(Ok, well here's the second half of my prologue that'll lead up to the main plot of the story. Having played all three WildARMS games I have to say the only ones I found interesting in Advanced 3rd were the NPCs. Alot of the seemingly pointless characters I felt stood out more and were either more original than the main cast or paid charming tributes to the old games, like Janus' use of Ashley Winchesters old bayonet attacks as well as his 'Access' force-ability, and of course Maya and Virginia being the decendent and fangirl of Jane Maxwell from the original. But with all that aside please enjoy this small addition to my fanfic.)
Chapter 2: Fateful Encounter, A Promise Made In The Wasteland!
Back near the camp the blue haired boy rubbed his wrist, a few meters away his gun ceased it's spinning across the shallow sand on the ground. Standing before him was a cocky looking blonde in a green martial arts outfit, her leg lifted high in the air.
"Nice kick, little girl. Gotta say I didn't see that one coming" The blue hair boy chuckled as he shook his right wrist. The blonde girl looked enraged and in a flash another kick had landed on the boy's chest. Surprisingly however he didn't travel far, only a foot or two and he'd remained on his feet at that. A straight line drawn in the dirt by his heels in the shallow sands was the only real sign of his being hit, his face was still bearing a kindly smile.
"Oooo why I ought-!" The blonde girl pulled out an extendable red staff and as she wound up with what seemed more a baseball swing than any kind of martial arts she found that she couldn't come to strike the blue haired boy. Looking over her shoulder she found that a young boy with a panda backpack as well as a well dressed man in an afro were struggling to hold the back end of the staff down, and to the side a curious looking winged cat watched apathetically. "Will you three let go of me! That little brat's trying to make a fool of me!" The blonde stubbornly tugged again at her end of the staff, pulling at the grip of the three behind her.
"S-sis! Come on let it go!" The young boy was pulled onto his toes with every tug the blonde made. His childish voice whined at her desperately as he tried to keep the staff from swinging.
"Milady, perhaps Master Alfred is right…" The man with the afro held on just as desperately despite his being much bigger than the girl. His sunglasses wobbled on his head as the blonde continued to try and swing the weighed down staff at the blue haired boy. All the while the winged cat stood to the side with his arms crossed.
"Ya know Maya, the kid's right, just let it go." Surprisingly the cat spoke in human tongue and seemed a similar voice of reason like the other two. "And besides, you got yourself into it by trying to mug the poor kid…" The cat sounded familiar, in fact he kind of remind the blue haired boy of Judecca.
"NOOOOO! I'll never forgive that runt!" With all the pulling the girl's face was red and as she yelled she gave one last pull that sent the young boy and the man with the afro flying over her head. The blue haired boy however stepped to the side nonchalantly and winced a bit as the man with the afro hit the ground belly first with the young boy landing on top of him back to back. The tow seemed dazed from the flight and for a little while they didn't really move at all. An impressed whistle escaped the blue haired boy's lips.
"Wow…" The blue haired boy chuckled "Ya know that's mighty impressive little lady. Heck I'm glad I'm not one of those two." The blonde cocked an eye brow as her face turned red with anger and she wound up for another swing, but as she did the cat calmly stepped behind her and yanked a little book from her pocket. In a poof of smoke the martial arts outfit as well as the staff were gone. Instead what seemed to be the same blonde girl fell forward as she tried to swing the nonexistent staff at full force. Getting up from the ground she pouted and brushed her orange dress off, licking a thumb to try and rub the dirt out of the golden trim.
"Now can we please just get going? The kid clearly doesn't even have any food on him, unless he's got some crumbs lying around in his pockets…" The cat was as bored sounding as ever. "The next town shouldn't be far from here anyway so let's hurry and then we can eat there." The blonde girl completely stopped what she was doing and her head turned, in a way that looked as if it should've creaked like an old hinge, and looked back at the cat.
"Shady…" The girl lunged at the cat who panicked under the sudden assault and took to the air on his wings. "GET DOWN HERE YOU FLYING RAT AND LET ME PUMBEL YOU!" She jumped and swiped furiously at the cat as he hovered just out of reach. "IF WE WERE SO CLOSE TO TOWN THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME BEFORE WE WASTED TIME JUMPING THIS GUY!" Finally the blonde jumped just high enough to grab the cat's tail. "HA!" She laughed triumphantly as she flung the cat into the ground to join the young boy and the man with the afro in their stunned daze. "And as for YOU!" The blonde turned on her heels to face the blue haired boy . "You… I'll admit that trying to ambush you was a mistake, but I'll NEVER forgive you for making a fool of Maya Schrodinger and her gang so you'd better pray I never see your ugly mug again!" The blue haired boy laughed at her as if he hadn't heard a word of her warning.
"That's funny. I really only made a fool of you though, you did enough to your friends yourself." The blue haired boy continued laughing until it faded to a chuckle and eventually ceased. "But hey, I like you, you remind me of someone I used to know." The blue haired boy walked over to pick up his gun and brush the dust off of it. "Tell ya what, if we ever do meet again I'll be sure to buy you a drink to make for this ok?" The girl nodded reluctantly as she grabbed her compatriots by their collars.
"Alright then, it's a deal. Next time it'll be a fight to the finish!" The blonde girl grinned eagerly as she began to drag her comrades away with her.
"Huh? But I…" The blue haired boy stammered… but before he could really say anything the girl had already rushed off towards the dim horizon, dragging her three companions behind her with a cloud of dust obscuring their images until the cloud itself faded into a speck. "She really is just like her…" As the blue haired boy turned around he found Judecca jogging toward him, panting like a dog.
"RUDY!" Judecca wheezed out in an exhausted yell as he came toward the blue haired boy.
"Judecca? What're you doing here? I thought you want to look for wood back there…" Rudy asked, pointing back the way Judecca had come from. Judecca stood with his hands on his knees catching his breath a for a minute before responding.
"Why on earth did you wander so damn far from the camp? Have you any idea how hard it was to find out which way you'd gone in this desert!" he spit out in a single breath. "So what happened? I heard the gunshot and came running, and before I got close enough I saw some person with you, who was it?" Rudy chuckled a bit in the way he always did and scratched his head as the two of them looked off at the horizon.
"I have absolutely no idea… But they were headed to the nearest town, why don't he head that way too?" Rudy looked down to Judecca, who was still bent of trying to catch his breath and didn't respond. He laughed and patted Judecca on the back, which made Judecca cough loudly. "I'll take that as a 'yes'. We'll head out first thing tomorrow."
(And thus ends the prologue of my little Wild ARMS fanfic. For those of you wondering, Rudy and Judecca will probably be the only non Advanced 3rd characters to show up, with a possible exception for Marivel and maybe one other 2nd IGNITION character though I'm not telling who, though I'm still debating the decision on Marviel…. I'll probably try to make a lot of references to the first two games as much as possible though. If anyone can guess why I only chose Rudy, and possibly Marivel, and Judecca from the other games to survive I'll be impressed, cause that'd mean you think all crazy like I do. XD )