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Ryoko rose to her feet. "Hey! No one can prove anything! You don't
got nothing on me, copper!"
Nobuyuki paused, holding the open thermos under his open mouth as he
stared at Ryoko. "Excuse me?"
Ryoko stopped and gave a sheepish grin. "Sorry. Reflex. You were
saying?"
Heh
If at all possible, Nobuyuki hung his head lower.
"Secondly, I think you DO need this pressure," she continued. "At
the very least it'll help you stop whining all the time."
"I do not whine!"
he whined.
"Hiya," she said, shaking Sakamoto's hand.
"...And this is Kobayashi." Nobuyuki said.
Ryoko extended a hand to Kobayashi, who promptly took it and kissed
it.
Nobuyuki grabbed at Ryoko's wrist just in time to prevent her from
punching Kobayashi's lights out.
And probably taking his head off in the process. :)
"Nothing," Sakamoto said, smothering a grin.
"You cad," Kobayashi said, "not one week passes after Achika leaves
you and already you've got another beautiful woman waiting on you hand and
foot."
"Please stop mentioning Achika," Nobuyuki whined.
"Hey, how IS Achika, anyway?" Sakamoto said. "I saw her here today
with Aoba. You think they're sleeping with each other?"
My. Sakamoto likes tempting fate, doesn't he. Should try slapping Ryouko in
the butt if he really wants to end it all.
And then he smiled and walked back indoors.
"Here comes the family," he chuckled.
That would be a bad sign.
"All right." She leaned forward. "Given a three hundred-ton mass to
move upwards at the rate of one hundred and fifty meters a second over a
distance of about one-and-a-half kilometers, with two thirty-degree
corrections at the halfway point and two hundred meters from the median,
what sort of machine would be required to exert enough consistent force to
accomplish such a task?"
"An intergalactic space pirate," Nobuyuki answered.
Nobuyuki took a deep breath, wondering what all of this was leading
to. "Four, maybe five hundred billion yen, allowing for the ideal
materials and quality as far as construction goes."
Dr. Akagi crossed her arms. "Five hundred twenty-seven billion,
approximately. You forgot to factor in labor costs, transport, and
installation."
"I... I'm sorry..." he mumbled, then he paused and stared at her.
"How do you know the precise figure?"
I'd say because he's got the job. :P
"Why? Do you actually think that whatever is attacking us can hurt
me?"
Yeah. Let Ryoko kill the Angel. Boy, won't that throw Gendou for a loop? :)
"Well, the large object is too obscured to be identified, or is
deploying some kind of detection countermeasure."
"And the smaller one?"
"Uh..."
"Uh... what?"
"Uh... it says, 'Pattern Green'."
"What the hell is Pattern Green?"
It means it's a giant flying tree.
"Uh... I don't know." She pulled out the NERV Operations Manual and
unfolded the chromatic diagram centerfold.
"Well?"
"Well, according to the chart, it's a plant form. A highly evolved
plant form."
See? What did I tell ya?
"But you're the space pirate! Why would they want to kill me?"
"Do you honestly think they care? I hardly cared when I decided to
blast you."
Heh
Nice work, again. Eager to read the next part to this.
D.B. Sommer