That Tiny Police Woman
&
The Retarded Cat Girl
Mika was bouncing up and down on the beach. Just a few feet away from her was a table with a half eaten sunday, with Rina sitting opposite of it.
”Hey Rina!” She ran up behind the girl and placed her hands on her shoulders.
”What did you wanna do next?”She honestly didn't know what she expected, letting Mika have this much sugar. A few thoughts of 'adorable' and 'how the hell does she have this much energy.' came to mind. She herself, had opted for a fancy milkshake loaded with enough chocolate, whipped cream, and cherries to kill a small animal.
“Mmm...” She pulled the straw out of her mouth. She should think of something they could do together again, right? Something with a little less, uh, keijo. Mika was a sporty sort, right? She should be fine with physical activity, but then at the same time that seemed selfish to do something that only she'd have fun with. She was thinking to hard, wasn't she?
“Probably just go back to my surfing or the jet-ski.””We should do that!” Mika was about to lean away when she froze.
”Wait, it sound like you’ve already done that a bit.” She snorted.
”Well alright, but if we’re going to do that, then how about we make it more interesting?” Mika slid her arms around Rina’s shoulders and hugged her.
”Surfing… With water guns!”“Water guns?” Rina nodded, trying to ignore the cat hugging her. That wasn't actually a bad idea.
“Huh...you know, that don't sound like a bad idea.” Surfing normally required a bit of finesse and paying attention to the water. Trying to balance that with a water gun contest of some sort would be interesting, to say the least.
“Alright!” Hopping up from her seat and stretching.
”So, we need water guns, and you need a surfboard.””I think I can get most of that stuff from the shop.” Mika released Rina and sprinted off towards the boutique.
”I’ll be back sooooooooooooon!” Her voice trailed off as she vanished from sight.
Rina watched Mika run off, slightly worried about what the cat might do, but ultimately decided worrying about it was gonna be bad for her health. So she got back in her seat, kicked back and finished her Milkshake.
When Mika returned, she was covered in shopping bags, and was carrying a surf board under each arm. There was also a plush of Dan the Dolphin emerging from the key hole in her swimsuit.
”Sorry I took so long! There was a lot of stuff!” Mika let the bags slide off of her arms and began pulling out the squirt guns one at a time.
The first item was a squirt gun. It didn’t look particularly special, but this was a magical island with a talking dolphin on it, so who knew what it was capable of. It did look like it had an impressive caliber for its size. Then there was a pump-action rifle, which was bigger still. Next one looked like a shotgun, only it was clearly made out of plastic and had bright, neon colors. The next one looked like a sniper rifle, complete with a long barrel and scope. The next two guns were so big Mika had to carry them on her back. It was a Gatling gun and a water balloon launcher. Both of which looked much more like their real world counterparts than the other water guns.
”Take what you want to fight with, and then we’ll par-lay!” Mika pulled the Dan plush out of her swimsuit and looked at it.
”And you can watch us from the beach!” She flattened out one of the gift bags and placed Dan on top of it, careful to point him towards the ocean.
Rina, by now, hadn't expected her to come back with anything less than this. In fact, if she did, she'd have thought the cat was sick or something. The weapons seemed all pretty nice. In fact, a few already caught her attention. The sniper looking one and the gatling gun.
“Well, I'll take these,” Rina swiped the Gatling gun, the Sniper, and Squirt gun. Seemed like a decent loadout, yea? Gatling gun for well...awesome points. Gatling guns were cool, yea? The Sniper rifle, her specialty, and a squirt gun for backup.
“Right then...” She turned to Mika with a smirk.
“I'll try to go easy on ya so I won't beat ya too bad.”Rina took three guns, which left three for Mika. She slung the water balloon launcher over her shoulder before taking the assault rifle with her hands and the shotgun with her tail.
”I feel pretty good about my chances, actually!” She looked out at the ocean.
”Now we just need a wave. I heard there are some pretty large ones beyond the islands.” She took a few steps towards the water before stopping.
”And rules, uh….” Mika looked at Rina.
”I’m fine as long as you aren’t shooting anything at me aside from water. Beyond that, whoever stays on their board the longest wins!” She hopped.
”Anything else you want to add?”All the conditions sounded good, fairly standard stuff. Only thing in quest was how good Mika's surfing abilities were. Oh, and one last thing. A small bet always made things more interest.
“Hmm...how about the winner treats the other to dinner?”Mika tipped her head back in thought, but shook her head.
“The guns were pretty expensive. I don’t think I could afford dinner after all of that.” waded waded into the water.
”You look like you could eat a lot if you wanted to. Too risky.”Rina let out a mildly disappointed sigh. Wasn't like she could complain too much when she already bought all the water gun stuff. Hm.
“Alright.” Rina shrugged.
“Guess I'll just-hey! I don't eat a lot!” But Mika had already sped off to meet the waves, and the archer was quick to follow Mika out. Splashing into the water atop her board, Rina swam out after her, and soon a wave was quickly picking up.
”Alright! We’re about to start!” Mika held onto her surf board as the wave came in. Once the water was moving them along, the feline magical girl rose to her feet.
