The very next day, Simon walked to the bathroom and smiled. He ran his hands through his hair.
Time for a restyle…
The rest of the agents gawked at the long, blond hair up in a ponytail when Simon walked in.
Even with it up in a ponytail, the length of his straightened hair went down to his shoulders. Luigi seemed jealous. The captain stayed sipping his coffee, Alph didn't seem to care and 3 wanted to touch it. Badly.
They sat down around the screen table, where the captain had the signal displayed.
"Ok, folks, we're headed somewhere very dangerous and it's best if we gear up heavily, so I contacted Alpha and…"
The captain walked over and hit the button that would normally transport them to the ship deck. Up came their suits.
"Ok, so Alpha had your normal suits cleaned, that's not what I wanted…" The captain finally hit the right button. More MVP gear came up.
"Regal gear, that's-.. That's what he gave us."
Luigi ran over and grabbed his suit. Luigi's suit was the same, but with some new gadgets.
Luigi's suit had a glove on the right hand, with a hacking terminal built into it. There were vest gun holsters, the shoes had built-in jet boosters, which could carry his weight and even more, the mask was softer and, this was with all of the suits, internal scanners for a vitals check.
Simon's suit included a more advanced set of goggles, one gun holster. For a small one. Also adjustable magnets for a sword holster. He was very excited about that. Even more, he was given cloaking options on his as well. The shoes had traction settings.
3's suit included more face protection, she chose the mask, much like Luigi. The gloves were 10% thicker, as the captain claimed. The boots were made of lighter materials and were more durable. She also had the cloaking vest.
Alph was given a regal suit as well, even though he wasn't even given an MVP standard suit.
He had the hacking terminal, a taser holster, and the badge and vest, much like everyone else.
The captain looked stylish in his suit. They heard 3 mention practicality over stylishness, but they highly ignored her and went on with the surprises.
Simon smiled as he disappeared from sight. 3 screamed as he popped back into sight, right behind her, two minutes later.
Finally, they stopped playing to listen to the captain.
"With this, we gotta go. Because I said we'd be out an hour ago."
They hurriedly went to the ship deck and hopped in. But. Alph followed them. For the first time.
Alph had to be strapped in with someone, due to a lack of seats. They feared that 3 would probably suffocate the poor child, so Luigi was entrusted with holding him until the end of the ride. It was… awkward.
They went into hyperspace. Alph nearly flew out of the seat. At the end of the ride, Simon got up and ran to the garbage disposal. They heard a large portion of poor Simon blowing chunks into the garbage disposal.
They neared the base.
"Ok. We're going to leave Alph here. Use the hacking terminal and the comms to actually serve a purpose, ok?"
Alph made a small offended face for two seconds, before the captain resumed. "We're going to have to land in through the pods. I remind you, do not kill unless absolutely necessary, got it?"
They nodded and Alph waved as he pulled the lever to launch the pods. The pods landed directly in the side of the base, where they hopped out.
"They know we're here. Be careful."
2 hours earlier…
Billy leaned in the doorway to Amber's room. "Hey. You still up for the 'test rat' thing?"
She groaned and turned around. "I've been straight bored all day-"
Billy had a tape measurer out and told her to grab it.
"You are.. 6… 9. Did you eat any more of those experimental fruit?"
"You mean the bananas?"
"Did or did you not eat them?"
"Maybe one or two more. Of the ones you didn't ruin."
"Ok. Because at this rate you'll be 10,9 by christmas."
"WHAT?!"
"Yeah, you're experiencing the benefits of your actions. Perhaps you should armor up and follow me, scout in the MVP base gave word of an attack being rumored."
Billy left.
Amber finally caught up with Billy in his lab.
"What are you doing…?"
Billy had a pale red colored vial. It looked like blood-filled saliva. Probably went down the throat like it too.
