Vile: Okay, I still get stalled with my stories sometimes, but when I get things set, I'm quick. Here's my newest Numbershot: A Triple Numbershot!

Yuma: Is this like the 6-in-1 Numbershot Special?

Vile: Not really. The 6-in-1 was essentially six separate Numbershots in chapter form. This one is more mixed, as you'll see later.

Yamoto: Sounds like this one is more like an actual story.

Vile: Exactly, it's more like a standard Numbershot. Anyway, enjoy folks!

Triple Numbershot 21, 75, & 60: Trounce The Terrible Trio!

Chapter 1

A D-Gazer lit up with a received message: "Deal with the school. Take care of any of Yuma's friends within."

"Heh. I thought we'd never get to do anything." The speaker, Shirotora, showed his comrades the message.

"Geegeegeegee… I've been waiting for this!" Aokarasu giggled.

"Same here. I'm itching to pull something off!" Akahebi said while beating his fists.

"Any plans on if we get caught, geegee?"

"Who cares if we do? We're already up to 29 Misconduct Cards apiece. One more crap-up and it's over for us, so we might as well go out with a spectacle."

"I'm all for that! So what are we gonna do?"

"Listen up, boys. Our new powers have to be combined to make this work. Here's what we're gonna do…"

*The Next Day*

Before classes were even going to start, the terrible trio approached the area near where the ventilation system for the school was. Akahebi tried the door, but with no luck. "Locked. Figures."

"No worries. I know where to find a set of keys." Shirotora said. "Ready the package."

Akahebi smirked and held out his left hand, a dark red glow forming on the back. Energy formed into an orb in his hand, morphing into a white package of some sort with a hole in the top. "Package ready."

"Aokarasu, spice it up for me."

"Check, geegee." Aokarasu gained a dark blue glow on the back of his right hand before an inky black cloud appeared in his hand. He placed it overtop of the package, causing it to turn completely black. "Is that enough spice for ya?"

"It's-a one spicy meat-a-ball now." Shirotora said in a fake Italian accent, kissing the tips of his thumb and index finger like a cook. His two friends laughed. "Now for the finishing touch." Shirotora pulled a short length of string from his pocket and threaded part of it into the package's hole, making it look like some sort of bomb.

"Perfect! Now we just need to get it inside, geegee!" Aokarasu laughed.

Shirotora noticed a certain staff member walking towards them, Akahebi quickly hiding the package for a moment. When the member went past them, Shirotora flashed his teeth. "Leave that… to me." He pulled out what looked like some sort of coin emblazoned with a snake, and a white glow appeared on his neck. "Honorable snake, grant me stealth." All of a sudden, Shirotora turned completely invisible.

"Whoa…" His friends breathed. Out of sight, Shirotora went after the staff member. When he was certain he wasn't paying attention, Shirotora quickly fished inside the employee's back pocket, pulling out a set of keys.

'Heh heh... loser.' The invisible boy thought before sneaking back off, hiding the keys in his own pocket so no one would see a set of keys floating in the air. When he made it back to his friends, Shirotora made sure the coast was clear before turning visible again.

"Geh!" Akahebi cried, startled. "It's gonna take a while to get used to that."

"You'll get practice later. Now it's showtime." Shirotora said, fishing out the keys. He sifted through them until he found the right key, then unlocked the door. Akahebi handed him the odd package. "Keep a lookout, guys. I can handle the dirty work." Shirotora then entered the room and shut the door behind him. Looking around, the white-haired crook-in-the-making made sure the room was empty, then he moved ahead in order to find his target. Soon, he found it: The central air pump for the ventilation and air conditioning system. "There you are…" Grinning, Shirotora walked over to the pump. "I know there's a hatch for this thing somewhere. How else did one of the teachers send air freshener smell throughout the school that day?" He eventually did find the hatch. "Gotcha!" Pulling open the hatch, Shirotora pulled out the package and placed into the pump. He then pulled out a different coin, this one emblazoned with a dragon. "Honorable dragon, light the fuse." The white glow appeared on his neck again, and from his fingertip, a tiny burst of flame shot out and struck the string, causing it to start burning like a fuse. Slamming the hatch shut, Shirotora rushed out of the room, opening and shutting the door quickly. "Akahebi, protection!"

