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Post by Crazyrabidpony on Apr 22, 2009 16:55:49 GMT -5
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Post by Samin Edogawa on Apr 22, 2009 16:57:40 GMT -5
Like a ninja! YUS >D |
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Post by Samin Edogawa on Apr 22, 2009 16:58:31 GMT -5
THIRD CHAPTER C:
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As the sun rose outside of the facility, Samin awoke, and started to yawn. She stretched herself thoroughly before standing up. Judging by her calm expression, and generally cheerful appearance, she seemed to have completely forgotten about what had happened the morning before this. But that might have been due to the fact that she had her mind on other things at the moment, like the questioning Dr. Cockroach needed to do, so that he would know basic information about Charles and herself. She was also thinking about how she would be able to keep Charles from attacking the other monsters in the facility. She didn’t want an incident like what had happened the day before to happen again. She sighed, remembering how scared Dr. Cockroach was when Charles attacked him. For one, it was a complete surprise, and for another, it was really early in the morning. Anyone would have been feeling off, or a bit slow. But Samin felt generally sorry for Dr. Cockroach, since he only wanted to comfort her out of her fear, and Charles attacked him, probably thinking that the doctor was about to attack. Samin blamed herself a bit, for being so scared, and making Charles think that the doctor was a threat.
She grew a bit frightened, as she didn’t know whether or not she would be able to face the doctor. As her worry grew, so did wings, on her back. As she realized that her wings had appeared again, she nearly cursed. She put a hand to her forehead in frustration.~Just great… Another god darn outfit… Ruined because I can’t control these wings!~ She thought inside her head. She decided to turn around, and perhaps check the damage. But she was surprised to see that there were no holes at all in her clothing, and that she was wearing different clothing. “Someone must’ve dressed me in these, I guess…” She mumbled to herself. While she wasn’t paying any attention to her wings, they started to flap a little. She didn’t realize that she was flying a foot from the ground, and saw that the door to the main room had opened, almost fully now. She shot out of her cell with great speed, and proceeded to fly a little more around the room. As she attempted to land, her footing caught, and she was propelled to the ground, her face hitting the gray floor. The wings disappeared after she landed, and she started trying to get up. She started laughing softly a bit as well, coughing in between her laughter. She stopped her laughing as she heard footsteps, immediately assuming that she had woken some of the others up. When she looked up, she breathed a sigh of relief as it was Charles. She was glad it wasn’t either B.O.B or the Missing Link, since they would probably have pestered her with questions, like if she had a crush on the doctor or not. She was not ready to answer any of those types of questions, and she had never been ready in all her years. She decided to speak quietly, and in a different language. “Good morning! How did you sleep, oniisan?” She asked, using the honorific of ‘older brother’, since Charles was like a brother to her. “Perfectly alright, Samin-dono…” He replied, basically saying that she was his master. She shot him a look, and hissed something in English. “Please, don’t call me that! I’m not your master!” She said it rather sharply, which Charles just nodded at. Samin blushed a little. “You know that you don’t have to be my protector at all. You chose it, and I didn’t want you to die for me.” She sighed, with a little pout. Charles chuckled at her. “We’re going to be questioned today, Samin…” He smirked at her unhappy face. “Please, don’t remind me…” As she spoke, she turned to see B.O.B and Susan coming out of their cells.
Susan mumbled a ‘good morning,’ and acted just like she had the morning before. Susan noticed Samin and Charles chatting, and assumed that they were either mates, or just really good friends. She smiled at the thought, and kept it in mind. Susan sat herself at the large table, like before. Samin sighed, as she realized that it would probably continue to be like this every day. But each day just had to hold something special in it, right? Link jumped out of his cell, and padded over to where the other four monsters seemed to be. Dr. Cockroach was still fast asleep. He needed rest, since he had been up very early the day before, and had finished his invention at last. Samin smiled at him, and gave him a wave. “Good morning. It was Dr. Cockroach, right?” She said to him, trying to remember his name as she spoke. She had gotten a whole tour of the facility during the afternoon, when she felt well enough, of course. “Good Morning, my dear! May I ask you two a couple of questions before our breakfast appears?” With the first sentence, Samin noted that he seemed fully awake, and in a wonderful mood. The doctor spoke with a smooth, comforting British accent. Samin looked at him and nodded. “O-Of course, Doctor Cockroach!” She stuttered at the first word, but managed not to stutter in the rest of the sentence. When the Doctor looked toward Charles expectantly, Charles just nodded his head. Dr. Cockroach smiled, leading Samin and Charles to two chairs, lined up next to each other.
Dr. Cockroach took a small clipboard, and turned to Samin and Charles. “So, for this to work… I will ask you two a series of a few questions. Samin, you’ll answer first, and then Charles, you may answer after she finishes. I’ll also pause if you need me to.” The two monsters nodded in unison. Charles seemed distant, while Samin was alert and attentive. “First question,” the doctor paused then began, “Where were you born?” He asked the basic question first, even though it may not have had any relevance whatsoever to what he was attempting. Samin looked at him, and began. “I was born in Wales, United Kingdom, March 10th, about 23-24 years ago.” Dr. Cockroach blinked in confusion at the thoroughness of the answer, seeing as most would just tell him the general location of where they were born. Now, the Doctor looked toward Charles. Charles had a blank expression on his face as he began. “I was born in Poland. August 12th.” He spoke clearly, not a crack in his wording. Dr. Cockroach nodded at Charles, and read the clipboard. “Second question,” a pause, “How long have you had powers, or been a ‘monster’?” Samin looked down, obviously a bit shy, not knowing whether to lie, or to just tell the truth. “Well, I have had a supernatural ability for about two years now…” She sighed, half-heartedly. The doctor looked again to Charles. “I have had supernatural abilities since I was born. My mother was what you call a ‘monster’, and my father is a normal human.” It surprised the doctor more that he went into such detail, stating why he had had powers his whole life. Since Dr. Cockroach knew how Charles had gotten his powers, he turned to Samin, with a question directed at her. “Samin, how did you get these powers of yours?” Charles looked back up, straight into Dr. Cockroach’s eyes. “I’ll answer for her… Because I gave her the powers. I bit her about two years ago… She started developing abilities like what an owl has. Her powers were modified for a human, so that she would have normal hearing, and such.” Dr. Cockroach blinked in surprise again. He nodded, thinking it best to move onto the next question. “Third question,” another small pause, “Exactly what powers do you really possess?” That was what Dr. Cockroach was really interested in. Samin began to contemplate how to answer the question.
“Well, as Charles said, I have some of the abilities of an owl. I can generate small to large sized barriers, to perhaps shield others as well as myself. It gets weaker as it grows in size, though…” She pondered how to describe lasers. “I am able to launch, or shoot, green or red lasers from my mouth…” Dr. Cockroach raised an eyebrow. “The lasers are kind of used as distractions…” She breathed deeply, and continued. “I can perform simple first-aid on everyone,” With that, she finished talking. After a second of trying to comprehend what she had just said, Dr. Cockroach turned, and nodded to Charles. Charles began slowly. “I can transform into a very dog-like creature, and I have basically superhuman strength. I guess that’s really it, then.” His expression was unreadable at the point. Dr. Cockroach looked up, and nodded at the monsters. “Almost finished then.” He said, frantically scrabbling at his clipboard.Samin relaxed in her chair, and then got up as Dr. Cockroach freed them. Just in time, too, for Link’s food had just appeared, along with Dr. Cockroach’s. Samin pulled Charles over to the table, and sat him down. B.O.B was at the table as well, eating what ever he could find again.
