Issues: The Beginning, Ch22
Title: Issues: The Beginning, Ch21
Fandom: Issues
Characters/pairings: Ensemble
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A group of college students find a way to travel to other worlds.
Warnings: Mary-Sue self insert with bad characterizations.
Notes: Old writing, from waaaaay back in the day, in it's mostly original format (very minor corrections may have been made)
o o o
Missy nervously scratched the back of her head, not letting the door open any further. “Um….well….ah….” She stalled, wracking her mind for something, anything to say. The three women in front of her were good friends of theirs, Teri having met them in high school. Tall, capable Alisha, a screenwriter; short, peppy Ainslee who worked for the travel bureau as a translator; and energetic, expressive Lorin who was an actor and playwright. Missy had forgotten they would be visiting over the holidays.
Lorin stuck her hands on her hips. “You gonna let us in? Or are we going to stand out here all night?”
“Would that be a problem?”
“What the heck, Missy?” Ainslee said. “What crawled up your butt?”
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
“Try us.”
“Hey, is that them?” Teri asked from inside the room.
“Hey, Teri, what’s up?” Alisha asked, craning her neck to see over Missy’s head and failing. She was too tall. “Can we come in?”
“Um…ah…no.”
“What the fack?” Ainslee sputtered. “Are you going to leave us out here?”
“Maaaaaybeeeeee.”
“You guys!” Lorin snapped. “What the hell is going on?”
“I’m telling you, you wouldn’t believe it.”
“You-” Alisha started, then broke off. Tasuki and Nuriko were peering under Missy’s arm curiously. Tasuki waved when the three women in the hall stared at them. Suddenly, Ace and both Trunks’ were hovering over Missy’s head, Ace grinning, the Trunks’ wondering what all the commotion was about. Missy looked down, then up. Then she muttered something about idiots.
“Excuse me a moment.” Teri said. The Trunks and Ace were suddenly hauled back into the room. Missy grabbed Tasuki and Nuriko and dragged them back in. The door slammed shut and the three in the hall could hear something quickly babbled in Japanese. Then the door opened again to reveal an exasperated Keeren.
“I apologize,” she said “For the stupidity of our new friends. Please, enter our dungeon.”
o o o
The old-fashioned trolley was packed with people of all types. The back four seats were taken up by two dazzled seishi who ogled out the windows in shock, two curious demi-Saiya-jin who kept sending each other blue-eyed glares, three twitchy young women who sent the two seishi awestruck looks and one nervous Renee who was firmly convinced that this was a bad idea. The very back of the trolley, a small balcony-type thing outside the main part of the vehicle, was stuffed full of Teri, Missy, Keeren and Ace, all of whom were singing Christmas carols at the top of their lungs as the trolley traveled the streets of the city. When the carols ran out, they began on Metallica.
Tasuki and Nuriko watched as decorated stores slid past, the fronts bright with fake holly and pine and blinking lights in a hundred colors, their eyes as wide as children‘s on Christmas morning. “Sugoi…” Nuriko breathed, his breath misting the glass window. “It’s so bright and wonderful.”
“Like the Star festival.” Tasuki added softly.
Mirai no Trunks leaned forward to speak with Renee and Ainslee in the seat before him. “So, do we just stay on this thing and ride around?” He asked.
Ainslee squeaked slightly then found herself again. “N-no, we get off eventually.” She said. “We walk around and shop and see the sights and freeze our butts off.” She shrugged nervously. “Generally fun.”
“Ah…..I see.”
The trolley came to a stop at a curb and the door to the back opened. Teri, Keeren, Missy and Ace filed out, grinning, cheeks red with cold. “C’mon, guys.” Missy said, tugging on Tasuki’s sleeve. “We’re gonna walk for a while.” She leaned over and pulled Nuriko away from the window, managing to get the two seishi away from the sights long enough to get them off the trolley.
The seishi spent the next hour and a half in wide-eyed awe, craning their necks to catch every detail of the city they could. People gave the large group many weird stares as they went by, babbling in a mix of Japanese and English and laughing and staring and bickering and generally enjoying themselves. The end of the one and a half hours found them all sitting around a picnic table in a near-deserted park, shivering and sipping cocoa or cider.
