Kamen Rider Kabuto EXTREME retardary
Yay! I got a new laptop! Sort of. It's one of the ones that the hospital Edward works for was getting rid of. I've been transfering data between Cid and Hiyori (she runs Vista, okay? I found it fitting.) so I didn't get a lot of work done. Apparently, you can't transfer data between drives and still use a computer.
At any rate! This is Meg's request. I'll have Becky's tomorrow plus some other stuff. More Arashi and KRK, I think. (May I hopefully one day finish the Gon/Daisuke thing; I'm at -10 start at this point. I have trashed at least twenty pages of stuff for that fic already.) Enough prattle! On with the fic!
lazulisong is brilliant. And I love her very, very much. FOREVER. ♥ ♥ ♥
Prompt: Gatack's Day Out: The Zectors follow their humans around and wonder what in the hell they're even doing. And then Kagami kisses Tendou and Gatack incorrectly concludes it's fighting and tries to help.
The Dating Lives of Tiny Robotic Bugs and Other Things ZECT Never Considered
"Your human is dressing with great deliberation," Gatack said, buzzing meaningfully against the window pane.
Kabuto dipped his horn, unsurprised to see Gatack outside. Their humans had both been secreting unusual levels of adrenaline; the scent was thick in the air, as of late. "There is less of his shirt today," he said, doing a quick scan of the sleeves. "He is expecting your human."
Tendou put on a vest and a long scarf shot through with metallic threads.
"He has Cast On," Gatack observed. "There must be trouble."
"I'm not certain," Kabuto said, but Gatack had already flown down to ring the doorbell for his human.
---
Kagami was a little startled when Tendou opened the door before he could ring the bell. "Ahh, sorry for making you wait," he apologized. Tendou had to have been sitting on the door, to have answered before he'd even made it all the way up the walk.
"Grandmother said this: If you've waited, what arrives is valuable," Tendou said.
"Huh?"
Tendou smiled faintly, stepping out and closing the door behind him. "It's all right. Juka only just left herself."
Kagami shifted, feeling awkward even as he fell into step with Tendou. "I feel a little strange following her on her first date," he said.
"I don't."
"Yeah but don't you think…" Kagami trailed off as Tendou gave him a measured look. Don't you think it feels like a date for US? Kagami thought. "I hope nobody sees us," he muttered.
---
"My human is apprehensive," Gatack flared his wings. "There is trouble."
Kabuto flipped his wings, hovering. Considering. "My human is not," he flicked one wing and then the other. "They're expecting no trouble."
"Your human is always ready for trouble so it doesn't bother him," Drake said, doing a lazy loop-de-loop in the air. "There's a difference." He was trailing the grip, half curled around it in another turn.
"Why have you come?" Kabuto asked, lowering his horn a little in confusion.
Drake tumbled slowly around Gatack. "Somebody raised the alert level," he said serenely. "And Daisuke, my human male, is busy with Yuriko, my human female."
"So you're bored," said TheBee contemptibly. "That's no way for a Zector to act. Where is your sense of unity?"
Drake flipped the grip and then caught it again. "Right there."
"So you'll bring your base to anybody?" TheBee spat.
"No," said Sasword from the ground. He pointed his sting at TheBee. "You are truly the Zector who stands at the top of going to everybody."
TheBee buzzed angrily. "I go to no one!"
Gatack clicked his mandibles. "There is not time for your petty differences. The humans are leaving; we will follow and protect them without being seen."
Kabuto dipped in the air but followed Gatack anyhow. It was better than listening to Drake and TheBee squabble. "You three should stay with your humans."
"There is no human worthy of me; I have none to go to," TheBee said acidly, following closely at his back.
"Busy," Drake reminded him, doing a somersault in the air.
"My human stood at the top of being a Worm," said Sasword, trotting along.
"And he's dead," Drake added.
"Truly, he stands at the top of no longer living."
"Silence!" Gatack clicked ominously. "My human is growing more apprehensive. Trouble is near. We will go undetected to keep the element of surprise."
Kabuto dropped even lower.
