Total Drama Ultimate Crossover
Chapter 12 : In Shallow Waters PART 2
*(Disclaimer : I do not own Total Drama or any other franchises used in this fanfic.)
Vegeta stared at the two deities in shock and surprise "W-What are you 2 doing here?!"
Scratching his head, Beerus replied "We're here to stop you from reaching that ship. I thought that was obvious."
"But, why do you wanna stop me?" Vegeta asked. "For that matter, how did you two even get back here in the first place?!"
"Creating holes in the barriers of the multiverse is child's play for Lord Beerus." Whis explained before turning his gaze to his master. "Though I must admit that it's against the laws of the Omni-king to actually do so."
Beerus sweat-dropped. "W-well as long as he doesn't find out no harm done."
"And why would I not tell him about this?" Whis asked.
The god of destruction pointed his finger at his angel and said "You're the one who told me where I was supposed to make that hole to get back here! That makes you as responsible as I am!"
"Last I checked, you're the one who kept begging me to show you the way back." Whis calmly rebutted.
"Well my begging may not have worked but my bribe sure did." Beerus shot back. "So our little unauthorized trip will remain just between the 2… well 3 of us, understood?"
Whis let out a sigh before saying "Guess it's too late for me to change my mind now..."
"Don't ignore me!" Vegeta shouted. "Why did you two come back here?!"
"Now now Vegeta, there's no need to go into details." Beerus said as he started to charge his energy. "Just know that if you want to get to that ship you must first get passed us."
Vegeta grunted before turning Super-Saiyan and said "Fine! But I better get some damn answers after this!"
"That's fine with me." Beerus said as he charged at Vegeta. "Let's see the results of your training!"
Beerus and Vegeta fist clashed as there aerial battle started. Yellow and purple energies collided against one another while the mercenaries onboard the ship's deck stared at their fight.
"…10 bucks on Beerus!" One mercenary yelled.
"20 bucks on Beerus!" Another mercenary yelled.
"I'm feeling risky today, so a 100 bucks on Vegeta!"
As the mercenaries started making bets, a portal opened up on the right-side of the ship.
Usopp jumped out of the portal and yelled "Don't worry guys! The brave captain Usopp is here to-"
Usopp then noticed that there was no land underneath him and started falling.
"SOMEONE CATCH MEEEEEE!" Usopp yelled before Itachi jumped out of the portal and send a flock of crows to catch Usopp. Itachi himself managed to hang on to one of the ships open windows.
"T-thanks for the save." Usopp said gratefully.
"You would have survived the fall." Itachi stated before looking at the portal that brought him to the ship. Tracer's head appeared out of the wormhole.
Tracer looked around for a second before yelling at Chris. "Ugh! Chris! You're little doohickey's portal is not in the right place!"
"Well excuse me!" Chris's voice yelled back. "I never used the loser-remote this way so give me some time!"
As Tracer went back in and the portal closed, Itachi quickly went inside the ship through the open window followed by Usopp who was riding Itachi's flock of crows.
Usopp got off the birds as they flew back to Itachi's sleeves. "How many of those birds do you have anyway?"
"Enough." Itachi replied as a new portal opened behind them and the rest of the rescue team jumped out.
"All right." Tracer said "Time for operation: search and rescue!"
"Okay we need a way better operation name then that!" Sticks, happy that she didn't read this part of the chapter so she wouldn't get bored again, stated. "How abou-"
"Who cares what we name it?" Roman asked getting impatient. "You guys know the plan. We'll split up into groups made out of members of both our teams and search the ship."
"Hold on? Where's Vegeta?" Usopp asked. "Shouldn't he have been on the ship by now-"
"GALICK GUN FIRE!" Vegeta shouted which caused the rescue team to look out the window and see Vegeta fighting Beerus. Beerus had just stopped Vegeta galick gun and was currently firing small purple energy balls at Vegeta which he quickly evaded.
"Hey isn't that-" Tracer asked but got interrupted by Usopp's screaming.
"IT'S THE PURPLE CAT!" Usopp shouted in panic. "HE'S BACK?!"
"Well that complicates things..." Azula stated, trying to maintain a cool face but was secretly also not thrilled with the presence of the being that took her out with one tap. "Vegeta will have to keep him busy. The rest of us have our own mission to get to."
"Indeed." Roman agreed. "So like I said, split up and search."
And so the rescue team split up into 3 teams. These teams existed out of Sticks and Itachi, Azula and Voldemort and the final team was made out of Roman, Tracer and Usopp.
"Remember guys." said Chris as he had given some walkie-talkie's to the teams. "Your team gets rescue points based on the amount of people you save. The one who frees said person from whatever confinements they may be in will get their team a point! The team with the lowest score will have to send someone to Loser-vile tonight. Any questions?"
"Did you have to turn this into a competition?" Tracer asked with a deadpanned look on her face.
"Yes, yes I did." Chris responded which caused some competitors to face-palm.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"What?" Chris asked confused. "I still have a show to run!"
*(End Confession)
Back with Vegeta.
"I must say I am impressed Vegeta." Beerus complimented. "Despite having been stuck here for quite a while you don't seem to have gotten sloppy."
"Of course I haven't!" Vegeta said while dodging more energy spheres. "I can't allow Kakarot to become stronger than me simply because I'm busy with this contest."
"Well that's good to hear." Beerus said with a smirk on his face. "Then let's kick this battle up a notch shall-"
"Lord Beerus." Whis interrupted. "We appear to have another visitor."
"WE FINALLY MADE IT!" Natsu yelled out while Happy was sweating as hell.
"Thank god!" Happy cried out of happiness. "For a second I thought I was gonna have to fly around all day to find that ship."
Natsu grinned at his flying friend. "All right, now we just need to-"
"Excuse me gentlemen?" Whis greeted grabbing Natsu's and Happy's attention. "It's quite rude to talk amongst yourselves when there are others present."
"Huh?" Natsu asked before looking at Whis. "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?"
"N-NATSU!" Happy yelled as he peeked over Natsu's shoulder. "LOOK OVER THERE!"
"Huh?" Natsu turned his head to Beerus. He looked at the deity in surprise and yelled "HEY! YOUR THAT PURPLE CAT BASTARD BORIS!"
"IT'S BEERUS! LORD BEERUS!" Beerus yelled back before letting out a sigh. "This guy's memory is even worse than that of Goku."
"And he's fighting-" Natsu said before turning his head to Vegeta. "…who are you?"
Vegeta left-eye twitched at Natsu's question and yelled "IT'S ME YOU IDIOT! VEGETA!"
"Vegetable?" Happy asked which caused Vegeta's other eye to twitch as well. "Wasn't your hair black before?"
"Maybe he secretly paints his hair black and it washed out in the ocean?" Natsu guessed.
"You imbeciles!" Vegeta shouted. "My hair isn't painted! I simply transformed into a stronger version of myself. This-" Vegeta said as he charged his energy to prove how much stronger he had gotten. "-is the power of a Super Saiyan!"
"So what your saying is that you can change your hair color to become stronger?" Happy asked confused.
Whis let out a sigh before thinking about it for a second and then said "Well to be fair, that's not completely inaccurate."
"THE HELL IT IS!" Vegeta shouted.
"In any event-" Beerus came back to business. "You guys must be here to rescue your little friends. Well, me and Whis are in your way so if you wanna save your friends then you'll have to defeat us first."
"CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!" Natsu agreed as he charged straight at Beerus but stopped when Vegeta got in his way. "Wha-Hey! Get out of the way Vegeta!"
"You fool! I'm the one fighting him so back off!" Vegeta yelled. "Besides, have you forgotten what happened the last time you faced Lord Beerus?"
"He was lucky!" Natsu yelled back. "Besides, there's no way I can turn my back on such a strong opponent!"
"… Are you sure you're not related to Goku in some way?" Beerus asked finding that this boy's lust for battle was almost just as big as that of Goku's.
"Then how about you spare with me instead?" Whis offered a solution.
"I don't know..." Natsu said with his hands crossed."You don't seem as strong as Blirus (BEERUS!) over there."
"Wha- Don't be an idiot!" Vegeta shouted angrily. "Whis is not just the servant of Lord Beerus but also the one who taught him everything he knows about fighting!"
"REALLY?!" Natsu yelled but not out of fear but out of excitement. "Alright then blue guy, LET'S FIGHT!"
Natsu charged against Whis with a Fire Dragon Iron Fist but Whis used his staff to block the attack with ease. Natsu then continued to launch multiple flaming punches against Whis as well as some flaming kicks, but all of them got blocked by Whis.
Beerus and Vegeta stared at the display for a second before Beerus said "I can't tell if that guy is either extremely brave or extremely foolish. His personality is almost identical to that of Goku's."
"Hm." Vegeta grunted. "He may be identical to Kakarot personality wise, but his power is FAR from even close to his."
"That much is true." Beerus agreed. "But our break has lasted long enough, so ready or not Vegeta here I COME!"
Beerus and Vegeta went back to fighting while Natsu continued his fight against Whis.
"OH COME ON!" Happy yelled behind Natsu's back. "I THOUGHT I COULD TAKE A BREAK!"
Back on the ship, inside the restaurant.
"What the hell is going on out there?" Green asked his squadron of 20 black-colored mercenaries who had Beast Boy, who was still a gorilla, sedated.
One of the mercenaries who was carrying a pair of binoculars looked out the window and said "A purple cat is fighting some blond guy while a blue-skinned man with a staff appears to be fighting some pink-haired boy who's being carried around by a flying cat, sir."
"… Okay, I stopped poaching animals because I thought being a mercenary would pay better." Green reminisced. "I did not however sign-up to deal with interdimensional aliens and deities!"
"Then why did you accept this mission?" Another mercenary asked.
"Are you kidding me?" Green asked in disbelief. "With the money I'll get from this gig, I can finally buy myself a mansion!"
"So then you did sign-up for this?" The guy asked as he tilted his head in confusion.
"Well... yes but... argh! Forget I said anything! Besides, it's not like our current job is all that hard. All we have to do is inject this guy with my sedative every once in a while and he won't wake up till the mission is long over." Green stated before looking at Beast Boy for a second and getting a smirk. "Actually… a change-shifting kid can probably land quite a nice price on the black-market. I'm sure some of my old contacts would be very interested in a kid who can turn into every animal out there. Perhaps I'll ask our client if I can't keep this guy as a bonus."
"I don't think so pal!" A female voice shouted out causing Green and his soldiers to look up the sealing as suddenly a badger-girl came out and landed on one of mercenaries.
"AH!" The mercenary yelled. "GET HER OFF! GET HER OFF!"
"Hold still!" Another mercenary yelled as he took out a baton that was charged with electricity. He was about to strike when suddenly the mercenary next to him turned into smoke and out came Itachi who knocked him off course causing him to hit his fellow mercenary, who had to remove his helmet to get rid of Sticks, on the head with his electric-baton. The electrocuted guy quickly fell unconscious.
"You should be more careful with your aim." Itachi stated as he knocked out the other mercenary with a tap on the neck. "Sticks, what happened to waiting for the right moment?"
"Hey! That guy was talking about selling that green gorilla!" Sticks said angrily as she used her wooden bow-staff to take out two more mercenaries. "What was I supposed to do?"
"I'm very certain that green gorilla is Beast Boy, Sticks." Itachi plainly stated as he dodged some bullets thanks to his Sharingan.
"That makes it even worse!" Sticks yelled.
"The ninja and the badger-girl. I don't know how you managed to get onboard without us spotting you but you're fools to engage us like this." Green said as he took out a bow-staff of his own, only this one was made of metal and charged with electricity. "I've fought against the strongest animals the animal kingdom had to offer! And all of them have either fallen before me or have been imprisoned for the rest of their lives. Men! Kill the ninja! But leave the badger-girl for me! An animal as unique as her is sure to get me quite the reward!"
"All right you OC villain!" Sticks insulted as she prepared her bow-staff. "Have at me!"
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Now this is what I'm talking about!" Sticks shouted. "Nothing better than a fighting sequence to forget how bored I was in the first part… over half a year ago!"
*(End Confession)
While Sticks and Green prepared for combat, Roman, Tracer and Usopp were sneaking through the corridors. They eventually found a hallway that was being patrolled by quite a number of mercenaries. At the end of the hallway stood a door that was being guarded by Orange and Yellow.
"Considering those two are wearing different colors then the rest of these mercenaries, I'm guessing they're the ones in charge." Roman observed.
"Then our pals must be behind that door." Tracer assumed. "All right lads, listen up! On my signal we'll-"
"Hang on, who put you in charge?" Roman asked feeling challenged. "If anyone is in charge around here it's me."
"Uh guys?" Usopp tried to get their attention.
"Why shouldn't I be in charge?" Tracer asked with a scowl on her face. "I got put in charge of my own strike-teams before. If anything, I'm the most qualified of us to lead!"
"Oh please, I have been doing suicide-missions like this long before you even held a gun, goggles." Roman stated.
"Guys? The mercenaries have already-"
"Goggles?" Tracer asked in disappointment. "That's the best you could come up with?"
"Hey as long as it fits-"
"GUYS!"
