Here is the next part. In this episode, we try to straighten out this multi-directional plot, and fail miserably. Okay, I'm just kidding. After obtaining my nationals invite, I decide to make fun of those annoying birds some more. Thanks to Superstarultra for beta'ing, yet again.
While the Gladiator Beasts were discussing their strategy, Tsuruya and her group of buddies/comrades/somewhat evil cohorts, were locked up in a makeshift dungeon, located in the gym of North High. There were a number of students here, looking at the various attractions. A good number of them had been pointing at the cages.
"Ha! I knew she was a wild animal! Just look at that fang, she's a freaking crocodile!" One of the students shouted, while pointing at Tsuruya's cage.
"Hey! That's very rude, nyoro! My fang is a symbol of honor within my family!" The genki-girl shouted, while shaking on the bars of the cage.
"Hey, Shiki," A short, white-haired girl grabbed the boy by the wrist, and turned him to Shion's cage, "That one looks kind of hungry. Maybe we can feed her?"
"SATOSHI~!!! SATOSHI~!!!" Shion was weeping in her cell. "COME! SAVE ME FROM THIS PLACE WITH YOUR BIG, SEXY, MANLY ARMS OF SUPER MANLINESS!!!"
"Maybe we should leave her alone, Len..." The boy replied uneasily.
"Heys! I'm hungry, nyoro!" Tsuruya shouted from her cell. "Feeds mes, nyoro! I wants smoked-cheese!"
"Oh, wait, there's a sign that says, 'Don't feed the animals.' So we should just get going." The boy explained, while re-adjusting his glasses.
"Nyoro~n," Tsuruya said, pouting.
OUTSIDE THE ALUMINUM FALCON'S LANDING SPOT...
"Wow. Looks like I'll be going home soon, heh, heh...." Haruhi chuckled nervously as she witnessed her father's destructive power.
"Damn straight! We're just going to move into the Velvet Room, where your mom works. Surely, Igor won't mind!" Oruki declared.
"You have not won just yet, mortal." The sound of demonic bells filled the air as a bolt of blue lightning came down to the smoked remains of The Undertaker. As the smoke from the bolt cleared, the Deadman stood once more. "I have received a message from the Entity, declaring you a minor problem. You have a higher damage output than anyone here, besides myself, Kimidori, and Nagato. However, I now have permission from the Entity to incapacitate you."
"You don't scare me and neither do those lolis!" The gruff man motioned to the two aliens, who were standing off to the side. "Are you ready for more of mah lazers!?"
Before he could fire, The Undertaker warped in front of him, and grabbed him by the neck. He then started to chant, and before Oruki could react, the large man screamed as a loud zapping noise could be heard and went limp. Then the Phenom slammed him into the ground and began chanting again. A few moments later, a dark coffin materialized beside the Deadman, who then lifted Oruki's still limp body into the coffin, and shut the lid.
"Wow. You didn't kill him, did you?" Haruhi asked, sounding somewhat concerned.
"No. He will be kept in stasis, depending on the amount of power he was emitting at the time of imprisonment. Kimidori, what did the scouter say about his power level?" He motioned to the calm-looking alien.
"It was over nine-thousand!" She replied.
"There. He'll be in there for about a day or so. During his sleep in stasis, he will be plagued with nightmares," Undertaker stated.
"Like what? This isn't going to make him go emo, is it?" The ribboned girl asked.
"Probably not. Perhaps he will be willing to co-operate with us after he awakens," The wrestler replied.
"Yeah, I doubt it." Haruhi deadpanned. "Knowing my dad, we're going to have to beat him down at least three or four more times, before he either caves in and joins us, or whines at mom to fight us."
"Wait, your mom doesn't look that threatening. She can't hurt us, can she?" Kyon asked, sounding confused.
"I don't know. Every time he asks, she ignores him." Haruhi replied. "But then again, if dad is asking her to fight for him, she must be powerful."
"Excuse me." Yuki spoke up. "Perhaps we can regroup at my apartment. There is something I wish to discuss with you. In addition, I wish to avoid further conflict for the moment."
"You guys go on ahead." Syaoran said. "Sakura and I have to head back home, we have a few things to take care of."
"I see. Please be careful on your way home." Yuki offered. After everyone said their goodbyes, Kyon, Haruhi, and the three aliens made their way to Yuki's apartment. After typing in her key code, the purple-haired alien let the others in the complex. As they came to the elevator, they saw Vince, the Shamwow guy.
"Oh, hey! It's... You again." He greeted them, panicking slightly.