”Oh, this is nice! I’ve never done this before!” Mika attempted to weave side to side on the giant wave, and seemed to have good stability.
”This is really cool!”Mika had never done this before, huh?
“Having fun then?” Rina lowered her body slightly, surfing alongside Mika.
“Remember this is a competition though!” As she sped past Mika, Rina moved up the wave, reaching the crest of it and almost getting a bit of air before pulling out the squirt gun, aiming a few blasts at Mika.
Rina was a true marksman. Even if her standard loadout didn’t include a pistol, she was a former police officer. It might have been difficult to steady herself on her surfboard, but Mika had just as much difficulty outmaneuvering her shots. Each pull of the trigger fired a “high caliber squirt” that zoomed towards her target. Each hit caused Mika to cry
”Ouch!” and duck a little lower on her board. While the water pistol was a magical water pistol, it was still a light firearm for a squirt gun fight.
Mika tried to take aim with her tail, but the shotgun proved to be too far away to do much. She got a single shot off which was quickly lost in the waves. She was unable to reload with just her tail. With a grumble, Mika pumped up her assault rifle before firing on Rina’s position. The bullets were similar in size to the water pistol, but the rifle allowed Mika to fire more of them just by holding down the trigger.
She hit her mark, but Mika wasn't so easily done. It'd be boring if she was! Grinning, Rina turned her focus back to the board as she prepared for a counter attack. She rode the wave upwards, her board cresting the crown of the large wave as she reached for her sniper rifle launching herself into the air above the wave, getting pelted with only a few blasts of water, but remained mostly undeterred as she quickly found her target and fired a round from the sniper towards Mika mid air before landing.
Even if it was just a squirt gun, the sniper rifle fired a high caliber, high speed projectile that few could hope to avoid. Certainly not Mika with her limited surfing experience. Her only recourse was to cover her head in a massive conch, courtesy of her beast magic. The shell helped diflect the water away from her head, but it still rocked the surfboard Mika was clinging to.
”Gotta get offensive!” The shell fell away from her head as mika stood up on the board. She took hold of the water balloon launcher and fired it directly into the wave. The seemingly growing wave would carry the balloons to Rina’s position, and detonate with incredible force. But would it be enough to take Rina down?
Quickly realizing what Mika was doing, Rina unfortunately could not do much except brace herself. The balloon exploded under water, exploding outwards and causing the wave to almost collapse. Rina sped right through it, the blast launching her unsteadily into the air – and sending her surfboard careening off into the ocean, out of reach! Thinking fast, Rina used her magic to compensate. In her hands she formed an almost comically large 'sword' in the rough shape of a surfboard, and light enough to float easily atop the water.
It hit the water, seemingly working for the most part, but it had knocked her down the wave a bit, causing Mika to have the high ground on the wave, and Rina could only take a few potshots towards Mika with her squirt gun in retaliation.
The shots might not have been much by themselves, but the splash caused by her landing was enough to throw the inexperienced feline off balance.She held onto her surf board with both hands as it tipped over and dumped her into the wave. By this point, the wave was starting to crash, and it was only Rina left on top of her surf board. She had won.
Once the waters had calmed down, Mika thrust her hand out of the ocean. In her outstretched hand was a remote with an antenna and a cartoonishly large button. Her thumb swiftly moved over it and gave the button a press before retreating into the depths. Once Mika had done this, it started to get darker. It was impossible to resist the urge to look up. It was easy to suspect something like an incoming storm, but that was not the case. The sky had opened up to a massive waterfall that was about to touchdown on top of Rina’s position.
Rina began confidently riding the rest of the wave down, and couldn't help but laughing from her victory. She wasn't one to really gloat over winning or something, but winning sure did feel nice...unfortunately victory was only sweet for a moment. She narrowed her eyes at the device Mika was holding, and took a few seconds to puzzle over it before the large shadow appeared overhead. Rina cautiously looked up.
“That's cheatin-” Before she could finish, the waterfall of water fell on her position, completely drenching her in water. The force of it sent her new surfboard flying off in the direction of the shoreline, launching both her and it into the water.
Then all was quiet. The orbital waterfall drop was massive, but in the end it was just water being added to a very large puddle. The waves continued to move about, as if the squirt gun fight had never transpired at all. Then two dolphins surfaced with Mika and Rina on their backs. Mika had a flute in her mouth. She wasn’t playing it very well, but the dolphins seemed to enjoy it. Before long, they were both carried to the sore line.
”That was really fun!” Mika hopped off of her dolphin and ran over to Rina.
”You’re not hurt right? I was told it wouldn’t be strong enough to hurt anyone.”“Haaaah...” Rina placed her hands on her knees, coughing up some water.
“I'm good, thanks.” She replied to Mika, before straightening up and stretching.
“In fact, that was pretty great.” Rina grinned, placing a hand on her hip.
“Dirty, but I guess there were no rules against dropping a waterfall on someone.”Mika looked at the remote.
”I mean, you won and everything. I just wanted to try it out.” She shoved it back into her swimsuit, where it bulged out quite noticeably.
