DISCLAIMER: If anything in this story belonged to me, I would make it into a video game, but nothing does. The only thing here that belongs to me is the character Mickey and the plot thing. I also do not own the characters Alethia Black, Tami Delaney, Kai Rumiko, Rachel Saikei, Caylin, Rem Galaxy, Windy D. Rodriguez, Ran Hoshino, Gemini Sai, Brian Anderson, or Kitara. They own themselves.
Crystal: ^-^
Kai: She just keeps…smiling…it's sorta creepy, really…
Crystal: ^-^
Kitara: Would you cut it out! It is starting to scare me
Crystal: ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
Caylin: Eh…just forget it…
Crystal: You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up! You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up!
Sai: Why sudden change of mood?
Rachel: -.-; I know…but I'm not aloud to tell…
Kai: ^-^ We'll pry it out of you…eventually…
Rachel: NO! Don't leave me, kind authors! NOOOOOOOOOO!
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"We can't let this new predicament interfere with out lives" Mickey said as she looked around the dining room table at lunch. Things hadn't picked up at all from that morning, and it had been in a depressed silence since.
And now, everyone picked away at their lunches in which Rachel had prepared. Brian and Ran had been filled in on the whole thing, and Ran even mouthed that he was glad it hadn't happened to him, although it may have not even mattered.
Mickey gave a disgruntled sigh as she slammed her silverware to the table.
"Enough is enough. I warned you about side-effects, and it's high time you forget it and move on with your lives" she breathed, as she stood, and left the room. Caylin looked up.
"Where are you going?" She asked meekly. Mickey turned, her face pinched into a scowl and her eyes narrowed.
"Somewhere less depressing" she muttered, turning again and leaving the room. They could hear her boots click against the floors as she disappeared down the hall and then fade out.
"She's right" Kai said, looking down at his hands. "We should forget about it" he muttered.
"That's the spirit!" Windy called with a smile as depression began to ebb away from everyone.
Suddenly, the beep, for the third time, began to go off, and everyone hightailed it out of the room to the main room, expecting to find Mickey there reading the letter that held the new mission.
But…she wasn't there, and they couldn't even hear boot clicking down any of the hallways.
"Weird…"
Everyone turned around and about as they heard Mickey's voice…defiantly not in their heads this time. Suddenly, their leader walked out of a portal, dressed in a black bikini with a black sarong with crimson kanji for wind all over it tied around her hips.
"What's weird?" Kai asked. Mickey looked up.
"Oh…this mission" she said, waving around the scarlet letter in her hand. In fact…with the last mission, the envelope had been brown, and before that, maroon.
"Where…where were you?" Tami asked, looking at her outfit.
"Oh, hot-springs" Mickey said with a small smile.
"We have a hot spring? Since when?" Kai asked.
"Um…since now" Mickey said with a curt nod and smile. Everyone face-fault and Mickey turned back to the letter. Snapping her fingers, she appeared in her usual appearance.
"So…who's going on this mission?" Ran asked, crossing his arms.
"…All of us" Mickey said, looking down at the writing a bit more carefully. "Yep…all of us" she muttered again.
"So…that's the weird thing then?" Kitara asked. Mickey nodded.
"Anyhow, I want you all to go to your rooms and find a duffle bag in your closet. According to this…it will be a two day operation, so we get to stay overnight tonight. See you all back here in about…thirty minutes" Mickey said, beginning to walk away, before she turned again. "Oh, bring bathing suits…because there ARE hot springs. I'll brief you all on the mission when we're ready" she finished, before walking off to her room. Everyone hurried off as well.
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"Ok…so basically, there are a group of terrorists in this particular area in the Inuyasha Time Zone, on the IY planet of course" Mickey began as they all sat around in the portal room, on folded chairs that had appeared out of thin air.
"They have been kidnapped random people from this time zone, and by now, I'd say they have about 20 to 30."
"But it's been what…an hour since they have begun?" Alethia asked in disbelief.
"That is correct…by the time we had gotten word of the mission, they had already passed through five villages and kidnapped ten people" Mickey said, and Alethia put her hand to her forehead.
