And
So It Begins Again
Chap.
2
AN
alright now the second chapter is done, now I will leave this without a title
seeing as I can't come up with any new and original title, I will leave that
for you to decide, if any of you come up with one please notify me and I will
decide which one I choose I will get to work on the third chapter as quickly as
possible, so that you will get to enjoying my story quicker, I can't promise
any more than that. Oh yeah, just be warned, this wont make much sense unless
you know a couple of animes besides Cardcaptor Sakura alright? arigato
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Shoalan
just sat there looking at Sakura, "this doesn't change anything" he said
getting up from his seat. "I will still love you as much as I always have maybe
even more" he said looking down at Sakura who was smiling. "Oh, Shoalan that's
wonderful!" she said giving him a big hug. She released him and cringed as her
side began hurting again. The moment Kerro was in the kitchen with Zanzalin he
checked to be sure nobody was listening than asked her " are you absolutely
sure that it is a girl?" he said frantically. "Yes, is that a problem?" she
said curiously, "iie, no not really" he said, but she didn't believe him. "What's
the problem with it being a girl?" she asked looking straight at him, "if it's
a guy thing I could change back to Kerro", "no, it's fine, Zanzalin, it's
perfectly fine, my presence here seems to have changed the future after all, no
problem" he said that convincingly enough, but he knew he was lying, it wasn't
alright. At this moment, Sakura and Shoalan walked into the kitchen, "do you
want anything to eat Zanzalin? Or Kerro?" Sakura asked, "no, we're fine". "Oh,
alright then, I am hungry though" she said sheepishly, "alright, what you want
for dinner?" Kerro asked, "umm, I kind of feel like just some of that instant
noodle soup" she said thinking hard. "Well, we could have that, or I could
probably get some leftovers from Sasami, she always cooks far to much food, and
I don't think you have ever tasted it" Zanzalin said, "sure, that sounds
alright, if it is alright with her that is". With that Zanzalin bowed and
portalled out, "She is really nice" Shoalan said, "yep, that's the same
Zanzalin I remember from all those years ago" Kerro said. "But there is one
thing I don't get, what is she?" Sakura asked trying not to sound rude, "Well,
from watching the show you probably know about psuedo-space, she is a
psuedo-space creature, that lived in psuedo-space many, many years ago". "Back
at the academy, a few years after she had created Ryoko, Washu found Kerro, he
was an orphan at that time, and she decided to run a few tests on him, to see
if he had any powers…"
Flashback
many, many years ago…
Click,
click, clickity, click went the computer keys as Washu typed furiously on them,
"well, by all accounts, he is just an ordinary little boy" she said as you hear
Kerro's faint crying in the backround. "Washu" came a voice on an intercom,
"what is it?" "is it true, that you are in possession of a small orphan boy?"
"Yes, I was running some tests on him, and he appears to be just a normal boy"
she said. "Well, that will change soon, we are authorizing the activation of
operation Zanzalin, on the boy" he said delightedly, "what! You can't be
serious, that project was scrapped decades ago, it can't work, the merging
process just isn't sound enough to work on humans". "You are wrong, it wasn't
sound enough to work on human adults, we have changed it and we conclude that
it could work on a human infant" "that's barbaric! I will not potentially
sacrifice a human baby, just for some silly experiment!" "Well Washu, it is
your choice, because if you don't do the experiment, you get booted out of the
academy for good". Washu looked sick "what?" she said weakly, "yes that is the
new incentive to keep the scientists in line so you are to begin the experiment
A.S.A.P, agreed?" "Agreed" she said downheartedly. The intercom cut off and
Washu returned to her work, "well little one, for better or worse you will
never be the same again, and it will be all my fault if something happens to
you" she said with a heavy sigh. The experiment went underway within the hour,
"psuedo chamber pressure 34.7 and climbing" "synch ratio climbing, nearly
reaching startup levels" " opening portal in 5…4…3…2…1 now!" the portal opened,
and a creature was sucked out of it, and flung into the chamber where it merged
with Kerro. All of a sudden, Kerro's crying stopped; he looked straight ahead
of him into the portal. "The experiment seems to be a success" the lead
scientist said, "yes, I hope he is alright" Washu said worriedly as she held on
to Ryoko who was about four. "Amazing! The boy is still conscious" "how can
that be? He should have lost consciousness long ago, he just keeps staring at
the place where the creature came out of, he hasn't budged an inch" Washu said
astounded. Washu looked into the young boy's eyes and saw something flash
within them, "what was his eye color before the experiment?" she asked, "it
was…" her assistant said checking the chart "brown, I believe, why?" "well, for
a moment there they flashed a light blue" Washu said sounding a little
hysterical, "well, changes like that are expected" her assistant said. "I
suppose your right, but…" she was cut off when Kerro started moving. "waaah!
