie is…Freddie-less."
After they left, Hal then went into leader-mode, ordering, "Okay, we'll wait until night when this Freddie guy goes out on a rampage. Now, who wants to be the unlucky souls that have to retrieve wolfie?"
"Not it!" everyone except five members shouted. Those slow-pokes were Chad, Asuna, Konoka, Setsuna, and Stitch. "Ah, crap!" Asuna, Setsuna, and Stitch groaned as Chad looked exasperated as Konoka sighed, "I never win those games."
"Okay, guys; at around 10 o'clock at night, you guys get to hunt a potentially dangerous monster," Hal then said cheerfully, "Have fun!"
The five poor souls grumbled about killing Hal in a dark alley as the group dispersed to prepare their squad for tonight.
"Ugh, remind me to kick Hal's butt after this is through," Asuna groaned as she, Setsuna, Konoka, Stitch, and Chad wandered through the dark and seemingly deserted streets of ToonCity, weapons and catching equipment for their target.
"Well, we didn't participate in that game Hal made," Konoka shrugged. "So, you snooze, you lose."
"Yeah, but we weren't ready!" Stitch argued. Setsuna asked the quiet tall boy, "What do you think, Chad?"
"Hmm," Chad shrugged. "Let's just get this over with." The group nodded, unknown to them that a shadowy creature was stalking them…
Stitch stopped when he heard a noise with his alien hearing, the rest stopping with him. "626, what's wrong?" Setsuna asked, becoming alert. "Get ready; we're not alone," Stitch said seriously as the group got out their weapons.
There was silence in the streets…the long, awkward silence that you see in horror/suspense movies when they're preparing a scary scene…
Without warning, a giant monster pounced out of the shadows, knocking Chad to the ground. The beast was a tall wolf-man with slicked-back brown hair, bushy eyebrows, and wearing a red overall outfit, black pants, and shoes, and he looked a bit hairy on his face and a feral-look in his eye. This was probably Freddie, the wolf they were supposed to retrieve.
"Well, looks like we found our guy," Asuna said dryly as she got out her harisen, Setsuna got out her sword, Stitch his blaster, and Konoka got ready to capture him. Chad got back up and activated his armored arm.
Freddie lunged and tried to bite the heroes, as they dodged him. Asuna swiped her weapons at the werewolf, but to no effect, for the werewolf jumped out of the way.
"Don't let him bite or scratch you!" Stitch instructed as he shot ectoplasmic blasts at Freddie, who managed to dodge them.
Chad then punched Freddie with the wolf-man glowering at him and trying to slash at the teenaged boy.
Chad then yelped a bit when Freddie slashed him on the arm. It wasn't a large or bad scratch, but it still drew a bit of blood. Remembering what Stitch said, Chad pulled his shirt down more to cover the wound as he retreated back a bit.
Setsuna then knocked Freddie down with her sword. The were-wolf got up, gazed a bit at them, then dash off into nearby bushes.
"Wait!" Konoka called. She sighed, "Great, he got away."
"Hal will not be pleased," Stitch grimaced. "Everyone bite-and-scratch free?" Everyone nodded, including Chad. He decided not to tell anyone about his minor wound. It wouldn't affect him, would it?
The next morning had finally come. The scouting party had arrived back at HQ with no success and had gone to bed. Chad, however, had a restless night. His scratch burned a bit and no matter how much he wanted to go the sleep, he found that he couldn't.
In the kitchen, the team were sitting at the table or just standing as they ate or talked.
"So, what should we do now that Freddie got away?" Alphonse said as his brother slurped down some eggs. "How knows. We could dress Chad up and say he's their friend," Ed joked. Winry gave him a good bang on the head.
"By the way, has Chad woken up yet?" Makie asked. "Yeah, I haven't seen him since last night," Kaede asked. Ayaka turned to Asuna, Konoka, Setsuna, and Stitch and asked, "Okay, you four; was Chad hurt last night?"
The four shook their heads as Stitch said, "He's probably tired."
At that moment, Chad shuffled into the kitchen, looking a bit different. His hair was shaggier, his eyes looked sunken in and more tired like, and he had a bit of a beard on his chin. His scratched arm was still covered up and didn't sting as much.
"…Chad, you okay?" Ichigo asked as the tall boy went to the fridge and pulled out some bacon. With the package, he sat down across from Hal, opened the package up, and started to eat the bacon. Raw. Without cooking it or anything.
The members stared at Chad with either disgust, shock, and pure awe as Chad kept scarfing down the raw strips of bacon.
