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Ginga GIRI GIRI! The Universe is in Danger!
By SSJ Heero
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- OPENING SONG: LITTLE WING -

New days Hajimari no asa Sekai to KISS shiyou
Blowing in the wind Hon no sukoshi no yuuki to ai wo POCKET ni

I wish Moshimo watashi ni Tsubasa ga attara
Kanashimi ya Kako mo Fuan mo Koeteyukeru no ni

Yeah! Ushinau mono nado Nan'ni mo nai yo
(Deta toko shoubu no Brand new day)
Take my way! Kono te no hira de Kiseki wo CATCH shitai

Hateshinai sora to daichi Soshite mirai wo tabi shiteku
Umaretate no tsubasa wa Oh! Kitto kitto kitto Someday Kagayaitekun'da!

---- Recap ----

[Chibi characters of the five appear in the foreground as scenes from the last episode play
in the background. Though, you can't see 'cause this is text. =P]

SSJ: LAST TIME! On GINGA GIRI GIRI! Amiko and TM go do some hunting.

Amiko: SSJ, Davis, and Cindy go fishing.

TM: And later on, the horrible being known as CarseNSync appears.

Cindy: We defeat it, only to run into the Digimon Kaiser™ and Team Voldemort.

Davis: Ron took care of the Maze Brothers while TM and I took care of Voldemort.

SSJ: And I WIN IN KEN'S WARCRAFT II LAN PARTY! BOOYA!

TM: Shut up.

Davis: I agree.

Amiko: Anyway! We're back on our way to the journey!

Cindy: On with the show!

---- Chapter 29: The Requiem of Heretics ----

Rantmon definitely was not in his best moods. Definitely not. With the loss of ten minions
already, he was growing impatient. After all, they were five kids. Age fourteen. Then
again, Rantmon himself is pretty young, but still. Five teens. Not even the Mithril covered
Tyrant was able to kill them. Or a flaming mummy. Or even six different final bosses. The
most reliable had to have been Dullahan, and the only thing sent back were rusting pieces
of its armor. Even worse, it had been sent by Fed Ex.

Rantmon stood upon the front step of his palace, and looked down at the cardboard box,
where bits of Styrofoam surrounded the delicate pieces of armor. Rantmon twitched as he
picked up each of the plates of armor, with no visible sign of damage on it except for the
rust. He sighed, "Damn it to hell! How can you fail catching five kids?!"

Rantmon sighed and turned around and went into the palace. He let Dillandau take the box as
he walked through his palace, pacing towards his throne room. The various villains gathered
inside were now playing billiards and plenty of tables, with the smacks of billiards
filling the room. As Rantmon stepped in, he immediately slammed the towering doors behind
him as loud as he could, drawing everyone's attention to him.

He looked at each of his minions and announced, "Obviously, there has been a couple of
failures, who all have failed to get five. Damn. Kids. So thus, anyone who has ever failed
capturing any five kids, remove yourself now from my council."

And over in the corner, Perillia, or better known as Queen Beryl of the Sailor Moon series,
sulked and sadly walked towards Rantmon. Quiet flushed, she walked to Rantmon, who didn't
even turn an eye. Without saying a word, she pushed open the door and was gone from the
quiet room. Quite a few others also followed suit, leaving the room quite empty compared to
how large it was. They cursed the animators for making the heroes young.

Finally, the room became quite still. No one moved. Rantmon looked at each of the remaining
minions and asked, "Any other failures?"

No one moved. Everyone was frozen with fear from Rantmon's anger. It was when he stepped
ahead to his throne, pulled up one of the arm rests, causing the chair to rise, revealing a
secret trap door under it. Rantmon opened it, stepped inside, and closed it over him, then
the throne came down over the hatch. No one dared go near it at all, and slowly, their
games continued on as normal.

Rantmon stepped down the many steps hidden under his throne, deeper and deeper away from
the sunlight and into the light of the many orange torches under his palace. Down the steps
and into a narrow stone hallway, carved from the hardened rock that floated and lifted his
palace up.

Through the hallway, down more steps, and into the very bottom of his palace. A mere
fifteen feet of pure solid rock was between him and the drop into the ocean. He went to the
very end of this hallway, and shoved open a secret door, well hidden and camouflaged in the
stone.

Inside were lines and lines of wires, flashing lights, and red buttons. There was
technology more advanced than many could dream. And it was under Rantmon's control. Rantmon
spoke over the hums and whispers of the machines, "Hey, Mauzel. I have a job for you."

A gruff voice answered back from the maze of computers, "Understood."

***

Land approached. Not much more needed to be said. The Crew was anxiously waiting to get on
solid ground, less another storm comes and detours them again. The sun was beckoning at the
noon, and they couldn't be more impatient. SSJ and TM leaned on the side of the boat,
glaring at the slowly approaching shore.

"Hurry up, damn it all!" complained SSJ, for the land was still a good mile away.

TM complained as well, "Get us off soon, already..."

But then, right by the boat, they heard a loud "KWEH!". SSJ and TM spun their heads down
and saw three familiar animals. SSJ was taken aback to see that they were back in one
piece. "Holy, they found us!" he bursted out.

Cindy, Amiko, and Davis also took notice as the golden chocobo leapt off of the water and
landed straight on deck. The ship rocked as the glimmering golden chocobo shook the water
off its feathers. (SSJ, TM, and Amiko hid behind a table lest they should transform.)

Amiko saw her blue chocobo sitting on the golden one's head, and she called with surprise,
"Tenpi!" Tenpi chirped and leapt off onto her shoulder.

"Mokona!" Cindy exclaimed as her own mascot floated up and plopped himself upon her head.

