TFFA: Listen to Time Again

[Zenithos]

OOC: Since it's no longer Christmas, let's continue in a different thread~

A Deserted Island, somewhere in the middle of the sea, 8.22 AM, day 1

The seagulls' cries in the air, the hot tropical sun, sandy white virgin beaches, shady palm trees....

...this was truly heaven on earth...

"And this is where the bunny princess sleeps." Sidhe said in a very patient voice as she pointed to a rather well-made miniature tower on her rather impressive sand castle.

Moro and Maru oohed and aahed in awe, their eyes sparkling with amazement. "It's the bunny princess palace!" Moro cooed. "It's where the bunny princess lives!" Maru added.

"...." Presea and Rin, who were only a short distance away, stared at the detailed gothic castle for a moment before looking back down at their own sad and pathetic excuse for a mound of sand before sighing.

"Yeah, this is the life." Xerxezz smiled as he lounged against a palm tree. "Nothing but empty sea for miles around. Yep. Now..." He lowered his sunglasses to better see the objects of his desire, namely his wives. "Hmm...if only my wives would start acting like actual wives..."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH! PLEASE! DON'T DIE! DON'T DIE!" A voice screamed from a small distance away. "PLEASE GOD! DON'T TAKE THEM AWAY FROM ME! I'LL GIVE ANYTHING! ANYTHING! JUST DON'T LET THEM DIE!"

"....and if only that $^T#%@# would shut the %@%# Up...." Xerxezz sighed heavily. "Turn down the volume, Mick! And turn off the water-works too! Or you'll flood the whole damn island!"

"It appears Zen and Ei-chan still haven't woken up." Janus observed, plomping down heavily beside Xerxezz. "By the way, I've flown around. This is definitely an island...and flying in any direction away from the island only brings you back here."

"So we're trapped?" Unknown asked, doing his best to fan himself with the aid of a banana frond.

"Practically. We're in a time/space looped dimension of some sort." Vex said. "My satellite reports that only a minute has gone by outside...but a day has gone by in here."

"Stranded on a desert tropical island where time stretches on forever..." The resident hockey nut, Legacy, sighed.

"Some of us are taking it very nicely." Zeph grumbled, jabbing a finger towards what looked like a tree house under construction poking out of the forest behind them.

"Xaosite-sama, I got you some frrrruit juice." A leaf-bikinied Tohno reported to Xaosite, who had made himself comfortable in a hammock.

"What fruit is it?"

"....errr..."

"You do realize I want to be able to walk after I drink this."

"...umm, you only need your legs to walk, right?"

"...."

"Get off your lazy bum and help out!" Soifon shouted from a corner of the half-completed tree house, a saw and hammer held up threateningly in both hands.

"Ugh! My severe injuries from that fight with the Jester, during which I gallantly and bravely defended you ungrateful girls!" Xaosite gasped, clutching his side.

"Oh no, Xaosite-sama!" Konoka cried, running to Xaosite's side. "I'm sorry that my healing spells aren't working well. I'm so useless..."

"Worry not. Your care alone is a boon to my heart." Xaosite said, with a sparkle in one eye.

"...." Soifon sighed as she got on with her work. Thankfully she had managed to convince Mihoshi that finding a tree that grows toilets and sinks and other forms of plumbing was higher on their priority list and had sent her off into the jungle in search of one. It was quite safe, she assured herself. She didn't sense any other spirit pressure in the forest. Plus, the worst she could do is hurt a few trees.

"NO! WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THEM?! WHY?!" A voice rang from the beaches.

"...I take it Zen and Ei-chan haven't woken up yet..." Soifon sighed heavily.

"But...what happened to them?" Konoka asked.

"Well....I only saw it briefly, but..." Soifon began.

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A day ago, back in TFF Academy City...

"Giving up yet?" Zeni asked with a triumphant grin as she landed lightly atop a collapsed pile of rubble that was once a proud skyscraper...into which she had ploughed her and her sister's dark trollz counterparts.

"I...thought I could use this later, after defeating you completely and utterly..." Both dark Zeni and dark Eterna slowly rose out of the crater of rubble to face their opponents. "But I guess there's no point in drawing this battle out. We need to unleash the power of the Crimson Moon, now!"

"Oh, that was a pretty pathetic attempt at a bluff, I must say." Eterna giggled.

"Bluff?" Dark!Eterna threw her head back and laughed. "Well...wait until you see this one..."

Both ripped off the eyepatches covering their left eyes. "Mangekyou Sharingan...TSUKUYOMI!"

And that was the last thing Zeni and Eterna remembered seeing before being drawn into a deep, dark oblivion.

Within Zen/Zeni's mindscape...

"I see...so that's why you kidnapped Sasuke..." Zeni muttered through gritted teeth as she slowly picked herself up from the icy snow-covered ground.

"Emo-boy had his uses." Dark-Zeni smiled. "Now, will you yield and become mine?" She asked, one hand clutching and choking Zen by her collar.

"Playing hostages now?" Zeni sighed. "Ok, you got me. I give up."

"Good." Dark Zeni's smile grew wider as she threw Zen into the snow at Zeni's feet. "She's still at my mercy so give it quietly and I will let her live."

Zen looked up at Zeni, fear evident in her teary eyes.

Zeni couldn't help but sigh as she kneeled by Zen's side and pulled her up into a hug. "I'm sorry. I really am."

"B-but...this is...m-my fault..." Zen mumbled into Zeni's embrace, her tears suddenly flowing freely. "I-If only I'm n-not this weak..."

"No, it's ok." Zeni said comfortingly. "But...I must apologize again...because I'm not letting it end here. It's yours now." Zeni said as she let go of the frail-looking Zen.

"Wh-what? What's mine?" Zen asked in a panic. "No! Don't go!"

"Take me and leave the girl alone." Zeni said, facing her dark counterpart.

"Deal. You have my word." Dark Zeni grinned, licking her lips hungrily as she reached out to Zeni.

And it all ended...

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"...and the next thing I know, Zen and Ei-chan had collapsed and dark!Zeni and dark!Eterna had escaped. The entire trollz forces tried to take the Project Innocence girls but at the very last minute Hawk appeared and teleported everyone along with the Futakoihana shrine into the middle of nowhere." Shiakou finished the recap of the events.

"...I wonder what's happening back in the city...?" LL asked, mostly to himself. "Last I heard that Armacham corporation staged a coup..."

"....hmm, troublesome, isn't it?" Vex said.

"Indeed..." Xerxezz nodded.

"Shame."

"Yeah."

"...."

"...oh, who cares?" And everyone kicked back and was happy.

............

"Hey!" A hammer made contact with Xerxezz's skull. "Who said you men get to sit around and do nothing! We need shelters!" Soifon shouted.

"We need food!" Presea added.

"And showers!" Tohsaka Rin complained.

"Oh yeah...we're on a deserted island...with girls..." Vex noted.

"...crap..."

 

[Zenithos]

Atop the mountain in the middle of the island, some random deserted island, 8.29 AM, Day 1...

It was always windy up here. But today it was especially windy. Whether it was because the wind chanced upon something quite unusual today, it wasn't known. But today there was definitely something unusual atop the small, solitary mountain. For one thing, the wind chanced upon a pair of briefs that sported the TFF Academy City flag colours on it. What's more, it was hanging from a flag pole in the hands of a snow-blonde-haired girl with a wide smile and a sparkle in her emerald green eyes, reminiscent of the explorers of old.

"And I hereby claim the island in the name of TFF Academy city! And in the name of the CMPS as well!" Nez boomed as she planted the makeshift flag pole atop the small mountain in the middle of the island. "All hail the CMPS!"

"Yay!" Incarna clapped along. "Let's see, new HQ, check! Flag, check! We're in business! Our first step in taking over the island!"

"By the way, Incarna-chan, where did you get the awesome flag?" Nez asked, curious.

"Oh, I just happened to pick it up..." Incarna said innocently.

"WHO THE #%!$!@ STOLE MY PRIZED PATRIOT BOXERS?!" A scream echoed across the entire island.

The CMPS twins couldn't help but look around in the direction of the beach, eyebrows rising.

"...you stole it off...." Nez began.

"Well, you wanted a flag..." Incarna shrugged.

"...ewwww..." Nez shook her head. "And it's flapping in the wind too..."

"Ummm....Oneesan..." Incarna looked around worriedly.

"What?"

"Our new HQ..." Incarna began, pointing behind Nez. "It's sort of....moving..."

"What?" Nez looked around at the pathetic excuse for a mound of driftwood that was labelled 'CMPS HQ' that was slowly moving its way down the side of the mountain, picking up speed. "....uhh, I was sure I secured our new HQ to that big rock over yonder..."

"The big rock over yonder is now rolling down the mountain, pulling the HQ with it." Incarna pointed out.

The twins gave each other grave looks before running after their runaway HQ. "Somebody, stop that runaway HQ!"

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Down on the beach...

"What're you doing, David?" Elidea asked as she sat down beside the demolitions expert.

"Making fire." DAA announced with great pride as he sat twirling a pair of sticks around. "We are men, and fire us a manly business." He said, chest puffed up with importance.

"I'm sure it is." Elidea nodded. "But..." She looked around at a nearby group of girls who were all clustered around Konoka.

"Practe Bigi Nar, Incandescet!" Konoka chanted in a cheerful voice, pointing her beginner's wand at a pile of driftwood...which immediately burst into a crackling flame.

"YAY!" the girls cheered.

"....well, umm, the girls have...." Elidea began, before noticing the heavy aura of depression oozing out of the man beside her. "Uuuh...David?"

"My...my manly pride...." DAA drooped.

"Uuuuhhh..." Elidea sweatdropped, at a loss at what to say. Thankfully, she was sparred from searching for something to say by a loud kaboom that echoed from the interior of the jungle behind her, something that sounded like a pile of rickety drift wood piled together to make a makeshift HQ.

"...that was...?"

"Ah, no worries, it must be the crazy twins again..."

