Kmoney: Good mother of Ham! I've been gone for sometime. Wow, I'm all
lonely in this cold room...oh well. I'm not surprise if I'm talking to
myself and I don't get reviews because I've been gone for a really long
time. Its just school and work; work and school. They've taken over my life
and now I was suppose to do something other than this! Crud! Anyways, I
would like you to be aware that any and all new characters besides the
you've never heard of belong to their respective owners. Trust me there are
a lot of new characters being introduced in this chapter.
Chapter 7
World Tour: Part 7: The Hallucinations
Heero wiggled his finger in his ear while yawning. The progress with fixing his computer stuff was taking long than he thought and for some reason his ear was really itching.
Sage walked up to him and kneeled down.
"So how's it comin'?"
"Nothing...I need a new chip. This one is fried."
Sage nodded thoughtfully and stared forward. "Where can we get a chip from?"
"I don't know...let's think about it."
************
Sage stood on the beach in a peaceful silence as he watched the sunset.
"Wow, this is sure a nice sunset." sighed the slim, brown haired woman next to him.
Sage nodded and turned to her. "Yes it is my sweet."
The woman looked at him with a glitter of happiness in her eyes. "Oh, Sagey!" she hugged.
Sage returned her hugged. "Oh, random passenger number twenty-nine!"
"Just call me Stacey!" she replied.
"Okay random passenger number twenty-nine...I mean Stacey!"
They fell on the sand with her on top of him and they were getting ready to kiss when suddenly Stacey was shoved off of him by a force.
"Stacey!" Sage called in a worried tone.
Stacey shook her head and looked at the person.
"YOU!" Stacey shouted with rage
Sage looked at the person as well. "Ugh...you!?" Sage screamed unsure of himself
"Yes, it is I..." the dramatic pause, "Mina! HA HA HA!"
"What do you want?" Stacey demand.
"You should know...I want my bodyguard...you can never have him." Mina replied with a smug attitude.
"You may have that kind of power while on the radio, but not now!"
"Oh yeah?"
"YEAH! And I want my car dammit!" Stacey launched herself at Mina and the two started rolling around on the ground fighting.
Stacey pinned Mina to the ground and was getting ready to punch her. "Where's my car?"
"Get the hell off of me!" Mina ordered. "Get off!"
"Not until I get my car!"
"I'll scream for Heero and Sage!" she warned.
"Go ahead! Sage doesn't care!"
"What?" Sage asked, walking by. "What about me?"
Mina grinned and looked at him. "Get her off of me."
"Oh, okay." Sage walked up and pulled Stacey off. "Its not nice to attack people, ma'am."
Stacey blinked. "But...but...but..."
"Freakin' crazy random passengers, I swear..." Mina muttered walking off. "Car...what the hell is she talking about, I don't have her car!"
Sage started off in a different direction, but Stacey grabbed him by the arm.
"Sage don't you remember!"
"Remember what?"
"Our romantic moment together."
Sage thought long and hard before it hit him. "Hey, I knew you looked familiar. Stacey...Stacey Roberts! We use to go out sometime a couple of years ago. Yeah, I remember everything now...Mina crank call you about a car and stuff. It wasn't very nice of her, but it sure was funny."
"But what about our romantic moment we were just having?" she asked.
"What? Hey, listen, I was just talking to Heero a few minutes ago. And I have to go. It--it...was nice talking to you Stacey!" he ran off kind of fast and didn't look back.
Stacey glared after Sage. "How dare he!?"
*********
"Ms. Mysterious girl!" called the little bellboy as he ran down the halls. "Ms. Mysterious girl, where are you?"
"I'm right here young boy!" Ms. Mysterious girl called.
The bellboy stopped and caught his breath before he continued...
********
Mina sat down in the grass and got comfortable. "I still can't figure out why that woman sounds familiar."
"Maybe its because she's your friend..." said a small voice.
"Huh?" Mina looked around.
"Down here!" the voice called.
Mina glanced down and the flower smiled at her. Mina in returned cocked an eyebrow.
Suddenly dozens of flowers started sprouting out of the ground around her talking and singing and dancing.
Mina looked off to the side. "I'm having this strange feeling this has happen before...but to someone else..."
"Play with us Mina!" chorused the flowers.
After a pause Mina shrugged. "OKAY!"
********
"Heero, everyone's hallucinating!" Cye panic. "You don't think it was because of my water."
"Well I drank your water and I'm not gone nuts."
"But you don't have an imagination to cause hallucination so you don't count!"
Cye was sure he saw Heero glare at him for his comment but said nothing of it.
"Anyways, its got to be something they ate. Something they ate and we didn't." Heero continued. "You figure that out and I'll continue to work on this."
Cye nodded. "Well, okay, I'll go but say Heero, have you even eaten anything. It's been a few days...or weeks and I don't recall you seeing you eat."
Heero gave Cye a cool stare. "I eat alone."
Cye stared back at him for a moment before choosing not to ask and walked away.
