A/N: Sorry that it took so long for me to update. To tell you the truth, I sort of want to skip to the part with Olimar's and Captain Falcon's entrance scene, but I digress. Anyway, back to the show!
Chapter 9: The Wilds
Yami and Shinji were now deep within the temple they discovered. They ran into plenty of enemies, but they made short work of them. Now, they were walking down a well-lit hallway.
"Hey! Isn't that…" Shinji pointed straight ahead of them.
Down the hall was the trophy of a blue, muscular humanoid Duel Monster with spiky shoulders and horns on its head.
"Why, yes! It's Obelisk the Tormentor!" Yami noticed. He pulls out an empty card from his deck and raises it high into the air. The eye of the Millennium Puzzle fires a beam of light, hitting Obelisk and sending him into the blank card. Shinji looks on in amazement.
"I used the power of the Millennium Puzzle to send Obelisk back inside his card," Yami needlessly explained.
"Well that was easy. We weren't even looking for him, and he was just right there for the taking," Shinji pointed out. "At this rate, re-capturing The Winged Dragon of Ra should be a cinch."
"I knew I shouldn't have opened my big mouth," Shinji retracted just before getting blasted.
After trekking further into the temple, Yami and Shinji managed to locate the Winged Dragon of Ra. Unfortunately for them, Ra wasn't trophified like Obelisk, and was in fact roaring and rampaging around.
Yami places a card on his Duel Disk. "I summon Obelisk the Tormentor!" he commanded. A hologram of the Egyptian God materializes in front of Yami. "Go! Fist of Fate!" he ordered.
Gathering all of his power into his fist, Obelisk punches Ra with a mighty blow, knocking it into a nearby wall. Ra then collapses onto the ground.
"Wow! You did it!" Shinji cheered.
Tempting fate once again, Ra immediately rises back up, now angrier than ever. So blinded by anger, in fact, they it didn't notice Yami holding up another blank card. Ra turns into a blaze of fire, activating its Phoenix mode, but before it could retaliate against Obelisk, Ra is hit by a beam of light from the Millennium Puzzle, and it too was sent inside the blank card.
Yami sighs in relief.
"So, did you beat it for real this time?" Shinji asked him.
"Yes, Shinji," Yami answered. "I've finally recovered the three Egyptian God Cards."
"Good. Let's hurry up and get out of here," Shinji suggested.
And so, the duo continues through the temple, hoping to find an exit.
Meanwhile in a desert, something was flying close to the ground at high speed. It looked like a red aircraft that was shaped like a two-headed dragon. Sasuke, Inuyasha, and Ichigo, standing on top of a cliff, take notice of the strange object.
"What the hell is that?" Inuyasha yelled out loud.
"I'm having a bad feeling about this," Sasuke cautioned. "It's probably a weapon from our enemies. Just in case, we better come up with a…"
"LET'S GET 'EM!" Inuyasha and Ichigo said in unison before jumping off the cliff and going after the mechanical beast.
"…plan." Sasuke finished. He sighs and jumps after them. "Why did I team up with a couple of Narutos?"
The trio gives chase with the strange object. They only catch up to it after the machine makes a sudden halt. They gather in front of it to block its path. To their surprise, the machine begins to transform. When it was done, they could finally tell that the machine was actually a red and black humanoid robot with mechanical wings on its back and sporting a shield with a whip-like weapon attached to it on its left arm.
"What the?! It's a mobile suit," Sasuke realized.
"IT'S A GUNDAM!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"And not just any Gundam either. It's the EPYON!" Ichigo added.
"We have to destroy it!" Sasuke declared.
The Epyon takes out its beam saber and slashes at the swordsmen, but they leap backwards and avoid the attack. Sasuke retaliates by shooting a Chidori from his hands. The electricity hits the Gundam dead-on, but Epyon isn't fazed one bit.
"Well try this on for size! "GETSUGA TENSHO!!" Ichigo dared.
"WIND SCAR!!" Inuyasha followed suit.
Both attacks hit their mark, but they barely dent the Epyon.
"What the hell is with this thing?" Inuyasha complained.
"It's that Gundanium Alloy! We can't breach its defenses!" Ichigo figured.
The Epyon superheats its whip and swings at them. Sasuke and Ichigo dodge, but Inuyasha isn't so lucky.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!"
"Inuyasha!" Ichigo called out.
The half-demon, in addition of being on fire, is knocked back several yards.
"So you like playing with fire? Then try this on for size!" Sasuke yelled while making hand signs. "FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!!"