"ah..."

"More importantly, did anyone see my boxer shorts?"

"...what?"

"It has the TFFA flag colours on it."

".....ewww..."

"shut up."

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Somewhere in the jungle, 9.45 AM, Day 1

"Our new HQ is now ready!" Nez announced with great pride from atop their new tree house outpost. The pair of TFFA Briefs were flying proudly from atop the flagpole sticking out from the middle of the haphazard HQ.

"YAY!" Incarna cheered.

"Now the island truly belongs to the CMPS!" Nez began laughing her evil laughter TM. Before long, Incarna had joined. "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Our first step in taking over the world!" Incarna announced.

"Our first step in a new world order!" Nez nodded in agreement.

"AH! No! Stop! Get away from me!" A high-pitched voice cried from the jungles below.

The twins looked at one another, giving each other worried glances, before gulping together, nodding, and creeping to the edge of their tree house to peer down into the dark jungle below.

Sure enough, it was Mihoshi, followed by a swarm of bees. "No! Kyaaa! Xaosite-sama! Help me!" She cried, pulling out her ray gun. "NOOOOO!"

"....abandon ship...." Nez sighed as the laser beams tore into everything around them before neatly cutting the tree on which their tree house was perched clean in two.

And thus the proud CMPS HQ came thundering down into the dark jungle, taking its proud flag with it, never to be seen again...

 

[Epsilon]

Random Deserted Island, Day 1, 9:32 AM

"So can you help?"

"Honestly, I have no idea how I should be approaching this. I never really studied how to cast these types of transformation spells in the first place," admitted Irisviel with a sigh. She had already shed off her white winter coat, hat and gloves in accordance with the weather.

Upon hearing White Len start to tear up, she quickly amended her words. "But I'll simply have to do my best!"

Kirakishou lit up and smiled at the metal funnel she was holding. "Did you hear that, Onii-chan? Iris is going to help!"

"......... super. But in the event that things don't work out and I cease to exist due to a magical blunder on your end, I have a few requests."

"You have that little faith in me?" asked the older woman with a pout.

Funnel!Epsilon merely sighed. "Just preparation for the worst case scenario."

"So what would your requests be?"

"One: Look after Len, Barasuishou and Kirakishou for me. Two: If you are able to get some sort of revenge for me against Aura and her spawn for this, I would appreciate it. And last..."

"With all due respect, you are prematurely assuming that Irisviel is the only one who can assist with this problem, nii-sama. Zefie has proven to demonstrate similar abilities to the ones you encountered earlier."

"I doubt she's willing to change me back into my juggernaut virus form but feel free to explore that option."

Barasuishou nodded. "Then I shall search for her on this island. Len, please accompany me."

As the two smaller girls left, the funnel shook slightly. "Um...... by any chance, is there coffee on this island? Because I could really use a strong double-double about now."

 

[Zenithos]

A small cave in a cliff on the far side of the island, 10.45 AM

"Perfect! Our hideout is complete!" Nez smiled triumphantly.

"I am a genious!" Incarna laughed a triumphant laugh, her hands on her hips. "This way, we're practically camouflaged. Nobody would think of looking down here!"

"But...aren't we a little too close to the sea? I mean, this is practically a cove." Nez observed, a little worried.

"No worries!" Incarna laughed dismissively. "It's full-proof! Nothing can...."

"KONO HENTAI! PERVERT! BAKA!" A voice boomed across the island.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!" A scream, and then...

SPLASH....

"did something just splash over there?" Nez asked, shielding her eyes against the morning sun.

"I think something just did." Incarna nodded, noting the large splash of water. "Umm...Oneesan...that splash of water is getting...bigger...."

"It's coming this way..."

"But...if it's just the size of a normal human...how can it make a....TSUNAMI?!"

"...the size of his ego? That looked like Xerxezz to me...." Nez noted.

"Shouldn't we...? Ah, too late BLRRRRRPPP!" And the twins were washed out like rats in a drain pipe during an el nino.

As the water calmed down, a pair of briefs sporting the TFF Academy City Colours bobbed up to the surface of the ocean, like a forgotten burial at sea....

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Back at the beach camp, around the same time...

"I think you definitely killed him this time..." David observed as Tsuruko sheathed her katana with a huff.

"Oh no, he'll be back. His bloated ego will make sure he floats." Tsuruko said, shrugging as she turned back towards the camp.

"Anyway, what was all that about?" David asked.

"That...pervert...how dare he...he...even insinuate that I take pleasure from wearing his...his...his patriot briefs....that...that perverted mindless gorilla!" Tsuruko breathed, anger and hatred oozing out of her ears, mouth and nose.

"Right...." David sweatdropped as he turned his attention back to building his armoury. "Let's see now. Ah, this looks like a good place." He smiled as he found a pile of logs and drift wood in a nice little clearing by the beach. "This will do nicely."

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Inside a huge hollow tree, somewhere in the jungle, 11.22 AM

"This is just perfect! Why didn't I think of this before!" Incarna grinned her trademark victory grin as she heaved planks of wood up into the tree's interior for use as a floor for the second and third floors.

"I can say we do have a camouflage advantage." Nez noted as she hammered wooden spikes to secure their new rooftop on which their proud flag was perched.

"Knock knock..." Came a knock on the door to the hidden hideout, accompanied by a cute little voice vocalizing the sound effect.

Barusuishou, Kirakishou, and Len looked up at the hidden wooden door in the side of the hollow trunk of the tree and gave each other knowing looks as whispers sounded inside.

"But nobody's supposed to know! I hid the door really well!" Incarna hissed inside.

"You did? But somebody found us!" Nez whispered back.

"I hid the door behind a giant pile of popcorn! Nobody would ever think of looking there!" Incarna snapped.

"...." There was a sigh from inside, before Nez's whispery voice came out once more, "Well, we'd better answer..."

"....who's there?"

"Lolis." Len replied.

"Lolis who?" Came a tentative reply after a brief awkward silence.

"Lolis who want to come in, eat all your porridge, spoil your chairs, and mess up your beds." Len replied.

"....that wasn't a very good joke..." Came another reply from inside the hollow tree.

"Help me!" A voice screamed from a distance away. A deep rumble began to fill the air.

"Huh?" Len looked around. "That sounded like Irisviel-neesama..."

"....is that...?" Nez looked out of her lookout hole in the wall of the tree.

"...a giant metal funnel rolling down the hill towards us...with Irisviel running behind it?" Incarna asked. The twins looked at one another, shared the same look, before sighing and saluting. "You have served us well, CMPS HQ MK IV..."

CRASH...

"H-H-HELP US!" Kirakishou yelped as she, Len, and Barusuishou ran with moe franticness down through the jungle with a giant metal funnel at their heel...and a gigantic rolling tree right behind it.

...not to mention Irisviel just behind, but she's harmless...normally...

"G-G-GET OUT OF THE WAY!" The giant metal funnel spoke.

"O-O-Oneesama....!" Incarna yelped as she and her unfortunate twin bounced around inside the rolling hollow trunk. "I-I-I think I know what o-our laundry f-feels like n-now!"

"Ulp...rather...I now r-remember w-what we h-had for break-breakfast!" Nez gulped.

"N-No! Not here! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Incarna screamed.

"Ugh! Ah ah GUFU!" One of the curious tribesmen, who had just survived Xerxezz's landmines, spoke to his surviving scout party. They were holding a quick regrouping meeting a distance away from where they had first encountered the mines. Translated, they said, "They are evil! We must pray to Goddess Mo'Loli for guidance."

"But they have magic! Maybe they from the evil god Pedobear!" Another tribesman suggested in fear.

"No, maybe they /b/tards from the dark god Anonymous! The evil prophesied by our might goddess Loli'on'ya'lap!" Another tribesman said, a dark look on his face.

"Wait, what is that?" the tribesmen looked around....

...to see three lolis screaming their heads off with a giant funnel and an even bigger hollow tree trunk rolling down the hill towards them...

"RUN! RUN! IT IS THE EVIL RICKROLL OF THE /B/TARDS!" The tribesmen screamed and ran....only to fall under the onslaught of the giant metal funnel and the great rolling tree trunk.

"Huh...?" David looked up from behind his makeshift armoury shack. "What in Enfield's name....?" His eyes widened when he saw the gigantic cloud of dust that was picking up speed as it rolled towards him. "AGH!" He ran into his armoury shack and locked the door from inside.

CRASH...

David opened a tentative eyelid...and was surprised to see that the door to his shack was still standing in front of him. "Hah...that's expert construction for you! My armoury is invulnerable!" He laughed as he opened the door and stepped out to admire his craftsmanship once more from the outside.

...only to find the door still standing...which promptly fell back as he slammed the door onto a pile of wooden ruins...which appears to have been flattened by something big, heavy, and oozing with vomit.

"....m-my armoury..." David fell to his knees. "N-no..."

Down on the beach....

"And this is where the bunny princess goes to read her books everyday..." Sidhe said, pointing out yet another part of her splendid gothic sand castle to more oohs and aaah from her amazed audience, Moro, Maru, and now Zeffie. "And this is where she goes to surf the internet and chat with her friends, the bear king of the west and her best friend, the vorpal rabbit princess." Sidhe pointed out.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Len, Kira, and Baru ran across the beach, kicking up sand and dust, before ploughing straight through Sidhe's castle and running on towards the water's edge.

"Th-Th-That's not nice!" Moro cried.

"Not nice at all!" Maru added.

Presea and Rin, who had managed to shape their pathetic mound of sand into a dome of sorts, with little windows and doors, smiled a little smile. At least they had a mound of sand. The other group had nothing but flattened ruins.

CRASH...

Said mound of sand was flattened by a bouncing metal funnel that just happened to roll by.

"....ung...unnng..." Both Presea and Rin's eyes started to water. "UWAAAAAAAAAH!" They broke out in tears.

...before a gigantic hollow trunk bounced right over them, narrowly shaving the tips of their hair, before crashing into the beach and bouncing on after the metal funnel towards the water's edge.