******
*Back in Tokyo*
In a large dark conference room figures cloaked in the shadows sat.
"So...?" said the first. "Why are we here?"
"Because its been a month since the members of Late Nite Chat went missing and we're losing money and ratings putting their show on hold till they reappear." explained a second, but this one female.
"And...?" said the first.
"Well," continued the woman, "we shall seize this opportunity to replace the crew with new members. We'll give the old cast a month and a half to returned and if they don't we'll have the new members sign on as the official new members of Late Nite Chat."
"Wow..." said a third, new, male voice in awe, "You said 'new members', like, three times."
"Shut-up!" snapped a fourth.
"With these new members we shall prove to the world which country makes the best cartoons." announced the first.
"Dude, we're in Japan and we're going to try to prove the Japanese not to be the best?" asked the third.
"Well...yeah." replied the first.
"Cool!" several members said.
"But just for the record," started third, "I like Hamtaro!"
"Shut-up!" snapped the fourth once again.
"Oh God..." sighed the second. "We've lost sight of the reason we're doing this!"
"Okay, why are we doing this?" asked the seventh.
"To get our ratings and money back!" she answered.
"Oh, yeah. Well, then, let's forget the whole proving Japan to not be the best thing then. Let's go get our crew." the first threw in.
"I personally will go get the members." said a new voice.
"And I'll go with him!" said a second new voice.
"Fine...go ahead, it's your company!" said the fourth. "Just make sure they're good."
********
Tai sat under a tree staring at the sea. "Man, I'm bored."
"Oh, Tai!" called a sweet voice.
Tai looked around in confusion. "Who's there?"
"Its me the girl of your dreams." A hand came into Tai's view and he stared at it. Soon his eyes moved from the hand to the forearm to the elbow to..well you get the point...and he finally saw her face. He blushed intensely when he saw who it was.
"Wow...I knew it would be you."
"Of course, I am the girl of YOUR dreams..." she said.
"I could cry--are you real?"
"I'm as real as Heero Yuy's gun."
Tai grinned. "COOL!"
********
Rowen ran into the small village the people had made with a conch shell in his hand. "Look what I found!"
"What is it Rowen?" asked Mina. Dully.
"Its a conch shell--dude didn't the narrator say that?"
"Yeah, okay, what's it for?" Sage rushed.
Rowen cleared his throat and answered in a dramatic tone. "With this conch shell we shall-"
"Play some football!" cheered a random passenger and tossed the conch shell to Cye. Everyone started tossing the conch shell around.
"Ugh...no...listen!"
Everyone looked at him impatiently.
"No...with the conch we will maintain order and civilization. With a football we shall run amuck and act like animals attacking our women when we're drunk and have sex when we're horny."
"Ewe..." said many of the women.
"So what shall it be?" asked Rowen. "Conch shell or football?" In one hand there was a football, in the other was the conch shell.
"Conch shell!" cried the women.
"Football!" cheered the men.
"Wow, it sounds like a tie!"
"You're gonna use that conch shell or I'm going to rip out your spleen and feed it to your puppy!" snapped a random woman.
"Wow, she looks a lot like Mia when she's upset." Sage commented.
"Jesus, Rowen snap out of it!" cried Mina. "Snap the hell out of it! We need your smartness!"
"What?" Rowen questioned.
"AHH!" Mina smacked him across the face several times in a rage. "Snap out of it! Guy's he's still gone!"
"He must have eaten more of whatever it is we all ate than we did." Sage said.
"What?" Cye asked looking at him. "That made as much sense as...as...man that made no sense at all!"
"Ahh, I see you're finally back!" cheered Mina.
"What was with all the smacking in the face?" Rowen demanded, holding the now red hand print on his face
"We're all kind of hallucinating and we need you to figure out what it is we all ate that caused it." Cye said.
"Oh, well, I'll go sit under a tree and think about it." Rowen replied and did just that.
********
*A couple of days later....in Tokyo*
"Now," Jin Kazama announced looking at his board members. "As the head of this company I've made a list of names of the people we will acquire to replace the members of Late Nite Chat."
"Well," said a female. She turned her big leather chair around to reveal herself to be Julia Chang, "go ahead and get it over with."
"I'm just as interested as she is." said a man in a freaky kinda of echo voice. He turned his chair around to reveal himself to be Scorpion.
The next person turned their chair around showing themselves to be Johnny Cage. "When those two agree it must be interesting."
Four other chairs turned around to reveal the following people: Hwoarang, Sonya Blade, Ryu, and Quistis Trepe. The last two chairs remained turned around.
"Can I please continue?" Jin cut in, agitated.
"Go ahead..." Ryu replied.
"The host will be Hyatte, the co-host shall be Ru-"
"Now wait just a darn minute!" Johnny screamed.
Jin looked up from the paper at Johnny with a confused expression. "What? What's wrong?"
"You didn't just say Hyatte?"
"Um..yes...yes I did." Jin answered, nodding along. "Why?"
"Well--I mean...gee...let's see here--umm--Its Hyatte!" Johnny replied, getting enraged.
