I apologize for any spelling errors. No Microsoft Word. >_>
(SK&WS): The Spooky Door
The Next Great SK&WS Mini-Series Special Event
Episode II: It Hits The Flan
Mwahahah... new members means new SK&WS. Usually I'd wait to make sure they're going to stay active, but our new members seem to really like this place, so I'll take a chance and include them now. Besides -- perfect timing, storyline wise.
A whole host of new SK&WS characters will be avaliable soon, but this chapter is more of a set up and a continuation of the first... the actual introductions will start in the next chapter. Of course, I'm letting AGOI handle Avenger since he's already started that storyline!
That said: Enjoy one and all! :3
"NO!" Sama yelled as he looked out the window. The K-Tower, home of the crime-fighting duo (as well as Mojohanna, Zim and Gir) was now a pile of smoldering ruins. It looked like the mysterious villain who had somehow aquired the Baker's Magical Oven Mitt had gotten there and burnt it down -- but surely, Kimi couldn't have been consumed by the flames? It was impossible.
"Hmm... as a guy who usually loves fire, this makes me a little uneasy." HA admitted, watching the K Tower burning. It looked pretty bad, and as a ploom of black smoke rose into the sky, it only made them feel worse. An uneasy tension fell over the room, and everyone looked worried.
"I can't... I can't sense anything." Sama said, looking over towards Crystal Rose. She had been his teacher in the ways of the Flan-I, and he hoped that she could solve the mystery of why he couldn't sense a thing; be it good or bad.
"... Neither can I." Crystal admitted, lowering her gaze and shaking her head. It was strange, but it was almost as if a veil had been placed, blocking her senses completely. She was not the only one. Tazzy and HA both had disappointed and worried looks that gave away the clear cut fact: they couldn't sense anything either. Whatever had happened, it was bad.
"We can't sit around!" Sama said, jumping up. "We have to get there -- and fast!"
"FAST, you say?" HA seemed to liven up a little. "Okay! We'll split up! Girls, you go the traditional way... Sama, follow me! This is the perfect time to test out my new hoverbike!"
Sama felt a single drop of sweat roll down the back of his neck. Still, with the possibility that KImi was in immediate danger, he couldn't decline the idea. Besides, HA was a master of making all sorts of inventions and weapons and vehicles; surely his new bike would work like a charm.
After a quick spring through the winding hallways of the temple, the two ended up at the garage. HA ran forward to the darkest corner of the room. With the ceiling light long since burnt out, a flickering lamp on his workbench provided the only source of light visible in that corner. Sama suddenly got a bad feeling, but he calmed down at the realization that HA was known for shadowy stuff like that.
"So... this, uh, bike... it's safe, yeah?" Sama asked hopefully.
"Who knows! Never got a chance to test it!" HA grinned as he revved up the engines. Sama felt some sweat run down the back of his neck and he made a whimpering noise. HA's hoverbike looked nothing like a motorcycle. It was completely round, and on either side was a second, much smaller round area. The main portion of the bike contained the seat HA would occupy, as well as the steering and weaponry controls. The smaller round sidecars -- one of which Sama would be in -- had fewer buttons, and much less room.
"Might want to buckle up," HA called over his shoulder. A second later, as Sama fumbled with the seat belt, HA clicked a button and the engines at the rear of the bike flashed to life. There was a low humming sound and suddenly the round bike shot straight up off the ground and sailed right out of the Temple's garage. It was moving at an incredible speed and Sama screamed as they narrowly avoided crashing into a building.
"Any sign of them?"
Three young men were standing on the corner of a busy intersection at the main street. From their attire, it was clear they weren't ordinary people. Each of them were wearing silver bands on their wrists, and there seemed to be a control panel of some kind on the bands. The three of them seemed to be up to something, which was not unusual for Teh City.
"No..." One of them said, shaking his head. "No sign of the girls or the travler."
"That's a problem." The third said, crossing his arms. "We don't want to be detected by this city's heroes."
"Why not?" The first asked, raising an eyebrow. "If we just explain . . ."