"On it!" The dark red glow appeared on Akahebi's hand again as Shirotora and Aokarasu rose their left sleeves, then Akahebi slapped them both on the upper arm, causing what looked like a white patch to appear on both of their arms. "I already took care of myself." He rose his own sleeve, showing a patch on his own arm.

"My turn!" Aokarasu said, the dark blue glow appearing on his hand. He touched the patch on his arm with his right hand, causing the white to become black, before doing the same with his friends' patches. "Good. Now we're all safe, geegee."

"Nice work, boys." Shirotora said with a smirk. "Now we just sit back and watch the fireworks." The three boys left while laughing, Shirotora having just tossed the keys on the ground in front of the door.

Within the pump, however, the burning fuse finally ran out, and the package gave a surprisingly subdued explosion, making almost no noise but spreading a cloud of white and black fumes, which were spread throughout the school by the ventilation system, slowly becoming unseen as they traveled before they were spread through the air conditioning into the school airspace.

*Meanwhile*

Sedo Kuran, who was working on some last-minute work, caught a breath of the fumes, and almost immediately, his pupils dilated and the sparkle in his electric blue eyes faded. The pencil he was holding dropped to the floor unceremoniously, and a shuddering whimper came from the boy. The other students in the area began feeling the effects as well, their eyes going dull.

Sedo was then tapped on the shoulder, and he slowly turned to see Aokarasu standing there. "Hi." The black-haired boy said. Sedo's eyes widened: Though it was merely Aokarasu standing in front of him, Sedo's vision made him see the boy transform into a staticing mass of black energy that morphed into a terrifying bird-like shape. Aokarasu said something, but all Sedo heard was a loud caw.

Scared out of his mind, Sedo backed up slowly. "Please… don't hurt me…" He whimpered. The crow shape he saw stomped forward once. The orange-haired boy finally felt feeling return to his legs and immediately turned tail and ran away in fear.

Aokarasu then looked back at the other students with a smirk, making them step back as well. "Hmph. All I did was ask if he was fine, geeheeheeheeheeheeheehee." He said, a clear tone of sick joy in his voice, before he then walked off, making students back off with a single glance, all of them seeing nothing but a monstrous dark bird before them.

*Ten Minutes Later *

Shark walked through the school, trying to see if he could find Ariel. However, he was feeling rather weird seeing the dead looks on everyone's faces. Unlike them, he didn't seem to be affected. 'Man, did no one get any sleep today?'

"I feel something else in the air, Master." Shark Drake told him. "Something is definitely not right here."

"When is anything right around here?" Shark groaned with an eye roll.

"All right, everybody, keep it single-file!" He heard a familiar voice declare, confusing him. Looking around a corner, Shark saw a group of students lined up in front of Akahebi. "That's right, in the basket!" The students were placing their Decks into a basket next to him, one-by-one.

"What the hell?" Shark cried under his breath. Then, he was shocked to see Tetsuo, Ariel, Tokunosuke, Hikaya, Sei, and Sachi all in the same line, the same dead-eyed looks in all of their faces.

"Master! Something is controlling them!" Shark Drake warned.

Shark scowled. "All right, I've had enough of these guys!" He walked out from behind the corner and started approaching Akahebi.

The blonde looked and saw Shark approaching, not losing his smirk. "Oi, Kamishiro! Back of the line like a good boy!" He called before going back to business.

BAM!

"WAAAAHHH!" Akahebi flew a couple feet from the impact, landing on the ground. Shark pulled back his fist as Akahebi turned to look at him. "What the hell…?" He then noticed Shark's eyes: They still retained their sparkle. "Nani?! You weren't affected?!"

"'Affected'? Affected by what?" Shark interrogated. "Talk, snake breath! What are you doing to everybody?"

Akahebi stepped back with a groan, pointing at the line. "Everybody freeze!" The students didn't move a muscle. Akahebi then looked back at Shark angrily, pulling out his D-Gazer. "Shirotora, we've got a situation. A worm slipped through the cracks in our plan."

