This Storyline was intended to be the continuation of the "Terrible Trio v2.0" Boss Scenario for the RPG that preceeded this one: Dragonball: Gladiator. If you'd like a spoiler, the page profiling the individual "bosses" can be found here. Note that these profiles were still in development when the RPG was terminated, so they are pretty much totally incomplete.
Chapter 1 of 5
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"Good lord, is there nothing good on today?" Urd asks out loud, knowing there's no one even in earshot. "You'd think there'd be at least a decent show on at this hour!" She resumes her channel surfing until she comes across a news update, where she decides to park it for a few moments.
In other news we are happy to report that the four individuals that had been in a stand off with the local authorities for the last 48 hours have finally surrendered. In case you haven't been keeping up with the story, here is a short recap. Around 4 PM on Friday four men who had been seen fleeing from the scene of a massive bar fight that left several dead were reported to have exited a nondescript building in midtown. When the police arrived the four individuals, who were also reportedly metahumans, resistanced arrest and fled back into their hideout. The group held out inside until federal aid arrived, which seems to have ended the standoff.
A loud crash is heard and the people on screen all react, quickly turning to face something behind the cameraman. He spins around to reveal a very out-of-focus wooden puppet, which seems to be attacking the police officers as they escort the detained individuals. What's that?!? It seems that someone is attempting to free the captives! The officers begin firing on the puppet, but naturally have little-to-no effect on it. However, just before it gets within range of a killing stroke, the puppet falls limp and bounces off the ground to a halt. Moments later the camera turns to face a man in black and purple spandex holding the limp form of what appears to be a bunraku puppeteer over his shoulder. It seems like the situation has been resolved!
The five individuals are shown on the screen being shoved into the back of a paddywagon. Having just taken a drink from her can of diet coke, she sprays it out in shock, instantly recognizing four of them from that funhouse incident from a while back. The fourth, though, is unknown to her. "How in the?" she asks herself, wondering why men of their...caliber would allow themselves to be captured. Deciding that this needs to be investigated, she grabs a phone and begins dialing.
"So, what the hell are we stealing, anyway? And why the hell did you ask me to help?" Laharl demands, resting his massive sword on his right shoulder in a semi-threatening fasion.
"It's called Gladis," Lupin replies while hastefully picking a lock on a glass office door. They had managed to get into the building and up to the seventh floor without any trouble, but this lock was being a real pain in the ass. Or maybe it was just Laharl being Laharl that was truely bugging Lupin.
"Gladis? I thought this was a robbery, not a kidnapping."
"It stands for Gadget Lending And Distribution Interactive System. It's basically an AI program. I brought you along as muscle, but I'm starting to regret that decision."
"Oh really?" Laharl swings his sword at the door and shatters it into a gajillion bits. Lupin barely manages to get out of the way in time. "There, door's open."
"You idiot! You just set off the alarm!"
"Alarm? I don't hear anything."
"It's silent, moron!"
"Uh huh. Sure it is." Lupin pushes Laharl out of the doorway and enters the office. "So, what are we looking for exactly?"
"That." Lupin points to a computer terminal sitting on a desk on the far side of the room. The duo quickly make their way to it and Lupin plugs a flash drive into the USB port. As the master thief begins his work, Laharl strides over to a nearby window and peers outside.
"Uh, Lupin. We got company."
"Damn, that didn't take long. Police?"
"Looks more like feds."
"The FBI? What the hell are they doing here?"
"Doesn't matter, they don't have a chance in hell. Want me to go meet them downstairs?"
"Yeah, you go do that. I could use the silence."
"Woo, I haven't killed nearly enough idiots today!" Laharl gleefully exits the office and hops into the elevator.
"Why did I bring him along again?"
Stepping clear of the elevator following the ding of arrival, Laharl is met with the click-clack of about twenty automatic shotguns readying for a shot. Unphased, he grins widely as a small ball of hellfire forms in his swordless hand. As the commanding officer orders the others to fire, Laharl charges and tosses the ball of energy at the group, instantly killing a majority of them. Moments later the others meet their maker at the edge of his sword. Disappointed with their lack of strength, Laharl plants his sword into the ground with a loud shink when he begins to feel a slight tingling numbness pass throughout his body. Seconds later he collapses over the hild of the blade, unable to move. An eternity later he notices two sets of black shoes standing near him.
"What...the...hell?"
"Subject 28363 has been apprehended," one of the two men states. "Proceeding to Subject 82514." One of the two sets of feet turns and walks towards the elevator. The other person grabs ahold of Laharl and drags him off.
Back on the seventh floor Lupin has nearly completed his download when he hears the ding of the elevator. Assuming it's just Laharl returning, he ignores the crunching of glass on the floor behind him and continues his work. "I take it they're all dead now?" Lupin suddenly feels a sharp pain in his neck, which forces his attention to be diverted from the computer to the intruder. "Awww, craaaap," he manages to spit out before passing out from whatever injection he just recieved.
"Subject 82514 has been apprehended. Returning to base."
Somewhere just outside of Las Vegas we find Conker cruising along on the highway in his brand spanking new Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. Let's just say he had one hell of a winning streak at the Luxor; he just wondered just what that B button did next to the craps table. It doesn't take long for him to decide to test fate once more, though, as he quickly ignores the speed limit and floors his accelerator. With a top speed listed at over 205 mph, it takes an even shorter amount of time for the police to begin persuit. Not that they can keep up or anything, but the law's the law, so they give chase.
Unfortunately for both Conker and his beautiful vehicle, the chase was little more than a diversion, meant to take his attention away from what's in front of him and focus on what's behind him. About 45 minutes after the pursuit begins it tragically ends as the Ferrari collides with an object in the middle of the street, tearing the vehicle completely in half along its centerline. Conker is next seen flying through the air, having seemingly been ejected from the car as if from a jet fighter, only horizontally instead of vertically. He never hits the ground, though, as something catches him and airlifts him to "safety" far, far away. "Subject 15725 has been apprehended" is the only thing Conker makes out before falling unconscious from the shock of the collision.
Returning to our goddess-like heroine we find that she has gathered together a group of individuals for her investigation. Ironically enough, these five women happen to all be connected in some way to the other eight men that have been captured during this drawn out chapter. Who would have thought it? Anyway, Sakura Haruno, Mara Jade, Etna, and Fujiko have joined Urd in this time of unparalleled stupidity. None of them can figure out why Sesshomaru, Gaara, Vash, or that other dude would surrender to the cops, though it was obvious that Kankuro was just trying to rescue his younger brother. They all figure it has something to do with the guy in the costume, but none of them have even the remotely conclusive idea of who it was or where he took them.