"........." Presea and Rin looked at one another, knowingly, and made a secret pact to keep each other's secret, that they had wet their pants, a secret.

"....What was that?" Tohno asked from atop Xaosite's private penthouse atop their tree.

"Oh no! It's the children! I must go see to it that they're safe!" Konoka cried.

"AGH! THE DEEP WOUNDS I SUFFERED WHILE SHIELDING YOU GIRLS WITH MY BURNING SPIRIT OF YOUTH!" Xaosite groaned, raising a shaky limb. "Do...do not leave me...Konoka..."

"Xaosite-sama!" Konoka cried, running back to Xaosite's side. "No, No, I'll never leave you, Xaosite-sama, so please, save your strength!"

"...oh jeez..." Soifon sighed, shaking her head, as she watched Xerxezz and Vex do a baywatch imitation by running across the beach in their swimming boxers in slow motion towards their rescuees. "...Will we really survive this place...?" She sighed heavily.

 

[Legendary Legacy]

Day 1, Beachside; 10:30 AM

"All finished!"

LL stepped back to admire his handy-work. Before him stood a sandcastle the size of a small Victorian plaza, complete with working doors, windows and furnished inside with various home decor including tables, chairs, beds, TVs and complete, working electrical system, all painstakingly crafted from sand with the help of nothing but a single plastic hand trowl.

"Perfect, now all that's left is to have the basement checked for vermin and termits and we'll all have shelter for the remainder of our stay here. ...Or until high tide, whichever comes first."

Satisfied, he left the sandcastle to dry in the sun and walked to the shoreline where Shampoo sat next to a makeshift bamboo fishing pole.

"Hey Shampoo, how are things coming?"

"No bites yet, Airen." she replied.

"Well keep at it. We are looking to feed several dozen people, after all." He looked around, frowning. "By the way, do you know where Lum went? I thought she was supposed to be fishing with you?"

Shampoo shook her head. "Nope. Shampoo fish with Lum."

LL quirked an eyebrow. "Isn't that what I just said?"

"No, Airen say Lum fish with Shampoo, but is Shampoo who fish with Lum," she stated matter-of-factly.

The otaku scratched his head. "I'm afraid I don't under-" He cut himself off as his eyes drifted out to sea, where several meters out, a hog-tied Invader Lum could be seen bobbing helplessly in the water on the opposite end of Shampoo's fishing line.

"That's really very mean, Shampoo," he told her.

Lum let out a shriek and released a large burst of electricity, causing no fewer than 185 fish of various distinction, plus three dolphin, one hammerhead shark and a large group of jellyfish to rise lifelessly to the surface of the water.

"But is highly effective, yes?" the Amazoness said with a smirk.

"Can't argue with that. I'll go get the skillet."

 

[Vexarian]

Day 1, The Beach Side, 10.51 AM

Clouds lazily drifted across the sky as Vex stared upwards, watching the blue sky as if it held secrets to tell. He was laying bored on the edge of the sandy shore, his hands held behind his head as a makeshift pillow.

To his left side, Elidea sat, watching the others frolic, a small smile on her face. To the right, Xero was unceremoniously laid out, still completely unconscious.

All was good. Until-

"Ow!" Vex grumbled as he rubbed the back of his skull, and pulled an arrow out. He looked behind him to see a gang of tribesmen a ways away and grumbled, "Damned Tribal Jerks."

Vex pulled himself up and took a few steps over, disappearing for a moment before reappearing in front of the hunters, thoroughly terrifying them.

"Ah~! A servant of the Evil God Pedobear!" One of the Tribesman screamed and ran.

"Fuck no, you don't!" Vex grumbled as he reached out and grabbed hold of one of the Tribal hunter's axes, and pulled back fiercely. Now despite this island's bizarre dampening effects, he still had enough strength that the hunter was sent flying backwards, falling haphazardly onto the sand and bouncing several times until he landed face down in the foamy sea.

Vex squinted, losing the rest of the hunters almost immediately as they disappeared through the thick jungle foliage.

He looked down at his hand, still holding an axe, and he tossed it into the air in front of him, grabbing back onto it and hefting it up to rest on his shoulder.

"Might as well get to work." He grumbled, turning on his heel as two clones fizzled into existence, taking a few seconds to grow complete.

"Damn it, can't even use my Clones that well..." He grumbled as he too disappeared into the foliage.

Day 1, Northern Cove, 10.57 AM

A wave of water came in, washing away a layer of sand and cascading over the feet of an unconscious woman. She let loose a grumble and rolled over onto her side, pulling her legs up.

Unfortunately for her, the next wave was not so kind. Barreling in came a particularly large gush of water, slamming into and over her.

It was a very uncomfortable wake up call, and she surfaced hacking up sea water uncomfortably.

"Wha? Where am I?" Mikako asked, very drowsy. The last thing she had remembered was tracking down that bastard and getting her revenge. She was working her way through the remnants of the slums, and...

Her face drooped as she remembered what happened next. She had no idea who, or how that apartment building was thrown...

"Where am I?" The redhead slurred out as she picked herself up, and let the water drip off her robes.

She reached down and grabbed her massive fan blade Tessenbiki, dragging it through the sand as she pulled herself from the cove and up onto the grass. She stabbed it into the ground, and pressed her back against the trunk of a tree.

She reached up, pulling her Shinigami robes off, and leaving her dressed only in her undergarments. "Soaked..." She murmured in an irritated fashion. as she strung her robes over a low hanging branch to dry.

She reclined back under the shade of the palm trees, her shoulders against the trunk, "At least the weather's nice..."

 

[knight_of_ni]

Day 1 11:00 AM
Posts/exp 7/7
Island of doom, near the forest

Sweat dripped down their brows as the sun beat down on them, the torrential splash from the gunman provided some relief, but it was not without itÆs own worries. ôYou really need to chill out dood,ö a prinny as he drank some coconut juice.

ôCalm down?ö Nikolaus looked at him incredulously, ôI am a werewolf, we transform, to not have both states working is like waking up one day to find one of your arms has been hacked off, I think, I donÆt know. It isnÆt pleasant, in fact it is a rea-ô

A hand gripping his throat, it wasnÆt exactly strong, but the owner of the hand was mildly pissed, for a vampire, ôOh, so it is a big deal for you to lose a physical ability but when an entire personality of mine is gone, æoh who caresÆ?ö her grip tightened, though it lacked the titanic strength that the vampire normally commanded.

ôWell, think of it this way, youÆre no longer have MPD, and you get to live a normal happy life, right?ö he sped his way through the response, obviously in desperation. The vampire seemed to consider this for a moment before throwing him to the side.

ôMake your self useful and make us a way out of here,ö Moka said sharply, past issues with the necromancer adding to her current frustration at him.

Nikolaus laughed weakly, almost out of his mind, it seemed, before returning to the task at hand, which was preparing the fish. It was fortunate that he was otherwise distracted, as attempting to use their food as scouts for the sea would not be met with much enthusiasm.

Though he still tried to put forth that suggestion, it was already clear what they thought of it. He hoped to be able to walk without limping in a few days.

ôAh, just relax dood,ö the prinny sipped loudly, ôThis is paradise, dood.ö

ôAnd what about the natives?ö

ôDood, we got them covered.ö

ôAre the fish ready?ö Suzuka approached him from the side.

ôI got a few done, enough that we could probably start cooking the ones done without causing a riot,ö NikolausÆ knife cut into another fish, ôI think we could probably start cooking them, though I donÆt think we will get the dolphin done for a long while.

ôGood, then I will lend a hand.ö

ôThanks.ö

ôWhat did I tell you, dood? Paradise.ö
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OOC: Eh, it probably needs explaining but this is enough for now.

 

[Zenithos]

By Beyond...the lazy bum extraordinaire, with editing from Zeni and EI

Yes, a moment of dramatic heroics for Beyond, since he gets so little screen time anyway. Just to show you the true power of the Project Innocence girls....or, ok, something like that...

Day 1, 11.21

On a separate beach on the other side of the island....

One Azmaria Hendrick blinked her eyes drowsily as reality slowly leaked back into her numb mind. Slowly, almost lazily, Beyond swam into her view.

"Are you ok?" His voice echoed in her mind as she tried to shake herself awake. "How are you feeling?"

"Umm...just a little dizzy...and tired..." Azmaria murmured as she slowly got up...only to find the one piece of cloth preserving her modesty falling off. "Kyaaaaaaa!" She cried as she fell backwards and pulled the cloth back over her. "Umm...anou...where...?"

"Oh? Your clothes are drying over there. They should be dry by now. The sun's quite hot here." Beyond said in short, brief sentences, doing his best to hide his furiously blushing face from Azmaria.

Azmaria blushed profusely before shaking her head. 'N-no, he's my knight now, so...' She thought to herself furiously.

"I'm sorry. I guess I went too far...you know, back in the city..." Beyond suddenly apologized. "I-I mean, it must have been the first time for you...in a long while, I mean...And I'm sorry for forcing it so hard on you and all..."

"N-no, d-don't worry about it..." Azmaria stammered, sitting up once more, taking care to wrap herself well this time. "Umm...I was glad...to be able to help protect some people..."

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Back in the city, in the middle of a street...

The gigantic snake-like monster coiled up into the sky, its roar piercing the heavens. Meanwhile, on the ground, people were frantically running away, creating a scene of pure pandemonium as the snake's tail thrashed into the buildings around them.

"Th-That thing! It's going to harm people!" Azmaria cried, tears welling up in her eyes. "It's...it's my fault again! People are getting hurt because of me again!" She wailed as she fell to her knees.

"Azmaria-chan." Azmaria heard Beyond's voice call to her, causing her to look up at him. ôIÆve told you my story, right?ö Beyond looked down at Azmaria.

ôUhm...hmm..ö Azmaria nodded, looking up into BeyondÆs emerald eyes.