---
"Tendou," Kagami hissed, "don't stare. They'll see." He sank back further into his chair, trying to hide behind the potted plant.
"If they notice anything, it'll be your fidgeting," Tendou said calmly. He lifted his wine glass, sipping and staring over the rim at the harmless high school boy who was blushing at Juka.
Kagami was pretty sure that eventually the kid was either going to notice the hole-burning glare or else drop dead. Tendou seemed like the type who could probably kill somebody with his brain. "Riiiiight," Kagami said, straightening up and putting himself between the hapless boy and Tendou's brotherly instincts. "So. Uh."
Tendou raised both eyebrows. "Hm?" His gaze slipped sideways.
"French food," Kagami said desperately scrabbling for a topic to keep Tendou's focus. "I've always wanted to try it. Real," he said quickly, "real French food, that is. Authentic."
Tendou's look shifted back to him, his face thoughtful. "I've wanted to learn."
"Oh? You like French food?"
"In order to teach them to properly prepare Japanese dishes, it's necessary to understand their current methods to see where they're going wrong."
"Well that…wait, what?" Kagami blinked. "Tendou, are you calling an entire country bad cooks?"
"Not bad, just ignorant."
Kagami put his face in his hand. "Tendou."
"Only in the area of Japanese cuisine."
He sounded amused and Kagami looked up into one of Tendou's small, happy smiles. Kagami couldn't help a little smile of his own. "How are they wrong?" he asked, honestly interested in the answer as much as he was interested in being a distraction.
---
"There is no danger," Kabuto declared. "There is food."
Gatack snapped at the leaves of the fatsia they were perched in. "My human is displaying signs of wariness. Your human is watchful."
Kabuto looked at Tendou closely. "He is not paying strict attention to your human," he allowed.
"Which is what your human does when lacking in clothing," Gatack pointed out. "And there is food here that neither your human nor the Native has cooked."
"They have eaten food away from home and the shop before," Kabuto raised his horn. "The little female is here as well. They are feeding her."
"She is away from them, with another."
"Gatack has a point," Drake drifted over. "Daisuke sits with Yuriko when he feeds her. And he brings her to the place marked with the yellow 'M'."
TheBee skimmed sullenly overhead. "When I was with humans, they ate together as a group. They only separated into smaller groups to face the Worm."
Sasword clambered up the earthenware pot. "Jiiya said this: the appearance of the thing is sometimes the same as the thing itself."
"I do not understand that significance," Kabuto turned to face Sasword fully. "What do you mean?"
Sasword flicked his tail. "I stand at the top of agreeing with the others in sensing danger."
"They have ordered sweets," Gatack interrupted. "Highly out of the ordinary."
Kabuto looked at the humans. "I…has my human just offered to feed yours?"
"Yes. My human has acquired a red flush in the face. An obvious signal of anger. There is trouble."
---
Kagami surreptitiously sipped at the cool afternoon air as he and Tendou left the restaurant, following a block behind Juka and her date.
"Mouth still 'a little warm'?" Tendou sounded smug.
"Yes," Kagami said defiantly. "Whoever heard of putting habanero peppers in cake? And what was the big idea stuffing that in my mouth?"
"You ordered it," Tendou pointed out reasonably. His hands were tucked into his back pockets as they strolled and Kagami couldn't quite look away from the relaxed posture. "It would have been wasteful and insulting to not eat it."
"Yeah, well," he smiled a little ruefully as Tendou glanced at him, "I thought it was devil's food cake, just plain chocolate."
Tendou smiled and there was something in it that was amused and so content that Kagami felt his cheeks heat up again, with no cake to blame for it. "Surprisingly, you were right, however," Tendou said.
Kagami blinked, a little lost. "What?"
"It did go well with the wine."
Kagami couldn't help laughing along with Tendou's quiet chuckle.
---
"What is this place?" Gatack demanded, spinning in the air.
The early-evening air was full of loud sounds: music, machinery, human shrieking. There were flashing lights everywhere, too, and there were small vehicles moving at dizzying paces.
