Room 4 Mission 9

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

DJ makes a few good swipes with the Gsword about average neck level then trys a jackie chan into a somewhat near by tree. "Seen enough of those movies to know better."
He then checks the controller to find Koiyuki.

[Shad²]

To his surprise Tjad heard a few cracks when he fell down the hole. Was his suit broken? That couldn't have been. He hadn't taken that many blows and it wasn't oozing. Then it hit him. The suit didn't recognize him anymore. He just was a regular human being again. It was then Tjad noticed Tomo and Yomi and the 'don't' button. He recognized it immediately. It was the same button from his first mission. But would it also have same effect. He tried to stand up but the pain stopped him.

''Ahh Shit.''

He lied down flat. Then he saw a big bright flash. It was the snail. It just incinerated Maya in one blast. Tjad knew they were in big trouble. They needed too press that button. He tried to yell to the girls to press the button but for some reason he couldn't get himself to shout.

''Come on, Tjad. You've been in worse pain than this. Stand up dammit''

Tjad slowly began to move towards the 'don't' button. He pressed the button and fell to the ground.

''We gotta get...outta...here...fast''

[®onnie ®ude]

"We might as well stay here and lookout for each other, seeing that I'm out of commission you guys will have to do a majority of the fighting." After he said this Jpimpin looked at Tori. "If GmR were still here I bet he would be proud of you."

All she did was nod, she didn't need to think anymore that GmR was dead. She had to think positively. He was still alive!

Just then she felt the ground trimmer and a large snail begin to appear not to far away. It was huge, and seemed crazy to even try to take on alone.

That didn't stop Shadow who could be seen running towards the area...and she followed. She felt as if she atleast owed her something after leaving her to help the others.

When she caught up she climbed up the tree with a little trouble and sat down next to Shadow with a serious expression,"Sorry about bailing on you once, but one of the guy's suites aren't working anymore...are you alright?"

She looked for a moment at Shadow to check for wounds before taking her attention back to the snail. "Any idea how to beat this...thing?"

[Defectron]

When Tjad pressed the button Tomo looked like cristmas was cancelled and Yomi looked worried.

"B...but I wanted to press it!" Tomo said in defeat, all her life she had wanted to press a button that looked like that. Several jets of steam were emitted from the black box as it split in half, inside the box, in much the same way as gantz was suspended inside his ball was the creature that had been displayed on the black ball. The three metallic slots on its fore head flowed green as it slowly began to move.

"Wow, his nose is even bigger in real life!" Tomo said in awe of its huge nose, she wanted to go over and touch it but Yomi sensing her freinds foolhardy impulses had already grabbed her hands to hold her back.

Meanwhile

"It's ok, I'm used to getting impaled by swords by now." All her sword wounds were gone.

"Any idea how to beat that thing?" Tori asked

"Hmmmm..." Shadows first idea was to try to assimalate it, but she wasn't entirely comfortable with that. What would happen if she tried to assimalate that thing? She closed her eyes and began scanning it with her sensors "That things a conglomeration of various different chimeras, but I can feel at its core something is still intact, probably its a creature simialer to the one I assimalated in the woods earlier. If we can get to it, maybe we can stop the snail."

Several jets of steam were emitted from its shell as the snail fired off several more lightning bolts frying more of the zombies. "The easiest way inside would be through one of those holes, but there's so much heat coming off that thing I'm not sure how long a persons gantz suit would hold out." Shadows face turned a light shade of green as she thought of something. Since Shadow had greenish colored blood this was the color her face turned if she blushed.

"But I know a way to add on some extra protection, hold on a second, I just need to make a few adjustments and move some things around." One of the assimalated weapons in Shadows body was the armor of the beast, this is what gave her the ability to shoot torrents of superheated gas. But there was one thing it also gave her the ability to do that she'd never tried before. Her back split open, there was a hollowed out space past her spinal cord which was now visible. "One of you get inside, it'll be a little cramped in here but you'll be able to use me like battle armor for extra protection, your force fields power will be added on to my own."

Chiyo looked horrified "What happened to all your internal organs?"

"I compacted them and moved them into my arms, legs, boobs and head, gotta say it's kinda weird having my lungs inside of my head."

"But what about your brain?" Chiyo asked looking worried

"My brains are smaller then the tip of your finger, and most of them arent in my head." Chiyo looked a little weirded out by this. "When you get in just crouch your body into a ball position, you'll be able to intereface with me and control me like your own body from the inside. So any volunteers?"

"I'll do it!" Jpimpin said

"Hell no! I mean...uhhh, no you should stay here and watch your uhh...girlfreind yeah...that's it."

