Chapter 5: Reunion, Revelation, & Revolution Part 1
Guardians:
Ruby (Pokémon Adventures): The Charmer
Junko Konno (Zombie Land Saga): The Showa (Zombie) Idol
Linhardt von Hevring (Fire Emblem: Three Houses): The Sleepy Crest Scholar
Bucky Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Veteran Sergeant
Blaze The Cat (Sonic The Hedgehog): The Fire Princess
Yamcha (Dragon Ball): The Wolf Fang Fist
Komaru Naegi (Danganronpa): The Hopeful Heart
Sapphire Birch (Pokémon Adventures): The Conqueror
Michiru Kagemori (BNA: Brand New Animal): The Shapeshifting Beast Girl
Masaomi Kida (Durarara!): The Casanova
Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Ex-Thief
Ponzu (Hunter X Hunter): The Queen Bee
Ashe (Fire Emblem: Three Houses): The Arrow of Justice
Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.): The Cheating Trickster
Stan Marsh/Toolshed and Wendy Testaburger/Call Girl (South Park): The Power Couple
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Zetsubou Members:
Monaca Towa (Danganronpa): The Li'l Ultimate Homeroom
Ultron (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Rogue A.I.
General Tao (Dragon Ball): The Mercenary
Agatha (Pokémon Adventures): The Elder
Dr. Eggman Nega (Sonic The Hedgehog): The Mad Scientist
Big Bad Pete, Petetronic, Small Pete, & Pete Pan (Disney's Epic Mickey): The Brutes
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Third-Person POV
Insert Song: Tomorrow City (Disney's Epic Mickey)
"So… Can you please go over these 'new features' that were put into my hacking gun again?"
Komaru and Oswald were strolling carefully through the futuristic environment, as the Lucky Rabbit sighed upon having to explain things again.
"Your megaphone-gun-thing is now better suited to handle not just those robo-bears, but also strong Beetleworx. Plus you can use four different sketches to take care of those bots in other ways, see those settings there?"
Komaru looked at a new control knob attached to her hacking gun that not only has labels according to each Truth Bullet, but also has images of a TV, watch, anvil, and a fairy.
"Summon a TV to power control panels, electrocute baddies, and distract idiots, use a watch to slow down time, drop an anvil to crush things or use it as a platform, and create fairy dust to make things float that you can push around using electricity! Blah blah, you get it now? Any more questions?"
Oswald tapped his foot in impatience as he awaited her response.
"I… think I get it now. So… if you don't mind me asking, how did you end up in this weird theme park?" Komaru asked as the rabbit slicked back his ears before the sprang back into place.
"Don't like talking about it too much but long story short, I was a cartoon star that ended up forgotten. This place is where all toons who the world forgets end up, I was the first here so I got declared the leader right away."
Komaru nodded along, interested in the tale, "Was it… always like this?".
Oswald shook his head, "It was much happier at first, then a little thing called the Thinner Disaster happened and we got a bunch of ink monsters roaming around. Even after that mess we had to deal with another with a bunch of earthquakes and a mechanical mad doc that needed a tuneup. For a while though, things had finally seemed to be peaceful… until those awful, selfish, no-good, dirty, greedy, BRAINLESS TUBS OF—"
"C-Calm down! Breathe in and breathe out, just like I do." Komaru clutches Oswald's shoulders as literal steam was coming out of his ears.
Soon the bunny began to listen to her clearly as his breathing slowed and he was calm.
"Hoo, namaste… Sorry about that, usually it's Donald who gets all riled up like that ha ha…"
Komaru smiles after her success, "No worries, those guys betrayed you so it's hard not to be upset about that! Getting angry isn't going to help, unless you throw that right back at them!"
The Lucky Rabbit chuckled at that line as he sat back up and began to stretch.
"You're right, kid. I'll let 'em have it as soon as I see one or all four! They think they're sooooo tough, well I'm gonna teach them that they messed with the wrong rabbit!"
Oswald puffed up his chest to make himself seem more buff as Komaru laughed.
