Chapter 8

Heroes Re-Assemble! Enter the Regal Mammoth!

Someone once said:

There is a hot spring of white, cream stew that brews from the ground and tastes hot, but also sweet as milk. Hot Cream Stew Springs!

At the same place, there are tribes of Japanese monkey with furs made of the finest Parsley leaves that make a great flake seasoning for any soups or stews and love to take in a hot spring of stew. Parslaraque!

The world is in the Gourmet Age, an age where people quests for more, unknown yet culinary delights!

Cream and Garry are invited to the Biotope #1, The Garden by IGO with Toriko and Komatsu. There, they meet Chief Mansam, Rin, Tina, and one of the other four Heavenly Kings, Sunny along with Cream's old friend, Haruka. After defeating the GT Robot for killing the mother Battle Wolf, Chief Mansam remembered about the adult Regal Mammoth they need to find before the Gourmet Corp. They went to find the mammoth before their enemy does but encountered a problem when they got separated. At the same time, Starjun and his apprentice, Kaguya make their move and invade the Biotope to retrieve the Jewel Meat from the mammoth, too. It is clearly now a race in time!

"Krrrrrr!" The giant spider creature, known as "Wood Hunter", was about to devour Cream.

Cream, who was running out of energy, used all the strength she had left to counterattack.

"Freezer Uppercut Kick!" She shouted as she kicked it upward right into the chin of the spider if it had one. Her kick partially froze the chin area.

Wood Hunter let go of her to get rid of the partial ice.

"Cream!" Haruka said as she stepped out of her hiding and aid her friend to get out of the place. While the Wood Hunter was distracted, Haruka carried Cream with her arm wrapped around her shoulder to safety.

"What are you doing?" Cream asked, having little to no energy left.

"We're getting the hell out of here, that's what we're doing," Haruka answered.

Wood Hunter noticed them escaping. The creature ran after them. Haruka moved fast as possible, but the giant arachnid was already just behind them. It strikes them with its sharp leg like an arrow, but suddenly, something fast and white moved past the spider, hitting on the side of its abdomen.

Cream and Haruka looked back to see the giant spider was on its backside.

"Kyaaahh!" A woman screamed before she fell to the ground until a familiar balloon pigeon expanded itself with air, turning into a soft giant balloon for the screaming woman to fall into instead of the ground.

"Thank you, Kurupoo…." The woman said, relieved yet tired.

"Hey, it is that Gourmet News lady, Tina!" Haruka remembered.

"Terry!" Cream said as she walked over to the Battle Wolf pup, and hugged him in her embrace. "Oh, so happy to see you. Did you actually come here all the way from the black carpet?"

The pup wolf barked back in response as Cream petted it with love and talked to it with a baby voice.

"How did you manage to come here so far in so little time?" Haruka asked.

"I was on Terry's back all the time, and he ran so fast. I don't have even a gram of strength left in my hands and arms," Tina mumbled.

"Kurupoo!" Kurupoo said as if it is agreeing with its owner.

"Wow! You guys must have moved like over several miles per hour or something!" Haruka exclaimed. "But, good thing you came. We were in big trouble due to this giant icky thing."

Tina looked back and noticed the fallen giant spider, and its face was right near her. She gasped and stepped back away from the giant spider.

"Kyaaaah! What is that thing?!" She screamed.

"Oh! That reminds me," Haruka said as she took out something from her bag. "Here, Cream. Eat this. I know it's not enough, but it should be enough for now."

"Oh! Is that a Chocolate Bar? Gimmie, Gimmie, gimmie!" She demanded as her friend handed her the energy chocolate bar. "Itadakimasu!"

She ate the energy bar and became much happier.

"OK! I feel very energized, for now, so let's continue on!" Cream declared with both her arms up.

"You got back up so fast," Haruka remarked.

Terry looked toward the bush and growled at it. He sensed something was in the bush. Cream took noticed until a creature came out of the hiding.

"Eeek! What is it now?" Haruka said.

"Oh! That's a Bullet Scarab Beetle!" Cream started as a giant bluish, green beetle with two antennas appeared. Its eye glittered like an emerald while the shell part of the body was a bluish green color.

Bullet Scarab Beetle-Capture Level 10, Insect-type Beast

"That thing is like ten heaping helpings of a gram large!" Tina surprised.

"Don't worry. This thing is harmless and friendly towards people. It only eats plants and minerals," Cream explained. "And fortunately, it came at the right time."