"So?" Jin replied, still not following Johnny.
Ryu decided he'd better help explain the situation. "Well, Jin, really, you know that girl does have a tendency to...well...die."
"OOOOhhhh..." Jin let out, giving a slow nod. "That would prove to be a problem."
There was a brief in which the board members assumed Jin was thinking of a replacement for Hayatte.
'I wanna take you for a ride...' Jin sang in his head, while nodding.
"Say, Jin?" called Quistis.
He looked over at her. "Yeah?"
"Are you even planning to replace her?"
Jin blinked for a second before shaking his head. "Only if she declines. Now moving on. The co-host will be Ruri Hoshino." he looked around at the board members for any objections. "I see no one has a problem with that selection."
"She's a smart little girl," Julia began. "Her only problem is with calling people idiots, but hey the crew we have now has done much worst than that."
"So very true." Scripion agreed, nodding, while folding his arms across his chest.
Hwoarang shuddered. "They are starting to agree a little too much for my own good."
Several members glanced at him before returning their attention to Jin, who continued with the list.
"The bodyguard will be Argo Gulskii, manager Trunks Briefs, and assassin Kenshin Himura. Any objections to any of these last people?"
While the members were contemplating over the last suggestions, Jin's eyes fell on two seats not turned around. "Hey, you two wanna join in on our very important decisions?" he growled.
"Umm...Sakura isn't here." Hwoarang decided to answer.
"Where the hell is she then?" Ryu wondered.
Hwoarang grinned nervously as he remembered the night before.
{The night before}
"Man am I piss drunk, Hwoarang." Sakura said, swaying from side to side. "I think I'll go to sleep right here."
"M'kay..." mumbled Hwoarang. He continued to stumble towards his apartment while just behind him Sakura fell fast first into the cement. After hearing the thump he turned around and saw what happened. "Whoops. Better drag you to the hospital."
And he did just that...
{Flashback over}
Hwoarang shook the memory away and looked at the waiting members faces. He was about to explain the whole ordeal to them, but pause to weight his decisions.
'Now if I tell them that we got so drunk last night that I'm sure I slept with a stranger they'll get mad, but it I tell them she's sick at home with the flu they'll praise me for looking out for her. I'll go with B, Mr. strange man with lots of money. Is that my final answer you ask? Why yes it is. That is indeed my final answer--what? You want me to think it over?...fine fine I will...'
"Hwoarang, we would like an answer this century." Sonya rushed.
Hwoarang snapped out of his daydream and quickly explained. "She's sick and- -ugh...very sick!"
After a brief minute of deciding if this was indeed true or not, the board members decided not to dwell on the subject and moved on to find out what was going on with the other board member, who seemed to refuse to turned his/her chair around and join in on the discussion.
"Well...what about you?" Jin demanded.
The chair slowly turned around. "It'sa me Mario!" they said in an accent.
"Kinda obvious." Julia muttered.
"Ya know, Mario, I'm sick of your conceited shi-stuff...I hate you!" Quistis shouted and ran out of the room. She quickly came back and added. "By the way...I fully agree with the list!"
With that Quistis left, leaving a room full of confused people in the process.
"So...ugh...are we all in agreement?" Jin asked.
"YES!" came the reply.
"Good...meeting adjourn. See ya next week."
**********
"Oh, Umi Ryuuzaki, I love you so..." Tai whispered lovingly into the ear of the women of his dreams.
Umi giggled in reply. "Oh, you're so sweet. Kiss me!"
"I will!"
And the two began to kiss passionately under the starry sky. That is till Umi started trying to pry Tai's lips of hers while trying to scream. Finally in a desperate act, Umi pulled her leg back, bent it a little and in went her knee into Tai's royal jewels. This action allowed Umi to get free and start bellowing and crying for answers as to why Tai was trying to rape her.
Tai on the other hand stared in shock as his loved spit on the ground trying to get the 'flavor' out of her mouth.
"Oh, God, its like when I accidentally kissed Sage all over again!" she complained.
Tai blinked and then glared forward. "Sage kissed you!? No one dare touches my love and gets away with it!"
Umi blinked. "Umm...hello, I'm not your love and besides I said accident-- though it was a pretty good kiss--no! Bad thought! Bad thought!"
"What the hell is going on over here?" came a demanding tone.
Umi and Tai looked in unison to see Heero standing there with his gun pointed in their direction.
Umi jumped back with her hands her shaking them and her head frantically. "Don't kill me! Its me!"
Heero squinted in the dark to see who it was and when he finally made out a face, he put his gun away. "Sorry boss."
"No problem, just don't ever shoot before asking around here. I might be the one you hit."
Tai was now very confused. Why did Heero just call Umi 'boss'? He remember Heero calling someone else this, but he couldn't quite remember the face. Who really was Heero Yuy's boss?
"So anyways, what's going on?" Heero wondered.