Shadow looked at the three girls, Shadow wouldnt mind having Sakaki get inside her, she was pretty hot, but too much of a softie, Chiyo was much too young. She looked at Tori "You look like a real winner, hows about you do it?" Shadow asked.

D.J's location

D.J cut down several zombies, but most of the zombies didn't even seem interested in him anymore, all of them were converging on the pit in an attempt to subdue the snail. The snails neck began to expand again as it fired a second gigantic ball of plasma fire into the remaining zombies incinerating them and making a third pit.

Asuka, Osaka, Kaorin and Kagura had run into the woods and were watching the zombies get blown away.

"That's definatly not a bug..." Osaka said in awe.

"Damn it! Were just hiding here! And from a stupid snail! No I won't lose to a snail!" Kagura said aiming at its head.

"Kagura wait!" Asuka began to say right as she fired.

Kaguras shot hit the side of the huge beasts face making a pock mark. It growled turning in their direction, the tendrils coming out of its head began to spark as it rained lightning bolts down on the area Kaguras shot had come from blasting through trees and setting the woods on fire. The giant snail slowly began to hover away from the pit heading to the area that the Asuka and the other girls were in.

By the lake

"I'm scared!" Old man pika hugged Isaacs leg

"I'm not comfartable with this."

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

DJ finds Koiyuki and throws her on his back he then climbs into a large tree and sits there with Koiyuki.

"lets both try to kill that snail thing if we both get it maybe the points will be devided."
DJ then fires one shot from the X-rifle at the weapon pod on the alien.

[Shad²]

Tjad reached for the black ball only to remember he didn't have it anymore.

''Shit. Shit Shit. Ey you two get to the older girl I gave the black ball to. Go!!!! DAMMIT!!''

Tjad sat upright and gave a forced smile to the alien.

''So, where ya from?'' Hoping it wouldn't be lethal Tjad thought it'd be a good idea to start a conversation even though he knew better.

[®onnie ®ude]

All this was freaking Tori out but she didn't let her discomfort show on her face. She had long ago dissmissed this as being a dream but, this was stretching the limits of being unbelivable...this was becoming impossible.

She noticed shadow looked at her. "You look like a real winner, hows about you do it?"

"M-me?" She began pointing to herself as if she wasn't so sure this was a good idea.

She looked at the others, she could see why not Chiyo...but Sakaki was much more athletic and the ninja...he was a ninja after all. Why her?

She shook these thoughts from her head and focused on what was more important. Help was needed and she was able to help, so she would.

She gave a slight nod and approached shadow nervously preparing to do what Shadow instructed. "Tell me if it hurts ok?" She didn't think it would hurt but realism would say otherwise.

[Defectron]

When D.J and Koiyuki began to fire on the snail it turned its attention from attacking the girls in the woods which were now blazing wildly despite the rain. As it turned in their direction the tendrils that had just launched a blazing attack at the others began to spark again as it generated more lightning bolts.

"Oh shit it's mad now!" D.J and Koi8yuki both jumped out of the tree as dozens of lightning bolts began raining down on the area.

There wasa crackle and a loud bang of thunder as the entire area was engulfed in lightning bolts, D.J fell to the ground, he felt Koiyuki fall on top of him. When D.J opened his eyes he was still alive , but the entire area was blazing. But through it all he could smell the stench of burnt hair, Koiyuki was still lying on top of him, she was badly burnt.

"No!" D.J got her off of him, she'd taken a hit from one of those lightning bolts to save him and had been completely fried. "NOOOOOOOOO!!!" D.J screamed.

Meanwhile

Tomo and Yomi left climbing up the wall to go find Asuka. More steam hissed from the box, suddenly the three slots on the creatures fore head glowed bright green, the box was blasted apart, the two halves flying tot he opposite ends of the pit. Slowly it stood up, it wasn't very big or intimidating but Tjad could tell that this was no ordinary creature.

"So where you from?" Tjad asked as it turned to him. It slowly walked towards him and then knelt down next to him touching his face. Its flesh seemed to ripple as it morphed into an exact duplicate of Tjad, the only difference being that it still had those three slots on its head.

"Where are they?" it asked in Tjads voice.

"Who?" It grabbed Tjad by the neck lifting him into the air.

"Those noisy obnoxious creatures that have kept me imprisoned here for such a long time. They were here until a short time ago. Tell me where they are or I'll remove your head."

Toris location

Tori slowly began to climb inside "Ahhh...your going to fast...unnnghh..ahhh....sh..shit...unnnghhh..."
Once Tori got behind Shadows spinal cord she crouched into a balled up position. As the opening in Shadows back closed Tori blacked out.

A moment later Toris eyes opened, she was standing outside, howed she get out here. "Whats going on?" no one answered, everyone just looked weirded out and confused suddenly she noticed that she wasn't wearing any clothes. "EEEAAAK! Don't look!" She covered herself with her hands as much as she could hiding behind a tree.

