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Maternal Instinct: Spotlight
Chapter 16: Shin Possible III-Just Another Day
Shin tapped her finger impatiently on the desk as she let out a soft sigh. She was so bored! Of course she was in the middle of class so that wasn't really a surprise. What was a surprise was how mind numbing this class could be. When she had picked "Modern History of the 20th and Early 21st Centuries" she thought it'd be much more interesting than taking a normal history class. Especially since she lived through most of the times covered. Unfortunately, all the meant was that she had heard all this stuff before, mostly from the tales of her mothers. So not only was it a history class it was like a repeating history class which was even more boring!
She wondered if some of the other kids thought like her, but she knew at least the male half of the class found it very interesting. Or rather the person teaching it. Miss Misato Katsuragi. Or as she preferred to be called "Miss Misato". Shin always found it weird because it was such a Japanese sounding name but she didn't look Japanese at all. Not with her clearly white skin and long purple hair. The brown eyes maybe fit, but then that made Shin feel like she was being kinda racist. And it's not like she was one to talk about having an odd sounding named.
Still the point was that Miss Misato was the very model of the classic hot teacher idea. In fact it seemed liked Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" was written just for her. Course that was chronologically impossible but the idea was still there. She was a very attractive woman who kept all the guys', and a few of the girls', attention. Especially with what she was wearing today. The main part of the outfit was basically a "little black dress" but with thicker material than one would expect to see in formal wear. Either way the skirt stopped rather alluring at her upper thigh and showed off a lot of leg. The material hugged tightly against her impressive hourglass figure, pulled taught between her rather ample cleavage and stopping mid neck, where it was layered with white trimmed fabric. A pair of ankle boots kept her legs from being completely bare and somehow made her legs appear even longer and more shapely. A red half flight jacket helped make the outfit seem somewhat professional instead of something she'd wear out on a date. Even so Shin was amazed she could get away with something like that.
What amazed her even more though was the fact that isn't such outfits that really got Ms. Misato in trouble with the school board but rather the small, silver cross she wore atop her impressive chest. It truly showed how messed up the school had it's priorities. Not that most of the other people in the class would care about that, they were too busy praying that she would drop the piece of chalk she was using. Shin's eyes discretely darted around from guy to guy and she could see their eyes focusing on the teacher's skirt, as if trying to push it up by sheer force of will. She slowly reached down and carefully tried to pull down her own green mini skirt some, feeling a bit self conscious.
I'm never taking fashion tips from Kieran again, she thought in annoyance.
As inappropriate as Shin felt the teacher's dress was, she was almost willing to ask her for advice on how to keep the stupid thing from riding up all the time. It was one of the many reasons she hardly ever wore a skirt, but after all of Kieran's insisting that she'd look "really cute" in one she just couldn't resist. So she wore the green skirt with her red tank top to make an almost Christmas themed outfit that she was really regretting right about now.
Particularly since it was drawing sneered and amused whispers from her old rival Asuka. The annoying redhead was sitting a few seat away from Shin, so she couldn't quite make out whatever she and her equally annoying friends were talking about, but given the quick glances in her direction and the fits of condescending giggles she could take a good guess what they're talking about. She tried to follow parents' and friends' advice to just ignore the spiteful girl but it was getting harder and harder. With every snooty chuckle and whispered insult, Shin felt her anger building and building. Her clenched hands started to glow faintly as she almost reached her boiling point.
"Now today we're going to skip ahead a bit so I can tell you about one of the more interesting things to happen earlier this century," Misato informed the class as she raised the chalk to the blackboard. "About fourteen years ago, there was a bizarre case of life imitating art as New York was actually attacked by Godz-"
"Would you just shut up?!" Shin's screamed nearly at the top of her lungs.
The sudden, and loud, outburst caused Misato to scrap the chalk across the blackboard which made her, as well as some of the students, cringe at the horrible sound. She then spun around on the heels of her boots, purple hair flying wildly around her face. She placed her hands on her hips and glared menacingly at the pale green girl.
"What did you just say Miss Possible?!" she demanded.
Shin's head snapped towards the irate teacher, her eyes wide and mouth hanging open in shock and embarrassment.
"No! I didn't mean you! I meant her!" she explained, jabbing a finger in Asuka's direction.
"What?! Me?! Now would I do something like that?" Asuka asked innocently.
"You did to! I heard you!"
"Really? Well then what pray tell did I say?"
Shin faltered. "Well...I...didn't hear exactly what you said but I know it was about me!"
"Not this again," Misato muttered as she rubbed her suddenly aching forehead. "Shin you've really gotta stop acting out like this."
The dual haired girl growled as she crossed her arms over her chest and sunk down into the sit.
"Of course you would take her side," she muttered.
"I'm not taking anyone's side. Just because I'm Asuka's guardian doesn't mean I'm automatically going to believe her. If anything it means I know first hand how truly annoying she can be."
