Chapter Thirty-One: Tempting Fate
"So let me get this straight. You tried to use the heavy cannon to power your "time machine" which was really just a microwave with a smaller microwave in it and a metal spoon in the smaller microwave," Phoenix said, making sure he had gotten the details involving the heavy cannon exploding correct.
"It's called the Macrowave, but other than that yeah," Jenkins replied as though nothing out of the ordinary had just been said.
"This… this is fine… Ruby and I can repair this thing. Who knows, it may even be fun," Phoenix said to himself in an attempt to calm down.
"Don't see why you should bother. It's not like we're going to be needing it anytime soon," Jenkins said casually.
"Did you just say that? Did you really just say that?" Phoenix yelled.
"What did Jenkins do now?" Ruby asked as she came into the room.
"He tempted fate!"
"All I said was that we wouldn't be needing the heavy cannon anytime soon. What could possibly-?" He was cut off by Ruby dashing over and covering his mouth.
"What happened to the cannon?" she asked as Jenkins tried to get her off of him.
"Remember how something that sounded kind of like an explosion came from here after Jenkins came in?"
"How did he even do that?"
"The Macrowave."
"Feeling any better Jaune?" Phoenix asked after him after his latest "incident" of motion sickness. His only response was a moan.
"Quit your whining," Jenkins said as he slapped Jaune on the back and nearly sent him overboard. "We've got calm seas. It's not like they're strong waves or something." Large waves started to rock the boat, returning Jaune to his original state. "At least they're not being caused by some sort of sea-serpent Grimm." A Grimm sea-serpent rose up from the water right in front of them and let out a deafening roar. "We're gonna need a bigger boat."
"Gods damn it Jenkins! I told you not to tempt fate" Phoenix yelled once the ringing in his ears had stopped.
"There is no way that was me." As the two of them argued the dragon charged up a hyper beam. Just before the attack struck the two of them a shield came up and blocked it. "Nice work kid," Jenkins complemented, slapping Jaune on the back again and producing a similar result. Once again, Jaune's only response was a moan.
"How the hell did I let her talk me into doing this again?" Phoenix thought as he latched his hooks onto the blade of Crescent Rose.
"Ready?" Ruby asked as she prepared to start the attack she had named "Flamethrower".
"I guess," he replied, getting swept off of his feet and spun around just as the words left his mouth. After a brief moment of spinning he was launched towards one of the serpents. Upon landing on it he dug both of his hooks into one of its eyes, enraging it. It trashed around, diving in and out of the water in an attempt to throw him off.
"Look on the bright side boss," Jenkins said as the serpent dove past him.
"What possible bright side could there be right now?" Phoenix screamed.
"At least they can't fly." The serpent finally managed to throw Phoenix off of it, sending him flying into the deck of the ship. When he got up, he saw the serpent sprouting a pair of wings.
"GODS DAMN IT JENKINS! Please just grab your damn minigun!"
"Actually, I left Mr. Cuddles at home. Figured I wouldn't need him.
"You did WHAT?" Phoenix yelled.
"Don't worry! I have an idea!" Jenkins declared before running below deck. "Keep that thing busy for me!"
"What are you even-?" He was already gone. "Fine. Ren and I will try to clip that thing's wings. Ruby, try to shoot out its other eye. Jaune, if that thing fires anymore hyper beams at the ship I need you to block them like you did before. And Nora…"
"Yeah?"
"Smash." Nora grinned with excitement.
The serpent let out another enraged roar as it fired hyper beams that came nowhere near the ship, unable to see where its target was. "Yes!" Ruby cheered as she watched the results of her handiwork.
"We may have the upper hand, but we still can't kill that thing," Ren pointed out.
"Maybe if Jenkins hurried up with that plan of his we'd be able to," Phoenix stated. Upon saying this, Jenkins charged onto the deck, waving a toaster with countless explosives duct taped to it over his head by its cord and letting out his traditional battle cry. He flung the toaster, as well as the portable battery he had it hooked up to, at the Grimm. As it made contact with its head, the toaster finished toasting the bread that was apparently inside and popped it out. This caused the pin on one of the grenades taped to it to be pulled, setting off a chain reaction of explosions that blew the entire upper half of the Grimm apart.
The piece of toast That'd had been in the toaster bomb flew into Jenkins' hand. "I guess you could say that Grimm…" He took a bite of the toast. "Is toast." Everyone groaned. "Come on guys, it wasn't that bad. At least now there shouldn't be any-"
"NO!" everyone yelled.
If anyone is wondering, the ship that they're all on is the same type of ship as the one Blake is on. It was meant to have more people on it, but the "unscheduled departure" kept anyone else from getting on. Also, if you hear that the space-time continuum has been disrupted in Chicago, I'm learning to drive. Anyways, thanks for reading!
