Arle & Ecolo's Bizarre Adventure

A Slight Prank

It had been a nice day for the Physics Club. All their experiments had actually gone to plan, and none of them had exploded, which was actually rare. Risukuma had said goodbye to his friends, Ringo and Maguro, before the three of them went their separate ways. Tomorrow was a Saturday, so they had the day off. Risukuma was going to spend the day relaxing and-

"Gaah!" Risukuma yelled, as he was grabbed by the leg and into the bushes. The one who had done this was one of Ringo's friends, was it Arle? She was accompanied by that yellow rabbit creature, as well as a shadowy creature.

"May I ask why you shoved me into the bushes?" Risukuma asked.

"We need your help," Arle asked. "Ecolo and I are thinking about pranking Ringo a bit."

"Can we borrow your body for a few minutes tomorrow~?" Ecolo asked.

"My... what?!" Risukuma said, in shock.

"Ecolo! We were supposed to say that after we buttered him up!" Arle reprimanded him.

"Ms Nadja, please elaborate on what this request means..." Risukuma asked her.

"It's really nothing, I swear," Arle said. "All we want is for Ecolo to puppet your body for a couple minutes, then you're free to go. How does that sound?"

"I..." Risukuma had been asked many weird things since the day the light shone down on Ringo, but never anything THIS weird. He had no idea how to respond to this kind of request. "... does it hurt?"

"Noooooo, definitely not!" Ecolo said. "You won't feel a thing!"

"I mean, if you resist his control, it'll hurt," Arle added. "But all you have to do is nothing for a couple of minutes, so that won't be a problem."

"H-How would you know this?" Risukuma asked.

"Experience," Arle said. "Soooooo are you in or not?"

"I... guess?" Risukuma said.

"Alright, thanks!" Arle said, before getting up and leaving. "See you tomorrow!"

Risukuma was just confused by the whole interaction. They didn't even tell him where to go...

Risukuma had forgotten about what happened yesterday, and was at Suzuran Shopping District, seeing if there was anything that could work for his potions.

"Hey! Ris!" a familiar voice called out. So THEY hadn't forgotten.

"Alright, just let Ecolo puppet your body for a couple minutes and then we can let you go back to shopping!" Arle said. Risukuma noticed Arle was wearing a weird cloak, with black and grey on it, and not the blue and white she wore yesterday.

Ecolo suddenly pressed his face up to Risukuma's and said, "dOn'T wOrRy... i WoN't bE tOo hArD... hEhEhEhE..."

"Ecolo!" Arle yelled. "Don't scare him!"

"Sorry~" Ecolo said.

"We're doing this for you, after all!" Arle said, before turning to Risukuma again. "So are you still in?"

What Risukuma wanted was to run back home and get away from both these nutcases. But Risukuma knew they'd probably bother him until he let them borrow his body, so he reluctantly agreed. "Uh... sure."

"Yay~!" Ecolo cheered, before taking control of Risukuma's body again.

"Oh yeah, I heard from Ringo you've possessed Risukuma before too," Arle said. "Or used his body like a puppet. Why is that?"

"He has a chaotic energy," Ecolo said. "He's kinda fun~"

Arle could tell Ecolo really meant Risukuma was just in the wrong place at the wrong time occasionally, but didn't say anything.