-Quick question: It's colder than mars here, but what about where you guys are?
Everybody looked at her flabbergasted, but then the silence was broken when Arthur started to go off.
"We've been waiting here for over two bloody hours! Where the hell have you be-"but before he finished his sentence he was stopped short when Julchen stepped towards him, and began to menacingly stare down at him.
"Hey little man; who do you think you're talking too?" She began to squeeze his head some as she smirked. "Who the hell are you guys anyways-hoboes or something?" She started to cackle but then she stopped when she looked at the group. "Shouldn't there be more of ye? And where's my sister?"
None of them knew how she was going to react when she found out, but who was going to tell her that everyone missing was hospitalized and that her sister was in a comatose state. There was a quick silence and during that time, Ludwig decided if she was going to find out it should be from him. If she's going to hate somebody, better the guys then the ones that actually lived in this world. He was about to open his mouth when Feliciana beat him to it.
"Everyone else stayed back in the other world for…recon. Ya know, scoping out the scene to make sure that nothing got through. All that stuff." She lied, but her lie was crisp and unnerved.
Ludwig, as well as Francis, Feli~, Kiku, and Arthur all gave her a quick questioning look. Why would she, of all people, lie about something like this?
"Woah, woah, woah; what do you mean other world?" Julchen asked.
"We'll explain everything on the ride." Alice remarked.
Julchen then, with very sarcastic movement and an eye roll, invited everyone into the helicopter. After everyone was in, the helicopter was refilled, and the doors had shut, she gave the pilot the okay and they were off into the sky which was beginning to turn a dark shade of bluish-black. She then looked at the group as she pulled a beer out of the mini fridge that was stored under one of the seats.
"Alright then, now why don't you tell me what the hell is going on?"
Then everything was explained to her from the very beginning, starting with the Nyotalians getting sucked through the portal, the meeting, the fights, too even the robbery's and how they ended up in their world all over again (though somehow the girls were able to exclude the part that Monika was hospitalized and morphed that part of story into something else). After they were done talking, Julchen stood with her mouth agape.
"So…these guys are really you…from a different world? And Alice, you're blind?" She looked at Alice, her face turning to pity. "Well…damn." It was all she could muster to say.
"So how have things been on your end?" Françoise asked to try and lighten the mood.
Julchen took a seat next to her and grinned. "It's been a livin' nightmare. Fuckers everywhere these days, but the lab work is doing great! Actually, your guys' timing is pretty damn perfect. We've got a surprise for you when we get back."
Then suddenly the helicopter swayed sideways, forcing everyone either against the wall or against their seatbelts. Julchen, who hadn't been wearing the seatbelt, fell against the wall hard, bruising her arm.
"What the fuck is going on?!" She shouted at the pilot.
"We're under fire." He tried to say calmly.
"From what?!" She sounded irritated.
"That."
She looked out the window and saw giant spurts of steaming water coming out of the ocean beneath them. "HOLY FUCK!"
The helicopter swayed again, dodging the water by only a foot. Julchen fell onto the floor with a thud. She rubbed the part that had hit, her fury intensifying. She took off her coat and revealed all the artillery hiding beneath it which included what looked like grenades, duel pistols, and these little things that looked like buttons. There was another shot of boiling water, only this time it hit the helicopter and broke the glass in front of them.
"What the hell is it?!" Arthur exclaimed, horrified.
Julchen looked at him like a total bad ass. "You know what we're fighting. For all I care it's just another shittard ready to die." She opened the helicopter door, letting in the extreme gush of air in. She looked out and everyone caught a glimpse of the beast they were fighting.
It looked like a giant (and I mean giant) gorilla with scales instead of fur that covered it's entire body, fins coming coming out of its back, and flippers for hands that actually looked kind of funny. Its cheeks were gigantic, red puff balls that looked nearly ready to burst…then it did. An explosive jet of water came shooting out of its mouth, the water boiling to nearly steam as it shot towards the helicopter. This time, though, it hit the metal turning it bright, hot red which nearly burned both Amelia and Francis's backs since they had been leaning against it. The blast had forced the helicopter into a dive and the pilot was fighting with all his strength just to bring it back up.
"Yo pilot; fix this!" Julchen shouted over the sound of the rushing winds.
"Oh God I'm going to die like this!" Francis cried as he hugged Arthur in fear.
"I don't want to die a virgin!" Feliciano cried, but then the helicopter was brought back on course.
"Sorry 'bout that fella's; everybody alright?" The pilot asked.
"Just shut up and keep your eye on the sky!" Julchen yelled as she continued to hang out the door. "Get me lower! This one isn't going to quit till we make it!"
The pilot, ignoring the screams of the group, brought the helicopter just slightly above the beast just as Julchen had asked. She pulled of around ten of those button detonators off her belt and pressed them, throwing them all down at the beast just as it was about to open its mouth again to suck up more water to shoot out. She watched the sticks fall onto its body, distracting the beast from filling its mouth with any more water. After that Julchen took off one of her grenades and looked to Franҫoise saying "you still got that old crossbow?"
"Oh Julchen you sly devil." She remarked with strange calmness as she handed her the slightly worn crossbow from under her skirt.
She took the grenade and put it onto the crossbow; she then aimed it and shot directly for the mouth. After that there was a good five seconds of silence until the grenade lodged itself in the beasts throat and went off, blowing its neck to smithereens.
"Blimey that was powerful." Arthur remarked shakily.
"Of course it was. You think I'm just going to carry around any old grenades?" Julchen smirked and patted the pilot on the back. "Nice job Tex, let's get outta here!"
Julchen sat back down and opened another beer since her last one had spilt all over the floor. The guys all stared at her with amazement at the feat she had just accomplished. Single handedly she was able to take out one of those freaks and she didn't even have to get off the helicopter.
"That was amazing!" Ludwig was most astounded by her swift victory. When he had seen the monster, he thought it would eat the entire helicopter with a single crunch.
Julchen looked at him, took a sip of beer, got up, and then slapped him on the back. "I'm gonna guess you're Monty's double. Nice to meet ya little bro~" she ruffled his hair and sat back down. "Ya I'm awesome, it's just a thing with me. No denying."
Ludwig thought to himself "just as arrogant as mine."
Arthur looked at her with amazement as well and asked "where did you learn to fight like that?"
Julchen looked at him and grinned "I learn everything I know from everyone I know. It's the same with all of us." She looked at the girls and winked.
The helicopter finally passed over the entirety of the ocean and finally shifted over to land. She had gotten back up and opened the door, looked out, then shut it. "Jeez." She sighed.
"What is it?" Feliciano asked.
Julchen looked over to him. "Place is falling apart. Oy Franҫoise we're passing by Bayonne."
Franҫoise immediately stood up and walked to the window. She looked out, and then fell to her knees and leaned her head against the wall of the helicopter. "God, it's awful." She murmured.
Francis didn't know how anything in France could be awful, so he took a look out the window and saw utter destruction. Buildings were either burnt or crumbled to the ground and the grass was completely gone; all that was left was the crushed and cracked dirt. The river that ran through was completely red or gone, and there seemed to be fire that was just spread uncontrollably no matter what.
Francis was mortified; Bayonne was so beautiful and now…it's gone.
They continued on in silence; they had stayed above the cloud line to stay out of sight from anything below. The sky had become nearly pitch black with only the stars to shed any light, and everybody had fallen asleep except for Julchen who was staring out the window of the helicopter and into the clouds. Her only thoughts consisted of two things: what really happened to her sister and what's going to happen now?
-Hi everyone. Sorry for this chapter I was totally out of it when writing. *bows* Forgive me!