Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ GTE: Great Teacher Ericks! ❯ Return of GTE! ( Chapter 2 )

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A/N: And here is the 2nd chapter! I've decided to continue! This shall be a nice little fic, 10-13 chapters. I shall release a chapter daily… I think… Well, I'll try to release it as often as I can. Anyway, thank you and enjoy this chapter!

Warning: Spoilers for the entire series.

~Kouji

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GTE: Great Teacher Ericks!

Chapter 2: Return of GTE!

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Another day arrived on the Planet Gun Smoke. The sun rose, the children prepared for school… And Vash the Stampede was currently looking for a job. Meryl and Millie were out at work. In order to stay with Vash, they quit they're jobs and became waitresses. A somewhat degrading job, yes. But for now, it was all they could do.

Vash had looked through the newspaper, decked in purple pajamas with pictures of donuts on them and wearing bunny slippers, but none of the jobs interested him. He sighed. He had enjoyed his job as a teacher. He was having so much fun with the kids. But Kite had to ruin it…

He didn't understand. He thought that he and Kite had bonded that one day long ago. Why did he seem to want to get rid of him? Oh well, not his problem anymore… He sighed again, then looked through the newspaper, eating cereal. Knives snickered at his brother. Vash glared at Knives. "What are you laughing at?" Vash said, glaring.

"What I'm laughing at", Knives started with a smirk, "is how you allow the spider woman to control you…"

"… Spider woman?…" Vash frowned.

"… My 'Butterflies and Spiders' speech?…" Knives stared at Vash.

Vash thought hard for a moment. "… Oh, yeah! Well, I'm not like you, Knives… Meryl is my friend!"

Knives coughed. "…More than friends… I still can't believe you did that with her…"

Vash blushed, then regained his composure. "Shut up and eat your oatmeal…"

"Fine then…" Knives said, as he dumped his face into the oatmeal.

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Well, that was… Interesting… Let's check out the school, shall we?

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At Augusta High School, Freshmen students were protesting outside the building. The refused to go inside the building unless they got "Great Teacher Ericks" to return. Meanwhile, inside, Mr. Num was pounding his head into the desk. He was slowly putting the imprint of his head into the piece of furniture. The Vice Principal, Nimoy Dastun Brooksworth, walked into the office. He was a tall, giant man with short blonde hair and a handlebar moustache. He was wearing a white suit, white shoes, and spoke with a gruff voice. "Mr. Num?"

The Principal looked up. "… Yes? What is it?!"

Brooksworth raised an eyebrow. "Sorry to bother you sir, but shouldn't we start class soon?"

Mr. Num glared. "How do we suppose we do that?!"

Mr. Brooksworth grinned. "Simple. We get this 'Great Teacher Ericks…' And I know how to get him…" He then walked out of the office. He walked up a few stairs and opened the door to a room. "Let's see", he mumbled to himself. He looked around the room. It was filled with… teachers. It was the Teacher's Lounge. He pointed to a giant man, even bigger than Brooksworth. He had dark brown hair, thick glasses, a brown suit, and black shoes. "Mr. Sen, we need you…"

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Vash heard the doorbell ring. He answered it. It was a big man. "Er…" Vash smiled, "Hello?" The big man picked up Vash. "Ack!" Vash screamed. "What are you doing?!"

The man spoke in a refined voice. "Sorry, just doing my job… We need Great Teacher Ericks."

"Oh! Is that all? Okay then, just let me get dressed!" Vash jumped out of the man's grasp, yanked off his pajamas, took a short shower, and got dressed. While waiting for Vash, Mr. Sen played jump rope with 2 little girls. Vash, after 45 minutes or so, walked out the door, wearing a three piece suit. It was a suit consisting of red pants, a red jacket, and a black vest. He was wearing jet black suede shoes, and a pair of black gloves. His long blonde hair had been cut into it's old style, but since he had cut it himself, it was a bit shorter than usual. To complete his outfit, he was wearing a pair of dark shades.

Mr. Sen raised an eyebrow. "… Do you think you're wearing enough clothes?…"

Vash grinned cheesily. "I am… Great Teacher Ericks!!!!"

Mr. Sen rolled his eyes as they both walked over to a pink Jeep. Vash gave Mr. Sen a disturbed look. Mr. Sen shrugged. "It's my daughter's… Mine is in the shop." He hopped into the vehicle. "Now if you wouldn't mind, please get in… We're about an hour off schedule…" Vash nodded and hopped in. They then drove off at top speed. Vash hung on for dear life as the little Jeep went at speeds Vash never thought were possible.

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As the two reached the school, Vash shivered violently as he got out of the pink vehicle… He unintentionally spoke out loud. "Oh my god, that was scary!! I'd rather face Knives and the Gung-Ho-Guns all over again!"

Mr. Sen gave Vash an odd look. "Who?…"

Vash realized his slip up. "Oh, nothing! Just some game…"

Mr. Sen gave him a questioning look as students cheered.

"Hooray!"

"It's Great Teacher Ericks!"

"Ooohhhh… He's even hotter than yesterday!"

