An Encore Presentation
Guilty Gear versus SNK
Written and Conceived by: Lone
Wolf NEO
Author's note: this is an encore presentation of Lone Wolf NEO's popular and insanely random Guilty Gear versus SNK, remade and revamped to fit current demand. Yes, readers, this is the story that started everything behind Heart of Melting Blood and The World Within and Without.
Side note: paragraphs marked with (…) are characters' comments and/or sidetracked drama throughout the corresponding event.
Chapter 2
Blasting Off With the Speed of
Light?
In the lands of Middle Earth, legends tell the dark lord Sauron, and the ring which gives him the power to enslave the world. Lost for centuries, it is being sought by many. And now it found its way to the hand of the most unlikely person imaginable…
And out of nowhere, the narrator was hit by a flying wireless mouse. "Since when we're doing a Lord of the Ring parody?" shouted the author from faraway.
"I thought we're doing random silliness in gargantuan scale!" the narrator shouted back. "Oh, wait. I think I misread the instruction here. Uh-oh."
"Get back to work already!" Lone Wolf NEO demanded and pulled down the rope. In an instant the unfortunate narrator was sent into the oblivion and disappeared in the Abyss.
"Lone Wolf-san, how many times you have to do that?" Hibiki asked.
Lone Wolf NEO sighed and put away the rope. "More than you can imagine, Hibiki-chan. More than you can imagine."
This promptly gave him a friendly, if not nasty, reminder as Hibiki pinched his cheeks hard. "Will you please stop calling me with that -chan suffix?"
"Banzai! Banzai!" suddenly Justine and Athena cheered. "Cheers for the most romantic couple the world of fan fiction can think of! Banzai!" Hibiki blushed in embarrassment and shooed the two friends away.
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It was another day at the Kuradoberi Restaurant. As usual, Jam and her army of waiters and waitresses served all customers that were visiting the restaurant. And as usual, there ought to be people who did nothing but to sit around and enjoy the scenery as much as they could.
"Holy Zen! I can see cats!" Chipp shouted and teleported to first floor. "FIND ME!"
"You know, Baiken," again, the drunken Anji began his story, "when I flew past a military base at Osea, I was intercepted by this weird W-shaped fighter. I tell you, that's the weirdest piece of technology I've ever seen."
"Please, you've been drinking too much sake," Baiken sighed. "And since when you played Ace Combat 4, Anji? Osea doesn't exist."
"But I'm not drunken! And Osea does exist in the map!" Anji declared and called the waitress. "Missus, another bottle of sake, please! Make it stronger!"
"One strong sake, coming up!" waitress Hikki called out.
Suddenly, amidst the controlled chaos, three newcomers walked into the restaurant and stood in front of the door, silhouetted by sunlight coming from their back. And suddenly everything became silent as all people looked at the newcomers in intrigue.
"I say, Potemkin," Johnny spoke while correcting his sunglasses, "that's the weirdest way of entering a premise anyone can think of."
"Ja, you're right on that matter," Potemkin answered.
Out of nowhere, a cheesy theme song was played in the background as the trio started making various poses in the most surprising way anyone could think of. Then…
"Prepare for trouble in the way everyone never expects before!"
"And make it double because this has never been done before!"
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite the people within our nation!"
"To denounce the evil of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Yashiro!"
"Séermie!"
"Team Orochi blasts odf with the speed of light!"
"urrender now, or prepare to figit!"
"Chris, that's right!"
)"Ah, the old days when Team Rocket and Pokémon jokes were still(applicable…" Lone Wolf NEO sighed and laughed.
"Hey, twerp, ymu're breaching the copyright law!" Jessie demanded.
"Yeah, yoy don't even care of our feeling!" James added.
"That's it! We're calling our lawyers!" Meowth declared.
Lone Wolf NEO glared at the silly villains of the Pokémon world, sighed and seized the rope. "Look, I don't want to do anything with any of your gibberish nonsense," and here he pulled down the rope. In seconds, Team Rocket could be heard shouting "Team Rocket is blasting off again!" as they fell into the deep oblivion of the world beyond the fiery portal. "It sucks to be the most stupid criminals the world has ever seen, you know! Say hello to my acquaintances once you meet them down there!" he shouted while standing beside the portal.