"Yeah! Gonna be fun to see how they handle having an anvil dropped on their heads, ha ha ha!" Komaru posed with her hacking, trying to make herself seem cool.
"Not a bad idea! Enough messing around though, let's see if we can get their robo bear factories offline. Hm… let's try to see if we can find it from the sky." Oswald suggests.
This confused the teenager, "The sky? How are we going to do that?".
Oswald just gave her a smile, "Just hold on tight to me, okay? I'll try not to drop ya!"
"Huh? HUHHHHHHHHH?"
Oswald leapt into the air with a high jump and his long ears became propeller blades. Komaru held onto his feet as the two of them took flight around the city of tomorrow.
"Okay… now if I were a machine making robots, where would I be?" Oswald says as he holds his hands in front of his eyes like a telescope.
Insert Song: "Lucky Rabbit" - Oswald's Theme (Disney Fandaze 2018)
A catchy ringtone then rang from out of nowhere as Komaru noticed a vibration coming from Oswald's blue shorts.
"Uh… looks like you got a call from Goofy." She says as she grabs the phone and looks at the caller ID.
"Put it on speaker!" Oswald told her as she did just that, "Talk to me, Goof."
"Gawrsh, Oswald, I forgot to tell ya something before you two left!" The dippy dawg says worriedly.
"Is it something important?" Komaru questioned the animatronic.
You could clearly hear Goofy gulp on the other end, "Y-Yeah, very important! Y'see… even though Petetronic ain't around Tomorrow City, he ended up leaving it protected by—"
Oswald then cut off Goofy before he could finish, "Wait, I think I see something over there, I think it's one of those flying robot bears. Probably more where that came from, we'll take care of it, see ya back at Ostown!"
"Wait, I didn't—" Oswald took the phone from Komaru and hung up on him before locking onto his target.
Yet unbeknownst to Oswald and Komaru, someone managed to find them as well!
"Gahaha… Well whaddya know, following the tracker on that zombie girl led us right to the rabbit too, and we didn't even need a carrot to lure him in! Already put in the command to send both Monokuma units and a fresh bottle of Blot-O-Kumas, so let's wait a little before giving him and that girl a PAN-tastic beating of a lifetime!" A bulky silhouette snickered as he floated in the air next to a glowing green sprite.
"Hoo boy, that world sure was a trip to go through. Those folks were quite the interesting characters…" Ruby reflects with his group as they enter Tomorrow City Square.
Right before they ended up in Wasteland, they made a brief trip to another world which fortunately wasn't being targeted. They did however spend their time to warn the inhabitants of any incoming threats before having a day to relax before any more fighting.
"It sure was… although I wish that dog girl would stop trying to bite my fingers…" Ashe says, looking at his thankfully unharmed hand.
Ponzu ponders, "That alchemist's 'copium' concoction had quite the intriguing taste. Wish I could have bought a bottle, but he was nowhere to be seen when I visited him again a second time."
Junko tries to change the subject, "Yes it was indeed enjoyable to visit a world with fellow idols…"
Linhardt briefly interrupted her, "If you could even call a weird detective girl or an unlucky jester idols."
Junko continued, "I personally find all of them admirable for trying to make their fans happy, in their own ways, but I was going to bring up our current location."
Ashe was in awe of how advanced everything looked, "This place is like something you might only read about in stories or see in dreams… it's amazing!"
"It appears to be part of a theme park. I have heard of an exceptional one in a faraway region of my world, yet from the atmosphere I feel an immediate sense of danger instead of amusement." Ruby looks ahead at a rocket ride, still operational but the seats are empty.
Well, empty except for when Sapphire hopped into one of them.
"WOOHOO! COME ON GUYS, THIS IS SO FUN!"
"No thank you, I just ate and just looking at it is enough to make my stomach churn…" Linhardt passed.
"Get down from there, you don't know if it's completely safe! I mean, the ride vehicle behind you is flipped upside down!" Ponzu warns her.
"AW MAN, I SHOULDA GOTTEN ON THAT ONE!" Sapphire said to Ponzu's dismay.
