M of the Detective // Can't Be Dissuaded

[gaiamemory]

Philip is so confused. He wanders his way to Ten Forward, rubbing the bruise over his eye. He needs to sit down and think about this for a bit. Figure out why Shotaro was doing and saying the things that he is.

But once he steps into the lounge there's a flash of light and all of a sudden, he isn't Philip anymore.

He's dressed in a somewhat more respectable manner, his hair down without any clips, and he has a confused look on his face. He gingerly touches a hand to his face. Why does his eye hurt so bad?

And why is he in Ten Forward, anyway? He has work to do.

Raito turns on his heel and storms down the corridor. Being trapped on some spaceship in interstellar space isn't going to stop him from his Gaia Memory research. He's sure that with the help of the replicator, he can obtain the materials he needs to continue his work.


[ AU Philip, aka Raito! He's a workaholic mad scientist who, if not kept in check, is probably going to try and turn his fellow Enterprise inhabitants into literal monsters. Oops. More details here for the curious. ]

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[windpunk]

After that incident earlier, Shotaro was ready for another fight. No one else on this ship knew the danger that kid was and like hell he was going to let him hurt anyone here. And there was no way that old fart captain was going to listen, so there was no sense in trying.

"There you are. I wanna make one thing clear for while we're stuck here!" He didn't hesitate to grab Raito by his collar and shove him up against the wall.

[gaiamemory]

Raito was less agile, less physically active than Philip was, so he didn't have a hope of dodging that.

He blinked in surprise. He'd met this guy before, but where? Oh, right -- he'd unwittingly gotten himself tangled up in one of Museum's schemes. "Ah-- you," he said in vague recognition. "You're that classless, low-life brat Shotaro Hidari. What are you doing here?"

[windpunk]

"Keeping you in line, that's what I'm doing!" He got right up in Raito's face. "I may be a classless low-life but for the likes of you to call me that has got to be some kind of joke!"

"I'm going to keep it simple. If I see anything in your hand more advanced than a garage door opener I'm going to break it and your stuck-up, arrogant face. Get it?"

[gaiamemory]

He didn't seem intimidated by Shotaro. In fact, he looked amused. "I haven't done anything wrong here," he said in faux-innocence. "What ever could you be talking about?"

[windpunk]

"Don't fuck with me!" While he had him pinned to the wall, he started going through Raito's jacket pockets for a certain item he'd seen way too often. "Can the innocent act. There's enough blood on your hands already."

[gaiamemory]

Raito shoved at Shotaro. "Keep your hands to yourself," he demanded. Shotaro wasn't about to get his Driver.

[windpunk]

"Oh? What's this? Got something to hide?" He smirked, but he wasn't going to let him go. "Ah ah ahn~ I'm not done with you yet."

[gaiamemory]

"Ah, ah, ahn," Raito repeated lasciviously. "You're so rough~."

And he kneed Shotaro in the groin.

[windpunk]

Just as he was about to yell at him for talking to him like that, he got one to the dice. He collapsed immediately. "You cheap bastard!" he shouted after Raito. "I'm gonna--" okay in too much pain to finish that sentence.

He'll catch up in a minute.

[gaiamemory]

And then Raito was gone. Right down the hall.

[windpunk]

After a minute or two he got back on his feet and took off in the direction Raito had gone in. He couldn't have gone too far, could he?

[gaiamemory]

No, he hadn't gotten far. But by the time Shotaro caught up with him he had his driver around his waist and his golden commander's Gaia Memory in his hand.

"I wouldn't take another step, if I were you," Raito warned him.

[windpunk]

"Oi!" he grumbled. Okay, this was only mildly terrifying. Good thing he didn't have the good sense to listen to this guy. Or run away. Or really anything other than what he tried to do next.

Which was tackle Raito.

[gaiamemory]

Raito shouted in surprise. He went crashing to the ground and the Cyclone Memory flew out of his hand.

[windpunk]

Shotaro scrambled up off of him to get at it first. If one or the other of the pieces of that puzzle were out of Raito's grasp then there were limits to the trouble he could make.

On his way up, he used Raito's face as a place to push down with his hand to get up. Sorry not sorry.

[gaiamemory]

So rude.

Unfortunately, Shotaro got to the Memory first. Raito cried out in dismay and reached to grab it out of his hand. "Give that back, it's mine!"

[windpunk]

"Not anymore! You can't have everything you want, rich boy!" Shotaro pulled down his lower eyelid and stuck his tongue out before he took off down the corridor at a run again. He knew exactly what he was going to do with this.

[gaiamemory]

NOPE. Raito went running after Shotaro. He couldn't lose his precious Memory. He needed that!

[windpunk]

He made for the holodeck, and the Fuuto Tower program. He ran across the platform to the far guardrail and chucked the GaiaMemory as far as he could. Even if he did find it, anything would break falling from this height. Even if it were all a simulation.

[gaiamemory]

"Eh? Fuuto Tower?" Who had programmed this? He reached the guardrail too late. He could only watch in horror as the Memory went flying.

"Computer, end program!" But it was too late. The laws of physics had done their job. The Memory was lying on the floor, shattered.

He grabbed Shotaro by the collar. "Look what you've done!"

[windpunk]

He just grinned and laughed with his arms out like a challenge. "I did the ship a public service!" He was far from worried about what Raito was going to do now that he had his collar. "This is my garden, Raito, and I'm going to protect it just the same as I protected Fuuto."

[gaiamemory]

He punched Shotaro in the face.

[windpunk]

That caught him by surprise. He managed to keep his feet, but only just. "Not bad for the spoiled prince." And Shotaro had one right back for him.

But en route, Fang jumped into his face. "What the hell is this?"

[gaiamemory]

Raito reeled in surprise. "Don't ask me!"

He scooped the pieces of Cyclone up off the floor and stepped back toward the door.

[windpunk]

Fang backed off when it was satisfied he wasn't trying to punch Raito anymore. "Is that a robot?"

But he saw what Raito was up to and took off after him. If he made these things then he had no doubt he could fix one enough to be useful if he had all the pieces. He reached to grab hold of one of Raito's hands holding the pieces.

[gaiamemory]

He jerked his hand away. "Haven't you done enough damage?"

[windpunk]

"Not yet!" He gave his hand a tight squeeze, with the goal of making Raito crush the pieces even further.

[gaiamemory]

"Argh!" He managed to pull away, but too late. Grumpily, he stuffed the pieces into his pocket.

[windpunk]

He grinned and finally let him leave. Even a genius like this moron was going to have issues getting that puzzle put back together.