Kabuto went to Gatack's side, ruffling his wings. "I do not know."
"I know this place," Drake said, catching and tossing his grip. "Daisuke was here the other night."
"Did I not say danger?" Gatack challenged. "Drake's human has investigated as well."
"Well." Drake tossed his grip again. "He was here with Yuriko."
"She is his partner," TheBee caught Drake's grip and then threw it at him. "The time when he didn't have her help, he was nearly killed. Of course he would bring her."
"Truly, she is the human who stands at the top of protecting Drake's human," Sasword opined. "There are odd-looking humans in this place."
"Bad mimics," TheBee sniffed.
"They don't read like Worm," Kabuto said, scanning the crowd. "Temperature signatures are normal."
"A new species," Gatack announced dismissively.
Before Kabuto could disagree, Drake suddenly shot up in the air. "Daisuke and Yuriko are here."
Sasword scuttled up a cable. "The new Worm have put something on her head," he reported. "It is my noblesse oblige to serve her."
TheBee swarmed up to Drake's level. "Kabuto's human female has something similar on her."
Kabuto dodged Gatack's pincers. "My human is calm."
"The new Worm are approaching," Gatack said, bristling. "Why is your human pushing mine into their hands?"
---
"Tendou," Kagami swiped at balloon hat the midway clown had placed on his head, sighing as Tendou somehow held it fast in place.
"It suits you," Tendou said, handing Kagami a cone of cotton candy. "It's…cute."
Kagami rubbed the back of his neck. "Shut up," he muttered darkly. "Juka is definitely going to notice me in this thing," he said to change the subject.
"She's too busy saying hello to Yuriko."
"Tendou...?" Kagami muttered, backing away. Yuriko had obviously seen them and Daisuke had lifted a hand to wave. They were in imminent danger of being found out through no fault of their own.
"In here," Tendou said, shoving Kagami into a Ferris wheel gondola.
Kagami risked a peek over his shoulder at the midway. "I don't see her," he said. "Maybe she missed us."
"Hi, Oniichan! Hi, Kagami-san!" Juka said brightly. "What are you doing here?"
Juka's date shuffled in shyly, ducking his head politely as the ride operator closed the door behind him.
"Uh…" said Kagami. He wasn't sure if the jerk in his belly was fear or the ride lifting into motion. "We're…" he shot a look at Tendou. Tendou was standing there with his arms folded. "On a date," he said. Your date, he thought. "Of our own," he lied.
"Really?" Juka's whole face glowed as she smiled. "You and Oniichan are here on a date?"
Tendou was looking at him blankly, arms loosening as he stared.
"Yup," Kagami said. He slung his arm around Tendou's shoulders. "Date. It's a date. We planned it weeks ago."
"Weeks ago?" Juka cocked her head, looking cutely confused. "Oniichan never mentioned it."
Tendou said nothing.
"Uh," said Kagami. "Well. We…wanted to keep it a secret."
"How long have you been going out?" Juka seemed thrilled. "Secretly." Her dimples flashed as she grinned.
"Juka," Tendou began sternly.
---
"My human reeks of fear," Gatack announced, speeding toward the top of the circular structure that was carrying their humans. "I am going to him."
"Wait!" Kabuto darted after him. "You haven't been called!"
---
Kagami grabbed Tendou by the collar. Tendou could explain away his presence by being the protective older brother he was but Kagami had no way of defending himself aside from saying 'Tendou made me do it'. Which was pathetic any way he looked at it.
"She already knows," he said desperately. "No point in hiding it now."
Tendou put his hands over Kagami's, pushing them away. "Kagami," he said.
So Kagami kissed him.
---
"Attack!" Gatack shrieked, diving at the gondola.
"Oh hell," Kabuto dived after him.
---
"Ouch!" Kagami jerked as the gondola windows exploded in a shower of glass. He pulled away from Tendou, touching his throbbing lower lip. He pulled his fingers back, wet with blood. "I think you bit me."
"Watch out," Tendou told him, putting a hand on top of his head and shoving him down.
