You know what is probably one of the most annoying things that can happen? Writing 20 KB of fanfiction and then realising the whole thing is.... really.... bad. To put it nicely; The original 6th chapter sucked, blew, and bit all at the same time. So I deleted it and decided to start anew. So, the moment a very small amount of people have been waiting for, the 6th chapter... (I need more reviews, damn it! If people are reading these chapters and just not reviewing, please write reviews. If nobody is reading these chapters but the 3 or 4 people that have been reviewing them, get some more people to read the damn things! I mean, really, I spend a lot of my time that I should be using to do homework... Or perhaps something else that everyone seems to think is necessary, but is really just torture... Writing this stuff, So I don't see why a few hundred people can't be bored for the small amount of time it takes to read it.)
If you have read the previous chapters and have not had a bad case of amnesia since then, you will remember that our heroes (And the dashingly good looking, incredibly intelligent, super-gay author) Were seperated by a mysterious force. Or some Sario Rips... It's been a while since I've read my previous chapters. If I read them, I'd see all the mistakes, and I'd try to correct them, and improve the story, and I just don't want to do that. Anyways, the gundam pilots (And me) Were stranded on a remote planet in the far reaches of space, an odd planet, a planet much like Earth. Will our heroes survive? Well, it's my story, so if you're reading this they must have gotten out of it alive. Now on to the story itself...
The pilots (and the author) awoke to find themselves on an alien planet, in the middle of a dense jungle... "Wow... This is freaky. I didn't write anything about this happening... The sario rips were supposed to have stopped appearing everywhere, yet we are here as the result of one." The gundam pilots looked at the author, meaning it to be only a quick glance, but their gaze remained fixed on the author. "What's happening to him? He doesn't look all that great... He's getting pale." Duo remarked, his gaze still not shifting. "Pale? He's transparent!" Trowa said as he watched the author dissolve and disappear. "My illusion seems to have worked very well. Incredibly believable, if I may say so myself, but it worked far better than I had anticipated. I can't believe these imbecilic fools believed their entire life was merely a bunch of words written on a piece of paper. Well, I have accomplished what I had intended on accomplishing, and so now I'll leave having accomplished my accomplishment which I meant to accomplish by accomplishing what I wanted to accomplish. Oh, yes. Now I'm supposed to say something incredibly cliche, aren't I?" A voice seeming to come from nowhere at all said. Then a figure materialized in front of the pilots, who all stared in awe as the figure took a material shape. It went from a shapeless shadow to a semi-transparent man covered in oddly designed armor that covered his body and was the darkest shade of black imaginable. The man wore a dark red cape with a strange black mark on the back, one that seemed to be some sort of insignia. The insignia was very large, taking up a considerable amount of the space on his cape. The figure then proceeded to say "So here's my cliche;" paused, and then continued with "I'll be back." The armor-encased being then shattered into hundreds of small daggers, which flew at the pilots, stopped an inch away from them, and dematerialized.
Nice Little Twist, eh? Er... Well, a slightly corny beginning, I know, but I had to start it that way. I don't know why, I just did. Back to the story... "That... Was among some of the weirder things I've encountered." Quatre said, sitting down with a puzzled look on his face. "I feel pretty foolish, too. I can't believe I thought I was a character in a story. But... I felt different somehow when that illusion was with us. Do you think that guy used some sort of mind control to twist our minds, making it a lot easier for us to believe something like that?" Heero, who had a thoughtful look on his face, began to speak slowly, as if he were carefully considering every possibility while speaking. "I suppose it's possible... He could have used some sort of gas to cloud our minds... Some variant of nerve gas or something similar, if less potent, might cause our minds to cloud, enabling us to believe something so odd as that." The others stood or sat, quietly thinking, wondering what their new enemy had done. "If that's the case, and he somehow messed with our minds, couldn't he do it again, only more powerful, and make us so confused that we wouldn't be able to dodge an attack?" Duo asked, talking to himself more than anyone else. "I don't know... What's really bothering me is what he did right after he left. All those daggers flew right at us. They would have killed us all if they hadn't disappeared like that. Is he just toying with us, trying to scare us? Is he actually a friend, rather than a foe, and is just testing us? Is he actually trying to kill us, but unable to do so? I want to know what his agenda is, and what's going on here." Wufei said, adding in his two cents worth. "Well, whether he's an enemy or not, whether he's able to kill us or not, whether he's got some weird mind control gas or not, we have to get moving soon. It's starting to get dark, and we're on an unfamiliar planet with a potential enemy out there somewhere, maybe wanting to kill us, and there's no shelter anywhere nearby." Heero noted, and then pointed past Duo's shoulder. The other pilots turned and looked, and saw a tiny dot in the distance. The dot was moving, and getting larger, which meant that something was coming their way.
Heero jumped into the cockpit of his gundam and focused on the dot. He enlarged the image until he saw what it was, and climbed back out. "It's some sort of old, wooden carriage. There's no motor, I don't see any horses, and I don't see anyone pushing or pulling it. It's as if it's alive and moving of it's own accord." "Do you think it might have rolled down a hill or something?" Duo asked. "No... It's moving at the exact same speed. It isn't slowing down at all, and besides, there are no hills or mountains anywhere nearby. Just the forest behind us and to the left, and open plains to the right and straight ahead." Duo and the other pilots were silent for a short period of time, and then Trowa broke the silence. "That's absolutely impossible." "It's no less possible than a man creating a lifelike illusion, materializing out of nowhere, turning into a bunch of daggers and nearly killing us." Heero pointed out. "Maybe in this world, everything is run by some kind of magic." Heero abruptly fell silent. "What is it, Heero?" Duo questioned. "...........That carriage. There's a coffin inside it. And unless I'm wrong..." Heero got back into the gundam and focused in on the middle of the coffins lid. "Holy shit..." He jumped back out and ran towards the other pilots. "Remember that weird symbol on the back of our mysterious friends cape? That symbol is on the lid of the coffin, too. Somehow that man in the armor and that coffin are related. I wish I had something that would give me a clue as to what's going on here..." Then the air directly in front of the pilots began to shimmer and some small devices fell into their hands. In the hands of each pilot was a small, cordless computer mouse. And on the mouse was a symbol resembling the one on the coffin and the armored figures cape, only it was slightly different. "What are these?" Wufei asked as he examined the device. "Hmmm... There's a little red sticker on the bottom. It just says 'point and click.' I wonder what it means?" Duo looked at the sticker on the bottom of his and confirmed what the sticker said. "Well, maybe we should take it literally." Duo lifted the mouse into the air, aimed it at the carriage, and pressed the button on the left.
A semi-transparent window appeared in front of the mouse, showing a picture of the carriage and information about it. "It worked. And according to this thing, that carriage is run by magic. It roams around here during the day, and at night it stops and the owner... comes... out..." Trowa asked Duo why he had stopped talking. "This thing says that the owner sleeps in that coffin during the day, and wakes up at night, looking for... Um... Food." "What do you mean by that, Duo?" "Well, Quatre, From what I can gather from this thing, the owner of that carriage is the guy we saw earlier. And from the information this thing is giving me... He's some sort of a vampire knight. And it doesn't mention his name in here anywhere..." The pilots stared at him. Wufei was the first to speak up. "Did you say he's a vampire?" "Yeah, he's a vampire knight. But I think he's more than just a knight. I think he's some kind of royalty or something, because this says that the symbol on his cape and coffin is a mark used on this planet only by very rich people and kings and queens and all that. And by the looks of the cape, I'd say he's a vampire knight king. A very wealthy vampire with lots of followers and power who is trained to use all sorts of weapons... And you know that armor he was wearing? The reason it looked so odd is that it's some sort of magical armor. It's enchanted so that it's wearer is nearly invincible. Nearly... So he can be defeated. But if he turns out to be an enemy, we're going to have one hell of a time killing him. And there's not much else on this page... Just a bit of bad news, and a bit of good news." Heero managed to not look completely horrified and asked "What's the bad news and the good news? Since you said bad news first, I'm assuming the good news has to do with the bad." Duo nodded his head. "Yeah, the bad news is that if he bites your neck, you'll be turned into a vampire. The good news is that garlic, instead of making vampires powerless like it's supposed to, will turn you back into a human. It says there's another cure, too, and one that's a lot simpler than getting the vampire near garlic. Apparently garlic is very hard to find around here. Anyways, the other cure is...... Oh, crap. Something happened. The window shut down before I could read this incredibly easy cure. If one of us gets bitten by a vampire, we're going to have to use garlic, if we can find any....."
On a different part of the planet... "My plan appears to be going perfectly... If it continues to go this well for just a while longer, it will probably be too late for them to do anything about it. My extensive research on this has not revealed any possible way for them to escape the effects of my plan IF it goes perfectly for just a little while longer... Just a small amount of time, about 2 days standard universal time, and I will finally have enough power to destroy every one of those "good guys." All of them, in every galaxy of every universe of every dimension. Evil will finally reign over the entirity of existance from now to the day it all ends. It will be wonderful, everything ruled by evil, people living in constant fear, entire solar systems being destroyed, galaxies corrupted... It will be absolutely beautiful... Don't you think so?" He said, conveniently staying within the shadows so that noone present would be able to see him clearly. "Yes, I approve of that, but what is your plan? What does it involve? Will we be able to continue on with it for two more standard days? I want to know how you are planning on accomplishing your goal." The leader of the small group of eleven said, and all of the others but one nodded their heads in agreement. The man who hadn't nodded his head left his seat and stood by the first man who had spoken. "How he plans on accomplishing it is none of your business. After all, none of you have ever revealed any of your plans, so why should he have to? It doesn't matter how he's going to get it done, as long as he gets it done." The first man who had spoken, who never revealed his real name to anyone, but instead insisted on being called by his code name, Nematocyst, took the other man, who went by the name of Judecca A. Gunner, in his arms and kissed him.
