Ch. 3: The Order
Maylu woke up in a nice and comfortable bedroom. Beside her is a nice and comfortable red dress robe for coming out of bed. There's a note on it that says that it's a birthday present to her from Lan. She smiled at it, glad to from him ever since last night. But then she notices a black 3x5 card close to her P.E.T.; she puts on the robe (feels like heaven is relaxing her as she wears it) and walks to it, and reads it. It says, "Dear Ms. Maylu Sakurai; Please describe how you'd like your battle costume to be onto this card. Sincerely, Ms. Anna Famous."
Anna Famous? Maylu has never heard that name before. She said to herself, "Must be some relative of the so-called famous Mr. Famous."
Suddenly, Maylu heard a familiar scream! "Yai!" She grabbed Roll and ran out the door, the hallway it led to is like an abandoned stone castle, she followed the sound of Yai's scream to a door that has the same Icon as Glyde upon it! She found Yai in a super-fancy room!
Yai saw Maylu and cried as she ran to her and hugged her, "Maylu!" Maylu's tears swelled in her eyes, glad to see her friend again, "Yai." Yai came to her senses and spoke, "I saw a zombie last night, it was going to kill me like Bates in 'Psycho'!" Maylu asked, "How did you escape?" Yai thought about it and said, "I don't know! The next second later, I saw Lan stabbing it and then I fainted."
Maylu asked Yai, "Where in the world do you think we're in?" Yai shook her head again, "I don't know."
A male voice was heard, "This is the church in Dentech City." Everyone looked at the door to see a strong-looking butler (sort of an Alfred character). Yai asked, "Who are you?" He answered, "Batman." Maylu & Yai both laughed at that and said, "Yeah, right." He responded, "For once, I'd like someone to believe that. I do hope you have chosen your battle outfit designs already. Ms. Anna Famous and Lord Lan Hikari wish to see you soon."
Hearing Lan's name, the girls responded, "Okay." They heard laughter from somewhere; Yai & Maylu followed it to a room with a gray fist wielding a sword on a black circular plain (look familiar?). They opened it to see Dex, Chisao, June, & 2 other people watching 'Toy Story 2' together! The dude, that's one of the 2 other people, is about six feet high, and his black hair is placed in a spiky ponytail that resembles a bunch of horns tied together. The chick, who is with the dude, is about 5' 7" high, and her black hair is like upside-down flames. They laughed as they saw Buzz Lightyear fight with his other self!
Chisao laughed, "Man! This is so awesome, Puero!" The dude, obviously Puero, said to Dex's little brother between laughs, "I agree, Chisao!" Maylu shouted at them, "With all the huge laughter, we thought you've become possessed!" Noticing them, June says, "If they were, I'd let you be the first to know."
Puero introduced himself, "Hey babe, I'm Puero Infernum, a.k.a. 'the real Hellboy'. I love the look of Liz in the golden light of dusk, in the morning, from a distance, nearby, her voice, smell, clothes, skin, me having her fall asleep on my shoulder, and–– well, you get the idea. I look up to Cardinal Famous but I usually feel like James Dean in 'East of Eden'. I love beer, pizza, chili, nachos, pumping iron, a good or bad cigar, traveling, cats, candy –especially Baby Ruth, old UPA cartoons, old Fleischer cartoons, Polaroid photos––"The chick with fiery brown hair, obviously Liz, said to Maylu, "I taught him that"
Puero continued, "I collect Zippos, and I also love Ding-Dongs and Twinkies, cookies and milk, greasy burgers and hot dogs. I like to keep my hair to a certain level, and I really enjoy flatulence in all its forms." Dex explains, "He thinks 'Dumb And Dumber' is a masterpiece, even the sequel to it!" Puero continued, "And I love to bawl with Black & White movies; especially Chaplin's "City Lights" and "Brief Encounter", which easily amuses me."
June says, "Peuro's favorite part about his job here is beating the stuffing out of monsters, getting his coat fixed and ready, his big, bad gun "The Samaritan", it's bullets, his spirit partner; Naraku, and his almighty Net Navi; Hellboy."
Puero continued on what he also likes, "I also like Bruce Willis, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Pixar movies, and watching TOY STORY 1 and 2 with Liz makes for a perfect afternoon. I also love the 3 Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton."