ôAs I said, you probably donÆt remember me at all.ö

Azmaria shook her head.

ôBut I remember you and your knight. He was a good friend of mine. IÆm...sorry for your loss.ö

Azmaria nodded a tiny nod.

ô....But with your permission, I can be your knight.ö Beyond offered his hand to her. ôWould you allow me the honour? At the very least, they wonÆt be able to take you, not without taking me down.ö

ôBut...I...ö Tears suddenly welled up in AzmariaÆs eyes. ôI canÆt... Everyone.... everyone died because of me. I donÆt want anyone to die because of me again...ö

ôNobody will die.ö Azmaria looked up into BeyondÆs determined eyes. ôBecause you will protect everyone.ö

ô...I...ö Azmaria tentatively reached out a quavering hand. She shook herself and steadied her hand as she hardened her determination and grasped BeyondÆs hand. ôThen I will entrust my soul to you, my Knight.ö

She leaned forwards on tiptoes and looked up into BeyondÆs eyes. In it she saw a fierce determination before she closed her eyes. Their lips gently met.

A sudden warm glow took hold of her as she dissolved and melded into his soul....and she saw within it a deep well of darkness, old, almost timeless. It was a little scary, peering into a deep oblivion like that, quite unlike the only other soul she had fused with. But at the same time, she felt a warmth so deep and passionate...It was a warmth that embraced her from all around, strong and protective...a fierce determined will to protect all innocents. And she knew she made the right decision.

ôAre you ready, Azmaria-chan?ö BeyondÆs voice echoed.

Azmaria opened her eyes and nodded determinedly. ôI can fight as long as youÆre here, Beyond-san.ö She said. ôTo thee I entrust my powers, my soul, and myself.ö She murmured, before she began to sing.

Beyond reached out an arm as a long staff-like object materialized in one hand.

ô....an interesting vector.ö Beyond said with a smile. ôThough itÆs...a little different from what I remembered it...ö He said as he raised the white and sapphire-blue staff.

ôIt isnÆt only a reflection of me...but also a reflection of you, Beyond-san.ö Azmaria said as a ghostly ethereal form of herself emerged from his back.

ôI can feel your will in it. It is strong.ö Beyond said with a smile as bluish-white translucent plasma-like substance jetted out of the staff to form a scythe blade. "

"Let's go, Azmaria!" Beyond shouted.

"Yes!" Azmaria nodded, a determined glint in her eyes.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Meanwhile, back at the main beach camp....

"We're sorry..." Nez and Incarna bowed their heads apologetically as they knelt before the makeshift school teacher figure of the island.

"'Sorry' Doesn't cut it!" Tsuruko shouted. "You two should stop your stupid antics and at least help us set up camp! We're understaffed as it is!" She gestured around her.

...indeed, around them, the reason for the lack of hands was obvious - half the male population of the island were sleeping under the shade of the palm trees with their respective girl(s) nearby.

"How many times do you want us to apologize?" Incarna pouted. "ITAAAAAAI!" She cried as a katana scabbard made contact with her skull.

"Be quiet and listen to me!" Tsuruko shouted.

"But...but...we were just building our own shelter...and that funnel had to come along and ruin it..." Incarna hissed through gritted teeth.

"Hey, don't make it my fault. I'm an innocent metal funnel." Epsilon's voice echoed from the recesses of the metal funnel....around which Moro, Maru, and Zeffie were now building a new sand castle. "Zeffie! Help me out here!"

"Nope. You make a good sandcastle foundation." Zeffie said with a mischievous grin.

"And return the briefs, you underwear thieves!" Xerxezz added.

"....briefs?" Nez asked, her face a model example of polite confusion. "What briefs?"

Incarna couldn't help but snigger.

"....Incarna-chan...." Nez gave her a dark glare.

"...are you telling me you're walking around commando?" Vex asked from his seat under a palm tree.

"Yes? What's the problem with that?" Xerxezz asked, before taking a deep breath. "I'm......" He began. "...Not wearing underwear today! I'm not wearing underwear today! Not that you'd really care much about my underwear, but still I have just got to saaaaaaay.....that I'm not wearing underwear todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay~"

"....."

"...get a job..."

"Thank you."

 

[Vexarian]

Day 1, The Beach Side, 11:27 AM

"You! Move that trunk over here!" Vex called out to one of his clones.

The combatant had managed to create a few dozen clones, and had divided into three groups.

Two shimmering clones were hacking away at the base of a thick tree, each in turn, using the Tribal Axe that Vex had confiscated. Nearby, another pair of clones set the final slice, falling a tree down flat. A set of six clones came and grabbed the fallen tree, hefting it and bringing it along onto the sandy beach.

The log was set down by a trio of clones, who proceeded to hack off the branches of the tree that had not yet snapped, smoothing out the trunk to a fine polish. Once the log had finished it's refinement, it was carried off again, to another group.

"Okay, let's get this thing upright!" Vex called out to the nearby clones as they hoisted it up with makeshift ropes, setting it neatly into a hole built into the earth before securing it with more soil.

"One down, a lot more to go!" The original said confidently, and at the current rate, it'd be done in no time at all.

Elsewhere on the Beach...

Xero groaned as he woke up, holding his forehead. Damn that fight was exhausting, he'd have to remind himself not to go all out like that again.

He opened his eyes, a blurry figure in his vision, he blinked his eyes again, clearing his vision and bringing the figure into full view.

It was a girl, hard to judge her age, but she was very petite, with a large but proportionate bosom for her frame. Her eyes were big, expressive and a solid golden color, contrasting to her incredibly long silvery hair, tied back into a French braid. Her body clothed in nothing but a makeshift bikini and a pair of sandals.

"Wha? Were-? Where am I?" Xero slurred out.

"We don't know." Elidea said quietly, just noticing him waking up.

Xero blinked and pulled himself up onto his hands in a leaning position. "Who're you?"

The silver haired sue blinked at that and responded unfortunately, in an unfamiliar order to the dualmancer, "Ghost-"

"Ghost?!" Xero screamed, jumping onto his feet and backing up against a tree. "Am I dead?! Oh dear god that Sabin clone must have killed me! I'm too young and good looking to die!"

The blond man proceeded to run down the beach, screaming like a chicken with it's head cut off. Leaving Elidea sitting on the beach looking confused.

Vex was fastening the latest log to the wall, which was now beginning to take on a firm, solid shape, although it wasn't even partially completed yet, but it was looking good. About then, he noticed Xero, now awake and screaming run by, and called out, "What the hell's the matter?!"

Xero turned slowly, his eyes widening, "Oh my god! They got you too Vex! Dear god, who else has been killed?! Are we in hell?!"

He was responded to by a boot to the face, and all was quiet once more.

On the northern side of the island...

Mikako nodded as she ran her fingers over the fabric of her Shinigami robe, it had taken a while but she was dry again. She adjusted the black robes onto her lithe body, adjusting them to ensure a comfortable fitting.

The crimson haired reaper grabbed onto her massive fan blade, hoisting it up and balancing the blunt across her shoulders. It'd be best to find her way now, rather then later. After all, she'll need food and water eventually.

Assured in her needs, she walked into the jungle, and was soon rendered invisible by the folliage.

 

[Vexarian]

Day 1 1:03 PM previously abandoned Tree House twenty feet away from the beach.

Michael had climbed the makeshift ladder and climbed up to reach the girls. Afterwards he had sat at their besides for at least an hour until they finally started to wake up.

"Your... awake... I... this..." With that Michael hugged both girls to him glad they had awoken.

"Master?" Zen asked eyes blinking as she was getting used to being awake.

"Where are we master?" Ei-chan asked as she rubbed at her own eyes and looked around.

"I... look, you don't need to call me that all the time ok? I... will fix things later ok? But for now I'm just glad you two are all right. I was worried about you two. I let you get in too much danger and I'll make it up to you... somehow." Michael said relief clear in his voice that the girls were awake.

"Come on let's go see the others, I'm sure they were worried about you as well." Michael said as he started to walk with the two girls behind him.

As they got outside the room that's when Michael noticed that the ribbons the girls were previously wearing had... vanished into their headbands.

"I... er hold on... Ei-chan? Zen? I need you both to um... transform into your Jungle Bikini outfits?" They weren't very modesty, but better then the alternative.

With that he nodded in satisfaction after they changed, not much he could do for them. Soon he guided the two girls down to meet up with the others. That's when he noticed something odd happening by a... fence? Apparently Vex and one of the others were working on some kind of defense.

"Well... might as well see whats going on." With that Michael and the two girls headed down to the gigantic barricade that Vex had swarms of himself constructing.

"Hey everyone! Zen and Ei are awake!" Mick shouted out happily.

A second or two passed, then someone shouted back, "Does that mean Mick will finally shut up?"

It all happened so fast, no one quite realized how it started, or where they got everything.

Food was being served on makeshift tables made of strung together small logs that were of no use to the fence.

Fireworks exploded in the sky, creating beautiful, colorful patterns over the clouds, each exploding at the beat of the music. Confetti was floating through the air, covering everything in sight to some degree.

The gigantic boom box vibrated, letting out powerful guitar riffs from the music. While the Swarm of Vex Clones partied on the half built Wooden Barricade.

Xerxezz and Tsuroko ran hand and hand across the beach nekkid, holding a bottle of booze and a party hat on their heads, releasing "Woots!" every few seconds.

LL was gazing blankly as a drunken Shampoo and Lum were rolling around together on the beach making out. Sober enough to remember it, but drunk enough to enjoy it.

Von Karma was strung out on her back, a pile of empty bottles of booze next to her as she giggled drunkenly.

Sidhe and the younger girls were building sandcastles on the beach.

Xaosite, Tohno, Soi Fong, and Mihoshi were trying to play d&d in spite of the loud music.

Unknown and Rin were sharing a walk on the beach holding hands and being rather close.

David and Belldandy were both sunbathing together on the beach while laying on their towels. Each had a pina colada as they enjoyed each other's company.

