"Queen Beryl!" yelled Jadeite. "I found a new source of energy!"
"Okay, go ahead," said Beryl.
"Well," began Jadeite. "I've spoken among my fellow comrades, and as it turns out, the Earth is under Nephrite's jurisdiction. So I will get energy somewhere else."
Queen Beryl considered this. "Where else, though?"
"Ya know, another planet," said Jadeite. "I just hope there's no nosey Scouts there."
"Yes, we can only hope," said Beryl. "You go ahead and execute that plan."
"YAHOOO!" said Jadeite. "I'm goin' to space!"
He dashed out of the room.
"Alright," said Beryl. "Who has the next appointment?"
"That would be me," said Nephrite, marching in.
Zoisite marched in right behind him.
"Hey," said Nephrite. "Your appointment's not for another 30 minutes!"
"Sorry," said Zoisite. "But me and you are a package deal. Right Queen Beryl?"
"No," said Beryl. "Nephrite, what news?"
"News?" asked Nephrite. "I just wanted to take this spot so Zoisite didn't have it, but Zoisite seems to have walked in anyway."
"Heh heh," said Zoisite.
"Don't you have someone else to bother?" asked Nephrite. "Why don't you spectate Jed instead?"
"I can't," said Zoisite. "He always has a crowd of rogue Youmas behind him, and I would just be lost in the crowd."
"I understand," admitted Nephrite. "Well, goodbye then."
Nephrite left.
"Queen Beryl," said Zoisite. "Why do you put up with that guy?"
"Save it," said Beryl. "What do you want?"
"Well, I found the next Rainbow Crystal holder," offered Zoisite.
"Why are you collecting those?" asked Beryl.
"Just look at Jed's success rate, it's next to nothing!" said Zoisite. "It will take years before Metalia's revived. I just figured I'd get a head start so you don't start getting antsy when it's my arc."
"Excellent work," said Beryl.
"Can I have a promotion?" said Zoisite.
"No," said Beryl.
"D'ah," said Zoisite. He left.
Beryl looked at her schedule.
"Darn, it's over an hour until the Kunzite/Endymion slot. I'll go take a break."
Beryl went home and turned on her computer. She launched Wii Fit on the Dolphin emulator.
"Here we go!" said Beryl. She turned on cheats and pressed start.
Zoisite showed up at the Hikawa Shrine, and parked himself in a bush with binoculars.
"Mmm," said Zoisite to himself out loud. "There's my target, that old coot!"
"What are you waiting for?" asked Nephrite.
Zoisite did a double-take.
"Why are you here?" said Zoisite.
"To get back at you for always eavesdropping in my conversations with Beryl," explained Nephrite.
"Fine," said Zoisite. "But why are those two here?"
"Well," said Kunzite. "I remember hearing you had a lot of trouble with this guy, and in fact got defeated by him once."
"Lies!" said Zoisite. "It was a 3v1 with the two crows! And I didn't lose, I did a tactical retreat!"
Zoisite turned to Jed.
"I'm just here for the luls," said Jed.
"No luls to be found," said Zoisite. "Now go away!"
But Jadeite just parked himself, and Zoisite sighed.
"No one get in my way. This is my mission," said Zoisite.
"Earth is under my jurisdiction," countered Nephrite.
"Says who?!" argued Kunzite.
"Metalia," lied Nephrite. "Go ask her yourself."
"You know I won't do that," said Kunzite. "But I frankly don't believe you had a conversation with her. I don't even think you know she exists."
"Then how do I know her name?" challenged Nephrite.
"Guys," said Jadeite. "Zoisite's gone!"
"No!" said Kunzite.
Zoisite kicked open the doors to the temple, and Grandpa was sitting there waiting for him.
"Give it up, old man!" said Zoisite.
"Whatever do you mean?" asked Grandpa.
"Don't play dumb," said Zoisite.
That's when the other three Shitennou entered the room.
