Chapter 1:
Inside the Money Pit...
Welcome to the Money Pit, a place filled with treasure, but only if you can get past the traps leading to it! The most unconventional traps are put here to ensure no one reaches the main room, as Yoshimitsu will see...
"Ah, I've gotten past the launching spears, sensing lasers, and the chainsaws, to name a few. There isn't much left..."
Yoshimitsu soon found out that the traps get even trickier, as he stepped on a floor panel and... Yoshimitsu is knocked square to the ground! And the verdict...
A spring-loaded boxing glove knocked him upside the head.
"Ow... What madman puts the glove of a boxer in the wall?" With that he sliced the spring and continued. "Now there are only three traps left."
Later down the road, he found a tell-tale sign of another trap.
"Ah, this one resembles the one known as Steel Rain... but probably more dangerous..." Yoshimitsu looked down the road and saw after the whole floor under the trapdoor ceiling was a safe spot. "Perhaps I should've asked Yunsung how to vault with a sword, but I have faith that I can make this jump."
Yoshimitsu made a leap of faith... just to land one inch from the safe spot. The roof opened up to reveal... falling pies! They all landed on Yoshimitsu, which he then spits out.
"Ewww... Why did they have to be apple? I prefer blueberry myself"
The second-to last trap seems a bit vague, but one clue was there...
"A sloped incline... and sensory lasers blocking the whole area, there is no way I can skip this, so I must..." Yoshimitsu walked through, and a thud sounded. Looking behind him, he saw...
"A giant boulder! Now I get it!" The boulder starts to roll. "It seems this downward ramp lets the boulder accelerate at a rate where none but the fastest can escape and... I should be running now, shouldn't I?" As the boulder neared him, he ran like heck.
Rushing from the boulder, Yoshimitsu saw another man running alongside him. Looking ahead, there was a dim light, but a pit as well... The man alongside him grabbed his human arm and said one thing. "Hang on tight." With that the man grabbed a whip and latched on to a wooden plank over the pit and swung across. As the two land, Yoshimitsu turned around to see that this man was wearing archaeologist clothing.
"Is this where the lost ark is located?" said the man.
"Sorry, no, try the temple down the street."
"Darn." He left.
The last trap was in the vicinity, but it was so well kept, no one found out until it was too late. Even Yoshimitsu, with his mastery of traps, couldn't sense it. "So Vercci meant to keep this one as a deathwish... but it won't stop me from reaching his treasures. Whoaah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" He soon found the reason for dismay...
The whole floor was covered with banana peels.
"Not the horror of the slippery peelings of the crescent fruit!!!" He tried using the walls to cross, but to no avail, as he fell and landed on the peels, slipping, slipping, slipping some more, and launching off a ramp slope. As the view swaps to another camera and zooms into Yoshimitsu, he lands on a wide catwalk while his sword stabs into something...
(Behind the Scene:
"Hey swap to another camera! He just took out the one under the catwalks!")
He looked around and saw what he expected. Gold, diamonds, dollar bills, rupees, yen, francs, euros, pesos, those old Greek coins that changed every so often, and sugar cane! Yoshimitsu took out a huge bag and stuffed as much of the goodies in there, having some of the sugar cane.
As soon as the bag was full, he started to head back, only to find someone stopping him. Yoshimitsu stood back...
"A master of many lives, observed..."
With a start, Yoshimitsu went for a vertical swipe, only for Voldo to evade and swap to a Mantis crawl. As he rolled into a wheel, he went toward Yoshimitsu, only to swap to a Deathcopter trick to attack Voldo. Voldo then lunged his Katar right into Yoshimitsu's mask! Stuck to the mask, the katar was pulled back by Voldo, revealing his bandages and red eyes. "YOSHIMITSU NEVER REMOVES HIS MASK!!!"
Yoshimitsu then rushed Voldo, used a shark attack combo, and as Voldo got up from the attack, got massacred with a ninja blade rush.
Yoshimitsu then took his mask from the beaten-to-a-pulp Voldo and put it back on. "I am Yoshimitsu! Had enough?"
Back at his shack, Yoshimitsu put ¾ths of the money in a box reading:
"Send to the poor. Gradually drop it along the flight path."
Ah... another job well done.
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Well, it makes you wonder why Yoshimitsu has a wooden arm. He lost it, read the official Soul Calibur history for that.
