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The Ultimate Showdown
Prologue: A Suspicious Invitation
Normal POV
Echizen rolled out of his covers and glanced at the calendar on his bedside. It's already been five days since Inui had punished the regulars for their low test scores.
"Made made dane," he whispered to himself as he went to the kitchen, carrying Betsy along with him. Taka-san, Oishi-senpai, and Inui-senpai have been absent from school since then. I think I'll go for a run this morning, Echizen thought coolly. It was just another boring Saturday.
"Good morning Ryoma!" Nanjirou called out as his son stepped into the room and took a seat at the dining table. He continued to look extraordinarily interested in the newspaper he was reading.
"Oh, hello, Ryoma-san," said his cousin, Meino Nanako, who placed two jugs of milk and a plate of eggs and bacon in front of the boy. "Ah, and Uncle, are you reading those Baby Girl magazines again?"
Echizen sighed. Another normal day…
"Oh, yo, Ryoma. There's a letter in the mail for you." Nanjirou tossed a small, white envelope onto his plate.
"I wonder who sent it," he thought silently as his picked it up and looked for a name or address. Opening and pulling out the note, he read it quietly to himself.
"Well? Is it from a girl? Let me read it!" Ryoma swiftly pushed the old man's face away from his shoulder. He looked at the letter in disbelief. There was definitely something fishy about it…
o0o0o0o
Kaidoh jogged toward the recreational building. He gazed at the crumpled note in his hand and increased his pace. He received the note in the mail yesterday and was surprised by it.
Dear Kaidoh,
Are you free this Saturday at 9:00 in the morning? Please meet me in front of the recreational center. The other regulars have been invited, too. The probability of all regulars to be bored this Saturday is 96%. Since we need a break from tennis from time to time, I've planned a fun day for the group. See you there.
~Fuji
"Not only does it not sound like Fuji-senpai," he thought suspiciously, "but the handwriting is way off. Either Fuji-senpai is attempting to write without his hands, or Inui-senpai was forging Fuji-senpai's name to get us to come."
Of course, with an IQ of 75, Kaidoh just couldn't figure out what was going on, so he continued his run into the sinister trap.
o0o0o0o
"Heh, heh, heh," Momo chuckled to himself quietly. He was positioned behind a rather dead looking tree (more like disease-infected, intoxicated, looks-like-it-was-never-alive blob of wood), and decided that no one would go near it since it gave off such a putrid stench. Ugh, he thought, this tree smells like that WOMGTOAOBARDIJBTS Juice Inui had created for us last week. (A/N: To fans of The IQ Test: If you could answer this question, then you are amazing: Why did that tree smell like Inui's Juice?)
Fanning the odor off temporarily, Momo took out his stash of burgers. A piece of paper fell out of his bag.
"Hm, I know this note wasn't from Fuji-senpai. I bet it's a plan thought out by Mizuki, that weird manager from St. Rudolph." He took a bite out of his 3rd burger. "Knowing that this is an unnatural invitation, I have stealthily arrived early and found a hidden area to watch the whole scene."
Momo squinted at the direction of the recreational building, just across and down the street. "No one's going to catch me off gua-…"
"Good morning Momo," a light, daunting, and even a little sadistic voice said from behind.
"Ah, damn," Momo mutered as he swerved around and encountered the Seigaku prodigy. In a flash, Momo grabbed Fuji's arm and pulled him into the bushes beside the dead tree.
"Sh…" Momo put a finger to his lips.
"What's the meaning of this?" Fuji asked. "Why are you hiding behind this grotesque stick?"
Momo answered swiftly, "I'm watching for action. And it's not a stick, it's a tree. Also, I got this invitation from you." He shoved the grease stained paper at Fuji.
Fuji glimpsed at the gross note and took out one of his own.
"I received one just like this," he said with a sadistic frown, "but mine is from Tezuka."
Momo looked at Fuji in surprise. "I wonder what that Mizuki is planning…" (A/N: For idiots out there: Momo is completely off; Mizuki had nothing to with this…)
o0o0o0o
Oishi and Eiji arrived at the recreational building together. Oishi, being a pure-hearted man, persuaded Eiji that this meeting wasn't a trap at all.
-Flashback-
"C'mon Eiji!" Oishi called from outside his house. "Let's go already!"