"No." The third said in a affirmative tone. "We can't risk it."
All of the sudden a round hoverbike sped by the side of the building, the gust of wind that blew by was moving so fast it blew the three men down to their knees. One of them turned his head to watch the bike as it sped away and he narrowed his eyes, watching as the two Flan-I sped towards the burning tower. As the three climbed back to their feet, they exchanged glances and knew it was too dangerous to stand around in the open.
"Let's make ourselves scare... we don't want to attract any unnessicary attention." The first man said, and with that the three quickly disappeared into the shadows.
It didn't take long for all of the Flan-I to arrive at the smoldering ruins of the K-Tower. Crystal and Tazzy had arrived before HA and Sama, and they seemed to have arrived in better shape. HA looked perfectly fine, and he seemed pleased with the way his hoverbike had preformed. Sama, however, was looking a little green. The four Flan-I charged forward towards the burning tower and as they approached the flames they began to die down.
"Kimi? Joha? Zim? Hello!?" Sama was calling out, looking for any sign of his friends. He ran forward into the wreckage, turning his head in every direction, desperate for some sign of them.
"Sama... is that you?"
Suddenly everyone in the vacinity froze. Joha's voice had just floated out of the ruins.
"Joha? Hey, where are you?" Tazzy called out, not seeing Joha in any of the directions around them.
"Sama... is... standing... on... me!" Joha's voice replied, and Sama sweatdropped and jumped back several feet. The large broken piece of metal he had been standing on shook and was thrown clear. Joha was beneath, covered in soot. She coughed a couple of times, and then turned to the Flan-I, all of whom seemed concerned.
"Bah! My computer is fried! I was spying on that hidden webcam I put in Roy's office! He was JUST talking to Havoc about some girl he likes, and then the whole tower burns down!" Joha, who was well known as Roy Mustang's biggest stalker, looked positively furious. "When I get my hands on whoever it is who started that fire I'll, I'll... oh, it's not even CLOSE to being legal, what I'll do to them!"
Crystal rubbed the back of her neck. "Do you know if Kimi is okay?"
"No, Kimi is most certainly not okay! I'm PISSED!" Not far away a pile of rubble was throw several hundred feet in the air. Kimi flew up from the rubble, also covered in soot -- the sleeves of her coat burnt and the ends of her hair singed.
"Kimi! You're alive!" Sama cheered. "I was so worried about the two of you! I mean, the explosion looked horrible! Was it some mysterious evil guy with an oven mitt?"
"No... the person who burnt down the tower... I know who it is." Kimi said, trying to shake the ash out of her hair.
"You do? Who?" Sama asked.
"YOU, YA MORON!" Kimi roared, clenching her fists. "I TOLD you I needed those cookies baked! But noooooooooooooo, you went to go play with your little friends, and Joha was spying on Mustang so I had to cook 'em myself!"
Crystal and Tazzy both sweatdropped and exchanged glances, Sama fell on his face, and HA looked like he was trying his hardest not to laugh.
"Kimi-chan, I... I mean, I didn't have a choice!" Sama rubbed the back of his neck. When her foot connected with his face, it was clear Kimi wasn't buying that excuse.
"Kimi, what did you do?" HA asked, apparently composing himself enough to keep a straight face.
"Well... I wanted my cookies to get baked, so, you know, the package said 350 degrees for fourteen minutes... well, fourteen minutes is thirteen-and-a-half longer than I wanted to wait, so I figured if I used my laser beam eyes on the oven they'd get cooked quicker."
There was a collective groan from everyone standing around her, and Kimi sweatdropped. "HEY! I wouldn't have had to do anything if my sidekick wasn't being called away by some jerk in a TV! Speaking of which, where IS that Spoon!? I'm-a kick his --"
"IF ANYONE SHOULD BE ANGRY," Spoony's voice suddenly echoed through the ruins. "IT'S THE GUY WHO JUST HAD HIS MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR TOWER BURN DOWN!"
Kimi sweatdropped again and slowly turned around to see Spoony standing behind her. He had apparently come in person, which was never a good sign. Standing next to him was Phazon, which caused Kimi to do a double take.
