The next 3 months passed by peacefully. Things happened, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. But my days of peace were limited.

Why?

Because today is the day where we start our journey with my spaceship.

My spaceship~ Oh, my spaceship!

I love it, you know. It is awesome! I explored it when I was bored in these 3 months and let me tell you something….

*cough* *cough*

Sorry for the disturbance, but this is something I always wanted to try saying. So let’s try this again….

IT’S BIGGER ON THE INSIDE!!

MUHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA!!

Oh, I definitely can’t control my excitement~

That’s right people, I have got a spaceship that’s bigger on the inside~

I feel like I can do a PhD and travel through time both at the same time.

“Excuse me. We are getting late.” says a soft, feminine voice from outside my room.

Oh, don’t bother me and ruin my moment of happiness. Because today, my ship is finally going to be mine~

Oh, I can’t stop the grin on my face right now.

“Yes, yes. I am ready. Let’s go.”

I open the door with a grin etched on my face and enthusiasm in my step. Although it’s time for me to go fight, I get my own spaceship in exchange. Not a bad compensation, eh.

“Yo.” Says the Freddy outside my door.

Bang

I slam the door shut as quickly as possible.

“Yo, Paper Plane Guy, what happened?”

“My heart couldn’t stand the shock.” I reply honestly from the other side of the door.

I am shocked. It’s Green-y on the outside. Damn my luck.

“Ah, last minute nerves? It’s alright, this happens to the best of us. Happened to me too. You don’t need to worry, you know. Ya aren’t going to the front lines like I am.” She says soothingly from the other side of the door.

I am not going to the front lines? Where the fighting is at its thickest and most brutal? Even though I have my own ship? That is really nice of her to inform me of.

Wait…

Something is strange about Green-y today.

I open the door and look down on the delicate green skinned and blue haired face in front of me. If a jackal-like face can be called delicate at all…

“Hmmm…” I tilt my head in confusion. Something is different from my memories. I turn her face upwards with my index finger and take a closer look.

“You are not Cereal.” I state.

“I am not Celery.” She replies cheerfully as she removes my finger from below her chin. “But I am the one with the most experience and composure amongst our Hood. I can certainly see why my Sisters begged me to come instead of them.” She says as she stepped back and examined me from top to bottom.

“So, Paper Plane Guy. Let’s go now, please. Follow me.” She says just as cheerfully as before.

I give her a nod to show my consent. Somehow, the fact that she’s not Green-y does not set off my failure-to-fail censors.

“You are pretty famous in this Station.” She states. I do not reply as she did not ask a question.

The outside is hot and stuffy. I am already starting to miss my room.

“No one can connect the guy who captains The Dream Destroyer to the guy who doesn’t have any friends and eats alone in the cafeteria always. The one who either shuts himself up in his room or his ship.”

Statements again. If this continues, I will start to ignore her too.

“You aren’t too chatty, are ya?” She stops and turns to look at me. I step around her and continue walking.

“Well…” she says, “Maybe we should rename you from Paper Plane Guy to Silent n Friendless.”

I can see the light on the other side of the corridor. Thankfully, this means that the Green-y impersonator has to stop trying to make small talk.

“You aren’t curious? Paper Plane Guy, because that’s what my Hood named you when you tried to hit your supervisor with a paper plane during a serious exam. Twice. And even succeeded on the second try. Pretty bold of you, don’t ya think? If only you would have continued after that…. But then again, if you did so then we wouldn’t have to try so hard to meet ya. Very masterful display of a classic technique. You have made your intentions clear. Don’t worry, you have Ourrr attention.”

Wait…. What, what, WOT!!

What just happened? What did she just say? My intentions? Their attention? I just wanted to have some fun, you know, like that classic song, “Guys just wanna have fun~” [1]

Wait…

I am saying this so often now. This phrase, I should just record it and play it whenever something new happens…. This feels GrEaT!!

So many different things

I am so touched~

“Is that so? This feels great.” I tell her.

She stumbles and looks at me, surprised. Then, she grins and shows off some very impressive sharp teeth.

“It’s good that I came here and none of my other Sisters did.” For some reason, she gives me a thumbs up.

Mommy, save me… I am scared…

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“Well, we are here.”

The corridor ends and I can see a lots of Freddy’s standing in line. My line-of-sight is blocked by the scary fake Green-y and she takes me to the top of a stage where someone starts giving a speech.

I ignore the guy talking and the fake Green-y staring at me to look at the Freddy’s who are supposed to be my crew.

And I try not to be scared out of my wits.

The Freddy’s who are supposed to be the tech guys look like mad scientists.

The Freddy’s who are supposed to be the fight guys look like they just got out of prison with lots of scars, muscles and tattoo’s….

….. Hey, is that an anchor tattoo like the one from ‘Popeye, The Sailor Man’? So cool! And the same guy even has the tattoo of a spinach can on the other side. He’s a fan of the series. Definitely!

I can use his company when I watch Popeye re-runs the next time!

And the ones who are supposed to be my ‘main’ crew look like….rainbows, is the only term that comes to mind. Well, they look strange and are all, strangely, humanoid. They also look too fresh.

Like freshly minted mint, fresh.

In other words, they look too young to be a ‘main’ crew.

A flash of green distracts me. It’s at the corridor from where I came in.

I concentrate and look to find what it is and regret it the very next second.

It’s Green-y. She’s here.

I look away from her and at my suspicious-looking crew.

I look at Green-y again who is now, unsuccessfully trying to hide.

Does this mean that I destined to fail with my rag-tag bunch of crew? Is this an omen of my death? Am I going to die so soon? After coming this far, am I going to be unable to see what fate has in store for me after I turn 21 and surpass my past life-time?

My thoughts are in disarray as someone pushes me in front of the mike to make a speech.

I don’t know what I spoke. I just spoke something to vent my frustrations and got it over it.

My thoughts calm down a little by the time I finish my speech. I sigh and look at the Freddy’s who are going to be with for an indeterminate amount of time. I guess I will make do with them.

Hmmm?

Why is everyone so pale and sickly?

Why are they shaking?

Ah, the Freddy next to the Popeye tattoo one suddenly sat down. Is he anemic? Can Freddy’s get anemic? He needs to take better care of himself, we haven’t even started out yet.

Oh well, even I am feeling unsettled. Must be something in the air.

I get back and walk down from the stage. The Freddy who was talking before me is pale too and he hands me some papers with trembling tentacles.

“Good luck. I hope you successfully create chaos behind enemy lines.” He says in a raspy voice.

Huh?

My thoughts grind to a halt.

Behind enemy lines….

B-E-H-I-N-D!! E-N-E-M-Y!! L-I-N-E-S!!

Keyword here: Behind

“I thought I wasn’t going to the front lines?” I manage to ask.

“Oh you aren’t, dahling. You aren’t going to the front lines. You are going behind the front lines, from the other side.”

The fake shows off her deadly teeth again as she tiptoes, opens her mouth and licks the underside of my chin.

“Have a safe trip~”

I was too shocked to process what just happened. I simply acted out everything in a mechanical manner.

Those sharp teeth sooo close to my neck.

I nearly died! Those teeth!

She needs to see a dentist to get them filed down. ASAP!

I want mother! My mum, help meeee---

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[1]Guys just wanna have fun - the original song is Cyndi Lauper's ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’