In the next moment, Cream and Haruka were riding on the Bullet Scarab Beetle while Tina and Kurupoo were riding or rather grabbing on Terry again.

"This beetle here run as fast as a bullet train, hence why it is called Bullet Scarab Beetle! At least this way, we can travel at the same speed as Terry!" Cream explained as they moved very fast while she was holding its antennas for support.

"Yeah! I gotta say! I think I am starting to like bug a little bit. Just little bit though!" Haruka noted as she held on Cream. "Hey, how are you holding?" She asked Tina.

"Kyyyaaaahhh! I! Am! Doing! Fine!" She replied as she held on her life.

"Kurupoooooo!" Her partner, Kurupoo cried.

Meanwhile, at a place called "Devils' Playground", Toriko and Rin were facing a challenge. Toriko was having a hard time fighting the Mystery Bird, Rubanda, who looked like has the face of a man with the body of a bird.

"Toriko, behind you!" Rin suddenly shouted out. The mysterious creature was behind him and somehow managed to do it without Toriko reacting to it. Toriko managed to jump out of the way before it attacked.

"He got behind me in an instant?! ….No, that is not it," the blue-haired Gourmet Hunter said as he glanced to see multiple copies of the creature around him before the said bird released some kind of gas from its mouth. "It's breathing out a hallucination gas! With that, even without speed or power, it can avoid any damage and catch its prey with its unique movement while the foe is confused under a hallucination. What I'm seeing are just illusions…. The matter is which one is the real one?!"

The beasts in this Devils' playground use a similar technique to confuse anything that comes into this place. Other than that this place was just multiple pillars of stones with a flat surface on the top of each pillar, you must go through 'stages' before you clear out through the playground and each stage has a beast that you must defeat in order to pass through. As you advance further, the stronger and harder the beast you must face and each of them uses an illusion technique to even make it more challenging. Most creatures or beings who come through here are mostly killed.

"Rin! Can you naturalize this effect?" Toriko asked.

"Give me a sec!" She replied as she searched something through her bag. "Here we go! Thunder Peppermint!"

The thing she took out was a blue fragrance with a bottle cap shaped of lightning.

"Thunder peppermint is a special fragrance created from thunder peppermint plants. One sniff from this can make a person stay awake for the whole week," Rin explained as she put it into her gauntlet. "If this thing gets in your eyes, Toriko, you'll go blind!"

"Don't worry! I will have my eyes closed. Now, do it! Quick!" He said quickly while his eyes closed. Rin shot the fragrance all over Toriko. He sniffed the fragrance, giving a sense of shock throughout his entire body.

"Thunder peppermint is very strong. All my senses are like fully charged like an electrical battery. Even with the hallucination gas around, it won't matter! I will search it by finding its smell!' He thought to himself as he began sniffing the scent in the air.

It took only a moment for him to find the bird's scent, which was at his right side.

"There it is!" he called out as he used his knife on the creature. However, his attack just passed through another illusion or so he thought it was. "What?" He said as the said bird creature appeared behind him and grabbed the man with is sharp claw leg.

"Gah!" He gasped.

"Toriko!" Rin called out as she pointed her gauntlet at the creature. "Let go of him, you birdbrain!"

She shot the leftover of the thunder peppermint into the Rubanda's eyes, causing it to cry in pain while letting go of Toriko.

"Toriko! Are you OK?" She asked at his side.

"Yeah, I am fine, but I don't understand..." he said before he looked back at the creature, who now looked even much angrier than before. "How I missed it even though I knew where it was by smelling its scent?"

That was when Toriko realized something. "I see! Not just it uses the hallucination gas to create illusion copies of itself, but it is also moving at a certain speed to create an afterimage of itself as it moved from position to position, creating more copy of itself. With it and the gas, it makes it even more unpredictable for where its real self is or from where it will attack!"

The bird creature started making multiple dozens of copies of itself before it began its attack on Toriko.

"Watch out, Rin!" Toriko pushed her away as he took the beating instead.

"Toriko!" Rin shouted as she felt helpless as Toriko gets beaten up by the bird creature and its clones.

When all hope was lost, something moved at an incredible speed, hitting Rubanda right into its left cheek, surprising Toriko and Rin. Then, shortly they heard a woman screaming from up in the air before that said woman fell to the ground, but saved by a familiar yellow balloon pigeon for the second time.

"Toriko! Rin!" The two turned around to see Cream and Haruka on the back of the Bullet Scarab Beetle.

