paixaorpg | Mission: Fix the Robot [Open]

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Mission: Fix the Robot [Open]

Character(s): Chii, Seifer, Selphie
Content: Getting Chii fixed!
Setting: Venturing to Luigi at Folios.
Time: Saturday evening
Warnings: none yet!

So they went on a mission. A mission to fix Chii, the robot, who Selphie still swore up and down was Seifer's girlfriend. She wondered why he wasn't more worried about her, she shrugged it off as that he wasn't an emotional guy but was really and truly worried deep inside. She smiled to herself as they walked. There was little conversation, in fact, Selphie said maybe two things to him the whole way. Of course, Selphie had wanted to chat lots more to the man who was from the same world as her, but refrained. It wasn't a good time.

Selphie had absolutely no idea where she was going, but her idea of where to go even though she had never been in this town before seemed to work.

"This looks like it might just be it!" Selphie pointed to the sign, and gave Seifer one of her special happy grins. She gave a happy jump of victory and winked at Seifer.

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[Nice. Thanks. :D]

Seifer, however, was still in get-stuff-done mode, and gave Selphie nothing more than a businesslike nod and he made his way into the place. He didn't really like the look of it- it wasn't exactly what you would call professional, what with the odd-looking flowers in the window and the bright green color it had been painted. But not having any other idea what to do, Seifer decided it was worth a shot.

Laying Chii down awkwardly on the counter and making sure that his jacket was sufficiently covering her (he was suddenly very conscious again that it was her only clothing), Seifer looked around for someone who looked capable of helping. "Hello?" the blond asked authoritatively, a small frown visible on his face. Hopefully it would draw someone out from the back room.

In answer to Seifer's halloo, a large man emerged from a doorway behind the counter. A very VERY large man. He had a blacksmith's hammer slung casually over one shoulder as if it weighed next to nothing. In short, he was damned intimidating.

That is, until he saw he had customers. The Very Large Man's face lit up like a Christmas tree. "Welcome! Welcome to Folios, my friend. What I can do you for today, ah? You wanna new weapon? You wan I make-a old weapon sharp and clean? She shine like the sun on fire, you just give-a to Mario. I take care-a everything."

Far more quickly than a person of his size should have been able to move, he was across the store, giant meaty fingers gently plucking a tiny plushie down from a huge case of the things. They made a decidedly odd addition to the store's predominantly lethal wares. He turned back to his customers with a cheezy smile. "You like-a plushie, little boy? It's-a cute, no? Everybody like a plushie. I say to my wife Maria, 'Everybody like-a plushie, how we can't have plushies in our store? She thinks I crazy, but I tell her, 'No! We gotta have-a the plushie.'

"Whatta you think?" And here he thrust the Charizard plushie into Seifer's face and gave it a little squeeze so that its forked tongue popped out and tickled the tip of his nose. "Isn't that-a cutest thing you ever saw?"

The Very Large Man's face fell as he suddenly seemed to notice Chii lying on the counter. "So sorry, but Folios, we only take a cash or trade-in. No pay with-a people."

It took all of Selphie's will power not to burst out laughing at this Luigi fellow. She took a deep breath, held it in, and stepped on her own foot to keep her mind on something else. When she felt she'd die if she didn't take breathe, she let it out slowly and softly while she tried to think about Chocobo's. They were fluffy and yellow and really cute--- But, Luigi just put a plushie in Seifer's face. Selphie giggled, but turned it into a coughing fit as best as she could.

Just as she calmed herself, he mentioned "pay with a people."

This guy was rooting for Selphie's death. She was certain of it. She managed to giggle softly into the back of her hand before clearing her throat and managing a mature and business sounding tone. She was a little worried that he didn't know what he was doing. Could he even fix her? Or was this some big stupid joke?

"No, we're not here to pay with a person," she explained, motioning to Chii. Selphie gave him her best smile, "This is our friend Chii, she's broken. We were referred to you. Can you fix her?" She placed her hands innocently behind her back and smiled widely at Luigi, "Please?"

Selphie hoped the innocent girl trick would sucker him into fixing her, if he really could. She wasn't quite sure if this was the right place to bring Chii. If not, she'd move to more drastic measures.

