[semi-open] Ain't no party like a team-bonding party

[starfruitfrog]

Characters: Metokkori R and Hikan Cafe employees (and passers-by)

Location: Shibusen City Park

Rating: PG (full disclosure is important when you organize a camping trip, kids.)

Time: March 23rd (back-dated), mid-afternoon > March 24th, morning

Description: The team at Metokkori R and Hikan Cafe have a camping trip complete with marshmallows, curry and an unknown enemy attacking them in the middle of the night.






'Work is important, but what is just as important is to have fun, de arimasu. The team that plays and works together, stays together, de arimasu!'

Was what Keroro said right before announcing their first annual team-bonding camping trip.

The site was chosen as the park, simply because it was free and open. That and Keroro just wasn't all that interested in going out in the desert and being carried away by vultures.

Now get to bonding! What do you think he's giving you guys a half day off for?!

Comments

[starfruitfrog]

Of course you did, de arimasu.

[Don't argue with your leader, Giroro.]

And the camping things are going to be a group effort, de arimasu. It would be impossible by myself, de arimasu.

[Look at the size of everything. Now look back at the two-foot tall frog-alien.]

[this_is_keron]

It's fine. [He will defeat this paint spot if it kills him!

Before he continues though, he shoots Keroro a Look.]

You should have planned a better training camp.

[vintage_magic]

Then, how did all of this get here in the first place? You'd better find people to clean up since none of this should be here.

[Lily agrees with Giroro and thinks it should have been held somewhere else, too.] At the least, he should have gotten a permit. I reckon there's a fine if you don't...

[starfruitfrog]

[Well, he's going to shoot Giroro a 'Look' of his own. So there.]

That's obvious, de arimasu. We're still cleaning up, de arimasu. [Of course.]

And it's just friendly camping, so we shouldn't need a permit, de arimasu. It wasn't supposed to be some kind of survival training. [Giroro.]

[this_is_keron]

[It's not the location he has problems with so much as the actual execution.]

It's a camp for building team work. It had an obstacle course. How was it not a training camp?

[vintage_magic]

Friendly camping? [She doesn't really believe him.] Most folks would go out to the country for that, not pitch tents in a city park.

[And she's going to agree with Giroro this time.] Plus, I know of no one who would consider an obstacle course part of camping.

[starfruitfrog]

It was an obstacle course for fun, de arimasu. You know, something people do in their spare time, de arimasu. Like hobbies, de arimasu. [But obviously, Giroro wouldn't know anything about that, not actually having any real hobbies.]

And going out into the country is dangerous, de arimasu. The desert isn't safe at all, de arimasu.

[this_is_keron]

The desert would have been better. [You'd get better training done there.]

[vintage_magic]

Even if it's a hobby, it doesn't have anything to do with camping. And bringing all these things into the park is going overboard.

I reckon you would have caused a lot less trouble if you went camping out in the desert.

[starfruitfrog]

And I'm telling you both that the desert is dangerous, de arimasu. What if we got carried away by witches, de arimasu? I wouldn't risk the lives of my employees like that, de arimasu.

[It's more like he's unwilling to risk his own life. He has to go out there with them, you know.]

[this_is_keron]

That wouldn't happen if you stay vigilant.

[vintage_magic]

[Getting carried away by a witch could happen right here in this park. After all, she was a witch and having picked up Oscar in his potbellied pig guise on various occasions, she doubted that picking up a two foot frog would have been much more difficult.] And you’re so sure that wouldn’t happen in the park? Didn’t they say they can’t keep witches out of the city?

[And she glances over at Giroro.] Are you still working on that paint?

[starfruitfrog]

[But that chance is increased a hundred-fold outside of Death City where Keroro imagined that Kishin Eggs and Witches roamed around like sheep on a pasture.]

I'm not sure, de arimasu. But that doesn't mean that we should choose to do something as foolish as stepping outside Death City into a place where we'd have no back-up, de arimasu.

[this_is_keron]

[...actually, he was distracted with telling Keroro off and stopped for a moment. He gives her a salute.]

I'll get back to it.

[And wanders over to a new patch of painted grass. Paint, you're going down.]

[vintage_magic]

Still, the park isn't meant for camping. And if you were so worried about safety, I reckon you should have camped out in your living room. [Wasn't there talk of a serial killer in the newspaper a few weeks ago? And she doesn't recall hearing about an arrest.]

[She watches as Giroro starts on a new spot. And then looks around at all the other spots left. This is going to take forever... And she glances at Keroro.]

If you're not going to help, would you at least go find the rest of your group and get them to clean up?

[starfruitfrog]

Camping in the living room is like not camping at all, de arimasu. I might as well just have a party or something, de arimasu.

[Serial killers only add to the interest in a camping trip. The same way that bears do.

Keroro waves a hand in dismissal.]

Of course, I'll go right away, de arimasu.

[this_is_keron]

Keroro's right. It's not camping if it's indoors.

[He had to agree on that point. Also, this spot has been defeated in the name of Keron! He gets up and walks towards the next one. This could take a while...]

[vintage_magic]

Maybe, you should have done that instead... [Then the mess would have been in his apartment instead of in the park...]

Or a picnic instead of camping...[At least, that wouldn't have left as much to clean up.]

[She watches as Giroro moves on to the next spot and thinks they're going to be here all day at this rate... She'd go and do what she actually planned to this morning but she doesn't really think she can trust them to clean all of this up if she's not watching.]

[starfruitfrog]

The point of this was to get everyone's hearts connected and for them to learn how to work together as a team, de arimasu. You don't learn how to work as a team by partying, de arimasu.

[Although parties were a good way of getting hearts connected. Especially when you threw in alien drinks with strange effects.]