Turn 12: Call Me Maybe
Location: Mistralton City
Time: 1:23 PM September 16th
Condition: Sunny
"Good afternoon Kyou chan." He heard Ruri's voice coming from his x-transceiver.
"Hay Ruri san." Kyouhei responded.
"So guess what." She was almost bubbling over with excitement.
"You quit your job as a maid?" Kyouhei hazarded a guess.
"No." Ruri said. "My boss let me have the day off."
"The day off like a full on twenty-four hours to yourself." Kyouhei asked.
"Not exactly." She told him. "Something came up and he had to cancel everything for today and my friend would really like her transceiver back. Are you doing anything right now?"
Kyouhei looked around at his more or less empty surroundings. He had been investigating what happened here but he wasn't really doing anything of any particular importance. "Nope not really."
"Would you mind coming by the Nimbasa Theme Park so I can pick it up?"
"Sure." Kyouhei said. "I look forward to meeting you in person. Is there any place specific you wanted to meet?"
"Um, how about in front of the Ferris Wheel? You can pretty much see it from anywhere in the city." Ruri told him.
"Sounds like a plan. See you there." Kyouhei said his goodbye.
"All right see you." Ruri said before hanging up.
Kyouhei cupped his hands over his mouth. "Hay Riley, come on down we need to get to Nimbasa." He said. Riley came swooping down and Kyouhei climbed on. The two of them set out south-east towards Nimbasa.
It didn't take them long to get there. Riley swooped down dropping Kyouhei off before he was returned to his poké-ball. He headed into the Nimbasa Theme Park. He could see his target clear as day, the Ferris Wheel.
As it was the middle of a week day there weren't too many people there but there were enough people visiting and on vacation that it wasn't empty either. The plus for him was that standing in front of the Ferris Wheel there was only one girl. She had long pink hair under white dress hat with a pink bow pattern on the left side of the hat. She had corn flower blue eyes and a matching the color on her plain modest minidress with long sleeves, a neckline that reached to the base of the neck and a hemline that reached just below the knees. Over her dress she wore a white low neckline short sleeve blouse. She wore stockings that matched the color of her dress and a pair of white shoes with pink bows tied on opposite sides.
"Must be her." He noted on her rather timid demeanor.
He started towards her and while he was walking she starting looking the other direction obviously searching around for him to show up. "Oh! I should have asked what he looks like." He could hear Ruri muttering. "Green hair, green eyes? Brown hair, brown eyes? Blonde hair, blue eye? I don't even know how tall he's supposed to be."
"Hay." Kyouhei placed a hand on her shoulder.
She leapt back in shock. She almost screamed as she spoke. "No, it's not me, I'm not who you think!"
"Calm down Ruri san. It's me Kyouhei, remember?" Kyouhei asked.
"Ah ha ha, sorry, I thought you were someone else there for a second." Ruri gave an embarrassed smile.
"Here you go." Kyouhei handed her the pink x-transceiver. He could tell she was relieved to see it was all right.
"Oh wow, thank you so much." She gave a gleeful smile as she held it. She put it on.
"Wow, fits like a glass slipper doesn't it. It would almost make my hand numb just trying to put it on." Kyouhei commented.
"You know you can adjust the size of these, right?" Ruri pointed out.
"I know I just didn't want to tamper with something that's not mine you know." Kyouhei said. And besides, then I couldn't have made the Cinderella reference.
"I suppose so." Ruri said before her face turned a little pink. "Um, Kyou chan, even though I don't need to get this from you anymore, is it alright if we still talk from time to time?"
"Oh sure, I'd love to, Ruri san." Kyouhei gave her a reassuring smile. "Now what's your num…"
Kyouhei was interrupted when suddenly someone else walked up. "It, it can't be!" He stammered. "Your Rukko chan!"
"No, I'm not!" Ruri stepped forward to tell him. She slowly nudged her hands in an up down motion, gesturing him to be quiet. "Now please quiet down, someone might hear you."
"Can you sign my CD?" He asked handing her a CD case with a girl dressed in a rather goofy looking J-Pop outfit. The girl did have a strange resemblance to Ruri.
"Did you say Rukko chan?" Another kid walked up.
"Mommy look, it's Rukko chan." A nearby child pulled on her mother's dress.
"Rukko chan you're my idol!" a girl almost screamed.
