GW: The poll is done, and since you wanted to see more of this story, I'll keep updating it along with RMC and starting Flight of Dragons soon. Enjoy this chapter.


Cast Off!

"We're all clear, Captain!" said a lizard chimera named Biddo from the crow's nest. Riza looked pleased at the news as she stood between Armstrong, Alice, Roy and his troop. Nemo, Nita, with their friends catching up to them, wandered around deck, looking at everything with interest.

"Well, Major," Riza said, turning to Armstrong. "Are we ready to raise this creaking tub?"

"My pleasure Captain," he responded nodding before turning to the rest of the crew. Alice said to Al "For someone who works for a sea captain, I don't really like going to sea."

"It's okay, I don't think my brother and I have ever been to sea before," Al said.

"All hands to stations!" Armstrong shouted. "Quickly now! Loose all solar sails!" Bubbles bumped into by a Large Body Heartless, who turned to growl at the girl. She yelped as Buttercup growled back, "Watch where you're going, jerk!"

"I don't think it's a good idea to provoke these kind of guys, Buttercup," Kagome said uneasily as a dog chimera named Dorchet ran past them. The ship was starting to lift up as the light hit the sails. Down in the hull, a large ox chimera named Loa was watching the power tubes rising, his hand on a lever, waiting.

"Heave up the braces! Brace up," Armstrong continued yelling. The ship started rising higher and higher and then the girls realized that it was't the ship rising so fast, it was them! The PPG managed to stay settled because they could fly themselves with Belle holding Gir, but Kagome and the Collins' were a bit freaked out. "Someone get us on the floor, please!" Nita called.

"Whoa!" Nemo said as she held onto her little sis and Kagome. "Good thing we can fly," Belle smirked a bit as Gir made airplane noises.

"Ooh!" Roy said as he, his companions, Riza, Alice, and Armstrong were floating. Ed and Iris, though, took advantage of the weightlessness and started floating up while in a lying down position.

"Schnitzel, engage the artificial gravity," Riza said. Schnitzel said something in his language before saluting and pushing down on a half moon shaped button. A purple light quickly shimmered on the deck and everything that was floating soon fell to the ground. Unfortunately, Ed and Iris fell to the deck hard on their backs. Their friends looked at them with deadpanned looks as Iris snapped, "You could waited when we were in landing positions!"

"You should've been prepared," Bunnie pointed out as Ed groaned in pain, "Ow."

"South by Southwest, Nnoitra, heading two-one-zero-zero," Riza said.

"Aye, Captain," Nnoitra said, a hiss in his voice when he said 'Captain.' "Two-one-zero-zero." He began turning the helm to the appropriate direction. The ship seemed just about ready to fly away now and Nemo and company couldn't have been anymore excited.

"Full speed, Armstrong, if you please," Riza said. The large man nodded to her before going to a tube.

"Take her away!" Armstrong said into the tube. Down in the hull, Loa happily pushed down the lever. On the ship's stern, the rockets were readying themselves.

"Brace yourself, Colonel," Riza said sternly.

Roy rolled his eyes as he looked forward. The rockets then blasted off, and Roy was forced to crash into a wall with the force of the rockets.

"AAH!" Roy yelled as he was forced back. Nemo and her crew positioned themselves in the shrouds as the ship started sailing at last. They held onto the ropes, looking out into space, a smile on his face. "This is great…" Nemo smiled as Nita cheered happily.

"Look, Lapras!" Bubbles said happily as a large group of the Pokemon soared past them.

"Wow!" Blossom whispered as the seven looked one of them in the eye. Alfons came over to a railing and looked at the Lapras.

"Look at them all! I've never seen anything like it!" he said. He took a camera out as Roy joined next to him to look at the Lapras. Alfons got ready to take a shot.

"Smile!" the scientist chirped.

"Uh, Mr. Heidrich and Colonel, it wouldn't be good if you-" Riza started, only to be cut off when a Lapras spouted slime up onto Roy and Alfons, who after the spouting incident, took the picture. Riza and Roy's companions had a little laugh at their expense.

"It really is a good day for sailing, Captain," Greed said, coming up from the galley. Riza looked down at him from her position, all humor gone. Greed looked back up at her, a smile on his lips, and a Ditto on his shoulder.

"And look at you, as pristine and lovely as a freshly cleaned table," Greed said, bowing. Ditto looked at him, and standing on his shoulder, bowed as well.

"Save it for your Dublith floozies, Mr. Greed," Riza said. Ditto started laughing a she morphed into a mini Riza.

"Dublith floozy, Dublith floozy!" he repeated as he laughed. Greed quickly grabbed Ditto with his left arm as it turned into a Shield arm and held him behind his back. He quickly put on a wide grin and held his other arm out.

"I feel that was a bit harsh, even for you," Greed said. "I was speaking truthfully from the heart, as I always do." Ditto reached up from behind him and started poking Greed's cheek. The Homunculus turned his other arm into a Shield arm and used it to hold tightly to Ditto.

"Of course you were. Hey, aren't that your cabin girls in the shrouds?" Alice said with a sly smirk.

"Yep, it—oh," Greed said, noticing Nemo and Nita hanging off the shrouds. "A momentary aberration, Captain. They're soon to be addressed." He turned to the sisters and dropped Ditto behind his back onto the deck. "Nemo and Nita!" he said in an authoritative voice. The sisters instantly looked over. "We'll be back soon," Nita said to Kagome and the PPG as they slid down to meet Greed.

"I've got two new friends for you to meet." The girls' smiles grew wider as they leaned forward. "Say hello...to Mr. Mop," Greed threw a mop to Nemo who caught it, "and Mrs. Bucket." He threw a bucket to Nita, who barely caught it with her other hand. They stared at Greed as their friends laughed above them. "Make that 'we'll be back in a couple of hours,'" Buttercup said sarcastically as the five of them continued watching from the shrouds

"Yippee," Nemo and Nita said, voices dripping with sarcasm.


Nemo: Great, we have more work to do. What do you people want from us!?

GW: Hope you liked this chapter, which I finally updated. Read, review, and suggest until next time.