Okay so remember when I said I'd update next week? Yeah I can't keep to my schedule so here's the next one!
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Mandarin woke up the next morning, feeling actually a bit better than the past few weeks. He didn't really feel like throwing up everywhere and he felt better emotionally too. Despite the impending day where Mandarin would have to explain everything in the back of his head.
Mandarin went out to grab some breakfast and hopefully make it back before anyone notices but then he paused and placed a hand over his mouth. He rushed to the nearest bathroom and hurled. So much for feeling better. He left the bathroom after a few minutes, wiping his mouth with a cloth. He then looked around the room, he was so adamant on finding a toilet he ran to the quickest room he could find.
It was a very dark purple and black colored room and had various glow in the dark moons and stars all around it. There was also a large bookshelf and a bed right next to it. Where was he?
"Hey thanks for throwing up in my bathroom, I really love the smell of vomit." Willow huffed, still in her black nightgown.
Mandarin looked towards the girl and jumped a bit.
"O-oh I didn't realize you already had a room." He said.
Willow smiled.
"Yeah, I had to sleep in Antauri's room for a while before it got done." She explained before blushing hard.
"Not that we did anything!" She squeaked.
Mandarin raised a eyebrow.
"I didn't even say anything." He said.
Willow blushed harder, grumbling to herself.
Mandarin rolled his eyes and began to leave.
"Wait!"
Mandarin looked back at her, a look of concern on her face.
"So uh, I'm sure the others are thinking the same thing but are you feeling ok? I mean you've been sick the past two weeks." Willow inquired.
Mandarin blinked, he wasn't sure of how to approach this. He could be totally honest and reveal everything to who he considers a stranger. He could also lie and delay the inevitable even more.
"Most people have a stomach virus up to ten days." He brought up.
Why was he lying?! He really needs to stop that, and quickly.
Willow raised an eyebrow, he was hiding something.
"Are you sure? Because I think it's more then that." She said, remembering their conversation a week ago and she began to notice little things about his behavior, mostly at the fact that his belly was starting to get a bit...round.
Mandarin's stomach churned, remembering that conversation too.
"Well..."
Willow walked up to him a bit, suddenly overwhelmed by his size.
"Listen that guy that you were talking to, who is he? Is he like some sort of child service person or something? Since he mentioned deceased parents?" Willow questioned.
"What does this have to do with me being sick?" Mandarin asked back.
"I don't know! Just answer the question." She huffed.
Mandarin eyed the side of the room.
"Not really no." He answered.
Willow tilted her head.
"Then who is he?" She asked.
Mandarin bit his lip a bit and looked away a bit, hesitant to answer.
Willow closed her blood red eyes and sighed.
"Look I'm not gonna tell anyone." She said, causing Mandarin to look back at her.
"Seriously?"
She nodded and crossed her arms.
"I mean, you're an asshole, you're antisocial, you really treat the Hyperforce like crap, and-"
"You know this chocolate covered friendship speech really is failing on your part." Mandarin huffed.
Willow glared at him.
"Let me finish. However I understand what you're hiding is stressing you out. So whatever's going on, why this is happening," She motioned to his stomach.
"I want to help, I mean that's what the Hyperforce would do. And I get if you don't want to tell everyone yet."Willow said,sincerely.
Mandarin eyed the floor.
"I doubt you can help, but I appreciate the offer." He mumbled, causing Willow to smirk.
Willow stretched a bit and walked over to her bed.
"I would let you sit on my bed but you'd probably crush it." She joked.
Mandarin held back a snicker.
"That's true."
Willow crossed her legs and leaned forward a bit.
"So I mean I'm starting to get a idea on what's wrong, I mean the vomit, the moodiness, the...well you know."
Mandarin turned to her.
"You do now?" He questioned.
Willow nodded then she shivered at what she would say next.
"Gibson said something about Tabithians or whatever impregnating any gender they want. So fro-from what I've seen...i-is that happening to you?" She asked, disturbed.
Mandarin paused before slowly nodding, causing Willow to lay on her side.
"Oh my god. A pregnant dude." She wheezed.