"I took the limitation properties from the all-popular Mushroom and mixed them with the extra growth properties of these fruits to make this. It'll heighten you for about… an hour, maybe two?"
"How big?"
"Well, from what the bananas do and the mushrooms do, I'd guess you'd get an extra….two or three feet. You don't need this, not yet. Now, if you do drink it, I'd suggest wearing an extra two sizes up, missy. Or just roam around huge and naked at the same time and blind your teammates."
"Maybe let's just put that away. Don't wanna… tempt someone."
Billy smiled boldly. "Yeah, let's put it in a safe place! Where no one, NO ONE, will find it!"
Amber and Billy sat in silence for a moment. "If you didn't get the memo, I want you-"
"-To leave, thank you. I'm going now."
She slowly stepped out of the room.
When she was finally gone, Billy put a cap on the vial and put it on his coat. My studies do not deserve you.
Amber went and addressed the scout at the MVP base, who claimed that they were onto him. She did NOT care until he mentioned that the leader of the MVPs' real name had a "Michael" in it.
The thought was highly interesting. Amber sat down and thought about it. M… Michael? He ran away from us 5 years ago! How could he have made an entire corporation in 1 year? He can't lead! I… I will get to the bottom of this.
Before she could say anything else, the scout spoke again. "Omega is doing fine there. He's being fed and washed and whatnot, but Alpha visits him and asks where you are, everyday."
Michael. That's definitely him.
"Ok, thank you for the news, now go back to work."
He waved and left.
Amber sat back and frowned. "That's not Michael. Michael left us out here, for that ragtag fake military? I will see fit that I see him-"
A sentry ran through the halls. "MVP ALERT! They're coming!"
Amber grabbed the intercom. "Battle positions!"
Billy went to grab the vial and frowned. She has it… oh no…
Nearby…
Simon had cloaked himself and was waltzing past the guards. He looked around. The room he had entered now was empty, except for two doors and a bunch of seats, much like an arena.
Alph stopped him. "S, watch out, there's some weird signals in that room…"
"I think I've got it-"
He halted. "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
S undid the cloaking for a second and the doors on either side slammed shut, as the lights came on.
"I knew that was a bad idea…"
The seats of the arena started filling up with Gamma guards and scouts and everything of the like.
"Ah! There you are!"
Simon turned and Amber had been sitting there, with her sword and was wearing some sort of armor. It looked very big on her. It looked as if she was entirely trapped in it.
"What are you wearing…"
She frowned. "Practicality over stylishness."
Simon drew his sword and readied himself.
Amber drew hers and smiled toward the crowd.
The crowd booed and jeered at Simon.
Simon sighed. "What's the rules?"
"What?"
"The rules. Every duel has rules."
Amber smirked as she picked the vial from her pocket and undid the cap. "Well, in that case, the only rule I have is…"
She glared at an angry Billy in the crowd and drank the vial's liquid. It tasted horrible. She found herself fitting the armor, though. She had grown.
"Kid, I think I might die here, so tell L that he can't have the last hot pocket in the fridge when I die. It's mine."
He heard a groan over the comms, from Luigi, he guessed.
Alph, who was slurping down a smoothie of some sort, examined the camera feed.
"Well, the odds aren't entirely against you… the sword didn't grow with her."
Amber seemed to just now find that out. "ARGH! Dangit!"
Travis now had popcorn.
Simon drew his sword and said a quick prayer, before dashing in.
A fancy display of sparks and swordplay went on for a good 30 minutes, before Simon dropped to the floor, weak.
Though everyone couldn't make it out what he said, Simon probably cursed angrily.
He jumped up and grabbed Amber's sword, a smile cracking up his face.
Instead of a display of sparks, the display was a light show, ending with Simon sheathing his new sword in such a badass way that the crowd went insane and Amber toppling to the floor.
Simon sheathed the blade right as Alph cut the power, opening the doors.
The audience spoke among themselves. Travis took this time to leave, before he got involved.