“This place reminds me a lot of my world.” Gt Trunks said, sipping his cocoa. “During the end of year festival, we’d have every city lit up like this.”
“My world gets lit up on the Day of Life.” Mirai Trunks said, not looking up. “The anniversary of the day the Androids were killed. Everyone celebrates and I have to sit there and grin and bear it while everyone rambles on about how I killed them and why I’m a hero.”
“We have to deal with that.” Tasuki said. “Someone sees us go by, they automatically bow an’ scrape an’ offer to buy us a horse so we don’t have t’ walk.”
Nuriko laughed. “’Konichi-wa, Tasuki-sama!’ ‘Won’t you have a drink, Nuriko-sama? On the house!’ ‘ Please put your blessing on my child, Chichiri-sama!’ ‘ Can I have your autograph, Mitsukake-sama?’” Everyone laughed.
“Legolas deals with the same thing.” Teri added. She noticed the confused looks from the seishi and Saiya-jin and waved her hand. “Oh, you guys don’t know him, but he helped save his world, too.” Lorin, Alisha and Ainslee’s jaws all dropped and Teri grinned. “That was the first place we went.”
“Teri, when we get back,” Alisha said. ‘We will have a little ‘chat’ about this travel stuff.”
Missy grinned. “It ain’t as easy as y’ think. Major headaches involved.”
Ainslee opened her mouth to comment, but was interrupted by fireworks going off almost directly overhead. They now realized why the park was almost deserted. “Ooooh, pretties!” Ace said, leaning back to watch.
Gt Trunks was watching the show above like the others, when he felt a shiver that wasn’t his own. He turned to his left, where Keeren was rubbing her arms through her coat, which was large but rather thin. He leaned over to her. “Cold?” he asked.
“A bit.” Keeren admitted.
Gt watched her for a moment, then shrugged out of his coat, which was quite a bit thicker. “Here.” he said, handing it to her. “Trade me.”
“Are you nuts?” Keeren hissed.
“I can keep myself warm.” He replied. “Take it.”
Keeren frowned, but wasn’t about to argue with someone who could fly at sub-sonic speed, so she slid her own coat from her shoulders and handed it to the Saiya-jin. Trunks pulled it on and zipped it as Keeren settled into his. It smelled male and warm and had a strange spicy scent that she didn’t recognize. “Th-thank you.” She said softly, blushing. Trunks smiled and turned his attentions back to the colored show above their heads.
o o o
“Did you see her face?”
“Shut up, Ainslee.”
“Awww, widdle-Keeren-poo has a widdle crush.”
“Teri, if you don’t stop right no-”
“Wookit, she’s blushin’”
“That’s IT!”
There was a loud roar and a shriek as Keeren promptly launched herself at Missy with a full-throated battle cry. The chair Missy was sitting in fell over with a thud and a crack as the two attempted to bite each other’s fingers off.
Ainslee, Lorin, Alisha, Renee and Teri were all sitting in various places, laughing themselves to tears. Keeren finished her impromptu pummeling of her friend and sat on the couch, crossing her arms and sulking into the collar of Trunks’ coat; which he had insisted on her keeping if he could keep hers. It had been ten minutes since he had left and her face was still tomato red. Her friend’s teasing didn’t help in the least.
“Aww, come on, Keeren.” Alisha said, sitting beside the younger woman. “Don’t get so uptight about it.”
“Oh bite me, all of you.” Keeren pouted. She let out a shriek as Alisha and Ainslee each sunk their teeth into her shoulders. A second later she had Lorin latched onto her arm, Missy and Renee on one leg and Teri on the other. None of the bites were hard enough to cause damage, or even really hurt, but Keeren ignored these facts and bolted from her seat, knocking Teri over and dragging Lorin off the couch and into Missy’s lap in the process.
“All of you people suck!” Keeren growled, kicking off her shoes and climbing into her bed, which used to be where Teri slept on the top bunk. She crawled under the covers and curled up, her back to the general population of the room, still wearing Trunks‘ coat.
Ainslee sat back, then looked down at Teri at her feet. “Now…what was this about Legolas?”