In the cyber-part of their world, the Net Navis met Puero & Liz's Net Navis, Hellboy & Pyro-Gal.
Hellboy is a few inches taller than GutsMan, and he's just standing up straight. Unlike other Net Navis, he doesn't wear the same bodysuit, gloves, boots, and helmets normal Navis would wear, for he's wearing a black overcoat, green camouflage cargo pants, and huge leather black boots. His skin is red like a crayon and he's got short jet-black hair (that can't cover much of his head) and short beard, but over his eyes and on his forehead are a pair of red stubs that seem to be once horns shaven down to one inch down. His body is very muscular, making him a sort of muscle-bound Cyber-beefcake! His right hand looks huge and it's like it's made of red rock and carved with many magic symbols. His icon (which is like the gray fist symbol on the door in the real world) is on the buckle of a leather belt he wears around his waist.
Pyro-Gal is like Roll with a few exceptions; the red, orange, and yellow bodysuit, the white gloves and boots with singular blue rings at ends, the cute blue helmet with gray ribbon like antennae, the raven black ponytail without a bow, her icon (which is similar to Mr. Match's icon) emblazoned on her chest, and the pretty brown eyes.
GutsMan Beta said in surprise, "Whoa, he huge." Glyde said, "I presume you're Mr. Infernum's Net Navi." Hellboy smirked, "How hard is that to figure out?" Pyro-Gal said, "I assume that you're wondering where MegaMan is, Roll." Roll nodded. Another female voice entered the room and spoke, "He is coming here, so don't worry."
Another Net Navi just like Roll appeared, her bodysuit is blue and white and dark light blue, the white gloves and boots with singular emerald rings at ends, the cute blue helmet with emerald ribbon like antennae, the blue ponytail without a bow, her icon (gold circle encircling a white circle with blue H2O symbol in the center) emblazoned on her chest, and the pretty blue eyes. She then said, "Look all you want, but don't touch any private parts. I'm Aqua, Anna Famous' Net Navi."
In the real world, the beautiful 18 year old is wearing a blue tank top, a pair of tight light blue jeans, a blue P.E.T., and she has an icon medallion around her neck and has long brown hair let down. She has a bust of a 40 DD size. 'She's Anna Famous,' everyone unfamiliar with her thought. Maylu asked, "Are you Anna Famous?" Anna says, "Yes."
Anna took Lan's friends to a highly technological room, she turned on a monitor, and in the monitor is Lan in a blue Gabriel Van Helsing/Alucard getup walking down the hall of a church and heading for the confessions booth. Sounds of moving machinery were heard in that booth.
Lan took off his hat and sat in the confessions booth while confessing, "Bless me father for I have––"An older voice interrupted him, "Sinned! I know! I know that you're both very good and bad at that. You crashed through a window at Notre Dame but then repaired it in no time!" Sarcastically, Lan defended, "Not to make a fuss, Cardinal Famous. But it was Mr. Higsby Hyde who actually did the crashing." Cardinal Famous continued about what he knew, "13th century. Over 800 years old! I wish the devil side of him a week in hell for that."Lan frowned, "It would be a nice reprieve."
Cardinal Famous didn't want Lan to get upset so he decided to tell him something; "Don't get me wrong. Your results are unquestionable, but those unholy monsters draw far too much attention to you. You were to keep a low profile and what happens? Story of the millennium! People are now going both medieval and modern over the planet and beyond. And what's worse, your face is on milk cartons and posters."
Lan retorted, "Do you think I like being the most missing hero in history? Why don't you and the Order of the Three Worlds do something about it?" Cardinal Famous opened the window, to reveal what he looks like (to you), a lot like Mr. Famous but somewhere different, and he answered, "Because, until last night, we do not exist." Lan closed his eyes and tightened them in held rage, "Well, then I didn't exist either." Cardinal Famous said, "When my daughter found you, running away from home, totally miserable and full of guilt, it was clear to us that you had been sent to do God's work." Lan questioned the Cardinal, "Why can't God do it himself?"
As Lan and Cardinal Famous stepped out of elevator/confessions booth from the doors behind them... Puero came up to him and asked, "Hey, Lan! How many did you get since midnight this morning?" Lan answered, "Final count, 85 each." Puero repeated, "85? Dang! And Hellboy sat well on 84... thousand!" Lan smirked and asked, "Were they all real world creatures, rogue programs, or evil spirits... multiplied by a thousand?" Puero sweat-drops, "Actually, 84 thousand rogue programs and viruses for Hellboy. I hate it when I don't get the whole story!"
