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| Episode Three |
| Conflict! Finally! |
| On the last episode, the team of five fighters (Windbreaker, Strife, Peace, Typhoon, and Mercenary) with their advisor Axem Fast were briefed on their first mission: To deliver a suspicious looking package to the Village of Guardians, which the Village of the Skies made an alliance with. Though it seemed ridiculously easy, they ran into several stray dinosaurs and killer bees for some reason. Now, we find our six favorite warriors just about to enter the Village of Guardians� -------------------------------------------------- NOTE: I�m planning to make this episode a little more serious than the last two. The six fighters kick down the front gates of the village and immediately spot� MERCENARY: All these people are dressed funny. True indeed. All of them were dressed�in heavy armor. Immediately, two of the village police officers jog towards them. POLICEMAN #1: Hey! We just got through repairing that gate! POLICEMAN #2: Tell me about it. So many hours wasted�don�t mention the word �Gate� to me ever again� NOTE: Yeah, a cheap Paper Mario reference. FAST: Axem Fast says, �We�re from the Village of the Skies to deliver a rather suspicious looking package to the King!� POLICEMAN #1: Oh, why didn�t you say so? I guess since your village is a friend of ours, we should let you go see the King without any security checks. Follow us! The two policemen escort the six across the town. WINDBREAKER: But what could be in the suspicious looking package? I hope its food. It�s food, right? PEACE: (thinking) Yup, I�m the only SANE member of this group� TYPHOON: Hey, where�d Strife go? They look around and find him following ant trails. STRIFE: Take me to your leader! MWAHAHA! EVERYONE ELSE BUT FAST: � FAST: Axem Fast says, ��� -------------------------------------------------- Back at the Village of the Skies� Jamey sits in his office, watching the party of six through a Magical Seeing Stone. JAMEY: Who cares if this doesn�t exist, NOW IT DOES! MWAHAHA! He lets out nearly ten minutes of evil laughter. JAMEY: Anyway, they better deliver that suspicious looking package quickly! -------------------------------------------------- Inside the palace� http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/Z3-hy.mid The King of the Village of the Guardians, Axem Rocky (I hope this isn�t an Axem name. Hehehe�), eagerly awaits on his throne. ROCKY: I am eagerly awaiting on my throne. Our camera switches to outside the palace gates where we find our heroes (Or are they?) having problems with security checks. MERCENARY: I thought we weren�t going through these� SECURITY SQUAD: Yeah well, we aren�t that dumb. So, what�s in the suspicious looking package? TYPHOON: We don�t know. Heck, it could even be some sort of bomb that could destroy this whole kingdom! Typhoon lets out an evil laughter. SECURITY SQUAD: Oh. Just go. I�m too lazy to inspect it. PEACE: (Whispering) So much for not being dumb� They enter the palace and make their way down a well-furnished hallway with pictures and sculptures of Axem Rocky until they reach the throne room. There, we see the King with an Axem and two Jr. Koopas sitting next to him. The Axem looked completely made of metal. One of the Jr. Koopas was definitely female and made of blue diamond. The other didn�t look completely like a Jr. Koopa and had light green skin. ROCKY: Hello. I hear you have a suspicious looking package for me! FAST: Axem Fast says, �Yes we do!� Fast throws the package at Rocky�s face. It hits the King between the eyes. STRIFE: Uh oh. Even I know when we�re in trouble�Hey! A cheap rhyme! Rocky seems unhurt and the package falls on his lap. ROCKY: Yes, the Village of Guardians prides itself on high defenses and being rather passive. Anyway, I�ll open this a bit later. He turns his head to the Axem standing next to him. ROCKY: This is my son, Axem Titanium. From now on, you must address him as Prince Titanium because I say so. TITANIUM: I wish you would just stop treating me like a kid! ROCKY: SILENCE!...Is that better, my son? TITANIUM: NO! MERCENARY: Somehow we�re in the middle of a family affair� Peace�s left eye flashes white for a second at Titanium and� TITANIUM: But I guess I�m just being stubborn. I�ll just go outside� He leaves the room through a door nearby. The two Jr. Koopas follow him. PEACE: Thank me later� ROCKY: I have an idea! How about you five kids go play with Prince Titanium also? I�m sure he�ll like the company. TYPHOON: Yes, I�ll play with him all right� A thought bubble appears from Typhoon�s head. Inside, he pictures himself standing and top of Titanium�s dead body with his bloody sword. TYPHOON: Hehehe�MWAHAHA! BWAHAHA! ROCKY: (Ignoring the obviously evil laughter) Goodie! I hope you�ll have fun! He�s really a bright boy! WINDBREAKER: (thinking) Is it me, or do all top-ranking officials seem psycho� STOP MUSIC -------------------------------------------------- In the courtyard� Titanium and the two Jr. Koopas stand in the middle of the courtyard for some reason. TITANIUM: Sapphire! Fetch me my paintball guns! The blue diamond Jr. Koopa walked off to a nearby shed. SAPPHIRE: (Muttering) Yes, Prince DORK! TITANIUM: And Minjo! Get me the paintball masks! We�re going to play paintball tag! The light green Jr. Koopa walks off. MINJO: (Muttering) Why do I even serve this loony� TIANIUM: Good! I�ll just get a can of soda from one of my Axem Pockets that don�t exist� Titanium, being the only son of King Rocky, is rich enough to have two servants under his control, though his servants hate him� TITANIUM: FASTER, YOU TWO! Sapphire and Minjo start sprinting to their destinations and come back with the equipment. At that moment, the group of five walk into the courtyard. STRIFE: Yay! We�re going to have so much fun! TITANIUM: SILENCE, stupid one! Whoever said you can play with us?! TEAM OF FIVE: �Your dad? PEACE: (thinking) My left eye will go numb by the end of this mission� TITANIUM: Well too bad! I�m not letting you! Peace flashes her left eye at Titanium. TITANIUM: But you can stay and watch if you�d like. The five watch from the side as the other three play paintball tag, though Sapphire and Minjo both have broken paintball guns�and their masks don�t have any plastic in them. TITANIUM: HEHEHE! MERCENARY: And I thought his dad was a freak� TYPHOON: I think Titanium�s sanity is nearly equal to Fast�s� -------------------------------------------------- Hours later� Titanium is still shooting his servants with paintballs. TITANIUM: HEHEHE! STRIFE: No fair�I wanna play�But he�s royalty�I guess I�m not GOOD ENOUGH for his presence or something. WINDBREAKER: Yeah, and we�ll never be�Mostly because he�s richer than us. Darn richers� -------------------------------------------------- Back in the Throne Room� ROCKY: I think now would be a good time to open that suspicious looking package. FAST: Axem Fast is eager to see what�s inside� King Rocky opens the package SLOWLY just to build more suspense. ROCKY: Ah, forget that. I�ll just open it fast! He puts the package on the floor and chops it open with his axe. -------------------------------------------------- Back in the courtyard� PEACE: I wonder if we can go yet. KABLOOIE! EVERYONE: ? An explosion blares from the Throne Room. The force of it blows the eight in the courtyard off the castle grounds. THOSE EIGHT AXEMS AND JR KOOPAS: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! MERCENARY: I think I copyrighted that� http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sony/ps1/ff9-footsteps.mid They land outside the entrance of the decimated castle. Titanium slowly gets up and looks at the wreckage. TITANIUM: Whoa! What an exciting day!...Hey, wait a second�MY DAD WAS IN THERE! PEACE: And wasn�t Fast inside there too?� STRIFE: Uh oh� The eight walk into the Throne Room wreckage and find the bodies of Fast and King Rocky. FAST: � WINDBREAKER: Um, Fast? FAST: � PEACE: Could he be�dead? FAST: � TYPHOON: I think he is� (Real Thoughts) OH YEAH! SCORE! FAST: � MERCENARY: This means�we were sent here to destroy the alliance between this village and ours. We were simply pawns for destruction today� -------------------------------------------------- Back at Jamey�s office� JAMEY: What kind of idiot opens a suspicious looking package with an axe?! Anyway, looks like they�ve completed their mission! The Village of Guardians will soon fall, and only three more villages stand in our way! He lets out some more evil laughter. JAMEY: Too bad I killed Fast in the process though. Oh well. I never liked him anyway! -------------------------------------------------- Back at the castle ruins� TITANIUM: Daddy? DADDY?! He walks up to King Rocky�s dead body. ROCKY: � TITANIUM: Come on, wake up�I never really wanted you to die� SAPPHIRE and MINJO: (thinking) I did. TITANIUM: I�can�t believe this is happening� He turns to the group of five. TITANIUM: And to think�YOU FIVE ARE THE ONES TO BLAME! He shoots a look to his two servants. TITANIUM: Sapphire! Minjo! We shall fight against these five for the sake of this village! SAPPHIRE: (Muttering) Darn. Wait, I get to kill people� MINJO: (Muttering) This beats the paintball torture� STRIFE: I must say, we might be running into a routine plotline. But then again, who cares? I certainly don�t! TYPHOON: Heh, this works out OK with me� Typhoon draws his sword. TYPHOON: Finally, someone to kill! HEHEHE! Titanium points his axe at the team of five. TITANIUM: Your village brought the destruction of ours�I will avenge now avenge us by taking your lives! PEACE: I never should�ve gotten up this morning� END OF EPISODE THREE NOTE: Woohoo! I killed Fast and some other character I just introduced! By the way, if you�re keeping track for some reason, yes, I�ve killed Fast TWICE in my stories!...But then again, he came back to life in ToH. 1 � then. :) |