Pretty soon there was a mob gathered around the two. Ruri and Kyouhei had to battle masses of ravenous fans to get to her. "Kyou chan!" Ruri cried trying to find him in the massive crowd.
"Right here." Kyouhei picked her up.
"Wa-what are you doing?" She gasped.
"Rescuing you of course." He gave her a pleasant smile before jumping up. One of his feet landed on the head of a nearby fan. He then hopped from head to head like a person would stones in a lake, however in this case it was a lake of ravenous fans. As he did so he took out a poké-ball. In a flash of energy Riley had appeared flying next to them. He first threw Ruri onto his back before jumping on too.
"Wait, I'm scared of heights!" Ruri screamed as they started away.
"Riley, Castelia City!" Kyouhei seemed to have not noticed Ruri's plea and he gave Riley a direction to go.
It screeched in acknowledgement before flying up higher into the sky southward towards Castelia City. Ruri screamed at first before Kyouhei placed a comforting arm around her shoulder. "It's alright. Riley and I do this kind of thing all the time."
Ruri smiled a little as her face turned pink. Then she realized what exactly he said. "What?"
"Here you go, two Castelia Cones." A man at the stand handed one ice cream cone to Kyouhei and another to Ruri.
"Thank you very much!" The both of them said while accepting them. They began to walk away.
Ruri looked at the cone for a little while before testing it out with a lick. She hummed a pleased note. "Whoa, this is better than I thought it would be."
"You've never tried this before?" Kyouhei asked. "A couple years back this place was huge. Everyone from around Unova came to have this stuff."
"Yeah, I remember that. I never got the chance to have it though. Everyone eventually stopped talking about it and I forgot to ever come here." Ruri explained.
"Too busy?" Kyouhei deduced.
"Yeah." Ruri agreed.
"With your Idol Job?" Kyouhei asked. She nervously nodded before taking a bite of her cone. "So is Rukko you're real name then?"
"No, it's just a screen name, I gave you my real name in hopes that you wouldn't find out?" Ruri explained.
"Why's that?" Kyouhei asked, licking his own cone.
"Because it changes the way people treat and act around me. You saw all those people back there." Ruri reminded him.
"Yeah, but those are just fans. Most adults don't even care what modern trends their kids are into." Kyouhei pointed out.
"But I want friends my own age, people who don't care what song I'm famous for singing." Ruri told him.
"Well if it makes you feel better I don't know what song you're famous for singing. Quite honestly I'm not really into modern trends either." Kyouhei said.
"That's right. You're an old man." Ruri smiled while elbowing him.
"Hay, I'm not old. I'm just as young as you are." Kyouhei told her.
"Oh really? What's your favorite music genre?" Ruri asked.
"Jazz." Kyouhei said.
"Movie?"
"Seven Samurai, or sometimes Gojira when I'm in a mood."
"Food?"
"Plain Onigiri."
"You're an old man." Ruri concluded.
"What about my personal tastes makes you say I'm an old man?" Kyouhei demanded a response.
"Really, all of those things kind of died out over a decade ago. Not to mention they're the exact same things Ojisan likes." Ruri explained.
"Come on Seven Samurai is a classic you've got to love it." Kyouhei explained.
"Exactly, its classic, meaning old." Ruri told him. "Besides, when was the last time a Godzilla movie come out?"
"Three months ago." Kyouhei told her.
"But you still prefer the original that came out like one hundred years ago. Maybe I should start calling you Ojisan?" Ruri pointed out.
"Please don't." Kyouhei whined. "And it's only been sixty years."
"Okay fine, under one condition." Ruri said.
"What I'll do anything." Kyouhei begged.
"Give me your number." Ruri told him.
"Oh right." He just realized they forgot to exchange numbers. "So my number is 930-757-8370."
"Mine is 930-290-5734." The two exchanged their numbers. "Eh?"
"What?" Kyouhei asked.
"Is really that late?" Ruri asked.
Kyouhei looked up. "Judging from the suns positions I'd say definitely."
"I've got to be back home soon. Would you mind giving me a lift home?" Ruri asked.
"No problem." Kyouhei smiled. He took out his poké-ball and let Riley out.
"Don't you have a pokémon that doesn't have to fly us there?" Ruri asked.
"Not unless you want to climb on the back of my dewott." Kyouhei told her. He jumped onto Riley's back. He reached out a hand to her.
