Strike Witches Boy Meets Witches
Episode 9 – I am full of Bottled Up Emotions
Authors note:
I know I have made Steve a bit bi-polar and I wish to apologize for that. I have a lot in mind as to what I wanna do with this series, (SPOLIER ALERT) the next story that I will do with Steve will be a little more original content with plenty of "filler" chapters, including birthdays, holidays, guitar lessons, and a possible lemon or two ^-^. Anyway I hope give Steve a chance to really have some fun with this world he now seems to be a part of.
More so, while I do have some other stories on the table, some are being put on the back burner to be finished and then updated almost daily. You can defiantly count on Doppelgänger Parade, and Rosario Kaiju to be among those that I "complete". I may also finish the 'reboot' of Brother Trouble, Some I may never finish simply because I have lost interest in them. If you want to take the Story idea and run with it feel free to PM me with your request and will respond with whether or not it is one of the ones I have no interest in anymore.
Steve was gone for a good few hours, when he returned Gertrud updated him on Mio's situation and what had apparently happened, Yoshika was now under house arrest. Though he did not talk about it. She could tell something had happened out there that he did not want to do. She couldn't help but notice it looked like he done something to his hands, almost like he had tried to scrub them completely clean. She decided that she should just let him be. She would talk to him later.
The next morning Steve made his way to Mio's bed.
"So…"
"Yes?"
"What did you find?"
Mio seemed to tear up.
"I saw something, I did not want to see."
"What was it?"
Mio sighed and looked away.
"What did you see, Mio?" Steve said looking into her eyes.
"A witch shaped Neuroi." She said.
"And what else?"
"Yoshika did not fire at it."
Steve knew what was going to happen next would lead these girls to hell but in the end they would triumph.
"So I was right."
Mio stayed silent.
"You were careless and near got yourself killed." He said.
"She didn't shot at it."
"I know. But did you listen to what she was saying?"
"She didn't attack, like I trained her too."
"Did you even hear what I said?"
"Where did I go wrong?"
"FOR CHIRST SAKE MIO, HAVE YOU EVEN HEARD A DAMN WORD I'VE SAID?" Steve shouted at her breaking out of her pervious state of mind. She looked at him with a renewed sense of fear in her eyes.
"DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT SHE WAS SAYING TO YOU? WERE YOU EVEN LISTING TO HER, OR WERE YOU TO FOCUS ON YOUR MISSION TO KILL EVERY SINGLE DAMN NEUROI WITH OUTQUESTION, LIKE SOME MINDLESS PUPPET OF THE JAPPENESE NAVY! ANATA OROKANA KUSO BAKA!"
Steve walked away leaving Mio with his words; he passed Minna who could feel an evil aura coming off of him. Minna entered Mio's room to give her an update on Yoshika's situation. No sooner had Mio told her what Steve had just told her. Minna exited the room in hurry, Looking for Steve. She had to claim him down some how. He was radiating an aura of death.
Steve in his walking bumped into Gertrud while Steve passed this off, Gertrud seemed to be just as foul a mood.
"Hey Steve!" She said grabbing his shoulder.
"What?!" He responded not even looking at her.
"What do you say when you bump into someone."
Steve glanced at Gertrud's arm then looked a head and sighed.
"If you want to keep that arm, you'd better take it off of me."
"Excuse me?"
"Take your fucking arm off of my shoulder before I rip it from its socket!"
"WHY YOU-"
Gertrud was cut off by an evil glare from Steve that made her drop to her knees. Steve walked forward leaving Gertrud half scared outta her wits.
Minna came by a few minuets.
"Oh Gertrud, have you seen Steve any- Why are you on the floor? And why is there a puddle underneath you?"
"Hun? What!" Gertrude quickly glanced down. She got up just as quickly, blushing.
"I've never been so scared in my life." She stuttered.
"He may have lost his mind!" Minna said suddenly fearing for the safety of everyone.
"I'm going to take a shower and change. Then I'm going to tear that guy a new one." Gertrud growl
With Steve
Steve was in the hanger, he had turned up his iPod and his Mockingbird guitar so he was blasting heavy metal song. He had played through Master of Puppets, freighting poor Francesca out of the hanger with the evil laugh at the end, along with Killing Time, Overkill among other 'angry' Metallica songs. Minna Gertrud and Erica had gathered just in time to see Steve lean up against the wall. The three of them ran over to see if he was all right just in time for Uncle Tom's Cabin to play.
"Steve are you ok? What's wrong?" Erica asked looking at his sleeping face.
Steve eyes suddenly opened his eyes and began to sing along with the lyrics. But what caught the girls off guard was the fact his pulps and iris were gone leaving them solid white. It looked like he was in a trance.
"Just for the record let's get the story straight.Me and Uncle Tom were fishin' it was gettin' pretty late.Out on a cypress limb above the wishin' well. Where they say it got no bottom say it take you down to Hell."
Steve got up and started to talk like a rock star would with his fists and hangs (Watch the music video for a visial)
"Over in the bushes and off to the right. Two men talking in the pale moonlight. Sherriff John Brady and Deputy Hedge. Haulin' two limp bodies down to the Waters' Edge.
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's Cabin oh yea, I know a secret that I just can't tell"
He said as he turned to face the witches. Singing along with the lryics.