This could be the beginning of a new era... All of existance, every dimension, universe, galaxy, solar system, planet and star ruled by Judecca and I... An eternity of evil with the one I love... It will be beautiful beyond any description in any language... I only have to wait two more days, and it will finally happen...
Well, I just couldn't leave out the 'bad guys'. That was the part of the story where the readers find out that theres something more to all of this... Something sinister... Something... Eeeeeeeeevil. And so the sinister, evil plot that turns out to be far worse than anything else our heroes have discovered so far is revealed. Just don't tell the reader, okay?
And now back to our heroes and the mysterious carriagey thingy... "Look over there, the carriage stopped!" Heero said as he pointed in the direction of the carriage. Everyone diverted their attention to the carriage, but found that it was still moving. "It hasn't stopped, it's still coming this way." Trowa stated. Everyone looked back at Heero, wanting to know why he had told them that the carriage had stopped, but found that he was gone. "Duo, did you see where Heero... Duo's gone? Hey, Quatre... Huh? Quatre and Wufei are gone, too!" Trowa turned 180 degrees, and found himself staring at a composite wall made up of stone and some sort of metal. He turned another 180 degrees, so that he should be facing the desert again, but instead found himself face to wall with another metal and stone wall. He looked around and figured out that he was in a long corridor with absolutely no distinguishing marks. The corridor to his right went on for a few yards and turned right. To his left, the corridor went on for what seemed to be an eternity. It could have ended just 10 feet from him, or 10 miles, he couldn't tell because the only light came from a candle in the corner on his right, and two candles directly in front of him.
"Duo, did you see..." Duo turned to face Trowa, wanting to know why he stopped in the middle of a sentence, but found himself staring at a bunch of black bars with only a few inches between each set. Beyond the bars was a wall thsat appeared to be made of stone and some odd sort of metal. Duo turned around again and saw a small, empty room with walls just like the one beyond the bars instead of a carriage floating across the sand. "WHERE THE HELL AM I?!?" Duo screamed, and listened closely even though he knew he wouldn't get a reply. But he got a surprise. The wall in front of him shifted and melted, then was restored to it's former shape as a man stepped through it. "You are in my prison. The prison doubles as a maze, so even if you somehow escape, you wont be able to get back to your friends." Duo was getting pissed off, and therefore pulled out a gun he had concealed somewhere in his pants, which probably explained why it looked like he had an erection, and fired it at the man standing before him twice. One bullet missed by a wide margin, but the other more or less hit its intended target. The bullet hit the man on his arm at an odd angle, but didn't pierce the skin. It somehow managed to snap a bone in his arm without doing any other damage. "!!? I'm going to pay you back for that. That actually stung a bit... You will pay for that with your life! Visa is also accepted. As soon as this plan has gone too far to be stopped, anyways... My name's Judecca. If you should manage to escape from here and get to the headquarters, look for me. I want to fight you in a duel. That may have been a lucky shot, but it also might have been simply that you are extremely skilled as a fighter. So now that I've seen your skill and accuracy with a gun, I want to see how you handle a sword. DAMN!!! I've talked far too much... I always do that. Whenever someone comes here and gets trapped in the maze, I always have to come in and talk. I talk, and talk, and talk, and eventually I end up telling them about the secret switch disguised as a caterpillar that happens to be conveniently located in the corner by the big rock that opens up a doorway to a secret passage that leads right out of here, hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, etc." He then took in a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "Okay, well, now I've got to be going. Bye!" Judecca then stepped back through the wall.
..... I think I might have overdone that a bit. Oh well. Back to this... um... interesting little oddity...
"Duo, did you see..." Trowa was suddenly silent. "Is something wrong?" Quatre said, turning towards Trowa. "Oh... Everyone's all of a sudden disappeared, leaving me alone and vulnerable to attack by the viscious mutated vampire inhabitants of this planet. Hmmm... I wonder where they went? Oh well, I'll just have to begin walking, with little hope of ever finding the others again, probably walking right into some kind of devilishly intricate trap set by the mastermind of some great evil plot to destroy all who stand for love and justice... No, I think Sailor Moon's already dead... Well, some great evil plot to destroy all who stand for... Uh, good, I guess. Is it just me, or do I seem to know waaaaaay more of the plot than I should?" Quatre began to walk, heading straight towards the maze from which there is very little escape that was put there by the evil 'Judecca,' hoping to exterminate all those standing for... Uh... good. He kept talking to himself, hoping that if anyone was going to try to kill him, they'd hear him talking to himself and think he was insane and would therefore not attack. "I wonder if anyone would be dumb enough to make this fanfic into a movie? It'd be kinda hard, finding anyone... Well, anyone other than the author... Crazy enough to even consider playing the role of one of the characters. Probably couldn't make it into a cartoon series or anything either, seeing as how nobody would want to be the voice of any of the characters. Plus, it contains... Well... A teeny, tiny, itty bitty bit of homosexual content, which those bastards known as "The People Who Make Movies And Cartoon Series'" wouldn't allow unless it was a rated R or X movie... I don't think it would qualify as X... At least not until I find Trowa... so it'd have to be R. Oh, look. I am suddenly finding myself staring at a stone wall, where just moments before was nothing but sand. I'm taking this way to calmly. Maybe I should stop taking this xanex... Which, for those of you who don't know this already, is a tranquilizer/anti-depressant... Or maybe just a tranquilizer... or anti-depressant... I don't know. I just tame it 'cause it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and happy inside." Quatre tossed the bottle of xanex to the ground and sat on a small stone bench jutting out of the cold, stone wall behind him. "Hey, look, Bacardi! Which, for those of you who don't know, is an alcoholic beverage. If you didn't know that you probably dont drink it, if you don't drink it... You suck. Why am I talking to this wall like it's a group of people?" Quatre grabbed the bottle of bacardi chilling in a hole filled with ice dug into the side of the wall and began drinking. "I'm not supposed to drink any alcohol after taking that stuff, am I? Oh well..."
Two Hours Later...
Quatre stared at the pink elephant before him. "NO! Dammit, I am not drunk!" The elephant trumpeted back at him. "I already told you, I don't usually drink, but just because this is my first time drinking for... I dunno, a long time, I guess, and I drank two entire bottles of Bacardi, does NOT mean I am drunk. Now, if I started seeing pink elephants, then..." The elephant trumpeted again. "You are NOT a pink elephant! You are a weasel, anyone can see that! Unless they were, like, drunk or something." At that moment, Trowa turned a corner and saw Quatre sitting on the small bench. "Quatre! You're here too?" Quatre kept staring in front of him and said "Trowa, can't you see I'm having a conversation with this weasel? It isn't polite to interrupt someone when they're talking." Trowa looked around in confusion for a few moments before speaking. "I don't believe I've ever heard anyone call it that before..." Quatre looked furious. "I'm talking about THAT weasel, not my penis!" Quatre said, pointing at the air in front of him. "I don't see any weasel."Trowa said confusedly. Quatre turned and looked at Trowa. "You must be drunk!!! You should sit down for a while. And next time, don't drink so much." Trowa looked at Quatre, more confused than ever, and then sat down next to him. "But I haven't had any alcohol for quite a while. I don't drink all that much." Quatre nodded his head. "Suuuuuuure. Of course you haven't. I believe you." Quatre turned so he was facing forward again. "I don't believe him either, but I'm going to play along with it anyways....." Quatre then began to wobble a bit, and fell into Trowas arms. "Hmmm... He passed out... Oh! That's why. He's had two bottles of bacardi." Trowa sighed heavily. "Well, I suppose I'd better wait until he wakes up before I do anything."
Two Hours Before It Was Two Hours Later...
"Duo, did you see..." Wufei was silent. Why did he stop talking? "Trowa?" Wufei turned around slowly, and instead of Trowa, saw only an endless stretch of sand. "Oh, shit... I remember something like this happening in a book I read. There was a small group of people in a desert, and suddenly all of them but one disappeared. Then the remaining person was attacked by viscious killer clowns that appeared out of nowhere! And then... That's right... I never did finish that book." Wufei heard a squeak, one similar to the noise made by a dogs rubber chew toy. He turned around and saw that he was surrounded by boulders. Boulders large enough to conceal several people. Maybe even... several... CLOWNS!!! He backed away slowly, and heard the noise behind him. He turned around again and saw that there were now more boulders. He was surrounded by boulders! "Who's there? Show yourselves!" There was a moment of silence, and then... Clowns jumped over the boulders! There was a total of about 20 clowns, in a circle around Wufei, preventing his escape. One clown pulled out a balloon and began to blow it up. The clown shaped the balloon into a dagger. The other clowns pulled out balloons and did the same with them, and some of the others pulled out small bombs that looked like red clown noses. The clowns all began to walk, very slowly, towards Wufei. "T... This can't be happening! It's impossible! No! Don't send in the clowns! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" One of the clowns appeared to have been startled by his cry, and jumped backwards, creating an opening in the circle. Wufei saw his chance and ran through that opening, to freedom! He ran and ran, and was soon a good distance away from the clowns. He ran a bit further, hoping to get as far away from them as he could before he stopped running, and ran right into a smooth, stone and metal wall. "Ow, Damn it! That hurt!" He stared at the wall. "This wasn't here a minute ago... The clowns must have dropped it here when I... I don't know, they put it here when I blinked or something!" He turned around and began running the other way. Before he had gotten four feet from the wall he had run into, he hit another wall. "Huh?" He looked all around. "Oh, shit... I'm in a maze, right? I escaped the evil clowns, and now I have to navigate the maze to get to safety and the other gundam pilots. Well... One or the other. Being lost in a desert with those guys isn't what I'd call safe. I should probably start walking..." Wufei began to attempt to escape from the maze...