"WHAT?!" both Roman and Tracer asked before looking at the hallway and seeing every mercenary covered in plant-vines, including the commanders.
"A little help please?" Usopp said as he was messing with the lock. "This lock is a lot more advanced than the once we have back in my world."
Roman and Tracer blinked for a second. Seeing an entire squadron of mercenaries being incapacitated because of the cowardly sniper was certainly a surprise to them.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"You know..." Roman stated as he had his hand over his chin. "Long-nose's cowardly nature makes it easy to forget that he's actually quite a capable fighter. …Don't tell him I said that."
*(End Confession)
"Allow me love." Tracer said as she shot to lock with one of her guns, causing the door to open.
"Tracer! Usopp!" Marinette yelled in joy before she saw Roman and her smile of relief turned into a gaze of confusion. "Roman? You're here to rescue us too?"
"Now there's a twist." Crow stated as he glared at the wanted criminal. "I figured you of all people would have just let us rot in here."
"Nice to see you too bird-brain." Roman said as he shot off the hand-cuffs keeping Cassie restrained.
"Good to see you guys." Cassie said as she flexed her now free hands before turning to Roman. "Except you of course."
"Uh you're welcome!" The criminal said irritated.
"So what's the plan?" Crow asked.
"Extraction and arrest love." Tracer stated. "First we free the others, then we capture whoever is in charge around here."
"Any idea where the others are?" Usopp asked.
"Beast Boy is being held in the restaurant." Crow told. "And Aqua should be down in the machine-chamber."
"We don't know where Sunset is though..." Marinette stated. "She and Chef managed to escape before they could capture them. Some mercenary in violet armor took Tikki... we're not sure where she is right now."
"Wait? How could you guys possibly know all of tha-" Roman wanted to ask but quickly figured out the answer. "...the grunts told you didn't they?"
"Actually it was the guy in Orange armor." Crow answered.
"One of their commanders told you-" Roman said in disbelief. "How did these guys ever manage to take over this ship?"
"With skill and hard work, eyeliner." A voice said behind them causing our group of (mostly) heroes to turn around and see that Commander Yellow and Orange had gotten out of the vines thanks to a pair of small electric-knives that Yellow held in her hands.
"Yeah!" Orange confirmed as he held a massive electric-hammer that made a loud bonk noise as he brought it down on the ground. "That and some good old fashion dumb luck!"
Yellow face-palmed before turning to her fellow officer. "You killed it. I had it, and then you killed it."
"Sorry." Orange apologized.
"All right, new plan." Roman said as he shot an explosive round of dust against Orange causing Yellow to jump out of the way. However, Orange's armor had protected him from most of the explosion causing Roman to whistle for a second. "That's some impressive armor you have."
"Thanks!" Orange said with genuine gratitude "I made it myself!"
This caused Marinette, Crow and Cassie to look at Orange in disbelief. Then Crow said what they all were thinking. "You made that armor yourself? That's… impressive don't get me wrong but… how?!"
"Don't ask me." Yellow answered. "Guy's head is full of bricks, but when it comes to armors he's basically Einstein."
"Yeah I designed the armors of all the commanders myself!" Orange said with much pride in his voice. "The grunts only have mass-produced armor which, while it does the job lakes a certain fin-es and personality. Take Yellow's armor. She's very quick on her feet so I designed her armor to be much lighter than-"
"Don't tell the enemy my fighting style! Now help me knock these guys out. We'll report to her 'majesty'," She said in a mocking tone. "later."
"Roman, Usopp!" Cassie yelled out. "You two deal with the dimwit. I'll handle sunflower over there. The rest of you, get out of here and see if you can't find the others."
Roman let out a sigh and then said "Okay look, I just got done telling Goggles she ain't the boss of me. So what makes you think I'll listen to-"
Cassie then shot a bullet in front of Roman's feet causing him to jump back and look at Cassie in surprise.
"That was an order." Cassie simply stated as she put up her sunglasses. "Question me again and next time I'll aim for a more 'sensitive spot' then your feet. Clear?"
Roman actually sweat for a second before saying "Y-yes of course hehe. As you say..."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Has Sunglasses always been this good at intimidation?" Roman asked himself. "… I'm genially impressed."
*(End Confession)
As Tracer, Crow and Marinette ran into a different hallway, Yellow stared at Cassie and said "Okay first off, got to admit, that was pretty badass. Second off, where did you get those guns?"
"Borrowed these from the guys stuck in the vines." She simply stated as she started shooting at Yellow who quickly dodged the bullets before getting closer to Cassie. She then made some quick movements with her knifes trying to catch Cassie off-guard but the trained soldier easily dodged the knife strikes before kicking Yellow in the stomach, causing the two to get some distance between each other.
"Yeah, military training all right." Yellow concluded. "Special ops?"
"First class." Cassie proudly stated. "You?"
"Just some improvised skills along with a hint of-"
"Let me guess? Military school?" Cassie asked.
Yellow frowned. "My dad's idea. My old man wanted a son instead of a daughter."
"Family problems?" Cassie asked before smirking. "Trust me, I know all about that."
"…Are they fighting or having a conversation?" Roman asked as he dodged another swing from Orange's massive hammer.
"Yeah Yellow." Orange stated as he dodged an explosive star from Usopp. "Even I know you're not supposed to have a girl-talk in the middle of a fight."
"Oh back off Orange!" Yellow yelled back at her partner. "(Sigh) Boys."
"Don't get me started." Cassie agreed.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"What?" Cassie asked "Just cause we're enemies doesn't mean we can't have a decent conversation."
*(End Confession)
"Was it really a good idea for us to just leave like this?" Crow asked, not pleased that he was running away again.
"You don't have your duel-disk and without Tikki I've got no powers." Marinette answered. "We wouldn't have been able to help even if we stayed."
"There's no need to worry loves. Those three can handle themselves. Besides, there are still people trapped on this ship so we better continue looking." Tracer said as she looked at the duelist and Parisian. When she saw the later though, Tracer couldn't help but ask "… By the way Marinette? Why are you wearing your pajama's?
Marinette blinked for a second before blushing. "T-These guys invaded our ship at night! What else would I be wearing?!"
"But Crow is still in his normal clothes." Tracer pointed out.
"He sleeps in them!" Marinette countered.
"And now that I think about it, wasn't Cassie wearing- oh wait. She wears those every night, never mind!"
"Hey if you girls are done talking about clothes can we get back to-LOOK OUT!" Crow yelled as he quickly tackled Marinette out of the way from an electric-steel whip that nearly struck her down. Both of them ended up rolling inside of a random room while Tracer took out her guns and confronted this new enemy.
"Looks like we got a jailbreak on our hands boys." Violet said to the 4 mercenaries that stepped in front of her. "Let's show them some hospitality."
Violet readied her whip as her underlings took out their guns. The mercenaries fired but Tracer's constant blinking made it impossible for them to hit her. She then took out her laser-guns and one by one shot the enemies guns, destroying them. As they were about to take out their batons, Tracer threw her pulse-bomb in front of them. As it went off, all the black armored mercenaries got blown to the sides of the hallway, rendering all but one unconscious.
"… Really?" Violet grunted. "You guys couldn't even last 10 seconds?"
"S-sorry co-commander Voilet… uhg." The last grunt stated before also losing consciousness.
"Well in their defense love…" Tracer started saying as she reloaded her guns. "You're not gonna last much longer than them blokes."
Violets whip charged with electricity as she said "Oh I'm gonna have fun taking you out."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"And once again our friend is in danger and all we can do is just sit and hide." Crow said as he let out an annoyed sigh. "I'm starting to miss my universe. At least when trouble showed up there I was able to help."
*(End Confession)
"And where do you think you're going?" Azula asked Voldemort who had walked into a new hallway.
"I can feel that my little project is close by." Voldemort said menacingly. "She does not appear to be trapped yet so I'm gonna pay her a visit. You don't mind, do you?"
Azula smirked and said "Sure, you go have your fun. I'll go play the hero for a bit."
"Ha!" Voldemort laughed at Azula's statement before vanishing into the darkness.
Azula proceeded to make her way further down the ship but just as she was about to open a door...
"BOOM!" the door exploded and laughter echoed through the hallway.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Blue laughed as he stepped out of the smoke. "Now that is what I call an explosion! HAHAHA!"
"I suppose it was all right." Azula said as she too stepped out of the smoke, and aside from some ash on her face and armor, she appeared just fine. "Unfortunately for you I was fast enough to bend the front of your explosion away."
"Ah, the fire princess." Blue stated as he took out an electric-mace. "I was hoping I got to fight one of you guys. If you came here to rescue our hostage then your out of luck. My armor is made to withstand explosions! Your little fire won't even touch my skin!"
"But can it handle lightning?" She asked before taking her lightning-stance and shooting a ray of blue lightning at Blue. Blue however blocked the attack with his electric-mace which seemed to expel even more electricity after the hit. Some lightning did still hit his armor but it appears to have had no effect.
"Sure can!" Blue answered. "Our entire armada is equipped with top of the line electric weaponry. What idiots would we be if we didn't carry electric-proof armor?"
"Fire-proof and lightning-proof huh?" Azula asked with a scold on her face. "That's annoying."
"Sure is. For you!" Blue yelled as he charged at Azula.
We now go back to Sunset and Chef, as the two are forced to abandon the vents thanks to the gas. They ended up falling from the ceiling into what appears to be the gym.
Both Sunset and Chef where cuffing up gas before Sunset asked "You think (cough) they know we're here?"
The answer came when they noticed they were surrounded by about 8 mercenaries each holding an electric-baton and pointing them at the two escapees.
"… My guess is yes." Chef answered.
"Finally!" Commander Red said as some of his men stepped aside. "Do you two have any idea how long I've been looking for you?"
"Uh, all night?" Chef guessed.
"AND MORNING!" Red yelled. "I have much better things to do in the morning then look for two escapees!"
"Sir, you literally went to bed the second our client ordered you to go search for those two." Another mercenary pointed out. "The only reason you got up is because we told you we couldn't find them. Otherwise, you would have slept till late in the afternoon."
"They didn't need to know that!" Red yelled angrily at his subordinate.
"This guy got some anger issues." Chef pointed out which caused some of the mercenaries to start laughing.
Red then took out a handle which folded into a katana that was, you guessed it, charged with electricity. "Okay you two, here's what's going to happen. I'm in a good mood today-"
"Could have fooled me." One of the grunts said causing Red to shoot him an angry stare… which wasn't very noticeable since he was wearing a helmet.
"… So come with us quietly and you won't be harmed."
"And if we refuse?" Chef asked.
"Well then you two WILL be harmed and then forced to come with us." Red replied.
"I see…" Chef said he pretended to be in deep thought. "One more question."
"Which is-"Red asked before Chef threw a dumbbell to his face.
"Does that count as refusing?" Chef asked while Sunset and the grunts stared at Chef in disbelief. "Actually don't bother answering that."
"You fool!" One of the mercenaries said as they all pointed their electric-batons at Chef. "Do you honestly think that was enough to take down our commanding office-"
"He's unconscious!" The medic mercenary yelled.
"WHAT?!" The other mercenary yelled in disbelief. "HOW?!"
"He just got a dumbbell thrown at his face! You think someone can just walk that off?!" The medic answered.
"Stop arguing you idiots! We still need to take care of these-" The mercenary speaking was cut off by Chef grabbing his baton, throwing it away and then the breaking the mercenary's arms. The cracking sound caused the other mercenaries and Sunset to wince.
"NOW WHO'S NEXT?!" Chef yelled as he charged at his enemies.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Was Chef always this intimidating?" Sunset said a little freaked out at the sudden violence.
*(End Confession)
"STOP BLOCKING MY ATTACKS! FIRE-DRAGON'S FLAME ELBOW!" Natsu said as his elbow struck against Whis his wand before a stream of flames rushed out. The flames however where split in two, leaving Whis once again untouched much to Natsu's annoyance.
"You shouldn't lose your temper so quickly." Whis stated. "Letting your anger get the better of you in the middle of a fight is the easiest way to lose."
"SHUT UP YOU BLUE BASTARD!" Natsu yelled as he put his hands above his head. "DODGE THIS! FIRE DRAGON BRILLIANT FLAME!"
A massive fire-ball headed to Whis, who decided to follow Natsu's advice, and dodged the attack. The attack hit the ocean, creating a massive explosion of fire. Whis looked back at Natsu and said "Thanks for the advice but I think I would have been fine just blocking that."
"THAT'S IT!" Natsu said as he surrounded himself in fire. "I'M GONNA BURN YA SO HARD, YOU'LL BECOME A RED BASTARD!"
As Natsu charged at Whis again, Beerus and Vegeta had stopped fighting for a second to observe the other fight.
"Huh." Beerus said. "Now I'm starting to think the pink-haired guy is more related to you Vegeta."
"WHAT?!" Vegeta shouted back feeling incredible insulted. "THAT BRAT AND I ARE NOTHING ALIKE!"
"No I'm serious." Beerus started rubbing salt in the wound. "Sure his challenging demeanor and overall personality is quite a lot like that of Goku, but this anger-mode he's currently in is much closer to your personality. It's like this guy has all of Goku's personality but your temper. He has both Goku's care-free-nature weakness and your becoming-so-angry-you-can't-think-straight weakness. That's… honestly quite disturbing."
