Chapter 9 - Mushroom! Mushroom!"Can we please stop? I'm getting really carsick," Miki pleaded.
"I've know you for ages and you've never once gotten carsick. Give me a break," Aya growled, focusing on the road ahead and speeding up.
Miki cursed. The old carsick trick wouldn't work.
"Fine, then. Can we get some food? I'm star-"
Before Miki could finish her word, Aya reached behind back and grabbed something, shoving it in Miki's face. Miki took this item - a plastic bag - and opened it to find plenty of food. Enough food, in fact, to feed a starving family.
She re-evaluated the situation.
"I have to pee."
"Give it a rest!!" roared Aya.
Miki retreated. It was clear that no traditional way would work. She would have to do something wild. Something unexpected.
"Hiiiiiyah!" she screamed, launching herself at Aya with the intention of tackling her and gaining control of the car.
Of course her seatbelt prevented her from moving past twenty centimetres, and she heaved out a groan of pain as it dug into her body and made her twitch like an epileptic on speed.
[Safety first, kiddos.
Always do up your seatbelt.
You too, Miki-chan!]"What the hell are you doing?!"
"OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW........!"
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"Where the hell is our car?!" two voices cried out loudly and clearly.
Fen started to pace along the street in front of the hotel.
"I'm going to kill someone. I'm going to kill someone. I'm going to kill someone. I'm going to kill..." she repeated over and over again.
"Shut up!" Commie yelled, putting her hands over her ears. "Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up!!" She fell to the ground and started to rock. Fen fell onto the ground and started hitting it with her fists.
"Excuse me, girls," said a calm voice. "I'm Otani Toshihiro from the Northern Fukushima Mental Institute. I specialize in patients with mental disorders brought on by genetic imbalances. I couldn't help but notice that you two seem somewhat distressed."
Fen and Commie looked up to see a handsome young man dressed sharply in a dark grey suit and holding the briefcase of a typical salaryman. He was slightly bowed down and smiling pleasantly at the two, concern etched in the features of his face.
"C... cool!!" Fen and Commie gushed, little hearts floating around their heads and tingly "falling in love" piano and violin music playing in the background. Soft, pastel-coloured bubbles and cherry blossoms framed Otani's figure as he smiled, his white teeth shining brilliantly in the light.
"Do you need some help, ladies? I have a car and can take you to the institute."
The hearts and bubbles around Fen and Commie burst into fragments of nothingness. The light dimmed, and a red hue was cast upon the scene as sneaky background music started to play. Commie, Fen, and Otani froze in time as a cloaked figure carrying a trident crept onto the scene. The figure removed her hood to reveal two horns protruding from a head of jet-black hair.
"He has a car," Sayu-devil cried out in a warped, teasing, singsong voice. She snuck up to Fen and Commie and spoke into their ears. "He has a car. Use him for his car. Pretend you need help and get a free ride up north. You need a car, right? Don't you? Then use him. Use him. Ohiohiohiohio!!"
Sayu-devil walked backwards slowly as she cackled and waved her trident around. She disappeared from the scene and the lights returned to normal, the regular sounds of traffic the only sound that could be heard (although the town was one of less than 20,000 people, so there wasn't much traffic).
Everything was back to normal.
Except for two things.
"Hehehe. Sure, Mr. Otani. Take us to your loony bin," Fen cackled with a wretched smile.
"Hehehe," snickered Commie. "We're so crazy. We need help!"
Otani smiled sympathetically and made a gesture to lead the girls when suddenly everything froze again.
A brilliant white light shone down on the scene, and beautiful, peaceful harp and chorus music began to play as a figure pranced onto the scene.
"It's wrong to use someone for material purposes!" sang Rika-angel. "Tell him the truth and you will be all right. Don't lie! Don't lie... don't lie... don't lie..."
Rika-angel sang as she left, her voice fading slowly as she got farther and farther away.
The lights returned to normal. Fen and Commie blinked.
"Did you just feel that?" Commie asked.
"Yeah..." Fen replied, looking bewildered.
"Should we...?"
They both looked at each other and then laughed. They could
never do something bad, like using someone for his car.