"Look over there, the carriage stopped!" Heero said, pointing at the now parked carriage. Without warning, the others vanished, right in front of him. "What?!? Where did everyone go? What happened?" The coffin sitting in the carriage opened up and the oddly-armored man slowly climbed out. "Oh, shit! Evil vampire king knight guy with indestructable armor and a really bad speaking voice at one o' clock. Well, I don't know what time it really is, but on these strange, distant planets, it usually gets dark much earlier than usual, so it very well could be 1." Heero then proceeded to shut up and run in the opposite direction of the carriage. "Hmmm... There's one of those boys I met earlier... I'll pay a visit to him." Heero faintly heard the vampire knight say, and turned around quickly to see him only about 10 feet behind him! "Well, I think it's time once again to call forth the power of Scooby Doo..... Scooby Dooby Doo! Here's a mystery for you!" The vampire knight fell to the ground laughing. "Did you make that up all by yourself?" "Yes, I did." Heero said, looking very proud. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" The knights laughter fell short when a great dane fell from the sky and landed on him. "Rooby Rooby Roo!" A girl wearing really big glasses fell from the sky and landed on the vampire seconds later and said "Jinkies!" Followed by a girl with orange hair who proceeded to say "I broke a nail!" and began to beat the crap out of the vampire knight. "How dare you make me break a nail!" She stopped, however, when she was squashed flat by a boy wearing a green shirt that doesn't go with his brown pants all that well and he'd be far better off if he wore some clothes with a bit more style, who said "Zoinks!"
Many light years away, on a planet full of cannabalistic humanoids...
Fred landed in the middle of a village. "I wonder where the rest of the gang is... I hope I didn't accidentally end up on the wrong planet again... There's some people over there, maybe they saw where they went! HEY! Over here! Have you seen... Hey, what are you doing? Oh, is it time to eat?"
Back to Heero...
"Yes! Attack Velma and Shaggy and Scooby and... Dorky? Dweeby? Daffy? Dimwit? Dumbass? Whatever the hell your name is! Destroy him! MwaHahahaha!" Velma began inspecting the vampire, looking for clues, Scooby slobbered on him and asked him for Scooby Snacks, Shaggy began to gnaw away at his flesh, and... Well, Daffney complained and hit him. "Stop that, you imbecilic mortals! You are merely annoying me, not hurting me! I demand that you stop this foolishness at once! I DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING SCOOBY SNACKS!!!" Scooby stared at the vampire blankly, Daffney began fixing her hair, Velma fed the data on what she had found through her computer, and Shaggy began to search for pizza. "What are you looking at? I'm talking to you, you braindead dog with a speech impediment!" There was suddenly a loud noise, and Scooby jumped into the vampires arms, knocking him to the ground. "Damn you! I can't take this any longer... I will destroy you, boy! That is one thing you can be quite sure of! It may take a while, and we may have to destroy the others first, but we will kill you..." The vampire faded into the air, and in his place appeared a small black hole. The gravitational pull it exerted pulled Scooby and the rest of the gang into it, leaving Heero alone in the desert. The black hole slowly began to diminish in size until it collapsed upon itself, disappearing entirely. "Now what? The sun has set, and I'm all alone out here in the middle of a strange, alien planet covered in a seemingly endless desert. The others are gone... I wonder where they went..." Heero sighed, and a chilly breeze began to blow softly. "Damn it... Now, to top all of that off, It's freezing cold out here... I've got to find some sort of shelter, and wait until morning to try to find the others. I hope they're all right." Especially Duo...
The breeze turned into a howling wind, echoing off of something somewhere nearby... "The way the wind is reverberating... There must be some mountains, or hills, or a forest, or something somewhere close by here..." The cold wind blew, sometimes softly, sometimes strongly, ruffling Heero's hair. It was almost pitch black, and Heero could barely see two feet in front of him. He began to feel very lonely, and started to lose hope of finding anywhere in which to take refuge from the wind. He walked, stumbling blindly through the sands of an eternal desert, hoping he would find somewhere he could stop and rest, the cold wind blowing right into his face for hours, until he finally came upon a stone wall. It was poorly made, and would probably need to be repaired within the next year or so, but if there's a wall, that probably meant there were three more walls and a roof. "Well, I sure hope it's a house, and I hope the owner will be kind enough to let me stay until daybreak." Heero stumbled around for a few more moments before he found a door, confirming that it was a building of some sort. He knocked on the door, and waited for only a few seconds, but what seemed to be an eternity to him, out there in the cold blackness of the night, before a short old woman opened the door. She was about three fourths Heeros height, looked rather skinny, appeared to be about 80 years old, and she wore a dress with an odd pattern and a pink shawl. She held a small cup of a steaming liquid in her hand, a liquid that appeared to be tea, and held a walking stick in the other. "Heero... Heero Yuy. Yes, I've been expecting you for a while. Come in and sit down." The old woman said. .....But... I've never met this woman before. How could she know my name? And what did she mean by 'she was expecting me'? Well... She doesn't appear to be dangerous. I guess I should go inside... Heero followed the woman inside, and she shut the door behind her, blocking out the sound of the wind howling across the desert...
Duo shoved the rock aside and began searching for a caterpillar. "There it is! Right next to the little sign that says... This is not a switch that will open up a door that will lead you out of this maze, just a caterpillar." Duo rolled his eyes. "Wow, these guys are really smart, aren't they?" He said sarcastically as he flipped the little caterpillar switch. A section of the back wall slid left, revealing a pitch black secret passage. "Well, I guess not very many people use this passage..." He commented, and cautiously stepped inside. "... I'm not gonna do this. I'm taking a torch from the prison with me." He walked back into the cell and grabbed the torch from the right wall. Another passage opened up on the left wall. "This is juuuuuust great. Two of them. Well, that guy said this one is the way out... If I take the other one, I am going to be thinking in the back of my mind that I should have listened to him and taken this one. So, I'm gonna go through the back passage." Duo held the torch firmly in his left hand and entered the passage in the back wall. "I hope he was telling the truth..."
Two Minutes Later...
Judecca appeared in the cell Duo had previously occupied. "Um, I made a mistake, you should take the passage that opens up when you take the torch from the right wall instead... You aren't here. Both passages are open. That means that he opened the caterpillar one first, like I told him to, and then grabbed the torch so he could go in, and it opened up that one, and so he went in it instead... Right? I hope so... I don't want him to die yet. Not until we've fought..." Judecca sighed. "Well, I guess I'll search both passages and make sure he isn't in any danger, whichever one he went in." Judecca began walking down the passage on the left wall...
4 And a Half Seconds Past aTime Warp Later...
"Wow... Remind me never to hire whoever decorated this place..." Duo said to himself, more to keep from being scared to death than anything else. "Well, this isn't so bad... So it's dark, and spooky, and there's a huge tarantula right in front of me, but at least.... Tarantula? Shit!" Duo picked up a stick laying nearby on the ground and lit the end with the torch. He tossed the lit stick at the gargantuan arachnid and ran back towards the cell in which he was imprisoned. Unfortunately for him, he forgot about that left turn and slammed into a wall. "Ouch..." He turned around quickly and saw the spider scrambling towards him even though the large creature had been lit on fire by the stick. "OH SHIT! If it catches me I'll be a half-baked spiders dinner!" He ran to the left and the passage began to get narrower. Maybe that thing wont be able to follow me in here... Once he got far enough into the narrow passage to be safe, he turned to see the spider. It was furious that it couldn't get into the assage and tried to reach Duo from it's present position, and when it found that it couldn't, it backed up about two feet. "Cool, it can't reach me. So now I'm safe." He turned back around and continued walking. About 5 seconds later he heard an odd scrabbling sound and turned, thinking he would see the gigantic spider trying to get in the passage again. "Oh crap... I am so dead." Duo turned and ran as fast as he possibly could, followed by thousands of regular sized tarantulas mized in with an equal amount of brown recluse spiders (Which, in case you didn't know, are more deadly than black widows.) "SOMEBODY HEEEEEEEEEELP!!!" Duos scream echoed down the long corridor ahead of him, but, of course, nobody came to his aid. The spiders quickly gained on him, but he was still a good distance from them, and then the spiders began jumping towards him, getting closer by about six feet with every jump. Soon they were only about 20 feet away from Duo when he made it into the cell and flipped the caterpillar switch, closing the door before any spiders could get through. He walked over to the other passage and said "If this one is as bad as that one was, I am going to kill that bastard that was in here earlier..."
Judecca was about halfway through the passage, going back to the cell to look in the other one, when he met up with Duo. "Oh, so you did go down that one. Sorry about that, I always get these two passages mixed up, and I thought this one was the dangerous one. Wow... You don't look all that happy..." Duo stood there snarling at Judecca, rage building inside of him, until he couldn't restrain himself anymore. Duo lashed out with his fist and hit Judecca square in the face. Judecca put his right hand up to his nose and pulled it away so he could examine the pool of blood that hand landed on it in the few seconds he had held it there. "Hmmm... You are very strong. Good with a gun and good with your fists. You should be able to handle a sword with the skill of an expert swordsman. In fact... You want to kill me, don't you?" Duo nodded his head, still shaking with anger and fear. "Very well... I challenge you to a sword fight, right here and right now. If you beat me, you can go through here to your freedom, and if I beat you... You will be relocated to a more secure cell from which you will never escape. Sound fair enough?" Duo was silent for a few moments, and then spoke softly, but with a voice full of anger. "It doesn't sound that fair at all, seeing as how I could be locked in a cell for the rest of my life, but... I am far too pissed off at you to care. I want your life. I want your blood to drip from the edge of my sword. I want you to be laying in a pool of blood for the rats to eat." Duo shook his head, as if trying to clear up his confusion. "Then again, maybe I'm just overreacting to a simple mistake. In any case, I accept your challange." Judeccas wound suddenly disappeared, and the blood that had spilled from it went with it. "Right then. You do have a sword, don't you?" "Uh... No" Duo replied. "Well then, I will have to supply you with one. You can either take the sword 'Mad Mountains" or the sword Ergheiz. It's your choice." Duo glanced at the two swords quickly and then chose the Ergheiz. "Ready.... FIGHT!"