"Hey, stop that your making me look stupid." she heard shadows voice in her head.

"Sh..shadow? What's going on? Why am I naked?"

"That's not your body, that's me, remember I put you in the drivers seat. Our force field is now three times that of a regular gantz suit, that should be enough to protect us when we go inside that thing."

"B-but I can't go in there naked!"

"And you won't you still have your clothes on. Now lets go!" Suddenly shadows dorsal fins emerged from her back.

"What are you doing? That feels weird!" Tori complained, she touched the dorsal fins, they were starting to get pretty hot.

"We'll get there faster this way. You don't know how to use this ability yet , so I'll tell you, right now my dorsal fins are charging up and oxygens being taken out of the air around us, all that will be expelled in a super heated rocket blast from my feet which will propell us into the air. Whenever your ready, just think "fire" and it'll happen. Try to aim for the top of that things shell."

[®onnie ®ude]

When Tori opened her eyes she felt dizzy at first not being used to this new body of hers."Whats going on?" Why wouldn't anyone answer. She looked at everyone staring weirded out and confused at her until she noticed she was naked. Being a virgin she wasn't to kean on showing her body to others. "EEEAAAK! Don't look!" She covered herself with her hands as much as she could hiding behind a tree. Her head peaked out blushing a lot more greener than Shadow was doing before.

That pervert was out there...he saw her...>.< (ooc: lol i had to add the face)

"Hey, stop that your making me look stupid."she heard Shadow's voice in her head.

This was all to weird to sort out at once...

"Sh..shadow? What's going on? Why am I naked?" She asked as she tugged on a boob...they were a bit bigger than her own.

"That's not your body, that's me, remember I put you in the drivers seat. Our force field is now three times that of a regular gantz suit, that should be enough to protect us when we go inside that thing."

Felling a bit guilty she let go of the boob that obviously wasn't her own."B-but I can't go in there naked!"

"And you won't you still have your clothes on. Now lets go!" Suddenly she felt dorsal fins emerged from her back.

"What are you doing? That feels weird!" Tori complained, she touched the dorsal fins, they were starting to get pretty hot.

"We'll get there faster this way. You don't know how to use this ability yet , so I'll tell you, right now my dorsal fins are charging up and oxygens being taken out of the air around us, all that will be expelled in a super heated rocket blast from my feet which will propell us into the air. Whenever your ready, just think "fire" and it'll happen. Try to aim for the top of that things shell."

She nodded with one hand still cover her chest not being able to help that she needed some dignity. "I'll try..."

She tried to calm herself and focus on that one word and the top of the shell...

'Fire...FIRE!' She thought to herself.

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

DJ runs off to avoid more attacks while carrying Koiyuki "Come on girl stay awake PLEASE dont die on me!"

DJ continues to hold onto Koiyuki trying to keep her contious.

[Shad²]

It was when the alien changed Tjad recognized the three slots.''So that's how they work'' He thought. But before he could do anything else the alien grabbed him

"Where are they?" it asked in Tjads voice.

"Who?" It grabbed Tjad by the neck lifting him into the air.

"Those noisy obnoxious creatures that have kept me imprisoned here for such a long time. They were here until a short time ago. Tell me where they are or I'll remove your head."

It probably meant the chimeras but who knew what would happen if he was finished with them. Would it go after the gantzers? Or attack innocent people? No that was too much of a risk. He'd just have to buy more time.

''You checked, Canada?'' Tjad said while raising his X-Rifle at the creature's arm. He would try to shoot the arm and while the delay was in progress he'd propel himself away from the alien by kicked it's chest.

[Defectron]

Tjad waited but its arm didn't explode.

"Hmmmpphh...if you won't provide the information I requested from you, I have no use for you. Here I'll give you back the energy I collected from that gun shot of yours." Suddenly Tjad felt a jolt in his neck and then the creature released him turning away.

"Wait...ackkk!" Tjad neck was expanding as if it had been shot by an X-rifle. No after all he had been through, after how far he'd come it was all going to end here! Tjads neck exploded, his severed head tumbled into the corner.


Above the pits surface


Shadow and Tori launched into the air as Shadows rocket boosters fired off "EEEEAAAAAA!!!" Tori screamed as they shot into the air with incredible speed. As they soared above the snail Shadows boosters stopped.

"What just happened?"

"These only give me limited flight ability, knowing how to fall the right way is just as impotant.

"This is no way to travel!"

"Really? I think it's lots of fun myself." They both plummeted downwards smacking againts the snails shell. Tori began to slip but managed to grab ontot he side, Shadows claws dung into its armored shell. She pulled herself up and looked at the spout that was spewing out a cloud of steam. "That's where we want to go." Shadows skin began to form armor over it the same color as the gantz sword.