"Girls?" Otani asked.
"Oh, yes, Mr. Otani?" Fen asked sweetly.
"I was just going to say that this is my car here."
Otani gestured behind the girls and they turned around.
"Oh my god!" Fen screamed upon seeing the car.
"What?!" Commie and Otani asked in unison.
Fen walked up to the car.
"Do you realized what this is?"
"Um... Mr. Otani's car?"
Fen shook her head.
"Holy crap. I can't believe it. It's a Subaru Impreza WRX STi Type R Version VI. Torque is at 36.0 and horsepower is at 280PS. It's mostly used in rally races, meaning it can go off road!"
Even Otani blinked.
"Uh..." Comrade said.
"But it's also nice for street racing," Fen added proudly.
There was a moment of silence where nobody knew what to say. Otani was surprised at the girl's intimate knowledge of his car, Commie was wishing she could bury her head in the pavement, and Fen was drooling over the good doctor's car.
Then there was action.
Fen grabbed Commie's hand.
"Fuck being nice," she muttered. Commie's eyes widened, but she couldn't protest because she was suddenly thrown towards the car.
"RAAAAAARRR!!!" Fen yelled, jumping up and tackling Otani. He screamed like a girl (somewhere, Ayaya bashed her head against her steering wheel) and fell to the ground.
"Grab his keys!!" Fen screamed as she pined down the squirming man in another one of her amazing shows of impossible strength.
Commie, shocked, automatically did as she was told and yanked the keychain that was tangled with Otani's fingers. She jumped back.
"Now open the car and turn on the ignition!" Fen screamed again, praying that Commie knew how to do that much.
Fortunately, Commie did. She jumped into the driver's seat and stuck the key in the hole, turning it and forcing the engine to come to life.
"Ok, now get in the passenger's seat and wait for me!"
Commie obeyed and dutifully got into the next seat over, watching Fen struggle with Otani.
"Get off of me! You can't steal my car!" Otani yelled.
"Watch me!"
Then Fen kneed him really really
really hard in a place that really hurts boys. As he screamed in pain (this time, Miki clapped and whistled when Aya smashed her head against the window), Fen jumped off and ran into the car, slamming the door shut.
"This is kind of exciting!" Commie cheered, getting into it and clapping her hands.
"Wheeeeeee!!!!" Fen laughed as she floored the pedal.
Fen and Commie didn't even have enough time to see if Otani was okay because the car was so fast. They were out of the town limits within minutes, speeding along the uninhabited countryside of northern Japan.
Some minutes after leaving the town, Fen asked Commie to grab the GPS that Ayaka had given them. Commie reached into Fen's bag and pulled it out. It looked a little roughed up around the edges, but was otherwise all right. Commie took the wheel as Fen hooked the system up to the car. In the thirty seconds it took to do that, they hit three badgers and a snake.
"Ohhh! It's a snake!" Commie said sadly as she saw a yellow and green tube go flying from beneath the wheels.
Fen gave her an odd look and then took the wheel back as she fiddled with the controls for the GPS.
"Okay, scroll through these pyjamas and find Miki's."
Commie nodded and began to scroll. It took her ten pages of pyjamas to find the ones Miki had borrowed, and she wondered why in the world Hotel de Plot Contrivance had so many different pairs of pyjamas. It wasn’t as if guests staying at the hotel needed variety.
"Found it," she announced.
Fen pushed Commie's hand aside and did all sorts of techie things that Commie didn't understand. However, the display screen she could understand, and when a large red dot appeared on a map of Japan, she knew right away that was Miki and Aya.
"Where is that?" Fen asked.
"It looks like... somewhere in the southeast of Yamagata prefecture. ," Commie said smartly. She was
so smart. Oh yes. Mushrooms.
"Then that's where we're going," Fen said, glaring as she stared ahead. Commie joined her in the glaring.
Somewhere out there was their Miki-sama in distress, her captor, Aya, a very dangerous girl. They would stop at nothing to save Miki-sama.
NOTHING.
To Be Continued...!
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(Car technotalk Nacchi'd directly from Fen. I could never write something like that
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