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Tales of the Multiverse Bit 232

"Rudy, what are you doing!?"

Upon smelling something burning, Darius Greg, Gino Samuels and Kennedy "Kenny" MacIntosh rushed out to the backyard and to their surprise, Ruderford "Rudy" Tucker is seen burning the items that he uses for flirting girls in a drum.

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It's been quite an eventful week in Neo-City and apart from small crimes occuring from time to time, the incident with the burning alleys had been quite the topic amongst the locals.

Speaking of the incident, Buccaneer "Buckles" Murphy, whom is rumored to be involved, had been released from the hospital and is doing good while being supported by Evanore Highmore Wolfmoon, Gillian "Gill" Norman and Mika Suzuki.

And during the same week, the Heroes Coalitions gained new recruits in the form of the former students from the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles and all of them are doing well.

Speaking of the Ultimate Students, Tsumugi Shirogane's memories had been destroyed by Cocoa Belle and after being 'rebooted', she has been released to the wild.

The same thing can be said for the newly revived, Junko Enoshima, whom had the same treatment as Tsumugi.

Bzzzttt...

Later that night in Neo-City, we head towards the Training Camp and inside the lounge area, we see a lot of people gathered around while doing various stuffs after a day of working and training.

At one table, we see Kanji Tatsumi, Korekiyo Shinguuji, Leon Kuwata, Mondo Oowada, Teddie and Yousuke Hanamura having quite of a heated conversation.

"I understand." Kanji acknowledged, "I'm not shooting you down." he clarified, "I'm just saying I don't have the money..." he trailed, "... nobody budgeted for that." he claimed, "We have to know that kind of stuff ahead of time." he beckoned, "I was talking to Leon, I know for a fact he's budgeting on this." he shared, "Could you even go in on that kind of money?" he questioned.

"I was even..." Yousuke trailed, "Well, I was just gonna say that maybe we could even just get Double D to kind of, you know, pay for whatever, because it's like..." he suggested, "... we can see it as a business trip, like, for tax purposes." he described, "We could go to, like, an extensive place and maybe get him to pay." he concluded.

"I feel bad roping Double D into this." Kanji admitted, "This is not his business, dude." he pointed out.

"Kanji, I'm just trying to think of solutions." Yousuke argued.

"I'm just-" Kanji was trying to say.

"Do you have any ideas?" Yousuke questioned.

"I get that..." Kanji trailed.

"But the thing is, it's just annoying because I admit that I probably screwed up-" Yousuke admitted.

"Stop, stop-" Kanji beckoned, "Wait, wait, wait." he added, "Don't, don't, don't talk over me." he scolded.

"Let me finish, let me finish, let me finish." Yousuke insisted, "Don't yell at me." he chastised.

"Go ahead, go ahead." Kanji beckoned.

"I was saying I probably screwed up, but, you know-" Yousuke trailed.

"You did." Kanji confirmed, "You did screw up." he insisted.

"I admit to that." Yousuke conceded, "What you guys don't realize is I-I admit I probably screwed up." he furthered, "I'm saying I do not remember that I had to book the hotel." he insisted.

"Why do you keep bringing that up?" Kanji questioned.

"But what I'm saying now is I'm trying to figure out a solution." Yousuke insisted and at the same time, Leon picks up a travel book and began reading it.

"That's irrelevant, that's irrelevant." Kanji argued.

"And it seems like you guys are just, like, ganging up on me." Yousuke pointed out.

Leon turns to Yousuke, "We're not ganging up on you, dude." the baseball player argued while placing the travel book back down on the table and as this is going on, Pinkie Pie is seen skipping towards them with a tray of muffins and drinks in hand.

"You're throwing something-" Kanji was trying to say.

"We're trying to figure out a solution..." Leon trailed.

Pinkie then stopped-by their table, "Hi, guys!" she greeted cheerfully, "I brought you all some muffins and pink drinks!" she presented.

This effectively calmed everyone down, "Okay." Yousuke uttered in response, "Thank you." he expressed in gratitude, "Yes." he added.

"Yeah." Kanji uttered in agreement as Pinkie placed down the bowl of muffins and drinks on the table, "Muffins are right here, thank you." the delinquent expressed in gratitude.

Meanwhile outside lounge area, we see Adagio Dazzle, Kaede Akamatasu and Sayaka Maizono walking across the hallway while making their way towards the lounge.

"I must say..." Adagio trailed, "... you girls did a pretty good performance nights ago in the AniManga Cafe." she complimented, "Miss Fong was very thrilled with your performance." she added.

