Author's notes: OK, may we present the third revised chapter!!

Disclaimer: Yes, we know we don't own Ronin Warriors. We don't own N*SYNC (thank every deity imaginable for that...) and we don't own crazy Victoria's Secret vending machines either.

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Chapter 3

The troop decided it would be best to lay low and stay out of sight, so the best option was the subway. Yaaaay... The boys were randomly scattered about, trying to come up with some sort of something that vaguely resembled an idea. Rain leaned her back against a concrete pillar, sighing once in a while. Amariie was elsewhere, scavenging for food. Ol' Orangey wasn't too happy at the present moment.

"Double cheeseburger...Chili cheese fries...Corndog...Stuff-crust pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, Canadian bacon, meatballs, olives, and extra chee-"

"Will you SHUTTAP!" Rain bellowed, not able to take anymore. "Geez! You would think you could go without food for more than 5 minutes! It's not like you're starving to death, if you know what I mean," she said, pointing at his gut.

Kento glared at her like she was the incarnate of evil...well she probably was but that's beside the point. "Why I got a real good mind to do something not so nice to ya."

Rain narrowed her eyes until they were slits. "Back off tubby."

Her opponent then lunged at her, face red with fury. She only smiled when she saw the Brit grab ahold of him. "Cye! Leggo! I can handle this!" he yelled.

His deep English accent rang through the tunnel. "And you'll do what?! Blow us all to bits? Kento, just relax for a while."

Kento relaxed a bit as Cye let him go. Rain grinned a bit and focused her attention on something more trivial.

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Amariie's fuzzy boots made a loud clicking sound as she walked down a tunnel, looking for anything that resembled food. Her stomach growled yet again as she turned a corner. After constant bickering from the "Ronins", they had finally let her go...with one of them. The blue haired, blue-eyed guy strolled silently behind her as she looked in ticket booths, hoping for a left over happy meal or something. Amariie's eyes lit up as she saw a line of tall gray boxes in an abandoned subway lobby. She giggled and skipped towards it. Vending machines! The blue one raised his eyebrow in question as to why his new female companion suddenly frolicked off. He poked his head around a corner to see her...hugging a vending machine with a content gleam on her face.

He strode up beside her and said, "You know what you're hugging, right?"

Amariie looked at him, then at the machine. Once she saw what was inside, she backed away slowly. "Um...why does this have underwear in it?"

Rowen remembered she lived thousands and thousands of miles away from here. "Japan has all kinds of vending machines. Surprised?"

"Well I didn't expect to see a Victoria's Secret vending machine..." she said, then walked along the line of machines, passing beer, porno, and comic books until she found a normal one with food and drinks. Rowen strode up beside her as she was picking up a lone quarter.

She examined the backside of it and tossed it down. Seeing a questioning gaze from Rowen, she muttered, "There's no moose on it," and proceeded to sort through her bottomless purse. She was then scared the shit out of when Rowen smashed his armored hand into the vending machine, making glass and goodies scatter around.

"WHAT THE FREAKING HELL?! Are you deliberately trying to give me a heart attack?" Amariie demanded.

Rowen merely grinned at her, then looked off to the side. "You don't need change when I'm around. You know, this one time I-" he stopped when he looked back to see Amariie on the ground, picking up various chips, cokes, and candy bars. Once she stood up, she could barely see over the top.

"Little help would be nice right about now," she said.

Blue boy rolled his eyes, took half the load, and both walked back to the others.

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A dark room held the presence of four armored beings. One, tall and handsome. Crimson hair falling over his deep catlike green eyes. Another, dark green spiky hair gave him a different quality you do not find in humans. His gleam in his eye making him look like a psychopath. A third, curly hair as white as the moon shining on a clear night falling over his ice blue eye. His other covered by an eye patch from a battle so long ago. The last one with blue hair and a scar seemed nervous for some reason. His whole body quaked and shook. The other three glanced at him from time to time, wondering what the hell was wrong with him.

An evil aura made its presence known in the room as the four armored beings placed their right hand at their chest as a sign of loyalty. The fourth one still seemed restless because he could not keep his body still for a moment. A larger armored being materialized before the others, obviously having a higher authority over the four before him. He then sat on a large, richly decorated throne. As soon as his bum touched the seat, a loud farting sound erupted through the spacious throne room.

Dais's eye went wide and immediately he burst into a snorting laughter, followed by Anubis and Sekhmet.

