Morning Of The First Excursion
7:29am, after missing the last shuttle of the day to the student dorms, the gang went back to Daisuki's 2 bedroom apartment after Squad 40's first dinner together.
In Daisuki's bedroom the boys are passed out and snoring. Daisuki is on the floor on his back, in a weird sleeping contortion.
The two young men have their heads on opposite sides of the queen size bed.
Saku is on his stomach, a slight snore, his head in a small puddle of drool, facing to the left and his left arm hanging over the edge of the bed.
Katsu is sleeping silently on his back then turns to his left, scratches his butt, and without losing a wink of sleep, farts.
As soon as the clock turns to 7:30 Shelly slams the door open, clearly annoyed, with Friend behind her wagging its tail.
The slam wakes all three of the boys up and Katsu falls out of the bed.
Shelly(yelling): "ARE YOU FREAAKING KIDDING ME?!? NONE OF YOU WERE UP?!"
Saku(pillow over his head): "Shhadupp don't wake me up like that bitch!"
Shelly: "WE HAVE TO BE AT GRAYS OFFICE IN 30 MINUTES!!!...(looks at Daisuki) SENSEI?!?!"
Daisuki winces from his hangover pain.
Daisuki: "Uuhghhhh. Please darling, I got it we messed up, just please dear, don't yell anymore. I promise, we'll be like the minutemen...in 5 minutes.(holds back vomit) I've been to Gray's office, we can be there in 20 seconds after I start to open a portal."
Katsu finally gets upright and defends Daisuki while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
Katsu: "Yea Shell, Big Bro can open portals. As long as he's around, we can get anywhere quickly or last second. Hehe."
Shelly(not amused): "Depending on those eye powers isn't right Katsu!
Be a responsible human and depend on what still makes YOU, instead of using super powers to be lazy. Maybe the emo delinquent WAS right, maybe humans shouldn't have 'abilities' in the first place. They can easily make people lazy and dependent on them!"
A pillow is thrown in her direction and she catches it, from behind the pillow her 'demon face' is exposed and she is grinding her now sharp teeth.
Saku is fully awake and angry. He's clearly the one who returned pillow fire from the night before.
Saku: "ALRIGHT WE FREAKIN' GET IT! DO YOU WANT TO KEEP POINTING OUT HOW BROKEN WE ARE!? OR DO YOU WANT US TO GET READY!?"
Daisuki has his hands over his ears. Shelly takes a step forward but Daisuki's doorbell rings and all 4 of them stop the commotion.
Daisuki gets up and rubs his hungover temples on his way to the door.
The man opens his door to reveal nobody there. However, there are 4 bento lunch boxes(red, purple, black, and white) placed neatly at the door. A note is held down by the red one. Daisuki picks it up as the subordinates and the dog come to investigate.
Daisuki(reading note): "It says, 'Mina Daisuki', hey that's me... 'I hope these make up for today's inconvenience'...What does that mean?"
Katsu: "Did someone know that we were gonna be late and leave us some breakfast?"
Shelly opens up the white box and sniffs twice. She looks at the contents more thoroughly as if checking for poison.
Saku looks at her like she's weird.
Katsu: "Shelly, I think that ones mine."
Shelly(closes bento): "It's not breakfast, it's lunch food. I don't smell any poison but this whole scenario screams 'suspicious'. Who would anonymously leave us lunch and a note with no name of who left them? Sensei, do you have a secret admirer or something?"
Daisuki opens the red lunch box, eats a squid cut hot dog, and closes it back up.
Daisuki(while eating): "Mmmm. Well...I hope she doesn't stay a secret for long...I need me a woman here that can cook!".
{23 Minutes Later}
General Gray, sunglasses off and is sitting at his desk filling out paperwork. A knock is heard at his door and he puts down his pen and folds his hands.
Gray: "Enter!"
Squad 40 enters wearing their squad sweatshirts and black sweatpants. Daisuki first,
Daisuki: "Mornin' Gray!"
Shelly walks in second and Katsu, already eating the free lunch, is third to enter the office. Saku doesn't enter and stands outside, leering at the General from the doorway. Katsu turning back looks confused.
Katsu(mouth full of food): "Gohm on Shaguu, we-"
Saku(cuts him off): "I'm not going in there while HE'S in there. He's the reason I can't leave this mountain prison and he thinks he can restrain me from true freedom."
Katsu looks worried and looks forward towards Gray and Daisuki. All Daisuki can do is take a deep sigh.
Shelly gets a worried look.
Shelly:"Katsu, don't talk with your mouth full. You could choke."
Gray: "Only the squad's mentor is necessary for this excursion briefing, so if any of you want to come in and listen or sit out in the hall, you may choose to do so."
Daisuki shakes his head in defeat and motions Katsu to come in and not to bother arguing with his squadmate.
Saku leaves from the doorway before it closes. In a large hallway he sits against the wall with all their backpacks and their sheathed SunSwords. His dog comes over, sits right next to him and starts quietly whining.
Saku pets his dog and looks at Friend in his eyes.
After thinking about it, Saku takes a deep sigh and gets up.
Saku: "If you want to be in the same room as them fine, but don't make this a habit buddy, remember we have to get out of here."
From inside the office, the door opens and Katsu smiles as Saku and Friend walk in. Saku side eyes Gray and sits down in an open chair farthest away from him. The other three stand in front of his desk.
Daisuki: "Sorry we barely made it Gray...(thumb points backwards)...some of us needed a swift kick for a wake up call."
Shelly looks at her mentor in disbelief from his lie.
Daisuki: "So where's the other Squad? I thought the first excursion for these guys was supposed to be a double up?"
Gray waits a second before beginning.
Gray: "I wish you'd call me 'General' at least around the graduates Mina. As always, I want to thank you all for deciding to come here this morning...(gets Irritated)...unlike the squad that you were to be paired with. As of now they are officially late and disqualified from being one of the Top 5 Squads allowed to graduate."
Katsu raises his hand slowly. Gray looks at the young man and smiles.
Gray: "You look pretty familiar young man. Was your father perhaps a military man?"
Katsu thinking he was going to be the one asking a question is caught off guard.
Katsu: "I-My uhh. Dad was ranked C-Corporal. Sir."
Gray: "I see, so you're a soldier by blood, huh?"
Katsu doesn't answer or tell the General how his father actually taught him but Saku chuckles.
Saku: "He's not any type of fighter General 'Weigh'. Does this office come with that extra 30 pounds or did you get that from sitting around just doing paperwork?"
Shelly: "Shut up! Why are you trying to instigate the General of a military? What the hell are you trying to do? Do you not understand that Gray can disqualify us at any moment?(turns to Gray) I'm sorry General Gray, as Student Captain I'll make sure to reprimand him."
Saku: "Yea, sure you will. Do YOU not understand that I don't care about this academy or graduating in the first place?"
Gray ignores him and looks at Katsu.
Gray: "Ask what you were going to ask me before I rudely went on with my own question, son."
Katsu: "If you don't mind me asking General Gray sir, what squad were we supposed to be paired with today?"
Gray closes his eyes and rubs the bridge of his nose.
Gray: "It's a disappointment, I really thought when I put these squads together, your two squads would be a lock for Top 5 spots(He opens his eyes revealing his 2nd stage) From what I saw, Squads 20 and 40 had the highest probability of success out of all 70 squads."