War Games gone wrong.
Part 21: Animaniacs.
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A red sports car drove up and stopped by Bell's team. Out stepped a giant old grey squirrel carrying a purse and wearing a hat with a flower, followed by a smaller red squirrel. His team, as well as everyone watching, was completely flabbergasted. But Bell just welcomed them with a smile.
"Hi Slappy. Hey Skippy."
"Hey Bell."
"Thanks for coming over. It really means a lot."
"Yeah, but you owe me for this. Now could ya get those bombs outta the trunk?"
Bell popped the trunk, reached in, and pulled out a missile that was over ten times the size of the car, let alone the trunk. Then he pulled out three more identical missiles. And then a stand for them. In just a second or two Skippy had loaded them up and aimed them at the castle.
Lilly, Welf, and Mikoto shook off their stunned traces.
"Uh, what else is in there?" asked Lilly.
"Just some snacks and some victory fireworks," said Skippy.
"I didn't see any fireworks in there," said Bell.
"What?!"
He checked.
"Where the heck are they? I know I loaded them up somewhere."
"You can find them in a minute. I'm already lighting the fuse," said Slappy.
The missiles fired and hit their mark, blowing up the castle.
BOOOOM! BOOOOM! BOOOOM! BOOOOM!
"Nice."
"Think that's enough?"
"Don't worry, we also put some explosives in the castle."
KA-BBOOOOOOOMMM!
"And some back-up explosives in case something happened to them."
KA-BBOOOOOOOMMM! EEEEEEEE! Crumble!
The castle was reduced to a pile of rubble, save for the main tower, which was blasted into the sky like a rocket. And then it blew up and filled the sky with firework explosions as music played.
"I think I found your fireworks."
Then something landed right in front of them, forming a man shaped hole. After a second Hyacinthus came crawling out, charred black from the explosions. He was obviously far too dazed and concussed to realize what was going on. Slappy hopped over to him.
"Congratulations, you just won second place! Here's your victory crown, sceptre, and flowers," she said as she pulled out a crown made of sticks of dynamite and stuck it on his head, then handed him a sceptre with a shaft made of dynamite and topped off with a bomb, and a bouquet of dynamite. All of which had lit fuses.
He smiled, revealing that he had lost most of his teeth.
"Thank you. This means a lot."
"Now you just stand still for a second and pose for the cameras," she said as she pointed a small cannon disguised as a camera at him.
Boom! Ka-BOOOOM!
He was blasted in the face and his prizes all blew up simultaneously. He then fell back down the hole, and this time he stayed there.
"Heh, heh, heh, now that's comedy!"
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War Games gone wrong.
Part 22: He-Man. (1983)
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A man came into view. He was heavily muscled, blonde, had a sword on his back, wore purple pants and a pink vest over a white shirt, and with him was a green tiger that looked terrified. As he came running in, he tripped, fell, tumbled, and crashed into a rock. Lily struggled hard to suppress her laughter, but those who were watching didn't. They just laughed out loud. He met with Bell.
"Hello. I am Adam, prince of Eternea. And this is Cringer, my 'fearless' friend. I was told to come assist in the war game."
"Good timing. It's just starting."
"Alright. Uh, wait here while I get the guy who'll do the fighting," said Adam. Then he took off and hid behind a boulder.
"Uh, Mr. Bell? Are you sure this guy is really gonna help us win?"
"Don't worry. They're more than they appear to be."
Once he was out of sight, Prince Adam held up his sword and said "By the power of Greyskull!" Magic lightning hit his sword, and changed his gay clothes into a barbarian's fur loincloth, and a metal harness over his muscular chest. "I have the Power!" Then he zapped Cringer with his sword, making him grow bigger, and gain a helmet and armour with a built-in saddle.
Distant singing voices: HE-MAN!
They had become He-Man, and the ferocious Battle Cat.
He-Man got on Battle Cat and they charged straight at the castle. The Apollo Familia spotted them, and began launching attack spells at them. He-Man deflected them with his sword, and once he got close, he changed direction. He suddenly turned left, plunged his sword into the hard ground, and continued on without slowing down. They ran around the castle's exterior, cutting into the ground the whole way. Once they made a full circle, He-Man got off and reached into the ground.
Nobody could believe what they saw. The muscle man lifted the entire castle by its foundations. He got it over his head as everyone inside hung on for dear life, and then he threw it, sending it flying into the sky and over the horizon.
When the castle finally landed, it crashed into a mountain, shattered into rubble, and was buried in a landslide caused by the impact.
HE-MAN!
After his victory, the men of Orario feared He-Man might try stealing their women. Those fears died down once they got to know him, but then the women started fearing he might try to steal their men.
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War Games gone wrong.