"Gin believes this is the first real big attack of IE, for I just got a message saying they are moving rapidly through the area. These characters they are taking have rolls to play, even small ones…but if they are removed from the planet…I'm afraid we may be faced with some chaos" Mickey said.
"Everyone ready then?" She asked.
"One question, where exactly where we will be staying?" Kai asked.
"There are five towns about fifteen miles apart from one another, connecting in a star type form. We'll be right in the center, since IE is heading straight in the direction" Mickey said. Kai nodded, and they walked through a portal Mickey had opened with her pendent.
Disappearing one by one…they began their first real encounter with IE.
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"Wow…this place is nice" Sai said, placing his hands behind his head as he looked around the clearing as they began to set up camp.
"That's why there are so many towns set up around here" Mickey said, as she pitched up her tent, putting her duffle inside.
"Where'd you get a tent?" Rachel asked.
"There's one inside everyone's duffle, so you're going to have to set it up yourself" Mickey said, as she climbed inside hers.
"Great…I was never any good with this stuff" Rachel muttered, pulling out her tent that matched her team colors, and beginning to try and set it up as the others followed that example.
Mickey climbed out of her tent, wearing the swimsuit she had been wearing when she had told them all about the mission.
"Where are you going?" Alethia asked, as she propped up a tent pole.
"To the hot-springs. If you guys need anything, I'll be right beyond those trees" Mickey said, smiling softly and pointing to a grove of maple trees. "See ya" she said, flicking her hand in their direction as she disappeared through the leaves and swaying branches, a light breeze spraying her hair across her shoulders as she did so.
For the next 15 minutes, everyone put up their tents and what not, setting up inside.
Windy flew out of her tent clad in a bathing suit and sarong as well, a radio on her shoulder.
"I'll be at the hot-springs everyone" she crowed, before skipping off through the trees, shortly after followed by Caylin, who had a beach ball bouncing off her fists.
"Why is it that all the girls are finishing before us?" Kai asked, and the other guys shrugged. Soon, he had finished setting up, and sat down in front of his tent wondering what to do.
Sai finished minutes after him, while some of the girls followed, including Tami, Alethia, and Rachel.
Tami said she was going to hang out in her tent for a while, maybe train a bit because of the good terrain they had around. Alethia and Rachel went on ahead to the hot-springs, where Kitara joined them, not in a bathing suit, but sitting at the side and talking with them.
Ran had finished earlier, though he had not come back out of his tent, and Rem tied with Brian for some of the last to finish.
"Maybe I should practice with my healing…Mickey gave me a few things to try and learn, and who knows when we might need it" Rem said, as she crawled inside of her tent, zipping up the entrance as she did.
"So…" Sai said, looking around. It was him, Kai, and Brian…sitting in awkward silence.
"You know…the hot-springs doesn't sound like such a bad idea anymore" Kai said, getting up and walking towards the trees.
"Wouldn't you need to change?" Brian asked. Kai shook his head.
"Who said anything about going into the water" Kai said, moving his head a bit to the right as a throwing knife flew past it.
"BAKA HENTAI!" Tami yelled from upon the cliff beside the camp, face red, as she mumbled things in anger.
"I didn't say I was going to spy! It's not like their naked or anything…jeez" Kai muttered, as he disappeared through the layer of trees. Tami stood from her sitting position, jumping down from the ledge, and walking into another section of the forest.
"…Maybe I'll go to the hot-springs too" Sai said, standing and picking up a fast pace to the trees.
"Guess I'll train too then…" Brian muttered, turning and crawling into his tent to retrieve his weapon.
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"AH! You are so going to pay for that!" Caylin called as Rachel sprayed her with water from her palm.
"We'll double team her, Caylin!" Windy called to Caylin, and she nodded, before they both began to splash her. Rachel held her wrist, pointing it at each of them and sending out jets of water. They both dunked down, and when they came back up were breathing hard.
"No…fair" Windy said, wiping wet bangs from her face. "Your pow…er is…water" she said.
"Would you guys stop it already?" Mickey said from the rock shore, where she was sitting beside Kitara and talking over this and that. They both had their legs out and bent at the knee, arms over the knees.