Several of the others were playing limbo on the beach.

Mick twitched. Eterna and Zen noticed and placed calming hands on his shoulders.

Of course, with all great parties, come great party crashers.

A spear flew through the air, so gracefully, such power and simplistic deadliness. Straight into the boom box, a shower of sparks forcing out the front as it pierced through the enormous metal stereo.

Instantly the music stopped, and every pair of eyes swung around, staring straight at the tribal hunter responsible, flames glowing in each. And all at once, they descended, they screamed a scream of war, and the brown skilled tribal warrior screamed a scream of a six year old girl.

One of the other Tribal hunters looked green at the screaming frenzy for such intensity you'd think they were exposed to some ancient unspeakable love craftian horror.

While the others did their best to turn several tribesmen into a twister game gone horribly wrong, several other tribesmen that had gone un noticed, and went around them to corner Ei-chan and Zen.

Before the girls could do anything they were gagged with jungle vines and tied down to a set of poles that were previously unused at the party.

By the time the TFF crew realized what was going on, the tribesmen had all ready stolen away the two girls.

"Theres!" Xerxezz slurred as he patted his hands together, getting the strands of hair and muscle tissue off. "Now zat zhe intludlerss are take-take-ken care ofph, leh'sh ge' back tah da partay."

"Zen and Ei-Chan are gone!" Mick screamed out, drawing attention.

"Wait... If their gone..."

"Then that means..."

"Mick is gonna start whining again!"

All the guys groaned collectively at that which resulted in harsh glares from their respective girls, and after a moment Nobuo spoke up. "We should go ahead and rescue the girls. That way we can shut up my foolish little brother..."

"Risgh!" Xerxezz said drunkenly as he latched onto a similarly drunken, and nude Tsuruko.

"What...how dare you!" Michael yelled getting ready to fight with him again.

"Please! You shouldn't be fighting! We have to rescue Zen and Ei-chan! Fighting here would solve nothing!" Sidhe said interruping the brother's and their fight

"Right! We should be fighting out there!" Vex said speaking up and pointing towards the jungle.

"Who's with us!" Mick yelled out to the crowd.

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

"Well, someone has to be the responsible adult for all of you lot." David said, his clothes shimmering back on as he stood. "Come on, Belldandy-dono, we'd better make sure they don't misbehave." he sighed, pulling his rifle out of hammerspace and loading it. He passed Belldandy a miniature radio set, and a headset. "Stay here and keep the rest out of mischief. If we find the girls, or get into trouble, I'll give you a call." he said, slinging his rifle. "Dear oh dear, what a mess..." he sighed.

 

[Unknown-common-827]

Day 1, 1:30 pm (I think), Beach area.

"Aw hell... damned tribes people decided to crash the party. Just when things were getting halfway to normal." I say as I looked onwards away from the larger crowds.

"So those Neanderthal like people are just like the others you were telling me about, Unknown?" Asked the brunette beauty beside me.

"Yes Rin, it's the same scenario from those years ago and just recently. For some reason, people still see Zen-chan and Ei-chan as the Crimson Moon Executioners Zeni and Eterna from over 2 years ago." I stated before closing my eyes as a tear fell. Remembering those times are always difficult.

"Um... Unknown? I think that David character is going to take the lead and help look for those two with everyone else." said Rin Tohsaka as I looked where she was pointing.

"Shit... please don't tell me that they plan to take them all out with that thing they call strategy... they have no chance, even I don't have that ability on this damned planet." I said as I hung my head and shook it slowly from side to side.

"That's it, he may think he's fine, but we both know he won't make it. Come on, Rin. We have to make sure that Zen and Ei-chan don't fall into more trouble." I said as I took her slim hand and we ran in the direction we saw David and the others walk off to.

 

[Xaosite]

Island, Middle Of Nowhere, Day 1, 1:06 PM, NB EXP: 8.5

"Well, I think that I'll be hanging..." Xaosite began to say, but was cut off as Soifon glared down at him, leaving him to simply shut his mouth. He had the feeling that he'd pushed her a little too far. Plus, her character had just been flattened by a kobald's trap.

"We," Soifon grated out between gritted teeth, "Will be heading out to assist the search."

"Wait, why arrre you giving orrrderrrs to Xaosite-sama? If any... thing... neverrrmind." Tohno piped up, but quickly stopped under Soifon's burning glare.

Konoka was hiding behind Tohno, and Mihoshi looked ready to burst into tears after a moment of Soifon's gaze, so no arguments from those two.

"I've got to say that's not such a good idea. I must say that I think we'd be better off with us holding the fort." Xaosite remained defiant, even though he fliched when somehow Soifon managed to become even angrier than before.

"I'm just not winning this one, am I?" He finished lamely. Soifon shook her head. "Guess not." As Soifon stalked off, dragging the other girls with her to prepare for the expadition, Xaosite wandered off from the TFF group.

Standing in a small group of trees, he held one hand in front of him, concentrating for a moment. There was a clattering sound, and for a moment he brightened up. Then his face contorted in pain as his entire arm seized up, jerking and spasming around for a moment, before hanging limply.

Groaning, he shook his arm, working the kinks out, and shook his head. "It's not getting any better." He muttered to himself. "Ironically enough, I think being cut off here is helping me. But the rules are changing, and the flames burn hotter that the suns in places."

Walking back to insert himself back among the group, he wondered how long he could keep this problem under wraps.

 

[Cyberscythe195]

Island, Former Den of Evil, Day 1, 1:09 pm

'There's none left here.' Sousuke noted.

He looked around. The thick smell of blood filled the room. Bones and bodies were tossed apart all over the place.

He sighed.

'Looks like I finally got them all.' He muttered before taking another bite of vorpal bunny.

He spent a few minutes chewing, swallowed, and then sat up.

"Grey!"

A panda twice his size lumbered into the cave.

"Did you find anything?"

The panda growled.
Sousuke smirked.

"So there is one left."
He climbed onto Grey's head.

"Let's bring home dinner."

 

[Vexarian]

Day 1, Beach Side of the Island, 1:09 PM

"I'm going to head off to the search party, and I want this wall finished by sun down, regardless of if I get back." Vex said, addressing the clones still on the wall.

"Right!" The closest one said, and gave a wave to the rest of them, then picked up a hatchet, ready to get to work again.

"Yo Vex!", hearing his name he spun around, to see Xero approaching him. "I remembered to bring your bracers. Really did a number on em before you left huh?"

Xero chuckled, and reached into a pocket, pulling out a pair of sleek looking gunmetal bracers and tossing them over to Vex.

"Fantastic. These rings are crap, were starting to really get at me." Vex mumbled as he snatched the end rings from his chain spears, popping the rings off with little difficulty. He slid either bracer over his forearm, settling them tightly into place, then hooking each chain up to the back end's hook-clasp.

Vex took a leap back, pulling his spears out in a smooth motion, and hurtling them forward, grabbing onto the chains and stopping them in mid air before jerking them back. Allowing the momentum to continue, he snatched the spears, letting the chains continue to pull backwards as he holstered them both. The chains returned and using his new bracers he pulled them around the outer clasps, pulling them taut.

"Don't do anything stupid out there..." Vex heard a familiar soft voice say from behind him. He turned slowly seeing his familiar silver haired sue.

"I plan to come back in one piece." He said with an arrogant smirk, while ignoring the startled call of 'ghost' from behind him.

"I'm not worried." Elidea said unconvincingly. Although being honest with himself, Vex was a bit worried as well, with this interference and the time distortions, he didn't know how his Satellite would handle a potential death.

"If you could, see if you can't slap Xero until he doesn't think your a ghost anymore. Seems like it's going to get really old, really fast." Vex grumbled.

 

[Zenithos]

Written with EI. Don't ask me where the words 'twin lolincest' comes from.

Day 1, a meadow on a broad cliff by the sea, outside the new camp wall, 1:00 PM

Back to the troublemaker duo...

"This does take time, doesn't it, without our powers?" Incarna sighed as sat down on a log she had just hammered into place atop their new watchtower/storage/future silo.

"Well, I suppose we're making good progress." Nez, nodding at the log cabin that now sat completed beside the watchtower with the proud TFFA flag briefs flying from its flag pole. She broke open a melon and tossed half up to her sister. "There's a strange magical interference here. It seems to fluctuate too so sometimes we can use low level magic, sometimes it doesn't work."

"Hmmm..." Incarna nodded as she munched on her lunch. "Hmm...?" She looked up in the direction of the beach camp.

"Hmm, fireworks?" Nez asked, looking in the same general direction. "Quite a weird time of the day to have fireworks..."

"Looks like a party." Incarna said.

"Considering we can't hear those moans and wails anymore, I assume those two girls have woken up." Nez said. "Though it seems they've forgotten about us completely."

"Doesn't matter. We're outsiders anyway." Incarna shrugged. "Better if we keep to ourselves until we're sure what's going on in TFFA City and who is really behind everything."

"Hey....do you hear drums?" Nez asked.

"Hmm, and tribal chants." Incarna nodded. "Must be the tribesmen."

"Funny though. I've scouted most of the island and I can't seem to find any signs of tribal camps or villages." Nez said.

"Must be pretty well hidden then." Incarna said.

"...I hear commotion..." Nez noted as she started through a second melon.

"So do I. We'd better make sure it doesn't ruin our HQ MK V. Rocks, papers, scissors?" She asked.

"Fine by me." Nez shrugged and put out scissors.

"I lose." Incarna sighed from behind her paper. "Be back by sunset."

"Yeah, will do." Nez nodded, leaping off the tower before disappearing into her log cabin. Before long she was setting out into the forest, her black combat cloak on her back, concealing what few weapons she could still carry and wield in her weakened form.

"Now, back to work..." Incarna said, nodding at the work left.

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Before long Nez had arrived at a wide grass plain, punctuated by the occasional boulder and ugly rocky outcrop, that extended on as far as the eyes can see. A pillar of smoke billowed up from a nearby rocky outcrop...which was perhaps the closest thing to lead she had.