"ENOUGH!" Vegeta yelled at Beerus. "IT WAS BAD ENOUGH THAT YOU COMPARED THAT GUY TO KAKAROT BUT COMPARING HIM TO BOTH KAKAROT AND MYSELF?!"
Vegeta then started yelling again which caused Natsu to temporary forget about Whis and look at Vegeta. Vegeta got surrounded in a blue light and once it vanished, Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta had arrived.
"You better get ready Beerus." Vegeta said with a smirk on his face. "Because I'm not going easy on you anymore!"
"HOLY CRAP!" Happy yelled. "VEGETA WENT FROM BLOND-VEGETA TO BLUE-VEGETA!"
"HEY VEGETA!" Natsu yelled with a smirk on his face. "TRY GOING PINK-VEGETA NEXT!"
"THERE IS NO PINK-VEGETA!" Vegeta yelled back at Natsu before realizing what he just said.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Note to self, never tell him about Zamasu." Vegeta said with a grunt on his face.
*(End Confession)
"How is this guy so fast?!" A mercenary asked before getting struck down by Itachi. He had already taken down most of the mercenaries in the room but more mercenaries kept rushing in to try and contain the ninja. Meanwhile, Sticks wasn't doing so well against Green as she barely avoided a lethal strike.
"Whoa, close one!" Sticks said as she struck Green on the helmet causing him to back away as a crack had appeared on his helmet, much to his surprise.
"Okay, can someone please explain to me how your wooden bow-staff can break solid steel?!" Green asked as his metal bow-staff collided with the wooden bow-staff of Sticks.
"I don't know." Sticks answered. "I've been using this thing to clobber robots for a while now so… cartoon logic?"
Green looked confused at Sticks which provided her another opening to strike her foe. Sticks quickly used the opportunity to tap Green several times on the chest. Green grunted before shaking off the hits.
"You're good, I'll admit." Green complimented. "But surely you realized by now that you cannot defeat me."
"And why's that OC?" Sticks asked.
"Who the hell is… never-mind." Green said while showing off his bow-staff skills. "Both of us use the same type of weapon as well as the same fighting-style. I'm also guessing you've trained out in the wild just as I did."
Sticks gasped in surprise before asking "Are you reading my mind?!"
Green blinked at Sticks. "What? No! How would I even do such a thing?"
"Well you are an OC so you could have been-"
"I CAN'T READ MINDS! Now let me finish!" Green continued. "When two opponents implementing the same fighting-style clash, the deciding factors are their natural skills and the quality of their gear. My electro-staff is way more advanced than your wooden one. Your skill with that stick of yours might be equal to mine, but I have both nature and technology on my side. Together, they make me your superior!"
Sticks let out a loud gasp before saying "You monster! Nature and technology aren't supposed to be on the same side! They are polar opposites! Like pancakes and waffles! They are both delicious but nobody wants to eat them in the same morning!"
"… I do." A random mercenary said as he just got struck in the helmet by a kunai.
"Okay, so one person does." Sticks said. "But my point remains. Just because you can have both doesn't mean you should!"
"Okay, now you're just starting to irritate me!" Green said as he managed to strike her on her left shoulder and electrocuted her. She let out a yell before dropping her bow-staff and kneeing on the ground with her right hand covering her shoulder. "Like I said, your superior."
"Well," Sticks said as she grunted. "guess it's a good thing I have something even better than technology and skill on my side."
"Oh really." Green said with a smirk. "And what might that be?"
"A giant green gorilla!"
"A giant green gorilliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!" Green asked as Beast Boy had grabbed him from behind and threw him full force into a table, breaking it in the process.
"You alright Sticks?" Beast Boy asked as he finally transformed back to normal.
"I'll be fine. It's just a burn-wound." Sticks answered as she stood up. "As a cartoon, I've survived worse."
"W-when did you-? You're supposed to be subdued!" Green yelled in disbelief as his armor sparked all over the place. "My tranquilizer-"
"Why do you think I was initially disguised as one of your soldiers?" Itachi pointed out as he was done dealing with the remaining mercenaries. "I went ahead of Sticks and replaced one of your soldiers. Then I emptied the contents of your sedative's without you noticing."
"WHAT?!" Green yelled in disbelief as he took one of his tranquilizers and broke them, only to see nothing come out. "B-but then the l-last sedative I gave him-"
"Was completely empty." Itachi answered. "After that, it was only a matter of time before Beast Boy regained consciousness."
"Y-you planned this from the start." Green said as he started to lose consciousness."…Heh, we-well played…"
Green fainted as Beast Boy turned to his rescuers. "Hey, uh Itachi? Sticks? Thanks for the save."
"No problemo green-amigo!" Sticks cheered with a thumbs-up only for her to quickly place her hand back on her shoulder.
"Now," Beast Boy asked. "can someone please explain what's going on here?"
*(Confession seat(Cruise-style))
"Hey uh author?" Sticks questioned on the phone. "You didn't hurt me as payback for complaining about how long these chapters take to write, did you?"
The author was silent for 3 seconds before saying "…Maybe."
*(End Confession)
"LOOK OUT!" Marinette yelled as Tracer barely avoided a strike from an electrified-whip.
"Damn." Tracer said as she looked quite exhausted. "Guess it's a good thing I made no bet on that 10 seconds thing huh."
"Told you." Violet said as she readied her whip again. "Now stand still so that I can finish the job my subordinates could not."
While Tracer kept dodging Violets attacks, Crow and Marinette were still hiding in a storeroom.
"Okay that's it!" Crow growled "First we can't help Tracer defeat those grunts and now we're letting her fight one of the bosses by herself? Well enough is enough, I'm helping her!"
"But Crow." Marinette stopped him. "What are we supposed to do. You don't have any superpowers and that Violet person took my earrings. How are we going to stop her?"
"Can't you think of a plan to take her out?" Crow asked. "You told me and the others about your adventures as Ladybug. You always manage to outthink or trick your enemies with some of the most unbelievable plans I've ever heard of. Can't you think of one to take her out?"
"But-" Marinette shivered. "I'm always Ladybug when I think of those plans. My powers always give me what I need to defeat my foes."
"But the plans are still yours." Crow argued. "I don't know about you but if somebody told me that I had to defeat a brainwashed knight and his entire army with a windup toy, the last thing I'd ever think of is using it to tickle him! Or how about using guitar-string to play a song to depower a giant monster fueled by fear! Or using a power stripe to-"
"Okay enough reminiscing!" Marinette interrupted wanting the conversation to get back on track.
"Look my point is-" Crow continued as some lasers were shot in the background. "You have a very creative mind. So start using it and think of a plan. After all, miraculous or not, lucky-charm or not, YOU still have the mind, and more importantly, heart of a hero. Now what do you say we put both of them to good use?"
Feeling more confident and inspired by Crow's words, Marinette started thinking of a plan. As she started looking around the room, she highlighted a table, some fishing rods, an orange lifejacket, the walls and finally Crow.
"I got it!" Marinette grinned as she quickly ran to the fishing rods and threw them to Crow. "But I'm gonna need your help."
Crow caught the fishing rods before looking at Marinette with a slight look of confusing. "Sure but… could you first tell me what I'm supposed to do?"
As Marinette and Crow went to work, another fight was reaching its climax. Yellow and Cassie where constantly trading blows while Roman and Usopp where struggling a bit with the mountain of a man in orange armor. Orange had just smashed some more of Usopp's plants before grabbing the pirate and throwing him to the other side of the room. Orange then smashed his hammer full force against Roman, causing his aura to flicker but it survived the impact.
"Well that's not good." Roman grunted as he got up next to Usopp. "So, any brilliant plans left?"
"Run and hide?" Usopp suggested.
"Unless you have some illusion ability that I'm unaware of, making a getaway is out." Roman stated.
"Ha!" Orange said as he lifted his hammer. "Any last words before I bash your heads in?"
"Just one." Roman stated he aimed his cane at Orange. "How well does your armor handle ice?"
"Well not that great to be honest." Orange answered honestly. "The armors are quite isolated to prevent lightning from making contact with the skin, which is not that great a defense against-"
Before Orange could continue he got hit by a blast of ice-dust which trapped his entire body in an ice block save for his head.
"…ice." Orange finished saying before trying to break out of the ice only to find him incapable of doing so. "Note to: install heaters."
"Whoa." Usopp gasped. "I didn't know you could also shoot ice out of that cane."
"I don't usually rely on ice." Roman replied. "Not really my style."
"Well shoot another one!" Usopp yelled as Cassie just got punched in the face by Yellow. "There's still another bad guy over there."
"Don't worry Usopp." Cassie said as she whipped some blood from her face. "I'm just about to end this fight anyway."
"End it?" Yellow asked confused. "Who's the one that's currently covered in bruises and cuts? You're at your limit Cassie, while I've still got more than enough juice to take you down."
Cassie smirked at her opponent and said. "See, that's the problem with mercenaries. Always too sure of themselves."
Yellow charged at Cassie to finish her off. However, Cassie quickly jumped on the wall and then went for the chandelier on the ceiling. She then swung towards Yellow and kicked her on her helmet with both her legs distorting Yellow. Cassie then proceeded to punch Yellow in the head several times, clearly not bothered by the fact she was wearing a helmet. She then took out one of her borrowed guns and struck Yellow with the back of it, causing the glass in her helmet to shatter and reveal one of her eyes. She then took out her other gun and shot Yellow several times, and even though her armor prevented any lethal injuries, the impacts of the bullets still hurt like hell. On final shot was enough to send Yellow flying on her back. Yellow tried to get up for a few seconds before finally fainting.
The others present stared at Cassie with different reactions. While Usopp was happy they won the battle, he couldn't help but be a little scared at what just happened in front of him. Roman let a whistle, honestly impressed with Cassie's talents. As for Orange…
"Okay so maybe lowering the amount of armor she had in exchange for speed wasn't such a good idea." Orange told to himself. "Oh well, I'll just make a better one. One with at least enough armor to prevent her from feeling the impact of-"
"Your friend just got her butt kicked and your thinking about how to improve her armor?" Usopp asked sweat dropped. "I mean, I'm all for dedication but-"
"Let the idiot do what he loves." Roman interrupted. "Now that that's taking care of, how about we pay a little visit to whoever is running this place."
"Negative." Cassie ordered. "Priority one is the safety of the others. We can go play police afterwards."
Roman turned to Cassie with a knowing smirk. "I know how guys like these work. They won't surrender until their leader is either captured, running away or dead. However, if we do manage to capture her then all we need to do is force her to surrender and then the others will be freed. Isn't it smarter to remove the biggest thread now before she realizes what's going on? I never saw either of those 2 commanders contact their leader so she may still be in the dark about our presence here. I say we use that while we still can."
Cassie looked at Roman with distrust in her eye but had to admit that the criminal had a point. "Aren't you forgetting that we still have no idea where there leader is? How are we supposed to capture her if we don't even know where she is? I doubt any of these mercenaries will tell us."
"Hey you." Usopp said as he slid towards Orange.
"Yes what is it?" Orange asked.
"I'm actually a secret spy your boss send to the island in advance. Would you mind telling me where she is so I can ask for new orders?"
Roman shacked his head in disbelief. "Long-nose, leave the lying to the professionals. There's no way he's dumb enough to fall for-"
"Well why didn't you say so?" Orange happily said. "She's in the control-room of course."
Roman and Cassie blinked for a second before they both face-palmed.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"If this guy worked for me, I'd have shot him the second I hired him." Roman said as a matter of fact.
*(End Confession)
"Could you please just stand still and let me electrocute you?!" Blue yelled in frustration as he brought his mace down on the floor again in an attempt to hit Azula. Her agility over Blue was currently her only option against the armored man. Still, Azula was getting a bit frustrated herself since none of her attacks could harm Blue.
"How about you stop wearing that eyesore you call armor and I'll consider it." She shot back.
"Who do you think I am? Orange?" Blue grunted as he sweat underneath his armor. "Not all big guys are dumb as rocks. Would someone who was dumb come up with an explosive trap and set it up all by himself?"
"I suppose that's a good point." Azula admitted. "I'm curious about something though."
"And that is?" Blue asked.
"How were you so certain I would enter this hallway through that door?"
"Oh I rigged nearly every door down here!" Blue said proudly before sheepishly rubbing the back of his helmet. "There were some… unforeseen problems though."
"Such as?" Azula asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Long story short, we came down here with 10 mercenaries and now there are only 3… including myself."
"Ah." Azula said before grinning to herself. "As funny as that would have been to see, I don't think a commander who blows-up his own men on accident is anything other than dumb. Now if it had been on purpose then I would have been impressed. Instead, I'm just… disappointed."
"Grr, I'll show you disappointing!" Blue said as he charged at the fire princess who ducked underneath Blue's mace before rolling to the side. Blue quickly followed-up on his attack but was once again too slow to hit the princess and hit the wall instead. Blue ripped the mace out the wall and then started breathing heavily from all that running around. He then turned around to see Azula have the mother of all grins on her face.
