Chapter 11 – First Contact

While everyone up in the mansion was getting ready to start their travels, little did they realise that the threat G had warned them about was closer than they think. While the methods of doing so had somewhat been changed thanks to their twisted imaginations, the villains were still subject to the laws of the world they had just travelled to, thus they exited just at the base of the hill just like G normally would. However while g would try desperately to keep himself hidden, the villains weren't going to be so subtle.

"Now remember the plan," Kneesocks instructed, readying her scythes. "Find the creature as quickly as possible, capture him alive if you can but if need be, end him before he become too much of a hassle."

"You're up Pig-boy," Scanty added with a smirk, gesturing towards the Mutant behind her.

However Bebop wasn't too keen on this particular part of the plan.

"Hey my nose may be good, but how am I supposed to even know what the fool smells like!?" he snapped.

"Comrade Bebop makes good point," Rocksteady added. "This G person is new to us, he will not know scent even if he does picks it up."

Kneesocks rolled her eyes at that.

"Just smell for anything that is out of the ordinary," she said sternly. "You've smelt the way his home stinks perhaps that can give you a clue!"

"Ooh, I love it when you get forceful my dear," Scanty commented, causing her sister to blush a deeper shade of red than she normally was.

However Bebop merely snorted at the two demons sisters, granted he considered himself a ladies' man but these two were certainly beginning to get on his nerves, but regardless of that he still stuck his snout up in the air and proceeded to sniff.

"Hold up!" he announced, slowly walking towards a particular direction he was smelling. "I DO smell something, it's faint but… OH SNAP! I definitely smell him dawg! Stinks just like the portal does, and he ain't alone."

"There are others?" Scanty question.

"How many?" Foxy added, nervously crossing his fingers for some good odds.

"I don't know," Bebop admitted. "Five? Maybe Six, lot of em' smell like animals."

"Then you's only smelling the pets da?" Rocksteady chuckled.

"Well in any case, we should get moving," Kneesocks pointed out. "The sooner we get this done the better."

Nodding their heads in agreement, everyone then proceeded to follow Bebop up the hill as he followed the scent… straight towards Edwards' mansion.

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However little did the villains realise that G's sense of smell was far greater than Bebop's could ever be. While everyone else packed up supplies for the journey ahead, the Living Genre was wondering about the lab, and sniffing the air like a bloodhound.

"Something the matter G?" Nyx asked, taking notice of his odd behaviour.

It was then that G gained a look of fear upon his face, something was definitely wrong.

"We're not alone," he said.

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After reaching the front gate of Edward's mansion, the villains prepared for their ambush.

"You're sure he's in there?" Kneesocks asked.

"No doubt about it yo," Bebop replied with a smirk. "My piggy-nose ain't let me down yet."

"Then let's take him out," Scanty replied giddily, brandishing both her revolvers.

However Chi wasn't going to let them attack her friend without a fighting chance, after all the main reason she was here was to make sure he was alright, whatever she did next, she had to do it fast.

"Wait!" she said, much to everyone's surprise. "We can't just barge in there all at once, he'll see us coming a mile away. I say we go in one at a time at capture him quietly before he even knows we're here."

Rocksteady scoffed at that.

"Ah, but that's no fun," he said, gripping his hammer tight.

"Yeah, I wanna beat the living tar out of that little freak!" Bebop added.

However Chi was not going to give up so easily.

"Think about it, you idiots," she said coldly. "I know G better than anyone, and if you go barging in there all at once then he's gonna pick you guys off one by one, trust me on this."

That may have been twisting the truth just a little on Chi's part but regardless everyone seemed to be buying it, all she had to do now was stall everyone long enough for either G's escape, or the plan of attack being changed in her favour.

"Very well Chi," Kneesocks said, adjusting her glasses. "You make a valid point. You and I will go first, then Scanty shall take Foxy and…"

However upon mentioning him Kneesocks quickly noticed that the said pirate wasn't in her sights, in fact he had disappeared altogether.