Junko looks up to see some sky trams hanging up above them, "I agree with you Ruby, it reminds me of a wonderful park that opened in Tokyo that I went to. That joy I felt then, is such a contrast to the dread I feel when I look around. now"
Ashe wandered near the top of some nearby stairs that were right next to the tracks for the people mover.
"ACK! Whoa, that was a close one…" One of the people mover vehicles rushed past him quickly, causing the freckled boy to jump back.
Junko quickly rushed up to him to check on his condition, "Please be more careful, Ashe! Those vehicles could have seriously injured you, or worse."
"Right, my apologies for my carelessness." He replies back, while still shaken up by the experience.
"Ahem. Don't try to rush things, you two…" Ruby cleared his throat as he noticed the two of them getting too close.
"Hee hee hee!" Sapphire giggled as Ash and Junko quickly tried to hide their embarrassment.
"Hm… it seems as though we're the only ones here. I could be wrong however." Linhardt assumes.
"I'll take flight to see if I can see any signs of where to go next." Ponzu activated her wings and began to hover above the square.
That turns out to be a mistake, since when she turns around to check what's behind her…
WHAM!
Insert Song: Tomorrow City Combat (Disney's Epic Mickey)
"Gah!" Ponzu gets knocked out of the sky by what seems to be some kind of boomerang.
She barely landed on her feet, only managing to reactivate her wings right before hitting the ground.
"You okay? That looked like it hit ya hard!" Sapphire asked her.
Right as the six of them regrouped, the boomerang was caught by the attacker as he descended to the ground. The projectile turned out to be an arm, which gets reattached to the body of its owner: Oswald.
"What do we have here? You're the ones Petetronic entrusted to guard this place, huh? Well don't think I'll go easy on ya just because you're kids!"
Komaru held her hacking gun in a steady position as Oswald readied his remote control, electricity sparking off of it as the two of them stared the others down.
"A rabbit?!" Ashe let out with surprise at the sight of the toon.
"What's the big idea, Floppy Ears?! Grrr…" Sapphire grit her teeth as she reached for a Pokéball on her belt.
"Tch, I'm gonna pump you full of stingers, Bunny Boy!" Ponzu was understandably irritated as well because of that attack.
Junko then tried to hold the two of them back, "Let us just talk this out, it was most likely some kind of misunderstanding! No need to resort to violence right away!"
"Hah? He's the one who took the first shot, so now I'm gonna be fair and return the favor! Rono!" Sapphire takes out her Aggron and Ponzu equips her wrist stingers.
"Actually, it looks like they don't want to fight either, Oswald. Maybe we should listen to what they have to say." Komaru tells him, but the rabbit wasn't interested.
"Nah-nah! It's probably just a trick to try and get us to lay off of them before… BAM! We get knocked flat on our backs. I especially don't trust the guy with the white hair over there!"
Ruby gets offended at that remark, "This is a hat, thank you very much! And we're not looking for trouble."
"Make that double, all this bickering is making me just want to lay down and nap through all of it." Linhardt groaned.
The bulbous silhouette watched the back and forth between the groups and munched on some popcorn from atop a sky tram above them.
"It looks like I won't have to do anything at all! What a show, ha ha! Hey Sprite, you mind grabbing me a chili dog from Award Wieners?"
"We're fresh out, how about a knuckle sandwich with plenty of iron?" A voice coming from his left shoulder asks him.
"I don't think we got one 'o those nearb—oh crud."
A certain metal fist then collided with the face of the rotund observer, as he went crashing down in between the two sides before any physical contact could be made.
"What the heck? Pete Pan?" Oswald recognized the large feline dressed like the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
Ashe gasped as he saw him as well, "He looks similar to the two villains who attacked us near the monastery!"
Komaru began to connect the dots, "Wait, this guy's one of the four Petes? And you guys fought two of them? Then that means…"
"We all have a common foe, so no need for any further conflict between us."
Blaze landed right in front of them all, joined by Bucky, Yamcha, Scott, Michiru, Masaomi, Waluigi, Stan, and Wendy.
