Total Drama Ultimate Crossover
Chapter 12 : In Shallow Waters PART 1
*(Disclaimer : I do not own Total Drama or any other franchises used in this fanfic.)
*(Recap of last episode)
"Last time on Total Drama Ultimate Crossover! The teams were temporarily disband and 5 new teams were formed for the treasure-hunt to end all treasure-hunts! Most made it back okay, but one (sniff)(shows scene of Chris his torn portrait) beautiful piece of art was lost forever (sniff). The one getting punished for this heinous act was Ryuga, after getting back-stabbed by Azula that is. But Ryuga didn't take his defeat too well as he decided to reveal the evil alliance to the rest of the campers as well as what they have done so far. Save to say, none of the campers were very happy about it. Ryuga left but his spot in the evil alliance was replaced by Vegeta. Whether this was a wise decision or not you'll find out later. Meanwhile Sunset finally figures out Voldemort's deception but now has her back against the wall as Voldemort blackmails our former unicorn. With a heavy heart and no longer sure of who she can trust, she goes on a cruise with 5 (Urg, every time!) 6 other participants and Chef, who I'm TOTALLY GETTING BACK FOR STEALING MY BREAK! How will I do this? What's going through Sunset's head right now? And does Azula have any more devilish schemes in mind? Find out right now on Total Drama Ultimate Crossover!"
"(Que theme song)
The episode starts off as the very first day of vacation for our last challenge winners ends. The sun was setting and everyone had already gone off to bed. Everything seems peaceful and quiet … except for a pretty big dark-colored submarine that was a small distance away from 'The ramatiser'.
On board this sub where a bunch of black-armored goons that moved around in sync, standing by as if awaiting orders while others were working to keep the sub on course. One of these goons wearing grey-armor instead of black slowly made his way toward the captain's chamber to deliver a status-report. The man's face was just like his subordinates hiding behind a thick-helmet with only a pair of small orange-steel eyes to look through.
Knock knock.
"Enter." A voice echoed through the room before the door opened and the soldier stepped inside.
"Ma'am." The grey-armored person said before saluting the leader.
"Report." She responded while sitting behind her metal desk, her chair turned away from her subordinate.
"We have located the ship." The subordinate reported. "Shall we engage now?"
"No." The leader replied. "Tell the elite-squads to be on stand-by and ready to move on my command, but do not engage until I give the order. Dismissed."
"Yes ma'am! Understood ma'am!" He saluted before leaving the captain's room.
"… So … the time has finally come." The shadowy figure said as she got out of her chair. "Now nothing can stop me from permanently taking care of you Chris, as well as conquering the entire multiverse! Mhmmhmmhmm, hahahaha, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The screen fates to black as the laughter slowly stops.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"… Well that was (censored) ominous." Sticks said as she was reading the scri- HEY! NO PEAKING!
"I HAD TO WAIT OVER A YEAR, 7 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS FOR THIS NEXT CHAPTER SO EITHER LET ME READ IT IN PEACE OR YOU CAN LOOK FOR A NEW FOURTH WALL BREAKING CHARACTER!"
…Dammit. The only other one I have on speed-dial is Wade but no way am I hiring him after he threw me in a bin filled with socks!
"Oh, so that's what that smell is!" Sticks said as she pinched her nose.
YOU CAN STILL SMELL IT?! BUT I WASHED MYSELF 50 TIMES ALREAD- (sigh) you know what, fine! You can read the script. It's only the first part anyway.
"WHAT?!" Sticks yelled in disbelief. "YOU HAD ALL THIS TIME AND YOU ONLY FINISHED HALF THE CHAPTER?!"
I KNOW! But it was either post this chapter now or wait even longer for the complete one. Look I'll explain more at the end of this chapter … half-chapter, okay?
Sticks grunted unsatisfied.
*(End Confession)
A new day starts with a beautiful sunrise as cruise-ship 'The ramatiser' is sailing in the calm-waters of the Atlantic. We zoom in at Chef who is already making good use of the morning-sun as he sits in a relaxing chair while wearing a pair of sunglasses and reading a newspaper. It was the second day of his stolen break. No having to prepare challenges for Chris, wearing costumes, preparing garba- I mean breakfast in the morning. Yep, life sure seemed good for our underpaid Che-"
"CANNONBALL!" Beast Boy yelled as he jumped into the pool. Before falling in however, he turned into a walrus causing pretty much one of the biggest cannonballs in recorded history. Chef slowly lifted his sunglasses as he saw the massive amount of water that was heading his way.
"MOTHERF-" Chef swore but was cut-off by the wave.
Beast Boy's head came out of the pool and he said "Ah, what better way to spend the morning then to take an early dip."
"How about taking an early dip WITHOUT SPLASHING WATER ALL OVER ME!" Chef yelled as he looked at his wet newspaper and his wet vacation-clothes. Disappointed he threw his newspaper on the ground.
"Cheez Logan, leave some water for the rest of us." Crow laughed while wearing an orange-swimming trunk.
"No problem dude." Beast Boy replied before facing Chef. "Hey Chef! Fill up the pool again would you?"
Chef quietly cursed before doing what Beast Boy ordered him to do.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
Chef was drying himself up with a towel before saying "So the manager apparently added a rule saying that during this trip the host has to do whatever it is the participants want. He meant for Chris to be the one having to go through all of this but since I stole his spot I now have to do it instead! (Sigh) Well it's still better than having to deal with Chris at least."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"So far this has been one of best cruises I've ever been on." Crow smirked before rethinking his statement. "… Well this is the only cruise-ship I've ever been on so I guess I have nothing else to compare it to. Still everything has been pretty good so far. Yesterday me and the others did some games like wall-climbing, fishing and my personal favorite, racing against each other using the service-trolleys from the restaurant. Not to mention Chef having to do everything we say. Sure, there are also some internees around who we're allowed to ask things of as well. But how often do we get to command Chef around? Last night we had a fun little barbeque where we told each other some funny stories, well we had a fun barbeque while Beast Boy ate some tofu. Also I asked if Beast Boy could tell us his real name since he's pretty much the only one of us who uses a codename … at least as far as I know, and he was surprisingly quick to answer. Kinda makes we wonder why he never brought it up."
"YOU NEVER ASKED!" Beast Boy yelled outside the confession seat.
Crow shrugged before continuing. "Yeah the cruise has been a ton of fun so far … except for one thing."
(End Confession)
"Ah, this is the life." Beast Boy stated as he floated past Crow as a sea-horse.
"… Why are you a sea-horse?" Crow asked while giving Beast Boy a confused look.
"Because the pool is bigger to me that way." Beast Boy replied.
"… Well you're not wrong." Crow replied.
While Crow and Beast Boy were having fun in the pool, Cassie and Aqua arrived. Cassie was wearing a black-bikini while Aqua was wearing a blue-swimsuit much to a certain someone's delight. Both of them went to lay on some relaxing pool-chairs.
"Hmm…" Cassie said while putting her sunglasses on. "Nothing like sunbathing during a sunny day."
"Speaking of sunny-" Crow said as he leaned against the pool. "-any word on Sunset?"
"Nothing I'm afraid." Aqua replied with a worried tone in her voice. "Marinette and Tikki went over to see if she was feeling better today."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Ever since we arrived on the ship Sunset has kept herself locked in her cabinet." Aqua explained. "She says that she's simply not feeling well but I think there's more going on."
*(End Confession)
"Sunset? Sunset?" Marinette asked as she knocked on the door of Sunset's room. She was wearing a red-swimsuit with black-spots.