"I'll show you who's a worm!" Shark yelled, rushing at Akahebi again. However, this time Shark was on the receiving end of a hit, seemingly from nowhere, which sent him reeling (although he kept his footing).

As Shark recovered, the air rippled before Shirotora appeared from a veil of invisibility. "Any problems besides him, Akahebi?"

"Nope. Things were going smoothly before that guy decked me." Akahebi replied.

"What the… What the hell did you just do?" Shark asked, shocked.

Shirotora merely smirked. "Trust me, that wasn't all I can do." He rushed forward, Shark rushing at him as well. However, Shirotora pulled out a coin emblazoned with a tiger. "Honorable tiger, let us double up!" When Shark went to punch him, a white glow appeared on Shirotora's neck before he suddenly split into two copies of himself, making Shark's punch hit the air. Shark gasped with wide eyes right before the two Shirotoras slammed him with their shoulders from both sides, making him fall to his knees. Shirotora returned to one person and put away his tiger coin, pulling out a different one with an ox. "Honorable ox, grant me strength." The glow appeared on his neck again before he effortless picked up Shark with one hand and threw him at the other students.

Akahebi snapped his fingers, and two of the students caught him and held him secure, Shark struggling a bit. "Wasting your time, fish head. You ain't goin' anywhere." Akahebi told him.

"Did I miss something, geegee?" Aokarasu asked as he rushed up. Then he saw Shark. "Hey, what happened with him?"

"This guy somehow escaped your little spell, Aokarasu." Shirotora said.

"Nani?!" Aokarasu gasped. "Well, then I'll have to fix that!" Holding up his right hand, a dark blue glow formed on it before he generated a black cloud and threw it in Shark's face. The purple-haired boy coughed from the fumes as Aokarasu grinned. "Once you inhale that cloud, the very sight of us will make you cower in fear, geegeegeegee…"

"I don't think so. No second-rate Number will affect MY master!" Shark Drake declared, forming his "32" on Shark's hand.

With Shark Drake's mark, Shark merely shook his head and started blowing, knocking the cloud away. "Go to hell!" He yelled.

"GEEEEEEHHHHH! It didn't work?! That was a direct dose! You should be a sniveling coward by now!" Shirotora slapped Aokarasu, making his eyes roll a bit. "Thanks. I needed that, geegee."

"No problem." Shirotora replied. "As for him, we can deal with him later."

"Good point, Shirotora." Akahebi snapped his fingers. "Take him to the basement and keep him there. One of us will relieve you of duty eventually."

"You three just sank to the lowest point in your lives…" Shark growled.

"Oh, we know. That just means we can only go up from here." Shirotora replied, him and his friends holding up their blank Numbers. "There's no one you can run to, Shark. Thanks to Akahebi's new powers, this whole school is under our control." He leaned into Shark's face with a smirk. "You'll see it our way soon enough." However, Shark merely headbutted him square in the nose, making him reel back. Shirotora felt a bit of blood from his nose. "Hmph. Feisty to the end. Akahebi, get him outta here." Akahebi snapped his fingers, and the mind-controlled students carted Shark off as a mob. Shirotora pulled out a coin with a horse on it. "Honorable horse, restore my form." A white glow appeared on his neck, and the injury from Shark's headbutt was repaired. "Ah, just what I needed. Come on, boys. We've got work to do." The terrible trio walked off.

However, a thought came to Aokarasu. 'Wait… we know that Tsukumo and Mizuki weren't going to be here, but… aren't we still missing someone?'

Vile: A heavy start for this Numbershot, with the trio taking an easy lead.

Shark: Man, and here I thought these guys were just gag characters!

Vile: Even gag characters can be dangerous. "Beware The Silly Ones" has its own page on TV Tropes for a reason.

Yuma: Aw man... If they've got Shark, who's gonna take them on?

Vile: Despite the multitude of other options (this cast is huge), I have the heroes of this fic planned. As I mentioned, I give other characters the spotlight here. If you guys liked this chapter, leave a review for me! Ja ne for now!

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