"You sure have great timing, Stark. We can say that much." Venom said as the two managed to catch up on what had happened while the Symbiote was eating, "We still need to find Zoro. We lost track of him… Or maybe he lost track of us."
"Why did you guys give him the map in the first place?" Tony asked as he used one of Shredder's spare kunai as a makeshift screwdriver for one of his leg thrusters.
"We… thought that he might get so lost that he'd find his way to our old dimension." Shredder admitted.
"… I'm not even going to begin with what's wrong with that sentence and just keep moving. What the hell is up with this forest anyway? I'm glad that it makes oxygen, but still. It's so dense that I can't break anything. Even my repulsor blasts don't do much to it."
"No idea. We've got a hundred credits on the planet being alive though." Venom said.
"Right. Because that makes complete sense. Baboso."
"Bane, your world has Mogo, a living planet Green Lantern. I don't think you're in a place to be making the claim that thinking the planet's alive is a dumb idea."
"There's also Ego from our world. Do you think those two have clashed yet?" Venom asked.
"Eh, who knows?" Tony shrugged as he tossed the kunai back to Shredder, "Alright. Legs are all fixed up. You guys know the place better than I do. Should we split up or stay in one party to find Zoro?"
"Stick to one party." Shredder said as he examined the blade and saw nothing he couldn't compensate for, "You said it yourself, the forest is too dense for your sensors to find Zoro. So it would be best to keep to one group."
"Actually, that's the weird thing. My sensors could find you guys, but not Zoro. So either he's dead-"
"Unlikely. As much of a pendejo he is, he's far too stubborn to die out here." Bane noted.
"- Or he's underground. Did any of you guys dig holes? He might've fallen into one of them."
"No holes on our end." Venom said, gorging himself on the chocolate part of the rations that Tony had brought earlier.
"Well, then we start looking around for some place he might've fallen into. We should split up into two groups then. Venom and I can cover more ground, so Shredder, you and Bane head east, we'll head west."
"Do those directions even apply here? Does this planet even have an east and west?"
"You know what I mean." Tony replied as his faceplate came down, "Alright. Break!"
"Okay, this place is definitely a lot weirder than the topside." Zoro commented, gorging himself on fruit.
"If I can find a way to the others, then things would be so much easier. So I gotta think. What would Luffy do in this situation?"
Zoro sat down, and thought for several minutes, until he came to a logical conclusion:
"He'd never give up! He'd find his friends and get out of this hellhole! Alright! I've got my goal, let's go!"
Unfortunately for Zoro, he had just left another opening to the upper level of the planet, and that he was about to lose a lot of light that he was going to use to navigate the cave he was in.
"Dammit. It's almost sundown." Tony grumbled.
"What did you expect? For Zoro to just sit in one place?" Venom asked.
"On some level, yes. I did." Tony replied, "Ugh. Let me call up Shredder and Bane. We should meet back up at the original spot, maybe Cloud and the others made it. We could use their help, especially the Greyskulls'."
"What ship are they coming in?" Venom asked as a looming image showed up and started obscuring the star giving the planet light, "What the hell? We've been here for what feels like months and at no point was there ever a moon!"
"That's because that's no moon," Tony said, "That's a space station!"
"The Death Star? Impressive."
"Most impressive." Tony agreed, "Come on, we can restock on supplies. And get some more search parties to find Zoro!"
Dude: *YAWN!* Godsdammit, I'm tired.
Wade: Save it. It's my turn to sleep.