"Oh! Cream and Haruka! You guys are alright!" Toriko stated with a smile before he turned his attention to his pet. "And Terry!"

He hugged his pet with a huge grin, kneeling down to stroke his fur. "You're okay, too! I'm so glad! You really caught up so quickly, too!"

Rin watched and blushed in the background. 'I envy Terry!" She thought to herself before he turned her attention to the fallen Tina. "And why are you? Did you and Terry actually come here all the way from Black Carpet? And what's with the Bullet Scarab Beetle, too?"

"Haruka and I were at the Black Wood. Over there, I had trouble with fighting the Wood Hunter, but that was when Terry came and saved us. It did just the same thing to you guys as well," Cream explained.

"Wow! Is that Rubanda?! I never saw one before!" Haruka stated as she began taking pictures of it.

"Luckily, this guy came right after Terry saved us and thanks to it, we managed to find you two," Cream added.

"I see. Bullet Scarab Beetle does run fast, which means that Terry must've run like 100 kilometers per hour just to get here!" Rin realized. "That's super fast!"

"Yeah!" Cream agreed. "Terry is growing up fast and he's only just a day old!"

Before they said anything, everyone noticed the bird creature, Rubanda just woke up from the attack and instead of counterattacking, it didn't move at all. In fact, it looked afraid as it sweated.

"What's wrong with it?" Haruka asked.

"It must be Terry," Toriko said. "Terry sensed its real self so quickly that it is being cautious of him. Even with its hallucination gas and its unique movement to make clones of itself, they won't have an effect on Terry."

Terry suddenly barked at everyone before jumping on another platform leading to another route.

"Terry?" Toriko asked as everyone looked over at the young pup, who in turn stared back at them.

"That's a different route though..." Rin observed.

"I see," Cream said. "Toriko, I think Terry wants us to follow him."

"Yeah. You are right," Toriko agreed. "We follow Terry!"

"What? Are you sure, Toriko?" Rin asked.

"Terry's senses are sharper than most or any of us combined. I believe he knows how to get out of this place as soon as possible," he explained. "So, let's get going."

"OK," Rin nodded.

"Let's go, Haruka!" A cream called out.

"OK!" Haruka jumped onto the back of the beetle.

"Wait! Take me with you on that beetle! It looks much safer than on Terry. No offense," Tina admitted.

They followed after Terry as they leap from platform to platform. As they did, they noticed that there was a shadow of huge creature just at the other side if Torilo and Rin took on the same path.

"Woah! Look at that, Toriko!" Rin stated.

"That thing is huge! If we did stay on the same path, we would've been in more trouble!" Toriko noted before he realized the route that Terry is taking them through. "Terry, are you actually taking us a shortcut without fighting any beast?"

Terry barked in response, which Toriko gave a big grin in response. "Terry, good boy! How could I have not realized there was a shortcut like this?"

In no time, they all got out of the Devils' Playground as they finally reached the end.

"We did it! We escaped the Devils' playground!" Rin cheered.

"It's all thanks to Terry for choosing the safest route," Toriko said with a smile as Terry barked happily.

"Well, I think your job here is done. Thanks for the ride," Cream said as she patted on the Bullet Scarab Beetle before it opened its back to reveal its wings and then flew off.

Toriko then noticed something strange about his pet partner. "Terry, what's wrong?" He asked the pup as the pup was looking out to the Devils' playground while growling at something or at least something that's coming.

It started a strong howl, which surprised them all.

"What is up with Terry?" Rin asked before the said pup jumped back into the Devils' playground and re-entered it. "Hey, where is it going? It's going back in there?!"

"Ah, that's right!" Tina remembered. "Toriko, it is coming!"

"What's coming?" Toriko asked.

"The black GT Robot from the cavern lagoon of the puffer wales. It is here!" Tina said.

"What?" Toriko gasped.

" You mean that GT Robot?!" Cream asked.

"Yes, but not only that. There is also this crimson red GT Robot with it, too. I think they're here for the Jewel Meat, too," Tina explained.

"Crimson red GT Robot? I never have seen one, but the black one…. Hm, OK. Let's get going," Toriko decided.

"What? But Toriko, what about Terry?" Rin said, surprised.

"Terry will be fine. He only bought us here to safety because the GT Robots must be coming here after us. Or rather, Terry led us here in time before he gets to him," Toriko explained.

"Shouldn't we go and help him?" Haruka asked worryingly.

