I poked the fire with a stick watching as it crackled. It was getting really cold, but between setting up a campfire and Arcanine acting as my space heater I was fine. Not that the rest of the researchers weren’t still complaining of the cold.
Should have brought Pillow with me, could have offered him out to someone as a...
2024-11-29 04:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Hehehe!” I giggled as I woke up, blinking sleep out of my eyes and wiggling to escape the tickling I was receiving. “T-Tini! No f-fair!” I giggled as I reached down and pulled the noodle away from my belly where he was tickling me.
“Dradradra!” He giggled at my squirming as I pulled the blanket away...
2024-11-28 23:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Zelooos!” I cheered as the large executive style car parked in front of the school, and the door was opened.
I could see Zelos look up from her lap to see not the airport but almost her entire former class.
Then she turned, giving a betrayed look to her father beside her who just waved her to get out.
“And this is the main lab.” Cerise proclaimed as we walked into a room with what looked like super computers along the walls, a small work desk area, and a rest area with a crash couch.
Ah yes, the crash couch. I’d spent my own amount of time on one of those before.
“Neat.” I couldn’t help but say, m...
2024-11-27 03:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Gib.”
“Is that so?” I asked, as I sat beside Gible out on the grass. I honestly don’t know if she even noticed me being gone for the conference, but when I came back she’d been… Close. Walking over to stand near me or settling next to me.
Training was over. My little baby dragons had done well, but G...
2024-11-26 01:49:09 +0000 UTC View Post“That was mean!” I whined to Zelos who just ignored me as she grabbed some of the treats left out on the buffet. “Zeloooos.”
“Vicky stop complaining.” She snapped back and then bit into something that looked tasty. I grabbed one and tried it.
“Yuck.” I decided even if I swallowed it down.
...
2024-11-24 23:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe hold door was down as I watched Hammond pull off the road. He looked a good bit rougher than he had before. Dirt and grime coated his face and beard, but as he stepped out of the hauler after parking, he flicked his tab at me before saying anything.
I checked what he sent, and the data was clear.
Coordinates...
2024-11-22 17:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostI had one of Papa’s big coats over my shoulders as I sat outside.
It was cold, and I’d really prefer to be inside where it was warm but…
“Are you ready to come inside yet?” I asked into the large hole that Mama had been glaring at me for.
It wasn’t my fault! Arcanine was being… Stu...
2024-11-21 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Yo!” I greeted the group of classy Arasaka students all wearing their fancy uniforms as I walked up.
“Motoko!” Hiromi cheered her previous flat look shifting into the smile I was so familiar with.
“Hey Hiromi. Hey David. How’re you?” I asked, the boy had been standing beside Hiromi.
The bar was full, and fairly noisy, but it was darker than the outside, and the path was clear. Hammond stepped forward without hesitating and I only followed after I got my bearings.
As I looked around I couldn’t help but wonder.
We were looking for pirates right? Weren’t they all right here?
“Vicky!”
“Wassa?” I blinked awake at the yell. Looking up, Ivy was hurrying over and then grabbing me “Hey!” I yelped at the rough treatment.
“You’re late! Stupid!” She yelled at me and started trying to drag me along but I fought her for a second.
Mouth wipe, yep that was drool. Alright...
2024-11-16 00:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Give me a bit more light.” I asked, as I grumbled, my fingers not quite able to figure out what I was dealing with.
“Yes yes! Liiiiight!” The Crabbit cried out and then turned on its little flashlight. That let me see what had happened. The cords got tangled, and it had dragged a connection out of socket.
Hammond gone from the ship meant I had time to have a private conversation with my other crewmates. I gathered all the Crabbits onto the bridge and started the meeting.
“So Hammond is going to join us for at least a little while as part of the crew.” I explained to the gaggle of Crabbits hovering and hanging around me.
The arrival into the new system was as always a breath of fresh air as we emerged into real space. Star-like lights that didn’t move or shift, or grow or shrink met my eyes and that was a relief from the constant weirdness of subspace.
I flicked my Tab to open the Comm channel, and broadcast my basic information, as I started ...
2024-11-06 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe brothers thankfully didn’t follow, and I think my sudden and hasty departure saved me from anyone thinking to follow me, as I rushed back onto my ship as fast as my long legs could take me without breaking out into a sprint.
