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It had been weeks since their encounter with Seabright, and between Marle and Squares discussing what to do after he wished for free travel Tetris and Suzuran worlds. After finding out that the wish from the ring was too strong to undo like they did before, they caved in allowing the groups to travel between worlds, so long as they don’t bring any puyos or tetriminos to the other world.
So there Ringo and Maguro where, having crashed onto the Tetra’s ping pong table trying to pay the captain a surprise visit. “Well there goes playing space ping pong with aliens.” Maguro said humorously.
“We can probably still fix it. I’m honestly more worried about Ess seeing it broken and yelling at us.”
“Yeah, I don’t want to deal with that either. Let’s fix it up before anyone sees.”
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Meanwhile, down the hall, a young man was hiding from two small figures, who had cuffed and dressed him beforehand. As he fiddled with the cuffs from behind a door, trying to release himself, he heard two mischievous giggles coming closer. In a panic, he darted behind the nearest thing he could hide behind in the room, just before the two got in.
“Ohhh, Teeee!” a small girl said, no doubt grinning at the betrayed captain’s situation.
“Come out wherever you are.” a young boy, who was the girl’s brother said, the two leaving each other's side to better search for their escaped prisoner.
‘Crud!’ the young king thought as he heard the footsteps of the twins. Looking around his general area for something useful, he eventually came across that weird thing that looked like rock candy sticks that the twins took when they hung out in Suzuran waiting to be returned to their world after the incident with the interdimensional shipping captain and landed back out of his book.
Unfortunately for the twins, they weren’t actually edible, though for him they were a godsend.
With the twins, they were having a mildly hard time hiding their giggles as they crept behind the (presumably) helpless captain. They honestly wondered why he even tried at this point, given how he never had a place to go and they were always there to catch him, but that didn’t matter, now that they were going in to swipe up their prisoner, and once again claim sweet victor-
POOF!
The twins gagged when the whatever that thing that looks like rock candy sticks but is really something nasty dust filled the room.
When the dust subsided, the two looked over the crate Tee had hid behind only to find the captain missing again.
With the captain himself, he was looking back at the halls, already far from the twins. He grinned to himself as he thought of what would happen next. The twins would likely split up to look for him, but by the time either of them found him he would already be in one of the rooms where he kept a lock pick for the cuffs, and once they were off, it would be easy for him to fight either of the twins, who weren’t the best fighters on their own. Sure he would still need to worry about “him” soon after, and without his disk no less, but so long as he kept a level head during battle and kept at a distance, he couldn’t see anything going wrong-
SLAM!
Maguro and Ringo yelped as something had slammed into them, right after they managed to fix the table no less. Thankfully it was fine, but they still felt a bit of pain from the experience.
“Oww!” Ringo said, gripping onto the table before looking back to see a shocking surprise. There was Tee, the tetris king, sitting on the floor in an outfit they certainly didn’t expect to see him in.
The tetris king was wearing a long light pink nightgown with lots of white lace coming out of it, even from out of the collar. It even had a section on the chest surrounded by lace.
The only thing either of them could think to say, the two students said out loud. “CUTE!” they said, pulling the blushing captain into a hug.
‘Dang it! This wasn’t supposed to happen!’ the captive king thought as he was trapped in the arms of his friends. His dread only grew as he heard a familiar tapping of heals, accompanied by a sound of something turning on. ‘I’m doomed.’ he thought.
In seconds, a holographic chain came in through the entrance, and attached itself to the middle part of Tee’s cuffs, and Tee was pulled slightly forward, out of the arms of his friends.
From the same entrance where the chain came from appeared someone with a tall, lean figure, with the face of a chihuahua with glasses on his face, holding a ball-like object in his hand where the chain came from. The chihuahua looking gentleman held his free hand to his ear. “You may call off the search troops, I have captured our “prisoner”.” he said, slowly pressing a round button and rolling it toward himself, forcing Tee to walk to his engineer to avoid the discomfort of being yanked by a chain.
“Hey, what’s going on here?” Ringo asked, confused and shocked by Tee being taken prisoner, and by Ai no less, as they seemed to get along well.
“Well young lady,” Ai said, scooping his king in his free arm once he was close enough to do so.“The captain hasn’t been getting enough sleep lately and he isn’t willing to listen when we ask him to do so, so me and the twins have taken it upon ourselves to put him down for a nap and hopefully put his sleep schedule back in order, again.” he said, managing to hide most of his minor annoyance to the situation in his voice.
“AI DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING SO EMBARRASSING TO ME IN FRONT OF MY FRIENDS?” Tee shoughted, red in the face now that Ringo and Maguro were seeing him wearing such a dainty looking outfit and being carried like a little kid by his own crewmember.
“If it means ensuring that you are well rested, then yes.” Ai said, matter of factly before turning his attention back to the guests. “Since you two are here, would you like to assist me in my endeavors?” he asked.