"Puu!" came from Mokona. They exchanged smiles.

Davis rubbed his chin, thinking of what to say. He just turned to his animal and welcomed
it by saying, "Uh... Gold chocobo!" He didn't know what to say, seeing as he never named it.

Davis received a nasty peck on the head from the golden chocobo. Good spirits were finally
spread throughout the crew, long awaiting their stop and the continuation of their journey.

Then, the boat landed. Finally. No more sea. The Five waited long enough, and while eleven
days behind, they would need serious work to be done. Immediately upon getting off the
boat, they quickly paced away, into the crowd, out of the crowd, and out of the city walls.

They paced. Under the sun, moving slowly through the grass, not speaking a word at all. The
golden chocobo, laden with luggage, and taking it like it was nothing. They trekked on,
facing the warm wind and fighting the soft, fertile ground. They trekked on. And On.
Finally, night approached, the sun was setting behind them, while night was beckoning
beyond them.

SSJ looked around from where they were, seeing nothing but grassy hills in every direction,
with small mountains jutting out of the grass some ways ahead. Off in the distance, for
they could see a long ways ahead, he saw forests lying ahead of them. "How far have we
gone, huh?" muttered SSJ, for there was no civilization in sight.

"Seems we have gone quite a way," replied Davis, looking at a map he brought with him.

Amiko then turned to Davis, clutching Tenpi with her arms. She asked, "Shall we rest soon?"

"Probably," Davis answered as they all came to a stop. A bead of sweat slid down his cheek.
"I'm exhausted as well."

SSJ scanned the area as Cindy and TM caught up with the three, panting for air, with Mokona
floating overhead. TM swore as he fell on the grass, "Damn it! It's already night!"

"We've been running all day!" Cindy complained as she bent over, trying to breathe.

Amiko and Davis turned to the two. Amiko just shrugged and said, "Eh... Sorry, but we all
have to suffer."

Davis added, "It's no longer a walk in the park now. We'll have to travel quickly if we
expect to get there in time."

Cindy, with fatigue, groaned, "Aw!" She fell to the ground with a sigh, no longer wanting
to move.

TM looked at Davis and asked, "How far is it to Hayden's place, anyway?!"

Davis paused and rubbed his cheek. He thought for a bit before replying, "Hmm... About...
900 miles."

Cindy and TM nearly fainted from surprise. Cindy rose to her feet and yelled, "900 MILES?!"

"AND HOW FAR WILL WE GO AFTER THAT?!" demanded TM as he grabbed Davis by the shirt.

Davis pulled away and replied, "Well, the Red Mountains are 2000 miles past Hayden's
place... Then the other side of the continent is another 6000 miles..."

"Just think of it as walking around Disneyland about 2000 times!" added Amiko.

TM and Cindy nearly fainted from exhaustion. Davis saw their exasperated glares and
explained. "Hey, we only shall walk for two weeks," Davis told them. "The rest will be
simply be boating."

And then, they heard a yelp from what sounded like SSJ. They turned their heads towards the
source, but they saw SSJ nowhere. They turned their heads this way and that, but then they
realized, SSJ was gone. Nowhere in the fields was he to be seen. Nowhere in the expanse was
he to be seen. "SSJ?" Amiko called.

"What the shit?" TM muttered as he looked around..

Davis and Cindy glanced around. Cindy began to ask, "Where..." before Davis swore, "Shit."

He was nowhere in sight, and they just sighed, wondering where he got to. Grumbling, they
all wandered about, trying to find where SSJ went. Then there was another yelp. Davis,
Cindy, and Amiko looked about, not finding TM now. "What the?!" Davis yelled throughout the
open expanse.

"What's happening?!" demanded Cindy as they all turned their heads to look around.

The night was darkening ever slowly, and with two of their friends gone in two yelps, they
couldn't help but be unnerved. They were quiet, breathing slowly and straining their eyes
to look about. Then, they heard TM's voice, "What?! We can't get out?"

"Shut up! They'll hear!" SSJ snapped back. The three others nodded at each other and headed
towards the source of the sound.

"Guys?" Cindy called at them. They didn't respond.

The three walked forward, heading closer to the source of SSJ's voice. They came a bit
closer to the distant mountain ranges and were at the edge of a valley of trees. Then they
felt there was no ground under them.

With a yelp, they too fell through the ground, landing on the grass below in a rather
painful method. They looked about where they fell, seeing a low cliff behind them, and
before them was a small village. "What the-?" Amiko muttered before she stopped to look
around. "That wasn't there before."

She looked up and saw SSJ beside her then and got up to her feet. As she did, he replied,
"What, you've never seen Scrapped Princess?"

The realization then struck Amiko. She looked around as she blurted out, "Ah- What?! This
is the village?"

"Of Heretics, yeah," SSJ answered.

They then turned to Cindy, who was getting up as she asked, "What is this about?"

Amiko and SSJ glanced at each other. Soon, SSJ was leaning on the cliff wall as Amiko
relayed the entire plot of Scrapped Princess to Cindy, Davis, and TM. She told about every
plot point, from the stuff about Mauzel, the false princess, and the later episodes with
the Peacemakers. When she finished, they were silent for a while.

TM looked about the area, thinking of what Amiko explained. He asked, "So, how will we get
past here?"

"Simple," explained SSJ. "We go through the mountains and into the other side."

TM and Cindy collectively groaned. TM complained, "Mountains as well?!"

"I can't climb mountains!" Cindy just added.

"Hey, I said THROUGH, not OVER," SSJ said back.

