People are extremely OOC in this chapter. There is also a lot of extremely random stuff in this chapter. And when I say extremely random, I really mean extremely random. Nonetheless, enjoy! I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds or Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky.
Chapter 7
"Uh… where are Yusei, Jack, Crow, and Kalin?" Sky asks. "And what in the world are your muses doing?" She points to Meri, Joseph, and Rudolph, who are huddled in the corner with two pads of paper. Meri has a freakishly evil grin on her face, and Rudolph seems to be barking commands to Joseph, who is writing them down.
I realize what Rudolph is saying, uh, barking, and my eyes widen. "I'll tell you where the guys are in a moment. Meri, Rudolph, are you doing what I think you're doing?"
"Probably," Meri replies without looking up from her paper or losing her grin.
I sigh, "So, you're working on the evil ending and Rudolph is working on the good one?"
"I'm actually working on the first of the half-evil, half-good endings," Meri replies. "The evil one is already done!"
I narrow my eyes at her. "Did you kill everyone in it?"
"…Maybe."
"I told you that not everyone could die," I reply, annoyed. "Fix it."
"Tch, fine." Meri gives me a death glare and flips back a few pages in her pad, going at the end of it with an eraser.
Sky blinks. "Should I be worried?"
"Yes, you should be," I reply. "You and everyone else in here…"
Leo shivers a little, "What story is this for?"
"None of my current ones, if that's what you want to know," I say. Then I clap my hands together. "Okay, back to Sky's first question. See, I've sent them away on the first dare, without telling them what it is… actually, they should be waking up right around now."
I turn on the TV, and the screen shows four Pokémon, all asleep, next to a bush. The Pokémon are: Totodile, Chimchar, Riolu, and Emolga. The Chimchar starts to stir, rubbing his face. "What in the world…?" a familiar Aussie voice asks drowsily.
"Did you turn them into Pokémon?" Akiza asks.
"Yep!"
Still sluggish, Jack the Chimchar stretches out his arms… and one of them happens to end up over the Totodile's open jaw. The baby blue crocodile snaps his jaw shut, with Jack's arm in it.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jack the Chimchar screams, trying to free his arm from the Totodile's jaw by waving it back and forth.
'Dang, either Jack just got super-strength, or Kalin the Totodile doesn't weigh much. Or both,' I think while trying not to laugh.
The other two Pokémon snap awake, but Totodile somehow remains asleep, despite being whipped around furiously. "SOMEONE GET THIS THING OFF ME!" Jack shouts.
The Riolu looks confused for a moment, and then the look of realization crosses his face. "On it Jack," he says, revealing himself as the Yusei-turned-Pokémon. He gets up and grabs Kalin the Totodile's jaw, managing somehow to pry it open just enough for Jack to wrench his arm free.
The Emolga also looks extremely confused, tries to stand up, and promptly falls on his face. "What the…? Who turned me into a squirrel?!" The Emolga is Crow.
"I think this is some sort of dare…" Yusei says, shrugging. "Now… who's the Totodile?"
The blue crocodile laughs a little, "I think that'd be me, right?"
"KALIN, YOU BASTARD! YOU NEARLY ATE MY ARM!" Jack shouts.
"Did I?" Kalin replies. "I thought that was a weird dream."
"You were awake the entire time?!" Jack the Chimchar quits rubbing his slobber-covered arm and tackles Kalin the Totodile.
A comical dust sphere appears around the two, and every once in a while a tail or a foot can be seen. Yusei clearly wants to stop them, but doesn't do anything. Crow just keeps falling on his face, trying to get used to being an electric flying squirrel.
"ENOUGH!" a new voice shouts, this belonging to a female.
The two Pokemon stop fighting, and all four of them look up to see another Chimchar coming down a nearby hill. She has a light-blue scarf tied around her neck, and a bag over her shoulder with a white pin with yellow wings attached to the bag.
"Who the blazes are you?" Jack demands.
"I'm Violet, and I'm supposed to help you four with something," the other Chimchar replies. "Unfortunately, I don't know what that is, and my Dimensional Scream has been functioning oddly as of late, so… we're just going to have to do some jobs around Treasure Town until we find out what you're supposed to do to get home!"
I turn the TV off. As most of everyone else protests me turning it off, I say, "You won't really be watching the rest of it anyways. See, that's the first dare, but there's a second one that ties in with it, that all of you are going to participate in. Well, except for Sky, of course."
"Wait, where are Lucy and Shade?" Akiza asks.
"Right here," Shade announces, slamming the door shut behind him.
Lucy stands next to him, a stack of papers in hand. She has a similar grin that Meri has on her face. "Time for a dare?"
"Yep!" I pull out my last card. "I'll read it this time, just because."
Request by: IronChainDragon
Receiver: Everyone but Yusei, Kalin, Jack, Sky, and Crow
Dare: Sammy is quite angry over her friend Sunny's love life. She has decided to attack random dimensions in frustration. Try to get her home relatively uninjured, and keep her from finding the Enforcers-turned-Pokémon.
"Well gee, that makes total sense," Primo says sarcastically. "Do you expect us to know who Sammy or Sunny are?"
"Nope," I reply. "They're IronChainDragon's OCs. If you want to know the whole story, you can look at their two reviews. …But for now, I have to send you after Sammy."
I snap my fingers, and everyone except my muses suddenly have some sort of weapon in hand. Primo has his sword, Lester has a bow and some arrows, Leo has a pale-green dagger, Luna has a staff, and Akiza has a silver axe.
I turn to my muses. "Alright, I'm letting you guys have free reign over your powers during this dare." Reluctantly, I throw Giratina's Pokéball to Meri. "But—this goes for all of you—no fire, no dragons, no trying to kill anyone, no portals, no time travel, no poison, no weapons of mass destruction, no fire, and most importantly, no scissors."