"What (huff) are you smiling at?!" Blue panted loudly.
"My apologies." Azula responded insincerely. "I can't help but smile at the site of a struggling opponent. Especially one who does not realize he has already lost."
"Huh?" Blue asked in confusion. "What are you (huff) babbling about?! None of your attacks can harm me and all I need to do is hit you with (huff) my mace just once and you're finished!"
"Your weapon is certainly impressive I'll give you that." Azula complemented though her grin remained. "But that armor of yours has a rather big weakness, doesn't it?"
"Oh! And what weakness is that princess?" Blue asked confident Azula was just bluffing.
"Why not find out for yourself?" Azula said as she aimed her fists at Blue and released a large stream of fire against the man, who was laughing at her display of power.
"HAHAHA! A desperate (huff) move like that is all you have?" Blue didn't belief that he had to repeat himself again against the princess as he got pushed back by the flames. "My armor is fire-proof remember? You can throw (huff) all the fire you want against me and it won't (huff) even leave a mark!"
"Oh I know that armor is resilient to my flames." Azula said as she continued her attack. "But can it also keep out the heat?"
Blue blinked for a few seconds as his mind processed that question.
"Moving around in such a heavy suit trying to hit little old me is quite a physical activity." Azula intensified her blast against Blue forcing him back further. "You've been breathing heavily for quite a while now but you were so focused on me that you didn't even noticed. Your suit must be completely isolated to prevent my flames from reaching you. That also means you can't get rid of the warmth inside of it. I wonder how long you can last in that boiling piece of metal. I'm willing to bet, not much longer."
Blue fell on one knee as the heat started overbearing him." Y-you (huff) planed t-this from t-the (huff) start?!"
"Of course I did." Azula responded but didn't relent her attack. "I first needed to make sure you were tired out or else you might have been able to charge through this attack and finish me off. Though looking at you now, I can't help but think I overestimated you."
Blue's sight started to get blurry as he fell on the floor. Azula stopped her attack and with what little strength he had left Blue said "(huff) You know… someone like you could have (huff) f-fit right in wi-with the rest of us-"
Azula then kicked Blue's head, rendering him unconscious. "Please, don't go comparing me to some hired help."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"The only one I ever take orders from is my father. Not some pity mercenaries with too much time on their hands."
*(End Confession)
"Take this!" Chef said as he broke the grunt's leg. "And that!"
He punched a mercenary so hard he flew to the other side of the room. Meanwhile, Sunset was taking cover behind some training-equipment. Chef had been taking down mercenary after mercenary with little trouble. A display that left quite the impression on the unicorn turned human.
"…Wow." Was all Sunset could say as Chef finished of the last of mercenaries.
"Well that's that." Chef said as he dusted of his uniform. "You know, this reminds me of my time in military. Only back then we didn't have fancy armor or electric weaponry. We only had our fists! … And firearms, tanks, planes… argh, you get my point."
"Right…" Was all Sunset could say as she came out of hiding.
"Gotta say, I was really disappointed by their commanding officer." Chef stated. "I mean come on. What soldier goes down from a dumbbell to the face."
Sunset blinked for a few seconds. "I'm… pretty sure all of them."
"Oh please. If any of my men ever went down that easy, I'd push them off a cliff."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"…I can't tell if he's being serious and that scares me." Sunset shuttered.
*(End Confession)
"So where are we going now?" Sunset dared to ask.
Chef looked out the windows and said. "We're not that far from the control-room. We may be able to sneak in and radio for help or-ARBGRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!"
"CHEF!" Sunset exclaimed before turning around and seeing Red back on his feet. He had taken one of the electric-batons and had thrown it against the military chef. After the shock wore off, Chef collided on the floor.
"Now…" Red said in a much more menacing voice then he had before. He took his electric-katana off the floor and pointed it at Sunset. "Where were we?"
Meanwhile, 3 floors below.
"HIYA!" Sticks said as she punched open a door only to regret it seconds later as her shoulder hurt again.
"You should put some ice on that." Itachi advised.
Sticks grunted before opening her eyes and said "All right you stupid OC's, get ready for-"
Sticks stopped talking however as she saw that commander Violet lay unconscious on a table wearing a lifejacket with her arms inside while also being tied against the table through multiple fishing lines. Around the high ranked mercenary where Crow, Tracer and Marinette who was hugging Tikki.
Sticks blinked at the scene while Itachi remained indifferent.
"Sticks? Itachi?" Tracer asked. "Weren't you two investigating the restaurant?"
"Already done." Itachi answered. "We freed Beast Boy but he decided to go look for the others on his own."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"And by others I mean Aqua." Itachi plainly stated.
*(End Confession)
"Sooo, what happened here?" Sticks asked. "Because it feels like I either missed a pretty awesome action sequence or the writer got lazy and skipped a part."
Crow blinked for a second and then replied "Look long story short, Marinette and I set a trap for this commander that worked perfectly and now she's unconscious and tied up."
"And we got Tikki back!" Marinette cheered. "This girl had mine miraculous in her pocket this whole time!"
"…And she didn't use them herself because…?" Sticks couldn't help but ask to which the three responded to by raising their shoulders.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Okay now THAT is just lazy writing!" Sticks yelled.
*(End Confession)
"Okay so far the voting is in favor of Beerus." A white mercenary said to his partners. "That means if Vegeta wins I'll be looking at the small fortune!"
"You sure putting all your money on him was a wise move?" The guy on this right asked. "You do realize that if Vegeta wins, you'll likely no longer be around to spend that cash anyway."
The mercenary blinked inside his helmet before looking at the girl to his left and asked "… Can I still change my vote?"
"Nope! All votes are final."
"Dammit!"
"What are you idiots doing?" The boss asked as she only just noticed the three of them arguing. "You three are supposed to keep an eye on communications!"
"Actually that was Steve's job." The girl mercenary pointed out. "You know, the guy who jumped off the ship."
"…Then who's currently keeping an eye on my army?" She said trying to suppress the anger in her voice.
"Uh… why aren't you doing that yourself?" The middle mercenary asked.
"BECAUSE I HAVE YOU FOOLS!"
"Okay okay!" The mercenary on the right understood. "I'll do a quick check but I'm pretty sure everything is fi-"
Suddenly a screen showed up highlighting the following reports.
ALERT! ALERT! INTRUDERS! INTRUDERS! ALL IDENTIFIED AS HIGH PRIORITY TARGETS!
TEAM GREEN DOWN – COMMANDER GREEN DOWN – PRISONER "BEAST BOY" ESCAPED
TEAM YELLOW/ORANGE DOWN – COMMANDER YELLOW DOWN/COMMANDER ORANGE INCAPACITATED – PRISONERS "LADYBUG" "CASSIE CAGE" "CROW HOGAN" ESCAPED
TEAM BLUE 1 OUT OF 10 REMAINING (added reason : Friendly fire) – COMMANDER BLUE DOWN – PRISONER "AQUA" STATUS UNKNOWN
TEAM VIOLET DOWN – COMMANDER VIOLET DOWN
TEAM RED DOWN – COMMANDER RED OPERATIONAL
The mercenaries blinked at the screen before fearfully turning around at their boss…
…who looked beyond pissed.
"…So uh... you want the good news first or the bad ne-"
"I CAN READ!" The boss yelled. "You CAN however explain to me why I'm only being made aware of this situation NOW?!"
The girl of the trio gulped before saying "W-well we might have been a little distracted by the two deities fighting an alien and a dragon-slayer and forget to check the status-reports as a result."
"Isn't this ship filled with cameras?!" She yelled back. "Surely one of you must have seen them sneak on board?!"
"That was Rex his job and he's still unconscious on the floor over there." The mercenary on the right said as he pointed to him. "Besides, you could have checked the security-cameras yourself! Instead, all you did was seat at the captain's seat all day."
"I'VE BEEN DRIVING THE SHIP!" She yelled not believing the help was blaming her.
"Doesn't this ship have an auto-pilot?" The middle mercenary pointed out.
"…" The lady in charge said nothing as she flicked a few switches before picking up her scarlet helmet and putting it on, completing her own battle armor. "Contact Red!"
"Already tried!" The white armored mercenary girl said. "Armor-sensors indicate that he's still conscious and his comm is operational. For some reason however, he's not responding!"
"Then let him know he's fired!" The scarlet commander yelled as she moved to the door. "Put everyone left on high alert. Once we've taken care of the intruders, we'll deal with Chris. He had his chance on a peaceful solution. Now we're doing this the hard way."
"You mean the fun way, right?" The middle mercenary said as he grabbed a rocket-launcher, smiling behind his helmet.
"Yes."
Meanwhile, in the machine-chambers, Azula was wondering around and looking at the ships inner-workings.
"So far this world has been a far cry from my own." Azula said to no one in particular. "But I must admit their machinery is much more intricate then anything I've seen back home. And this isn't even a war vessel. Imagine what kind of weapons they might have in this world-"
"LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO ONE!" A random merc said as he was just about to shoot the fire princess. However, he never got the chance to pull the trigger as he got struck by a fire-ball and rendered unconscious… only it wasn't Azula who fired it.
Azula sharpened her gaze as she saw who launched the, in her opinion, mediocre fire-ball. "Well this is a surprise. Here I was just about to rescue you, but I guess you got tired of just sitting in a cell doing nothing."
A flash of light shined as the weapon that launched the fire-ball was dismissed, and out of the corner came Aqua, a prisoner of the invaders no longer. She looked at Azula with a distrustful gaze. "I'll be honest. Not the first face I wanted to run into down here."
"Now that's not very friendly." Azula said unbothered by Aqua's greeting. "Here I am, going through the trouble of fighting the poorest excuses of soldiers I've ever met just to get you and your supposed friends off this ship, and I won't even get so much as a thank you?"
"I've been your roommate for several weeks now Azula. If I had to guess, I'd say Chris probably had something to do with you being here." Aqua summarized her thoughts before giving Azula a confused look. "And what do you mean by supposed friends?"
"Oh nothing particular." Azula stated. "Just giving you a friendly reminder that at the end of the day, we're all enemies in this game. Only the most worthy of us is going to win, so you might want to rethink putting too much fate in people you've known for only a few weeks."
"This coming from the girl who's in an alliance herself." Aqua questioned with a stern look.
"One must be willing to adapt in other to thrive." Azula replied. "Otherwise you'll end up getting swallowed by those who do thrive. For example, did I ever mention that my homeland has been at war with the rest of my world for nearly a hundred years?"
Aqua stared at Azula with a look of shock and horror. "A-a hundred years?! Wha-Why?!"
"To thrive of course." Azula answered. "Out of all nations on my world, mine is the strongest. Why shouldn't we be the ones in charge?"
Azula's question made Aqua mix anger into her star as she looked at her in disbelief. "Y-your world has been at war for such a petty reason?!"
"Petty?" Now Azula started to angrily glare at the Keyblade-wielder. "We wage ware to share the beauty of our nation with the rest of the world and claim our rightful place. What's petty about that?"
"Your country is ruining lives to achieve that!" Aqua yelled out.
Azula's look turned to amusement as she said. "Why are you getting so worked up about this? You're not from my world, so it's not like you can do anything about it."
Aqua grinned her teeth at that statement.
"Now if we're done talking I believe it's time we made our way back to the deck." Azula said as she turned around. "I'm pretty sure by now the others have been released so-"
Just then a green dog came running out of the hallway and bumped into Azula's feet causing the fire-prodigy to stumble and nearly fall. The dog turned back into Beast Boy and yelled. "Aqua! I'm here to safe you!"
Aqua blinked at Garfield silently very appreciative of his sudden arrival before saying "That uhm, is kinda not necessary anymore Garfield. I'm already free."
"Huh?" Beast Boy reacted surprised. "S-so you are!"
"Look where you run next time pheasant!" Azula shouted.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Oh men!" Beast Boy complained. "My big change to impress Aqua and I was too late! Curse you universe!"
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"A hundred years of war…" Aqua shuddered. "I don't even want to imagine what a conflict like that is like. Even the Keyblade-war from years past didn't last that long. But… (sigh) Azula is unfortunately right. Keyblade-wielders aren't supposed to intervene in the matters of other worlds. That's the rule but… I can't help but wish there was some way I could stop that war, because clearly Azula isn't all that interested in trying to end it."
*(End Confession)
"Once we've captured one of the intruders, we're retreating back to the sub." The scarlet commander said as she and the three white-colored mercenaries made their way to the main entrance. "After that we'll make it clear to Chris that I am not playing games. Either he hands over that remote or our hostage gets it."
"What about the mercenaries who have already been defeated?" The female mercenary carrying an electric-spear asked.
"Forget them." She replied. "Order all remaining mercenaries here to distract the intruders. And after Chris has finally handed me that remote, we're blowing this ship up with the subs torpedoes."
"Wait a sec…" The mercenary carrying two electrified pirate-blades started. "Then we'll be blowing up our own men!"
"Consider that there punishment for failure." She said as she turned around and glared at the trio behind her. "Anymore complains and I'm leaving you three her as well!"
"Then how are you gonna drive the sub?" The mercenary with the rocket-launcher asked. "Because last I checked, it takes more than one person to operate that thing."