Samin’s meal came soon enough… An omelet. She smiled cheerfully. “I haven’t eaten one of these in ages! Isn’t this great, Charles?” She squeaked happily, stuffing a large bite of it into her mouth. Link was eating his fish, and as usual, Dr. Cockroach was shuddering in disgust, then starting to eat his pile of trash. B.O.B was given his usual ham, and he dissolved it in an instant, it seemed. Charles picked at his omelet. He didn’t really feel very comfortable at all… Samin then patted his back, and urged him to eat his meal. “So… What’s new for today? Did you all have a good night’s rest?” Susan piped up, taking a small spoonful of oatmeal into her mouth. Most of the group nodded. The only one who didn’t nod, was B.O.B. He was too occupied, cooing to his gelatin as usual, and not paying the least bit of attention to much else. Dr. Cockroach and Link both smiled, going back to their meals.
Link chuckled a little. “I hope it’ll be a fun day.” He commented. B.O.B was now paying attention, which was apparent as he commented. “Nothing fun is going to happen, though! Nothing EVER happens.” B.O.B stated, which was odd for him to state something like that, for he had no brain at all. That made Susan sigh. “Can’t we look on the bright side of things? Something may very well happen, and no one will notice.” Samin smiled at that comment, and looked up from her plate. “Optimism is always a good thing.” She shrugged, and smiled again.
After everyone had finished their meals, they went off to do their own things, both individual and groupings.
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Post by Crazyrabidpony on Apr 22, 2009 17:01:53 GMT -5
Good chapter, Samin-kins! ^^
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Post by Samin Edogawa on Apr 22, 2009 17:03:13 GMT -5
Good chapter, Samin-kins! ^^ C: THANKIES  I have up to chapter four all typed out so, here: 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o B.O.B had been correct. Nothing really happened that day… Not to mention that week. The days dragged on, increasing the boredom with each new day. It was all ironic, really. Monger didn’t visit much, there weren’t any big scares or invasions. The group of monsters sat around that day, contemplating what they could do about the level of inactivity. Dr. Cockroach fiddled with one of his inventions , scratching his head and sighing. It wasn’t only the boredom, it was the sudden heat wave from inside the facility. Monger said it was just a malfunction, but the monsters were annoyed with how hot it was still. Link liked the heat, but no one else found it relaxing. Susan finally just broke out in a loud sigh, sounding more or less like a grunt of distress. She ran a hand through her silver-white hair, and wiped sweat off of her brow. “How much longer can we stay like this?” She commented. The other monsters looked up to Susan in confusion. “What do you mean, my dear?” Dr. Cockroach asked, looking up from his project, and turning towards her. She looked at the doctor with a stern looked, which seemed to be veering toward aggravation. “All of this waiting! There HAS to be a problem somewhere! Anywhere! This boredom is tedious, along with this intense heat!” She spoke with great gusto, which was also described as ranting. “Ah, don’t worry. It’s only been a week, my dear. I think something may come up in a day or two.” He tried to comfort her. Charles sighed, and shrugged. “If you say that, something’ll probably come up today or something.” He commented, addressing Dr. Cockroach. The doctor turned and nodded toward Charles. “You’re absolutely right. That’s some good spirit there, thinking like that.” Samin looked up then, from the book she had been reading. She hadn’t really been paying attention until Charles spoke up. True, she was bored, but she was perfectly happy with a good book. She sighed, putting a bookmark where she left off, and shut the book. “It’s also about irony, I guess. If we already knew that something was going to happen, it wouldn’t be ironic for us to talk about it, and have the general report it to us. It would be ironic if the general came into the room and reported something right after we had finished talking about the subject.” She offered her suggestions. Link just stared at her. “Is she as quacky as Dr. Cockroach?” Link said to himself, still confused. They spoke similarly, with knowledge to back up what each of them said. That was what confused Link to no end. How could a female know that much? His education on females was that they basically knew near to nothing, since he really only knew one female before. He had been locked up for 50 years though, and he lived with only men for a while. It was tough to adjust to meeting a woman like Susan, since he hadn’t seen one for over 50 years. Was he going to have to educate himself on women again? He hoped not. He was content with what he knew about them, which in reality, was near to nothing. B.O.B didn’t really comprehend what they had been saying anyways. The words basically went right over his head. That was the only problem with having no brain. Well, there were a couple, actually. But he decided to stick to telling jokes to his gelatin. Link watched B.O.B talk to the desert as if it were a human being, and rolled his eyes, cursing under his breath. ~That god darn gelatin… It gets on my nerves so much…~ Link thought, frustrated that B.O.B didn’t get that the gelatin was not human. Nor did it show any type of affection for him. Just as he was about to get up, Link realized what he was about to do, and decided not to. He sighed, and sat down then. Dr. Cockroach raised an eyebrow as he turned toward Link to check on him. He knew that the boredom was taking a toll on the fish-ape, and he generally felt bad, as he watched Link nearly snap. He sighed, and looked back to Susan. “You shouldn’t worry, my dear. It’ll be fine, really!” He comforted her, smiling brightly with his big, lovable eyes sparkling. That was when Monger flew in on his jetpack. What a relief for them, huh? Monger landed, walking over to them, and eying Charles. Charles gave him a blank stare, and Monger raised his brow. “Monsters, we have another problem!” His voice boomed throughout the room. He really didn’t have to speak that loud… He was just accustomed to yelling like that people would assume. But nonetheless, the monsters were excited. They could’ve jumped on Monger for they were all so happy. Susan was first to speak up. “What is it, General?” She spoke with much urgency. The general looked at all the monsters in the room. “Susan, you’ll be going to the city with Dr. Cockroach, Link, and B.O.B. There’s some kind of alien-like creature there. It’s been attacking the city since about noon.” He said, looking at the sheets of paper that the report was located on. Dr. Cockroach raised a brow. “But what of the new monsters? Surely, they are coming as well?” He asked, politely of course. Monger took a look at the two monsters, who looked back at him. “Well, while you go off and stop that alien, these two will be evaluated. We need to know their strengths and weaknesses, and we need to know whether they would be able to go on missions like the four of you have been doing.” He explained. Samin nodded, not really caring either way. As long as she had something to do, she was perfectly fine. Maybe she wasn’t perfectly fine if the evaluation had alligators in it, but she would manage. She couldn’t be scared enough to defend herself from an alligator, anyway. In truth, she had never seen one of them. Truly sneaky creatures, they were. She snapped her mind from even thinking of the possibilities. She looked toward Dr. Cockroach and nodded, smiling. “Have a nice time, then.” She smiled, talking softly. He looked toward her, and smiled back. “I hope you do as well, love.” He said, adding ‘love’, which he never did normally. He blinked in confusion as he said it, but Samin seemed unfazed by the word he had added. It could’ve been because she was oblivious to everything, but maybe it wasn’t. Dr. Cockroach scratched his head. He wanted to beat himself up for that, since he thought Samin noticed at all. ~Did I just say that? Why in the hell did I just add ‘love’ to that? Argh, I should have just said my dear! I think I made things worse.~ The thoughts raced through his head as if they were on fire. He sighed with relief, as he realized that Samin had been oblivious to the comment. He didn’t think Charles was too oblivious, though. He sent the doctor a cold stare that brought chills through his exoskeleton. Soon enough, Link, B.O.B, Insectosaurus, Dr. Cockroach, and Susan were sent off to check the scene out. It didn’t sound so good at the last report. Charles and Samin waved goodbye to them, and sighed. “Evaluation tests? Sounds like PE… I remember that… I hated it…” She spoke, reminiscing about her childhood. Well, it wasn’t really reminiscing when she hated thinking about it, was it? Samin sighed, as she watched them veer off in the giant ship. They had to wait for Monger to return in order for them to do the evaluation. She expected the evaluation to be like the evaluation she had many a year ago… In her gym class. Charles just didn’t want to take it, in general. Soon enough, Monger appeared, ready to evaluate the two monsters. Samin was ready by then. She had had enough time to prepare herself for the worst, which she did with great gusto. Monger seemed pleased that Samin was ready, while he was disappointed to see Charles with less energy than her. He really wasn’t acting enthusiastic, or anything. He just had the same mellow expression, like usual. 