"You said fire twice," Akiza points out.
"Dang it, no scissors," Meri mutters.
"Those are the rules, everything else goes," I say. "Oh, and… Sammy kinda took over the Closet of Doom, so… hehe, you're going to have to face whatever it has to offer as well." Without waiting for a reply, I force all of them into the Closet, slamming the door shut and locking it behind them.
Now I turn the TV back on, and I make it to where it's showing what the guys and what the others are doing at the same time. I lean back in my chair, and use my bag of magic to create a bowl of kettle corn, and a bowl with white cheddar flavoring. I hand the cheese one to Sky, the only person left. She accepts it without a word, eyes glued to what's going on.
Crow the Emolga and Jack the Chimchar are getting their butts kicked by a Groudon (how that happened, I have no idea). Yusei the Riolu is trying to protect them, all while Violet the Chimchar is spamming the use of Dig and Kalin the Totodile repeatedly uses Water Gun.
On the other half of the screen, the Closet of Doom is really dark, and I can only see Luna, Meri, and Lester. Suddenly the entire thing turns white, and some girl shouts, "No! I won't let you take me away!"
I jump a little as I hear the sound of a chainsaw being prepared for use. Then I see exactly why: there is… an army of chainsaw-wielding chickens advancing on the group. Behind them stands a girl who is practically an exact replica of Akiza. Huh, so IronChainDragon wasn't kidding when they said she was Akiza's twin…
"…Why do those chickens have chainsaws?" Sky asks, choking on her popcorn.
"Long story," I reply. "It was because of a conversation I had with the friend Meri is based on… I didn't realize she was going to fill a section of the Closet with them."
Sky turns to face me, her mismatched eyes filled with an 'are you serious' look. "What kind of conversations do you have with your friends?"
"Weird ones. Let's leave it at that."
XXX
By the time I teleport all of the characters and my muses back into the room, the four guys had to face Dialga, seventeen Monster Houses, and Team Skull's obnoxious gas combo… twice. They finally figured out that the mission they were supposed to complete was to make it through all four Zero Isles without any items (yeah, a cruel mission, but not impossible), and took a few tries but pulled it off.
On the side of those in the Closet of Doom… well, they had to defeat the army of chainsaw chickens, an extremely aggressive unicorn named Butch and her peaceful brother—the manticore named Rainbow, flying toilets (long story), and several very angry Red-Eyes Darkness Dragons before they managed to subdue Sammy.
Strangely enough, none of them yell at me. Sure, I get a few death threats, a couple 'I hate you's and the odd use of profanity, but no yelling. Something is up… oh yeah… "Meri, please give me back Giratina."
"No! Kitty is mine!" she shouts.
Meri's protest sets off a string of arguments. Namely Kalin and Jack arguing about the whole thing with Kalin almost eating Jack's arm, and Primo and Lester arguing about the dare from the previous chapter, because Lester doesn't want to be Primo's slave anymore, and Primo keeps trying to order him around.
…Yep, there's the noise I was expecting. "Meri, you'd better—"
"DA-DA DAA DA-DA DA DAAA DA-DA DA DA DA-DA DA DA *pause* DA-DA!" Meri starts to sing loudly.
I cringe, instantly covering my ears. "No!" I protest. "Not Cumberland Cross!"
"DA-DA DAA DA-DA DA DAAA DA-DA DA DA DA-DA DA DA *pause* DA-DA!" she repeats.
"DA-A-A-A DA DA DA DA-AH! DA-A-A-A DA DA DA DA-AH! DA-A-A-A DA DA DA DA-AH! DA-A-A DA DA-A!" I start to sing one of the songs from band I can stand.
"DA-DA DAA DA-DA DA DAAA DA-DA DA DA DA-DA DA DA *pause* DA-DA!"
"DA-A-A-A DA DA DA DA-AH! DA-A-A-A DA DA DA DA-AH! DA-A-A-A DA DA DA DA-AH! DAAAAA DA DA!"
"Shut up!" Primo snaps.
Meri and I stop our battle of the music humming and instead glare at each other. Lucy looks between the two of us, looks at Primo, and with a straight face asks, "Primo, are you Italian?"*
The android splutters, blinking several times until he croaks, "What? Why?"
"No reason!" Lucy replies innocently. "By the way, great job on the ending of Cumberland Cross, Meri, and great job at that one part of The Last to Defend, Shimmering-Sky. But we both know that this one is the best… DA DA-DA! DADA-DA DA-DA! DA DA-DA DA-DA DAAAAA DAAAA!"
"Great Outdoor Overture!" I squeak, before joining in with Lucy. Meri joins in as well, singing the flute part while Lucy and I imitate the clarinet melody.
I see Jack and some of the other guys get annoyed, but I don't stop. Once a band student starts singing some of their class' music, it's kinda hard to stop…
~To be continued~
So, yeah. This is what happens when my muses decide to go humorously insane. Flying toilets, chainsaw-wielding chickens, and someone nearly getting their arm eaten. I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, and I'd love to hear what you thought about everything!
On a side note, if I don't update anything else by Friday, then Wednesday is the earliest anything else will get updates on. Marching band is going to NYC for the weekend plus Monday and Tuesday!
*If you must know, the other day in band we were learning about the different names of tempo changes in Italian (again), and there was this one that was "tempo primo", which meant return to the first tempo. My mind made the instant connection to Primo, and so… that comment had to be made.
**Cumberland Cross is a piece by Carl Strommen, The Last to Defend is by David Shaffer, and Great Outdoor Overture is by Rob Grice. All three pieces have been played by my band at some point in time, and are AWESOME concert pieces. Just saying.