"Ah," said Grandpa. "If it isn't Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, and Malachite of the Negaverse."
"Actually," said Kunzite. "It's Kunzite."
"Hey," said Grandpa. "Don't use that language in my temple."
"Huh?!" said Kunzite.
"Enough with the chit chat," said Zoisite. "It's time for battle!"
Zoisite shot petals at Grandpa to bewilder him, but Grandpa leapt out of the way and lit his ceremonial flame, burning the petals.
"A wise guy, eh?" said Zoisite. He rolled up his sleeves.
"Wait," said Grandpa. "Before you end me, I have a proposition."
The Shitennou dunked their paint brushes into the bucket, and put the white paint on Grandpa's fence.
Jadeite was taking his job too seriously, and had a work suit on and a backwards hat.
"You know," said Jadeite. "I see why he needed a new paint job on this thing. Yellow just doesn't fit the rest of his temple's color scheme."
"Yes," said Kunzite. "It's much more modern."
"Shyaa, can you pass me that roller?" asked Chad.
"Sure thing," said Nephrite, handing him a paint roller.
"Wait a minute," said Zoisite. "I think Grandpa tricked us! Why are we painting his fence?!"
"You know," said Jadeite. "I don't actually remember why we're painting this. All I know is that I can't leave a job half finished."
"He conned us!" said Zoisite. "After I finish the rest of the perimeter, I'm taking that crystal!"
Zoisite marched right into the temple a few hours later.
"Ah," said Grandpa. "Good, you finished before dusk. That will give it plenty of time to dry! Do you want some tea?"
Zoisite slapped the tea out of his hand.
"Enough fooling around!" said Zoisite. "You tricked me, and I'm not sure how! But I won't let it happen again! I'm the Negaverse's tactician; I can't get outwitted, especially by some senile man!"
He took out the Black Crystal.
"You know," said Grandpa, not worried at all. "They say with age comes wisdom. How about a match in chess? Please, as my last wish!"
"Well, all right, if it's your- HEY, NO!" yelled Zoisite. "That's not how this works! I don't owe you anything!"
"Alright, alright," said Grandpa. "Let me write my last will and testament."
"Hey, watch where you're swinging that thing," said Kunzite as he laid another layer of cement on the brick wall.
Jadeite and Nephrite were carrying each end of a steel beam, and were walking it to the other side.
Jadeite and the rest were sporting hard hats, except for Kunzite who wouldn't let his hair get messed up.
"Kunzite," said Jadeite. "You need to wear a hard hat!"
"Why?" demanded Kunzite. "I can tank any accident that happens!"
"You just don't understand," said Jadeite. "Brain damage is something that can't be undone, which is why safety is most important on these kinds of jobs."
Zoisite had a sweater tied around his waist and was breaking a sweat.
He hammered a nail into two pieces of wood. "It's good that Japan is getting more and more urban," he commented. "In 20 years, every building will be this tall. Hey wait a second! I don't care about Japan! Why are we building this?!"
"You told us to," said Nephrite. "I wasn't very fond of the idea at first, but now I'm getting the hang of it."
"I never told anyone to do anything like this!" yelled Zoisite. "Or did I? ERRR!"
He threw his hammer in anger, and by bad chance it hit Kunzite on the head, and he was tossed 30 stories off the building and landed on his head.
Jadeite just frowned and shook his head.
"What did that old man say to me?!" cried Zoisite. "I went to go take his crystal, and next thing I knew I was building an apartment complex!"
The Shitennou all marched down to Grandpa.
"We're done," said Kunzite.
"Ah, good work, Malachite," said Grandpa.
"Actually, it's Kunzite," said Kunzite.
"Hey," said Grandpa. "We don't allow racism here."
"Huh?!" said Kunzite.
"Anyway," said Jadeite. "What's our next job?"
"Here's your paddle," said Zoisite, handing a small child a net to try to grab a goldfish.
