Author's Note:
- Unique speaks in the third person.
- And Sugar... well, you tell me ;)
- Kitty's POV and fight scenes up next!
Two minutes later finds Sugar sprawled across the lawn, basking the sunshine.
Or it might have been two hours. Whatever. Who cares.
Her ears pick it up before her mind does. It's like they're little satellite extensions of her sixth sense, heh. Her head swivels towards the cafeteria again.
Huh. That's weird. She thought she'd fulfilled her goal when she'd directed Sam towards that guy in the cafeteria. Unfortunately, her sixth sense doesn't seem to have a sense of time (much like herself), so she has no idea whether or not that new guy's actually appeared yet. Maybe that's why her sixth sense is still tingling.
But no… it's not quite that.
Sugar leaps to her feet and makes her way back to the cafeteria courtyard. The closer she gets, the more her body tingles. It's like there are fleas itching their way up and down her skin and it's starting to drive her crazy.
Something big is going to happen. Something huge.
And it might be related to that new guy.
There!
She stares at what seems to be an empty spot of air. For seconds, minutes, maybe even an hour—she just crouches in the middle of the courtyard, watching and waiting. Sixteen different colors shift through her vision, alternating out in quarter-second intervals to give her multiple perspectives in the same area. Then she sees it: a flicker in air.
The pins-and-needles sensation crawls up her arms. She stiffens. That's it. That's what's so important. It's not that guy—it's this.
Her head moves before she knows it, catching another flicker in the air. Another one! That's two of them important things. Super important!
But even more important is the fact that her body is reacting before her mind. Augh! This human mind is so slow!
And then there's another flicker, and those three flickers become the most important thing on Sugar's mind. Three flickers in a perfect triangle. That can't be coincidence. Co-inka-dink. That's planned.
Three flickers in the fabric of the universe. She has to warn the Unicorns United Battlefront.
But on her way over to the music room, that Super Important Tree grabs her attention yet again. And she can't help it, because it literally feels like something is calling her over to it. Maybe it's that bird nest at the very top. Seconds later, she's clinging to a needle-thin branch at the very top of the tree, unable to let go and unable to get down, mewing for her life.
Him! That's him! Walking with Sam over to the music room! Even in the midst of her panic, clinging to a tree branch like her life depends on it, Sugar's sixth sense also goes wild at the sight of the brown-haired boy. She starts screaming as loud as she can, just trying to attract his attention… there!
Get me out of this tree, please!
His eyes are drawn straight to her. Yes!
And then Sam dances behind the new boy and hurriedly propels him into a building. No!
Sugar's Hit List #1: Sam Evans.
As soon as she gets out of the tree.
She's not sure how much longer she's left up in these terrifying heights. They can't leave her like this! She's their most important member! She does intel (well, all the stuff that Artie doesn't do), plus she's like the most important part of I Am Unicorn (Brittany can't sing and be the lead guitar at the same time, so Sugar's the one who stepped up and sacrificed her voice for those mad riffs!) Most importantly, she has her crazy sixth sense! You know, the one that just makes her super crazy and highly irritable. The one that's more often a false alarm about fish balls or how the school pond's been recently restocked with more koi fish. The one that the Not-Dead-Unicorns Battlefront responds to on a regular basis without fail, even if it is just to find her drowning in the koi pond, because they know that her sixth sense always picks up on the Big Important Events.
And the newest Big Important Event is the arrival of this new guy into this afterlife world, quickly followed by three Soul Reapers trying to break their way into their universe.
Ding-ding-ding! Her logical mind suddenly starts drawing connections between seemingly unrelated events, weaving together a massive bigger picture on what really is going on, and why this new guy is suddenly the Biggest Most Important Thing To Ever Fall Into Their World And Why—
The wind stirs through the tree branches, almost shaking Sugar from her secure hold. She yelps and clings tighter, mind refocused onto holding on and not falling. Dammit, the Not-Dead-Unicorns Battlefront can't just abandon her to this horrible fate, dying alone up here (except, well, she can't actually die…)
"Sugar?"
Sugar hesitantly opens one eye and glances down at the ground—nonono that makes her sick. She scrunches her eyes shut again, but not before catching a glimpse of her hero.
Unique!
"Com'on, baby girl," Unique calls. "You've never had trouble jumping out of the music room before."
Sixth sense triangle flickers in the fabric of the universe danger important cafeteria courtyard tell the others please get me out of this tree!
Unique jerks back, startled at the sudden stream of consciousness that pours telepathically straight from Sugar's mind into hers. "Hold on," Unique yells. "Unique will get the others!"
Don't leave meeeee!
But Unique's already gone.
And when the ultimate showdown starts minutes later in a flurry of shiny metal and gunshots, everybody forgets about the most important person, still stuck in the tree, mewing pathetically.
Everybody except the new boy.