"Meh? Hey Spoony, why is the evilist villain I fight standing next to you?" Kimi asked.
"Long story, but the reader's digest version goes like this: I got attacked, I'm good now." Phazon shrugged his shoulders.
"Enough!" Spoony shook his head. "Kimi, this is SERIOUS! Not only is the K-Tower completely gone, but we're all wasting time while we should be looking for this villain! This guy was able to defeat Phazon without much effort --"
"Not to mention he stole all my evil," Phazon reminded them. "Whoever he is, he could use that to become more powerful." The former arch-villain was standing not far away, his sunglasses adjusted to the side and a peculiar half-grin on his face.
"Well, at least Kimi and Joha are safe." Crystal chimed in, trying to place peace keeper. "That's the most important thing, right?"
"Yeah!" Sama said loudly. Kimi and Spoony both just mumbled and muttered beneath their respective breathes.
"... Sorry to interrupt folks, but we've got another problem." HA said stepping forward. "Something's happening at the prison where we've got Rowen locked up!"
"What?" Kimi looked up suddenly, cracking her knuckles. "I told that guy not to cause trouble! First my house burns down, now Rowen's escaping, and I still don't have any cookies for tomorrow! Bah... obviously you Flan-I can't stop this, so I guess if I want to see the new movie, I gotta save the world first. Sama, let's go!"
The teenage superhero floated up and then backwards, looking at the group of her friends who were mingled around the ruins of her once great home. She shook her head and turned around, flying off in the direction of the prison. Sama sweatdropped and dashed off down the street, following her on foot.
Tazzy looked around the wreckage, her eyes glancing at the smoldering steel and burning remains of the K-Tower and she sighed a bit. "Well... at least this wasn't because of the bad guy."
"Yeah, but if we don't stop this guy with the mitt... the whole world's going to look like this soon." Phazon informed the group, which caused a collective pause.
"I told Kimi I wouldn't break out... but if someone else breaks IN, and I go through the front door, then I'm not breaking anything!" Rowen grinned as he ran down the hallway, making a mad dash for freedom.
Darth Rowen was in the hallway of Teh City Maximum Security Prison. It was here that he the worst of the worst were housed in-between escapes. It is a well known fact that in super hero stories, the bad guys ALWAYS escape. Rowen wasn't sure who started the commotion, but a few moments ago the wall had been blown open and prisoners started to run out. Their non-deserved freedom from jail suddenly given to them, every LASOOF agent and other criminal in town was pouring out of the hole in the wall like water from a broken bottle.
"Mwahahaha... I don't know who started this riot, but remind me to thank them!" Rowen growled as he neared the exit. Suddenly the inmates in front of him screamed as they burst into flames and had to run to a nearby water fountain to drench the flames. Rowen stopped in his tracks. He looked forward, expecting Roy Mustang and the local military police (a guess he formulated because of the fire), but instead he saw a mysterious stranger dressed in a black hood and cloak, with large blue ovenmitts on either hand.
"Hello Rowen," The stranger said, taking a step forward. "I've come for your darkness... hand it over to me!"
"Hmm... let's think about that... NO!" Rowen replied, suspiciously putting a hand behind his back. His flansaber was taken from him earlier, but he still had his natural abilities -- and they were quite scary. The figure stepped forward and raised his ovenmitt covered hands. The mitts began to glow, and Rowen quirked an eyebrow. He was a bit put-off by the light show, but it took much more than some glowing gloves to scare him.
"Your foolish lightning blade won't help you." The figure said, apparently wise to the attack Rowen was powered up behind his back.
"Do you honestly think I'm THAT predicatable? ... CHAOS CONTROL!" With a sparkle of sapphire light, Rowen vanished and reappeared right above the hooded stranger with the mitts. He brought his hand from behind his back and shouted: "CHIDORI!" and as he did he struck the figure in the head with his hand. The palm of his hand hissed and crackled as a blade of blue lightning was sent to cut through his assailant's head.