"That won't do anything," Cream added. "We will be just getting in Terry's way. Terry is giving us the time now to go and find the Regal Mammoth before the enemy does. We cannot get in the way of Terry's conviction."

Somewhere else, Sunny's group was on the move until they heard the same howl made by Terry.

"That howl just now..." Komatsu started to say.

"It sounds like a wolf," Garry remarked.

"I believe it is a wolf," Sunny stated.

"Could it be Terry? If so, it sounds like something happened with Toriko's group. Should we go help them?" Komatsu asked, looking a little worried for others. Garry looked worried, too, especially for his friend, Cream.

"There is no need for that, Matsu," Sunny replied, which surprised the two for what he just said.

"Why? But wouldn't that be bad?" Garry asked, looking a bit offended.

"Larry, everyone had their own resolve coming here. That howl we just heard was a sound of resolve, a strong conviction, and determination. For us to go help them now would be called an insult to that resolution. In other words..."

"Not beautiful..." Both Komatsu and Garry answered.

"Right! And if we go save them, wouldn't running in at the last moment more beautiful?" Sunny asked, walking on ahead.

'I really don't understand Sunny-san's definition of beauty,' Garry thought to himself. 'But, deep down, he really does care about everyone. Even though he is a bit rough around the edge, he is really a nice guy in the heart.'

"Here we are, Matsu and Larry!" Sunny spoke up with a grin on his face as they stopped in front of a very tall cliff, so tall that it even went up through the clouds.

"What is this?!" Garry gasped as Komatsu looked surprised, too.

"This is the entrance to the Regal Plateau; Regal Wall! It is 3000 meters tall and it is also known as the Devils' Wall!" Sunny announced excitedly.

"How we supposed to climb up this huge wall?!" Komatsu asked.

"I agree! It's impossible! I can't even see the peak...Ah!" Garry startled before he realized that he and Komatsu were suddenly lifted off the ground again by Sunny's touches, who began scaling up the cliff.

"We'll scale it by walking. With my touches, it makes no difference if I am walking on flat ground or on a side of the cliff," Sunny boasted confidently. "I can go about five kilometers in an hour, so at this rate, we will reach the peak in about 36 minutes."

Meanwhile, near the peak of the Regal Wall, a giant mammoth stomped around. The smaller, but bigger than human size creatures were roaring and shrieking at the mammoth. Also, a giant pink GT Robot watched the mammoth as it moved.

"Damn! This thing so huge! None of my attacks would work on this thing!" The operator of the robot complained as he watched the mammoth sucked up the smaller creature through its nose and then puffed out through the other nose, leaving only bones and skeletons behind.

"I see. So this guy is the one who's responsible for all the bones around," the robot said. "Branch Chief Sedoru-sama must be inside the mammoth by now. Guess I've got no choice, but to go in there myself as well…."

Suddenly, the Mammoth suddenly cried out before it ran off towards the end of the cliff.

"Hey, you! Don't go that way! That there is….!" It was too late as the Mammoth fell off from the peak and the giant GT Robot chased after it.

Back with Sunny's group, who had climbed up the cliff quite a ways, they suddenly came across some strange black creatures hidden in caves made in the cliff sides.

"What is this thing?" Garry asked."They look scary!"

"Right!" Komatsu agreed.

"The Regal Wall's master, Heavycliffs. If you don't do anything that would agitate them, the won't attack," Sunny explained shortly, making Komatsu and Garry cover their mouth, so that they won't say anything stupid that would anger the Heavycliffs. As they continued climbing up the cliff, they noticed the sky became dark all of sudden.

"What's going on? Why the sky became dark all of sudden….?" Komatsu asked, looking up.

They were looking up, only to realize that a giant Mammoth that decided to jump off the cliff was falling right down towards them.

"What is that?!" Sunny said loudly.

"Guys, this is just my wild guess, but I think that's the parent Regal Mammoth we are looking for…. And it's coming right towards us!" Garry screamed as they began to panic.

Meanwhile, not too far away, Toriko's and Cream's groups have finally reached the Regal Wall but noticed the falling Regal Mammoth.

"What is that heaping helping of a creature?!" Tina gasped.

"That must be the parent Regal Mammoth!" Toriko exclaimed. "It must have fallen off the peak while it's looking for its child!"

"That thing is huge! It must be ten times larger than the child one we met!" Haruka pointed out.

"To come this far just look for its child, and look at that size. It must be as big as a mountain! It's literally is like a mountain," Cream remarked.

