Chapter 16- And Now To Set Off Those Booby Traps...
Gorion finished his food.
"Ah that is much better. But I still will not be at full power for another hour. Hmm let's see what's going on with those two."
He looks down towards the forest and notices a very nasty boobytrap. About 150 to 200 feet directly in front of Tanetris and Karu.
"Oh boy that could be a problem. Hmm let's see what can I do to solve that problem. So how do I solve the problem of a pressure sensitive mine field with spiked swinging logs that are also explosive and not get my self seen by Tanetris or noticed. Let's see, ah ha I will just deter them somehow. That is it."
He flies down and pools out a portable hologram generator then sets it to project a hologram of a note for only Karu to see.
To Karu
There is a very nasty booby trap beyond this point of the forest so go around it and be careful.
signed:
Gorion
P.S. Do not let Tanetris know I am here Thanks.
******
BGMaster glanced down the street from the shadows, his cloak masking his face even further from sight. Right now he wanted to see who was coming to check on the dead werewolves. So far only a couple guys from the Kimiko army had come.
A noise attracted his attention. Kawasaki motorcycle. This could be another agent. As the motorcycle flashed past, BG fired a shot. It spun out of control, skidding to a stop in the middle of the street. He strode over to it rapidly, pointing one of his deagles at the rider, who was just now getting up and brushing himself off.
"Hatch?"
He glanced at BG, rather annoyed. "Nice to see you too, BG."
"Sorry. There's major infighting going on in the CoM high council right now, and my enemies sent the werewolves after me. I thought you were one of their agents coming to check what happened."
"I see. Well, it seems you Mihoists tend to have slight... loyalty problems. Unlike us Kimiko folks. I assume you're working directly for Miho or something?"
BG shrugged. "Yeah. So why exactly are you out here? It's not as if there's a DWC trying to destroy the universe or anything."
"There's a huge mess starting again. I'm on damage control."
"Ah. So it's bigger than just us. I figured as much. What do you know about what's going on elsewhere?"
"Do you have a computer?"
BG materialized one. "Will this do?"
"Heh. Forgot you could do that. Well, go here." He tapped in a few keys.
From Crsh667
Time: 9pm EST
Post # 1
In need of assassin/omnipotent authors or anybody with reasonable power/skill
Job: Will fill in later
Pay: Depending on outcome. Will pay in anything, even beer
-Thank you
-Crash667
-P.S. You will get a quick background check, and then given the address.
P.P.S. No vibrating sheep of doom please
BG checked the replies and frowned. "Moore's back? And into this mess?"
"Looks like it."
"Shit. Moore's probably gonna bring in a huge mess from whatever other dimension he gets it from."
"That was my feeling. I was going to check it out after this."
BG looked around. "Yeah. I think my pursuit is out of commission for the moment. I'll join you." He remembered something. "You still got that hockey stick?"
Hatch grinned. "Yup. Just like the last mess, eh?"
"Yeah. Let's go figure out what the hell is going on. Oh, and..."
BG spoke a few cryptic words, and dual motorcycles appeared in the street.
"You didn't think we were going without style, did you?"
The two of them roared off. Moore was out there, along with a whole new gang, most of them lycanthropes. They were the old school, relatively speaking. It was time to figure out what the new guys were up to.
In style, of course.
*******
Young Queslin opens her eyes slowly, expecting the morning light to stream through painfully into her sleep-weakened mind. Her waking trains of thought do not allow her surprise at the lack of annoying light from sunrise, merely a sense of pleasure she finds rare at this time of day.
The alarm clock is buzzing as Queslin swats idly at its 'off' button "I'm a-WAKE already! Kore wa baka!". She notes through half-lidded eyes that it's not morning any more, then notes hazily that she has had FAR too many hours of sleep, groans, and rolls out of bed.
"AIEEE!"... Queslin reflects as she hits the floor undressed that there are certain disadvantages to having a granite floor in your apartment, and the fact that they are almost always freezingly cold is definitely one of them. She hurriedly dons her bathrobe and jumps in the shower, only to find the drain blocked by a huge amount of... Well, not quite hair.. more like.. fur... FUR!???
"Stranger things have happened", she reminds herself, mindful of the events of recent months. She unblocks the drain, showers quickly, and carefully (some would call it painstakingly) arranges her hair after drying herself. As she leaves the bathroom, she notices something odd... The kitchen door is open, and she is SURE she left it closed last night. The only other people with keys to her apartment are Phaedrus and her best friend Kokomi.
Queslin sneaks into the kitchen, hoping the visitor is Phaedrus, but gets a substantial shock when she's met face-to-face by a person-sized furry animal with three tails! It's kinda cute, but no Vorpal Bunny. She's busy deciding what exactly to do about the unexpected visitor when she is picked up by the waist, given a sneer, and is thrown out the window!
