I'm back, and I'm bringing the bell! Not really, and no I'm not Vanilla Ice either. But I am back after a loooong time of fixing my computer. I hope you guys haven't abandoned me because of my crappy pc, and if you have I don't blame you. Anyway, to the reviewers!
hhgbh: One of my only fans! Thanks for reviewing and I am glad to hear that you have decided to make your own story. I'll be sure to read it.
CELESTIAL WARRIOR: Yep, all the popcorn shrimp you can eat. Hope you enjoy the dark side my reviewer.
Anyway, I am on the last chapter of this story and decided that I would do something a little different. If you want to add a character into the last chapter, then email me with these tidbits of information.
Name: (Your characters first name. No last name required.)
Age: (Their age.)
Nationality: (What country are they from?)
Robot: (What robot design you want.)
I must ask that we have only one person for each country, so please be imaginative. Anyway, I'll shut up now and let you all read.
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Goemon and the others had made it to the Wise Man's in complete silence. After making the mistake of asking about Shang, the Wise Man welcomed them inside and they all stayed the night due to exhaustion. In the morning, they all sat around Wise Man's table sipping tea quietly.
"Who's up for some cookies?" asked the Wise Man. Ebisumaru raised his hand, but the others just sulked. The Wise Man glared. "Alright, whats wrong?" he yelled.
Goemon closed his eyes. "We should have been awake." he said.
"What do you mean?"
"We fell asleep and thats what got Shang captured, and Yae almost killed." he said.
"So what, why are you sitting around doing nothing? You should go out and get him back." said the Wise Man.
"We can't! Oedo was taken over by Tokyo! If we get within a mile of the place we'll be incinerated!" shouted Goemon.
"He's right. We can't even get close to the city or else they will take us down with their guns." said Yae.
The Wise Man thought for a second.
Thump!
An arrow suddenly flew through the window and stuck in the table, nearly taking Ebisumaru's sneaking hand off. They all looked out the window and saw a white haired man standing on a flying ship holding a bow. Waving to them, the man flew off towards Oedo.
Sasuke grabbed the arrow and saw a parchment attached. "Hey guys! There's a note attached to this! It says here that Tokyo is challenging us to a robot battle."
"What?" shouted Goemon.
"He wants us to meet him a mile east of here in an open field in an hour." said the little robot. The others looked at each other, then nodded.
"Thanks for the tea Wise Man." said Goemon.
"Yeah, it was great." said Ebisumaru, who snuck another cookie from the tray.
"Give Tokyo a hit for me would ya?" asked the old man.
Yae nodded with a smile. "Gladly." she said, then they all left.
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They made it to the site of the battle in time to see the giant bird ship fly over again. This time it landed in front of them and its beak opened, letting out the white haired man again.
Hirotaro smiled as he walked out. "You actually showed up, I'm impressed by your courage." he said.
"I thought Tokyo was going to be battling us." said Goemon.
"Oh, he'll be here soon enough. But until then, you have another opponent." he said, then pulled out a large trumpet like horn. Blowing into it, the ground started to shake as if an earthquake was happening. Suddenly, the ground exploded as a giant robot rose from it. It looked like a giant black dragon with giant spikes and huge wings attached to its back. In one hand it held a gigantic spear, and in the other a large shield.
Goemon pulled out the Triton Shell and blew the tune for Impact. The beam of green light shot him again and lifted him into the air. As he entered the cockpit, Goemon said, "No time for your theme song Impact, we're here on buisiness." The giant robot nodded and hit the ground.
The dragon bot held its spear forward and charged. Impact grabbed the spear head and spun around, but wasn't expecting the shield that came around and smashed into his chest. Impact flew backwards and hit the ground, but rose to his feet quickly. He opened fire with his gattling gun, sending bullets flying towards the enemy. The dragon bot held up his shield and raced forward. The bullets mearly riquochetted off his shield.
The dragon threw the shield at his opponent. Impact caught the shield, making him skid backwards a short distance. The dragon thrust his spear forward and into the back of the shield and kept charging forward. This pushed Impact backwards and he was rammed full force into a cliff making the entire thing collapse.
