Tenchi Masaki
ACME Ace Detective, Inventor
- Best answers
- 1
- AMA
- findcarmen.com
- Known Aliases
- Tenko(don't ask), Kami Jack, Guy Smart, Tenten
- Color #
- 035096
Babes in Toyland 2: Kotetsu Tales
Kotetsu stood at the counter of a slightly different store. While Miss Honey was away, he added to the store offerings. Kotetsu was a very observant samurai. He noticed that these strange gaijin drank copious amounts of coffee, not tea. So as he changed the store sign, it read, "Coffee Honey?" A clever play on words. Which he saw was one of the requirements if you wanted to sell coffee on this land. And work it did as people saw Honey's Shop sold coffee now; they flocked into the store.
Quirky coffee names made these new customers' worlds go round. As they made sure to let anyone in hearing distance know. They were trendy college-age hipsters who didn't care if you thought it was cool. They were hipsters before you thought it was cool. The insecurities of the young were a blessing in disguise, as Kotetsu saw customers randomly grab items. They treated them like collectibles, but the store was selling wares nonetheless.
Kotetsu even went as far as to put down floor tile that enhanced the caffeinated atmosphere. Some were square, as expected, but the main draw was the tiles shaped like various coffee mugs. The mug tiles reflected the designs of mugs chosen by coffee lovers in a store. Hopefully, that store was this one, as Kotetsu had crafted the mugs by hand from clay he had made and then sculpted them on his pottery wheel. He had remodeled a section of the store to serve coffee and related snacks and walled it off from the rest of the store with glass. In short, he was a man of many talents but extremely humble about them.
As the coffee-minded patrons and hipsters obsessed over the mugs and started a bidding war, Kotetsu was hoping the new customers that came in would leave just as quickly. They were from an ever-growing list of Honey Worshipers calling themselves "The Honey Faithful." Kotetsu felt they should be called "The Honey Flies." They had decided Miss Honey was there to be won and would gain her affections by committing acts of love. It was mostly superficial things that were more about competing with each other. The saddest part was buying stuff in the store to get votes. The more they had, the more the voting percentage they received. They even wore matching pink uniforms to show solidarity in their adoration of Miss Honey.
While they were assembling and preparing to give speeches, regular customers filed in to get their coffee fix. That wasn't saying much, though, as strange ones would also appear among them. Such as the "bro customer"; as one of them came up to the counter, he said, "Can I have some coffee bro!?" Kotetsu turned around and began preparing the order as quickly as possible. His samurai training had come in handy as once he was used to the equipment of a barista, he deftly prepared any order in no time.
This was good since the Coffee Bros. Were entering while Kotetsu was busy. They wore Hawaiian casual shirts with flame motifs. They had somehow found a way to insert bro into everything they said. Their leader started by saying, "Hey bro, what'd ya know!" Suddenly he heard various utterances of "bro" and cringed as he said to himself, "By Sakura, they have returned." All Kotetsu could do was withstand the "bro-storm" coming his way.
Suddenly multiple Bros. Advanced and said, "We know bro, and want to show bro your mugs off bro!" Kotetsu countered by saying, "My mugs are for sale for the betterment of my mistress, but we are not brothers as you say." Undeterred, the Bros. Continued and said, "Yo bro, it's cool bro and we want some Honeycappuccinoo... bro." Kotetsu turned and furiously made the drinks as they randomly shouted off orders. The Bros. Looked to be an unstoppable force of bro-nature. While they went through the bro-motions, a random customer would occasionally enter the store and start dancing strangely in front of the counter. This was purely for attention and to be weird, but Kotetsu would find it utterly uncalled for.
He suspected they were trying to come in, thinking Honey was there. Then act like weirdos in front of the newest local celebrity. Having come all the way there, they would at first stare motionless at Kotetsu and then decide to dance anyway. This simply led to Kotetsu tossing them outside, where they proceeded to run away. The only other strange guys he had to deal with were the ones who would peer through the windows. Kotetsu would go outside and poke or hit them from the bushes and windows with his sheathed sword. They were desperately looking for Honey and sometimes would quickly sprint to the door, startling customers leaving. They were hoping it was Honey, and they would ask her out on a "sweet date."
Whispered cries of "No!" or "Curses!" Could be heard as they scurried away. As Kotetsu removed the "Gawkers," as the regular customers called them, the clouds in the sky would part, and the sun would come out. Unless there was rainy weather, the people there had learned to tell the difference between the cloud types. The Honey Faithful would continue their public display powered by coffee.