"A tribal camp? This is a little too close to home for comfort. But...are they hostile?" Nez wondered as she crept closer and began climbing the tall rocky outcrop overlooking the source of the smoke.

When she got to the top, sure enough below her was a small tribal camp...that was halfway through packing up. 'Good, they're leaving. I'll just watch until they leave then.' Nez thought to herself as she peered around a bit...There were a few velociraptor-like creatures with saddles on their backs tethered close to the camp. There were a number of tribesmen nearby...relieving themselves...She quickly averted her gaze and looked elsewhere...until she noticed two figures tied to vertical stakes by the fire.

"Aren't those two....?" Nez wondered. "Huh...? Are those tribesmen...worshiping them?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Pedobear! Pedobear! Twin-lolincest-o! Twin-lolincest-o!" The tribesmen chanted as they leapt and danced around their captives.

"...I almost misunderstood that..." Nez sweatdropped, noticing for the first time that the figures of the twins had diminished into near-loli size. Their busty figures before must've been an effect of magic then, she decided. "Worshiping captives? Well, I wont' be able to take on an entire platoon by myself as I am now...better let the beach camp people know..." She said to herself as she slowly got up to go back and report to the beach camp.

Unfortunately, the usual plot device rock shifted and fell down, bringing the tribesmen's attention to her presence.

"Oh crap...Murphy!" Nez cursed inwardly.

"Fu mo FUUU!" The person who seemed to be their platoon leader pointed up at her. Then pointed at the two girls tied up at the stakes. Then pointed up back at her. "FUMOFFU!"

"...I take it they want me now because I look similar?" Nez wondered to herself. "Flattering...."

The excited shouts and chants was a good answer. "Oh crap, run..." She thought.

But before she could turn tail, shadows loomed up over her. She looked up and shielded her eyes against the noon sun to see four figures silhoutted against the sun in the sky, tribal cloaks flapping in the wind.

They landed with great ease around her, effectively surrounding her atop the rocky outcrop.

"....not your usual run-of-the-mill tribesmen I can see..." Nez said, smiling uneasily. "Umm, I come in peace." She said nervously, making placating gestures with her hands. "You know, live and let live and all that..."

"HUGA! FUMOFFU INABA INABA!" The tribesmen around her shouted, raising their spears and levelling them at her, before gesturing at her to follow them.

"...are you kidding me...?" Nez slowly reached into her combat cloak and found her folding glaive. But just as she pulled it out one of the tribesmen slapped the back of her hand with the broadside of his spear, causing the folding glaive to fall with a clatter onto the ground.

"...that's not nice..." Nez sighed....before lunging at the nearest tribesmen and tossing her combat cloak over his face, disorienting him enough for her to tackle him off balance. Together they rolled down a face of the rocky outcrop before Nez leapt off him and rushed for the nearby forest edge, hoping to lose them.

But the tribesmen were smarter than she thought. They had been lying in wait amongst the high grass by the forest edge, anticipating her escape route. They all rose simultaneously, spears and knives at the ready to pin her down.

With a lunge Nez managed to down the tribesman blocking her immediate path. But just as she leapt off his face another solidly-built tribesmen appeared in front of her and caught her mid-leap.

"Ugh! Get offa me!" Nez screamed as she struggled in vain against her captor. The haymakers she sent flying in his face didn't seem to faze him one bit as he took it all grinning. It was no surprise. As she was now, Nez had all the fighting power of a mere loli.

"Ugh...." Nez struggled further. No way they were going to take her peacefully! "H-Hey! I have no idea what you're going to do with me but drooling on me is just not called for!" Nez shouted as she felt something wet and viscous drip all over her from above.

"...oh...that wasn't you...was it...?" Nez murmured as a giant shadow loomed over her and her captor.

"Let's see....giant rows of carnivourous teeth, check. Cruel Claws, check. Giant snout, check. Stinky breath, check. Rather comical look, check. Drool...double check." Nez went through her mental checklist and affirmed it. It was a giant T-rex, the sort she had only seen in Dragonball mangas before.

At this, the tribesmen began to scatter and run. Nez's captor too began to run with Nez tightly gripped under one arm.

"Oh no you don't!" Nez seized her opportunity and raised her legs up into a kick...straight into the back of the tribesman's head...which sent him flying towards the ground. With a deft flip Nez had leapt off his head and towards freedom.

...only, the T-rex seemed more interested in her than the tribesmen.

"H-hey, don't just stand there and watch! Do something!" Nez screamed helplessly as she ran across the plains with the giant t-rex right behind her while the tribesmen all watched from the sidelines, pleasantly amused.

 

[Mick]

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[Zenithos]

Grass plains, 1.16 PM, Day 1

As the tribesmen thundered across the plains atop their lizard steeds, they rejoiced, for they didn't get just two, but four girls. There will be much rejoicing at the village, they thought.

In fact, they were too busy basking in their victory to notice something moving amongst the high grass...

...until suddenly the lead velociraptor, the one with Nez and the tribal leader, toppled over and rolled into the grass and dust.

"Did you really think it'd be that easy?" A hand reached out and pulled the tribal leader up by his ornamental necklace into the air. Beyond gave the other tribesmen who had begun to circle him cautiously a worried glance as his other hand gripped the solid wooden pole he had used to trip the lizard mount. The chances that he'd be able to take them all on by himself was slim so escape seemed like the best plan.

"No! That one is MINE!" Nez rolled onto her feet and delivered as powerful a nut-cracker kick as she could muster with her diminished strength right in the tribal leader's fork, causing him to scream the sort of high-pitched scream that would land him a job in any opera theater as an alto.

"Well, looks like we have their undivided attention..." Beyond chuckled uneasily as he let the poor man drop onto his knees, immobilized, and positively fatally paralyzed. With a quick flip of a knife he had released Nez from her ropes.

"Incarna-chan!" Nez cried out, running for her captured sister. "Why you...!"

"Nez, don't be rash!" Beyond shouted, running after her...before an arrow swooshed by, grazing his cheek. "Ugh...." He looked around to see at least two dozen arrows leveled at him. "...hmm, not good..."

Two tribesmen easily pinned Nez down from behind and wrestled her onto the ground.

"Beyond-san!" came a cry from the edge of a nearby forest.

"Azmaria!" Beyond looked around in fear. "No! I told you to stay at the camp!"

"But...but..." tears streamed down Azmaria's cheeks as she was carried under one arm by one of the tribesmen, returning to his group with his prize.

"...." Beyond sighed and shook his head. He knew from the very start the chances of him saving even one of the girls was remote, let alone take down the entire platoon, with his strength diminished so dramatically. The platoon collectively laughed at his sad state, noting that they even had his girlfriend captive. Good thing Beyond didn't understand that.

There was only one thing left to do...

"Behold!" Beyond shouted, taking out a handphone and turning on its MP3 player. "...magic, from the new world!" He announced.

"...." The tribesmen, surprisingly, seemed quite unimpressed. In fact, they seemed utterly thrown off, with their mouths gaping wide and eyes twitching, their expressions that of utter WTFness.

"It plays all sorts of music too. I've got pop!"

The tribesmen's look of incomprehension worsened.

"Ok....jazz!"

The tribesmen gave each other weird looks.

"I know! You people like RnB!"

The tribesmen rolled their eyes.

"Heavy metal!"

They closed their ears and glared at Beyond.

"....Bethoven's 9th?"

"Evangelion." The tribesmen muttered to one another, shaking their heads.

"....ok, err...Michael Jackson!"

"PEDOBEAR!" The tribesmen shouted in unison, before raising their spears and aiming them at Beyond.

"...no?"

"....well, you know, that, and..." Beyond punched in a set of numbers before tossing the handphone into the air...

...the eyes of the entire platoon followed its ascent....

...Beyond folded out a pair of shades from his pockets and slipped them on with a grin as he lunged straight for Nez...

...The phone exploded, flashbang style, effectivetively blinding the entire platoon...

...taking advantage of the situation, Beyond spin-kicked the two tribesmen holding Nez captive before picking her up bodily and racing for the one handling Azmaria. Arrows flew everywhere at random around him as the blinded archers tried their best at spinning the wheel of fortune. With a quick leap and kick Beyond brought the disoriented captor down before capturing Azmaria before she fell.

"crap...they've recovered..." Beyond gulped, looking at the tribesmen who were now racing for them. "...I thought I'd be able to save at least two more..."

It was then when the T-rex lumbered into the scene and roared, making its presence known for the first time.

"Oh man...Murphy's really working overtime today..." Beyond muttered to himself.

Arrows and spears flew from one side...a lunging T-rex bore down from another...

Beyond did the only thing he could think of. He got up and did what he knew was the stupidest thing any man could do in such a situation. He threw his arms out and shielded the girls.

Tears streamed down his face as inwardly he cursed, 'OhShiOhShiOhShiOhShiOHSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! I'M GONNA DIE!"

...before a small hand touched him in the small of his back. He gasped as Azmaria buried her head in the back of his cloak, sniffling. "Be...Beyond-san!" She cried.

A flash of light engulfed the two and before anyone could do anything the T-rex was already sent flying into the column of arrows and straight into the oncoming wave of tribesmen.

The frontmost tribesmen got ploughed into the ground under the weight of the rolling T-rex while the ones in the rear did their best to turn tail and run...only to be hunted down from behind by a shining, rather mad-looking figure who had leapt over the T-rex with a scythe-like object in one hand.

Beyond made short work of Incarna, Zen, and Ei-chan's captors and managed to run a short distance with the girls slung over his back...before he fell.

Azmaria separated from him and rolled out on the grass, her eyes swirling around. "Be-Beyond-chama...I shee starsh...." She mumbled.

"That was...to much...with all the magical interference..." Beyond muttered as Nez cam running up to him. She immediately got to work untying them but by the time they got ready to run, they were surrounded once more.

"....well then...." Nez grinned. "You're not taking me alive."