"No!" Eiji answered from the two story window. "I know they're plotting against me! I wasn't there to drink that stuff remember? And Inui drank it! They're all going to kill me! I'm NOT going, Oishi!"
Oishi shook his head in disbelief. He'll have to somehow get Eiji to come down. Glancing around the yard, Oishi saw some cattails and had a brilliant idea.
Plucking one from the yard, he shook it back and forth in a playful motion.
"Come on, Eiji-neko," he said, waving the plant, "I know you want it."
Eiji's eyes followed the little weed. He couldn't stop staring. Oishi just knew him too well.
"Damn you Oishi," he thought warily, as his animal instincts came over him and he jumped out the window. "I'll get you for this later."
Now jogging, Oishi held the cattail with Eiji-neko trailing behind him toward the meeting place.
-End of Flashback-
Eiji frowned and nervously looked from side to side. I hope Oishi's right, he thought warily.
o0o0o0o
Tezuka reread the note he received from the coach this morning in the mail. He looked at it skeptically. The coach wasn't so nice that she'd give the whole team a day off at her own expense. With a raised eyebrow, Tezuka trashed the note and went on his merry way to the nearest tennis courts.
o0o0o0o
Inui sat in front of the recreational building. It was five minutes to nine.
"According to my data, Oishi and Eiji should already be here…" He glanced around the courtyard and lobby. "Oh, there they are."
From his point of view, Oishi was impatiently tapping his foot and waving some kind of plant at the acrobatic Kikumaru, who, like a cat, bounced around after it.
"Ii data…" Before walking over to the Golden Pair, Inui jotted down a few quick notes. "Eiji equals kitten; Oishi equals owner; Eiji's weakness: moving objects…"
"Oi, Oishi! There's Inui!" Eiji called to his partner and then bounded toward the glasses man.
"Oh! Ah, wait up, Eiji!" Oishi followed him and met up with Inui.
"Hello, everyone!" The three turned around and saw Taka-san approaching them with a smile on his face. "I feel much better today! I think I've completely healed from the WOMGTOAOBARDIJBTS Juice!"
Oishi gulped. He had also witnessed the juice's terror first-hand. Taka-san had already gotten better? Even though he had five servings of that unpleasant stuff? He really was a strong player.
"Hisss…" Kaidoh finished his jog and stood in front of the little group. Echizen was not far behind him.
"Good morning, ochibi!" Eiji called out happily while patting his head ferociously.
"Echizen equals Eiji's pet…" Hopefully I don't have to mention who wrote that comment down…
"Eh? Where is that porcupine? And where is Fuji-senpai? Is Tezuka-buchou coming, too?" Kaidoh asked questionably.
"We don't know," Inui answered, "but they have to come in ten minutes, or we'll start without them."
o0o0o0o
Momo stared at the growing group of regulars. It didn't look as suspicious as he thought it would be. I guess the coast is clear, he thought, because there is no sign of Mizuki.
Fuji listened to Momo intensely. This kid was a Seigaku regular? Momo was far more clueless than Fuji had thought him to be.
If only his brain was as big as his Dunk Smash, Fuji thought under his sadistic smile. He followed Momo out from behind the shrubs and crossed the street to the large recreational building.
o0o0o0o
The group of regulars glanced at the direction of two approaching figures. Momo and Fuji made it in time, but there was still no sign of their Captain.
"I guess Tezuka saw through this next training menu," Inui mumbled as a luxurious travel bus pulled up in front of the building parking lot.
Now everyone was present, except for Tezuka. As the bus doors swished open, a cold voice full of arrogance rang out to the onlooking faces.
"Be awed by my beautiful prowess, my loyal subjects," it said, but something about it was very peculiar.
- The "Otaku Corner"-
GreenMamushi: Augh, that guy sends chills down my spine…
2Manyshoez: Yea, and he's so totally ugly too Dx.
TheSpunky(Short)Alchemist: Quiet! Don't give his identity away yet! That's for Chapter 1!
FlippinWonka: I LOVE YOU! YOU"RE SO COOL! RESCUE ME FROM THIS PRISON, ATOB-
GreenMamushi: *Bonks FlippinWonka over head with nearby swordfish*
TheSpunky(Short)Alchemist: *Faces audience* You didn't see anything…(Madagascar Penguins's move)