Suddenly, their conversation was cut short as a patter of footsteps became audible as a
loud whistle was blown. The Five looked about, and saw themselves surrounded by a band of
villagers, each armed with hoes, pick-axes, picks, axes, Twix, saxes, whatever. SSJ looked
about at all the people and muttered, "Hmm... This certainly is interesting."

They all saw the prominent figure, mostly because he wasn't carrying farming equipment as a
weapon. He wore a simple costume, with an equally simple mask. Brown and white hair came
from his head, long enough to be fashioned in a pony-tail. TM shot a glance at SSJ from the
corner of his eye, and SSJ did the same. TM muttered inaudibly to SSJ, "Is everyone getting
a ponytail nowadays?"

"It seems to be the rage," SSJ whispered back.

The masked one, Leonard, spoke then, interrupting the two's thoughts, "I would say it is
rare for us to have visitors, but it's even rarer to have two groups of visitors as well.
Each pursued, no less." Prominent and clear, yet aged, was his voice; the certain voice of
a leader.

As if those words were warnings, everyone of the Crew prepared their weapons. Leonard
raised his hand and said, "Ah, please, we won't turn you in. After all, in order to do
that-"

"You'll have to lower your barrier," Amiko interrupted, looking up at the dark sky above.
They had hidden the village away with an illusion of ground. That was the barrier.

Leonard softly chuckled. Leonard replied, "You are correct, miss!"

One of the farmers came forth with rope. Cindy, noticing the bundle, had doubts. She slid
back and yelled, "Hey! What's this for?"

Leonard put his hand on the farmer's shoulder, and the man stopped. Leonard explained,
"Clearly, if we have to protect ourselves with this elaborate barrier, surely, you must
understand we do not trust outsiders easily. Once you enter, we'll test to see if you are
trustworthy."

TM looked at Leonard with narrow eyes. He muttered, "Um... Can't you do that *now*?!"

Leonard paused. He thought about it for a bit. Finally, he answered, "No."

And so, the Five were bound by the hands and led to the hidden village.

***

Not much longer, they were brought into a large room, littered with torches and statues of
a dragon of sorts. They all looked about the well-lit room, their shadows dancing around
the room. Then Leonard directed their attention to him. "This is a symbol of Mauzel," he
explained. He held a cloth with a triangle and a dot in it. "Do whatever you wish to it,"
he commanded as the test.

Amiko's bonds were then cut, so Tenpi jumped into her arms again. She then took the cloth
while everyone waited for her action.

She then raised it towards a torch, almost lighting it on fire. Tenpi, however, had other
plans, and bit through the piece of cloth. Amiko then came to the realization as she held
it to her eyes. "This is printed on a Fruit Roll-Up!" she exclaimed.

Leonard replied, "Well, the real cloth with the symbol on it was burned by the first
visitors."

Amiko then wrestled a piece of it from Tenpi, popping it into her mouth. "I need the sugar,
Tenpi," she said to her chocobo. Tenpi seemed to pout at her.

She then turned to Leonard, hoping her response was reasonable. Leonard was silent, and he
exchanged glances with the attendants beside him. Finally, he said, "That's an acceptable
response, I guess..."

The Five's bonds were cut then. They all rubbed their strained wrists and saw they were a
shade of red. SSJ looked at the pieces of rope that fell to the ground and yelled, "The
rope is made of Twizzlers!"

"Hey, we need rope. We can't waste it on you people," Leonard said as he walked away.
Cindy, apparently, couldn't care less, as she was eating her own bonds, with Tenpi picking
the pieces off the floor.

Since night had already fallen upon the land, the Crew just turned towards the village and
made their way to the inn. They walked from the Temple of Mauzel, through the dirt streets,
and into the inn where SSJ's negotiation skills landed them a room. They slept through the
night, tired from traveling such a long distance.

***

TM awoke to the sound of running water the next day. He opened his eyes, seeing himself in
an unfamiliar room. Certainly, there is no motel on earth that would lack a television. And
clearly, no motel either would have straw mats for beds. But then again, he remembered they
weren't in a crappy motel, but in a crappier inn of the hidden village.

He looked about, SSJ was asleep, sitting and leaning on the wall, clutching the Hellfire
sword close to him. Davis's glove lay on the floor by his own mat, using his cape has a
blanket. Amiko was sleeping soundly furthest away from him, with Cindy yawning and falling
back into her thick sleep. He recalled exactly where they were, "Eh... We're in the
village..."

TM then got to his feet, straightening out his wrinkled shirt and pants, fetched his boots
from the door and donned his armor, and then he left the room with Hiko's sword beside him.

Out the small, run-down in and into the dirt roads, TM looked about the small town,
composed of many buildings, short and tall, wood and stone, old and new, candy or not,
whatever. He was quick to notice one fact: There was no one around. The town was quiet, so
quiet, he heard pins dropping from a corporate office miles and miles away.

Well, there wasn't much needed to figure out where everyone was. He quickly stepped to the
largest building there was, the Temple of Braunin. Inside, he saw the torches and the
dragon statues lining the hallway leading into the gigantic room at the end, holding a
multitude of the town's villagers. "Hey," he said to himself as he looked about. "What the
heck?"

And then, he heard a high, cheerful voice beside him, "You seem to be new, ne?"

TM then turned his head to see the beaming face of Raquel Kassull on the other side of the
hall. He saw she was with her younger sister, Pacifica, and her brother, Shannon, neither
of them seeming to be concerned with the giant cult gathering before them. Though, he never
saw Scrapped Princess and didn't recognize them. He guessed, anyhow, "The Kassull siblings?"

Raquel smiled and replied, "I guess we really are famous, ne?" TM nodded, remembering their
faces.

