Cybernetic Blue Blur: Battle Redux
Just a little reworked version of the story, set in a different Continuum Shift. Takes place after the One Piece Arc of the original CBB:B! However, be assured that I will finish the original version.
"Boy…I never thought I'd bear witness to this sight: Gourmet Town empty," Toriko noted, "There's a scene I never thought I'd see in the Gourmet Age…"
"I guess this is another one of those Panic Events you told me may happen with the approach of a Gourmet Eclipse," Lan noted as he looked around the empty streets with food-themed buildings.
One week earlier, some 'bad news' was broadcast by the IGO all across the world. There was something disconcerting about the edges of the Human World. The monster sleeping in Gourmet World, the Four Beasts, was awakening. That gave a shock to all of humanity surpassing that of the Zebra Warning. Every country that was relatively close to Gourmet World; at the edge of Human World, declared an above level 5 state of emergency. People of every country were ordered to take shelter in the area in the center of Human World. There was in fact, a great migration of over 30 billion people of Human World.
Why…? Why was the Four Beasts purposefully coming into Human World? Generally speaking, creatures of Gourmet World are not interested in bad tasting foods…which means, they would not come into Human World by choice. At best, the ones that come are creatures being chased out of Gourmet World. That was a stroke on unbelievably good luck for Human World.
But…The good luck was not perfect. There is one piece of Bad Luck for Human World, in that there is one fiendish wild beast that isn't a small fry that was chased out…With an Unbalanced Diet, it has a liking for the taste of Humans and no longer are anything but Humans. Now, once every few hundred years, it awakens as if it were gauging whether or not the number of humans has increased. The story was handed down as a demon coming for a meal.
In the Gourmet World, four beasts approached the Human World. One was a massive turtle in the colors of a volcano with one upon its back. It opened its mouth to reveal multiple rows of fangs and a volcano for a tongue. It was the Four Beasts Mounturtle, a Volcanic Crustacean Beast.
Another entering Human World seemed to be covered in the darkest of leathers, almost as if it was made of it. Its body seemed to bulge in various places and had two long white nosehairs coming from its pig snout. The bottom halves of its legs were actually multiple tentacles intertwined to form the lower legs and feet. It was the Four Beasts Invaitdeath, a Mollusk Mammal Beast.
The third beast had tough green skin with ruby/blood-colored fur. All over its body was multiple upon multiple scars. It was missing a hind leg and its tail. Strangely, its head seemed to resemble Toriko's Intimidation's head. It was Four Beasts Gaoh (Fang King), a Mammal Beast King Species.
The last of them was truly, truly fat. Its body seemed to leak a strange slimy substance, giving its sickly white form a sheen that reeked of death. It had a 'beard' of multiple tentacles with five bulging eyes. It had powerful, muscular arms that had more tentacles emerging from them. It was the Four Beasts King Octopus Kong, a Mollusk Fish Beast.
*cue music*
*The screen was covered in blowing grey clouds. They dispersed to reveal a broken road and a far-shot of Lan walking on it*
narasareta aoi toki no kane ni shinjitsu no tobira ga hiraku (The bell that rang in youth's time opens Truth's door)
*it cut to his face, showing hardly any emotion as he walked before a wind blew by him, making him look up. It cut to Megaman, grinning as he stood with Ace. Lan began to return the grin as flames engulfed the screen, revealing the title screen*
tōi kage wa masayume ka? akumu ka? sora de orinasu nageki no sasayaki (Is this distant shadow a prophetic dream? Is it a nightmare? Whispers of grief are woven in the sky)
*It cut to a scroll-down view of a city before cutting to Tsukiumi glaring up at it while Kazehana drank in the background. It then cut to Musubi sparring with Miya outside the Maison Izumo, Uzume, Tai Lung, and Tigress observing and then cutting to Haruka having help from Kusano as food was being made. It then cut to the afternoon-around sunset-of Maylu and Roll looking sadly in the distance before cutting to a shadowed room with figures hidden within with the only five revealed being Chaud, Akainu, Khyber, Khyber's Pet, and Protoman.*
shinjita michi wo nazoru bokura ni (mayotte furimuku kotae wa...?) gin no ame furisosogu [After tracing the believed road, silver rain pours. (Being perplexed, I turn around, and the answer is?)]
*It cut to Ace standing amidst a sea of flames before cutting to a dark room with monitors on various walls and Matsu smirking in the middle of it, adjusting her glasses. It then cut to Khyber, emerging from the shadows with his pet. The pet roared before transforming while charging at the screen. It then cut to Lan activating his Box Animal*
-aoi sora torimodosu- chikai wa ima hitomi ni afureta muryoku da to nageku yori bidō suru asu wo mitai katariau yume sae mo "shinjitsu" e to izanau yoake sorezore no michi wo tadotte toki no kanata mata aō (With the youthful sky recovered, the oath overflowed in the eyes. Instead of grieving over helplessness, look at the shaken tomorrow Even the dream of talking is the dawn of "Truth" We will meet at the far side of time after tracing our respective roads)
*It cut to Lan in Cambio Forma colliding with Megaman wielding Caliburn, waves of Chaos Flames going off the collision. It then showed the two beginning to fight and releasing more waves of Chaos Flames with each contact. It then cut to Musubi slamming her fist into Crabdozer and sending it through various trees before cutting to Tsukiumi and Kazehana unleashing their Norito on one another. It then cut to a somewhat dark hallway, an imposing cauldron-like structure at the end of it. It opened up, revealing an eternal sea of intense flames swirling within it like a gateway, an azure light in the center of it all. It then cut to Lan, standing in his Cambio Forma, before his armor faded into Scan, resting on his shoulder. Scan looked up and jumped off-screen before Lan looked up to see Musubi, Maylu, Megaman, Ace, Matsu, Kazehana, and Tsukiumi walk on-screen, Scan happily wagging his tail in Tsukiumi's arms. He gave them a smile before the group walked down the ruined road before the clouds once more engulfed the screen, turning it white*
Two blurs jumped across various rooftops. The two were actually Scan and Terry, both the same size now. Scan had a container on his back, Tsukiumi, Roll, and Maylu riding on him. Terry carried Rin, Komatsu, and Musubi.
"Eeeeh? You successfully cooked the Bubble Fruits…?" Rin gasped, "Really, Komatsu-kun?!"
"You got it! We spent the whole week at Disappearance Cuisine with Chiru-san taking on that challenge!-! And somehow we managed to cook it!-!" Komatsu grinned.
"Oh, they'll be so excited!" Musubi shivered in delight.
"That's amaaaazing!-! Toriko and the others are waiting for us in Gourmet Town, so they'll be happy you brought some!" Rin beamed.
"Yes! And you're bringing them something, too, right, Rin-chan?" Musubi asked.
"Yup," Rin nodded as she took out a strange device that resembled a gauntlet that fit only on the hand with the fingers and thumb exposed while on the top was a black jewel, "This is a Capture Level Measuring Device. I've named it the Measure Tongs."
"Measure Tongs?!" Komatsu awed.
"Yep! I just finally finished it recently. With this, you can precisely measure the Capture Level of wild beasts even over Capture Level 100."
"Eeeeh? Over 100?!" Komatsu screamed before paling, "S…So we're going to fight things like that soon, huh…?"
"But there's no way around it, Komatsu-chan. The Four Beasts is the last ingredient that was on that list Toriko-san has," Musubi pointed out.
"Don't worry! It'll be an easy win for the Four Heavenly Kings!-!" Rin declared.
"W…Well, it's true that if it's them fighting…"
"Plus, we're the backup in case they fail," Musubi pointed out.
"Y…Yeah…" Komatsu gulped, still a bit startled by how the Norito could give Musubi, Tsukiumi, or Kazehana tremendous fighting power, 'Come to think of it…what is Matsu's Norito?'
"Plus, I'll be going, too!"
"Eeeh? You're coming along, Rin-san?!" Komatsu freaked.
"Of course! I've got to measure the precise capture levels of the Four Beasts. Also, I want to be together with Toriko!"
"Aw~How romantic…" Musubi cooed.
"How…How crazy is all this…?" Komatsu deadpanned.
=We're coming up at the location= Maylu noted on Musubi's PeT ZX.
Up ahead, were two towers, one resembling a fork and the other a knife. The one they were heading for was Gourmet Towers Knife Building's 330th floor, better known as the Overlook Floor. On that floor was the main location of 10-star restaurant Zen Ou (Tray/Mean King). Inside, Matsu sat in Lan's lap as they, Megaman, Ace, Kazehana, and Toriko ate with Sunny, Coco, and a muscular, large man with red hair and a bit of his mouth ripped off to reveal his fangs.
"Hey, Coco, I was just thinking, are you still doing fortune telling?" Sunny asked.
"Yeah. Occasionally."
"Heeeh…So, uh…this is purely out of curiosity, but, what sorta things does a Fortune Teller say to customers?"
"Well…It varies…"
"Like what? For example? What sorta things do you say about people consulting you on love that doesn't look like it's going well?" Kazehana dropped her fork on her dish as she looked at Coco.
"Hmm…Perhaps he gets set off and blurts out 'It isn't going to happen,'" Kazehana noted.
"Yeah, I get set off…smartly."
"Wahhahha! That sounds like something you'd say, Coco. Bluntly," Toriko laughed as he munched of another food.
"So you can act like that sometimes, too, huh…?" Sunny deadpanned.
"Hmm…Then what do you see ahead for me and Lan-kun?" Kazehana asked.
"…" Coco looked over at Kazehana and held up two fingers put together.
"…" Kazehana squealed in delight at that, knowing what Coco was informing her of.
"Huh?" Lan blinked, pausing from his plate of food.