"Did you really have to say 'knuckle sandwich'? That line's been said about a million times." Bucky criticized Scott's choice of quip.
Ant-Man shrugged it off, "I added the 'full of iron' part to go along with your metal arm, plus what else could I say when he was talking about getting food and you were going to punch him? If it ain't broke…"
"I'm grateful to see you all, especially before things could get unnecessarily rough!" Junko greeted the trio that she met before.
"Hey, glad to see you're still doin' alright, floofy hair!" Yamcha patted the zombie idol's fluffy hair.
Ponzu turned her nose up when she saw Scott, reminded of how they ended up separated from their group.
"Ha ha… good to see you too?" The fellow bug person chuckled awkwardly.
"They made a guy who dresses like this into a general, but not Waluigi? Bah, they have no taste!" Waluigi scoffed after seeing Pete Pan in his getup.
"Uh… what's this weirdo's deal?" Sapphire did not know how to feel about the man in purple overalls.
Michiru quickly reassured her, "He's on our side, he's just a bit… eccentric."
A full party of seventeen had gathered to surround the toon in the green tunic. He manages to immediately come to after getting a kick to the gut by Oswald.
"Ouch! Who's the wise guy who… oh hey, Ozzie."
"Talk, Pan. The numbers game is in our favor, pal. Tell us where you make the robot bears around here!"
"PUHUHUHUHUHUHU!" A laugh resonated through the square as our heroes felt the ground rumble.
As they were distracted, Pete Pan swept the legs of Oswald, Scott, and Ashe before taking flight as an army began to form behind him. A crowd of Monokuma units, alongside a wave of their inkier and uglier blotling cousins right behind them.
"What was that about the numbers game, pally? Bwahaha!" Pete Pan guffawed loudly.
"Shit, that's like a zillion of them!" Stan's mouth was wide at the site of it all.
Michiru looked at the Blot-O-Kumas with disgust, "Ech, don't like the look of those goopy ones. I don't think I want to touch them…"
"Did that child just curse?" Ashe was focused on a completely different matter.
"I'm going to have to conserve my uses of Blizzard, ah, but I also need to not push my Pokémon too hard…" Junko gulped as she tried to decide her plan of action.
"You ready to dance, Ruby?" Sapphire turned to her close companion as Rono was still raring to go.
"Not a particular form of dance I enjoy partaking in, but I do have the perfect partner." Ruby tells her, prompting a blush to appear on the fanged girl's face.
"Aw, Ruby… that's so nice of you to…"
"Having released its body with its heart, it shines with overwhelming beauty. Possessing the Marvel Scale, this is the Pokémon Milotic—Feefee!" Ruby calls out his dear Milotic.
Sapphire then descended into angrish, "Oh… you… urgh, never mind then!"
Masaomi grabbed a cape feather from the box of power-ups he carried from their adventure.
"Having some boy trouble, huh Saph? Let me know if you need some pointers on how to woo him, for now I gotta learn to stop being a liability in these fights!"
Linhardt sighed tiredly, "How exciting… I just had to be awake for this, didn't I?"
Oswald stood up and looked to Komaru once more, "You got those sketches memorized now, kid?"
She nods as she switches to tv sketches and begins to charge her hacking gun.
Oswald then looked back at Pete Pan, staring daggers at the large lad.
"Good, now let's show these creeps a thing or three!"
Insert Song: You Will Know Our Names (Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition)
"COOK-A-ROOK-A-ROOOOOOOO! CHARGE!" Pete Pan crows like a rooster like his namesake as he whips out his dagger to do battle.
He engages both Waluigi and Bucky at the same time, swinging his blade to clash with both the former's tennis racket and the latter's vibranium arm.
"Blizzard!"
Ruby commanded Feefee and she froze the first wave of Blot-O-Kumas before Michiru and Giant-Man crushed them together in a gigantic fist bump.
A pair of Ball Monokumas rolled towards Junko as she took out her Espurr.
"Lazuli, Psyshock!" She commanded.
The Ball Monokumas were launched back as they flew towards Komaru, who was already aiming for them and ready to fire.