The leader was quiet for a second before yelling. "JUST GET ME A HOSTAGE!"
"Y-YES MA'AM!" The three of them yelled out in fear as they entered the deck of the ship… only to see every black-armored mercenary guarding the deck to be either unconscious or trapped in plants.
"Hello there!" Cassie greeted as she threw a regular mercenary overboard. "Are you perhaps the one in charge around here?"
"If you are-" Roman said as he pointed his cane to the group. "We would like to voice a complaint. The service onboard this ship has been just awful."
"Also you might want to hire some new personal." Usopp advised. "These guys are a bit tired out."
The scarlet commander let out a sigh before saying. "Next time I'm using robots." She then smirked. "But at least now I no longer have to run around the ship to find the bargaining chips. Take them out! But leave at least one of them alive!"
"YES MA'AM!" The mercenary with the rocket-launcher said before firing at the trio. Roman countered by firing at the rocket, creating a smoke-screen. Cassie then quickly rushed into the smoke only to avoid a sword strike at the last second. Roman jumped over the smoke-screen and fired multiple dust-rounds against the enemies. The mercenary with the rocket-launcher dodged while the spear wielder blocked them by spinning her weapon around. Then the rocket-launching mercenary tried firing on Roman only to have his rocket-launcher destroyed at the last second by a bird made out of fire.
"MITORI BUSHI: FIREBIRD STAR!" Usopp shouted as the mercenary dropped his rocket-launcher on the ground. He then stared angrily at Usopp before taking out a duo of guns.
"YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT!" He then started shooting multiple bullets at Usopp but he avoided them by quickly jumping in the now empty pool.
The boss looked at the chaos happening in front of her and sighed. "Maybe we should have stuck with the sub instead of taking over this ship… oh well, too late now."
Back in the gym.
"Come out, come out wherever you are." Red as he slowly made his way through the gym. After Red had neutralized Chef, Sunset decided to run and hide further in the gym. Red was in no hurry to chase his target down but had now lost sight of her. He had already cut down several training machines in his search for Sunset who was hiding behind two layers of weights.
"Think Sunset, think!" Sunset whispered to herself as she knew she couldn't stay hidden behind de weights forever. "He will eventually find me and take both me and Chef hostage unless I figure some way to get out of this mess. But how am I supposed to defend myself against a man with an electric-katana in nothing but my pajamas?! I don't even have anything on-"
Sunset's line of though was interrupted when she fell a familiar object in her pocket. She slowly took it out and stared at the small bottle she was now holding.
"H-how?!" Sunset asked herself. "I'm sure I didn't have this in my pocket beforehand!"
"Who cares?" Sunset's thoughts yelled at her causing her to hold her head in pain. "With this we can take care of that lowlife and get out of here!"
"B-but this is Voldemort's potion!" Sunset protested against herself as her headache got worse and worse. "I can't trust that guy's potion! Who knows what kind of side-effects it might have!"
"We didn't care about consequences when you used them before." Her thoughts pointed out. "We've used that potion plenty of times by now and we never had any problem other than a little exhausting and headache. Surely our freedom is worth that little sacrifice?"
"I-I can't think straight!" Sunset said holding her head with both hands. "We- no I can maybe simply sneak out of here!" Sunset reasoned as she looked around the corner and saw Red looking at the complete other side of the gym for her. "He's not even looking all that hard for me! If I can just get to the door then-"
"Then what?" The voice in Sunset's head asked. "We'd still be on a ship crawling with who knows how many enemies! What are we gonna do the next time we're caught? We're would we even go?"
"I-I don't-" Sunset felled like she was losing control over her own thoughts. "I don't-!"
"What's wrong little Sunset?" Red shouted through the gym. "Don't want to play anymore?"
There was silence for about 5 seconds before Red spoke again. "Here's what's going to happen. I'm giving you to count of 10. If you don't show yourself before I finish my countdown, I'm gonna make my blade very familiar with this man's insides!"
Sunset gasped in shock as she covered her mouth. She can't allow Red to kill Chef. But what she possibly-
"USE IT ALREADY!" Her thoughts screamed. "IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE HIM!"
"1… 2…"
"I… I can't!"
"DRINK IT! DRINK IT ALL!"
"4… 5…"
"I…I…" Emotion started to leave Sunset's eyes as she opened the bottle.
"DRINK AND UNLEASH OUR TRUE POWER ON THIS FOOL!"
"7… 8… 9…"
Red was just about to say 10 when he suddenly heard the sound of glass shattering on the ground. He looked at the direction of the sound and saw Sunset slowly getting out of her hiding spot.
"About time." Red stated as he pointed his blade at her. "Any last words before my blade gets to taste your blood."
"Yes…" A malicious voice left Sunset's mouth as her sun-mark had appeared on her forehead, only this time the mark was completely black. Then Sunset opened her eyes. The white in her eyes were completely replaced with black and her blue eyes shined upon her target. "…Run."
Meanwhile, a few levels down, the group of Crow, Tracer, Sticks, Ladybug (Marinette decided to transform off-screen.) and Itachi was trying to find their way out of the ship.
"Okay where the hell is the exit of this place?" Crow asked impatiently.
"I think we're near the restaurant again." Itachi stated. "Sorry, this boat's architecture confuses even me."
"I've just been following the sweet ocean-air from outside." Sticks commented, still holding her hand on her hurt shoulder. "Either that or shrimps. I get those two confused sometimes."
"Didn't any of you see a map down here?" Tracer asked.
Crow let out a sigh before saying. "Let's just turn around. We should probably have taken the right turn instead of the-"
Suddenly the group stopped as the sound of falling kitchen-utensils could be heard.
"Anyone else hear that?" Sticks asked.
"We all heard it." Crow answered. "I think it came from that kitchen over there."
"Be ready." Ladybug said as she was approaching the door. "There may be more mercenaries inside."
The others heeded her advice as they got ready to face whatever was behind this door. Ladybug opened the door only to see…
…A group of internees cutting each other's ropes with kitchen-knives.
"Oh it's just the internees." Ladybug stated.
"I was wondering where these guys were." Sticks stated.
"Really?" A random internee asked.
"Nah. Hey can one of you give me some ice for my shoulder."
Another internee rolled her eyes before heading to the cool-cell.
"You blokes wouldn't happen to know a way of this ship, yeah?" Tracer asked.
"Of course we do." One internee stated confidently until the bigger internee gave him a questioning stare. "Okay some of us more than others but at least we know how to get to the deck."
"Great! No more running around in circles!" Crow cheered. "Now let's get out of-"
"Uh Crow?" Ladybug asked as she stared confused at the duelist. "Is it normal for that tattoo on your arm to glow?"
"Huh?" Crow asked as his signer mark was indeed softly glowing red. "That's weird. This thing hasn't glowed at all since I came here. This usually means that there is either trouble nearby or that one of my friends is in a shadow-game."
"What's a shadow-game?" Tracer asked.
"A game with your soul on the line." Crow plainly answered. "I… don't think it's the latter though."
"How can you tell?" Ladybug asked. "For that matter what even is that tattoo?"
"…Have I seriously never mentioned that me and my buddies have been chosen by an ancient dragon to protect the world from the shadows?" Crow asked and received nothing but shocked and confused stairs from the others… except for Itachi, who was looking in another direction with his Sharingan activated.
An internee handed Sticks some ice and as soon as she put it on she instantly got the chilies. "Brrrr, either something bad is happening right now or this pack of ice is really cold."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Something is going on with Sunset." Itachi said. "She's giving off some strange form of energy. I can only assume Voldemort has something do to with it."
*(End Confession)
"FINAL-" Vegeta yelled as he was channeling massive amounts of energy into his hands. Beerus himself was also gathering energy into a medium sized purple ball in his hands, awaiting Vegeta's attack.
"FLASH!" Vegeta yelled as the massive yellow beam speeded towards Beerus. The god of destruction threw the sphere at the incoming attack, colliding and creating a massive explosion.
"HOLY CRAP!" Natsu shouted with a comical expression as the explosion was so massive he temporarily forgot about his fight with Whis.
"THAT WAS INSANE!" Happy yelled sharing Natsu's expression.
"Those two might be going a bit overboard." Whis said in concern.
"Impressive." Beerus stated. "You've officially eliminated my previous worries about you."
"Worries?" Vegeta asked.
"I was afraid you might have lost your touch since you've spent so much time in this world." Beerus explained. "It wouldn't do for you to get weaker. Not with the tournament of power still around the corner."
"Oh?" Vegeta asked. "Has Zeno already decided when the tournament will take place?"
"No." Beerus answered. "But I'd be more pleased if he just forgot about the whole thing. After all, the last thing we want is for the Omni-king to become bored and erase the 7th universe."
"What's this about a tournament?" Natsu asked confused.
"Supposedly, there's going to be a big fighting tournament back in our home-dimension were multiple universes are going to select their best fighters to represent them." Whis explained.
"Whoa that sound awesome!" Natsu said excitingly. "Can I join too?"
"No." Beerus answered for him.
"Aw, why not?!" Natsu yelled angrily.
"First of, you're not from our universe, heck you're not even from our dimension!" Beerus stated. "Traveling to other dimensions is one thing but bringing someone from another dimension into ours is bound to get us in a lot of trouble with the Omni-king!"
"The second issue is that your too weak to join this tournament in the first place." Vegeta stated.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Natsu yelled as flames surrounded him. "I CAN KICK YOUR BUTT RIGHT HERE AND NOW!"
Vegeta smirked. "The day you defeat me is the day pigs fl-"
Suddenly Vegeta stopped smirking as he looked towards the cruise-ship. Beerus and Whis also took a look in its direction along with Natsu and Happy.
"Uhm…" Happy began. "Did anyone else feel that?"
"Now what's happening over there?" Vegeta said annoyed.
"There's some malevolent energy coming from the ship." Beerus stated. "But it doesn't feel like Ki to me."
"It isn't Lord Beerus." Whis began. "The energy feels to foreign to be Ki. It's all together not particularly strong but the menace in that energy worries me."
"It's magic." Natsu plainly stated. "Very dark magic."
"I didn't know you two could sense stuff like that." Vegeta stated.
"I normally can't." Natsu answered. "But this dark magic is leaking all over the place. Any wizard from my world could feel this."
"Could it come from one of the intruders on the ship?" Happy questioned.
"Last I checked, no one in this world even has magic." Whis stated. "It could only have come from one of the interdimensional visitors."
"Well we do have a few magic users in our group including those two." Vegeta stated as he pointed to Natsu and Happy.
"But the only one I can think of who uses magic like that is that bald guy." Natsu answered. "But I've never felt this power coming from him."
"This energy also feels heavily modified." Whis stated. "Like something is forcing it out in an unnatural state."
"Yes, but enough about that." Beerus cut in. "Whatever is going on at that ship is of no concern to us, and we still have a deal to follow through so if you want to see what's going on at that vessel you'll still need to get past us."
"OH COME ON!" Happy complained. "Our friends may be in danger! Can't you just let us pass?"
"Hold on, what's this about a deal?" Vegeta asked.
"Nothing you need to concern yourselves with." Beerus answered.
However, Vegeta's sweat dropped as he realized just why Beerus was stopping them. "Someone promised you food didn't they?"
Now Lord Beerus sweat dropped as he tried his best to look innocent. "I-I don't know what you're talking about…"
"Hold on…" Natsu asked as he remembered how Beerus was behaving back when he visited the first time around. "Have you been keeping us here because someone PROMISED YOU FOOD?!"
"To be more precise, the leader of those thugs somehow managed to send a message to us from this dimension using some strange device. She promised to give Lord Beerus a huge feast in exchange for our help." Whis revealed.
"YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN BRIBED WITH FOOD?!" Happy yelled in disbelief.
"No," Beerus tried to defend himself. "we've been bribed with delicious food."
"Oh for the love of…" Vegeta began. "I promise that you two will get a huge feast from Chris later as long as you let us pass."
"And how are you gonna make him organize a feast at such short notice?" Beerus questioned though not dismissing the idea.
"We both know I can be very persuasive." Vegeta pointed out. "My only condition is that you don't blow up the planet if you end up disliking it."
"Hmm, fine." Beerus agreed. "If Chris refuses to give us the feast you promised, I'll simply destroy him."
"Fine by me." Vegeta agreed.
"Uhm, are you sure you can promise him a feast when all the food on our island is pretty much garbage?" Happy asked.
"I'm pretty sure Chris has a secret stash of food somewhere." Vegeta pointed out.
"All right!" Natsu said as he punched his fist in his hand. "Now we can finally help the others. Let's go Happy! Top speed!"
Happy let out a sigh of exhaustion and then weakly replied. "A-aye sir…"
Natsu flew off and Vegeta was about to follow but was then stopped by Beerus.
"Hold on Vegeta." Beerus stopped in. "Before I let you go I want to make it perfectly clear what kind of food I will be expecting at this feast."
Vegeta let out a frustrated sigh.
*(Confession Seat(Cruise-style))
"This is going to take a while." Vegeta said frustrated.
*(End Confession)
"You know, there's no need for us to run as if we're being chased by the plague!" Azula complained as Aqua had suddenly started running.
