Experiment Failed Successfully: A Kaiju Paradise Fanfic

Track 7 (REMIX): Low Profile

LOCATION: Cafeteria main area (underground)

TIME: 6:53 PM

MATT'S HEADPHONES: Acquired
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Chai had vanished into the crowd, leaving Matthew to face the judgment of the gootraxians by himself. While none of them had actually started walking over to him yet, they were practically staring right through him, and he wanted nothing more than to just head back up to the attic space before his heart hammered its way out of his chest.

Fortunately, his nervousness must have been strikingly obvious, as one by one, the gootraxians eventually broke off their gaze, returning to whatever they were doing before. Meanwhile, Chai walked back in through an entrance on the far side of the room, and he was accompanied by another gootraxian. This one looked surprisingly similar in build to Chai, even having glowing patterns on the same parts of their fur, with the only real differences being the fact that this one still had both their arms, and that they glowed a vibrant purple instead of electric blue.

Apart from that, they wore a pair of shutter shades over their eyes, both of which also glowed the same shade of purple, along with their eyes and paw pads.

They were also carrying a boombox in one arm, which caught the attention of quite a few gootraxians in the room, some of which were actually getting up and walking into the other room at the sight of it.
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MATT'S INTERNAL MONOLOGUE
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...Do those two just not have good taste in music?

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I wonder if they'll notice if I just leave...
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TIME ELASED: 7 sec.
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Matthew had walked over to the far corner of the cafeteria, sitting down at an empty table. He could tell he was still catching suspicious glares from other gootraxians in the room, and just dragged his hat down over his face as he slumped down in his seat, stuffing his hands in the pockets of his vest.

The music wasn't the worst thing he'd ever heard, but he could definitely think of a few songs he'd rather be listening to. At the very least, the song seemed to lighten the mood a little bit, taking some of the heat off of Matthew, who was just counting the minutes until he could get back up to the attic.
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MATT'S INTERNAL MONOLOGUE
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Good grief...why the hell did I agree to this in the first place?

Almost everyone here looks ready to gank me at the tip of a freaking hat. What'd the other humans down here even do for me to get treated like some sort of ticking time bomb, anyways? I mean, sure, it'd be one thing if it were the scientists that apparently ran all kinds of tests on them in the past, but didn't Nico say they were long gone?
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Gah, I'm too damn tired to think any harder about this...
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TIME ELAPSED: 17 sec.
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Matthew leaned back in his seat as he stretched out his arms, letting out a yawn of epic proportions.

However, when he was lowering his arms after that, he felt his left arm bump into someone.