His eyes widening in surprise as an orange plushie suddenly invaded his personal space, Seifer leaned back ever so slightly in reaction to the assault. But the charizard was not in his face for more than two seconds before the annoyed, flustered blond swiped it out of Luigi’s hands. Glaring at the thing for a moment (and deeming the plushies totally ridiculous), he sourly stomped over to where the rest of the dolls were kept and tossed it in with a distasteful look. He opened his mouth to snidely let the man know how stupid he was making himself look with both the plushies and his comments, but Selphie managed to chime in before he got any words out himself.

"No, we're not here to pay with a person," the girl started, speaking more professionally than Seifer would have thought she was capable of. "This is our friend Chii, she's broken. We were referred to you. Can you fix her? Please?"

Satisfied to be getting down to business, Seifer didn’t see any need to add anything on to Selphie’s request. What with the man’s strange penchant for plushies, he figured that those two would get along much better anyway. So he merely glanced over at the ‘broken’ girl... to notice that his jacket was hanging off of her at an all too inappropriate angle.

Treading over to where Chii was laying (and trying to pass it off as simple concern), Seifer adjusted the gray trenchcoat to a more acceptable position and turned back towards Luigi in anticipation of his response.

The Very Large Man looked on, expectantly, as Seifer swiped the Charizard out of his hands. Perhaps he thought Seifer was going to snuggle it and purchase it on sight. If so, he was wrong.

When Seifer stormed over to the case and threw the plushie back in, the large man's expression grew dark. "Hey, you watch how-a you treat my little-a plushies, bambino. You break-a you buy-a."

Luckily, Selphie cut in before an all-out plushie war could break out.

"She's-a broken?" the man asked with interest, coming over to take a closer look at Chii. He gave the droid a curious poke or two. Then he looked down at Seifer subtly adjusting the lay of his jacket. "This, she your girlfriend, eh?" And he burst out in a sudden bout of raucous belly-laughter that would have put Santa to shame.

"The bambino, he got-a robot girlfriend! AAAAAAAAAH-HOH-HOH-HOH-HOH!" He gave Seifer a friendly slap on the back that was powerful enough to send most people sprawling across the room. "Well done-a you worry, bambino. We gonna get your girlfriend fix for you."

And then he turned and bellowed up the stairs on one side of the counter, loud enough to wake the dead. "EY LUIGI! YOU GOTTA CUSTOMER. GET DOWN HERE AN DON'T KEEP THEM WAITING YOU LAZY MOLTI TUTTO ALWAYS SITTING ON YOU ASS-A!"

He turned back to Selphie. "My brother Luigi, he's lazy because he's-a SMART. Done worry. He fix-a your friend."

And with a friendly nod, he disappeared back through the doorway behind the counter. His absence was soon replaced with a hammering of metal.

Fuming almost too much to form coherent words at first, Seifer frowned deeply as his face took on what can only be described as a 'WTF?' expression. "That thing? Are you kidding?" the blond half-spat on deaf ears.

As Luigi completely disappeared behind the back door, Seifer scoffed to nobody in particular and glared sourly over at the plushies. "Don't know what the hell that guy's problem is..." Seifer said, referring to not only the man's comment but his demeanor and plushie obsession as well. He didn't bother to look over at Selphie as he spoke, but it was the first time in awhile that he had directly addressed her. Well, one step at a time, hmm?

"He's a freak. Let's hurry up and get this over with, I don't want to be here any longer than we have to be."

[LUIGI IS AWESOME HAHA! XDDD]

[ooc: Actually, that was Mario. XD]

Less than five minutes later, there was the sound of a large elephant slowly descending the stairs. Soon another very large man came into view.

If pressed to find the difference between the two very large men, one might have perhaps said that this very large man looked to possess merely the strength of three men instead of the first man's ten. His blond handlebar moustache was also a bit unkempt compared to that of the first.

"EH?!" this new very large man yelled, swiping a meaty hand over his groggy-looking face. "WHY YOU GOTTA YELL WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING?! ALL THE TIME YELLING! YOU KNOW I GOTTA SLEEP AFTER I STAY UP LAST NIGHT FIX-A MACHINE FOR YOUR WIFE!"