"Lucky you, it looks like you got some screen time!" She uses the tv sketch option to bring out an old retro TV.
The round Monokuma units slammed into it and got shocked before exploding, with Junko and Komaru double high-fiving in celebration.
"Anyone up for tennis?" Yamcha asked Wendy & Masaomi, Spirit Ball atop his palm, and the both of them obliged.
"I'm more of a volleyball person, yet I'm open to trying this." Wendy smiled, looking forward to it.
Yamcha served up the energy ball, going right through a few standard Monokumas before Masaomi used his power-up cape to strike the energy orb back at the opposing side. Wendy launched it back using her selfie stick baton and the three of them continued it through multiple rallies until ultimately Masaomi ended it with a well timed smash shot through three Monokumas.
"Woohoo! Score one for Ikebukuro!" Masaomi cheered.
Wendy pouted, "Lucky shot."
"Hmph, Bolganone."
"Hyah!"
Linhardt creates a wall of fire and Blaze uses her own powers to turn them into spinning columns aimed directly at the enemy army.
"Ouch! Knock it off, I just got these new shorts!" One of those columns grazed Oswald's cottontail, which he pats to put out the small embers, "Okay you buckets of bolts, prepare to be shocked! Remote power!"
The 1920's rabbit rascal used his remote to form an electric bubble to stun a group of Beast Monokumas circling around him. Sapphire saw this as a good opportunity to attack herself.
"HEAVY SLAM!" She commanded Rono and the Aggron used its weight to create a shockwave of its own to turn them into scrap.
"Can someone cover me? There's multiple on my tail!" Ponzu asked as five Destroyer Monokumas followed her flight path.
Ashe held his silver bow up and aimed at the foes with a single arrow, with Scott holding onto it.
"Are you sure this will work? Just one arrow will do it?" He asked the tiny Avenger.
"It's not about the number of arrows, it's how you use the one you've got. Now fire away!"
Ashe reluctantly agreed to the plan, "Okay, you can count on me! Ready yourself…"
The young man took a deep breath before firing Ant-Man over Ponzu's yellow hat. Scott let go of the arrow before tossing an enlarging disc on it, landing on top of Ponzu's hat.
"By the Goddess…" Ashe watched as the Pym particles grew the arrow to the size of a tree trunk and skewered all of those Destroyer Monokumas.
While all this was going on, Waluigi and Bucky found that Pete Pan was much more agile than expected. His ability to fly and his skills with a blade allowed him to get some good slashes in on two opponents.
"Wah! My stache!" Waluigi cried out as Pete Pan cut a hair off of his oddly angled facial hair.
"Ha!" Bucky delivered a boot to Pan's gut, which winded him briefly before he backlipped in midair to readjust himself.
"CAW CAW! You lot had your fun, now it's time to turn you into crocodile food! Call in the Kumaworx!" The brute crowed as a new threat emerged.
This mashup of The Mad Doctor's Beetleworx designs, combined with Monokuma unit tech, crafted another new breed of foe. This one type is a mashup between Beast Monokumas and Spinner Beetleworx. Robotic spiders with buzzsaws, glowing red eyes and sharp fangs. Deadly and horrifying in one metal package.
"These are like that spider bear thing we fought earlier, Oswald!" Komaru reminded him of their first meeting.
"Then you should know where the weakness is, kid! Just use your new sketches to take care of 'em!" Oswald told her as he zapped a Guard Monokuma from behind with his remote before kicking it away.
Blaze stepped in to give her own insight, "The amount of enemies destroyed won't matter as long as they continue to increase! We need to find the source and shut it down quickly!"
"Even if we turn it off, someone's gotta handle Tubby here so he can't stop us!" Masaomi brings up.
"So what do you propose we do before we get overwhelmed?!" Ruby asked as he heals Feefee up using a Hyper Potion.
"Hey Yamcha, I have one last growing disc, want to try something?" Scott asked the Z-Fighter.
The former dessert bandit raised both of his eyebrows, "As long as it works, what do you need me to do?".
