Chapter 12 - From CAST to Cat

[photonicfighter]

[Action A - 458 Stone Street, Morning]

[Waking up in the morning is usually a quick, power-up-and-go affair for Dakki. But this morning was that slow, sleepy, gummy-eyed organic kind of feeling... which immediately had her worried. Had her body been taken away again? But it soon became clear that this wasn't even that poor human substitute body that Mayfield had given her.

She had ears. And tails. And she was shorter. Oh dear.]


AAAAH! What the heck is going on!?

[Have yourself a panicky nekomata, household. And probably a panicky android somewhere upstairs, too.]

[Action B - Around Town]

[Okay, okay. It wasn't so bad being Chen. It was actually kind of neat and different. Because she could float! And also, possibly do that danmaku-spellcard-whee-lotsa-projectiles stuff. So perhaps you'll catch her flying around with a big silly grin on her face. Or maybe you'll have to dodge some stray, wimpy, half-assed little energy bullet things.]



Oops! Ah! I'm sorry! Didn't mean to... really! Hee...

[No wonder Chen was in such good spirits all the time. It was fun to be Chen.]

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Comments

[nanocerancowboy]

[Kind of getting there ... though it looks more like Chen trying to imitate Dakki. All it'd take is one "Nyaa!" to break that effect.]

[Gat looks down for a moment to think of something. Preferably something they'd not yet talked about since being in Mayfield, at least in front of Chen. ... Oh, wait, that should work!]

Who were th' former Hunters we usually worked with in th' GUARDIANS?

[castnip]

[An easy question! She rattled it all off with a pleasant smile.]

Other than the both of us, there was Rina Wildreaper, who was a RAmarl, and... Viridia Section ID. Then there was Emryl Denjay, and he was a HUmar and Blueful Section ID. And then with the Whithil Section ID there was...

[nanocerancowboy]

[Gat cuts her off—that was plenty convincing.]

Heh, alright, I believe ya. You're th' real Dakki, even if your body ain't.

[castnip]

Alright! [That sure worked better than the last time she tried that strategy.

Now she's taking a few slow and uncertain steps out from around the coffee table.]

I hope this doesn't last for too long... it can't be for more than a week, right? Maybe?

[nanocerancowboy]

[Only because Mayfield was forcing Gat into believing she wasn't the real deal!]

Seems like most things 'round here last a week. But assumin' this is all they're gonna do, this ain't all that bad.

[Then, in realization ...]

If you've got Chen's body, what do you think happened to her?

[castnip]

As long as it's not permanent! And as long as they don't do something else at the same time...

[Oh. Oh, that was a pretty good realization.]

Uh...

[And perhaps now is an appropriate time to be reacting to the Chen-In-Dakki's-Body thread below?]

[nanocerancowboy]

[TO THE CASTMOBILE, DAKKI!]