Heero sat in the comfortable looking green chair the old woman had indicated that he should sit in, and then the lady offered him some tea. "No, thank you." The woman stared at him in silence. "But this tea is good for you. And it's hot, so it should be that much better after being out there in the cold." Heero still politely refused her offer. She looked at him sternly and said, forcibly, "Take it!" He took the cup from her hand. "Now, drink your tea." He lifted the cup to his lips, letting the tea flow into his mouth. "Amazing... This tea is delicious... It's incredible..." The old woman sat in the chair opposite him and sipped her tea. "I know your name, so you should know mine. I am called Wicke DeWitch Ufthuwest. But you can call me honey, sweety, sugar, or maybe just Wicke." Heero stared at her in surprise. "I'll just call you Wicke, if you don't mind." "Okay then. Now, let's see... Oh, have you seen a small boy and a small girl? There names are Hansel and Gretel. I invited them over for dinner, but they haven't shown up yet." Heero suddenly put it all together. "You're the wicked witch of the west. But... wasn't a different witch supposed to... Err... Have Hansel and Gretel over for dinner?" Wicke looked at him strangely. "Well, sure, maybe in those silly fairy tales, but not here, deary, oh no, not here. In this part of the world fairy tales and the occasional old movie are all real, and they come together as one. So, technically, any old witch could have them for dinner." Heero stood up and began moving towards the door. "Oh, come now, Heero, I'm not going to hurt you. You are my guest. Around here we have strict rules. One of them is that you cannot harm a guest." Heero processed that information and said "But you invited Hansel and Gretel over, so they will be your guests as well. Yet you are going to eat them." The witch laughed. "Eat them? Oh, no, I'm not going to eat them. I said I was going to have them for dinner. They often come over here. I'm their grandmother. They visit me all the time!" Heero
looked around and saw a table that was indeed covered with enough food for three people. ".... That actually looks like a bit too much for three people..." The witch glanced at the table. "Yes, well I told you I was expecting you. Now let's just sit down and drink our tea while we wait for my grandchildren."
Quatre woke up and sat up on the bench. He yawned and rubbed the sleep from his eyes before asking "Where am I?" He saw Trowa sitting next to him and shook him awake. "Huh? Quatre? Oh, you finally woke up." Quatre stood up and stretched. "Trowa? Do you know where we are? And how did we get here? Why don't I ermember anything?" Trowa laughed. "Quatre, you got drunk and passed out. We are in some sort of maze, from what I can tell. I don't have any idea how to get out of here, either." Quatre looked off into the absolute darkness that went on endlessly on both sides of him. "Huh? What's that?" Quatre questioned, gazing at something very hard to see in the depths of the darkness. "What's what?" Trowa asked him, and Quatre pointed at it. "I don't know what that is... Maybe we should go investigate." So Quatre and Trowa stood up and began walking cautiously towards whatever it was they had seen. They approached their destination and saw that the faint object they had seen was a prison cells bar. "Look, there's a passage in the left wall. Since it's a passage inside a cell, it's probably a secret passage, which means that it could lead us out of here!" Quatre said with obvious enthusiasm. "Or," Trowa said, "It could lead us to our deaths." Quatre frowned at Trowa. "Well there's a good example of someone being optomistic." He said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "Hey, Quatre, did you know your voice is dripping?" Quatre looked down and saw a puddle of his voice on the ground. "Yeah, that makes a lot of sense..." Quatre said. "Well, it makes more sense than an invisible pink weasel." "An invisible pink weasel? Are you sure I was the one drinking, and not you?" Quatre and Trowa began to walk down the passage, and they heard a clash of swords followed by a scream of anger and pain. They ran towards the sound to see what had happened.
Wufei walked calmly down the corridor, hoping to find an exit. He stumbled and almost fell. Wufei looked down to see what had tripped him, and saw that right in front of him was a huge pit. On the left side of the pit was a small ledge leading to a door with a sign hanging over it that said "Exit." "I FOUND IT!!! I CA FINALLY GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!" He screamed in joy, and then began cautiously making his way across the ledge. He made it halfway across the ledge and then, through an opening in the ceiling, the clowns that had been chasing him jumped down onto the ledge. Most of the clowns fell to their doom, but two clowns remained on each side of Wufei. "Not you again! Argh... This is starting to piss me off." Wufei reached into one of his shoes and pulled out a dagger he had hidden there, in case he needed it. He slashed at the first clown blocking the way to the exit and knocked the clown into the pit. He stabbed the remaining clown right through his heart and tossed him into the pit so he could get by. The two clowns behind him jumped over his head to try to stop him from getting to the exit, but slipped and fell to the bottom of the bottomless pit. Wufei walked carefully along the ledge to the exit. He walked through the door and, in a sudden flash of light, was teleported back to the world made up of many different worlds.
"Well... So you ARE good with a sword, Duo... Either that, or that was a lucky hit. You almost took my arm off, so I doubt it was a lucky hit, but rather the slash of a skilled swordsman." Judecca lunged for Duo, missing him by millimeters because Duo jumped out of the way just in time. "Fast, too. Maybe I'd be a bit faster without this wound." Judecca healed the wound on his arm. "Much better. Now I will kill you!!" Judecca held his sword firmly in both hands and began to spin rapidly, slashing at Duo several times. "AAAAAAHHH!!! DAMN YOU!" Duo screamed as the sword bit into the flesh of his leg. Duo grabbed his sword with both hands and leapt for Judecca. He brought the sword down hard, impaling Judecca right below his ribs. Judecca winced in pain and pulled Duos sword out of his stomache. "Very good... But can you handle THIS!!!" Judecca slammed the handle of his sword onto his knee and the sword turned into four swords. Judecca grabbed two swords in each hand, a blade sticking out from both the top and bottom of each fist, and began slicing at Duo. Duo managed to dodge most of the blows, and the most damage they did was shred a bit one of his pants legs, but one of the blows knocked his sword right out of his hands. "Now you are defenseless. Can I safely assume that you admit to losing, or do I have to finish you off?" Judecca asked with his confidence showing in his voice. "Neither one. I haven't lost, and the only one who will be getting finished off is you!" Judecca ran towards Duo, planning to cut him in half, but Duo jumped over Judeccas head and grabbed the Ergheiz. He turned around quickly and cut Judecca diagonally, the blade slicing completely through his flesh. "Hmmm... So you are truly far greater than I had anticipated. I admit... Defeat...." Judecca then simply disappeared, leaving behind only a puddle of blood. At that instant, Quatre and Trowa ran around the corner and almost knocked Duo over. "Hey, watch it! Why are you running? Please tell me you didn't open the other passage!" Trowa was the first one to catch his breath. "We only saw one passage, and so we came in here. We heard someone scream, and so we started running this way to see what had happened." Duo laughed. "Well, I just took out a guy who is, apparently, one of the guys behind this whole thing. The sario rip bringing us here, the 'Bad guys' trying to kill us... everything." Quatre noticed the cut on Duos leg. "Duo! Your leg!" Duo looked at the cut. "Wow... He got me pretty good. It's not as bad as it looks though." Quatre looked at Duo in concern. "Duo, there are two huge puddles of blood. You're standing in one, and it's getting larger. You're losing a lot of blood." Duo was about to say once again that it was no big deal, be he fell forward, unconcious. Quatre and Trowa ran to help him and patched up the wound. They then carried him off into the direction of the mazes exit.
Quatre and Trowa each had one of Duos arms around their shoulders, making it a bit easier for them to carry him, and were moving towards the exit. After a while the passage began to get wider. A few minutes after that, the passage began to get lighter and lighter, and soon the exit was only a few feet in front of them. "Trowa! We finally made it!" "Well, it's about time. Duo's heavy." Duo had woken up a few moments before the exit had been in sight, and said "I am not!" Quatre smiled happily. Duo was fine, they were all okay, the exit to the horrible maze was in sight, and they were almost out of there. "Well, let's go!" Trowa said. They advanced towards the wide open door, when suddenly a man appeared out of nowhere, blocking their path. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" Duo asked. "I don't like the look of you... You look like that other guy, Judecca." The man in front of them somehow managed to stay in the shadows so that they couldn't see him and said "I go by my code name, nematocyst. The actual definition of that isn't exactly the best that it could be, but it basically means stinger. I just wanted to inform you that Judecca has requested that, because you defeated him, I send you back to the place you were brought here from." Duo looked confused. "But... I killed Judecca." "HAHAHAHAHA!!! No, you didn't even come close to killing him. Though, if he were an average human, you would have. Anyways, I'm going to send the remaining four of you back to the place you came from." Duos eyes went wide, and he asked "Four? Is Heero okay?!?" But before he could get an answer, they were back on the composite planet. "Wufei? Four of us... Does that mean... Heero's..." Quatre cut him off with "Heero can't be dead. Come one, you know better than that. Heero's invincible!" Duo sat down at the base of a tree trunk and said "I hope you're right." Then Heero walked through a dense part of the forest into the small clearing the other four gundam pilots were in, rubbing his head. "Ow... I was eating with this old lady and her grandkids, and then there was a flash of light, and then I fell on my head, and I was here. So what's your story?" The five gundam pilots discussed what had happened to them and talked about the others, wondering where they were.