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o Far away from them, was a city in California. It seemed to be overrun by some species that was unknown, marked as an alien. The creature was facing off against Susan and Link, since Insectosaurus wasn’t there yet, B.O.B didn’t know how to help, and Dr. Cockroach was pretty much the brains of the whole thing. Dr. Cockroach fiddled with his device, clicking quickly at the buttons. He looked up at the monster, from behind Susan. “You got it, Doc?” Link said, contemplating on how he would help Susan take the beast down. “Almost…” He said, sounding as if he were struggling. “There, I’ve got,” He said as a fist drove into the ground, “it…” He jumped backwards, wanting to avoid closeness. Link was just as surprised as the doctor and Susan were, and he was about ready to charge. 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o Meanwhile, the evaluation took place. Samin jumped through ropes and lines, trying to avoid blasts of plasma guns. Charles growled lowly as one of the blasts missed her by about 3 inches. Samin sighed with relief as the blasts missed her. She wasn’t ready to dodge the next set of blasts, and she put up a barrier just in time. Monger thought carefully, and had the blasters shoot a long line of fire. The line of the blast shattered Samin’s barrier, and caught her off guard. Another blast of the gun hit her square in the shoulder. She whimpered in pain, attempting to dodge the rest. As she weaved around obstacles, dodging the blasts, her foot caught on something, and another blast hit her. This time, in the leg, under the knee. She yelped as it collided with her skin, and Charles was nearly up from the seat he took, and wanted to attack whoever was hurting the person he had promised to protect. Samin was forced to limp, and knew she couldn’t dodge another blast. She thought quickly, and collided a blast with her laser, opening her mouth wide, and activating it. This surprised Monger thoroughly, and made him smile. Maybe she was worth something. 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o Susan had attempted to chuck a car at the beast, and stunned the giant brute for a few seconds, as the beast shook its large head. She grunted in annoyance, seeing that the beast got out of the stun almost instantly. Sensing his companion’s annoyance, he decided to use soothing words. “Don’t worry, my dear. You’re doing amazing!” That was when Insectosaurus showed up, following the gigantic light, his eyes wide. He then toppled the beast over with ease, and pinned him. Susan cheered with delight and ran over to the beast, jumping on him. The giant alien had something on it’s neck, a sort of collar of some sort. Susan ripped it off, and the beast almost instantly reverted back to a normal size. Link and Dr. Cockroach cheered, as B.O.B just realized what had happened. “Well, I’ll bet the two newbies are going to be pretty darn tired when we get back.” Link chuckled, remembering about the whole ‘evaluation’ thing. 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o Samin had a hand on her shoulder, and she still had a limp in her step. She panted heavily, and used a laser on a target. The target broke into many small, plastic pieces. Now that the target portion was finished, she had to be evaluated on hand-to-hand combat. As a trainer ran at her, she blocked, and attacked with her fist. Her fist was blocked as well, and she was sweep kicked. She fell to the ground, and did a sweep kick herself. She jumped up, and started to vigorously punch the trainer, even though her right shoulder was in pain. The trainer had blocked most of the punches, and punched her head on. She blocked with her arm, grabbing his fist, and pulling his arm up to make an opening. She ran in with an elbow dash, and got into a stance. The trainer balanced himself, and then he swiftly nailed her in the stomach, bringing her to the ground, coughing and hacking. “Oww…” She whimpered, holding her stomach. The pain from her shoulder started to come back as well. “Who knew that the evaluation would be so painful…” She moaned. ---------------------------- The group was picked up by a large, gray ship, and shipped off back to the facility. Monger greeted them with a stern look. “It looks like your companion could use a little first aid, over there…” He commented, not telling them much. Link looked at Monger suspiciously. “What happened?” He said, even though he hadn’t even seen Samin. Dr. Cockroach arched a brow in suspicion also. “What did you do to her?” He said. He entered the main room, and nearly gasped in shock. Samin was sitting on a bench that hadn’t been there before he had left. Her shoulder was bandaged, and she was rubbing it as if to nurse it back to health. She had another bandage wrapped around her leg. The doctor turned back to Monger. “What in the hell did you do to the poor child?” He hissed, not bothering to be polite. He hated seeing children hurt, even children he didn’t even know. “I just evaluated her. She seemed good. Well, the boy didn’t get evaluated.” Monger stated. Susan walked over to Samin, and knelt down next to her. “Are you alright?” She asked, worriedly. To Susan, it was severe. Samin turned to Susan. “I should be fine.” She gave her a bright smile. Dr. Cockroach sighed. “What in god’s name did they do?” He asked, now walking over to Samin and Susan. Samin looked up. “They sent me through an obstacle course, and I had to dodge blasts from guns. I got hit twice.” She said. “Well, then I had to shoot targets…” She inhaled deeply. “Monger had me practice hand-to-hand combat, and I was punched in the stomach.” Dr. Cockroach didn’t believe what he was hearing. She wasn’t going to be alright! ~The poor thing looks like she was run through a gosh darn mill, for god’s sake!~ The doctor thought, putting one of his hands to just above his eyebrow. |
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Post by Crazyrabidpony on Apr 22, 2009 17:15:48 GMT -5
Another good chapter! ^^
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Post by Samin Edogawa on Apr 22, 2009 17:20:42 GMT -5
Thanks! ^____________^
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Post by DolphinLight on Apr 22, 2009 18:43:11 GMT -5
I know, he totally does! I really hope he doesn't turn out like Fenrir did at the start of Simply Complicated Dx (The novel that I've been writing. Fenrir has no heart lol) You're writing a novel! That is so awesome! I'm trying to write one too, but I get stuck sometimes.  Anyways, I liked your two new chapters! I could feel the boredom in the room when you described it! |
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Post by Samin Edogawa on Apr 22, 2009 18:47:31 GMT -5
I know, he totally does! I really hope he doesn't turn out like Fenrir did at the start of Simply Complicated Dx (The novel that I've been writing. Fenrir has no heart lol) You're writing a novel! That is so awesome! I'm trying to write one too, but I get stuck sometimes. Anyways, I liked your two new chapters! I could feel the boredom in the room when you described it! Meh... Thanks C: (I've been writing the darn thing for over a year, and only have two chapters XD) Really? I had just typed it up without any before hand planning, so I kinda rushed it XD |
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Post by DolphinLight on Apr 22, 2009 19:26:03 GMT -5
Really? I had just typed it up without any before hand planning, so I kinda rushed it XD Oh, no, it sounded great in my opinion!  |
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Post by ChiroTheDragon on Apr 22, 2009 19:25:55 GMT -5
VERY VERY GOOD!!! I like it!!! ;D Keep up the good work!!!
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Post by Samin Edogawa on May 2, 2009 18:04:34 GMT -5
Chapter 5~ The ultimate test of strength
Samin looked around dumbly. It had been early morning, at least four, and she was tired. It had been at least a month since her ‘evaluation’, and her shoulder and leg were finally healing properly. She was still a bit weak in her shoulder, but that could be inferred. She had tried to deal with the pain, with a little success. That was a specialty of hers: hiding her own pain. She was usually good with doing that, but one person was especially good at knowing when she was in pain. Charles had known her for over 10 years, and he had nearly cracked the code of her life. He knew almost everything about her. Because, when she became a monster, everybody ran in the other direction. Except him; well, he was the reason she was a monster, so that explains a lot.
