Duran-kun and Kiyo-chan's Omake Theater
(featuring the Tokiha and Minagi family pets)
"Dr. Muramasa!" the hunchbacked assistant cried. "The villagers are at the gates!"
"Let them come!" cackled the scar-faced man in the double-breasted lab coat. "They will be too late! When I throw these levers, the circuit will be connected! The power of the storm will be channeled through these coils and infused into the body of my creation! They wanted me to build the ultimate soldier, and so I have! The bodies of our glorious dead shall rise to fight for our Emperor once more!"
"I don't know," Reito Kanzaki said even as, on-screen, the mad scientist threw the switches. "While I can see the obvious connection as it applies to human irresponsibility and our lack of foresight in exploiting scientific advancement for our immediate ends without considering the long-term consequences, I just don't think that an anti-militarism message has a place in a Frankenstein movie."
"Dude, just watch the film and save the lit class for when you're actually in one," Yuuichi Tate shot back before munching on a handful of popcorn. "It's just getting to the good part," he said through butter and salt.
Sitting between her two boyfriends, Mai Tokiha tried to understand just how she'd come to think having them both over to watch a film had ever seemed like a good idea. They'd managed to keep the rutting-stag behavior to a minimum, but that didn't help the fact that they were such different people that they could talk to each other about the same thing and end up having two separate conversations.
You know, if you shoved them into one body, they'd make the perfect guy. Reito's intelligence, Yuuichi's steadfastness, Reito's gorgeous looks, Yuuichi's rugged pleasure in physicality, Reito's charm, Yuuichi's lack of artifice...Mai sighed happily. Then she realized that such a combination might not be limited to their good points, and she might end up with Reito's sneakiness and ego mingled with Yuuichi's thick-headed insensitivity, and decided one of the lessons to be learned from the movie was that she had to learn to take people as they were and not think she could focus in on the positive bits while changing the rest as it suited her.
Probably she ought to learn that lesson if she ever wanted to get down to one boyfriend, rather than staying indecisive because she wanted all the good points of all of them.
Kagutsuchi, curled up in her lap, made little cooing noises in his sleep. His voice added to Reito and Tate's made her realize that one member of the little menage hadn't said something in a while.
"BWA HA HA HA HA!" The insane cackling echoed through the room. "Now, the power of science shall deliver to me the secret of all my desires!"
On the screen, the monster was lurching through the halls of the laboratory while the mob of peasants screamed in terror and alternately ran for their lives or fought futilely with their crude weapons. No one saw it, because they were all looking towards the kitchen, where the laughter had come from. This was followed by the hum of the microwave.
"Do you think we should check on her?" Reito suggested, possibly out of genuine concern and possibly in the belief that since Mikoto was his sister, anything she did would cost him boyfriend points. Which belief was possibly true, at that.
Any response to that suggestion was made moot by the loud crackling sound, followed by the explosion. A legless oni went flying out of the kitchen to smack into the far wall, followed rapidly by an undersized girl with black braids and a cloud of thick smoke.
All three of the movie-watchers vaulted to their feet, Kagutsuchi spilling onto the floor with a yelp (though his displeasure was moderated by the fact that Tate had dumped the popcorn bowl out of his lap the same way Mai had spilled Kagutsuchi, and therefore the contents were fair game for any dragon-phoenix hybrids suffering from post-nap hunger). The boys rushed to the kitchen, waving their arms to clear the smoke, to make sure that any fire could be quickly put out. Mai crouched by Mikoto, hoping she was all right. The feline girl's eyes were glassy and unfocused, but other than smoke smudges she had no visible injuries.
Typical; she always lands on her feet even when being knocked flat on her butt.
"Mai..." Mikoto mumbled through slack lips. "Science is bad..."
Mai could hear the hissing spray of the fire extinguisher from the kitchen, idly wondering if it was Yuuichi's quicker reflexes in a crisis or Reito's faster brain that had gotten to the device first. Knowing them, they'd both want to score "See, I put out the fire!" points in the typical male misapprehension that there was such a thing.
"Mikoto, when you let the tinfoil touch the side of the microwave for the third time in a year, I'm not convinced that the science is the real problem."
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A/N: Of course, zapping the microwave with tinfoil is not going to cause an explosion (though it might well fry the magnetron and ruin the microwave). Mikoto no doubt has special talents!