"Are you up?" Tikki asked as she leaned her ear against the door.
The door slowly started opening as Sunset peeked through, still wearing her purple-pajama. She then spoke in a pretty sleepy voice "Oh, good morning Marinette … Tikki."
"Sunset are you feeling all right?" Marinette asked pretty concerned about her friend. "You've been in your room all day yesterday."
"I-I'm fine." Sunset said in a very unconvincing tone. "I just … haven't felt all that good since the last challenge."
"You mean you still have a headache?" Tikki asked.
"That and feeling extremely tired." Sunset added. "Look, I appreciated you 2 coming to make sure I'm all right but I'm fine. I just … need to be alone right now."
Sunset tried closing the door but Marinette had her foot in between. "Sunset, did something happen after the challenge?"
Sunset started to get both frustrated and nervous as she said "No! I-I mean yes- no I mean, urgh! Just-leave me alone!"
Sunset then full-force slammed the door shut. This action caused both Marinette and Tikki to blink at the door for a few seconds before staring at each other.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Way to go Sunset…" Sunset said angry at herself for just slamming the door in front of Marinette and Tikki. "I don't want the others to find out about my past, but I also don't believe that those two would have said anything to Voldemort but- Argh, my head!" Sunset pulled out an ice-pack and put it on her head as she said "Urgh, and to make matters even worse this stupid headache just won't go away!"
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Okay Sunset is defiantly hiding something from us!" Marinette stated. "Did you see how frustrated she suddenly got after I mentioned the previous challenge."
"Hard to miss." Tikki answered. "If she were back on our world, her frustration would have certainly attracted an Akuma by now."
Marinette let out a small sigh of relief before saying "Guess we should be grateful that Hawkmoth is back in our word and not here to Akumatise anyone. I already have to deal with enough friends getting Akumatized back home. I don't want to see Sunset getting turned evil as well."
"Yeah..." Tikki said before pondering over what Marinette just said. "Wait a minute … Marinette … what exactly is preventing Hawkmoth from currently Akumatizing people to try and get the miraculous? Won't he still be out there creating bad-guys while we're here on this show?!"
"… Oh right!" Marinette exclaimed. "I forgot to mention that the manager of this show promised to make sure no Akumas would show up while we're gone."
"Oh okay… " Tikki said in relief before asking in a confused tone "But … how is he doing that?"
"I'm… " Marinette said before realizing she didn't know how. "… not sure? But Adrian didn't mention any Akuma-victims causing trouble when he was here, so I guess that means the manager must be keeping his promise."
"Yes but again," Tikki couldn't help but ask. "-HOW?!"
*(End Confession)
Meanwhile, back in Marinette's and Tikki's dimension.
"HAVE YOU FOUND THEM YET?!" A white-haired man wearing classes and wearing a business uniform asked.
"Gabriel, we've been looking for days…" Grabriel's assistant pointed out. "We would have found the Miraculouses by now if they were still here."
Adrien let out a frustrated sigh as he pinched his nose. "This is just great, Ladybug is gone making it the perfect time to try and take Chat Noir's miraculous, but I can't send anyone out to fetch it for me without MY MIRACULOUS!"
"Didn't that strange letter you found in your safe say anything else?" Nathalie asked.
"It only stated that I would get my Miraculouses back once Ladybug returned to Paris." Gabriel said as he looked out the window. "Just what is she up to? And who on earth could have stolen my Miraculouses so easily without appearing on any of my cameras. Whoever this person is they must be incredibly crafty."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"So what do I do with these again?" Chris asked on the phone while holding the 2 Miraculouses that Gabriel was missing.
*(End Confession)
Back on the island, the others where 'enjoying' their breakfast. With their alliance not much of a secret anymore, Roman, Voldemort, Itachi and Azula were sitting together while the others were sitting by the table that was the farthest away from the evil-alliance.
"Blarg!" Usopp said as he spit out his breakfast. "This tastes even worse then what Chef makes!"
"Now THAT-" Happy stated. "-is an achievement!"
"Just shut-up and eat your garbage!" Chris said while wearing cooking clothes.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Now that Chef's on vacation, Chris has to fill in for breakfast." Tracer explained. "And apparently the bloke's an even worse chef then Chef!"
*(End Confession)
"So do you finally agree with my plan or do I have to spend the entire day explaining it to you again?" Azula asked as she and the evil-alliance, safe for Vegeta, were discussing their strategy.
"… I'll admit that it's an interesting idea…" Torchwick relented. "-but I would have appreciated it more if you told us your plan BEFORE that last elimination!"
"Be honest Roman, it would have made little difference." Azula stated as a matter of fact.
"… It is a good strategy." Itachi replied. "It should keep us all save for a while, but we better execute it fast."
"Agreed." Voldemort concurred. "Who knows how much time we'll have before the next challenge."
"Well then gentlemen." Azula said politely before getting up and giving an evil smirk. "Let's get to work."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"The others are in for quite a surprise." Azula stated.
*(End Confession)
"So we all agree that we're gonna get rid of those blokes, yeah?" Tracer asked as she pointed to the evil-alliance.
"Hell yeah we're going after them!" Natsu replied angrily. "Those guys hurt one of my teammates. Nobody gets away with that!"
"So who should we go after first?" Happy asked.
"Roman and Azula appear to be the brains behind the operation." Usopp stated. "We take them out and their whole alliance might fall apart. Though Vegeta is properly the biggest threat in terms of physical strength."
"But voting off Vegeta isn't an option." Tracer added. "If we do, he'll simply use that immunity thingy to stay in the game."
"But what if he lends it to another ally so they won't get voted off?" Happy asked.
"I seriously doubt that Vegeta is the type who shares." Tracer answered.
"So if we lose the next challenge, we'll vote off Azula and if you guys lose," Natsu said while pointing at Usopp. "-you'll vote of Roman. I'd personally rather punch them into a hospital though…"
"Do that and I'll eliminate you for unnecessary violence … maybe." Chris added while cleaning the kitchen which caused the present contestants to laugh a little. "Oh haha, laugh it up. But the laughing will soon disappear! Because tomorrow when the rest of the contestants … and Chef," Chris grumped at that last part. "-get back, we're gonna have another challenge!"
"So what?" Natsu asked while leaning in his chair and hands behind his head. "We'll win that next challenge with our hands tied behind our backs!"
"Oh I wouldn't be so confident if I were you." Chris said with an evil smirk. "Because, spoiler alert! It's gonna be the most gruesome, painful, terrifying challenge Total Drama has ever done! Seriously, I had to go through SOOOOOOO much paperwork to get this challenge approved."
Usopp started to sweat buckets before asking "Uh … how gruesome, painful and terrifying are we talking about?"
Chris laughed a bit before saying "Take the worst challenge from this show you can imagine and multiply it by a hundred! THAT, is what you guys have to look forward to. See you tomorrow!"
Everybody started the shudder for a bit really not looking forward to the next challenge. After a while they started talking about their strategy again.
"We should still discuss this with Cassie and the others when they get back." Tracer stated. "But as long as we work together, those ruffians won't stand a chance!"
"YEAH!" Everyone cheered which caused Sticks to wake up "Huh? Did I miss something? I must have fallen asleep after reading the scri- I mean, hey mister pirate. What are you doing here?"