Absurdly, the last thing Queslin sees as she sails through her own (luckily open) kitchen window is the three-tailed furry getting back to the carton of milk it had just removed from her fridge!
As Queslin skillfully lands on the park slide outside her 2nd story apartment, she realizes with dread that she's probably going to have a very strange time of things.. again..
Queslin's ears perk up as a Kawasaki pants perforator abruptly screams past - "Was that a trouser rocket? No matter... The noisiest and fastest-moving people usually know what the hell is going on." Queslin begins to follow the bike on the 150cc super-scooter she leaves parked out the front for desperate dashes for Jolt Cola in emergencies - it even runs on the stuff if the need arises...
Up ahead it seems the Kawasaki has crashed. "Is that BG in the middle of the street!?" Queslin can't quite make out the other guy, and as she nears the pair, two matched motorcycles appear and the pair speed off.
"Hey! Wait for me!!! Slow down! Hidoi-I!!"... Queslin zooms after the pair, while being careful not to let passers-by see more than they bargained for, tightening her bathrobe...
*******
Karu glanced back at her partner-for-the-moment. Needless to say, he seemed a bit worse for the wear. It seemed the wolf the two were looking for had a penchant for placing multiple traps within a given 10-foot radius. So while Karu and Tanetris may have been able to work around the pit trap, they still had problems with the illusionary ninja beyond it. The wolf and fox came to an open clearing.
"Aiya!" Karu jumped back, startled. Wouldn't you be if a holographic note popped out of nowhere?
To Karu:
There is a very nasty booby trap beyond this point in the forest, so go around it and be careful
P.S. Do not let Tanetris know I am here-Thanks.
Gorion
"What is it?" Tanetris gave Karu a funny look.
Karu's only reply. "Check yer sais"
Said trap-detecting sais were glowing brightly red. And both of them knew what a trapped open clearing meant.
"Landmines." voiced both of them, each echoing the others thoughts. Karu glanced at the trees ringing the clearing.
"Probably trapped too."
"Definitely." Tanetris's reply was terse, reflecting the tension in the air.
"Still," Karu added, the kitsune's smile starting to come back, "I think we're more likely to survive what's in the trees than the land mines." With that, the kitsune grabbed a branch, and hoisted herself up into the tree. Mistake. Big Mistake. Once the six-tails had ascended into the tree's crown, the tree flew back, and launched her, a la catapult style, straight into the middle of the minefield.
*BOOM*
Karu, for the second time in 2 minutes, flew. Propelled by the explosion, the fox went flying across the minefield, landing...on the opposite side with an unceremonious *thump*
Staggering to her feet singed tails and all, Karu yelled to Tanetris. "WHOAAH! WHATTA RUSH!"
*******
WizardofKitty looked back and noticed Queslin was chasing after a motorcycle.
"Hey Queslin!" she yelled and then chased after her. Strange that she was in some kind of robe, but people can't be too picky about other's appearances...besides, there were awfully worse clothes for others to be in. X.X
*******
Tanetris watched the kitsune vault over to the trees, get tossed into the middle of the minefield, and winced slightly as the ground exploded, sending her flying. He was just glad the explosive was powerful enough to get her all the way across with just one. He saw her stagger to her feet singed tails and all, and heard her yell, "WHOAAH! WHATTA RUSH!"
Tanetris just shook his head. Crazy kitsune, he thought to himself. Taking the quarterstaff from his back, he muttered a few words, and began floating several feet in the air. As he was passing unhurriedly over the minefield, the werewolf used the chance to survey some of the land ahead. It wasn't much further to a cabin, but he was quite sure the worst trap was still ahead. Scanning further, he saw... No... Tanetris sighed deeply, for what did he see but that human again, floating over the trees just out of sight of the cabin, sipping a Ninjaburger soft drink. Persistent, that one..
Finally landing next to Karu, she gave him a puzzled look, "Why so glum chum? If you really wanna do a minefield bounce, we can do it on the way back, didn't hafta use that thingy. It's really fun, if you don't mind your tails burning a little, but you've only got the one tail, so it wouldn't be so bad for you..." the kitsune went on as Tanetris slung the quarterstaff across his back and checked his sai to see how the road ahead looked. A deep red glow on the pommel to indicate the minefield behind them, and a slight yellow glow on the end of the blade. Either the last trap was very weak, which seemed unlikely, or it wasn't until just short of the cabin. At least they could walk that far without too much worry.
The werewolf turned his attention back to Karu who was still talking, "...and then my cousin Dari, he's the one who married the 4-tails, but Dari, he just couldn't stand..."
"Karu..."
"...like he had any say, everyone knows that you can't go against tradition like that, it just isn't right, and besides, where would the fun be if..."
"KARU!!!"
"Huh? What's up Tannie?"