Speaking of which, where are the others? Are they all on distant planets as well? Have they been through as much as the gundam pilots? Are they all alive? What has happened to the villains? What roles do Judecca and Nematocyst play in this whole thing? Is there a dimension-wide conspiracy going on? Tune in next time for... When Cartoons Collide: Chapter 7!!! (YAAAAAAAAY!!! I FINALLY FINISHED CHAPTER 6!!! I AM SOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!! Uh... Well, p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p, uh, That's all, folks!)
If you have read the previous chapters and have not had a bad case of amnesia since then, you will remember that our heroes (And the dashingly good looking, incredibly intelligent, super-gay author) Were seperated by a mysterious force. Or some Sario Rips... It's been a while since I've read my previous chapters. If I read them, I'd see all the mistakes, and I'd try to correct them, and improve the story, and I just don't want to do that. Anyways, the gundam pilots (And me) Were stranded on a remote planet in the far reaches of space, an odd planet, a planet much like Earth. Will our heroes survive? Well, it's my story, so if you're reading this they must have gotten out of it alive. Now on to the story itself...
The pilots (and the author) awoke to find themselves on an alien planet, in the middle of a dense jungle... "Wow... This is freaky. I didn't write anything about this happening... The sario rips were supposed to have stopped appearing everywhere, yet we are here as the result of one." The gundam pilots looked at the author, meaning it to be only a quick glance, but their gaze remained fixed on the author. "What's happening to him? He doesn't look all that great... He's getting pale." Duo remarked, his gaze still not shifting. "Pale? He's transparent!" Trowa said as he watched the author dissolve and disappear. "My illusion seems to have worked very well. Incredibly believable, if I may say so myself, but it worked far better than I had anticipated. I can't believe these imbecilic fools believed their entire life was merely a bunch of words written on a piece of paper. Well, I have accomplished what I had intended on accomplishing, and so now I'll leave having accomplished my accomplishment which I meant to accomplish by accomplishing what I wanted to accomplish. Oh, yes. Now I'm supposed to say something incredibly cliche, aren't I?" A voice seeming to come from nowhere at all said. Then a figure materialized in front of the pilots, who all stared in awe as the figure took a material shape. It went from a shapeless shadow to a semi-transparent man covered in oddly designed armor that covered his body and was the darkest shade of black imaginable. The man wore a dark red cape with a strange black mark on the back, one that seemed to be some sort of insignia. The insignia was very large, taking up a considerable amount of the space on his cape. The figure then proceeded to say "So here's my cliche;" paused, and then continued with "I'll be back." The armor-encased being then shattered into hundreds of small daggers, which flew at the pilots, stopped an inch away from them, and dematerialized.
Nice Little Twist, eh? Er... Well, a slightly corny beginning, I know, but I had to start it that way. I don't know why, I just did. Back to the story... "That... Was among some of the weirder things I've encountered." Quatre said, sitting down with a puzzled look on his face. "I feel pretty foolish, too. I can't believe I thought I was a character in a story. But... I felt different somehow when that illusion was with us. Do you think that guy used some sort of mind control to twist our minds, making it a lot easier for us to believe something like that?" Heero, who had a thoughtful look on his face, began to speak slowly, as if he were carefully considering every possibility while speaking. "I suppose it's possible... He could have used some sort of gas to cloud our minds... Some variant of nerve gas or something similar, if less potent, might cause our minds to cloud, enabling us to believe something so odd as that." The others stood or sat, quietly thinking, wondering what their new enemy had done. "If that's the case, and he somehow messed with our minds, couldn't he do it again, only more powerful, and make us so confused that we wouldn't be able to dodge an attack?" Duo asked, talking to himself more than anyone else. "I don't know... What's really bothering me is what he did right after he left. All those daggers flew right at us. They would have killed us all if they hadn't disappeared like that. Is he just toying with us, trying to scare us? Is he actually a friend, rather than a foe, and is just testing us? Is he actually trying to kill us, but unable to do so? I want to know what his agenda is, and what's going on here." Wufei said, adding in his two cents worth. "Well, whether he's an enemy or not, whether he's able to kill us or not, whether he's got some weird mind control gas or not, we have to get moving soon. It's starting to get dark, and we're on an unfamiliar planet with a potential enemy out there somewhere, maybe wanting to kill us, and there's no shelter anywhere nearby." Heero noted, and then pointed past Duo's shoulder. The other pilots turned and looked, and saw a tiny dot in the distance. The dot was moving, and getting larger, which meant that something was coming their way.
Heero jumped into the cockpit of his gundam and focused on the dot. He enlarged the image until he saw what it was, and climbed back out. "It's some sort of old, wooden carriage. There's no motor, I don't see any horses, and I don't see anyone pushing or pulling it. It's as if it's alive and moving of it's own accord." "Do you think it might have rolled down a hill or something?" Duo asked. "No... It's moving at the exact same speed. It isn't slowing down at all, and besides, there are no hills or mountains anywhere nearby. Just the forest behind us and to the left, and open plains to the right and straight ahead." Duo and the other pilots were silent for a short period of time, and then Trowa broke the silence. "That's absolutely impossible." "It's no less possible than a man creating a lifelike illusion, materializing out of nowhere, turning into a bunch of daggers and nearly killing us." Heero pointed out. "Maybe in this world, everything is run by some kind of magic." Heero abruptly fell silent. "What is it, Heero?" Duo questioned. "...........That carriage. There's a coffin inside it. And unless I'm wrong..." Heero got back into the gundam and focused in on the middle of the coffins lid. "Holy shit..." He jumped back out and ran towards the other pilots. "Remember that weird symbol on the back of our mysterious friends cape? That symbol is on the lid of the coffin, too. Somehow that man in the armor and that coffin are related. I wish I had something that would give me a clue as to what's going on here..." Then the air directly in front of the pilots began to shimmer and some small devices fell into their hands. In the hands of each pilot was a small, cordless computer mouse. And on the mouse was a symbol resembling the one on the coffin and the armored figures cape, only it was slightly different. "What are these?" Wufei asked as he examined the device. "Hmmm... There's a little red sticker on the bottom. It just says 'point and click.' I wonder what it means?" Duo looked at the sticker on the bottom of his and confirmed what the sticker said. "Well, maybe we should take it literally." Duo lifted the mouse into the air, aimed it at the carriage, and pressed the button on the left.
A semi-transparent window appeared in front of the mouse, showing a picture of the carriage and information about it. "It worked. And according to this thing, that carriage is run by magic. It roams around here during the day, and at night it stops and the owner... comes... out..." Trowa asked Duo why he had stopped talking. "This thing says that the owner sleeps in that coffin during the day, and wakes up at night, looking for... Um... Food." "What do you mean by that, Duo?" "Well, Quatre, From what I can gather from this thing, the owner of that carriage is the guy we saw earlier. And from the information this thing is giving me... He's some sort of a vampire knight. And it doesn't mention his name in here anywhere..." The pilots stared at him. Wufei was the first to speak up. "Did you say he's a vampire?" "Yeah, he's a vampire knight. But I think he's more than just a knight. I think he's some kind of royalty or something, because this says that the symbol on his cape and coffin is a mark used on this planet only by very rich people and kings and queens and all that. And by the looks of the cape, I'd say he's a vampire knight king. A very wealthy vampire with lots of followers and power who is trained to use all sorts of weapons... And you know that armor he was wearing? The reason it looked so odd is that it's some sort of magical armor. It's enchanted so that it's wearer is nearly invincible. Nearly... So he can be defeated. But if he turns out to be an enemy, we're going to have one hell of a time killing him. And there's not much else on this page... Just a bit of bad news, and a bit of good news." Heero managed to not look completely horrified and asked "What's the bad news and the good news? Since you said bad news first, I'm assuming the good news has to do with the bad." Duo nodded his head. "Yeah, the bad news is that if he bites your neck, you'll be turned into a vampire. The good news is that garlic, instead of making vampires powerless like it's supposed to, will turn you back into a human. It says there's another cure, too, and one that's a lot simpler than getting the vampire near garlic. Apparently garlic is very hard to find around here. Anyways, the other cure is...... Oh, crap. Something happened. The window shut down before I could read this incredibly easy cure. If one of us gets bitten by a vampire, we're going to have to use garlic, if we can find any....."
On a different part of the planet... "My plan appears to be going perfectly... If it continues to go this well for just a while longer, it will probably be too late for them to do anything about it. My extensive research on this has not revealed any possible way for them to escape the effects of my plan IF it goes perfectly for just a little while longer... Just a small amount of time, about 2 days standard universal time, and I will finally have enough power to destroy every one of those "good guys." All of them, in every galaxy of every universe of every dimension. Evil will finally reign over the entirity of existance from now to the day it all ends. It will be wonderful, everything ruled by evil, people living in constant fear, entire solar systems being destroyed, galaxies corrupted... It will be absolutely beautiful... Don't you think so?" He said, conveniently staying within the shadows so that noone present would be able to see him clearly. "Yes, I approve of that, but what is your plan? What does it involve? Will we be able to continue on with it for two more standard days? I want to know how you are planning on accomplishing your goal." The leader of the small group of eleven said, and all of the others but one nodded their heads in agreement. The man who hadn't nodded his head left his seat and stood by the first man who had spoken. "How he plans on accomplishing it is none of your business. After all, none of you have ever revealed any of your plans, so why should he have to? It doesn't matter how he's going to get it done, as long as he gets it done." The first man who had spoken, who never revealed his real name to anyone, but instead insisted on being called by his code name, Nematocyst, took the other man, who went by the name of Judecca A. Gunner, in his arms and kissed him.
This could be the beginning of a new era... All of existance, every dimension, universe, galaxy, solar system, planet and star ruled by Judecca and I... An eternity of evil with the one I love... It will be beautiful beyond any description in any language... I only have to wait two more days, and it will finally happen...