"Heard anything from your boyfriend yet?" Mara Jade asks Fujiko.
"He's not my boyfriend."
"Riiight."
"Sigh. No. He was on a job with that one's guy, but they've apparently gone missing. Neither of us can get in touch with them."
"Eh, they're probably dead," Etna replies.
"Well, that's rather pessimistic," Sakura replies.
"Yeah, and it would kinda suck if Lupin were dead. He's so easy to manipulate; I just have to stick the girls out and he's jumping through flaming hoops."
They all laugh for a few seconds, but it quickly dies down. "So, if Lupin's out of the question for information, then where can we turn to?"
"Well, I know some people, but they're aren't exactly of the legal sort," Fujiko states.
"Better than the nothing we're working with now," Mara replies. "Who are they?"
"Ever hear of the Dogs or Cats?"
"Huh?"
A short car trip later the girls find themselves walking the streets of midtown apparently looking for an animal. It doesn't take them long to find something, as they quickly notice a small, fat orange cat with black stripes running from what appears to be a dog with the head of a shark. They both blow past the group and continue down an alleyway.
"What the hell was that?" Urd asks.
"A shark dog, I think," Etna replies. "Kinda cute, really."
"Uh huh, if you say so," Sakura states.
A few moments later another odd sight comes, well, bouncing down the street, seemingly in pursuit of the other two. Unlike the others though, the small tiger comes to a halt near the girls but continues to bounce on his spring-like tail.
"Tigger," Fujiko says.
"Well hello Ms. Fujiko!"
"I see things haven't changed around here yet."
"Nopers! Those Dogs think they can get the best of us Cats, but Tiggers know better!"
"Right, whatever. I need to see the Fat Cat."
"Funny thing, that is. He was just telling us this morning to bring you in. Bounce this way!"
As this Tigger fellow bounces away the others all exchange looks of disbelief, then follow it to a nearby rundown building. He leads them to the front door and then to an elevator inside. They pile in and head towards the basement, where Tigger leaves their company once they exit the elevator.
"So, who's this Fat Cat?" Urd asks.
"The boss of the Cats," Fujiko replies.
"Yeah, kinda figured that out. You think he knows something about what's going on?"
"Probably, he's pretty well connected."
"I take it you've worked with him in the past?" Sakura inquires.
"You could say that. He's the one that hired me to steal the Rotoplooker."
"Wow, small world, huh?"
The quintet make their way through the dark, nearly endless junk-filled basement until they come to a rather large clearing. A single light hangs from the ceiling overhead, illuminating a wooden table that seems to be missing a leg. "Hmm, guess he's not in," Mara states.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Ms. Fujiko," someone states from around a corner of junk. Seconds later a rather robust, but impeccably dressed feline with a hitler-like combover strolls around the corner with a large smile. "What can I do for my favorite human?"
"I need some information."
"About?" another voice asks from around another corner. Startled, the group turns to find a brown-haired dog wearing a faux pirate hat.
"What's going on here?" Sakura questions. "I thought you two were at war with each other?"
"Actually, I don't really give a damn what's going on. We need information about some recent arrests and I think you know something," Fujiko states plainly.
"Here that Leroy? The little hussy wants infomation," Fat Cat states sarcastically as the two of them circle around the five humans, well, four humans and a demon I guess.
"Not too sure the Boss would like us tattling on his little plan," the canine replies to his feline compatriot.
"Ah, then the war is really just a cover," Mara states. "You two are actually working together for someone else."
"The little ginger girl thinks she's smart," Fat Cat states in an insulting manner.
"Ginger? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Mara replies, reaching for an object resembling a flashlight dangling from her belt. In response Fat Cat yanks a small pistol out of the inner pocket of his suit jacket and Leroy yanks a socket wrench out of seemingly nowhere. Fat Cat points his gun at Mara; Leroy just taps the wrench into his open palm threateningly.
"Now now, I wouldn't do anything stupid if I were you," the feline states.
"So I take it you're not gonna tell us anything?" Fujiko concludes.
"I'm thinking your usefulness has ended, Ms. Fujiko," Fat Cat states. "Say hello to Gregg for me. He just loves us cats." And with that he takes aim and begins pulling the trigger as Leroy raises the wrench and brings it down on Etna. Within a millisecond Mara has her lightsaber extended and easily deflects the first shot; Etna unceremoniously catches the wrench in one hand, completely unharmed.
"This is stupid," she states with a sigh. Lifting Leroy off the ground by the wrench, she tosses him into Fat Cat, who losses grip of his handgun when they collide. The two anthromorphs scurry back into a wall of junk in an attempt to run away. With nowhere else to run, they hug each other shaking with fear as Fujiko approaches them.
"Hmph. So, about that information? Or do I need to let my friend have her way with you?" Fujiko signals to Etna, who twists the wrench into a pretzel and then tosses it over her shoulder.
"Don't hurt us! We'll talk!" Fat Cat cries out.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Leroy adds.
"Okay, then talk."
"Your friends were taken by the Doctor!"
"The Doctor?" Sakura inquires.
"I don't know exactly who he is, never met him myself."
"Neither have I! Don't hurt me!" Leroy states in panic.
"Well, do you at least know where he is?"
"Yeah! New York!"
"That's a little vague. Where at in New York?" Urd chimes in.
"152 Lenox Avenue."
"Great, looks like it's time for a roadtrip!" Etna states. As the five women begin their trek back through the maze of junk, Etna purposely lags behind. Once out of line-of-sight, she calls forth a Prinny from seemingly nowhere. "Take care of those two, would ya doll?"
"You got it dude!" it states, yanking a bazooka out of a backpack it was wearing. A loud boom can be heard as the girls exit the building.
Chapter 2 of 5
"Remind me again why the hell I'm stuck in here with you guys?" Laharl states, obviously annoyed.
"Good question," Lupin replies.
"Yeah, who voted to have him share a cell with us, anyway? I sure as hell didn't," Kankuro adds.
"Aren't you just the comedian," Laharl returns.
"Guys, as much fun as poking fun at the demon child is," Squall begins.
"Demon child? Just who the hell do you think you're calling a child?"