waaaah!" he was crying like normal again, Washu just couldn't stand it any
longer, to her colleagues this crying was just another reaction to the merging
process, but it was killing her on the inside to listen to it. She went into
the tank, "wait Washu I don't think it is safe to go in there!" her assistant
called frantically, "can you stand to see a little baby cry like that?" she
said questioningly. "No, of course not! But Ms. Hakubi it's dangerous!" "it's
alright, don't cry I'm here" she said as she walked up to the infant. "Mamma?"
it said wiping away it's tears, Washu was shocked, "that is extremely odd, a
baby this young shouldn't be able to talk yet" she thought as she picked him up
and put him in her arms. He quieted down immediately in her arms, and even
began to fall asleep as Washu rocked him gently. "What is his name?" she called
up to her assistant, "umm, let me see, K441 I believe", "what kind of a name is
that?" her assistant just shrugged, "I will call him Kerro, what do you think,
do you like that name?" she said as she tickled Kerro making him laugh. Washu
stepped out of the chamber holding the baby as she announced, "I think for the
best results possible out of this experiment, I will adopt Kerro" she said
proudly "I will start on the papers right away Professor" "come on Ryoko, let's
go home and have something to eat!" "yay! Maybe some chocolate for desert,
mommy?" "sure!" Washu said happily, as they walked out of the laboratory.
End
of flashback…
"And
that is what happened" Kerro said finishing his long story, "that was a pretty
amazing story Kerro" Sakura said in awe. "Oh I'm full of stories just like that
one, any of you ever see Neon Genesis Evangelion" they nodded "well, I bet you
can't guess how much they screwed up on that one!" Kerro said excitedly as he
was about to tell another story when Zanzalin showed up. "Food's here!" she
said happily carrying what looked like a wheel burrow full of food. "Wow!
That's a lot of food, I hope Sasami didn't have to work too hard just for us"
Sakura said hoping they weren't too much trouble. "No, not at all this was just
stuff we had lying around" she said examining the whole turkey and a large pile
of mashed potatoes, "I told you Sasami cooks too much" she said laughing. "Oh
and Kerro" "yes?" "Sasami made you your favorite" "and what would that be?"
Zanzalin dug through the food and came out with a wrapped bundle, "Swordfish!"
"Wow, I can't believe she remembered, I mean it has been what ten years?" After
the massive dinner was consumed down to the last crumb it was time for Zanzalin
to go, so she changed back into the brown-eyed Kerro for the farewells.
"Goodbye everyone, I had fun!" he said as he went through the portal, "bye
Kerro, tell Sasami I said thank you!" Kerro called after him. "Well, that was
quite an unusual evening" Shoalan said sighing contentedly. "It was wasn't it?"
Kerro said before jumping in surprise, "oh no! I forgot to tell Meleni I'm not
dead anymore she is going to kill me!" everyone laughed even Kerro. A few hours
later everyone settled down to some well-deserved sleep, it had been a long
day. The very next day, Kerro woke up at 6 O'clock as well as everyone else to
a wonderful Saturday morning. "Well, I think I'll call Meleni" Kerro said
stretching, "don't you think you should wait? I mean it is only 6 in the
morning," Shoalan said yawning. "Nah, I've waited far to long as it is, she
rightly should have been the first person to see, oh well" Kerro sighed. He
stretched one last time, and walked into the center of the room, ::Meleni::
Kerro was mentally counting the seconds "one, two, three" "KERRO!". He saw her
for a split second in front of him before he was barreled over. "Your back!
