Dream: Well, I put off chapter 2 for about a month...
Zero: There's a surprise.
Dream: (Fwhaps Zero with a dinosaur bone) Quiet you! Anyway, I had started working on this after the first chapter but then I went away for two weeks and when I came back I forgot about this. :laughs nervously: I have good news though! I've started working on a website with information about all my fanfics. It should be up sometime soon (please don't hold me to this).
Zero: Where the heck did you get a dinosaur bone (takes the bone)
Dream: (points) from that large T-Rex skeleton behind you.
Zero: (looks)
T-Rex: (roars and starts chasing Zero around to recover its rib)
Zero: HOLY FREAKING HELL (running for dear life)
Dream: Well, hope ya enjoy the chapter!
Last Time:
A small furry figure crawled out from under the bed and stood blinking at the monitor screen. The bunny boy climbed onto the computer chair and looked at the screen. He grew pale, "This can't be good..."
Now:
Meeting Thine Pixilated Doom, part 2:
"Ow...my head...this feels just like that time I decided to give my pet toaster a bath but the water triggered some sort of self defense mechanism and I wound up having to go to the hospital causing my mom to completely freak out and take away all my toaster privileges for the rest of my life, except this time I don't smell like burning flesh and my hair hasn't gone all 'Bride of Frankenstein' on me..."
Autumn was sitting up and rubbing her head. She opened her eyes and blinked rapidly at what she saw. The world around her appeared to be a forest in Makai although it was eerily quiet. Looking around, she noticed Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei passed out nearby. She also saw Touya and Young Genkai passed out on the grass.
"Eh? I don't remember them being with us... And where did Flash and Hinote run off to? They better not be off sparking revolts in Elementary School Cafeterias again! I mean that's just rude, leaving me behind while they go off and have a good time! The nerve of those two! Why I ought to blow up both of them for their insubordination! Yeees...blow them up...excellent idea..." Autumn started to chuckle evilly.
"Ack! What am I saying! Bad Autumn, bad! Blowing up your friends is wrong! That's why preps were created! Why the heck does everything I say come out muffled!" It was at that moment that Autumn noticed a strange weight over her mouth. She poked at it and discovered it to be a metallic mask covering her mouth and nose. She looked down at herself and began to panic. She was dressed exactly like Karasu and her hair was in his fashion.
"AH FUDGELE MONKEYS!" Autumn yelled.
Kurama immediately jumped to attention, "What's wrong!"
The others grudgingly woke up. Genkai and Touya sounded suspiciously like Flash and Hinote when they began whining about their heads hurting. Kurama was looking around frantically, "Autumn! Autumn, where are you! Marco!"
"Polecat!" Autumn answered happily, raising her hand high in the air.
Everyone stared blankly at her. Flash (Genkai) pointed, "Dude, you're Karasu."
Hinote (Touya) pointed at Flash, "Oh my god! Flash shrunk! She actually has to look up at Hiei now!"
"That's really sad." Yusuke commented.
Hiei turned to growl at Yusuke, his hand on the hilt of his katana, "Are you trying to make a statement about my height, detective?"
"Yes!" chirped Autumn at the same time Yusuke answered, "No!"
Hiei glared back and forth at the two of them, "One day I will kill you all and then I'll be the one laughing because you'll be lacking the windpipes necessary to laugh. Until that day arises, I seek comfort in my plots of death and destruction."
"Hiei always has such nice happy things to say! Every word out of his mouth just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! It's nice to know that I have such a caring friend! Let's all rejoice and sing songs of friendship and joy!" Autumn threw flowers around, quite an interesting thing to see a Karasu look alike do.
Flash groaned, "Again? But you just made us have one of those friendship thingies two days ago! I've had as much friendship as I can handle this month."
"How about next month?"
"Just tell me in advance so I can conveniently catch pneumonia." Flash nodded.
Autumn saluted, "Can do!"