Usopp sighted at the question before pointing outside to Roman, Itachi and Voldemort.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Of course I'm gonna help eliminate this alliance!" Usopp claimed while shaking a bit. "I am seriously worried that they might do something to me. I have to share a cabin with 3 of them after all! (Sigh) I hope Crow and the girls get back soon. Also, I seriously hope Chris was over-exaggerating this next challenge. "
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
We see Chris holding a box filled with blood-sucking leeches. "Don't worry my little slimy friends. You'll get your playtime soon enough."
*(End Confession)
On the cruise-ship, Marinette and Tikki arrived with sad-looks on their faces.
"No luck?" Aqua asked.
"(Sigh) No, she still doesn't feel well." Marinette simply replied, not wanting to mention Sunset's little outburst.
Cassie took a drink from her smoothie and said "As fun as our vacation-time is perhaps it's time to discuss what we'll do once we get back to the island."
"Yeah." Crow said as he got out of the pool. "After all, we still have Roman and his little goons to take care off ."
"What are we so worried about?" Beast Boy asked as he was currently doing a backstroke as a penguin. "Those guys are split between 2 teams and everyone else will wanna vote them off. Doesn't matter which team loses the next challenge, their alliance will lose a member!"
"It's true that their alliance doesn't have the majority of the votes on either team." Cassie stated before picking up a chart with drawings of the faces of each remaining competitor, grouped together by teams. "Me, Beast Boy and Aqua, along with Natsu (and Happy), Tracer and Sticks make up the majority of the Blue Dragons. If we lose the next challenge, we can either vote off Vegeta or Azula." She then pointed to a crude drawing of the immunity-statue that was drawn right underneath an angry looking Vegeta. "Though Vegeta is the bigger threat of the two, it will be difficult to get rid of him so long as he has that immunity-statue. However, if we were to split up our votes to make sure both Vegeta and Azula get 3 votes each then Vegeta would have to use his statue to avoid having to do a tie-breaker against Azula which would resolve in either Azula getting eliminated or Azula getting eliminated AND Vegeta losing his immunity-statue. Also in this situation, though I doubt he would actually do this, Vegeta can't give up his immunity statue to Azula since that would basically mean he'll eliminate himself. This way however, we can make sure that an alliance-member gets eliminated. Worth the shot of you ask me."
"Our team is a bit more cramped," Crow said as he pointed to his team's side of the chart, more specifically towards the pictures of a smug-looking Roman, an expressionless Itachi and an angry looking Voldemort. "-since most of these alliance-members are in it. Still, as long as me, Usopp, Sunset and Marinette (and Tikki!) work together, we should be able to vote them off one by one."
"There are only 15 participants left in total though." Cassie stated as she circled the entire diagram "We're getting closer to the merger and currently their alliance is made out of one-third of the participants that are left. We better get rid of them as soon as possible. Especially Vegeta. If we get to the merger and he's still with us then it might become impossible to get rid of him."
"I see… " Aqua said before Beast Boy raised his flipper.
"Yes Garfield?" Cassie asked.
"Just one question … when did you guys make this chart?" Beast Boy asked while rubbing his bird-head.
"We didn't." Crow answered. "Sticks did and left it here when she was forced to leave the ship."
"Wait, so Sticks managed to make THIS, " Marinette said while pointing at the chart. "-in what could have been only an hour at most? … That's kind of impressive."
"Hey look! She even drew me on your shoulder Marinette!" Tikki stated happy she was included in the picture.
"Okay, Sticks her impressively fast drawing skills aside," Aqua stated drawing the attention back to the original topic of the conversation "-splitting up our votes like that against Azula and Vegeta makes sense but who should the Red Devils vote for if they lose?"
Crow, Marinette and Tikki looked at each-other before Crow said "Well, Roman is the one who blew Arcee off the track so he should be the first to leave!"
"True but, Voldemort has also endangered Sunset during the beginning of the contest." Marinette brought up. "And he properly used his magic back in the mansion to prevent Athena from defending herself when we all thought she was the one pulling all those pranks. … Still hate how I voted her off for that."
"You thought she was the one who kidnapped Tikki." Cassie rebutted. "Can't fault you for being mad at that. Besides, everyone on your team was tricked into voting Athena away."
"Yeah but still … "Marinette started saying before slowly looking away.
"Besides, there is another target that you guys might wanna consider eliminating sooner rather than later." Cassie reminded them.
"… Are you talking about Itachi?" Crow asked to which Cassie nodded.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Roman, Azula, Voldemort, Ryuga and Vegeta all have pretty obvious characters that just scream 'I'M EVIL!'." Cassie said while using air-quotes. " … Okay so Vegeta is doing this more for self-preservation since, alliance or not, he is still a MAJOR threat in this competition. Itachi on the other hand is more of a mystery. Not saying he's not a bad-guy but he does strike me as the kind of person who makes choices based on how beneficial they are to him rather then that he considers those actions good or evil. Now that his alliance has been exposed, it's difficult to predict what he'll do next. Also he's a ninja. As an expert on fighting ninjas take it from me, they always have a trick up their sleeve."
*(End Confession )
Back on the island. Vegeta was doing what he always does when he's under too much stress. Blow stuff up.
"GRRRRAAAAAAH!" Vegeta yelled as he destroyed another set of rocks with little effort. "Hm, just as easy as winning this contest." Vegeta said before slowly lifting the mountain-top so he could look at his still well hidden immunity-statue. "Especially since I now have both this stupid-looking statue AND stupid allies to-"
Suddenly feeling the presence of someone heading his way, Vegeta quickly put the mountain-top back in place. Having been on the island for a pretty long time, Vegeta easily concluded who it was. "You need to work on your stealth, ninja."
No sooner had those words left his mouth or Itachi appeared behind him. He stared at Vegeta for a second before saying "Who said I was trying to hide?"
"Very funny." Vegeta responded before turning around to face the Uchiha. "Now what do you want?"
"Two things." Itachi replied. "First of which is a question."
"Then ask already." Vegeta said impatiently. "I don't got all day."
"Why join our alliance?" Itachi asked. "Surely you knew that when Ryuga learned of Azula's scheme that he would sell the rest of us out. All you've ended up doing is paint an even bigger target on your back."
"Like the one I had before was so small." Vegeta rebutted. "I'm the strongest person in this entire competition and the only one who could keep up with me is already eliminated. My teammates want to get rid of me no matter if I'm in an alliance or not."
"You're worried about getting eliminated despite having the immunity-statue?" Itachi asked while raising an eyebrow.
Vegeta looked sharply a Itachi and said "That statue can only save me once, so of course I'm still worried about getting eliminated. Don't misunderstand me. Being stuck on this island with you people has not been a walk in the park. But if I get eliminated then all that suffering will have been for nothing!"
"The same can be said for everyone else though." Itachi pointed out. "Nobody is on this island with the intend of losing after all."
"Well unfortunately for everyone else then, I'm the one who's gonna win this little game." Vegeta proudly stated. "They just don't realize it yet."
"Careful now," Itachi warned. "-the others in our alliance might not take that claim as calmly as I do."
"Hmm, what are they gonna do about it?" Vegeta asked with a smirk. "After all, they invited me because they need me. Without my help, they won't last long in this contest and they know it.
"First off, only Azula invited you. The rest of us didn't even know you were in our alliance until Azula announced it." Itachi revealed. "Secondly, that was also what Ryuga thought and look what happened to him."
Vegeta let out an small grunt before asking "So why did you come here again?"
"We've come up with a plan that will insure that we can all make it to the merger together without any risk of elimination. Meet us at the usual spot in one hour." Itachi said which caused Vegeta to become a little more interested.
"And what plan might that be?" Vegeta asked.
"Just be there on time and you'll find out." Itachi said before jumping down the mountain.