"We need to figure out a way to get out of here," Squall continues.
"Well, I wish I could do something, but," Conker begins, staring at a large yellow B that's painted on the floor. Painted below it in black is the phrase 'Get out of jail'. Conker bows his head in shame.
Squall shakes his head slightly, wondering what that was all about. "Hey Vash?"
"Huh?" Mr. Stampede replies as he continues to stare out through the illuminated forcefield of a wall.
"What are you doing? Get over here and help us plan our escape!"
"There's a guy across the hall that won't stop staring at me!"
"What are you babbling about now?"
"What the hell are you staring at?!?" Vash suddenly shouts, directing the question at the figure in the opposite cell.
"Just ignore him," Sesshomaru stoicly demands.
"I wish I could, but that smile, that constant smile.... It's creeping me out! Stop staring at me!!! And why don't you have a collar?!? Answer me!"
"Dude, chill," Lupin says as he walks over to Vash and places a hand on his shoulder. "He's probably powerless, like me and our silent friend here." Everyone turns their attention to the dark-haired man sitting in the corner of the room who they've pretty much been ignoring since they arrived. "What's your story, anyway?"
"Huh? Oh. Well, I got arrested, like you all, I suppose."
"Why? What'd you do?"
"I was contacted by a superhacker named Morpheus. The Feds wanted me to set him up; I refused. So, here I am."
"Ah, then you're a hacker too?"
"Something like that. They also said something about being the one they're looking for, but I don't know what they're talking about. All they've done to me since I arrived is take blood samples."
"Well, you're no help then," Laharl declares.
"Shut up Laharl," Lupin replies. "Do you know anything about this place that we should know?"
"Well, from what I can tell, this is some kind of genetics research lab. I think they study super-powered people here, thus the need for your collars."
"They surpress those abilities that make us more than human. Yeah, we figured that part out already. How do we get rid of them?"Kankuro butts in.
"I heard one of the guards state that the captain was the only one with the electronic key."
"So we just gotta break out, find the captain, kill him and get the fuck out of here," Laharl concludes.
"Yeah, right, and just how are we gonna get out of this box? All of our powers are gone and we don't have any weapons. It's not like the power's gonna just go out and the forcefield will drop..." Squall states. Half a heartbeat later, the lights all go out and the forcefield drops. Moments later the cellblock is filled with red light as the backup power kicks in; however, the cells remain unlocked. Needless to say, the group is quite speechless.
"It's not like a big-tittied chick will come to our rescue!" Conker decides to state, if only for comedic value. Sadly, just as before, the statement comes true; Fujiko and her compatriots make an appearance, blowing up the door leading out of the cellblocks.
"Well, that was unexpected," Squall states.
"Fujiko?" Lupin stammers as tears begin to form in his eyes. "You came to my rescue? I lo..."
"Save it. We need to move, now!" Seconds later the rest of Team Hottie arrive.
"How'd you find us?" Gaara asks, finally deciding to vocalize his presence.
"We had help." Following the arrival of the team, two more individuals enter the area.
"There you two are!" Temari shouts, relieved to have finally located her younger brothers.
"Temari?" Kankuro questions. "What are you doing here?"
"Saving your asses by the look of it." The other person approaches Lupin and nods slightly.
"I take it Fujiko contacted you, Jigen?"
"Yeah, she needed some firepower to get your team out. You've always included me in your jobs and I've gotten pretty rich cause of it, so the least I could do is help you out."
"Okay, now we just need to find the captain and get these things off," Laharl commands as Etna rejoins his side.
"I was just about to ask about those things. Wondered if it was some sort of new fashion statement," she states before remembering she actually wears a collar by choice.
"No, you idiot. These things surpress our powers."
"Oh, well, am I the only one that finds it humerous that the dog demon over there now has a collar?" She points to Sesshomaru, who is now growing rather annoyed at the lack of activity. Etna's comment generates an outbreak of maniacal laughter from a familiar smiling face, who has decided to grace the group with his presence.
Vash jumps back and hides behind Mara, scared out of his wits. "Use your lightsaber on it! Quick, before it drives us all mad!
"Vash? What's wrong with you?"
"Okay, we need to move out, now," Squall states, attempting to get their escape back on track. "Is there anyone else in here?" he shouts. Two other people -- a young, red-haired woman and a spiky-haired man -- and what appears to be a large, yellow rodent appear from another cell and join the party. All three sport similar collars. "Good, is this everyone?"
"I think so," Lupin concludes.
"Alright, now, where's this captain guy, Mr...?"
"Anderson, but you can call me Neo.
"Neo?"
"It's my hacker alias."
"Right, whatever. Where's the captain most likely to be?"
"Well, assuming these ladies didn't set off every alarm on their way in..."
"Please, give me more credit than that," Temari states.
"Then he's most likely in the, what did the guards call it? The brain-boxing room?"
"Brain-boxing? What's that mean?" Conker asks. "Or do I want to know?"
"I don't have a damn clue."
"Well, do you at least know where this room is at?" Lupin questions.
"Yeah, the guard that mentioned it said it's in the sub-basement."
"Sub-basement? How many floors does this complex have? And just what floor are we on?" Vash ponders.
"Believe it or not, you're in what appears to be a psychiatric ward on the outside. It's a rather large, two-story building with a basement and apparently a sub-basement," Urd states.
"Then we go down," Laharl concludes.
"Any other comments you need to make, captain obvious?" Sakura quirps. "Love that sailor suit, by the way. It really brings out your, well, feminine side." This comment sets Laharl off, who attempts to charge the young Kunoichi; however, Etna effortlessly holds him back, much to the humor of everyone present.
"You'll pay for that!" he shouts as he struggles. "When I get my powers back, you're dead!" Without so much as a word, Sesshomaru walks twoards the door, pounding the ranting demon on the head with his fist as he passes. Laharl falls to the ground, grasping the top of his head with both hands in pain. Sakura chases after Sesshomaru as she giggles herself silly. Needless to say, the creepy smiling guy is doing just the same.
"Well, I think it's time we get moving," Fujiko comments, noticing Sesshomaru and Sakura have already exited the room. The others nod in agreement and they all follow. With the main power out and all, the group decides that the stairs are in order and begin the trek downwards. About 50 feet of stairs later, they come to a door, behind which a normal amount of light seems to be emminating.