Your really back!" Meleni said ecstatically, she hadn't changed a bit, "umm,
Meleni I love you and everything, but your kind of crushing me right now" "oh…"
she looked down and noticed that she was directly on top of him. "Oops, gomen!"
she said blushing, "it's ok it's really nice to see you again" he said smiling
up at her, "I would have called you sooner, but I was a little busy with Sakura
and Shoalan over there". Meleni looked over and saw them, "oh, nice to see you
again Sakura and Shoalan" she said embarrassed, Kerro got up and sat in one of
the seats in the living room, and Meleni did the same. "Guess what Meleni?
Sakura said, "what?" "I'm pregnant" "wow, that's amazing!" she said turning her
head to look at Kerro ::oh no you don't, don't get any idea's:: Kerro thought
frantically blushing. "I have some good news too," Meleni said. "What?" Sakura
asked as Meleni moved closer to Kerro, "Kerro said that if he did end up coming
back he and I would get married!" "that's wonderful!" "Yeah well, maybe we'll
have a little girl of our own one day" Kerro said smiling. The rest of Saturday
went by smoothly until the afternoon; everyone was just sitting around in the
living room after having a large meal. All of a sudden, they heard the doorbell
ring, "I'll get it" Sakura said getting up, "hello?" she said at the door,
"hello, is this the Kinomoto residence?" said a man about Kerro's height, but
his face was covered in a hood. "Yes, it is, what is it?" "I am looking for a
man called Kerro is he home?" "Yes, I will go get him" she said as she walked
off to the living room. "Kerro, there is a man at the door who wants to talk to
you" "oh really?" he said getting up and following Sakura. "what is it?" Kerro
said as he looked at the hooded figure, "well Kerro, death must have affected
your memory" the man said looking up at them, his hood falling off to reveal a
person who looked exactly like Kerro in every way, he even dressed the same.
Kerro looked at him for a second, "oh, right you're the Kerro from Babylon 5
aren't you? I should have recognized you from the robe, how are things?" "Not
good, there is a fire" he said blankly, "what kind of a fire" Kerro said
apprehensively, "a bad one". "Ok then so you want me to come help you again?
Well…" he said looking back towards the living room, "I suppose they wouldn't
mind me gone for a day or two, right Sakura?" "Okay I guess so, just where is
it you are going?" "I can't tell you, it's a matter of security, that and you
wouldn't believe me much if I told you" he said getting ready to leave. He
walked back into the living room and explained the situation to the others
"well, I have to go on business for a couple of days, so you should have some
free time to yourselves" "wait where are you going?" Meleni and Shoalan asked
"I can't tell you, but don't worry, I am sure it is nothing too major so I
should be back soon" he said as he walked out the door. "Well, Kerro what sort
of trouble have you gotten yourself into this time?" "We are not in trouble
Kerro, you are" he said, "Four Star Light!" parallel Kerro yelled as four little
stars came out of his hand and formed a portal. "Dear god, you haven't changed
that in all these years?" "We like to be consistent" he said as they walked
through the portal. They were across many dimensions in an instant to a large
ship, "the old place hasn't changed in so many years" our Kerro said "yep, not
at all" parallel Kerro said. "So what exactly is our little problem?" Kerro
said, "sit down, Kerro and have a soda" he said pointing to a little table by a
viewing screen, "ok" he said sitting down. He took a sip from a cup of soda
placed on the table and looked at Kerro, "so, what have we got?" "this message
arrived for you, apparently he didn't have your address" Kerro thought back,
"it couldn't be him?" "Right on the mark". "Oh come on! Can't that bastard get
a hobby or something?" "His hobby is trying to kill you remember" "oh right"
"well, put it on already" Kerro said annoyed. Parallel Kerro pressed a button
on a small remote, which played the message on the screen. "Hello Kerro" came a
voice, which belonged to a man who looked almost exactly like Kerro except he
wore black instead of brown. "If you are seeing this than I am already dead"
"cheers" Kerro said raising his glass, "I want you to know that my feelings of
murderous rage toward you have subsided over the years, and I wish to make
peace" "best thing you've said in you entire life". "Setting that aside, I have
ordered all of my financial and magical funds to be liquidated in order to
create a giant monster to come and kill you, have a pleasant day!" he said
grinning broadly. "That bastard Korro! God he can hold a grudge for a thousand
years!" Kerro said drinking the last of his soda and tossing it out. After
hearing this all of the Kerros gathered together in the large assembly room in
the ship, "we want Kerro here to know that we will stand behind him through
this crisis, which of course means…" Kerro from Babylon 5 said, "you are
completely on your own!" everyone in the crowd chorused. "Why did I ever join
this thing?" Kerro thought despairingly as everyone had a good laugh, "no,
seriously we will help him in any way we can, cuase that is what we do here
right?" "Right". At that moment, a man walked into the room, and the leader of
the council, the Kerro from Babylon 5 said, "who are you? And what do you
want?". The man stood up straight, "is there a man named Kerro Kinomoto here?"
