Chapter 16!! Welcome to the City Wok!!!

Author's Note: ok, not as many reviews as I hoped on the last chapter but oh wellski!

Kuja opened his eyes and yawned. It was morning for sure now and that meant it was time to go at it again. He sat up and saw that Eiko was still fast asleep on the other end of the couch. He nudged her a few times with his feet until her eyes opened too.

"Good morning sleepyhead!" Kuja said in a cheerful voice.

"…Morning buttered toast…" Eiko muttered, her eyes almost shut.

"Hey, wake up Eiko!" Kuja said, nudging her more.

"Fine, I'm up!" She said finally, her eyes open fully. "Stop kicking me!"

"I'm not kicking you." Kuja pointed out. "I'm barely tapping you with my foot!"

"No, anything with your feet is kicking!" Eiko said stubbornly.

"What's wrong with you?" Kuja asked. "Didn't get enough sleep?"

"Shut up!" Eiko yelled. "Let's just go and get Tifa!" Eiko jumped off the couch and ran to the door she opened it, then said, "Thanks for letting me sleep in here…sorry I'm grumpy in the morning." Eiko ran out and Kuja blinked.

"She said thanks and sorry in the same sentence?" Kuja wondered. "To me even. I figured those words weren't in her vocabulary."

After everyone had eaten breakfast, since it had been awhile since they ate, they gathered on top of the airship for Yuna's summoning.

"I thank you all for going after that woman." Yuna said as she pulled out her staff.

"No big!" Eiko said. "We have to. You guys can't do anything now right?"

"That's right." Yuna said.

"Well then here…" Eiko handed Yuna a pack of playing cards. "Play some blackjack or go fish or something till we're done. It won't be long!" Everyone said good bye and Yuna summoned Anima.

"Anima!" She called. "Use your magic to track down a summon called Phoenix!! Send those four people to it!" Anima roared and a dark hole appeared beneath Eiko, Kuja, Vivi and Freya. They slow sunk into it and it closed off.

"I hope they'll be ok." Yuna said.

"I hope that Kuja doesn't get set on fire again…" Tidus muttered.

Eiko and the others looked around. Nothing but rocks and such. When they turned around, they couldn't believe their eyes.

"A group of nudists!" Kuja grinned.

"Shut your eyes Eiko, Vivi!" Freya said quickly. They did.

"Where's my summon!!" Eiko shouted. "Where's Phoenix?" A girl with short brown hair looked over at them.

"Hey, who are you?" She asked.

"I'm Kuja, this is Freya, Eiko and Vivi…" Kuja stared at them "What are you doing?"

"We're playing Strip Poker. I'm Yuffie." Yuffie answered. "This is Barret, Cid, Sephy Valentine, his dad Vincent Valentine ("I'm not his father Yuffie!!!" Vincent yelled) Cait Sith, Red XIII, Selphie and Quintis."

"Oh…" Kuja said. "Where's Tifa? We need to find her to get our stuff back."

"No clue." Yuffie said. "We were wondering that."

"She's in the world of Xenogears." Sephy said. "Want to get there?"

"Yes." Freya said. "Please."

Sephy waved his hand and the group disappeared.

"Anyway…" He said. "Let's get back to striping…I mean playing cards…"

Meanwhile, with Matt Welch…

"Hey, did you see that Yume?" Matt asked.

"Yeah, why was Eiko, Vivi, Freya and Kuja in FF7?" She asked.

"No, not that!" Matt said. "Yuffie had cards hidden in her bandana!"

"Oh…" Yume said.

Eiko and the others, meanwhile, found themselves in a grassy plain. Above them, three huge, HUGE robots were trying to fight Phoenix and Tifa off.

"Hahaha!" Tifa cried. "I shall now take something important, too important so that this game can't be beat either!" She waved her hand and the robots disappeared. Three men appeared on the ground.

"Damn!" A blonde haired man with a patch over his eye yelled.

"There, and the heroes arrive just in time to see us fly into the sunset!" Tifa called to Eiko. "I still got your summon!"

"You bitchy, slutty, bad excuse for a villain! Don't forget, you still have Cloud as a boyfriend!" Eiko shouted. Tifa glared at her and flew off. The three men came over to them.

"Now what?" a young, brown haired man with a ponytail wondered.

"I'm Eiko, this is Vivi, Freya and the girl in really a guy named Kuja." Eiko said.

"I hate you sometimes." Kuja muttered.

"Anyway," Eiko continued. "That whore on my beautiful Phoenix in Tifa. She's going to different worlds, stopping everything by taking what she says is most important."

"I'm Fei, this is Citan and this is Bart." Fei said. "And that Tifa did take something important!"

"Without our Gears, we'll be killed." Bart said.

"You are a very odd looking bunch." Citan said. "Mind telling us why you're here?"

"Gladly." Eiko smiled.

Author's Note: Short but sweet. The next chapter will house an interesting plot twist….