"Hmm, apparently the power's okay down here. That's not at all suspicious," Sakura sarcastically comments, having taken the lead position of the party. "Sesshomaru-sama, let me go first. Without your powers, you might get injured." Sesshomaru doesn't even consider the request; pushing past his follower, he takes the lead and enters the sub-basement. Surprisingly, there's no ambush awaiting their arrival.
"Hmm, well, now where, Mr. Neo?" Lupin asks.
"Just Neo is fine, and your guess is as good as mine."
"Left," Conker decides.
"Why left?" the newest female arrival, whom Vash has come to know as Lina Inverse, asks.
"It's always left."
"Riiight," the other newcomer states, who has subsequently aligned himself with Squall, since he appears to be in charge of the garthering. Of course, there is no true "leader", but how's Albel Nox supposed to know that. He just joined.
"No, left," Conker reiterates.
"Pikachu...." the rodent says with a moan, shaking his head slightly.
So the group goes left, heading down a long hallway devoid of doors. This is particularly worrisome to Lupin, but seems to have been overlooked by the rest of the group. After a short while, they come to a T and must again choose one way or the other. Once more, Conker commands a left turn, which is met with no resistance this time. Luckily, that seems to have been the correct choice as they eventually come to a single door.
"So, does anyone else find it odd that this is the only door we've seen?" Lupin decides to finally bring up.
"Nope, it just means that the dungeon master decided to make this quest rather straightforward," the smiling idiot replies from the back of the gathering.
"Dungeon Master? What is this, D&D?" Neo replies.
"Close enough," the clown-like man responds, rubbing his chin slightly in a semi-ponderous fashion.
"Who the hell are you, anyway?" Laharl finally asks. This question seems to anger the man, more than anything. He seems to be rather upset that they don't instantly recognize him as The Joker.
Anyway, moving on, Seeshomaru enters the room ahead of the rest; he couldn't care less about the identity of yet another human. He's more focused on tracking down the idiot who slapped this collar on him; he or she would pay dearly for thinking they could mess with a daiyōkai and get away with it. As he enters, however, he's met with the click-clack of about twenty automatic rifles readying to fire. The others enter the room just behind him to find the same scene, much to their lack of ammusement. "Okay, now what?" Vash asks, looking over the gathered group of anthromorphic reptilian guards.
A rasping laughter is the only reply, coming from an unarmed guard in the back who seems to be wearing an environmental containment suit. "You thought you could simply walk in here and get the key, didn't you? Even Questar had more intelligence than that!" he states in a raspy voice, just before laughing once more. Oddly, the Joker doesn't find this situation all that funny.
"I take it you're the captain? The man I've going to kill?" Seeshomaru ask in his ever-stoic voice, seemingly unmoved by the number of armed guards.
"Going to kill, that's funny. From where I stand, I think it's you who will be dying."
"Before you kill us, tell me Why you brought us here," Lupin states, hoping this guy had the "badguy code" running. Sure enough, he does.
"Well, since you're all about to die anyway. You were brought here to study. The men I work for captured you to find out how you do the things you do. As you already know, they possess technology that can nullify the powers of people like yourselves. However, they'd be much more interested in copying those powers and using them for their own ends."
"Which are?"
"Universal domination. What else?"
"Good point."
The captain worms his way through the armed squad and begins pacing in between the groups. "In addition to their technology, the group I work for also have people like yourselves that can also nullify others' powers."
"Those fake Feds," Laharl states with a tone of annoyance.
"Correct. There are two of them; one can shut off powers, the other can paralyze your bodies."
"Yeah, I've already met them."
"I take it they're the reason you guys were captured so easily?" Fujiko asks.
"Yeah, can't really mount a resistance when all you got is a couple of swords versus several squads of police officers," Kankuro replies.
"Well, now what happens?" Lupin asks.
"Now? Now you die, humans."
Well, while this idiot has been dropping the ball on the master plan, Sesshomaru had been coordinating a plan of attack with Sakura and Etna, both of whom are collarless and capable of crushing this meager force. As the frog-like captain in the exo-suit commands his troops to fire, Sakura pulls her standard stunt and punches the floor beneath her, causing a minor localized earthquake, which sends everyone else flying off their feet. At the same time Etna leaps into the air and flies over the falling guards to a large container. Sesshomaru spotted it seconds after first entering the room, noticing it as a cashe of weapons; their weapons. Etna quickly reaches her target and begins tossing weapons to their owners, who are quickly getting back to their feet from the unexpected impact. Needless to say, a short, but rather bloody battle ensues.
As the room grows quite, the group comes to find that every last one of the guards has been killed, but miraculously, none of them are even injured. "So, captain, where's the key to these things?" Laharl states as he approaches the captain, who has taken refuge in the corner of the room.
"I...I...I don't have it anymore!"
"What?!? You're fucking kidding, right?"
"No! I had to give it up to the Emperor!"
"Who? Please don't say Palpatine...." Mara replies.
"Emperor Zarcon!"
"Wait, I thought you worked for the Doctor?" Fujiko asks.
"Krulos, you idiot," an even deeper, raspier voice states as a TV monitor suddenly comes to life. The group turns to it to find themselves looking at the back of a wooden chair with the word 'MAD' written on the back; the only thing visible of the man sitting in it is his gauntlet-covered right hand, which is stroking a rather angry-looking cat. "You couldn't even manage to kill these moron?"
"Doctor Claw! I...I was outnumbered!"
"Silence, I will not accept your lies. Goodbye, and say hello to the Inspector when you see him." The Doctor presses a small red button on his desk and an alarm suddenly sounds within the complex the group is in. The M.A.D. scientist begins laughing as the transmission is cut.
"Self-destruct sequence activated. The complex will be destroyed in T-minus 20 seconds," a female voice states over the intercom system.
"Awww, crap," Lupin states.
"Quick, we need to use the transporter!" Krulos quickly retorts, pushing past Laharl towards a nearby computer. He clicks a few keys and a shimmering blue portal forms at one end of the room. "Go, now!"
"Why are you helping us escape?" Vash asks.
"Does it matter? Go!" Weighting their options -- stay here and die, or chance being teleported anywhere else -- the group quickly decides to jump through the portal. With only a few seconds left on the clock, Krulos and our friendly neighborhood homicidal maniac are the only two that haven't gone through. "What are you waiting for? Go! I'll be right behind you!" With a huge grin on his face, the Joker grabs a nearby crowbar (don't ask me why it's there) and smashes the frog-man's exo-suit's glass helmet.