I immediately hit the hold door, watching as the armored wall of metal that would laugh at an...
2024-11-02 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Marco!” I called out slowly walking through the hallways of my ship.
I heard some of the Crabbit that had already failed the game, tittering all around me, but finally one called out from down the hall. “Polo! Green!”
“Oh you think you’re green do you?” I muttered darkly as I hurried down th...
2024-10-29 17:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Open the Diamond Drive!” I called out firmly, I was nervous, but I didn’t want to show that to the Crabbit.
Seven Light Iris Drives were floating around me, held in place by Crabbits as I looked at the new Diamond Drive.
I had done test after test to make sure. It was… Perfect.
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“Oh… Uh, hey Alice.” I greeted as I opened the door to see our neighbor.
“Hey, Motoko. So yeah. Umm, you had time to think about that offer?” She asked and I blinked and rubbed my head. I felt like I was still pulling blood out of my knuckles despite a shower.
“Yeah I thought about it. Yeah…” I s...
2024-10-24 17:57:59 +0000 UTC View Post“The winner!” I cried out holding a flipper up to the sky and the Pokemon center went wild with cheers.
The Nurse Joys attacked me as soon as I stepped into the pokemon center to get Blissey checked out, and so now we were holding a party.
Poppers exploded confetti, and Blissey looked like she was going to s...
2024-10-22 23:26:52 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something so integral, something so human, about the awe I felt when I took the step onto an asteroid that no human had ever visited before. A place nothing human had ever reached.
“One small step.” I repeated the famous line as I landed softly on the dusty rock.
“Ah? But it was a big step ...
2024-10-21 17:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt was not yet time to install my new stuff.
For one, everything was super heavy in atmosphere, and the Crabbit weren’t much help like normal.
That would have to be a later thing. Instead we all had a decision to make.
Well, I had a decision, but I was trying to make others decide it for me. I...
2024-10-17 17:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to the wonderful Crabbits I now have a Discord!
2024-10-17 06:36:17 +0000 UTC View PostMarie, Collin, and I found another shuttle. This time demanding a more reasonable ride from the driver, a woman chewing some sort of… Stick? It made me think it was some sort of drug or something, but Collin didn’t make any motion to choose another shuttle, and then we were off.
We didn’t end up going far, just ...
2024-10-13 17:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostI slipped down the ladder into the hold and rolled my eyes at the Crabbit tantrum I was witnessing here too.
“Oh Kat, umm?” Marie asked, looking at the spectacle in concern.
“Don’t mind them.” I said as I walked over to the Crabbit on her back who was crying as I just flipped her with my foot.
...
2024-10-09 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay. Everyone is secured?” I asked, looking around the Phantom Stars hold. Double checking everything was in place.
“We got it Captain.” Old Collin said, speaking formally much to my surprise. “Everything is locked down and ready for the trip. We’re set for travel.” I took the words and nodded, my back straighten...
2024-10-05 17:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Brat.” Aunt Sheila called out, surprising me and I stalled out on my rapid pace towards the air locks.
“Aunt Sheila, what’s up?”
“Before you run off, I’d like a second.” She called out and I shifted my path, turning towards Aunt Sheila's little shop area. I followed her back in, and noticed that...
2024-10-01 17:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle I was watching was interesting. The boy that had beaten Ivy was confidently taking apart another contestant. The girl was a few years older than us, but she was doing way worse than Ivy had against him.
He had some serious skills.
“Exciting isn’t it?” Ivy asked, as she was to my surprise not bot...
2024-09-29 17:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostWalking up to the airlock of the Octavius I wilted a little under the looks of the two guards standing outside it.
The soldiers were huge and both locked eyes onto me the moment I started approaching.
“Umm. The Baron?” I managed to stutter out before the guards nodded and stepped aside.
“Motokooooo!” I blinked looking away from my lunch.
“Hey Hiromi.” I greeted as she rushed inside the apartment and leapt onto the couch. “Shouldn’t you be at school?”
“Noooo!” She whined and I just watched her until finally she stopped. “Yes, technically. But more importantly, Section 9 needs to ...
Slowly, as the drip drip of liquid splattering onto steel slowed to a stop I finally started feeling at least a little better. My nose had stopped bleeding, at least, which was a good sign. My eye fluttered as I tried to open them, and I realized one of them was crusted over.
I felt strong enough to stand up with only a little w...
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