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Sushi Station, Friday, late Afternoon

SOMEone had forgotten that Wonka's wasn't open on Fridays, so it was a candy-less, grumpy Momoko who was eating her way through all the best plates today and occasionally calling out to the chef for specific sushi.

"Maguro, onegai!"

"Hai!!"

What? Sure she could just ask for 'tuna', but this way made her feel like she was back home.

Besides, the chef totally needed to work on his accent.

*chomp*

"Ojiisan! Motto tako! Tako!"

"Hai HAI!"

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And SOMEone hadn't had sushi in far too long a time. Partly it was his odd inability to find good sushi in Oregon (good seafood otherwise though), and partly because no one else in his immediate family liked it. Heathens.

Billy's Japanese was fluent, and only slightly accented.

[God save all here.] he said, amusing himself with an Irish greeting spoken in Japanese.

Momoko looked up from her table, blinking. Someone at Fandom she didn't know who spoke Japanese?

...AWESOME!!

"/Hi! Welcome!/" Sure it wasn't her shop, but the manager wasn't offering the traditional greeting to a new customer, so she totally would.

She held up a tuna sashimi. "/The tuna is awesome today!/"

Billy was sure he was too old for her, but that didn't stop him from taking a brief moment to acknowledge to himself what a pretty girl she was. He'd always had a thing for Asian girls.

"/Thank you very much./" he said, smiling. "/I'll have to try it then./" He sat down and ordered, then turned to Momoko. There were only a handful of people he remembered from Fandom who spoke Japanese, and most of those were gone into the ether.

"/My name's William. Are you a student here?/"

Hey! She was already 20! ~~At least until midnight~~

"/You must be new yourself!/" she laughed. "/Alumni! I'm Momoko. Momoko Akatsutsumi! Nice to meet you./"

Edited 2013-06-15 22:50 (UTC)

Oh! Only a few years difference after all. "/We must have just missed each other, I'm an alumni too. Class of '07./"

"/Ah! That's why, I'm class of 2011. We must have just missed each other!/" She grinned. "/It's kind of sad, really. Not many people at school spoke Japanese; it would have been nice to have more people to talk to. You speak it very well! Have you visited?/"

"/I've spent a little time there, but I was partially raised by a native speaker./" He had in fact, been trained by a master ninja.

"/Oooh! The second best way to learn!/" Momoko nodded and reached for another plate from the conveyor belt. "/I'm from Tokyo City, myself. It's a version of Tokyo. Totally not at all like the Tokyo here, though./

"/Not at all? What sort of differences are there?/"

Momoko snorted and bit into a sashimi. "/Well for one thing, the name never got shortened to just Tokyo. And for another, we have monsters./"

"/Good point. Giant monsters? Like in the movies?/"

"/Sometimes?/" she nodded. "/But they're usually just citizens or animals that are transformed, though. So it's not like, King Kong or Gamera or anything./"

She sighed, a wistful grin on her face. "/Though that would be totally cool./"

"/I liked Gamera and Godzilla./" Billy smiled. "/Partly because they could never quite make up their minds about whether to be a good guy or a bad guy. And I've known lots of folks like that.

We don't really have too much weird in my world. Not like that anyway. Though I did once travel to a version of my world that had some incredibly crazy stuff./" He'd actually been more weirded out by his father being a whiny pushover and Serpentor rolling over for some dude who claimed to be his maker, than he had been at the whole notion of Cobra-La.

"/Eh?! Was is a version of your world or was it just an alternate world?/" There was totally a difference, okay? Momoko was an otaku! "/I've been to a couple of Tokyos, but none that were really close to mine./"

Billy frowned. "I'm not sure I understand." he said, dropping the Japanese in his confusion. "It was Earth, same geography, same political situation as far as I could see, and it had a lot of the same people in it but everything seemed more...childish I guess. There was no version of me in that world, but the same forces were trying to take it over, and the same ones were trying to save it. Same alliances, just, different origins. And...weird alien mutant things."

"How to explain..." Momoko switched to English as well. "A different version has lots of things that are the same just a little different. Like how my Tokyo is Tokyo City and only has one Tokyo Tower."

Following that?

"But an alternate world, would have, like, no mole-men living underground or no rabbits on the moon or something big that's not just that there was a different decision made once."

See? Perfect sense!

"Alien mutants?"

"I guess it was an Alternate world then."

Ah, now he, who had only the barest knowledge, had to try to describe Cobra-La.

"Uhm, well I'm not sure what they were exactly. I was only in that world for one weekend. But from what I gathered, there was this race of humanoid beings, and...not so humanoid I think, who had been trying to take over the world for a while, using my dad's terrorist organization as it's foot soldiers." He thought for a moment. "They might have been demons."

"Ooooooh!" Momoko nodded. "Demons. That totally explains it. They can do weird things. Did you help get get rid of them?"

"Your dad is a terrorist?"

"I did what I could, but I was only there for a few days. I'm confident the good guys won though. And yeah, my father was a terrorist. One of the worst and most ambitious. We finally stopped him though, for good this time I think."

If nothing else, even if Cobra Commander escaped this time, he would be far less impressive, having had his organization and back broken.

Edited 2013-07-05 19:10 (UTC)

Tell that to Batman.

"Good." She frowned, though, curious. "What is the ambition of a terrorist? I always thought it was just to, you know, cause terror? Make people afraid. how can you be more?"

Let us pray Cobra Commander is nowhere near as clever and resilient as Batman.

"World Domination." Billy told her. "Though towards the end he expressed a desire to see mankind in a perpetual state of war, and finally he tried to render all of Earth uninhabitable to human beings as kind of a doomsday revenge scheme."

Billy's father issues, let us show you them. And this isn't even bringing up the four or more times his father had tried to kill him.

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