Day 53: Sun Room
When the intercom came on to announce the shift change, the feeling of dread returned. Anise had calmed down considerably since the morning, and she felt more ready to discuss the previous night with Ilia... but not as ready as she wanted to be
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Goku couldn't really hear his nurse's warning over his own rambunctious laughter. The same yellow tabby he had been petting earlier was bundled in his stubby arms as he ran away from the white woman that constantly hounded him. She wasn't very fast, it was kinda funny!
"Billy--!"
"HEEEY, I remember you!" The young boy jumped in front of Kibitoshin, the tempered cat swaying like a rag doll in his grasp. "You're uhh, uhh...." Goku pointed at him with severe focus. He knew this! "Ki--Kib... Kiib..." Augh, it was right on the tip of his tongue! "Kib........... .......... huh. "He dropped his hand and the beetling between his brows lifted; Goku gave up. "Well, how ya been?" That genuine smile of his spread across his face, but departed once his white woman came over. That big mouth pulled down into a snarl while he widened his stance for attack.
"Billy, you really need to let the cat go--"
"No, he's mine, witch!" After his talk with Claire, Goku didn't want these people laying a finger on people or animals. His little hands gripped the cat tighter, which was a bad idea. It began to groan and finally the cat sunk its back nails into Goku. He yelped, instinctively letting go, and the cat went scrambling up his face and over. It hurt as bad as it looked. "O-O-Ow, ow, ow--I thought we were friends!? Saaa...!" His cheeks were on fire!
The nurse sighed, weary from just watching the exchange, and turned to Immanuel. "Will you please keep an eye on him and help him calm down. He's been hyper all day... I'll go get an anti-septic for his scratches. Don't touch them, Billy, I need to clean them first..."
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"G-Goku!" But that was all he could get out. Blinking rapidly, he could only watch in startled silence as the the soon-to-be- (current-? former-? Stupid Landel with his time travelling!) champion of the universe was wrestled into submission by... a cat. A cute little blonde tabby armed with its own teeny-tiny set of razor-blade claws which, for the moment, it seemed intent on burying in said champion's face.
What else? Those things were terrifying! Even if it was doing a good job of masking its ki power, Kibitoshin didn't doubt for a second it was through the roof.
"Hang in there, Goku! I'll help you!" he managed, leaping to his feet in an instant to swoop to the boy's aid with-- erm. Sheer guts? W-well, it was something. Waving his hands ineffectually around Goku's head Snatching out at the cat as it darted up and over Goku's face and out of reach was the best he could do. Sort of. "These things are smarter than they look!"
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Finding a nice spot on the carpet, the little boy parked himself and crossed his legs. While those couches weren't uncomfortable, he preferred the solid feeling of the ground. Those puffy cushions threatened to drown him, and Goku didn't appreciate that treachery. The floor was just fine!
His nurse was nowhere to be seen in the Sun Room, which was nice. But Goku noticed, however, the others were still keeping tabs on everyone, even him from time to time. His fat eyebrows knitted together in a childish glower as he spoke. "Why are they always watchin' us...? It looks so boring!"
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Settling back down into the maneating chair, Kibitoshin tilted his head at the question. "Hmm? I don't know. I guess it's in case anyone tries to run away or something." He sighed dramatically, shaking his head as though the world had ended while he was out getting milk. "Not that there's really anywhere to go."
Not unless you liked fighting zombies or being mauled by whatever array of monsters they had waiting between here and home, of course. Which, like he'd thought before, Goku did. Usually. Well, he had when he'd met him. But what about this Goku? He paused for a moment, glancing at the boy uncertainly for a moment before clearing his throat. "Hey, Goku? Do you remember who I am?" Silently, he crossed his fingers and prayed it had been the drugs talking before.
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The young boy looked back up at his friend, head tilted at a weird angle. "Remember?" His big black eyes stared at him vacantly. "Yeah, of course!" With a grin that stretched ear to ear, Goku pointed in acknowledgment. "We met outside, right? On the--" The nurse's had called it something. "--that thing. The field! And if there's grass out on there, there's gotta be more of it elsewhere. There's gotta be some place to go!" Yes, that had to be right! His fervency raised him to his feet, watching the nurses grimly. "They can't hold us here without a fight!"
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But Goku was talking again, and this time he really managed to catch his attention. The Kaioshin's heart didn't so much rise as hit the ceiling at four-hundred miles an hour, like a kite blown aloft by a sudden wind of hope (better not to explain that one to Goku, no metaphors, after all) at the words yeah, of course!- only to hit the electricity pylons of Reality Check and be blown to smithereens a few seconds later. His shoulders sank. "O-oh. The field. Right." So... did that mean that he was looking at an actual child Goku? Not just an adult Goku in a child's body? Th-that was terrible! He was barely at even a fraction of his eventual power right now!
Oh, well. He had to work with what he was given, right? "Right, right!" he agreed, eyes darting briefly to the nurses and willing Goku not to be much louder. "We have to work on getting out somehow! I just meant that outside of the Institute there's just a lot of fields and a zombie town. That's not very helpful."
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"Zombies?" Goku's black eyes twinkled with curiosity, and a bit of hope. "What are zombies? Are they monsters?!" He wondered if this town was the one Claire went to. If that was the case, then there was food in the town too. Monsters and food in one. Goku stared up at Kibitoshin as if he had just witnessed the face of god. It was a glorious idea.
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Which meant that now he needed to tread very carefully, with all the careful intelligence of a scary army general type person. "Well, yes, they're monsters," he answered slowly, "but they're not very challenging. It's like fighting training dummies." A pause. "Flesh-eating, swarming training dummies. They're barely worth the effort of finding them, honest!"
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Augh, this whole situation was growing more and more difficult to understand! Why was everyone's answer "No"? He didn't get it. The monsters weren't challenging, but they couldn't get anywhere. There were places to go, and yet there weren't! And he couldn't go out alone without someone with him! There were too many rules!
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... oh, wait. It was exactly as though he'd been powered down. Because he had.
"I don't know," he confessed, biting his lip. "Anyway, not all of the monsters are easy. There are some really scary ones out there, ones that even I couldn't beat!" There was a beat. There was so much wrong and counter-productive in that sentence that Kibitoshin didn't know where to start. "A-anyway! All I'm saying is that you should try and stay safe! I bet you're not as strong here, right?"
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