Shannon then stood forward and towered threateningly over TM, ready to reach for his sword.
"You better not be of the Mauzel faith," threatened him as he pushed his sisters back.

TM just looked away and muttered, "I am still in the village, am I not?"

Shannon paused. He then sighed, and stepped back, as TM stepped forward and into the large
room. He saw the gigantic crowd anxiously waiting. He then turned back to the siblings and
asked, "What's happening?"

Pacifica replied, "Honestly, we don't know ourselves-"

Then they all heard the crowd cheering. They looked to the center of the room, and they all
saw Leonard atop the platform. He stood before the people, proud and confident, yelling
them all words of confidence, "Today is the day! Today is the day that our faith to Braunin
shall be realized! Mauzel will be conquered and we shall no longer be persecuted!"

And over in TM's spot, he muttered to himself, "Well, this won't amount to any good."

***

Meanwhile, SSJ was up and sitting at a table in the room, pondering a way through the
village. As long as Leonard was in charge, they wouldn't be allowed to pass. Clearly, it
was pressing that they continued their quest. Amiko was busy pondering as well, as she sat
across from SSJ. Davis was, of course, tending to his golden chocobo within the stables.
Cindy was currently outside searching for TM.

SSJ sighed, as did Amiko, and they didn't need to guess they came to the same conclusion.
SSJ muttered, "We'll just have to wait until Braunin thing turns out to be a fraud."

"Yeah," Amiko said with a nod. "And of course, we'll have to stop the War Class Strategy
spell."

SSJ then pushed his chair back and rose to his feet, sighing. Amiko stood as well as he
suggested, "Let's get TM."

Amiko nodded and yawned.

***

Voldemort was mite pissed. After all, he had to get back to File Island, run through the
forests, get his wand after wandering for hours to find it, escape from X-ATM's still
functioning shell, and leave for the mainland.

Even now, as he floated within his Team Voldemort hot-air balloon, in the shape of a coiled
basilisk, floated eastward towards his destination. The Maze Brothers, Malik, and Bakura
also resided in the basket of the balloon, practicing their video game skills on a PSOne.
Ma proclaimed, "We can not lose a third time!"

"Loss feels as sour as a lime!" Ze rhymed.

"Perhaps if you two didn't suck at everything, you wouldn't have!" Malik insulted, for the
two brothers had failed to even lay one bit of damage on Malik and Bakura.

"We'll take care of things this time," Bakura told the two. "You two will sit around here."

And Peter, standing in the corner nearest Voldemort, stared to the ground below, hoping to
catch a glimpse of the Five. "Where are they...?" he asked himself as he searched. "They
have to be nearby!"

Voldemort turned to his servant and yelled, "Wormtail! The spell says we are right over
them!"

Peter leaned over the side of the balloon, seeing nothing at all but a field of grass and a
mountain range some distance away. "They're not here! There's nothing but grass!" Peter
announced.

"What?!" Voldemort screamed as he also looked down towards the ground, also seeing nothing.
He cursed and swore, about to do the searching spell again. But then he saw something in
the sky to the west. An object with the darkest hue of blue. Heading straight towards the
balloon. "What in the blazes is THAT?!" he demanded.

Peter looked behind him, and the Yu-Gi-Oh! villains rose to see what Voldemort referred to.
They all saw that it had scaly wings, wingspan wide enough to cover a mile in its shadow.
As it approached, it was clear that it also had a long tail, and a head with jaws long
enough to tear through the mightiest of beasts. Needless to say, the fact that it was
headed straight for them didn't please Voldemort much. Voldemort recognized it. And he
wasn't happy. He screamed, "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS DROMAR, THE BANISHER DOING HERE?!"

And before his question was answered, it tore straight through the balloon, releasing the
hot-air that was holding them aloft. With a gigantic pop, they began to fall to the ground
as Dromar swooped past them, towards the gigantic Red Mountains off in the distance.

And still, Voldemort's balloon came crashing to the ground, with them all screaming inside
the tumbling basket. Straight towards the ground. Then they went through the ground. Wait a
second, you don't normally fall through the ground. The Yu-Gi-Oh! villains took the
opportunity to leap out of the basket and slow their drop. And the basket hit the stables
of the hidden village, Voldemort were more or less in a bit of pain.

Voldemort crawled from the wreckage in a heap of pain, yet strangely not dead in the least
bit. Peter crawled out as well, with Bakura, Malik, and the Maze brothers walking to them.
Voldemort muttered in pain, "Dromar... How did it..."

But then, they saw a group of people rushing to them. Voldemort, of course, had to be
hidden. Voldemort swore and then got to his feet and covertly rushed behind another
building, with Peter and the Maze brothers following. Bakura and Malik nodded to each
other, and hid themselves in nearby shrubbery decorating one of the houses.

***

SSJ, Amiko, and Davis came dashing to where they thought they saw something fall from the
sky and crash into the stables. Smoke rose from the injured building as the three reached
the stable with a crumbling roof. They all clearly saw what looked to be a basket in there,
with strings extending to shredded cloth hanging from the roof. The roof crumbled, sawdust
constantly floating down.

"What the Heck?" bursted from Amiko as she saw the wreckage.

Davis stepped up to the basket, looking inside expecting people. "What happened here?!" he
yelled.

"Well, apparently, an empty hot-air balloon basket dropped down from the sky," SSJ
sarcastically replied. Everyone paused. They thought about it. Someone had to have been
riding the balloon.

At that, they knew something was up. So it didn't surprise them much when Malik and Bakura
jumped from the shrubs behind them and land in front of them. Malik and Bakura gave
malevolent grins, and thus proudly announced their daring challenge. Malik said, "Chess and
Duel Monsters don't seem to be good games for us to play, eh?"