Well, I just couldn't leave out the 'bad guys'. That was the part of the story where the readers find out that theres something more to all of this... Something sinister... Something... Eeeeeeeeevil. And so the sinister, evil plot that turns out to be far worse than anything else our heroes have discovered so far is revealed. Just don't tell the reader, okay?
And now back to our heroes and the mysterious carriagey thingy... "Look over there, the carriage stopped!" Heero said as he pointed in the direction of the carriage. Everyone diverted their attention to the carriage, but found that it was still moving. "It hasn't stopped, it's still coming this way." Trowa stated. Everyone looked back at Heero, wanting to know why he had told them that the carriage had stopped, but found that he was gone. "Duo, did you see where Heero... Duo's gone? Hey, Quatre... Huh? Quatre and Wufei are gone, too!" Trowa turned 180 degrees, and found himself staring at a composite wall made up of stone and some sort of metal. He turned another 180 degrees, so that he should be facing the desert again, but instead found himself face to wall with another metal and stone wall. He looked around and figured out that he was in a long corridor with absolutely no distinguishing marks. The corridor to his right went on for a few yards and turned right. To his left, the corridor went on for what seemed to be an eternity. It could have ended just 10 feet from him, or 10 miles, he couldn't tell because the only light came from a candle in the corner on his right, and two candles directly in front of him.
"Duo, did you see..." Duo turned to face Trowa, wanting to know why he stopped in the middle of a sentence, but found himself staring at a bunch of black bars with only a few inches between each set. Beyond the bars was a wall thsat appeared to be made of stone and some odd sort of metal. Duo turned around again and saw a small, empty room with walls just like the one beyond the bars instead of a carriage floating across the sand. "WHERE THE HELL AM I?!?" Duo screamed, and listened closely even though he knew he wouldn't get a reply. But he got a surprise. The wall in front of him shifted and melted, then was restored to it's former shape as a man stepped through it. "You are in my prison. The prison doubles as a maze, so even if you somehow escape, you wont be able to get back to your friends." Duo was getting pissed off, and therefore pulled out a gun he had concealed somewhere in his pants, which probably explained why it looked like he had an erection, and fired it at the man standing before him twice. One bullet missed by a wide margin, but the other more or less hit its intended target. The bullet hit the man on his arm at an odd angle, but didn't pierce the skin. It somehow managed to snap a bone in his arm without doing any other damage. "!!? I'm going to pay you back for that. That actually stung a bit... You will pay for that with your life! Visa is also accepted. As soon as this plan has gone too far to be stopped, anyways... My name's Judecca. If you should manage to escape from here and get to the headquarters, look for me. I want to fight you in a duel. That may have been a lucky shot, but it also might have been simply that you are extremely skilled as a fighter. So now that I've seen your skill and accuracy with a gun, I want to see how you handle a sword. DAMN!!! I've talked far too much... I always do that. Whenever someone comes here and gets trapped in the maze, I always have to come in and talk. I talk, and talk, and talk, and eventually I end up telling them about the secret switch disguised as a caterpillar that happens to be conveniently located in the corner by the big rock that opens up a doorway to a secret passage that leads right out of here, hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, etc." He then took in a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "Okay, well, now I've got to be going. Bye!" Judecca then stepped back through the wall.
..... I think I might have overdone that a bit. Oh well. Back to this... um... interesting little oddity...
"Duo, did you see..." Trowa was suddenly silent. "Is something wrong?" Quatre said, turning towards Trowa. "Oh... Everyone's all of a sudden disappeared, leaving me alone and vulnerable to attack by the viscious mutated vampire inhabitants of this planet. Hmmm... I wonder where they went? Oh well, I'll just have to begin walking, with little hope of ever finding the others again, probably walking right into some kind of devilishly intricate trap set by the mastermind of some great evil plot to destroy all who stand for love and justice... No, I think Sailor Moon's already dead... Well, some great evil plot to destroy all who stand for... Uh, good, I guess. Is it just me, or do I seem to know waaaaaay more of the plot than I should?" Quatre began to walk, heading straight towards the maze from which there is very little escape that was put there by the evil 'Judecca,' hoping to exterminate all those standing for... Uh... good. He kept talking to himself, hoping that if anyone was going to try to kill him, they'd hear him talking to himself and think he was insane and would therefore not attack. "I wonder if anyone would be dumb enough to make this fanfic into a movie? It'd be kinda hard, finding anyone... Well, anyone other than the author... Crazy enough to even consider playing the role of one of the characters. Probably couldn't make it into a cartoon series or anything either, seeing as how nobody would want to be the voice of any of the characters. Plus, it contains... Well... A teeny, tiny, itty bitty bit of homosexual content, which those bastards known as "The People Who Make Movies And Cartoon Series'" wouldn't allow unless it was a rated R or X movie... I don't think it would qualify as X... At least not until I find Trowa... so it'd have to be R. Oh, look. I am suddenly finding myself staring at a stone wall, where just moments before was nothing but sand. I'm taking this way to calmly. Maybe I should stop taking this xanex... Which, for those of you who don't know this already, is a tranquilizer/anti-depressant... Or maybe just a tranquilizer... or anti-depressant... I don't know. I just tame it 'cause it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and happy inside." Quatre tossed the bottle of xanex to the ground and sat on a small stone bench jutting out of the cold, stone wall behind him. "Hey, look, Bacardi! Which, for those of you who don't know, is an alcoholic beverage. If you didn't know that you probably dont drink it, if you don't drink it... You suck. Why am I talking to this wall like it's a group of people?" Quatre grabbed the bottle of bacardi chilling in a hole filled with ice dug into the side of the wall and began drinking. "I'm not supposed to drink any alcohol after taking that stuff, am I? Oh well..."
Two Hours Later...
Quatre stared at the pink elephant before him. "NO! Dammit, I am not drunk!" The elephant trumpeted back at him. "I already told you, I don't usually drink, but just because this is my first time drinking for... I dunno, a long time, I guess, and I drank two entire bottles of Bacardi, does NOT mean I am drunk. Now, if I started seeing pink elephants, then..." The elephant trumpeted again. "You are NOT a pink elephant! You are a weasel, anyone can see that! Unless they were, like, drunk or something." At that moment, Trowa turned a corner and saw Quatre sitting on the small bench. "Quatre! You're here too?" Quatre kept staring in front of him and said "Trowa, can't you see I'm having a conversation with this weasel? It isn't polite to interrupt someone when they're talking." Trowa looked around in confusion for a few moments before speaking. "I don't believe I've ever heard anyone call it that before..." Quatre looked furious. "I'm talking about THAT weasel, not my penis!" Quatre said, pointing at the air in front of him. "I don't see any weasel."Trowa said confusedly. Quatre turned and looked at Trowa. "You must be drunk!!! You should sit down for a while. And next time, don't drink so much." Trowa looked at Quatre, more confused than ever, and then sat down next to him. "But I haven't had any alcohol for quite a while. I don't drink all that much." Quatre nodded his head. "Suuuuuuure. Of course you haven't. I believe you." Quatre turned so he was facing forward again. "I don't believe him either, but I'm going to play along with it anyways....." Quatre then began to wobble a bit, and fell into Trowas arms. "Hmmm... He passed out... Oh! That's why. He's had two bottles of bacardi." Trowa sighed heavily. "Well, I suppose I'd better wait until he wakes up before I do anything."
Two Hours Before It Was Two Hours Later...
"Duo, did you see..." Wufei was silent. Why did he stop talking? "Trowa?" Wufei turned around slowly, and instead of Trowa, saw only an endless stretch of sand. "Oh, shit... I remember something like this happening in a book I read. There was a small group of people in a desert, and suddenly all of them but one disappeared. Then the remaining person was attacked by viscious killer clowns that appeared out of nowhere! And then... That's right... I never did finish that book." Wufei heard a squeak, one similar to the noise made by a dogs rubber chew toy. He turned around and saw that he was surrounded by boulders. Boulders large enough to conceal several people. Maybe even... several... CLOWNS!!! He backed away slowly, and heard the noise behind him. He turned around again and saw that there were now more boulders. He was surrounded by boulders! "Who's there? Show yourselves!" There was a moment of silence, and then... Clowns jumped over the boulders! There was a total of about 20 clowns, in a circle around Wufei, preventing his escape. One clown pulled out a balloon and began to blow it up. The clown shaped the balloon into a dagger. The other clowns pulled out balloons and did the same with them, and some of the others pulled out small bombs that looked like red clown noses. The clowns all began to walk, very slowly, towards Wufei. "T... This can't be happening! It's impossible! No! Don't send in the clowns! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" One of the clowns appeared to have been startled by his cry, and jumped backwards, creating an opening in the circle. Wufei saw his chance and ran through that opening, to freedom! He ran and ran, and was soon a good distance away from the clowns. He ran a bit further, hoping to get as far away from them as he could before he stopped running, and ran right into a smooth, stone and metal wall. "Ow, Damn it! That hurt!" He stared at the wall. "This wasn't here a minute ago... The clowns must have dropped it here when I... I don't know, they put it here when I blinked or something!" He turned around and began running the other way. Before he had gotten four feet from the wall he had run into, he hit another wall. "Huh?" He looked all around. "Oh, shit... I'm in a maze, right? I escaped the evil clowns, and now I have to navigate the maze to get to safety and the other gundam pilots. Well... One or the other. Being lost in a desert with those guys isn't what I'd call safe. I should probably start walking..." Wufei began to attempt to escape from the maze...