"Does anybody have any idea what's going on?" Kurama asked, his brain not functioning properly due to the stress of seeing his love looking exactly like his most hated rival.
"I do! When the lightning struck it created a way for the evil spirit of my computer, also known as Hiroko, to manifest itself into tendrils of electricity thus enabling her to enact her dastardly plot to trap us all within her realm of digital reality. Since Tokubetsuhen was currently loaded, we became trapped within the game as the game's characters though seeing as how four of us were already characters in the game their appearances did not change; only the clothes they were wearing. Flash, Hinote, and I became characters that seemed best suited for us." Autumn nodded.
"Dear god, that was extremely intelligent! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!" Hinote panicked.
Kurama stared at Autumn, "So how do we fix this?"
"I have no clue!" Autumn replied, grinning from ear to ear, though it was hardly visible under the mask.
Hiei narrowed his eyes, "I hardly see a reason to smile, fox. This is a..."
"FEAR NOT! Autumn shall find a way out of this with her awesome powers of..." Autumn trailed off and began staring at her hands.
"Autumn? Are you ok?" Hinote asked cautiously.
"I have the sudden urge to blow all of you up...and molest Kurama...not necessarily in that order."
Everyone took a few steps away from Autumn. Flash laughed nervously, "Just don't act on any of those urges and we'll be fine."
"Not even the molesting Kurama one?"
"Not even the molesting Kurama one."
"Damn."
Kurama cleared his throat, "If you're quite through discussing my molestation, perhaps it would be a good idea to try and find a way out of here, ne?"
"Oh! Oh! Hinote, make it snow so we can attach Yusuke and Kuwabara to a sled and make them run around like sled dogs!" Autumn suggested.
Yusuke stared, "How is that going to help us get out of here?"
Autumn shrugged, "I don't know...but it would be really funny."
"I agree with Autumn." Hiei stated. His eyes then widened and his face paled, "I agree with Autumn!"
"The horror!" Flash yelled.
"BUNNY!" Autumn squealed.
Kurama was rubbing his head to try and come up with an escape plan. "Autumn, this is hardly the time to yell about bunnies."
"No, no! Bunny! Right there! In the sky!" Autumn pointed at a screen that had appeared over their heads which showed Tenka looking at them.
"Tenka?" Hinote blinked.
The group had to strain in order to hear Tenka's voice over the static. "Is everyone alright?"
"Well, if you ignore the fact that I've shrunk about two feet and Autumn's become a sadistic pedophile, then yes, everyone's alright." Flash answered.
"That's good. Listen, I may have figured out a way to get you out of there."
"Really? Tell us!" Yusuke yelled at the rabbit. There was a small explosion by his foot. He looked over to see Autumn glaring at him.
"Don't yell at my rabbit!"
Yusuke whimpered as Tenka cleared his throat, "I believe that you have an hour to fight your way through a tournament in order to escape from the game. If you fail, you'll be stuck in the game forever."
"How do you know?" Kuwabara narrowed his eyes at Tenka.
"It says it in this popup threat note thing that the computer wrote. I mean...I'm just smart like that." Tenka rubbed the back of his head and laughed nervously.
Autumn scratched her head, "But in the game, the tournaments are one-on-one...Does that mean that we're going to have to defeat each other to get out of here? And if we did, wouldn't that make the losers disappear?"
"I know!" Yusuke grinned, feeling proud of his idea.
Flash rolled her eyes, "Yusuke we are not taking on a large group of enemies all at once and throwing punches in every direction, hoping to hit something."
"Oh...well in that case, I don't know." Yusuke scratched his head.
Just then a melodic 'ding' was heard followed by a computer voice saying, "You've got death threat!"
"Hey! We've got another death threat from the computer!" Tenka yelled happily.
Hiei crossed his arms, "I don't see why you're so happy about that."
"What does it say?" Kurama asked.
Tenka was whistling as his eyes scanned the popup. "It says: You must all fight in the tournament. If one of you wins then you will all go free. If you all lose, then you will be trapped in the game forever. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! I guess that means that you have to fight each other."