Goemon wiped blood from his forehead where he had headbutted the console when they had crashed. "Cummon Impact, we can do better than this! We have to win this battle in order to take Oedo back!" he shouted. Impact stood up shakily.
"Right..." he said. "By the way, I thought that guy was your friend..." he said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I scanned the pilot and saw..." he said, but wasn't able to finish before he was attacked again. The dragon attacked, thrusting the spear forward like a snake striking at its pray. Impact grabbed the spear with one arm and hammered his fist into the dragons chest, then kicked it backwards making it let go of the spear. Spinning the spear in the air, he hurled it at the dragon.
The dragon stood again and its leg was nailed to the ground with the spear. Pulling the spear out, the dragon took flight and sped strait up into the air. Impact watched his opponent go and yelled in anger. "Come back here you coward!" The dragon obliged and stopped about 3000 ft. in the air. Looking down, the dragon sped for earth and picked up momentum as it flew like a gigantic comet towards its opponent, pulling all its limbs in close to its body and straitening its tail. Suddenly, its body caught fire and burned brightly as it sped for the ground. Impact prepared for the attack, but wasn't expecting an attack of such calibur to be used.
The dragon pulled out of the dive bomb early, but the flames shot forward and hit Impact with amazing force. Impact flew backwards covered in flames and began rolling around on the ground. The dragon landed slowly, its body smoking from the previous attack. Opening its mouth wide, a bright light started to eminate from its throat. But, the light became so powerful that the dragons head shook violently and it released the stored energy.
Impact had barely moved in time to dodge the laser. He rolled out of the way and was blown sideways as the attack discentigrated the landscape. Turning to its opponent, the dragon prepared to finish Impact. Goemon coughed blood onto the floor as the cockpit flashed red warnings left and right. Grabbing the robot by its throat, the dragon lifted Impact off the ground and prepared its laser attack again.
Impact slammed a round fist into the dragons mouth and stopped the attack. Swinging the gigantic pipe, Impact was able to trip the dragon, giving him an opening.
Impact fired his gattling gun again, only to have it reflected by the shield, as he expected. Swinging the pipe again, it latched onto the shield and tore it away from his opponent. Then, jumping into the air, Goemon yelled, "Impact Beam!" Impacts chest opened and the panels slid in opposite directions, revealing a giant glowing cannon.
Yae watched the enemy bot and noticed the hatch on the front open. She saw a man with long silver hair step out of the bot and jump off. Her eyes widened and she yelled, "Goemon! Impact! No!" But it was too late.
Shang looked strait up towards the flash of light and was hit directly with the Impact Beam. Yae ran forward and jumped into the blast. Tackling Shang, she knocked him out of the beam before the massive damage was done. But the beam had drained her every ounce of strength, making her fall to the ground. Shang stood emotionless in front of them, shirtless and tattoo glowing.
Goemon jumped out of Impact and landed in front of Shang as Impact flew off to the Wise Mans for repairs. "What's wrong with you? Why are you fighting us!" he shouted. Shang roared loudly, sending a chill down everyones spine. Goemon knew that this wasn't the Shang he knew. "What happened?" he asked the growling opponent.
Shang's tattoo shifted again and this time grew. The now single dragon covered his entire body, masking his face with dragons scales and fangs, his arms with the claws, and his back with the wings. Suddenly, Shang started to transform. His skin turned into hardened scales, his face extended making room for several rows of razor sharp teeth, and his head grew long horns. Both hands turned into scaly claws and wings sprouted on his back as well as a tail from his spine.
The others stood back nervously. Goemon ran forward and swung his pipe, smashing it into the beasts gut. But the dragon didn't even flinch. Grabbing Goemon by the head, it lifted him off the ground and fired a fireball into the ninjas stomach, making him fly backwards.
The others attacked simultaniously as Hirotaro laughed in high spirits. "It would take an army to overcome that beast." he said.
Sasuke tried freezing it, but his kunai wouldn't even pierce the scales. Ebisumaru hammered on him with his giant mallet, but it too seemed ineffective. Ushiwaka stood back and looked for some kind of weakness. Yae stirred on the ground as the others battled the unstoppable creature.