"Look over there, the carriage stopped!" Heero said, pointing at the now parked carriage. Without warning, the others vanished, right in front of him. "What?!? Where did everyone go? What happened?" The coffin sitting in the carriage opened up and the oddly-armored man slowly climbed out. "Oh, shit! Evil vampire king knight guy with indestructable armor and a really bad speaking voice at one o' clock. Well, I don't know what time it really is, but on these strange, distant planets, it usually gets dark much earlier than usual, so it very well could be 1." Heero then proceeded to shut up and run in the opposite direction of the carriage. "Hmmm... There's one of those boys I met earlier... I'll pay a visit to him." Heero faintly heard the vampire knight say, and turned around quickly to see him only about 10 feet behind him! "Well, I think it's time once again to call forth the power of Scooby Doo..... Scooby Dooby Doo! Here's a mystery for you!" The vampire knight fell to the ground laughing. "Did you make that up all by yourself?" "Yes, I did." Heero said, looking very proud. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" The knights laughter fell short when a great dane fell from the sky and landed on him. "Rooby Rooby Roo!" A girl wearing really big glasses fell from the sky and landed on the vampire seconds later and said "Jinkies!" Followed by a girl with orange hair who proceeded to say "I broke a nail!" and began to beat the crap out of the vampire knight. "How dare you make me break a nail!" She stopped, however, when she was squashed flat by a boy wearing a green shirt that doesn't go with his brown pants all that well and he'd be far better off if he wore some clothes with a bit more style, who said "Zoinks!"
Many light years away, on a planet full of cannabalistic humanoids...
Fred landed in the middle of a village. "I wonder where the rest of the gang is... I hope I didn't accidentally end up on the wrong planet again... There's some people over there, maybe they saw where they went! HEY! Over here! Have you seen... Hey, what are you doing? Oh, is it time to eat?"
Back to Heero...
"Yes! Attack Velma and Shaggy and Scooby and... Dorky? Dweeby? Daffy? Dimwit? Dumbass? Whatever the hell your name is! Destroy him! MwaHahahaha!" Velma began inspecting the vampire, looking for clues, Scooby slobbered on him and asked him for Scooby Snacks, Shaggy began to gnaw away at his flesh, and... Well, Daffney complained and hit him. "Stop that, you imbecilic mortals! You are merely annoying me, not hurting me! I demand that you stop this foolishness at once! I DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING SCOOBY SNACKS!!!" Scooby stared at the vampire blankly, Daffney began fixing her hair, Velma fed the data on what she had found through her computer, and Shaggy began to search for pizza. "What are you looking at? I'm talking to you, you braindead dog with a speech impediment!" There was suddenly a loud noise, and Scooby jumped into the vampires arms, knocking him to the ground. "Damn you! I can't take this any longer... I will destroy you, boy! That is one thing you can be quite sure of! It may take a while, and we may have to destroy the others first, but we will kill you..." The vampire faded into the air, and in his place appeared a small black hole. The gravitational pull it exerted pulled Scooby and the rest of the gang into it, leaving Heero alone in the desert. The black hole slowly began to diminish in size until it collapsed upon itself, disappearing entirely. "Now what? The sun has set, and I'm all alone out here in the middle of a strange, alien planet covered in a seemingly endless desert. The others are gone... I wonder where they went..." Heero sighed, and a chilly breeze began to blow softly. "Damn it... Now, to top all of that off, It's freezing cold out here... I've got to find some sort of shelter, and wait until morning to try to find the others. I hope they're all right." Especially Duo...
The breeze turned into a howling wind, echoing off of something somewhere nearby... "The way the wind is reverberating... There must be some mountains, or hills, or a forest, or something somewhere close by here..." The cold wind blew, sometimes softly, sometimes strongly, ruffling Heero's hair. It was almost pitch black, and Heero could barely see two feet in front of him. He began to feel very lonely, and started to lose hope of finding anywhere in which to take refuge from the wind. He walked, stumbling blindly through the sands of an eternal desert, hoping he would find somewhere he could stop and rest, the cold wind blowing right into his face for hours, until he finally came upon a stone wall. It was poorly made, and would probably need to be repaired within the next year or so, but if there's a wall, that probably meant there were three more walls and a roof. "Well, I sure hope it's a house, and I hope the owner will be kind enough to let me stay until daybreak." Heero stumbled around for a few more moments before he found a door, confirming that it was a building of some sort. He knocked on the door, and waited for only a few seconds, but what seemed to be an eternity to him, out there in the cold blackness of the night, before a short old woman opened the door. She was about three fourths Heeros height, looked rather skinny, appeared to be about 80 years old, and she wore a dress with an odd pattern and a pink shawl. She held a small cup of a steaming liquid in her hand, a liquid that appeared to be tea, and held a walking stick in the other. "Heero... Heero Yuy. Yes, I've been expecting you for a while. Come in and sit down." The old woman said. .....But... I've never met this woman before. How could she know my name? And what did she mean by 'she was expecting me'? Well... She doesn't appear to be dangerous. I guess I should go inside... Heero followed the woman inside, and she shut the door behind her, blocking out the sound of the wind howling across the desert...
Duo shoved the rock aside and began searching for a caterpillar. "There it is! Right next to the little sign that says... This is not a switch that will open up a door that will lead you out of this maze, just a caterpillar." Duo rolled his eyes. "Wow, these guys are really smart, aren't they?" He said sarcastically as he flipped the little caterpillar switch. A section of the back wall slid left, revealing a pitch black secret passage. "Well, I guess not very many people use this passage..." He commented, and cautiously stepped inside. "... I'm not gonna do this. I'm taking a torch from the prison with me." He walked back into the cell and grabbed the torch from the right wall. Another passage opened up on the left wall. "This is juuuuuust great. Two of them. Well, that guy said this one is the way out... If I take the other one, I am going to be thinking in the back of my mind that I should have listened to him and taken this one. So, I'm gonna go through the back passage." Duo held the torch firmly in his left hand and entered the passage in the back wall. "I hope he was telling the truth..."
Two Minutes Later...
Judecca appeared in the cell Duo had previously occupied. "Um, I made a mistake, you should take the passage that opens up when you take the torch from the right wall instead... You aren't here. Both passages are open. That means that he opened the caterpillar one first, like I told him to, and then grabbed the torch so he could go in, and it opened up that one, and so he went in it instead... Right? I hope so... I don't want him to die yet. Not until we've fought..." Judecca sighed. "Well, I guess I'll search both passages and make sure he isn't in any danger, whichever one he went in." Judecca began walking down the passage on the left wall...
4 And a Half Seconds Past aTime Warp Later...
"Wow... Remind me never to hire whoever decorated this place..." Duo said to himself, more to keep from being scared to death than anything else. "Well, this isn't so bad... So it's dark, and spooky, and there's a huge tarantula right in front of me, but at least.... Tarantula? Shit!" Duo picked up a stick laying nearby on the ground and lit the end with the torch. He tossed the lit stick at the gargantuan arachnid and ran back towards the cell in which he was imprisoned. Unfortunately for him, he forgot about that left turn and slammed into a wall. "Ouch..." He turned around quickly and saw the spider scrambling towards him even though the large creature had been lit on fire by the stick. "OH SHIT! If it catches me I'll be a half-baked spiders dinner!" He ran to the left and the passage began to get narrower. Maybe that thing wont be able to follow me in here... Once he got far enough into the narrow passage to be safe, he turned to see the spider. It was furious that it couldn't get into the assage and tried to reach Duo from it's present position, and when it found that it couldn't, it backed up about two feet. "Cool, it can't reach me. So now I'm safe." He turned back around and continued walking. About 5 seconds later he heard an odd scrabbling sound and turned, thinking he would see the gigantic spider trying to get in the passage again. "Oh crap... I am so dead." Duo turned and ran as fast as he possibly could, followed by thousands of regular sized tarantulas mized in with an equal amount of brown recluse spiders (Which, in case you didn't know, are more deadly than black widows.) "SOMEBODY HEEEEEEEEEELP!!!" Duos scream echoed down the long corridor ahead of him, but, of course, nobody came to his aid. The spiders quickly gained on him, but he was still a good distance from them, and then the spiders began jumping towards him, getting closer by about six feet with every jump. Soon they were only about 20 feet away from Duo when he made it into the cell and flipped the caterpillar switch, closing the door before any spiders could get through. He walked over to the other passage and said "If this one is as bad as that one was, I am going to kill that bastard that was in here earlier..."
Judecca was about halfway through the passage, going back to the cell to look in the other one, when he met up with Duo. "Oh, so you did go down that one. Sorry about that, I always get these two passages mixed up, and I thought this one was the dangerous one. Wow... You don't look all that happy..." Duo stood there snarling at Judecca, rage building inside of him, until he couldn't restrain himself anymore. Duo lashed out with his fist and hit Judecca square in the face. Judecca put his right hand up to his nose and pulled it away so he could examine the pool of blood that hand landed on it in the few seconds he had held it there. "Hmmm... You are very strong. Good with a gun and good with your fists. You should be able to handle a sword with the skill of an expert swordsman. In fact... You want to kill me, don't you?" Duo nodded his head, still shaking with anger and fear. "Very well... I challenge you to a sword fight, right here and right now. If you beat me, you can go through here to your freedom, and if I beat you... You will be relocated to a more secure cell from which you will never escape. Sound fair enough?" Duo was silent for a few moments, and then spoke softly, but with a voice full of anger. "It doesn't sound that fair at all, seeing as how I could be locked in a cell for the rest of my life, but... I am far too pissed off at you to care. I want your life. I want your blood to drip from the edge of my sword. I want you to be laying in a pool of blood for the rats to eat." Duo shook his head, as if trying to clear up his confusion. "Then again, maybe I'm just overreacting to a simple mistake. In any case, I accept your challange." Judeccas wound suddenly disappeared, and the blood that had spilled from it went with it. "Right then. You do have a sword, don't you?" "Uh... No" Duo replied. "Well then, I will have to supply you with one. You can either take the sword 'Mad Mountains" or the sword Ergheiz. It's your choice." Duo glanced at the two swords quickly and then chose the Ergheiz. "Ready.... FIGHT!"
