Tropical Discovery
Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
"So… hot~!" Grover whined.
"Quit your wining, you idiot." Naruto said.
Walking through the intense heat of the brilliant Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, South America were Goku, Kouga, Naruto, Natsu and Happy, Ruby, Hinata, Ichigo, Luffy, Blizzard, Izuku, Percy, Rin, Kuroko, Krillin, Androids 17 and 18, Grover, Thalia, Clarrise and Holly.
"Can't believe you dragged us into visiting a rainforest." Holly commented.
"Sarcasm won't help, pointy ears." Ichigo muttered.
Holly got irritated and attempted to hit Ichigo, only to hit Rin in the stomach instead.
"W-What did I do…?!" Rin asked, in pain.
"Oops. Guess I hit you by mistake again." Holly replied.
Rin groaned in pain, while Percy, Krillin, Grover and Thalia deadpanned.
"She always does that on purpose." Percy, Krillin, Grover and Thalia thought in unison.
"These rainforests are rather peaceful. Even more so when there is wildlife surrounding it." Android 17 explained.
"You sure love wildlife, 17. But that's what makes you awesome." Goku commented.
"I'll take that compliment for granted." Android 17 said.
Naruto, Natsu, Luffy and Hinata were already swinging across the forest via vines that were surprisingly hanging from the much larger trees.
"Get down from there, you idiots!" Blizzard hollered, or barked.
Luffy laughed hard as he kept swinging from one vine to the next.
"THIS IS AWESOME!" Luffy shouted.
Naruto, Natsu and Hinata couldn't agree more as they continued swinging.
Akeno giggled.
Android 18 signed, which caught Krillin's attention.
"Something wrong?" Krillin asked.
"Just… wishing Marron was here with us." Android 18 replied.
"Don't worry. I'm pretty sure there's a rainforest island back in our world." Krillin explained.
"We can take her there when we go on family vacation." Krillin continued.
Android 18 smiled with her spirits lifted up.
Android 17 suddenly sensed a disturbance and headed off into the south.
"Where you going, 17?" Goku asked.
"We best follow him." Grover explained.
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In the south of the rainforest, several poachers were cornering a South American Tapir couple.
"These pigs will fetch a fine price." The lead poacher said, holding a shotgun in his hands.
Android 17 suddenly appeared out of nowhere and kicked the leading poacher down to the ground, shocking the other poachers.
"What the?!" A second poacher exclaimed.
"The hell is this guy?!" A third poacher asked.
"It's a crime to poach on endangered species even with animal protection rights." Android 17 explained.
"What are you some kind of ranger?!" A fourth poacher asked.
"Something like that." Android 17 replied.
The lead poacher got up and aimed his shotgun at Android 17.
"I don't care what you are! Kill him!" The lead poacher hollered.
The poachers followed and all of them immediately shot their rifles at the android, but he effortlessly caught every one of them with his right hand in lightning speed.
All the poachers stopped firing after seeing 17 easily catch every bullet and dumbfounded to the core that no ordinary human could ever catch bullets and be crazy enough to come unscathed.
Android 17 dropped the bullets with his usual scowl.
"W-What is he?" Another poacher asked.
"This guy can't be human!" Another poacher hollered.
Android 17, with quick movement, knocked out every last of the poachers before they had time to think.
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From the sidelines, Goku and the others, who were watching the whole time, smiled with pride.
"Looks like 17 cleaned them up quite nicely." Goku commented.
"My brother can be such a handful." Android 18 said.
"That was awesome!" Luffy hollered, extremely excited.
"Not awesome when we were covered in mud moments ago, you idiots." Clarrise explained in an annoyed and embarrassed tone, showing herself covered in some mud on the way to meet up with Android 17.
Both she and Holly were covered in mud.
"It seems we were running so fast the three of us tripped." Holly explained.
"Don't you girls worry. I've got the perfect idea to wash the mud off." Percy explained.
"Oh no… you are NOT doing that again!" Holly exclaimed, pointing her pointer finger at Percy.
"Wet me, and you're dead, twerp!" Clarrise hollered.
"I promise it'll be quick." Percy said, in defense.
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The group resumed their voyage in the forest after letting the tapir couple move back into the wild.
They eventually came across a large divide covered in water.
"The water's so cool!" Luffy hollered.
"We're not swimming in it." Android 17 said.
"This is by far the best sight ever." Kouga said.
"Yep." Naruto said.
"Okay. Here we go!" Percy hollered.
Percy summoned a large stream of water and splashed it on Clarrise and Holly, cleaning them of the mud, but also getting them very wet.
"You. Are. Dead." Clarrise and Holly said, now angry.
Rapidly sweat dropping, Percy made a run for it as the God of War's daughter and the Goddess of the Moon's daughter followed suit.
Not wanting to worry about Percy's predicament, the rest of the group decided to sightsee the large water divide and continue on with their jungle voyage.
Android 17 sure is living up to his park ranger reputation when he bested those poachers effortlessly! And of course poor Percy incurred the wrath of Clarrise and Holly for getting them wet.
On a side note, after this chapter, I'll be on break up until the first week of August. Taking a vacation which I'll use to plan more about the upcoming main series on everything needed, as well as another important announcement or two after the next chapter after my vacation is done.