"Maybe she's trying to ditch you?" Beast Boy commented while keeping up with Aqua. "Not that I'm complaining."
"It's not her." Aqua stated looking worried. "I suddenly fell some strange dark power up ahead. The others might be in trouble."
Azula took notice of the hallway they were entering and recognized it as the hallway Voldemort went into. She quickly figured out that whatever Aqua sensed, Voldemort had something to do with it.
A few staircases later they found the gym. The tree of them walked inside and saw…
The entire gym being a complete wreck while Sunset and Voldemort were carrying Chef over their shoulders.
"A little help here!" Sunset asked. "This guy is just as heavy as he looks."
"Sunset?" Aqua questioned as the darkness she sensed before seemed to have vanished. "What happened here?"
"Some guy in red armor tried to kill them." Voldemort answered. "Luckily for them I arrived just in time and used my magic to throw him out that window, so he's currently swimming for his life. Now back to the original topic."
Beast Boy rolled his eyes as he turned into a gorilla again and took Chef from Voldemort and Sunset. The gorilla easily carried Chef over his shoulder.
"Are you alright Sunset?" Aqua questioned. "This guy in Red didn't hurt you, did he?"
"He almost did." Sunset said as she rubbed her head. "He practically tore this place apart just to find me. Guess I was lucky someone was nearby."
"Then," Aqua turned to Voldemort. "were you the cause of that darkness I sensed earlier?"
Voldemort's non-existing eyebrow raised at the question. "Did you sense my magic?"
"I doubt I'm the only one who felt it." Aqua responded.
"Hm, maybe I went a bit overboard with my spell." Voldemort looked in thought. "Anyway, I suggest we leave this place. Let the help worry about the mess."
"Chris might try to send you the bill." Sunset slyly grinned.
"If he does I'll turn him into frog." Voldemort answered. "Now are we going or not."
"Someone's impatient." Azula responded disappointingly. She was hoping Voldemort turned Sunset into a statue or something.
"You sure you're not hurt?" Aqua asked again.
"I'm fine." Sunset waved her off. "In fact I'm feeling much better than I did before. My headaches have finally stopped for one. Now come on, it's time we found the others."
Aqua watched as Sunset run towards the others and they left the gym. Aqua however, couldn't help but feel that something was amiss. She walked to the exit when she suddenly heard something crack underneath her booth.
"What is-"Aqua looked at the ground and saw what used to be a glass bottle shattered in multiple pieces. She bowed down and picked up to top of the bottle and looked at it intensely.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"This glass looks very familiar." Aqua stated. "Can it be…?"
*(End Confession)
"And stay down!" Cassie said as she smashed the head of the white armored mercenary carrying two blades against the ship's edge, knocking him unconscious."
"Close but no cigar." Torchwick stated as he shot the mercenary girl with the spear straight in the chest, the impact being enough to renter her unconscious.
"Hang around, won't you?" Usopp confidently stated as the thug with the guns was stuck in a massive fly-trap while his guns now rested on the ground as he struggled to get out.
The leader of the mercenaries stared at disbelief and yelled "CAN'T ANY OF YOU SIDEKICKS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!"
"That's the problem with hired help." Roman said as he could relate with the lady a bit. "When they fail, all you can think of is the money you wasted hiring them."
"Ain't that the truth." She said frustrated before adopting a battle-stance. "I suppose I'll have to take care of you three myself."
"Oh yeah?" Usopp asked. "We already took down your army! What makes you think we can't beat you too?"
"How about the fact that I'm not only wearing the strongest armor on this ship, but also have this!" The leader then pressed a button on a metallic-pole in her left hand which then unfolded itself into a lightning charged scythe.
Roman whistled for a second. "Nice scythe, can it shoot bullets too?"
"Well… no." She answered as she pulled out her gun as well. "That's what the gun is for."
Cassie was getting tired of this. "(Sigh) Okay boys, let's just get this done quickly."
"No arguments from me." Roman answered.
"Okay here's the plan." Usopp began. "You two rush and overwhelm her while I-does anyone else hear screaming?"
"Hm?" The leader looked around confused also wondering where that sound was coming from. She eventually looked up only to see-
"FIRE DRAGON-"
"Oh shi-"
"IRON FIST" Natsu yelled as his fist collided against the final boss, knocking her out instantly and shattering part of her helmet in the process.
"Hey guys!" Natsu shouted. "We're finally here! Cassie! Good to see your free! Now where's the guy who tried to kidnap you?"
"Uhm." Cassie blinked still processing what just happened. "You kind of knocked her out just now."
"Huh?" Natsu asked as she looked at the downed lady. "Oh come on! That was it?! I was hoping for way more of a challenge then that!"
"Yeaaah." Usopp agreed. "That was kind of anti-climactic."
"Hey you won't hear me complaining." Roman responded. "Thanks for that Pinky! By the way, how come your not sick right now?"
"FIRST OFF MY NAME IS NOT PINKY!" Natsu yelled. "SECOND OFF, why would I be sick?"
"Cause you're standing on a boat right now." Roman informed him.
"Oh yeah!" Natsu snapped his fingers before falling on the ground looking sea-sick. "I-I forgot about th-that."
"So what," Usopp questioned as his sweat dropped. "Does your illness only kick in when you realize you're on a vehicle or-"
The main doors suddenly opened as Tracer burst through together with Ladybug, Crow, Itachi, Sticks and a large group of internees.
"The cavalry has arrived!" Tracer shouted.
"The cavalry is late." Roman said unimpressed. "The battle is already over."
"Damm!" Sticks yelled. "I was hoping I got to see some more action before this chapter ends."
"Where are the others?" Crow question. "Is everyone safe?"
Just then the group of Aqua, Sunset, Beast Boy, Azula and Voldemort showed up. Beast Boy quickly put Chef on a pool-seat before he changed back to normal.
"Good." Aqua began. "Looks like everyone is here."
"Hey guys!" Beast Boy yelled to his travel companies. "You all alright?"
"We're all fine Garfield." Ladybug answered.
"Who's Garfield?" Tracer questioned.
"Oh that's Beast Boys' real name." Ladybug informed them.
"Huh?" Tracer said. "Wonder why he never told us."
"Uhm to be fair, you never told us your real name either." Crow pointed out.
"Oh right!" Tracer realized. "Well my real name is-"
"So it would seem our contact has already been beaten." A new voice interrupted causing everyone to look up and see Lord Beerus along with Whis and Vegeta.
"OH SHIT, HE'S HERE!" Usopp shouted in fright as he dived in the empty pool again.
"Don't tell me we now have to fight against him again?" Beast Boy questioned not looking forward to getting rag dolled again.
"He's not here to fight." A normal Vegeta said as he landed on the ship. "Apparently the leader of this mess offered him food in exchange for keeping me distracted."
"HE GOT BRIBED WITH FOOD?!" Ladybug yelled in disbelief.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"What kind of destructive being lets themselves be blackmailed with food?!" Marinette asked frustrated.
"Well…" Tikki began. "I can think of one…"
*(End Confession)
"Hey does anyone else hear helicopters?" Sticks asked as suddenly an entire squadron of military helicopters appeared on the horizon. Once they were near the ship several dozen soldiers jumped out and started securing the ship as well as the sub next to the ship, containing all mercenaries they came across.
"Hey guys." Chris said as he got out of a helicopter that landed on one of the platforms. "I see you have everything under control over here."
"You called in the military?" Cassie asked. "Smart."
"Well I need somebody to get these thugs off my ship." Chris answered. "Speaking of which, have you guys taking care of their leader yet?"
"R-right there Chris." Natsu said weakly as he pointed to the leader getting picked up by two soldiers. "I-I gave her a s-small punch to the h-head but other t-than that she's f-fine."
"You flew at her with a flaming fist strong enough to put cracks in her helmet." Roman pointed out. "That's a concussion at best!"
"Hey as long as they're out of my hair it's cool with me." Chris said as he approached the fallen leader. "Now let's see who decided to give us so much trouble today."
Chris removed the leader's helmet and revealed that she was a woman with long orange hair and green eyes.
Chris gasped in surprise. "SCARLETT?!"
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"You know I kind of should have seen this coming." Chris stated. "Which other former competitor would have thought of a crazy plan like this!"
*(End Confession)
"Wasn't she one of this show's former competitors?" Aqua questioned.
"Didn't she once threaten to blow up an entire island just to get a million dollars?" Crow followed up.
"Shouldn't it have kinda been obvious that the scarlet colored mercenary was Scarlett?" Sticks questioned. "That's a pretty bit hint right there!"
"Yes, yes and probably." Chris answered.
Scarlett then started to slowly upon her eyes and said. "Oww, what hit me?"
"He did!" Happy answered as he pointed to the sick Natsu.
Scarlett looked around and grunted once she saw that she was both surrounded and contained by two military soldiers who were restraining her hands. Her eyes then landed on Chris and everybody swore they became red for a second. "YOU!"
"Hey Scarlett." Chris said smugly. "Long time no see! How's the villain business been treating you?"
"Look around you!" Scarlett yelled venomous against the show host. "I took over your entire pleasure cruise in less than 10 minutes with my personal army!"
"And then you lost it, along with your army." Chris pointed out before asking. "Where did you even get these guys?"
"From mercenary cells all over the world." Scarlett smugly stated. "You'd be surprised what you can buy once you're as rich as I am."
"Hold on, rich?" Chris questioned. "When did you get rich? Last I checked you didn't win Pahkitew-Island."
"Turns out it's pretty easy to become rich once you spend some time studying the stock market. And then spend your first profits hiring guys to rob banks for you, it's a long story."
"But if you're so rich then why bother kidnapping us in the first place?" Cassie asked.
"Apparently she wanted Chris's remote." Usopp answered.
"She went through all this trouble just for a remote?" Crow question.
"One that's capable of manipulating the very rules of the multiverse!" Scarlett yelled. "With it, I would have been able to create the biggest criminal enterprise in all of existence and take over multiple worlds in the process! I would have been the greatest villain in this or any other dimension!"
"Oh please." Beerus stopped her. "I'm quite positive that most dimensions would be able to handle some wannabe super villain."
"B-beerus!" Scarlett only just noticed his presence. "What are you standing around for! Take these guys out and grab that remote and I'll deliver what I promised!"
"Our deal was that I'd distract Vegeta for you, nothing more. Besides, messing with other dimensions in the matter you speak of is bound to lead to trouble. Had I known you were planning this from the start, I never would have agreed to your deal." Beerus stated.
"You sure about that my lord?" Whis said, clearly not believing Beerus' statement.
Beerus sweat dropped before coughing in his hand. "By the way, don't take that kind of tone with me again or I'll erase you from existence."
"G-got it." Scarlett responded not willing to test the god of destruction too much.
Just then the main doors of the ship opened again as multiple mercenaries, who were disarmed, were leaded out by the military. A few soldiers were pushing a large chunk of ice that contained Orange.
"Hey boss!" Orange said as he noticed their leader. "We're still gonna get paid right?"
"What do you think genius." Yellow answered for her. "The only thing we're getting is time in prison."
"Great…" Green said as he came out next. "(Sigh) I knew I should have stayed a poacher."
"Sergeant Rando!" A higher ranked soldier started speaking. "Make sure to add poachery to the charges of the green one."
"Yes sir!"
"Dammit!" Green yelled.
"Pleaaase can one you just throw me in the ocean!" Blue begged. "I'm turning into a chiscabab over here! Dammit Orange! Why didn't you build a cooler in this thing!"
"Whoa, I'm just learning all the weaknesses of my armors today!" Orange said excitingly. "I can't wait to go home and improve them."
"Again Orange," Yellow repeated in frustration. "We're not going home. We're going to jail."
"Oh right." He realized.
"Has anyone seen Red?" Violet said as she showed up last. "I'm not seeing him anywhere."
"Oh Voldemort here threw him off the ship." Sunset answered.
"Indeed I did." He lied.
"We've got some helicopters scouting the surrounding ocean." Another soldier responded. "So far they've only found a couple of ordinary mercenaries and one dressed in white, but no red one has been reported yet."
"Thanks for the useless info." Chris said annoyed. "Now can you get these guys out of here so I can focus back on my show?"
"Could you guys wait a minute? I have some questions for the one in Violet armor." Ladybug began.
"What do you want kid?" She said annoyed as the soldier restraining her pointed her to Ladybug.
"Why did you have my miraculous?" Ladybug asked. "Why didn't you give them to Scarlett over there."
"I like jewelry." Was her simple answer. "Besides, my contract with Scarlett over there states that I can keep any jewelry I come across."
"(Sigh) Knew I shouldn't have given her that luxury." Scarlett said to herself.
"Then why didn't you use my miraculous yourself?" Ladybug asked next.
"I don't wear jewelry on a mission." Violet answered. "That brings bad luck."
Crow blinked for a few seconds and eventually said "And here I thought she was the normal one the bunch."
"If you're done with your questions, we'll be going now." The leader of the squadron said as they took there prisoners with them.
"All right lady." One of the soldiers restraining Scarlett said. "Time to go."