Bakura added, "But this time, we have the perfect game to defeat you!"

The three merely stared ahead, apathetic and without concern. They were silent for a bit
until Davis finally asked, "And what would that be?"

"Of course!" Malik yelled back. "A game of STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3!"

The three were taken aback; their eyes shot open in surprise. "ALPHA 3?!" screamed SSJ in
surprise.

"I NEVER EVEN PLAYED THAT!" Davis shouted as he pulled out his hair.

Malik and Bakura evilly laughed. "Of course!" Bakura said back. "That's the point!"

They then motioned for the Maze brothers to fetch the Playstation One, and the two brothers
did. Amiko and SSJ could not help but sigh as they saw the two brothers again. The brothers
soon returned with a hunk of junk, or so it seemed. Malik and Bakura stared at it. They
were silent.

"OH NO!" Malik screamed in surprise.

"THE PLAYSTATION DID NOT SURVIVE THE FALL!" Bakura shouted as he pulled out his hair.

SSJ and company facefaulted into the grass as Malik and Bakura tried to fix the dented,
shattered, and most definitely useless game system. Finally they gave up, and the three got
to their feet and prepared for anything. Then Malik pulled a deck of cards from his pocket,
with one Spanish word on the back of the deck.

"Now! Backup plan!" announced Malik.

Bakura nodded and continued, "Okay! We're playing..."

Insert a fiery background behind the two, shouting proudly in unison, "UNO!" Once again,
the three facefaulted.

***

Five minutes later, once again, Team Voldemort's members lost their game. SSJ, Amiko, and
Davis sighed as they got up and stepped away from the grumbling two. Then from behind the
building where he hid, Voldemort leapt out, immediately putting his wand just inches from
Amiko's neck. SSJ and Davis instinctively leapt back in surprise.

"Voldemort!" SSJ exclaimed in surprise.

"You!" Davis couldn't help but yell.

Voldemort stood in place, holding Amiko back with the wand to her neck. He smiled and spoke
in a low voice, "But of course. This can be the time that I will get rid of you all!" His
hood, of course, shadowed his head, with his blood red eyes glowing through the darkness.

Just then, Amiko sighed. Voldemort glanced at her, thoroughly confused by her nonchalance.
But before he could mutter any spell, there was a loud cracking sound. It sounded as if
glass shattered into a million pieces.

And indeed, that was precisely what happened as Voldemort fell to the ground in a heap of
pain with a bump on his head, and behind him was Davis' golden chocobo with Tenpi sitting
on its head. Inside the gold chocobo's mouth was a broken sake bottle left by TM. It gave a
loud "Kweh!", as did Tenpi.

"Whoa, he's smart," Davis uttered.

SSJ said thoughtfully, "I didn't know Tenpi could communicate already."

SSJ then stepped up to Voldemort's unconscious body and muttered to Amiko without looking
at her directly, "You okay?"

Amiko sighed, "Of course."

SSJ then sighed, and glanced at Malik and Bakura, who were getting ready again to attack.
He muttered in Japanese, "Yare yare..." (Subtitles: "Oh geez...")

SSJ then pulled his foot back and punted Voldemort at the two. They bounced off the ground,
crashed into Peter and the Maze brothers, running out to help them. Davis then made another
explosion spell race at them, and with a flash and a scream of fire, they were in the air
and out of the hidden village. They all yelled in unison, "Team Voldemort is blasting off
agaiiiiinnnn..."

And with a bling and a sparkle, they were gone, and SSJ and company sighed. He then turned
to the other two and said, "Let's get TM and get out of here." Amiko and Davis nodded, and
they all sprinted to the Temple of Braunin.

***

Not much longer, they arrived and saw Cindy and TM just at the edge of the giant hall.
Amiko and SSJ saw the villagers praying, glanced at each other with the same exasperated
thoughts, and then Amiko yelled, "Everyone!"

Her voice echoed through the silent halls. All the villagers stopped in their prayers,
turning to stare at Amiko. She shouted, "Stop your prayers! All of this is a ploy made by
Leonard, who is of the Mauzel faith!"

SURPRISE! There was a collective gasp throughout the crowd. Most were, of course,
disbelieving of the incredulous claim. Cindy grew impatient and yelled at them all, "She's
telling the truth!"

No avail. The villagers simply refused to believe this plot twist. Still, SSJ then spoke to
the other four, like a leader giving orders, "Okay, Amiko and TM, go to the mountain and
find the cast. Cindy, Davis, and I will take care of this spell."

Everyone nodded in acknowledgement. "Okay then! Let's go!" TM yelled with a grin.

SSJ grinned, too, and then dashed off to the basement with Davis and Cindy, his red cape
flowing. TM and Amiko rushed as well out of the temple and towards the nearby mountains.
The villagers were thoroughly confused with the turn of events, not knowing whether to
continue praying or not.

SSJ dashed down the flight of steps, Davis following, and Cindy behind both, barely keeping
up. SSJ then leapt past the last steps, followed by Davis, and Cindy dashing close behind.
Down into the darkness did they run, until finally, they reached the gigantic room. They
saw inside was filled with small tanks embedded into the ground.

They all figured what was inside, and opened each tank, looking inside and seeing a
sleeping human. Above, the magical lines in the sky were still working the spell, and they
struggled to awaken all of the villagers before the resulting spell came to be deployed.

And eventually, everyone was awake. They all stood, wet from the tanks, staring up at the
lines in the sky. Strangely enough, despite all the spellcasters stopped and awake, the
lines were still drawing in the air. The spell was still in effect! SSJ was just a tiny bit
pissed. "HEY! WE SHOULD'VE STOPPED IT!" he screamed.

