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Bix burst through the door yelling.

"EW EW EW EW!"

Each step was accompanied by the removal of a piece of clothing. Each discarded piece hit the floor with a sloppy 'schlorp' noise and it became clear that Bix had become covered in something akin to snot. Was it monster snot? Ghost snot? Minipet goo? Some horrible by product of a mission or cleaning duty?

It is a mystery.

He obliviously powered through the gyrating bodies, past those who were fleeing, and continued to chuck his slimy clothes away from him. Little by little the girls watching would see his pasty skin, burn scarred back, and various laceration scars covering his abdomen. He didn't know there was an audience. All he could do was grimace and cry out, "EW EW EW!!"

By the time he threw himself into an empty stall, clearly in too much of a hurry to get to his own shower on the floor above them, he was buck nekkid and giving a nice view of his sweet a**.

After the scalding water came on there was silence and then suddenly he burst into a very rousing rendition of The Power of Love from the Sailor Moon movie.

"You've got to BEEEELIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE!" Bix hadn't been fully washing, just making sure he was slime-free. "IN THE PPPPPOOOOWWWWWWWEEER OF LOOOOOVE.."

He slid out of the stall across the slick floor with a pink shower poof covering pretty much nothing of his junk, and he was singing into a bottle of bodywash.

The only reason Otto's grouching form entered the Trainee Showers was because his own shower was somehow busted. Nothing but freezing cold water. It was a good thing he had used his hand to test the water before hopping in. So until he found someone to fix it, he'd rely on the public shower.

And what a day he chose to use it. Everyone seemed to be there. Had there been a filth mission and they all needed to get clean again?

With an irritated huff, he stripped out of his shirt as he approached the shower stalls. Why was Bix singing? Why was everyone so... happy. He had fun once too...

So now not only did he have to use this horrible place again, it was a full house. Get clean, and get out.

<SEEN SO MUCH Q#*(%^Fiioor*(@$---->>

Otto passed by Bix and threw his now stripped off shirt in his face. "Shuddup.."

From the mists of the shower rose a single figure, towering above all others, a single terrifying figure -

- Of the Sun division leader in a bathrobe carrying a giant flotation-noodle sized toothbrush, a pair of flippers, and a snorkeling set. Allan looked in expectantly. "Konnichiwa trainee-tachi! Did they install the swimming pool here yet?"

Somewhere else, a group of Sun Hunters was wondering where their taichou went and if they should remove the flotation devices that were cluttering their new swimming pool since Allan had yet to master the art of swimming in any water that was not abysmally shallow.

Slow silence. Well mostly silence at his answer as everyone else was busy doing something - and in one case singing The Power of Love at the top of their lungs - hey he even know the lyrics! Allan opened his mouth to say something when-

- The sound of a thousand holy angels burst into the bathroom, pretty much echoing all around the communal showers and even over one singing voice. "Oh, excuse me!" The Sun lead picked up his cell phone. "Konnichiwa, Lance-kun!" A pause, "Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay." Beam. "Yeah, I can do that! There are even trainee-tachi with me!"

A few of the smarter (male) Hunters might have been able to slowly piece together exactly what was coming next with a sort of almost hilariously slow uptake-

- But a little too late as Allan yelled something about how the forces of evil were in the washroom and a little more about purification and shouting a sort of ward to ward out the evil forces before-

- He plunged his sword right into the shower drain.

Instead of you know, doing what shower drains did and just sort of absorbing more of the water around them, the steam and water began to gurgle, and then bubble horrifically -

- And then spray everyone in the washroom with bursts of used shower water.

The world had been so nice...so clean and inviting. There had been guys with stools and slippery floors.

Now the world was dark and horrible.


Melvin was on the verge of hyperventilating.

This was becoming downright embarrassing to watch. Placing her hands over her eyes, she peeked through her fingers when a familiar voice spoke. "Oh.. gawd.. please, no" Allan? Allan was there!? This--she would never be able to face any of the male hunters on the island again after this, let alone her damned division leader--er, well.. former division lead..

Things only got more interesting when Allan, for some odd reason, struck at the wall with his sword--his actual weapon, causing the shower to flood with used bathwater. This was enough to cause a small laugh to escape. Though why he had done it, still eluded her.

Blind without his glasses that were still hanging from the shower head, Jerry was taken completely off guard by the sudden blast of dirty water that sent him sputtering and scrambling backward. His foot hit someone's stray bottle of shampoo, sending a chain reaction of the Sun Hunter clattering into the nearest body with a horrified yelp.

So much for his New Year's resolution of keeping up with his hygiene.

He should have known better at the sound of Allan's voice. But alas.