"Everyone who comes to get their fortune told seeking some specific reply. And that's also the one they're most anticipating, much like Kazehana here," Coco noted as he pouted a bit of wine.
"But they must get disappointed if it's not the answer they're anticipating…" Matsu noted.
"Well…I'm the type that actually gets more motivated from that sorta thing," Toriko grinned.
"Even my Fortune Telling definitely isn't 100% correct, though…Also, whether it's disappointing or not depends on the person. Things like uneasiness or indecision are in everyone's lives. What's important is to appreciate and grow from every kind of result. If you can grow from them, you can understand that all events are for the purpose of growing and you can appreciate them."
Toriko, Lan, Megaman, and Ace began to laugh. Matsu and Kazehana merely giggled.
"Appreciation, eh?!" Megaman smirked.
"Sounds just like the Food Honor we learned!" Toriko noted.
"But living while always giving thanks has gotta really be a pain, doesn't it?" Sunny noted.
"Concretely, how do you give advice?" Matsu asked, adjusting her glasses.
"…You just need to live in a way where Success is because of you…and Failure is also because of you…" Coco paused to take a drink, "Wouldn't you say that's what appreciating while growing means?"
"Tha' so? So it's all your fault whether it's a 'success' or a 'failure,' ain't it? Other people are completely unrelated," Sunny noted, eating a bit of glowing meat.
"That ain't it," Toriko informed before slurping up and entire plate of noodles, "In this world, there's no such thing as Failure in the first place."
"My grandfather once said 'the one who knows the Ways To Win more than anyone else is also the one who's experienced the most Mistakes,'" Megaman quoted.
"So in other words, you could say Failure is equal to Success…couldn't you?" Ace noted.
"I see. What do you think, Zebra?" Coco asked.
A tense silence followed. Everyone awaited the answer from the silent member of the Four Heavenly Kings. Slowly, he paused in his eating and looked up at them, one eye closed.
"Whooooo…" everyone leaned in a little, "The fuck cares?"
Lan and Matsu got their faces off the table, leaving face indents in it.
'Mm…I guess so,' the other three of the Four Heavenly Kings thought with sweatdrops.
"You say that four of you are about to take on those Four Beasts, and yet…my dear…not one of you is one millimeter nervous, are you…?"
"Ah," Toriko blinked as everyone turned to see a somewhat elderly man that was as tall as Coco with long, noodle-colored hair that even looked like noodles while balancing multiple plates, "O…Owner Chef Yuda!-!"
"He's the Tray King of the Gourmet Age that cooks perfectly without allowing for one millimeter of disorder, right?" Matsu asked, having hacked into quite a few computers from her PeT ZX to learn as much as she could about the world.
"Here, I brought you more courses. It's my special menu made without my hands slipping one millimeter.
"All right!-!-! We can still eat more 10-star cooking!-!" Megaman cheered.
"We really appreciate you staying open even during a crisis like this, Owner," Ace grinned, "A Toast to the great chef!"
"Kampai!" the ones at drinking age declared.
"Kampai," Lan and Matsu nodded, holding up their glasses filled with juice or milk, before Yuda chuckled.
"What? I wouldn't rest one millimeter for something like this."
"Just what I'd expect from Zen Ou that reins on the Top Floor of the Gourmet Towers! Even in a big panic, you don't get agitated one millimeter!" Toriko beamed.
"For their safety, every last millimeter of the employees have taken shelter," Yuda informed.
"By the way, Owner-san, in terms of physical power, you don't need to run, do you?" Lan asked.
"Huhu…Our cooking is highly nutritional Medicinal Cooking. It's optimal for Food Immersion, as well. Eat up without leaving one millimeter left."
"We'll have some more!" Zebra and Lan informed, the plates that were on the table all stacked up and empty before them.
"So fahst!-!" Yuda and Matsu exclaimed, their eyes popping out.
"What the hell, you guys?! What're you two doing Flash-Eating everything by yourselves?!-!" Toriko demanded as he and Zebra began to grapple.
"Suddup. You guys just took too long," Zebra growled.
"I just caught him starting to do that," Lan noted, "So, I followed his example to thank the cook by eating his meal."
"So fahst!-! That was far too fahst, Zebra-kun!-! Lan-kun!-!" Yuda exclaimed.
"Fahst, owner?" Kazehana blinked.
"Minna!-!"
"Oh."
"Hmm?"
Everyone looked over to see the ones that had rode on the two wolves, minus Roll and Tsukiumi, running over. In Tsukiumi's arms was Scan, now his original size. It was a rather interesting ability that Scan learned, akin to the ability the dragons Lan, Megaman, and Roll all owned.
"Sorry we're late!" Maylu waved.
"Torikooon! I came, too!" Rin waved as Lan's fiancés pecked his cheeks.
"How'd the Bubble Fruits turn out, Komatsu?" Toriko drooled.
'First thoughts about food…' Lan chuckled as he thought.
"Just take a look!-!" Komatsu grinned as Roll walked in with Musubi, carrying the cargo of Bubble Fruits, now seeming to act more like jelly than bubbles.
"We successfully cooked them!-!" Musubi declared as she pumped a fist quickly before putting it back on carrying the container.
"It's a big heavy, minna," Roll informed.
"Oahaaaaaaa!-!-! You did it, minna!-!" Toriko exclaimed with completely wide eyes and a large smile of excitement on his face.
"It's like watching a kid at a candy store," Matsu giggled as she looked at Toriko before seeing Lan grinning at the sight.
"That's fantastic, Komatsu-kun!-!" Coco grinned.
"Huh. Bubble Fruits…magnificent. You're able to cook without one millimeter of disorder?"
"Eh?" Komatsu looked at Yuda and screamed, "It's the chef who's 5th on the World Chef Ranking, Chef Yuda!-! C…C-Cou…Coul I have your autograph?!-!"
"All right. I'll write you a signature without slipping one millimeter," Yuda replied with a chuckle.
"Minna! I have a message from the President about this request! Let's watch it later," Rin informed as she held up a DVD, "Before that…" everyone was quickly seated before the table, Lan managing to avoid someone sitting in his lap by sitting between Zebra and Megaman, "Let's try the actual food, the cooked Bubble Fruits!-!"
"Incredible…this is a temple treasure?" Coco pondered.
"You bet it is. Tasty too even raw," Ace smirked.
"S…So beautiful…" Sunny cried a little into a hand.
"Looks pretty tasty," Zebra grinned.
"You have our thanks, Shokurin Temple…" Toriko gave thanks before they all took a bit and the upper clothing on the Four Heavenly Kings tore apart, their muscles bulging up massively, "Th…This is…"
"It would seem it's a compatible Ingredient for all of the Four Heavenly Kings. And it's been activated by them being cooked," Yuda noted.
"I'm home!"
"Welcome home!" Haruka giggled.
"Dear…Wh-What's with all the food?!" Yuchiro gawked, looking at the biggest table they had in the mansion-in-a-house which currently was filled with plates upon plates of food.
"I'm so excited, dear!" Haruka replied with a giggle before motioning to the end of the table, where Chin, Chiru, and Shuu were sitting, a smiling Kusano in Chin's lap, "I have someone I've been wanting to introduce to you for years. Dear, this is my father, Chin Chinchin."
"Ah, so you're the man who's taken to my long-lost daughter," Chin chuckled, adjusting his glasses, "A pleasure, Yuchichi."
"…Skye told you that name, didn't he?" Yuchiro frowned as, in SciLab, the hedgehog/former human sneezed.
"No, no, no. He just has trouble with names, is all," Haruka informed quickly, "Anyways, dear. These are my father's students, Shuu and Chiru. Chiru actually runs the restaurant I told you about, Disappearance Cuisine."
"It's an honor to meet that father of Lan-san," Chiru nodded.
"Your son is a prodigy, having gone up against Chiyo-san like he did," Shuu nodded as Kusano looked up at Chin and giggled with a smile.
"But…But I…How did…When?" Yuchiro was speechless.
"Apparently, his Sekai is currently dealing with something fierce, a monster known as the Four Beasts," Tigress noted.
"Hm?" Yuchiro blinked.
"Indeed. The warning went out a week ago," Shuu informed, "We had the members of Shokurin Temple take refuge before the forest's surface while the other Assistant Masters are in the center of the Human World to help defend against it."
"Wait. So it's not four beasts?" Po asked.
"That is correct. The Four Beasts is not merely four separate beasts, but actually just a single one. It creates four 'Beasts' to act as its Arms and sends them into the Human World," Chin explained, adjusting his glasses as Kusano began to tremble a bit, "The Four Beasts devours any humans they can before being reabsorbed back into its main body. Their bodies change each time, but all of them are over the Level 100 Capture Level."
"Wh-wh-what?" Haruka paled, almost falling over if Yuchiro didn't catch her.
"…Did you really have to say that?" Viper asked.
"Ah. Yes, silly me. Forgot Lan was still there," Chin blushed.
If they didn't have their training, Shuu and Chiru would have facepalmed. Luckily, Mantis, Po, and Monkey were there to do that for them.
"Go, Torikooh!-!" Lan cheered as the world travelers stood before a group of four televisions, showing the Heavenly Kings fighting the Four Beasts.
"Get 'im, Coco!-!" Megaman pumped his fist.
"I never knew you could fight with your hair," Musubi noted, looking at her still-long hair.
"Nor that you could turn your own body into a poisonous weapon," Kazehana noted.
"Are you kidding me? Zebra-san's abilities with using Sound is amazing! All he has to do is open his mouth and-BAM!-you're deaf and pulverized!" Roll slammed a fist into her palm.