"SON OF A BITCH!"

As it turned out, Foxy's cunning was able to allow him to take advantage of Chi's distraction and thus slip away from the crowd while their attention was taken of him. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Foxy had managed to keep a pistol in one of his coat pockets, if he could just get G alone for a brief moment, all he would have to do is to slow him down with his Devil Fruit Power and put a bullet in his head, and thus the truth would never be revealed. However when Foxy raced through the garden and opened the front door, he was met with an unexpected sight… G standing alone in the middle of the room, waiting for him.

"Hello Foxy," he casually said as he stepped out from behind the conveyor belt. "We meet again."

"Save the dramatics, freak!" Foxy snarled, his fingers at the ready for an attack. "I am in no mood for your trickery."

At those words G couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh come now Foxy," he said. "What ever happened to the pirate Captain whose cunning was the only thing that conquered his ego? After all, you can consider me impressed by how quickly you were able to find me."

At this point Foxy would have used his power right then and there and ended this, however after hearing Kneesocks' scream from outside along with the rushing footsteps towards the door behind him, he knew he had to think of something else quickly, suddenly a smile appeared upon his face.

"Oh I wasn't the one who found you G," Foxy chuckled. "After all you pissed a lot of people off when you created those cracks."

G narrowed his eyes at that, questions quickly beginning to fill his mind like how did Foxy know his real name? And more importantly, just what did he mean by what he had just said? Whatever the answer was, G was not going to let Foxy mock him.

"And who's fault was that, really!?" he retorted.

"Fehfefefefefefefe!" Foxy chuckled in response, happy in the fact that G was taking the bait. "Oh don't play coy with me, you and I both know that you don't deserve to have such power given your… character."

Once again G found himself laughing at Foxy's statement.

"And you think you do!?" he blurted out. "You really think I'm going to let a punch of pirates take over my realm? Well you got another thing coming mate, because I intend on taking it back!"

"I'm afraid that's not gonna happen my boy," Foxy retorted, his grin unwavering. "My new friends won't allow it."

Suddenly as if on cue, something burst through the wall to G's left, scattering many pieces of debris before the dust cleared to reveal the massive form of Rocksteady.

"Niet," he said, quickly chuckling at the knowledge of the obvious upcoming fight.

It was then that Rocksteady and Foxy were quickly joined by Bebop, who had turned visible only a few feet away from G's right side, after which Scanty and Kneesocks entered through the front door with Chi, all of who were brandishing their personal weapons. While it was surprising enough to see all these villains in one place, the most shocking part for G had to have been seeing his friend amongst them. However as much as he wanted to get her away from them, he was still in the middle of a standoff.

"Guess you really DIDN'T have the brain power to find me Foxy," he said, trying to keep his cool. "So who do I have to thank for the reunion? Gorgeous Demon Girl 1 or 2?"

At those words, G then turned to Scanty and Kneesocks and gave them a playful wink, thus causing them both to fluster.

"He may be crude but he certainly has good taste, doesn't he sister?" Scanty responded, quickly recovering from G's attempted compliment.

"Indeed," Kneesocks added, trying to hide her own blush. "However flattery will only get him so far."

As he continued to speak, G kept his eye on Chi, who looked back at him with anxiety. Since both of them had known each other for some time now, they both knew when the other putting on an act, and Chi certainly knew that whatever G was doing now was in fact an act. The only question was why.

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"We can't just leave him behind!" Nyx protested as she followed Edward down the cellar corridor.

As it turned out, G's act upstairs was to give the others enough time to follow Edward as he led them through the cellars of the mansion, towards a back exit that G installed a year after he met Edward. However not everyone was comfortable with leaving G behind to deal with the possible danger upstairs.

"Look I don't like it either kiddo, but G was quite insistent," Goggles said, trying to calm the filly down. "The only thing we could do now is respect his wishes and escape while we can."