Umi looked at Tai before replying. Giving Tai a smile and a wink she looked back at Heero and answered. "Oh, nothing, its just...err.. I saw a bug-- well actually it was Tai, but at first I thought it was a bug, so I screamed and panic and whatnot."
"Oh?" Heero reply, staring intently at Umi.
"Yep. Just a simple MISUNDERSTANDING! Right, Tai?"
Tai was still trying to figure why Umi and Heero were such good friends.
"Tai? Hey, Tai!" Umi shouted.
Finally it struck Tai like a lighting bolt and he gasp. "Oh my GAWD! I'm hallucinating again! You're not the woman of my dreams!" He pointed a accusing finger at 'Umi'. "You're Mina Aino!"
The vision finally faded into the darkness and where Umi was standing was indeed Mina Aino. She was giving Tai that look that clearly read 'I know I'm Mina Aino, but who did YOU think I was, you little freak?'.
Tai looked at Heero and smacked his forehead as he got off the ground. "This is why I need to stick to the digital world and eat things I know I can eat." he walked off without another comment into the night.
Mina yawned and scratched behind her ear. "I be glad when Rowen figures out just what in the hell is going on. I'm real sick of being in the middle of everyone else's hallucinations."
[Next Morning]
Rowen suddenly jolted awake with a light bulb over his head that was glowing with ideas and answers.
"I got it!"
Cye, who was lying to just a few feet away turned over. "Got what?" he grumbled.
"Well, I figured out what's got everyone so whacko." he answered almost cocky.
Cye yawned and slowly rose to his feet, "Well, I'll go gather all the people who haven't killed themselves, jumped into the lake, or is simply gone mad 'cause of these hallucinations."
Rowen nodded giving him no other reply as he begin to go over all his facts.
About twenty minutes, several tries at trying to wake everyone still partially sane, and wake Mina, Cye had returned with everyone ready and waiting for Rowen to explain to them what the hell's been going on.
Rowen exited a hut with an easel and a series of paintings in hand. Once he set up, he picked up a stick and cleared his throat for attention.
"Okay, you all know for the past two weeks or so some of us have been experiencing some sort of surreal events that has lead to quite a view suicides, attempted suicides, and of course, murders and attempted murders. I am here to explain to you exactly what cause such events to take place."
He removed the paper covering his work revealing a painting of himself, Cye, Heero, and Sage all standing around.
"Now it began when myself and my colleagues all went on a expedition of the land to see if anyone was on the island, to which might I had was a failure, anywho, this was when we stumbled upon a fruit tree with nice, ripe fruit. Remember folks at that time we were stuck eating the three C's: crab, cow, and coconut. So of course this was indeed a glorious discovery. Now-"
"Wait." Heero cut in. "If I was there, then how come I'm not crazy too."
Mina rolled her eyes. "Because you were crazy to being with Heero." she said knowingly.
Rowen rolled his eyes as well, but not for the same reasons. "No, Heero, actually the real reason is because you didn't eat the fruit." He moved his painting revealing another one of himself, standing on Sage's head, reaching for a fruit. "I decided to be the test subject and tried the fruit. The rest of you had not eaten any. I told you it was okay and we took enough back to village for everyone else." he again tossed the painting aside showing them one of the rest of passengers eating fruit. He moved this one without words, showing one with all the passengers running wild with swirly eyes and foam coming from their mouth. "This was when the hallucinations started and the random deaths occurred. Of course not all of us decided to just end it by death." he moved the painting showing people jumping into 'cow lake'. "Any questions?"
"Yes, how long does this last?" asked Stacy.
"Well, I'm going to say about two weeks because I had only one piece of fruit and it was at the time of the discovery and my hallucinations continued till yesterday. Any others?"
A young girl raised her hand. "Rowen, you're very sexy and smart wanna go out with me?"
Rowen cocked an eyebrow. "I'll see you later."
Cye growled and decided to jump in. "What do we do about the problem, Rowen?"
Rowen stared at Cye. Cye stared at Rowen. Rowen fiddled with his stick. Cye fiddled with his thumbs. Rowen scratched his chin. Cye scratched his ear. Heero started loading his gun. Rowen decided to answer.
"We need to get off this island."
Tai raised his hand. "And how do we do that?"
"Build rafts, boats, sprout wings, swim. I don't know! Just as long as we get off of this island!"
"I'll begin plans for making boats and writing down the materials we'll need." Heero offered and walked off.
"Good. Sage, you take a group of people and get the rest of supplies from the plane. Cye, you get a group and go to that river just south of here and gather fresh water."
Cye snapped up and glared. "You bloody bastard, you told me you couldn't find fresh water!" Before he let himself get too angry he just nodded and walked off.
"And I'll gather a group to gather food from around the area." Rowen finally said.
"Don't I get to do something?" Mina asked, sadly.
Rowen looked at her long and hard. Then grinned. "I've got something for you to do Mina...something very important."
Mina smiled like a child. "What is it?"