"This isn't over Chris!" Scarlett yelled as she was dragged along. "I'll be back! And when I do, I'm gonna strangle you AND FEED YOU TO THE SHARKS!"
"Tell it to someone who cares!" Chris yelled back.
"Bye!" Orange said to the contestants. "Make sure to write!"
"Goddammit Orange." Yellow said more than fed up with the big guy. "Just shut up."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Hope that's the last we'll see of those OCs." Sticks stated while still holding ice on her wound. "They've taken way too much space in this chapter."
*(End Confession)
All the soldiers had now left the ship with their prisoners, leaving only Chris, the unconscious Chef, the contestants and the internees on the deck. "Well now that that's finally over, let me announce the results of today's challenge!"
"Challenge?" Cassie asked. "What challenge?"
"Chris thought it would be a good idea to turn this rescue-op into the challenge for the day." Tracer answered.
"Why else do you think we came here to rescue you?" Roman asked rhetorical. "The goodness of our hearts?"
"He's got a point." Beast Boy said. "Bad guys never to anything good unless there's something in it for them."
"(Sigh) Fine." Crow said as he knew he shouldn't have expected anything else. "So who won?"
"The challenge stated that the team that managed to free the most prisoners won." Chris informed before he took out an IPad. "Now let me log into the security-camera's and we'll see how many people you saved."
"Wait, isn't that the IPad that belonged to Peridot?" Marinette, who had transformed back after all the mercenaries where taking away, asked.
"Maybe." Chris didn't deny. "Now let's see, first we have Tracer opening the storeroom where Crow, Marinette and Cassie were stuck in. However, since Roman was the one who got rid of Cassie's cuffs, her rescue belongs to him. So that means Blue Dragons get 2 points, while the Red Devils get one."
"I still haven't heard a thank you by the way." Roman complained to Cassie.
"Do you want me to shoot you in the foot?"
"I'll be quiet." He said dropping the topic.
"Next we have Beast Boy who freed himself but since it was Itachi who made sure he could escape the Red Devils get a point. They also get a point from Marinette who freed Tikki so that's another point for the Red Devils. Next we have Aqua freeing herself without anyone's aid so that's a point for the Blue Dragons. The score is tied 3 to 3. And with that we have no more contestants who got rescued."
"Hold on." Cassie began. "Then what about Sunset? Didn't she get captured too?"
"Nope." Chris answered. "She got away from her pursuers and never got caught. Since she was never a prisoner, she couldn't get rescued so no point involving her."
"But then our teams are tied!" Usopp pointed out. "Does that mean this challenge is a draw?"
"Not quite." Chris said as he was looking at the stolen IPad. "I never stated that you could only gain points by rescuing your fellow campers. One of you let all the internees go free in one fell swoop. So with a total of however many internees we have plus three, the winners are the Red Devils! Make sure to thank Marinette for this win."
"All right! Another win for us!" Crow cheered before looking at a certain threesome. "The only bad thing about this win is that I have to share it with you three."
"At least we didn't let ourselves get captured by a group of dimwits." Roman pointed out.
"(Sigh) I'm already missing the last few days that I didn't have to spend with you."
"Way to go Marinette!" Usopp cheered. "You won the challenge for us!"
"Not bad buddy." Sunset said as she put her arm around Marinette. "Also, sorry for how I've been behaving lately. I just hadn't been feeling myself due to my headaches, but I shouldn't have taken it out on you. Sooo, still friends?"
Marinette was glad that Sunset was apparently feeling better and said. "Sure, I'm just glad you're finally feeling better."
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"Whoa Tikki." Marinette talked to her kwami. "Not only did we win the challenge for our team today, we also got Sunset back."
"Don't you find it strange that she's suddenly better again?" Tikki questioned.
"It was properly just sea-sickness or something." Marinette waved her off. "But seriously, I'm glad everything is alright again. Now let's hope nothing else goes wrong. I've had enough surprises for one day."
*(End Confession)
"Too bad we lost." Cassie stated before looking at Azula. "But at least we know who to vote for tonight."
"Good to see we got the same idea." Tracer agreed.
Azula smirked. "Don't look at me." She stated. "Nobody will be voting on me tonight."
"Oh yeah?" Sunset asked with a smirk. "And how are going to arrange that?"
"By buying my way out." Azula said as she walked up to Chris. She then pulled a giant coin out of nowhere. "I believe this should suffice."
"Is she seriously trying to bribe Chris?" Tracer asked. "I mean, it's the only change she has of evading the elimination but-"
"Wait a minute…" Aqua stated as she got a better look at the coin and saw Chris's head engraved on it. "But that's-!"
"Ah the Chris Mclean Switch Coin." Chris confirmed before Azula handed it to him. "I was wondering when somebody was finally gonna use this thing."
"Uh, refresh my memory please." Beast Boy requested. "What's so special about that coin?"
"Don't you remember Beast Boy?" Aqua reminded him. "That's the coin that Chris showed early on in the contest. The player who finds it can use it to switch teams with another player!"
"Wait WHAT?!" Crow yelled in surprise.
"SHE'S ON OUR TEAM NOW?!" Usopp yelled scared. Now there where even more bad guys on his team!
Cassie couldn't belief this. "Oh you have got to be kidding me! When did you even find that thing?"
"During one of the first challenges." Azula informed them. "I came across it while we were playing hide and seek. I never used it because I never needed it. Well, until now that is."
Crow angrily asked. "Hold on! Does that mean that Azula can no longer be voted off tonight?"
"Well it was the Red Devils that won todays challenge and since Azula is now a part of the winning team she won't have to go to tonight's elimination." Chris informed them as everyone aside from those in the alliances started protesting.
"Did you guys know about this?" Marinette questioned the rest of the alliance.
"She informed us after you guys left on this ship." Itachi answered. "Her switching teams was the most optimal move for everyone in our alliance."
"What do you mean by that?" Tikki asked but could already tell that she wasn't gonna like the answer.
"That coin doesn't just put Azula on our team." Itachi continued. "It switches her spot on the Blue Dragons with that of someone on our team. Somebody of her own choosing."
"I don't like the sound of this." Sunset stated her opinion.
"Now then Azula." Chris took back control of the conversation. "Which member of the Red Devils will switch places with you?"
"Well Chris," Azula said smartly. "After giving it some thought, I've decided to switch places with none other than Marinette and her little friend."
"WHAT?!"
"WE'RE SWITCHING PLACES WITH HER?!" Marinette was not happy.
"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!" Crow yelled. "WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WANT TO SWITCH PLACES WITH HER?!"
"Well for one thing, now I get to spend some time with my favorite mythical creature." Azula answered. "Isn't that right Sunset?"
Sunset didn't respond as her mind seemed to be in a trans right now.
"Possibility of revenge aside." Roman began as he shared Azula's grin. "Take a good look at the new team Red Devils and you'll see what our true intention was."
"What are you-" Crow wanted to ask but quickly realized what Roman was talking about. "You four now make up the majority of our team."
Usopp also realized what that meant. "But, but that means that if we were to lose the next challenge-"
"You can no longer vote any of us off." Roman confirmed. "All we would have to do is vote on one of you three," He pointed to Usopp, Crow and Sunset. "and we'll be safe from elimination."
"Which means none of those four can be voted off until we get to the merger." Cassie stated. "Dammit! Why didn't we see this coming!"
"It's not our fault!" Sticks pointed out.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
Sticks was holding a script in her hand and said "I've re-read the chapter 'Hide and Run' but nowhere does it state that Azula found that coin! Damn you MasterSaixus for leaving us in the dark!"
*(End Confession)
"Hold on." Whis put in his take of the situation as he and Beerus were also still onboard. "I've seen the last episode. Isn't Vegeta also a part of this alliance. Cause he's now become completely isolated from his cohorts."
"Hey, he's right!" Happy realized. "If we vote off Vegeta tonight and he uses that statue to stay, then we'll be able to vote him off next time we lose!"
Vegeta smirked at this. "You're assuming there's going to be a next time. Those four are just going to lose every challenge on purpose from now on. In other words after tonight, you won't be able to vote me off anymore."
"And thanks to that statue of yours it won't matter if we vote for you tonight." Cassie realized. "Dammit! They thought this really through."
"Well now that you've all realized you've been plaid, I can see the island on the horizon." Chris said. "Red Devils, enjoy your evening. Blue Dragons, I'll be seeing you at the campfire in an hour. That includes you two."
Marinette and Tikki blinked as they just realized that they were also at risk of getting eliminated tonight.
*(Confession Seat (Cruise-style))
"I should have kept my mouth shut earlier." Marinette regretted. "Now I'm no longer on the same team as Sunset and I might get eliminated tonight!"
"Why would anyone on our new team vote for us?" Tikki asked confused.
"I'm the one who won the challenge Tikki!" Marinette explained. "That means they might blame me for their lose tonight."
"That would be pretty unfair of them." Tikki told her. "But I'm sure they're not even thinking of voting us off."
*(End Confession)
"I'm voting off Marinette." Cassie said with no hesitation to a group existing out of Natsu, Happy, Tracer, Beast Boy, Sticks and Aqua.
"WHAT?!" Natsu yelled angrily. "Why on earth would we vote her off? She only just got on our team!"
"And was the one that cost us to lose tonight." Cassie said before sighing. She didn't like being seen as the bad guy. "Look if we all vote for Vegeta then he'll stay in the game thanks to that statue of his and then use his own vote to get rid of one of us! For all you know Natsu, he might vote you off."
"But why vote of Marinette instead?!" Beast Boy also questioned. "We got along with her fine onboard the cruise. Why would we vote her off instead of Vegeta?"
"Because else we might lose someone who we've been on a team with since the beginning of this show." Cassie sighted. "Look I'm not happy about this either. I'd much rather get rid of Vegeta instead of Marinette, but with Vegeta having immunity this vote-off, I'm not seeing that happening."
"Then why not try this," Sticks started talking as her wound was now properly patched. "Why don't you and someone else vote on Marinette while the rest of us vote for Vegeta? At least that way we can get rid of Vegeta's immunity and make sure he can't choose which one of us has to leave the island."
"That's…" Cassie processed Sticks her suggestion through her mind and then blinked. "…actually a pretty good idea."
"A good idea? It's a great idea love!" Tracer stated. "Now we can make sure none of us has to leave tonight."
Aqua let out a sigh and said "I'm voting for who I feel should leave the most. You guys won't convince me to vote off Marinette."
Cassie sighted before Tracer spoke up. "Then I'll vote for her with you Cassie. At least then we're all save from Vegeta's vote."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"I still don't like the idea of voting off Marinette!" Beast Boy noted before sighing. "But I don't think I can change their minds. I'll vote for Vegeta and hope he forgets his statue."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"I don't like this plan one bit!" Natsu yelled. "Marinette did nothing wrong and yet we're getting rid of her simply because she opened a damn door!"
"I know it sounds unfair Natsu but…" Happy hesitated telling Natsu. "…if Marinette and Tikki don't get voted off tonight, then we might end up getting eliminated instead."
"WHAT?!" Natsu yelled. "WHY?!"
"We have been making fun of Vegeta all day." Happy reminded him. "Remember what happened to the last guy that annoyed Vegeta?"
"Sure he got eliminaooooh…"Natsu realized. "I see what you mean."
*(End Confession)
An hour went by quickly as all the Blue Dragons gathered at the camp-site.
"Amigos!" Chris began. "Looks like you guys are losing another member! Do try do to better during the next challenge. After all, that one will be a real dozy!"
"Can we just get this over with!" Vegeta demanded as he already has his immunity-statue at his side. "By the way, where are Beerus and Whis?"
"(Sigh) There currently having a big feast at my expense." Chris began. "Thanks for promising them a giant feast Vegeta. It's not like my account isn't in the red already! (Sigh) Anyway, let's see how everybody voted. The following contestants are safe…"
"Beast Boy!"
"Cassie Cage!"
"Tracer!"
"Aqua!"
"Sticks!"
"Natsu and Happy!"
Marinette and Tikki looked really upset while Vegeta grunted a bit since he voted on Natsu and Happy.
"Whoa Marinette, Tikki." Chris began. "You've only been on this team for a little more than an hour and your already on the chopping block? Then again, you were the one who ensured the Blue Dragons defeat today or maybe the others aren't all that comfortable voting someone off who has been on their side longer. Vegeta, your currently the strongest… okay with the exception to the current feasting deities, person on this island. A pretty big threat to everyone now that the merger is getting closer. Also, working together with a group of bad guys, while maybe necessary to stay in this game, tends to upset people. Now let me tell you three who's going to the loser-dimension tonight. The one voted off tonight is…"
Marinette and Tikki where already accepting their defeat since it didn't matter if Vegeta got the most votes. Vegeta meanwhile was tapping his finger getting impatient at Chris for not revealing the results yet.
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"…Vegeta!" Chris finally finished saying. "Anything you have to say about that?"
"What do you think?" Vegeta asked as he simply threw his elimination-statue at Chris, who failed to catch it and got hit in the face by it.
"OW!" Chris stated. "Hey careful with that thi-"
Suddenly the statue exploded into smoke, much to everyone's surprise.
"The hell?!" Natsu yelled out.