"Come on! Let's go!" Toriko said as the group ran towards the wall.

At the same time, Garry's group froze in fear until they noticed the angry Heavycliffs coming out of the cave, looking very angrily at them.

"Can we escape in the Heavycliffs' den?" Sunny asked himself before he looked at the angry Heavycliffs coming out of their said dens. "Is it just me or does these Heavycliffs look very angry at us?"

"Um, Sunny-san, you don't think that they are made by this sound because of us, right?" Komatsu asked.

"Chef Komatsu, I think that is exactly why they are angry at us," Garry answered.

Within the next few moments, Komatsu and Garry felt a pull as Sunny ran towards back to the ground. The Heavycliffs chased after them down on the wall while the Regal Mammoth continued to fall over towards them all.

"What's going on?!" Garry cried as tears streamed down or rather upwards from his eyes.

"Sunny-san! I suggest you run faster!" Komatsu yelled as one Heavycliff was near to his face.

"Runaway?" Sunny asked as he blasted the nearest Heavycliffs with his spatula attack. "I'm not doing something ugly thing like running away. Just merely pulling back for a moment… AT MAX SPEED THAT IS!"

Back down on the ground, Toriko and Cream's group were running towards the wall, looking up when they noticed Sunny's group coming down.

"Look! That's big brother's group!" Rin pointed out.

"Sunny! Komatsu!" Toriko called out to them.

"Garry!" Cream did the same, too.

"Toriko! Rin! Red-blue girl!" Sunny called back. "Can you do something about this situation?!"

"Yikes! What do we do?" Tina said panicking.

"This is just incredible!" Haruka amazed as she took some snaps of pictures of the situation.

"You're taking photos at a time like this?!" Tina yelled at her, which her pet partner also did the same.

"Everyone, get away!" Toriko warned everyone before he used his knife attack to cut up a huge piece of the land into a square shape, tossing it aside and making a very deep hole. "Suny, inside here!" He called out as he and everyone else jumped into the hole for safety.

"Okay!" Sunny called back. "Matsu, Larry! Let's go!" He announced before he used his touches to launch them both towards the hole. Everyone else could only watch as Sunny, Komatsu, and Garry neared the hole in the ground with the Regal Mammoth right on the top of them.

Fortunately, they managed to get into the hole at a split second before the Regal Mammoth crushed on the ground, creating a giant crater. When it hit the ground, it sounded like thunder, which shook the land momentarily for a few seconds. The mammoth was stunned for a moment before it finally rolled to its side and got up.

"That was too close," Sunny said as he had his Hair Net out. "If I were just a second late to pull out my Hair Net, we would've been pancakes."

"What a relief," Komatsu said, looking too tired.

"We made it somehow..." Tina looked tired, too.

"Yo, Komatsu," Toriko said with a big grin on his face. "I'm glad to see you're safe and sound."

"Toriko-san! I was so scared and worried about you since we got separated!" Komatsu cried over to the blue-haired man.

"I am glad to see you, Garry. You really came far to be here," Cream said with a grin.

"Cream-san!" Garry overjoyed to see her that his eyes were all watery with tears.

Toriko caught the scent of something delicious coming from Komatsu's case in his bag.

"Do I smell a...sirloin mushrooms? Also, cream matsutake?!" Toriko asked with a grin.

"Oh yes!" Komatsu remembered as he ransacked through the bag. "Sunny, Garry, and I found some while we were in the mushroom forest. Do you want some, Toriko-san?"

"Of course! I'm starving here!" Toriko answered, demanding.

"I have some for you, too, Cream-san, if you would like some," Garry said as he offered her the mushrooms.

"Sweet! I only ate an energy bar before getting here, but this is nice!" She stated as she began chowing down on the mushroom. "Mmmmm, the Cream Matsutake tastes sweet as a cream that it piratically melt inside my mouth instantly."

"I want some, too!" Toriko moaned.

"You guys looked exhausted. What happened to you both?" Sunny asked, but the two Gourmet Hunters were too busy to pay attention to him. Before long, they turned their attention to the Regal Mammoth, who was standing still for a moment.

"Anyway, is that really it? The adult Regal Mammoth," Sunny asked.

"Ah," Toriko nodded.

"Inside that huge body, there is the legendary Treasure Food, Jewel Meat," Cream noted.

"But how are we going to get it?" Komatsu asked worryingly.