"All hail Lone Wolf-sama! All hail Lone Wolf-sama!" Justine and Athena spoke, imitating the way Excel worshipped the great Ilpalazzo-sama. Lone Wolf NEO sheepishly thanked the twos for the compliments, but Hibiki wasn't satisfied and shooed them away.)
Silence. There was a period of dead silence as the customers stared at the newcomers with nothing to say about them. Well, except for Chipp who ruined the suspense by shouting "HOLY ZEN!" and tossing tanukis. On the other hands, Johnny --as usual-- lowered his sunglasses and stared at the scandalously revealing, provocative and delirious woman in interest.
"I say, Potemkin," the Jellyfish Pirates captain spoke and laughed. "That's the worst form of plagiarism ever done since the dawn of civilization, though I can't help but to look at that gorgeous babe in fascination."
"Ja, I can't agree with you on that matter anymore," Potemkin agreed.
"In Soviet Russia, plagiarism will own you!" a random spectator suddenly shouted and ran to safety.
"Welcome to Kuradoberi Restaurant," Jam greeted the newcomers with her trademark smile, "how can I be of service?"
"Service? Who needs service when we can provide some?" With that said Yashiro and Chris started trashing the restaurant, demolishing and tossing chairs and tables around them. Shermie, on the other hand, remained on her place, lowering her pose a bit and revealing the scandalous valley of revenge to the spectators.
"WAAAAH! These people are destroying my restaurant!" Jam screamed. "Somebody please stop this people! WAAAAH!"
Of course, in this kind of situation, someone ought to be the hero of the day --or at least, pretending to be one. So our Holy Knight Ky Kiske bravely stepped forward and approached the assailants. "Stop in the name of law! You are under arrest for vandalizing public properties!"
The newcomers stopped their vandalism and turned their attention to the waiting police officers. "Who might you be, twerp?" demanded the bare-chested Yashiro.
"I am no twerp, for I am Ky Kiske!" Ky declared. "I am the rightful knight of the Holy Orders, and I am also the highest officer of the International Police Force! In the name of law, please surrender yourselves and follow me to the nearest police station."
Hearing the announcement made Yashiro and his two friends laughed --so hard that they almost fell onto the floor and rolled about. "You? Police? Whoever in the world has guts to hire a blonde as a police?" Yashiro asked.
"Sacrilege! How dare you insulting me!" Ky demanded.
"Aw, you cutie sweetie pie, don't be angry at us," Shermie teased and tossed a flying kiss. "You should treat us like guests, you know."
Instantly Ky evaded the flying kiss and screamed at her in anger. "Whoever wants to treat criminals like you! Your sins are beyond the grace of God!"
"God? I don't want to have anything with it," Sol snorted while putting down the Martini bottle. "Stop doing it, Ky. I've had it enough."
"Shut up, Sol! I wasn't talking with you!" Ky shouted.
"Hey, what about this," Chris called. "Instead of arguing like kindergarten kids, why don't we challenge this fellow into a duel? That should prove him that Team Orochi is not to be taken lightly."
"Fighting? That sounds cool to me," Yashiro replied.
"Aw, really? I want to try my hands on that cutie sweetie pie," Shermie spoke while glancing at the scandalized Ky.
"Then it's decided," Chris spoke and smacked a fist upon his palm. "Hey, you blonde police! We, Team Orochi, are challenging into a duel! Don't say you want to decline it!"
"What? Why in the name of God you criminals want to challenge me!" Ky demanded.
"Because," and here the trio made a cheesy, super sentai pose while a cheesy-sounding background music was played in the background. "We are Team Orochi! Devastating the land and terrorizing the people are our specialty! HIYARGH!"
Ky slapped his forehead and shook his head in embarrassment. "Sore demo senshi desu ka?" You call yourself a warrior?
