Carbuncle! The SD Gundam Story, Chapter 7
Main storyline told better in my friend FlikFreak's story "Carbuncle!". I'm taking this in my own, shorter, direction.
After Shute snapped out of his fear induced trance, Sora had woken up and they had formulated a plan to escape. Shute and the other carbuncles had been chased down a hallway by Sephiroth and, after a while, had split up. Shute kept running until his nose caught a scent of something familiarly metallic; Gundanium!
He dug his claws into the stone floor and screamed, "CAPTAIN!"
"Shute!"
"SHUTE, WHAT THE H- OW!"
"Shute, get us out of here!"
Shute whipped around a corner and rammed his ruby forehead into the Gundam's cage bars, set up much in the same way as his bars back in the carbuncle cage. Before he could pull his head away, Captain had caught him by the scruff of the neck. "Shute, are you alright?"
"Captain, this has been a really weird day," Shute pleaded. "Please, let go of my neck."
Captain obliged, and Shute back away so that all three Gundams were in his line of sight. Zero grasped the bars tightly. "Shute, save yourself. If our swords can't cut through the bars, there's nothing you can do."
Shute felt his chest tighten. "Don't worry."
The boy-buncle took the bars in his teeth and, with one mighty YANK!
BOOM! The bars were gone!
Baku's eyes bugged out. "Holy-!"
"Don'taskIdon'tknowjustrun!"
The Gundams followed Shute's example and hightailed it down the hallway, turning left once and right twice before realizing they were lost.
And then a PA system announced "Warning. Building will self-destruct in 10 seconds."
"What!" Captain skidded to a stop, grabbing Shute and Baku by the neck while Zero stopped himself against the wall.
"Man, I should have known this!" Shute cried. "The villain's lair always explodes!"
"7-6-5..."
Zero summoned his sword and beckoned his friends around him. "Hurry, I'll be able to shield you, but only if you're close."
"4-3-2..."
"Summon shie-"
BOOM!
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THUDTHUNKTHUDTHUMP!
The three Gundams landed in a perfect pile outside the now non-existant building, Shute just missing their heads by a few inches.
"This has been a weird day..."
Captain lifted himself onto his feet (and, since he was on the bottom of the Gundam pile, lifted the other two up with him). "I think I may have knocked something out of joint."
"Thank Maana we're out of there," Zero gasped, flapping his wings but not getting anywhere. "My wings feel so cramped, I can barely even fly."
"Your wings..." Baku whined, but didn't finish.
Shute sighed and tucked himself into Captain's knee. "I'm tired..."
The Neopian Gundam stroked his friend's back. "It's all right. We'll get you back home, and-"
"SHUTE!"
Fox's voice rang over the landscape, and eventually three or so little blue blots appeared over the horizon. "SHUTE, WE FOUND SOMEONE WHO'LL CHANGE US BACK!"
"ALRIGHT!" Shute leapt to his feet and bounded across the grass, enticing the Gundams to follow him.
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Fox ran at the front of the carbuncle pack, his silky fur gleamy in the sun. The other buncles were lost in a large tangle behind him, Vivi at the very very back. "You... HEY! YOU! You run too-"
Vivi flopped onto his face. "Fast..."
Fox skipped to a stop. "Pfft. We don't run fast, you just run slow."
Shute stepped in front of Vivi and snarled. Fox sniffed arrogantly and tossed his head.
"He's gatta run faster!"
"That's no excuse to leave a poor guy like him behind- HEY!" Shute felt himself being lifted from the ground; apparently the tired Tidus had heard enough shouting and had picked Shute up by the neck.
Fox rolled his eyes, which is hard to do when you don't have discernable pupils. "Okay, okay, geez..."
"Is there a problem, boys?"
Each carbuncle jumped to his feet and growled at the newest Carbuncle that appeared and the large lizard-man who was holding him... on a leash?
"The curse of the carbuncle hit ALL of you, too?"
"Now, Carbuncle..." said the lizard man. "We made a deal..."
The True Carbuncle rolled his eyes, another thing that's hard to picture unless you see it. "I know, I know, I'm changing 'em."
There was a blinding flash of light-
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And Shute and the Gundams were dropped back in Neotopia, Shute fully returned to normal.
The boy patted his arms is disbelief, and rubbed his face checking for fur. "I'm not A DOG!"
He dove into the nearest Gundam's (Baku's) arms and hugged him tightly, Captain soon plucking him from the red Gundam's chest. "Hallelujah! Captain, look, no fur!"
"No way!" Baku cheered. His energy left him swiftly. "Well, that was anti-climactic."
"Just be glad it's over, Bakunetsumaru," Zero chided. The Lacroan Gundam patted Shute's head. "Good to see you again, my friend."
Shute's grin faded into a small smile. "I hope the other guys made it back okay."
"Data suggests a 99-"
"Just say they'll be fine, Captain," Zero sighed.
Captain paused, and then turned to Shute and smiled. "They'll be fine."
Suddenly, an idea popped into Shute's head. He held out his arm and pictured the blue Carbuncle fur in his mind, and slowly his skin changed to a shiny, sky blue hue...
DONE!