”But there was a lot of cool stuff! I even got this flute that lets you control dolphins! That’s how I got us back to shore!” She held out the flute for Rina to observe.
”So what were you going to do next?”“Next, huh.” What was she gonna do next, indeed.
“Dunno, think I'll just take It easy for a bit.” She reached out, patting Mika on the head.
“I'm about tired of this vacation already honestly.”Mika rolled the flute in her hand.
”Honestly, I kind of am too.” She lowered her head.
”I thought it would be fun to be friends with everyone. I think I found a few people I would be interested in getting closer to. But I dunno.” She shrugged.
”Even with all the rules in place, it seems like everyone’s held up on stuff that’s already happened.” With a sigh, she sat down in the sand.
”It’s like one of those beach episodes you see in anime a lot. Everyone’s in swimsuits and people seem to be forming relationships, but it’s the same relationships everyone went into the episode with. And then once the episode ends, any progress that was being made gets reversed anyway.” Mika groaned and hugged her knees.
”I hate filler episodes!”“Pfft, ahahaha.” Rina began laughing, taking a seat next to Mika.
“Well, I can understand. I think I made one or two new friends here though, but...I dunno I just wanna get back to Penrose and away from that dolphin.” Rina leaned lightly on the other girl.
“Forcing people to get along is never going to end well.” She sighed, glancing at her empty hand.
“Maybe its cynical of me to say it, but as much as I'd like otherwise, as soon as they get their freedom, they'd go right back to doing what they always do because both side refuses to accept change, or back down.”Rina was now becoming very aware of how close she was to Mika. Ah boy she hadn't been this close to anyone in a looong time. This probably wasn't the time for that kind of talk.
“Ahem...uh, n-not that uh, well, not that it was a total waste or anything.” Rina replied mildly nervously, face turning a bit red.
“In fact uh, if you weren't here I'd probably have had a lot less fun.”Mika’s ears perked up, and she smiled.
”Oh! I’m glad to hear that! I guess I did have a lot of fun with some of the activities.“ She let go of her knees and turned to face Rina.
”But those friends you made, who are they?““A girl by the name of Regina. She's a member of beacon.” Rina saw no need to mention anything else about her. No need to do something like that and potentially muddy the waters.
“Had a pretty fun volleyball match with Penny, and a girl name Mariette. And uh, there was a cat girl by the name of Kimble.”Mika nodded along to Rina as she rattled off the names. Penny’s name caused her ears to flicker, but it wasn’t until she rattled off Kimble’s name that Mika chose to open her mouth.
”Oh, do you like her?“ Mika scratched the side of her head.
”I liked her, but she’s only interested in Alicia. I don’t really understand it.“ A pause, Mika smiled.
”I mean, Alicia has soft skin I guess.“ She shrugged.
”I think I was going to buy that Alicia plush so that Kimble would spend more time with me, but it seems kind of pointless now.“ She shrugged.
”We're both cat girls, so I thought we’d have more in common. Well, I guess she’s actually a nekomata. You know? The evil cat demons, which kind of makes sense.“ For just a moment, Mika seemed to grimace before smiling again.
”But Penny seems nice. You said you liked her?“ Mika leaned her head into Rina’s shoulder.
“Kimbles nice, but...” Rina shook her head.
“I thiiink she's a bit much for me, heh. To be honest, I'm still kind of shocked Beacon lets monster girls in their ranks now, even if its only a few special ones.” She frowned a bit, not really noticing Mika leaning on her.
“Penny's nice, and I definitely don't wanna end up on the end of one of her canons.” She grinned, laughing lightly.
“But other than that, I think she's a good sort. A little...uncertain about what she's doing, but I think she'll do well in beacon.” Unconsciously, she leaned her own head on top of Mika's.
...wait a minute. Oh god. This was. This was a romance scene wasn't it? Rina's mouth clammed up as she realized the situation she found herself in. Uh, uh, what the heck. How did this happen. Not that she minded but, uh, she did like Mika but, uh...ah uh.
“...so uh, your ears are really soft.””Thank you!“ Mika nuzzled a bit closer.
”Your ears are kind of soft too.“ Her eyes closed to half mast.
”But yea, you really can’t beat cat ears.“ She picked her head up.
”Which is why I’m so conflicted about Kimble!“ With a huff, she stood up.
”I need some time to think.“ she walked over to the edge of the beach, where the dolphins had gathered with everything that had falling into the water. After seeing how large the pile of squirt guns were, Mika just shrugged and picked up her Dan plush.
”Thanks for playing with me Rina. I’ll see you later.“ without looking back, she made her way off the beach.
Rina watched Mika leave. Part of her wanted to say something, but in the end she just flopped back onto the sand and sighed before shaking her head and rolling over in the sand a few times.
“You're ears are soft?! Is that the best I got?! Letting out another sigh, Rina simply stared up at the sky for a few minutes, grumbling to herself.
“Aaah, I'm an idiot...” Eventually, she'd stand up and dust herself off, before heading back to the main area.
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