Davis stared up at it in fear. With a shaky breath, he yelled, "What's going on?!"

Cindy, as well, was confused, staring at the symbol forming in the ceiling. "Why's it still
forming?" she asked, hoping someone could answer her. No one could.

And then, SSJ finally barked his order, "ESCAPE! NOW!"

And that is what the villagers did, quickly, they dashed up the flights of stairs, into the
main hall of the Temple of Braunin. And quickly enough, the entire village stood as far
away from the temple as possible. The villagers stood beside the cliff where the Five
originally entered the village, staring mournfully at the temple. SSJ, Davis, and were
Cindy barely out of the temple when they saw the spell take effect. They turned back, and
saw, for the first time in their lives, the true essence of destruction.

***

But in the meantime, TM and Amiko dashed up the mountain, kicking rocks and sand up as they
rushed past. They saw in the distance faint figures on the edge of a cliff. Immediately,
they made out the white ponytail and brown bangs. They saw Leonard, holding the knife by
Elphitine's neck. And then just above the group, they saw something far worse, a group of
floating, malevolent beings.

Amiko groaned, "The Peacemakers..."

"The ones enslaving humanity?" asked TM. Amiko nodded. TM gritted his teeth in anger. He
muttered, "Damn it!"

They sprinted even faster. They saw ahead a small gap between them and the path straight to
the Kassull siblings. They came closer and closer to the gap, and then, they leapt. Above
the gap and past, they landed just behind Leonard, who dropped his knife in surprise. He
turned around, and Elphitine escaped his grasp and ran to the Kassull siblings. "You!"
Leonard yelled in surprise at the two.

Amiko and TM rose from where they landed. Amiko replied, "Yeah."

"It is us," TM muttered.

Leonard stepped back, mask still covering his sweating face. He turned around, seeing the
Kassull siblings, and then again, seeing the two Outlaws. "Shit!" he swore.

With that, Leonard threw his mask off, revealing his wide, ugly face, as he leapt off the
small cliff and dashed away into the forest. "Well, that was simple," muttered Amiko as she
shaded her eyes to see Leonard go.

Elphitine then stepped ahead, addressing the two. She crossed her arms in politeness as she
spoke, "W-Who are you?"

TM answered, hands by his side, not exactly knowing how to address a princess, "Well, we
are-"

"CRAP! PEACEMAKERS!" Amiko suddenly cut in.

Amiko's yell split the silence, and she leapt back. TM grabbed the false Scrapped Princess
and followed suit, and soon after, a small crater was in the place of where the two stood.
Shannon, Raquel, and Pacifica fell to the ground, staring as the three remaining
Peacemakers descended upon them all. "You all?!" Shannon uttered.

The blond one, Steia, spoke above the rest, "Indeed, we are here to get rid the world of
you all, as well as the Outlaws."

Raquel was taken aback. "Wait a minute!" she yelled. "How can this be?!"

The black haired one, Shizu, spoke as well, "Mauzel has decided to do his own dirty work."

Insert anime split screen action between the Kassull siblings, each gaping in fear. "Mauzel
himself?!" Pacifica said with surprise.

The three Peacemakers smiled, and turned towards the Temple of Braunin. Everyone there
followed suit, with Amiko and TM not believing their eyes. They realized the spell was not
stopped as an explosion ripped through the temple. But then, Amiko realized it was a
completely different spell when two gigantic arms tore from the crumbling building.

***

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" shouted SSJ as he saw the roof of the temple split apart.

Needless to say, they were in deep shit. The two arms grabbed hold of the temple roof, and
pushed up the rest of the body. Cindy, Davis, and SSJ saw clearly the figure of a god,
glowing white all over. It glowed with pure power as two narrow, glaring eyes aimed
directly at the three. SSJ was the first to speak to the being, "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"

The being ignored SSJ's rudeness and turned to him. He responded in a booming, threatening
voice, "I? I am. I am all; I am existence. I am... Mauzel."

SSJ's mouth dropped to the ground, his eyes as wide as oranges. "HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THEY
WERE SERIOUS!" he screamed.

Without saying much more, Davis got into his fighting stance, and Cindy drew her guns. "I'm
right behind you, SSJ!" Davis yelled as he ran up.

Cindy added, "As am I! Let's get this one!"

SSJ, too, got into his Battoujutsu stance, yelling proudly into Mauzel's face, "Okay then!
Mauzel! We're going to take you down!"

"It is futile," Mauzel simply returned. "But feel free to try, mortals."

SSJ quickly drew his sword, sending a clear wave of energy straight at Mauzel. The Wind
Slash, though, bounced harmlessly off of Mauzel's body. Davis leapt up, launching meteor
after meteor at Mauzel, with Cindy backing up with a barrage of bullets. Mauzel, however,
took all the hits as if they were mere flies.

SSJ leapt up, repeating higher and higher off of Davis' meteors, until he was over Mauzel.
He raised his sword high, proclaiming his attack as loud as possible, "RYUU TSUI SEN!" He
then came down, slashing straight through Mauzel's axis. But despite all of that, Mauzel
still laughed at the pathetic attacks.

So thus, this continued for ten minutes straight. Davis launched meteor after meteor,
getting more fatigued with every spell. Cindy was running out of bullets, and SSJ was
running out of moves. Finally, he announced, "THIS IS IT! AIM RUNNINGMEN ATTACK!"