Zoisite was in a yukada, and the rest of the Shitennou were in male summer festival garb.
Jadeite leaned down and whispered to the kid, "The trick is to put all your force in your wrist, and if you don't shake your hand the net won't break!"
"Gee, thanks," said the youngling.
"Jadeite!" said Nephrite. "You're not supposed to help them! We give them really lousy nets for a reason! They're supposed to lose so they keep trying and paying us more money to donate to the Hikawa Shrine!"
"Nah," said Jed. "It's all in summer fun. Let the boy live his dream."
Kunzite was grilling sushi in the stand right next to them. He had a bandana around his head and was wearing an apron, and was chopping squid at a rapid pace.
"I'm really getting the hang of this," said Kunzite. "If this Negaverse thing doesn't work out, I might get a full-time job as a sushi chef!"
"Now, now," said Jadeite. "This is just a part-time job to raise funds for the Hikawa Shrine. Don't put too much work into it. We still have to come back three more nights."
"Shyaaa, my net broke," said Chad.
"Chaaaad!" said Jadeite. "You're supposed to be running the stand, not playing it!"
"Hey," said Chad. "I paid."
"We're gonna run out of nets at this rate," sighed Zoisite.
The Shitennou stood at a busy street corner.
"Hey!" screamed Nephrite at a passerby. "Take this flyer!"
"Get away from me!" screamed the citizen, legging it.
"Nephrite," said Kunzite. "You have to be more gentle. Humans are fragile."
"Hmm," said Nephrite.
Jed was in a Grandpa costume, with a giant Grandpa head and nothing more.
"Hey hey!" he said in a goofy voice. "Come visit Hikawa Shrine! Very good place to spend your money!"
The rest of the Shitennou were in shrine garb.
"Jadeite, why are you in a Grandpa costume?" asked Zoisite. "That's driving people away, not attracting customers!"
"Hmm," said Jed. "This reminds me of the time I worked for the Hikawa Shrine. Back then, I lured people in with my good looks."
"You should do that now," suggested Zoisite. "None of us have the hots like you."
"Wrong," said Nephrite. "Maxfield Stanton was also stated to be handsome."
"Beryl actually said that I was the handsomest," lied Kunzite.
"You look like a girl," said Jadeite.
"Me?!" cried Kunzite. "Look at my masculine forehead and eyebrows! Not like Zoisite's girly eyelashes!"
"Hey," argued Zoisite. He left it at that.
"I finished hanging up all the posters!" called Chad, running over in a pant.
"Good work, Chad," said Kunzite. "Did you get any potential customers?"
"Yes," said Chad. He left it at that.
"Hey young one," said Jadeite at a pedestrian. "Take this flyer!"
"Righteroo!" said Melvin.
But Jadeite watched as Melvin threw it in a trashcan a couple of paces away.
Jadeite walked up to Melvin. "If you didn't want it, why didn't you hand it back?"
"Oh, it would have been awkward," shrugged Melvin. "Didn't wanna hurt your feelings, ya know?"
Jadeite clenched his fist with a visible sound heard.
"YeeeE!" screamed Melvin, taking off.
But Jadeite chased him down.
"Get back here, you scamp!" he howled.
He quickly caught up and tore Melvin to shreds. He crumpled up the shreds and threw them away.
"That's for wasting paper!" yelled Jed. "You could have at least recycled!"
A loud bell went off, blaring through the fire station.
"Oh no! A fire down at Main Street!" called Jadeite. "Let's move, boys!"
The boys put their hats on and slid down the fire pole. They quickly boarded a firetruck and took off.
"Drive faster!" yelled Nephrite. "People's lives are on the line!"
Jadeite finally pulled up to the burning building.
"Help me!" screamed a little girl from the window.
"I'm coming, young girl!" yelled Jadeite, darting inside and running up the stairs.
"Alright," said Zoisite. "Let's do what we can out here!"