"Hm, this better not be a waste of my ti-' Before Vegeta finished his sentence he heard something behind him and quickly turned around. It turned out to just have been some snow that was rolling off the mountain's edge, but Vegeta's eyes quickly caught something weird.
"What the- the mountain-top is at least 1 inch more to the left then where I put it!" Vegeta started to panic and quickly pulled the mountain-top back up … only to see the immunity-statue precisely where he left it.
Vegeta let out a small sigh before saying "Great, this game has me so stressed that I'm now starting to hallucinate." Vegeta then put the mountain-top back down and returned to his training.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"I suppose since I am now a part of this alliance, the least I can do is hear this plan out." Vegeta said before laughing to himself. "After all, once I get to the merger, my victory in this contest is all but assured."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Vegeta greatly underestimates both his opponents and allies." Itachi said without showing any emotion. "That is his greatest weakness."
*(End Confession)
The night soon fell again. While everyone was sound asleep, a submarine quietly made its way to the ship.
"Current time is 2 in the morning ma'am." The men wearing grey-armor announced. "Most lights on the ship have gone out. We believe all targets are currently asleep."
"Then begin Operation : Payback!" The Shadowy-figure commanded.
No sooner had those words left her mouth, or people started docking the smaller submarine-ships. The 8 vessels quietly made their way to the cruise-ship before slowly resurfacing. The first 7 of these mini-submarines carried 5 men while the last carried 10. Most of these nightly intruders were wearing black-colored military-grade armor and black-colored helmets with build in orange-colored night-vision glasses. Each of these soldiers had both a gun and some metal-rod at their disposal. In each of the first 7 submarines was one person who was dressed differently from the others. These were the leaders of the 5-man squads and their armors, while looking similar to that of the other intruders, had different colors. The ones in grey, red and green where normal-sized men, but the ones wearing blue and orange were quite big and muscular. The ones in yellow and purple were both girls with the yellow one being quite tall while the one in purple was much shorter. Soon the intruders shot metal-wires to the ship's deck. Once onboard, they quietly made their way inside before splitting up in their original teams again, each team after a specific target.
Cassie was fast asleep and wearing here casual training-clothes (Endurance Cassie Case) when suddenly the window on her door got destroyed causing Cassie to wake up. However the object that crashed through the window was a sleep-grenade which started spreading sleeping-gas as soon as it hit the floor. Realizing what was happening, Cassie quickly went toward the window of the balcony to get rid of the gas. Unfortunately, the gas worked very fast causing Cassie to become too tired to move. The last thing she saw where the armored individuals with the one in yellow leading them.
"I swear … " Cassie slowly stated "… if this is … one of … Chris his stupid … challenges …" before she fell asleep.
The sudden noise of glass-breaking caused Crow to wake up. Wondering what that sound was, Crow came out of bed still wearing his usual clothing except for his jacket and headband. As soon as he opened the door however, a tall orange-soldier stood before him.
"What the-(POW!)" was all Crow could say before getting punched straight in the face, causing him to lose consciousness.
The man in orange-armor looked down at Crow and then at the sleep-grenade that he was holding in his hand.
"So … do I still have to use the grenade or?" He asked to which the others responded by quickly shouting "NO!"
Meanwhile, Marinette was struggling against the purple-armored woman who held her in a death-lock on the floor. She tried to tell Tikki to help her transform but the soldier held her hand over Marinette's mouth which prevented her from talking. Meanwhile, the other soldiers were chasing Tikki who was doing her best to outpace the black-armored goons. At one point she turned around so fast that the four chasing her all crashed against the wall, causing Tikki to laugh a little at the sight.
"(Sigh) Idiots." The young women said before taking away Marinette's earrings causing Tikki to get send back into them.
"NO!" Marinette yelled as she tried to get back-up but the woman on her simply had too good a grip.
"Give it up little girl or I'll throw these into the ocean!" The woman said in a very threatening tone. Marinette, not seeing any way out of this decided to do what the woman said, hoping she'd get a change to save Tikki later.
As the woman's subordinates got back up and took Marinette away, the purple commander looked at the earrings and said "Huh, that was easy."
Somewhere, in another dimension.
"Strange?" Gabriel said. "I feel like yelling again for some reason."
Another team was busy securing Sunset when the leading commander gained a transmission just as his men crushed the door open.
"This is Blue. We've secured the girl with blue-hair. Those sleep-grenades Green made may be useful, but they sure take the fun out of this job."
The leader of team red quickly pressed the button on his helmet and said "Just make sure she doesn't wake up. That girl's powers will make it easy for her to escape. Keep her sedated at all costs."
"Your always such a stick in the mud Will." Commander Blue replied carrying Aqua easily over his muscled shoulders.
"DON'T USE MY REAL NAME WHEN WE'RE ON A MISSION IDIOT!" The red commander replied before his men came running to him.
"Uh sir Red … we have a problem."
Red calmed down before turning his attention to his men. "What's the problem?
"The target was not in her room sir!"
"WHAT?!" RED yelled in disbelief.
Meanwhile, another team was securing Beast Boy by shooting him with a tranquilizer… unfortunately for them, Beast Boy had quickly turned into a cheetah which delayed the effects of the needle before engaging the armored intruders.
"WHY DID WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE GUY THAT CAN TURN INTO ANIMALS?!" One guy shouted before Beast Boy turned into a rhino and slammed him against the wall.
"Because YOU told me you didn't wanna be on another easy assigme-" The green commander said before seeing his subordinate land on the ground"-and he's lost his conscious. Great! There goes my perfect no-casualties record!"
"Who are you people?!" Beast Boy said as he transformed into a gorilla and grabbed two other opponents before constantly bashing them against the floor. Just as he was done with them however, he started getting sleepy.
"You'll find out soon enough kid." Green stated. "That needle was injected with a special sleeping-drug that works on all living creatures. It simply takes a bit longer to work on the more … exotic ones."
Beast Boy wanted to make a comment but then fell asleep on the floor though he didn't change back to his normal form.
The commander and his only remaining subordinate looked at the downed gorilla before he reached for a communication-button on his helmet and said "Green here. Can the other teams spare some soldiers? Or target decided to become a few tons heavier before falling asleep … also my record has been broken."
"HA! Pay up boys!" The yellow commander shouted through the tool causing the grey commander to start swearing.
Not one second later a new voice made contact with the commanders. "All units. Status report"
"Team Yellow, target 'Cassie Cage' secure."
"Team Violet, we got our Parisian."
"Uh, we're team Orange right? We got our Crow … he's a lot less bird-like then I thought he would be."
"You weren't targeting an actual … (sigh) Team Green here." Green replied. "Once we have some more hands to help move this guy we'll be good to go."
"Team Blue's target is sound asleep." Blue replied."… Also did you assign most of our teams to targets based on the colors of said targets?"
"Course not. That would be ridiculous. Team Red, did you secure your target?"
"Target's missing ma'am. Still she's trapped abort the ship so I'll doubt she'll be able to go anywhere."
"Keep searching until you find her Red, that's an order." The leader commanded.
"(Annoyed sigh) Yes ma'am." Red annoyingly replied.
"Team Extra reporting. " An unimportant character said. "We've got all the internees imprisoned and accounted for." He finished reporting as an internee that was getting dragged away said something among the lines of 'WORST JOB EVER!'.
The leader giggled to herself before saying "Excellent, that just leaves… Team Grey, your status?… Commander Grey report!"