Lug merely scoffed at that.

"Oh and what are we supposed to do then, hmm?" he asked sarcastically. "We have no idea where we're going and the only solid thing we know is that G is the only one who can get us all home!"

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it!" Goggles retorted. "All we can do right now is trust that G will be waiting for us at the base of the hill like he said he would."

"It IS better than doing nothing," Laura added timidly.

At those words Lug merely sighed in defeat, he knew that it was pointless to argue now, whatever was happening upstairs, everyone had no other choice but to go along with G's plan.

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Meanwhile everyone's worries were quickly coming into fruition as every villain began to surround G like a pack of wolves stalking their prey.

"So what exactly was the plan eh?" G asked playfully. "Hunt me down and try to beat some answers out of me? Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm afraid I'm not going to go down so easily."

Scanty chuckled at that.

"Good," she said. "After all do so otherwise wouldn't be very sporting, now would it?"

"Me thinks we should just crush him now." Rocksteady said darkly, resting his hammer to his shoulder.

Hearing this G's laughter only grew louder.

"Oh you guys are too much," he chuckled. "You honestly think that you have a chance against me?"

However this was met with only more scoffs.

"Please," Kneesocks said sarcastically. "There are six of us and only one of you, you seriously expect us to believe that your chances of getting out of this alive are that high?"

With each word G spoke, Chi's anxiety only grew as she continued with her act, whatever G had planned, he needed to do it now.

"Oh I do," he snickered, opening up his vest and sticking his bony hand into one of his inner pockets.

Upon seeing this all the villains were instantly getting into battle stances, however they quickly relaxed as they saw that the object G had pulled out of his pocket was nothing more than a simple wooden flute, upon seeing this it was the villains' turn to laugh again.

"HA! Whatcha gonna do, short-stack?" Bebop mocked. "Play us a lullaby?"

However that last sentence was what pushed G's temper too far, NOBODY mocks his height and gets away with it. Refusing to say another word, G then put the flute to his beak and blew, five minutes later everything became a mass hysteria of desperation and lively music.

"Please, make it stop!" Rocksteady begged as he was forced to do a waltz with Foxy. "I can't control myself!"

IF there are any readers who aren't familiar with the story of the Pied Piper, then allow me to elaborate. In most cases of the tale the Piper was a man dressed in multi-coloured clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town of Hamelin to lure a plague of rats away with his magical pipe. When the citizens refused to pay for this service, he retaliated by using his instrument's magic power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. Now what nobody ever knew was the fact that once that particular story ended, G had jumped into that realm and won the magical flute from the piper in a game of poker, after which he had kept in his pocket in case of emergencies, and this particular situation certainly qualified. As G continued to play "Shake Your Groove Thing" to the villains, that magic of the flute was easily taking over their bodies and every one of them was dancing to the beat, the only ones who actually seemed to be enjoying it was G and Bebop.

"Woo! Yeah!" Bebop cheered as he did the moonwalk. "Shamone Baby!"

"I'm SO gonna get you for this!" Kneesocks screamed as she and Scanty did a belly dance.

At this point G had to keep his focus in order to stop himself from laughing at the villains' humiliation, casting his gaze towards Chi, G then quickly focused the magic of the flute towards her, forcing her into a tango with him.

"THIS was your big plan!?" Chi whispered in a quite whisper, making sure not to be heard by the other villains.

Of course G couldn't answer her directly since he had to continue playing the flute or else lose control over the villains, he even had to used his tail to hold it up to his mouth as he danced with Chi, so all G could do was shrug in response to her question, to which Chi replied with an aggravated groan.

"Well you better think of something better than this soon," she murmured. "We need to talk."

Suddenly, just as G lowered Chi into a dip, a beam of purple light shot past his face and shattered the flute into splinters.

"As much as I enjoy a good jig, I'm afraid this little dance-off is over yo," Bebop chuckled as steam trickled from one of his hip-lasers.