It was then Scan began to growl as he looked at the floor, ready to pounce on it.
"What's wrong, buddy?" Ace asked, kneeling down beside the pup-sized Chaos Wolf before tensing up, "Now I see…"
"You feel it, too?" Megaman asked.
"Hai," Roll nodded.
"Something down below the surface," Musubi noted.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!-!-!" the Mounturtle screeched out, lava-blood puking out of it and spilled from the cracks upon cracks upon shattering cracks within its destroyed shell.
"Hnn. There's something weird about it," Zebra frowned, 'I've seen a fuckton of Creatures at the verge of death, but the screams this guy's giving ain't Death Throes…This guy's life still ain't over!-!'
=Bibibibi=
=Bibibibi=
"The hell?" Zebra pulled out his Measuring Tongs that Rin gave him, "Rin's calling me?"
"I'm teeeelllin' yooou! There aren't four Four Beasts! There's only one!-!" Rin declared.
=What'd you say?!= the Four Heavenly Kings exclaimed in unison.
"Gohu…! Gohu…!" the Invaitdeath gurgled, its body swelling up from the Poison Virus and Mold Spear Coco used on it.
'…This is odd…I still can't see the Shadow of Death on him…' Coco thought with unease before the Invaitdeath was suddenly pulled under the ground, "It can't be…that direction is towards…" his eyes widened, "Kisssssss!-!"
"Toriko-san!-!" Komatsu gasped as Terry ran towards them, after Gaoh as it was pulled under the ground.
"Toriko!-! Do you think everyone else can track them?!" Rin asked as the two were pulled onto the Battle World.
"It's okay! Terry's and my Sense of Smell…Coco's Denpa…Sunny's Touches…and Zebra's Ultrasonic Waves…They shouldn't lose track of them at all…!-!"
The Four Beasts had called together its four Limbs. Before they could be killed by Toriko and the other Four Heavenly Kings. It drew in its limbs in order to retrieve their energy. In the center of the Human World, the ground began to break apart as buildings started to collapse with humans panicking.
"Ooh, this is not good at all," Lan gulped as he saw the destruction on a large stage with the others and Mansam.
"Well, well, this is beyond what we expected. Seems the main body is actually right below us this time. Asshole's learned a lot since Ichiryuu's feast on its previous four limbs," Mansam noted, "I have to say that maybe it's my turn to take the spotlight?"
"Th…Is that the actual body?!" Matsu gasped, seeing a massive collection of roots and vines made of fleshy material ensnaring the buildings as it emerged from the ground.
"Uwaaaaaaaaaaaa!-!-! Root Kaijin!-!-!" Lan screamed before fainting.
"Lan-kun!" Maylu gasped as she caught him.
"What's wrong with him?" Mansam asked.
"He kinda has a phobia of plant monsters. He sees one, he'll scream and faint right on the spot, even if they're just anime ones," Maylu explained.
"Don't forget his problem with live Chickens," Megaman pointed out, "He'll freeze up completely for an hour when he sees a chicken. Ended up missing a whole day as a Chicken Parade happened once in DenTech."
"GOAAAAAAAAA!-!-!" the Four Beasts roared before slamming a root into a building, knocking the humans in it into the air before devouring them in one bite.
Vines erupted form parts of its body and ensnared more humans. It quickly devoured them and 'grinned.' It eyes widened when it felt as if an overmuscular black-skinned bat, a poisonous ghost with long black hair, a red-skinned Oni, and a hair monster appeared behind it. It swung a 'limb' out and destroyed more buildings, flinching when it saw the tops were not falling at all. Multiple golden roots and trees were sprouting about, protecting the buildings from collapse.
"Protect Tree. Originally, it wasn't meant to protect manmade structures…But I set it out all across the city," a man with a white pompadour noted, looking up at the Four Beasts, "I'm not letting this end up like a Kaijyuu Movie, you monster."
"Teppei!" a man called, "This ain't good!-! The buildings that aren't reinforced are…!-!"
"Ah?" the ground rumbled as a massive demonic horse-like Beast approached, demolishing buildings in its path, "What is thaaaaat?!-!"
"Don't worry yourselves, vermin. I'm guarding the buildings with Otokabe (Sound Wall)," Zebra informed on top of the beast's mane as it stopped, "That's it, huh…? The Four Beasts Main Body."
"OOOO! OOOOO!-!-!"
The ground erupted as the Arms appeared. Roots erupted next and grabbed all four.
"What the hell?" Zebra raised a brow as the Arms were lifted up to the main body's massive jaws and devoured, "He friggin' absorbed all four of 'em."
Suddenly, the Four Beasts trembled as all its roots coalesced into itself. Its body turned pink like a human's body before bulging up into powerful muscles, giving it an overweight appearance. It took a deep breath before exhaling a massive lime-green cloud. Suddenly, it began to rain green rain.
"What the hell's this?"
"Green Rain," Zebra looked up to see Kiss fly over, Coco and Megaman-having got on via AreaSteal as the bird flew over the stage area-on it, "This is not good…I've heard that rain of every color falls in Gourmet World, but Green Rain is really bad…! Did this guy make it fall…?"
"You're late, Coco," Zebra snorted as Terry and Quinn showed up.
"Your friend there's the biggest animal I've ever seen," Megaman snorted, "Well, that is if you don't count Dark Gaia as a beast."
"That Horse 'a yours is too damn fast, Zebra!" Sunny complained, "And it's too huge in th' first place."
"I see, so that's the main body?" Toriko pondered as Rin screamed.
"Its Capture Level is huuuuge!-!"
"So you guys finally showed up to get in my way…" Zebra noted.
"I just came to keep an eye on your partners," Megaman informed before pulling out a parasol that covered him, Rin, and Komatsu just before the rain began to hit them.
"Thanks," Komatsu noted as Megaman pulled an umbrella out and opened it as he walked out from under the parasol.
"Yep," Megaman nodded.
"Uwah!" Toriko yelped.
"The rain's spread all the way here!-!" Sunny exclaimed.
"This green rain is also called Illness Rain. It's toxic to the Human Body. If it's wet by the rain, it will die within an hour," Coco informed.
"Wh…What?!" everyone exclaimed as, back at the stage, Lan did a spit-take on the cup of water he was drinking since he was using the PeT ZX to listen in.
"Seriously?! Everyone's already gotten wet!-!" Toriko exclaimed as Megaman cleared his throat and motioned to his umbrella and the parasol, "Oh…Excluding you guys."
"Komatsu-kun!-! Get to Zen Ou on Gourmet Towers right away!-!" Coco ordered.
"Eh?! Chef Yuda's restaurant? Why?!" Komatsu pondered.
"It's because Chef Yuda can make us an Antidote Dish," Megaman realized.
"Exactly!-!-!" Coco replied, "But he'll most likely need assistance!-!"
"We'd better hurry and tell him about this one," Megaman noted, "I've got no luck with cooking, though. So I'll get you there, but we'll need to make a pit-stop elsewhere. We're going to need a lot of chefs."
"O…Okay," Komatsu nodded as Megaman took out his most treasured Chaos Emerald.
"Chaos…Control!" Megaman declared before he and Komatsu warped away as the Four 'Kings' jumped off their beasts.
"Now, then…We've got to beat this thing as fast as possible, I suppose," Coco noted as his skin turned colors as its poisons formed.
"Outta the way. I'll end this in an instant," Zebra growled.
"You're totally unrefined, Zebra. If you use onna your Voice Techniques, all the ordinary people're gonna get caught up in it!" Sunny snorted.
"Anyhow, let's all go together!" Toriko grinned as he cracked his knuckles, "Man, how long's it been since the four of us fought together…? I can't help but shake with excitement! This guy's just that tough an opponent…!-!"
"Got anything on the Scent?" Coco asked.
"There's no particular change in its body odor…There isn't a hint of the fatty acids that're secreted under extreme tension or fear…" Toriko noted.
"Nothing weird about the sound of its breathing, blood pressure, or heart rate either," Zebra added.
"I cannot see any disturbances in its electromagnetic waves, and what's more I can't see the Shadow of Death," Coco noted, frowning a bit as he recalled earlier.
"I see. For it to be this relaxed in front of us, I guess it doesn't see us as anything more that some of its food…Even the Green Rain is just like a dressing you pour on Ingredients for it…" Sunny frowned, "What a revolting bastard."
"So…as Zebra would say…" Coco began.
"He's Gotten Cocky!-!" Zebra snarled.
"Not particularly cocky. But hey, do you think this guy is tasty?" Toriko asked as he wiped a bit of drool, "If he's got a good flavor, then I wanna beat him fast and eat! Man, how long's it been since the four of us fought together?! I can't help but shake with excitement!"
"Hmph," Zebra jumped off the building they were on.
"Ah, hey, Zebra!-!" Toriko barked.
"I don't need you guys! I'm more than enough on my own!-!" Zebra roared.
"And that's what's happening. Everyone in that city that's been hit by that Green Rain is going to die if we don't get an antidote," Roll informed.
"I see. I perfectly understand not even one millimeter out of place on this," Yuda informed.
"You do?" Musubi asked.
"Dear me, I never though one millimeter that things would have turned out like this…" Yuda admitted.
"I'm sure that you can make a dish that'll counteract the Poison, Chef Yuda…" Komatsu beamed.
"It's true, I can make it without one millimeter of disorder, but…To make it for several million people in under an hour…"
"You couldn't do it in time, could you?" Maylu asked.
"Indeed. Even if I try my hardest, I could only manage to make enough for 100,000."
"I…I'll do my best to help out, too!-!" Komatsu exclaimed.
"Same here," Maylu informed as Musubi, Matsu, and Roll nodded.