"You took me by surprise earlier but not a second time!" Incarna shouted.

And then the cavalry song filled the air.

"....I see the TFFA boxers flying in the air...." Nez muttered.

"YAY!" Incarna cried. "Go patriot briefs!"

 

[Mick]

Grass plains, 1:20 PM, Day 1

While The TFF crew fought through the crowd, Zen and Ei-chan were once again taken by the tribesmen.

Beyond tried to get through to them, but he had his hands full defending Nez and Incarna.

Unknown grabbed one raptor and hurled in into the side of the T-rex's jaw.

Mick was slashing through tribesmen with his scythes left and right.

Vex was darting around the T-rex doing his best to distract it.

Rin hurled a vorpal rabbit into a crowd of tribesmen and let it wreak havoc.

Sidhe seeing the others panic steeled herself and stepped towards the T-rex.

The few tribesmen that hadn't panicked and raced away with the two captives, along with the tff crew all ceased what they were doing as they watched Sidhe slowly get closer step by step.

The T-rex had an utterly confused look on it's face at the girl who had dared approach!

Step by step, closer and closer came the girl to the gigantic, ravenous beast - the creature that had chased Nez and threated Beyond and was trying to step on Vex. Sidhe saw it's beady little eyes and its huge teeth.

T-Rex snarled as if to say, "You stupid, little morsel. I'm going to eat you! And chew on your friends. And step on the rabbits. And throw your brother to the scavengers. Not going to eat him - I have my standards."

Sidhe glared back as she approached, her eyes replying, "You're not going to hurt Mick-kun! You leave my friends alone! And with L-sama as my witness, I will not be eaten again!"

With that thought burning through her mind in the silence of that moment, Sidhe thrust the tinfoil-plated cardboard dagger forward and poked the T-Rex's middle toe.

*DOINK*

The beast choked, fell over, and died much to the shock of all those present.

Before everyone could recover from the shock, Zen and Ei-chan were long gone and the group collectively were lost in another part of a jungle forest nearby.

 

[Cyberscythe195]

Grass Plains, 1:24 pm. Day 1

Sousuke felt it.
It was close.

Grey continued to run forward. The scent of blood permeated through the air.

It was then that he saw it, his prey. Amidst the carnage, a vorpal bunny happily munched on a corpse.

His narrowed.

With lightning fast movements, he drew his bow, loaded an arrow, and fired. All within the course of 1.9 seconds.

*Schick*

It struck. Cleanly piercing it's head.

He smiled. It was years upon years of battling his most hated enemy and precious food that gave him the speed and accuracy to take one down with relatively little effort.

He moved forward to claim his prize.

-A few minutes later-

*Burp*

He gave satisfied sigh as he finished consuming the meal amidst the carnage. Grey happily munched on some bamboo.

He then began to take notice of the destruction. That, and he was sitting on a dead T-Rex corpse.

'I wonder what happened here.'
He gave the place another once over.
'Probably another internal struggle.'

He got up. "Okay Grey, let's go home."

"Growf." roared the panda.

Sousuke looked up. It was another vorpal bunny.... up in the tree tops.

"Grey, you should go home. The villagers might decide to try to go in there if there is another civil war going on. I'll just partake in some dessert."

"Growf." The panda left.
'Alright.' He shot off an arrow. Unfortunately, the wind made the branch bend ever so slightly. It grazed the rabbit's foot.

The bunny looked down, gave him a menacing look... and ran away.

'You won't get away from me.' He leapt onto the branches and followed.
It remained like this for a while. The vorpal bunny using its superior speed and size to breeze throught the tree tops. Sousuke followed, using his superior fitness and the constant volley of arrows to slow it down.

*Shick*

ANother arrow grazed the bunny's other foot as it tried to leap onto another tree top. It missed and fell down.

"You won't get away from me."
He followed.

Being right next to each other, the two began to engage in fierce aerial combat during freefall.

*Sching. Sching*
*Bite, Chomp*

The bunny rebounded off a branch and lunged. 'I got you now.'

He dodged the lunge. The rabbit was unable to change direction.
*Shing*

He was able to get a critical hit to the main body.

The bunny was more or less incapacitated.
'Finish it.'

He took his dagger and shifted his weight to increase his free fall speed.

*Bam*

He impaled the rabbit and smashed the dagger with the rabbit straight into the ground... Link Style.

He looked up....

A bunch of strangely clothed people were looking at him. For some reason, it felt as though they were wondering what the hell he was doing.

"What the hell are you looking at?"

 

[Mick]

Jungle 1:30 pm. Day 1

"Al last, someone who speaks English! Say, do you think you can help us? We're a bit turned around." David said, a little chuckle of embarrassment escaping his lips.

"Ick. Tourists." Sousuke said in disgust. As he shook his head and packed his kill.

"Look! A bunch of primative screwheads kidnapped my girls! Were trying to figure out how the hell to find these bastards! And soon!" Michael yelled greatly aggravated by current events.

Sousuke was getting annoyed, but he figured the sooner he helped this outlanders the sooner they'd be off his back.

"Look, I can show ya the way, but after that get out of my way. Got it?" Sousuke asked. He was a little aggravated that he wouldn't be able to eat his meal right away.

"Thank you very much!" Sidhe said happy they were able to find a lead through the jungle.

With that the assorted group went ahead with Sousuke taking point to guide them.

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Aztec Village 1:45


The tribesmen had ridden their raptors in towards the aztec village and eventually dismounted near what looked like massive temple grounds.

The girls, now nude since their costumes wore off, were hauled of the mounts and brought up a set of stairs.

At the top was a stone rectangular dais and four vines attached to hooks connected on the ground. Despite Zen's attempts to resist she was placed on a dais.

Four ropes secured her arms and legs each. They were taut and very tight leaving no room for the spread eagled girl to move.

Ei-chan was tied down on the ground next to Zen's dais.

An older man appearing to be the village elder walked up to the girls wooden gnarled staff in tow.

"Hm.. you girls will make great sacrifices for our God. Lord Pedobear will be most pleased. Prepare the ceremonies! We shall have a mighty harvest indeed!." The older man suprisingly told the girls in english as he and the villagers leered down at the girls
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Deeper in to the jungle 2:00 PM

The group had been walking through following Sousuke through the brush. They seemed to be making good progress until a rather.. Unfortunate series of events occured.

David's foot had got caught in a snare trap and he was now hanging 10 feet up in the air.

A rickety wooden cage had fallen down trapping Azmaria.

At the same time Michael and Beyond had fallen into a pit trap and it was too deep to jump out of, and the walls around him too slippery for his scythes to get a foot hold into them.

Sidhe had raced back to them only to fall into some quicksand. She was currently up to her midsection in the quicksand. Nez and Incarna tried to help, only to fall in as well.

"Anou... The ground is getting closer. Am I getting shorter? Or shrinking? No wait... maybe more like sinking? We're sinking!" Sidhe yelled in a panic.

"Little help!" David could be heard yelling from above.

"Sidhe?! What's going on? You alright up there?" Michael asked in a rapid stream of questions as he panicked and tried to climb up the walls again and again in a very futile effort.

 

[David Alan Abramczyk]

2:00pm, Jungle.

David grumbled, and tried to pull his bayonet from his belt to free himself from the snare. It nearly slipped out of his fingers a few times, but he managed to start sawing through the springy wood that was wrapped around his leg. "I dunno... Feel like this is a Monty Python sketch, or something... " he grumbled, carefully ignoring the upswing in Souza's Liberty Bell.

 

[Cyberscythe195]

Jungle, Island 2:00 pm

Sousuke sighed. 'They didn't make of my height so I guess I'll help them. So much of a hassle though.'

He took a glance at his food, mourning his inability to eat it.

"You up there, don't move."
*Swish* He loosed an arrow at David's direction.

"Hey what the..." The arrow pierced the rope.

Sousuke turned around, ignoring the yelling and cursing of the young man he freed as he returned to the earth.

He assessed the others problems.

'I better help the quicksand people next.' Then he sighed. "You outlanders owe me."

"Hey Mick, you got something we can use to pull you two out of there?" Unknown yelled into the hole.

"You don't have to yell so loud, man! Yeah, I have this buster sword, will that work?" Mick yelled back.

"Perfect! Xaosite, grab onto that tree. Mr. Guide, you're behind me. The rest of you, pick a spot and grab onto the person ahead of you, towards me." I commanded.

"Hey! Watch where you're putting the hands, Vex!" yelled Soifon.

"I wasn't doing anything, just trying to get a better hold on this chain" replied Vex as he wore a worried expression.

"Stop bickering back there! Mick, hold up that sword!" Unknown yelled to the people in question.

Mick lifted his sword and sure enough it was long enough to grab onto.

"All right, when I tell you to, start climbing the walls, we'll get you two one at a time." Unknown said as he grabbed a good hold.

"One... two... NOW!" Ihe yelled before beginning to pull. Sure enough, Mick arose from the hole within a few minutes. Beyond was a little tougher due to seemingly being heavier. However, they were able to get them both out without no real problems.

"WhhoooooaaAAAA!" said Xaosite as he list his footing, and to his horror, Rin ended up in the quicksand as well.

"GOD DAMNIT! Sorry, Mick. Gotta use this real quick." unknown said as he unsheathed the sword with a clean slice.

Within seconds I was hacking off a sturdy enough branch to pull them out. Hopefully we can get them all out safely.

"Unknown! HURRY!" yelled someone.

"Use this." Sousuke presented his bow.

"Alright." Unknown hacked it cleanly.

"Finally! All right, same idea... Mick, you and Beyond are holding onto Mr. Guide, the rest of you same positions!" Unknown said as he took his place, coat and hat now placed near the tree we were using as the anchor.

Unknown extended the branch and Nez quickly grabbed a hold of it. Incarna grabbed onto Nez as well.

"What are you doing?" asked Nez.

"Trying to get us both saved, silly." said Incarna as she increased her grip.