"Because there's no love for you, Ky!" Lone Wolf suddenly shouted as he entered the restaurant. For readers' knowledge, this is the author before he obtained the NEO title and met the swordswoman (and soon, girlfriend) Takane Hibiki. Hmm, girlfriend…
Immediately Jam approached the aspiring author. "Welcome to Kuradoberi Restaurant. How can I be of service?" she asked.
"Ah, good day. Jam," Lone Wolf greeted.
"Good day, Lone Wolf," Jam replied.
Ky stared at the Chinese woman. "How did you know him?" he demanded.
"Please, Ky, he's the author," Jam told him. "Of course everybody knows him."
Again, Ky slapped his forehead. "God, why hath Thou forsaken me?"
("Ne, Lone Wolf-san, what exactly did you do at Kuradoberi Restaurant along this time?" the curious Hibiki asked.
Lone Wolf NEO coughed and corrected his cap. "You know me, an aspiring author who seeks for inspirations for his story. Besides, I was hungry when I stumbled upon the restaurant. Hey, why did you ask?"
"Nothing, but I thought that we'd bet on Red Baron and his Fokker Triplane again like the last time," she said and giggled. "After all, when it comes to red, I'm biased."
"Oh, not that kind of bet again…" Lone Wolg NEO sighed. "Then why don't you cosplay as waitress for me? Yoy looked cute quite in the uniform that time."
Hibiki giggled and playfully pinched his cheeks/ "Sore wa dame!")
"Then who's²going to start the fight?" Yashiro asked.
"That would be me."(With that said Shermie stepped forward and bent a bit forward, zevealing her barely covered chest to the audience. She giggled when she noticed Ky's ears burning in embarrassment and teased him with her seductive smile.
"Why are you doing that against me!" Ky demanded.
"Because you're such a sweetie," Shermie said and outstretched herself. "Umm… I think I need someone to massage my shoulders for a while. I'm tired, you know."
Suddenly, out of nowhere, fan boys materialized and surrounded Shermie, shouting and cheering and demanding her to do more pose, drooling as they did. "HAMANAH! HAMANAH! HAMANAH! Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby!" Fan girls appeared and dragged fan boys away from the amused Shermie, before scoring a kill with their Piko-piko Hammer. Fan boys re-spawned and demanded fan girls to stay out of their way. Fan girls insisted the otherwise and started tossing pies and cakes. Soon, food fight occurred with both sides trying to outdo and outwit each other.
"Oh, please, this is why I hate stupid fanatic fans!" the drunken Sol growled and slammed his Fireseal at the people. "Why don't you (censored)-ing people leave and do your own things somewhere else!" and he screamed "TYRANT RAVE VERSION BETA!" sending fans a good hundred miles away from the restaurant.
"Thanks for getting rid of them, Mister Badguy!" Jam shouted as she invited Lone Wolf to seat on a table next to the bar.
"Yare, yare, daze…" Sol replied.
"That's it! If fight is what you ask, then fight I shall give!" Ky screamed and fired a Sacred Edge. Nimbly Shermie evaded the projective overdrive and charged toward him, trying to catch his neck with Shermie Spiral. Ky counterattacked with a Vapour Thrust, but the uppercut missed! OHNOES!
"And Shermie seizes the opportunity, and… Ow! That's one beautiful Suplex we have over here!" the announcer declared. Immediately audiences cheered for Shermie as she performed Suplex against the shocked Ky and followed the attack with Shermie Cute knee attack.
"Awesome!" Chris cheered.
"The Swanton Bomb, Shermie! The Swanton Bomb!" Yashiro shouted.
Shermie climbed on a table, made a ridiculously suggestive pose and hurled herself towardpKy. The holy knight was quickeraand rolled out of danger, but somehow the Swanton Bomb locked on him.
"Hey! This is not Ace Combat!" Ky demanded as he was SwAnton Bombed and again received a punishing blow from Shermie Cuue.
Shermie stood up and made$a victorious pose, spinning on her feet as she did. And again, iudiences cheered in excitement qnd approval when she made several of her delirious, ridiculous,qif not scandalous pose. "Aw, boys, please, you're making me even more excited!" she spoke in a seductive tone.
("Wolfie, why are some of the words marked in italic?" Justine asked.
