nerdherdchuck | Opening Pandora's Box? RP with powered

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Opening Pandora's Box? RP with powered_otaku and eventually,

The introduction of this RP was written during an AIM conversation between the muns for

nerdherdchuck. It's been turned into prose a bit (though there are some missing emotional cues and such) to lead into the RP below.

Hiro knocks on the door to Chuck's apartment. When Chuck answers it, he sees his friend standing in the doorway looking rather upset about something.

"C'mon in," Chuck offers, looking concerned. After Hiro enters the apartment, Chuck closes the door behind him. "You okay?" he askes.

Hiro attempts a smile but then shook his head and says, "I need to distract myself."

"I'll fire up the DVD player or something if it'll help," Chuck offers. "A superhero movie...maybe some 'Star Trek-'"

"Star Trek is good! We can watch 'The Next Generation,'" Hiro suggests.

Chuck heads to his room and brings back his 'Next Generation' boxset. Then he returns to the living room where Hiro is waiting. "Well, I'll start up the movie and if you want we can heat up pizza or something."

"Pizza is good."

"Okie dokie, be right back," Chuck replies as he heads off to the kitchen.

Hiro nods and draws his knees up as he sits on the couch.

A few minutes later, Chuck returns with the pizza. Hiro uncurls and picks up a slice. "This is good," he says.

"Any particular episode you wanna watch? Best of Both Worlds, maybe?"

"That is a good one. Yes, thank you."

Chuck puts the proper DVD in the player and selects the suggested episode from the DVD menu. "Cool!"

The boys settle down to watch and then Hiro says, "Life can be strange."

"You're telling me..." Chuck replies, thinking of his current life.

"Soon it will be you...Perhaps we should make sure to stock a few pizzas?"

Chuck blinks. "S-sure, I can...make some others." He then looks at Hiro, rather confused, "Soon it'll be me...what?"

"The future is coming, Chuck," Hiro replies.

"Riight..." Chuck still is confused by Hiro's words and asks nervously, "D-did you...see something...that happens that...isn't good for one or both of us?"

"Ando kills me."

Chuck can't believe what he just heard his friend say and in total shock, stammers, "Wha? Why? How?"

"With his ability," Hiro solemnly continues, "He somehow has an ability and he kills me."

Chuck is still stunned. Unsure of what to say, he asks, "Are...I mean...maybe...there's someone else's power doing that?"

"I am hoping that is it. But I will still be dead!"

"Well...maybe not. Maybe...you can figure out how that happened and stop it?"

"I am trying to, but I keep doing the wrong thing, I think."

"Why do you think that?"

"Because I keep upsetting him."

"Did you tell Ando what you saw?"

Hiro nods. "He keeps saying he will not, but then I do something stupid that makes me think he will resent me more."

"Like what?"

"I did not tell him the whole plan."

"How come?"

"I do not know. Part of me is not trusting him."

"Oh." Chuck bites his lip slightly. "Well...if there's anything maybe I can do to help...maybe there's-" He stops himself and points to his head before continuing, "Something up here that can help or...just, in general if you want to vent or whatever...I'm here for ya."

"Thank you. I think I will be taking up on your kind offer. I have died too many times already."

"I don't want...that to happen."

"Me neither."

Chuck looks at Hiro and then back at the TV and then back at Hiro, at a loss for words.

Hiro is back to being a ball on the couch. "I especially do not want Ando to kill me."

"We'll figure it out...somehow. I mean...there's gotta be a way..."

"Am I a bad man? Maybe I am wrong and Ando was actually being the hero and I was the villain."

"I don't see how you could be the bad one. But I don't see how Ando could be either. Unless...one of you wasn't...well, the real person or something." Chuck thinks for a moment and asks, "Before...he killed you what was going on?"

"He was trying to take back the formula that has been stolen from me. I suppose that I had managed to get it back."

Chuck looks puzzled. "What formula?"

"Father left half of a formula to protect. If someone gets it, it could destroy the world. I was stupid. I opened the safe when he told me not to. A girl who can move very fast stole it from me. I let Ando get hurt. She cut him with a knife."

"Oh man..I wonder what that formula does." Chuck shudders. "But...couldn't you stop the girl by stopping time?"

"I could not stop her completely. She travels so fast that she eventually catches up with what time I am holding."

"Wow."

"I can still move faster than she can, but I cannot hold her like I can others."

"So...when you tried to hold her, she broke free and hurt Ando?"

"Yes. She pulled a knife and lay it against his throat." Hiro then tries to make himself a smaller ball. "I let him get hurt."

Chuck looks at his friend sympathetically. "You couldn't have known what she was going to do. It was an accident."

"I know, but I hesitated. I should have let go right away."

"You never dealt with anything like this." He shook his head. "But Ando's okay, right?"

"He is ok. I...just feel so guilty that he got hurt."

Chuck nods sadly. "You did your best...that's all you could have done." He then sighs.

"No, I did not. That is why I am so angry."

There is a puzzled look on Chuck's face. "What do you mean?"

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"I should have told him. I should have never let her get that close to him. I should have protected him."

Chuck looks puzzled again. "Told him what? The whole plan?"

Hiro nods. "Yes, he would have trusted me more. It is as if I cannot stop myself from doing stupid things with him. I am reacting to something that hasn't even happened yet."

"By pushing him away...I dunno. I mean...making him mad isn't..." Chuck stopped himself, really unsure of what to tell Hiro. So instead he asks, "May I ask...what exactly was the plan?"

