The Hiro and the Goddesses - PSL for Hiro and Skuld

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Hey look, another portal to who knows where! There were a few things different about this one though.

For one thing voices were coming out of it in an odd mix of languages before resolving into the one Hiro knew best.

For another? It opened up right beside him, without any tech that he could see on his end that should have opened any such portal.

And if more weirdness was needed? It had gravity. Like a lot of it. He and much of the stuff around him was being pulled towards the center of it.

As to the voices coming out of it:

"You big baka! Mitaru at this mess! Everyone knows you can't make a mon to Yggdrasil with those calculations! That's not a bridge mandala! It's a summoning portal!" A youngish sounding female voice was screaming. "Idiot! Baka!"

An angry older voice, this one clearly belonging to an adult woman was screaming back. "Well maybe if the paper with all the calculations wasn't covered in ice cream I could read it!"

The voices grew louder, or rather, thanks to the increasing gravity, he was pulled closer.

"Maybe if you'd stop making your weirdo medicines and testing them on yourself all the time you could actually read basic Ndiminesional math!" the first voice accused

"Oho?" The second asked, almost purring now, all trace of anger seemingly gone. "Then who should I test it on I suppose? You, dear little sist... OW!" That would be when the first large item made it through. "What in the OW! It's raining... supplies of some sort!"

"I told you it's a summoning!" the first voice called, frantic. "Quick, erase the summoning sigil from the northwest sector."

"If I knew which one was the summoning sigil I wouldn't have used it!" the woman protested as he was falling into the portal.

"How did you ever get your license?" The younger one demanded. "It's this one here!" She started scrubbing at it furiously with the stick end of what looked like a comically large mallet.

Because now he could see the pair on the ground below him. The rapidly approaching ground. The woman was floating above some huge complicated design actually etched into the stone courtyard of some sort of Japanese temple. Her white hair was dancing weightless in the air around her.

The girl, on the other hand was firmly on the ground, fighting to obliterate one of the many complicated symbols, focused and frustrated, her long black hair hanging limp as an odd shaped robot and what looked like a small child tried to help her. "OH FOR GODDESS SAKE!" she finally yelled. "BACK!"

The woman floated up higher, the robot and the child rushed back as the teenager pulled what looked like one of those odd game balls with the wires out... of her shirt.... and threw it on the ground. The ground he was still approaching, though his fall was slowing.

There was a loud explosion that blew him back up several feet before letting him resume falling. More than half of the complicated circle and its symbols had been replaced with a smoking crater. The teenager looked more than a little worse for the wear standing right at the edge of it. She opened her mouth to speak, or cough when the woman finally looked up.

"INCOMING!" the woman said, seeing him falling at them with the last few of his belongings. "Wait, why is he falling as slowly as the book is?"

"SCIENCE!" the teen shouted in frustration. "SAVE HIM!"

"Yeah yeah," the woman said. "On it," she muttered, flying up to meet him, wings coming out of her back, one pure white, one jet black. And as she got closer he'd see that her face, chest, and clothes, had "Idiot!" written all over it in various odd typefaces. Usually with outlines, sometimes with drop shadows.

Comments

[baymaxing]

Only five minutes.....?

[If she could devour all that ice cream that quickly and not die of a stomachache or diabetes in seconds he would be impressed. To say the least. Because that....that's a lot. A Lot of ice cream. Seeing it all he would have expected to need to take some back but they only had their bikes. Which meant she would probably expect to actually eat it all.

Hiro just raises an eyebrow at it, distracted for a moment from his own ice cream.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Well, that's how long it will take her to remember we exist. Might take her a full ten to finish," he said, amused. Then the smile dropped. "So now is probably our best time to talk," he added quietly.

Skuld was working through her ice cream swiftly, happily oblivious.

[baymaxing]

All this in just ten minutes? It'd take me that long to eat just my ice cream if I was quick.....

[Though she seemed energetic enough that all this sugar might explain it.....Still, Hiro glances back to him from raising an eyebrow at Skuld, taking another lick of his ice cream.]

To talk about what? It isn't like I intend to hang around here for that long. No offense, but Baymax and I ending up here was just a mistake.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

He shrugs. "She's Skuld." Bug as to the rest. "Good, but even if she offers to keep in contact or visit you, just remember, she already has a boyfriend."

Happy yum ice cream WHEE

[baymaxing]

I had no intention of becoming her boyfriend or anyone else's boyfriend anyway. But. Sure. I'll remember.

