¡OVERGROWN!

DISCLAIMER: I OWN THE THREE GAMES. I WANT THE REVAMP OF THE FIRST COMING OUT. I HAVE THE ENTIRE SERIES. BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO I OWN THE RIGHTS TO WA.

A/N: I would like to challenge you to find out the connection with Jet's vine and the chimera Venus and the other little buggers.

"Virginia." Jet and his fellow traveler came to a halt in the wasteland.

"What's up? I thought you were in a hurry."

"Forget it." He dropped to his butt. "We're too late. The scientists are dead, and I think we're just getting in over our heads. It's pointless to continue to the ruins. I know what we should do now, but you're the leader, so you should probably say it."

She stares at him in disbelief. She could not change his mind, and she was sure he was right anyway. "We, we have to regroup."

"Yeah, Maya was still asleep and Todd was mad at me so we couldn't get them to come along, but we still got here." Jet stood and stared into the area outside of town. "That was a mistake. We won't get by with just you and I."

"Jet makes a mistake?" She scoffs as she joins him.

"You've made bigger and worse ones." He remarks. "You were never much of a leader."

"What?"

"Eh, I mean, you've gotten better at it."

"What's that?" Virginia points out a small cloud of dust near to the town.

"I was trying to figure it out too. I think," He cringes before he finishes with a groan. "Another one."

"You have, another vine?"

He rips his shirt to find a second vine coming from the area between his ribs in front. "Virginia," He breathes. "I'm not, it hurts."

She nods realizing it must be bad if he actually mentioned it hurt. He was never one to do that. "I, I don't know what to do."

"Go!"

"I can't just leave you here!"

"I'll," He gasps. "Fine."

"You'll be fine?" He nods with tightly shut eyes. "I, I am going to find Clive. Stay here."

"Not going anywhere." He grunts as he lies on the ground.

"Don't, strain yourself." She runs off in a hurry as he lies withering in pain.

"Day just," He swallows hard. Does not help much when the vine is growing right next to your esophagus. "Gets better."

"Let go of her!" Gallows fires a round at the arm that binds Thorn. Although it was blown apart it merely returns to Venus's body. And Gallows, he just begins cursing. "Thorn. Run!"

She stares at him without any emotion. "I, be careful." She jumps up from the ground she fell to and sets off for town.

"Sister!" Venus lurches forward but is stopped by an elbow from Gallows.

"Stay put!" The roots. The roots Venus had for legs were not in the ground when he showed, but they were now. He had rooted himself to the land. "I, won't let you harm Thorn."

"Harm sister? No, no Venus couldn't. Venus would never." The chimera protested. "Father say, to return her to her home. She is Venus's sister! You can have her not!" His arms throw out at him without warning and Gallows can only block with his gun.

"Thorn is not your sister!"

"Father says she is. Thorn must be sister of Venus."

"Just, just shut it!" He fires off two rounds each entering the chimera's body. "You will not take Thorn back with you. She does not deserve to be subjected to the man who made you!"

The bullets are pushed out from Venus's body and drop with a small pat on the ground. The damaged area again restores itself. "Obstacle is for killing."

Gallows took in a breath realizing that he was out of his league. His arm did nothing to this thing, and his arcana would probably do about the same. He wished his friends were here with him now.

"Gallows!" Virginia fires off two rounds from each gun that Venus dodges easily. "What is that?"

"Virginia!" Venus whips his arms at both hitting the drifters to the dirt. "Just die!" Gallows moves to fire, but realizes that his arm is in the enemies hands...uh, things that are used as hands.

"He's fast." Virginia remarks as she stands with the same results. "What now?"

"Your arcana? It's the fire sort right?"

"Fire? That's how we killed the smaller one." She readies herself to attack. "Gallows, the thing has my mediums too."

"What?" Gallows spots under Venus the collection of both her and his mediums.

"It only knows, to kill." She remarks with a cringe.

Clive surveys the ruins that were now empty. All of everyone was dead. The small flower beasts as well. A pretty lonely place for Clive now had he stopped to think. No, Clive was intent on finding Ryu. That was the man who caused all the deaths here today. Clive figured that Dr. Botan was hiding amongst the ruins and there was no doubt that with luck he would stumble upon the man in time. He just had to recall the first ruin trip. How the area had been hidden from them. He became stone and searched only for air. He had felt the air coming from the wall that blocked the wall yesterday so that was how he planned to do so now. First though, he decided that if the plant chimera can be killed only through means such as fire and the like he would need a better weapon. So he settled in the labs and began work on a way to reverse the process of placing the monster DNA into the plants. Hopefully he could eradicate the abnormal part to the plants by using the dead corpses of the ones he had already killed.

"Gallows?" Virginia's breath became unsettled. They were merely waiting to be thrashed by Venus.

"I know."

"What should we try to do?"

"Just, think. You were always good at that."

"Stop talking! Venus no likes his prey to be so talky."

"You stop." Todd slashed apart the roots that kept Venus to the ground. He turns to the two drifters with a grin. "You should get your stuff and get out of here."

Gallows and Virginia move quickly to gather their stuff. "We're going to run?"

"I'm staying." Todd announces. "He is better suited my foe. You go help the girl with the green hair. She is back in town with,"

"You left her with Maya!" Gallows exclaims. "The corruption..."

"Jet, Jet needs our help too! He's back in the desert in pain!" Virginia shouts.

"Jet? Okay, Thorn will be fine with Maya." Gallows stalls when he can see the glance from behind Todd's glasses. "Better get Thorn and take her and Maya with us to get Jet and find stupid Clive."

"Clive's at the ruins." Todd mentions. "Shit, the thing's already back up."

Venus has sprouted new legs and glides along them as he gets ready to strike. "Hurry now," He turns to Venus and sends many waves of his blade out.

Jet gasps as the vines die and his body heals over where they were. As his body status became normal he took in a breath. What was going on with him? All he knew was that the creations that Ryu had made are affecting the planet, and that was hurting him.

He sat up and felt no relief. Something was still nagging at him. "You okay?"

"Yeah." He accepts Clive's hand as he stands upright with a small wobbliness to his legs. "What did you learn?"

"What happened to the vine?"

"I, ripped it out. It turned into this thing." Clive shows him one of the things that he killed back in the ruins. "Something like that. How'd you kill it?"

"Some chemicals I found near to it. You?"

"Virginia's tindercrest."

"Seems that these plants have the basic weaknesses of plants. How are they superior then?"

"Dunno."

"Here." He hands Jet a collection of rounds. "Use these instead on the things and it should disable their regenerative powers and kill it like any normal being. The larger the plant though, and the more mammal like they are, will decide from there. Small ones will just die, but big ones will merely return to their original form."

"You're fast with these." Jet remarks as he reloads his arm with the new ammunition.

"We have to gather the others and go back in the ruins. I'm sure that's where Botan is."

"If you think so." Jet laments.