"Gee, ya think?" Hinote rolled his eyes.
"I call first battle!" Kuwabara yelled.
Autumn pointed at Kuwabara, "That's not the way it works. First, Tenka has to start the tournament by selecting his character. The character he chooses has the first battle and the others are chosen at random."
"OK! I'm gonna choose...Karasu!" Tenka stated as he pushed the button.
"WOOHOO! CARNAGE!" Autumn yelled. She stopped and rubbed her neck nervously. "Eh heh heh...Let's just get this over with as soon as possible. The urges to mutilate things are getting stronger."
There was some happy tournament music and the world went black for a minute. The group then reappeared in the forest. In place of Tenka's image was a large table which had all of their pictures along with the pictures of nine other people from Yu Yu Hakusho. The first two pictures flashed and enlarged. It was Autumn vs. Sniper.
"Good luck, Autumn." Kurama said as he watched her walk into the center of the forest clearing.
Her opponent materialized in front of her. Autumn began to laugh insanely and summoned her little bat bomb things. "AW! So cute! Go, cute little bats of death! GO!"
It didn't take very long for Autumn to get the hang of her explosive powers. She managed to finish Sniper off without receiving more than a scratch from him. She walked back to the others whistling happily, "That was fun!"
Kurama shivered. He then gazed up at the scoreboard where Sniper's picture had a big x through it. The image went back to the main image. The next two pictures began to flash. It was Yusuke and Hinote. The two boys looked at each other after walking to the center of the clearing.
"Don't think I'm going to go easy on you because you're my friend." Yusuke said to Hinote.
Hinote nodded and grinned evilly. Flash elbowed Autumn, but since Autumn was tall and Flash was not, Flash wound up elbowing Autumn's knee. Autumn started laughing at Flash. Flash waited for Autumn to stop, meanwhile adding the event to her 'Reasons why Autumn will pay' list. Once she finally stopped laughing, Flash spoke up, "Who are you rooting for?"
"We have to root for one of them?" Autumn asked in horror.
"That upsets you? Please don't tell me it has something to do with friendship. If it does, I'll have to cut off your Kurama privileges for the rest of the month. He's starting to rub off on you." Flash glared at Kurama.
Kurama rolled his eyes and turned back to the beginning battle. Autumn shook her head, "No, what I meant was, why do we have to root for one? Maybe there'll be a tie and then they'll both disappear!"
"Huzzah! I mean...that would be awful." Flash smiled innocently at Kurama who had turned to glare at her. She had her fingers crossed behind her back and in her head she was chanting, No speech. No speech. No speech.
Yusuke and Hinote both started the battle immediately. It appeared to be a pretty one-sided battle since Hinote's Shards of Winter attack hit Yusuke at full force but none of Yusuke's attacks connected with their target. Hinote appeared a different person during his battle and this new person was suspiciously comfortable using Touya's attacks, almost as if he'd been an ice demon his entire life.
The battle continued on, Yusuke finally managing to hit Hinote with his spirit gun. It was no use; Hinote soon had Yusuke down to his last smidgeon of health. That's when Yusuke got brutal, hitting Hinote right out of the air and pummeling him relentlessly. He managed to get Hinote's health into the red before he was finished off by Hinote's ice sword. Hinote walked back to the others with a sigh as Yusuke disappeared from the field.
The next battle was announced on the image screen. It was Hiei vs. Sensui. Sensui materialized on the other side of the field. A smirk spread on his face and they could see his eyes shining with bloodlust. Hiei scoffed and stepped out into the field, already walking with the air of one who has won.
"Now who are you rooting for?" Flash asked Autumn. Autumn could tell that the question was really, "You're rooting for Hiei, aren't you? Just a friendly reminder: I know where you live. D"
Autumn laughed nervously and took out a flag which had Hiei's picture on it, "Heh heh, go Hiei!"