"What's going on here?" Cassie asked.
"Hey! There's someone in the smoke!" Beast Boy pointed out.
Once the smoke had cleared, a very unexpected visitor made his appearance. In the place of the statue stood a very familiar man.
"ITACHI?!" Everyone yelled in surprise, including Vegeta who started to stared distrustingly at the ninja.
"Itachi! What are you doing here?" Marinette asked.
"Yeah you're not on this team!" Tracer pointed out.
"I'm not Itachi." 'Itachi' claimed. "I'm just a shadow-clone created by the real Itachi."
"A CLONE?!" Happy asked loudly.
"Wait a minute!" Vegeta looked around franticly. "What happened to my statue!"
"That wasn't the immunity-statue you threw at Chris." The clone of Itachi stated. "That was me using the transformation-jutsu to disguise myself as a perfect replica of the statue."
"NOW HE CAN TURN HIMSELF INTO STATUES?!" Happy yelled loudly again. "HOW MANY POWERS DO YOU HAVE?!"
"Why where you disguised as Vegeta's statue in the first place?" Aqua questioned.
"Yesterday, the real Itachi had a conversation with Vegeta." The clone started to explain. "During it Itachi casted a gen-jutsu on him."
"A gen-what?" Natsu questioned.
"A very powerful illusion." He continued. "He made Vegeta belief that something was amiss about his hiding space for the immunity statue. So he quickly lifted the top of Mount DragonFang to make sure it was still there."
"YOU HID THAT STATUE UNDER A MOUNTAIN-TO-"
"Happy can you please stop yelling out your questions?!" Cassie yelled annoyed that the cat kept screaming in her ear.
"During that small window, the real Itachi created me and I used the transformation-jutsu to become the statue. He then quickly grabbed the real statue and left me in its place. My gen-jutsu prevented Vegeta from seeing the switch happen, so he never knew his statue had been replaced by me."
"Wha-!" Vegeta said in surprise and then yelled in outrage as he realized he'd been had. "WHAT?! YOU STOLE MY STATUE?!"
"We all did actually." The clone responded. "It was Azula who suggested using tonight's vote off to get rid of you and we all agreed."
"YOU GUYS BETRAYED ANOTHER ALLY?!" This time it was Natsu who yelled and Cassie could feel a migraine coming up.
"Vegeta may have made for a fine ally, but none of us where blind to the fact that Vegeta could easily overpower all of us combined. He was simply put, too dangers to keep as an ally."
Vegeta felt himself getting angrier by the second. It's not like he didn't know his new allies could betray him but to be caught so off-guard when they had only started working together a few days ago!
"But doesn't Vegeta have super senses or something?" Tracer questioned. "Wouldn't he have sensed there was something wrong with his statue?"
"My gen-jutsu is so strong it can even fool a person's senses." The clone answered. "All I had to do was keep perfectly still and he could never suspect anything was wrong."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Cheez, that Itachi must have the patience of a saint." Happy pointed out. "Laying in a dark hole under a mountain of rocks and staying perfectly still for hours?"
"Yeah I would have given up after a minute or two." Natsu admitted. "But it was still a dirty trick!"
*(End Confession)
"Why you-!" Vegeta was practically fuming. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't be breaking every bone in your body!"
"Like I already stated, I'm a clone. You can strike me all you want but it wouldn't affect the real me in any way."
"THEN I'LL GO TO THEM MYSELF!" Vegeta shouted as the ground seemed to shake from his anger. The other contestants wisely decided to get up and back away from him.
"Oh no you won't!" Chris stated before taking out the loser-remote. "Having gotten the most votes, plus no longer having the immunity-statue, equals Vegeta taking a trip to loser-land!"
A portal opened up trying to pull Vegeta into it. However, Vegeta easily resisted the force coming out of the portal as he stayed his ground. "I only need 3 seconds to teach those guys a lesson!"
"Which you won't get." Chris insisted. "Eliminated or not, I can't let you kill any of the remaining contestant. Now either go through the portal willfully or my bodyguards will have to force you in."
Vegeta actually laughed at that. "I'm more than capable of teaching them a lesson without killing them. Besides, what bodyguard could you possibly have that could force me into your pathetic portal?"
Just then a certain purple cat-man started walking to the stage. "Hey Chris! What's taking so long! You said we could get started on dessert once you were done here!"
Chris sighted a little. "Yeah sorry Beery. I would have gotten back sooner but SOMEONE here is being a poor loser and is refusing to go the loser-dimension."
Beerus then noticed Vegeta easily resisting the portal. Beerus sighted before saying "Seriously Vegeta? You got eliminated now? And me and Whis were so looking forward to supervising your training while we were here."
"Supervise?" Vegeta asked surprised before it clicked. "Wait! You're Chris's new bodyguard?!"
"That's correct, me and Whis both." Beerus replied causing the other contestants to be quite surprised as well.
"Wait what?!" Cassie asked. "You're staying here?!"
"Dude! Aren't you like a god or something? Why on earth would you accept a job as a bodyguard? Hell why even offer him a job like that in the first place?!" Beast Boy asked.
Chris answered him. "Well thanks to this morning's mind-blowing realization of just how powerful my loser-remote is, the manager decided that he needed to hire someone who can make sure that it won't end up in the wrong hands. So Beerus and Whis are staying here to protect me should anyone try to take this baby away from me."
"I get that a device as powerful as that needs to be well protected but… isn't this a little overkill?" Aqua hesitatingly asked.
"Normally I'd agree with you." Chris smiled before turning it into a frown. "Then I remember what happened this morning so I'm kinda glad the manager is taking my safety so seriously."
"Actually I was only hired to make sure that remote doesn't end up falling in the wrong hands." Beerus clarified. "Your safety is no priority of mine. Your manager himself stated as much."
"… Of course he did." Chris head fell over realizing that he shouldn't have been surprised by his manager's lake of care for him.
"That still doesn't explain why you would agree to thi-" Tracer stopped her question as she remembered Beerus had one mayor weakness. "You got bribed with food again, didn't ya?"
"…Perhaps." Was Beerus his reply. "Now do get going Vegeta, you don't wanna be a poor sport by breaking the rules now do you?"
Vegeta grunted but he had to admit that Beerus had a point. "Fine, I'll go! But you!" Vegeta yelled as he pointed to the shadow-clone. "You better tell your backstabbing allies that I'll be sure to pay them back the next time I see them!"
The clone simply nodded to Vegeta before dispelling himself. Once he did, Vegeta jumped into the portal of his own free will. Chris let out a sigh of relief before addressing the group again.
"Well that was tonight's vote off. Now off to bed with all of you!" Chris said before heading back to the feast with Beerus.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Well tonight's vote off sure was unexpected." Cassie stated. "I'm glad Vegeta is gone but Itachi just revealed that he's far more dangerous than we first anticipated. We should have another meeting tomorrow to discuss this turn of events."
*(End Confession)
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
Marinette let out a breath she didn't know she was holding in. "That ended way better than I thought it would. I would have been eliminated for sure had it not been for Itachi's interference."
"He only did it to get rid of Vegeta though." Tikki pointed out. "Preventing your elimination was just a side effect."
"True," Marinette replied. "but I can't help but be a little grateful for his help. Next time I might not be so lucky. I have to prove to my new team that I can be a valuable asset too! Otherwise, they'll vote for me again next time!"
"By the way Marinette. Don't you think that Sunset was acting a little strange earlier?" Tikki asked.
"Well she seemed better then when we left on the ship." Marinette pointed out. "But I thought she'd make a bigger deal out of me leaving the team and getting replaced by Azula!"
"Yeah those two sharing an entire cabin-site together is just a recipe for disaster." Tikki stated.
*(End Confession)
The four remaining evil alliance members where all gathered in the woods again all looking impatiently at Itachi as he appeared to be meditating.
"Okay how much longer are we gonna have to wait?" Voldemort asked impatiently. "Surely they're done by now."
"I suspect Vegeta is making a big deal out of being betrayed by us." Azula predicted. "Honestly, he should have seen it coming."
"Well we all know he's not the brightest light in the room." Roman stated. "Then again, what other choice did he have? Not join us and have a much bigger change at getting eliminated? He placed his bets and they didn't work out. That's how life works."
Suddenly Itachi's eyes opened up. "My clone has undone himself. The plan went off perfectly but Vegeta will likely try to get revenge for our betrayal."
"As expected." Azula stated before smirking. "Not that we can blame him for such a response. I'm sure we would have had similar responses."
"There's more." Itachi continued. "Apparently Beerus is staying on this island. He and Whis have been hired to serve as Chris's bodyguards… or at least to protect that remote of his."
"Great…" Roman said irritated as Voldemort's expression became dark. "And here I was thinking of taking a chance at getting that remote."
"What would you use it for?" Azula wondered. "To steal money?"
"You know me well." Roman admitted. "And what about you? I'm guessing a princess such as yourself has little need for money. Then again, you are competing in a show where your reward IS money sooo… anything you want to tell us?"
"Now Roman, just because we're working together doesn't mean I'm about to reveal my motives to you." Azula stated. "Besides I'm not the only one around here who keeps certain things to themselves."
Roman hummed before saying "Fair enough. Now it's been a long day. Why don't we go and catch some z's? I'm sure your new roommate is eager to spend the night with you."
Azula smirked before heading towards her new stay and Roman quickly followed.
"You know Itachi." Voldemort began. "I must admit that I am impressed with the variety of skills you possess. That transformation power or yours is especially useful. Any more skills I should be aware off?"
"You keep your secrets," Itachi said as he walked away. "I'll keep mine."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Voldemort's plans with Sunset might be more dangerous than I had first anticipated." Itachi stated. "Roman and Azula likely didn't notice, but Voldemort seemed way more displeased about hearing the news of Beerus then I thought he would be."
*(End Confession)
Aqua was currently alone in her team's cottage looking for something among her belongings. She eventually found what she was looking for, a glass bottle.
Aqua then pulled out the top bottle fragment she found on the cruise-ship and easily concluded that the two bottles were exactly the same.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"The broken bottle on the ship was the same kind and the one I found in those underground ruins." Aqua concluded. "But how did these bottles end up there in the first place? I sense something wrong with these bottles, something dark."
*(End Confession)
"Oh Sunset." Azula creepily stated as she walked into her new dorm. "Your new roommate has arrived."
However, to Azula's mild annoyance, Sunset was not present in the room.
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"Now where did that girl run off to?" Azula wondered.
*(End Confession)
"Dammit all!" Voldemort yelled alone in the woods. "That device Chris has in his possession has all the power I need to execute my masterplan, but there's no way I'll ever get close to that thing with those two gods playing guard! I must get my hands on that device, but I'll first need to figure out some way to get those two out of my hair!"
"What hair master?" A dark voice suddenly spoke.
Voldemort turned around and saw who was talking to him. "Is that anyway to speak to your lord? I figured any sharpness in your words would have been torched when you became mine."
"If anything it finally allowed them to come out." The figure stepped out of the darkness revealing Sunset with a dark-sun on her forehead and eyes as dark as the night. "Now if your done whining could you give me my new orders, master."
*(Confession Seat (Camp-style))
"I knew the only way to force Sunset to drink that final potion was to put her in a position where she had no choice but to drink it." Voldemort explained. "After placing that Red colored imbecile under my control with the imperius-curse, it was easy to create the necessary scenario. Now that unicorn is my puppet. One that I know will provide me with the means to get the ultimate price I seek."
*(End Confession)
"Well jump off a cliff and call me a butterfly!" Chris stated as the scene switched to the docks. "It feels like this episode dragged on forever! But at least you can't say it was boring! Red Devils claim victory, Azula switched spots with Marinette and Tikki, Vegeta got send away and Sunset is most certainly not feeling herself right now! You viewers must be stuck with a lot of question right now. Like what are Voldemort's plans for Sunset? Who will be the next target of our evil-alliance? And how brutal, sadistic and dangerous is the next challenge going to be? Find out next time on Total Drama Ultimate Crossover!"
"Chris come quick!" Chef stated as he was partying along with Beerus and Whis, he was also clearly drunk. "This cat (hick) guy is freaking breakdancing! He should totally compete in a (hick) talent-show or something! He'd destroy the competition, literally!"
Chris blinked at Chef for a few seconds and then returned to the viewers. "A yes, another question you guys are no doubt wondering. How am I gonna take revenge at Chef for stealing my vacation? Tune in next time for the answer!"
And done! Phew, that took way longer than I thought. With over 20 000 words this chapter is easily the longest one I've ever written. Heck, if you count the first part along, this chapter has more then 32 000 words! I'm very happy I finally managed to get this chapter done. Sorry it took so long but life can be a bitch for fanfic writers.
So Vegeta is out of the game. It was probably not that big of a surprise. Vegeta was a very fun character to write and I'm happy I could keep him in the story for this long. But he had to go at some point and today was his turn.
As for the next chapter, I'm pretty sure it won't be as long as this one but I'm kinda happy I can finally put this chapter behind me. Next chapter will have a surprise challenge so look forward to that.
Feel free to let me know your thoughts about this chapter and I'll see you guys next time.
MasterSaixus, signing off.