Sasuke exhales a huge stream of fire from his mouth that's large and intense enough to incinerate everything in front of him. As the fire burned, there was no sign of Epyon anywhere. Sasuke sighs in relief just as Inuyasha gets up and reunites with them.
"Are you okay?" Ichigo asked.
"Yeah," Inuyasha assured him. "I would've been toast if it wasn't for this Cloth of the Fire-Rat," he indicated his garments.
While their guards were down, the three combatants were suddenly struck by a beam saber, charring them badly. They struggle back up to see Epyon slowly walking out of the fire, undamaged.
"Alright, that's it! BANKAI!!" Ichigo declared.
Ichigo's outfit completely changes into an ankle-length black coat and his Zanpakuto shrinks down and changes shape into a black-bladed daito with a short chain on the hilt.
Epyon attempts to stomp the soul-reaper, but Ichigo moves out of the way with incredible speed. Ichigo goes on the offensive and slashes the Gundam several times, moving faster than the eye can see. Epyon is unable to read Ichigo's movements, and slowly but steadily, damage begins to accumulate.
"Alright! My turn now!" Inuyasha announced. "ADAMANT BARRAGE!!"
The blade of Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga turns into fragmented diamonds, and with a swing of his sword, launches many diamond shards that pierce through the Epyon. It falls down on one knee, heavily damaged but still functional.
"Damn! What does it take to destroy this guy?" Inuyasha bemoaned.
Sasuke surveys the still burning environment. He then looks up at the sky, making sure that it was a cloudy day. He shrugs, reasoning that he may as well take advantage of his surroundings.
"Well, I must say that I'm impressed, Epyon," Sasuke admitted. "And you should feel honored. It looks like I'm going to have to use that jutsu. The one I was saving just for him."
Sasuke makes a few hand signs and raises his hand.
"KIRIN!!"
The Uchiha draws lightning from the clouds in the sky and guides it downward, the lightning taking the form of a strange hoofed creature. The lightning hits Epyon fast and hard, blasting it clear off of a nearby cliff.
Epyon, coincidently, lands right in front of the temple Yami and Shinji entered, missing Marik in trophy form by mere inches. However, the ground wasn't enough to support the weight of the mobile suit, giving way under it. Epyon was powerless to do anything as it fell underground.
Sasuke, Ichigo, and Inuyasha rush to the edge of the cliff to look at the hole created by the Epyon's fall.
"HA! Take that, you bucket of bolts!" Inuyasha insulted.
"I just hope no one was down there," Ichigo said, concerned.
And of course, Ichigo's concerns are valid.
Meanwhile, Yami and Shinji finally reach the end of the temple and find themselves in a large arena-like area.
"What is this place?" Shinji asked, looking around.
"I don't think I want to know," Yami answered. "But there's no other way to go from here, except maybe up," he observed.
"Great, so how are we supposed to get all the way up there?" Shinji complained.
As if his prayers, or rather nightmares, were answered, the ceiling of the room they were in collapses, letting in light from above.
"What the!?" Shinji raised his head upward.
"Something's falling down here. Something BIG!" Yami warned him.
The Epyon crashes down in front of the two heroes, knocking them down on their butts.
"It's…the Epyon!?" Shinji noticed as the dust cleared.
"OH NO!" Yami gasped.
The Epyon glares at them with its cold, menacing eyes. It doesn't look very pleased either. Shinji prepares himself by pulling out a positron rifle from hammerspace. Yami summons the Winged Dragon of Ra.
Shinji begins the battle by taking aim with the positron rifle. "Position target in center, pull the switch," Shinji chants to himself before firing. The Epyon is blown back and flinches slightly, but the attack annoys it more than anything. It takes its whip and tries to drop it on Shinji, but Ra gets in front of him, taking the hit. The whip wraps tightly around the God Card and Epyon heats it up. However, Ra is able to withstand the heat.
"It appears that the Winged Dragon of Ra likes it hot," Yami smirked. "But how do you like it, Epyon? At the cost of 1000 of my Life Points, I activate Ra's special ability!"
On that command, Ra bursts into flames, becoming a phoenix. The Duel Monster squirmed out of the Epyon's hold and launches a ring of fire into the mobile suit before turning back into its original form.
"What!? Ra's phoenix mode is supposed to destroy all monsters instantly!" the pharaoh thought out loud. "Oh well." He places two more cards on his Duel Disk. "I now summon both Osiris the Sky Dragon and Obelisk the Tormentor! For my next move, I COMBINE all three Egyptian Gods to form…"
All three Egyptian God Monsters come together and fuse, resulting in a blue skinned humanoid with golden wings and wearing gold armor.
"…The Creator God of Light, Horakhty!"