Rowen flipped away and landed on his feet, panting a bit. The 'Chaos Control' he had learned during the time the universe was destroyed and his classic Chidori attack were two of his best; but they drained a lot of his energy. Rowen looked back, expecting to see his foe on the ground.
Instead, he gasped.
The hooded figure was not on the ground. He was still standing in the same spot as before, not only was he unharmed; his clothing hadn't even been singed by the blast.
"What are you?" Rowen whispered. He was no fool -- far from it. Rowen had been a Flan-I. He was trained by many of the greatest warriors in the world. While his arrogance often blinded him in battle with Kimi and Sama, he could clearly see that his enemy was so far out of his skill class it was daunting.
"Darth Phazon lost to me a few hours ago," The hooded figure revealed. "You can survive this battle if you merely surrendor the darkness in your soul to me... but if not, I have no quams about killing you; Cojo."
Rowen narrowed his eyes. This weirdo knew a lot about him. Not only had he known about the Chidori, but he knew his birth name. Darth Rowen had not gone from outcast to LASOOF Leader because he was an idiot. No, Rowen was smart enough to know this was a battle he could not win. He needed an escape route.
"HEY YOU BUM!" A angry female voice yelled out. "I WARNED YOU ABOUT ESCAPING FROM JAIL, DIDN'T I!?"
Super Kimi came crashing through the roof, leaving a new hole in the building. Her arms were crossed in front of her chest and her hair blew behind her heroically, looking almost like a cape. A minute later, a panting Sama ran into the room and stood at her side, crossing his own arms and causing a classic hero pose to emerge.
"Perfect. Hey Kimi, thanks a lot!" Rowen grinned, and then he started to run down a side hallway. Kimi started forward, but the figure in the hood threw a fireball at her. The fireball hit and Kimi was knocked back; but she quickly made sure she wasn't ignited and then glared at the figure.
"Kimi!" Sama yelled, realizing what was going on. "That's the crazy guy who beat up Phazon! Master Rose and them all said that if we don't stop him the whole world's gonna burn like our living room!"
"MEH!" Kimi clenched her fist. "Fine, I'll do the hero thing and stop this loser -- you go after Rowen! I'm not missing my movie!"
Sama nodded and ran down the same hallway Rowen had escaped down, while Kimi turned to the hooded stranger.
"Don't know who you are or what you want; and I DON'T CARE! No evil monolougues, no villain laughing... just shut up and fight me so we can get this done!" Kimi really wanted to see that new movie, and she knew that would never happen with a crazy pyromaniac running around and torching the world.
"... Very well." The hooded figure ran forward at surprising speed and jumped right at Kimi. She countered with a kick that would have knocked him out the window; if he hadn't somehow moved out of the way at the last second. Instead of being kicked unconcious, the villain had ducked down and then done the impossible: he caught Kimi by the ankle.
"Buh?" Kimi realized that not only had she been dodged, but she had been caught. "Waitaminute, nobody ever -- Aaaaaaaaaah!"
Kimi was thrown into the wall in one swift motion and the villain swiftly moved back into the corner.
Rowen had ran through the hallway until he finally came to a large room; the cafeteria. The guards who saw him recognzied him and didn't dare try to stop him. Rowen walked up to the wall and started to charge up his powers. He was going to use another Chidori and turn the solid steel barrier in front of him into ash. Then he heard footsteps and turned around to see the brown-haired Sama, who had already drawn his green and blue flansabers.
"Sama... you've seen what I can do countless times... what makes you think you have a CHANCE?" Rowen asked with a sneer on his face.
"Simple logic: I'm the good guy." Sama shrugged his shoulders.
"Pfft! Good guy... don't make me laugh... there's nothing good about the Flan-I. None of you." Rowen growled.
"WE don't go around with aspirations of world domination and global conquest." Sama defended his order, holding his blades still at his side.
"Yeah... let me give you some advice; don't get too cozy with your little friends. They betrated me, they betrayed CHoW... you're next on the list." Rowen hissed, the memories bitter in his mind. "They'll hurt you, just like they did me."