Zoisite shot petals at the fire, but it only caused the flames to spread.
"Cut that out!" said Nephrite clocking him.
"Don't clock me!" said Zoisite.
Kunzite, meanwhile, turned on the hose from the firetruck and let it rip.
"Help me, boys!" called Kunzite. "We need more hoses!"
Nephrite and Zoisite quickly stopped fooling around and started spraying the fire.
The fire shot back at them and they became locked in a heated beam struggle.
"If we let that fire overtake us," said Kunzite. "This whole city will die!"
"For Tokyo!" called Nephrite.
They were able to hold off the fire long enough for Jadeite to run out with the little girl and three cats.
"Alright, now it's time to give it my all!" said Kunzite.
He shot a powerful gale at the building, eliminating the flames.
"We did it!" the Shitennou cheered.
By this point a large crowd had formed, and they broke into a flurry of applause.
"It's all in a day's work," said Jadeite, bowing.
That night, they returned to their dorms at the fire station.
"The life of a part-time firefighter is a hard job," said Jadeite.
"Yes," said Zoisite. "But it's worth it to see the look on that little girl's parents' faces."
"Goodnight everyone," said Kunzite.
"Let's do our best again tomorrow," said Nephrite.
"Alright, lil Billy!" said Nephrite. "You can do it!"
"Gee whiz," said lil Billy. "I sure hope I get a homerun!"
"Well, don't go that far," said Nephrite. "But our little league team will win the championship for sure!"
"Yahoo!" cheered Shingo. "Go little league!"
"Calm down," said Kunzite. "Save some energy for the big game."
"Thanks for not benching my boy," said Kenji. "I know he's awful, so I'm glad you're letting him play at all!"
"Papa!" cried Shingo. "I heard that!"
"Ho ho ho," said Nephrite. "We believe every child should have a chance to play."
Kunzite put on the catcher gear and squatted behind home base.
"I'm so ready," he said.
Kyuusuke was the first up to bat.
"Hey," said Jadeite. "I thought Shingo just went."
"Shingo doesn't have green hair," said Zoisite. "That's clearly Kyuusuke, the young man from season 4, who also made a cameo appearance in season 2. I made a cameo in season 2 as well."
"No you didn't," said Jadeite.
"Yes I did," argued Zoisite, but he didn't remember the timestamp so he left it at that.
"Batter up!" called Nephrite. "Give it your all, Suke my boy!"
"Yeah!" said Kyuusuke, missing the first ball.
"Strike!" yelled Nephrite. "Come on, you can do this! Keep your eye on the prize!"
"Yes!" promised Kyuusuke. "I've done harder things in my life, such as the vaulting horse! I can easily hit a ball!"
The next pitch came, and Kyuusuke swung a little early.
Jadeite was biting his nails.
"Easy now, Shingo," said Jadeite. "Don't let us down."
"I won't," said Kyuusuke, choking.
He swung at a ball that was way off from the home plate, and was sent out.
Jadeite shook his head. "I guess we weren't ready after all."
Next up to bat was Momoko Momohara.
"Nice lil cap," said Jadeite.
"Thanks," said Momoko nodding.
"Way to stick to far eastern roots with that outfit," he commented.
"Shut up," said Momoko. "I'm trying to swing."
"Isn't that girl a little too… developed?" asked Nephrite to Zoisite.
"Ewww!" said Zoisite. "Lolicon!"
"No!" cried Nephrite. "Just look! Those things are huge!"
Zoisite walked away.
"I don't want to be branded a lolicon, pls!" said Nephrite. "But that can't be a child!"
Momoko didn't swing for two swings, because both were balls.
"Easy now," said Jadeite. "Don't forget to swing!"
"Shut up, stupid," said Momoko.
"How old are you?" demanded Nephrite.
"What?!" asked Momoko. "Are you some kind of lolicon?!"