"Hey what are you doing? It fells weird when you do stuff like that!"

"I don't want to accidently take in any cells from this thing. If I come in prolonged contact with any life form I automatically assimalate its dna, but this thing is a composite of hundreds, maybe even thousands of creatures, taking in that amount of data all at once may be too much for me to handle."

"Wait does that mean your also taking in my dna?"

"Yes."

"I don't think I like the idea of that." Tori didn't want someone who looked like her running around naked. The two of them walked over tot he hole, Tori crouched down entering it even as the steam was pouring out.

"Don't worry, your just a weakling human, the majority of your dna will most likely be judged obsolete, just like when I was merged with Dokuko. This is why, for the most part I'm not at all human."

"But you look human, at least when your not transformed."

"That's for an entirely different reason." A view screen showing their location inside the snail came up in front of her face. "This appears to be a cooling vent for this aliens power source, if we can make it past that we'll reach a tunnel that will take us to this things control center, that's where we'll find what were looking for." Even with the added protection they could both feel the imense heat being given off from the giant chimeras power source, if either of them had gone in indevidually, they would not have made it by nearly as easy.

As they walked further away the heat became less noticible, soon they would be by the tunnel. "This is it..." Shadow began to say, but before they could do anything else something came out of the wall at the tunnels cross section. It looked almost like the demon dog from hellraiser, its body was canine but it didnt seem to have furr or skin. It growled as several more deformed creatures began to come out of the beasts flesh.

"What are those?"

"Defense system maybe? If we fight them hand to hand there's a small chance I'll take in some of their cells which could be a problem. Use my fire weapon again, but this time focus on the hands instead of the feet, I don't want to smash intot he ceiling."

In the forest

Asuka breathed a sigh of relief, from the look of it that thing had stopped pursuing them, it was now chasing something else through the woods. "I wonder what happened back at the pit?"

D.J's location

D.J continued running through the woods holding Koiyuki, occasionally a lightning bolt would come down behind him serving as a reminder that the huge thing was still on his tail. "Wake up! Don't leave me!" he shouted, but it was no use, there was no response even though D.J refused to accept it.

[Shad²]

Just before Tjad's head exploded.

Tjad suddenly felt the pain go away. He wasn't in the pit anymore. He was in the field of flowers from his dream again. But this time he wasn't relaxed leaning against a tree. Somehow he didn't recognize it anymore and was looking around anxiously. The person from his dream was also there. But now he could see her clearly. It was his sister!

''Sis?''

''Yep'' She said smiling widely.

''Where is this?''

She didn't answer. All she did was smile at him. Suddenly two more figures appeared. It was his mother and father.

''Long time no see'' His father said while his mother smiled.

Tjad didn't know what to think or feel. He'd been tangled up in all those fights and never thought about them. Even when he heard they'd died he couldn't shed a single tear. But now that he could see them he couldn't help but cry from joy. Tjad ran to them and put his arms around his family.

''haha, I'm such a pussy.'' He said while tears ran from his eyes.

''Good to see you again'' Tjad heard a female voice say. At the same time he could feel a arm rest on his shoulders. He didn't have to look around to see who it was. He wiped the last tears from his eyes and smiled

''Good to see you too'' He said looking on the field of flowers.

''Let's go'' She whispered in his ears.

Tjad didn't know where she meant but something told him it was alright. He didn't have to worry. All was well. All this time he was alone. But now he was with his family again. He wasn't alone anymore. As they began walking Tjad looked back.

''But...'' He could see the battlefield where everyone was fighting desperately for their lives. Wasn't that where his path lay? Wasn't there where he vowed to be? In the midst of battle saving lives? Living in solitude? Before he could do anything, else a bright light came down on him and everything went white. For a second he felt light as a feather. As if he could float on air. Then everything went black. No flowers, no family, no battle, no pain, no solitude; Nothing!

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori nodded trying to swallow her fear. She took a fight stance to the best of her abilities. She wished she had her X-Rifle right about now.

Aiming her hands at the canines she began to think of rapid fire coming from her hands. While she did so she hoped none came from her legs...she was a bit embarressed that there was a chance of that happening.

"They seem to keep coming...maybe something is generating them?"

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

With Koiyuki over his shoulder, DJ pops out his X-pistol and begins to fire full powered shots into the ground to act as "landmines" for the snail creature as it approaches from behind.

DJ then "POGOs" himself from tree to tree untill he feels satisfied that the creature cant find him. DJ then puts the X-pistol away and gets his Y-gun ready.

He doesnt make a move unless hes in danger, and readies the Y-gun for a clean lock on the snail. And just lies in wait silent,steady and full of regret.