"No you won't," he replies, tossing the crowbar aside before jumping through the portal himself, laughing out loud. Krulos falls to the floor, failing to suffocate before the explosion engulfs him.
Chapter 3 of 5
Half a heartbeat after stepping through the glowing circular portal, Vash finds himself sailing face-first towards a metal floor in a completely different room. After hitting with a loud thunk and getting the wind knocked out of him slightly, he climbs back to his feet and dusts himself off. "Well, that was more fun than a bag of ferrets." He looks around to find that everyone else managed to land safely on their feet.
"Yeah, nothing like getting your molecules split into a trillion pieces, only to get wisked to who-knows-where and get reassembled," Albel states. "I just hope I'm all here."
Kankuro scratches his head for a moment. "Molecules?"
"So, any guesses as to where we are?" Vash asks the group.
"Uh, if I had to guess, I'd say Neo Tokyo," Jigen replies.
"Oh really? Why Neo Tokyo?"
Jigen steps aside to reveal a sign outside a window he was standing in front of. It reads 'Welcome to Neo Tokyo!'. "Any other dumb questions?"
"Huh, who would have thought there'd be a nice little plot device thrown in at this moment?" the Joker muses.
"Dude, you need help," Neo replies.
"And they said I was captain obvious," Laharl jests.
"Alright, now what do we do?" Vash questions, trying to get the group moving back on track.
"Find this emperor guy and get the damn key," Laharl states.
"Well, yeah, but where are we gonna find him?"
Sesshomaru replies by walking to the only door in the room and exiting the scene. Naturally, everyone else takes the cue and follows in suit. After wandering the unknown complex for who knows how long and searching every room they come to for hidden treasure, they eventually come to a small laboratory devoid of random mad scientists. Lupin quickly looks the room over and concludes there are no hidden vaults or safes and thus, this is yet another pointless dead end. Unconvinced, Conker decides to grab a few flasks of an unknown colored liquid as he leaves. He hopes they might come in handy later. *cough*
Anyway, another period of time passes as a montage of several other pointless rooms with a few guard fights thrown in. [Need to] show a lot of things happing at once, [or] remind everyone of what’s going on? We're gonna need a montage! Oh it takes a montage! *ahem*
Getting back on track, the massive group of protagonists and support characters eventually make it to the bottom -- after decending about 385 floors -- of the building, where only one door can be found other than the elevator. Tired of the pointless dungeon crawl, Vash barges through it without a care in the world to find an office. Needless to say, this rather urks the party; they were expecting a door leading to the outside world, not another pointless room.
"So, uh, now what?" he asks.
"Great, just great. I knew I should have just said screw you guys and flown out that window way up on the top floor. Now I gotta climb all the way back to the top!" Etna states.
"Well, fuc," Kankuro starts before he's cut off.
"What's that over there?" Sakura interrupts, pointing to what looks like a shoed foot poking out from around a corner. The group cautiously approaches to find three corpses. "What the?"
"Hmm, looks like they killed each other," Lina examines.
"But over what?" Fujiko adds.
"Dunno, but this guy looks like that Doctor dude on the tv from back in New York," Vash states, pointing to the only face-down figure of the three.
"Pika!" the small yellow mouse-like thing states, acknowledging Vash's claim. The others just kinda stare at it with a blank look in their eyes.
"Okay, but who are the other two?" Urd asks.
"Well, this purplish-blue guy has a crown on his head. Could he be the Emperor guy we're looking for?" Mara asks.
"Maybe," Lupin replies.
"No clue who this other blue pig-guy is, though," Squall states, poking the body with his sheathed sword.
"Well, crap. See if any of them have the key to our collars," Vash suggests.
Lupin nods and quickly digs through their pockets, but finds only lint and some weird triangle thingy. He pockets it for future use, though he doesn't know it yet. As he rifles through their groin and leg protection, Sakura examines their bodies and notices that they were all killed in a similar manner.
"Guys, I don't think they killed each other," she states after Lupin has finished.
"Huh? What are you talking about? They look like they did to me. Just look at the way they're arranged!" Vash replies.
"No, really, I think some one else killed them."
"And then moved their bodies to make it look this way?" Lina asks.
"Sounds like a bad TV drama," Urd states.
Deciding that she might be on to something, Gaara looks them onceover and then shakes his head slightly. "They were torn up by something, but none of them seem to possess a weapon capable of doing this kind of damage," he states.
"So whoever did this probably stole the key too," Vash concludes.
"Well that's just great, what the FUCK are we supposed to do now?!?" Laharl shouts in anger.
"No shit, this sucks ass," Albel adds.
"Calm down you two. Let's look around the office for clues," Vash states.
"Good idea," Fujiko replies. "Get to work Lupin."
The master thief of the party sighs loudly and goes to work searching high and low for any trace of a clue. It takes only a few moments to locate a hidden wall safe. Naturally, a fake Monet is concealing it. Everyone sits around the room impatiently as he studies the safe, trying to figure out the best way to crack it. After what seems to be forever, he sighs. "Guys, we're stuck. I can't crack this puppy."
"Why the hell not?" Laharl exclaims.
"Back off, I'll just tear the door off!" Etna commands, pushing Lupin aside.
"Wait, don't!" Lupin cries, reaching out for Etna's arm in an attempt to stop her. Seconds later the entire safe is pulled from the wall and lies on the floor in the middle of the room in one piece. "I was going to tell you that the door to the safe is enchanted. You can't remove it by force! That's also why I can't pick it."
"Oh," she replies.
"Well, what's our options then?" Vash asks.
"If I didn't have this collar, that little spell would be worthless," Lina says mostly to herself. "If I didn't have this collar."
"Yeah, and the only real strength our group has right now is, well, super strength," Urd states.
"Hmm, I wonder," Conker muses to himself, pulling out a vial of the unknown liquid. Popping the cork off the tube, he approaches the safe with a grin on his face. Sitting off in one corner and seemingly caring little for the passing of these latest events, Sesshomaru is the only person that notices Conker walking towards the safe with something in his hands. "Oh, shit," runs through his head as he leaps behind a nearby desk for cover. He's been around Conker too much to expect anything but the worst from this.