"No!" exclaimed Nephrite. "But I assume you drink your milk every day, am I correct?"
Momoko was so disturbed she missed the next pitch, but luckily it turned out to be a ball.
"Nephrite, stop distracting the young girl," said Jadeite. "Alright Momo-chan, one more ball and you get to walk!"
"K," said Momoko.
The next ball zipped right through the middle, and Momoko tossed a swing.
Shockingly, she hit it out of the park.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEES!" screamed Jadeite, in an MLG fashion. "Wombo!" he shouted. "Wombo!"
"Calm down," said the ref.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" said Jadeite. "AHH! AHH! AHH! YESS! WE WIN!"
"This is the first inning," said Zoisite. "Hold you horses."
But Jadeite couldn't control himself.
He threw himself to the ground and started rolling around. "WAHHOOO!"
The Shitennou trekked through the woods in hiker gear.
"Ooh!" howled Jadeite, swinging his giant over-sized net.
"Watch where you're swinging that thing," said Nephrite.
"Sorry," said Jadeite. "I thought I saw a cicada. But it was just a spider."
"Ooh!" howled Jadeite again. "Nope, just a spider."
"Come on guys, let's focus," said Nephrite. "We're not leaving until we catch 10 cicadas."
"But I'm hoooot!" said Zoisite. "Let's a take a break!"
"We just got here," said Jadeite.
"Jadeite!" said Kunzite suddenly. "Don't move!"
"Why not?" asked Jadeite.
"There's a cicada on your head. Don't overreact."
Jadeite started screaming, so Nephrite swung down his giant net, trapping Jadeite with the cicada.
"HEEeeeEELP!" yelled Jadeite.
"We caught one!" said Zoisite giddily. "Jadeite, watch where you're flailing. You might squish the cicada."
Jadeite finally fought his way out of the net, but the cicada was gone.
"NO!" screamed Kunzite. "Look what you did!"
"Not to worry," said Jadeite. "I see one right over there. Wait, never mind, it's just a spider."
"Heave!" yelled Kunzite.
The four of them pushed the boulder forward, into place in the huge rock garden they were creating at Hikawa Shrine.
"There," said Jadeite. "That's all the rocks. Now we have to make the tracks in the sand."
"Hey," said Nephrite. "Stop lounging on the rocks and help us, Zoisite."
"In a minute," complained Zoisite. "Pushing rocks is heavy labor, and I'm more of a mental laborer."
"Why don't you make some sand tracks then?" suggested Nephrite.
Zoisite sighed and took out his rake.
But as he passed Jadeite, Jadeite stepped all over his tracks.
"Hey!" cried Zoisite. "You stepped on my tracks!"
"Sorry," said Jed. "I'll get them on my second time around."
"There shouldn't be a second time around!" said Zoisite.
"Ah," said Jadeite as the plane flew through the sky. "I remember when I used to be the one controlling the planes. It's funny how life works sometimes."
"Hey!" called a passenger. "I need more peanuts!"
"Sorry," said Jadeite. "I don't speak English," he said in English.
The passenger sighed.
Zoisite walked to the front wearing a girl's flight attendant uniform. "Welcome to flight 189. Please stay seated at all times."
"What is this, a carnival ride?" heckled Yaten.
"Sir, if you don't calm down we'll have to stop this plane," threatened Zoisite.
"Spoooooky!" said Yaten. "But I have all day. I don't care if you stop this plane."
"Other people do, so I suggest you show some respect," said Zoisite.
"What are ya gonna do?" taunted Yaten.
Kunzite and Nephrite grabbed each of Yaten's arms.
"You're too disorderly. We're removing you from the flight," said Kunzite.
"What?! We're still in mid-air! This is insane, you'll never get away with it!" cried Yaten.
He was thrashing and reaching for his transformation pen, so they threw his head into the armrest.
Then they opened the door and threw him out of the moving plane, 10,000 ft. above the ground.