"Just summon your laser ball thing, and wait for my signal! Everyone else, run and try to find the machine making these things!" Scott grew back to normal size right next to Yamcha.
"How are you so sure that this will work?" Junko asked the Avenger before joining the others to search.
Scott just simply shrugged, "Stranger things have happened, just try to avoid getting hurt. Okay little lady?"
Junko took his word for it as Scott prepared to throw at his target. Waluigi and Bucky were still trying to keep up with the bloated bully, Pete Pan, and Yamcha made his Spirit Ball using his ki.
"Do it now!" Scott signaled his companion.
Yamcha shot out the ball of ki and Scott threw the disc, Pete Pan managing to duck under both.
"GAHAHAHAHA! You think those tiny things would've been able to hit me?!"
After he finished taunting them, he saw both of them being shocked at something happening behind him. Pan then turned around to see a GIANT SPIRIT BALL close to his face.
"I didn't think that would work! Try moving it!" Scott's eyes were wide as he told Yamcha to play around with it.
"Ohohoho… with pleasure! HAH! TAH! HYAH!"
"Oh Walt dang it…" Pete said as he knew what was about to happen next.
Yamcha obliged with his finger movements directing where the large ball of energy would go, knocking Pete Pan down from orbit, before clearing through each wave of Monokuma units on the ground. It was like commanding a sun, albeit less hot and not as large, but still able to clean house. It wasn't very fast though, Yamcha was visibly sweating as he moved it. so Scott, Waluigi, and Bucky still needed to take care of the stragglers for a little longer.
"There they are! Three of 'em all in a row!" Sapphire points them out.
The generators were like large iron mouths with red Monokuma eyes on top of them. With Pan currently getting smeared into the ground by the giant Spirit Ball, he couldn't send in a command to make more.
Oswald pondered a bit as he approached them, noticing familiar control panels near each one.
"What are you planning? Nothing too complicated I hope?" Linhardt questioned the rabbit as he walked up to a nearby panel.
"You know what? I'm gonna try something different with this generator. Anyone else good with hacking?"
"Call Girl can crack the code, what do we need to do?" Wendy approached the rabbit and he pointed it out to her.
Yamcha was soon out of breath and the Spirit Ball dissipated, and he flopped onto his back in exhaustion.
"No no no no! Not now, wake up buddy!" Scott tried slapping him awake, but to no avail.
"W-W-W-WAH!" Waluigi quivered as the four men were outnumbered by the remaining forces beginning to regroup.
Pete Pan, despite his visible pain, still stood up to laugh at them.
"Looks like I've got some fresh meat to give to 'ol Tick Tock Croc, heh heh."
Bucky clenched his teeth before noticing something off about the robots.
"The hell… they aren't attacking us."
The Monokumas then turned their attention to Pete Pan, cornering the plump powerhouse against a nearby wall.
"What're ya doin? I thought I told you idiots to tear 'em to pieces!"
"Good ol' Floppy Ears got them our side, little guy ain't that bad honestly!" Sapphire grinned.
"Not bad yourself, Fang Face. Now then, Tomorrow City's back in our control, Pan, so surrender and we'll only place you in jail for… life." Oswald flipped his remote in his hands as he smirked at his adversary.
"Aw… I came so close! I followed the tracker right to this location and managed to set up the generators accordingly! How could I have…"
"Wait, tracker? What do you mean by that?" Bucky lifted Pete up by the shirt that was too small to fit him.
He just gave a smug grin before laughing in the Winter Soldier's face, "That girl with the floofy hair… She's got a tracker that Team Zetsubou placed on the back of her neck. Allowed me to find y'all and know where to send our Monkuma units next! The more she traveled across multiple worlds, the more she put targets on their backs! Think about it more if you think I'm lying!"
Ruby, Ashe, and Linhardt turned to look at the shocked Junko. Stunned into silence after hearing such a thing.
"In a way, she's practically led us right to ya without even knowing! HA HA HA!" Pete laughed even louder.
Bucky shut him up with a punch that knocked him back, bouncing a couple feet before using his gut to cushion the fall.