"Hal, what's wrong with Chad?" Hero muttered to Hal as Calvin, Konata, Kira, Ed, Eddy, Komui, Allen, and Kon cheered, "Go! Go! Go!"
"STOP ENCOURAGING HIM!!" Kagami, Negi's students, Winry, Bunnie, Iris, Kanda, Ichigo, Uryu, Wrath, and Samara scolded the cheerer-ons. The rest except the Hanson's, the cheerers, and the scolders mumbled, "I'm going to be sick."
Soon, Chad was done with his bacon. He wiped his mouth and stared at his confused friends. "Um, good morning?"
"Chad, may I inquire why you have the urge to eat raw bacon? And why you look like a certain drunk pirate and have a bit of a beard?" Hal asked.
"And no lies!" Kazumi added eagerly as she pulled her tape recorder out. Sayo sighed, "Press, please don't push Chad."
Chad blinked a bit, then briefly looked at his wound, which started to burn again. He thought about telling them he got scratched by Freddie last night, but instead he said, "I guess I'm…maturing."
This just confused the team even more. Chad got up and said briskly, "I don't feel well. I'm going to bed." He then left the kitchen.
"Maturing?" Rukia said uncertainly. "Something's wrong."
"Yeah," Hero joked as she turned to her brother and said, "You don't eat raw meat when you matur-"
She then stopped when she saw her brother eating a raw sausage link. Hal shrugged, "I'm desperate to grow a beard!"
Later in the day, Chad didn't come out of the room at all. His teammates, not exactly buying the 'maturing' story, were worried that Chad might've been hurt the night before. But Stitch assured that no one had said they'd been bitten or scratched, so they let it drop.
Then, night had come. Rukia, suspicious about her friend's actions that morning, couldn't sleep.
'It's not like Chad to look like hell, have a bit of a beard, or eat raw foods,' Rukia thought.
"Rukia?" The Shinigami looked down to see Kon. "Rukia, I'm hungry."
"You're a stuffed animal, you don't get hungry," she deadpanned.
"Rukia!" Kon whined. "Can you take me to the kitchen? I won't be long or anything."
Rukia groaned. She got out of bed, grabbed Kon's arm and began to drag the modified soul to the kitchen. "Rukia, can you hug me on the way down there, so I don't feel scared?"
"Kon, will you knock it off!?" Rukia whispered angrily. Passing some doors, Rukia then heard a low growl coming from Chad's room…
"Did you hear that?" Rukia whispered to Kon as she went to the door. Another growl, this time louder and closer to the door, came from the room. Rukia looked serious as she pulled out her zanpaku-to and told Kon, "Kon, sound the alarm to wake everyone up."
"Rukia?" Kon asked. "Go!" Rukia ordered as she bursted in the door and gasped at what she saw.
It was Chad…though he had more fur on his hands, looked a bit more bulkier and had yellow eyes and pretty sharp teeth. Chad growled at the mod soul and Shinigami. "Does this mean he's reached mature level?" Kon asked before speeding off to sound the alarm.
Rukia immediately began to swipe at Chad, not wanting to hurt him too much, as he kept dodging the swipes. He tried slashing her, but she managed to get out of the way. 'If he gets me, I'll turn into a monster like Chad,' Rukia thought.
"Chad, I hate to do this, but it's the only way to stop you," she told him. She then said as she held her zanpaku-to out, "Some no mai…" She tapped the floor and she points her sword at Chad. "Hakuren." A large ice blast is shot from the sword as it freezes Chad.
Rukia sighs in relief, thinking she caught Chad. Then, the ice started to break as Chad bursted out of the ice prison. Rukia looked shocked as Chad ran towards her at full speed. Suddenly, Chad was caught inside a large net. He snarled, trying to get out with his newly formed claws and teeth, but the net was indestructible.
Rukia looked to see the team, still in their PJs, with Calvin holding a large bazooka. "Nice job, newbie," Konata commented to Calvin, who placed the bazooka down.
"Hal, is Chad…?" Rukia asked the leader, who stared at the struggling Chad.
"Yep, your buddy is definitely a werewolf," a bright voice confirmed. Everyone turned to see a teenager leaning against the wall. She had bright blond hair, light blue eyes, and wore a dark golden sleeveless shirt, red tie, a dark blue miniskirt, black stockings, dark blue boots, golden cuffs shaped like suns, dark blue sparkling headband, and golden sun amulet. By her side was a white wolf with violet eyes and a gold collar around her neck.
The teen smiled a bit as Wrath said in confusion, "…Who the heck are you?"
GW: Who is this mysterious girl? Will Chad and Freddie return to normal? Will I ever get my stories done!? Well, read, review, and suggest 'til next time.