"That's right. With how huge it is, I don't a simple knocking gun won't have any effect on it," Garry pointed out.

"True," Haruka agreed as she took pictures of the Regal Mammoth. At that moment, Sunny glanced behind him to see the Heavycliffs coming out of the ground.

"These bastards….They curled up and hardened their bodies, protecting themselves just at the moment before they got crushed from the impact of the mammoth's fall," Sunny admitted as the Heavycliffs got the group's attention.

"What's up with these guys?" Rin asked.

"From the look of their eyes, they have a heaping helping of anger!" Tina warned.

"Toriko, you come help! Rin, you too! So for you, Cream!" Sunny quickly ordered as the latter looked at him with a bit of surprise on her face. She realized that Sunny remembered her name and called her by that. Her mind changed attention back to the Heavycliffs just as they jumped in to start the attack.

The others who couldn't fight stayed back away from the three Gourmet Hunters as the three engaged in combat against the Heavycliffs.

"Spatula!' Sunny called out as he hit some of the Heavycliffs, but they didn't stay down too long.

"Freezer Kick!" Cream kicked two of the said creatures at the same time, freezing both's head partially. However, more surrounded.

"Five-Fold Nail Punch!" Toriko punched one, but before he contacted, it hardened its body quickly, protecting itself from his attack.

"Damn it! This guy is hard as hell!" Toriko stated as he decided to toss it away instead while it was in its hardened form. He threw the one at the rest of the Heavycliffs, almost like a bowling ball.

The Heavycliffs didn't stop as all of them jumped in to finish the tiring Gourmet Hunters, but suddenly, they all collapsed and looked paralyzed.

The group looked confused as to what just had happened until a familiar voice called out to them.

"Don't worry, they won't die. I gave them a simple paralyzing nerve poison." The group turned around in time to see Coco make a cool entrance as he landed on the ground.

"Coco!" Toriko said with a grin on his face.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting," he replied with a smile on his face.

"Coco-swan!" Komatsu said as tears ran down from his eyes while he ran towards Coco. "Coco-swan! You came to save us!"

"Hey, Komatsu-kun. It's been a while. Seeing you here in a dangerous place like this, it looks like you still haven't learned from past experience, haven't you?" Coco asked as he smiled.

"That sharp voice, it's really you, Coco-san," Komatsu replied with a smile on his face.

"Yeah! Coco is here!" Rin said as she walked over to the arrived Heavenly King.

"Long time no sees, Rin-chan," Coco greeted.

"You came at the right time, Coco-san! Thank you for saving us!" Garry said happily.

"You really saved our bacon here," Cream noted.

"Great job, Coco!" Toriko stated with a smile.

"Ladies and gents, Coco of the Heavenly King have arrived just in time to save us! Now, all three kings have assembled!" Tina announced as she held a video camera.

"Wow! You are Coco, one of the Heavenly Kings! This is great for my blog, too!" Haruka began taking photos of him, but before she continued, Garry blocked her. "Hey, get out of my way!"

"Sorry, Haruka-san, but Coco-san doesn't like to be get pictured of him," Garry said.

"What? Why not?" Haruka asked, looking a bit offended.

"Sorry, Miss," Coco said as he walked over to her. "I really don't like someone taking photos of me. I hope that won't be a problem for you."

"Oh! No, no, no!" She shook a head as she blushed. "It's completely OK for me! I will delete the photos of you that I took."

"Thank you," he replied with a grin.

While everyone praised Coco, Sunny looked very shock the most. 'Unexpected timing! Saving us at the last minute! A beautiful entrance!' Sunny thought to himself. 'There's too much beauty, it makes me tick off!' He sighed, turning his head away slightly.

"Hey Sunny, what's wrong? You're drawing back your touch. It's been a long time since we last saw each other. Let's a handshake," Coco said as he offered it, but Sunny didn't respond.

"Coco-san, you can see Sunny-san's touches?" Komatsu asked.

"Well, yes. Rather, I see the minuscule electromagnetic waves that Sunny's touches give off," Coco answered.

"I only have my touches pulled back because I don't want to touch you, that's all. Since you are poison and all," Sunny stated.

"That's kind of rude," Garry commented.

'This man never changes, does he...' Coco thought to himself as the Heavycliffs got back up, but despite being very angry, they didn't attack. They were being cautious of Coco.

"Look at that. The Heavycliffs are back up, but they don't attack. Probably because of Coco's poison," Toriko pointed out.