Still distraught by the death of Koiyuki DJ takes a moment to regain his bearings and think.
A thought pops into his head and he clips the "modified" Ion gadget to the Y-gun snare cables "This one is for you."

[Defectron]

"Those are chimeras that were absorbed into this thing, I think the aliens trying to seperate them to attack us, its not doing a very good job which is why they look all fucked up. That'll work good for us, it means they won't be as strong."

Tori aimed her hands foreward "Fire!" Two huge blasts of white fire shot out almost causing her to lose her balance.

"Try not to let so much out at once, were not trying to fly this time." The torrents of white fire annihalated all the chimeras in their pathway. The flesh that made up the walls had also been cauterized so new chimeras werent able to come out. "Further ahead we might run into more of them. If we do you should use these to kill anymore we might find."

Tori suddenly felt a stinging pain come from her hands, as long curving bony blades shot out from between her knuckles, they were smaller versions of the disruptor blades Gmrs battle form had used. As they walked down the tunnel they could hear the same music from inside the pit was playing at the end of the tunnel. They could amost see what was there now, but before they could get there dozens more chimeras began to come out of the walls, it wasnt even bothering to fully seperate them anymore, they were just masses of flesh, claws and fangs that were emerging, the entrance to the last room also began to close. "Somethings happening, the snail is powering up that giant attack again! It's going to fire it on something outside."

Outside

The snail continued to incinerate the forest searching for D.J But then before a single shot could even be fired it turned its attention to something that was behind it. The snail turned around completely, no one had shot at it, but something behind it had grabbed its attention. What appeared to be Tjad was walking towards it.

"ROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAR!" The snail bellowed opening its jaws. Tjad seemed to ignore that. It's tendrils all began to glow as dozens of lightning bolts began to rain down on him. The entire area arround his body was scorched to the ground, Tjad seemed to pause for a moment and raised one hand catching a few of the bolts. Eventually the attack subsided, he wasn't even burnt by it.

Next the snails neck began to expand and glow, it was about to use the same attack it had used against Maya. As it opened its mouth a huge white fireball shot out engulfing Tjad and everything around him, the ball vaporized the ground underneath him forming another giant pit. The snail waited a moment to see what had happened.

Tjad seemed to float out of the pit and landed, he looked a little scuffed up but ok. "So that's where youve been hiding. If you think that'll save you, your in for a suprise." he held out one hand and what appeared to be a strange orginally formed baseball bat seemed to grow out of it.

As the snail was getting ready to attack again D.J fired his Y-gun snagging one of the tendrils on the snails head.

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

DJ holds in the teleport trigger as he fires several more "bolas" at it and then leaps from the tree and runs to a totaly different location.

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori wasn't much of a fighter but she sure was a fan of it. She use to always try new moves on GmR, however he was doomed because of his blindness. These aliens however could see her perfectly.

"Shadow...I don't know about this..."

Her fears and doubts ceased to exist as shadow spoke,"Somethings happening, the snail is powering up that giant attack again! It's going to fire it on something outside."

She didn't have time to be afraid, she had to be strong our the others' lives were in danger. "Haa!"

She screamed as she ran into the hordes of canines trying her best to get use to the new weaponry. She blocked with her left and slashed with her right as if she were some sort of boxer.

"I'd be enjoying myself if I had some clothes on..." She joked out of breathe.

[Defectron]

"Being nakeds not so bad, Motoko Kusanagi was naked in ghost in the shell and she still kicked lots of ass." The chimeras guarding the room seemed to be weaker, one of them shot missiles but the control didnt even seem to work as the missiles shot past them. Tori swung her arms, the claws glowed a sickly green glow as they melted through several chimeras.

"Ghost in the shell? Don't tell me your naked because you watched some anime and thought it was a good idea...."

"No, the reason why I'm naked is because if I ever wore clothes they would be destroyed everytime I transformed into my battle form. It's too much of a hassle for someone as lazy as me. I don't get how the incredible hulk does it, I mean when he transforms his pants should get ripped apart because he's all big and stuff, maybe he wears rubber pants...I don't think I want to wear rubber pants."

"Eeeeaak!" one of the chimeras had tried to bite her while Tori was distracted by what Shadow said. Tori held up her hands defensivly causing the chimera to automatically melt against her claws. The last of the chimeras was now dead.

"What were looking for is behind this wall, open it with my claws." Tori melted the wall open as they stepped inside. There was a huge pulsing brain in the middle of the room. "That's it, the alien should be inside there."

Suddenly the walls began to bulge as a giant snake like creature began to form between them and the brain. But before they could try to attack, the room was suddenly rocked by a shockwave knocking Tori off her feet.