They shut the door.
"Anyone else?" asked Zoisite.
The passengers were terrified.
"Alright then," continued Zoisite. "So our movie choices for this ride are Sailor V V, or Sailor V IV. Or Finding Nemo."
"NEMOOO!" howled Jed. "Martin! Martin!"
"Jadeite," said Zoisite. "You've seen Finding Nemo 20 times today. It wasn't even a Japanese dub, or sub for that matter."
"I don't care!" howled Jadeite. "I like the fight scenes, when the dad and the mom tried to fight that beast that ate the eggs! Most action-packed scene I've ever seen!"
Zoisite shrugged. "Finding Nemo it is."
"Oh boy, Tanabata already!" said Jadeite dreamily. "Now everyone take a slip of paper and write down your wish! But don't tell anyone, or it won't come true!"
"Hmm," thought everyone as they stared at their blank papers.
"I wish for Nephrite's demise," wrote Zoisite. He went up and stuck it on the tree at Hikawa Shrine.
"What'd you wish for?" asked Nephrite.
"Nice try to avoid the inevitable," said Zoisite.
"Hmm, what should I wish for?" asked Kunzite.
"We can't tell you," said Jadeite sadly. "You have to figure it out on your own."
Kunzite picked up his pen. "I wish to see the smile on Queen Beryl's face," he wrote. He hung it up.
"Nice," said Jadeite. "I wished for that too!"
"No!" cried Kunzite. "You looked at mine!?"
"Shoot," said Jadeite. "I guess I made it not come true. Wait, now you know what I wished for! Does that cancel it out?"
"I sure hope not," said Kunzite. "At least one of us might be able to make Queen Beryl smile."
"Hey, what's all this about!?" said Zoisite, biting his thumb.
"I wish for Zoisite's demise," decided Nephrite at last. "And also Kunzite's," he wrote in smaller letters. He stuck it on the tree.
"I wish for Rei's heart," was what Chad wrote.
"Hey!" said Rei, looking over his shoulder.
"Nooooooo!" cried Chad. He took his own life.
Grandpa walked over. "Looking good, boys. When you're done, make sure to plant that bamboo tree!"
"Aye aye, cap'n!" said Jed.
"Come here, Skipper!" called Zoisite, holding up a hoop. "The big show's a couple months away! We have to get this act down to a science!"
"Zoisite," said Kunzite. "Why are you wearing a shirt?"
Zoisite started to blush. "Do you want to see my chest that badly?"
"No," said Kunzite. "I was just wondering."
Zoisite bit his thumb but said nothing.
"Hey, Flippy!" called Jed. "Here's a treat! Now jump through the hoop!"
Jadeite's dolphin took the treat and fled. It leapt out of the pool and ran away.
"Noooo!" cried Jed. "Guys, I lost Flippy!"
"How do you lose a dolphin in a closed pool?" demanded Nephrite.
"Idunno," admitted Jadeite. "But dolphins are smart creatures. We have to keep an eye on them, or else they'll overthrow us."
Zoisite directly eyed a dolphin, and the dolphin tossed him a dirty look.
"It's not gonna be that easy," said Zoisite. "If they all team me I'm a goner!"
At that moment, three dolphins charged right for Zoisite.
"Don't worry!" said Kunzite. "I'll protect you!"
The dolphins swam right under him and pulled Zoisite to the bottom of the pool.
One of the dolphins threw flipper punches at his exposed torso as Zoisite choked underwater.
He couldn't escape because he was held down.
"Why Skipper, why?!" gargled Zoisite.
Kunzite and Jadeite were trying to pry a dolphin off Zoisite, but it slapped Kunzite with its tailfin and nipped Jadeite on the arm.
"Yeeeouch!" cried Jadeite, swimming back to the surface.
Zoisite thought fast as he started to suffocate. He pulled the drain open and the water started draining.
