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[livestoannoy]

This was so not turning out to be a good day.

Okay, so they were stuck. In some random part of the ship that he'd never seen before, and they couldn't go back. And just to make it all better, none of their omnicomms or communication rings were working.

Which was why Marco was now sitting at the tables in the new mess hall, fiddling around with his omnicomm in an attempt to get the stupid thing to actually work. He was guessing it was some kind of hardware thing, which sucked, because Marco was better at messing with software than hardware.

Why the hell wasn't Ax here? He at least would know how to fix the damn thing. Ax could fix anything.

And as if to prove Marco's point, while he was poking at one of the wires the omnicomm sparked, causing Marco to let loose a flurry of curses.

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[livestoannoy]

"Hey, there's a difference between insane and completely insane. Besides, it's not my fault that the whole multiverse is nuts, is it?" Marco said, rolling his eyes.

"Wait, there's an aquarium? Seriously? And what the hell do you care about some boat? You don't own a boat! And I don't care if you carry me, I am not going to go and jump in-between and angry whale and a boat. That would really be insane." Marco paused. "I have a flea morph you know. You'd never be able to find me."

[encourage]

Her expression didn't change over the duration of him speaking. "Try me," she said dryly at the end. "And when did I say anything about my omnicomm being on a boat? I didn't. That's down at the bottom of the tank. The whale's having a party over at the far right."

She took another step toward him, and then sort of shrugged.

And a moment later Marco was getting a very wet, very squeezy hug from Sakura. Mostly to be annoying. "I asked nicely, and I promise the big mean ship destroying whale probably won't eat you."

[livestoannoy]

"What? You didn't say anything about your omnicomm!" Marco said, pointing a finger at her accusingly. "You told me I had to stop the whale from eating something, not pick up your crap from the bottom of a tank!" Marco paused. "What the hell is your omnicomm doing at the bottom of a tank!"

And at that hug Marco let out an indignant "Hey!" and tried to push Sakura away. (That was not fair!)

[encourage]

"I didn't?" Funny, but she really thought she had. "It fell there. I tried to get ahold of it when it first fell in, but my flak vest was causing too much drag, so I had to get out of that, while swimming, and then I almost had my omnicomm when I ran out of air, I touched it with my fingers..."

Sakura sighed almost against his neck. "Now you don't want me around you when I'm all wet?" She let him push her away, glaring at her right hand like it had personally let her down. "If I'd been near a tank wall, I could have run down it, but the walkway comes out over the tank itself. Then when I figured to cut losses and grab my flak vest, the whale's disturbance had pulled it out and down some thirty meters away. By the time I'd surfaced for air and made a running dive for it, it was out of reach."

[livestoannoy]

"No, you just rambled on about some whale and a boat!" Marco said. "And did you seriously drop your omnicomm and your vest into a tank?" Have some more laughing, Sakura, because Marco was finding this hilarious.

"You're not the fun kind of wet," he declared, before scowling momentarily at his now damp clothes. "And what, and you can't use your Ninja Underwater Breathing Technique or something?" he added with a snort.

[encourage]

She sighed again, because she really wasn't sighing enough already. Then she didn't bother dignifying his questions with a response, since not only did she drop her omnicomm, vest, and anything else on her into a tank, she wasn't the sort of shinobi with those kinds of water techniques.

No point in rewarding what she felt was a facetious question with a legitimate answer.

"You're right. I just need to try harder."

Hefting herself back up, she dusted absolutely nothing off her thighs, and then started walking away.

Fire what was she going to do. Maybe if she got a running start, pushed off high enough, and angled just right she could make it to the bottom without passing out?

"Maybe I can talk the whale into it," she muttered, unaware that she'd spoken out loud. "Maybe I can ride down in the whale."

Now that was just crazy. (And a little funny. "Hello, Mr. Whale? Or is is Ms. Whale? Can I get a short little ride from you? Just to get these tiny things from the bottom of your tank, no real reason, I'm a little fond of them is all?")

[livestoannoy]

Admittedly if Sakura had replied with a serious answer, Marco would have bogged at the fact that Ninja Underwater Breathing Technique actually existed.

"You have to be a dolphin to talk to whales," Marco said breezily, half running up to catch up with her. "And in case you hadn't noticed, I never said I wouldn't help." Marco grinned, in a way that he new would irritate her. "You just can't get by without me, can you?" he added, teasing.

[encourage]

Hey, he would have boggled if she told him shark-men also existed, and not in a "bred to be" way, but a "chose and yeah it's also a ninja technique" way. Her world had crazy inventive all over the place.

She glared at him sideways, more grumpy than she would normally be when better rested. "Like an explosive tag in the middle of a poison cloud."

[livestoannoy]

See, he'd told her her world was completely insane!

"Yup," Marco said cheerfully, apparently unconcerned about her grumpiness.

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