Sama shook his head. "YOU'RE the traitor... The only times they ever hurt me are the occassional over-excited huggle or crazy invention of HA... but I happen to like huggles from Master Rose, and robots have only lit me on fire ONCE this month! You just use the Flan-I as an excuse to blame all your problems on."
"Actually right now I'm using it as a distraction while I prepare my attack." Rowen grinned. "And it worked, too-- CHIDORI!"
Rowen dashed forward and Sama brought up his sabers in front of him, making a 'X' right before him. Rowen's attack landed dead center between his two blades and there was a large crack of light and a hiss as sparks showered across the room. Sama was thrown back into a wall from the force of Rowen's attack, but he had managed to block the majority of it and wasn't killed.
The ninja looked at his hand and saw a few burns from the flansaber, but he was alright. He turned away from Sama and approached a guard, who was shivering and shaking. The guard quickly handed over the key to the cafeteria door in exchange for not being attacked, and Rowen headed for the door. He unlocked it and opened the door, but before he made his escape, he turned to Sama and grinned.
"I WON! HAH! ANOTHER VICTORY FOR ME!" Rowen seemed very pleased with the result and sprinted outside, slamming the door shut behind him as he made his escape.
Sama rubbed his aching head. "Oi... I'm going to get yelled at for this one."
Kimi had been thrown into the wall so hard she went right through. Her attacked grinned and then said: "You can't beat me, little girl."
The wall now had a body-shaped hole, but on the other side, Kimi stood up. Her fist was clenched shut, and she clutched it so tightly her knuckles began to turn white. The wind blew her hair behind her back and her entire body began to shake. Her eyes had narrowed in the most dangerous of ways, and she gritted her teeth together.
"I. Am. A. SUPERHERO! And now I'm MAD!"
Like a bullet from a gun, Kimi shot forward at such blinding speeds that her movement would have been missed by the blink of an eye. The cloaked figure was struck in the stomach by her fist, and behind the punch was more power than the turrent on a tank. Kimi did not want to work on her days off, and she really didn't like this punk treating her like a kid.
Kimi expected that she'd knocked him clear into the next time zone. However, when she opened her eyes, she found that she was still floating in the same place . . . and the figure had not budged an inch. Kimi gasped, clearly shocked and started to back up, but the figure grabbed her by the scruff of her neck with his magical oven mitt encased hands.
"Her Highness has no use for such a lowly and pathetic creature," The cloaked figure hissed. "You are one of those 'strong sense of justice' types... there is not enough darkness in your soul to be worth the aggravation! As such, you must be eliminated."
Kimi blasted the figure with her laser beam eyes, aiming at the arm he was holding her with. Although the lasers struck perfectly, there wasn't even the aroma of burnt clothing, and the figure didn't so much as flinch. It had not been since he long duel with Ronald McDonald that Kimi felt like she could actually lose a fight, but now the feeling had returned.
Still... she had one last trick up her sleeve. Kimi took a deep breathe, opened her mouth and then . . . she screamed.
Kimi's scream was not like a normal person's. She had super powers, and as such, her scream had the force of a sonic boom behind it. The super sonic soundwaves proved too much for the villainous stranger, and he dropped her like a sack of potatoes. The hooded figure stumbled backwards, shaking like he was made of jello, and then he collapsed against the wall and fell to his knees.
"... I failed you, my Queen." The figure cried out.
"So you did. You realize what will happen."
Kimi heard a female's voice and she looked around; but she was still the only girl in the room. She looked over at the hooded stranger, and suddenly she saw a shadow move on the wall with blinding speed. The hooded figure fell to the ground, and suddenly the hood and robe fell flat. All that remained was the clothing and a pool of a dark liquid that looked suspiciously like blood.
"Whoa..." Kimi was astonished.
"Kimi, you okay?" She looked up to see Sama standing at the hallway. He looked a bit worse for the ware, but not seriously injured. Kimi remained silent, wondering what was going on.
"Sama... I hate to say it, but I think I'm going to miss the movie." Kimi sighed.
:3
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It's 1:29 AM. Not good at coming up with things to say. XD