The werewolf sighed deeply again. He had forgotten how hard it was keeping a kitsune's mind on one thing. He missed the Fanboy Wars. Sure it was a time of darkness and destruction across the lands of MegaTokyo, but he had been in the presence of Pirogoeth herself. He had even helped her, in his own limited way, and had been gifted with this katana. He hadn't needed a reward, but who was he to refuse something from Almighty Pirogoeth?
Tanetris came back to himself as Karu poked him in the ribs. Goddess, he thought to himself, I'm as bad as her...
He cleared his throat and spoke, "We're clear of traps for awhile, let's get going. Oh, and whatever message you got from Gorion about the minefield, I'll thank him later. It's not much further to the cabin."
Gorion finished his food.
"Ah that is much better. But I still will not be at full power for another hour. Hmm let's see what's going on with those two."
He looks down towards the forest and notices a very nasty boobytrap. About 150 to 200 feet directly in front of Tanetris and Karu.
"Oh boy that could be a problem. Hmm let's see what can I do to solve that problem. So how do I solve the problem of a pressure sensitive mine field with spiked swinging logs that are also explosive and not get my self seen by Tanetris or noticed. Let's see, ah ha I will just deter them somehow. That is it."
He flies down and pools out a portable hologram generator then sets it to project a hologram of a note for only Karu to see.
To Karu
There is a very nasty booby trap beyond this point of the forest so go around it and be careful.
signed:
Gorion
P.S. Do not let Tanetris know I am here Thanks.
A noise attracted his attention. Kawasaki motorcycle. This could be another agent. As the motorcycle flashed past, BG fired a shot. It spun out of control, skidding to a stop in the middle of the street. He strode over to it rapidly, pointing one of his deagles at the rider, who was just now getting up and brushing himself off.
"Hatch?"
He glanced at BG, rather annoyed. "Nice to see you too, BG."
"Sorry. There's major infighting going on in the CoM high council right now, and my enemies sent the werewolves after me. I thought you were one of their agents coming to check what happened."
"I see. Well, it seems you Mihoists tend to have slight... loyalty problems. Unlike us Kimiko folks. I assume you're working directly for Miho or something?"
BG shrugged. "Yeah. So why exactly are you out here? It's not as if there's a DWC trying to destroy the universe or anything."
"There's a huge mess starting again. I'm on damage control."
"Ah. So it's bigger than just us. I figured as much. What do you know about what's going on elsewhere?"
"Do you have a computer?"
BG materialized one. "Will this do?"
"Heh. Forgot you could do that. Well, go here." He tapped in a few keys.
From Crsh667
Time: 9pm EST
Post # 1
In need of assassin/omnipotent authors or anybody with reasonable power/skill
Job: Will fill in later
Pay: Depending on outcome. Will pay in anything, even beer
-Thank you
-Crash667
-P.S. You will get a quick background check, and then given the address.
P.P.S. No vibrating sheep of doom please
BG checked the replies and frowned. "Moore's back? And into this mess?"
"Looks like it."
"Shit. Moore's probably gonna bring in a huge mess from whatever other dimension he gets it from."
"That was my feeling. I was going to check it out after this."
BG looked around. "Yeah. I think my pursuit is out of commission for the moment. I'll join you." He remembered something. "You still got that hockey stick?"
Hatch grinned. "Yup. Just like the last mess, eh?"
"Yeah. Let's go figure out what the hell is going on. Oh, and..."
BG spoke a few cryptic words, and dual motorcycles appeared in the street.
"You didn't think we were going without style, did you?"
The two of them roared off. Moore was out there, along with a whole new gang, most of them lycanthropes. They were the old school, relatively speaking. It was time to figure out what the new guys were up to.
In style, of course.
The alarm clock is buzzing as Queslin swats idly at its 'off' button "I'm a-WAKE already! Kore wa baka!". She notes through half-lidded eyes that it's not morning any more, then notes hazily that she has had FAR too many hours of sleep, groans, and rolls out of bed.
"AIEEE!"... Queslin reflects as she hits the floor undressed that there are certain disadvantages to having a granite floor in your apartment, and the fact that they are almost always freezingly cold is definitely one of them. She hurriedly dons her bathrobe and jumps in the shower, only to find the drain blocked by a huge amount of... Well, not quite hair.. more like.. fur... FUR!???
"Stranger things have happened", she reminds herself, mindful of the events of recent months. She unblocks the drain, showers quickly, and carefully (some would call it painstakingly) arranges her hair after drying herself. As she leaves the bathroom, she notices something odd... The kitchen door is open, and she is SURE she left it closed last night. The only other people with keys to her apartment are Phaedrus and her best friend Kokomi.
Queslin sneaks into the kitchen, hoping the visitor is Phaedrus, but gets a substantial shock when she's met face-to-face by a person-sized furry animal with three tails! It's kinda cute, but no Vorpal Bunny. She's busy deciding what exactly to do about the unexpected visitor when she is picked up by the waist, given a sneer, and is thrown out the window!