"Good girl." Flash tossed an Autumn Morsel in the air. Autumn immediately caught it and smashed it against the mask. She didn't seem to realize that it hadn't reached her mouth. She sat at Flash's feet on all fours, allowing Flash to pat her head.
The battle started with Hiei attempting to use the fist of the mortal flame. I say attempting because Sensui shot him with his literal 'hand gun' before he could finish his attack. After that, the attacks were relentless, allowing Hiei only one hit with his sword and even that did minimal damage. The battle was over just as soon as it had started and Hiei vanished from the field. Sensui went to stand on the other side of the clearing.
Flash started in shock, "Hiei...gone...poof...Hiei...Hiei!"
"It's ok, Flash. You'll get your revenge." Autumn said, patting Flash on the shoulder.
The next two contestants materialized on the field. It was Rinku and Shishiwakkamaru. After a fierce battle, Shishi walked away victorious. He took his place near Sensui. The next fight was announced on the screen. It would be Flash vs. the Elder Toguro brother. He materialized on the other side of the field and Flash stormed out to meet him. She was not in a good mood.
It took her a little time to get used to her powers as Genkai, but once she did she was unstoppable. She hit Toguro with her spirit gun and spirit wave techniques along with some other attacks. Toguro was doing pretty good as well, managing to take Flash's life down into the red. Flash had Toguro's life down to a sliver and attacked him yet again. He managed to survive by using his hand as an exact replica of himself. This managed to shock (and disturb) the spectators. He got in another hit before Flash managed to take him down.
"Wow! You beat him so quickly! I can't believe I had trouble with him in the Dark Tournament!" Kuwabara started to laugh stupidly.
"Kuwabara, you had trouble with him because you're a weak, pathetic monkey." Flash stated.
Kurama glared at her, "Flash..."
"It's what Hiei would've said..." Flash faked a sniffle, hoping that that would make Kurama have mercy upon her soul and spare her a speech.
Kurama gave her a sympathetic look, "Don't worry, Flash, we'll get him back."
Flash looked around at the people who were left with her. Kuwabara was scratching his head while attempting to figure out what Flash had just said to him. Autumn was playing patty cake with one of her little bat bombs and Hinote was summoning and un-summoning his ice sword while saying, "Sword appear, sword go poof. Sword appear, sword go poof."
Flash looked at Kurama with a raised eyebrow, "And you say not to worry?"
The next fight began. It was between Bui and Younger Toguro. Bui was totally overwhelmed by the muscle head. Bui's health bar was quickly reduced to zero, though he remained fighting. Autumn dismissed it as a glitch in the game. The glitch allowed Bui to get Toguro's health into the red. He was then finally defeated. Toguro stood near the other computer players who had won. The next battle was announced. It was Kurama vs. Kuwabara.
"Woohoo! Go Kurama! If you lose to Kuwabara you will have brought shame to all living creatures!" Autumn yelled.
"Do it for our eyes!" Flash commanded, holding her hand up to block Kuwabara from view.
"Sword appear, sword go poof. Sword appear, sword go..." Hinote looked up from his ice sword to see Autumn and Flash glaring at him, "...err...I mean...Go Kurama!"
The fight got underway. Kurama attempted to plant a seed in Kuwabara's body but this failed. Kuwabara's attacks were strategy-less yet strong. Blows were traded back and forth between the two fighters, though Kurama soon found himself overpowered. His strategy failing, Kurama attempted to transform into his foxy demon form but this, because it takes three turns, failed as well. He managed to lower Kuwabara's health quite a bit but in the end he was finished off by Kuwabara's spirit sword.
Autumn stared in horror at the field, her mouth hanging open (even though it couldn't be seen under her mask) and her eyes pupil-less. Flash and Hinote quickly stepped away. Kuwabara walked back to the group beaming with pride, "So, anything you want to say to me now that you see how awesome I am?"
"Run." Flash and Hinote answered at the same time.