Sure their eyes were bloodshot, and maybe little jittery movements here and there was the norm. But they were one of many groups that had become regulars at Coffee Honey?. Kotetsu had learned their ways and weaknesses; they used coffee to keep themselves awake to perform their daily routines. Kotetsu felt this would be as far as things went, but other individuals wanted more things done around the store. Plus, kids were coming in who wished for advice as well.
They came into the store in a single file line and were not more than twelve years old. The four were led by a boy in a red baseball cap, striped purple and yellow short-sleeve shirt, and blue shorts with red shoes. He really liked baseball, yo-yo, and rockin'. The next in line was a pretty little blonde girl in a pink one-piece dress. She had a red hairbow, a white belt, and pink shoes. Accompanying her was a teddy bear she held in her arms or dragged behind her. Third in line was a boy with blonde hair, square-shaped glasses, and a green schoolboy uniform consisting of a long-sleeve jacket and pants, a white button shirt, and a black tie with brown shoes. The last of their group was quite serious for his age. He wore a traditional white disciple uniform, with long socks and black Kung-fu shoes. His head was shaved bald except for a circular spot where his hair was tied in a tightly braided ponytail.
They said they had come for coffee as of tasting it on an adventure they had the previous year, and they found it quite lovely. Kotetsu told them coffee was for adults and to try the "Mockfee" on the shelf over there. While hesitant at first, the kids took his advice. Kotetsu thought, at first, they were just kids that snuck into their parents' coffee stash. But they drank away once they sat in a cozy seating area at some sofa chairs surrounding a small table, revealing the truth. Apparently, Kotetsu had been missing the effects before but was present to witness the wonder for himself.
The regulars, of course, had been noticing and spreading the word to one and all. To Kotetsu, they seemed like more random weirdos spouting nonsense about "coffee miracles." coming to pass. Even stranger, they would say, "Feel the psychedelia!" Kotetsu would tell those individuals the only thing he felt was his concern for their mental state. But before his eyes, the air began to change color as different hues appeared in the air. The children's names appeared as Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo.
Kotetsu felt that was weird but accepted that these kids must have been through a lot and bonded as a result. They told him they would teleport to the store because it was a nice place to play and hang out. Kotetsu told them that it was because he had learned to find out what people needed without saying anything. This lesson was learned by dealing with Miss Honey's tantrums. As a result, the stores' additions were as convenient as possible.
This included adding sports arenas around the store property in overgrown fields. That was easier said than done at first. The area immediately around the store was green grass, but on both sides of the road, there was nothing but sparse buildings dotted on either side of the road. Besides that, there were overgrown fields of rocks, grass, weeds, dirt, and trash. Kotetsu was happy to leave it all as it was; until a dog entered the store one day. Surprisingly he said his name was Rusty.
Kotetsu saw that the kids had baseball gear and left the store to create a baseball training area. While talking over coffee, he said his family, the ones running amuck ransacking the store, needed to be kept busy. Their mother was doing her best to keep them under control. But they needed to be kept busy for peace to return to the shop. Kotetsu mentioned he just so happened to have a baseball training spot, and the kids could help if they wanted. The kids were happy to hear the news; they all jumped up and down excitedly.
From that point on, the puppies helped customers who came to try out the baseball training. Kotetsu seeing this built a baseball field in response. This inevitably led to other sports being added to the area outside as more sports enthusiasts showed up. Two girls told him over coffee that they loved his Tennis, golf, soccer, go-kart, and dodgeball areas. They said they were royalty from a foreign land and liked traveling to find exciting places.
One was the Mushroom Princess, and the other was the Flower Princess. Here they found a store that sells things no one wants, for currency no one has, and is surrounded by coffee maniacs and sports fields. Kotetsu heard about a drink similar to coffee called bean juice. The beans were multi-colored, and one of them was large enough to fit in your hand. Kotetsu wanted to serve bean juice as he knew the coffee lovers would love it. He asked them where the beans could be found, and they said they were in another kingdom called Beanbean. They did say that maybe the beans grew in other places as well. Then they gave a curious wink.
All was well until the Coffee Faithful grabbed the two princesses and dashed out the door one day! In their caffeine-fueled delusion, they had mistaken the two for Miss Honey. They quickly ran into a warp pipe, thinking it was a place to hide. Kotetsu followed after them and saw that he was in a grove. The trees had beans growing on them, and Kotetsu saw this was what their cryptic words meant. The coffee faithful weren't about to give up, though.
They chose to follow the large hulking guys there, separating into groups. They heard them speak about taking all the beans and needing to stay jittery to feel alive and said they would gather the beans on the trees and ground. Kotetsu sought to intervene with this to save the princesses. But he was told to back off, or the babes in the bags would be ground into peach and daisy juice. Kotetsu was blown away by a member of the Bean Bad Gang, as the culprits made off with the beans and babes.