"Thank you." Sayaka expressed in gratitude, "I just wished that night started rather peacefully." she thought out loud, "That sudden fire explosion near the cafe was pretty shocking." she admitted.

"Indeed." Adagio replied in agreement, "But look on the bright side." she beckoned, "At least no one, except for Buckles, got hurt." she said before noticing Kaede moving her fingers in the air as if she was playing a piano, "Kaede, what are you doing?'' the siren asked.

"I'm flexing my fingers so it won't get stiff, so anytime I use my Gift, my fingers won't get cramped." Kaede explained before taking notice of Eustace Bagge standing at one corner with his back facing them, "Hey, who's that?" the piano player asked.

"That's Eustace Bagge." Sayaka answered, "He is a former member of The Hunting Team." she shared.

"He was part of a team?!" Kaede squawked in surprise, "But he looks so old." she pointed out.

Adagio giggled in response, "That he is." she confirmed in amusement before getting close to the old man, "Hello, Mister Bagge." the siren greeted.

Eustace then responded by turning to them while wearing his large scary mask, "OOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA!" he shouted.

"KYAAAAAAHHH!" the three girls let's out a scream before breaking into a run towards the lounge.

Eustace then took off his mask, "Yehehehehe...'' he let's out a laugh when Shizune Takatsuki and Cal the Exceed approaches him from behind with the former whacking the back his head with a rolling pin, "Ow!" the old man yelped in pain before turning to Shizune and Cal whom are looking at him with stern faces, "What did I do?" the farmer asked while rubbing his head.

Back inside the lounge room, everyone were taken by surprise when Adagio, Kaede and Sayaka came running into the room while screaming at the same time.

Adagio leans down to her knees while catching her breath, Kaede is seen clinging onto Angie Yonaga while Sayaka sat on a couch, shivering like a wet puppy.

"Woah, what happened?" Ryouma Hoshi asked in confusion.

"That MOTHERFUCKING old man just had to scare us as a response for our greetings!" Adagio exclaimed in annoyance with a finger pointed at the door.

"He got you too?" Leon uttered out loud.

"What do you mean 'you too'?" Yousuke questioned in surprise.

"Yeah, he got me good." Leon admitted while clapping his hands, "I was walking in our dorm's hallway last night when I come across that old man when he then suddenly turns around wearing a large scary mask..." he trailed with a smile before his face morphed into a deadpanned expression, "... and then I ran away screaming like a girl." he admitted.

"Well..." Yousuke trailed, "... try to be weary once he's around.'' he advised, "You just don't know when or when he's going to scare someone." he stated.

As this is going on, somewhere in the lounge area, we see the Joey Hollard, Kylie Hollard, Ozzy Wizner and Suzie Takahashi, whom for some odd reason we're not informed about the new recruits nor what just happened earlier, are seen sitting on a couch playing a game of H.A.V.O.C., and not a H.A.V.O.C. Marathon, since they're the only ones playing and no one was around that area but them.

Until now that is...

"Hey, what are you FUCKERS playing?" a voice asked.

Joey turns to the owner of the voice, "Oh, it's called H.A.V.O.C. and it's..." he was trying to say only to stopped talking when he saw recognized the owner of the voice.

It was none other than Junko Enoshima and she was standing right beside them with a wicked smile.

"Abuh, abuh..." Joey blabbered while dropping his controller in shock.

Ozzy, Kylie and Suzie then stopped playing and wondered why Joey dropped his controller, "Hey Joey, why'd ya stop and..." Ozzy was trying to say but stopped when he saw who Joey was looking at which the girls followed suit and saw Junko before them, "Huh!?" the cowboy uttered in shock when they all saw her and dropped their controllers while staring at the gal for what felt like forever until the TV uttered the words, 'Game Over!.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" the Mississippi Four screamed in shock after snapping out of their stupor.

At one couch, Chester Blakely, Flannery Faulkner and Willie Simons are seen lazing around when they heard their scream.

"What do they have to scream about?" Flannery questioned.

"I don't know." Willie replied, "I think they're just probably overreacting over nothing." he assumed.

Chester rolled his eyes in response, "What's new?" he muttered in annoyance.

Back with the Mississippi Four, they backed away from the couch until they were a few inches away from Junko, "A ZOMBIIIIIEEEEEE!" they shouted while shaking and pointing their weapons at her with Ozzy pointing his Revolver Pistol, Kylie pointing her Star Rod in its Shooting Star Saber, Suzie holding up her Serrated Ninjato "Yorukaze" and Joey pointing his Nerf Zombie Strike Crosscut with the Buzzsaw spinning and revving respectively.

