Trapped in the Fandom Net
Moon: Welcome back everyone! I am once again trying to make my chapters longer! I hope you enjoy this installment!
Kish: Get off! OFF! (struggling under a mass of Sues) Don't stand there! HELP!
Ryou: (also struggling) Why meeeeee!
Moon: (laughing her head off) I (giggle) do not own TMM or MMP! If I had, I would have gotten rid of the menace that everyone knows and hates!
Chapter 12: The Sues attack
Moon was right to be wary. The Sues in the room all turned around. Then they proceeded to squeal and swarm the group.
It turned into a whirlwind of chaos. The Gatekeepers were pre-occupied trying to make their way past a group of Sues who had incredible powers. Ichigo was stunned. These girls could shapeshift, their hair and eyes changed colors at random intervals, and they had weapons that caused massive mayham.
"You can't win!" One girl shrieked. "This weapon defeated Deep Blue in a single strike!"
"We're more perfect than you!" Another one screamed. Ichigo found herself being yanked away and thrown around like a rag doll. Several of the girls called her...er, a female dog, if you get my terminology. Lettuce was also being pushed back, and away from Pai. The other mews were all having similar problems. The so-called Sues were either incredibly powerful or incredibly weak, and whined the entire time.
But compared to Pai, Kish and Ryou...oh, those girls weren't being bothered at ALL.
The Sues were swarming the boys like ants. Imagine you had a great cherry pie that you had brought to a picnic, and you left it sitting around. Then the ants came and devoured it, because you hadn't put a lid on it or forgot to put it in the cooler. That's what the boys were looking like right now.
Kish was having the most trouble. He was frantically trying to fight his way out of the dog-pile like situation he had been put in. It wasn't a very pleasant experience for the emerald-haired alien. Sure, he was a flirt, but having this many girls fighting each other and crawling all over him...it was suffocating. Ryou was faring no better. As a matter of fact, he had almost disappeared under a blur of squirming, struggling Sues.
Pai didn't have as many Sues trying to get him pinned down, but that didn't seem to make much of a difference. He still got pushed into a corner by the girls, who Ichigo could have sworn were foaming at the mouth at the sight of him, Kish, and Ryou.
Finally, Gemini came up with a plan. "Moon! Katani! Kunex!" He yelled. "I need you to flood the room!"
Moon nodded hastily, and yelled something at Katani. The cat girl nodded and jumped upwards, towards a window. Moon thrust her sword into the earth, and the other Gatekeepers copied her actions.
Thunder shook the room, causing the Sues to look up in confusion. It began to rain heavily, and soon the mansion had been flooded up to the windows. Katani put a small black triangular device on the window and jumped down again. Kunex took a deep breath and, with all his might, flung his keyblade at the window. It cracked, and the room flooded with water.
Destiny doubled back and threw up a shield of some sort, with the mews assumed was conjured from his magic. "EVERYONE GET DOWN!" He shouted.
Gemini split into two people again, and Mint turned white with recognition. "Uh oh-"
The bolt of lightning stuck the middle of the water, and a violent explosion rocked the castle. The sheer force knocked the mews off their feet, and Lettuce banged her head on something, and she was out like a light. Zakuro held Pudding close so she wouldn't get hurt as the blast subsided.
When the dust settled, the group regained their footing. The gatekeepers all looked unharmed, and there was no sight of the Mary Sues anywhere.
That just left Kish, Ryou and Pai, who were all looking very truly and properly traumatized.
"Poor Kish." Mew said regretfully, kneeling down next to the alien. "Don't worry, I'll get you a muffin to make you feel better."
Mint raged at Gemini, her eyes wide with indigention and near-hysterics. "What are you trying to do? Get us killed?"
Gemini shrugged good-naturally. "No, I'm not trying to get you killed. If you really don't want my help, I could let you deal with the Sues on your own next time..."
"That's not what I meant! I'm just saying you could have blown us up along with them! And what the heck was up with those people? Mary-Sues? What are those? And why did they swarm-attack Kish, Ryou and Pai?" The blue-haired bird mew said this all very quickly, on a single breath.