Filled with fear, Davis and Cindy dashed out of the area, and millions of AIM Runningmen
came dashing towards the god. Millions upon millions of paper flat Runningmen rushed
headlong into the god, with SSJ hoping just one would affect the thing. And then everyone
of them passed, doing absolutely NOTHING to it. Mauzel laughed and laughed as each and
every runningman went through, without doing a single scratch. But instead of disappearing
after the attack like usual, they gathered around SSJ. SSJ was confused at the change in
routine.

"Huh?" SSJ uttered with surprise. "What's this about?" Suddenly, the area was totally
white. So bright was the light that emanated from the AIM Runningmen, the villagers some
mile away had to cover their eyes.

When the light died, SSJ saw clearly what had happened. In place of the AIM Runningmen was
an entire army of Zerglings. "What the?!" SSJ muttered to himself.

And over on top of a building, Davis and Cindy stared in awe. "They evolved!" yelled Cindy.

"That was possible?!" Davis said with disbelief.

SSJ seized the opportunity to test out his new attack. Pointing at Mauzel, he commanded,
"OKAY! ZERG RUSH!"

With that, one after another of the fully evolved zerglings rushed at Mauzel, picking and
picking at it. Mauzel yelled, with a surprising tone containing anger, as they kept on
attacking him, "Stop this, now! If this continues, I will have no choice but to exterminate
mankind!"

***

Twenty minutes passed. No, the Zergs had not stopped picking at Mauzel. Mauzel kept
threatening. And threatening. And threatening some more. But, even with the multitude of
threats and the Zerglings picking at him, it didn't do much.

And frankly, SSJ was getting impatient. He pulled out his Kenshin manga and read how
Kenshin was kicking Enishi's ass. Heck, by now, he was at the part where Kenshin broke
Enishi's sword. And still, Mauzel was there, being picked away by Zerglings, not doing
anything at all.

Even Davis and Cindy were getting bored. They even pulled out two Game Boy Advances and
played Mario Kart. And still, Mauzel was not advancing. SSJ was getting pissed off, and
shouted at Mauzel, "IF YOU'RE GOING TO THREATEN US, FOLLOW THROUGH!"

Mauzel roared in anger, "FINE! I'LL COUNT DOWN! TEN!" A pause. The only sound was from the
GBAs, and the zerglings still picking at Mauzel. "NINE! ...EIGHT! ...SEVEN! ...SIX!"

Still, SSJ didn't feel much threatened. Mauzel was counting very slowly, as if it was
reluctant to attack. "FIVE! ...FOUR! ...THREE! ...TWO!"

The time had come! SSJ was anxious to dodge an attack. Or two. Or three. He put away his
manga, impatiently waiting Mauzel to reach zero. "ONE!" Mauzel finally yelled.

A pause. Cindy and Davis put away their games, waiting for Mauzel's incredible strike.
Finally, it yelled, as if it was finally settled on attacking, "ONE HALF!"

SSJ, Davis, and Cindy facefaulted, quite angry at Mauzel's cop-out. Mauzel continued, "A
QUARTER! ...ONE EIGHTH... ...One sixteenth... ...One thirty-secondth?"

SSJ fumed with anger, and he yelled at Mauzel, impatience coming from every pore, "ATTACK
ALREADY!"

And yet, Mauzel continued to count down his fractions. Cindy and Davis returned to their
game. That was, until Mokona heard something. Mokona directed Cindy's attention to an
inconspicuous shack near the broken temple. Davis and Cindy exchanged glances, then they
both leapt off the roof and sauntered to the shack. Mauzel, of course, took notice. "HEY!
FIGHT ME!" he demanded. "THESE ZERGS WILL BE YOUR UNDOING!"

Cindy and Davis ignored the deity, walking ever closer to the shack. "Ignore that! FIGHT
ME!" he yelled, trying to get their attention.

SSJ then yelled back, "FIGHT US FIRST!"

Mauzel reluctantly affirmed that, and raised its fist into the sky. It gave a terrible
roar, and not terrible as in intimidating, but terrible as in it really sucked at roaring.
It then launched a punch directly at where SSJ sat. So fast was the attack that SSJ seemed
to not have the speed to dodge. He simply sat as the fist came closer to him.

And then it stopped some feet away. Another pause. Mauzel asked in a shaky voice, aware of
Cindy approaching the shack, "Why don't you dodge it?!"

SSJ sighed and replied blankly, "Why don't you follow through?"

And by now, Cindy opened the door the shack. She stared inside, not knowing what to
say. Inside, there was but one random guy, not even going to be described. He was sitting
in a chair, pressing buttons on a console and speaking into a microphone. They heard Mauzel
call, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

Cindy turned to Davis, who provided her with a sake bottle. She then went up to the guy and
gave him a good smack with the bottle, knocking him out cold. She then pulled him out of
the shack and threw him to the ground. SSJ, of course, was not much surprised. He sighed,
and muttered, "Mauzel's a fraud... Figured."

And with that, the zergs disappeared, and Mauzel was frozen in place. Davis then stepped up
to the console full of flashing buttons and pulled the plug. The image of Mauzel then
disappeared, and the three sighed.

***

No way. The Peacemakers could not believe it. Their great god... A fraud! Needless to say,
they weren't taking it very well. They cried where they stood, with the Kassull siblings
comforting them. "How could we be so stupid?!" Steia shouted at the skies beyond the
mountains.

Pacifica patted her back, trying to comfort her. "There, there... Don't feel so bad," she
warmly spoke. "Heck, there are a lot of people more gullible than you!"

Shizu, as well, wasn't taking it well. "All these years!" she wept. "I was finally awake!
And my leader is a fake!"

Raquel tried to reassure her confidence, speaking in her sweet voice, "Well, Shizu, perhaps
you can devote your time to something else!"