Junko stares at them with a raised eyebrow, "You motherfucking sons and daughters of bitches are fuckin' weirdoes." she commented, "I'm outta here." she uttered to herself before walking off, leaving the Mississippi Four frozen in fear.

Meanwhile outside the Training Camp, we see Lukz Ramzyse and Korriana Ramzyse walking around the courtyard with the latter looking all bored.

"This sucks!" Korriana whined.

Lukz sighed in response, "If you're so bored then why don't you go out and train." he beckoned, "You know..." he trailed, "... to keep yourself busy.'' he reasoned.

"I've been doing that everyday!" Korriana argued in response, "I think I had enough training for the week!" she claimed.

"If you're that bored..." Lukz trailed, "... I suggest that you ask someone for a sparring match." he suggested.

Korriana smirked in response, "I like that idea." she acknowledged, "And I know who to challenge.'' she uttered out loud while eyeing Darren Cross and Hector Vanguard Jr. whom are having a conversation underneath a tree, Korriana then a made a beeline towards them, "Hey boys!" she called out which got their attentions, "Think fast!" she beckoned.

Korriana then spread her arms out with an attempt to do a double clothesline the two however the moment she collided with them, she was bounced downwards to the ground while the boys stood still like nothing ever happened.

Korriana had her eyes wide in disbelief, she intended to knock them down but she was the one who was knocked back down instead without the boys doing anything at all.

Both Darren and Hector stares at her in confusion, "Ugh, what was that?" the former asked.

"Yeah, what was that all about?'' Hector questioned in agreement.

Lukz could only facepalmed for his older sister before letting out an amused chuckle.

Bzzzttt...

Meanwhile in the St. Harmony Island which is located somewhere in Neo-Earth, we head towards one beach area where we see Marcus "The Kane" McGee and Seishirou Tsugumi sitting on the sand while breathing heavily after an intense training.

Kham then walks towards them, "Good!" he complimented, "Both of your skills have drastically improved." he stated, "I must say..." he trailed, "... I never felt this excited in my entire life that I get to train someone as talented as the two of you.'' he admitted with a smile.

Tsugumi bowed her head in response, "Thank you very much." she expressed in gratitude.

"Hoo-rah." Marcus was all his response.

Kham chuckled in response, "By the way Marcus..." he mentioned, "... do you still have the Battle Baseball Ninja's baseball bat?'' he inquired.

Marcus nodded in response, "Yeah I still have it." he replied in confirmation, "Why did you ask?" he asked.

"I want you to handed it over to somebody else." Kham suggested before turning around and then walking towards a chest, "I had a weapon that is much more suited for you.'' he claimed before taking out a long dark wooden bokuto.

"Woah..." Marcus uttered in awe, "... what is that?" he asked.

"This bokuto is known as Hoshi no Ou." Kham shared, "This bokuto is created from a twenty-thousand year old tree from another planet that cuts through almost anything." he explained, "This bokuto is as powerful as the baseball bat, so I believe this will benefit you for your future battles.'' he affirmed before handing the wooden sword to Marcus.

"Hoshi no Ou..." Marcus uttered in awe before doing a few swings, he then let's out a satisfied smirk, "Nice!" he cheered, "I like this!" he accepted before turning to Kham and then bowing his head, "Thank you very much for this wonderful gift.'' he expressed in gratitude.

Kham bowed back, "It's no pleasure." he reassured.

"So, what's gonna happen to your baseball bat?" Tsugumi asked.

"Since I had a new weapon with me, I might as well follow Sir Kham's suggestion." Marcus considered, "There's probably someone at the Training Camp that could use the baseball bat." he thought out loud.

Back in Neo-City and inside the lounge area of the Training Facility, Leon let's out a loud sneeze, much to everyone's surprise and disgust.

Afterwards, Kham told them they're taking a break and so, Marcus and Tsugumi decided to sit down on a log while letting the cooling sea-breeze blow through them.

Marcus was checking his sword while Tsugumi was drinking a bottle of water, "I wonder what kind of damage this baby can do." the blue-haired young man with dead fish eyes thought out loud.

"I'm still surprised that wooden sword is made from something not from this planet." Tsugumi admitted, "Are you eager to test it out?" she asked.

Marcus smirked in response, "Pretty much." he confirmed.

A/N: Inspired from someonestupED, damnlastwords, Jamesdean5842, Hope the Victor and Ace Neptune. All OCs and concepts not created by moi were given permission for me to use by it's respected creators.