_____________________________________________ | Tuxedo America | | Chapter 5: Settling in. | | | | Started by ColdFury | | This part by Calli | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Students sat peacefully in the commons area, pursuing the normal activities of students. Procrastination. Checking out the opposite sex. Griping about classes. And eating. Mamoru walked out of the campus Burger Barn with a tray of food. It was the standard red star special grub: burger, fries, and a caffinated bevarage of your choice, the paper cup naturally almost filled to the brim with mass-produced icecubes.'? He glanced around for an empty table, not noticing a small speck of light dart out of a sewer grate and settle onto one of Joe-Random-Student's fries. "Hey, Mamoru! Over here!" a cheery voice called out. Mamoru looked to see Kelly waving from an otherwise unoccupied table and sat down across from her. "How yah been?" she asked. "Pretty good," Mamoru replied,"Did you ever find out why Professor Blout had a guest lecturer in yesterday?" "Well.. I've been checking around and the rumor was that Keith's lab partner's girlfriend's sister's best friend's brother heard that he was seen heading to the deans office, looking pretty busted up ." Mamoru blinked, "Busted up?" "Oh sorry! It means looking like he'd just got in a bad fight." She laughed. "You speak english so well I forget it's not your native tounge." "It's okay," Mamoru smiled. "I need to pick up more expressions," He frowned. "That's odd though... I just saw Blout walking on my way here and he seemed fine..." Kelly shrugged,"It was just a rumor. It problaby started out that he had actually had a sprained ankle and turned into he'd been whipped to within an inch of his life by some dominatrix queen." Mamoru's reply would be forever lost as screams started up from across the commons area. Joe-Random-Student was in the greasy grip of a giant french fry. "Crispy!" The youma shouted as it sucked Joe-Random-Student's energy away. "I have to go now!" Kelly and Mamoru shouted simultaneously. They blinked, stared at each other, then nodded and took off in opposite directions, the same slightly puzzled look on both their faces. The youma droped Joe-Random-Student and turned its attention to the high energy levels coming from the bickering pair walking by the commons area. "Can't you let me go get food in peace?!" Josh shouted. "You call that high fat greasy garbage you're going to get food?" Ryan smirked. Josh took a deep, angry breath, his face reddening. "Why don't you just go-AAAAAAAAAHH!!" The youma grabbed Josh and Ryan, ignoring their pitiable cries. With glee, it drained their energy all out till they were no more then dust blowing away in the wind. Or it would have if not a split-second after it grabbed them a rose thuded into its forehead. "Those that disrupt the sacred lunch of the hard-working college student must be punished. It is not just to fill the precious hour of relaxation with screams of fear and terror! I, Tuxedo Mask, shall show you the error of your ways!" Tuxedo Mask shouted as he threw another rose at the youma. "Criiiiiispy!!!!" The youma shouted as it droped Josh and Ryan and rushed towards Tuxedo Mask, who quickly jumped off the table he was standing on and landed on the youma's head. He flipped off as soon as he impacted and and landed behind it as it smashed face down on the concrete. "Charging Cane Attack!!!" Tuxedo Mask shouted as he ran forward. The next thing anyone could tell the youma was now two youmas. Niether one was looking too healthy as both halves fell to the ground, flashed, and turned into half a french fry each. "Let that be a lesson to you!" Tuxedo Mask said as he ran off. Solaris and Nightshadow arrived on scene just in time to see the last bit of Tuxedo Mask's cape flap away. They puased for a second... then shrugged in resignation... Nightshadow healed up the few affected students and then they left. Joe-Random-Student dashing out as soon as he could move to go scrub the layers of grease off of himself. ------------- A few hours after the youma attack Mamoru returned to his apartament, only to walk in on the middle of an argument. "It was real, man!" Josh shouted. "Nonsense, it was just the drama departament getting a bit carried away, I'm sure," Ryan smiled condescendingly. "No way, I was closer then you, that was real