"Huh? I'm sorry, who are you again?" Haruhi asked, placing her hands on her hips.
"Haruhi, that's the guy you punched out for flirting with you." Kyon told her.
"Oh. I still don't remember him. Could you give me a better hint?" She asked. Kyon facepalmed at this.
"The guy from the Shamwow commercials," He offered.
"Oh, yeah..." She then placed a hand on her chin and blinked slowly. "YOU KILLED BILLY MAYS, YOU BASTARD!!!" The spokesperson then found himself being tackled to the ground, as the tsundere started to pound on him ferociously.
"Calm down, Haruhi! That's just a rumor some bored guy on the internet started!" Kyon said as he tried to lift her off of the poor spokesperson and restrain her.
"But I've seen proof! I saw an image of him holding a Death Note!!!" She replied, while struggling to escape from the cynic's restraint.
"That was probably a photoshop from the same guy. It's kind of like pasting Marvin the Martian's face on Carlos Mencia's face and calling him an alien."
"Hmm...Good point." She stopped struggling and calmed down. "I still don't like you though, Billy Mays rip-off." Haruhi pointed menacingly at Vince, who was on the ground, too scared to move.
"Would you three stop arguing over Mudkips, and get on the damn elevator?" Emiri said in an annoyed tone.
"Since when do you order me around!" Haruhi snapped at the calm girl.
"You know the guy standing right next to me, who took out your dad within seconds? I kicked his ass," She stated, matter-of-factly.
"Quit bragging. The only reason you won, was because of that damn balloon dog. You couldn't even do anything if she mounted you like she just did to that poor guy over there and beat you until you weren't functional." The Deadman smirked, coming to Haruhi's defense. "Besides, the Entity told me to go easy on you."
"Why you..." Emiri growled murderously. "Fine. Give the order, supreme commander."
"Very well then, let's go already! I'm getting bored. ..........And hungry."
After a somewhat uncomfortable elevator ride, the mismatched gang of characters made it to Yuki's apartment. As they entered the room, they spotted an Asian man with spiked orange hair, donning a black headband, and a tattoo of a yellow 'M' on his forehead. He wore a black vest, on top of a green shirt, and black jeans. "Ah, Yuki. You're back early. And you have guests? Oh, boy..." He said the last part sarcastically and with an eyeroll to boot.
"That's Crow. I won a bet by beating him in Modern Warfare Two, and now he's my slave. The Entity said I needed one to watch over this place for some reason," Yuki explained to her friends.
"You'd better not be taking advantage of my Yuki, you bastard!" Haruhi stormed in the conversation, raging.
"Whoa! Calm down!" Crow backed away from her in concern for his health. "She usually never tells me to do anything anyway. The only things I ever do are get groceries and spy on certain things. I don't see why she wants me to spy on these individuals, and I also don't understand why egorge visual novels are on a grocery list!" He replied, backing away from the annoyed tsundere.
"Fine. But I'm keeping an eye on you!" Haruhi snapped at him. "Anyways," She turned to face Yuki, "what did you wanna discuss?"
"It's about Lelouch. He isn't who he says he is," Yuki said, sounding frightened.
"Yuki, you sound weird. Is everything okay?" Haruhi offered.
"I will get to that in a moment. However, I suspect that he is a spy, controlled by the Sky Canopy Domain." The lavender-headed extraterrestrial said, before she turned back to her unlucky slave."Crow, get us some tea."
"Yeah, yeah..." Crow replied, as he went to the kitchen.
"Those guys? Don't they have a communication problem though?" Kyon brought up, as he took a seat at the table.
"It seems that Lelouch Lamprouge is a normal human, given a special data-manipulation power, by one of the Domain's highest ranked interfaces," Yuki clarified as she took a seat at the table, across from Kyon.
"Who exactly is this Domain thingy?" Haruhi asked as she took a seat at the table next to Kyon.
"It is a rival faction to the Integrated Data Thought Entity. Their goal is unknown, but they have kept their distance from the Entity." Yuki paused for a moment. "According to the data we have collected, the human Lelouch Lamprouge had received his data-manipulation ability from the highest ranked member of the Domain that we have knowledge of. Her name was C.C.. In order to investigate the strange ability of Lelouch, we had Emiri Kimidori spy on both Lelouch and the RIP Cartel. Upon further investigation, we discovered C.C.'s involvement in the Domain. However, it is not certain that C.C. is a member of the Domain. Our only knowledge of her is that she can manipulate data, and that she is not a member of our faction."