‘God, please say no.’ Tee thought; he didn’t think he could handle any more embarrassment today.
“Sure thing.” Maguro said, and Ringo didn’t appear to have any objections to the proposal.
‘Crud.’
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A while later, the group made their way to Tee’s room, where the captain was placed onto the soft bed. Ai handed the ball over to Maguro and sat on the bed himself, moving Tee’s head to his lap.
“So what do we do now?” Ringo asked.
Tee began to sweat a bit. He knew exactly how this situation would go down, and he didn’t want the two guests to see him respond to something so childish, it was bad enough that the rest of his crew knew that such a childish trick worked on him
“Umm, Ai, you don’t need to do that; I’m kind of tired so I’ll probably just go to sleep on my own.” the young king said, desperate to make the situation less embarrassing.
“Last time you said that you escaped again.” Ai said. Tee opened his mouth to speak only for Ai to place a finger on Tee’s lips before beginning to stroke his head. “I just want to make sure that you are well, you know that right?” Ai said in a tone that only a concerned elder sibling would have.
‘Dang it Ai, when did you start to actually ACT like the older sibling!’ Tee thought, still shocked that Ai was the one caring for him this time, being so used to caring for Ai despite being the younger of the two.
This shift in the sibling dynamic wasn’t new. It all started after Ess told Ai about how he tried to become the new keeper of dimensions in place of Ex. After that, Ai made it a habit to check on his king when he didn’t have much to do, eventually discovering how unorganized his sleep schedule was. He tried to convince Tee to take a nap like Ess sometimes does, but the captain always refused, eventually leading to the engineer organizing the first hunt, though at the time all the crew members were a part of it. It the longest of the hunts, since it was before they know the general rules to follow when tracking him down:
- Try to catch Tee off guard the first chance you get.
- Make sure to confiscate Tee’s disk as soon as possible.
- Cuff Tee with the special cuffs to cut off access to his powers.
- Dress him in night clothes in advance so he doesn't run away when you have him cornered.
- Lock the room where the handcuffs, and by extension the things meant to remove said cuffs, are stored.
- Always make sure Tee is asleep before leaving his bedroom.
Even with Ess and Zed not being active participants in the hunt anymore, it still became harder for the small king to escape now that they knew how to best restrict them. He tried finding ways around them so that he could continue working, such as by hiding picks in the certain rooms for instance, but the three always managed to capture the king anyways. Tee still couldn’t understand why Ai was so persistent with the whole thing. ‘Maybe he's scared of losing me?’
Tee couldn’t tell how long it was he was lost in thought, but then he was out of it, Ai and Ringo were singing a duet together. ‘He must have told them.’ Tee thought, falling asleep much more quickly than usual due to the combination of Ringo and Ai’s beautiful voices. It was true music to his ears, which sent him peacefully off to dreamland as he closed his eyes.
Tee woke up as he usually did, curled up cuddling the nearest pillow, which meant O was probably still doing his own thing somewhere. He was about to get us and go back to observing the constellation zone, but was stopped when he felt someone hugging behind him. He looked back, and saw who he made out to be Maguro Sasaki, cuddling him like a teddy bear. He then felt another pair of arms wrap around him from the front, which belonged to Ringo Ando. ‘Did those two just fall asleep with me?’ Tee thought to himself. He just sighed, knowing that he wasn’t going to get out of the situation for a while, so he just closed his eyes, eventually falling back asleep.
The second time Tee woke up, he was laying in a way that made him face Ringo and Maguro, who were now looking over him.
“Morning Sleeping BeauTee.” Maguro said, giving Tee a toothy grin.
“Morning.” Tee said as he got back up. “So, about you, being here…’
“Ah, Right.” Ringo said. “The lullaby made us both sleepy so Ai let us sleep here with you. I’m not sure why he didn’t move us to the living room or something though…”
“What’s a living room?” Tee asked.
“Nevermind.” Ringo said. “Oh, and about that dress. Did Ai get it for you or…?”
“No, I’ve had this for a while.” Tee admitted, still a bit embarrassed, this hugging the pillow closer to his chest, though not as much as he was when they first arrived.
“You got other clothes like that?” Maguro asked.
“Yeah, though I haven’t gotten the chance to wear them in a while; I never go out in them since it’s annoying when the people I fight use my clothes to insult me, plus the jumpsuit is more practical anyways.” He admitted.
“I see.” Maguro said, putting his tie back on.
“Well…” Ringo started “No one is here to fight you now so… Care to show us something cute?” she asked, curious to know what fashion skeletons Tee had in his closet.
“Alright I guess.” Tee said, feeling more comfortable now that he was past the embarrassment.
At the door, Ai watched the scene unfold. He knew really well that it was best to move the two to a place without people, but in his defense, the group looked so cozy together and he didn’t want to ruin it. Besides, the outcome was truly beautiful if he had to say so himself as he left the trio to their own devices.