"Ugh, I'm pooped. Let's blow this popsicle stand, Sprite!"
He brought out a mini projector before quickly leaping in, not untouched however, Ponzu managed to shoot a stinger full of knockout gas into his rear end before it could fully get into the portal. The projector turned off due to the force by which he jumped into it, so that they could not follow.
The commander escaping was one problem, but our team was facing another one… Oswald was slowly walking up to Junko.
"Oswald, what are you doing?" Komaru asked him as he kept moving everyone aside.
"Taking care of one last thing." Oswald was charging his remote's electricity.
"Hey hey hey! Don't lay a finger on her, you don't even know if what he was saying is true!" Ruby defended her, alongside Ashe.
"He's right, at least allow her to defend herself before you try to—"
Not listening to the boys at all, Oswald then leapt into the air and fired a beam of electricity at Junko's neck. And just like that, the tracker fell apart in the blink of an eye.
"Hoo, glad that worked out! Sorry for the little zap, I was just tryin' to see what could happen if I gave that thing a quick jolt. I wouldn't try to fry someone I didn't even know!" Oswald gestured to his remote.
Ponzu immediately called him out on it, "Didn't you just throw your arm at me when we just met?"
Ozzie just brushed the bee lady off, "That was about twenty minutes ago, lady, time changes people."
Bucky shook his head at his response, "Hmph, he's the same as he was in his own cartoons…"
"You know him?!" Michiru let out as soon as he heard that.
Bucky nodded, "Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, saw him in theaters when I was 11 years old."
Even Oswald was surprised about this, "How in the heck do you… I'll come back to that later. Anyways, I'm still sorry about scaring ya… wait, what's your name?"
"J-Junko, Mr. Rabbit Sir, and no apologies needed. You did what you needed to do." Junko bowed her head towards the toon politely.
The toon rabbit raised an eyebrow, "Junko? Like Junk-o? Jeez, what did a cute girl like you do to get named after garbage?"
"Actually it means—"
Oswald cut her off quickly, "And why the heck are ya glowing and sounding so weird? I didn't tase you too much didn't I?"
Everyone then noticed how Junko had some weird glow around her as an effect of the electricity and her voice was autotuned when she spoke. Junko briefly thought about her choice of words before answering,
"Oh, it's because um… I'm a zombie."
The people in the group there who didn't know that looked like their eyes were about to pop out of their heads. Those who did know (Ruby, Linhardt, Bucky, and Blaze) stood there awkwardly with sweat drops falling down their faces.
"Okay gotcha, I get the picture, a zombie… WAIT, A WHAT?!" Oswald's eyes literally did pop out of his head.
Lol, what a start to a chapter that was, huh? I was often imagining this chapter for months when I wrote this story and now that it's here… I hope you all liked it as much as I enjoyed writing it, for the most part anyways. Everyone's here! My wonderful Fictional Guardians: Ruby, Junko, Linhardt, Bucky, Blaze, Yamcha, Komaru, Sapphire, Michiru, Masaomi, Ponzu, Scott, Stan, Wendy, Ashe, Waluigi, and Oswald. Bringing together such a diverse cast across multiple forms of media is odd, but it's so satisfying imagining the character interactions and the conflicts they have to face. It was more difficult to create this roster than it was for a killing game, since I have to consider their combat skills and what else they brought to the table. Only Masaomi stands out, despite his experiences in his home series, yet he does have something coming up soon which will be quite intriguing to see… I am really happy about how this turned out though, the beginning of the end is fast approaching, peeps! Next time, some shorter character interaction stuff after this lengthy fight-filled part. Farewell for now! (By the way, wouldn't this be a fun Warriors-like game to play? Or an amazing animated movie to watch? Imagine seeing these team-up moves in action, hoo boy I wish I could draw or animate because that would be amazing! Can I also point out that I'm glad I subverted both the turning on a teammate and heroes fighting each other tropes? If done well they work well in a story like in Captain America: Civil War, but I kinda wanted to avoid making something like Batman v Superman so I decided not to include that stuff.) - Renegade Braveheart