"I see. What does she look like?" Haruhi asked, still somewhat confused.
"She has long green hair, and is employed by Pizza Hut." The purple-haired alien then turned to Crow as he placed cups of tea on the table. "You are two-point-five seconds late, Crow. Your service time has been extended by fourteen days."
"What?! Hell, no! I'm tired of being your slave! I'm getting the fudge outta here!" He turned to where the door was supposed to be, only to find a wall.
"You cannot leave until you have completely served you time." Yuki said.
"Fine then. I challenge you to a duel! If I win, I don't have to serve you anymore!" Crow shouted, pulling out a duel-disk out of nowhere.
"Very well. If I am successful in winning, I will terminate your data, causing you to cease to exist." Yuki replied.
"Fine then! Anything's better than working for you!" He raised his duel-disk. Yuki, being an alien, had no need for the device, so she materialized a deck out of nowhere, and placed it on the table.
"I'll go first!" Crow exclaimed, as he took an unnecessary dramatic pose, and drew a card from his deck. "I summon Blackwing-Shura the Blue Flame!" Then a large, black, bird-like creature, materialized. "Now that I control a Blackwing monster, I can special summon Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind from my hand!" A smaller, bird-like creature materialized. "Now I tune Gale with Shura in order to synchro summon, Blackwing Armor Master!" A somewhat familiar bird-like creature, donning black armor, came forth.
"Hey, didn't I already kill that thing?" Haruhi brought up.
"You cheated," The large creature spoke back.
"No, I didn't. I kicked your ass all the way back to your stupid little nest in hell!" She snapped at the bird.
"Whatever. First, I'm going to slap your little alien friend around a bit, and then I'm coming for revenge!" He threatened.
"I end my turn! Try getting past my monster!" Crow said, acting smug.
"Draw." Yuki began her turn. She then laid five cards on the table. "I have Exodia." The alien calmly said, as a large, golden humanoid creature, who had chains on all of his limbs came forth. "I win. Now terminating data link." She said as Exodia launched a golden beam from his arms.
"What the..." Crow stood there, shocked.
"NO! NOT INTO THE PIT, IT BURNS!" Armor Master cried out, as he and Crow were struck by the attack.
"Yuki, what was the point of that?" Haruhi asked. "If you wanted him gone, why didn't you just do it?"
"Another thing caused by Lelouch Lamprouge. He used his data-manipulation on me, causing me to download emotion files. Beating on Crow was fun." Yuki replied, with a very faint smile.
"You're kinda creeping me out, Yuki." Haruhi admitted
"I don't blame you. I'm still a bit creeped out about this, too." Yuki turned to her green-haired workmate. "Emiri, what do you do about these emotions?" She asked.
"Oh, you'll get used to them. I hope....." Emiri sighed.
Suddenly, they all then heard a phone ringing. "I'll get it." Yuki said, and then went to get it. "Yes. Yes. I see. No, I did not sound like M. Bison right there. Yes. I see. I will be there." She hung up the phone. "Tsuruya and the RIP Cartel have been captured by the Gladiator Beasts, and they are going to hold a public execution."
"They're going to kill Tsuruya?!" Haruhi said, sounding worried. "I don't even know if she's that evil, but she doesn't deserve it!"
"They have a plan. Someone whom they have been hunting for a long time, may show up to this execution. They would not kill the RIP Cartel like this, otherwise..." Yuki paused. "...They asked us to look out for this individual."
"I see. What does this one look like?" Haruhi asked, curiously.
"He has long silver hair and carries a long sword. He also has a single dark wing." The bookworm alien explained to the party.
"Great. We get to deal with more birds!" The brown-haired tsundere laid her head on the table.
"Cheer up, Haruhi. At least we won't have to deal with more clones of ourselves," Kyon offered.
"You think we don't have to deal with more clones." Haruhi sighed. "And I thought being weird and strange would be fun, too."
"Hey, can we call up everyone, so we can meet them at the school?" Kyon asked.
"They told us to bring the Brigade, so yes. Hold on a moment." Yuki then went to the spare bedroom that Kyon an Mikuru slept in for around three years. "Balsa, are you finished?" She called. Yuki then put her ear to the door. "I see." She opened the door, and Balsa came out, placing the sheaf on her spear-tip.
"Hey," Balsa greeted. Her brow was a bit sweaty, implying that she had at least began training of some sort.
"Huh? You're staying with Yuki? And Crow didn't bug you, either?" Haruhi asked the spear-wielder.
"He didn't bug me. And yes, Yuki used some sort of magic-weaving power on the room," The bodyguard explained.