Kerro walked up boldly, "I am Kerro Kinomoto, what do you want?" "Nothing
personal, but I am here to kill you" he said flatly, Kerro thought about it for
a second before shrugging and firing an energy blast at him, an orange energy
shield appeared in front of the man which stopped the blast in it's tracks, "an
A.T. Field?… shit" Kerro said as he dodged several volleys of fire from the
stranger. Now back to Sakura and the others, "I hope Kerro is ok" Meleni said,
deciding to just stay at Sakura and Shoalan's house for a little while. "Don't
worry I am sure he will be fine" Sakura said soothingly, "yeah Kerro is the
strongest person we know" Shoalan chimed in. "Your right" Meleni said, "he will
be ok and I have nothing to worry about" she said resolutely. "So Meleni, do
you know anything about these dimensions that Kerro has been talking about?"
Sakura asked, "yes, he showed me a couple of them, and I met a couple of the
parallel Kerros as well" "oh, what where they like?" Sakura asked trying to
kill some time on what remained of the Saturday afternoon. "Well…" Meleni said
thinking hard, "One day Kerro took me to a dimension that looked kind of like
an episode of Dragon Ball Z, but we couldn't stay very long, it was one of the
World Tournament's so their Kerro was really busy" "wow, a dimension that
looked like Dragon Ball Z? That's pretty amazing" Sakura said thinking of what
that would be like. "So who were that Kerro's parents?" "Well, he was Videl and
Gohan's son, see they had a son and a daughter in real life, not like in the
anime" "that's interesting" "why do the animator's always screw up like that?"
"Lack of imagination, or the fact that most of the Kerros are just too
powerful, you couldn't make much of a story out of that". "No, I suppose not"
Sakura said sighing, "I wish Kerro didn't have to go, or at least that I could
see what he was doing" she said downheartedly. All of a sudden, she felt a
powerful aura around… herself! "Shoalan do you feel that?" she said worried,
"yeah, what could it be?". "What's that over your head?" Meleni asked, "what?"
Sakura looked up and saw a glowing crystal over her. "What the heck is that
thing?" "There is one over me as well" Shoalan said as the crystals moved a few
feet away from them, one of them turned into a maiden, much like the ones on
the cards. "Hello" it said bowing, "who… who are you?" Shoalan said shakily "my
name is Sasabi, Sosobi and I, were created to be your guardians around 5 years
ago" she said smiling. "Who is Sozobi?" Shoalan asked, "he is right next to me"
she said looking to her right, "oh wait" she said grabbing the crystal and
shaking it. "He's still asleep" she said chuckling while everyone sweat dropped,
"wake up!" "Alright already" came a reply from the crystal, as it changed into
a man who wore almost the exact same clothes as his counterpart, except they
were more green than pink. "I still don't get this" Sakura said, "you probably
wouldn't, because Kerro didn't have time to tell you about us" Sasabi said, "we
were created to be your guardians, because Kerro knew he was going to die soon,
so he needed someone to take his place". "Well, if you are our guardians, where
have you been all this time?" "we have been right above you all this time"
Sasabi said politely, "if you have been their all this time, than why didn't
you save me when that truck was going to hit me? Sakura asked puzzled, "well…"
Sasabi said looking embarrassed. "We knew Kerro was going to save you, that and
we fall asleep sometimes" Sasabi said hoping they wouldn't get mad at them.
"Well, I guess Kerro saved me anyway, so it didn't matter that you were asleep"
Sakura said knowledgably, "there is one thing that still puzzles me" Shoalan said.