Sure enough, the second the liquid hits the safe it explodes. As it turns out, the chemical was actually a nitroglycerine-like substance. As the dust cloud begins to settle, the group is found to be quite scorched and royally pissed off. While every one of them manages to escape death, they all stare at a blackened squirrel with intentions of murder. Sesshomaru reappers from behind the desk completely unscathed, which also attracts a few glares. "What?" the dog-demon asks, holding his right hand palm-up in a questioning manner.
"Well, that was fun," Conker states after expelling a small cloud of smoke from his mouth.
"Wow," Lupin says, staring at the safe. "That stuff did the job." He walks over to it, pulls the now "unlocked" door open, and rifles through it for a few moments. "Crap, you guys aren't going to belive this," he finally says.
"What now?" Vash answers as he brushes the soot off his jacket shoulders.
"It seems these three worked for someone else."
"Don't tell me. We need to go somewhere else?" Kankuro replies.
"Yep. Another planet in fact."
"How the hell?" Laharl begins.
"As it turns out, two of these three dead guys had spaceships."
"Oh really?" Mara asks.
"Yep, and according to this bill, they're docked at this very complex. Two ships, with enough room for ten people on each one."
"Room for twenty. Our group has twenty. That's no coincidence," Neo ponders.
"Hey, don't look a gift-horse in the mouth, or something," Temari replies.
"Pika!"
Vash looks at the rat a second, then shakes his head slightly with a slight snicker. "Anyway, where are they?"
"Right outside," Lupin replies, pushing a button on a remote he removed from the safe. A hidden door slides open, revealing a set of shuttle-like ships sitting on dual launch platforms some 2 miles away. "Apparently they're called Freedom and Independence. Kinda odd since they were, like, dictators or something."
"Sounds like a bad movie," Urd states, recalling something about an apocalypse or Armageddon or something.
"So we take these to where exactly?" Squall asks as the group makes its way to the launch site.
"Some planet called Namek," Lupin replies. "This Ganon guy's journal states that Namek's their group's main headquarters. I think it's safe to assume that's where we should go to get those collars off."
"And why exactly are you three still tagging along?" Laharl asks. "It's not like any of you have a collar to get rid of."
"It's not every day that you get to go to another world," Fujiko replies.
"Yeah, just imagine the kinds of stuff we might be able to get on this Planet Namek," Lupin adds.
"I wouldn't expect too much," the Joker underscores. "According to the Wiki, the place is rather barren."
"The what?" Conker asks.
"Just ignore him," Neo recommends.
So the group splits into two and board the two ships and blast off into the unknown, hoping to one day -- sooner than later -- rid themselves of these God-forsaken collars.
Chapter 4 of 5
"Nice landing," Laharl comments, stepping from the rubble that was once the Independence.
"Well, next time you'll listen to me before allowing that jackass to fly the ship," Lupin states, pointing at a hysterical Joker. Apparently he feels that crashing their ship into Namek's soil was an extremely funny concept. The other nine members of the crew tend to disagree.
"Is everyone okay?" Fujiko asks.
"Looks like it to me. So, where the hell are we and where's the "base" we're trying to find?" Vash states, examining the destruction that surrounds them.
"Uh, I'm not quite sure," Lupin begins. "I was hoping to survey the planet before landing, but our wonderful pilot..."
"Great, just great," Albel says.
"Anyone see the other ship?" Mara asks as she looks around the skies above.
"Nope," replies Lina.
"There it is," Jigen responds, pointing into the blue ocean above without even looking up.
"Where?" Etna replies, squinting at the stars. "I don't see, oh, nevermind."
The group quickly takes note of a large fireball making its way towards the surface in a similar fashion to thier own ship. Seconds later it slams into the soil several miles away, sending a large plume of dust and smoke into the atmosphere. "Uh, we better go see if they're okay," Vash states before jetting off in the general direction of the other ship. Following a few audible sighs, the rest quickly give chase.
Miles away we are greeted with a similar scene. "Nice landing," Neo states. "Whoever decided that Squall was our leader should be shot. I think that yellow rat could have done a better job flying this boat."
"Chu!"
"Hey, any landing you can walk away from," Squall replies with a shrug.
"Right. And just how the hell are we supposed to get off this rock now?" Kankuro replies.
"Uh. Oh. Shit."
"Exactly."
"At least no one's seriously injured," Sakura replies as she quickly gives the other nine crew members a quick one-over.
"We should be near the other group, right?" Urd asks.
"Yeah, the computer said they went down a few miles east of here," Conker replies.
"And the enemy is a few miles west," Gaara adds, staring off in that direction.
"So, I guess we should go meet up with the other team, then go west?" Temari asks the group.
"Sounds good to me," Conker replies. "But, um, has anyone seen that Sesshomaru guy?"
"He was here just a second ago," Neo replies while he looks around.
"Sakura's gone too," Temari adds.
"And the rat. There goes dinner," Kankuro continues.
"Ewww," Urd replies.
"Hey, if there's no food here..."
"That's bloody gross," Conker replies.
"You're next on the food chain, buddy. I've heard squirrel meat can be quite yummy."
"Uh, Kankuro?"
"Yeah sis?"
"Where's Gaara?"
"Uh oh. I thought you were keeping track of him!"
"What's wrong? Why does the kid need a babysitter?" Urd asks, but Kankuro and Temari are out of sight before she can get a reply.
"Well, this is fun," Squall states just before a nearby bush parts and the other group appears.
"Huh, no need to go looking for you all now," Urd states.
"Wow, are you the only ones alive?" Lina asks.
"Nah, we're all fine. The dog guy, pink-haired girl, yellow mouse, red-haired kid, puppet dude, and the blonde ran off towards the base," Neo states.
"Then you guys managed to scan before you crashed?" Lupin asks.
"Yeah, what, you didn't?"
"Laharl convinced his girlfriend that it was a good idea to let the clown fly the ship."
"Hey! She's not my girlfriend! I don't even like her!" Laharl replies, throwing his arms into the air. Everyone ignores him as he continues to scream at the top of his lungs in an irate tantrum.
"Sounds like we need to get moving if we're going to catch up," Vash says as he sprints past the other group headed south.
"Uh, Vash," Squall says.
Vash halts and turns around while jogging in place. "You guys coming?"
"We need to go west, not south."
"Ah. Good idea." Vash turns west and continues onward, failing to hear a loud 'boom' as a massive boulder strikes the ground where he just was. The others turn to the source to find Etna; she shrugs, then hovers off the ground before giving chase. Everyone else eventually follows.