"Run?"
They directed Kuwabara's attention to Autumn. Her hair was floating in the air around her and she held in each hand a large bomb. She was glaring evilly at Kuwabara, "You...made...Kurama...disappear...You...will...DIE!"
Flash and Hinote stood to the side, watching as Autumn chased Kuwabara around. Hinote pointed, "Shouldn't we do something?"
"If you have a death wish, by all means, try to stop her. I, on the other hand, will stay here at a safe distance and keep all of my limbs attached to my body." Flash responded.
"I like your plan better." Hinote stated.
During this whole event, the final match of the first round had started. It was between Jin and the Doctor. Like so many others before him, the Doctor fought back the hardest when he had a small amount of life left. But he still lost. Jin took his place with the other victorious computer players. Autumn finally stopped chasing Kuwabara when she noticed the forest disappear. The players were relocated to a Makai plateau. Around their platform they could see the forest and other large stones protruding through the forest canopy.
The first battle was Autumn vs. Hinote. Hinote again fought as if he had always been an ice demon. Autumn, blinded by the rage of Kurama being gone and a bit overconfident since her health bar started out higher than his, was already on her way to defeat. The battle lasted long as Autumn struggled to regain control of the situation. Hinote kept on attacking and, though his health bar went down, managed to win. When he walked over to the others, Flash smacked him.
"Baka! You weren't supposed to win! Now I'm stuck here with you and the overwhelmingly stupid one!" Flash crossed her arms and glared at Hinote.
Hinote sniffled, "You don't luffels me!"
"No."
"Aww..." Hinote walked off to sulk in a nonexistent corner.
Meanwhile:
Autumn appeared in a virtual dimension of nothingness. She looked around and saw Kurama playing a game of cards with Hiei and Yusuke. They looked up when they noticed Autumn. Autumn waved. Yusuke motioned for her to sit down. She did so.
"Who'd you lose to?" Hiei asked.
"Hinote." Autumn said, thoroughly embarrassed.
Hiei started laughing. Yusuke pat Autumn on the shoulder, "It's ok, I know how you feel."
"At least you didn't lose to Kuwabara..." Kurama sighed.
"No, but I did almost make his limbs disintegrate." Autumn nodded.
"And nobody tried to stop you?" Kurama narrowed his eyes.
"Kurama, would you have wanted to get between Autumn and her prey while she's got Karasu's body?" Hiei asked.
Kurama considered this, "Err...no..."
"Exactly." Hiei nodded.
"So whacha playin'?" Autumn asked in a childish voice.
Yusuke held out some cards to her, "Strip Poker."
Kurama glared at Yusuke. A death plant grew behind the fox, dripping acid from its mouth. Yusuke laughed nervously when he saw the plant, "I mean...Go Fish!"
Autumn looked to Kurama to see what Yusuke was so afraid of, but the death tree had been reduced to a harmless little daisy. She shrugged and took the cards.
Back at the fighting arena:
The next match was between Sensui and Shishiwakkamaru. Sensui made Shishi look like a doll being kicked around. He quickly defeated Shishi, despite the swordsman's efforts to save himself. Sensui calmly walked back to his place on the sidelines. Flash and Younger Toguro were featured in the next fight. They both stepped out into the arena and took their fighting positions. Flash began using some of her best moves on Toguro but it quickly became obvious that none of them would work. Toguro was just too powerful. Flash tried hard to keep herself alive but Toguro triumphed in the end.
"And then there were two..." Hinote said solemnly.
Kuwabara tapped Hinote's shoulder, "Hey, what's going to happen if both of us lose?"
"Oh, we'll all be trapped in this game for eternity. No big deal, really. Wanna see a neat trick? Watch this! Sword appear, sword go poof."
Kuwabara smacked him, "That joke is old. Don't ever use it again."
"Aww..." Hinote whimpered.
