time for pickin'

[mikandelinquent]

Who: mikangirl, mikandelinquent, the strawhats, and any and all volunteers!!
What: Gonna save us from fothermuckin' fruit from trees. You feel me?
When: The 16th to the 17th!
Where: The mikan grove!
Summary: The snow coming in is doing a bang-up job on our fruits. Cocoyashi ladies don't much appreciate that-come help them, because they are way over their heads at the moment.

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Either day. Timeline be damned anyway.

[wildkotetsu]

[Kotetsu was ready for mikan savin'! It just so happened Nami was more than capable of convincing him to adventure forward and help save these poor, innocent mikans. And it's with this in mind that he decides he'll use his powers-

... Actually, he was mainly curious if being in the barrier changed them like the guide had noted. Considering his time limit was already dwindling down, he had reason to fret that maybe he'd be even more drained here. Fortunately, his powers seemed to be doing a decent job of thriving. 3:45 still.

He runs through the grove at super-human speed, just a line of blue trailing behind him. He's got a basket and he's movin' like the wind, pick, pick, picking; can't really tell which are supposed to be picked, but hey. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Can't have these mikans all dying of cold, now can we? After all, they were so tenderly raised. :|b]

[mikangirl]

[There's a bright blue blur zipping through her orchard. Nami stops dead as it zips past her, and... kind of forgets what she's doing to watch.

...you'd better not be hurting her fruit B|]

[wildkotetsu]

[BEHOLD, a basket sitting at the bottom of this tree here. And then there is a bit of a draft and some of that blue afterglow traveling up and down the tree repeatedly-it almost look like a phantom, with how transparent Kotetsu seems after a while-and soon the basket is all full.

AND THEN ONTO THE NEXT TREE.

He repeats the pattern all the way down the row, until the blue finally cuts off and he's catching his breath a bit. And then it's a simple matter of busting his hands off on his trousers. :|b

He's a bit unwound, with his tie all loose and his hat tucked deep into his back pocket. Lookin' like a worker there, Kaburagi.]

[mikangirl]

[...oh. It's this guy.]

...so that was impressive. Should I ask?

[wildkotetsu]

[huff puff, he wipes his forehead, breathing a fog of misty air.]

Ask what?

[He's far more used to people immediately going 'oh hey NEXT powers', so the curiosity is lost on him. He fiddles with his watch for a brief moment, clicking the stopwatch off, before he gives her his full attention.]

[mikangirl]

How you do that. [She's actually a lot more impressed than she sounds, especially as you're employing this to get her mikans down at superspeed. *_*] Magic?

[wildkotetsu]

[He grins, rubbing the back of his head.] Naaah, nothing like that. It's my NEXT powers.

[... oh right, no one here knows about NEXTS :|]

Those're people in my world born with superhuman abilities. Never heard of it referred to as 'magic' though, even if it can look pretty magical sometimes. A co-worker of mine back home can shoot ice, and another can turn himself into a copy of whoever he wants.

[mikangirl]

Ah! [YOU HAVE AOKIJI AND BON CLAY AS COWORKERS how do you feel 8|] Well, that's different. We get people with special abilities in our world, but you kinda have to eat a certain fruit to get them. D'you come from the same world as Kurt, then?

[wildkotetsu]

Mm-oh! You mean the teleporting kid!

I guess our worlds are named similarly, but he's never heard of my kind. So I guess it must be that... parallel worlds or something.

[mikangirl]

Yeahhh, there's a lot of that going around here. Some things are universal, I guess.

[wildkotetsu]

I guess so...... but it all goes over my head, most of the time.

[mikangirl]

...don't worry. It took me forever to get the idea myself.

[wildkotetsu]

Mm. But anyway!! [He stands tall, looking determined.] If there are any trees you need picking, just point the way! I've still got a lot of pent-up energy!

[Though, no more blue glowiness. We gotta be normal-fied for the next hour.]

[mikangirl]

Ah! Well, we still have a lot-- follow me, I'll find you a new patch. Though... I guess at the speed you're going it won't take that long, huh?

[What do you mean, normal-fied. Clearly you can do that all the time. 8|]

[wildkotetsu]

... A-ah. Actually, I'll take a little longer than before. My powers have that kinda' problem to them: I can only use it for a few minutes, and then it's gone for about an hour.

[mikangirl]

[What. LAAAAME. She even looks vaguely disappointed.

...okay, for about half a second. But still, visions of cleared orchard going up in smoke. 8|;;]

Oh, well. At least you cleared a whole bunch in that few minutes. Is it just being really fast?