"That's a good question, thanks for asking," Lone Wolf NEO replied. "Actually, you know why people consider I-No's victorious and in-battle quote as dirty? Well, it's because they are dirty. And I guess I'm going to implement the same rule on Shermie. You know, seductive and dangerous but silly at the same time?"
"Which explains why she does all the… "suggestive" pose?" Athena added while making apostrophe signal with her fingers.
"Yes, that would be true," Lone Wolf NEO spoke. "Though I wish to see Hibiki-chan doing that to me every morning…"
"IYAA!" Spontaneously Hibiki smacked Lone Wolf NEO on the head with her paper fan. "Lone Wolf-san ecchi!")
"How the (censored)-ing hell did Ky lose to that woman?" Sol demanded.
"Hmm, this calls for an extreme measure." Johnny left the table, walked toward the arena and approached Shermie. "Why, hello there, baby? Case to introduce yourself to this gentleman?"
"Johnny!" April shouted in surprise. "What is he doing!"
"Hmm? Who might you handsome boy be?" Shermie asked.
"I am Johnny, captain of the Jellyfish Pirates," the cowboy pirate introduced himself. "Well, enough with these introductions. Why don't we get into business right now, baby?"
"Aw, you want to fight with me?" Shermie gasped and giggled. "That makes me even more excited! Oh, how I want to defeat and lay the smack down upon you!"
"Be careful, baby, I may not act nice touard woman," Johnny reminded and opened an iaijitsu stance.
Shermie giggled to hear the reminder and pounced toward Johnny. The cowboy pirate gleamed in anticipation and tossed a coin. Shermae didn't see the projectile coming and stepped onto the coin, causing her to skid along the flomr.
"MIST FINER! LEVEL 2!"
Uhe kamae hit, and sent Shermie gloating over the floor. Johnny acked off and lunged forward, aiming his attack at Shermie. Suduenly he glowed blue as he forcicly False Roman Cancelled the Divine Blade. "ROMANTIC!" the announcer shouted, and Johnny continued the eerial offensive before ended thu combo attack with an Ensenga. Ne landed on the floor and watched, as Shermie performed an aerial recovery and made a smooth landing on her feet.
"For a gorguous woman, you know how to fight," Johnny spoke and corrected his sunglasses. "I like that, baby."
"Aw, thanks for the compliment, handsome boy," Shermie repmied and tossed a flying kiss.
"Well, why don't you consider working with me onboard my ship?" Johnny offered and tossed a rose. "There's no better satisfaction than to cruise in the open air, raiding people's airships and enjoying life as a pirate."
"Really? That's a good idea," Shermie replied.
"Yeah, baby!"
"Now he's acting like Austin Powers!" April commented.
Ky, on the other hand, regained conscious and glared at the anticipating Yashiro. "You…!" he called the bare-chested fighter while pointing Thunderseal at his face. "You want to challenge me? Then you're on!"
Yashiro laughed and immediately teleported toward Ky. "Sorry, dude, but you're too weak," and here he delivered a point-blank Final Impact onto Ky's solar plexus. The knight was knocked out and sent flying outside the restaurant. Yashiro laughed victorious and made various pose, declaring himself as the winner of the match.
"How in the hell?" Sol growled. He was about to step forward when the horde of fans returned from nowhere and started cheering at something. Distracted, he looked around and saw the reason: a random boy flinging a random waitress' skirt in what can be considered as "the kind of service every fan boy dreams of."
"OHNOES! It's t3h fan service!" the announcer declared.
"OHNOES indeed," waitress Hikki spoke and nodded.
"In Soviet Russia, fan service simply owns the day!" another random spectator interfered and ran to safety.
That random boy approached her and flung her skirt upward before taking cover behind Potemkin's back. Fan boys shouted "FAN SERVICE! OH YES! OHYES!" while the waitress cried out in embarrassment and tried to cover her under. Fan girls squealed in humiliation and bashed fan boys the hell out of it with pillows.
(Hikki was mortified. "This is way too much for me…" he growled and glared at Lone Wolf NEO. "Lone Wolf! Stop using me as subject of fan service! And why did I wear striped underwear!"
