Jump City
Majin Buu
Waiting in line inside the pizza establishment was a simple affair, getting stared at by people that weren't accustomed to me by now was of course the ongoing routine that soon died down; I kept my hood off from my head, as I wasn't really scared or ashamed of what I looked like.
I mean, given this was the world of DC, I was at least a one and some odd big number amongst normal people.
"Hey dude…" someone whispered behind me, earning my attention to a familiar voice I would swear up and down I've heard before.
Looking behind me to the source of the voice, my eyes trailed upwards to see none other than Cyborg underneath a grey hoodie, with his hood over his head to hide most of his features. Huh, guess that also answers what DC world I'm in, I knew that face from anywhere.
I offered Victor Stone, a raised brow as the line moved forward allowing both of us to step forward, "Hmhh?" I hummed back a questioning tone, I didn't want to speak my broken english just yet.
Victor looked down at me with a curious gaze, before speaking his mind a bit, "Uh…dude, are you not bothered by the stares?" he asked.
So he was still hooked on that…I shook my head with a frown, and looked back to my front, "Why bother, me am-rrrgh." I swallowed down my anger at my English, before trying once more, while giving Victor a sideways look from over my shoulder, "I am me, stares just stares, not hurt me."
Okay! First use of 'I', making progress here after a month of being Kid Buu!
Looking back to step forward again in line to order myself a pizza, Victor spoke again with an amused tone, "Huh, that's one way to look at it." He remarked, with a frank tone in his voice as he spoke to me, "...let me guess, some lab accident caused you?" he whispered back.
Looking back at Victor, I smirked a bit. That seemed to put Victor on edge, which was fair; my facial expression probably looked like I was about to tear him apart…and again, I probably could with nary an effort. "Idiots woke me up, released me, simple story." I answered, right before I was finally at the counter to finally order my pizza.
The employee, who had freckles on his face, wore a thick foam pizza as a hat, and wore the establishment's uniform, looked down at me with just a raised brow, before asking me what I wanted, "Welcome, what will you have." He droned on with a bored tone.
You know, in this employee's defence, where gods among men existed, caped crusaders prowled the night and day, villains ran amok causing chaos, me ordering food here from his job was probably the least surprising thing…somewhat…
Didn't Batman once order through a drive through with his batmobile?
I pulled out my walleted and placed a crisp twenty dollar bill down and ordered, "Want two pepperoni pizzas, change back please." I answered him.
"Hmm, hungry dude, arent'cha?" The employee asked without a second thought as he took my twenty bill, cashed it into the cash register and gave me my change back, "Order will be ready in ten minutes, next!" he hollered, while I walked off to the side to wait.
I think I'll eat on the dining roof this place has, and have a nice dinner in the open air. At the counter, I could hear Victor order his pizza, "Yeah, dude, give me three meat lover's supreme with extra cheese stuffing and some extra ham."
I looked back over at Victor curiously to watch him hand the employ some money and get his change back, before walking over to me where most of everyone else was waiting for their order; most were sitting down, and surprise surprise, no one had their faces glued to their phone screens…everything was mostly fliphones or text screen phones, so everyone was pretty much reading the store's magazines or just sitting back an enjoying the atmosphere…for what it was worth.
Staying on my feet to stand around, I watched as Victor approached me with some curiosity. "Sorry about that, I was just curious, you know." Victor then blinked as a startling look of revelation dawned on him as he inspected me more from his vantage, and pounded his fist into his palm, "Wait, now I know where I remember your face from!" he remarked.
Smirking a bit down at me, Victor spoke, "My dad said something went down at Star Labs in this city, something about a pink creature that was woken up from some alien orb or something." he mused, while reaching up to scratch at his head, whilst it was still covered by his hoodie.
Offering Victor a hapless shrug while my hands were still in my hoodie pocket, I spoke to him, "Woke up indeed, don't remember time before, everything too foggy." I answered.
"Huh, well…you seemed to have turned out just fine now." Victor mused as he cupped his chin in thought as he looked down at me.
"Order two thirty eight." The employee called my order up, prompting me to nod a bit at Victor before walking off to grab my food.
Approaching the counter, I reached up and grabbed the offered pizza boxes once the employee that took my order saw me come up to the counter, "Enjoy your pizza, and do please come back on saturday, for we are having a palooza of a deal for a two for one deal…" He drone on.
Both of us looked at each other, before the employee spoke with a bored tone, "Manager says I get to earn a nickel for each customer I tell that to." he answered my unsaid question.
"...but how does boss man know?" I questioned him, that was some asinine attempt at making an employee do extra work.
The freckled teen or young adult thumbed up at the camera, "He gets evidence." He then smiled a bit, "I've been saving up for my first car!" he added.
I nodded at that, before taking my pizza boxes up the stairs to eat upstairs, "Good luck." I hollered back.
Outside
Finding an empty seat for myself atop the awning plaza of the pizza joint, I sat down and propped the lid of the first pepperoni pizza; smelling the waft of the pizza, I felt my mouth water a bit, before hastily grabbing myself a slice and began munching down on it, following by the next one. I was definitely hungry, but it was missing sugar…
I slowed down eating my pizza though, once I realized I was practically inhaling the damn thing, I was already halfway done with the whole pizza box and I wasn't even feeling full…nor hungry…
Meh. I shrugged and put in effort to actually enjoy the next slice of pizza. I wasn't a Saiyan, but I did have a big penchant for sweets.