At this point, he was behind the counter and shouting into the doorway through which the first very large man had disappeared. "Oh no you GIVE me-a evil eye, Mario! You give your brother a evil eye?" And, gesticulating furiously, he burst into a bout of foreign expletives that nearly turned the air blue. There was a responsive round of expletives and yelling from the first man within, and their shouting grew louder and louder until it looked certain they would come to blows.

Then, suddenly it was over as soon as it had started. With one last gesture recognisable in any language, the new very large man turned to look over the customers, remembering to smile just a few moments too late. "Sorry you gotta see that," he apologised. "My brother Mario, because he was born two minutes earlier than me think he can run my life."

One last outburst from the back room seemed to answer this statement, and the very large man in front of them had another universal gesture of his own which ended the conversation once and for all.

He turned back to Seifer and Selphie with a sheepish grin. "Eh, family. What you gonna do?

"So. What you got for me, ah?" He peered down at the counter, apparently noticing Chii for the first time. "You bring a naked girl in my store?" And he turned around to shout over his shoulder. "You so funny, Mario! Call me down from a nap to take a look at a naked girl!"

"She a robot, estupido!" the answer came from the back over the banging of the giant hammer.

"A robot, ah?" Luigi turned back to look more closely at Chii. "Ahhhh. She a real good robot, eh? Where you find such a good robot, signore?" And then a suspicious look crossed his face. "This robot, how come she got no clothes?" He lifted up the edge of Seifer's jacket and peered beneath, raising an eyebrow.

[Eh, both of 'em are great. :D]

"I found her like that. Yesterday," Seifer stated, the slightest trace of edginess in his voice. The blond tried to conceal his extreme dislike for the brothers at least until Chii was fixed, but Seifer had never been one to act like he was fine when he was pissed off, and he was quite out of practice in that department.

"That's why she's wearing my jacket," Seifer explained, hoping that it wouldn't sound totally sketchy. But as soon as it was out, he felt like it had been the absolute worst thing he could've said. Needless to say, Seifer hated that feeling. "See, I don't know this city at all, and I wouldn't know where to buy girl clothes. So I just... gave her that for now so she would at least be sort of decent until I... found a place..."

Realizing that he was just digging a deeper and deeper hole for himself, Seifer sighed in frustration and pointed at Chii, hoping to change the subject. "Can you fix her, or not?"

[ooc: lol@mario&luigi. I'm so entertained. sorry I took so long to reply, lots of stuff to do this weekend :x. ]

Selphie cough-laughed when the man mentioned Seifer's robot girlfriend. The guy was an idiot, but he thought like her in that regard. She grinned.

When Seifer spoke to her, she nodded in slight agreeance, "They'll fix her and they'll do it quick. If they try to chit chat instead? Welllll.." Selphie trailed off, grinning. She was good at being forceful when she wanted to be.

She watched the scene quietly, waiting and watching out for a time where she might have to jump in and knock some sense into someone.

Luigi didn't seem to really be listening to Seifer's defensive babbling. Instead, a look of concentration encompassed his features as he slowly and carefully examined Chii with eyes and hands.

By the time Seifer was done, so was Luigi. "I don't think she's a broken," he replied. "She seem in good working order to me. Probably she just low on battery. You gotta charge?"

He leaned carefully toward Chii's blankly-staring eyes and waved a large hand in front of her face. "Hey robot-girl, what kinda food you eat, ah? You tell us we gonna get it for you."

"She's broken, she's not gonna answer you," Seifer said sharply, his frustration slipping out. Well, it was bound to happen at least once, sooner or later. Then, realizing he had said something possibly offensive and not willing to apologize, he sighed in annoyance and continued on. "But no, we don't have anything to charge her with. That's why we came to you."

Sighing once again under his breath, Seifer rolled his eyes hard and then drew himself up authoritatively as Luigi loomed over Chii. Crossing his arms, Seifer decided that he would at least TRY to stay silent until they got out of here. The so-called mechanic (who was greatly unimpressing him, Seifer would be the first to admit) was bothering him more and more with each passing second.

