Things you need to have read to understand this chapter: Crimson (general background), In the Shadows (again, general background) Just Once? (felt like putting it up)

Really lazy disclaimer of Doom: (like, italics, man)
Urby: Whee, Mario RPG! Ladybugs...
Seldom: Like, dood; you need to do the disclaimer.
Urby: No I don't.
Seldom: My frying man says you do.
Urby: Eeeeeeeei. (looks through prepared disclaimers) The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Seldom: ...
That's a quote.
Urby: (looks) Well, darb it.

"Dragon! Please, quit staring at that thing and go to sleep, meow!" Auburn shook his commander. "It'll keep working even if you're not watching it!"

"But I don't have anything else to do...and it's so pretty..." Dragon drooled.

"Yes sire, it's very pretty, but I think you need some shut-eye, meow," Auburn patted the dazed Katz. "Tell you what - why don't you go to sleep and dream up something to do tomorrow, huh? It's gonna be a big day!"

"Yes...yes, that sounds like a good idea, meow..." Dragon sighed, letting himself be walked to his room.

"Just relax. I'll take care of things for now, alright?" Auburn settled his commander in a chair.

"If any Penguinists show up, save some for me, alright?" Dragon growled, soon snoring.

Auburn sighed and put his hood down. "Goodness...this suit is hot. Well, I won't have to wear it much longer..."

A teal falcon alighted near him, clicking its beak and settling down.

"You lazy bum, where've you been? I've been cooking inside this suit!" he swatted at it, growling when it flew a bit too far for him to reach.

Verti peeked his head in, finding a hoodless Katz chasing fruitlessly after a blue bird. He sighed, closed the door quietly, and looked for something worthless to do.

The sun peeked over the horizon, stretching and yawning.

Inside a dorm in the Sybak building, a Katz mimicked its action.

"Yes! Today! I shall have my weapon, meow!" he was nearly bouncing out of his suit. He bolted out of the bed, squealing like a child.

"Izzitsoupyet? Izzitsoupyet?" he shook the blue-haired student that knew how to work MAYA.

"Noitizznt, noitizznt," the girl gasped.

"Whyizzintitdone?" he shook the other student who knew how MAYA worked, the redhead.

"Idontknow, lemmiego!" she screamed.

Dragon sat down in a chair, pouting. "You said it would be ready by today, meow! What's taking it so long?"

"Hey, Garnet, is that light supposed to be flashing?" the blue one pointed.

"You know, Azure, I really don't know," she walked over to the machine, pushing a few buttons. "Come to think of it, no, I've not seen that light before..."

"You broke my weapon!" Dragon sobbed.

"No, we didn't break it," Azure said quickly, "we...just don't know what's going on."

"You broke it!" Dragon blew his nose on Garnet's sleeve.

"Hey, I think something's happening," Garnet pointed to the main capsule, which shook and flashed.

"Oooh, I've never seen it do that before," Azure put on some work goggles. "Eye protection, everyone!"

The capsule continued to shake and glow, until it cracked. Then everything went quiet.

"Now, if that's not broken," Dragon poked the crack, "I don't know what is, meow."

A hand burst through the glass, grabbing his neck.

"Get me...out of here!" the thing demanded, tightening its grip.

"Hurray!" Dragon coughed, turning blue. "It's not broken after all! You two - help me!"

"Hmmm, no thanks," Azure looked at her nails.

"Not after you trashed the school," Garnet played with a bit of hair.

"Well, I don't care much for that," Azure admitted. "It's just I don't trust him, you know, with the sword thing."

Another hand tore out of the glass capsule, getting a hold on Garnet's foot and crushing it.

"I...want...out!"

"Okay, alright, calm down, you! Sheesh!" Garnet hopped around on one foot while Azure clicked a few locks open. "Out you go!"

The Weapon coughed indignantly, stepping out of MAYA. She paused, seemed to realize something, and hid back inside.

"What's wrong now?" Dragon questioned, shaking the machine.

"I'm not decent!" she shrieked, punching him.

"Well, I'll be," Azure patted her friend on the back, looking for some ice. "Well, it seems that she's inherited a lot of her material's values, so that's a good thing."

"Why is that?" Dragon rubbed a bruise on his face.

"Well, if those passed on to her, she's likely to remember fighting styles, people she hates, all that junk a weapon would like to have," Azure explained, playing with her large work goggles. Every main character needs some goggles! Just watch Digimon! And before you snap at me, Lloyd gets goggles too - have him put on the swimsuit, foo. Oh, ladybug time.

"I'll get her something," Garnet hopped. Well, actually, she needed an excuse to go to the nurse about her poor foot, but she might as well get the poor lady some clothes while she was at it.

"Hurry!" The Weapon peeked out before closing the door to her 'room'.

Dragon decided to go and brag about how his weapon was finally finished...well, actually, he didn't want her to get mad for fear she might kill him or something.