Rowen continued to grin in a evil matter as he laughed in his head. "You are to..." *****************************
A/N: Just for your info every member of that board was a video game character from some type of fighting game except Mario and Quistis even the meantion but not actual appearing Sakura. Well, I guess I'm actually giving my story a real, solid plot now. Get off the island, get back to Tokyo before you lose your jobs, whatever. I'm going to bed.
Chapter 7
World Tour: Part 7: The Hallucinations
Heero wiggled his finger in his ear while yawning. The progress with fixing his computer stuff was taking long than he thought and for some reason his ear was really itching.
Sage walked up to him and kneeled down.
"So how's it comin'?"
"Nothing...I need a new chip. This one is fried."
Sage nodded thoughtfully and stared forward. "Where can we get a chip from?"
"I don't know...let's think about it."
************
Sage stood on the beach in a peaceful silence as he watched the sunset.
"Wow, this is sure a nice sunset." sighed the slim, brown haired woman next to him.
Sage nodded and turned to her. "Yes it is my sweet."
The woman looked at him with a glitter of happiness in her eyes. "Oh, Sagey!" she hugged.
Sage returned her hugged. "Oh, random passenger number twenty-nine!"
"Just call me Stacey!" she replied.
"Okay random passenger number twenty-nine...I mean Stacey!"
They fell on the sand with her on top of him and they were getting ready to kiss when suddenly Stacey was shoved off of him by a force.
"Stacey!" Sage called in a worried tone.
Stacey shook her head and looked at the person.
"YOU!" Stacey shouted with rage
Sage looked at the person as well. "Ugh...you!?" Sage screamed unsure of himself
"Yes, it is I..." the dramatic pause, "Mina! HA HA HA!"
"What do you want?" Stacey demand.
"You should know...I want my bodyguard...you can never have him." Mina replied with a smug attitude.
"You may have that kind of power while on the radio, but not now!"
"Oh yeah?"
"YEAH! And I want my car dammit!" Stacey launched herself at Mina and the two started rolling around on the ground fighting.
Stacey pinned Mina to the ground and was getting ready to punch her. "Where's my car?"
"Get the hell off of me!" Mina ordered. "Get off!"
"Not until I get my car!"
"I'll scream for Heero and Sage!" she warned.
"Go ahead! Sage doesn't care!"
"What?" Sage asked, walking by. "What about me?"
Mina grinned and looked at him. "Get her off of me."
"Oh, okay." Sage walked up and pulled Stacey off. "Its not nice to attack people, ma'am."
Stacey blinked. "But...but...but..."
"Freakin' crazy random passengers, I swear..." Mina muttered walking off. "Car...what the hell is she talking about, I don't have her car!"
Sage started off in a different direction, but Stacey grabbed him by the arm.
"Sage don't you remember!"
"Remember what?"
"Our romantic moment together."
Sage thought long and hard before it hit him. "Hey, I knew you looked familiar. Stacey...Stacey Roberts! We use to go out sometime a couple of years ago. Yeah, I remember everything now...Mina crank call you about a car and stuff. It wasn't very nice of her, but it sure was funny."
"But what about our romantic moment we were just having?" she asked.
"What? Hey, listen, I was just talking to Heero a few minutes ago. And I have to go. It--it...was nice talking to you Stacey!" he ran off kind of fast and didn't look back.
Stacey glared after Sage. "How dare he!?"
*********
"Ms. Mysterious girl!" called the little bellboy as he ran down the halls. "Ms. Mysterious girl, where are you?"
"I'm right here young boy!" Ms. Mysterious girl called.
The bellboy stopped and caught his breath before he continued...
********
Mina sat down in the grass and got comfortable. "I still can't figure out why that woman sounds familiar."
"Maybe its because she's your friend..." said a small voice.
"Huh?" Mina looked around.
"Down here!" the voice called.
Mina glanced down and the flower smiled at her. Mina in returned cocked an eyebrow.
Suddenly dozens of flowers started sprouting out of the ground around her talking and singing and dancing.
Mina looked off to the side. "I'm having this strange feeling this has happen before...but to someone else..."
"Play with us Mina!" chorused the flowers.
After a pause Mina shrugged. "OKAY!"
********
"Heero, everyone's hallucinating!" Cye panic. "You don't think it was because of my water."
"Well I drank your water and I'm not gone nuts."
"But you don't have an imagination to cause hallucination so you don't count!"
Cye was sure he saw Heero glare at him for his comment but said nothing of it.
"Anyways, its got to be something they ate. Something they ate and we didn't." Heero continued. "You figure that out and I'll continue to work on this."
Cye nodded. "Well, okay, I'll go but say Heero, have you even eaten anything. It's been a few days...or weeks and I don't recall you seeing you eat."
Heero gave Cye a cool stare. "I eat alone."
Cye stared back at him for a moment before choosing not to ask and walked away.
******
*Back in Tokyo*
In a large dark conference room figures cloaked in the shadows sat.
"So...?" said the first. "Why are we here?"
"Because its been a month since the members of Late Nite Chat went missing and we're losing money and ratings putting their show on hold till they reappear." explained a second, but this one female.
