*BY: KUROHIME**
(Luckily for Jess, her ATB bar filles up first. She does the only thing that she can think of... and summons Phoenix...)
JESS: I hope we had enough Phoenix Pinions for this to work... Darnit, Bob, you're not supposed to die on me NOW.
BOB: *cough, twitch* I know, but I thoght it would be more dramatic this way. *cough, twitch*
JESS: Your sense of dramatic irony is really messed up, you know?
BOB: Hey, everything I learned, I learned from you guys. *weak grin* *cough* ... can I go on with my scene now?
JESS: *sigh* No.
BOB: But I...
JESS: No.
BOB: But.......
JESS: No.
BOB: Now you're being mean.
JESS: No!
(Silence for a beat... then Jess starts to grin.)
JESS: She called you a great mage, you know.
BOB: *shrugging* Coming from Kuro, I don't know if I should take that as one of her jokes first. *laughs* Have you ever known that girl to be serious?
JESS: I've never known either of you to be serious. But I think she meant it. You are a great mage.
BOB: Are you trying to make me feel guilty for calling you mean now?
JESS: No. I mean it, too! *hits him lightly in the arm* Now come on, our MP isn't out yet, and we've still got some spells up our sleeves...
BOB: You sure know how to give me a pep-talk.
JESS: Of course I do. Now come on, I don't think those two mages are here to make nice with us.
(The battle starts.. again... this time, with Bob feeling a little better, but still not quite fully restored... and I'll leave it for Teefs of Veevs to describe...)
(Meanwhile, Roy and Kuro are racing down the H1 towards Tantalus on Roy's Hayabusa. They're going.... fast...)
ROY: *shouting back at Kuro* I'm glad they got rid of those traffic camera vans!
KURO: Can you imagine us explaining this to the judge? "Yes your honor, I had to save the world from my pet Dragon King. So going 110 was kind absolutely imperative!"
ROY: *mimicing the judge* "Why yes, that's a perfectly logical explaination. Now please put on the white jacket and we'll discuss your case further..."
KURO: They won't be laughing if Bahamut gets loose, though. How could something like this happen?
ROY: Hey, if I were a Dragon King, I'd do whatever the h*ll I wanted, too.
KURO: But he's a summon! He's not supposed to be like that.
ROY: Well, let me tell you something, sweetie. You don't think Sakaguchi-san came up with that idea of the Invincible driving Bahamut crazy purely from scratch, did you?
KURO: Yes.
ROY: He didn't.
KURO: Oy.
ROY: So hopefully he knows how they stopped the last Bahamut summon that went crazy
KURO: This happened before...?
ROY: Um....... long story. Moto and I talk about werid things at lunch.
(The two make their way to Sakaguchi-san's condo in Tantalus.)
KURO: I feel like I have to genuflect when I see him or something.
ROY: ... I think shaking his hand will be just as good.
(Sakaguchi-san is already waiting for them at the entrance to the building. He, too, can only speak Japanese, so once again, we have nice yellow subtitles floating under his head as he speaks. Lucky us, huh?)
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: Moto called me up to tell me what happened.
(Kuro is now just standing there, staring at Sakaguchi, with a star-struck, dumbfounded look on her face...)
ROY: *whispering to Kuro* Hon... you're oogling.
KURO: Dehhh... duhhh... ai........
ROY: *sigh* Uh... She says, 'What can we do to stop Bahamut?'
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: We need to get the original Summoner and the new Summoner to combine their powers to re-capture Bahamut.
KURO: *snaps out of it* Dagger and me work together? That's it?
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: Almost. That power that trapped him in the first place isn't all from the Invincible ship.
ROY: Of course not. That would have been too easy.
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: There are seven additional summons that need to be called first. You and Dagger will have to find all eight of them and use all eight to destroy the Invincible power.
ROY: *giggling* I just noticed the irony of the name Invincible... *pauses, then looks darkly at the horizon* How much longer will Bahamut stay... immoblie?
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: That, I don't know.
ROY: That would have been too easy, too, huh?
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: Kitto.
KURO: Well, looks like the party's only just started. I think we need to go and find the other two mages.
ROY: They can help us look for the other seven summons.
KURO: And I want my car back!