"Misato!" Asuka protested as her cheek grew red from the laughter of her classmates.
The teacher shook her head. "No, no wait that's not what I meant."
"I think it was," Shin smirked as she sneered at the redhead.
"Oh you little-" Asuka started to shoot back.
"Asuka please," Misato sighed, holding up a hand.
Surprisingly, the plea actually worked as Asuka crossed her arms over her chest and turned her head up with a slight "hmph". Shin smirked in triumph but it was quickly lost when Misato glared down at her.
"You're not out of the woods either young lady," she remarked. "You two seriously need to find a way to settle this feud. It's not only distracting to me and your classmates but both your grades are suffering because of it."
Shin rolled her eyes at the oncoming lecture. As if she hadn't heard enough of those from her parents. As she glanced out the large picture window it the classroom something on the other side of the street caught her eye. A very big something! Her eyes widened as she saw it approaching the class at a very rapid speed.
"Shin? Shin are you even listening to me?" Misato asked in annoyance. "See this is what I'm talking about. You never-"
"Get down!" she screamed as she jumped forward and tackled the teacher to the ground.
Any "sneak peeks" the classmates around them would have gotten were lost when large robot came crashing through the window, sending glass shards and desks flying everywhere. The other students screamed and ducked in cover as it sailed through the room and slammed into the opposite wall, nearly knocking it down. Shin picked herself up off the terrified Misato and watched as her classmates started running out of the room, still screaming.
"Wha-what's going on?!" Misato cried out.
"Get out of here!" Shin ordered as she stood and flared up both her fists.
"But!"
"Go! Make sure everyone else is safe!"
Still in a bit of shock, the purple haired woman just nodded numbly before she picked herself up and made a mad dash for the door. She cast one last look Shin standing defensively in the middle of the overturned desks and thought about trying to drag her out as well but thought better of it. She remember exactly who's daughter the girl was and knew she could take care of herself. She had to see the other students first.
Shin clenched her fists tighter, intensifying her plasma fire. She watched as the robot picked itself back up. The ground shook as its heavy treads slammed down on the tile, cracking many panels. Seeing it at it's full height made Shin rethink her plan of attacking it. It had to be a least eight feet tall and looked like it designed to deal out the punishment. Aside from the tank like treads in place of feet it had two large main arms that ended in three pronged "hands" as well as two smaller arms sticking out of what she assumed was its abdomen. At the very least it was the bottom half the thing and allowed the two part to turn around. The right of the smaller arms ended in what looked to be a laser pistol while the other was some kind of cutting device. Both looked nasty and where things she was not looking forward to getting up close and personal with.
The glowing red eye in the middle of it's oval shaped head moved back and fourth for a second, scanning the room, before it finally settled on her. The prongs on each of its main arms opened and electricity started to arch between them before collecting into the middle spool mounted in both hands. Shin may not have had an understanding of robotics or mechanics like her Uncle Wade did but she didn't have to, to know what was about to happen.
"Uh oh," she muttered.
She then jumped to her left to avoid the twins electrical blasts that shot out towards her. She landed on her hands and flipped herself over to try and land on her feet but the combination of the debris around the room and the black combats boots she was wearing caused her to tumble forward and smack against the wall.
"Ow," she muttered. "Seriously, never taking Kieran's fashion advice again. Stupid klunky boots."
She pulled herself off the wall just in time to notice the robot taking aim at her again. She flared her fists again and this time launched the first attack, sending to flaming plasma balls at the metal behemoth. They landed perfectly on it's left shoulder, causing it to twist and slide back slightly. Unfortunately it did very little else and in fact the robot turned to face her again, the light glowing brighter as if to display annoyance.
"That...was a mistake," it droned out.
"Eep," Shin said pathetically.
She leaped again to avoid another barrage of electric blasts but this time actually landed rather gracefully. She didn't have time to congratulate herself though as she had to avoid a laser blast from smaller right arm, confirming what she thought earlier. She sent a few more blasts of her own but again they seemed to have little effect.
"Gah what is this thing made of?!" she snarled.
She darted forward and pounced off one of the overturned desks to land on top of the thing. She dug her fingers into the small indentation behind its head and started to slash away violently at it with her other hand. Even up close her powers seem to have little effect, leaving only tiny scratches in their wake. It didn't help matters that the robot was jerking around to try to shake her off. It would help her greatly if she could get better footing but she could only use her legs so much.
"Of all the days to wear a skirt," she growled as she continued to slash. "Dammit if only I could just hurt this thing! Pierce it just once!"
As she drew her hand back again, something rather odd happened to her glow. It swirled around her hand as usual but it started to move faster and almost...take shape. Within seconds it stretched itself out into something the resembled a knife blade. Before she could think about it too much she rammed her first forward and surprisingly the "blade" cut almost seamlessly into the robot's shoulder socket. As if reacting to pain, it spun itself around rapidly and brought up it's other arm to knock Shin off itself.