Charles protected her from harm, as she wasn’t ready to protect, or shelter herself properly. After being used to protecting her so often, Charles became a little overprotective himself. He acted as more of a father than anything else more intimate. In truth, he was never really attracted to Samin at all. Quite the contrary, actually. He somewhat despised the young woman. He hated how cheerful and optimistic the child was. It was as if he thought she had the idea that she could take on the world. Yet, what he really hated about the small owl monster was her painfully shy exterior. She never fought back. She always ran. And she could care less about herself, or her wellbeing. She never stood up for herself.
Charles had bitten her, one day in the past, after watching her for quite a long time. He had the perfect plan, too. He had bitten her to hopefully help her get rid of her shy exterior and break out of her shell. He didn’t think on what would happen if she became the thing that he was, ignoring that factor, since he had been too proud of himself for coming up with the plan. He wanted to be proud of himself, since he had never really got the chance in the past. He actually wanted people to fear her more than she did the rest of the world. When the devious plan of his promptly backfired on the very schemer, he became enraged. Even hurting Samin by scratching her neck, a scar that would never go away. That was even after he had promised to protect the new monster with his life. He still regrets it, but will not show it.
The plan had backfired on the schemer how, you ask? Samin hadn’t become more independent or courageous like Charles had wanted. The poor shy girl actually became worse. She detached herself, seeing as most would run for cover when she was there. She became more frightened of everything around her, plus, the authorities would start to chase the two monsters into corners at that time. He blamed much of his misery on this unsuspecting young woman, seeing how he did kind of waste much of his ‘valuable’ time on her, trying to make her less fearful of the world.
With her newfound abilities, and powers, she did need help though. She needed help and guidance in what to do with those powers.
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Back in the present time, Charles looked up as he walked out of his cell. What he saw was Samin, wearing her glasses, and enveloped in a new book. Of course, Monger must have inferred she was a fan of reading for all the books that she had left behind when she was captured. She had requested all of her books from her bookshelf returned to her, and she had set up a sanctuary where she would select a book, come out of her cell, and grab a seat. She had also requested one new book each week, which would have been a little hard, seeing as she already had at least a library inside her own cell. When Charles looked at her more closely, he could make out the words on the front cover. It read, ‘The Taming of the Shrew.’ He rolled his eyes in annoyance. Give it to Samin to always be reading classics where the authors probably would be 100 years dead. He knew of the book she had been reading. It was written by William Shakespeare, and it was called a ‘play within a play’. He thought that was a stupid idea. Why have two plays in one?
He stifled a creepy chuckle, and advanced toward her casually. She was oblivious to his intent, as he walked closer. As he got close enough for her to hear him, and not be heard by the whole facility, as it was Five in the morning. “Samin, got a new book, I see. Haven’t you read that already?” His piercing steel blue gaze was met with clear, dark brown eyes, and a bright, cheerful smile that made Charles want to look away in anger. “Oh, good morning, Charles!” Samin spoke happily, sure to answer quietly, since it was still extremely early. “Nope, I haven’t. General Monger was careful to choose one I hadn’t had in my bookcase, or one that I had already read. I have read most of his other works, like Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet…” Charles seemed a little disappointed with her answer. “Oh,” He said halfheartedly, “well, how is it? Isn’t it really hard to understand, being in old English and all?” He was interested a little, as was shown in his voice. He wanted to make a conversation more than anything. “Oh, it’s quite easy, really. I can decipher most of Shakespeare’s writing, since I did grow up in Wales.” As Samin spoke, Charles mentally smacked himself on the forehead. He had completely forgotten she was in Wales, United Kingdom until she was around 12-15. While in Maine, or wherever he had remembered her living, she grew out of her accent, being around everyone else in the United States. She had moved to the United States to finish primary school, and to attend college.
Charles hadn’t realized how long they had been talking until most of the cell doors had opened, Susan’s still staying shut. The other monsters were walking out, when Charles made a cautious glance toward Dr. Cockroach. He looked at the doctor with intensity. He was determined in his mind that Samin had feelings for the man… Bug… Thing. He cursed in his mind as Samin waved to all the other monsters, and also spoke. “Good morning!” She spoke dumbly, in Charles’ opinion. As Dr. Cockroach looked over, he smiled and waved back saying, “Good morning, my dear!”
Charles twitched a little as Dr. Cockroach spoke, saying ‘my dear.’ [Who is he kidding? How DARE he call her ‘my dear!’ That bastard!] He clenched his fists together, as he also did his teeth. With that thought, the food had almost immediately appeared at the smaller table. The Missing Link, Dr. Cockroach, B.O.B, and Samin went toward the table. Samin eyed her vole meat with hunger. Oh, how she loved vole meat so. So rich and delicious. Too bad that Dr. Cockroach felt it was disgusting, well, before he dug into his pile of trash. Samin didn’t mind that he ate trash at all. As they sat down to eat, Dr. Cockroach eyed the predators plates with disgust, before starting to eat his own meal. Well, Link was pretty messy about eating, and so was Samin when she was hungry enough. She nearly dug into the meat, chewing the meat politely, but gulping it down like it were nothing. Charles had finally sat down to enjoy his meal. He was given a sandwich, which he personally had requested. It had tuna in it.
Susan had been up by then, enjoying her own oatmeal. Samin looked up at the giantess, and smiled warmly. Dr. Cockroach patted Samins shoulder, carefully. “Is your shoulder feeling any better?” He asked, as he rubbed it a little, easing the pain she felt earlier. Samin hid a blush, which Charles caught, making him look down. Samin nodded thankfully. “Thank you for the concern, Dr. Cockroach.” She added a weak smile, which made Dr. Cockroach pat her shoulder once more, and go back to eating, acknowledging her.
Susan smiled as she heard the two conversing. “So, Samin… What did you go to school for? I’m curious.” Susan asked, looking over to Samin. Samin looked up toward the giantess and smiled. “Thank you for asking, Susan.” She simply said before continuing. “I went to college with a major in Marine Biology, or Marine Sciences, as it is usually called. I also graduated with a major in Theater, Graphic Design, and general arts.” She smiled. Susan blinked. “Marine Biology? Why’d you choose that?” She asked sweetly. “I love sharks. That was my only reason, really. They have intrigued me since I first saw the movie JAWS.” Samin smirked playfully.
Dr. Cockroach put a hand to his chin, and gently rubbed it. “Hmmm… That is very interesting, Samin. Marine Biology, and Theater and the rest? That is a lot of studying.” He commented. “Six years of college, and a crap load of courses.” She nodded. He blinked in astonishment. “Six years? I thought college only lasted for four years!” He spoke, still blinking. “Oh, you can go for as long as you want. But I wanted to become a Marine Biologist really badly, so, I got my masters.” Dr. Cockroach finally understood, as he nodded his head. None of the others did though, especially B.O.B, who was just oblivious. She had no time to explain it at all, though. General Monger had just flown through the now open door, shouting, “Monsters! We have a problem!” And this was more urgent than most of the times that he called for them. Susan was nearly up from her table as she turned, always having the first question. “What’s up, General?” She asked, worriedly, at the tone of his voice as he told them there was a problem. The Missing Link agreed with Susan as he nodded, thinking the same question.
“It’s another robot in Times Square. Seems like a supercomputer, with sharp claws for hands. It is terrorizing the people of New York City, mainly standing in Times Square. This time, I have nothing to do with the new girl or guy, so they’ll be going along with you. Keep an eye on them, and make sure they don’t escape.” He told them, exhaling a breath as he finished. “So, you’ll be escorted like usual by government plane. Any questions? No? Good…” He said, issuing them along, and the monsters stood up, following along behind him. Samin fiddled with her fingers, and her new outfit, that had been given to her in the last month. She actually woke up, and she had been undressed, and dressed in a more suitable outfit in her sleep. She was pretty embarrassed about that. To her, the outfit had looked weird, and she thought she looked like a circus freak in it. Link had laughed hard when she had walked out with it on, in which he was promptly smacked over the head by both Susan and Dr. Cockroach.