Kuwabara then noticed it was his turn to fight. He trotted over to the ring and found himself facing Jin. The fight started. By some miracle, Kuwabara completely overpowered Jin. He didn't get hit by any of the wind demon's attacks. Hinote stood there staring blankly. Kuwabara walked back to his companion feeling quite proud of himself.
"You...he...no damage...beat...winning...you..." Hinote pointed at Kuwabara and stared.
Kuwabara grinned, "That's right! I am the best fighter in the world!"
Hinote took a few steps backwards. The world around them disappeared and they were transported to a digital dimension. The ground beneath them was made up of a grid of blue lines. The sky above them was black with grey clouds and stars in it. Hinote stepped up to fight and was met by Sensui. They fought a fierce battle but in the end Sensui appeared victorious. Hinote disappeared and Sensui walked back to the sidelines.
Kuwabara stepped up to face Younger Toguro. The two fighters began with equal health bars. Kuwabara started swinging his Spirit Sword around in an attempt to hit Toguro. Toguro, of course, dodged and punched Kuwabara. Kuwabara countered with a punch of his own. This went on for several minutes. Toguro then summoned his energy for a final blow. Kuwabara managed to just barely dodge and slash Toguro with his sword, ending the match. Toguro vanished leaving Kuwabara to do a little victory dance.
Meanwhile:
Hinote appeared in the void where the others were. He waved, "Hi everyone!"
"Hinote! But if you're here then that means..." Yusuke began.
"Our freedom is in the hands of the incapable and asinine Kuwabara." Hiei finished.
Everyone was silent for a moment as the reality of the situation sunk in. They then groaned in unison, "We're doomed!"
Back at the fighting arena:
The arena had changed yet again. Sensui and Kuwabara were now in a rather large stadium. There were digital demons filling the stands all around them. The two fighters were standing in the ring ready to fight. The fight started off with Sensui using Kazuya's gun to shoot at Kuwabara. Kuwabara managed to dodge the bullet fired at him. He then fired his spirit sword at Sensui. Sensui took a bit of damage. Kuwabara didn't give him time to recover. He started to punch and kick Sensui. The former spirit detective, taken by surprise, took a fair amount of damage from the assault.
Sensui didn't give up or show any signs of worry. He summoned golden armor around himself and fired some sparklies at Kuwabara. (Don't kill me, I haven't seen the end of the Sensui saga because Cartoon Network is evil and I don't know the name of the attack since the game is completely in Japanese. No, sparklies is not a word but it ought to be. Obey the sparklies! D We now return you to your previously scheduled fanfic chapter, already in progress.) Kuwabara was hit with the attack full force. He reverted to using his Spirit Sword to slash at his opponent blindly. Surprisingly, he actually managed to hit Sensui and win the match.
Sensui faded into nothingness. The scenery then faded and Kuwabara was left in the dark. There was a flash of light and then Kuwabara was sitting on the floor of Autumn's room along with all of the others. Kuwabara stood up, smiling, "Aren't you guys going to thank me? I just saved all of you!"
"Do we all agree that there was a power surge and we were all electrocuted, causing us to become unconscious and all have the same horrible nightmare?" Autumn asked the others.
"Hai!" Her friends responded in unison.
THE END
Dream: And now a semi-interesting tidbit for you, the valued reader! In order to write the tournament of this chapter I started a tournament in the game and then documented exactly what happened into the chapter. However, I changed the ending. In the game, Kuwabara lost to Toguro but since that didn't fit with the chapter, I decided to change it.
Zero: Dream would like you to know that she apologizes for taking so long to finish this fanfic. She doesn't want to keep promising that she'll update and then neglect to do so, so this time she'll say that she isn't sure if she'll work on the fanfics faster.
Dream: I have an interesting new idea for a story that I want to write so it'll motivate me to finish things quicker. I'm still going to work on revising things as well. Plus I'm also going to work on that website thingy. You can check my profile thingy for news and information regarding stuff or my website which is listed on my profile page.
Zero: Please stay tuned for new fanfics.