Mandarin frowned.
"Yes and it's quite nice and dandy for me too." He grumbled.
Willow quickly sat up.
"I didn't mean- ugh you know what I mean." She sighed.
"So uh how did this come about?" She asked.
"Simple, I volunteered and they injected me with the dna of two Tabithians and it created an artificial womb." Mandarin explained.
Willow blinked.
"That...still doesn't make a lick of sense but whatever." She pointed out then she paused.
"Why did you volunteer? I mean wouldn't you want to, I don't know, fight people or live in some abandoned house?" Willow asked.
Mandarin was slightly confused at what Willow thinks he would rather do but he ignored that.
"I have my reasons, reasons I don't want to get into right now." He said.
"Why not now?" She asked but then stopped herself.
Mandarin's muscles tensed.
"I just really do not feel like talking about it."
Willow nodded, feeling a tad guilty she brought it up. It must be something serious.
"So...how far along?" She asked, her sitting position changed to her laying on her stomach and holding her head with her hands.
"Four months."
Willow nodded, getting invested.
"Oh so you're halfway done then."
Mandarin pursed his lips and smirked, causing Willow to blink in confusion.
"Wait so it's not?" She questioned.
Mandarin was silent before saying, "It's over eleven months total."
Willow fell off her bed and stumbled up in shock.
"Jeez that's a long time!" She exclaimed.
Mandarin snickered loudly.
"I mean being pregnant for almost a whole year! God, mothers would be screaming if they had to be pregnant for eleven months! Hell I think they would die because they wouldn't be able to handle it!" Willow continued.
"H-hey I got seven months left to go so no one has to deal with it for a year." Mandarin pointed out, still snickering.
Willow shook her head, out of all the things she went through this was kind of the weirdest.
"Okay, now the whole telling everyone thing. How should we go about that?" She asked, composing herself.
Mandarin thought about it.
"Not sure yet. Hopefully soon because this," he motioned his small bump.
"is not going to stay like that forever." He said.
Willow nodded.
"Hm maybe we should do something like put a hotdog bun in the oven or take a picture of their reactio-"
"I'm not doing anything stupid and campy like that. I'm not a veran forsaken sitcom wife." Mandarin complained, glaring.
Willow put her hands up.
"Okay you don't have to get all mad about it. Then should we just tell them? I mean that might be easier." She suggested.
Mandarin pondered for a second.
"Well may-"
The door then opened and Otto and Sprx fell down. Willow and Mandarin quickly turned to them. Willow growled at them, her red eyes glowing. Mandarin however, looked terrified. How long were they listening in?!
"H-hey you guys." Sprx laughed nervously, getting up slowly.
"Breakfast is ready!" Otto gulped.
Willow growled at them.
"Okay, you know what my biggest pet peeve of all time is?" She laughed, a red aura around her.
Sprx and Otto backed up.
"When people!" She began to stomp over to them.
Mandarin snapped out of his panic induced trance.
"Listen in on private conversations!" She was about to leap on them when Mandarin picked her up.
"H-hey!" Willow yelled.
Mandarin sighed.
"You need to calm down." He said before frowning.
"Besides you listened in on my private conversation a few weeks ago so...kind of hypocritical isn't it?"
Willow was about to retort but crossed her arms and pouted.
"That was an accident!" She huffed.
"Still...anyway you don't need to beat them up over it."
Sprx and Otto sighed in relief.
"Let me handle this." He finished.
Otto and Sprx looked at each other before beginning to run when the door shut.
"Now..." Mandarin set Willow down and walked over to the two, who were scratching and screaming at the door.
The two stopped and backed up against the door.
"How much did you exactly hear?" He asked.
When the two looked up at him they expected for him to be pissed but instead he looked almost scared.
"N-not much we swear! We were on our way to get Willow for breakfast when we heard you two talking!" Sprx explained.
"Yeah! Something about wanting to tell us something and how you were gonna do it that's all!" Otto defended, shaking.
Mandarin blinked before relief washed over him. Thank goodness.
"Is that all you heard?" Willow asked, hands on her hips.