and I don't even know why you won't leave me alone over this!" Josh clenched his fists in an attempt to control himself. "Closer by a foot or two," Ryan snapped back. "I want to make sure you see the truth in this little matter." "Umm... excuse me what are you talking about?" Mamoru asked. Josh took this opportunity to escape from Ryan and pratically leaped at Mamoru. He told him about the youma in the commons and the resulting battle ending with, "And then the guy in the super cheesy tuxedo and dumb mask ran off." Mamoru sweatdropped, "How interesting..." Ryan snorted. "I'm sure Mamoru doesn't belive it was real either." Mamoru headed off the arguement by quickly grabbing the remote and turning on the TV,"Lets see what's on now?" he suggested, hoping the pair wouldn't start up again. "Hey cool the first superman movie," Josh exclaimed as he hopped onto the couch. "You watch that," Ryan agreed. "I've got studying to do. Unlike some of us." The man walked off to his room, ignoring his cousin's indignant yelp.' "Superman?" Mamoru asked as he sat, distraction Josh from thoughts of vengeance. "Yah, big american bit of culture. Basic story is a guy has super powers and decides to use them for good and saving people and all that. My favorite part is how he disguises his secret identity." "...how is that?" "Nothing more then a pair of glasses that he takes off when he's Superman. I mean how lame is that?" Josh snickered. "And of course nobody notices since his eyes are covered. I guess you shouldn't take this stuff that seriously, but still nothing more then a pair of glasses." Josh snickered again,"How stupid would someone have to be to not notice that in the real world?" Mamoru sweatdropped,"Yah... it's pretty dumb isn't it..." Josh nodded. "Yah, really and another thing-," Josh's watch beeped. "Gah, sorry. Gotta go, dude; need to call my mom." Mamoru waved as Josh left and decided to watch a bit of this "Superman". --------------- Bloutite entered HER chambers. He tried out his new tatic, namely launching right into his report and forgetting to address HER by any title whatsoever. "The new youma delivery system was tested today. The one developed by the physics department using light to send a student youma into an object incre-" Her whip flashed out. "ADDRESS ME BY MY TITLE!" "Aaaahhh... yes... " Bloutite quickly thought (... SHE wanted to be called Queen last time...) "... yes... mmmmyyy.... Goddess?" The whip stayed still. "ABOUT TIME YOU REMEMBERED MY TITLE. NOW, GIVE YOUR REPORT!" Bloutite was frozen for a moment then whapped himself over the head with his sweatdrop. "Yes, my Goddess. The new youma delivery system worked perfectly, giving the youma sent greater power then if it just teleported there without a base... unfortunately as expected it lowers the intelligance of the one sent a bit.." "YOU WILL FIX THAT!" "Yes, my goddess... working on it as we speak... in other news your grand plan to prevent new heros from interfering is going smoothly." "HOW COULD IT NOT!? IT IS MY PLAN!" The whip flashed out. "ARE YOU INSIUTATING SOMETHING!?" "AAaaaaaaaaahhhh, no no no, my Goddess... the dog youma we sent to the source of the psychic vibrations is doing exacly as you commanded... filling the prospective hero's head with all sorts of wild tales..." "GOOD. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE?!" "No, my Goddess, that is all." "THEN BE GONE FROM HERE!" "Yes, at once." Bloutite bowed and walked out of HER chambers. --------------- Bloutite stormed down the halls mumbling to himself, students pressing themselves against the walls to steer clear of him. "I don't like it.. not a good plan.. but I can't tell HER that... that dog just showed up from nowhere... and she immediately made it almost as high a rank as me!" He pause to incinerate a student who looked at him funny. "And we can't contact it at all in the field... this is going to go bad... and when it does, who'll be the one taking the blame... ME! That's who..." Bloutite went into his office and used his rage as the fuel to make pop quizzes for his lecture classes at both campuses. ------ Author's notes time!! Wai! My first nonchibi-impro part!! Super thanks to Phoebe for prereading for me. Let's see... what to say about this part... Look! I brought the roomates back! They're cool, use them people!:) Well.. that's really all I can think of to say.^^;;