Selphie could sense Seifer's frustration and sulently agreed. She was beginning to feel a slight annoyance with the man herself. She put on a small smile and stepped forward.

"Pardon me, sir," She began, placing a hand on her hip. She paced around slightly before continuing, "Chii can't eat anything if she is not charged up, right? If she's out of battery, we just need something to charge her with. Can you help us there, or at least tell us where we can buy a charge for her? I don't believe we own one," she glanced over at Seifer quickly before turning her attention to Luigi.

She reached back into her back pocket and felt her money bag. She nodded again to herself and spoke up once more, "If it is a hefty price, no worries, I'm sure we can take care of it," Selphie nodded, before looking up at Luigi expectantly.

"We talk about a price later," Luigi answered Selfie and then turned to Seifer.

"You, you shut up your face, ah? Don't be angry at me because your girlfriend's-a broken." He paused to give Seifer an appraising look, as if trying to figure him out. "Too skinny. That's-a your problem. Eat more, you don't be angry so much all the time."

Luigi turned to grin conspiratorially at Selfie. "I bet he got no wife at home, cook good food for him. Just-a robot girlfriend he done even know how he gonna charge."

Before the top of Seifer's head could blow off, Luigi crossed his arms over his broad chest and continued. "Yeah, I gotta charge. All kinds-a charge. Problem is, which one?" He held out his hands in a dramatic gesture, feigning helplessness. "If I saw a place to plug her, maybe I can guess which one is right. I make an outlet that work. But I see no place."

The large man turned back to Seifer. "If I find a place, I can do it. You know a place to plug her, boyfriend boy? Maybe we oughtta leave you two alone, let you look, ah?" Mischievous amusement sparkled in his blue, beady eyes.

Seifer silently fumed, shooting daggers at Luigi all throughout the man's speech. His mouth was pursed into an angry, sinister shape and his hands were clenched into fists at his sides. The blond leaned forward ever so slightly as if about to smack the man, and anyone who knew Seifer well enough would know that the SeeD-in-training probably would have... if he hadn't needed the help of this frustrating mechanic.

"She is NOT my girlfriend, I am NOT too-!" began Seifer, shutting himself up spitefully mid-sentence as he struggled to keep his temper in check. It was hard, and a second went by as Seifer mentally battled with himself against punching the man in the face, all the while glaring intensely into Luigi's eyes. He certainly deserved it, in Seifer's mind.

Then, sighing in utter and absolute frustration- and knowing how bad this was going to look- Seifer threw his arms up in the air angrily and snarled, "It's on her leg, okay? Find it yourself. It's your job."

Before stalking out, Seifer turned to Selphie and half-spat, "Come get me when this idiot's finished." And with that, Seifer turned tail defiantly and left the building to stand and wait outside until the two were finished.

Luigi let loose a booming belly-laugh as Seifer stormed out the door. "AHHHHHHH-HO-HO-HO-HO! Your friend, he got quite a temper, ah? He's a good boy."

Without further comment, Luigi produced a gem-cutter's glass and leaned close to Chii, peering up and down her legs for the socket Seifer had spoken of. Finding it, he examined it for a few moments with eyes and hands before dropping the glass into the palm of one huge hand, thoughtful.

Then he disappeared upstairs for a few minutes during which there were sounds of shuffling, clanking, and mad rummaging around as if through a junk heap. Luigi reappeared on the stairs, his face red from the exertions, but with a triumphant expression. "This, she gonna fix her," he beamed, waving around the hunk of metal and twisted wire he clutched in one gigantic fist.

Back at the counter, he pulled out some tools and did some tinkering and soldering before finally holding up the plug he'd just rigged. "Ah?" he asked, showing it to Selfie with a proud nod before carefully pushing it into Chii. He flipped a few switches on the charger, and a soft whirring could be heard.

"This gonna take about a hour," he told her. "Maybe you go find your friend. Make sure he don't pick up any more robot girlfriend, ah?" He smiled, his eyes laughing.

Her system is activated again once there is power and so the soft whirring of her machine that is not much louder than a person's breathing can finally be heard again the moment Luigi charges her. While her power is filling up, Chii takes to rearranging her data so that she can save whatever memory she got scattered the moment she shutted down.

