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| The Forgotten |
| Episode Twenty-Seven |
| AXEM H�0: Vas preusar, criados. Translation: Servants, go check. A pair of Koopas ran off to check the engine room. This still left the three explorers hopelessly outnumbered. AXEM INFERNO: You really are psycho, you know that? AXEM H�0: Blasphemy! You must die for that sin! MWUAHAHAHA! TARN: Inferno� AXEM INFERNO: What is it already? TARN (whispering): In three seconds, both you and Over Flame should step back about three steps. I think we can make it out of here, but I might not make it with you guys. AXEM H�0: Guards, quickly! The weak one plans something. Go! Tarn showed a grimace at being called �the weak one�. TARN: Now! As Inferno and Over Flame stepped backwards like he had told them to, he dived in a differnet direction. They fell into a big hole. AXEM OVER FLAME: Ahh! Tarn hit a button on the console, and light immediately pulsed. He started to dive into the hole as well. AXEM H�0: No! The Koopas fired off their Kipels, but luckily they only hit the console. Tarn fired off both of his Kipels, and KO�d H�0. The Rings came up and the three were whisked back to the surface. They heard one of the Koopas speak as they were transported. KOOPA: Wha? This doesn�t make sense. The Great Wet One was defeated. It ca- Back on the planet�s surface, the three spread into a circle around the Rings� circular hole. They did this in case some of the Koopas came down to fight them. NOTE: They were in the Rings room during the entire conversation with H�0. Only Tarn noticed this, but no one wanted to listen to him. AXEM OVER FLAME: So, how long till the big bang? TARN: I don�t know. It might now even happen. AXEM INFERNO: WHAT? TARN: If those technicians get there in time, they can fix it. AXEM INFERNO: And if they don�t? TARN: Sometime within 30 of your minutes. AXEM OVER FLAME: �Our� minutes? Dude, they are everyone�s minutes. TARN: Not according to Aquadorian time, or Pyrodorian time for that matter. AXEM OVER FLAME: You think you�re so big cause you�re all right and stuff� ELAPSE TIME: 2 minutes later: TARN: I got an idea! Let�s work on �99 bottles� some more! AXEM OVER FLAME: Ok! AXEM INFERNO: Please, no! AXEM OVER FLAME: Well, if you insist� How about �9,999,999,999 bottles�? TARN: Intriguing� ELAPSE TIME: Approximately twenty minutes later: AXEM OVER FLAME: 1,546,572,666 bottles of root beer. Take one down, pass it around, 1,546,572,665 bottles of root beer on the wall. Take it away, Tarn! Inferno has his hands over his ears. TARN: 1,546,572,665 bottles of root beer on the wall. 1,546,572,665 bottles of root beer. Take one down pa- Suddenly a large boom resounded throughout the room. They ran outside and looked up in the sky. There was a large fireball in the sky, directly above the shrine. AXEM INFERNO: Is that�? TARN: One way to check� He walked back in and attempted to make the Rings function. Nothing happened. TARN: The ship is now longer in a geo-synchronous orbit above the shrine. AXEM OVER FLAME: Huh? AXEM INFERNO: The ship isn�t above the shrine anymore. AXEM OVER FLAME: Ahh� So we can go home? AXEM INFERNO: Yup. TARN: Shouldn�t we tell this people that they are free now? AXEM INFERNO: Yeah, good point. ELAPSE TIME AND PLACE: Back on Pyrodor, some time later: The three travelers had just come back through the Arch. There were a few guards, but it was now night, so the JK commander wasn�t there. Over Flame sighs. AXEM OVER FLAME: It feels good to be home. AXEM INFERNO: Yeah. It also feels good to be someplace warm. Suddenly, a figure started to run up to them from the distance. AXEM INFERNO: Who is that? TARN: It looks like Jr. Koopa Crimson. JK CRIMSON: We�ve got an important message for you. AXEM OVER FLAME: What is it, commander? Did something happen to the defenses while we were gone? JK CRIMSON: You better come. They walked into a small building located on the ruins themselves. There were several computers and one of the screens was on. It had an audio/visual recording playing again and again. TARN: That�s Axem Rain! It was he. The message was a distress signal. AXEM RAIN (from the recording): You must help us. We need you assistance immediately. We can only summon you, for we cannot reach the Arch. No other planets are within range of our telecommunication capabilities. I don�t have enough time to explain, but you must come here, with as much support as you can muster, as soon as possible. We are being a- Who are you? Oh no! They�ve reached me alre- AHH! He was suddenly electrocuted and feel forward. A grunt was heard and the screen went black. The message started to play again. AXEM INFERNO: We must help him. TARN: I want to as well, after all, Aquador is my birthplace, but we don�t even know what�s going on. I think it�s too big of a risk. AXEM INFERNO: Let�s put it to a vote. The vote was a tie, so they decided to draw straws between the two choices. Tarn lost the game (although the straw process interested him). AXEM INFERNO: That settles it. We�re going. Oh, Tarn, by the way: HA! ELAPSE TIME AND PLACE: About one of �our� hours later, at the Aquadorian Arch: The sun was shinning, there were no clouds, and it was a beautiful day. So beautiful, in fact, that it was perfect� or so it seemed. Inferno and the others (including about half the Koopas, and JK Crimson, from Pyrodor) stepped through, onto the island paradise. NOTE: The Arch on Aquador happened to be on the half of the planet that was facing the sun. The Pyrodorian Arch was not. That�s why they went from night to day. VOICE: Welcome to Aquador. Lots have changed since you were here last. They all spun to face the speaker, but it was an Aquadorian Toad. TOAD: I managed to slip around the patrols by swimming� AXEM OVER FLAME: Patrols? TOAD: I�ve got to explain a lot. We�ve got to hide while I do. They will check back on the Arch at any moment. JK CRIMSON: �They� as in whom? TOAD: �They� as in the one group of people we least want to come here: the people of Iondross. Tarn, JK Crimson, and the Koopas gasped. AXEM INFERNO: Iondross? What�s that? End of Episode 27 |