The New York Crew Ch. 05

Zilla walks into the apartment. Komi, his now wife is on the couch reading a magazine. Slick sits at the kitchen table pulling trinkets out of his pockets and examining them. Gizmo is at her computer workspace quickly typing.

Komi looks up as he enters. "How's your cousin and his human friend?"

"They're fine," he sits next to her. "He was a bit more talkative on the way to the airport than he was from. Not much though. But apparently, Anguirus has some sort of surprise for them."

The former komodo sets the magazine down and sighs. "I thought after the wedding the bickering was supposed to start. Not that I want to bicker."

"Are we supposed to bicker?"

Komi waves at the tv in the corner, "It's what those stupid shows say."

"If they're stupid, why watch them?"

"The same reason I read these!" she picks up the magazine. "Slick says that it's what human women do," Komi flips through the pages. "This species has some unrealistic standards to what they call beautiful. Though, I enjoy coming across the smells," she stops at a page with a perfume sample and hands it over. "This one smells like strawberries. I don't know what they are, but I like them. Wonder if there's one that smells like chocolate?"

The former iguana sniffs and the page indeed smells like the berry.

Gizmo huffs at her work desk. "Figures Slick would tell you that. He's the most sexist guy I know. I'd feel sorry for anyone who marries him."

Slick laughs. "You did, though."

The kaiju quickly faces the humans. Komi being the first one to speak. "You're married?"

"Were married," Slick corrects. "We tried doing some jobs in Vegas. Went out for drinks to celebrate our success. Next morning, we woke up married."

Gizmo groans. "We decided to give it a try. Barely made it two months before trying to kill each other," the tech girl glances over at Komi. "That's why I was so invested in your wedding. I was just trying have a good wedding experience through you," then the woman lets out a sigh.

"Should have known really," Slick shakes a watch. "Still works. Those accidental Vegas weddings never work out. Probably a good thing Gizmo filed those divorce papers. Chances are one of us wouldn't be here."

Gizmo stops typing and slowly turns to Slick. "I never filed those papers. You did."

Slick drops the watch. "I thought you were supposed to?"

The woman grabs the mouse and throws it at him. "I handed them to you, idiot! Are you telling me for the past three years I was still Mrs. Mulch, Marriam!?"

"Well, it's better than being a Crabgrass, Bertha!" shoots back as he barely dodges the keyboard.

As the two humans argue, the kaiju just sit watching the event playout. Komi soon comments. "Now, this is what the tv shows. Only, it's a bit more entertaining in person," she turns the page and lets out a gasp. "They have strawberries! Covered in chocolate?"

End