"Don't worry, we can get you both out. We'll get Sidhe and Rin next." Unknown said before giving the countdown again. Sure enough, the twins were able to be removed without too much difficulty. He extended the branch again and Rin took a hold of it.

"Sidhe, grab on!" Unknown yelled as the girl was still in hysterics.

"I can't it's too late, I'm gonna die!" cried Sidhe as she sunk slowly deeper into the quicksand.

"Sidhe, trust me... we can pull you out. Grab onto Rin and we'll get you to safety." he said said in as comforting voice as he could while still yelling.

Sidhe took a hesitant grab but latched onto Rin before we began to pull them out. They were almost clear when I felt something slacken behind me. He turned his head and saw Xaosite currently enjoying concussionville with David right in front of him, also enjoying that village.

"Crap, take care of them! I'll finish it!" Unknown yelled before turning toward the wood again. Sousuke also grabbed on.

"Did you forget about me." The island native grinned. Unknown just smiled.

With a low growl that began to crescendo until it became a yell of pure physical power, they pulled the remaining two ladies out of the sandy death.

"Ohmigod! thankyouthankyouthankyou!" said Sidhe as she and Rin latched onto Unknown.

Sousuke looked at their last problem. He then drew in a giant breath...

"COME FORTH, PAANNN DORRR!"

"RROOAARRRR" the roar permeated through the jungle in response.

Then came silence...

*Bum, bum, bum*
A trembling noise suddenly is heard.

*Budum, Budum, Budum*

*BUM! BUM! BUM!*

SUddenly, leaping out of jungle, came a gigantic panda much to the shock of those present.

"Grey, I could use some help here."

He turned to the cage. "Pandor. Brick Break."

"Growf!" It smashed the cage in a single punch.

With everyone taken cared off, Sousuke leapt on top of Grey's head.
Getting comfortable, he looked at the group.

"Shall we get going?"

 

[Unknown-common-827]

<removed as cyber mentioned it>

 

[Zenithos]

The Jungle, 2.10 PM, Day 1

"Ok, who's not dead, sound off!" LL shouted to the group.

"That's ok, we're all here." Unknown said.

"Yeah." Mick affirmed.

"....are you sure? It feels like we forgot someone...." Sidhe-chan pointed out as she cleaned some sand off her clothes and tin-foil sword.

"...someone?"

"Really?"

"...."

"naaah..."

And they all continued on their way...

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"I think it's ok to go without telling. We're mostly forgotten anyway." Beyond reasoned as he blazed a trail through the jungle with Azmaria gripped carefully under one arm.

"But...but..." Azmaria stammered from under Beyond's arm.

"No, you're going back, and that's final." Beyond said sternly. "Look, I want to save those girls, but I can't protect you properly while I'm doing that."

"But I don't want to be protected, Beyond-san! I've had enough of people sacrificing themselves to protect me! I want to protect others!" Azmaria cried defiantly.

"...No! If anything happens to you, I could never forgive myself! I promised your old knight, my good friend, that I would protect you and keep you safe." Beyond said. "Besides, we tried it earlier. We couldn't keep up the synchronization for more than 10 seconds under the magical interference."

"auuuu..." Azmaria drooped.

"Look, once we get off this island, we'll fight together again. But for now, the two of us are nothing more than average humans." Beyond said, matter-of-factly. "Now....where are we?"

"....Beyond-san, your sense of direction...." Azmaria sweatdropped, pointing out Beyond's innate ability to lose himself while exploring his own palm with a GPS.

"...ah...yes, good point..." Beyond sighed as he raised Azmaria into a sitting position on one of his forearms in front of him while he used the other to shield his eyes against the noon sun to search for landmarks. "Ah, I see a wall over there. That must be the beach camp."

"Really? But it's...already overgrown with moss and vines. Our beach camp is still new, right?" Azmaria asked doubtfully.

"Don't worry, I'll get you there in no time flat." Beyond said confidently, obviously not listening. "One two!"

Meanwhile, a low, menacing growl sounded from behind said wall to a backdrop of tribal drums...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

In the jungle, close to the gates to the great tribal city, 2.25 PM

"Is that the tribal village?" Legacy looked up at the towering wall of stone, above which were perched rows upon rows of more stone and wood houses. "...it reminds me more of Minas Tirith..."

"How'd we miss it during our first scout?" Janus wondered. "I'm sure I didn't see it during my flights over the island..."

"Well...the magical interference is even heavier here. Maybe it causes some sort of refraction of light?" Sidhe suggested.

"Ah, that makes sense. As expected of my sister." Michael nodded with approval, patting Sidhe on the head.

"Yes, we can see who she takes after." Nobuo noted.

"Yeah, clearly not you." Mick said gruffly.

"What was that?" Nobuo asked, raising a menacing eyebrow.

"Shut up you two. We need to think up a way of getting in." Tsuruko pointed out.

"I want my patriot briefs back!" Xerxezz hissed.

"SHUT UP!" the group snapped simultaneously.

"I've got a plan. Let's dig under the walls."

"Let's build a catapult then." David suggested. "And fly inside."

"Yeah, and you can be our first bit of human ammo." Unknown muttered.

"Swing in, tarzan style?"

"What, I can't do that with a skirt on." Keiko said with disapproval.

"But you're our token panty-shot character." Xerxezz pointed out.

CRUNCH...

"Well...there's always the cliche idiot guardsmen tactic. But we'd need...." Tsuruko began to suggest while eyeing the rest of the group.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" LL asked with his usual trickster grin in place.

"Yeah, this is definitely going to be fun..." Janus grinned.

"The dies favour this one." Xaosite nodded.

All their eyes landed on Mick and Vex.

"Wh-what?" The two looked around at the slowly intensifying grins, worried looks growing on their own.

"...get'em."

And Mick, Vex, and, funnily enough, Nobuo, were mobbed by their own team mates.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

At another part of the giant wall, Jungle, 2.35 PM, Day 1

"Do you think it's ok to go without telling the others?" Nez asked worriedly as the twins sneaked up to the wall.

"No worries. We're mostly ignored and forgotten anyway." Incarna shrugged. "Wow...this is one huge wall..." She cooed as she tried to crane her neck to see the top. "Do you see those patriot briefs anywhere?"

"...is that why we separated from the others? So you can get those patriot briefs?" Nez raised an eyebrow.

"Huh? What? No, off course not. It's just to give the group two chances at victory, that's all." Incarna pointed out.

"I WANT MY PATRIOT BRIEFS BACK!" A voice screamed from the other side of the jungle.

The twins looked at one another, sweatdropping greatly.

"Well, if the tribal village is anyway, it should be here." Nez said, looking up at the wall. "Are we going to climb?"

"No, there's a special trespassers/intruders entrance over here." Incarna pointed out a large flashing sign lined with neon and fluorescent lightbulbs pointing at a door which was similarly flashy.

"Oh, how convenient." Nez commented. "I like their style. They really are customer-friendly."

"Indeed." Incarna agreed. And the twins went in.

The low growl emanating from within shook the giant walls...and then silence fell...

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At the tribal village's entrance, 2.32 PM

"Ha! HOOO! HUHAHO!" A strange-looking tribesman, naked save a pair of hockey pants and a hockey-jersey tied around his neck like a cape, with a hockey-stick with a pointy rock tied on as a spear, grunted and breathed as if choking on popcorn.

The guards at the door looked at one another, raised their eyebrows, before looking around at the strange tribesman who seemed to be suffering from a bad case of whooping cough.

"Psss, Legacy, what're you doing?" Another strange-looking tribesman beside him, who was naked save a pair of boxers sporting the New Zealand flag, whispered.

"...Shut up, David. I'm trying to speak their lingo..." Legacy hissed back.

"Can't you speak it?" Xaosite hissed to Sousuke, who merely gave him a vague shrug in response.

"Yoroshiku? Guten tag? Ni Hao? Salut? Howdy? Damaska? Garglebumbum?" Another tribesman, this one with what might have been an angelic robe now torn and tied around his waist to preserve some modesty.

"Stop that. They're giving us weird looks, Janus!" LL hissed as he stepped forwards with his Xellos staff, grinning a new Xellos grin bordered by what could pass as tribal paint...or really badly applied lipstick. With his staff he gestured behind him, attracting the guardsmen's attention to the captives they were carrying on poles.

"Why do we have to be the captives?" Mick muttered from his slightly less than dignified position, hanging upside down from a pole in only his boxers.

"Shut up." Vex said from a similar position. "BE a man and bear with it."

"This is most undignified." Nobuo muttered under his breath from his own pole.

"Shut up, you're heavy." Keiko hissed as she and Tsuruko hefted the pole bearing Nobuo.

"Oh, you bring captives." The guard said in perfect, fluent English, causing the group's jaws to fall to the floor. "On whose orders?"

"Orders? Uhh...ummm..." LL looked around wildly for inspiration before crying out, "Yes, by orders of the great green funnel!"

"....great green funnel?" The guards raised their eyebrows.

"Yes, this great green funnel! It speaks!" LL said, gesturing at a funnel that was being carried on a makeshift bamboo stretcher between Baru, Kira, Irisviel, and Len.

The funnel coughed and cleared its....funnel. "Ahem, yes, I have sent these brave warriors into the depths of the enemy camps and we have acquired prisoners! To be sacrificed to the heavens!"

"But...." The guards looked at one another. "Oh great talking funnel with a throat problem, our gods only accept those of the female persuasion as sacrifices."

"...." The funnel seemed to think about this for a moment, before, "That can be easily arranged. What be the difference between males and females anyway, save THAT?"

Nobuo, Mick, and Vex winced painfully.

"....if the great, rather perverted green funnel says so..." the guard said.

"The great funnel speaks! Harken unto his commands!" LL shouted in a commanding voice.

"Very well, you may pass." the guards nodded at one another and opened the gates.

And thus the rag-tag bunch of messed up tribesmen passed proudly through into the great tribal city with their captives in tow.