Shizu then looked at Raquel, then at Steia. Her eyes were full of tears, and she finally
had the resolve to speak of her idea, "Let's devote our time to something worthwhile!"

Steia sniffed her last tear, and replied as proudly as she could, "Let's devote our time to
something that's solid and trustworthy!"

The two then joined hands in comradery, determined to not be fooled again. "Let's invest in
Enron!" they said at once.

Amiko and TM facefaulted, though no one knew why. Shizu and Steia then left, leaving the
brown haired Peacemaker, Socom, alone. He struggled to speak. Finally, he just screamed,
"THERE IS NO LONGER ANY POINT IN LIVING!"

He rushed and leapt off the cliff. He fell a whole twenty feet into the grass below. It was
quite painful, but nothing lethal. Angry, he got up and leapt off the next cliff, this time
falling another twenty feet before hitting the ground. Again, he got up, leapt off the next
cliff off the mountain and got stuck in a tree. He wrestled his way out, falling and
hitting random branches along the way, and finally came to an actually deep cliff. He leapt
off, and apparently was never seen again.

The Kassull siblings, Elphitine, TM, and Amiko sweatdropped, and finally turned to each
other. Pacifica began to speak, "Thanks-"

Before she could finish, she heard Shannon's muffled gasp, and turned to Shannon, seeing
Amiko already on him. Pacifica and Raquel stared, without saying anything. Elphitine then
led them back to the village, sighing.

***

Three hours past and SSJ was in one of his worst moods yet. After all, he got worked up
about fighting a god, ready to have his ass kicked and then some, but did any of that
happen? He sat in their new wagon, provided by Elphitine for their help, driving with
Raquel assisting on his right. Cindy also wasn't in the best of moods as she sat inside,
being scared to death by a giant illusion. And to his left, Davis rode his golden chocobo,
disgruntled and silent.

SSJ drove the horses steadily over the bumps and through the mountain path, feeling stupid
that he actually ran seventy miles to the village without thinking of a wagon. Inside,
Amiko sat with Shannon, chatting energetically with him while hugging Tenpi, while TM was
hitting on Pacifica, as usual. Cindy, of course, was perfecting her Mario Kart skills on
her GBA, with Mokona playing with her. Finally, SSJ sighed, "We'll eventually have to
abandon this, huh?"

Davis nodded next to him. "Yeah," he replied. "The Red Mountains have no road past. There's
only a road around. And I doubt we'll ride it all the way to the Red Mountains."

SSJ swore, but that was then Raquel informed him of something up ahead, "SSJ-kun... There's
a person." She pointed at the side of the road before them.

SSJ looked up ahead, seeing a clear and distinct figure. He saw the black cloak, the black
ponytail, and the lighter blonde bangs. He quickly recognized the son of the ex-president,
and greeted the wandering stranger, raising his right hand in greeting as he came to the
man. "Yo," he called.

Not saying anything, the wanderer gave SSJ a cold glance before returning to staring
straight ahead. SSJ said nothing else as he continued ahead. It was when he heard Shannon
returning to the waiting room did SSJ do the same for Raquel. Amiko then stuck her head out
the wagon cart, then sat down by SSJ. "Hey!" she yelled in greeting.

Again, Kensou Mishima gave a cold glance over his left shoulder before looking back towards
his path. Amiko frowned. She muttered, "You know, since we bailed you out on the boat, the
least you could do is say something."

They heard Kensou give sigh, and he muttered without looking at her, "Something."

Amiko glanced at SSJ, who was disinterestedly guiding the wagon. She said, "He reminds me
of you, y'know."

"Yeah, so?" SSJ disinterestedly replied Amiko sighed, and retreated back into the wagon.
SSJ asked without moving his eyes from the road, "Where are you going?"

Kensou did not look at him again, but SSJ clearly saw from the corners of his eyes Kensou's
angry glare as he spoke, "Away from the Capital."

"Hm, I see."

SSJ said no more, and he drove the wagon onward, keeping pace with Kensou just beside it.
They both said nothing, nor did they look at each other. It certainly was going to be a
long journey to Rantmon.

---- To Be Continued ----

- ENDING SONG: DAICHI NO LA-LI-LA -

Shizuka naru ame no megumi furu (furu)
Mada haruka Haruka tooi chi ni
Matteru dare ka ni Kono ai no shizuku

Furete miru hoho ni asa no kaze ga fuku (hoho ni wa)
Ima nani wo Nani wo kanjita no? (nani ka wo?)
Tashika na imi wo motsu (subete yori)
Tada hitotsu no sora made

Oikakeru kumo no kage ni tachidomari
Mitsumetai Kokoro no tabi
Doko made mo Doko made mo
Natsukashii koe ni itsuka meguriau

alainn la-li-la

Yagate fune wa hashiru Hashiru
(Fune wa ne Doko made Michi naru Umi no hate)
Sou, hiroi sekai wo shinjite
Kimi wa kanata e
Soshite mirai e

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[Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! Preview music plays in background. The five appear as chibi style, and
random scenes from the next episode play, though you can't see because this is text. =P]

SSJ: NEXT TIME! ON GINGA GIRI GIRI!

Amiko: Kensou unwittingly has chosen the roads we will be traveling upon!

TM: An amazing coincidence, no less! But even with all this, Rantmon decides to send in the
first of his elite, one the Four Enders!

Cindy: What awaits us as Kensou shows his skills?

Davis: And I get a new costume?! Holy shit, FINALLY!

All: Find out NEXT! ON GINGA GIRI GIRI! "The Time for Action"

Raquel: O tanoshimi ni! ("Look forward to it!")

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