Outside:

The reason why the chimeras were doing such a bad job defending was because of outside distractions. When D.J fired his Y-gun the tendrils that the cables had lashed around began to teleport, but before they could get to the main mass of the snail the base of each tendril exploded ending the teleport at the severed stump of each limb that fell to the ground. But the snail had no time to worry about D.J, it was more concerned with what stood before it.

Its neck began to puff up again as it fired another blast at the fake Tjad. The fake Tjad smiled before swinging his baseball bat. The blast seemed to slow down and eventually stopped and reversed right as Tjads bat touched the huge white ball of energy. It flew backwards hitting the snail right in its face. The snails huge head exploded in a ball of fire scattering chunks of burnt flesh that rained down across the landscape. It pulled what was left of its body into its shell and began to reverse attempting to retreat from the fake Tjad which floated into the air following it.

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

Once again DJ fires the Y-gun only this time he locks in on the shell the creature is in, using Tjads attack as destraction so he can get another solid lock, and pulls the teleport trigger.

DJ then attemps a ranged attack with the G-sword.

"DIE FUCKER!"

[®onnie ®ude]

"Ow...What's goin on out there?" Tori asked out loud while getting up. She saw the snake approaching.

She knew they had no time to waste and charged forward at the snake creature. She was going to try and fake a slash and fire with her free hand at the snake with the ability Shadow taught her.

"Now for a Yuki-san original!" She announced as she prepared to think of fire emitting from her finger tips.

[Defectron]

The fake Tjad pointed one hand at the giant snail as it retreated, a flash of light was emitted from the pal of his hand followed by a loud bang like a cannon going off. The next moment a huge hole had been made in the snails shell almost as it it had been hit by a giant cookie cutter that punched right through it!

At that same moment D.J fired his Y-gun again, normally the snail would have destroyed the place on its shell that D.J began to teleport but it had been so distracted by the fake Tjads attack it didn't notice until it was too late.

inside the snail

Tori blasted the snake, unfortunatly, much of the oxygen in the area had already been used up when they had destroyed the first group of chimeras in the tunnel so the blast wasnt at full power. The giant snake shreiked as it was set ablaze still lashing out at its attacker. Its flaming body tried to coil around them but was only cut in half by their disruptor blades. Suddenly there was another loud bang knocking them off their feet.

"What was that?"

"I don't know, none of the others are capable of weilding enough firepower to cause this thing to shake like that, it could only mean someone new is here, I just hope its not another one of Mayas freinds."

Tori got up again "It's defenseless now, it doesnt seem to be making anymore chimeras. We can win!"

"We should go."

"What the hell are you saying? We came this far! We need to finish it!"

"If we stay here any longer it could be a problem, according to my sensors this snail is being transported. We need to leave or we'll go with it."

"What do you mean?"

"One of the others probably brought along a different sort of gun from the ball that can teleport targets and used it. It sends the target somewhere else, maybe some sort of alien jail? Whever it is, I'm in no mood to go there myself, so we need to leave."

"But...it's right there!"

"If I get captured, I'll have no choice but to order this body to self destruct since there's a small chance gantz may be able to use data he gets from any of my captured bodies against me and other aliens. And even if I have the time to let you out of me before I do that, you'll be stuck wherever these things get sent to."

"No, there's still things here I have to do..."

"I do as well, so we should leave." Tori ran back out of the tunnel with no resistence and began to head for the area that lead to the cooling vent, but as it went upwards she noticed something at the end of the tunnel. It was too late to go this way, the tunnel ahead of them was dematerializing. "We can't go up, there's only one way out and that's down!"

Suddenly the armor around shadows body changed color to the same bony white material her disruptor claws were made of. "What are you doing?"

"Command my disruptor claws to activate, in theory if you do that, we should be able to get out of here before it gets us."

"In theory?"

"Just do it, there's a chance we'll be vaporized, but its not any better then the alternative." Tori sent the command to the claws, the sickly green glowing energy began to generate around them, but it soon spread around their entire body, the floor beneath them began to melt as they began to sink into the snails body with the teleporter beams hot on their tail.

[®onnie ®ude]

"I-I-don't know about this Shadow..."? She began as she could see the room above her disappearing.

Inside shadow's body Tori's original form clutched onto GmR's goggles unnoticingly as Tori closed her eyes hoping this would work.

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

DJ watches the attack set in still clutching Koiyuki's body. He squeezes her close and watches the snail saying "I got em baby, I got em good!"

DJ then cracks a demonic smile and grits his teeth. "fucker."

DJ begins to cry silently.

[Defectron]

Tori and Shadow continued to melt through the snails body , the teleportation beams were on their tail but it looked like they were going to make it. Suddenly both of them came tumbling out through the bottom of the snail falling to the ground followed by a torrent of slimy green blood which was atomized before it could touch either of them. The huge hovering snail above them slowly vanished dissapearing.

