ToraDora The Explorer[Part 9]

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AN: Do I even need one at this point? Well, Ryuji gets captured by The Swipers along with Kota and Hisamitsu. Minori almost dies while being thrown off a waterfall... nearly, as she was saved by Ami and Kitamura. The three now go find the lair and get back what they have lost...


Ryuji opened his eyes a little, wondering what the heck had just happened.

Well, he didn't feel any different than before, besides the fact that he (and his hands and feet) was strapped in a chair that The Swipers probably stole. There also happened to be this really big helmet that's attached onto his head, and a really large monitor dangling in front of him.

The leader of The Swipers walks right next to it while holding a microphone in her palm. "Alright dog, listen up, cause I'm only going to say this once!" She announced her 'speech' in a rather loud and serious tone.

'Dog?' Ryuji seemed puzzled yet annoyed by that comment at the same time. 'I don't know whether I should I be happy that she's sort of acting in-character in a time like this, or if I should feel threatened by her trying to act all menacing but really is making herself look like an idiot.'

As she turned around, she points at a little square. "Now let's say, that this is you." The leader began, "A fat, sad, little person who is desperate to find some good things in life." She later points at a circle. "And this is a member of our team. They are desperate to feed off people's misery by stealing something special and important from them, making them feel sad in the process."

Some other team recruits took a bunch of circles out of nowhere and placed onto the screen board. "Now let's say that all of these people are on my side. You get what I'm saying?"

"No."

"As you can see, all of us are closing in on you and are about to steal from you." She was giving them the 'hurry-and-get-rid-of-them" look as they get rid of the circles for a brief moment. "And so, we had wiped you clean; thinking that you have nothing else that needed to be stolen from, we had left you in the dust."

"Okay," Ryuji interrupts the conversation a bit, "can someone at least tell me what this has to do with anything? And why I have to listen to all of this?"

"But," The leader exclaimed that last part while glancing towards Ryuji, "What we didn't know, was that there was ONE MORE thing that you still had on you. Or should we say, in you." She walks closer. "And we'll be stealing that from you as well, now that we have you here anyway."

'Inside... of me...? WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?"

"Yep, it won't take long now. Any moment now and it will happen. Any. Moment. Now."

"Um, I might regret asking you this, but what do you mean by—"

"You'll see, soon enough..." She replied with an evil grin on her face.


"Ne Ami?" Minori asks her troll buddy on the sidelines.

As they were walking for the past couple of miles, Minori couldn't help but wonder what was on Ami's mind right now.

"Huh?"

"Is something wrong?"

"Oh, no it's fine. Thank you for asking though Minori."

"No problem, after all we are friends and we must worry about each other's health and conditions!"

"Um, but I'm not sick or anything."

"Usted sabe que ella está preocupada acerca de usted y su seguridad," Kitamura jumps in as well, "la última cosa que podría hacer es por lo menos estar agradecidos de que ella no desea estar muerto o algo así..."

"Yes Kitamura-tori, I know that already. It's just that I've heard her say that multiple times."

"But you usually just stare off in the distance or something, ya know, like something is bothering you."

"Well, it's... just... that I'm..." "

Yes?"

"Forget it. We have more important things to worry about, baka."

As the trio was on their way towards the secret hideout, (I think) they happened to notice something in the water up ahead.

"Hey what's that?" Minori asks, pointing at the object up ahead.

Ami walks over towards it and takes a closer look at it. "Hmm, seems to be some kind of note."

"OH really? What's it say?" Minori leaps over and asks.

"I'm not sure. This looks a little blurry actually."

"Ah, deja que te ayude con esa señora!" Kitamura says, taking the piece of paper and drying it off with his... feathers.

When he was finished, he quickly cleared his throat and began to read: "Dice: 'Ayuda, si ustedes ven esto en cuenta, estoy en peligro. Estoy siendo atrapado y no puede escapar. Si desea saber dónde estoy, bueno, yo no sé de dónde he de ser sincero, pero sólo tienes que seguir el camino de baldosas amarillas o algo así. Y llegar rápido por favor? Firmado, T.'"

"Wow that is some really crappy writing..." Ami replied to the letter.

"But it still says someone is in trouble and we need to find and rescue this T!" Minori exclaimed.

"Well, yeah, but doesn't this seem a little bit... ya know... suspicious?"

"'P.S, debería llevarle cerca de la guarida de los Swipers o algo y luego se llega a la ubicación justo debajo de él.'"

"Ok that just makes it even MORE suspicious—"

"'P.S.S, sé que puede parecer que sé la ubicación, pero no lo hago. De verdad que no. Todo lo que sé es que yo vi algunos miembros de la Swipers caminar en un lugar que está cerca de mí. Me gustaría obtener una mirada más cercana, pero realmente no puedo encontrar mi manera de salir de aquí. Por favor, ayuda!'"

"Ya see Ami-troll-chan? T is somewhere captured in the hideout." Minori came to a realization, "Maybe this T note is from Takasu Ryuji, and he's in trouble!"

"Well duh, I know that but... I don't know it doesn't seem like a good idea..."

"Bueno, es el único camino que podemos tomar." Kitamura-bird chimed in, "E incluso si no lo es, aún podríamos matar dos pájaros de un tiro. Oh disparar, lo que acabo de decir eso?"

"Yes, you did." Ami muttered.

"Well then, let's get going then!" Minori yelled out, running towards the path.


Meanwhile, near- in the lair, two Swipe recruits were watching them from afar with a pair of binoculars that they stole.

"Hmm, should we go and tell them that they're coming this way?" One of them asked.

"Uh, yeah. But I don't know why they're following the yellow brick road though." The other responded.

"So? I don't know why either but we should at least inform our leader that they'll be coming soon."

"Alright. Let's go." They nodded and headed out towards the main room.

(And so, the unexpected journey continued...)