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Dr. Cockroach was stopped and pulled over to an empty space before they boarded the plane. He looked up, to see Charles, but his eyes were intense, glaring down into the doctor’s own light brown ones. “Charles? What is it? We have to leave very soon!” He said, hiding a hint of fear of being alone with the brute. Charles just growled, and grabbed him by the scruff of the neck. The threatening hoarse noise echoing threats. “Wh-what do you want?!” Dr. Cockroach stuttered one word.
“Hmph. I want you to swear on one thing.” He said, and Dr. Cockroach nodded with confusion. “What is it?” He asked. Charles gave him another death glare. “Touch Samin, and you die.” He said, moving his hand near the cockroach man’s neck. “What? I would never- ow!” Dr. Cockroach pushed Charles off of him with a grunt. “I would never harm such a girl! Wait, you mean,” Dr. Cockroach paused for a second, realizing what Charles was saying. “I would never do anything that vulgar, and I suggest you stop assuming such horrible things about people.” With that, he left, returning to the launch platform. Charles left the launch pad, going back into the facility. He wouldn’t be able to control himself, and he would rather not kill anyone at the time.
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They got onto the plane in a hurry, each monster sitting down. Surprisingly, Susan actually fit inside quite well, and sat down comfortably, with the Missing Link right near her, talking to her quietly. Dr. Cockroach was tinkering with an invention of his, sitting against the other wall. Samin had begun playing a small game of solitaire. She then started to read a book. Curiously, Dr. Cockroach looked up from his work to ask what she had been reading. Samin took a look up from her book and smiled. “I’m reading The Taming of the Shrew.” She answered. Dr. Cockroach nodded. “I heard Shakespeare’s writing is extremely hard to comprehend.” He said. “Oh, it’s not. You just have to connect it with Old English, since I was born in Wales, I’m pretty good myself.” She smiled.
The conversation was over quickly, as the two found nothing else to talk about, and each went back to what they had been doing. Soon enough, they had landed in New York City, on the edge of a lake. The city had already been evacuated, yet the robot was nowhere in sight, yet. Samin sighed happily as the sun sprinkled its light over her, through the cover of the trees. “Amazing! It’s amazing…” She sighed again, before a claw appeared out of the shadows, up ahead near the buildings. Samin let out a fearful squeak, and hid behind the Missing Link. “Now that’s a robot!” They heard Monger say. Link rolled his eyes. “You said that about the robot probe when we fought it last year, General.” He commented, annoyed at hearing the line said once again. The General just backed up his jeep, and left with the plane.
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“Wh-What?” Samin spoke worriedly. “We have to fight that thing on our own?” Susan looked down at the poor, shaking owl. “We do, we got it though, don’t worry. We’ve been doing this for a while now.” Susan comforted, making Samin nod, and she relaxed her shoulders a little. “Phew.” She made the noise, but hid more as the full robot came into view. It was tall, looking a lot more agile than the robot probe that the monsters had faced over a year before this day. Like the General had said, it had deadly, sharp looking claws, three or four points on each claw.
Samin soon got out from behind Link, since Susan and him started to charge toward the metal contraption. Samin, seeing as she had nothing to do but stand there and cower before the looming demon, started to charge toward it herself, which Dr. Cockroach attempted to stop. He had no idea of the limit of her powers. She could be hurt, and they wouldn’t know how long she would last. She accidentally ignored his warnings, since she couldn’t hear him. She boosted her speed exponentially. when she got close enough, she found the leg of the robot. Planning carefully, she ran at the metal monster, and punched her fist into it extremely hard. A shock went up her whole arm, ticking a reaction in her brain. Intense pain. She pulled her fist away from the metal shell, grasping it, and wailing in pain. The robot had sensed the tiny fist, and had kicked at Samin. Samin was sent flying into a building, coughing up some blood as her back connected with it.
Dr. Cockroach had barely seen Samin punch the robot, but had seen as Samin was sent flying into a building right near him. He gasped, and watched as some of the building crumbled, falling toward the body of the injured girl. He almost went to go help, until he saw a barely visible barrier and bits and pieces of the building bouncing off of it. With the last piece bouncing off, the barrier crumbled, and the girl in question started to get up, using her good hand. Dr. Cockroach sighed in relief. Susan looked back as Samin got herself up, and limped over to a car. Samin searched through the car, and found herself a fitting paper, to use for a bandage. She quickly wrapped the beige thing around her hand. It doubled as an actual bandage quite well, really.
Susan was now battling the robot in question, since she wasn’t much shorter than it. She was currently winning, using its strength against the robot. Dr. Cockroach got the signal to advance toward it, and take it out from the inside. As he walked toward the robot, the supercomputer in said robot locked in on the small cockroach man. It sent a weapon of some sort at Dr. Cockroach, who had to side step it. He started walking toward it again, but the robot sent two sharp, pointed poles toward Dr. Cockroach this time. The doctor had no time at all to dodge the poles, having only looked up to see them barreling toward his tiny form. The poles embedded themselves in his two shoulders, pinning him to the ground as the poles stuck themselves into the ground. Dr. Cockroach writhed in pure agony as he realized what had happened. He head shouts of ‘Dr. Cockroach’, from Susan, and one from Link, who was also faring pretty well, alongside Susan. He then heard footsteps, distant compared to the looming footsteps that could be heard from the robot. The robot wanted to be rid of the threat once and for all, and it pushed Susan aside roughly, and she fell to the ground, aided by Link.
Dr. Cockroach glared up at the large robot. The robot was fixated on the cockroach man, and it would stop at nothing to end his life. Now, the smaller footsteps’ noise came to his ears. He saw Samin run over to him, yelling, “D-D-Doctor?! Please, PLEASE be alive!” The urgency of her squeaky, tear ridden voice made him almost smile. At least a friend would be there as he breathed his last breath. But no! He didn’t want her to face the same fate as himself! The girl had already been in enough pain. With all his leftover strength, he grunted, “Samin, get out of here! You’ll hurt yourself!” He spoke with urgency, and gave her a commanding glance. His stern glance was met with a defiant one. “I don’t care, as long as you are safe, Doctor!” She said, her voice not squeaky or fearful. Instead of running off as she stood up, she walked in front of Dr. Cockroach, and held her arms out defensively. “I won’t let you lay another hand or claw on Dr. Cockroach!” she yelled at the robot. The robot seemed to laugh. “Then die along with the worthless insect!” The robot announced. There had to be someone controlling it, then! The next second, a large ball of fire erupted at Samin, and Dr. Cockroach gasped. “Samin, it’s not too late, move, so you don’t get hurt!” He squeaked, as the ball came closer toward them. His wounds had started to bleed, a gushing mess of blood. His eyesight was nearly blinded with the pain.
Samin just shook her head no. “I’m protecting you!” She said. The fireball bounced off of the barrier. This barrier that had appeared, Samin had willed it to appear, and it was stronger than the one that she had summoned earlier. For example, this was less transparent, and it was thicker. After Samin was sure it had worked, she went and knelt down next to Dr. Cockroach. “S-Samin, don’t help me, it’s too late anyways.” He choked. Samin glared down at that comment. “Of course it’s not too late, Dr. Cockroach! Please, don’t say such a thing.” A tear ran down her cheek. With that, she cupped her hands on his chest, and pushed down. Dr. Cockroach let out a grunt of pain as she did so, and she nodded her sorry, just as her hand started to grow a pale green.