"Damn, I've got to admit, I was a little worried for a moment there."

"A LITTLE?!" Tori said annoyed at Shadows relitively nonchalant attitude towards the situation.

"What the? Damn it!" Shadow then noticed that her hair had been completely vaporized even though her body hadnt been. "Damn it I'm fucking bald!"

"Huh? You care about that when you run around naked?"

"That's one thing but this is another, I look like Riply in alien 3, ghost in the shell was a good movie but alien 3 sucked! I don't want to look like someone from alien 3! Oh, look, all my pubic hairs all gone too..."

"Eeeeaaa!" Tori covered up again.

"There's no more reason for you to be inside me time to go! I'll just dump you out so I can concentrate on growing my hair back. Unnngghhh....shit....urrgghhhh..." Shadow scrunched up her face and squatted, Tori blacked out, the next thing she knew she was lying on the ground behind Shadow who had a relieved look on her face, her hair had almost completely grown back too. Shadows battle form was roughly twice the size of her human form, but she wasnt so large that it seemed possible that Tori could have come out that way so it wasnt immediatly obvious what had happened.

"I'm back on the outside....unnnghhh...the smell...can't breath..." Tori didn't know why but she smelled like shit.

"Sorry, but I didnt feel like taking you out the way you came in. Although I can't say that it felt much better taking you out this way either. Unnghh...I feel sick, this is the last time I'm letting anyone ride in me for sure."

"Wait, you mean I came out a different way then I came in? What do you mean by that?"

Then both of them saw it, the being that had dealt so much damage to the monster snail, it was the fake Tjad.

Somewhere else in the woods

Asuka looked at the mini ball witht he three prongs. "You girls stay here, I'm going to go back. I don't know how, but I need to use this to do something."

[®onnie ®ude]

"Y-you pooped me out!!!" Tori screeched as her nose began to wrinkle in disgust. " What the hell is wrong with you?!?" She had been approaching Shadow with looks to kill until she saw Tjad at the corner of her eyes.

Being so use to being naked she covered herself up with a squeal but sighed in relief yo know that her suit was still on. She just smelled of horrid shit.

Her eyes began to tear up as she began to cry in frustration. "I hate this! I hate it, I hate it!" A little ways away she noticed her X-Rifle and carrying bag she brought ith her.

She dug inside for anything that smelled good and found a small bottle of hand sanitizer and perfume nd got to work. "I'll never be clean again..."

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

DJ watches everything take place dumbfounded he pulls his cell phone and records about 30 sec. of the two talking and snaps a quick picture, then takes Koiyuki's body to the hole where the tentical monster burrowed into the ground.
DJ lays her body in the hole and takes all her gear off and keeps it, he then sands by the hole and fires 5 quick shots in a circle around the hole to blast the dirt in around her.

DJ then turns his attention to the main scene.

[Defectron]

"Oh crap she figured out how I got her out." Shadow thought to herself. Tori started crying from the situation.

"Ummm sorry...if it makes you feel any better, technically that stuff on you isn't poop." Tori just cried harder. "Damn it stop crying! If you lose it everytime you get stuck up someones ass, or your genitals fall off you won't last here!"

"Shut up! I'm just a normal girl! I can't deal with this! I just want to go home!" Tori cried.

"No, I'm afraid your notjust a normal girl anymore. Now that youve come here there's no easy way to go back to how things were, you'll either have to accept that or die."

Shadow hadnt been paying much attention to the fake Tjad, but now he was standing right next to the two of them. "Your one of that humans freinds." he said looking at Tori who was wearing the same suit as Tjad. Then he looked at Shadow, in some ways she gave off a simialer feel tot he creatures that imprisoned him but was different.

Tori just barely heard what Tjad said through her sobs and took a double take at him in confusion. "Wha..." suddenly Tori was yanked off the ground , one of her feet had been grabbed by one of Shadows tentacles as she was sent flying through the air, a ten foot wide hole had formed in the ground where she had just been sitting the dirt had been completely vaporized.

"Sorry!" Shadow called over to Tori who had landed about twenty five feet away. Then she turned to look at Tjad "Your not Tjad! Who are you?"

"Was that the name of that human?" he answered indifferently, unlike most aliens he had perfect comprehansion of the way humans speak, who was he?

Shadow could smell it very faintly, Tjads blood was on this guy. "What did you do to him?"

"He refused to cooporate so I killed him."

"You what?!?"

"I killed him because he refused to tell me the truth."

Shadows dorsal fins were now glowing white "That humans life wasnt yours to take!"