"DJESERU!!" Horakhty cried out.
Horakhty gathers a ball of blinding light in between its outstretched hands. The light spreads, consuming Epyon entirely. The mobile suit can do nothing as it continuously cracks until it overloads and shuts down altogether. Epyon falls and lays motionlessly on the ground as Horakhty fades away.
"I win!" Yami announced.
"Nice going," Shinji congratulated.
But before either of them could see it coming, the Epyon reactivates itself and grabs both of them with one hand.
"Jesus! You're harder to kill than a cockroach on steroids!" said Shinji.
As they struggled to free themselves, a compartment on the top of Epyon's head opens up, revealing a Shadow Realm Bomb with only fifteen seconds left on the countdown. Epyon then activates its back thruster, ascending towards the sky at mad speed.
"Yami! Do something!" Shinji pleaded.
"I can't reach my cards!" Yami distressed.
They were now out of the hole and Epyon continues to head towards the sky.
"Is this really the end?" Shinji thought to himself. "No! I mustn't run away! If I can just reach into my…"
It was a very tight squeeze, but Shinji is able to pull out the miniature Magarok E Sword and slice Epyon's hand clean off. They fall towards the ground just as the Shadow Realm Bomb activates, utterly destroying Epyon. Shinji clutches onto Yami and braces himself.
"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Yami screamed out in an overdramatic fashion just as they were about to make impact…
…but just in a nick of time, Sasuke, in his Cursed Seal Two form, flies by and grabs them both and carries them back to where Ichigo and Inuyasha were waiting.
The sphere caused by the explosion spreads and consumes the entire temple, sucking in the trophified Marik.
Back at the cliff edge, Yami was on his knees and hands, panting.
"Are you alright?" Shinji asked, offering a hand.
"Yes. And thank you, Shinji. Your bravery saved our lives," Yami replied, taking his hand and shaking it.
"We better get moving," Sasuke motioned. "We have to stop this before any more of those bombs go off."
Everyone else nods in agreement. The now group of five head off together.
Several miles away, the Mysterious Minister watches as the temple is sent into the Shadow Realm.
"What? They got Epyon too!?" he exclaimed. He lowers his head, saddened that another comrade of his had fallen. He thinks about the other mobile suits that sacrificed themselves to activate the Shadow Realm Bombs. "Is this all worth it?" he thought to himself.
He starts to leave, but is startled by a bullet of spiritual energy that flies right by him, barely missing him.
"Damn! I missed again!" Yusuke cursed. Goku, Naruto, Luffy, and Kenshin soon catch up to him.
"You're not getting away this time, Minister!" Goku threatened.
Without a word, the Mysterious Minister takes off and the heroes give chase with Goku and Naruto in the lead. The Minister rapidly fires lasers at Goku and Naruto, but the shonen heroes skillfully dodge each attack.
Just as they were getting close to the minister, a gang of Zaku blocks their path.
"Hey! Get out of our way before we kick your asses!" Naruto demanded.
The Minister watches the heroes' plight until something suddenly stops his momentum. He looks down to see one of his own Zaku hanging on the Shadow Realm Bomb he was carrying.
"Hey! What're you doing?" the Mysterious Minister asked him.
"I'm just trying to help you set this bomb down," his overeager minion professed.
"Yeah, but I can just set it down myse…" the minister tried to warn him, but it was too late. He detaches the bomb from the minister's floating platform, dropping both of them to the ground. The Zaku falls to a neck-snapping death while two more of his friends quickly insert their arms into the bomb and activate it.
"Let go, you pieces of junk!" Yusuke yelled, trying to pull one of the Zaku loose. Goku did likewise to the other one, both they just wouldn't budge.
"Huh? What's going on here? I thought Zaku are supposed to be weak!" Goku pondered.
Two more Zaku grab them and easily drag them away.
"What!? But our Power Levels are over 9000!" Yusuke complained.
The Mysterious Minister slowly backs away to a safe distance. He looks down to see one of the Zaku wave at him for the last time. Not a moment afterwards, the bombs timer reaches zero, activating and sending another part of the world into the Shadow Realm. All of the Zaku get sucked into the sphere, breaking apart in the process.
Goku grabs Luffy and Yusuke and flies away at high speed while Kenshin and Naruto run away really fast to avoid a similar fate. They somehow manage to avoid getting sucked into the Shadow Realm, but they had once again failed to stop the Mysterious Minister, and another part of the world paid the price.
A/N: In the next chapter of the Shadow Realm Emissary, Edward and Spike once again run into trouble. Stay tuned.
R.I.P.
Toonami
1997-2008
