bookpower 239. Party
239. Party
239. Party
“Oh! Hey you two meet Rebecca, gun gremlin extraordinaire!” Turning around, Tomoka began introducing her two favorite people to her new choom.
“Rebecca, these are my outputs, Hinata and Nozomi.” As soon as Tomoka finished introducing her girls to the gremlin, the people of Maine’s crew in the hearing range raised a brow. Homosexuality in twenty-seventy-seven isn’t rare nor shunned nor are poly relationships. It just so happens that both at the same time, not to mention being as stable as the Tomoka’s looks are indeed rare.
“Hi, hope the eldritch god inhabiting a mortal human coil hasn’t caused too many troubles.” Nozomi’s own comment had just enough jest in it to make people wonder if she was serious or not.
“Hey! I take offense to that. First of all, eldritch gods have nothing on me. Second! I have been behaving myself.” Yeah, no, Hinata just raised an eyebrow pointing towards the clearly visible scorch mark where Tomoka had lobbed a grenade for the boom factor.
“What? Fireworks are needed for any celebration and a controlled explosion is just that.” The more Beca saw them interacting the more she liked all of them. She liked Tomoka the most, being slightly insane in just the right ways to make her fun. Then there is Nozomi, the little demon on Tomoka’s left shoulder and finally Hinata the little angel on her right shoulder.
While this was happening Maine signaled for all the other members of the crew to gather around. They would need to go under for a while after handing the data over. He didn’t want to deal with whatever Biotechnica would send to hunt them down.
“Alright, we got the data but as you can tell by the news things got a bit heated at the end.” Maine tried really hard to not send Sasha a glare. After hearing the reason why she did it he couldn’t blame her. He would have done the same... or worse for that matter.
Sasha for her part felt conflicted. On the one hand, she had gotten revenge for her mother’s death. On the other, she had risked her life and now the crew’s life for her little vendetta. Now, with a clear mind she can tell that she had made a dumb decision then and there. If it weren’t for Tomoka, Hinata, and Nozomi she would be dead.
“Right, that explosion was preem! Though I need to ask, what happened?” Hearing Rebecca’s excited voice made Maine want to sigh. Instead he gave Sasha a look. It was her choice if she wanted to talk about it or not, he would respect that.
Sasha looked around, the curious eyes of Rebecca, the worried expression on Dorio, the interested look in Pilar. She owed them answers, that was the least she could do for landing them in this. They had the right to know why she landed them in this mess.
With that in mind Sasha told them how the gig went from start to finish. How she managed to infiltrate no problem. How she got the data without complications. How she let her emotions take over. How she almost died.
“Actually, clinically speaking you did die. You died for about half to a whole minute before we brought you back.” Hearing Tomoka’s comment made everyone turn towards her. The same question on most of the Maine’s crew mind. How?
After explaining how badly injured Sasha was and how the miracle drug healed her everyone was left speechless. Especially so when both Maine and Sasha confirmed it. Matter of fact was, Sasha had come extremely close to leaving with lady death. With that realization the celebratory mood came to a crashing halt. Everyone now had a gloomy mood.
“Well, no need to act all gloomy, she is alive and that is what matters. Now, who of you has the best alcohol tolerance cause I will drink you under the table!” Silence, that was what met Tomoka’s comment for a few seconds before a few chuckles came from here and there.
“Tomoka?” Nozomi had to ask. It was really hard to reconcile what she was seeing to what she expected.
“That is my name, yes. Now that that has been reestablished, I was wondering what you three have been talking about?” It took a while for the trio to center themselves after the whiplash from seeing Tomoka acting like she was.
“Not much, just hobbies and stuff. Becca here really likes her guns.” To the side Rebecca was nodding enthusiastically.
“Is that so? In that case have either of you shown your own to her? I bet she would like those.” To tell the truth neither girl had thought about it. Sure, they knew Becca likes guns, but they hadn’t thought of showing off on their own.
“Here.” With speed no drunk person should ever be able to pull, Tomoka took crescent rose from Nozomi’s back. With a fluid motion she transformed the thing from its storage form to its rifle form.
“This here, is crescent rose. A mechashift weapon of my own design.” Tomoka took a pose to show the thing on her hands. Unsurprisingly Becca’s eyes began to shine with interest as she looked the thing over.
“What is a mechashift weapon anyway?” To answer the gremlin’s question, Tomoka triggered the shifting mechanism with a fluid motion. In a moment of motion the rifle transformed in a scythe as Tomoka gave it a swing around herself for the theatrics.
“This is what a mechashift weapon is. A weapon that can shift between different forms. This one in particular can shift from a rifle to a scythe. It is worth noting that it can still shoot while in scythe form.” With another fluid motion Tomoka twirled the thing as it shifted back to its storage form before handing it back to Nozomi.
“That is, SO, AWESOME!” Rebbeca wanted one, no, she needed one! A shotty that could turn into a bat or a hammer! How about a LMG that could turn into a pair of giant mecha fists! So many options, so many ideas!
“I see you liked it, How about we meet at a later date to talk shop?” At that Rebbeca nodded so fast and so hard, Tomoka and the other two worried she would break her neck. Joke’s on them, Becca’s neck was slightly reinforced so it would break from something like that.
The rest of the night went by without anything of note happening. Drinks and snacks were had, stories shared and small talk. At some point someone came by to pick up the data Sasha had retrieved. Most surprisingly of all, Tomoka behaved herself and acted like a normal person for once. Something that truthfully amazed Hinata and Nozomi.
“You know, I thought a drunk Tomoka would cause the end of the world or something like that, not... this.” Nozomi commented as she looked at the peacefully sleeping Tomoka in her lap.
“Yeah, same, I thought we would have to hunt her down to save the city from getting nuked or something.” Hinata for her part had Tomoka’s legs on her own lap. No one realized she was cupping a feel from time to time.
“It's unfortunate we won’t be able to get her drunk like this once we go back.” Hinata just nodded at that. They love the crazy girl but sometimes she can be a bit much. Not like they would change her for anything in the world.