But it wasn't fast enough and Zoisite lost consciousness.
When the water finally drained, the dolphins had to leap down the drain to live, and they left him badly beaten at the bottom of the pool.
"Never trust a creature as smart as humans," stated Nephrite in awe.
"So we're not going to teach those apes sign language tomorrow?" asked Jed.
Jadeite bent down and picked up more trash off the side of the freeway.
"I love helping Mother Nature," said Jadeite.
"Same," said Zoisite, finishing a chocolate bar and throwing down the wrapper.
"You're pretty arrogant for someone who got beat by dolphins the other day," said Nephrite.
"You would have lost that fight too if they targeted you!" cried Zoisite.
"Exactly," said Nephrite. "That's why I don't provoke them. It's the same for Kunzite."
"Heh," said Kunzite. "It's nice for you to finally acknowledge my feats once in a while."
"Don't let it get to your head," said Nephrite, picking up some more garbage.
"Are you gonna pick up garbage or stand there, Zoisite?" said Jadeite.
"Yeah, yeah," said Zoisite picking up his chocolate wrapper.
Kunzite held out the bin and he threw it in.
"Here, can you pass me that apple core as well?" asked Kunzite.
"Wait," said Zoisite. "What are we doing?"
"We're picking up trash off the freeway," explained Jadeite.
"Yes," said Zoisite. "But why?"
Jadeite thought about it for a long time. "I don't remember," he admitted.
"Ooh, I think I know," said Nephrite. "It's a good deed!"
"We don't care about that!" said Zoisite. "Our Negavalues aren't very generous!"
"Hmm," said Kunzite, thinking about it. "I think we're doing it because Grandpa told us to do it after training those dolphins."
"Oh yeah, yeah!" recalled Jadeite.
"Wait," said Zoisite. "Just hang on here. One of these puzzle pieces does not fit in. Let's go over the story again, but slowly."
"Okay," said Jadeite. "We were at the summer festival, and it was just after the firework show."
"No," said Zoisite. "Before that."
"Gee," said Jadeite. "I don't think I can remember that far ago. That summer festival was five years ago."
"It was around the time we built that house," recalled Nephrite.
"Why did we build the house again?" wondered Zoisite. "That's all we need to know, and everything will slide into place."
"Well, because Grandpa told us to, obviously," said Kunzite.
"Grandpa…" thought Zoisite. "Grandpa… why were we communicating with him?"
"To paint a fence?" asked Jed.
That's when it dawned on Zoisite, and he screamed incoherently.
Zoisite marched into Grandpa's temple.
"Wait, what are you doing?!" yelled the Shitennou who were trailing him.
"Are you gonna try to hurt Grandpa? If you hurt him, he won't tell us what to do next!" said Jadeite.
Zoisite was mad. "He shouldn't be telling us what to do! I was supposed to take his crystal ten years ago, but he tricked me! And since I'm the smartest, of course you all got tricked too!"
"Hey," said Nephrite. "I think I'm the second smartest."
"Think again," said Jadeite.
"Jadeite," said Nephrite. "You got killed by your own planes, you buffoon! And Kunzite got killed by his own boomerang! Two very stupid moves! Then again, trying to kill Mamoru Chiba was a stupid move on Zoisite's part. But he's more book-smart than street-smart."
"You're getting distracted again!" cried Zoisite. "We have to confront this old beast!"
Zoisite got to the main room of the temple.
"There's…there's nothing here," said Zoisite. "It's empty. He must have moved out."
"When did he do that?!" demanded Jadeite.
"During the last ten years," said Zoisite. "I knew it was suspicious that our last task was given by phone call!"
"Then how will we take his crystal?" asked Kunzite.
Zoisite took his own life and the others followed suit.
Grandpa sat on the opposite side of the world on a lawn chair at the beach.
"Heh heh," he chuckled. "That Zoisite isn't as bright as he lets on."
Grandpa took a sip of tea.