3 and Luigi were beside Simon now. "So… what did she do to grow into that armor, and where is it now?"
Billy ran up and used the chrome arms to grab Amber by the shoulders. "You WASTE! I worked hard on that, just for you to waste it! YOU WASTED MY STUDIES!"
Billy kept spewing angry insults until the captain put handcuffs over the chrome arms.
Billy sighed. "And I was going places with that. Thanks a lot, missy. You ruined everything."
The crowd of guards and workers screamed as they were assaulted by the same MVP army that arrested Omega.
"Yet again, I get a beacon and you are here. It's been twice now…"
Alpha slowly walked in, his hands behind his back.
"And yet, you still can't fain to amaze me. You stopped the runner-up to the Omega. Cool."
The rest of the agents looked at Simon. "Well, it was mostly this guy right here," Luigi said, pushing Simon forward.
"Not to give myself a pat on the back, but yeah… it was me."
Alpha walked past them and toward the girl who laid in the armor that was huge.
"She… isn't dead, right?"
"No, just bruised up."
Alpha made some weird noise from under the mask, like a groan and a sigh at the same time.
"Ok, I'll take it from here. You guys go and catch as many of the runaways as you can."
They all nodded and darted off.
Alpha pulled Amber from the suit and sighed. Finally. The dream of conquering the universe is… gone. Just like the bond with my family.
Alpha's assistant, who was all geared up as well, walked up. "Shall I take her away sir?"
"Medical bay, just make sure she's not bleeding out."
"Yes, sir."
The assistant carried Amber away.
Alpha sighed. Though we have won the fight, I feel no sense of completion… something here was staged.
He ran out of the room and to the nearest character he could interrogate, which was Billy.
He crouched down and looked at Billy.
"Hey, masked man? Stop staring, creep!" Billy yelled.
"I just need to ask you some-"
"Some questions, yeah, yeah, no. I ain't speakin'."
"Even if it warrants your freedom?"
"F-freedom…?"
"Yes, you already have three choices, prison, mind wipe, or MVP job, but I'm giving you a fourth option, just answer my question."
Billy sat there for a moment. "What's the question?"
"How many bases are there? How many bases does this corporation have?"
"...sorry, chief, can't tell ya that."
Alpha held back the painful urge to yell something that would probably be spoken about for years, had he yelled it. Finally, he got over his rage and demanded that Billy be taken away, and Billy was escorted out.
Nearby…
Travis threw his stuff into a bag and repeatedly looked at the door. Can't be caught, don't get caught-
Travis got everything he needed and ran out of the room. He ducked around a corner right as an agent looked his way. He opened the portal home and ducked in.
He sat down on the ground, once he had shut the portal.
What? How did they beat her? It was ONE person! ONE!
The portal flickered as if someone were trying to open it.
Time to go!
Travis ran away.
Meanwhile…
Mario looked out to the sea. "Hey, a pirate ship! Cool!"
DK didn't look as happy, though. In fact, he was MAD.
DK grabbed Mario and swung out to the sea. He landed on the beach, where the ship was. An anthropomorphic crocodile with a gold-plated chest and crown stared at them, with one eye WIDE open, as if he were always looking at something interesting.
DK looked mad, as they stared for a good two minutes.
Some of the crew-crocs climbed off and ran toward them.
Mario tightened his gloves. "Should we fight them-"
DK charged in and punched the Kremlings away, one by one. Guess we are…
Finally, the crocs, including their king, were a pile of limp things on the beach.
"Can somebody PLEASE help me?" A voice yelled, from the bottom deck of the ship. Mario made his way down, to see Bowser, tied up in a corner.
"Oh, Mario! Never, and I mean NEVER, have I been so excited to see your ugly mustache!"
Mario sighed and untied Bowser. "Finally. Now, let's go, this place makes me sick."
Back at the house of Kong…
They looked at the watch.