Suddenly a very scared men yelled through the headset. "COMMANDER GREY IS DOWN SI- I MEAN MA'AM. TARGET WOKE UP BECAUSE THE COMMANDER SUDDENLY STARTED SWEARING! ONLY ME AND ONE MORE MERCENARY ARE STILL- OH SHIRESJFDHGJQDGHT!" … the rest was cut off.
"(Sigh) All units keep your eyes open for a teenage girl with red-and yellow hair as well as an Ex-military chef. All special-forces aside from Red's, secure your targets in the designated areas, leader out." The leader said before getting out of her chair. She then stared at the ship through the subs window and in an evil-tone said " … Now then Chris. Time for the REAL fun the begin…"
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"We can never catch a break can we?" A now tied up internee asked.
"When you're done in there, you're going back to the other prisoners!" A black-armored mercenary stated from the other side of the door.
"HOW AM I EVEN SUPPOSE TO GO WHEN I'M TIED UP LIKE THIS?!"
*(End Confession)
The very next morning, after getting up and having an even worse excuse of a breakfast than usual, our campers gathered at the beach. Some found their chances of winning this challenge pretty good. Others… not so much.
"(Sigh) Get over here long-nose!" Roman shouted to Usopp who was hiding behind a palm-tree.
Usopp peaked from behind the tree and shuddered as he said "N-No thanks! My uh, my doing-the-worst-challenge-Chris-has-ever-come-up-with allergy is acting up!"
"Then take a pill or something and GET OVER HERE!" Voldemort's sudden yell was enough to scare Usopp out of hiding.
"So… what's the hold-up Chrissy?" Tracer asked. "You said we would start this here challenge soon and that was over an hour ago."
"Yeah, what's the hold up?" Natsu asked before punching his left-fist in his right-hand. "I wanna see if this next challenge is all you cracked it up to be!"
"Oh trust me, it is." Chris said as he giggled evilly which didn't go unnoticed by Usopp who went back hiding.
"OH COME ON! WE JUST GOT HIM TO STOP HIDING!" Voldemort yelled in annoyance.
"I don't really blame him…" Happy commented. "This challenge Chris has prepared for us sounds scary."
Vegeta grunted at the statement before saying "Please, what's the worst thing this guy can possibly throw at use?"
Just then an explosion was heard on the other side of the island.
Chris picked up his walky-talky and said "Hey careful with those landmines! I don't want the cobras and crocodiles getting scared. Also can somebody tell me what's taking that boat so long? They should have been here by now."
"No idea sir." An internee replied. "We haven't been able to make any contact with 'The ramatizer' since last night."
"Call it 'The Dramatizer' because 'ramatizer' isn't even a word!" Chris yelled.
The internee next to Chris grinned at his boss reaction which caused Chris to respond the way any normal person would. By taking a leech out his pocket and throwing it at the internee causing him to yell and jump in fright.
"Uh sir?" The walky-talky spoke up. "There appears to be a couple of drones flying towards the island carrying a flat-screen TV."
"A what now?" Chris asked before looking up and seeing the drones in question. They dropped the television on the beach which then turned on by itself.
There was a bunch of static and suddenly a static-voice that could in no way be identified spoke "Well Chris, it would seem we meet again."
Chris stared at the static-screen for a second before saying "Uh … and you are?"
"Don't tell me you have forgotten my face?!"
"It would help if I could SEE your face, because right now all I see is a bunch of static. Your voice is not coming through either."
"Wait what? Uh excuse me a second." The voice said before speaking up again. "What's the hold up?!"
Another static-voice spoke up "Our apologies leader, but we're not gonna get a better signal then this."
"How is this even a signal?!" The other voice yelled. "What's the point of dropping a high-quality TV if we won't get a proper signal through!"
"Again, best we can do boss."
The unmistakable sound of a face-palm echoed through the television before the commanding voice spoke "Okay let's just get to business. Me and my army of mercenaries have successfully taken over the ramatizer-"
"DRAMATIZER!" Chris yelled.
"… have successfully taken over your ship and are currently holding all the contestants as well as the internees onboard hostage."
"WHAAAAAT?!" Everyone but Azula, Vegeta, Itachi, Roman, Voldemort and Chris yelled. Sticks also yelld but since she all ready knew about this, her's was more plain.
"I'm willing to let them go," The static voice said. "-but in exchange you'll give me what I want!"
Chris let's out a long sigh before saying "Let me guess, you want me to hand over the price-money to you? For god's sake, is there going to be someone every season that tries to steal-"
"I don't want the price-money." The voice declared.
Chris blinked at the TV for a second before saying "You don't?"
"I hired an entire armada of mercenaries to take over your ship!" The voice yelled. "Do you honestly think I would go through that much trouble for just a million dollars? My hired sub easily costed twice that much! And that's not even counting the technological modification I had to make to it!"
"Okay fair point, but what else could you possible want?" Chris asked.
"Is it really that hard to figure out?" The voice asked in a condescending tone. "I want that device that allows you to break the laws of the multiverse whenever you wish!"
"… You mean the Loser-remote?"
"… Your seriously calling a device capable of creating interdimensional-portals… the Loser-remote?"
"Well I mostly just use it to banish people to the Loser-dimension anyway." Was the host's answer.
Natsu looked at the TV confused before asking "Why would you want some stuffy old remote anyway?"
"IT'S NOT A STUFFY OLD REMOTE!" The voice yelled. "DO YOU IDIOTS EVEN REALISE HOW MUCH POWER THAT DEVICE HAS?!"
Happy had a question-mark above his head before he said "Well it can summon a bunch of motorcycles, buildings and bring our friends over but other than that-"
"IS EVERYONE ON THAT ISLAND A TOTAL IDIOT?!" The voice yelled in disbelief. "YOU CAN USE THAT DEVICE TO STEAL ALL THE MONEY FROM ENTIRE DIMENSIONS! NOT TO MENTION ALL THE POWERFULL WEAPONRY YOU CAN ACQUIRE WITH BUT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON! HOW HAS NONE OF YOU REALIS-WILL YOU STOP DROOLING?!"
Chris who on the mention of the words 'All the money' started drooling whipped the drool from his face before taking out his Loser-remote and staring at it. He then very loudly yelled "HOW HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE?!"
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"For real?!" Chris yelled while holding the Loser-remote. "Why have I never thought about using this thing to become the richest person in the world?!" He then started pressing buttons before excitingly shouting "All the money from Scrooge McDuck's money pin, here I-"
Ring Ring. Ring Ring
"(Sigh) Should have known it wasn't gonna be that easy." Chris then picked up the phone. "Okay Mister Manager. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't use this remote to become the richest guy on the planet?"
"How about 3 reason. 1, that remote has limited battery power so there is only so much stuff you can teleport before it runs out of juice."
"That's no pro-"
"2, that remote can't make money appear out of nowhere. It still has to come from somewhere, MEANING you're technically STEALING all that money and last I checked that's still against the law."
"Oh come on! What laws are possibly out there that state I can't 'Steal'," Chris said while flexing his fingers. "-valuables from another dimension?"
"Which is where reason 3 comes into play-" The manager continued. "Your contract CLEARLY states that ANY unauthorized use of the Loser-remote, which includes taking valuables from another dimension without consent or the intend of returning it, will result in not ONLY your immediate removal from the show, but also your return to prison."
"Excuse me, WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Chris yelled before taking out his contract and re-reading it. "WHAT KIND OF SHOW-BIZZ CONTRACT WOULD POSSIBLY INCLUDE MY RETURN TO PRISON?!"
"This one. Now if where you, I'd start running."