Fandom: Issues
Characters/pairings: Ensemble
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A group of college students find a way to travel to other worlds.
Warnings: Mary-Sue self insert with bad characterizations.
Notes: Old writing, from waaaaay back in the day, in it's mostly original format (very minor corrections may have been made)
o o o
Missy nervously scratched the back of her head, not letting the door open any further. “Um….well….ah….” She stalled, wracking her mind for something, anything to say. The three women in front of her were good friends of theirs, Teri having met them in high school. Tall, capable Alisha, a screenwriter; short, peppy Ainslee who worked for the travel bureau as a translator; and energetic, expressive Lorin who was an actor and playwright. Missy had forgotten they would be visiting over the holidays.
Lorin stuck her hands on her hips. “You gonna let us in? Or are we going to stand out here all night?”
“Would that be a problem?”
“What the heck, Missy?” Ainslee said. “What crawled up your butt?”
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
“Try us.”
“Hey, is that them?” Teri asked from inside the room.
“Hey, Teri, what’s up?” Alisha asked, craning her neck to see over Missy’s head and failing. She was too tall. “Can we come in?”
“Um…ah…no.”
“What the fack?” Ainslee sputtered. “Are you going to leave us out here?”
“Maaaaaybeeeeee.”
“You guys!” Lorin snapped. “What the hell is going on?”
“I’m telling you, you wouldn’t believe it.”
“You-” Alisha started, then broke off. Tasuki and Nuriko were peering under Missy’s arm curiously. Tasuki waved when the three women in the hall stared at them. Suddenly, Ace and both Trunks’ were hovering over Missy’s head, Ace grinning, the Trunks’ wondering what all the commotion was about. Missy looked down, then up. Then she muttered something about idiots.
“Excuse me a moment.” Teri said. The Trunks and Ace were suddenly hauled back into the room. Missy grabbed Tasuki and Nuriko and dragged them back in. The door slammed shut and the three in the hall could hear something quickly babbled in Japanese. Then the door opened again to reveal an exasperated Keeren.
“I apologize,” she said “For the stupidity of our new friends. Please, enter our dungeon.”
o o o
The old-fashioned trolley was packed with people of all types. The back four seats were taken up by two dazzled seishi who ogled out the windows in shock, two curious demi-Saiya-jin who kept sending each other blue-eyed glares, three twitchy young women who sent the two seishi awestruck looks and one nervous Renee who was firmly convinced that this was a bad idea. The very back of the trolley, a small balcony-type thing outside the main part of the vehicle, was stuffed full of Teri, Missy, Keeren and Ace, all of whom were singing Christmas carols at the top of their lungs as the trolley traveled the streets of the city. When the carols ran out, they began on Metallica.
Tasuki and Nuriko watched as decorated stores slid past, the fronts bright with fake holly and pine and blinking lights in a hundred colors, their eyes as wide as children‘s on Christmas morning. “Sugoi…” Nuriko breathed, his breath misting the glass window. “It’s so bright and wonderful.”
“Like the Star festival.” Tasuki added softly.
Mirai no Trunks leaned forward to speak with Renee and Ainslee in the seat before him. “So, do we just stay on this thing and ride around?” He asked.
Ainslee squeaked slightly then found herself again. “N-no, we get off eventually.” She said. “We walk around and shop and see the sights and freeze our butts off.” She shrugged nervously. “Generally fun.”
“Ah…..I see.”
The trolley came to a stop at a curb and the door to the back opened. Teri, Keeren, Missy and Ace filed out, grinning, cheeks red with cold. “C’mon, guys.” Missy said, tugging on Tasuki’s sleeve. “We’re gonna walk for a while.” She leaned over and pulled Nuriko away from the window, managing to get the two seishi away from the sights long enough to get them off the trolley.
The seishi spent the next hour and a half in wide-eyed awe, craning their necks to catch every detail of the city they could. People gave the large group many weird stares as they went by, babbling in a mix of Japanese and English and laughing and staring and bickering and generally enjoying themselves. The end of the one and a half hours found them all sitting around a picnic table in a near-deserted park, shivering and sipping cocoa or cider.