"There's gotta be a way to take us home, instead of another wacky universe…"
Mario hit a button on the side, enabling a scroll panel. It had random names displayed.
Mario read the names aloud.
"Pokemon… F.E… Xenoblade? What are those?"
He had skipped a beat when Mario read his own name. "There's home!"
He tapped the button. The watch flashed a warning. "Out of range."
The watch auto-scrolled to a name, Kirby.
"Closest to your destination."
Mario looked up at DK. "Well… bye Donkey Kong! Maybe we could meet up again for some karting sometime?"
Toad frowned. "I had to sit in the back and be useless for a while…"
"I was trapped in the basement of a ship at sea."
"I was here with Toad the whole time."
Mario frowned. "If you wanted to come, you should have asked! Besides, we're all going to this Kirby universe next!"
DK waved and stepped back right as Mario hit the button, making them all disappear into thin air.
Mario found himself falling from the sky. Toad was beside him.
Mario fell into a tree, hitting nearly every branch as he landed. Mario fainted.
Mario was woken up to Toad poking his face. "Maaaaaario… Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaario…"
Mario shook himself awake. "Toad… where are we?"
Mario leaned up and looked around. Toad sat down. "We've fallen into some sort of forest…"
Toad looked at the surrounding trees. "Well, what makes ya say that?"
"I dunno, just a feeling."
Toad sighed and stood up, as well as Mario. They were both bruised a little, but they were fine, for the most part.
Right as they had started moving, a voice called from the darkness.
"Who are you?"
Oh mamma mia…
Nearby leaves rustled.
Toad picked up the nearest stick as a defense mechanism.
"I said, who are you?"
"It's a me, Mario…?"
A figure stepped out from the bushes. It was in some sort of flowing, black robe, wearing some sort of menacing, scarred iron mask, with suspenseful yellow eyes peering from behind. The voice was low and booming. "How are you here…?"
Mario held back laughter. "What are you supposed to be.." Mario sniggered. "Why are you the shape of a dodgeball-" Mario and Toad fell into howling hysterics.
The figure swung a jagged, golden sword at unfathomable speed, barely missing Mario.
"I said, how are you here."
Mario sweated. "Uhh….."
Meanwhile…
Alpha sat down and undid his mask. "Dad, we have finally brought in Amber."
"What have you done?!"
Alpha frowned.
"What have I done? What have you started? Thank goodness that team was able to stop her!"
Omega stood up. "That's. It."
Outside of the room…
The Gamma scout was positioned to watch the room that Alpha had gone in. He waited until his cue.
The door opened and Omega, not cuffed anymore, walked out. "Omega, what are you doing?!"
"Escaping. And you're gonna help me."
The scout gave Omega his laser rifle. "What shall I do?"
"Carry him, don't get caught, meet me in the deck."
The scout scooped up the knocked out Alpha, fastened the mask on his head, and ran the other way. Omega grabbed the breach alarm and set it off.
There were agents everywhere. Not many actually stopped to fight Omega, because they were migrating to the interrogation room.
The scout was at the deck, when Omega got there. "Oh, sir! What do we do now?"
"Take the key off of his belt, I know exactly what to do."
The scout tossed Alpha's key to Omega, who ran to the nearest ship. It was in a special spot.
"Ah, Michael's ship. The one he stole. Get in."
Omega opened the ship door and the scout sat Alpha inside, along with himself.
The scout shut the backseat door, while Omega got in the cockpit. "I hope this is fueled correctly…"
He blanched as he started the ship and some agents were running toward it.
"You buckled in back there?"
The scout yelled something that Omega took as a yes.
He turned the ship into hyperspace mode and took off.
The agents and Alpha's assistant watched in abject terror.
"What'll we do now?"
Sadly, the only thing they can do is wait until right after Christmas to post the next chapter.
Did you know that this is the Nahfam from 2 weeks ago? I wrote ahead! In advance, seeya later!