---
"Gatack, wait!" Kabuto managed to get between Gatack and the humans a split second before Gatack could clamp on to his human's head.
"I smell the blood of my human!" Gatack roared. "I will destroy your human and devour his bones! I will lay his head at the feet of my human as a trophy!"
"Just wait," Kabuto said again. He tried to angle himself so that he could reach his human's belt.
"Hey, need help?" Drake asked, floating in through the shattered remains of the window. He settled his grip in the nearest slackly open hand.
---
"What am I supposed to do with this?" Juka's date asked, staring at the robotic dragonfly and the perch in his hand.
"Henshin?" Juka suggested.
---
"I will lay waste to him for you," Gatack said clutching Kagami's arm with his mandibles.
---
"You know," said Daisuke, reaching down into the gondola to help Juka out of it, "you look good as TheBee. Your beauty as a Rider is like a…like the…"
"Golden flower of destiny?" Yuriko offered. "Watch out for the hot oil. The Ferris Wheel didn't stop until it ran over a takoyaki stand and a teppanyaki dango cart.
"Can you get Drake off of her date?" Kagami groaned, pulling Gatack off of his belt and de-transforming. Gatack's mandibles closed around Kagami's fingers and made chewing-like motions. "I have to deal with my Zector. He's…"
---
"Truly," said Sasword, hopping up the wreckage, "Gatack is the Zector that stands at the height of being 'bugfuck crazy'."
---
"Look," Kagami muttered, slumping against Tendou's kitchen counter, "I'm sorry about Gatack going nuts and destroying the carnival and making your sister transform into TheBee."
Tendou looked up from the tea he was making with a small smile. "Dating you is an interesting experience," was all he said.
Kagami snorted and took the cup Tendou offered him. "Shut up."
Tendou leaned back beside him. "Have you got a firm grip on him?" he asked.
Kagami looked down at Gatack, sitting docile under his hand. "As if I'd let him loose twice in one night," he said. "Why?" He watched as Tendou set Kabuto down on the counter next to Gatack, one hand covering the red beetle. "Tend-oh." He closed his eyes as Tendou kissed him.
---
"Is this an attack?" Gatack asked.
Kabuto lowered his horn and began to bang it against the counter top.
At any rate! This is Meg's request. I'll have Becky's tomorrow plus some other stuff. More Arashi and KRK, I think. (May I hopefully one day finish the Gon/Daisuke thing; I'm at -10 start at this point. I have trashed at least twenty pages of stuff for that fic already.) Enough prattle! On with the fic!
lazulisong is brilliant. And I love her very, very much. FOREVER. ♥ ♥ ♥
Prompt: Gatack's Day Out: The Zectors follow their humans around and wonder what in the hell they're even doing. And then Kagami kisses Tendou and Gatack incorrectly concludes it's fighting and tries to help.
The Dating Lives of Tiny Robotic Bugs and Other Things ZECT Never Considered
"Your human is dressing with great deliberation," Gatack said, buzzing meaningfully against the window pane.
Kabuto dipped his horn, unsurprised to see Gatack outside. Their humans had both been secreting unusual levels of adrenaline; the scent was thick in the air, as of late. "There is less of his shirt today," he said, doing a quick scan of the sleeves. "He is expecting your human."
Tendou put on a vest and a long scarf shot through with metallic threads.
"He has Cast On," Gatack observed. "There must be trouble."
"I'm not certain," Kabuto said, but Gatack had already flown down to ring the doorbell for his human.
---
Kagami was a little startled when Tendou opened the door before he could ring the bell. "Ahh, sorry for making you wait," he apologized. Tendou had to have been sitting on the door, to have answered before he'd even made it all the way up the walk.
"Grandmother said this: If you've waited, what arrives is valuable," Tendou said.
"Huh?"
Tendou smiled faintly, stepping out and closing the door behind him. "It's all right. Juka only just left herself."
Kagami shifted, feeling awkward even as he fell into step with Tendou. "I feel a little strange following her on her first date," he said.
"I don't."