"Just you five alone wouldn't be one millimeter, though. We'd need quite a few hands. And particularly masterful ones at that."
"That's why we came!" Everyone turned to see an elderly short woman, roughly the size of a Mobian Hedgehog, with her graying-pink hair in a large bun while wearing a red ninja outfit and an apron with a heart walk up with a white-haired girl with pink dots on her cheeks and a copy of the elder's outfit with a suitcase in her hands, "Huh-huh-hu. Now then, shall we get cooking? Yuda-chan?"
"Se…Setsuno-saan!-!-!" Komatsu gasped.
"Eh?!" Maylu gasped.
"This is the lady Master Chin wanted to take Lan-kun to?" Musubi blinked.
"Well, well…National Treasure Setsuno-sama. We've been graced by a most reliable person. …But…to be perfectly honest, we still don't have one millimeter enough chefs," Yuda informed.
"I thought that would be the case when Lan sent that letter to Haruka-sama, so I came here with some assistance from Monkey-san," Chiru informed as he and Monkey, the Kung Fu master carrying a suitcase of kitchen supplies with his tail.
"Hiya, Maylu, Matsu," Monkey waved before seeing Musubi, "Oh, so you're Musubi! I thought Haruka was kidding on your figure."
"Huh?" Musubi blinked before tilting her head in confusion.
"I'm not sure if I can be of any help, but please allow me to lend a hand."
"Chiru-san!-!" Komatsu gasped.
"Disappearance Cuisine's Chef Chiru," Yuda noted.
"Huhu. You seem to be quite worried, Komatsu-chan. I'll lend you my strength as well," a tall, muscular chef in a tall white hat grinned, "I'll lend you my strength as well."
"Livebearer-san!-!-! You came?!-!"
"Boss of the Underground Cooking World Livebearer," Setsuno noted.
"Former boss. I've washed my hands of Black Market Business. Now I'm working center stage. Huhu. Thanks to you, Komatsu-san," Livebearer smiled.
"Not too shabby a collection. Seems we're all afraid of the Green Rain and going to aid in the cure-making," everyone looked to see the girl and Turbo approach.
"Who are you two?" Roll asked.
"Name's Rayne Adamant. This here's my brother, Turbo. We've spent a year in the Gourmet World to advance our skills as chefs and had to deal with Green Rain at times," the girl informed.
"We're here to give our assistance in creating the only known cure that can be made in the Human World," Turbo informed.
"You two have spent time in the Gourmet World, learning how to deal with the Green Rain?"
"Completely accidental. Felt the symptoms of dying after a half-hour and took another twenty to figure out and make the cure," Rayne chuckled sheepishly.
"This is fortunate, then," Yuda noted.
"You're all excellent chefs, but I'm afraid it's still not enough. With just you…"
Komatsu slowly turned to see four more chefs approach, two males and two females. One resembled a woman in her prime with her black hair done in a bun and a yukata on her body. The second female was the size of Komatsu with a few wrinkles on her rather-youthful face with her brown, starting-to-gray, curly hairs. Another male was an elder and the same height as Komatsu with an over-sized mustache and eyebrows. The last male was as tall as the first woman with long black hair and a strange device over his right eye.
"The owner chef of the curry stand that makes 10 trillion yen a year, Damaras Curry! 4th in the World Chef Ranking, Damara Sky the 13th!-!" Komatsu gawked before turning from the last man to the elderly man, "Owner of the traditional Japanese restaurant Guts, 22nd on the Chef Ranking!-! Chef Lulubhu!-!-!" he turned to the taller woman, "Big Mama of the snack bar Turara, Ranking at 31st is Tsurara Mama!-!-!" he then looked at the last woman, giving a motherly smile at everyone, "The first lunch lady to get into the Top 10! Nakamune Cooking School's cafeteria chief, Rank 10, Chef Sumire!-!-!"
"So…So many people of the Ranking List…" Matsu gulped as Rayne let out an impressed whistle.
"It's like a dream right now," Turbo chuckled.
"But how did they know about this whole thing?" Komatsu pondered.
"I informed them," a man in a black business suit and sunglasses informed as he walked up.
"I informed Chiru-san since I knew he went to see Kaa-chan with Jiji and Shuu-Aniki," Lan noted as he walked out from behind the man.
"Department Chief Johannes! It's been a while!" Komatsu exclaimed.
"We actually wanted to gather more, but unfortunately these people you see here were the only skilled chefs nearby. All others were in places where they could not reach here immediately," Johannes noted.
"I said I'd go get them with Chaos Control, Mr. Johannes," Lan frowned.
"You nearly collapsed from exhausting yourself getting just these members, minus Chiru, here," Johannes frowned, knowing Lan was holding onto him to not collapse.
"Aw shut it…" Lan muttered.
"It's a situation that developed quite suddenly, so I suppose there's no helping that," Monkey noted as he looked at a TV nearby to see live footage of the Four Heavenly Kings fighting, and actually losing, to the Four Beasts now that it had grown additional arms, "Ouch."
"Tsuki-chan…Hana-chan…" Lan whispered as he looked at the screen.
"Keep coming this way!" Kazehana called, using the wind she was manipulating to amplify her voice to the fleeing crowd to the buildings, Tsukiumi keeping the two of them dry along with forming a dry path by controlling the Green Rain to stop a few meters above them, their Sekirei Wings glowing from the deep kisses Lan had given them both to make them last for a bit, "Hurry and get into the buildings or else we're all in deep trouble of dying in an hour!"
"It is a shame we could not go with our husband," Tsukiumi frowned.
"You said it," Kazehana sighed, pausing her wind manipulation for a little bit, "But still, you know what he said. He's counting on us to get the people to safety."
"Indeed. So for our beloved…" Tsukiumi informed as the wings she still had on her body began to glow stronger, "Oh sacred storms swirling all around, give aide to me as I unleash an unstoppable force upon the perils of my Ashikabi."
The collected Green Rain her abilities had already gather began to bubble up.
"Infinite Tsunami!" Tsukiumi cried out as all the Green Rain that was around her suddenly shot up into a flying Tsunami that pierced the clouds, letting sunlight shine upon them.
"Not too shabby," Kazehana smirked before resuming her ability, "Minna! Please hurry! This break in the storm isn't going to last, so get under some shelter at once!"
"Anyhow, we have precious little time. We have no choice but to cook with those we have here," Chiru noted.
"If you need any help, I would be honored," Monkey bowed.
"We'll leave the Four Beasts to the Bishoku-ya and we chefs will do chef's work," Setsuno informed.
"Well then, let me teach you to cook my secret antidote dish," Yuda informed, opening his eyes slightly.
"Endorphin Smoke!-!"
A blue smoke engulfed the Four Heavenly Kings while hiding them from the six-limbed Four Beasts. Terry appeared and Rin jumped off.
"Toriko!-! Are you guys okay?!"
"Rin!-!" Toriko gasped.
"That thing's Capture Level is totally bad news! At first it was just at 310, but now it's risen up to 350!-!"
"350, huh? I wouldn't doubt it," Toriko panted.
"So they can really get that high…?" Coco choked out.
"Rin, you need to get away from here. And don't say you're gonna fight, too. Right now, the most important thing you can do is get the people who've been hit by the rain to shelter," Toriko ordered.
"…Toriko…" Rin whispered.
"Umbrella Tree!-!"a voice cried out before a massive tree resembling an umbrella covered the area, blocking off the Green Rain as Teppei walked up, "Yeah, that's right. There are still tons of people who got hit by the rain, not knowing it was poison. They all need to take shelter immediately."
"Teppei," Toriko gasped.
"Aah?! A Saiseiyaaa?!-!" Zebra roared out in anger.
"Whoa there. They say that only the boorish bring up the long past, Zebra. And regardless, now isn't the time," Teppei informed.
"Keh."
"You may be able to guard against the rain with Dense Fog, miss. It may thin the concentration of the rain and weaken the poison," Teppei advised Rin.
"Huh..? Ah…"
"I'm counting on you, Rin," Toriko informed.
"…O…Okay, got it! I'll give it a try!-! So, Toriko, I'm counting on you for the Four Beasts!-!" Rin ordered, 'Please don't die…'
"Your endorphins also lessened the pain. So just leave it me," Toriko smirked.
"So wha the hell, Teppe?! Are ya gonna help out here?" Sunny demanded.
"Capturing (Eradicating) Ingredients (Wild Beasts) is Bishoku-Ya's work. I don't know who requested it of you, but…do a good job!"
"The Request was from that slave-driving old man!-!-!" all four kings snapped.
"If this keeps up, the Old Man is gonna laugh at us!-!" Toriko ordered.
"Okay, let's beat the Four Beasts!-!" Coco declared.
"Toriko," Teppei spoke, "That monster is being Revived. I'm sure of it. Though I don't know their goal, there's a mastermind behind it. Be careful."
"OOOOOOOOO!-!-! AAA!-!-!" the Four Beasts roared.
"We got it!-!-!" the Four Heavenly Kings roared as their Intimidation Forms appeared over their bodies.
Since the Green Rain had started falling, 15 minutes had past. Only 45 minutes remained before everyone's lives would be finished. Currently, the chefs, Johannes, and Monkey were all looking at a purple Mochi Ball.
"Th…This is…" Livebearer began.
"The antidote Ingredient…" Chiru finished.
"A purple Mochi?" Maylu blinked in confusion.
"This is Yakuzen (Medicinal Cooking) Mochi. It's made with Irogome (Color Rice). By completing the kind of Mochi the color complementary to the color of the poison, it can neutralize the efficacy of the poison inside the body," Yuda informed.
"But why purple? I thought red was its complementary color," Roll noted.