"Slow down." Destiny said. "To answer your first question, Mary Sues are people like Katani or Kunex, but born perfect. There are a couple variations of them, one of which are the Super-Sues. Those are the more powerful ones you saw today. The other ones are just girls who can bewitch any guy they want (who isn't a gatekeeper) but they usually go after the hottest or most liked guy they see. Which, I'm sorry to say, is those three for you guys." He pointed towards the three boys again. They were still looking shell-shocked, and Mew, Mika and Musica were fanning them and offering them cookies to try to make them feel better.
"Isn't that a good thing?" Ichigo asked.
"Strictly speaking, someone who creates a Mary-Sue or Super-Sue is frowned upon. That is because creating a perfect being would be playing Silvera. Plus, they aren't very believable people. In fact, the more I think about it, the more they seem like Rabids. Only prettier."
The girls remembered those particular beings and grimaced. They had hoped to avoid more encounters with beings like the Rabids, but it seemed that Fate was determined to be a *****.
Kish was still in the middle of recovering. "The bigger the fanbase for the guy, the more Sues are created to be their soul mate/lover. Which is why these guys got swarmed. That isn't a pleasant experience, as I am sure this poor soul could tell you." Angelcake added, pointing towards the motioneless alien.
"Why isn't he saying anything?"
"It's an equivalent to cardiac arrest, only his heart is still beating. He, Ryou and Pai should recover in a few hours."
Destiny groaned. "Let me guess. We're going to have to carry them everywhere."
Shiru barked once, as if to say "yes, you do." Destiny smacked himself in the face, walked over, and picked up Ryou. He then handed him to Kunex, who glared at him for a minute before walking towards Moon, who was gathering everyone together.
"Why were there so many of them all in one place?" Zakuro asked, her cold demeanor not changing in the slightest. It seemed that no matter what situation she was flung into, no matter who she was forced to face up, she never lost her composure, and almost never showed a shred of emotion. Ichigo wished she could compose herself in the same manner.
"We're right in the middle of one of their safe havens." Mika replied grimly. "They know that we're on the lookout for them, so they create these little mansions for themselves to hide in until we give up and go home for the day."
"It's where they hide when Gatekeepers go out hunting for them." Amber supplied helpfully. "We have to keep an eye on them, because if they were ever unleashed upon any world, they would take it over in no time. Then the Gatekeepers would have to expose themselves to get rid of the twisted creations, and everything goes to hell in a hand basket."
Ichigo shuddered. It was easy to picture, and she didn't want her simple little world flung out of alignment in such a frightening and irreversible manner. Her life was messed up enough already, and she most definitely didn't need any help from the Super Sues or any of the other freakish things the Gatekeepers had dreamed up for this dimension. Which was about 90% of the stuff she had seen.
She most certainly did not want to have to deal with Super Sues every waking moment. It may be cheap or implausible, but they were extremely powerful and the idea of them swarming her home was disturbing.
Once again, she was going to rely on these strange people for help. Oh dear. The only way she could describe how she was feeling about this was the feeling you get in your stomach when the rail car you are in on a rollercoaster was just teetering on the top of the coaster, and you could just see the steep, dark rails ahead of you.
Judging by the things she had seen around this place, that comparison was probably accurate.
*Some Time Later*
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaat!" Moon winced.
"Not so loud, please. I don't want to go deaf."
The people who had just screamed that were Kish, Ryou, Pai, Tart and Ichigo. "What do you mean, we're not leaving until we've destroyed the Mary-Sue safe havens?" Ichigo shrieked.
"I just asked you to turn the volume down." Moon said in irritation. "The fact of the matter is Katani just came back from scouting and apparently we can't leave. The Sues must have sealed off all available exits after we destroyed one of their mansions. I have little to no doubt in my mind that they want to trap us and take our keys away, which would grant them access to every dimension attached to this net."
"Moon is right." Katani added. "Myself and Kunex just double-checked, and there's no way out. The rip we came in through was flooded with mud and rocks. The exit door has been barred with runes of Fate. The fact that they have gotten their hands on those is very disturbing, as far as I'm concerned. Any way out that I located, they had blocked with the same runes."
"Runes of Fate." Amber shook her head. "I can't believe that there are Gatekeepers who put enough trust in unflawed creations to give them runes that powerful."
"The only way to get out of here is to fight our way to the source, and destroy their leader." Gemini theorized, and Shiru howled in agreement. The mid-sized black dragon looked rather eager, as if he couldn't wait to prove himself to the gang. Ichigo could read the excitement in his gleaming, catlike golden eyes. For a split second she wondered if it was simply a dragon's instincts, or if he still thought like a human did.
No one had time to dwell on this though, Amber and Moon were giving directions. "Okay, every group should have at least two Gatekeepers in it, or both Katani and Kunex with them. I don't think you guys should go out there alone, especially seeing how the Mary Sues reacted to you. Gemini, Destiny, take Zakuro, Kish, Pai and Ryou with you and do a quick sweep of the mansion. I will take Amber, Angelcake, Ichigo, Mint, and Lettuce with me and we will be checking one of the exits. Katani, Kunex, take Keiichiro, Pudding and Tart with you. Mika, Mew, and Musica, you guys are on lookout. I'll come back and take the post in a few hours."
"Alright!" Everyone chorused, and they all split up.
*With Gemini and Destiny*
"It's way to quiet." Destiny muttered, blade in hand. Kish had to agree. It wasn't too much of a stretch to think that the Sues might ambush them, and the idea of one of them tackling him to the ground again was rather frightening. He absolutely did not want to be swarmed again. Ever. Period. It almost made him wish he could be force-fed Bottled Insanity again. Sure, he'd be acting completely and totally stir-fry insane, but at least he wouldn't be suffering from the suspense.
Ryou and Pai were doing no better, and they were constantly glancing over their shoulders at the ground behind them. Gemini looked sympathetic. He himself had reverted back from Gemini Split Mode and rings of electricity circled up his arms. So he, too, was also on guard.
"I never, ever, ever want to see a Mary-Sue again." Pai muttered.
Destiny smiled wanely. "I'm sorry, pal, but we're going to need to fight through a lot more before you can really get away from them."
"Why are there so many?"
"It's quite tempting to take away a being's flaws." Destiny answered in an almost practiced manner. "You may think it would make them happier, but in reality it would take away what made them human, or whatever race they are. Perfect beings aren't meant to exist. Their existence holds no meaning to them or anyone else."
Ryou nodded slowly, although in truth that didn't make any sense at all.
Gemini seemed to sense this. "You'll understand in time." He replied. Ryou groaned. Getting an answer like that from teenagers was a bit of a taunt for him. How could something that kids that age understood perfectly escape him? As a scientist, that was quite annoying.
Pai stiffened. "Did you hear something? Coming from the distance."
*With Katani and Kunex*
Shiru suddenly stopped walking.
"What's wrong na no da?" Pudding asked, turning towards him. The dragon growled and bared his fangs. Katani suddenly tensed.
"Uh oh, we're in trouble."
Pudding, Tart and Keiichiro looked up and suddenly understood what she meant. A bunch of Super Sues stalked out from the cover of a nearby cave. To top that off, there were a couple Rabids with them. They were all holding blades of some type. Katani and Kunex instinctively took on defensive stances, and Shiru's growls grew louder.
The Super Sues looked around, disappointed. "He's not here." One of the Rabids whined.
"He's with one of their groups!" The lead Super Sue declared. "We have to find Kish! When I am Queen of the World, he will be the perfect king!"
Shiru stepped forward, wings flexing agressively. Pudding darted forward and looked imporingly at the Sues.
"Please, don't hurt my friends na no da."
"Don't get in the way!" A Rabid exclaimed before pushing her backwards. Tart's eyes became like lasers. Katani's ears flattened, and suddenly Shiru was looking much more intimidating.
"Uh...ops?" One of the Sues offered lamely.
Shiru let out a challenging roar. It rang through the land with the force of a gong, reaching every corner. And suddenly, the ground started rumbling.
A dragonic smirk crossed Shiru's face as thousands of shadowy beings joined him.
Kunex looked on in awe. "No way."
End Chapter
I know, I'm evil. Yet another cliffhanger. What exactly is Shiru's new power? What are the shadowy beings, and why is Kunex so amazed? By next chapter, you'll find out!
PS: Like I've said before with the flamers and the rabids, these Sues are satirical. I am not antagonizing any character that I've seen in this fandom! Except maybe Mayasa later on, but he's a canon. Whatever! You know what I mean.
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