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storypaint ([personal profile] storypaint) wrote2008-06-25 10:17 am

#1 (gen)

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Title: #1
Author: rhap_chan
Fandom: Tenchi Muyo!/Final Fantasy VII
Pairing: Hojo and Washu gen
Prompt: EPIC BATTLE OF SCIENCE. Washu totally wins.
Rating: G
Word Count: 321
Disclaimer: Tenchi Muyo belongs to Masaki Kajishima. Final Fantasy VII belongs to Square Enix. This fanfic is a derivative of canon material that is not my property. I do not profit from these writings. The opinions and actions expressed in these stories are not necessarily the views and beliefs of the original author or me.

Excerpt: "I hate you," he said, huffily, throwing his lab coat down in a dramatic flair. Washu rolled her eyes.

"Quit knocking," Washu said after ten long minutes. The noise didn't stop so much as it paused hopefully and then resumed. Finally she got up and opened the door to a purple-faced man in glasses. She thought, looking at him clinically, that he wasn't usually purple, but he probably wasn't usually this angry, either. He'd be one to study. His heart was pounding at such a rate--

"I hate you," he said, huffily, throwing his lab coat down in a dramatic flair. Washu rolled her eyes.

"I'm sorry, Hojo, but you know it's true. I am the--"

In a flash his arm was around her neck; she dangled two feet off the ground. "I cannot take your puppets one more time today," he said with feeling. Luckily for him, he dropped her again. She rubbed her neck and planned fifteen terrible deaths for him. She had almost decided on #12 when he sunk to the ground and began to sob.

"I created life. I almost helped destroy a planet! Angsty vampires! Silver hair! Wings!" he sputtered into incoherency. Washu sighed and tapped her foot.

"Yes, yes," she said, turning away from him and gesturing towards the door. "There's always next year, I suppose."

"The world!" he said, grabbing her lab coat. She turned and looked at him over her shoulder.

"There are a lot of worlds," she said softly, "and you know nothing about living in any of them."

She pressed a large red button on her console and a hole abruptly opened up under the other scientist. Gravity didn't play around and he soon disappeared, but she stared thoughtfully into the hole for a moment before she carefully picked it up at the edges, folded it, and tucked it into her pocket.

"Portable black holes," she said into the silence. "It's my entry for next year. Isn't it lovely?"

She climbed back into her chair. Relishing the silence, she began to type.