have you ever tasted fear or loss of control

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Characters: Mao and YOU YOU YOU
Setting: Dorms near room 1-04
Format: I'll match you
Summary: Mao returns to the tower in perfect mental health.
Warnings: Very angry creeper warning

It wasn’t like he minded being out of that godforsaken place. For all the things this tower had done to him, walking around the ruined hallways of Evil Academy? That was a billion times worse. In fact, when he woke up with paralysis throughout his body, it was almost… welcomed? Almost. His mind really wasn’t working that well at the moment. In its defense, though, it had taken a lot of abuse.
 
The memories were fuzzy, but they were for the most part accurate. The paralysis wore off after a short while, and then he was welcome to get up and explore the room, which at the moment was empty. After changing out of that stupid outfit and into his regular clothes, Mao unloaded his trunk, as he had done last time, and left the anime, games, and comics strewn about the room, once again as he had done last time. There were considerably less of them this time, though. He distributed the ‘Demon’s Handbook’ onto the three other beds, with a sticky note on them that read “REQUIRED READING” in thick red marker. He hung his assorted weapons and torture devices on the wall. It was all terribly familiar, because he had done it all before.
 
Once he was done redecorating the room to his liking, Mao sat on the bed and stared at the door for a moment. He thought briefly and flittingly that he would need to find a place to put all of his supplies; hopefully the tower had come up with a suitable lab area in his absence.
 
A second later, he was screaming like a madman and punching the door furiously. He probably got a fist through there.

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[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

“Yes, and I bet they still don’t have a place I can set up my lab!” Mao is seriously concerned by this. He’s seriously concerned by a lot of stupid things, though it’s usually the result of too much stuff in the Heart Bank and good old memory suppression.

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

"Your lab," he had never heard of that word before. "What is a lab sir? Can't you put it in your room?"

[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

Mao puts his hands on his hips and scowls at the door. “No, fool! It’s much too small in here to set up a proper lab! Besides, there’s other people in here!”

He realizes his mistake a second too late. (Damn hero title!) Noticeably scrambling for a justification, even with just his voice, he adds on, “…They’re only going to get in the way!”

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Romeo scowled right back. "I'm not a fool!" He had quickly learnt that there were lots of things in other worlds that didn't exist in his.

"Oh," well if it was too small in here... "There's lots of bigger rooms, where you could put it sir!"

[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

"I need somewhere where no one is going to bother me!" There was nothing like that in this tower; everyone was able to go almost everywhere they wanted. Unless... (Mao's "evil mind" is turning right now, so he's gone suspiciously silent except for the occasional deranged chuckle.)

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

The chuckles were a little bit scary but Romeo didn't move away, he had promised himself he was going to be braver so he could fight the baddies.

"Well sir..." Because the scary sounds had reminded him of something, "There's some really scary floors here, that people don't like going to. So if you didn't mind scary noises your lab could go in one of them maybe?"

omg romeo please be quiet.

[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

"Yes... brilliant! I'll barricade the entrances so that no one can get in! Yes!" There's a sound of heavy footsteps and some scrambling in the room, in reality Mao looking for a notebook to write this flash of evil genius on.

sob never

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Romeo frowned, he didn't think baricading the enterances was a good idea. "People might still have to walk through, but mostly people run through quickly because the floors are scary." He watched the man run around looking for something.

"Do you need any help setting it up sir?"

[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

"I don't care! They'll have to find their own way around!" Mao also did not care that there wasn't any other way around. Because, you know, he's Mao. Blocking the way with no other means of getting past him is the demon world's equivalent of community service. And to Romeo's second question: "No!"

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

"That's not very nice!" Romeo told him with a scowl, "There isn't another way unless they use the floating box, and that only stops in two places!"

[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

"Well they have some way, don't they?" He doesn't care if they didn't have any way at all. This is his plan now.

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

"I guess... But couldn't you just leave a gap and block off the rest of the floor?" He feels a little bit bad for giving him this idea now.

[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

I need as much room as I can get. [He says this matter-of-factly, like it should be the most obvious thing on the planet.]

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Well it would only have to be a small gap! And the floors are really big!

[weirderscience.livejournal.com]

Obviously you have no idea how much room is necessary to build a lab!

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

[Romeo shook his head, because that was true.] I don't even know what a lab is sir!