"Yo dude." Victor's voice broke me out of my musings, as I paused in eating another slice of pizza; the teen himself approached my table offering a disarming smile, "Mind if I sit here?" he asked.
With a slice of pizza still stuffed in my mouth, I looked up at him and shrugged, and gestured at one of the empty benches available; I wholly swallowed my slice of pizza before answering Victor fully, "Don't own place, sit here if you like." managed to get more words in the sentence!
"Thanks!" Victor responded as he sat down at one of the other ends of the triangle table, "Just didn't feel like sitting alone you know?" He shrugged at me, before opening one of his three meat lover's pizza boxes, before he dug into his own pizza, "Come to papa!" he cheered as he took a slice and gulfed it down.
Shrugging to myself, I too began scarfing down my own pizza slices, neither of us spoke for a bit as the sound of cars and traffic down below pervaded the atmosphere into the night sky.
After a round of few minutes, give or takes, once I was on to my next box, as was Victor, the cyborg teen himself pushed aside his empty box and lowered the lid of his next one as he took out a piece to look at he and speak with a slice of pizza in his hand, "So-" He began asking, before shoving a good portion of it into his mouth, and spoke with a mouth full…I forgot that the Teen Titans show did that to make the show feel more comical outside the serious moments.
"What's it like on earth for you?" Victor asked, just barely being coherent in words enough to make sense; he swallowed his whole slice of pizza down after chomping enough to swallow his food, and followed up with more words, "You know, how's handling being you?" he said with a clearer voice without food in his mouth.
I myself swallowed down my own slice of pizza before answering the cyborg teen, "Lab pulled favors, work at docks, lift heavy things for money!" I answered with a sharp smirk, earning an amused look from Victor. "I get by fine." I shrugged.
"Huh." Victor leaned back a bit, expressing a smirk back, "You know, that's actually sort of funny, imagine Superman in your place, lifting things for a job." He mused, before chuckling.
"Not bad work, keeps Buu busy." I answered back while the both of us reached for another of our own slices. While the both of us went back to eating pizza slices, the sudden sound of gunfire rang out, followed by a police siren as a car zoomed off down below, followed by a chasing police car.
Neither of us said a thing, before Victor did first, "uh…should you be doing something?" he asked me, only for me to lift a brow of inquisitiveness.
"Buu no hero…" I scrunched my brow forward, my pizza slice inches from my mouth, "...Me means, I could, but police do their job, right?" I questioned him, managing to get an 'I' into my sentences again.
The police chase continued to ring out in the distance, while the both of us stared at each other, before Victor looked down at his hand and pulled his sleeve down to show his full cyborg arm in view, "...Well…it's not like I have anything in mind myself to stop that chase." he answered, clenching his hand a bit.
I raised a brow at Victor, before speaking back to him, "Robot man has robot arms, why not turn arm into cannon, if have no other means of attack?" I questioned, making him blink at me inquisitively, as if what I said was a very logical question.
With wide eyes, Victor looked at his hand again, "I mean…I just got this body…haven't really figured out what it really can do." he responded, before smirking a bit as he looked to be more focuses on his hand, before it suddenly turned into the very canon I've seen before in the cartoon. "Booyah! Pops, you are the man!"
That was nice, thanking his dad for the potential his body had beyond saving his son from death.
I watched as Victor stepped over the ledge of the awning patio, both of us saw the approaching police chase head back our way, while Victor began charging his cannon up with a blue glow. "Let's see what this baby has!" Victor said with excitement, as he aimed his arm cannon, and fired down at the incoming criminal vehicle.
From my perspective, all I saw was Victor aimed his arm cannon down, and firing, before the sound of a car crashing echoed from below; Victor pumped his arm in celebration, and held his hand up for a high five to me. "Got him, high five pink dude!"
I stared a flat look at him, while he kept his excitement to the max, "Robotman does know, he cause car crash, right?" I deadpanned, while the sound of many honking horns finally made their presence known as traffic below came to a standstill. I could already hear cursing drivers and the sound of police yelling at the criminal to get out of his vehicle.
"Uhh…." Victor stood up and leaned over to look down below, I could hear one of the police officers yell back up at him, "I didn't know we had more supes beside that Buu guy, glad we had you here too!" the police shouted up at him.
"Uh…thanks?" Victor shouted back down, before turning around to look at me, "...you that Buu guy?" He asked with confusion.
I nodded as I shoved a slice of pizza into my mouth, while Victor looked at me weirdly, "I thought you said you weren't a hero?" he accused me with a narrowed look.
Swallowing a bite of my food, I answered him, "Buu doesn't look for trouble, trouble comes to Buu." I answered. Besides the bank robbery earlier, there were many other times where I was just in the right spot to stop a crime from fully happening.
It wasn't like I was some hero going around saving the town afterall; there were the many mugging attempts on my person that finally stopped, then there was that one time a speeding getaway armored truck rounded a corner of a street and rammed into me…I won of course…then there was that one time some idiot tried to rob the supermarket I was at with an automatic shotgun…
Victor shrugged at my reasoning, "I suppose that's fair, you're just minding your own business, then you happen to be at the wrong or right place at the time, right?" he questioned, earning a nod from me, "Makes sense." He mused as he walked back over to his seat.
The rest of the meal time was spent in silence, save for the few questions from Victor if I tried any earth video games yet.
…I knew I was forgetting something! "Will need try, Me seen others play at store demos…" I answered him, "Looks fun." I followed up with.
From that point on, Victor began telling me the sorts of games I should try out as my first earthen games to play; I was actually curious what sort of video games this world had, compared to my old life.