"Conspiracy of the Travel Agency Ladies"
A half hour later the five tourists arrived at the so-called happiest place on Earth. They had all been booked for the same hotel; same floor, and had consecutive room numbers.
"Am I the only one who's a little freaked out by this?" Gene asked everyone after going over the room numbers with the others.
"It is a little odd…" Link noticed.
"It's the conspiracy of the travel agency ladies!!!" Vash began to laugh maniacally.
Everyone checked into their rooms. Each group was booked at the All Star Music Resort. The rooms' numbers ranged from 3437 to 3439. Link and Ganondorf unpacked their suitcases and looked around the room.
Link carefully unpacked all of his tunics and extra hats. Ganondorf looked over his clothes.
"Do you ever wear any other color besides green?" Ganondorf asked as he surveyed the Kokiri Tunics that were Link was placing in the drawers.
"It isn't exactly like your clothes differ. I never see you in anything besides that old thing." Link finished and stowed his suitcase away.
In room 3438, Vash sat on one of the double beds going through a couple of the papers that were laid next to the room's phone. He finally came across one labeled "room service". His eyes scrolled down the list and finally came across what he had been looking for.
"Doughnuts!!!" He cried in happiness. He grabbed the telephone receiver and began dialing.
In the next room over Gene sat on the edge of his bed, hanging his head and sighing. Jim bounced up and down on the others, messing up the covers.
"I wish you'd calm down." Gene looked up at Jim.
"Oh, com'on Gene. It's vacation. You gotta lighten up." Jim continued bouncing.
Vash heard a knock on his door and bounced up. Outside waited a lady dressed in a red, green, blue, and yellow shirt. Vash's eyes turned into large hearts when he saw her and he immediately straitened up.
"Are you the one that ordered the doughnuts, sir?" The lady asked.
"Why, yes I am." Vash smiled.
"Here they are." She handed him a box filled with doughnuts. "Would you like to pay now or stick this on your room bill?"
Vash stuffed a bill in the lady's hand worth $$5 and she looked at it curiously. He thanked the lady, closed the door, sat back down on the bed, and opened the box. The dozen doughnuts were gone within the next five minutes, give or take a few seconds.
In the middle of the night, Link and Ganondorf were awakened by yells from the floor above them. Climbing out of bed, they stepped outside of their room to see what the ruckus was about.
"But Lena, honey! Can't I just have a little good night kiss?" Harry cried. He puckered his lips and scooted towards Lena before getting slapped in the head. "Ow…"
"Come now, Harry. You need your rest. Tomorrow is a big day." Sebastian lectured him. The robot stuck its arms out and grabbed Harry firmly, trying to drag him away from Lena.
"That robot has more sense than Harry. Maybe we'll finally be able to get some sleep around here." Brad sighed.
Bit looked at him and nodded, followed by a large long yawn. "I'm looking forward to it. Spending a day with those two can be rough."
"Grr…what did you say Bit?!" Lena demanded.
"Nothing, nothing. Time for bed. Better get back into our rooms before we wake up Jamey and the doc. Wouldn't you agree Brad?" Bit started to back up towards the room.
"Hey, you up there! Keep it down, we're trying to sleep!" Ganondorf yelled up finally.
Bit, Brad, Lena, Harry, and Sebastian went over to the railing. They looked down at Ganondorf for a moment and then turned to Link, who was standing down below as well.
"You could try being a little more polite." Link muttered under his breath.
"Quiet you." Ganondorf said then turned back up to Bit and the others. "I would like to get some sleep tonight if that's ok."
Bit turned to Brad. "Who's this guy?"
Brad shrugged and shook his head.
"Hey you, listen up." Harry yelled back. "No one disturbs my Lena!"
"Then what exactly have you been doing?" Bit asked under his breath.
Ganondorf, extremely ticked off at Harry's remark began to float off the ground and lifted himself up to the second story of the hotel rooms. He hovered menacingly in front of all of them. "I don't care who I'm disturbing. I want to get to bed. And if you want to live, you will shut up and leave us in peace."
Ganondorf returned to the first floor, went inside his room and dozed off peacefully. Link looked up at them all, rubbed his head and smiled sheepishly. He apologized and went back into the room himself then fell asleep.
Brad leaned over to Bit. "That'll teach Harry."
Bit nodded, still in awe. He glanced at Harry, who had a look of shock and pure horror on his face. "Yeah. It'll also get him to change into a clean pair of pants."