There was Paixao... Map... Electronic Journal... Turned on by a master... Chii like master... master very kind... finding place to stay in this junkyard of a city... helpless person... Selphie... finding something to eat... Chii not talk...

All the data that can be restored have been restored and with it, Chii opens her eyes to let her master, whoever it is, know that she is on and that she is ready to be used.

Selphie smiled politely, "He does have a temper, but he's alright."
She watched intently as Luigi began charging Chii. Selphie had always been interested in machinery and technology and besides, they may have to know this for the future. That is, if Selphie continued traveling with them after this. Maybe Seifer would kick her out of their party.

Soon enough, Luigi seemed to have finished plugging her in. She nodded her head slightly, "I'll go check on him. Thank you very much, Luigi!" She gave him her best smile and headed out the door to find Seifer.

"Hey! Chii'll be charged in an hour!"

"An hour?" Seifer repeated, still frowning as Selphie stood in the doorway. He gave an exaggerated sigh before asking, "And what are we supposed to do until then?" Seifer glanced inside through the window without moving, and merely crossed his arms defiantly.

Not giving the girl a chance to answer, Seifer continued on anyway. "Well, great." He looked around a little bit then, totally disregarding anything Selphie might have been saying through his search, and then faced her again, saying, "And of course, we're in the middle of nowhere."

Selphie waited until he paused before she said anything. He sort of reminded her of one of the boys she had to work with at Trabia. Interrupting him meant death, and she was sure Seifer was the same way.

"Well, there's always Eye Spy!" She offered, giving him a smile. "Or, we could just walk and talk. OR, you can just sit here in silence for an hour. Take your pick."

She put a hand on her hip and waited for a response.

The hour passed quickly; Luigi barely had time to start on one of his many 'projects' before Chii opened her eyes and came back to life, as it were.

"Ah, you awake!" he bellowed good-naturedly, setting his tinkering aside. "You need more charge? Maybe some food, ah? Though I don't gonna know what a robot is needing with food." He laughed at his own joke.

"How you feel little-a robot girl? Maybe I should get your friends, ah? Your boyfriend, he worry about you."

"Chii!" the chobit shouts gleefully at Luigi. She would have pounced on him, but the man continued talking while mentioning her boyfriend, which she does not understand. Chii steps off the table and onto the floor. She notices Selphie and immediately lunges at her, hugging her tightly. "Selphie!"

Then releasing her embrace she looks around the shop for her master. Not finding the blonde-haired man, she frowns and turns to Selphie for explanation. "Chii not find master..."

"She's finally done?" came a voice from the doorway. Seifer had his arms crossed and he leaned against the side of the frame, the door propped open behind him. His expression wasn't as annoyed as the tone of his voice, and his eyes appeared to be simply appraising as he looked Chii over. Yup, she looked fixed, alright.

Glancing coldly at Luigi for a moment, Seifer sighed and turned in the doorway to leave. "Time to leave, then," he said, purposefully not thanking or even addressing the mechanic. Hopefully he could just leave with the two and nothing more would come of it.

"Oh-HO!" Luigi cried, lumbering over to the door before Seifer could exit. "You think you just gone leave without pay Luigi, ah? That not-a so smart, boyfriend-boy. Not-a so smart."

He nodded his head over in Chii's direction. "What, you no happy your girlfriend fixed now? Too bad!" He pointed a meaty finger at the shorter man. "I fix, you pay."

The large man became somewhat less aggressive as he tucked his thumbs into his belt loops and looked vaguely thoughtful. "You probly gone wanna buy the charge, too, ah? She gonna run down again sometime. Whatta you gone do, then?"

Chii frowns and furrows her eyebrows as the huge man seems to want to hurt her master. She quickly runs and steps between Luigi and Seifer while shooting daggers at the bald man. Still maintaining her position, she turns around and faces Seifer, her expression changing instantly into a sweet smile, "Seifer not wanna buy the charge, Chii charge herself with that!" she points outside toward the sun.

She normally can recharge herself as long as she is exposed to two hours of sun each day, but maybe installing a new master takes a lot of energy. It never crosses her mind that the sun she is pointing at is actually artificial. Chii turns toward the man, her gaze changing once again, "You not hurt master! Chii not happy!"