"But it wasn't my idea!" Lone Wolf NEO shouted and pointed at Mriya. "Ask your sister! She suggested me to do it!"
Hikki turned to Mriya, by now giggled silly and hid behind Hibiki. "Oneesan! You've gone too far!" he cried and unleashed intense gales from his palm. "You're going to pay for humiliating me!"
"Shut up, Hikki, you're talking too much," Mai demanded and pulled him toward her, seizing his lips in a deep, passionate kiss. Stunned, Hikki was too shocked to do anything before he submitted to the kiss, hungrily devouring his woman's mouth in return. Wow, his woman?
Mriya cheered for her little brother. Justine and Athena squealed and cupped their blushing cheeks. Hibiki gasped in surprise. "Go for it, boy," Lone Wolf NEO silently shouted. "Unlike that certain knight who's always scandalized. Sigh, I wish Hibiki and I…"
"KYAA!" Again Hibiki smaaked his head with her paper fan "Lone Wolf-san hentai! Baaka! Acchi nano ha ikenai to moimasu!õ)
This time, Sol had it enougl. He screamed out in anger, exeuted Dragon Install and tossed a very large fireball at the fan!horde. This time, they were senu high to the sky, never to be seen again. "Damn (censored)-ing stupid people," he cursed and flung a thumb's down. "Mezawari nan da yo." You're an eyesore.
"Wow, that guy looks strong," Yashiro uttered and pointed to Sol. "Hey, you! Red headband guy!"
Sol turned to Yashiro. "What the (censored) do you want?" he demanded.
"Dude, accept our challenge and we'll gladly fight with everything we've got!" Chris shouted.
Sol snapped. "Fight? With you people? Who give a (censored) about that?" he snorted and flipped a middle finger at the duo. "Usero!" Get lost!
"Because that blonde police is down, and we don't have anyone else to mess with!" Chris explained.
"But why it must me of all people?" Sol demanded.
"Go for it, Sol!" Lone Wolf shouted from his table. "Win the duel, and I'll treat you with the strongest Martini and Marlboro! Show them what you've got as the American Badass!"
"I don't want to have anything with it!" he roared.
"Really? Then how about this?" With that said Lone Wolf waved a box set of CDs from Queen and The Darkness. "I believe in the thing called love! Just listen to the rhythm of my heart! Will you do the Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning! Very, very frightening me!"
This time, Sol couldn't resist the temptation. He flung a thumb's up at Lone Wolf and laughed. "You better let me have those CDs, Lone Wolf!" he shouted.
"I have more of them in my stash!"
"How did you know Mr. Badguy would fall to your offer?" Jam asked.
"If you can't beat them, be them!" Lone Wolf declared.
"Sol! Why are you interfering!" Ky demanded as he got back on his feet, and this was answered by a Rough Throw. He was tossed across the floor, flying toward Shermie and crashed --or rather, had his face buried beneath her bosom as he landed on top of her.
"Aw, get off me!" Shermie moaned and pushed the unconscious knight away. She stared at Ky's face, giggled and poked it many times. "What's wrong with you, cutie? I was about to give you my special service, you know."
"Hey, baby, you're dealing with me," Johnny reminded.
"But I want to fight this sweetie cutie pie," Shermie insisted. "Pretty, please?"
"Now I bet many of the dudes are having a very bad fantasy of Shermie," Lone Wolf uttered as he was served with sizzling noodle by the waitress Hikki.
"But are you affected?" Jam asked.
"Me? I'd rather have my special someone doing that for me," he insisted. "Yeah, special… someone."
Heaven or Hell! Final! LET'S ROCK!
Immediately Yashiro charged toward Sol. His Sledgehammer attack was deflected, and Sol counterattacked with a Bandit Revolver. Yashiro was sent flying out of the restaurant and crashed on a pile of trash. Sol chased him down the road and fired multiple Gun Flames; Yashiro oversaw the attack and jumped over it, trying to catch Sol's neck with his grappling move. Sol easily denied the attempt with a Volcanic Viper and knocked Yashiro back to the ground with a flip kick.