Vash gave a cheap, cheezy smile as the girls melted. "I have returned! I am Great Teacher Ericks!!!" The students cheered and followed Kite to the class. Kite began muttering. The class all sat down excitedly as Vash spoke to them. Kite thought. It's not that I don't want him here, it's more like… He's embarrassing…But I'll give him a chance…

"Well class, thanks to certain… Problems, I couldn't teach you much yesterday. But today, I can teach you all sorts of things! Hoowa!" Vash said, raising his fist in the air.

"Hoowa!" The class, except Kite, repeated. His face was then reintroduced to "Mr. Chalk Eraser". Vash glared at Kite playfully.

"Now young man, what did I say?!"

Kite sighed. "Hoowa…" he muttered, slowly raising his fist.

"Now to take role!" Vash then did just that.

Vash coughed. "Now class, today I shall tell you all a story… It's about a butterfly…"

"Eh?" Kite said. He was met with another chalk eraser. His friend, Sayuri, giggled at her best friend. His face was now white as a Mime's.

"Silence! There will be a test on this! Now, there once was a butterfly… His name was Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser III." The class was silent. Vash smirked. Anyway, others just called him Val." The class sighed in relief. He continued his story:

~…~

Val did not like to kill, and had a brother butterfly, named Spoons, who had been abused by a bad spider. Because of this, he thought all spiders were bad. He killed all the spiders in the area, but a nice, gentle spider named… Mer, had saved the other spiders. She, however, also died…

The butterfly brothers landed on a new planet, where their other butterfly brethren were used as energy for the spiders. Spoons was angered even more, and disappeared for a year. When he returned, he had 2... Super Cocoons! A sliver one, and a black one. He was going to use them destroy the spiders! Val wouldn't stand for this, so he shot is brother, took both cocoons, and abandoned him. Val still regrets that day…

Val wondered for a few years, when he was helped by some spiders. They gave him a new coating, and he lived there for around 80 years.

~…~

Kite rudely interrupted. "Did he die?" He was then dodged the incoming chalk eraser. He retaliated by tossing his English book at Vash.

Vash glared. "No!" he yelled, before getting beaned with a text book. He gave a mean look to Kite, then went on.

~…~

After a while, he discovered a relative of Mer, and went to see him. But when he got there, Spoons was waiting for him. He had killed the last living relative of Mer… Spoons then proceeded to shoot off Val's left wing, thus relieving Val of the black Super Cocoon. He snapped, his, er, legs, and activated Val's other Super Cocoon. It became a huge weapon, and threatened to blow up the city. Sadly, it did. Val was now wanted.

After a while, he returned to the place he had been staying. He got a new mechanic wing with a built in gun, and he went off searching for Spoons.

23 years past, and Val had many adventures, and met with 2 cute insurance girl spiders, um…Marron and Milli Vanilli! They followed him around, and they met a traveling priest spider. His name was Foxwood. They all had fun adventures, but that all ended when Spoons sent his henchmen, the Webby-Ha-Webs. They made Val's life a living Hell, and they were eventually all killed, either by getting killed, killing each other, or themselves… Unfortunately, their deeds caused many casualties, including the death of Foxwood…

Val was depressed. He faced off against the leader of the Webby-Ha-Webbys, Hot Dog, and ended up killing him with his own hands… He moped for days, before he was cheered up by the girls spiders. He felt, however, that he was falling in love with Marron…

He had a final showdown with Spoons. Using the weapon of the late Foxwood, he was able to defeat his brother. He did not kill him, however, but wrapped him up in bandages, and carried him off, starting a new life. Val was never seen again…

~…~

The majority of the class was crying. The story had touched them. Kite wouldn't admit it, but the story was very sad… Especially since he realized that that was a retelling of Vash's life story… Except for the end, of course… He was standing right in front of him, wasn't he?…

Vash sighed. The bell rang. "Alright, class dismissed… There will be a quiz tomorrow on the story…"

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Meryl pounced on Vash and kissed him. "Vash, I am so happy for you! You now have a steady job!" Vash smiled. Milly smiled. Knives scoffed. The others glared at him.

Vash and Merly got up, and Vash stood in front of Knives. "… Shut up and eat your applesauce."

Knives glared. "Peh… Fine." He dumped his face into the applesauce.

"Mr. Vash?" Milly started. "When can we let Mr. Knives go?"

"When we can rehabilitate him…" Vash sighed.

"Well, Mr. Working man… Can you keep this job for a month?"

"We'll see…"

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"Class! Vocal test on story, start!!" Vash yelled. He pointed at a girl. "Sayuri!!"

"Huh?"

"What was Val's last name?!"

"Er… Kaiser III?…"

"Correct! Pass! Bobby!"

"Wassup, Great Teacher Ericks?"

"Name one thing Spoons did to Val!!"

"Uhhh… He shot off his wing, yo… Dat was whack!"

"Peace, my homie!! Pass!"

The quiz went on like this, the questions getting harder, until he reached Kite...

"Kite!!!"

"… What…"

"… What is the moral of the story?…"

"…" Kite had been thinking about this all day yesterday. "The moral is… Give all people a chance, and never give up?…"

"… Close… Not exactly what I would have said… But pass!! Congrats, Kitey-boy!!" A few classmates snickered as Kite sunk in his chair and blushed. Okay, now he's going down… Kite thought, beginning to smile evilly…

To be continued…

~~~ And… that's all for now! Now the story is gonna pick up more in humor now that we've set up everything. So, sayonara! This is Kouji, signing off…