"But she started it" Rachel said, pointing at Caylin.
"I did not!" Caylin said.
"Wait…didn't Alethia push Rachel into the water, so Rachel made this huge splash which hit Caylin?" Windy asked. Both girls turned to look at Alethia, who was fidgeting in the water near-by.
"Beach-ball…anyone?" She asked, laughing nervously. "Uh oh…" she muttered as they began to swim towards her. She began to scoot backwards when she felt herself lifted out of the water and put onto the shore.
"Enough is enough, girls" Mickey said, looking at them with that same leader look she held at times. Caylin and Rachel huffed, before Caylin grabbed the beach-ball from where Alethia had been, and tossed it to Windy.
Windy hit it with her fist, and sent it flying towards the shore. Mickey looked up, hitting it away with her fist to Rachel who hit it to Caylin.
"As I was saying" Kitara continued, Mickey nodding along as she listened to the girls insights. And then…in a seconds time, Mickey had been thrown into the water.
She came up, tossing the loose hair out of her face, and glaring at Kai from the shore…twitching.
"Kai 1, Mickey 0!" He crowed, doing a little jig.
"So you want to play dirty, eh?" Mickey asked, lifting her hand out of the water, and raising it. The trees rustled as Kai was lifted above the hot-springs…and then dropped in.
"And since you were wearing some of your only clothes, I'd say that would be Kai 1, Mickey 2" she said with a wink as he came up, a glare across his face.
"Let the chaos begin" Alethia laughed from shore, as Mickey used her wind to lift herself from the water…landing on shore.
"And I'm not an idiot either…I know that you could most likely kill me if I had even the slightest hint of water on me…better fix that" Mickey said, touching her chin with her index finger, and then twirling it around.
The trees whipped about as did all of the girls hair, Kai still in the water, face pinched into a scowl. The wind subsided, leaving Mickey with not one speck of water on her, and a small smile on her face.
"Who said it would be a fight of powers?" Kai asked, his scowl turning into a grin as he swung his hands from behind him, sending a large amount of water towards Mickey. She ran to the left, dodging it, and shaking her head a bit, letting her hair fall back into place. But as soon as that had happened, Kai sent another hurl of water towards her, and she dodged again.
"You can't just keep dodging…it's not like I'm gonna electrocute you or something when you are wet" Kai said, raising an eyebrow at her.
"In that case" Mickey said, turning to face him, and diving into the hot-springs, dousing him with water and coming up in front of him with a smile on her face.
"That…was not funny" Kai said, moving a hand to the back of his head and removing the wet bandana that had fallen over his eyes.
"Yes it…was" Windy said, grabbing her sides with laughter. Kai blew a wet bang out of his eyes, looking at the smiling Mickey who was also covered in water.
"And…it is a tie" Alethia said, who had moved next to Kitara and been joined by Rachel.
"What's a tie?"
"AH!" The three girls shrieked, falling forward and into the water as Sai emerged from the trees.
"Heheh…woops" he said, sweat-dropping as he placed a hand to the back of his neck.
"Yea…woops…" the three girls muttered. Suddenly, they heard rushing and Tami appeared.
"Mickey, I've spotted them."
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Crystal: Is it to short?
Kai: Yes
Crystal: T.T
Caylin: *hugs Crystal's shoulder with one arm* No, it's perfect Crystal…
Crystal: Because if it's not long enough I'll make the next chapter a LOT longer so it will take me a lot more time…
Kai: NO! The chapter's fine
Crystal: ^-^
Rachel: Jeez…what a change of mood…
Kitara: Eh, you know Crystal
Crystal: ^-^ Just so hard to understand
Kai: Actually…after getting to know you for a while, you can crack the code
Crystal:…I'll have to work on that…
Sai: Anyway, Crystal was very upset that barely anyone has reviewed to this story, considering it had 21 reviews before hand
Crystal: You people don't love me….
Kai: Eh…well…since she's just trying to get attention…
Crystal: HEY!
Kai: We'll get back to trying to break whatever Rach is hiding from us while you nice people review
Crystal: *nod-nod*
Rachel: T.T