[As if Hiro has time for a girlfriend amid everything else back home, with his assignments with university and dealing with Aunt Cass, on top of the super hero stuff.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Sentaro nodded and took a bite as Skuld sat back happily, more than two thirds of the massive sundae gone. "I love this place," she said softly, cheeks flushed a bit, before leaning forward and going after it again.

[baymaxing]

She's already devoured that much...it's pretty impressive. I don't envy her the brain freeze from it all though.

[Because. Well. It is a Lot of ice cream to be eating all at once like that. Hiro is pretty sure she will be suffering for it sooner rather than later. How she managed to eat that much without stopping because of it is a mystery already.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Brain freeze?" Skuld asked, spoon halfway to her mouth again.

[baymaxing]

Yeah. When you have too much ice cream or like, a huge milkshake or something cold and you get a headache from it.

[Which apparently is not an issue for Skuld. Or at least as far as Hiro can tell at the moment anyway, thus far. He and Sentaro at least had only gotten smaller ice creams so they hopefully wouldn't have that problem.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Too much ice cream?" she asked, confused. "How could there ever be too much ice cream?"

[baymaxing]

I mean when you eat too much, or too fast of anything cold. Not necessarily just ice cream. You've seriously never had one?

[It's surprising. Given how much she is wolfing down right now. Hiro would have figured a brain freeze would be inevitable the way she was eating that ice cream so fast.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"No. Never had one. She polished off the last of her ice cream. "You guys nearly ready? I'll place my take out order if you are."

[baymaxing]

Take out? Wait, we're riding the bikes back aren't we?

[Wouldn't that be kind of risky? And also. Surely she had already had enough given her huge order just now as it was. Hiro was impressed and concerned enough with this about her diet and appetite, let alone her immediately going for more to take back home.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"We are. I'll just buy a take home cooler bag, they make backpack ones here." Mostly started because of her.

[baymaxing]

I didn't even know that was a thing. Or at least. I don't think the ice cream places give out bags to take the ice cream home like that, back home.

[Still. It's ice cream. Frozen. It'd keep. She's probably just stocking up on some for the freezer back home or whatever. Doesn't mean she would eat more as soon as they got in the door. Not necessarily, right? So Hiro is fine with it, as he glances back to the options.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Must be a sad place to live," she said, bouncing up to place her order.

[baymaxing]

Sad? No, home is great! I love San Fransokyo!

[Because, well. Although some things were sad, losing his parents and Tadashi and all, overall things were actually great? He was thriving and being challenged for the first time with his education in university. He was helping people, and had made friends who supported him. Life was good. San Franksokyo was good, for all that some people might occasionally make him question it.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Even without take home bags for ice cream?" she asked, paying as they handed over a rather large knapsack that she slid onto her back.

[baymaxing]

Even without take away bags for ice cream. Because usually we just get some from the store and take it home in the tub. In like a tote bag or something. Or just get a cone to eat then and there like I just did.

[It is hardly the end of the world like she seems to think? At least. To Hiro anyway. He still gets ice cream, even if not....this much....

Once she has the knapsack, he gives a shrug, asking if they were ready to head back and finish up now.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Well I do that too, but I ran out today. And I didn't want to wait for Belldandy to go to the store." She headed back out to the bikes.

[baymaxing]

Why not just send her to get some while we were working on Baymax?

[Probably because she wanted to come out and get some here as well as some back home. Still, Hiro just shakes his head and shrugs, following when they were ready to head back out to the bikes, getting on the one she lets him borrow, putting on the helmet.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"We had to wait anyway. Besides, Big Sister is busy, and I shouldn't bother her over every little thing. Not when I could do it myself."

[baymaxing]

Okay, okay. Let's just get back to your place and check on Baymax.

[He's not sure what the robot might do coming to properly if he were to do so finally charged alone in a strange new world and all, without Hiro. Hiro just hopes he wouldn't have been able to just wander off and get lost or something.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Yep!" she said. Then grinned. "Actually, I'll go on ahead and meet you guys!" she said eyeing a nearby lake.

[baymaxing]

Huh? The lake?

[What was she going to do there? At the least, he figures it probably wouldn't take long? If she intends to figure doing whatever it is before the ice cream would melt. Or something. Hiro just wants to get back to check on Baymax, so he gives a shrug, climbing astride her bike he was borrowing.]