Dr. Cockroach gasped in pain and astonishment alike. She was, she was actually healing him! He thought she would only heal someone that she felt comfortable with, like Charles. Oh, how he would go off on him if he found out Samin had saved his life. Well, he wouldn’t be allowed to, really. He felt that, well thought that Samin was becoming more and more comfortable with him, and also the other monsters. Maybe not Insectosaurus, or B.O.B, but that’s a given. Samin had been really scared of Insectosaurus, and B.O.B had really embarrassed her, calling her male. Well, she did later find out that he wasn’t used to meeting females, since he was put into the facility basically when he was born. But Insectosaurus had really frightened her because of his size. But she had gotten used to Susan, so she should have been at least a little used to Insectosaurus.
Dr. Cockroach gazed into Samin’s eyes. One cheek had wet, running tears, along with the other. Her eyes were fixated on saving his life, and healing him. As the wound started to heal, Samin pulled the poles out of his shoulders, making Dr. Cockroach groan in pain. “Sorry!” She whispered, as she started attempting to heal him again.
The robot had tried to punch the barrier twice to no avail. At the third punch, the barrier cracked a little. Samin cursed, as with each punch, a little part of her body twitched in pain. Through his own pain, he noticed the small amount of pain being inflicted onto the girl saving him. “Samin, I think I’ll be ok, you can stop now.” He whispered lightly. “N-No, I can’t! You’re still bleeding badly!” She spoke. As she continued, she used more force, draining her own energy a bit faster with each increase in speed of the healing. The robot continued to punch, which made Samin feel more pain after each punch. She kept her cool, as the wounds finally stopped their bleeding. Samin sighed with relief, and cradled Dr. Cockroach’s head with care, as she looked up at the robot. She put his head down, and stood up as the robot punched again. This time, the barrier shattered into tiny pieces, and she was sent to the ground at the force of the punch. She had landed next to Dr. Cockroach who looked up at the robot with wide eyes. Samin sent a weak laser at the robot yelling, “Leave us alone!” The laser ricocheted off of the robot. It just chuckled, or the thing inside it did. It sent another fireball at the two. This time, there was no barrier to protect them, and her lasers were weak. She cursed lowly. Taking a deep breath in, she yelled. “I SAID YOU WOULDN’T LAY ANOTHER HAND ON MY PRECIOUS FRIEND! I MEANT IT!” The laser that she shot at the fire ball ripped through it, and enveloped it, and then went toward the robot. The laser she had shot had trapped most of the fire from the fire ball into it, and was attacking with it.
The robot toppled over at the force of the blast, and a push from Susan combined. Susan smiled as it fell to the ground in a cloud of dust. She looked worriedly over toward Dr. Cockroach and Samin. Samin helped Dr. Cockroach to his feet, and they walked to the robot together, with teamwork on both of their parts. Susan helped them get into the robot, and they hurriedly went to find the command center. It wasn’t very long, since they had seen a light coming from one room, and they just assumed. Their assumption was right, well both of the assumptions were right. There was an alien controlling the robot, and they walked into the command center room.
“Surrender now!” Samin growled, setting Dr. Cockroach against a wall. Dr. Cockroach kept his balance, and watched. She advanced toward the alien, only to be punched in the face, and stomach. The alien used its third arm to grasp her neck. As she realized what was happening, she started to choke. “Let me go!” She snarled. The alien just chuckled. “What, and let you try to beat me to a bloody pulp? No way. You and your insect friend are going to die on this very robot.” He threatened. Dr. Cockroach had grasped onto something, and limped over. He punched the alien in the face, and he let Samin go, who fell to the ground, unconscious. “Nnh…” Was what came out of her mouth, in some sort of a moan.
Dr. Cockroach looked over to Samin, and bit his lip. He limped his way over to the button panel, and pressed what looked like the proper button. It was in fact a red button, which would tell the ship to self destruct. “Ship set to self destruct in T minus 3 minutes. Dr. Cockroach’s eyes widened, and he limped over to Samin quickly, and picked her up. He ignored the newfound pain in his shoulders as he picked her up, and raced down a hall, and out a window. He jumped out of the window, and was lucky enough to find Susan waiting on the outside. She caught the monsters as the floated down with ease, in the palm of her hand. “Doctor Cockroach, are you ok?” She asked, also eyeing the unconscious she-monster in her palm. Dr. Cockroach nodded weakly, and passed out himself.
The Missing Link ran over to them as the robot had blown up, and was cheering, until he saw that the both the doctor and Samin were unconscious. “Are they – Are they dead, Susan?” He looked up and asked. “No, they just need rest. And a lot of medic attention.” She spoke with urgency. “What happened to them?” He asked. Susan looked down at the two, having watched the whole scene. She realized with guilt that she hadn’t done much. “Dr. Cockroach got really hurt trying to walk over to the robot, and Samin saved him. Even healed him.” She said.
Link looked up to her. “I thought she would only heal people she actually knew or something.” He said. Susan nodded. “Me as well. But I think maybe she’s gotten used to us, or maybe is starting to like us. Still, I have a bad feeling about what kind of like.” She scratched her chin, as she held the two sleeping monsters in her other hand. “What do you mean ‘what kind of like?’ There are different kinds?” He asked, which Susan nodded to. “I think she may have a little crush on the doctor.” She bit her lip. She didn’t really care much about who liked who, but this whole thing could go either way.
“So the Doc is the love doctor or something?” Link commented, with a sly grin. Someone had to make a giggle out of the moment. Susan stifled a small chuckle. “I think so.” Susan answered. Link shrugged. “Then, it’s just a crush, right? What’s the big idea?” He was curious as to what the giantess thought of the small crush. Susan looked a little more serious. “What about Charles? Look, Link, I overheard him talking to the Doctor, and he seemed to be threatening him…” She trailed off, a little cautious. “What? What did he say?”
“Hmph. I want you to swear on one thing.” He said, and Dr. Cockroach nodded with confusion. “What is it?” He asked. Charles gave him another death glare. “Touch Samin, and you die.” He said, moving his hand near the cockroach man’s neck. “What? I would never- ow!” Dr. Cockroach pushed Charles off of him with a grunt. “I would never harm such a girl! Wait, you mean,” Dr. Cockroach paused for a second, realizing what Charles was saying. “I would never do anything that vulgar, and I suggest you stop assuming such horrible things about people.”
After Susan explained to Link what she had heard, Link gasped. “We’re in trouble then! If Samin confesses, Charles would go off on the Doc! And he didn’t do anything to deserve it!” Even with the constant bickering they did with each other, The Missing Link respected Dr. Cockroach a lot.
“I know, but I don’t know what we could do!” Susan wailed softly. “Susan, we do have to get these two to a medic.” Susan blinked, and remembered about the tiny monsters in her hand. “I had almost forgotten!” She chuckled, and walked with Link back to the ship. B.O.B was already loaded on the plane, oblivious to what had happened, as usual. But he smiled as Link and Susan sat down. “Where’s the Doc and that weird owl thing?” B.O.B smiled. Susan showed them to him, and he actually coiled back in fear. “They died? Oh no!” Link shook his head. “No, they just passed out. They both got really hurt…” B.O.B calmed down immediately. “Oh.” Was all he said.
The plane ride was ridiculously long, seeing as they were anxious to get back to the facility. Monger met up with them as it landed, though. “Monsters, how was it?” He asked, in his loud, booming voice. Susan looked up at him. “Hey, did the two new monsters escape? I thought I told you to watch them closely!” He said, as he looked around the plane. Susan opened her hand, showing him the doctor and Samin. “Merciful Heavens? What in tar nation happened to them?” He asked, as he saw them. “Dr. Cockroach got extremely hurt, and Samin healed him. While the robot was beating down on her barrier. Then they went and put the robot on self destruct.” She said, sounding like she was about to cry. “We should get them to a medic then, Susan.” He said, more seriously, and she nodded.