The first to make Shang move was Sasuke. Taking a small grenade, he crammed it into the dragons mouth. It instantly spit the bomb out and flew after Sasuke, who ran around in circles. Ushiwaka kept watching the battle, but eventually decided that the only way to find a weakness was to try everything.
The knight ran at the beast and thrust his metal stave forward. Suddenly, the stave extended as it separated, exposing the chains holding the weapon together from the inside. It flew and nailed the dragon on the end of its nose. Though ineffective, it seemed to irritate the beast. Flying at Ushiwaka, it chased him and shot a jet of flames from his mouth. Were it not for Sasuke's Kunai of Severe Cold, Ushiwaka would have been roasted. The kunai hit the ground in between the two and stopped the flames with a wall of ice.
But the beast crashed through and hit Ushiwaka with a shoulder tackle. "Man! This thing is completely insane!" shouted Sasuke. The dragon apprached the injured Ushiwaka and growled. Flames and smoke slowly drifted from its mouth as it sized up its first kill. It raised its claw to kill Ushiwaka, when something hit it from behind, making it shriek in pain. Turning around, it glared viscuously at Yae.
The female ninja lay on her stomach with her bazooka over one shoulder, aimed directly at the dragon. "Say cheese." she said sarcastically and fired again. The dragon flew into the air and shot the missle with a fireball, making it explode. Flying downwards at Yae, he fired another fireball, hitting her bazooka and making her throw it away as it exploded. The dragon flew faster strait for Yae, ready to kill her, when it suddenly crashed into some invisible force. Falling to the ground, it shook its head dazedly.
"Hahahahaha! Lets see you try and get through that my friend." said a familiar voice. The group turned to see Yuriko floating barely above the ground. "I knew you would be turned sooner or later. That tattoo is something you gained recklessly, now look at you." she said.
The dragon stood again and charged at the sorceress. But was thrown forward as a ball of dark matter was hurled at him from behind. Artemis stepped forward, now sporting two feathery black wings on his back and a strange white symbol on his chest. "She wasn't finished talking!" he shouted.
Goemon had fallen temporarily unconscious when he was attacked. As he lay there during the battle, a memory raced through his head.
flashback
Back at the Wise Man's house, Yae had pulled him aside behind the house. He looked at her curiously. "You wanted to talk?" he asked.
She nodded. "I have something to tell you." she said.
"What is it?" She leaned over and whispered something in his ear. His eyes widened and he yelled out loud. "What? Love?" he shouted.
"Shut up! I don't want the whole world to know!" she said urgently. "But yes, its true." she said.
Goemon scratched his head. "Well, I guess I should be happy, but...how did this happen?" he asked.
She smiled. "When we went to Oedo Castle, we just seemed to flow together, like wind and water we fought against the enemy. I didn't realise it 'til we got to Zazen, but it felt so...right, for lack of a better word. And as we all continued, the more we worked together, the more my heart grew." she said.
Goemon thought for a second. "But, what about..."
She smiled and held her hand up. "What? You thought I had someone else in my heart?" she asked. He shrugged and she shook her head, "Before we met, I thought there was no hope for me. But, I found out that I was wrong. Whether you accept it or not is up to you, but that is how I feel. I would appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone yet."
Goemon smiled. "I'm happy, though still a little confused. But yeah, I won't say anything to anyone." he said.
Yae smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks." she said and walked back into the house. Goemon turned red as he stared into the night sky.
"Love huh?" he asked the stars. "Lucky..." he said and walked into the house. But niether of them had seen the still form lying on the roof.
Sasuke smiled to himself. "So, Goemon gets the girl huh?" he asked. "I better tell Shang the next time I see him. It'll crush him, but he has a right to know." said the ninja.
flashback end
Back on the battleground, Goemon woke up and stretched his aching gut. Looking forward, he saw the dragon getting pummeled by a flying cat. It flew around his head firing spheres of dark energy at the beast, not doing much damage, but irritating it to no end. Suddenly, it reached its breaking point on its anger and transformed back into Shang.
Shang then shot fire out of his body from all sides, making the cat fly away with a singed tail.
Hirotaro had gotten nervous when the strangers showed up. But he kept his cool. "As master Tokyo said, this guy is unstoppable with that tattoo." he said with false confidence.