The pale green girl went limp as she sailed through the air and smacked into the back wall. She groaned as she landed in a rather undignified heap on the floor. Her head was foggy as she tried to focus on the opponent in front of her. She had just cleared out the cobwebs when she noticed it was charging it's working arm up for another blast. She tried to move out of the way but her body was still too sluggish to react in time. She was positive this was going to be it for her and she braced herself as best she could. With the a brightly glowing eye the robot took aim...
And then suddenly lurched forward slightly just before the center of it's body exploded outwards. Shin brought her arms up to self herself from the debris then watched in shock as the remaining parts of the robot bend over before the top half completely fell off. When the smoke cleared she noticed a figure standing behind the rubble. It took a few seconds for her to recognize who it was but soon enough it became all too clear to her. The one sleeved aviator jacket, the bleach blond hair, and of course the armored right arm.
"You!" she called out in surprise.
"Oh hey," Kaden remarked when he noticed her.
He then also noticed the little bit of black lace peaking out from under her skirt and smirked a bit. When she realized what he was looking at, she let out a horrified squeal before she tucked her legs under herself and pulled the skirt down again.
"Pervert!" she growled.
"Can't blame a guy for trying," he shrugged.
"Yes I can. So what the hell are you doing here anyway?!"
"What are you doing here?"
"I go to school here!"
Kaden cocked an eyebrow before he finally took a good look around.
"Oooh yeah this is a school, isn't it? Huh, been so long since I've been in one I almost forgot what they looked like."
"So what is...?" she tried to asked again.
"Hold on," he interrupted before he put a finger up to his left ear. "What's that Z?"
"There's another one running a rampage about a block away from you," Zeki's voice explained over the mini comlink.
"Alright. I'm on it," he remarked then looked back at Shin. "Well gotta go! See ya!"
With that he jumped through the broken window then out to the middle of the school's lawn before he punched the ground to send himself flying upwards.
"Wait a minute!" Shin called out desperately as stood up and ran towards the window as well.
Unfortunately he was gone. She sighed and was about to leave to see if anyone else was okay when another voice cut through her like a knife.
"Possible!" Principle Barkin snapped at her.
She spun around to find the tall, imposing man glaring daggers at her. He took his eyes off her only long enough too look around at the demolished classroom and the smoking hunk of twisted metal that was use to be the combat robot. He then let out a heavy, irritated sigh.
"I should have known you were involved in this somehow," he remarked.
"Wait! No! This isn't my fault! You this guy...punched this thing in here!" she tried to explain, pointing to the robot.
"Uh huh," Barkin nodded, sounding unconvinced. "You know, I allowed your mother to go on her little...missions before for the most part she kept all of that stuff out of this school. But I will not, will not, tolerate this place becoming a battle ground! I don't care who's daughter you are!"
"I know that, but Principle Barkin..." she tried to explain.
"Save it! For this little...indiscretion you're going to have to help rebuild this classroom as well as serve two months of detention."
"Two months?!"
"Want to make it three?" he threatened.
She sighed and slumped her shoulders. "No."
"Good. Now get to work cleaning this place up while I try to find the janitor."
She watched as she left and waited until she was sure he was far down the hallway before she threw her head back, shot her arms upwards and let out a loud, frustrated scream.
"WHY DOES MY LIFE ALWAYS HAVE TO SUCK?!?!" she tried out to the heavens before she turned and kicked the standing half of the robot as hard as she could.
Her eyes shot open was pain raced all over her foot and up her leg. She hoped up and down as she held her now throbbing foot.
"Ow! Ow ow ow!"
The End
Author's Notes: Well I'm on a roll right now! Second update in as many days! Maybe I actually AM getting my groove back! I hope so. Anyway, this was just a small, fun, idea that came to me while I was thinking over some of the things I wanted to do for Shin's time in the "MI" universe. One of those things include Asuka and her reasons for picking on Shin all the time. If anyone here has even seen Neon Genesis Evangelion then you'll know her back story and I plan on using that. Of course that means I needed someone to take care of our feisty redhead and...using the NGE story as my model I went ahead and made her guardian the same one from the show; the lovely Misato Katsuragi. I also used the "Angelic Days" version of her where she was a teacher just with her NERV outfit on cause...well it's very sexy. Really no other reason than that.
So that's yet another Spotlight chapter down. I have one more idea I want to clear out to make sure I'm really in my groove before starting "Sidekick, No More". Hopefully that will start next week. At the very least I'll have the end of November off from work cause of Thanksgiving so I'll have plenty of time to work on it then. So we'll see what happens. And hopefully I'll have yet another small chapter up tomorrow. We'll see.
See ya guys then!
P.S. Oh yeah, I have to send out props to my friend Festum, or Truckla on here, for helping me nail down the description of Misato. Thanks dude!