"Seems you've been looking at a strange color wheel," Damara noted, "Though it's called Green Rain, its color is actually closer to yellow-green. On an actual Color Wheel, the color across from that is purple."
"So then we'll be making Purple Mochi," Tsurara Mama noted.
"Let's hurry and make it!" Komatsu exclaimed.
"With all these people, we can make a whole lot of Yakuzen Mochi!" Musubi declared with a fist pump.
"It can't work…" Lulubhu noted.
"Why not?" Matsu asked.
"It's true that we can produce it more quickly, but if you consider the time to distribute it, then we need to finish within 30 minutes," Lulubhu informed.
"Even in spite of all of the skilled chefs we have assembled here, it's next to impossible to finish cooking for several hundred million people," Roll frowned before smirking, "I just love a good challenge."
"But…" Komatsu began.
"This is a Special Preparation Ingredient, isn't it, Yuda-san?" Maylu asked.
"Indeed," Yuda nodded.
"This sample one you made…You had to mix the Color Rice…the steaming time…the number of times to pound it into the mortar…They all needed to be done in a certain way that no normal chef could do," Monkey noted, motioning to the Mochi, "Seems I won't be much help then."
"It seems that only those who've gotten Food Honor and/or are high-ranking chefs like those here can make it," Musubi frowned, "Even if we had countless other chefs here, it wouldn't do squat."
"…It's deplorable, but we'll need to select 50 million humans to eat the Medicinal Cooking Mochi," Johannes informed before flinching as Musubi slapped him.
"That won't happen. I refuse to believe that!" Musubi informed before turning to Chiru and Komatsu, "Chiru-san, Komatsu-san, you remember Disappearance Cuisine, ne?"
"…!-!" Chiru's eyes widened as he glanced at Komatsu.
"I…I get it! If this Mochi is a Special Preparation Ingredient…" Komatsu gave a determined look, "Give me 10 minutes. I'll find a method so that even ordinary chefs can cook it simply!"
"What?!" the other chefs native to the Sekai gasped.
"Please, just give me the 10 minutes. I'll find that cooking method!-! I'm sure of it…!-! So please call together lots of ordinary chefs!-! Please!-!-!" Komatsu pleaded.
'He's serious…' Damara thought.
'This boy's eyes…' Lulubhu thought.
"Huh-huh-hu. Perfect. I had just sent out a call for all the cooks in my group companies," Setsuno informed as she walked over with a cell phone in hand with Maylu following, "There're around one million of them."
"One million?" Roll repeated with a squeak before a Zone Portal appeared and Haruka, Miya, and Po emerged from it.
"I thought we would need some help, so I asked Haruka-sama, Miya-sama, and Po-san to come through a letter of the Smash Scarf," Maylu informed.
"Give it a try, Komatsu-kun," Setsuno smiled motherly at Komatsu.
"But there's no time," Chiru noted, "We should hurry to begin cooking, too."
"Then I'm glad I called him," Livebearer noted with a chuckle as a dark-skinned man with various scars on him in a white chefs' outfit, "Tairan, so glad you could come here."
"Tai-tai?" Haruka blinked, causing the man to facefault.
"Dammit, Haru! Nearly fifteen years and you still find ways to make me lose the cool entrance!" Tairan snapped.
"Poison Cuisine Tairan! The man unsurpassed in handling poison!-!" Komatsu exclaimed, "He's the genius Chef that holds the 19th Rank!"
"Huh…Seems I owe you a thousand yen," Haruka sweatdropped before pulling out a hundred gold rings from her purse, "I hope the gold-exchange rate didn't change since I went through that Zone Portal…"
"Hasn't changed a bit since you left," Tairan rolled his eyes before taking one ring, "And I consider you being here the remaining amount of what you owe." He proceeded to smirk, "Now then…Green Rain…I can't completely erase that poison, but I can easily make the circulation of it slow. Though even so, it would be for a maximum of 3 hours."
"That's more than enough!" Komatsu exclaimed, "Okay!-! Leave it to me!-! I'll get that method in less than 10 minutes!-!-!"
"Alright! Let's get to cooking!" Po exclaimed, clasping his hands together with a grin.
"I hope we finish this quickly. I'd rather hope things are going well with my father and my husband," Haruka frowned.
"Well, I'm sure your daughter will be a good moderator," Miya giggled.
"…What just happened?" Yuchiro asked as he, Shifu, Chiyo, Uzume, Shuu, and Chin looked at the large pile of candy set up before Kusano.
"We just lost to a little girl in Poker," Uzume replied as Chiyo started to giggle uncontrollably.
"It…It's hilarious when you think about it…" Chiyo said between giggles.
"It seems that the Food wanted to be with her if she's been this lucky," Chin noted, adjusting his glasses, as Kusano smiled happily.
"Okay, I've contacted them. They can't come to this location, but I've called together the 50,000 chefs in my group in the Kitchen Dome, containing 50,000 kitchens…" Damaras informed.
"There'll be 20,000 from me…! They're all gathered in a nearby plaza where people are taking shelter," Lulubhu noted.
"There's 10,000 from me," the 10th ranked chef said, "I've called out to many of the chefs in other cooking schools as I could."
"I'll have 8000. I've asked all my snack bar comrades to get to their shops," Tsurara Mama informed.
"I've got 30,000! They're former underground cooking world chefs, but their skill is undeniable. Rest easy," Livebearer grinned.
"I thank you, everyone. I'll put out an emergency request for simple kitchens and cooking cars at the places you've gathered chefs," Johannes informed, "Now…all we can do is pray for a miracle."
All over where the humans were at, their phones began to go off. Everyone began to answer them as TVs turned on to show Tairan on them.
=To all those whom have been hit by the Green Rain, I'm got gonna repeat this, so listen up=
"It's even on the building monitor," Tsukiumi noted, recovering from using so much energy to keep the humans dry.
"I've read about him in one of Koma-chan's books, Poison Cooking Tairan," Kazehana noted.
=This is known as Green Rain, a deadly poison. If you're wet by it, you're certain to within one hour= Tairan informed, causing the two Sekirei to facepalm as everyone started to freak out around them =Don't get worked up. You won't be dying just yet. If you push on the Pressure Points on your bodies that I'm about to tell you, you'll increase the amount of time before you die by a little. They're pressure points that delay the effect of the poison. It's a massage that takes about 5 minutes in total and it's fairly complicated, but concentrate and follow along to this video. It requires someone else to do it for you. Lan Hikari?=
=Hello= Lan waved =I am his dummy for the pressure points at the moment=
=We'll keep running this over and over, so tell anyone who can't see this video right now= Tairan informed =First, you…=
Kazehana and Tsukiumi didn't really pay attention, distracted by Lan being shirtless for the pressure points.
"I'm serious, Tairan-san, that tickled!" Lan noted.
"We've got one minute left for him to get it," Johannes informed.
"So do you think Nono-chan has a little crush on Komatsu?" Haruka asked with a sly smile.
"Always the teaser for romances, Haruka," Setsuno giggled, "I'm quite relieved that you're alive and well."
"I'm also glad I could see my favorite 'aunt' as well," Haruka giggled, "Once this is over, will your restaurant be open? I'd like to treat my family to a meal there."
"For 'family,' it's always open," Setsuno informed with a smile, "Perhaps I can ask Komatsu-kun to provide me the Century Soup's secret ingredient for the meal."
"Th…The Century Soup? The young man we're putting all out hopes on actually got it to form an aurora?" Haruka gasped, drooling a bit.
"I see your Gourmet Cells have already started to awaken once more," Setsuno noted.
"I sent her a ton of foods from here," Lan admitted.
"It was all delicious," Miya informed.
"…Is it…a no…?" Yuda pondered, seeing only 10 seconds remained.
"I cannot blame him…" Lulubhu noted.
"…" Livebeared just looked at the door with Chiru.
"Come on, Koma-chan…" Musubi prayed with her hands clenched together.
"I'll begin the selection of people to eat…" Johannes began before Lan held up a hand.
"He's done," Lan informed as the door opened.
"I did iiiiiiitttttt!-!-! I found…I found a way to simplify the cooking of the Medicinal Cooking Mochi!-!-!"
"All riiiight, Koma-chan!-!-!" Musubi cheered.
"Nice one, Komatsu-Aniki!" Lan cheered, pumping a fist with Musubi.
"Get a connection going across the world!-!" Livebearer ordered, "Have the chefs been gathered?!"
"All 1,110,000 chefs have gathered together in their locations to start cooking," Johannes informed as he motioned to a set of live feed monitors that showed multiple chefs.
=We're here, too!-! Chef Komatsu!-!=
"Oh, those are the cooks of Hotel Gourmet," Setsuno noted, "Seems that the IGO is moving as well."
"…!-! Y…You guys…" Komatsu sniffled, giving a small smile at the sight.
"We've also assembled other chefs from lands all over the world, it seems," Johannes noted as more monitors showed chefs from different nations at ready, "In total, we have no less than five million chefs at ready."
"Will there be enough Ingredients to cook with?" Miya asked.
=Just leave it to us!-!= Tom declared on one of the screens, a massive pile of packages ready behind him and hundreds of other men and women =If it's Ingredients you need, us wholesale merchants are scraping them together!-!=
"Tom-san!-!" Komatsu grinned.
=I've given my message. Now it's up to you, now, Komatsu!=
"Right!-!-! Okay, starting now; I'll be lecturing on how to cook the Medicinal Cooking Mochi!-!" Komatsu declared.
With that, Komatsu began to instructions. All the high-ranked chefs and Johannes watched while the others began to copy Komatsu's cooking at nearby stations to see if it could really be replicated. Soon, all of them were holding the purple Mochi.