As they got into a hospital within the facility, both Samin and Dr. Cockroach were hooked up as they were laid in hospital beds.
Samin opened her eyes a wink, and then got to sleep once again.
The two wouldn’t wake up for about 3-4 days after.
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Post by Samin Edogawa on May 2, 2009 18:05:43 GMT -5
Chapter 6~ The Laughing Experiment o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o Samin sat up in her bed. God, was she tired. She pushed all of the covers that she had just realized were there. As she tried clenching a fist, she winced in pain. It wasn’t much pain, but pain was still pain nonetheless. She looked at the hand in question, and noticed that the makeshift bandages that she had personally put on it had been replaced by real, hospital ones. They were white, not a dark beige in color. She soon noticed that she was not in her own room. She was in some sort of operation room. She panicked, before realizing. As she realized though, her panic dissolved into relaxation since she knew they wouldn’t perform any experiments on her. Touching her toes to the ground, she felt the cold tile floor of the operation room, and saw her monster outfit. She limped over to it as she got up, and slipped it over her shoulders. Fortunately, she had been wearing other clothing when she got up. She slid the pants on with ease, cautious of her injured hand. o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o In the same situation, but a different room altogether, Dr. Cockroach was fighting to wake up. His eyelids felt heavy, and he felt he could barely move with the weight of the blankets forcing him down. He vaguely remembered the dream he had been having, and he bit his lip as he thought about that very dream. Dr. Cockroach watched as Samin fell to the ground, the robot superior in strength. Her miniscule body was crushed under the weight, while he watched from the sidelines. The claw lifted, revealing a bloody young woman, coughing blood, and holding her hand out to him, as if a last wish. He felt his body being forced towards her as he walked over to her. The robot was occupied now with Susan. He knelt down next to the young monster, and prayed for her to be alright. As he finished the prayer, she asked him to come closer. He did so, as she asked, and blinked in shock as her soft lips touched his own. He could taste the blood left on her lips, and looked up to see a claw. Right before the claw had struck, Dr. Cockroach had yelped. That was when he had woken up, covered in sweat, and panting. He bit his lip, running a hand through his hair, only to remember that he had the head of a cockroach, and his hand rubbed hard exoskeleton. He sighed as he breathed deeply. He was sure it was only a dream, but he inferred what it might mean. Samin might be in serious danger, or she might like him. Maybe vice versa as well. No, no, no! He couldn’t like her! He was what, old enough to be her father, or worse, her grandfather? Then he remembered. Age was just a number, seeing as his body no longer aged itself. But he didn’t want to make up excuses as to if he actually liked the woman. He thought a bit more on it. [She just became a woman not even five or six years ago. I don’t even want to think of what Charles would do if we loved each other… Oh, if he found out what Samin had done for me… I’ll be dead faster than I could say “She was only helping…” And I know that for a fact.] Thoughts raced through his head like mad. Some of his thoughts were actually fact, seeing how painfully protective Charles was. Dr. Cockroach sighed, and rubbed his head again. He wished things weren’t like this at all. o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o Both of them walked out of their rooms at nearly the same time, meeting up with each other, and exchanging different greetings. Samin smiled to see that the doctor was up and active. “Good morning, Dr. Cockroach. How are you feeling?” She asked. Dr. Cockroach smiled, hiding guilt. “Hello, my dear. I’m doing quite well, thank you. How about yourself?” He wanted to at least seem polite. Samin’s smile widened at the concern. “I’m also doing well. But my hand hurts a little when I close it. At least they replaced the paper bandaging I had made with actual bandages.” She spoke. Dr. Cockroach nodded. “Well, with your help, the wounds in my shoulders healed fully.” Dr. Cockroach showed the bandages. Samin seemed ecstatic. “I was really happy to help, doctor. It was my pleasure, really. Well, kind of…” She smirked, and gave a chuckle. She rubbed her nose a little, as it had stung. “Well, now would be a good time to meet up with the others, right?” He asked Samin and she nodded. “Of course. I feel like I haven’t eaten in ages…” She spoke. It was settled. They accompanied each other into the main room, its walls gray as they had ever been. They saw the other 4 monsters relaxing in different ways throughout the room. Susan wasn’t really relaxing, and the Missing Link was attempting to cheer her up. “They’ll be awake before we know it, Susan. Come on, cheer up… Please?” He asked. She was twiddling her fingers nervously. “Come on, you know they will be, sweetie.” He climbed up her arm, and planted a kiss on her cheek. She looked over and kissed him back, on the cheek of course. Dr. Cockroach smiled, as he led Samin through the door. “Good morning.” His smooth voice echoed as he raised it appropriately, never reaching the point of yelling, or shouting. The noise made all of the other monsters turn, and smile. “Oh, Doc, Samin! You guys are finally awake!” She said, happily. She got up from her chair, and knelt by Samin and Dr. Cockroach. “How are you two feeling? You guys gave us quite a scare, really.” She spoke quickly, probably wanting to know what had happened. Dr. Cockroach shrugged. “We’re both great. I think both of us are a little sore. Her in her nose, and me in my shoulders.” He said. Susan blinked. “What happened to Samin’s nose? Why would it be sore?” She basically asked the same question twice. Dr. Cockroach sighed, attempting to recall everything that had happened. “Well, Samin helped me get to the control room, and there was an alien there. She propped me up against the wall, and attacked him. The bastard had four arms. He blocked with one, and punched her in the face, and in the stomach. He then grabbed her neck.” He said, sounding a bit mad. “Doc, I’ve never heard you call anyone ‘bastard’ as long as I’ve known you…” Link commented. Dr. Cockroach ignored the glance Charles had given him, and continued. “I got my balance and limped over there. I was able to knock him out with one punch.” “Well, that’s good. No wonder Samin was unconscious when you two jumped out of the window of the robot. But that is too bad that she was hurt…” Susan commented. “So, how long have we been out, Susan?” Dr. Cockroach asked. Susan put a finger on her chin. “It was bordering on four days, tops. But, the third day, we ran into your room, since we heard a yell coming from it.” She spoke. Dr. Cockroach raised a brow. He thought. “I yelled?” He asked, and Link nodded. “When we ran in, you had just finished yelling, but you were still asleep. Creepy, really… Oh, maybe you had a nightmare while you were out…” He said. “Oh, I had more than a nightmare.” Dr. Cockroach put a hand to his temple, wherever that was on a cockroach head. “What was it about, Doc?” Susan asked with concern. “Oh, I-I uh… Don’t remember…” He said, lying through his teeth. The Missing Link caught his lie, but decided to stay silent, well only saying the word, “Oh…”
Dr. Cockroach nearly sighed with relief. He could do without Link finding out what was going on in his mind. Link would pester him daily, Dr. Cockroach thought. Link was one to tease, and he was a harsh teaser, too. Plus, he didn’t really know if he liked the girl or not. If he did, he warned himself never to take advantage of her, like using her for his own benefit. Not in a sexual way though, of course. He felt he was much better than lowlifes that did that. Well, the lowlifes that only used their significant others for their own pleasure. “So, what time is it?” Dr. Cockroach said, trying to change the subject that they were talking about together currently, and the subject that he was conversing internally with himself. “Ah, it’s just about noon. Lunch is soon, so you guys need to eat, ok? It’s been a while since you two have eaten.” Susan smiled. With that, the General floated in on his jet pack. “Monsters, we have another problem!” He yelled. Then he realized that Dr. Cockroach and Samin had finally woken up. “Ah, did you two have a nice sleep?” He asked. Samin nodded quickly, as Dr. Cockroach did the same.