"And...?" said the first.
"Well," continued the woman, "we shall seize this opportunity to replace the crew with new members. We'll give the old cast a month and a half to returned and if they don't we'll have the new members sign on as the official new members of Late Nite Chat."
"Wow..." said a third, new, male voice in awe, "You said 'new members', like, three times."
"Shut-up!" snapped a fourth.
"With these new members we shall prove to the world which country makes the best cartoons." announced the first.
"Dude, we're in Japan and we're going to try to prove the Japanese not to be the best?" asked the third.
"Well...yeah." replied the first.
"Cool!" several members said.
"But just for the record," started third, "I like Hamtaro!"
"Shut-up!" snapped the fourth once again.
"Oh God..." sighed the second. "We've lost sight of the reason we're doing this!"
"Okay, why are we doing this?" asked the seventh.
"To get our ratings and money back!" she answered.
"Oh, yeah. Well, then, let's forget the whole proving Japan to not be the best thing then. Let's go get our crew." the first threw in.
"I personally will go get the members." said a new voice.
"And I'll go with him!" said a second new voice.
"Fine...go ahead, it's your company!" said the fourth. "Just make sure they're good."
********
Tai sat under a tree staring at the sea. "Man, I'm bored."
"Oh, Tai!" called a sweet voice.
Tai looked around in confusion. "Who's there?"
"Its me the girl of your dreams." A hand came into Tai's view and he stared at it. Soon his eyes moved from the hand to the forearm to the elbow to..well you get the point...and he finally saw her face. He blushed intensely when he saw who it was.
"Wow...I knew it would be you."
"Of course, I am the girl of YOUR dreams..." she said.
"I could cry--are you real?"
"I'm as real as Heero Yuy's gun."
Tai grinned. "COOL!"
********
Rowen ran into the small village the people had made with a conch shell in his hand. "Look what I found!"
"What is it Rowen?" asked Mina. Dully.
"Its a conch shell--dude didn't the narrator say that?"
"Yeah, okay, what's it for?" Sage rushed.
Rowen cleared his throat and answered in a dramatic tone. "With this conch shell we shall-"
"Play some football!" cheered a random passenger and tossed the conch shell to Cye. Everyone started tossing the conch shell around.
"Ugh...no...listen!"
Everyone looked at him impatiently.
"No...with the conch we will maintain order and civilization. With a football we shall run amuck and act like animals attacking our women when we're drunk and have sex when we're horny."
"Ewe..." said many of the women.
"So what shall it be?" asked Rowen. "Conch shell or football?" In one hand there was a football, in the other was the conch shell.
"Conch shell!" cried the women.
"Football!" cheered the men.
"Wow, it sounds like a tie!"
"You're gonna use that conch shell or I'm going to rip out your spleen and feed it to your puppy!" snapped a random woman.
"Wow, she looks a lot like Mia when she's upset." Sage commented.
"Jesus, Rowen snap out of it!" cried Mina. "Snap the hell out of it! We need your smartness!"
"What?" Rowen questioned.
"AHH!" Mina smacked him across the face several times in a rage. "Snap out of it! Guy's he's still gone!"
"He must have eaten more of whatever it is we all ate than we did." Sage said.
"What?" Cye asked looking at him. "That made as much sense as...as...man that made no sense at all!"
"Ahh, I see you're finally back!" cheered Mina.
"What was with all the smacking in the face?" Rowen demanded, holding the now red hand print on his face
"We're all kind of hallucinating and we need you to figure out what it is we all ate that caused it." Cye said.
"Oh, well, I'll go sit under a tree and think about it." Rowen replied and did just that.
********
*A couple of days later....in Tokyo*
"Now," Jin Kazama announced looking at his board members. "As the head of this company I've made a list of names of the people we will acquire to replace the members of Late Nite Chat."
"Well," said a female. She turned her big leather chair around to reveal herself to be Julia Chang, "go ahead and get it over with."
"I'm just as interested as she is." said a man in a freaky kinda of echo voice. He turned his chair around to reveal himself to be Scorpion.
The next person turned their chair around showing themselves to be Johnny Cage. "When those two agree it must be interesting."
Four other chairs turned around to reveal the following people: Hwoarang, Sonya Blade, Ryu, and Quistis Trepe. The last two chairs remained turned around.
"Can I please continue?" Jin cut in, agitated.
"Go ahead..." Ryu replied.
"The host will be Hyatte, the co-host shall be Ru-"
"Now wait just a darn minute!" Johnny screamed.
Jin looked up from the paper at Johnny with a confused expression. "What? What's wrong?"
"You didn't just say Hyatte?"
"Um..yes...yes I did." Jin answered, nodding along. "Why?"
"Well--I mean...gee...let's see here--umm--Its Hyatte!" Johnny replied, getting enraged.
"So?" Jin replied, still not following Johnny.
Ryu decided he'd better help explain the situation. "Well, Jin, really, you know that girl does have a tendency to...well...die."