"What kind? I'm kinda curious," Haruhi asked, her face lighting up slightly.
"I preformed a modification of the room, causing it to become bigger on the inside, than is implied on the outside. In addition, I have added various items, which Balsa requested for." Yuki explained.
"Really?" Haruhi took a peek in the room. She saw a massive room with a number of features. In one corner was a sleeping area of sorts, with a flat mattress, a training area in another corner, with a few wooden practice dummies, and in-between the two, was a spring of water, dug into the floor.
"Wow! Yuki, can you do this to my room?" The ribboned girl asked enthusiastically.
"It is possible. However, it will take a long period of time, with variables depending on the adjustments. For Balsa's room, it took exactly twenty-four hours," The alien retorted.
"I see. No time for that now! I'm calling the rest of the Brigade! Did they tell us where to meet?"
"The school gymnasium." Yuki answered.
"Okay. Should I call Lelouch? It would make us suspicious if we left him out." Haruhi explained.
"Yes. Inform him of our meeting place."
LATER ON, AT THE GYMNASUIM...
The Brigade, and all of the students watching, stood behind short, security walls, as the six cages, holding members of the RIP Cartel, were in the center of the gym. Standing next to the cage holding Tsuruya, Fujiwara, Kuyoh, Kyouko, and Mitsuru, was Bestiari, with a paper in one hand, and a microphone in the other.
"Tsuruya...Whatever your first name is." The huge bird began. "We the people of the insanely overcrowded North High cultural festival, have accused you of slaughtering random security guards, tipping cows, causing annoying orange ninjas to cease to exist-which isn't really a bad thing, in my opinion- and let me add..." He paused and checked his paper again. "Damn! There's a lot here. Disturbing random concession stands, reading the Twilight novels, stealing smoked cheese, throwing random oddities at Melty Blood characters passing by, and a bunch of other crap, we sentence you to death."
"What!? Comes on! You can't kill us just because of that, nyoro..." Tsuruya pleaded pitifully.
"You killed security guards. And military. Anyhow, since we don't do executions, here's our special guest to do it for us!" Bestiari then motioned to someone in the crowd. The person made their way to the cage. It was someone with a slim build, who was wearing a hat, and had a somewhat blank expression. "Please give it up for Kino!"
"He wouldn't let me leave this country until I did it. And if I stay in a country for more than three days, I'll explode or something," Kino creepily explained to the wide-eyed crowd. She then took out a gun, from one of her holsters, and pointed it at the fanged girl in front of her terrified friends and cohorts. "Sorry, but I really don't want to explode." As she was about to pull the trigger, the building suddenly blacked out.
As the lights came back on, all of the cages were torn apart, and Kino was left on the ground, unconscious. Then Kyon practically jumped up, when he saw someone standing before Bestiari. It was someone he knew very well, since junior high. What he didn't recognize, were the black robes, and the extremely long sword she pointed at the Gladiator. "S-Sasaki!?"
"Her!? What the hell is she doing here!?" Haruhi bolted up.
"Well, well, well..." Sasaki began, licking her lips in a cat-like manner. "You expected my master, didn't you? He has taught me well enough, though. In due time, you will all fall before me. But first..." She turned to Tsuruya, Mitsuru, and her old acquaintances. "I can't believe you would sink this low. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Once I am done with these intriguing creatures, I will take all of your heads as trophies."
"What happened to you!?" Kyouko spoke up, tears welling up in her eyes. "Why are you acting like this, Sasaki? Don't you care about any of us?"
At this, Sasaki scowled, before an eerie smirk made its way onto her face. "With no order left in the world, I felt at a loss. However, as I wandered the streets alone and in deep thought, I found an interesting power welling up inside of me- darkness. It reached out to me, and in curiosity, I touched it back. Rather than fighting it, I welcomed it in. After training with my master, I inherited his power, combined with my own. Now... Let me show you all the meaning of true despair!" Sasaki exclaimed as an enormous, dark, feathered wing emerged from her robe, tearing it off. Underneath her robe, she donned a black vest, over a chainmail shirt. Uttering a gleeful laugh like a child, she then charged at Bestiari, her blade gleaming bright, and her right eye shining a bloody red.
-Anna no Issho Datta no Ni starts playing-
I might end up taking a brief break from this, because I seem to have dark elements sinking in here. Also, I think I'm losing my touch here, but that might just be the fact that I'm actually trying to fill out a non-random plot here. So I might not update this for a bit. Or I might. It depends entirely on my mood.
(Tag Out)