Yae limped towards her opponent, using her katana to balance her. Goemon looked over and saw her. "Yae? What are you doing?" he yelled and Shang turned and spotted her.
She glared at him. "Well, until you opened your big mouth, I was sneaking up on him!" she yelled.
"Oops." he said sheepishly.
She still approached him. Raising his hand into the air, he backhanded her, sending her to the ground. She got up again and faced him staring into his white eyes. Inside of his body, Shang's soul lay sleeping, curled up grasping his knees, unable to hold onto reality. But, as the beast stared into Yae's eyes, Shang's eyes started to flicker.
The dark Shang backhanded her again. But Yae got back up.
"Yae!"
"Stay back!" she yelled. They all obeyed and watched as Shang abused Yae. "I heard something about you." she said smiling. She recalled the night that Sasuke approached her and told her about Shang's feelings. "You fell in love with me."
Goemons face went blank. "Wait...what?"
Shang glared in anger and he punched her harshly. She got up a little shaky and confronted him again. "I have news for you." she said. "I am already in love."
Shang roared loudly in anger. But, unlike the other roars, this one seemed halfway human.
"Thats right! I'm in love!" she yelled and grabbed his neck. "With the real Shang!" she shouted. Dropping her katana, she kissed him. Everybody around except Goemon and Sasuke gasped. As her lips met his, her memory of the night Sasuke came to her flooded into her head.
flashback
Yae sat outside the Wise Man's house sharpening her blade on a wetstone, when the miniature robot approached. She turned and saw him. "Hey."
"Hey. Ummm...do you have a minute Yae?" he asked. She nodded and he continued. "Its something about Shang." he said.
She instantly looked at him. "What is it?"
Sasuke walked over and sat in front of her. "Well, I heard you and Goemon talking around back about an hour ago." he said and Yae's eyes widened. Grabbing him by the throat, she started to strangle him.
"You eavesdropped on me?" she shouted.
"N-No! I was on the roof when you came out!" he said dazedly.
"What did you hear?" she asked.
"Everything." he said, and she dropped him and turned white.
"So you know that I..." she asked nervously.
He nodded. "I know that you are in love." he said. "I came here to tell you something that may be bad news." he said.
"What?"
Sasuke sighed and said, "Shang is in love with you." he said.
"Huh? Really?" she asked curiously. Sasuke nodded. "But, how is that bad news?" she asked.
Sasuke looked at her in shock. "B-Because! You are in love with Goemon aren't you?" he asked.
Yae stared at him. "What?"
"I heard you say how you both fought so well together, and how you thought there was no hope for you before you met Goemon. Then you said that that was how you felt, whether he accepted it or not." said the ninja.
"I said that because Goemon liked me you idiot! And the other stuff I said was about Shang! I didn't mean 'we' as in Goemon and me, I meant Shang!" she yelled.
Sasuke stared at the ground. "Oh, well. This is awkward." he said. Suddenly, Sasuke layed flat as a katana blade came an inch from his head. He now lay flat against the ground with Yae's katana hovering above his face.
"If anyone hears about this before I decide its time, you will be getting a new haircut if you get my drift." she said darkly. Sasuke smiled nervously as he stared crosseyed at the blade between his eyes.
"I gotcha, wont tell a soul." he said. She pulled the blade away and walked towards the cabin, her heart now filled with joy.
flashback end
Everyone stood staring at the pair. As Yae kissed him, Shang's soul awoke. His eyes opened and he sprang forth, taking control of his body again. The dark spirit within the tattoo was sealed back into the ink and the dragon on Shang's chest roared loudly, then the second one shot from its mouth and took its place beside the first one. The force from the change had blown Yae backwards. She stared up at him amazed as the change sent energy flying.
Hirotaro panicked. "This can't be good. I better grab him and get back to the castle." he said. Using his amazing speed, he ran like lightning towards Shang. "Cummon, time to go!" he shouted. Shang turned and shot his arm out across Hirotaro's throat, clotheslining him and sending him flipping through the air. Hirotaro landed hard on his back and gasped for air as it escaped from his lungs.
"Sorry, but I'm not going anywhere." he said.
