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"He isn't in his room!"

"What? How could he get away?"

"I don't know, but in the state he's in…"

"We have to find him before he does something stupid."

"He probably escaped through the hub by now, let's try and follow him"

"Of course."

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It was all a dream, Dizzy decided. She pushed her face further into the pillow, and tried to remove the last memories out of her head while her eyes remained closed. 'This is all a dream; I'm actually sleeping in my room in the Mayship. Not lying hurt in a forest' She continued to reason the notion of falling several thousand feet but waking up wrapped in blankets.

"Dizzy? Are you awake?" A feminine voice asked beside her.

'And that would be April, or May or one of my friends that came to wake me up.' Dizzy thought to herself while slowly turning her head to face the voice.

"Bridget?" Dizzy now looked around the room, which was a fancifully decorated with a healthy amount of gold colored stuff, and other materials that allowed one to yell out 'rich' when you saw the room at first glance. Also in a chair beside the Gear was the aforementioned young bounty hunter who was, for some reason, wearing his outside clothes that he usually wore while going out on bounties.

"Dizzy! Your awake!" Bridget practically jumped out of his chair while grabbing Dizzy's nearby hand in concern. "Are you alright?"

Dizzy, previously overwhelmed by the fact she was NOT in the Mayship now noticed her body covered in numerous bandages. Well, as many bandages as Bridget could put on without stripping her naked of her pirate uniform. "How did I get here?" Dizzy asked.

"You tell me. All I know is that I was walking through the woods near my house today and I found you rolling down the hill all messed up. I carried you back here."

"How long was I asleep?"

"Not to long actually. Maybe only an hour at most."

Dizzy smiled and nodded her head at the Bounty Hunter. "Thank you for taking care of me, Bridget."

Bridget's face redden slightly as he chuckled sheepishly, "Nah, its alright. Anything for a friend, right?"

"I suppose."

"But how did you get down here like this anyways?" Bridget asked, switching to the more serious topic at hand.

"I was thrown off."

"What? By who?"

"I don't know. A man in black just appeared in the ship, calling me a contradiction and saying that he wanted to turn me into a Gear or kill me."

"That's horrible. What sort of lunatic would call anybody a contradiction?"

"I don't know, but he is very powerful. I think he might know that I'm still alive."

At the sound of those words, a very familiar voice yelled out, the words reaching past the window in the room so that the hunter and the Gear could hear.

"Oi! Does anybody live in this freaky looking joint?" The voice harshly cried out. Bridget walked over to the window in the room that faced the direction of the man.

"Who's there Bridget?" Dizzy asked in fear of the inevitable.

"Some guy in black with a staff."

"His head! What is he wearing on his head?" Dizzy asked more desperately.

"Some black bandanna or something that a superhero wears."

"It's him! It's the man that wants to kill me!" Dizzy said in fear.

"What? This guy?"

"Yes."

"I'll take care of him. Just stay here."

"Be careful." Dizzy said to the bounty hunter's turned back as he left the room.

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" 'Bout freakin' time somebody came out here!" The person snorted.

"Well, here I am. Who are you and what do you want?" Bridget asked, feigning any knowledge of the events taking place.

"Are you the only guy who lives here?" The man asked.

"Right now, yes."

"Well, have you seen a blue haired, red eyed, looks-nineteen-but actually-three-year-old chick with a tail and two wings attached to her back capable launching various amounts of artillery?" The man asked again.

"No." Bridget said quickly.

"Well, then I don't believe you, kid."

"I tell you, that I never saw anybody around here who looks like that." Bridget flatly said


"Wait! I have this little doo-hickie here…" the man raised his staff to emphasize a flat black disc on the bottom, that looked a lot like a metal detector. "This thing is capable of finding even the most minute amount of metal. Can even detect the iron in blood."

"So?" again the hunter said flatly.

"So, using this device I found a trail of iron AKA blood that led from the bottom of a hill all the way to the front doorstep of your house. You carried something bleeding inside." The person said in a cold tone.

"There is no one in this house except me." Bridget replied firmly.

"Bullshit! I know where Dizzy fell, and I know you dragged her into your house. Now lemme in little girl!" The man walked forward.

