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Sage: Dontcha just love denial?

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mystery8icarus: yuppers... I like sayin' 'yuppers'.

RookieNeir: ...I'm gonna pretend I didn't read that...

KoopaTroopa16: Yay~! You love it~! I like squigglies~! Ok, well thanks for Kit!

the unknown assasin: Thankees~!

Duskzilla: Yup, and I will be here, watching everything, not even bothering to break your fights up. I will be much amused, much amused... And uh, Scourge was it? Yeah, don't do that or I'll send some random character after you.

NineTales627: Yay, the fluffy Nystique-ness will retunr in the sequel! Ok, well thank you for staying faithful to tis not-so-little fanfic~!

Disclaimer: Uh, yeah I don't own the SSB series... I DO however own multiple things I could easily use as weapons to take over Nintendo, and then I'd own the SSB series... Haha, just kidding~ ... Maybe...

Chapter 44

Finding friends.

With Tex, and Starr...

Coughing fills the room as Starr sits up. She looks around, examining the room. The air is full of dust from the cave in, and its very dark.

"Tex?" Starr manages to cough out.

"Yeah." A wheezing voice replies.

"We're stuck, aren't we?" She asks bluntly.

"I would think so." Comes the sarcastic reply.

"So, what're we gonna do?" She asks, completely ignoring the humor in the situation.

"I dunno, I can't see so it's gonna be hard to find a way out." Tex replies, sitting up also. He looks around, rather futilely, and sighs

"Wait, what's that?" Starr suddenly says, then gets onto her feet. Walking, though careful as not to step on anything, she makes her way to a distant light.

"Wait up!" Tex exclaims, then half dashes, half tip toes over to her.


With Poppy, and closely following Dagger, and Josh...

Poppy quickened her jog into a run, causing the lantern she's holding to bounce around.

"Poppy, wait up!" A panting Josh exclaims, but quickly catches up, and bumps into Poppy.

"Oof," they chorus, then both fall to the ground.

"This way Alice!" Echoes around the now darkened tunnel. Footsteps are heard running towards them quickly, and before anyone realizes who it is, Lyric is flat on her face, having tripped over the growing pile of teens.

"Hey Lyric, that you?" Poppy asks as she pushes Josh off of her.

"Yup." She confirms as more footsteps approach, slower paced then Lyric's had been mind you.

"Lyric?" Alice's small voice asks.

"Right her- Oof!" Alice, earing Lyric, had immediately dashed towards, and succeeding in tripping onto her.

"G't uff." Lyric orders in a muffled voice. Poppy's chortles could be heard bouncing off the walls.

"Well now you know how I feel." Alice consoles while attempting to scramble off of her squshed friend.

"Stop laughing!" Lyric whines at Poppy, and Josh who had joined in soon after Poppy.

"Heheheh, I-I can't!" Poppy exclaims, and a burst of giggles escapes from her lips. Sighing, Lyric gets up, and dusts herself off.

"Hey, weren't you carrying a light?" Alice inquires. An affirmative grunt comes from seemingly empty space, causing all but Poppy to jump.

"Oh, there you are Dagger." Josh remarks after recovering from his startled state.

"Yeah, I dropped my lantern somewhere around here." Another grunt, and Poppy is handed a beat-up lantern, wich she quickly turns on. Oh, I didn't tell you it was electric? My bad.

"Oh thank goodness, I'm not sure how I would've survived witout light." Lyric says, putting emphasis on the 'Sur' in 'survived'.

"Uh-huh, well where to now?" Alice wonders aloud.

"That way?" Josh suggests, though it was really more of a question, while pointing down an unexplored tunnel.

"Okay, I guess we should probably try to get back above ground." Alice agrees.

"Anywhere's fine with me." Lyric says, earning a nod, and grunt of agreement frm Poppy and Dagger. And with that, the small group of teens started down the tunnel.


With Jay...

"Where the heck am I?" Jay mutters while taking another turn.

"Aw, the blush is back~!"

"Be quiet!"

"What was that?" She mutters more. She follows the sounds, and soon discovers a cavern. Upon entering, Jay is very surprised to see a gleeful Mystique, prancing around a stuttering, and blushing Nylon.

"Hey guys." She says loudly. Bot freeze, and slowly turn their heads towards her. Once they finish, and are looking directy at her, Jay gives a small wave. Mystique returns the wave, while slowly exiting her very socked state.

"Jay?" Nylon inquires, having regained his ability to speak.

"In the flesh." she replies, complete with a smirk.

"OMIHGOD!" In seconds, Mystique is easily suffocating Jay with a tight hug.

"Myst," Jay manages to say with a wheeze.

"Hmm?"

"Can't... Breathe..."

"Oh!" Mystique breaks from the embrace, and holds Jay at arms length.

"It's so great to see someones face!" Mystique exclaims, violently shaking Jay all-the-while.

"Hey, what about me?!" Nylon exclaims.

"Oh hey, when did you get here?" Jay teases, earning an exasperated sigh from Nylon.

"Oh, I'm jus' teasin'! Come 'ere, we can make a group hug!" She says sweetly, and beckons him with open arms.

"Wh-what! No, n-no! Why would I do that!" He says quickly, crossing his arms, and looking away to hide a blush.

"Somebody's blushing~!" Mystique sings, then dances towards im, leaving a crestfallen Jay.

"Aw, I wanted a group hug..." She murmurs, but follows soon enough.


Back with Poppy, Dagger, Josh, Lyric, and Alice...

"We've been walking for hours," Lyric whines.

"Can't we take a break?" She looks up expectantly at Poppy, who was dubbed the leader of this small group.

"No." She says bluntly.

"why not?" Lyric continues to whine.

"'Cause I wanna get outta this dark, stinky hell hole." She retorts.

"It's not that bad, at least we have light, and none of us are hurt." Alice says, trying to ease the tention between the two weary teen girls.

"It kind of is." Josh says, and as reward earns an urgent 'Shh!" from Alice. Dagger makes a noise that would be considered a sigh. He stopped abruptly though, and looks around, and spots another tunnel. The other fours teen continue on, completely unaware of Dagger ceasing to walk. A loud growl from Dagger is enough to make the four stop, and turn to look at him.

He points at the tunnel, then starts down it.

"Where's 'e going?" Josh asks no one in particular.

"Who cares, let's just follow him." Lyric says, then dashes after the large lizard-like creature. Shrugging, Poppy follows. Josh and Alice are quick to follow suit.


With Tex, and Starr...

"Do you hear that?" Starr asks Tex, who just shakes his head.

"Well I did, and it sounded like several people bickering." She informs. Tex nods, then walks aead.

"Let's check it out then.

"My feet hurt!" Somebody ahead whines.

"Too bad. Just shut up."

"But they really hurt!"

"Ok, I heard that." Tex whispers.

"Why are you whispering?" Starr whispers back.

"Well, what if they're bad guys?" Tex suggests.

"Have you ever heard any of the recent 'bad guys' whining like that?"

"... Touche..."

Sorry to cut it off like that, but I need to think of how to continue that conversation. Anywho, I am pleased to announce that I will be writing a Hetalia fic! Whoooooooo! Anyways, I have several little stories plotting themselves out in my head, but I'm not sure which. One would be fun to write, but the other is planned out more... And the other sounds cool, but I don't have any of it figured out... Ok, so expect an update, and a new story, soon~!

Until next time,

~Not-Alone-Anymore