"OOOOhhhh..." Jin let out, giving a slow nod. "That would prove to be a problem."
There was a brief in which the board members assumed Jin was thinking of a replacement for Hayatte.
'I wanna take you for a ride...' Jin sang in his head, while nodding.
"Say, Jin?" called Quistis.
He looked over at her. "Yeah?"
"Are you even planning to replace her?"
Jin blinked for a second before shaking his head. "Only if she declines. Now moving on. The co-host will be Ruri Hoshino." he looked around at the board members for any objections. "I see no one has a problem with that selection."
"She's a smart little girl," Julia began. "Her only problem is with calling people idiots, but hey the crew we have now has done much worst than that."
"So very true." Scripion agreed, nodding, while folding his arms across his chest.
Hwoarang shuddered. "They are starting to agree a little too much for my own good."
Several members glanced at him before returning their attention to Jin, who continued with the list.
"The bodyguard will be Argo Gulskii, manager Trunks Briefs, and assassin Kenshin Himura. Any objections to any of these last people?"
While the members were contemplating over the last suggestions, Jin's eyes fell on two seats not turned around. "Hey, you two wanna join in on our very important decisions?" he growled.
"Umm...Sakura isn't here." Hwoarang decided to answer.
"Where the hell is she then?" Ryu wondered.
Hwoarang grinned nervously as he remembered the night before.
{The night before}
"Man am I piss drunk, Hwoarang." Sakura said, swaying from side to side. "I think I'll go to sleep right here."
"M'kay..." mumbled Hwoarang. He continued to stumble towards his apartment while just behind him Sakura fell fast first into the cement. After hearing the thump he turned around and saw what happened. "Whoops. Better drag you to the hospital."
And he did just that...
{Flashback over}
Hwoarang shook the memory away and looked at the waiting members faces. He was about to explain the whole ordeal to them, but pause to weight his decisions.
'Now if I tell them that we got so drunk last night that I'm sure I slept with a stranger they'll get mad, but it I tell them she's sick at home with the flu they'll praise me for looking out for her. I'll go with B, Mr. strange man with lots of money. Is that my final answer you ask? Why yes it is. That is indeed my final answer--what? You want me to think it over?...fine fine I will...'
"Hwoarang, we would like an answer this century." Sonya rushed.
Hwoarang snapped out of his daydream and quickly explained. "She's sick and- -ugh...very sick!"
After a brief minute of deciding if this was indeed true or not, the board members decided not to dwell on the subject and moved on to find out what was going on with the other board member, who seemed to refuse to turned his/her chair around and join in on the discussion.
"Well...what about you?" Jin demanded.
The chair slowly turned around. "It'sa me Mario!" they said in an accent.
"Kinda obvious." Julia muttered.
"Ya know, Mario, I'm sick of your conceited shi-stuff...I hate you!" Quistis shouted and ran out of the room. She quickly came back and added. "By the way...I fully agree with the list!"
With that Quistis left, leaving a room full of confused people in the process.
"So...ugh...are we all in agreement?" Jin asked.
"YES!" came the reply.
"Good...meeting adjourn. See ya next week."
**********
"Oh, Umi Ryuuzaki, I love you so..." Tai whispered lovingly into the ear of the women of his dreams.
Umi giggled in reply. "Oh, you're so sweet. Kiss me!"
"I will!"
And the two began to kiss passionately under the starry sky. That is till Umi started trying to pry Tai's lips of hers while trying to scream. Finally in a desperate act, Umi pulled her leg back, bent it a little and in went her knee into Tai's royal jewels. This action allowed Umi to get free and start bellowing and crying for answers as to why Tai was trying to rape her.
Tai on the other hand stared in shock as his loved spit on the ground trying to get the 'flavor' out of her mouth.
"Oh, God, its like when I accidentally kissed Sage all over again!" she complained.
Tai blinked and then glared forward. "Sage kissed you!? No one dare touches my love and gets away with it!"
Umi blinked. "Umm...hello, I'm not your love and besides I said accident-- though it was a pretty good kiss--no! Bad thought! Bad thought!"
"What the hell is going on over here?" came a demanding tone.
Umi and Tai looked in unison to see Heero standing there with his gun pointed in their direction.
Umi jumped back with her hands her shaking them and her head frantically. "Don't kill me! Its me!"
Heero squinted in the dark to see who it was and when he finally made out a face, he put his gun away. "Sorry boss."
"No problem, just don't ever shoot before asking around here. I might be the one you hit."
Tai was now very confused. Why did Heero just call Umi 'boss'? He remember Heero calling someone else this, but he couldn't quite remember the face. Who really was Heero Yuy's boss?
"So anyways, what's going on?" Heero wondered.
Umi looked at Tai before replying. Giving Tai a smile and a wink she looked back at Heero and answered. "Oh, nothing, its just...err.. I saw a bug-- well actually it was Tai, but at first I thought it was a bug, so I screamed and panic and whatnot."
"Oh?" Heero reply, staring intently at Umi.