Next Chapter:
The Collector and the Heir
Inside the Money Pit...
Welcome to the Money Pit, a place filled with treasure, but only if you can get past the traps leading to it! The most unconventional traps are put here to ensure no one reaches the main room, as Yoshimitsu will see...
"Ah, I've gotten past the launching spears, sensing lasers, and the chainsaws, to name a few. There isn't much left..."
Yoshimitsu soon found out that the traps get even trickier, as he stepped on a floor panel and... Yoshimitsu is knocked square to the ground! And the verdict...
A spring-loaded boxing glove knocked him upside the head.
"Ow... What madman puts the glove of a boxer in the wall?" With that he sliced the spring and continued. "Now there are only three traps left."
Later down the road, he found a tell-tale sign of another trap.
"Ah, this one resembles the one known as Steel Rain... but probably more dangerous..." Yoshimitsu looked down the road and saw after the whole floor under the trapdoor ceiling was a safe spot. "Perhaps I should've asked Yunsung how to vault with a sword, but I have faith that I can make this jump."
Yoshimitsu made a leap of faith... just to land one inch from the safe spot. The roof opened up to reveal... falling pies! They all landed on Yoshimitsu, which he then spits out.
"Ewww... Why did they have to be apple? I prefer blueberry myself"
The second-to last trap seems a bit vague, but one clue was there...
"A sloped incline... and sensory lasers blocking the whole area, there is no way I can skip this, so I must..." Yoshimitsu walked through, and a thud sounded. Looking behind him, he saw...
"A giant boulder! Now I get it!" The boulder starts to roll. "It seems this downward ramp lets the boulder accelerate at a rate where none but the fastest can escape and... I should be running now, shouldn't I?" As the boulder neared him, he ran like heck.
Rushing from the boulder, Yoshimitsu saw another man running alongside him. Looking ahead, there was a dim light, but a pit as well... The man alongside him grabbed his human arm and said one thing. "Hang on tight." With that the man grabbed a whip and latched on to a wooden plank over the pit and swung across. As the two land, Yoshimitsu turned around to see that this man was wearing archaeologist clothing.
"Is this where the lost ark is located?" said the man.
"Sorry, no, try the temple down the street."
"Darn." He left.
The last trap was in the vicinity, but it was so well kept, no one found out until it was too late. Even Yoshimitsu, with his mastery of traps, couldn't sense it. "So Vercci meant to keep this one as a deathwish... but it won't stop me from reaching his treasures. Whoaah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" He soon found the reason for dismay...
The whole floor was covered with banana peels.
"Not the horror of the slippery peelings of the crescent fruit!!!" He tried using the walls to cross, but to no avail, as he fell and landed on the peels, slipping, slipping, slipping some more, and launching off a ramp slope. As the view swaps to another camera and zooms into Yoshimitsu, he lands on a wide catwalk while his sword stabs into something...
(Behind the Scene:
"Hey swap to another camera! He just took out the one under the catwalks!")
He looked around and saw what he expected. Gold, diamonds, dollar bills, rupees, yen, francs, euros, pesos, those old Greek coins that changed every so often, and sugar cane! Yoshimitsu took out a huge bag and stuffed as much of the goodies in there, having some of the sugar cane.
As soon as the bag was full, he started to head back, only to find someone stopping him. Yoshimitsu stood back...
"A master of many lives, observed..."
With a start, Yoshimitsu went for a vertical swipe, only for Voldo to evade and swap to a Mantis crawl. As he rolled into a wheel, he went toward Yoshimitsu, only to swap to a Deathcopter trick to attack Voldo. Voldo then lunged his Katar right into Yoshimitsu's mask! Stuck to the mask, the katar was pulled back by Voldo, revealing his bandages and red eyes. "YOSHIMITSU NEVER REMOVES HIS MASK!!!"
Yoshimitsu then rushed Voldo, used a shark attack combo, and as Voldo got up from the attack, got massacred with a ninja blade rush.
Yoshimitsu then took his mask from the beaten-to-a-pulp Voldo and put it back on. "I am Yoshimitsu! Had enough?"
Back at his shack, Yoshimitsu put ¾ths of the money in a box reading:
"Send to the poor. Gradually drop it along the flight path."
Ah... another job well done.
--------
Well, it makes you wonder why Yoshimitsu has a wooden arm. He lost it, read the official Soul Calibur history for that.
Next Chapter:
The Collector and the Heir