A Japanese Weresheep in Mutsuba Town

Author's Note: Time for a new pairing! Enjoy the story and R&R.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH! series.

Pairing: Developing Yuhi x Chupataro.

Summary:

There are some forms of alien activity even MIK turns a blind eye to. The truly alien activity between Chupataro and Ohdo Yuhi, for instance.

Chapter 43: Punch It, Shewie!

Episode XLIII
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

It is a dark time for the
Rebellion. Although the Dark
Planet has been destroyed,
Imperial troops have driven the
Rebel forces from their hidden
base and pursued them across
the galaxy.

Evading the dreaded Imperial
Starfleet, a group of freedom
fighters led by Dorothel Gale
has established a new secret
base on the remote primeval world
of Perlereino.

The evil lady Dark Elphaiber,
obsessed with finding young
Gale, has dispatched
thousands of remote probes into
the far reaches of space...

"WE'VE BEEN HIT, COO!"

"THRUSTERS ARE DOWN! I'M LOSING PROPULSION!" Asaka shouted.

"Weapons are also offline! The Super Valvel Shield is holding, but they've got us dead in the water!" Tell warned.

"Shewbahha! Who are these guys?" Yuhi gripped the sides of his head. "Why are they attackin' us? What'd we ever do to them?"

"They're from the Dark Empire! You must've tripped one of their remote probes when you left orbit! They think you're with the Rebellion!"

"Dark Empire? So they're like a real-life Black Hole Empire?"

"These ships are just the welcoming party! Your fancy shield will mean nothing if their destroyer-class vessel, the Dark Eclipser, gets here!"

Another quake reverberated through Val-Valvelgear and Mutsuba Town, and Yuhi rolled into Chupataro.

"Chupa! Enough shaking, cabra!"

A sleek, ruby-coloured craft blasted its way through the DOG fighters hounding Val-Valvelgear. Its pilot hailed the Mutsuba crew, appearing in a miniature window on Asaka's viewscreen.

"Looks like you could use a hand!" the freckled redhead understated.

"Dorothel!" Shewbahha was happy to see her.

"Who's she?"

"Dorothel Gale. She's a friend. Pretty resourceful. For a farmgirl."

"And you're pretty adept at getting yourself into tight spots! For a professional," she quipped back.

"Gale? Any relation to Taira-san?"

"Yuhi, Gale is Taira-san's given name…" Yuamu ay, ay, ayed.

"Oh…r-right. That fall knocked some screws loose."

"Dorothel, can you provide me cover to get to the Forerunner?"

"Standby!" She executed a U-turn without taking her thumbs off the buttons for her sliprider's laser cannons. "I'll cover you! But make it fast!"

Shewbahha, Yudias, Yuhi, Yuamu, and Chupataro took Mutsuba Tower's elevator.

"What's that?"

"I'm signalling my ship to come get us! We can't outmaneuver the DOG fighters in here! But out there, we have a fighting chance!"

"You have a ship? But aren't you an alien who becomes a sword to fly across the universe?"

"Have to stash the packages I deliver somewhere!"

Yuamu separated Shewbahha and Yuhi. "Sarcasm later! Action now!"

The Kozmo Forerunner generated a portal to enter the airspace above Mutsuba Tower. The silver freighter coasted low to the rounded ledge of the tower, extending a gangplank for all to board.

"Fer-blanc! Fowlmeat! Ready weapons!" Shewbahha issued the order to a tin can on wheels and a straw man.

"Oooh!" Yudias expressed with childlike glee. "These are droids, are they not?"

"You can gawk after! Let's lose the Empire's flying space monkeys first!"

Yuhi hunched over the captain's chair. "Punch it, Shewie!"

Shewbahha punched through the degrading nickname, accelerating the Forerunner through the portal and outside Val-Valvelgear's dome into the center of the battle.

"I hope you know what you're doing!"

"You wanna critique, or you wanna man weapons and help us not die?"

"Chupa will, chupa!"

"Lasers to stun! No casualties!" Yuamu ruled. "We're not gunslingers!"

"Chu! Whatever you say, chupa!"

Dorothel continued to lure fire away from Val-Valvelgear, while Chupataro fired away at them from his seat in the rotary turret of the Kozmo Forerunner. He was – no joke – having a blast disabling the enemy ships, till something put the brakes on his fun.

"Chupa?"

A trio of DOG fighters had snuck up under the Forerunner, disarming it with their tractor beams.

"Why aren't they shooting us?"

"That." Shewbahha gestured with his chin. "It's Dark Elphaiber."

"Dark Elphaiber?"

The Supreme Commander of the Imperial Army beamed over from her custom DOG fighter, her pointy hat the first fraction of her visible in the white smoke.

Always with the grand entrances. Shewbahha would have snacked on a rock to insult her were she not at an advantage. "Elphaiber! Long time no see!"

"Hold your tongue, courier." She skipped right to choking Shewbahha with telekinesis. "I find your lack of compliance disturbing."

"Let him go! You'll kill him!" Yuhi yelled.

"And if I should refuse?"

"Velgear Riva!" Yudias adopted Galaxy Form, drastically upping his stature, and unsheathing his energy sword.

"A Velgearian…" Elphaiber breathed with difficulty through her mask. "Interesting."

"Release him!"

"As you wish."

Shewbahha had to chuckle.

"Something comical?"

"Dorothel get away from you? I've been there. The thrill of chasing your prey before death."

"The Dark Empire is flourishing. It is the Rebels who are in their death throes."

"Yeah? Keep telling yourself that!"

"Shewbahha!"

"Stay back! I'll hold her off!"

"You? Hold her off? HOW?"

"I'm a Dragonbuster! We'll settle this with a clash of swords!"

"You can't have a swordfight here! There's barely room to –!"

Shewbahha had already transformed and taken a slash at the Dark Lady, who activated her purple rayblade to parry.

"Uuuuuaaaahhh! Watch out! Don't cut the ship!"

Each meeting of their blades produced an electric crackle, and for a period, they seemed evenly matched, until Elphaiber started gaining ground.

Chupataro bounced out of hiding, wrapping his arms around where her ankles were.

"WHAT?"

"Yudias, take her out, cabra!"

Yudias bonked Elphaiber with the hilt of his sword. Her floor-length gown brought her down, which raised questions about practicality.

Shewbahha shooed Yudias and Chupataro back, flinging a handful of globular gadgets at Elphaiber…that dematerialized her?

"What were those?"

"Compulsory recoil bombs! They send whoever they hit to the last location in the transporter log and short circuit anything mechanical upon exit! But more Simius are coming! We can't be here when the soartrooper reinforcements arrive!" Shewbahha opened a channel to Val-Valvelgear. "How are things on your end?"

"Repair teams have reported in and all systems are operational!" Asaka replied over coms.

"I'm commencing site-to-site transport! Once you're aboard, trigger the Goradonium drive and beat it! Top speed!"

"What about you?"

"Dorothel and I know every nook and cranny in the galaxy! We'll get by on our own! You hurry to Velgear!"

"You promised we'd Rush Duel again, Shewbahha! You better come through!" Yuhi reminded him they pinkie swore as he was transported off the Forerunner.

"Val-Valvelgear!" Asaka announced. "IGNITION!"