It was at the moment when the Regal Mammoth roared, rearing back on its hind legs. This surprised the group, but Coco didn't look worried.

"Don't worry, everyone. I gave the same kind of poison to it as I did with Heavycliffs. Though, as I expected, it's body is so huge that it will take a while for the poison to circulate throughout it," Coco explained.

"What? You already poisoned?!" Cream gasped, but Coco seemed to ignore the comment.

"More importantly, I can see a different electromagnetic wave coming from the inside of the Mammoth. It must be the Gourmet Corp. They are already searching for Jewel Meat from the inside!" Coco stated with a frown, looking at the said creature.

"Well, that's unfortunate. With that kind of size, we should just give up on bringing it down..." Sunny said, getting everyone's attention. "We'd need to get inside the mammoth to get the Jewel Meat. As expected of Gourmet Corp, what a disgusting idea!"

"This is a race against time….We'll have to enter the Mammoth as well," Coco stated with a serious look in his eyes, surprising everyone.

"What the hell are you saying, Coco?! Are you mad?" Sunny yelled. "There's no way something like that it's possible!"

"No, it's possible," he simply replied.

"Then, let's go inside it," Rin declared.

"We shall and we will!" Toriko added.

"I am going in, too!" Tina joined.

"For the Jewel Meat!" Cream exclaimed.

"Kuropoo!" Her pet partner agreed.

"Come on, Sunny-san! We can retrieve the Jewel Meat together," Komatsu said.

"We made it this far. We can't stop here now, Sunny-san," Garry noted.

"From here, it would be safest to enter the Mammoth through its butt," Coco said, causing the colorful-haired Gourmet Hunter to panic.

"WHAT?! NO WAY! Never! That's a joke!" Sunny complained.

'Sunny really hasn't changed at all since the old days...' Coco thought to himself as Sunny bickered over the plan.

"Wouldn't it be smarter if we just wait for the Gourmet Corp comes out of the mammoth and steal the Jewel Meat?" Sunny asked with a frown. "I know that's not the most beautiful way to do it, but at least it's better than going inside a beast's body!" It was this moment when something in the sky, which was directly above Sunny, Komatsu, and Garry, sparkled and only Toriko and Cream noticed it.

"Komatsu!" "Garry!" "Watch out!" Both Gourmet Hunters lunged towards the trio, grabbing hold of them before the area where they were just standing was exploded by a laser beam. Tina and Haruka screamed while Coco looked with a serious expression and Rin with a surprised look.

The group resembled back together to see the giant pink GT Robot standing before them.

"What is that?!" Garry shouted.

"A GT Robot," Cream answered. "And a huge one!"

"This must be the new GT model! I had no idea they were making GT Robots this big," Coco commented before he smirked. "They're rapidly advancing the technology. I am really out of touch about the world."

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" The GT Robot spoke up, sounding excited. "What are the odds of coming in contact with not one, not two, but three Heavenly Kings in one same spot? Compared to getting the Jewel Meat out of the Regal Mammoth, getting rid of you guys is more of an achievement, won't it?"

"This guy is strong. Be careful, Coco," Toriko said.

"I know, Toriko. I can see a strong electromagnetic wave emitting from the operator through this GT Robot. However, at least it isn't as strong as the black GT Robot we met back at the Pufferwale cave," Coco commented.

"Huh!? Who's gonna get rid of whom!? Don't make us laugh, you piece of junk!" Sunny said angrily before Coco stopped him from approaching the robot.

"Sunny, don't," Coco said with a seriousness in his eyes and voice. "I will take care of this guy. Everyone, retrieve the Jewel Meat as fast as you can."

"It seems that the new model can transmit taste," Coco said. "If by chance they find the Jewel Meat and transmit the taste of it back to their HQ, they will probably kill the Mammoth. Also, I noticed looking at Toriko and everyone else. You're all exhausted."

'Coco-san's right. Everyone here is exhausted, even just from getting here and worst of all, we still haven't retrieved the Jewel Meat...' Garry thought to himself as he felt guilty that he couldn't do anything to help everyone, especially Sunny, who he has been with or Cream.

"Sunny, you look exhausted, too. The reason you draw back your touches is not that you want to touch my poison, right?" Coco asked, which Sunny showed a bit of surprise in his eyes, indicating that Coco was right on the money.

"Anyway, I will take of this one! You guys go inside the Mammoth while I deal with this!" Coco stated.

"No way, Jose! You all DIE HERE!" The giant GT Robot shouted, preparing a laser beam at the group.