"Running?" Chris asked confused. "Why?"
"It's just been revealed that your Loser-remote is both an easy way to get rich as well as get a ton of weapons. You do know what that means right?"
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style)
Roman was loading up his cane before saying "Who needs this show when that remote can just make me rich in an instant!"
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Once I have that remote," Azula began saying with a smirk on her face. "-the fire-nation's arsenal shall become even more formidable then it already is."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"All the knowledge of other worlds as well as the means to conquer them right in the palm of my hand!" Voldemort stated as he was doing his evil monologue. "Once I have that device my absolute rule will be guaranteed! And all I need to do to acquire it is take it from some stupid muggle? This is almost TOO easy."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
Chris just realizing in how much danger he actually was said "… Well (Censored)".
*(End Confession)
Chris turned around to the three in question and quickly took out his remote. "Don't even think about it!" He threatened. "Remember, I can easily use this thing to send you guys back where you came from!"
"Acci-"
"Don't bother trying Voldie!" Chris stated. "The remote is also sprayed with anti-cheating spray so your magic can't grab this baby!"
"Wait, it is?" Usopp asked.
Chris blinked for a second before quickly turning around, spraying the Loser-remote with anti-cheating spray before turning around again. "IT IS NOW!"
"Not a smart move muggle." Voldemort stated. "Before I would have simply zapped it away from you. Now I'll have to take it from you the hard way."
Voldemort pointed his wand to Chris but before he could say anything Tracer blinked in front of him and took it. Voldemort blinked at his now empty hand for a few seconds before realizing what had just happened.
"Sorry lu-" Tracer started saying but then threw up in her mouth a little before rephrasing her sentence "-pal. But I'm not just gonna stand back and let you guys use that toy for whatever it is your planning to do with it."
"Just give me that remote before I lose my patience!" Azula threatened Chris with a blue-flame in her hand before Natsu jumped in front of her.
"Sorry Zul. Chris is far from an okay-guy but I won't just stand back and let you hurt him!"
"You tell her Natsu!" Happy cheered before rethinking what Natsu just said "… Though on second thought, he does kinda deserve it."
"True…" Natsu said as he and Happy thought about what to do while still preventing Azula from getting passed them.
"Can none of you use your brains for 5 seconds!" Roman yelled. "We can all become rich with that thing! Why shouldn't we take it for ourselves? We'll all get what we want and we can stop this pathetic excuse of a show right here and now!"
"MY SHOW IS NOT PATHETIC!" Chris yelled.
Surprisingly, Usopp finally jumped out from behind the palm-tree as he aimed his sling-shot at Roman's head. "Last I checked, that remote takes stuff from other dimensions. So even if we do use it to become rich we'd just be stealing money from others! I want no part of that!"
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"If Nami ever found out about this, I'd be so dead. … Hold on, she's not watching right now is she?"
*(End Confession)
"Well look who finally grew a backbone…" Roman complimented. "… also aren't you supposed to be a pirate? Since when are pirates against stealing?"
"I may be a pirate but I'm also the great Captain Usopp!" Usopp stated proudly. "No way would I allow my honor to be smudged by stealing money from innocent people! …Okay, so I may have cheated some people out of money before but … nope, I'm still against this plan!"
Sticks stood next to Vegeta and Itachi and asked (Even though she already knew their answers. Gotta protect the fourth-wall after all.) "Aren't you two going to try and get that remote?"
"Not interested." Vegeta replied as Itachi simply nodded no.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Sure with that remote I could easily get all the money I ever need." Vegeta said. "But no way am I gonna stoop so low as to steal money from others. … Besides if Bulma ever found out she'd kick me out of the house faster than I can turn Super Saiyan."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"I was not instructed to try and obtain that device." Itachi plainly stated. "That is all."
*(End Confession)
"As much fun as it is to see you guys trying to kill one another," The TV spoke again. "-surely I don't have to remind you that me and my men are still holding your friends prisoner?"
"Oh yeah that's right!" Natsu said before turning around and facing the TV "YOU BETTER LEAVE OUR FRIENDS ALONE OR ELSE-"
"Or else what?" The TV asked. "There is absolutely nothing you guys can do to stop me. Heck, you guys don't even know where I am right now!"
"Huh?" Natsu asked.
"I have taken the ship off-course, genius!" The TV yelled.
"Great." Tracer said sarcastically "That means they can be anywhere on sea right now."
"Correct. Now Chris, I'm going to give you 1 hour to reach a decision." The TV stated. "If you haven't by then, then I can no longer guarantee the safety of my guests. And we both know that while you don't really care about them all that much, there will be consequences for you if you don't at least try to save them."
"Hang on a minute..." Chris said as he was reading his contract again. "… the agreed-party shall be sent to pris-OH COME ON!"
"There you have it." The TV-voice said gleefully. "I'll call back in an hour to give you further instruction. And don't even think about launching a rescue-mission! I have an entire armada of mercenaries on my side as well as a secret-weapon! Better pack-up that remote Chris, cause this is the last day you'll ever get to hold it, hahahaHAHAHAHAHA!"
The TV went silent and not 1 second past before Natsu said "So who's gonna join me on a rescue-mission!"
"Aye sir!" Happy said while raising his paw in the air.
"Not that I don't like your enthusiasm," Tracer stated. "-but we can't just run-off blind here!"
"Agreed!" Usopp yelled. "From the sounds of it our friends have gotten captured by a pretty powerful organization! We all first need to come together and think of a plan!"
"We?" Roman asked "Who said anything about we? Last I checked none of us are obligated to rescue those idiots."
"They got themselves into this mess." Azula stated with her arms crossed. "Let them rescue themselves."
"HOW COULD YOU EVEN SUGGEST THAT?!" Tracer yelled angrily at the evil-alliance. "WE SPEND WEEKS WITH THOSE GUYS ON THIS ISLAND AND NONE OF YOU LOT WANNA EVEN TRY AND HELP?!"
"Hey don't put words in my mouth!" Vegeta reacted. "I never said I wasn't gonna help!"
"So you are gonna help?" Sticks asked in a bored voice.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Okay, asking questions is no fun when you already know what everyone is going to say!" Sticks said looking rather bored. "Maybe I should stop reading the scripts…"
*(End Confession)
"Not much of a competition if nearly half get eliminated because of something like this." Vegeta stated while crossing his arms "There's no honor in a hollow victory like that."
"Rescuing the other competitors is not my assignment." Itachi explained. "My assignment however IS to win this contest and secure the price-money. If we don't rescue them then this contest will most likely be canceled and I will have failed in my mission. That … would be inconvenient."
"I suppose it would be a shame to leave those six (SEVEN!) to their fate." Voldemort simply stated.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"I will NOT allow all that effort I have put into that unicorn to have been for NOTHING!"
*(End Confession)
"Well seems we've got more willing volunteers then I thought." Usopp said happily "Even if Roman and Azula decide not to help us out, I'm pretty sure that between the 8 of us we can totally handle those guys!"
"HEY! DON'T I COUNT!" Happy yelled angrily.
"Huh? you did. I counted you along."
"Oh ..." Happy said in embarrassment before rubbing the back of his head. "Sorry, I'm used to getting left out."
"Well if you guys are so set on it then fine." Roman answered before turning around. "If you need me I'll be back in the ca-"
"Now hold on a moment buddy!" Chris said as he suddenly appeared behind Roman.
"Wha- When did you-"
"After thinking the situation over (And finding no way out of that DAMN CONTRACT!) I have decided to change today's challenge!" Chris announced. "Instead of doing the most horrible challenge this show has ever come up with, you guys will now have to do a rescue-challenge!"