Talpa slowly reached underneath and pulled out an expired whoopee cushion, then threw it aside, obviously about to have a hissy fit. "WHO," he demanded, causing in the immediate shutting up of the three giggling buffoons.

Anubis spoke up before anyone else could blame him. Even though it was a great idea of his, he didn't want to get fired for it...literally. "It was Sekhmet!"

Sekhmet whipped his head around and growled at the red-head, but before he could open his mouth in protest, Talpa had already shot angry red beams from his eyes at him.

Feeling better about venting, he cleared his throat then began. "Dark Warlords! Welcome to the Dynasty meeting. Dais! Make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And NOT the crunchy peanut butter! That give me hives in the WORST place!"

The white haired one stepped forward. "Yes Talpa!" He quickly disappeared and reappeared with a plate with NON crunchy peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a glass of milk. "I brought you some milk."

"Is it 2%?"

"We were out. This is skim..."

"ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!" Red beams flew out of his eyes and hit Dais head on, causing the sandwich to fall and milk to splatter everywhere.

"...dammit. Wasted good peanut butter."

The blue haired one shook even more, but Talpa only gave him an unsure glance.

"Anyways...our bake sale last weekend was a huge success. We raised over $500 for Sekhmet's metal treatment."

The blue haired one squeezed his legs together as Talpa eyed him suspiciously. "Cale. Is something wrong?"

Sweat began to gleam on his brow. "N-no Master Talpa! N-n-nothing at all!" Talpa bent down and picked up the smeared sandwich and promptly took a bite. "Now the car wash on the other hand..."

Cale started to slightly jump up and down.

Talpa's body smoked from the heat emitting from his anger. His rage caused him to squeeze his sandwich into a...not so looking like a sandwich thing. Cale gulped. "Cale. If you tell me what's wrong I won't dock your pay for the next month," he said with strain in every word.

Cale's eyes flashed fear of not being able to buy that new Britney Spears CD. "Nothing's wrong, M-master T-t-t-t-talpa. Why would anything be wrong?"

"Hmm...you worry me. Anyways, onto another subject." He motioned to a rather large big screen TV (it pays to be evil-heh) that appeared. On the screen appeared five armored boys along with two young girls. "Now do not underestimate these warr..." Talpa was interrupted by Cale jumping up and down while crossing his legs. "CALE! WHAT THE HELL IS MATTER WITH YOU?!"

"..I gotta go potty..."

Talpa put his head in his hands. "You have ten seconds..."

"Thankyoumastertalpa!" Cale said quickly and made a mad dash to the nearest restroom.

"Why? Why didn't I become a dentist like Talpa Senior? But nooooo, I had to be ruler of the land of mental traumas. No offense Sekhmet. I need a root canal now that I think of it."

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Once the walking piles of food appeared around the corner, Kento's eyes sparkled with love. He leapt up and gave Amariie the biggest bear hug imaginable. Amariie squeaked when she felt strange arms around her. Calling for backup, she thrust her knee to a rather important part of Kento's anatomy. He slowly fell to the ground, holding his pride.

"Never and I mean NEVER touch me like that again you...you...HENTAI!!!" Amariie screeched.

The form below her wriggled a bit, then rolled over, facing upwards to see Amariie's bitchy expression. "Why does everyone hate me?!" he said loudly, still in a large amount of pain, despite his armor.

"I still wuv you Kento," a voice to the side said sarcastically, followed by a few giggles.

"Oh shut up, Ryo," Kento said back, not bothering to get up.

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The soft sound of a toilet flushing filled the air of the throne room. Talpa let out a sigh of boredom. Cale always took the longest in the bathroom out of all the warlords. Talpa's eyes drooped and he began to slowly fall to the right. Without warning, the huge wooden door smashed open against the wall. Talpa jerked out of slumber and tried his best to act alert as Cale walked swiftly to join the other four.

Cale situated himself next to Anubis. "We're out of toilet paper. You need to go to the Mortal World and buy some more."

Anubis' eyes went wide. "Me?! I went last time!"

"No you didn't! I did!"

"No! I did!"

"I did."

"I DID!"

"You did."

"You di...dammit Cale!"

Cale flashed a smile of victory and focused his attention on Talpa.

Talpa shifted his weight as the big screen TV came down once again. He pulled a sleek black remote out from under the throne and clicked on the TV. On the screen held the Ronins with two girls.

"*Ahem* Now as I were saying. Never underestimate these warriors."

Dais stepped forward. "Who are the two girls?"

"No clue. But they could be dangerous, so be on guard always. Now leave me. I have work to do," Talpa said while tapping his fingers together.