"Here you go," Garnet hobbled back in, tossing a uniform to her. "Not much, but the closest thing I could find."

The Weapon pulled it on, or at least tried. During her stay in MAYA, she had grown quite a bit larger than a regular human being.

"Couldn't you get something a little more...merciful?" she whined, hiding again.

"I would, but I believe somebody killed my foot!" Garnet yelled, rubbing it.

"Tell you what," Azure said soothingly, restraining them from getting into a catfight, "how bout: you, make some clothes for her with your l33t sewing skillz, you, calm down and don't break any more limbs, so we can all get along and Dragon won't get all mad and gut us with that scimitar of his because I'd really, really like to stay alive and stuff..." she pined in a wheedling tone, tearing up.

Garnet grumbled, hopping about. "Fine, fine! Get me my sewing kit."

"Marion!" Dragon shook the sleeping Katz, "guess what! Guess what!"

"Oh no, eeek and all that stuff," Marion said groggily in that it's-too-early-in-the-morning way. "I dunno, boss. Something spectacular?"

"Yes, spectacular, meow! But I want you to guess!"

"Learned to tapdance? That's spectacular to me, meow. None of the Brigade can do it right."

"You dolt!" Dragon shook him again, "The Weapon's finished!"

"Oh, that. Geez, boss, you should know better then to ask me to use my brain so early in the morning."

"It needs a name," Dragon continued, ignoring him.

"I'm not the creative one, Poe is, even though he is a bit gothic," Marion thought for a bit, "I dunno. Dynablade."

"Hmmm, nice," Dragon stroked his chin. "I like it."

"So what is it?" Marion stretched. "You never really talked about it. A giant gun? A huge sword? Monstrous tomato...?"

"You'll see!" Dragon giggled, at the happiest he'd ever been since he was a kit. "Oh, everyone will see! Meow..."

"Can I see...now?" Marion pulled his tail.

"NO ONE...PULLS DRAGON'S TAIL!" he boomed, slashing the brown one.

"Can I?" Marion repeated, cowering.

"Sure," Dragon helped his comrade up, the outburst forgotten.

"Sit still," Garnet pulled some strings, making sure the makeshift pants would stay on.

"I need a hole for my tail," Dynablade squirmed.

"Oh, you hush," Garnet pinched one of her many wings to shut her up, "we still have to make you a shirt, and I do believe that's more important than a tail."

"There's a pin in my side," she poked Azure, because Garnet didn't care very much if she suffered.

"Here, there, it's out," Azure pulled a random pin out, but unfortunately she had no idea which one was in question, and pulled out one that happened to be keeping the pants together.

"You idiot, Bloo!" Garnet roared, using the silly name for the blue-haired one. "You've undone all my hard work!"

"Well...it wasn't that hard!" the blue one countered, huffing.

"Yes it was!" Garnet chomped on her head, snarling.

Dynablade watched silently as the two bickered, seemingly trying to eat each other. She coughed gently, prodding them with her tail.

"Shut up," Garnet snapped at the ish-human, hitting her friend with her walking stick.

"And here she is!" Dragon made a grand entrance, which Marion pouted at, because he was the drama person.

Now, bursting into a room with an unclothed superbeing and two undergraduates having a fight is generally not a good idea.

This was one of the generally times. A few things happened at once.

First, Marion got a nosebleed because he'd not expected something so fine looking to be The Weapon. In fact, he thought it was an inanimate object.

Second, Dynablade threw a few energy spheres and hid herself. Marion ducked, but Dragon lacked his drama training (if something is coming toward you and it doesn't look like roses, money or isn't part of the show, duck)

Third, Azure and Garnet, in an attempt to kick each other, deflected each other's blows with their feet, careening them into the two Katz. Don't ask how, watch Kung Fu movies.

Fourth: Urby won her nineteenth consecutive game of spider solitaire. Go Urby, it'cho birthday, uh-huh, with sprinkles! Sure, it may not seem important to you, but nineteen! Well, whaddayaknow, it's twenty now. Go me.

Now, there was currently:

One weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the room.

One Katz commander, KO'd.

One Katz thief, cowering on the ground, clutching his nose.

Two college girls lying dazed on top of the Katz commander.

One crazy author...who's listening to "I Miss You" by Blink 182. Hello there, angel from my nightmare...

What a way to start the day, eh?

"There, now it should keep together," Garnet stepped back to admire her work, "jump around or something."

Dynablade rattled her wings, flew a bit, ran a few circles around MAYA, and rolled on the floor.

"Comfortable?" Azure asked, seeing that at least they stayed on.

"Yeah," Dynablade lashed her tail a bit, stretching.

"Well, I'm going to go do something worthwhile," Garnet hoppled away. "You two can go blow something up or what."

"Is it safe now?" Dragon called from another room.

"Enough," Azure answered, putting her goggles on upside-down to see how they looked like that way.

"Why isn't she the bloodthirsty weapon the scriptures say she's supposed to be, meow?" Dragon demanded, jabbing a finger at Dynablade. "She's...uhm..."