"Fine." She muttered, taking the hand. Kyouhei pulled her up.
"Better hold on tight it's going to be a bumpy ride!" Kyouhei said. "Riley, back to Nimbasa City!"
The two of them jumped off of Riley's back before Kyouhei returned him to his poké-ball. "So where's your house?"
"It's alright; I can make it home from here." Ruri told him.
"Nah uh." Kyouhei shook his head. "Not with the crime rates spiking it's not."
"Fine then, follow me." She lead and he followed.
It didn't take them long until they stumbled upon a quaint apartment building. "This is it, my home. Not as glamorous as you'd think right?"
"I don't know it kind of suits you. You know simple." Kyouhei smiled.
"Oh shut up." She muttered while elbowing him. "Ojisan."
"Alright, that's enough name calling." Kyouhei said.
"Okay." Ruri started off towards the building. "I'll talk to you soon."
"Yeah," Kyouhei agreed.
Ruri was at the door when she suddenly heard her x-transceiver ring. "Hello?"
"Too soon?" She heard Kyouhei's voice. She turned back to see Kyouhei still standing there. He gave a wave and a smile.
"Good night Kyou chan." She hung up before walking through the door.
Kyouhei sighed before leaving to someplace else. "Yup, that wasn't weird at all."
Standing on a hilltop was a man with short blonde hair combed back with a long blue strand of hair that circled his head. He had yellow eyes behind clear glasses that were currently glowing orange. He wore a white lab coat over a black shirt and slacks with a dark blue trim. He was nonchalantly making notations on the papers being held together by a clipboard. He stopped for a moment and looked up as if thinking. "Hmm, perhaps a little too over the top with the design." He said before returning to his notes.
"Colress, how goes Project Knightmare?" Ghetsis wobbled up with his cane supporting his weight.
"See for yourself." Colress didn't even remove his eyes from his notes as he pointed westward. Following his gesture, Ghetsis saw the magnificently horrid sight of the Village Bridge completely engulfed in flames. Pieces of it were falling into the river below but even then the flames didn't seem to go out. It looked as though hell itself had risen up to consume this village. Ghetsis' eye started to glow with wonder, before Colress interrupted. "It appears the Hedron Cannon is perhaps a little too powerful, if we want to take someone alive we're going to need to switch it to a much lower setting. Perhaps an ice setting? Fire? Lightning? The design is also a little over the top if we really want to mass produce it, but outside of that it seems to work perfectly. Your candidate to test it seemed to be a perfect choice outside of his rather blunt distaste for the operation."
"It's magnificent!" Ghetsis almost started laughing. "Perfect even!"
"Perfect?" Colress seemed to finally take notice to Ghetsis.
Flying up was a man with black hair tied into a long ponytail. He had intense and agitated brown eyes which worked into his scowl. He wore a Black Plasma grunt uniform with the exception that he had a dark blue flak jacket and a sword sheathed at his waist side. He was riding a large insectoid creature that seemed to have a purple metallic exoskeleton. It had two long legs. Extending from its thin arms were two long steel blades. It had a round saucer like head with a thin toothy mouth and two large red eyes that almost looked like headlights. Mounted on its back is a large single barrel cannon with a similar color scheme to the rest of it. On the back of the cannon was a small battery compartment that powered the cannon and possibly the whole creature.
"So this is Genesect." Ghetsis commented. "After all these years, I almost didn't think that I'd ever get to see it in person."
"I destroyed the city just like you asked, now stop this senseless destruction." He ordered.
"You're not really in a position to make such demands, Li Xingke." Ghetsis reminded him.
"Oh really? If word gets out that you've destroyed an entire village just to test out your stupid machine…" Xingke started.
"Please, you don't have the guts." Ghetsis shrugged off his comment.
"And besides, no matter how people react to it, it wouldn't matter because now that we have genesect, we're virtually unstoppable." Colress pointed out.
"You put too much faith in your technology." Xingke muttered. "There are too many ways to easily dispatch with this kind of pokémon."
"On the contrary, this is only Mark I, by the time I'm finished with Project Knightmare it'll be the most powerful pokémon in the world." Colress put away his notes.
"There is one last test I'd like to exact before we continue though." Ghetsis explained.
"What's that?" Xingke grumbled.