The warlords looked at each other, then disappeared to their respective chambers. Once they were gone, an apparition appeared. "I hope I'm not too late, Master Talpa. My pedicure ran over time."

Talpa waved his hand to dismiss his excuse. "Badamon, I have a brilliant beyond brilliant plan for getting rid of the Ronins once and for all.

Badamon leaned forward. "And what would that be?"

Talpa's motionless face grinned. "I shall send forth a wicked spell that will transport each Ronin to the spot that represents their armors."

All went quiet.

Badamon blinked, then scratched his chin. "But if you do that, they'll be stronger."

"Why?"

"Because you'll be putting them in their elements."

"So?"

"If you put Wildfire in fire, he'll become stronger."

"Why?"

"..."

~15 minutes later~

"I don't get it," Talpa said while leaning back in his throne.

Badamon sighed loudly and out of thin air came a large screen on stands along with an old time camera. Badamon clicked a button and a movie began playing on the screen. The lights in the room dimmed.

"Why You Shouldn't Put The Ronin Warriors In Their Elements," boomed a fake 1950's man's voice. On the black and white screen showed a little boy about to put a Cye action figure in a tub of water.

The voice boomed again. "Oh no, Timmy. I wouldn't do that if I were you," it said to the boy. The boy looked up, confused. "Putting Cye of the Torrent in water would make him a lot stronger! If you want to kill him, you shouldn't do that." It then showed "Timmy" hanging a Ryo action figure upside down and about to light a cigarette lighter underneath it. "No, no, Timmy. Just like putting Cye of the Torrent in water, you can't put Ryo of the Wildfire in fire or he'll get stronger!"

Timmy then gave a smile and threw Ryo aside. "Good boy, Timmy. You're on your way to becoming emperor of the woooorld!" the voice said.

:lights turn on and equipment disappear:

Badamon looked at Talpa. "So NOW do you get it?"

"Meh. That movie sucked! No Oscars for that one," Talpa said, crossing his legs. "Oh um...what was the question?"

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~"You've might been hurt babe, that ain't no lie, seen them all come and go.."~ Amariie sang along with her discman, which came from her small (yea sure) purse.

Twitching with annoyance beside her was Rain and Ryo. Munching happily on the remaining crumbs in the corner of a potato chip bag was Kento. Sitting across the clearing on a subway bench with Kento was Rowen, Sage, and the Brit.

Cye narrowed his eyes at Kento. "Shut your mouth when you chew."

Kento chewed some more.

"..Kento.."

More chewing.

"KENTO..."

Louder chewing.

"KENTO YOU SLOB, QUIT IT!!!!"

Kento stuck out his chewed-up-food-covered tongue at Cye.

::SMACK::

Kento laid in pain on the ground as Cye looked all to pleased with himself.

~"..you're just, to blind, to see, that in the end you know its gonna be me..."~

"Does she do this often?" Sage asked Rain with curiosity.

Rain nodded her head sadly.

~"..every little thing I do, never seems enough for you, you don't want to loose it again, but I'm not like them. Baby when you finally, get to love someone, that's why, its gonna be me.."~

Ryo shuddered with utter disgust. "I can't stand N*SYNC."

"Either do I, but she sings it good..." Rowen added. He received many blank stares, but he ignored them all.

Suddenly from behind Ryo came White Blaze (Amariie insisted on calling him just kittie since White Blaze was a mouthful) out of the shadows. He walked straight to Rain and Amariie. Rain smiled and patted its head.

Amariie looked down horrified. "EEEEKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS THAT MONSTER DOING HERE!!!!!! SOMEONE SAVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, leaping into the arms of the nearest person, who happened to be Rowen.

Rain flicked off Amariie's earphones. "Ariie, that was the nice tiger from earlier...REMEMBER" she said through clenched teeth.

"Oh yeah...silly me!" Amariie said with a giggle, then hopped down from a blushing Rowen's arms.

Suddenly a loud rumble caused them all to look at Kento, who was still lying on the floor.

"God Kento, you just ate," Sage's scathing remark bounced off the tunnel walls.

"It wasn't me, really!!" the insulted Kento whimpered.

"Don't whine, please, you sound like Amariie." Rain snapped irritably.

"Hey!"

Another rumbling sound caused them all to stand alert. Suddenly the ceiling started to crumble as a grappling hook shot through it and landed in the center of the room.

Through the hole they all saw a laughing figure glare at them.

Rain's eyes glittered.