“Ok, good! Well, there seems to be some sort of squirrel that fell into a tub of radioactive liquid, making it grow to a great size. I need you four to round it up, and stop it from destroying half of the city of London… Got it?” He finished his explanation. “England? Oh, I haven’t seen England since I move to the United States!” Samin exclaimed. Monger looked her way. “Oh, you and Dr. Cockroach are staying here, to heal a little more. I heard you two suffered quite the beating, so we’ll send Charles along this time, since he decided to skip out and stay the last time.” he sent an annoyed glance toward Charles, who shrugged, and got up.
The other monsters left, leaving Dr. Cockroach alone with Samin. “So… Samin?” He asked. Samin looked up to him. “Yes, doctor?” She asked sweetly. He smiled. “Would you be able to help me with an experiment of mine?” He asked dumbly. “Oh, of course! I’d LOVE to!” She clapped her hands together. Dr. Cockroach smiled. “Thank you so much, Samin.” He sighed happily. “It’s no problem at all! I absolutely love experiments!” She giggled. “Oh, good! I’m working with chemicals for this experiment, so maybe we can ask Monger for safety goggles?” He suggested. “You know what to do, right?” Samin nodded. “One of my courses in college was ‘Advance Chemistry, Level 1.” Samin answered. Dr. Cockroach happily led her to his cell. On the table of his experiments, there were actually two goggles, so he was happy. “Perfect!”
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They had been working together not even an hour before something happened. Dr. Cockroach mixed one chemical with another, and it made a small poof. Right in Samin’s face. She rubbed her eyes, and dabbed her eyes with a tissue Dr. Cockroach had given her. “I’m sorry, my dear. I didn’t mean for it to poof like smoke.” He said, biting his lip. Samin looked to Dr. Cockroach and giggled. “It’s quite alright, Dr. Cockroach! Just a poof! I’ve suffered far worse.” She said, placing a drop of one chemical into a beaker.
It splattered in her face. Fortunately, it was nothing acidic, so all it did was make her feel cold. Dr. Cockroach bit his lip more. As she started to giggle, she laughed more, turning into hysteric bursts of laughter, a lot of the time confused with crying. It was often confused with crying, since the short hiccups of laughter coming from her mouth actually made it sound as if she was crying.
“My dear, are you ok?” He asked, and when he saw she was laughing, he raised a brow. “You-You’re laughing?” He asked, saying ‘you’ twice. Samin stifled her laughter to a small giggle and nodded. “Sorry, I tend to do that at random moments…” She scratched her head.
Dr. Cockroach smiled. Finally, someone who did the same thing. “Oh, it’s fine, absolutely fine! I do that often as well, but I kind of laugh maniacally.” He grinned sheepishly. Samin turned toward him. “Really? Oh, I want to hear! Could you?” She asked. He looked down. “Well, Susan doesn’t really like when I do it…” He said, trailing off. “Well, Susan’s not here, is she?” Samin said, with a mischievous grin on her face. “Please?” Samin sort of whined. Dr. Cockroach looked at her, and she pulled a pouting face. He rolled his eyes. “Oh, alright! Why not…” He said.
Dr. Cockroach took a deep breath, and laughed. At first, Samin raised a brow, since it was just like any other laugh she had heard throughout her life. But then it turned maniacal in a couple of seconds.
“MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!” Dr. Cockroach laughed with his heart, bending his arms to increase the effect. He blinked, as his shoulders barely hurt in the least. Samin’s face brightened, and she erupted in a fit of giggles. “That,” she tried to take a breath, “was amazing!” She continued to giggle. Dr. Cockroach smiled lightly at his companion’s happiness. [Is it just me, or is that the cutest laugh I have ever heard? It’s more adorable than Susan’s even. Maybe I do like her… Ah well, don’t want to ruin the moment…] Dr. Cockroach thought, and laughed maniacally. The two both erupted into more fits of laughter, entwining both their voices in each other.
The other monsters had just returned, and heard the mysterious laughter. Link looked over to the source of the laughter. “Looks like they’re having oodles of fun…” He commented, stifling a laugh. “Samin must be helping Doc with an experiment of some type. Seems like they were having some fun too, I agree Link.” Susan stared blankly at Dr. Cockroach’s cell. “Let’s go check it out, then!” Link chuckled. Susan nodded. They walked over to the entrance, ignoring B.O.B and Charles. When they poked their heads in, they saw Dr. Cockroach and Samin doubled over laughing their hearts out. Samin was laughing so hard, she was forced to kneel on the ground.
“Having fun, are we?” Link couldn’t keep a straight face at the sight. Samin looked up toward the voice, and blushed, while she continued to laugh. She tried to stifle it, as well as did Dr. Cockroach. The doctor collected himself faster. “Oh, yes Link, we were having a blast.” He said, referring to what happened to Samin, and she nearly doubled over again in laughter. “So, how was your mission?” Dr. Cockroach asked. Susan looked at Link. “It was excellent! Charles did a great job, he captured the squirrel easily!” She smiled. Samin grinned at Charles. “Oh, that’s great news, Charles, good job!” She smiled. “I’ve always known you were good at catching squirrels, you always have been!” Charles looked at her sternly. “Samin, could I talk to you?” He asked calmly, and a little sweetly.
Samin nodded. “Of course, any time!” She smiled. She followed him out of Dr. Cockroach’s cell, and into his own. “Look, Samin.” He turned to her as they were alone. “I respect you and all your whacky decisions, but this is too far.” He said, without emotion. Samin blinked. “Whacky? What do you mean?” She asked. “I know there is something between you and that cockroach man.” He said, cutting to the chase. Samin’s face was colored red. “He doesn’t like me! Don’t you get it?! He’ll NEVER like me!” Samin shouted. “You know I’m horrible with love, I’m oblivious to it, and no one ever loves the shy, clumsy idiot. You know every man I’ve loved has rejected me. Harshly, too!” She growled. Charles was taken aback by the tone of voice she had. She had never talked to him that way. “I-I only want to protect you, Samin. You know that. Don’t talk like that to me…” He said, his voice cracking a little. “No! That’s enough with this ‘protecting’ bull crap! I’ve had enough of you ruining my life, while claiming to be protecting me, Charles! I’m done with you!” She let out a wail of despair. Well, it was enough for Charles alright. He walked up to her, and slapped her across the face, which she looked up at him in shock. “You don’t know a thing about anything! ARGH! I HATE HOW NAÏVE YOU ARE, SAMIN!” His voice raised to the shouting point, as he slapped her across the face again, now in the other direction.
Susan had heard the commotion, and poked her head in, to see Charles smack the face of Samin. “Samin, are you alright?” She asked with concern, and Samin nodded through tears. “STAY OUT OF IT! I’M TEACHING HER A LESSON, DAMN YOU!” He yelled, baring his fangs. Susan swatted him aside, and picked Samin up, and brought her out of the cell. “What are you doing? Let her down!” Charles yelled. The cell closed then, in Charles’ face. “Let you think about what you’ve done, pup.” Link commented, sitting next to Samin. “Are you ok?” He asked. Her face was a mess. Tears ran down her cheeks, and her shoulders rose and fell with each sniffle and sob. She nodded very weakly. Her body started to shake a little. “I-I think I’ll be fine…” Samin squeaked.
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Post by Crazyrabidpony on May 2, 2009 20:58:06 GMT -5
Those were some very exciting chapters, Samin! Good job!
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Post by Samin Edogawa on May 2, 2009 21:24:18 GMT -5
Those were some very exciting chapters, Samin! Good job! Thank you! My hands are still shaking from writing them XDDDD |
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Anyways, I liked your two new chapters! I could feel the boredom in the room when you described it!