'He was really such a genius?!-!-!' Yuda thought in amazement.
"It…It only took 3 minutes," Lan awed.
"It…It was so simple. Almost like instant ramen," Miya noted, looking at the purple Mochi she had in her hand.
"The cooking now begins! Make sure they keep getting sent to the Infected Areas!" Johannes ordered over the line, "With 5 Million, over 200 million can be made in 2 hours!"
"Dear me, quite admirable…I would never had thought this cooking method existed…And what's more, with this method, we can manage the remaining 300 million ourselves," Yuda noted with a chuckle.
"Well done, Komatsu-kun. You really did it and in only ten minutes," Setsuno noted.
"It wasn't 10 minutes, Sensei…" Nono informed, "He found the cooking method in just under 5 minutes…"
"…My goodness…" Setsuno whispered in awe.
"In the last 5 minutes, Chef Komatsu, came up with a way to make the Mochi's Flavor more delicious."
"Smart move," Lan pointed out, "That Mochi I had to eat after getting some Green Rain Tairan had on him dumped on me for that demonstration tasted terrible."
"You say that about all medicine. Even the bubble gum-flavored ones," Haruka noted.
"I hate medicine, plain and simple. I'm still grateful to the food part of it, but not the medicine part," Lan shuddered.
"W…Well…I just thought if they were gonna eat it one way or another, it might as well taste good…" Komatsu sheepishly chuckled before Tairan pulled out a vial of Green Rain and dumped it on Lan's head.
"Hey!" Lan barked before Haruka shoved a Mochi into his mouth, "…" he chewed it a little before swallowing, "…Now that is a Mochi."
"What an amazing boy…" Lulubhu noted.
"In that little time, he even pursued taste…?!" Tsurara Mama blinked.
'Toriko-san, Coco-san, Sunny-san, Zebra-san…It looks like we've managed to do all right here,' Lan thought, 'So please, take care of the Four Beasts for us. I hope Scan will get there in time with their own Mochi cure.'
Scan whined in his small form, licking the critically injured Toriko's face. Around him, the Four Heavenly Kings were in critical conditions for humans. Nearby, the Four Beasts let out a roar of victory.
"Ugh…D…Dammit…" Coco groaned.
"Th…This ain't good…It's too strong…" Sunny panted.
"Th…Thanks," Toriko managed as he ate his purple Mochi.
"I think we…might really die…This time…" Sunny admitted.
"…Hmph…This ain't an opponent that we can't beat…" Zebra growled as he took one from Scan.
"Looks like…we're just gonna have to clench our stomachs and prepare for the worst…" Sunny admitted before Toriko's stomach rumbled loudly, causing the blue-haired man to start laughing.
Bastard…At a time like this…" Zebra growled.
"Quit makin' that unrefined sound with your stomach!-!" Sunny snapped.
"Ah, sorry…I guess it's annoying. That reminds me, that message from the Old Man Rin told me about, apparently at the end he touched on the Four Beasts' Taste…I started thinking about that unintentionally…"
"It's taste?!-!" the other three felt their eyes widen.
"Yeah. When the thing takes damage, it flows through the insides of the body and gets emitted outside of it…making a certain amino acid. That amplifies the savory components of the meat. It matures every time damage flows through it," Toriko explained, "So in other words…the more Damage we do to it, the tastier it gets!"
"Geez…Friggin' taste…?" Zebra groaned as the Four Beasts began to approach them.
"We might die, you know, so don't talk about that stuff at a time like this," Coco noted.
"Yeah…A ton…" 'I wonder just how much it matured…?' Zebra pondered before his stomach growled, "Hm?"
"Do you know what sound you're makin', Zebra?!" Sunny demanded before his went off in unison with Scan's, "Geh!"
"Ah, I think it's you, Sunny, that's unrefined," Coco chuckled as his went off as well.
"Ha-hah! Even with everybody so beat up we're on the verge of death, our stomachs are honest!" Toriko laughed as he wiped the drool on his face, "I wonder how this guy's taste matured…"
"You can bet it'll be real tasty!" Sunny laughed.
"It's been quite a long time…since my stomach's rumbled," Coco noted with a grin.
"Damn, I wanna eat that thing's meat!" Zebra agreed.
"Ooh…I can move again…Hehe…It's been like this sine way back…Even in the training days, the thing that could always cheer us up was curiosity for a Taste," Toriko grinned as the Four Beasts stood over them, "Let's eat that thing!-!"
It was about to attack when the remains of the buildings came to life into a Pseudo-Four Beasts, Scan in his full size in the center of it, acting as a heart. Scan tackled the Four Beasts away from them.
"Hold on…I think I…Yatta! I got visual!" Matsu cheered, "Oh my! We've got two in the city?!"
"Two?" Lan blinked as he, Ace, and Johannes sat near the laptop Matsu had set up, "That's not a second one, that's Scan! All right, boy! Help Toriko-tachi!"
"Ha-ha! That's showing that beast!" Ace swung a fist into the air, "Zzz…"
"He seems to be trying to stall it," Johannes noted, "What kind of partner do you have?"
"A gift from my late Sensei," Lan replied, "He's a Chaos Flame Wolf. When he howls, he unleashes his flames and causes, well, Chaos. Never thought he'd cause the rubble to make him a pseudo-Four Beasts, though."
"Scan's giving us a window of opportunity," Toriko noted.
"We've gotta find a way to beat him," Sunny frowned as Scan made the Four Beasts back off further away from the areas where the humans were.
"That's friggin' easy. We just need to give him enough damage at once so he can't make it flow out," Zebra smirked.
"Zebra, you…" Sunny began.
"As we are now, doing an attack with that much power is not…" Coco began before their eyes widened as Toriko held out his hand to them.
"Toriko…" Coco noted.
"In the training days, we never once did one successfully, did we…? A four-man Combination Technique…"
"The secret technique the president told us, huh…?" Coco pondered.
"If we wanna beat the Four Beasts, this is all we've got left," Toriko panted.
"But the risk is high, and it takes time to use the technique," Coco pointed out.
"Time we're wastin' talkin' while th' pup's beating!" Zebra snapped, "Everyone's Appetite and Spirits need to match perfectly or the technique won't work, even if we charge it up."
"You're the one who matches the least!-!" the other three snapped as Scan drop-kicked the Four Beasts before it sprouted more limbs to pulverize the pseudo-Four Beasts.
Scan roared as he jumped out of his construct as it was slammed with all the limbs of the Four Beasts. Storm Flames flared up on Scan's claws as it neared the Four Beasts' face.
"Yeah! Go, Scan, go!" Lan whooped before his eyes widened, "!-!"
"Oh…Oh no…" Matsu put a hand over her mouth.
"…" Johannes frowned.
"…" Ace hid his eyes under his hat.
"S-Scan!-!-!" Lan cried out.
Scan coughed out a bit of blood, tinted with the Dying Will Flames he was fueled by. Multiple upon multiple spikes impaled his form, all emerging from the Four Beasts' mouth. Scan slowly moved its head, somehow knowing that Lan was looking at him.
"Scan! No, Scan!" Lan cried out, grabbing the sides of the laptop, "We…We gotta…"
A whine caught his attention. He turned to the screen to see Scan looking right at him. Lan trembled, the tears falling from his face refusing to stop.
"Not again…Please, Scan, I lost Sensei…I don't want to lose you, too," Lan whispered.
Scan just gave a soft whine. Lan thought he could see something in the wolf's eyes before he turned away to give a glare at the Four Beasts.
"Scan…" Lan whispered.
The Four Beasts wondered why the beast, about to die, was not fearing him. Suddenly, Scan's fur transformed into the darkest of blacks with a collar of Storm Flames flaring around its neck. Its body began to swell up as more and more Flames began to swell within his body. The Four Beasts' eyes widened, seeing not a small wolf, but a massive grim reaper, easily the size of the moon above. Scan let loose a demonic, frenzied roar before detonating. The Four Beasts shrieked in agony as parts of its body was incinerated by the Storm Flames. It collapsed over onto its back, groaning as it began to heal.
"Oh man…" Toriko whispered as his fists trembled.
"…Dammit…" Megaman cursed, lowering his binoculars.
"Minna! Lan-tan's collapsed!" Matsu cried out.
"Nani!?" Musubi, Maylu, and Haruka gasped, finishing their Mochi before racing off into the other room where Johannes was putting Lan on the couch, his eyes clouded over a bit as they continued to spill tears.
"What happened to him?" Haruka asked.
"It's not Green Rain," Johannes assured, "His partner just blew up."
"Wh-What?" Maylu whispered.
"Scan…Scan was winning, but when he jumped out before his construct was destroyed…" Matsu trembled.
"From what Megaman told me, this happened too when his sensei saved this Bon-chan," Ace noted, "Died saving him."
"No…" Maylu gasped.
"But it wasn't this bad," Ace continued, "He collapsed to his knees, holding the last gift his Sensei gave him; the collar the guy always wore."
"…I met him," Maylu noted, "He was supposed to create horrible, horrible nightmares for all that slept near him. But it never happened. He was the kindest being you'd ever know. Never asked for anything, always gave a hand. He taught Lan how to use his Dimensional Powers. To Lan-kun, he once said that Kage-san was more than a sensei or even a friend…he felt like a grandfather, someone he always wanted to have in his family," She looked at the screen that showed the Four Beasts being surrounded by Kiss, Quinn, Megaman: IS, and Terry, looking at a small flicker of Chaos Flames dying out, "…It was Kage-san who gave Lan-kun his very first pet…his first closest companion…Scan."
