Hurricane Vash, Chapter 1

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Nick does not own Trigun, so suing me will get you nowhere!

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View pans over destroyed town, super-imposed over the bottom is HARJIN TOWN. Milly and Meryl pull themselves from under a pile of wood debris, and look at each other.
Meryl’s face puffs up, going slightly red, and she clenches her fists in front of her, “THAT’S IT! WHERE IS THAT DONUT-STUFFING, WOMAN-CHASING, BEER-BARFING, SPIKY-HAIRED MORON?! I’M GOING TO KILL HIM!!”

Milly grabs her colleague’s arms and hugs her close to her chest before she can make good her threat. “Now sempai, you don’t mean that. For all we know, the town could have been destroyed by a freak earthquake! We can’t blame everything on Mr. Vash”
Meryl blinks at her. “Why not!? It’s obvious that pastry-packing idiot is the cause, only he could manage to blow up an entire town!” She crosses her arms sulkily, then thinks that the aforementioned Idiot does the same pose, and sighs, letting her arms drop down, where she pushes on the debris pinning her hips and legs. “How else can you explain all this wanton destruction, and the many towns-people missing, off hunting him?”

Milly helps pull her out, then digs around for a moment and retrieves their belongings. “Well, maybe it’s like Mr. Vash always says, that he didn’t do anything, and people are just blaming him.”
Meryl sighs again, then slides down the pile of debris to the ground. “We might as well go see the town’s sheriff, at least to see what insurance is going to pay for all this destruction.”
Milly smiles as starts to slide down, then trips and rolls to the bottom, landing in a sitting position, legs splayed, face blank. “....ok sempai!” She gets up and dusts herself off, then picks up their possessions and follows Meryl down the debris-littered street towards the sheriff’s office.

At the office, which has no roof, or much of any walls for that matter, they ironically enter through the door, stepping over debris as they enter, and knocking first. The Sheriff blinks and looks up. “You ladies can just come right in” The two girls walks in, and up to the desk, which is being cleaned off by the sheriff. “What can I do for you?” he asks, picking up a small black cat off his desk and carrying it over to the window and gently dropping it outside. The cat blinks up at him “Myaaa” then walks off, only to be hit by a dodge ball a few minutes later, and tossed into the air like a pop fly at a Cubs game. “Myaaaaaaa!”

Meryl blinks at the cat, then shakes her head to re-organize her thoughts and bows her head politely to the sheriff, “I am Meryl Stryfe of the Bernadelli Insurance Company.” Milly chimes in, “And I’m Milly Thompson!” Meryl continues, “We came here to see if we could offer any assistance, and also to find out anything about a Vash the Stampede, and if he had anything to do with this town’s destruction.”

The Sheriff shuffles some papers, looks at them, and tosses them into the trash, because there is only half of the pages. “Well, I don’t think you can help much, we got everything pretty much under control, and all we have to do is see to a few mild injuries, and that’s it. As to that Vash the Stampede feller, yeah, I heard that he came to this town a few days ago. About 5 hours ago, I actually heard someone screaming something about ‘The Humanoid Typhoon is coming, run for your lives’ then the entire town seemed to just go...poof!” he waves his arms in an exploding gesture, knocking a broken figurine off a shelf. He picks it up, and tosses it out the shattered window into a pile of trash to be taken away.

Milly puts her hands to her mouth. “Oh gosh, that’s awful!” Meryl manages not to roll her eyes. “Well, thank you very much for your time, sir, we’ll let you get back to your work.” The Sheriff smiles and waves “It’s been a pleasure talking to you ladies.” He looks around, and finds the only thing undamaged, a file for a rule that makes his life harder, and the lives of criminals easier. He looks around, then carefully pulls out a lighter and torches the file.

Well…That’s Chapter 1. Short, I know. Hopefully that will be fixed in…..Chapter 2! Dun-dun-duuun!