As intimidating as Luigi was, Seifer refused to give the man the satisfaction of seeing him scared. Standing his ground (well, more or less), Seifer's expression stayed defiant and almost bored until Luigi was done speaking.

"Selphie said earlier that she would pay, but just because she didn't yet or expects me to now is no reason to yell at me," the blond said bitchily, his voice sharp and condescending. "Way to assume," he added, his voice as sarcastic as could be.

Glancing at Chii but ignoring her comments, Seifer looked back over at Luigi and heaved an exaggerated sigh. "So how much is it, anyway?"

Luigi blinked down at robot-girl as she jumped between Seifer and himself, threatening him. He paused for a beat and a half after she'd finished speaking, and then threw his head back in the loudest, most uproarious laughter yet.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHH-HO-HO-HO-HO! Now I see why you so anxious to have your girlfriend back, boyfriend-boy! You need her look out for you! OHHHHH-HO-HO!" He actually stumbled around a bit clutching his stomach, he was laughing so hard.

Finally, he calmed down enough to address Chii. "Done you worry, little girl. Luigi's not gonna hurt your boyfriend-boy. He just gotta no manners, ah? Try to leave without pay. Maybe you give'm a kiss he gonna be nicer to everybody, ah?"

Hearing Seifer say Selphie was going to pay, the very large man turned to her with a kind smile. "Just ten munny. You wanna take-a charge, I give to you for a bargain at 50."

Selphie winced, hoping their wasn't going to be an argument between Luigi and Seifer. When all seemed to get better she smiled politely and hopped forward towards Luigi.

"Yes, with the charge please!" She fumbled around in her back pocket and counted out the change. She handed it over and smiled at Luigi, thankful that he had done the job and they could get on out of here. She was sure Seifer did not want to spend another minute in here.

Done you worry, little girl. Luigi's not gonna hurt your boyfriend-boy. He just gotta no manners, ah? Chii narrows her eyes even more, a dangerous glint passing her hazelnut eyes, "Seifer gotta manners! Seifer very kind!" Chii steals a glance toward Seifer. Try to leave without pay. Maybe you give'm a kiss he gonna be nicer to everybody, ah? Chii's expression changes abruptly into that of curiosity. She turns to Luigi and then to Seifer, "Seifer happy if Chii kiss?"

Seifer and Selphie seem to be occupied with paying for the charge, so Chii folds her hands neatly in front of her and waits patiently for Selphie to pay before tugging at Seifer's arm to get his attention, "If Seifer happy if Chii kiss, Chii kiss!"

Giving her a deadpan look, Seifer almost didn't know how to react to Chii's 'offer'. He decided at long last just not to answer the girl... he was completely fed up, anyway, and wasn't in the mood to deal with robotic girls offering to kiss him right now.

After a short moment, the blond looked back up at Luigi and Selphie, his face still harboring an expression of boredom and annoyance. "Are we ready to go, now?" he asked impatiently.

Luigi smiled kindly as he tucked the money into one of many pockets on his apron. "Folios thanks-a you for choosing us for all your mechanical, weapons, and-a plushie needs. Please come again soon, ah?"

As he spoke, his tone one of jovial parting, Luigi moved stealthily over to the Wall o' Plushies™ and grabbed one at random, bringing it over to Chii.

"Ah yes, that's-a good choice for a plushie, little girl. My brother, he be so happy you like." He bent down close and whispered as quietly as a very large man was capable (which wasn't much), "Please, you take-a with my compliments, ah? My brother Mario, he getta little weird about a plushies. If I pretend I sold to you, he be happy. He don't gotta know I include in the price, ah?"

Standing back up, he waved to the three of them. "You be careful, ah? Strange things in the city lately."

Selphie smiled politely at Luigi, trying her hardest not to laugh at Seifer and Chii.

"Thank you for fixing her," Selphie said as she edged towards the door, "We'll be sure to be careful. You take care!" She flashed a grin and grabbed Seifer's arm. She grabbed Chii next and pulled them both out of the store.

"Alright!" She nodded and let go of both of them, "Lets get outta here!"

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