"Tame?" Azure suggested, turning her goggles inside out.

"Yes!" Dragon ground his teeth. "She's got Sanguine in her, the most violent of all Summon Spirits, and still, she wouldn't hurt a fly!"

"She hurt you, and Garnet too," Azure pointed out, leaving Dynablade to play with the ladybug that whizzed by.

"Yes, that's true, meow," Dragon rubbed his neck, "but still, she's supposed to be tearing this place down!"

"Maybe she hasn't matured into a full personality yet," Azure shrugged, making it up as she went, "right now she's just a 'kid'. When she becomes a 'teen', then she'll get the teen angst and be more willing to blow up stuff."

"How long will that take?" Dragon brandished his scimitar.

"It depends," Azure said quickly, cowering from the blade.

There was an audible, ominous crushing noise behind them. Both turned, in that 'ho snap, there's something dangerous, isn't there' way.

Dynablade held the crushed bug in her hands, which had a lot sharper claws then before. Her eyes where a dark, bloody red, instead of the rich blue it used to be.

She cast a lazy look around the room, scouring for destructible things. Her gaze fell on Dragon and Azure, because frankly, a student and a Katz aren't really that threatening.

"Eeeei! I don't want to die!" Azure sobbed, jumping into Dragon's arms.

"Me neither, meow!" Dragon bawled, running down the hall, Dynablade gaining on them.

"Bad kitty!" Garnet yelled, hitting Dynablade with her walking stick. The superbeing fell to the ground, rolling about in pain. At least I think, I mean, she was kinda screaming a bit, man.

"Stay down!" Garnet shook her stick at her like an old lady, "you don't go chasing my friend with murderous intent, that's my job!"

"What about the guy in the cat suit?" Azure peeped.

"I don't care about him. Eat 'im for all I care."

"Now that she's stunned," Dragon dumped the blue-haired chick on the ground, "the real fun begins! Mwahameow!"

"Oh my," Azure gasped, thinking about the wrong type of thing.

"She needs her collar," Dragon hoisted her onto his back, running off. "Then...I can start getting rid of the opposition!"

"There," the Katz inventor grinned, shining the collar with a cloth. "With this, meow, she should listen to you. Try it out."

"Uh," Dragon thought of something safe for her to do, "roll over."

Dynablade flipped over on the floor.

"Well, it works. Follow me."

She stood up and walked behind him, looking like a very large, four-winged, dangerous duckling.

Dragon slinked into the room with his maps, where he tried to decide to make his entrance and make the most damage. Meanwhile, Dynablade tore some scrap paper to powder out of boredom.

"Aha!" Dragon pointed to a large dot on one of his maps, "That's it! Saddle up, everyone!" he ran down the hall, rousing his troops. "To Meltokio!"

The dog spirit ran through the streets, searching. He had to find...what was the name again...d'oh, he forgot!

And the small mob of children chasing him were not helping him, either.

He was sure about it, though. He couldn't feel Sanguine anymore as the brother he knew; now he was part of this big thing that just...was evil. He'd have to stop him.

He stopped in front of a house, looking up. Yep, she had to be here.

Now, to get inside.

He whisped himself into a crack under the door, finding himself safely inside. Oh, the wonders of not having a solid body!

But he wouldn't enjoy that for long. Sanguine was coming, and like that one day five years...five years? That short? Well, anyway, he'd have to fight him again.

"What're you doing here?" something picked him up.

Susa yipped helplessly, trying to get a look at his captor. Red...red hair...

"I'm looking for Sheena!" Susa flailed about.

"Why?" the dood shook the poor pup, dizzying him. "Gonna possess her again?"

"Uh, yes," Susa admitted, "but you gotta hear me out! Please!" he added quickly.

Susa related the tale, or at least what he found out by peeking into Sanguine's thoughts and vision.

"So wait...there's a Katz who's going to attack us with this kitty/angel/spirit cocktail, and you're looking for Sheena because the spirit's your brother, and that's the only way we can stop 'em? I find it hard to believe..."

"I'm serious!" Susa squirmed.

"Yeah, I know," the dood gently threw him onto the ground. "Colette's gone, that's for sure. Lloyd can't stop whining about it. As for Sheena, you just missed her, she went out."

"Where?" Susa demanded, leaping.

"Shopping. Ran out of ice cream, other stuff," he scratched the back of his head.

Susa dashed off, only to run into the door because he had forgotten to make himself transparent.

The army lounged, awaiting orders. Meltokio would never see it coming!

Dragon flicked his tail happily, purring. Auburn stood by, peeling an apple (and I must say, doing a rather pathetic job)

A signal flare popped up from somewhere in the city, bringing everyone to attention.

"Attack!"

Mr. Announcement:
I am going to go to school in a few days.
School means no internet.
No internet means no chapters, and I lose half my life.
Just so you know.
I will be dead for the next long time.