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The many escapades of Zarbon
Zarbon's big announcement at the party
Everyone had gathered at the arena that Perfect Cell kept out in the middle of nowhere. The reason? Well, it's the end of the volume, so they wanted to gather for a party to celebrate. There was music, dancing, no shortage of drinking, and Roshi was hoping to see at least one of the girls go topless at some point during the night's festivities.
As Cell was chatting it up with Kermit and Shallot, Zarbon went over to them, a mildly concerned look on his face. "Ah, there's the man of the hour," Cell began, "How does it feel to have seventy-five adventures under your belt?"
"Hey Zarbon," Shallot began, noticing the look on Zarbon's face, "Are you feeling okay? You seem a bit troubled, man. What's up?"
"Well, it just feels like there's quite a bit of unfinished business to take care of is all," Zarbon explained, "So ending things here doesn't seem like the right thing to do quite yet."
Kermit tilted his head to the left slightly. "What do you mean by that, Zarbon?"
Listing things off of the tips of his fingers, Zarbon began, "Well first off, Gasser was introduced really late, so he hasn't had all that much time to develop his character here. Tanjiro hasn't gotten his special earrings back yet, and I get the feeling that one of my adventures had more to it than what I was let in on." Holding his hands to the sides of his head, Zarbon added, "And what else could there be for us to resolve?!"
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In an underground laboratory somewhere in Shonen City, a lab worker had a look of concern on his face as he addressed the lead scientist of the group working there. "Sir, I'm afraid the experiment has failed. I turned on the machine just as you had instructed me, but there wasn't any result."
The lead scientist looked to a touch screen he was holding, saw readings that he liked if the sinister smile on his face were any indication. "...That's where you're wrong." He turned to face the lower ranked lab worker, gave him a serious smirk. "...Minoru Mineta... once again walks this earth. Find him." The lead scientist went on to laugh maniacally, the plan having just started to get going.
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Shrugging indifferently, Cell said to Zarbon, "Well you got me there, Zarbon. But we're at the end of the volume here." Folding his arms over his chest, Cell went on, "So unless we end up getting slated to do a second volume, I'm afraid that those plot lines will remain unresolved."
As Zarbon hung his head slightly in disappointment, Sunsaga came riding on over to Cell's arena, got off of his horse made of fire, and walked over to where Cell was standing with Zarbon and the others. As the guys all turned to face him, Sunsaga handed Cell a small, ninja-style scroll before he said, "I got this message for you guys. It's from the higher ups."
Cell took the scroll, opened it, and went dry in expression and tone the moment he read the first line. "We're slated to do a second volume." Turning to regard Zarbon, Cell said, "Well Zarbon, it seems like your concerns are going to be addressed after all. You, Kermit, and Shallot follow me so that we can break this news to everyone else."
"Got it, Cell," Zarbon replied as he, Kermit, and Shallot followed Cell to the center of the party. After getting there, Cell cleared his throat to get everyone's attention.
"May I have everyone's attention, please!" Cell called out, getting all of the guests to settle down, "Now then. First off, I'd like to say that this that trip we've been taken on wasn't a complete and total fucking waste of time, unlike what all Shallot must have done to either get back his original shark suit, or get a new one entirely. I don't remember which one it is exactly, and I honestly don't give a shit either way."
"Hey," Shallot remarked in an annoyed tone.
Holding up the scroll that he got from Sunsaga, Cell went on, "As it turns out, the higher ups have decided to do another volume! We're going in for round two, folks!"
That got the party guests excited. "What all will we be getting up to in the second volume?" Lilimon asked, "Do you know?"
"Let's see here," Cell began as he looked at the scroll for more details, "Well first off, Gasser's getting more development including a love interest. There's going to be an arc about Tanjiro getting back his special earrings, something to do with... a war between humans and elves? That fat kid that had died during the fat camp will return, and... uhhg." Rolling his eyes, Cell said, "There will also be a part where Zarbon and Hisoka use a pair of potara earrings."
"You mean that Zarbon and Hisoka will be joining their bodies together?" Roshi asked.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOO!" Zarbon cried out in aroused, sensual pleasure, "We do that already." Cell sighed in an exasperated tone, his apprehension for volume two already raised a bit.
THE END... OF VOLUME ONE
Author's notes;
Yeah, Zarbon's got seventy-five escapades down. And he will be getting up to another seventy-five escapades in the planned sequel to this story, which will be titled 'The many escapades of Zarbon: Volume Two'. Issues that weren't resolved here before the end will be addressed there, along with some more folks getting introduced. So yeah, this story is now finished, but I hope I'll see some of you guys checking out the sequel when it starts coming out.
Peace out, folks.