“This place reminds me a lot of my world.” Gt Trunks said, sipping his cocoa. “During the end of year festival, we’d have every city lit up like this.”
“My world gets lit up on the Day of Life.” Mirai Trunks said, not looking up. “The anniversary of the day the Androids were killed. Everyone celebrates and I have to sit there and grin and bear it while everyone rambles on about how I killed them and why I’m a hero.”
“We have to deal with that.” Tasuki said. “Someone sees us go by, they automatically bow an’ scrape an’ offer to buy us a horse so we don’t have t’ walk.”
Nuriko laughed. “’Konichi-wa, Tasuki-sama!’ ‘Won’t you have a drink, Nuriko-sama? On the house!’ ‘ Please put your blessing on my child, Chichiri-sama!’ ‘ Can I have your autograph, Mitsukake-sama?’” Everyone laughed.
“Legolas deals with the same thing.” Teri added. She noticed the confused looks from the seishi and Saiya-jin and waved her hand. “Oh, you guys don’t know him, but he helped save his world, too.” Lorin, Alisha and Ainslee’s jaws all dropped and Teri grinned. “That was the first place we went.”
“Teri, when we get back,” Alisha said. ‘We will have a little ‘chat’ about this travel stuff.”
Missy grinned. “It ain’t as easy as y’ think. Major headaches involved.”
Ainslee opened her mouth to comment, but was interrupted by fireworks going off almost directly overhead. They now realized why the park was almost deserted. “Ooooh, pretties!” Ace said, leaning back to watch.
Gt Trunks was watching the show above like the others, when he felt a shiver that wasn’t his own. He turned to his left, where Keeren was rubbing her arms through her coat, which was large but rather thin. He leaned over to her. “Cold?” he asked.
“A bit.” Keeren admitted.
Gt watched her for a moment, then shrugged out of his coat, which was quite a bit thicker. “Here.” he said, handing it to her. “Trade me.”
“Are you nuts?” Keeren hissed.
“I can keep myself warm.” He replied. “Take it.”
Keeren frowned, but wasn’t about to argue with someone who could fly at sub-sonic speed, so she slid her own coat from her shoulders and handed it to the Saiya-jin. Trunks pulled it on and zipped it as Keeren settled into his. It smelled male and warm and had a strange spicy scent that she didn’t recognize. “Th-thank you.” She said softly, blushing. Trunks smiled and turned his attentions back to the colored show above their heads.
o o o
“Did you see her face?”
“Shut up, Ainslee.”
“Awww, widdle-Keeren-poo has a widdle crush.”
“Teri, if you don’t stop right no-”
“Wookit, she’s blushin’”
“That’s IT!”
There was a loud roar and a shriek as Keeren promptly launched herself at Missy with a full-throated battle cry. The chair Missy was sitting in fell over with a thud and a crack as the two attempted to bite each other’s fingers off.
Ainslee, Lorin, Alisha, Renee and Teri were all sitting in various places, laughing themselves to tears. Keeren finished her impromptu pummeling of her friend and sat on the couch, crossing her arms and sulking into the collar of Trunks’ coat; which he had insisted on her keeping if he could keep hers. It had been ten minutes since he had left and her face was still tomato red. Her friend’s teasing didn’t help in the least.
“Aww, come on, Keeren.” Alisha said, sitting beside the younger woman. “Don’t get so uptight about it.”
“Oh bite me, all of you.” Keeren pouted. She let out a shriek as Alisha and Ainslee each sunk their teeth into her shoulders. A second later she had Lorin latched onto her arm, Missy and Renee on one leg and Teri on the other. None of the bites were hard enough to cause damage, or even really hurt, but Keeren ignored these facts and bolted from her seat, knocking Teri over and dragging Lorin off the couch and into Missy’s lap in the process.
“All of you people suck!” Keeren growled, kicking off her shoes and climbing into her bed, which used to be where Teri slept on the top bunk. She crawled under the covers and curled up, her back to the general population of the room, still wearing Trunks‘ coat.
Ainslee sat back, then looked down at Teri at her feet. “Now…what was this about Legolas?”