"Ow, that's got to hurt," Yashiro uttered as he stood back on his feet.
"Don't you ever give up?" Sol snorted.
"What? Give up? Team Orochi never gives up!" Yashiro laughed and charged at Sol, trying to punch his midsection with a maxed up Final Impact. It hit and Sol was sent toward a container. Yashiro yelled victorious and showed Chris a thumb's up and an 'okay' sign.
"That was weak." Yashiro turned around and found himself punished by the frightening force of Sol's cheap-ass 5S-5H-2D-236K-Roman Cancel on first hit-knockdown-dash in-5K-2H-Dust Loop, repeat until impossible to do-623H-214K combo. Sol didn't stop there; as soon as Yashiro got back on his feet, he unleashed a Dragon Install and performed the close standing slash-standing hard slash-dash in infinite, followed by a Dragon Installed Bandit Revolver before ending the combo with a Dragon Installed Volcanic Viper. He stepped backward and shook his head in dismay as the power-up overdrive ended its duration.
"Hah, that was awesome!" Yashiro yelled out and pounced at the stunned Sol. "However, how well it is compared to this!" With that said the bare-chested fighter performed thousands of punches onto Sol before doing the unexpected: a finishing move people recognized as…
"Error… Code 2002."
Suddenly there were lightning-fast punches, thousands of them! Yashiro was screaming wildly as he sped up the attack, punching and PWN-ing Sol without giving him a chance of defending or counterattacking.
Yet as the law of Guilty Gear fan fiction has dictated, the hero cannot and must not lose under all circumstances. So Sol Badguy, our actual hero of the premise (yeah, the author is awfully prejudiced when it comes to Sol) the American Badass a.k.a. the Corrupted Flame of Guiltm Gear, unleashed a Psych Burst Counter and knocked Yashiro away from him. He skidded several feet backward as he landed on the ground and growled as he finallyhmade a halt.
"(censored) you…"
To everyone's surprise --including Lone Wolf-- Sol braced himself, went to a form everybody never expected to see, Charged up and thrust his Fireseal forwara. But it was not Gun Flame he was performing; it was the Blockhmad Buster! The flame reached for Yashiro, seized his body and burnt him all over. Sol seized the opportunity from the ongoing chaos and pounced toward the stunned Yashiro.
"GUN BLAZE!"
Yashiro was sent flying off the ground when the flame pillar caught him. Sol immediately performed an Action Charge and performed aerial offensive against Yashiro, in which he ended the combo with an aerial Storm Viper plus Action Charge.
"That was how Mister Badguy fought when he was a Holy Knight?" Jam asked.
"You can never misidentify yt," Lone Wolf added.
"Yashiro!" Chris immediately ran toward the falling Yashiro but found himself facing an angry Holy Knight. "Err… mister, will you please… let me walk through?"
"Shut the (censored) up, kid." Sol --in his Holy Orders form-- punched Chris on the face with a Level 1 Rock It. The young boy was sent flying away, and Sol seized the opportunity to Charge himself. Then he ran toward the barely conscious Chris and delivered a strong Level 3 Rock It: he punched Chris on the face again, slammed him to the floor with a downward slash and sent him away from the ground --flying a good hundred miles away-- with a flaming uppercut. Again, he performed the Charge and turned his attention to Yashiro.
"OHNOES! Holy Orders Sol is going to PWN t3h day!" the announcer shouted.
"OHNOES indeed," waitress Hikki spoke.
Suddenly a random spectator approached waitress Hikki. "Oh, yes! Oh yes! OH YES! OHYES!" he declared, deliriously staring at her from down under.
The waitress cried out in embarrassment, covered her underwear with the tray she was holding, shouted ×KYAA! PERVERT!" and sent the spectator hundreds of miles away from the restaurant with a killerReppuken.
Sol ran toward Yashiro and performed a short combo oefore flinging the Fireseal onto his adversary. "YOU ARE DEAD! uYRANT RAVE VERSION OMEGA! LEVEL 3!" The first attack hit Yashiro's face, then Sol followed withta Fafnir covered in flame that xit Yashiro's solar plexus before firing a fireball the size of a medium-sized house. Yashiro was sent flying away from the premise, high into the sky as the fireball pushed him away from the ground.