Usopp let out a sigh before saying "Well at least that's one last thing I have to worry abou-"
"The other challenge will be postponed to tomorrow!"
"D'OH!" Usopp yelled out loud.
"Well if we're going to be forced into a 'rescue-challenge'," Roman said while doing air-quotes above his head. "-then at least tell us the specifics."
"It's pretty self-explained." Chris informed. "Just find that ship and rescue the captured competitors."
"And how will you decide which team wins the challenge?" Azula asked. "The team that takes down the most mercenaries or frees the most people?"
"The latter, that should motivate you less willing contestants into saving my freedo- I mean, saving the others!" Chris announced while sweating. "The team that manages to rescue the most people, be they on your team or otherwise, will win today's challenge!"
"And what if both teams manage to rescue 3 people?" Voldemort asked. "There are 6 contestants on board remember, so a draw is certainly possible."
"(Sigh) Wouldn't Tikki count as a 7th person?" Sticks asked bored out of her mind.
"And problem solved!" Chris announced.
"What about whoever is in charge of these mercenaries?" Vegeta asked. "Do we also have to take care of them?"
"I'd certainly appreciate it. I don't want some nut-case with their own military running around trying to steal my Loser-remote! In fact-" Chris stated before thinking for a second before snapping his fingers. "I have an idea! Whoever captures the leader of this operation will get an extra reward from yours truly! Any more convincing?"
"All right, all right!" Torchwick said hastily but annoyed. "We'll rescue the kids."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Scratch that off my list of things I was fairly certain I was never going to do in my life!" Roman stated before letting out a sigh. "Neo is sooo gonna laugh at me for this. … You know, if she could."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"I'm doing this for the Fire-nation and that's all." Azula plainly stated though the distaste in her voice was obvious.
*(End Confession)
"Sooooo, how exactly are we gonna find them?" Happy asked the obvious question. "I mean, if the ship has really been taken over then they could be anywhere by-"
"They are in that direction." Vegeta said as he pointed South-West "There about 235 kilometers away so I'll fly on ahead. Just follow my trail and you'll find that ship."
"Wait follow you-"Tracer asked but was interrupted by the sound of Vegeta flying off. "...how?"
"Let's chase after him Happy!" Natsu yelled excitingly.
"Aye sir!" Happy obeyed.
"Wait! We still need to come up with a-" Usopp was interrupted by the sound of Natsu taking off. "...plan."
"So, how are we gonna give chase?" Tracer asked before turning to Chris. "You wouldn't happen to have a boat laying around anywhere, would you?"
"Well no, but I can just borrow one." Chris said as he started pressing bottoms on his Loser-remote. "Just got to look around for something fast and you'll be off in no-time!"
"Actually-" Itachi said which caused Chris to turn around. "I may have a better idea."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Been a while since I accepted a rescue mission." Itachi pointed out. "But approaching an enemy stronghold through the front-door is too risky for the hostages. Instead we should focus on a more … stealthy approach."
*(End Confession)
Meanwhile, back on 'the ramatizer'.
"LET US OUT OF HERE!" Crow said as he bunked against the door of a food storage-room that had been turned into a make-shift prison for him, Marinette and Cassie. "YOU BETTER LET US OUT IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU! I'VE BEEN WORKING OUT LATELY SO LET US OUT OR-!"
"Crow can you please stop yelling!" Cassie complained as her arms where handcuffed behind her back. Her legs were also cuffed. "You're annoying me more then you're scaring them."
"Actually I was getting annoyed too!" The mercenary wearing orange armor said as he stood in front of the door.
Crow grunted before sitting back down. "Well what else are we supposed to do? This room only has the one door and those … whoever they are have the keys!"
"They're not gonna hand them over simply because you keep asking." Cassie said as she struggled against her cuffs. "Besides, at least you 2 don't have hand-cuffs like I do!"
"Yeah, that's something I don't get. Why did you guys only hand-cuff her and not us?" Crow asked confused.
"Because the last time we hand-cuffed all our prisoners, I couldn't figure out which keys fit on which handcuff." Orange said a little bit embarrassed. "So I only handcuffed the one of you who can actually fight back."
"That's … one of the dumbest reasons not to cuff a prisoner I have ever heard!" Cassie said in disbelief. "Also, how do you know that I'm the only one here who can fight back?"
"We watched your show." Orange answered. "How else do you think we found your ship, dumb-luck? … Okay it was part dumb-luck, I mean do you guys even know how big the Atlantic is? Much bigger than your average lake that's for sure. We're talking like, 3 lakes big at least!"
"… These are the guys that captured us?" Cassie said with an expression that just yelled 'Are you kidding me?!'.
"Well can you at least tell us where Beast Boy, Aqua, Sunset and Tikki are being held?" Crow asked.
"Ha! As if I'll tell you that we're keeping the gorilla sedated in the restaurant and the blue-haired girl down in the machine-chamber completely covered in chains to make sure she can't escape using her magic-weapon!"
"… Oh yeah, you're never going to reveal that information to us now will you?" Crow said deadpanned.
"As for Tikki…" Orange said before shrugging. "…not sure. Violet properly handed the little bug over to the boss-lady."
"Don't call Tikki a bug!" Marinette who had been quietly crying about losing Tikki this whole time yelled before asking. "W-what about Sunset? Where did you lock her up?"
"Oh we haven't found her yet." Orange admitted. "She and that chef of yours managed to get away. But we have this WHOLE ship secured so we'll find those two sooner than you can say-"
"STOP TALKING TO THE PRISONERS ORANGE!" Yellow yelled as she just got back from searching another section of the ship for the escaped targets. "I can't leave you alone for 5 seconds can I?"
"Uh, you left me for longer than that Anna-" Orange said but was then slapped on the helmet by Yellow.
"CODE-NAMES GENIUS!" Yellow yelled out. "WE HAVE THEM FOR A REASON!"
"Oh right!" Orange quickly remembered before asking "So … Yellow was your codename right … what was mine again?"
Yellow slapped herself on her helmet before turning her head to the prisoners. "This, this is what I have to work with."
"… I'm actually kinda feeling sorry for her." Cassie told the others before giving Crow a once-over. "Also Crow, do you seriously sleep with your normal clothes on?"
"Hey what can I say?" Crow answered. "Good nightwear was never easy to find back in Satellite. Sure I don't live there anymore and I can properly afford one now but … old habits die hard. Besides, you're the one here who's sleeping in sport-clothes."
Cassie just shrugged before saying "What can I say, there comfy."
"Can we please talk about something else then our nightwear!" Marinette yelled in disbelief.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"We have to get out of here and find Sunset and Tikki!" Marinette stated before remembering someone. "… Oh and Chef too I guess."
*(End Confession)
Meanwhile, in the ships-control chamber.
The leader was chuckling to herself before saying "Now it's only a matter of time before the laws of the multiverse bend to my will and Chris turned to du-"
"Uh, ma'am?" A white-armored mercenary that was checking the sonar interrupted her. "There appears to be an object heading straight for us."
"A missile?" The white-armored mercenary next to him asked.
"Too fast to be a missile. And it's coming from the direction of TDUC island."
"That can only mean one thing." The mysterious leader stated. "Vegeta is on his way here."
It was quiet for about 5 seconds before every mercenary in the control-room started yelling and screaming.
"HE'S GONNA KILL US!" One mercenary yelled.
"WE'RE GONNA BE TURNED TO ASH!" Another mercenary yelled.