"Yeah but don't you think…" Kagami trailed off as Tendou gave him a measured look. Don't you think it feels like a date for US? Kagami thought. "I hope nobody sees us," he muttered.
---
"My human is apprehensive," Gatack flared his wings. "There is trouble."
Kabuto flipped his wings, hovering. Considering. "My human is not," he flicked one wing and then the other. "They're expecting no trouble."
"Your human is always ready for trouble so it doesn't bother him," Drake said, doing a lazy loop-de-loop in the air. "There's a difference." He was trailing the grip, half curled around it in another turn.
"Why have you come?" Kabuto asked, lowering his horn a little in confusion.
Drake tumbled slowly around Gatack. "Somebody raised the alert level," he said serenely. "And Daisuke, my human male, is busy with Yuriko, my human female."
"So you're bored," said TheBee contemptibly. "That's no way for a Zector to act. Where is your sense of unity?"
Drake flipped the grip and then caught it again. "Right there."
"So you'll bring your base to anybody?" TheBee spat.
"No," said Sasword from the ground. He pointed his sting at TheBee. "You are truly the Zector who stands at the top of going to everybody."
TheBee buzzed angrily. "I go to no one!"
Gatack clicked his mandibles. "There is not time for your petty differences. The humans are leaving; we will follow and protect them without being seen."
Kabuto dipped in the air but followed Gatack anyhow. It was better than listening to Drake and TheBee squabble. "You three should stay with your humans."
"There is no human worthy of me; I have none to go to," TheBee said acidly, following closely at his back.
"Busy," Drake reminded him, doing a somersault in the air.
"My human stood at the top of being a Worm," said Sasword, trotting along.
"And he's dead," Drake added.
"Truly, he stands at the top of no longer living."
"Silence!" Gatack clicked ominously. "My human is growing more apprehensive. Trouble is near. We will go undetected to keep the element of surprise."
Kabuto dropped even lower.
---
"Tendou," Kagami hissed, "don't stare. They'll see." He sank back further into his chair, trying to hide behind the potted plant.
"If they notice anything, it'll be your fidgeting," Tendou said calmly. He lifted his wine glass, sipping and staring over the rim at the harmless high school boy who was blushing at Juka.
Kagami was pretty sure that eventually the kid was either going to notice the hole-burning glare or else drop dead. Tendou seemed like the type who could probably kill somebody with his brain. "Riiiiight," Kagami said, straightening up and putting himself between the hapless boy and Tendou's brotherly instincts. "So. Uh."
Tendou raised both eyebrows. "Hm?" His gaze slipped sideways.
"French food," Kagami said desperately scrabbling for a topic to keep Tendou's focus. "I've always wanted to try it. Real," he said quickly, "real French food, that is. Authentic."
Tendou's look shifted back to him, his face thoughtful. "I've wanted to learn."
"Oh? You like French food?"
"In order to teach them to properly prepare Japanese dishes, it's necessary to understand their current methods to see where they're going wrong."
"Well that…wait, what?" Kagami blinked. "Tendou, are you calling an entire country bad cooks?"
"Not bad, just ignorant."
Kagami put his face in his hand. "Tendou."
"Only in the area of Japanese cuisine."
He sounded amused and Kagami looked up into one of Tendou's small, happy smiles. Kagami couldn't help a little smile of his own. "How are they wrong?" he asked, honestly interested in the answer as much as he was interested in being a distraction.
---
"There is no danger," Kabuto declared. "There is food."
Gatack snapped at the leaves of the fatsia they were perched in. "My human is displaying signs of wariness. Your human is watchful."
Kabuto looked at Tendou closely. "He is not paying strict attention to your human," he allowed.
"Which is what your human does when lacking in clothing," Gatack pointed out. "And there is food here that neither your human nor the Native has cooked."
"They have eaten food away from home and the shop before," Kabuto raised his horn. "The little female is here as well. They are feeding her."
"She is away from them, with another."
"Gatack has a point," Drake drifted over. "Daisuke sits with Yuriko when he feeds her. And he brings her to the place marked with the yellow 'M'."