"Yep. Just a simple MISUNDERSTANDING! Right, Tai?"
Tai was still trying to figure why Umi and Heero were such good friends.
"Tai? Hey, Tai!" Umi shouted.
Finally it struck Tai like a lighting bolt and he gasp. "Oh my GAWD! I'm hallucinating again! You're not the woman of my dreams!" He pointed a accusing finger at 'Umi'. "You're Mina Aino!"
The vision finally faded into the darkness and where Umi was standing was indeed Mina Aino. She was giving Tai that look that clearly read 'I know I'm Mina Aino, but who did YOU think I was, you little freak?'.
Tai looked at Heero and smacked his forehead as he got off the ground. "This is why I need to stick to the digital world and eat things I know I can eat." he walked off without another comment into the night.
Mina yawned and scratched behind her ear. "I be glad when Rowen figures out just what in the hell is going on. I'm real sick of being in the middle of everyone else's hallucinations."
[Next Morning]
Rowen suddenly jolted awake with a light bulb over his head that was glowing with ideas and answers.
"I got it!"
Cye, who was lying to just a few feet away turned over. "Got what?" he grumbled.
"Well, I figured out what's got everyone so whacko." he answered almost cocky.
Cye yawned and slowly rose to his feet, "Well, I'll go gather all the people who haven't killed themselves, jumped into the lake, or is simply gone mad 'cause of these hallucinations."
Rowen nodded giving him no other reply as he begin to go over all his facts.
About twenty minutes, several tries at trying to wake everyone still partially sane, and wake Mina, Cye had returned with everyone ready and waiting for Rowen to explain to them what the hell's been going on.
Rowen exited a hut with an easel and a series of paintings in hand. Once he set up, he picked up a stick and cleared his throat for attention.
"Okay, you all know for the past two weeks or so some of us have been experiencing some sort of surreal events that has lead to quite a view suicides, attempted suicides, and of course, murders and attempted murders. I am here to explain to you exactly what cause such events to take place."
He removed the paper covering his work revealing a painting of himself, Cye, Heero, and Sage all standing around.
"Now it began when myself and my colleagues all went on a expedition of the land to see if anyone was on the island, to which might I had was a failure, anywho, this was when we stumbled upon a fruit tree with nice, ripe fruit. Remember folks at that time we were stuck eating the three C's: crab, cow, and coconut. So of course this was indeed a glorious discovery. Now-"
"Wait." Heero cut in. "If I was there, then how come I'm not crazy too."
Mina rolled her eyes. "Because you were crazy to being with Heero." she said knowingly.
Rowen rolled his eyes as well, but not for the same reasons. "No, Heero, actually the real reason is because you didn't eat the fruit." He moved his painting revealing another one of himself, standing on Sage's head, reaching for a fruit. "I decided to be the test subject and tried the fruit. The rest of you had not eaten any. I told you it was okay and we took enough back to village for everyone else." he again tossed the painting aside showing them one of the rest of passengers eating fruit. He moved this one without words, showing one with all the passengers running wild with swirly eyes and foam coming from their mouth. "This was when the hallucinations started and the random deaths occurred. Of course not all of us decided to just end it by death." he moved the painting showing people jumping into 'cow lake'. "Any questions?"
"Yes, how long does this last?" asked Stacy.
"Well, I'm going to say about two weeks because I had only one piece of fruit and it was at the time of the discovery and my hallucinations continued till yesterday. Any others?"
A young girl raised her hand. "Rowen, you're very sexy and smart wanna go out with me?"
Rowen cocked an eyebrow. "I'll see you later."
Cye growled and decided to jump in. "What do we do about the problem, Rowen?"
Rowen stared at Cye. Cye stared at Rowen. Rowen fiddled with his stick. Cye fiddled with his thumbs. Rowen scratched his chin. Cye scratched his ear. Heero started loading his gun. Rowen decided to answer.
"We need to get off this island."
Tai raised his hand. "And how do we do that?"
"Build rafts, boats, sprout wings, swim. I don't know! Just as long as we get off of this island!"
"I'll begin plans for making boats and writing down the materials we'll need." Heero offered and walked off.
"Good. Sage, you take a group of people and get the rest of supplies from the plane. Cye, you get a group and go to that river just south of here and gather fresh water."
Cye snapped up and glared. "You bloody bastard, you told me you couldn't find fresh water!" Before he let himself get too angry he just nodded and walked off.
"And I'll gather a group to gather food from around the area." Rowen finally said.
"Don't I get to do something?" Mina asked, sadly.
Rowen looked at her long and hard. Then grinned. "I've got something for you to do Mina...something very important."
Mina smiled like a child. "What is it?"
Rowen continued to grin in a evil matter as he laughed in his head. "You are to..." *****************************
A/N: Just for your info every member of that board was a video game character from some type of fighting game except Mario and Quistis even the meantion but not actual appearing Sakura. Well, I guess I'm actually giving my story a real, solid plot now. Get off the island, get back to Tokyo before you lose your jobs, whatever. I'm going to bed.