"No!" Bridget, seeing the inevitable, let loose his Yo-yos, aiming the devices at the man's ankles, hoping to take him out with little trouble. The person merely knocked the flying weapons out of the way with his staff.

"You wanna fight me? You have no idea what your up against."

"Fine!" Bridget pulled on his yo-yos, making them swing around in a circle. Bridget then hunched down with his hand in the air so that the weapons swung in a complete circle above him, with hopes it would collide with the man's side. Again the man knocked the attack away.

"What foolishness is this? Dragon Flame!" The man swung this staff into the ground, the reaction causing a large geyser of flame explode out of the ground at the bounty hunter. Bridget easily blocked this attack by letting the yo-yos form a star in front of him, but the force drove him backwards. The man then charged in to capitalize.

Man, this guy isn't messing around! And the strength of his attacks… Bridget thought while throwing a yo-yo into the air and past the attacking man. The person ignored the supposedly meaningless action until he saw the English man suddenly tuck his arms under his chin and started flew past him in a rolling manner.

"Crazy girl! You'll get a headache like that!" The man swiveled around to continue his chase. Bridget had other plans as he landed.

"Loop the loop!" The bounty hunter was sure that even if the man blocked, there was no way he could block them all. The man turned around to turn his back at Bridget, while his staff with both hands across his back, forming a block, much to Bridget's surprise a green shield also started to be emitted around the man so that all the swings of the yo-yos impacted harmlessly around the man, while he sneered through the shield. As soon as the technique was finished, the person turned around.

"Faultless Defense is your friend!" The man laughed loudly.

"How did you do that!?" Bridget harshly interrogated.

"What? I thought all you guys knew how to do that. Oh well. Panzer Cracker!" The man swung the black rod over his shoulder and got onto his knees. The staff grew in width and a handle sprouted onto one end that the person gripped, from the hollow that appeared in the large staff, a missile flew out towards Bridget, who let the yo-yo's form a star again to block the projectile, which smashed against the barrier multiple times before disappearing.

"Wait! How did you make your weapons change forms?"


"All creators should keep their secrets to themselves, little girl."


"I'm not a girl!"

"Of course you are! What on earth are you talking about?"

"I'm a guy!"

The person raised an eyebrow, "You must kidding."

Bridget face was clearly serious. The man's face paled, while he cringed and dropped his weapon in shock

"NEYAH!!!! That isn't right!!! You can't be a boy and girl at the same time!! Just my luck, I came for one, and I find two illogical things!"

Bridget's face flustered with anger, "Are you implying something?"

"No, I was just saying that now I find you are an illogical element as well. No wonder this place is so screwed up."

"Hey! Shut up!" Bridget then jumped onto his yo-yos and rode them towards the person, in hopes of running him over.

"Neh! You're a very rude as well! Parry!" The man swung out his staff in front of him and held it in front of him, just as Bridget's attack hit the rod. Bridget seemed to be frozen for a few seconds in his position before the person smashed the rod into Bridget's gut. Again to the bounty hunter's supirse, he found his body mechanically staggering backwards for no reason, while the person made a pose and was about to make a thumb down motion. Then a large voice echoed out of nowhere.

"ROMANTIC!"

The person suddenly emitted blue circles that radiated from him while he suddenly charged out of his posture with inhuman reactions. The person suddenly swung his rod around him in a blur of swings, while shouting out 'Majestic Mix'. Bridget, still stumbling backwards for no reason, could not defend against the attack as he felt hard steel smash against his body everywhere. Falling to the ground, Bridget was about to get back up again, but the man's foot mashed into his chest and pushed him back into the dirt. The man's weapon sharpened on one side, and the man aimed it at Bridget's neck, preparing to plunge in.

"And with your death I shall become invincible! Well, that was how that moron said it in The Mummy. Anyways, I gotta kill you since you're contradictory too, then Dizzy's next." The man said matter-of-factly

"You can't do this! You're crazy!"

"That would be half-insane. You have no idea what I am like when I really am totally crazy."

Can't let him kill me… wait I still have… Bridget pulled on one of the yo-yo cables, which sent silent commands to the floating apparatus in the air behind the person.

"Here Roger! Come!"

"You are really-" the man's sentence was cut as a spinning teddy bear with one fist outstretched, smashed into the back of the lunatic, making him back away in an equally mechanical stagger as the bear continued to smash the man while flying back to his owner.