TheBee skimmed sullenly overhead. "When I was with humans, they ate together as a group. They only separated into smaller groups to face the Worm."
Sasword clambered up the earthenware pot. "Jiiya said this: the appearance of the thing is sometimes the same as the thing itself."
"I do not understand that significance," Kabuto turned to face Sasword fully. "What do you mean?"
Sasword flicked his tail. "I stand at the top of agreeing with the others in sensing danger."
"They have ordered sweets," Gatack interrupted. "Highly out of the ordinary."
Kabuto looked at the humans. "I…has my human just offered to feed yours?"
"Yes. My human has acquired a red flush in the face. An obvious signal of anger. There is trouble."
---
Kagami surreptitiously sipped at the cool afternoon air as he and Tendou left the restaurant, following a block behind Juka and her date.
"Mouth still 'a little warm'?" Tendou sounded smug.
"Yes," Kagami said defiantly. "Whoever heard of putting habanero peppers in cake? And what was the big idea stuffing that in my mouth?"
"You ordered it," Tendou pointed out reasonably. His hands were tucked into his back pockets as they strolled and Kagami couldn't quite look away from the relaxed posture. "It would have been wasteful and insulting to not eat it."
"Yeah, well," he smiled a little ruefully as Tendou glanced at him, "I thought it was devil's food cake, just plain chocolate."
Tendou smiled and there was something in it that was amused and so content that Kagami felt his cheeks heat up again, with no cake to blame for it. "Surprisingly, you were right, however," Tendou said.
Kagami blinked, a little lost. "What?"
"It did go well with the wine."
Kagami couldn't help laughing along with Tendou's quiet chuckle.
---
"What is this place?" Gatack demanded, spinning in the air.
The early-evening air was full of loud sounds: music, machinery, human shrieking. There were flashing lights everywhere, too, and there were small vehicles moving at dizzying paces.
Kabuto went to Gatack's side, ruffling his wings. "I do not know."
"I know this place," Drake said, catching and tossing his grip. "Daisuke was here the other night."
"Did I not say danger?" Gatack challenged. "Drake's human has investigated as well."
"Well." Drake tossed his grip again. "He was here with Yuriko."
"She is his partner," TheBee caught Drake's grip and then threw it at him. "The time when he didn't have her help, he was nearly killed. Of course he would bring her."
"Truly, she is the human who stands at the top of protecting Drake's human," Sasword opined. "There are odd-looking humans in this place."
"Bad mimics," TheBee sniffed.
"They don't read like Worm," Kabuto said, scanning the crowd. "Temperature signatures are normal."
"A new species," Gatack announced dismissively.
Before Kabuto could disagree, Drake suddenly shot up in the air. "Daisuke and Yuriko are here."
Sasword scuttled up a cable. "The new Worm have put something on her head," he reported. "It is my noblesse oblige to serve her."
TheBee swarmed up to Drake's level. "Kabuto's human female has something similar on her."
Kabuto dodged Gatack's pincers. "My human is calm."
"The new Worm are approaching," Gatack said, bristling. "Why is your human pushing mine into their hands?"
---
"Tendou," Kagami swiped at balloon hat the midway clown had placed on his head, sighing as Tendou somehow held it fast in place.
"It suits you," Tendou said, handing Kagami a cone of cotton candy. "It's…cute."
Kagami rubbed the back of his neck. "Shut up," he muttered darkly. "Juka is definitely going to notice me in this thing," he said to change the subject.
"She's too busy saying hello to Yuriko."
"Tendou...?" Kagami muttered, backing away. Yuriko had obviously seen them and Daisuke had lifted a hand to wave. They were in imminent danger of being found out through no fault of their own.
"In here," Tendou said, shoving Kagami into a Ferris wheel gondola.
Kagami risked a peek over his shoulder at the midway. "I don't see her," he said. "Maybe she missed us."
"Hi, Oniichan! Hi, Kagami-san!" Juka said brightly. "What are you doing here?"
Juka's date shuffled in shyly, ducking his head politely as the ride operator closed the door behind him.