G couldn't help but fall back sheepishly at this, of course Bebop would find a way to work his own dance moves into the rhythm, after that was his usual style of fighting. What made things worse was the fact that everyone else was starting to regain themselves… and we're seriously pissed off.

"You little bastard!" Scanty screamed, the veins in her head throbbing with fury. "You think you can humiliate me like that and get away with it!? DIE!"

At that moment, Scanty raised her guns as started shooting, which both G and Chi narrowly dodged by jumping out of the way. Needless to say Chi was ticked at that.

"You crazy bitch!" She snapped. "You almost shot ME!"

"Not cool, sis!" Bebop added, sharing in Chi's anger for Scanty's lack of consideration.

Though happy in the knowledge that Chi was alright, G also knew when it was time to make a dramatic exit.

"Well this has been a pleasant meeting… and reunion," he said, glaring at Foxy as he said the second part. "But I really must be off, make sure to work on those dance moves."

Suddenly before anyone else could do anything, G then pulled a smoke pellet of out his vest and threw it to the ground, shrouding him in a veil of green mist just before Scanty began shooting again only, this time with Bebop and Foxy aiding her. Within a matter of seconds the smoke dispersed and G was nowhere to be seen.

"That little freak!" Scanty screamed, the volume of her anger practically shaking the whole mansion. "FIND HIM! I'm gonna tear his balls off and hove them down his throat!"

Though he didn't show it on his face, Foxy couldn't have been happier at this point, not only did the truth about what happened never escape G's mouth, but he also dug his own grave with that stunt of his. Now all he needed to do was make sure it stayed that way. As all the villains began to ransack the entire mansion, their primary goal was to hunt G down and kill him on sight. However little did they realise, the Living Genre was closer than they thought, while Chi was looking the opposite direction, G quickly pulled her out of sight, hiding both him and her in the nearby broom cupboard.

"Well this is cosy," G joked, only to get a punch in the beak in response.

"You have got some serious explaining to do G!" Chi snapped.

"Likewise kid!" G retorted, rubbing his sore nose. "Care to tell me what you were doing with those yahoos?"

"An unfortunate joke of circumstance," Chi sighed. "One minute Mimi and I are hanging out in my room, next thing I know a massive crack appears out of nowhere and we end up getting sucked into YOUR realm."

G sighed at that.

"So you got caught up in all of this too then?" he said. "I suppose that split-head fed you all some bullshit story about what happened then?"

"Yep," Chi responded with a nod. "Told us all that you created the cracks on purpose just out of desperation. I never believed it for a second, though I can't say for the others at this point, with that musical number you just pulled I'll doubt they'll believe your side of the story even if you tried screaming at them with a bullhorn."

At those words, both G and Chi leaned their ears closer to the door, to make sure no one was near the cupboard.

"Please tell me you have a plan to fix all of this," Chi pleaded, not wanting to stay in this situation any longer than she already has.

"I do," G responded bluntly. "But it's gonna take some time, you may have noticed that certain worlds have been blocked off, yes?"

Chi nodded at that.

"Well I'm afraid that it's no different for me kiddo," G continued. "In order for me to get back and fix everything, then I am going to have to do a bit of work from the other side, and I'm not sure how long that will take."

Chi may not have fully understood everything that G was telling her but regardless she's known him long enough to know that she could trust him, even if whatever he usually says sounds utterly insane. However despite this there was still the issue of what to do next, now that she had given G her warning, Chi knew that he still needed help. Suddenly an idea popped into her head.

"Then you'll need someone on the inside," she said, much to G's obvious shock. "I can use my cell phone to send you messages to tell you what's going on back in your realm."

"I can't ask you to do that," G said sternly. "I'm not gonna risk your life like that."

"I'm not asking for permission G," Chi retorted. "Even if I go with you now I'll only be putting Mimi at risk since she's still back there. But if I stay with those villains, I can pass on some valuable information should it come my way, do you have a phone or something you can use?"

