Daisuke continued climbing the ladder to Hell. He knew he was damned. Bad things were meant to happen on his journey— how else did he explain the two idiots showing up before his journey begun? Daisuke loathed people tagging along with him when he was in the process of making a great discovery.
Ichigo was feeling sick. It started off as small pain. The type of pain he expected from a finger cut, nobody would even notice until it got infected. Ichigo grabbed his stomach and almost threw up.
" Daisuke, I think we have to take the bridge down," Ichigo mewl. " I'm suffering from altitude sickness."
" So am I!" Daisuke exclaimed. " This sickness has been flurry inside of me since two idiots followed me up here."
" It's not our fault," said Goro. " It's Ichigo's fault. After you went on a rampage and attacked your guest, Ichigo tried to seize that moment and fondle Motoko."
Daisuke wasn't in any mood to answer Goro; in his mind he was half-choking them. Every time something lewd, vulgar, or just perverted it always had to do with Ichigo." I'm not surprised Ichigo did that. I didn't think he was stupid enough to touch the bosom of Motoko. And he's dragged you along with him for protection?"
" I insisted to come. It was better than being around those crazy crows."
A breeze brought Daisuke back to reality. A few moments later Daisuke stilled. He was finally calm, and he now knew what he needed." You wouldn't happen to have any rope, would you?"
Goro swung his backpack out. He threw it to Daisuke who caught it. Daisuke fiddled through the backpack looking for a long piece of rope, but instead found a skateboard. The skateboard had two small blocks sticking from the front and rear, and when Daisuke examined the part under the skateboard he saw a hammer.
" A skateboard? Nice paint work. It has the symbol of Thor on it and the structure is perfect for rolling down the road. But this skateboard is not helpful. But I can use a little...DNA."
" What?" Goro asked.
" I need a sample of DNA from each of you." Goro misunderstood what Daisuke said. He unwittingly almost pulled down his pants. " Hair samples!" Goro plucked hair out of his head and gave it to Goro. Then Goro plucked hair out of Ichigo's head and gave them to Goro.
" What do you need our hair samples for?" Goro asked.
" Yeah," Ichigo said. " If I'm going to give a part of my DNA I need to know what it's for. My hair samples may not be...not tampered."
Daisuke pulled out a small heart shaped box from his pockets. He sprinkled the small pieces of hair into the container. " Relax you clod's. I need hair samples for an experiment I've been working on. Using hair genes I can combine the hair fibers thus elongating them to make rope." Daisuke shook the box. He used his right hand to took out a small rocket launcher out. Daisuke poured a small red solution into the rocket launcher. Daisuke raised his rocket launcher and fired. However, a giant pretzel made out of rope came out. " Unfortunately Ichigo's hair has lice. My experiment is a dud. How many times do you get to hear me say that?"
" I feel funny," Ichigo said" My head is spinning so fast I..." Without finishing his sentence Ichigo threw up. Some of Ichigo's throw up sprayed over Daisuke's cuffs.
" Idiot. You threw up over my clothes."
" Don't you care about anyone but yourself, Daisuke?" Goro shouted.
" Hmm. I care about the guy who delivers my parts from Turin. I care about the ideas from the people in NASA who are accepting my ideas for emergency exits in case of a meteor storm. And I care about the people who posted my favorite websites."
" Don't you care about people you are actually acquainted with. Someone who is a little more affiliated with you?"
" That guy from Turin has a grizzly beard so he loses some points with me, however he does give me a one percent discount every time I use his services."
" The people in the Hinata House maybe?"
" Why should I care about them? It's not like I'm related to any of them. The only person who went to the Hinata House, and my closest relative is my mother...her and the person who donated his sperm. But everyone knows that a father who isn't with his son once for over a year isn't a father."
" What about your friends?" Daisuke took out a water dispenser from his left sleeve. Daisuke rubbed Ichigo's throw up out. " Don't you have any friends?"
Daisuke pondered his friends. He spoke the names of the one's he knew without looking at Goro. " I have a robot that prepares my riceballs when I'm hungry, the dead rodents I dissected on, the homeless people I take home on Christmas Eve to dissect, and other world me's. I know I've never met them, but somewhere in an ultimate universe there's a lot of Daisuke. Our's is universe 616. Maybe you can invite one of them over and ask them about your problems."
Daisuke took out a small screwdriver from his pocket. He turned the screws tighter and tighter. He pulled out a small flap in the rocket launcher and pulled the hair follicles out. He took out a beaker with pink liquids in it and dropped the hairs in it.
" What are you doing, Daisuke?" Goro asked.
" What does it look like I'm doing? I'm fixing my hair lasso so it can bypass Ichigo's bad hair."
" Ichigo is sick!"
" He's only suffering from acute spatial disorientation. Once we reach the top he'll receive more blood from his nasal passageway."
" Won't getting higher make it harder for him to breathe?"
" Maybe if we were very high up in the sky. But in the top there's demons with the same body organs as us." Daisuke poured the liquids from the beaker inside his rocket launcher. He took out a wooden spoon he stole from the tapestry next and swirled the liquids around in circles. Then he slammed the lid down and placed a grappling hook on the nuzzle.
" Can I use your toy this time, Daisuke?"
" This isn't a toy. This is a doodad created by me. It's a grapple gun meant to fire long ropes of high tension reel metal."
" You can use that later. But first the toy."
Daisuke held the gun with his right hand, grabbed Goro's hand with his left. Goro grabbed the sick Ichigo with his other hand. Daisuke pressed a button on his gun and the grapple fired from his gun. It grabbed onto something up above and pulled Daisuke, Goro, and Ichigo to it.
" This is a really nifty gizmo you have here."
" You can say it: I'm a genius."
The gun pulled them into the clouds. Up above those clouds was a sky so red. Burning statues of men being tortured were placed everywhere in the sky. Floating above the statues were the gray skeletal figures of people.
" Is this what heaven looks like? I thought there would be more pretty fairies and pretty clouds."
" This isn't heaven. It's the place where the highest demons build their guild and descend to feed upon human flesh."
" Which is...?"
" To put it in a more simple sense, it's Hell."
" So what are we doing here again?"
" We? I was going to find Lucifer's stone. This stone powers up everything it touches. If I had some of those my experiments could last forever."
Ichigo no longer had nausea from the altitude sickness. He sprung upright and danced. " Yeah baby! I'm healthy again! I'm strong! Strong as a tiger! Now what the heck is this place?"
A gentle shadow loom over Daisuke and Goro. They looked up. This man was one of the demons. Sprouting from his back, not folded, were two wings. The left one a large white wing and the right a black bat wing. The man smiled cruelly. Then he break out into sinister laughing.
" You must be Lucifer?"
" And you Daisuke Urashima. We've been expecting you."