Absurdly, the last thing Queslin sees as she sails through her own (luckily open) kitchen window is the three-tailed furry getting back to the carton of milk it had just removed from her fridge!
As Queslin skillfully lands on the park slide outside her 2nd story apartment, she realizes with dread that she's probably going to have a very strange time of things.. again..
Queslin's ears perk up as a Kawasaki pants perforator abruptly screams past - "Was that a trouser rocket? No matter... The noisiest and fastest-moving people usually know what the hell is going on." Queslin begins to follow the bike on the 150cc super-scooter she leaves parked out the front for desperate dashes for Jolt Cola in emergencies - it even runs on the stuff if the need arises...
Up ahead it seems the Kawasaki has crashed. "Is that BG in the middle of the street!?" Queslin can't quite make out the other guy, and as she nears the pair, two matched motorcycles appear and the pair speed off.
"Hey! Wait for me!!! Slow down! Hidoi-I!!"... Queslin zooms after the pair, while being careful not to let passers-by see more than they bargained for, tightening her bathrobe...
"Aiya!" Karu jumped back, startled. Wouldn't you be if a holographic note popped out of nowhere?
To Karu:
There is a very nasty booby trap beyond this point in the forest, so go around it and be careful
P.S. Do not let Tanetris know I am here-Thanks.
Gorion
"What is it?" Tanetris gave Karu a funny look.
Karu's only reply. "Check yer sais"
Said trap-detecting sais were glowing brightly red. And both of them knew what a trapped open clearing meant.
"Landmines." voiced both of them, each echoing the others thoughts. Karu glanced at the trees ringing the clearing.
"Probably trapped too."
"Definitely." Tanetris's reply was terse, reflecting the tension in the air.
"Still," Karu added, the kitsune's smile starting to come back, "I think we're more likely to survive what's in the trees than the land mines." With that, the kitsune grabbed a branch, and hoisted herself up into the tree. Mistake. Big Mistake. Once the six-tails had ascended into the tree's crown, the tree flew back, and launched her, a la catapult style, straight into the middle of the minefield.
*BOOM*
Karu, for the second time in 2 minutes, flew. Propelled by the explosion, the fox went flying across the minefield, landing...on the opposite side with an unceremonious *thump*
Staggering to her feet singed tails and all, Karu yelled to Tanetris. "WHOAAH! WHATTA RUSH!"
"Hey Queslin!" she yelled and then chased after her. Strange that she was in some kind of robe, but people can't be too picky about other's appearances...besides, there were awfully worse clothes for others to be in. X.X
Tanetris just shook his head. Crazy kitsune, he thought to himself. Taking the quarterstaff from his back, he muttered a few words, and began floating several feet in the air. As he was passing unhurriedly over the minefield, the werewolf used the chance to survey some of the land ahead. It wasn't much further to a cabin, but he was quite sure the worst trap was still ahead. Scanning further, he saw... No... Tanetris sighed deeply, for what did he see but that human again, floating over the trees just out of sight of the cabin, sipping a Ninjaburger soft drink. Persistent, that one..
Finally landing next to Karu, she gave him a puzzled look, "Why so glum chum? If you really wanna do a minefield bounce, we can do it on the way back, didn't hafta use that thingy. It's really fun, if you don't mind your tails burning a little, but you've only got the one tail, so it wouldn't be so bad for you..." the kitsune went on as Tanetris slung the quarterstaff across his back and checked his sai to see how the road ahead looked. A deep red glow on the pommel to indicate the minefield behind them, and a slight yellow glow on the end of the blade. Either the last trap was very weak, which seemed unlikely, or it wasn't until just short of the cabin. At least they could walk that far without too much worry.
The werewolf turned his attention back to Karu who was still talking, "...and then my cousin Dari, he's the one who married the 4-tails, but Dari, he just couldn't stand..."
"Karu..."
"...like he had any say, everyone knows that you can't go against tradition like that, it just isn't right, and besides, where would the fun be if..."
"KARU!!!"
"Huh? What's up Tannie?"
The werewolf sighed deeply again. He had forgotten how hard it was keeping a kitsune's mind on one thing. He missed the Fanboy Wars. Sure it was a time of darkness and destruction across the lands of MegaTokyo, but he had been in the presence of Pirogoeth herself. He had even helped her, in his own limited way, and had been gifted with this katana. He hadn't needed a reward, but who was he to refuse something from Almighty Pirogoeth?
Tanetris came back to himself as Karu poked him in the ribs. Goddess, he thought to himself, I'm as bad as her...
He cleared his throat and spoke, "We're clear of traps for awhile, let's get going. Oh, and whatever message you got from Gorion about the minefield, I'll thank him later. It's not much further to the cabin."