"Uh…" said Kagami. He wasn't sure if the jerk in his belly was fear or the ride lifting into motion. "We're…" he shot a look at Tendou. Tendou was standing there with his arms folded. "On a date," he said. Your date, he thought. "Of our own," he lied.
"Really?" Juka's whole face glowed as she smiled. "You and Oniichan are here on a date?"
Tendou was looking at him blankly, arms loosening as he stared.
"Yup," Kagami said. He slung his arm around Tendou's shoulders. "Date. It's a date. We planned it weeks ago."
"Weeks ago?" Juka cocked her head, looking cutely confused. "Oniichan never mentioned it."
Tendou said nothing.
"Uh," said Kagami. "Well. We…wanted to keep it a secret."
"How long have you been going out?" Juka seemed thrilled. "Secretly." Her dimples flashed as she grinned.
"Juka," Tendou began sternly.
---
"My human reeks of fear," Gatack announced, speeding toward the top of the circular structure that was carrying their humans. "I am going to him."
"Wait!" Kabuto darted after him. "You haven't been called!"
---
Kagami grabbed Tendou by the collar. Tendou could explain away his presence by being the protective older brother he was but Kagami had no way of defending himself aside from saying 'Tendou made me do it'. Which was pathetic any way he looked at it.
"She already knows," he said desperately. "No point in hiding it now."
Tendou put his hands over Kagami's, pushing them away. "Kagami," he said.
So Kagami kissed him.
---
"Attack!" Gatack shrieked, diving at the gondola.
"Oh hell," Kabuto dived after him.
---
"Ouch!" Kagami jerked as the gondola windows exploded in a shower of glass. He pulled away from Tendou, touching his throbbing lower lip. He pulled his fingers back, wet with blood. "I think you bit me."
"Watch out," Tendou told him, putting a hand on top of his head and shoving him down.
---
"Gatack, wait!" Kabuto managed to get between Gatack and the humans a split second before Gatack could clamp on to his human's head.
"I smell the blood of my human!" Gatack roared. "I will destroy your human and devour his bones! I will lay his head at the feet of my human as a trophy!"
"Just wait," Kabuto said again. He tried to angle himself so that he could reach his human's belt.
"Hey, need help?" Drake asked, floating in through the shattered remains of the window. He settled his grip in the nearest slackly open hand.
---
"What am I supposed to do with this?" Juka's date asked, staring at the robotic dragonfly and the perch in his hand.
"Henshin?" Juka suggested.
---
"I will lay waste to him for you," Gatack said clutching Kagami's arm with his mandibles.
---
"You know," said Daisuke, reaching down into the gondola to help Juka out of it, "you look good as TheBee. Your beauty as a Rider is like a…like the…"
"Golden flower of destiny?" Yuriko offered. "Watch out for the hot oil. The Ferris Wheel didn't stop until it ran over a takoyaki stand and a teppanyaki dango cart.
"Can you get Drake off of her date?" Kagami groaned, pulling Gatack off of his belt and de-transforming. Gatack's mandibles closed around Kagami's fingers and made chewing-like motions. "I have to deal with my Zector. He's…"
---
"Truly," said Sasword, hopping up the wreckage, "Gatack is the Zector that stands at the height of being 'bugfuck crazy'."
---
"Look," Kagami muttered, slumping against Tendou's kitchen counter, "I'm sorry about Gatack going nuts and destroying the carnival and making your sister transform into TheBee."
Tendou looked up from the tea he was making with a small smile. "Dating you is an interesting experience," was all he said.
Kagami snorted and took the cup Tendou offered him. "Shut up."
Tendou leaned back beside him. "Have you got a firm grip on him?" he asked.
Kagami looked down at Gatack, sitting docile under his hand. "As if I'd let him loose twice in one night," he said. "Why?" He watched as Tendou set Kabuto down on the counter next to Gatack, one hand covering the red beetle. "Tend-oh." He closed his eyes as Tendou kissed him.
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"Is this an attack?" Gatack asked.
Kabuto lowered his horn and began to bang it against the counter top.