Super Science
Ch.111: Daddy(?)
Egon's office phone rang one day as he was giving his permission on paperwork for different kinds of experiments and uses of company funds. Picking up the phone to his ear while responding, he immediately heard Megan tell him, "Sir? There is a man here demanding to see his son."
"That could be anyone here.", Egon replied without looking up from his paperwork.
"Hold on, he just mentioned your brother's name.", the woman followed up.
This got his attention, so he brought his face up and asked, "Goto? Who is he, and how did he get in?"
"He's highly intoxicated, and the system didn't pick him up. This is just my personal theory, but I think that he is so sloshed with alcohol that the sensors perceive him as a bottle of booze rather than a person.", Megan answered.
Egon grumbled to himself before saying, "I'll have to look into that. I don't need some wacko hopped up on ketamine just to casually stroll in." Standing up, he told her before slamming the phone down, "Get some guard bots and keep my brother away. I'll deal with this."
After slamming the phone down, he grabs a splinter, Pete, and runs out the door to make it before his brother does.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the facility, Goto was doing his rounds when he got a message on his beeper. It read that an intruder was in the front lobby…again. Then he got a call on his phone, and picking it up, he was put into a four-way call.
"You boys getting the same signal?", Rogue spoke first.
"Yeah, intruder by the front entrance.", Rappa confirmed.
"This seems to happen a lot.", Barkan dryly states.
"At least they're polite enough to use the front and not break in.", Dante jokes to ease tension.
"I'm the closest, so I'll take care of it.", Goto tells them before hanging up and running to the front.
As he ran, he wondered why or what had broken at that time. I hope it wasn't anything too difficult like that half-demon kid from last week. Never a dull moment around here?
As he turned the corner and ran into the lobby, he called out before stopping short, "Alright, what's going…on?" Standing before the front desk on very wobbly legs was a man that Goto knew very well.
He was shorter than when he last saw him; then again, stress did make ya shrink. He had a beer gut and man boobs, no longer the specimen of physical perfection he once was. A blade head, nothing new there, but the beard sure was. One eye was blurry; he remembered the way it happened. He wore a white wife beater, shorts, and sandals; his macho sense of style had really deteriorated. And the beer bottle was nothing new.
Feeling his old weakness and fear rise up from the grave like a bad aftertaste, Goto said in the most repressed tone he had ever made, "D-Dad?"
"There you are, you worthless little brat!", the drunk man said while drunkenly turning to him.
"What are you doing here?", Goto asked in shock, unable to control his mouth.
"Looking for you, you worthless shit!", He yelled angrily while trying to stomp over to him.
Just then, the security system detected his aggression and blared out in a loud robotic tone, weapons coming out of everywhere and pointing at him, "Attention Intruder; you are invading private property, leave at once or else-." though before the system could attack it stopped mid-declaration and then said, "Scanning-Scanning-Scanning-Scanning: scanning complete. No unidentified signatures.", the security system stated while putting the weapons away and going into rest mode.
"Stupid robots.", Goto cursed under his breath.
"Since you finally have a job, you better earn your damn keep and pay my booze!", the drunk man demands.
"But-.", Goto tried to say back.
"Don't you backtalk me, you bitch!", the man suddenly exploded while racing over and attempting to hit the bottle over his head.
Goto felt himself revert to his weak and helpless child-like state and resumed his old posture like it was second nature! Curling into himself while trying to protect his face and bracing for the worst! But the hit never came; in fact, nothing did. All he heard was his dad grunting like he was taking a shit. So when he looked out of his shell, he saw Egon standing in front of him and holding his dad's hand, holding the beer bottle to strike him. Even when his dad tried to pull away, Egon held firmly as he looked him dead in the eyes and said threateningly, "I would suggest against doing that."
"Who the fuck are you?", Goto's dad demanded.
He threw his hand aside and replied, "Professor Egon Crystallo. Head Researcher and CEO of the Neo Icon Phoenix Research Facility.",
He then turned to Goto and asked, "Goto, who is this drug freak, and why are you, of all people, scared of him?"
"He's my dad.", Goto readily admitted.
Egon's eyes went wide as he said while pointing at him, "So this is him."
The drunk took another swig from the empty bottle and thought aloud, "Crystallo? That name sounds familiar."
"It's my father's surname. It also used to be your current wife's last name.", Egon explained while giving him a hint.
Then, a lightbulb went off in his head, and the drunk said, "I remember now. You're that brat she threw out the moment she knew your dad was a quirkless rat. I thought she got rid of you after crapping you out."
Egon scoffed at him and shot back, "And you trusted her to do a good job? I guess you really are a meathead, or in this case, just meat."
The drunk gripped the bottle tightly and demanded in a yellow, "The fuck does that mean!? And where's my fucking useless wife? I haven't seen her in months!"
"Prision.", Egon answered with ease.
"Prison? Fucking dumb slut.", the man grumbles to himself.
Seeing as things were going nowhere, Egon firmly told him, "Listen here, pal, I'm gonna make this clear for you. Take your drunk ass out of my building before I kick it out! You are not welcome and never will be. You are nothing to me or my brother, and you will never get anything or lay a finger on him again! You're the entire reason he went down such a dark path, and I won't allow you to hurt him further."
The man then looked down, a shadow covering his face as he asked in a low tone, "Who do you think you're talking to?" Then without warning, he ran to the lm with a beer bottle ready while yelling, "You mouthy little shit!"
Egon stood in defense while Goto hid behind him, only for the man to stop and suddenly convulse as electricity coursed around his body! Within a second, he fell to the floor unconscious as it was revealed that Pete was behind the man with the electricity splinter in his beak, using it like a taser.
Egon walked on top of the man, over to the dodo, pet his head, and took the splinter while saying, "Excellent work, Pete." Pete honked back as Egon stood up and said, "Millicent, call the police."
"At once, sir.", the woman replied, phone already in hand and dialed 911.
Seeing the situation taken care of as robots came in to restrain the man, Egon left with Goto meekly following behind. After a bit, Goto finally caught his nerve and said, "Hey, Egon.", Egon stopped and turned to him while Goto said, "Thank you."
"Thank you, what?", Egon said with a sing-song tone, clearly expecting something.
Goto knew what that something was and grumbled, "I'm not going to say it."
"Say it.", Egon prompted him.
"Drop dead.", Goto snapped back.
"Only if you say it.", Egon poked his chest.
"No!", Goto yelled in his face.
Egon then bowed while clapping his hands above his head and pleaded, "Please! Just for me. Just this once?"
Goto looks away while thinking about it, then finally relents as he says in a small voice, "Thanks…nii-chan."
Suddenly, Goto heard his voice repeat the exact phases again and again. He looked over at his brother and saw him holding a tape recorder that was playing his "thanks nii-chan" over and over again! After listening to it once more with a dumb smile on his face, Egon said, "Oh, I'm gonna treasure this moment for the rest of my days."
Goto turns red in the face with embarrassment and anger as he runs after his brother, yelling, "You bastard!"