Steve followed along with the guitar solo perfectly, which is not something he had not done before.
Steve grabbed his head as if he was talking to the girls like a geez what are we gonna do?
"Oh my God, Tom, who are we going to tell? The Sherriff, he belongs in a prison cell. Keep your mouth shut, that's what we're going to do. Unless you want to wind up in the wishing well too"
He sang pointing to Minna.
"I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's Cabin. I know a secret that I just can't tell. I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's Cabin. Know who put the bodies, know who put the bodies."
Steve hit his head hard enough to make him bleed on the word 'know'.
"In the wishing well, Oh yea." He said as he turned to face the girls and slumped down, passing out this time for good.
"What do think he means, I know a secret down in Uncle Tom's Cabin?" Erica pondered.
"It's not a reference to the book, that's for sure." Minna said
"When Steve came back from hunting that Neuroi, I couldn't help but notice it looked like he had scrubbed his hands, as if he was trying to remove some stain. Maybe he found out a secret that involves the Neuroi somehow and knows he can't sure it with us because if he did it would bring us to an end." Gertrud said.
"Maybe." Minna said.
"You still going to tear him a new one?"
"NO! No, I'll watch him and make sure he doesn't do anything else." She said sighing.
"Thank you, Trude. You do us all a great service."
After the left Gertrud walked over to Steve she rubbed his forehead. She smiled, though he had just scared the shit outta her, she still like him. She was tempted to kiss him but she thought against it. She took Steve's guitar off his body and walked over to the guitar amp and turned it down so as not to walk him.
"Lets see how hard this think is to play." She grinned.
She carefully figured out how to set the Marshal Amp to a clean quiet tone. But it was not quiet enough, cause Steve opened his right eye to catch her messing around. He smiled and closed his eyes as he sighed; all he remembered was going to the hanger and playing guitar until he passed out. While he was out Yoshika was places under arrest and forbidden to leave her room.
Steve awoke with a snort.
He headed to see how Mio was. He found Perrine, sucking up to the Major as always.
"First off your too kind on her major." She said declaritivly
"First off: You should mind your own goddamn business Perrine."
"EP!" Perrine said with a start. Nether she nor the major notice him come in.
"Second off: has anybody tried listing to her side."
"Steve, what you say is-" Mio started
"YOU WANNA GO ANYOTHER ROUND WITH ME, OROKANA ON'NA!" Steve shouted stopping her wording.
"ITS MAJOR SKATMOTO TO YOU, BRUTE!" Perrine Shouted
Steve charged at Perrine, pinning her to the wall, chocking her.
"I will call her what I want. You have to keep in mind Perrine, I have enough power to destroy you in an instant." He let go of her throat dropping her to the floor.
He turned to leave the room but stopped.
"If you people would get your fucking heads outta your asses you'd see that, Maybe, just maybe, Yoshika is right."
He left the room and Minna entered along with Gertrud.
"What just happened?"
"I think Steve's trying to tell us to believe Yoshika."
"You can't be serous about believing that raccoon dog or that over grown lizard." Perrine blurted out with out thinking
"Raccoon…dog?" Mio said looking at Perrine with slanted eyes.
"Over grown…" Erica started
"Lizard?" Gertrud finished
"Perrine your ether very brave or very stupid. Its one thing to insult Miyafuji like that but…Steve." Minna said.
"Will kill you." Gertrud said.
"Ya he will. He made Trude pee herself earlier." Erica said as Gertrud blushed.
Perrine paled.
"It seems we maybe nearing the end of the show." Minna sighed
"How?"
"I took a look into that Apple book thingy that Steve has. On it he had a file labeled Strike Witches. While some of the images I did not recognize. I did find this picture in a file marked Altered ."
She presented them a picture of the 501st looking like their were on there last leg and some of them were half Neuroi including Yoshika.
"My god! You think this really happens? And Steve is just waiting for it to happen?" Mio said with large fearful eyes, she herself was half Neuroi in the picture.
"I doubt it. More often that not it seems like Steve has helped us out. I think he would have told us if something back had happened. Besides that there was also in there a picture of Yoshika catching you Mio." Minna said.
"Oh, I think we should talk about this tomorrow. If its not to late." Gertrud said.
"Agreed." Minna said as she lead Perrine outta the room. Gertrud and Erica followed
Mio sighed.
'Maybe Steve is right. Maybe I am nothing but a stupid girl.' She thought to herself.
The later that evening
Yoshika snuck out to go see the friendly Neuroi as she claimed it was. Steve was waiting for her.
As she pulled out she saw Steve waiting for her.
"Are you sure about this, your in enough trouble as it is?"
"I have to find out for my self."
"You can go your own way, Yoshika. Just beware, your treading hostile waters."
"Thank you."
"Don't make me regret this." He growled.
He watched her fly off into the night.
"I hope she finds out the truth before he returns."
I apologize if you are the owner of the picture I described. I merely hope to use it to help drive the story and some of the girls fear about Steve being all knowing but no telling.
Anyway next chapter is going to be a quick one, but full of important stuff so pay close attention. I can also say that there are three chapter left to this chapter of the series.
Also I do not own the right nor the lyrics to Warrant or their awesome rock song 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'