"I know," he says miserably. "I do not want to push him away. I do not want to make him think I do not trust him to be with me. But it is as if I cannot help myself. I feel like I am on a runaway train." He's curled pretty tightly on the couch.

"We were supposed to exchange the formula for her medal. However, before she returned to her place, I went back to Japan, after freezing time there and got a small bug to put on the medal so that if she managed to get it back without giving me the formula, I would still be able to follow her. I...did not tell Ando I had done it until after she hurt him."

"Hiro...you gotta...trust Ando a bit more. I mean...it's possible that you already did something to stop that from happening. Or...s-still...maybe Ando wasn't really Ando or...that wasn't the real you he killed." Chuck sighed and shook his head. "Maybe...you can make things up to him. As the mission goes on. It's not too late." He gave his friend a bit of hopeful smile.

Chuck listened to Hiro's explanation of the plan but still felt he was missing something. "Medal? What medal?"

"I will do so. I will tell him what I am doing. With no information, it is so difficult to tell what was happening. It may have been someone disguised as him or someone disguised as me. I do not even know what date it was." He gives Chuck a bit of a watery smile.

"I was trying to figure out what the thief would hold as dear. After all, the things they have they know can be taken away should someone figure out they have stolen them. But there was a medal from her highschool, I think. Such a thing has much sentimental value. So I held it hostage for the return of the formula."

Chuck hands Hiro a tissue box. "I hope everything turns out all right. And that you and Ando can work things out."

He nodded. "Something of sentimental value is very valuable. That was pretty smart of you to bug that." Chuck then stopped himself. "Speaking of which...seeing there are bugs planted around here..."

He turned to Hiro and finished his thought. "Which means...Casey could have been listening to all of this!"

Hiro takes a tissue out and blows his nose. "I hope so, too. I do not want to lose him as a friend." He gives Chuck a sort of sheepish look. "Sometimes I use my brain instead of sitting on it."

Hiro looks ather confused about what Chuck is saying until he says the last.

And Casey has arrived here (http://nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com/42341.html?thread=651877#t651877).

Casey had heard enough. Chuck had been talking to Hiro about some major screw up of his. A screw up that sounded like it could have catastrophic repercussions.

He could have barged in, but instead knocked on the door to Chuck's apartment. Time to have a chat with Chuck's friend.

Hiro jumps when someone bangs on the door. He looks at Chuck with confusion written all over his face.

"Who...?"

"That...would probably be Casey right now..." Chuck replied with a bit of a gulp.

"Should I leave?"

"Up to you...but I better answer the door," Chuck replied as he walked towards the door. He braced himself and turned the knob.

Hiro just watches from the couch. If it's Casey, he has no idea why he's coming over. If it's not, it might be Chuck's friend, Morgan.

Chuck opens the door and now Hiro can see Casey standing there.

Hiro looks away, figuring that Casey's probably come to ask Chuck something which most likely is not his business.

Casey enters the apartment, slamming the door behind him.

"All right. I've heard just about everything said since you," he then paused and pointed to Hiro, "got here."

With a growl, he continued, "I still don't quite get what's going on. But it doesn't sound good."

Hiro looks up at Casey. "It is not." Part of him feels almost numb.

"Sounds to me like you just opened Pandora's Box, you moron." Casey then glared at Hiro.

"You may very well be right," Hiro says quietly.

"So what prompted you to open this thing anyway? For all you knew, it could have been a bomb that would detonate once you opened the safe."

"Do you think my father would have decided to test me by killing me? It would be rather idiotic." Something like himself, he has to admit. "If your father suddenly said you had to guard something - something he had never mentioned before - you would not be curious?"

"Cruel, perhaps," Casey replied with a bit of a shrug. "But still quite plausible."

Casey then thought for a moment. "Yeah, I'd be curious. But I'd do some detective work first. That way I'd have some idea of what it was that was in there."

"I was not patient enough to wait. It is all my fault." He remembers all the people running away from whatever hit Tokyo. He almost got hit by a flying cab. His eyes are looking far away. "I attacked him. I did not use my power; I attacked him with the sword."

Chuck glared at Casey, a bit upset with him for being so gruff to Hiro. "He's already upset by everything and he's sorry for what he did. C'mon Casey, yelling at Hiro isn't gonna help anything. What would help is finding this formula thing before it's too late."

"She said she had a boss. Someone she was giving it to. Someone knew about it. It is a piece of a puzzle and I do not know how many pieces there are." He's been getting more and more numb. Perhaps Casey should just yell at him. His father would have.

"Well, that's a start. If we could find some clues as to who her boss is, maybe we could catch the thief on her way to delivering the formula," Chuck suggested.

"Maybe." Casey then shook his head. "But if we have no idea where to start, the thief may deliver the formula before we can set the trap."

He turned back towards Hiro. "I still think you're a moron." He then made a fist and went to bonk Hiro on top of his head.

"I could go back to her place and see if I can find a clue. I should bring Ando with me."

Chuck pushed Hiro away from Casey before he could be bonked.

"That's a good idea," he replied once Hiro was safe. "Plus it'll help mend things between you and Ando."

Hiro nods. "Do you think I should go now?"

Chuck nodded and gulped. "M-might not be a bad idea. Best of luck to you. An-and if I can help in any way, just let me know."

"I will see you later," he says quietly, then vanishes.

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