Heero sat in the comfortable looking green chair the old woman had indicated that he should sit in, and then the lady offered him some tea. "No, thank you." The woman stared at him in silence. "But this tea is good for you. And it's hot, so it should be that much better after being out there in the cold." Heero still politely refused her offer. She looked at him sternly and said, forcibly, "Take it!" He took the cup from her hand. "Now, drink your tea." He lifted the cup to his lips, letting the tea flow into his mouth. "Amazing... This tea is delicious... It's incredible..." The old woman sat in the chair opposite him and sipped her tea. "I know your name, so you should know mine. I am called Wicke DeWitch Ufthuwest. But you can call me honey, sweety, sugar, or maybe just Wicke." Heero stared at her in surprise. "I'll just call you Wicke, if you don't mind." "Okay then. Now, let's see... Oh, have you seen a small boy and a small girl? There names are Hansel and Gretel. I invited them over for dinner, but they haven't shown up yet." Heero suddenly put it all together. "You're the wicked witch of the west. But... wasn't a different witch supposed to... Err... Have Hansel and Gretel over for dinner?" Wicke looked at him strangely. "Well, sure, maybe in those silly fairy tales, but not here, deary, oh no, not here. In this part of the world fairy tales and the occasional old movie are all real, and they come together as one. So, technically, any old witch could have them for dinner." Heero stood up and began moving towards the door. "Oh, come now, Heero, I'm not going to hurt you. You are my guest. Around here we have strict rules. One of them is that you cannot harm a guest." Heero processed that information and said "But you invited Hansel and Gretel over, so they will be your guests as well. Yet you are going to eat them." The witch laughed. "Eat them? Oh, no, I'm not going to eat them. I said I was going to have them for dinner. They often come over here. I'm their grandmother. They visit me all the time!" Heero
looked around and saw a table that was indeed covered with enough food for three people. ".... That actually looks like a bit too much for three people..." The witch glanced at the table. "Yes, well I told you I was expecting you. Now let's just sit down and drink our tea while we wait for my grandchildren."
Quatre woke up and sat up on the bench. He yawned and rubbed the sleep from his eyes before asking "Where am I?" He saw Trowa sitting next to him and shook him awake. "Huh? Quatre? Oh, you finally woke up." Quatre stood up and stretched. "Trowa? Do you know where we are? And how did we get here? Why don't I ermember anything?" Trowa laughed. "Quatre, you got drunk and passed out. We are in some sort of maze, from what I can tell. I don't have any idea how to get out of here, either." Quatre looked off into the absolute darkness that went on endlessly on both sides of him. "Huh? What's that?" Quatre questioned, gazing at something very hard to see in the depths of the darkness. "What's what?" Trowa asked him, and Quatre pointed at it. "I don't know what that is... Maybe we should go investigate." So Quatre and Trowa stood up and began walking cautiously towards whatever it was they had seen. They approached their destination and saw that the faint object they had seen was a prison cells bar. "Look, there's a passage in the left wall. Since it's a passage inside a cell, it's probably a secret passage, which means that it could lead us out of here!" Quatre said with obvious enthusiasm. "Or," Trowa said, "It could lead us to our deaths." Quatre frowned at Trowa. "Well there's a good example of someone being optomistic." He said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "Hey, Quatre, did you know your voice is dripping?" Quatre looked down and saw a puddle of his voice on the ground. "Yeah, that makes a lot of sense..." Quatre said. "Well, it makes more sense than an invisible pink weasel." "An invisible pink weasel? Are you sure I was the one drinking, and not you?" Quatre and Trowa began to walk down the passage, and they heard a clash of swords followed by a scream of anger and pain. They ran towards the sound to see what had happened.
Wufei walked calmly down the corridor, hoping to find an exit. He stumbled and almost fell. Wufei looked down to see what had tripped him, and saw that right in front of him was a huge pit. On the left side of the pit was a small ledge leading to a door with a sign hanging over it that said "Exit." "I FOUND IT!!! I CA FINALLY GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!" He screamed in joy, and then began cautiously making his way across the ledge. He made it halfway across the ledge and then, through an opening in the ceiling, the clowns that had been chasing him jumped down onto the ledge. Most of the clowns fell to their doom, but two clowns remained on each side of Wufei. "Not you again! Argh... This is starting to piss me off." Wufei reached into one of his shoes and pulled out a dagger he had hidden there, in case he needed it. He slashed at the first clown blocking the way to the exit and knocked the clown into the pit. He stabbed the remaining clown right through his heart and tossed him into the pit so he could get by. The two clowns behind him jumped over his head to try to stop him from getting to the exit, but slipped and fell to the bottom of the bottomless pit. Wufei walked carefully along the ledge to the exit. He walked through the door and, in a sudden flash of light, was teleported back to the world made up of many different worlds.
"Well... So you ARE good with a sword, Duo... Either that, or that was a lucky hit. You almost took my arm off, so I doubt it was a lucky hit, but rather the slash of a skilled swordsman." Judecca lunged for Duo, missing him by millimeters because Duo jumped out of the way just in time. "Fast, too. Maybe I'd be a bit faster without this wound." Judecca healed the wound on his arm. "Much better. Now I will kill you!!" Judecca held his sword firmly in both hands and began to spin rapidly, slashing at Duo several times. "AAAAAAHHH!!! DAMN YOU!" Duo screamed as the sword bit into the flesh of his leg. Duo grabbed his sword with both hands and leapt for Judecca. He brought the sword down hard, impaling Judecca right below his ribs. Judecca winced in pain and pulled Duos sword out of his stomache. "Very good... But can you handle THIS!!!" Judecca slammed the handle of his sword onto his knee and the sword turned into four swords. Judecca grabbed two swords in each hand, a blade sticking out from both the top and bottom of each fist, and began slicing at Duo. Duo managed to dodge most of the blows, and the most damage they did was shred a bit one of his pants legs, but one of the blows knocked his sword right out of his hands. "Now you are defenseless. Can I safely assume that you admit to losing, or do I have to finish you off?" Judecca asked with his confidence showing in his voice. "Neither one. I haven't lost, and the only one who will be getting finished off is you!" Judecca ran towards Duo, planning to cut him in half, but Duo jumped over Judeccas head and grabbed the Ergheiz. He turned around quickly and cut Judecca diagonally, the blade slicing completely through his flesh. "Hmmm... So you are truly far greater than I had anticipated. I admit... Defeat...." Judecca then simply disappeared, leaving behind only a puddle of blood. At that instant, Quatre and Trowa ran around the corner and almost knocked Duo over. "Hey, watch it! Why are you running? Please tell me you didn't open the other passage!" Trowa was the first one to catch his breath. "We only saw one passage, and so we came in here. We heard someone scream, and so we started running this way to see what had happened." Duo laughed. "Well, I just took out a guy who is, apparently, one of the guys behind this whole thing. The sario rip bringing us here, the 'Bad guys' trying to kill us... everything." Quatre noticed the cut on Duos leg. "Duo! Your leg!" Duo looked at the cut. "Wow... He got me pretty good. It's not as bad as it looks though." Quatre looked at Duo in concern. "Duo, there are two huge puddles of blood. You're standing in one, and it's getting larger. You're losing a lot of blood." Duo was about to say once again that it was no big deal, be he fell forward, unconcious. Quatre and Trowa ran to help him and patched up the wound. They then carried him off into the direction of the mazes exit.
Quatre and Trowa each had one of Duos arms around their shoulders, making it a bit easier for them to carry him, and were moving towards the exit. After a while the passage began to get wider. A few minutes after that, the passage began to get lighter and lighter, and soon the exit was only a few feet in front of them. "Trowa! We finally made it!" "Well, it's about time. Duo's heavy." Duo had woken up a few moments before the exit had been in sight, and said "I am not!" Quatre smiled happily. Duo was fine, they were all okay, the exit to the horrible maze was in sight, and they were almost out of there. "Well, let's go!" Trowa said. They advanced towards the wide open door, when suddenly a man appeared out of nowhere, blocking their path. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" Duo asked. "I don't like the look of you... You look like that other guy, Judecca." The man in front of them somehow managed to stay in the shadows so that they couldn't see him and said "I go by my code name, nematocyst. The actual definition of that isn't exactly the best that it could be, but it basically means stinger. I just wanted to inform you that Judecca has requested that, because you defeated him, I send you back to the place you were brought here from." Duo looked confused. "But... I killed Judecca." "HAHAHAHAHA!!! No, you didn't even come close to killing him. Though, if he were an average human, you would have. Anyways, I'm going to send the remaining four of you back to the place you came from." Duos eyes went wide, and he asked "Four? Is Heero okay?!?" But before he could get an answer, they were back on the composite planet. "Wufei? Four of us... Does that mean... Heero's..." Quatre cut him off with "Heero can't be dead. Come one, you know better than that. Heero's invincible!" Duo sat down at the base of a tree trunk and said "I hope you're right." Then Heero walked through a dense part of the forest into the small clearing the other four gundam pilots were in, rubbing his head. "Ow... I was eating with this old lady and her grandkids, and then there was a flash of light, and then I fell on my head, and I was here. So what's your story?" The five gundam pilots discussed what had happened to them and talked about the others, wondering where they were.
Speaking of which, where are the others? Are they all on distant planets as well? Have they been through as much as the gundam pilots? Are they all alive? What has happened to the villains? What roles do Judecca and Nematocyst play in this whole thing? Is there a dimension-wide conspiracy going on? Tune in next time for... When Cartoons Collide: Chapter 7!!! (YAAAAAAAAY!!! I FINALLY FINISHED CHAPTER 6!!! I AM SOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!! Uh... Well, p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p, uh, That's all, folks!)