Have to end this now. Bridget, doing a complex series of tricks, ended up with one of the yo-yo's slipping out of control and hitting him on the head. The man, now that the attacks subsided, started to approach again.

"Ha ha! Now I shall destroy you for wasting time not attack-" his rant was again interrupted at a series of explosions erupted from the air around him, caused by the bad trick Bridget preformed. As the bounty hunter got back up he saw the man in black fly flying into the air.

"AHHHHHH!!!!! Looks like I'm blasting off again!!!!! Pokemon is property of Nintendoooooooo…." The man disappeared in the horizon until the sky gave of a flash as the final mark of his position. Bridget just wiped the sweat off his head.

"That was tough."

"Bridget!" Dizzy's voice cried out. Said bounty hunter turned around to see the injured pirate limp/run towards him.

"Dizzy, you shouldn't run like that!" Bridget said in distress, but the Gear just shook it off.

"I heal fast, remember? But you nearly got killed!" Dizzy suddenly said.

"Oh this? Just a bruise." Bridget answered while gingerly touching his sides.

"Are you sure?"

Bridget nodded, "I managed to get the guy away, but I think he'll be back quickly enough. We need to get you out of here."

"But where?"

"The closest place is London, and that's the only place you could land something the size of Johnny's ship. Your friends are bound to be there. We should go there."

"Okay."

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The travel to London city was a long one, and by the time the two managed to there, it was night time and raining hard, but it was a busy city and people ran and walked here and there despite the rain.

"So where should we go now, Bridget?" Dizzy asked as she looked around her surroundings from under the covered area of the shop the two were in.

"I guess we should go to the airfield. C'mon let's take the Underground." Unfortunately, as Bridget finished that sentence, a familiar cry of terror started echoing throughout the area, making the people near by look around. Then a man fell from the sky and into the nearby riverside. The soaked person clawed his way onto the pavement with his rod, sputtering water and rants all the way.

"Stupid boy-girl, launching me into the sky and stuff. Don't they call those people a goy-YOU!?!!?" The person, who hoisted his whole body out of the water, now noticed the fleeing figures of Bridget and Dizzy, who were heading towards the subway entrance.

"Hey! You know I don't like the subway!" The person's weapon then changed shape again, turning the large shoulder mounted bazooka. Firing the new projectile weapon, the rocket exploded against the entrance and made the device collapse onto itself in front of the two 'illogicals'. People now started screaming and running everywhere, giving Bridget the chance to grabbed Dizzy by the wrist and run down the street away from the distracted person. The man simply stared at the disappearing figures for a few seconds before leaping onto the roof of a building. Bridget noticing nobody chasing them, stopped Dizzy and himself for a second while looking around.

"I think we lost him." Dizzy said between pants.

"Nope! Your friendly and absolutely lovable maniac armed with a bazooka is up here!" cried the man's voice as the pirate and hunter looked up to see the person bearing down on them with the shoulder-mounted cannon, which fired an especially sharp ended rocket. The two on the ground threw themselves to the side to see the weapon impact and dig quite deep into the ground beside them, but not explode.

"Oh, dratty! I missed again." The man faked a pout before aiming again. Bridget and Dizzy were up from the ground and running again from the comment. Soon enough rocket-propelled metal spears started flying through the air and lodged themselves just behind the escaping couple. As the two ran to a city square, they ran blindly into a man.

"Dizzy!?" Johnny said surprised as he saw the girl barrel into her. Dizzy looked up in surprise before shouting in warning.

"He's coming!"

Johnny needed no more warning as he drew his sheathed weapon and instinctively smashed the flying rocket away before turning to face the man on the roof, who was giving a cheeky grin.

"Man, everyone seems to be dressing funny these days! Can you stop knocking my missiles away?" the man asked while firing another rocket, which was predictably thrown out of its original course by Johnny's weapon.

"You, kid." Johnny quickly hissed at Bridget, "Since your helping Dizzy, get her to the air field and into hanger fifteen, got it?"

"Uh, okay." Bridget said very stupidly before being dragged away by Dizzy this time.

"Round two now, loser!" Johnny shouted to the person.