"You seem upset. Did I do something to offend you?" The fake Tjad was suddenly engulfed in dual jets of white hot fire incinerating everything around him. As the flames subsided he still stood there blackened with smoke but unharmed. The kinetic enhancer in Shadows fists glowed as she punched him but none of here blows seemed to do any damage. He caught her fist crushing it as he yanked her arm out of its socket.

He looked at the zebra stripes on her back "Hmmm...you seem simialer to the creatures that imprisoned me.Are you allied with them? If so, I'll grant you the most painful death I can." he said as he chucked her arm away. Shadow opened her mouth shooting a jet of toxin into his face without much effect. Even as his head smouldered the fake Tjad held out one arm. Shadow darted to the side as the ground she was just standing on was atomized making a large hole is if a huge cookie cutter had just bitten intot he ground. "But you seem more refined then their chimeras. What is your purpose here? Your obviously my enemy, are you an allie if those that imprisoned me , or these humans?"

"Neither! I'm here for my own reasons!" Shadow said glaring at him, why was she so upset about what happened to Tjad? It wasn't just because this guy had taken the life of the one she had vowed to kill, but Tjad had really been the only one left she could talk to. Her alien freinds were barely understanable. Brandon and his freind Mariah were even more difficult to talk to in some ways, Brandon was exteremly introverted and Mariah was too down to earth for her to relate to. Now that Tjad was dead she was effectively alone again.

Shadows tail swung around in an attempt to spear the fake Tjad in the eye. He caught her tail and broke it off with a twist. "You must think your strong because of the difference in power between you and these humans. But your not, your merely a hornet among flies."

Shadow extended her disruptor claws and tried to take his head off with them. The take Tjad caught her arm and ripped it off tossing it aside. He then reached out grabbing her antennas ripping them from her head causing green blood to course down her face. Shdaow followed witha round house kick tot he side of his head only to have her leg caught in his hand. He swung her into the air and smashed her into the ground. Placing one foot on top of her he grabbed both her legs by the feet ripping them off as Shadow screamed on the ground.

Nudging her with his foot Shadow rolled over "Who are you? Something about you seemes familiar to me, but I can't place it."

The fake Tjad changed forms again this time appearing as an exact double of Shadow. "This isn't your true form. I want to see what you look like originally, maybe it'll give me a clue where I came from."

"I...I can't do that...this and my human form are the only ones I have...and doing what you want kind of rubs me the wrong way anyhow..." the fake Shadow bent down to take a closer look at her.

"Yes, you come from the same place I did. I'm sure of it, I'm glad I could meet you after all this time." she licked the greenish blood from her face.

"This is it, nows my chance!" Shadows tentacles shot out lashing around the fake Shadow tying them together. "Heh, you let your guard down, you might be strong, but that's not enough!" Shadows nanites were crawling all over the fake shadow "I'll eat you and you'll become one with me. That power of yours, I'll be taking that as payment for killing my last freind."

"No, I don't think you will." Suddenly Shadow exploded, bits and pieces of charred flesh went flying through the air. Her smoking head tumbled intot he bushes.

The fake Shadow turned to D.j and Tori "You two know you have zero chance against me, so don't try anything. I want to know, by the human calender, what year is it right now?"

Not to far away

When Shadow had used her fire attack Asuka had noticed the light from it was was running in the direction it came from. As she got closer the ball seemed to do something funny. It seperated into several pieces , a handle with a trigger came down while a view screen simialr to what was on an x-rifle was displayed behind the prongs. Why had it changed? Maybe it had detected that its target was nearby.

[♠DJ-JISHAKU♠]

DJ, who up till now, had been franticly recording everything on his phone in 3 min. intervals checked his stealth settings and changes frequencies.

He also checks for the Y-gun after he notices Asukas weapon change.

{o0o0>hey thats the other capture weapon, I'm getting the feeling I should do some thing.....<o0o0}

While the "enemy" is busy talking to the the other people, DJ uses the Y-gun to take a snapshot of the guy.

DJ is attempting to use the Y-guns "auto seeking" feature to ensnare the badguy at that crucial moment when asuka attempts her attack.

DJ just watches both Asuka and the other guy to plan his attack.

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori couldn't help but cry at seeing Shadow be killed. She wished she was stronger...She seemed to always be on the sidelines watching everyone around her die.

She looked at DJ and noticed the little girl who had been with him was gone now...everyone dies here...no matter even how old you are.

She didn't stare long enough to make eye contact with DJ, she knew she could only give the alien what it wanted.

Seikihara sniffled pulling out her cell and going to a menu that showed the current date. She then placed it on the ground and kicked it softly towards him.

She was to disgusted to express words for what stood before her. She then clutched GmR's goggles awaiting the death that had been not to far away...