Sprx and Otto quickly nodded, not wanting to get killed.
Willow sighed.
"Good now let's get some breakfast." She huffed.
The door opened and Otto and Sprx fell onto the floor. Mandarin made his way past them, feeling so much better.
Willow walked past the two as well when they got up.
"Oh and if I find you guys spying on me again..." She glared murderously at them, causing them to flinch.
"I will make you pay." She then walked up with Mandarin.
Sprx and Otto shook.
"She...she's crazy!" Sprx wheezed.
"I'm not really hungry anymore." Otto whined.
Mandarin looked back at them.
"Don't you think that was a bit too much?" He asked Willow.
Willow crossed her arms.
"Nope! That's one of my biggest peeves and the sooner they know that the better." She huffed.
Mandarin looked back at them again.
"But threatening them with violence...I mean I'd do it but...what caused her to feel like that?" He thought.
Everyone, minus Sprx and Otto who came later, was enjoying their breakfast.
"Hmph, to think I was going to get food before anyone else." Mandarin grumbled, sitting in the same spot he sat for dinner.
"Sucks to be you." Sprx shrugged.
Mandarin raised a eyebrow before continuing to eat.
"You know, Mandarin, you can sit with us." Jinmay suggested.
Mandarin paused before shaking his head.
"Nah."
Jinmay looked down a bit, feeling let down.
"It was a nice try." Chiro patted her shoulder.
Mandarin glanced over to Willow, who was talking with Antauri like nothing between her and Otto and Sprx happened. The same is happening to Sprx and Otto. What's up with that? Shouldn't they be, I don't know, so scared of her they want to eat as far away from her as possible?
It just didn't make sense to him. He could probably talk to Willow about this later...hopefully somewhere very secluded. Or just have Antauri talk to her, she'd be more up to talking with him.
Mandarin nibbled on his scrambled eggs a bit more before going over to get seconds. He was starving!
"Erm Mandarin are you feeling ok?" Chiro asked.
Mandarin turned to him.
"Yes why?"
Chiro was hesitant to speak.
"I mean you've been throwing up the past two weeks and now you're eating full meals again." He pointed out.
Mandarin shrugged.
"I'm possibly starting to feel better. What's so strange about that?"
Chiro sweated a bit, really not wanting to point out the obvious. The obvious changes that's been happening to him.
"I-I mean-"
"Is there something you're not telling us?" Sprx asked, remembering Willow and Mandarin's conversation.
Willow looked at Sprx before looking back at Mandarin.
Mandarin blinked before placing more scrambled eggs on his plate.
"I know what you're talking about, I just do not feel like talking about it right now." He told him.
"Wait what's he talking about?" Nova questioned.
Willow sighed.
"He was talking to me privately until these two overheard some of it." She stated, motioning to Otto and Sprx.
Antauri's eyes widened.
"Willow you know what's happening to him?" He asked.
Willow nodded but looked at Mandarin.
"Yeah, but I'm not gonna say anything until he's ready to talk about it." She said, causing Mandarin to feel a bit relieved.
Gibson looked at Willow, then to Mandarin, then continued eating. He knew what was going on and he would like to talk to Mandarin later.
"So...wanna tell us?" Sprx asked.
Mandarin sat back down and promptly told him, "Nope."
Everyone sighed, darn.
"I do not appreciate being probed twenty four seven, so just leave me alone." He huffed before continuing to eat.
Everyone looked at each other and decided to leave it alone for now. Gibson looked back at Mandarin before continuing to eat.
The robot landed on Shuggazoom and Willow looked outside.
"Woaaah! It's so...beautiful!" She exclaimed.
Chiro smiled.
"Thanks. Wanna take a tour?" He asked.
Willow turned around, her eyes sparkling.
"That sounds awesome!"
Everyone began to clear out and Mandarin stood in the back.
Otto looked back.
"Mandarin, don't you want to- oh right." He quickly turned around and told the others he'd be watching him.
Mandarin nodded and sat near the transport tube, almost as if he was waiting for something.
Hmm interesting. Anyway thanks for reading and I'd love to hear your thoughts!