"What's that?" Sosobi asked, "How did
Kerro come back to life?" "Hmm, that is a tough one, but he told us before he
died that he had created a very powerful crystal a long time ago, but unlike
all the others he never imbued it with a task or purpose, he left it adrift in
space, that crystal could have resurrected him" Sosobi said finishing. "So, why
did you two just appear like that after waiting for five years?" Sakura asked,
"well, we just thought it seemed like a good idea, because we can show you what
Kerro is up to" Sasabi said happily, "honto!" Meleni said ecstatic, "yes, one
moment please" she said concentrating hard. A large crystal ball that had to be
something like 3 feet in diameter appeared in front of them, "we will see what
he is doing through this" she said happily as a picture began to form within
the crystal, getting clearer and clearer. It showed a picture of Kerro fighting
someone they didn't recognize, and everyone squatted down to watch. "Ladies and
gentleman! Please stand by and watch the fight of the century, between the
Kerro from the dimension that bears an uncanny resemblance to an episode of
Cardcaptor Sakura, and an absolute stranger bent on his destruction, who has
now been identified as Shin!" came a Kerro announcer. "Come on everybody,
they've moved into the holo-deck!" "wait didn't we set that thing to Pacific
Ocean?" "oh well, they will just have to do a mid-air battle then!" "yeah this
is going to be great!" came the shouts from the large mass of Kerros sitting in
the audience. "Hey Babylon 5 Kerro, shouldn't we go and help him?" "Nah, lets
wait till they break something valuable" "well, they already broke, the gold
depository, the jewel vault, gem land, the money factory, and that place the
makes silver dollars" "no, I mean really valuable". The fight was getting
brutal, Kerro had his sword out as he rammed the stranger at top speed his feet
just skimming the water "BOOM!" they crashed together, Kerro's sword slashed
across Shin's side as Shin misses with a left punch. They turn around and come
at each other again locked in punches and kicks for several minutes, until Shin
fires a Ki blast at Kerro, who dodges it and counters with a Solar Flare "thank
god Tien taught me that" he thought, which blinded Shin long enough for Kerro
to get under the water. "Where did he go!" Shin yelled out in frustration
before plunging into the water, he fired several Ki blasts trying to hit Kerro,
all the time losing energy, when Kerro flies up only a few feet away from Shin,
builds up his energy in an instant and, "FINAL FLASH!" he yells out as Shin is
engulfed in a massive ball of energy. "Well, that should have done it" Kerro
says panting hard, that last blast had used every bit of energy he had left.
All of a sudden, he looked up and saw Shin coming down on him and before he
could move, he got kicked far across the ocean and hit the wall on the other
end, crashing through it. "umm, Babylon 5 Kerro, sir" "what is it?" "well, that
last energy wave that Kerro fired broke through the wall and destroyed the
recreation area" "oh well, we can always build a new one" he said shrugging it
off, "well, that last kick of Shin's that sent Kerro smashing through the wall
destroying that area". "Yes, what about it" "that was the animation room",
"don't tell me, that was where all the animes were kept" Kerro said in shock.
"Precisely, it even had your show in it" his assistant said, Kerro stood up
"come on boys, lets take him to school" he said rubbing his fist several times
"arrgh!" came several voices behind him as well as many people carrying bats
and sharp metallic implements, as well as several murderous glints in peoples
eyes. "Well, this is quite a show" Sakura said grabbing some popcorn, "yeah, I
am sure Kerro is fine and he is very entertaining" Shoalan said also getting
some popcorn and watching as every Kerro on the ship rose into the air. If you
have ever seen the first episode of Gundam X with all of the Mobile suits in a
line firing their satellite cannons, every Kerro got in a huge line, and aimed
every shot in the book at Shin. "FINAL FLASH!" "DISTRUCTO DISK!" "SCATTER
SHOT!" "WHITE MAGIC BLAST!" and just about every other form of magical or
energy blast that you could imagine all merged into one. "Nooo!" was Shin's
last word as he was blasted into nothingness.
Wasn't
that exciting! Well, I hope this satisfies anyone who cares that my story gets
completed or not. I wanted the fight to last longer, but a short fight and a
joke is better than a long boring fight of kicking right? ok fine ill try better
next time and believe me there will be a next time! Ja ne