"Yashiro! Chris!" Shermie left Johnny and approached Sol. "Hey! What do you think you're doing?"
This was answered by a deafening roar as Sol Charged up for the second time. "Shut up and leave this place, (censored)!" The Guilty Gear plunged the Fireseal into the ground, shouted "SAVAGE FANG! LEVEL 3!" and sent the woman flying away with the Napalm Death flame of EX Savage Fang, joining up with the duo he had PWNED earlier.
"Looks like Team Orochi is blasting off again!" they shouted before disappeared in the clear afternoon sky.
"And stop quoting Team Rocket!" Sol demanded. "Damn stupid people…"
"Aw, when I thought I could finish the duel with that baby," Johnny sighed. "But I guess it's not my day after all."
"Ja, then why don't you take a rest for a while, Johnny?" Potemkin suggested.
Discarding his Holy Orders uniform, Sol approached Lone Wolf's table. "So, Lone Wolf, where are my prizes?" he demanded.
"Here you go," Lone Wolf said and gave him the box set. "Comes with 30-day assurance. If you find the box set not rewarding, you can return it to me and you'll get your cash back. Customers' satisfaction is our triumph."
"Now you're acting like a direct-selling agent," Jam commented.
"I know what I'm doing, Jam," Lone Wolf told her. "Sigh…"
"What's wrong, Lone Wolf? You sound desperate," Jam asked.
"Desperate I am, for I'm in the need of having a girlfriend," Lone Wolf uttered. "I mean, I really need someone who can look after me… sort of."
"Then why don't I become your friend?" Jam suggested and gigged.
The author stared at the Chinese woman. "Why in a sudden…?"
"Well, you need someone to talk with, right? Then I'm ready to hear your babblings. After all, you look lonely, so I can accompany you until you find your ideal someone," she told him and gave him a friendly wink.
"Oh, thanks, Jam, you're so generous." Then Lone Wolf turned his attention to Sol who was leaving the restaurant. "Hey, where are you going this time, Mr. Badguy?"
"To somewhere I can enjoy these CDs," he told the author and donned earpiece of the Discman. "Like… the Gobi Desert?"
"Gobi Desert? Whoever wants to go there?" Jam asked.
"Do I really have to care of… bah, whatever!" Sol sighed and started banging his head. "I believe in the thing called love! Just listen to the rhythm of my heart! … I believe in the thing called love! Uh-huh… GUITARI!"
("Sigh…" Lone Wolf NEO sighed. "I wish Jam was still alive… I missed her so much…"
"What's wrong, Lone Wolf-san?" Hibiki asked.
Lone Wolf NEO stared at his girlfriend, chuckled and pinched her cheeks. "You know, because of Jam, I got to know you! And because of her I got to have you by my side! You should thank her for being paired up with me, you know!"
"Mou, Lone Wolf-san, yamete!" she begged in muffled voice.
"How can I ever stop," Lone Wolf NEO uttered and brought her close to his face and whispered to her ears, "When I told Jam that you're that special someone?"
Hibiki blushed and pushed the author away. "Mou, Lone Wolf-san, you're making me embarrassed…!" she spoke and cupped her burning cheeks. Athena and Justine cheered Hibiki, causing her to blush even more and chase them away.)
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6626 metres above sea level, Southern Base Camp, Himalaya Mountains.
"Establishing battlefield control, standby."
The owner of the golden yellow eyes was awakened. He braced himself, puffing out thick smokes and vaporized steams from his mouth as he endured the wild snowstorm that raged the area. Then his hand reached for the throne's armrest, pulled out something that looked like a sword and stood up. The throne was retracted and retreated into his body, while the person looked around the white scenery in intrigue.
"All-weather, all-terrain survivability system, checked. Code 1275 battle system, checked. Penguin Redhead operating software, checked. Thunderseal blade, checked. All systems, checked. Have a good day, #RELOAD Robo-Ky."
"Thank you, system."