It was then that G pulled out a small phone from his vest pocket and gave Chi a positive nod, to which Chi gave a smile as she and G exchanged numbers, if G had a phone then chances are that it'll work just about anywhere.

"Then it's settled," she said confidently. "Until you get back and fix everything then I'll be the wolf amongst those idiotic sheep."

"Or the mouse in the snake-pit!" G retorted, still not liking the idea one bit.

"It's not up for debate G!" Chi snapped, standing her ground.

Finally G sighed in defeat and let himself smile a little, Chi may have been stubborn, but at least she has good priorities, and that was just one of the reasons why G liked her so much.

"You're a good friend Chi," he said, pulling Chi into a small hug. "Loyal to the end like a true princess. Now let's make this look good."

Suddenly before Chi could even blink a large explosion erupted from between her and G, undoubtedly the result of one of the bombs he kept hidden beneath the leg of his Army pants. Within seconds Chi was blown out of the cupboard, leaving a steaming hole in the door, of course it was never G's intention to hurt his friend, but there was a certain trigger he needed to pull. This was of course yet another thing that G liked about Chi, specifically her extremely short temper, something of which he found intensely amusing, however in this case it proved to be a fantastic distraction.

"THIS KIMONO WAS PURE SILK!" Chi screamed as he saw the blackened and tattered remains of her pink attire.

Within seconds Chi pulled out her pink pistol and began shooting at G, who at this point began to run out of the cupboard and back into the laboratory. After dodging several bullets from both Chi and Scanty's guns, along with a few swipes from Rocksteady's sickle and Kneesocks' scythes, he was soon surrounded again as he stood on top of the conveyor belt.

"Oh yeah, we got ya now punk!" Bobop mocked, readying his Mohawk for an energy attack.

"Any last words, freak?" Scanty added, aiming both her revolvers at G's head.

However despite being surrounded by half a dozen villains, G's confidence never wavered, in fact he merely chuckled again.

"Just one," he said finally, suddenly pulling something else out if his vest "GRENADE!"

At those words, G then threw the bomb towards Foxy, much to everyone's shock, as G had expected, the Pirate's first reaction was to use his Devil Fruit Power.

"SLOW-SLOW BEAM!" he screamed, quickly stopping the grenade in mid-air.

Now was G's chance for escape, he knew it was going to hurt but at this point he didn't have a choice.

"Bye now!" he yelled before electrifying his cybernetic arm and slamming his metal fist to the conveyor belt he was standing on.

As soon as his knuckles touched the machinery, it immediately roared with life and belt began to rotate with the power of a high-speed engine. Within a matter of seconds the conveyor belt shot G off it like a catapult, straight through the nearby window, after which G was sent flying through the air allowing him to escape the furious villains.

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Meanwhile, Nyx and the rest of the group had managed to exit the tunnel out of the cellars and have now made it to the base of the hill, back at the busted up gate where they were supposed to meet G.

"So how long are we supposed to wait here?" Lug asked pessimistically.

Suddenly as if reacting to Lug's question, G literally fell out of the sky and crashed, creating a small crater in front of the group. Upon seeing this everyone quickly rushed to him.

"G, are you okay!?"Laura asked fearfully as G amazingly recovered with little more than a slight concussion.

"Remind me NEVER to do that again," he said dizzily, the Jolly Roger in his left eye looking just as nauseous as he was.

Suddenly a loud roar echoed from on top of the hill that quickly snapped G out of his dizzy spell, no one else may have known that it was obviously Rocksteady beginning his rampage back down the hill towards them, but G certainly did.

"Time to go," he said fearfully, quickly getting up and leading the others away from the hill in a mad dash.

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Author's Notes:

The Character Nyx belongs to Pen Stroke / :iconPenstrokepony:

The Character Laura belongs to :icontwokinds:

The Characters Chi and Mimi belong to :iconbleedman: