I do not own any ideas taken from One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball, HunterXHunter, Yu Yu Hakusho or Rustage's One Piece D&D. Eiichiro Oda, Masashi Kishimoto, Tite Kubo, Akira Toriyama, Yoshihiro Togashi and Rustage are the brilliant minds behind those stories and I'm simply using them to set the stage for my story! It's all for fun so please enjoy!
Chapter 67: The Fall of Muscle Tower
Renji and Yasui sipped on hot chocolate as Elyse patched them up and dug out a few bullets. They sat on the porch of Elyse's home and watched as fresh snow began falling down onto the village.
"How long do you think it'll take them?" Yasui asked and took another sip of his hot chocolate.
Renji shrugged, "Who knows? They'll come back at some point today."
Alice came running toward the house with Sully chasing behind her. "Look, mom, Sully is okay! The soldiers didn't get him!"
Yasui chuckled, "You may have to fix him up too."
"Yeah, the soldiers haven't been nice to him." Renji nodded his head.
Elyse smiled as she looked at her daughter and the Yeti, "How are you feeling, Sully?"
The Yeti grumbled and rubbed his side gently.
"Come over here, I'll patch you up." Elyse said and waved the Yeti closer.
Asuka, Zika and Hama bounded over the unconscious guards in front of the stairwell and bounded up the steps toward the Seventh Floor. The trio raced up the steps and dashed out to the next floor and entered a strange high tech laboratory.
"Whoa. What a change of scenery." Asuka chuckled as he walked slowly through the lab.
"Yeah, no kidding." Zika said and Hama barked quietly.
They walked across the Seventh Floor of Muscle Tower until reaching the heart of the laboratory. They looked around and saw a couple dozen scientists lying face down on the ground.
"What the hell..?"
"Holy shit!" Asuka pointed at an enormous android that came lumbering toward them.
"Hey, guys!" Mugen waved as he appeared from behind the android.
"Mugen?!" Asuka and Zika exclaimed in unison.
"The scientists gave up pretty easily. No soldiers up here either." Mugen explained.
"And who is this?" Asuka asked as he nodded his head toward the android.
"Oh, right, this is Eighter." Mugen said with a nod.
"Eighter?" Zika asked.
"I am Android #8." Eighter explained.
"He's on our side." Mugen explained.
"Oh, cool!" Asuka smiled widely, "Nice to meet you, Eighter, I'm Asuka."
"Yeah," Zika nodded, "Nice to meet you."
Eighter nodded and smiled timidly, "Good to meet you."
"So, what's going on here?" Asuka asked.
"Well, the nerds surrendered and the big boss locked our way up to the top floor." Mugen explained and sighed.
"Who's the boss?" Zika asked.
"Colonel Beige." Eighter answered and nodded its head.
Asuka thinks for a few moments, "How do we get up there?"
"Let's just bust down the door." Zika suggested.
"I've been trying." Mugen stated.
"Then let's hit it all at once." Asuka said with a smile.
Bulma and Shuhei zoomed around Muscle Tower on the nimbus as they flew up to the top of the structure. They sped upwards and arrived at a domed glass canopy on the very top of the tower. They floated on the Flying Nimbus as they stared down at the glass dome.
"Alrighty." Bulma twirled her Climate Baton in her left hand and sent a powerful blast of wind that shattered several of the glass panels that made up the canopy.
Shuhei laughed, "Nice work."
Bulma steered the nimbus through the broken dome and jumped off onto the roof of Muscle Tower. A large black vertibird sat on the roof and Bulma smiled as she examined it.
"You gonna steal that thing?" Shuhei asked quietly.
Bulma smiled, "If I can find the keys."
They walked across the roof and found the door unlocked. They slowly walked through the door and descended a set of stairs that led to the top floor of the tower. The duo snuck around and made their way into a small laboratory.
An older man with white hair and a thick white mustache laid on the floor, a small amount of dried blood on one of his temples. Bulma made her way over to the man as Shuhei looked around cautiously.
"Put your hands up!" A voice echoed out and Shuhei spun around to see a tall man in a beige trench coat pointing a gun at the back of Bulma's head.
Bulma sat kneeling beside the unconscious Dr. Flappe and looked at Shuhei with wide eyes.
"Fafafa!" The man laughed drunkenly, "Put your hands up or I'll blow this girl's brains out!"
Shuhei groaned and put his hands up above his head, "Point that thing away from her."
The man, Colonel Beige, whipped his arm upward and fired his pistol at Shuhei. Shuhei Shaved around the small laboratory as a loud crash echoed out from below their feet. Shuhei appeared in front of Beige and struck a barrage of powerful punches into his chest and stomach!
Colonel Beige was rocked back and Shuhei slammed a devastating kick into the side of his head! The drunk Colonel hit the ground unconscious and Shuhei turned toward the lab door as it was broken down.
Asuka, Mugen, Zika, Hama and a humongous android dashed into the laboratory. They looked around and the boys groaned as they saw Shuhei. "Did you beat him already?"
Shuhei shrugged, "The guy was super drunk."
"Fuckin' lame!"
"Stupid."
Bulma roused Dr. Flappe and the man awoke groggily. He looked up at the teens around him and widened his eyes, "You defeated Beige and his men?!"
Bulma smiled widely, "Your wife and daughter told us that you were being held captive here."
"So we came to help you out." Asuka chuckled and nodded his head.
Dr. Flappe nodded his head, a few tears rolling down his cheeks. "Thank you all so much. When I heard that the tower was under attack I sabotaged one of the androids to try and help."
"Oh! So that was you, huh?" Shuhei laughed, "The android I was fighting misfired its missiles and blew itself up." He looks at the Doctor, "Thanks for the assist, grandpa."
"W-What happens now?" Dr. Flappe asked.
"We set some explosive charges with the munitions crates on the Third Floor." Bulma explained.
Shuhei grinned, "Yeah, we're gonna topple this tower."
Asuka laughed, "That's awesome."
"Speaking of bombs, can you check out Eighter for me?" Mugen said and aimed his left thumb at the android.
Bulma smiled at Eighter, "Most certainly."
"We must bring Beige back to Jungle Village so he can pay for his crimes." Dr. Flappe said and nodded his head. "We will hand him off to the marines."
Zika sighed, "And I have to get a couple of guys out of the tower before it explodes."
"Huh, why?" Mugen raised an eyebrow.
Zika shrugged, "I didn't feel like killing them at the end of our fight."
"Alright, we can take care of what we need to and meet back up before we detonate the explosives." Bulma said matter-of-factly. "Don't take too long."
"Sounds good." Zika said and dashed off with Hama, Asuka leaving to help them move the Murasaki brothers to safety.
"Shuhei and Mugen, you guys search this place for anything valuable or worth taking." Bulma directed the others.
Shuhei nodded, "Okay."
Mugen cleaned his blade before sliding his sword back into its scabbard. "Sounds like a plan."
Bulma turned to Dr. Flappe, "Help me take a look at our new friend."
Dr. Flappe looked up at the android warily, "Hello, Android #8."
"Please, call me Eighter."
Bulma chuckled, "C'mon, let's get to work."
Asuka and Zika each carried a Murasaki brother over their shoulder as the other two were tossed over the back of the nimbus. They dragged the four brothers all the way down Muscle Tower and outside.
"How far should we take 'em?" Asuka asked, his breath visible in the cold.
Zika looked around at the fresh snow falling around them and sighed, "They should be a safe distance away from the tower and under a tree to shield them from the snow."
Waves of scientists and soldiers that had surrendered dashed passed them as they hurried to get as far away from the tower as possible. Asuka nodded and they carried the brothers further east until they believed to be a safe enough distance away. They dropped the unconscious Murasakis at the base of a massive tree and turned around to return to the tower.
Hama ran around and leapt through the snow as the boys hopped onto the Flying Nimbus and slowly moved westward.
"I can't believe they're gonna blow up the tower." Zika said and chuckled dryly.
"I can. These Red Ribbon Assholes are a problem. And if this place is necessary then we need to get rid of it. Make sure they won't come back here." Asuka grinned and looked up at the sky as he tried to catch snowflakes in his mouth.
Shuhei and Mugen searched the laboratory for any tools or technology that they could use on the Whore. They continued their investigation as they checked every nook and cranny for some hidden loot.
While the boys searched around, Bulma and Dr. Flappe worked hard to remove Eighter's bomb. Bulma's tongue protruded slightly from the side of her mouth as she concentrated on the task at hand.
It took around forty minutes and by the time that Asuka, Zika and Hama returned the bomb had been successfully removed! Bulma wiped her hands off on a rag and looked around at the others with a smile.
"Here you go." Shuhei and Mugen set three bags on the ground beside the table that Eighter laid on. "All the goodies we could find."
"Thank you!" Bulma looked through the bags and Shuhei cleared his throat.
"Looking for these?" Shuhei extended his left hand outward as Bulma looked up at him. The keys to the vertibird jingled in his hand.
"Oh!" Bulma took the keys excitedly and grinned, "Are we all set?"
Dr. Flappe nodded, "I do believe so."
"Are you gonna fly us back in that vertibird?" Shuhei asked.
Bulma nodded, "We can all go back to the village in the Vertibird, the Colonel in our custody, while Eighter follows us on the Flying Nimbus." She explained with a smile.
Asuka laughed and yanked Colonel Beige up from off the floor, "Let's get back to the village!"
The group of them loaded all of the Humans on board the vertibird and Bulma started up the vehicle with a grin on her face. The glass canopy opened up slowly and Bulma carefully lifted them off of the roof and directed them toward Jingle Village.
Eighter sat on the nimbus, hanging off of each side as it flew after the others in the vertibird. The android smiled widely as he looked around at the landscape of Clockwork Island. He had never left the tower before and truly appreciated the beauty of the outside world.
Once the group had flown a couple of miles away from the tower, Bulma activated her detonator. Eighter's bomb exploded first, erupting on the top floor of Muscle Tower destroying the two laboratories in a matter of moments. The three bombs on the Third Floor exploded simultaneously, setting off the stored munitions around them obliterating the base of the tower!
Eighter looked over his shoulder as they flew further away from Muscle Tower and he watched as his former home and prison began to slowly shift and fall down into the snow to be buried by the avalanche caused from the explosions.
The vertibird landed just outside of Jingle Village and the Flying Nimbus dropped Eighter off beside the vehicle as the others hopped out. Villagers wearing makeshift armor aimed the soldier's weapons at the group until Dr. Flappe stepped out from the vertibird.
"It's the Mayor!"
The group of Misfits led Dr. Flappe and Colonel Beige into the center of town where the townspeople cheered and danced in celebration. Elyse and Alice came running into the center of town and hugged Dr. Flappe tightly as the three of them began crying.
Renji and Yasui approached the other Misfits and looked at the townspeople and then to Eighter. "Looks like it all went in our favor."
Asuka laughed, "We saved the Doctor and stopped the bad guy. Another hard day's work."
"This is Eighter." Bulma introduced the android to the others. "He's our friend."
Yasui smiled widely, "So cool! The other android that came here was really gunning for us."
Bulma looked over at Colonel Beige and watched as he was dragged into the Jingle Village Jailhouse. She smiled and looked at Asuka, "What's the plan, Captain?"
Asuka grinned, "Let's party with these guys and then leave in the morning." He looked around at the townspeople, already celebrating their freedom from the Red Ribbon Army.
Mugen smiled, "I can use a few drinks."
"Same here." Renji chuckled.
Alice and Elyse ran over to the Misfits and hugged each of them individually. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all so much!"
"I don't know how we can repay you." Elyse said and sniffled loudly.
Asuka smiled, "Let's just celebrate and we'll call it even."
"And if you can take care of Eighter, have him stay in the village, that would be cool." Mugen said with a nod.
"Is that alright with you, Eighter?" Bulma asked.
The android nodded his head slowly, "I would like to live here with these people. We are all victims of the Red Ribbon Army and I would like to help them out."
Dr. Flappe smiled, "You can live with my family. We'd love to have you."
Alice gasped, "Really, daddy? We can keep Mr. Eighter?!"
"Well, no." Bulma explained, "See Eighter isn't an item that you can keep or give away. I'd say that he's alive."
"Oh, I see!" Alice laughed and looked at Eighter, "I can't wait to introduce you to Sully!"
The village began to prepare a grand feast for the celebration and constructed tables and chairs while others searched for all of the alcohol in town. The people of Jingle Village were happy for the first time in a long time and the jovial feeling across town reflected it.
The entire village joined in on the festivities as they all ate, drank, danced and played various games. The Misfits sat at a table in the middle of town laughing and eating as they watched the village cut loose and enjoy themselves.
Asuka grinned widely and took a massive bite out of a pork chop, struggling to chew it as the others laughed at him. He finally managed to swallow the food and coughed before chugging a glass of juice. "Oh, Bulma, has the Log Pose updated its course yet?"
"Well, it has only been a little longer than half a day." She looked at her wrist and raised an eyebrow, "Look at that. It's already pointing north and northwest."
Asuka chuckled, "Alright, then it's settled, we leave at dawn."
To Be Continued