Rejoining a smaller group, Sesshomaru has turned his attention north-wards, which as we should all know by now is not where the base is. Sakura makes this known. "Uh, Sesshomaru-sama....we're going in the wrong direction. I mean, I'm not trying to say you're wrong or anything, but, the base is west, not north."
Sesshomaru continues walking north, ignoring Sakura's attempt to correct his seemingly lost sense of direction. "Pika?" Pikachu quietly says as he and Sakura look to each other.
Back in the west we find that Gaara has successfully located the base of operations of his enemy. He pauses outside the complex -- which is hidden in the only forest on the planet -- for a few seconds, long enough for Kankuro and Temari to catch up. "Took you long enough," he calmly states without turning around.
"Gaara, what are you thinking running off on your own like that?" Temari asks. "You'll get yourself killed this way!"
"Did you forget you can't use chakra?" Kankuro asks, tapping at his own collar.
"No," Gaara simply replies as he produces his jouhyou, allowing the blade to dangle in front of him as a pendulum.
"You were plannig to infiltrate this place with a rope dart?"
"When did he get that thing?" Temari asks, having never really seen her brother use any weapon other than sand.
"Less than a week ago. I don't think he even really knows how to use it."
Gaara quickly proves them wrong; he suddenly kicks the dart end and a guard falls over dead, having wandered too close to the trio. Temari and Kankuro jump slightly, startled at his sudden appearance. "Come," Gaara states as he makes his way towards a nearby door. Temari yanks her fan off her back as they follow him inside.
A few minutes later the rest of the group arrive to find the dead guard and an open door. "Crap! We're gonna miss all the fun!" Laharl shouts as he runs into the building ahead of everyone else, his massive sword carving a line in the dirt as he drags it behind him.
"Wait up!" Etna shouts as she chases after him. The rest quickly enter the buildling as well. Following a trail of corpses and destruction, they quickly catch up to Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro as they engage in battle with yet another group of guards. With the added reinforcements, they quickly fall.
"Wow, I'm surprised you're letting us kill anyone, Vash," Lupin states following the battle.
"These are all robots," he replies matter-of-factly as he knocks on one of their chests; the soft tang of metal resonates in the room.
"What is this, Samurai Jack?" the Joker asks no one in particular.
"Odd, I didn't even notice they were robots until now," Squall replies.
"The guy outside wasn't," Kankuro decides to bring up.
"Yes, and you and I are going to have a chat later, mister," Vash states, poking him in the chest with an outstretched index finger.
"Me? Gaara killed the guy! And who the hell do you think you are talking to me like...."
"Shut up you two," Fujiko commands as two individuals suddenly appear about twenty feet in front of the group.
"So... you managed to kill," a rather large pink thing in the belly of an enormous yellow robot begins. "Cobra and his robotic guards?"
"What the fuck is that?" Neo asks in disbelief.
"I think it's a talking brain," Mara replies.
"And you think you can get away with simply storming our base?" a rather hunched over mummy-guy in a red cloak adds.
"Well, think again! Bluurhuurhuurhahahaha!" the brain-thing continues with a chuckle-gurgle-drowning-squish type laugher.
"So the guard in blue outside was actually one of you guys?" Vash asks.
"Hmph, rather anti-climatic way to die," Etna states.
"And let me guess, you don't have the key to these collars either, do you?" Kankuro asks the brain guy.
"Yes, yes, and sorta," the mummy replies.
"But we do have these!" Krang the brain replies as an uncountable number of ninja suddenly poof into existance behind them.
"Crap, ninjas!" Lupin shouts.
"Wrong! Undead ninja!" Mumm-Ra shouts before laughing himself into a hack-fest. Hack-fest as in coughing, not killing. Just thought I'd point that difference out.
"Undead ninja?!? Why does it always have to be undead ninja?!?" Jigen asks, though he himself has never actually fought an undead ninja.
"Least they're not NPZRs," Conker states, but no one seems to have the slightest clue as to what he's referring to.
Anyway, the massive ninja fight breaks out and after a few hours of blood and gore -- note that only the ninja are getting slaughtered in mass numbers; all the "good guys" are completely uninjured in classic undead ninja fight style -- only the brain dude and his mummified friend remain.
"Well, that didn't go as expected," Mumm-Ra states as a large sweatdrop clings to his forehead.
"No kidding. I expected at least one of them to die so that we could resurrect them as an evil version of themself," Krang replies.
"Wait, these ninja work for the Hand?" the Joker asks.
"Well, no, the Foot. But we're both extremities of the same body organization."
"What's the Hand?" Conker asks Fujiko, who shrugs an "I don't know" in response.
"Man, this is like a bad Wolverine comic," the Joker concludes.
"Huh?" Vash replies, looking to Gaara for an answer, hoping that because he's an ninja himself that he might understand what's going on. Gaara's just as lost, however.
"Can we get back to the 'sorta' answer you gave concerning these collars?" Squall states.
"Oh, right, we have a key to some of your collars. Well, all but one of your collars, really," Mumm-Ra states.
"Heh. Yeah. The big guy thought it would be rather humerous to give one of you a different keycode," Krang adds.
"Big guy? You mean you're not in control?!?" Vash asks, well, shouts.
"Nope, we're just middle men, like all the other idiots you've come across to this point. However, unlike them, we're gonna defeat you!" Mumm-Ra begins. "Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!" Suddenly the old dude explodes with power as his body mass nearly doubles with muscle.
And so yet another rather pointless battle breaks out. ;p However, due to the fact that these two are fighting what's basically the single greatest collection of primary antagonists ever, they lose rather horribly. Eventually they are even forced into giving up the electromagnetic key for the collars and oddly enough, it works on every one of them.
"I thought they said one of us had a different key?" Vash states.
"Must be that other guy, the one that ran off on his own," Albel replies.
"Or the rat," Conker adds.
"Either way, I guess we should find them and give them the key," Vash concludes.
"Sucks to be the guy stuck with his collar, huh?" Laharl says out loud with a chuckle.
"No, it sucks to be those two," Kankuro corrects, pointing at Krang and Mumm-Ra, who have suddenly found themselves contained in some sort of sand shell.
"Wait, no! Don't!" Vash shouts, knowing that Gaara was going to do something bad.
Ignoring the goody-two-shoes, Gaara raises his right hand in front of him. "Sand coffin," he states rather stoicly before clinching his fist. Unable to stop him in time, Vash cringes as the two baddies scream in horror as they are squashed, a large fountain of crimson liquid spraying out of the sand shells.