"Kiss!" Coco called out to his pet partner, who quickly flew in, knocking the GT Robot's foot, making him go out of balance and hitting the laser beam to the ground instead of at them.

"GO NOW!" Coco yelled at everyone.

"Thank you, Coco! You being here really saved our bacon!" Toriko said with a smile as others ran past. Sunny stayed and watched at Coco while thinking before Komatsu turned back.

"Come on, Sunny-san!" Komatsu called to him.

"Right!" Sunny turned around and ran with him to follow after the others. Coco smiled before he turned back to face his foe as he began taking off the green wrappings, turning his body into purple as the smoke cleared away.

"Tch! I guess I have to deal with you. Your dead meat..." GT Robot threatened the poison Gourmet Hunter.

"Dead meat? Are you naming me or perhaps you are the one who's going to be dead meat?" Coco talked back with a slight grin on his face. "I can see a shadow of death over you."

"Shadow of death? Over a robot? Give me a break!" The GT robot laughed.

"I wasn't talking about the robot. I was talking about you, the operator," he answered, making the robot stopped laughing.

"Oh. Look who's acting all high and mighty. I will definitely wipe off that smirk when I kill you," GT Robot stated.

Meanwhile, Toriko and everyone else came up close to the Regal Mammoth.

"So, where are going to enter the Mammoth's body from?" Komatsu asked.

"Probably we have to go through its bottom. That's the safest way to do it," Toriko replied.

"NO WAY! NO HELL WAY! I AM NOT DOING THAT!" Sunny argued as he frantically shook his head. Al of the sudden, Regal Mammoth moved its trunk in their direction before sucking them up like animals before. They screamed and cried out as they were being sucked by the mammoth. If this was what a dust bunny feels like when getting sucked by a vacuum cleaner, then this was it.

"Oh no! The poison still hasn't completely…!" Coco said while he was flying on his pet's back before he trailed off once he saw not one, but two shadows of death from the group as they were getting sucked by the Regal Mammoth. "What?! Two shadows?! Then, two of them will die!" It was at the moment when the GT Robot took the opportunity to attack him.

"Got you!" The GT Robot got Coco's attention as he shot a flamethrower from his palm.

"Hey, Sunny-san! Can't you do something about this?!" Garry panicked.

"It's impossible! It's too strong!" Sunny called back to the panicking high school student.

"Leave to me!" Cream stated as she charged up her fist into a fire. "Stove!"

She punched on the side, causing a burn mark to be made on the skin, which caused the Regal Mammoth to cry out in pain before it decided to suck them out of its trunk and into its mouth.

The group was blasted into the Regal Mammoth's mouth and landed on something very hard and white.

"Ouch! Watch where you're at!" Rin complained before she realized she hit behind Toriko's back.

"Sorry. Are you OK?" he asked.

"Oh, no. I am fine!" Rin said, turning away from him as she blushed.

"Where the gram are we?" Tina asked.

"It looks like we are inside of the Regal Mammoth's mouth," Haruka answered.

"Then we got eaten?!" Garry cried.

"Don't worry, Garry. Luckily for us, thanks to this mammoth's huge body, there is plenty of air inside here," Cream explained.

However, they weren't out of danger just yet. Soon they realized that they were in a tight spot because…

"To...To...Tooth! We are on the mammoth's tooth!" Komatsu yelled out as the top tooth started to come down on top of them. Toriko, Sunny, and Cream quickly reacted and held the top tooth up as much as strength they have left in them before it crushed them.

"Sunny!" Toriko called out.

"Spatula!" Sunny shouted as his attack pushed back the top tooth, allowing them to escape.

"Quick! Everyone into the throat!' Toriko stated and they did just that, only to slip and instead started falling down into the mammoth's body. After a few minutes, they all finally hit the bottom.

"Is everyone OK?" Cream asked them.

"I am fine," Garry replied, looking pretty tired out.

"Me too and so for my camera, too," Haruka answered.

"Damn it, Sunny. Why didn't you make a soft cushion for us to land?" Toriko asked, sitting up and rubbing the back of his head. "Geez...where are we? Are we inside the mammoth's stomach?"

Before his questions could be even answered, he and everyone else noticed a blue GT robot only a few feet away from them.


Our heroes have finally entered the parent Regal Mammoth! However, the enemy is also making a move! What will happen to Toriko, Cream, and everyone else? Until next time, I will see you all later!