As Anna came closer to Lan, she said to him, "I do hope that this doesn't become a hobby; collecting old friends to train with us." Lan replied, "Hobby? Maylu made the choice by herself. The #1 Meal Ticket workers have no place to go. Your old friend, June Yami, and the Oyama bros. agreed to train here." Anna responds, "Then we best must train them well. That over-weighted old friend of yours is more fit to be a friar than a fighter, his little brother needs to be safer than he already is, June has to train herself with her Dao Shi skills, the former World Three agents have to ready themselves for what's ahead for them, and I believe you know the rest." Lan smirked, "Until tomorrow morning then." As Lan headed away, Maylu watched him some more.
KA-ZAP! Maylu nearly jumped when she heard electricity pulsating from somewhere around! She and the other girls looked to see Count Zap and the others working on some new man-powered bubble-like electro-generator, almost frying the occupant inside it! Gathering courage, Maylu walked up to the former World 3 agents and asked them, "What are you doing?"
Maddy started, "When your beloved Lan rescued us last night, Anna gave us odd chores; cooking, inventing, you name it. Zap is working on an electricity generator, apparently it's successful." Yahoot, while cooking up some curry, listed what they invented for their future battles in the real world, "Rings of garlic, holy water, silver stake, crucifix——"
Small rapid explosive sounds were being heard; someone is testing out a huge machine gun with a Gatling barrel. Tory, who came by in a blue and white Eskimo outfit and feeling impressed by it, asked Yahoot, "Why can't we have one of those?"
Mr. Higsby came by in a monk's outfit, knowing what happened last night, "You've never seen the actual Dracula; he's a nightmare." Then he showed off some new Chips, "The Famous family gave me a job into making new Chips, so far I've got these; Garlic Boomer Battle Chip——"On a holographic display grid, Number-Man used a Garlic Boomer, which at first looked like a large piece of garlic, he threw it at a Shadow-Man clone, and amazingly, the Shadow-Man clone's data began to dissolve before Number-Man used a swift punch through the icon!
NAVI CLONE LOGGING OUT
Mr. Higsby continued, "Holy Aqua Boomer——"Number-Man threw a silvery bottle with a cross on the outside of it, the Holy Aqua Boomer, at another Shadow-Man clone, when it cracked upon its head, the clone logged out!
Mr. Higsby continued on, "Silver Stake——"Another clone of Shadow-Man appeared, but Number-Man is prepared, it held out his left arm as if he was waiting for a sword, and his hand morphed into a large silvery blaster-like weapon. A silvery, sharp cone-shaped spike extended from the barrel and Number-Man stabbed it into the Shadow-Man clone with ease!
Mr. Higsby introduced another Battle Chip, "Crucifix——"Another Shadow-Man clone appeared, again Number-Man is prepared; his Silver Stake is replaced with a long silver bar that unfolded into a fancy crucifix! The clone is warded backwards, where it met Hellboy.
Puero is nearby and said, "Fire the Samaritan, Hellboy." Hellboy's left hand produced a large black gun and he fired it into the Shadow-Man clone's back, destroying it! Mr. Higsby shouted, "I WAS STILL DISPLAYING, PUERO!" Puero retorted, "I really need to work off the stress Lan gave me." GutsMan, who came by in the display and feeling impressed by the Samaritan, asked Puero, "Can GutsMan have one of those?"
Puero asked GutsMan, "You've never been after real monsters, have you?"
Chaud (who appeared out of nowhere, with torn clothes) laughed, "Monsters, crooks, net terrorists, they're all the same; best when cooked well." Apparently, Chaud and Anetta have witnessed and fought a bunch last night, and lived to tell the tale.
Anna sat down, having a nice cup of tea, "No, Mr. Blaze. Monsters aren't all the same, they can even be the people you love the most. Besides, my grandmother would arrest a net terrorist with ease in 5 minutes." Maddy agreed, "Yeah, I've seen Aqua kick one's butt 2 hours ago."
A small explosion was heard, it was found right close where poor little Chisao is, he made a small indent on the wall with his body from some odd explosive force, luckily he's alive. June came to see if anything requires healing, "Chisao, are you okay?" Chisao, feeling dazed, said, "I think that wasn't lemonade, but at least it was great stuff."