"No wonder he's this bad," Johannes noted, looking down at the pre-teen, "Scan was more than just a pet or partner; he was one of the most important companions in his life. A gift treasured so dearly because of it being from his grandfather-figure."
"They'll need help," Maylu noted before pulling out Chibi's SmmnChip and slid it into Lan's PeT ZX.
"This is for Scan, you son of a bitch!" Megaman: IS roared as he and Chibisuke in his true form unleashed a laser blast the size of ten of the Four Beasts, sending it skidding back about 60 meters away, "Toriko-tachi!-! We'll buy you some time, you got it?"
"We got it! We'll store up the power!-!" Toriko roared out, "Just wait till you see this. The Four Heavenly King's most powerful technique…!-!"
With that, the four turned to each other. Toriko started to preparation by holding his hands out to resemble jaws. Overshadowing his body, his Intimidation's head began to release a strange energy from its jaws. One by one, the others and their Intimidations began to do the same, causing a tiny sphere of light to appear.
"Concentrate…Bring your appetites together," Toriko reminded them, 'We're counting on you five to do this…'
Terry chomped down as he rushed by the Four Beasts, devouring its right arm before anyone could even notice it. Kiss cried out as he flew down, spiraling like a drill, before piercing right through the monster's body. Quinn wrapped a large amount of her body all around the knee area of its right leg. She squeezed and severed it in two. The Four Beasts wobbled before looking up as Chibisuke flew down, Megaman: IS creating an energy sword with Caliburn out. Chibi slammed his right fist into the monster's face as Megaman: IS sliced off the other arm, knocking it over.
"Shaaaaa!"
"Gaaa!"
"Garuh!-!-!"
"GRAAAARGHHH!-!-!" Chibi roared.
The Four Beasts recalled some ancient memories…thousands of battles it had done with the ancestors of the three Gourmet World Beasts there unfolded in its mind. It did not know of the dragon, but could feel the unlimited potential it had and how it was unleashing it with its rider. These five were certainly not trying to buy time. It was sure they were intending to take it down. Then the only thing for it to do was to crush them itself.
"OOOOOOO!-!-!-!" The Four Beasts roared as multiple upon multiple arms and new legs erupted from its muscular body.
"…"
"Kuh…"
"Concentrate harder…" Sunny panted.
"You guys don't got enough Appetite Energy…" Zebra growled.
"Th…The Four Beasts…" Toriko panted, 'I wanna eat the Four Beasts…'
"GRAAAAAAA!-!-!-!"
The Four Beasts sent a tentacle-like limb out at Terry and another at Chibisuke. The Senkoukura roared as he and Terry dodged. Suddenly, more shot out and grabbed the four beasts and Megaman. It proceeded to swing them around before slamming all of its limbs onto them, getting even all of the length of Quinn.
"Terry/Kiss/Quinn!" three of the Heavenly Kings gasped.
"Focus, you fuckers!" Zebra snapped.
"No! Megaman!" Matsu cried out, witnessing the crush of her friend, the legendary dragon, and the three Gourmet Beasts in the hands of the Four Beasts on the screens.
"Mega!-!" Roll cried out, having finished a new batch to check in on Lan, tears welling up in her eyes, 'No…Not again…!'
"This is bad…" Rayne scowled, peeking in, 'He wasn't supposed to die this time…'
"Wait! There's something happening on the screen!" Musubi cried out.
"Huh?" everyone but Lan looked at the screen.
On it, a massive bulge appeared on one of the hands before both were slowly being pulled apart. The cameras there managed to zoom in and Roll's eyes widened in shock. Megaman was growling, pushing apart the hands with his bare strength, his form altered. His jumpsuit was completely black, almost akin to total darkness. Over that were torso, shoulder, lower arm, lower leg, and feet armor in the colors of Terry's fur with bits of the natural armor Chibisuke had. His shoulder guards were in the shape of Sonic's quills bunched into sets of three and in the colors of Chibi's true form. Two slithering heads were on the ends of his Quinn-like snake tails, hissing in their movements, and shaped like the heads of a Night Fury and Senkoukura.
The front half of his feet appeared to have been chopped off, replaced with gold talon-like claws with an extra talon on the backs of both feet, making them resemble the feet of a raven with the front talons resembling Chibi's true form's claws. On his back were two massive wings…almost like they were the very wings of Kiss fused with Chibi's wings. On the top part of the wings was more of the gold plating, spikes lining it with the hinge part having two large horns. His helmet was shaped like an angular version of Terry's head with two curled horns in the color of Sonic's quills on the sides, the tips pointing halfway to the tip of the 'snout.'
Under the helmet/'head' was Megaman's face, all but his eyes hidden by the 'lower jaw' of the 'head'/helmet. Matsu wished it hid his eyes, because all that was once emerald was gone, replaced only by a savage blend of the colors of the eyes of the three Gourmet Beasts, the legendary dragon, and the blue hedgehog the NetNavi once was, mutated into demonic eyes that were shaped like wolf eyes, sharper than the eyes of a raven, and slit like a serpents. It got worse when he saw that the whites of them were a solid black and giving off a dark, sinister glow akin to Darkspine's eyes.
"Did…Did he just use Double Soul with more than one ally?!" Matsu gasped.
"This isn't Double Soul," Maylu gulped, her body trembling.
"What are you saying?" Haruka blinked as Megaman completely pulled apart the hands and made the Four Beasts lower them.
"To fight the Four Beasts, he's become one," Rayne informed as she and Turbo walked in with the other chefs to take a minute break to recharge real quick, "Megaman: Four Beasts Out."
"F…Four Beasts Out?" Roll repeated.
"The unison of the Gourmet Beasts, the Senkoukura, and Megaman's former life as Sonic the Hedgehog infused into a single form," Turbo noted.
"GOOOOOORRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHH!-!-!-!" Megaman let out a guttural roar as he spread his wings out.
He let loose a glare upon the Four Beasts. The monster froze up before shaking its head. Just now…It thought it was dead, its head and remaining hand in a bowl of salad, about to be devoured by…by itself?! The Four Beasts roared before swinging a limb at Megaman. The fusion of a hedgehog/NetNavi, a dragon, and three Gourmet Beasts merely made a slashing motion with one of his hands, coated in black and ended in claws. It let loose a roar of pain as the arm it swung had been sliced, diced, and minced all in an instant.
It opened its mouth and unleashed a volley of spikes. Megaman: FBO vanished before its eyes before appearing behind in, engulfed in flames. He flew and swung his claws out, unleashing a volley of energy wheels in the shape of Terry, Kiss, Quinn, and Chibi's heads that quickly sliced off the remaining limbs.
"S…Sugoi power…" Roll gasped.
The Four Beasts roared before sending a volley of energy shots at him. Megaman: Four Beasts Out flew over them as they exploded in mid-air. He performed a drop-kick motion that slammed the Four Beasts' head into the ground, making a deep crater that almost reached the Four Heavenly Kings, the sphere now the size of Coco's torso. Megaman let out another guttural roar before pausing. He and the Four Beasts turned to see the Four Heavenly Kings, now holding an energy sphere the size of all four of them put together.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting," Coco apologized.
"And you, Four Beasts, take a good look. This is our Appetite!-!" Sunny declared.
"The Energy of our Desire to eat you," Zebra added.
"How about a showdown to see which is stronger? Your appetite, or ours…!-!" Toriko declared as the Four Beasts ignored the Four Beasts Out to face them, "The winner is indisputably the Predator…!-!"
"Ou Shoku Bansan (Dinner of Kings [As in a inner where they eat kings)!-!-!" all four declared in unison.
Even the Wildness that lurked inside them were clad in tuxedoes and wore napkins on their breasts. While maintaining the air of gentleman, they devoted themselves to a meal. It was now an Imitation of being at the 'Top of the Food Chain'…At that moment, they could truly be called Predator Kings. And standing on a plate in the middle of their 'table' was the Four Beasts.
Megaman: Four Beasts Out landed roughly two miles away before splitting back into his original body and the four beasts, all completely healed yet their stomachs gurgled loudly. Their entire strength had been depleted for the few minutes of being as one single form, causing even their stomachs to cry out to devour something…anything they could at the moment. It would be settled later once the monster was gone. All over, screens began to show this new technique to bear witness to the end of the fight. Slowly, the sphere opened up on one side, forming a 'mouth.'
"I give thanks…to all the Ingredients in this world…Itadakimasu," Toriko gave thanks.
The sphere shot out and entered the Four Beasts' gut. Its eyes widened as it felt the sphere starting to devour it from the inside-out. It emerged from its back before roaring, turning, and going in through another part. Slowly, its insides were starting to be exposed by the sphere devouring it.
"Ou Shoku Bansan. That is the energy of Appetite itself," Coco informed.
"It's an energy that eats the opponent and grows larger with the opponent's savoriness," Sunny added.
"Until the Ingredient is completely eaten…" Zebra began.
"This attack will not end," Toriko finished.
No matter how hard it tried, the Four Beasts could not stop the sphere from doing what it was made to do. The sphere erupted from its gut, now the size of the Four Beasts' head.
"Have you not realized it yet, Four Beasts?" Sunny smirked.
"This ain't a Fight…It's a Meal," Zebra sneered.
"The moment this Technique was completed, this fight was over," Coco added.
"Eat or be eaten…A wilf fight where we bear each other no grudges…!-!" Toriko smiled in victory, "We are the Predators!-!" The Four Beasts couldn't even keep up with it anymore, "Be at ease, Four Beasts…You can be sure your death will not be a waste. Your life…"
=That blood…and that flesh…Will all be eaten completely by us, Mankind…= Toriko informed from all the various monitors that were tuned into the fight =We won't leave one bit of flesh or bone behind…=
"Seems they did it," Kazehana noted as she looked up at the sky, seeing the Green Rain Clouds dissipating.