"ABANDON SHIP! ABANDON SHIP!" A mercenary yelled before opening a window and jumping off the ship.
The panic continued for a good 20 seconds before the leader yelled "QUIET YOU IDIOTS!"
All mercenaries stopped in their tracks except for 2 who accidentally ran into each-other.
"You guys are fully trained mercenaries wearing the best armor money can buy!" The leader pointed out. "Surely you're not afraid of one little alien."
"But ma'am! He's incredibly fast!"
"He defeated a mercenary from another dimension in arm-wrestling without breaking a sweat!"
"He nearly destroyed an entire island simply by sparring with someone!"
"Which all together makes him a very dangerous opponent, true. However, in case you idiots forgot," The leader then picked up a case and opened it. Inside the case was some strange orb-shaped technology that started making noises the second the case was opened "-I still have a secret weapon. One that I am confident is more then powerful enough to deal with Vegeta."
"MORE POWERFULL THEN VEGETA?!" a mercenary yelled before fainting.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"(Sigh) Good help is so hard to find these days…" The mysterious leader said but the lights were out so their face remained hidden.
*(End Confession)
Meanwhile, inside the ship.
"How difficult can it be to find one teenage-girl and a pathetic excuse of a chef?!" Red asked the black-armored mercenaries who reported that they couldn't find the runaways.
"Sorry sir, but we don't really understand ourselves." One mercenary answered. "We've been all over this ship and we still haven't found them. It's like they simply vanished into thin-air!"
"You idiots!" Red insulted. "It's the oldest trick in the book! When you can't find your targets in an enclosed space, they're likely hiding in the ventilation-system!"
"Oh … yeah, we did not think of that."
Red slaps himself on his helmet before saying "How you guys managed to become mercenaries is beyond me."
What they didn't know was that Chef was indeed hiding in the ventilation-system and was currently above them listening in. He was wearing his military-uniform.
"… These are the guys that took over our ship?" He asked nobody in a deadpanned-voice. "My god, they really are idiots! … Kind of makes us look like idiots too since they still managed to take over the ship." Chef then started crawling forward. "Better keep moving. From the sound of it, the vents won't be safe for long. Kinda impressed that pony-kid got out though. Wonder where she-"
And just like that Sunset, wearing her purple-pajama, fell right on top of Chef.
"Ow!" Both Chef and Sunset said.
Sunset opened her eyes and saw on who she had landed. "Chef? How did you get here? … And why are you wearing a uniform?"
"I didn't pack a lot of clothes when I got on board okay!" Chef explained. "Garfield's little splash yesterday ruined the clothes I had with me so this was all I had. And if you're wondering if I got dressed after these guys invaded then the answer is yes because otherwise I would have been wearing … you know."
"Okaaay…" Sunset awkwardly grinded. "Sooo, do you have a plan or-"
"Sssshhh!" Chef quickly covered Sunset's mouth.
"Hey!" A random mercenary said. "Did you hear something?"
The other mercenary shrugged to his partner and said "Meh, it's was properly just the wind."
"I don't think the wind can talk."
"What are you, an aerologist?"
"I don't even know what that is!"
"Exactly, so keep moving!"
Both mercenaries started walking before Chef let go of Sunset's mouth. Sunset turned to Chef and asked "… These are the guys that have taken over our ship?"
"Oh you think that was bad?" Chef asked. "One of their leaders tried to capture me while I was asleep but for some reason he started swearing out of nowhere and woke me up! Honestly, where did they find these guys? At the boarding-school for stupid henchman? And how did you manage to get away from them anyway?"
"Dumb-luck." Sunset sighed. "I couldn't sleep because of this DAMN HEADACHE! So I went to the bathroom when these guys broke my door. I quickly managed to sneak into the vents before they could capture me. Anyway, what are we going to do now? These guys are all over the ship and who knows what they've done with the others?"
"No need to panic." Chef said pretty calmly. "Once Chris learns about what's going on he'll sent help."
Sunset stared blankly at Chef before saying "… Are you sure about that?"
"He got no choice." Chef answered. "I've gone over his contract. If he doesn't at least try to get us out then he has to go back to prison. Also not every competitor was onboard this ship when these guys decided to high-jack us. We just need to wait for reinforcements to arrive."
"So where just gonna hide in here and do nothing?!" Sunset yelled out.
"Don't say it like that!" Chef demanded. "We're not hiding. We're waiting for reinforcements. After that we're gonna send these guys straight back to wherever it is they came from!"
"And what if they find us?"
"These vents spread out through the entire ship. Even if they know we're hiding here it's gonna take them forever to-"
Suddenly a gas-like sound started spreading through the vents.
"...Do you hear something?" Sunset asked.
"There gassing the vents! Move! Move!" Chef said as he and Sunset started running … crawling away from the gas.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-ship))
"Okay so maybe they're not all idiots." Chef admitted.
*(End Confession)
While Sunset and Chef were crawling away from the gas, Vegeta was nearing the ship.
"There it is." Vegeta said as he stopped for a second to check-out all of his opponents energies. He scowled to himself before saying. "These guys seriously let themselves get captured by this lot? None of them are anywhere NEAR my level. I could knock them all out with nothing but my pinky."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-ship))
"That was not a joke by the way." Vegeta stated. "That was a fact."
*(End Confession)
"Well better get to work then." Vegeta said to himself. "Even if there's no reason to worry about tonight's elimination, it wouldn't be much of a challenge if I just stood here and did nothing. Now who should I deal with fi-what the-?"
Suddenly a flash of light appeared in front of Vegeta which forced him to close his eyes for a second.
He quickly opened them and yelled "All right, who dares to get in the way of prince Vegeta?!"
"Sorry about this Vegeta." A familiar voice said. "But I can't allow you to proceed."
"T-that voice!" Vegeta said in surprise. "I-It can't be!"
Having appeared in front of Vegeta where two familiar individuals. One was a pretty tall man with blue-skin and white-hair while the other was a purple-cat like being. The purple cat let out a yawn before saying "I'm afraid that I can't allow anyone to approach that vessel. That includes you Vegeta."
"L-Lord Beerus?! And Whis?!"
TO BE CONTINUED!
And that is the end of the first part of Chapter 12! Hoped you guys liked it and see you-
"YOUR NOT GETTING AWAY WITHOUT AN EXPLANATION MISTER!" Sticks yelled.
Or else?
"I'll call Wade."
… (Sigh) all right look. I don't have any excuses for delaying this story as long as I have. So many things just got in the way like me finishing school this year and getting a job. You know, life-stuff. However, like I said in my last chapter (Not sure how many of you still remember that!) I really have no intention of abandoning this fanfic. I know that doesn't really mean much when I haven't updated this fanfic in over a year. Heck, only posting the first part of this chapter instead of a complete one also feels pretty petty, but this chapter is REALLY shaping into a long one. It took a while for me to get a very clear image of how this chapter would go, and I do have that clear image set, but because of that this chapter became a lot bigger then I originally thought. To give you an idea, this part is nearly 12 000 words long and I've already written about 6 000 words for the second part but it's STILL not nearly finished. I really like to take my time and finish the second part at my own pace so I can't give you guys any specific date on when the next part of this chapter will release. All I can ask is that you'll be patient with me and I'll promise to try and finish this fanfic no matter how long it may take. (keyword : TRY)
Now what do you guys think of this first part of the new chapter. Any guesses as to who the leader might be? Feel free to leave your reviews because GOD knows how long I've missed those.
This was MasterSaixus, signing off.
(… It feels good to be back)