17 Busted 1 (1/2)

”Oh, you're awake! Do you remember what happened yesterday?” Someone asked. It took him a bit of time to recalibrate his focus towards the person. It was Kunjan.

”I don't know! My memory is a bit hazy.” Taro decided to tell the truth, since he had no idea on what was happening. However, Kunjan didn't look so. He had it under control.

”Understandable. It's supposed to have a recoil after all.” Kunjan nodded at himself before he checked Taro's body.

”What do you mean?” Taro asked, however, before he could get an answer, he saw Kunjan's focus lingering towards someone else.

”Man! Why does my body ache?” Thankappan wondered as he stretched out his shoulders.

”Ah, Thankappan! Well, that's because of all the wriggling you did.” Kunjan replied.

”Wriggling?” Thankappan didn't get it. He forgot everything since that one shot of vodka.

”Another one with the amnesia. Let's see what happened with the third one.” Kunjan sighed before he left Thankappan behind and headed towards Gibli. ”Gibli, wake up!” He slightly nudged his shoulder to see what would happen.

However, Gibli was in deep sleep, reliving one of the bitter moments in his life. ”No, I don't wanna leave Ark. I don't wanna leave you guys!” He moaned.

”Seems like he's having a very emotional farewell. Let's ruin it.” Kunjan looked sadistic as he repeatedly punched Gibli.

”Ouch! Why'd you do that?” Gibli cried as he dragged himself away from Kunjan.

”Obviously to wake you up. Now tell me, what happened yesterday?” Kunjan got straight to the point.

Gibli looked around for a moment and sighed. ”Ah, we ate the cookie and ended up here, didn't we? I knew it was some kinda drug.” He proclaimed as if he made a new discovery.

”No shit, Sherlock. By the way, you missed the adventure in between.” Kunjan replied.

”What do you mean?” Gibli was curious about this.

”The adventure of the police officers chasing us and throwing us into this cell.” Kunjan answered.

”And here I thought that I'm the one with the entire recollection of that event.” Gibli sighed as he saw the plankton superiority that he had heard rumors about. It was once said that even though planktons were small, they emitted immense pressure, since they were simply best at everything. Today, he got a glimpse of it.

”Well, I'm an Arkian. We do have our strong foundations which would delay the effect of any drug that enters our system.” Gibli explained his side.

”No wonder your medical field looks like it's the worst in the entire galaxian civilization.” Kunjan shared his thoughts.

This time, Gibli agreed with this assessment. ”Exactly! They ain't actually weak. Like, if you consider pure skill, they surpass every other doctor in this entire universe, since they're able to cure the Arkians of their ailments even with a delay.” He explained before turning towards Kunjan. ”That said, I don't know why it didn't affect the plankton.” He replied.

”What is it, Plankton? What did you do?” Thankappan and Taro was curious as well.

”Heh, I guess you could say that I endured it. Rather, it didn't affect me a bit.” Kunjan gave out a grin.

”That's crystal clear. I asked you for the reason.” Thankappan replied, not impressed with Kunjan's smug face.

”Look. Just as Gibli talked about his Arkian heredity helping him, me being a member of plankton civilization helped me too.” Kunjan gave out his explanation.

”Shoot, genetics again!” Thankappan sighed. If it was something that he developed through thorough practice, he could've make use of that technique. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to be the case.

”Hell no. Being a member of plankton civilization, the same civilization that conducts covert operations for anonymous personalities, we have to go through harsh training so that we won't spill out confidential info or jeopardize the anonymity of our employee. Therefore, I had to go through a multitude of hallucinogens and torture back then, some ten or hundred times stronger than this shit. So, I developed tolerance.” Kunjan shrugged it off as if it was nothing. Meanwhile, the others had a hard time processing what they just heard.

”Man, that's dark!” Thankappan, who planned on practicing it, decided to leave it at that. ”Anyhow, from what you said—that would mean that you were sane when we got caught.” He spoke.

”Yup, totally.” Kunjan nodded his head.

”Then why the hell are you here? You could've ran away by yourself; or you could've take us away with you. At the very least, you could've warned us.” Thankappan scolded.

”Well, you should be held responsible for what you did.” Kunjan got back as well.

”As I said before, why didn't you—” Thankappan was cut short by Kunjan.

”I'm involved in this too, right? So, I deserve to be punished too.” He replied.

Gibli sighed before he spoke. ”Great! We asked this guy to raid the MIB HQ with us. He'll just give up right in the beginning if this is the case.” He was met with a dumbfounded audience of three.

”Huh?” Thankappan was the most baffled one amongst them.

”Nothing.” Gibli quickly tried to cover up.

Thankappan took in a deep breath. ”I'm just gonna pretend I didn't hear anything you said right now because that would be downright impossible and you'd be placed in a prison for planning something ridiculous as this.” He spoke in a calm and rational tone.

”Wait, you're chill about it?” Gibli was surprised. He never expected this turn of events.