The next morning everyone was up bright and early…er, maybe not. No one woke up until sometime after ten. Link and Ganondorf headed for the hotel's food court for breakfast, running into Vash, Gene and Jim along the way. Inside of the food court Link spotted Bit and the rest of the people who had kept them up last night. He quickly pointed Ganondorf off in the other direction, trying to avoid a fight.
"Hello!" Vash said in surprise. He made his way over to a case filled with donuts of different varieties.
After everyone had grabbed something to eat they headed over to the tables. Vash had something else catch his eye suddenly. He led the others over to a table near two girls who were sitting alone.
"I do hope Sasami is ok. I wish she could've come. I'm sure she would've loved this." Ayeka worried.
"Calm down, Princess. Vacation is a time to enjoy yourself. Not a time to worry about anything or anyone back home." Ryoko reassured her.
"Yes, but what about Lord Tenchi?"
"I like Tenchi as much as anyone else, you know that. But you really must try and relax while we're here." Ryoko went back to eating the waffle she had ordered for breakfast.
"That's it Ryoko, eat away." Ayeka thought. "Forget about Okiyama and Lord Tenchi and meet a new boy. Then I can have him all to myself."
"Hurry up and get your mind off of Okiyama you stupid princess." Ryoko thought, reviewing her plan once more. "Forget about Tenchi and leave him all to me!"
The two girls looked at each other, smirked and then broke out laughing at the other.
"Excuse me." Vash leaned over to Ayeka.
Ayeka looked at him, confused.
"I couldn't help but over hearing you two ladies. Your friend is right. Vacation is a time to relax." Vash smiled at her.
"Well, I know. But you can't possibly understand what it's like back home. Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Ayeka, the crown princess of the planet Jurai."
"A princess." Vash got to his feet and bowed. "My name is Vincenzo Alexiano Soriano Harry Thomason Helios Elias Sampson Tyleranson Adams Michaels Petersons Erin David Eriks the forty-fourth, but you may call me Vash the Stampede."
"Oh my, you must be of royalty too to have such a long name."
"Well, not exactly royalty…" Vash smiled.
"Royalty? Him?" A voice called from behind.
Vash turned around and came face to face with Meryl. "Hey! It's the insurance girl! Where's your partner? The big one?"
"Off somewhere probably getting it a lot easier than I am." Meryl sighed and hung her head.
"Why are you here anyway?" Vash asked.
"Milly and I ran out of money, so we needed a summer job. Chasing after you everywhere is expensive!"
"I'm sorry Mr. Vash. Is she a friend of yours?" Ayeka called from behind.
"How can you be talking to this guy so lightly? Don't you have any idea who he is?" Meryl eyed Ayeka suspiciously.
"Is he a lord like my lord Tenchi?" Ayeka asked.
"Hardly. This man standing in front of you is none other than the legendary gunman, Vash the Stampede, also known as the Humanoid Typhoon. He's a man worth $$60,000,000,000."
"A gunman, huh?" Ryoko spoke up, suddenly interested. Tenchi was never this interesting. If this guy is worth so much he must have been made especially for me.
"I do not want to go visit a bunch of smelly animals! I refuse to go!" Ganondorf yelled at the group.
"Oh come on, Ganondorf. It isn't like I'm gonna let you run off by yourself, so just go along with it. If I let you out of my sight for a second you'd have blown this place up by now." Link lectured.
"You'll have fun! You can see giant bugs!" Jim yelled.
"G-giant bugs?" Ayeka looked around.
"Now, now, princess. I think it sounds like you'd fit right in." Ryoko smirked.
"I wouldn't be the only one, now would I Ryoko?" Ayeka sneered.
The two stared each other down and growled. Vash put his hands between the two and pushed them away before the attacked each other. Both looked up at him.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry, Mr. Vash. As a princess I should act more mature than some low classed demon." Ayeka said as hearts began to form in her eyes over Vash.
"Now then, that's ok Miss Aye-!" Vash felt himself tugged away.
"Com'on Vash. Let's leave this pathetic little princess and go find something more exiting to do." Ryoko tried to persuade Vash as she clung to his arm.
"Well, I promised…"
"Mr. Vash, you must not go with her!" Ayeka yelled.
Vash looked at her confused.