=So…We give thanks…to your life, as well= Toriko informed as he, Sunny, and Coco held their hands together in prayer.
=Gochisousama Deshita~~~~= all four said in unison.
All over, humanity began to cheer and celebrate. The greatest crisis in all of mankind had been defeated. At the Gourmet Towers, Komatsu ran off, crying while holding more Mochi in a carrying case, heading right to go see his four friends that had united to defeat a single foe. Matsu, Musubi, Maylu, and Haruka held Lan close as he continued crying. He was happy that the Four Beasts was gone, but it didn't outweigh the pain and suffering of losing his closest companion.
"Ooh…The Appetite was satisfied by the Four Beasts' tastiness. It's puffing up like it's gonna burst," Toriko noted, lying on his back like the other four.
"Ou Shoku Bansan…Energy that consumes all, huh…? That was a tremendous technique, even for us…" Coco panted.
"Hmph…It wasn't anything like that. The technique's true for is our Appetites…" Zebra snorted, "That Gluttony wasn't bad even for us. That would be the right way of sayin' it, wouln't it?"
"The knives and forks I usually send out without really thinking about it…They might be energy from inside my Gourmet Cells brought out by Appetite…Maybe they were an introductory version of the secret technique, Ou Shoku Bansan…" Toriko noted.
"Toriko-saaan!-! Coco-saaan!-! Sunny-saaan!-! Zebra-saaan!-!" Komatsu cried out as he, Rin, and Roll ran over, "We brought more of the Medicinal Cooking Mochi!-!-!"
"Komatsu!-!-! Rin!-!-! Roll!-!-!" Toriko exclaimed.
"I'm so glad we brought more," Roll noted before she took a few and ran over to the approaching five, "Please, eat up."
"Th…Thanks," Megaman replied as he took one and tossed the rest into the air, letting the four beasts each devour a fourth thrown up into the air.
"You sound so weak," Roll noted before barely catching the falling former hedgehog, "Ah! Sonikku!"
"I…I'm fine. Just really hungry and tired…" Megaman replied.
"…" Roll just giggled, "Then I'll give you something good for tonight, honey."
"Thanks," Megaman gave a gentle smile before looking over at the sphere, "…Scan…"
"It'll be rather quiet without him around, huh?" Roll asked.
"Yeah…Crap, Lan's probably…"
"The girls are comforting him. I just told Tsukiumi and Kazehana and the next thing I know; I blink and they're gone," Roll informed.
"…Kid's got some good wives, huh?" Megaman chuckled.
"He will, dear, he will," Roll nodded before a whine made her ears twitch, "Eh?"
"What's wrong, dear?" Megaman asked.
"It couldn't be…" Roll looked over and her eyes widened, "Mega-kun!-!"
"What?" Megaman looked in the direction Roll had, "Well, I'll be a son of a Knave."
There, limping towards them, was a little puppy, almost slightly bigger than a newborn puppy. It let out whimpers as it approached them. Roll gently let Megaman lie down and the puppy finally limped over. Roll gently ran her hand over the fur. It was messy, but softer than that of the purest silk. Bits of Chaos Flames came off the puppy's paws and tail.
"Little, cutie Scan," Roll giggled, "Seems that he didn't lose you, after all, ne?"
"It's a shame we couldn't save the lives that beast took…" Sunny frowned as he ate a Mochi.
"That might not be true. Look…right next to the filled-up Ou Shoku Bansan…" Coco pointed up.
"What is that? Some leftovers?" Toriko asked.
"Our Appetites only ate the Target, the Four Beasts, alone…" Coco informed.
"It can't be…" Rin gasped.
"It can… That thing it didn't eat and left behind…I can see lots of Denpa coming from it…"
"Yeah…I can hear it…The pulse of tens of thousands of people," Zebra added before the bubble popped and all the humans that had been eaten began to fall down, all alive still.
"Sunny!-!"
"Right!-! Hair Net!-!" Sunny declared as his hair shot out and made a net that caught all the humans.
"Look!-! The Four Beasts' meat…is falling, too!-!"
Chibisuke looked up at the falling slab of meat-which was actually a limb of the Four Beasts it left behind. It let out a series of growls and snorts at his fellow beasts. Quinn nodded before making a net out of herself and the other three each grabbed an 'end' of the 'net' and began to run/fly around rather comically until they caught the meat.
"Uhyooo!-!-! That looks so gooood!-!" Toriko exclaimed, hearts for eyes and steam erupting from his nostrils, "All riiight! How 'bout we grab that meat and together with all of mankind, let's eaaaaaaaaat!-!-!"
"Seems it's our turn for the spotlight!-!" Setsuno beamed, "Let's cook the Four Beast!-!"
Unaware to them, Khyber was nearby with Akainu. He held up the Nemetrix and the image of the four Limbs of the Four Beasts and the Four Beasts itself appeared on the screen of it. He put it back on his partner and looked at Akainu.
"Seems that this world will be a perfect training ground," Akainu noted, "You've done well, Khyber."
"I thank you," Khyber nodded.
"…" Lan just looked at the curry the girls had worked together to make with the Four Beasts' meat.
"Lan-kun…" Maylu whispered before Megaman and Roll walked in, carrying a present.
"Lan, we have something for you," Megaman informed as he put the package down.
"It seems Scan's a tricky little bugger," Roll noted, flinching as Lan's 'dragon' appeared behind him, looking worse for wear.
"Come on, open the package. I'm sure you'll get your appetite back," Megaman urged.
"What are they doing?" Ace whispered.
"It's kinda big," Musubi noted.
"Do they really think a present will be enough…?" Tsukiumi asked as Kazehana noticed something.
"The package moved," Kazehana noted.
"Eh?!" Matsu and Maylu gasped.
Lan blinked. The package moved once more. Slowly, Lan opened the decorated package and his eyes widened.
"Scan!" Lan exclaimed as the puppy was pulled out of the box and began to lick Lan's face, causing him to laugh, "Scan! I thought you were…! Wait…" he held the puppy up, "When were you a girl?"
"Actually…We think this is Scan's daughter," Roll explained.
"His daughter?" Lan blinked before seeing a bit of Cloud Flames on a paw, "I…I see…He used Cloud Flames at the last second to make a daughter." The puppy whined as she licked his nose, "Aw…There-there, little Modem."
"Modem?" everyone repeated.
"…What? She looks like a 'Modem,'" Lan grinned as the puppy barked happily and licked his nose once more before whimpering as she hid behind Lan when his stomach went off, "Oops. Sorry about that, Modem. Guess I'm starving right now."
"Well…" Matsu began as the girls looked at the large plate they made for him.
"Thanks girls!" Lan grinned before taking a bit, "…Umaaaaai~~~! So this is the taste of the Four Beasts. Toriko-tachi really did a number on it to make the meat this savory."
"So why are you coming with us?" Lan asked.
"Duh! Because I told ya you interest me, White Boss!" Rayne replied, "Plus, you need a gal like me because I've got the know-how and know-whats of some things, ya dig?" 'Plus, I wanna know how the hell this all happened…'
"Please take good care of us," Turbo bowed.
"Can I ask what you can provide?" Tsukiumi asked.
"Well…A special fridge a friend of mine made, for one," Rayne smirked before pulling out a fridge the size of a house behind her back, "It's connected to a special Zone Portal that only appears in this world, collecting only Ingredients, no humans or Nitro at all. It's also good for training."
"You're hired!" Musubi declared, drooling while thinking of all the training and foods, before Haruka pulled her ear.
"Now, now, Musubi-dear," Haruka informed, a white wolf appearing behind her, "My husband wants to meet you three."
"Aw," Musubi pouted cutely.
"Hey, now. I'm sure it will all end all right, Mu-chan," Lan spoke, pecking her cheek, before Modem hopped onto her chest, "Modem-chan wants to go with you all, so I'm counting on you, Tsuki-chan, and Hana-chan, okay?"
"You got it!" Musubi nodded, pumping her fist.
"And it will be fine. Maylu-tan and I will watch Lan-tan," Matsu gave a giggle as she and Maylu hugged the Hikari.
"Mou…" Musubi pouted cutely once more.
"I'm sure everyone back home will love this meat," Miya noted, carrying a bit of the Four Beasts' meat that was as big as her on her back.
"You'll be eating for a week," Lan noted with a chuckle until hiding behind Megaman as Miya's Oni appeared.
"I might as well come with you girls. I think I need to rest. This is way more excitement than I can handle at the moment," Ace noted, "Plus, I wanna see what your world's like, Lan. I saw the Alternate one, but now I'm curious about yours."
"Now make sure to wear clean you-know-whats everyday, okay?" Haruka teased.
"K-Kaa-chan…!" Lan blushed as Toriko laughed.
"Good luck out there!" Toriko informed.
"I really hope you guys will come back soon," Komatsu spoke.
"You bet we will!" Lan grinned, "After all, I have a lot of family here! Like you two."
"Aw…" Toriko sniffled as he turned away, 'Don't cry, Toriko. Don't cry…'
"You see us as family?" Komatsu sniffled, rivers of tears falling from his face, "Dat's so goob doo beer!-!-!"
Me: With the defeat of the Four Beasts, new friends and powers have been awakened. For Lan, the loss of Scan is still painful, but knowing that Scan gave him his daughter, Modem, has made him feel slightly better. What will the next world be? Will Musubi, Tsukiumi, and Kazehana be able to be allowed to be with Lan in Yuchiro's opinion? And will the others ever be able to win back the candy Kusano won from them? Find out, next time (Probably not the last one, though).