"Why the hell did you do that?" Vash shouts as he approaches Gaara. Kankuro cuts him off though, before Vash did something really stupid.
"Well, I guess that's over and done with," Lupin states.
"Yeah, except for the looting part," Conker states with a grin. Everyone nods in agreement and they quickly go to tearing the place apart and selling it to the nearest pawn shop.
Chapter 5 of 5: Summary
It goes a little something like this: Tag Team is back again, check with the ref and let's begin. Er, well, no. It doesn't go like that. Due to the fact that I'm currently sick as a dog (thanks Conker) and don't really have the energy to sit down and write a "proper" conclusion, I'm just gonna summarize what was going to happen in chapter 5.
Following the defeat of Mumm-Ra and Krang, we rejoin Sesshomaru, Sakura Haruno, and Pikachu who have made their way north instead of west like the rest of the group. Unbeknownst to everyone else, while Neo and Conker were hard at work locating the base, Sesshomaru used his less-than-mindblowing computer skills to find another anomaly on the surface: a solitary spaceship which was parked north of the crashsite. Figuring the rest of the group could manage to handle any resistance they encountered storming the base, he decided to go north instead.
As it turns out, the spaceship was parked outside an isolated building known to the Namek-jin as Saichouru-sama's Sanctuary, or Guru's place for you English dubbed types. Just before arriving it though, Pikachu's collar beeps once and unlatches; it seems that the key found by the other group somehow effected his own collar, dispite being miles away. Convenient, huh?
Upon arrival at the massive pillar of earth his Sanctuary was built on, the trio make their way up and inside where they are assaulted by two of the remaining three "bosses": a skeleton-like figure called Skeletor (who'd have guessed?) and a large tinman called Megatron.
Naturally, a bunch of meaningless chatter commences (watch some old episodes of Transformers or He-Man; it's rediculous how much talking goes on). Eventually Sakura takes on Skeletor, while Pikachu goes after Megatron; Sesshomaru ignores them altogether.
And so the fight to end all fights draws on and on. After about ten minutes of dodging just about every one of his attacks, Pikachu eventually manages to land a direct blow on Megatron with some random electric attack, which single-handedly overloads all of his capacitors. As his energy supply plummits, he assumes his pistol form and flies into the hands of Skeletor, who commences filling the walls of the small entry room with rather large holes. I don't know how, but eventually Sakura and Pikachu manage to overcome Skeletor and he starts talking.
However, just before revealing the location of the key to Sesshomaru's collar, a loud chainsaw revs up and Skeletor finds himself in little bits and pieces. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Sakura used her super strength to crush Megatron in his gun mode, so he's dead too.
Thus, enter NegaDuck, the only true man of action among all of these mid/late 80's to early 90's villains. Being a bloodthirsty sociopath who's incapable of maintaining allegiances, he dispenses with all the chatter and quickly goes to work beating the crap out of both Pikachu and Sakura. Remember, as the doppelgänger or "evil twin" version of Darkwing Duck, he too is a master of a version of Kung Fu (though not Quack Fu; that was Howard the Duck).
Unbeknownst to anyone else, during all the time he was traveling, he was testing the limits of the collar. As with the others, he quickly found that nearly every one of his abilities had been nullified; those that he had learned, that is. At some point during the last five weeks he came to realize that he could assume his true form, albeit with an enormous strain on his body. It would probably take nearly all of his energy to overcome the collar's control and thus, he has been doing almost nothing up until now.
Following the defeat of the dog demon's followers, NegaDuck turns to attack Sesshomaru. He quickly notices that Sesshomaru's eyes have turned red and the markings on his face have become more pronounced. With a single "ah crap", he finds that Sesshomaru has encreased his mass about 100 fold, having assumed his Dog Demon form. Needless to say, the collar snaps in two, no longer able to handle the pressure on it. NegaDuck finds himself the next meal for Sesshomaru. Peking Duck anyone?
Once Sakura and Pikachu come to, the trio find Saichouru-sama in basically the next room, who tells them that those three evil men were after something called the Dragon Balls. Unconcerned with such things, Sesshomaru takes his leave without another word. He would have possibly gotten one of them from the old Namek-jin; however, seeing as how his transformation essentually demolished the entire structure, Saichouru-sama decided to let their reward for saving him be the cost of the repairs.
Rewards:
Sesshomaru receives 46,312 Experience, a new henchperson (Pikachu) and 1 !! Pass.
Sakura Haruno receives 31,952 Experience.
Pikachu receives 15,976 Experience.
Gaara receives 36,548 Experience, a new henchperson (Temari) and 1 !! Pass.
Kankuro receives 15,740 Experience.
Temari receives 11,696 Experience.
Vash receives 36,548 Experience, a new henchperson (Lina Inverse) and 1 !! Pass.
Mara Jade receives 19,444 Experience.
Lina Inverse receives 11,696 Experience.
Laharl receives 52,107 Experience, a new henchperson (The Joker) and 1 !! Pass.
Etna receives 41,336 Experience.
The Joker receives 15,976 Experience.
Conker receives 23,392 Experience, a new henchperson (Thomas A. Anderson) and 1 !! Pass.
Urd receives 15,740 Experience.
Thomas A. Anderson receives 7,870 Experience.
Lupin receives 27,564 Experience, a new henchperson (Daisuke Jigen), 1 !! Pass, and a Deactivated Triforce of Power.
Fujiko receives 12,304 Experience.
Daisuke Jigen receives 9,722 Experience.
Squall Leonhart receives 27,564 Experience, a new henchperson (Albel Nox), and 1 !!Pass.
Albel Nox receives 7,870 Experience.
There's also a bunch of Cash or 1 "Transport" Spaceship as an additional reward, depending on the result of the poll on the forum. Note: there's only 1 spaceship, not 1 for everyone.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, Mnesis is a racial Background for the Mokolé (were-lizards) in Werewolf: the Apocalypse. It allows them to access a sort of genetic memory, which depending on the level of the Background, grants them a lot of insight to the past. For instance, level 5 of Mnesis states: "You can remember when the first dinosaurs walked the earth (up to 240 million years ago)". I essentually chose the name due to the fact that I'm paying homage to a bunch of "semi-forgotten" villains. If you thought I just mispelled nemesis, you were wrong. ;p
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