"Round what? Did we fight in the past? Because usually I just meet people, since most don't survive for a round two…" The person said before jumping down to meet the pirate king in battle.

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"I tell you, there is nothing that can beat Scotch! I tell you indeed." Axl chuckled and drank more of the gold liquid while conversing to a random person next to him. Axl had returned for his yearly memory trip back to London, where he used to live. The bar he was currently drinking in was the one he actually used to drink in regularly back in his old time. Luckily, the place managed to survive all these years.

"Ya know I used to drink here a lot, mate. I was pretty surprised this place was still standing."

"I drank here all my life, another funny thing is during all this time, not a single fight started here!"

Just Axl's drinking buddy finished, a body was hurled through the glass window in the front of the pub, flying all the way to the bar counter where the man collided back first with most of the bottles and falling down on the other side of Axl.

"Oi! You better be paying for all that crap!" The bartender shouted at the figure, that pulled himself up onto the counter one arm at a time. Axl raised an eyebrow.

"Johnny? What are you doing here in London? And are you going to pay for all that booze?"

"Man, that guy got one hell of a swing… Yeah, I'll pay when I can" Johnny pulled himself up while checking for any damage in his hat.

"Dude, man! You didn't break a neck! Now it'll make killing THIS much harder!" the lunatic said, stepping through the broken window.

"Whose this guy?" Axl said calmly while pointing to the approaching figure. "Dresses amazingly like you!"

"Some wannabe that wants to kill me, though I never thought I'd be that popular." Johnny replied before hoping over the counter to face the man.

"You going to fight him?" Axl asked.

"Yes."

"WHAT!? Hold it right here!" Axl was suddenly of his seat to push his arms between the two men in black. "Now I know you want to rip each others head off, but not here! This bar has a great tradition of being one of the FEW bars in London that never found itself holding a fight! Now I want you two to step out!"

"What? Are you stopping me from stopping this man who's trying to stop my divine-ish mission!?" The person harshly accused.

"Yah?"

"Why, I oughta-" Before the man could finish, a long chain wrapped itself around the man's head and buried it in metal. Axl, holding the other end of his chained weapons, dragged the attached man to the front door. A quiet applause for the Brit erupted as Axl carried the lunatic out the door, followed by Johnny.

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"How dare you stop our fight! I'm putting you in my 'to kill' list right now!" the man charged at Axl.

"Hey! I wasn't ready yet!" Axl frantically shouted at the new change of situation while putting his sickles in front of him instinctively.

"Be ready!" The man then thrust his rod at Axl, who defended the attack. The man then swung around to block an attack by Johnny.

"What is this? Isuka already?" The man sniggered, then flipped behind Johnny to face both Brit and Pirate at once. "I'll just even it out a bit…" The man's rod suddenly snapped in two, receding into two short rods with a long black chain in the middle, a single sickle blade on both rods.

"Hey! Where'd you get a weapon like that?" Axl asked, surprised.

"That's a secret." The person said before ducking down low to swing one end of the sickle imitation at his opponents, the blade covered in a red glow.

Axl and Johnny blocked the new attack again, Axl this time looking very upset, "That ain't right! You can't have that technique! It's mine!"

"Hey! It's a free country, you dork!" The man suddenly threw himself into the air to dive bomb at the Brit.

"Mist Finer!" The man was immediately flung back through the air, and for the first time, letting go of his weapon accidentally. The man then fell back to the ground before quickly jumping up again.

"Will you just give up?" Johnny groaned.

"I give up only when something unexpected happens!" The man shouted back.

The rod then fell back down and landed on his head.

"Owie." The man uttered before falling over, obviously unconscious.

"That…was unexpected." Johnny blinked.

"Yah, but the problem's over, right?" Axl asked. The man raised his head for a second, shocking them both.

"For your information, as soon as I wake up, I'm going to kill you to, you crazy brit!" The man angrily shouted before slumping his head back, re-entering the state of unconsciousness. Johnny and Axl blinked again, Axl though was starting to sweat a bit.

"Well… I think I'm going to need to get some help for dealing with this guy." Johnny commented.

"Um… Johnny?"

"Yes?"

"You're letting rooms on your ship to rent, right?"

"Depends on how long your staying."

"Until that guy stops trying to kill me?"

"Fine."