"Well, it's just that she…she…um…she's a demon of destruction! A seductive snake in the grass. She's like a spider who'll lure you into her web like a little fly!" Ayeka yelled while waving her arms frantically.
Vash thought about this for a second while images popped into his mind. He shook his head and started to explain.
"My princess, you certainly know how to catch a crowd's eyes." Ryoko smirked.
Ayeka looked around to see several groups of people gathered around staring at her.
"Mommy, mommy! I want the funny people's autograph! I want the screaming, purpled hair witch's autograph, mommy! Please?!" A little girl yelled.
"Purpled…hair…witch?" Ayeka repeated, standing there, eyes bulging in astonishment.
"No, no, honey. You don't want a witch's autograph. You want a Princess's. We'll go see Princess Jasmine in a little bit." The child's mother said.
"Oh…okay…" The kid said disappointed and walked off with her parents.
Ryoko stood on the opposite side of Vash, still clinging to him and trying to resist breaking out into laughter like a wild hyena.
"I'd like to go with both you ladies, but I already promised Jim, Gene, Link and Ganondorf I'd go with them." Vash finally got the chance to explain. "But I'm sure it would be fine if you ladies would like to accompany us."
"I'd love to!" Ayeka and Ryoko said at the same time. They turned and glared at each other once more.
"I hate this place…this is the last time I go on a vacation with a guy wearing tights!" Ganondorf yelled. He lowered his voice when several people looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"Oh don't worry. I'm sure you'll be looking forward to more time trapped in the Sacred Realm when we return." Link snapped back.
"Hey, com'on guys. I thought we were supposed to have fun." Vash looked at the two with a stop-fighting-before-you-get-us-all-in-trouble look.
"Don't worry about 'em Vash." Ryoko grabbed onto his right arm and pulled him close. "Let's just leave them behind and go have fun on our own."
Ayeka grabbed onto Vash's other arm and locked her hand into his. "Don't be silly Ryoko. You wouldn't know fun if it hit you in that large nose of yours."
"How would you like it if I blew your nose off, Ayeka? The make-over might be an improvement." Ryoko said through gritted teeth.
"Really, ladies. Please stop." Vash pulled his arms free and rubbed his head then caught up with Gene and Jim. "They're gonna drive me insane…" Vash hung his head as he strolled in between Gene and Jim. Not watching where he was going, Vash plowed into someone and looked up to see who it was. Rubbing his head sheepishly he closed his eyes and smiled.
"I'm really sorry about that, ma'am." He apologized.
"Do I look like a girl to you, Vash?" A familiar voice asked.
Vash, confused, opened his eyes to see Nicholas D. Wolfwood less than a half foot away from his own face. The gunman stepped back and smiled.
"Man, am I glad to see you. This vacation is starting to turn into a nightmare." Vash explained.
"Uh huh. How come? Knives isn't here, is he?" Wolfwood asked.
"No...at least…I hope not. Actually, I think I finally found something worse than my own brother."
"Oh?"
Vash pointed behind him at Ryoko and Ayeka, who were staring each other down. Sparks were beginning to fly in between the two's foreheads.
"What's so bad about a couple of ladies?" Wolfwood asked confused.
"I'll explain later. What are you doing here?"
"I met up with the two insurance girls and decided to tag along to see if I could meet up with the legendary gunman once more. They got jobs and I decided to hang around waiting."
"This entire place is so expensive though. How are you able to…?" Vash looked at the preacher confused.
"Actually…I'm sorta borrowing money from the girls. Meryl doesn't know about it yet, but Milly said it was ok and…"
"Oh. I see. You want to stay with me and the other guys for a while then?" Vash asked. He got closer and whispered in Wolfwood's ear. "I'm begging you. I need someone here to save what little sanity I have left!"
"Ok, ok. I'll stay, now calm down."
"Mommy, mommy! I want those characters' autographs!" A little girl yelled out to her mother. She stood pointing at Vash, Link, and the others.
"Hey mom! I want the guy in tights' autograph!" A boy yelled not much further.
"Funny," Someone muttered, "I don't remember those Disney characters…"
At the same time Gene, Jim, Link, Ganondorf, Wolfwood, Vash, Ryoko and Ayeka looked around at everyone. "WHAT DO WE LOOK LIKE?! A BUNCH OF VIDEO GAME AND CARTOON CHARACTERS?!" They all yelled. Everyone backed away and left them alone.