Part 23: He-Man. (2002)
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A lone figure came into view. It was humanoid, but it wasn't human, or any race that anyone in Orario could recognize. He had the form of a large, heavily muscled man, black and white fur, slitted yellow eyes, big pointy ears, armour on his legs and forearms, mechanical chest armour, an oxygen mask that covered the lower half of his head, air tanks on his back, and he had a stinky green gas coming off him. He was called Stinkor, and he smelled so bad that Bell's team needed their own oxygen masks to get anywhere near him.
Stinkor walked closer to the castle, raised his arms, and unleashed his stink. The green gas expelled from his arms as if it was hurricane force winds. The castle gates did nothing to stop it, and the gas quickly filled the courtyard. The stink was so intense that everybody was struggling to breathe. A few tried to launch ranged spells at Stinkor before being overtaken by the stink, but he was incredibly agile and dodged them with ease. Then he targeted the top of the walls and hit everyone up there full force.
The Apollo Familia couldn't take it for a second longer and started fleeing the castle. The tower where Hyacinthus was hiding was the only part to escape the stink. But rather than taking advantage of that to think of a way out of that mess, he just got pissed off at everyone who was trying to escape for abandoning their posts, while ignoring how much they were suffering. But then his tower was hit full force by the stink, and despite what he said mere seconds earlier he wasted no time trying to run for his life.
Ironically the safest and most secure part of the castle was also the worst place to be if you needed to evacuate in a hurry. Hyacinthus and those with him had a lot further to go, and every step was flooded with the stinky gas. A couple of them decided it was just too much and jumped out the windows. The rest got bloodshot eyes, blurred vision, couldn't breathe, and were suffocating. Then some of their familia members showed up, grabbed them, and hauled them outta there.
They were thrown out of the castle, and gasped for air. Hyacinthus felt overwhelming gratitude for the men who had rescued them, and wanted to thank them personally. Then he heard the sounds of the gate shutting and realized what was really happening. Hestia's familia had just kicked them out of the castle and taken it over. And that wasn't members of his familia that carried them out.
Out of the worst of it, the Apollo Familia managed to recover. Then they heard Bell from up on the wall, yelling at them that they had just lost.
"Not yet we haven't!" yelled Hyacinthus. "I'm gonna tear you apart you cheating underhanded-"
Whooosh!
Stinkor blasted them with his stink again, and they all took off running.
The Hestia Familia were promptly announced as the victors, but it would be a week and a half spent in bathtubs before they were allowed back into the city.
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War Games gone wrong.
Part 24: Killer Shark in Another World.
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A scared looking teenage girl joined Bell and the others. She was small, blonde, thin, wore a white uniform, a short skirt, boots, and carried a wand. Her name was Shiromi Rabuka Traf. She was a summoner who was seen as a worthless loser. With her was what looked to be a baby shark, swimming through the ground as if it was water.
"Bell! What's going on? Why would you bring someone like that here?!" Lilly demanded.
"Ease up. The girl might just be an idiot, but that thing right there, is actually the strongest mother fucker in the world."
A minute later they moved into full view of the scouts on the castle walls, and started a picnic. It was so casual that the Apollo Familia who were watching took it as an insult. They then responded by launching ranged attack spells at them.
Big mistake.
The next thing anyone knew, a giant monster was attacking the castle. It was a shark, as massive as a giant whale, with three heads, giant octopus tentacles, and it was pissed. It smashed, bit, and ripped through the castle's stone walls like they were made of gingerbread. Then it killed and devoured the Apollo Familia. They fought back as best they could, with swords, spears, arrows, plenty of spells, and all the strength and courage that they could muster, but they might as well have been flies. If they weren't bitten in half, then they were crushed like bugs by tentacles. The castle was quickly becoming blood stained rubble.
"They thought that place would provide them with an impenetrable defence, but instead they're trapped like fish in a barrel," said Bell.
"What do we do if it heads back this way?" asked Lily.
"My first instinct is to hide in this barrel, like the wily fish."
"No seriously, shark girl, what do we do?"
"I'm already in here," Shiromi said from inside Bell's barrel.
There was a pause, then...
"Move over!" cried Lily as she dove in with them.
Welf and Mikoto quickly found their own barrels to hide in.
Luckily for them, it didn't turn around and come back once it was done there. Unfortunately it instead headed to Orario, where it took the combined efforts of every last adventurer and god to bring it down, and the damage and death tolls were at unprecedented catastrophic levels. But even then, they failed to kill it. Rather it sensed much more tempting foes underground and went after them.
But now they were all terrified. If the monsters in the dungeon couldn't kill that mother fucker, then it would come back and raze their city all over again. And they had no idea how to deal with it.
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(AN: By the way, if you don't recognize that one, it's a new manga series, at the time of posting this it's only 9 chapters long, and it parodies almost every cheesy & crazy shark movie ever, makes fun of the isekai genre, has no intriguing plot, almost no memorable characters, and seems to have been translated by Samuel L. Jackson. And it is awesome!)