(Luckily for Jess, her ATB bar filles up first. She does the only thing that she can think of... and summons Phoenix...)
JESS: I hope we had enough Phoenix Pinions for this to work... Darnit, Bob, you're not supposed to die on me NOW.
BOB: *cough, twitch* I know, but I thoght it would be more dramatic this way. *cough, twitch*
JESS: Your sense of dramatic irony is really messed up, you know?
BOB: Hey, everything I learned, I learned from you guys. *weak grin* *cough* ... can I go on with my scene now?
JESS: *sigh* No.
BOB: But I...
JESS: No.
BOB: But.......
JESS: No.
BOB: Now you're being mean.
JESS: No!
(Silence for a beat... then Jess starts to grin.)
JESS: She called you a great mage, you know.
BOB: *shrugging* Coming from Kuro, I don't know if I should take that as one of her jokes first. *laughs* Have you ever known that girl to be serious?
JESS: I've never known either of you to be serious. But I think she meant it. You are a great mage.
BOB: Are you trying to make me feel guilty for calling you mean now?
JESS: No. I mean it, too! *hits him lightly in the arm* Now come on, our MP isn't out yet, and we've still got some spells up our sleeves...
BOB: You sure know how to give me a pep-talk.
JESS: Of course I do. Now come on, I don't think those two mages are here to make nice with us.
(The battle starts.. again... this time, with Bob feeling a little better, but still not quite fully restored... and I'll leave it for Teefs of Veevs to describe...)
(Meanwhile, Roy and Kuro are racing down the H1 towards Tantalus on Roy's Hayabusa. They're going.... fast...)
ROY: *shouting back at Kuro* I'm glad they got rid of those traffic camera vans!
KURO: Can you imagine us explaining this to the judge? "Yes your honor, I had to save the world from my pet Dragon King. So going 110 was kind absolutely imperative!"
ROY: *mimicing the judge* "Why yes, that's a perfectly logical explaination. Now please put on the white jacket and we'll discuss your case further..."
KURO: They won't be laughing if Bahamut gets loose, though. How could something like this happen?
ROY: Hey, if I were a Dragon King, I'd do whatever the h*ll I wanted, too.
KURO: But he's a summon! He's not supposed to be like that.
ROY: Well, let me tell you something, sweetie. You don't think Sakaguchi-san came up with that idea of the Invincible driving Bahamut crazy purely from scratch, did you?
KURO: Yes.
ROY: He didn't.
KURO: Oy.
ROY: So hopefully he knows how they stopped the last Bahamut summon that went crazy
KURO: This happened before...?
ROY: Um....... long story. Moto and I talk about werid things at lunch.
(The two make their way to Sakaguchi-san's condo in Tantalus.)
KURO: I feel like I have to genuflect when I see him or something.
ROY: ... I think shaking his hand will be just as good.
(Sakaguchi-san is already waiting for them at the entrance to the building. He, too, can only speak Japanese, so once again, we have nice yellow subtitles floating under his head as he speaks. Lucky us, huh?)
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: Moto called me up to tell me what happened.
(Kuro is now just standing there, staring at Sakaguchi, with a star-struck, dumbfounded look on her face...)
ROY: *whispering to Kuro* Hon... you're oogling.
KURO: Dehhh... duhhh... ai........
ROY: *sigh* Uh... She says, 'What can we do to stop Bahamut?'
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: We need to get the original Summoner and the new Summoner to combine their powers to re-capture Bahamut.
KURO: *snaps out of it* Dagger and me work together? That's it?
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: Almost. That power that trapped him in the first place isn't all from the Invincible ship.
ROY: Of course not. That would have been too easy.
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: There are seven additional summons that need to be called first. You and Dagger will have to find all eight of them and use all eight to destroy the Invincible power.
ROY: *giggling* I just noticed the irony of the name Invincible... *pauses, then looks darkly at the horizon* How much longer will Bahamut stay... immoblie?
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: That, I don't know.
ROY: That would have been too easy, too, huh?
SAKAGUCHI-SAN: Kitto.
KURO: Well, looks like the party's only just started. I think we need to go and find the other two mages.
ROY: They can help us look for the other seven summons.
KURO: And I want my car back!