Anna panicked a little before sweat dropping, "You little twerp, that wasn't lemonade at all, it was another invention of Dr. Broom's; Glycerin #96." A tall slender man with black hair (he's Dr. Broom) asked the youngest teenager, "What in the name of Allah is wrong with you, child?"
Chaud noticed crossbow-like weapon with a barrel of arrows/crossbow bolts (look familiar?), beside it is a Battle Chip with a picture of ProtoMan using the same weapon. Anna explained, "It's called a machine crossbow, it's gas-propelled, capable of firing arrows at tremendous velocity. Just give it a nice hard squeeze and keep holding." Chaud lovingly smirked at it, "Nice."
Lan came by, with pile of new clothes for his friends to change into until the evil is taken care of. He found a small golden ball and picked it up, "What is this, Aqua?" Aqua appeared from Anna's PET to answer, "That's a solar illumination grenade." Lan guessed out loud, "A sunlight bomb?"
Dex joked, "How about La Santa Aqua de Pistola?" Yai asked, "The holy water pistol?" At that, Yai began to laugh at Dex, followed by a few of those newly recruited. Anna calmly said, "That sounds like an excellent idea, thank you, Mr. Dex Oyama."
Back to the subject, Lan asked Anna directly, "What's it for? I thought actual sunlight could only affect vampires." Anna answered, "Well, I found your father's dimensional cross-fusion device quite interesting, so I built one of my own and reformatted it into a machine that can create matter that was originally computer data. That was half-a-year ago."
Lost by what she meant, Dex asked, "What does she mean by that?" June answered for him, "She made a machine that can create anything."
Lan returned to the 'sunlight grenade' subject, "What's that got to do with anything?" Mr. Famous (looking fine and unscathed) came by simply telling Lan, "Ever heard of Sunstones in 'Dinotopia?' Anna created crystals similar to those that absorb a huge amount of light, she placed it into the sun's rays, gathering a massive amount of sunlight."
Lan asked, "is it supposed to blind my enemies or flash char a herd of wild wildebeest? The compressed collected sunlight within those crystals inside that grenade could be chaotic. Of course, it's better than hot compressed magma from Mt. Vesuvius and pure alkaline from the Gobi Desert." Anna said, "There's enough collected sunlight in that to super-charge all solar powered equipment all-over Dentech City for a decade from 10 seconds of the luminous spark. Just crack the golden shell and don't look at the flash. Use your imagination, Lan Honey."
Maylu got infuriated, because she called Lan something she wanted to call Lan. Lan calmly said, "You flirted, not much, but you're a nun, you're not supposed to flirt at all." Anna calmly retorted, "Well actually I'm not, I'm just an expert in religion, arcane arts, etc. So I can do what I want... Sugar."
Lan looked at his friends and said, "Looks like our new allies, a.k.a. my friends, have some imagination in need, so why don't we get to work on getting to Dracula & the Dark Planet taken out? I'm acquiring your imagination, young woman. That's why you're coming with us." Anna took off her glasses and cursed, "Like the bloody hell be damned, I'm not!"
MegaMan said to Anna, "You cursed, not very well at the least, but still cursing. No offense, Ms. Famous, but you're a lady and ladies should not swear or curse." Aqua appeared and said to MegaMan, "It doesn't matter anyway, because she's a free spirit and so am I. We can do whatever we want." Anna smirked at Lan, "Damn it."
Yai slyly said, "You know I think she likes him." Dex frowned, "Lan, you sly fox; you've got your own fan club." Chaud followed Dex, "Why and how did Lan change so much?"
Lan said to Anna, "Your father's orders are that you are to come with us as soon as we're all ready. So shut up and get your bags packed for Transylvania. Maylu darling, come on, let's go." Maylu's stress has been lifted and she, feeling enlightened, said to Lan, "Okay!"
As everyone is packing for the rampage towards the traditional location... Mr. Higsby began to whine, "I'm not a field man! Lan Hikari, I don't want to go to Transylvania!"
To be continued...
(A.N.: What happened next? Find out in the next chapter, or think of what else is going to happen by sending me reviews! You are free to sending me ideas for new characters, new Net Navis, new Style Changes, new Soul Unions, etc. Plus some ideas for clothing, I'll begin work on the next chapter soon.)