Sword of Darkness Part 6-2 Conversations While Approaching Jurai--A Third Person Interlude by J. T. MacLeod --------------------------------------------------------- I know that these are usually brought to you in first person, but I'm not in this one. Yeah, it's written by me, though. I would have handed it over to someone else, but it's supposed to be an segway to part 6-3, the content of which is what I was supposed to be writing in the first place. Oh, and if you're looking for a disclaimer, I've written an automated disclaimer program. The disclaimer will be automatically inserted here: Oh, darn. It didn't work. Well, in that case, if you want to say anything about the use of copyrighted characters, **** you. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------- As Ray was closing the comlink with Mac, Clink looked at him. "So is your 'loose canon' coming?" Clink asked. "Actually," Ray replied, "I misdialed." "So are you going to call him?" Ray looked up at Clink, but then began to get very sick. This is now a well documented effect of looking at Clink. "Yeah... but I'm going to do it... over here." Ray pointed at no place in particular, but gestured that it was very far off. "OK, but let me know when you call him!" "Sure." Both later and elsewhere, Frag was busy, as usual, shining one of his many guns. Ray walked in and screamed before ducking and rolling. "What?" "Geez, do you have to point that thing at the door while you do that?" "Alright, alright. Man, it's just a gun." "Um, yeah. Hey, I made a few calls... we should be getting some help." "Who?" "Mac--and BunBun, from Sluggy Freelance." "Good. We could use two more level heads around here." "Huh?" "Wait. BunBun is one of the best around, especially as lagomorphs go, but can he really help us?" After meeting BunBun for the first time during his battle with Mac, Frag was a major BunBun fan. "You would be the one to say that, wouldn't you?" Ray asked rhetorically. "Well, BunBun can surprise you, but it's actually his resources that I'm interested in, especially since he's been running around the Vortex a bit in the past. I bribed him with the promise to send him to a Baywatch dimension." "Ah." At this point Gomisaki came from the other side of the room and scared the ever-living-crap out of Ray again. "Would you like some tea?" she asked. Ray and Frag both accepted, if only to be polite. They managed to hold their composure as they sipped the tea. They both hated it, though Frag was used to it, but neither wanted to upset the lady/ship/tree. "Isn't Mac the nice man who defeated you and let you go?" Gomisaki asked innocently. Frag took a deep breath, reminding himself repeatedly that Gomisaki didn't know better than to ask something like that. "You're forgetting the humongous fine he slapped on him," Ray noted. "Ah, no big deal," Frag continued for Gomisaki's sake. "Yes, Mac is very powerful. He defeated two destroyers pretty much single handedly, and one of the three to ever defeat me." "What about the others?" Gomisaki continued, still innocently. "Fudo-sama! You're turning purple!" "He'll be OK, Gomisaki," said Ray. "Besides, it's sort of obvious: Queen Misaki and Mewtwo." "Queen Misaki, yes, but we haven't finished a fight with that Pokeb***rd yet." "So who was the other, Fudo-sama?" Gomisaki didn't know when to quit. "Who?" Ray started to say something, but found a BFG pointed at him before he opened his mouth. "Don't answer that, Ray." Ray didn't answer. "Gomisaki, I'm going to tell you this, but then I don't want *any more questions*. Got it?" "Yes, Fudo-sama." "It was..." Frag took a moment to gulp. "It was... Yamada Umeko. We were 10. I gave her flowers. She kicked my a**." "You got your butt kicked by a girl?" Ray laughed. "I haven't lowered the gun." "Never mind." Ray remained quiet until it appeared that Gomisaki was no longer paying attention. "If you keep pointing guns at me like that, that Umeko will be one of the FOUR whose defeated you!" "I'd like to see you try it, nerd-boy." Gomisaki suddenly realized what was going on. "No!! Please, no fighting!!" Gomisaki let her human form disappear. She may have been ditzily innocent, but she knew well enough to thank her lucky stars that Jurian ships could regenerate. She was very correct in doing that, as explosions rocked the ship until it reached customs at Jurai. ------------------------------------------------------------ Yeah, so there wasn't much to it, but it served its purpose as a segway, and I had a lot of fun writing it. So there. See you next time, same bloody time, same bloody place. Stay tuned. ------------------------------------------------------------