Calm Before the Storm LOG 13

[Defectron]

OOC: Ok here's the thread where anyone from south wants to RP outside gantz for this mission. Not too many big plot points will be going on here right now. Mostly just character development stuff.

IC:

After Barky teleported out of the room the door opened. However most everyone in the room wasn't paying attention to this. Instead their attention was on the mysterious humanoid that had accompanied Barky throughout this mission which had teleported back intot he room along with him. Chiyo walked over to it for a moment.

""This thing was with that dog wasn't it?"

"Y-Yeah..." Tomo said still barely holding together from what happened. Could this strange big nosed humanoid be the secret to how the little dog had gained more points then anyone else? However before anyone could ponder this further several lasers shot out of the ball. The humanoid whom had been captured during the ninth mission began to stransport as well. However it was not going to Barkys location as his lasers had been shooting off across townw. The lasers seemed to vanish into the ball as the humanoid dissapeared.

After it had completely vanished the ball displayed a single sentance

"Tr4nsf3r3nc3 c0mpl3t3, 13v31 1 thr34t av3rt3d"

Further away

"It's signal vanished, it seems their onto us." the red haird boy known as Carrot Top said to Pavarti.

"Yes...well it's not like it'll matter, Shiva suspected the ball would do this once we caught onto its location. That's the reason we have Sayura. Anyway, we won't attack them now. Leave them be."

After that odd display the gantzers all began to leave the room to go about their lives on the outside world completely unaware that these two were watching them exit the apartment building.

Elsewhere

Shadow sat in a dark corner of her hide out, why had she done that? That was just dumb, who knew how Tori would react, she might not even come back. Shadow didn't want to think about that possibility. No this wasn't good, she couldn't let her feelings for Tori get in the way of her plan. She needed to be at 100% to pull this off and if she was distracted because of this it would only make things harder. But then again part of the reason why she was going through with this was for Tori.

"Damn it....why did I do that? I hope Toris not too mad at me...well in any case I can only go foreward now, no use wallowing in what's been done."

[Defectron]

After Sendo, Jpimpin , Asuka, Snake and Barky had made their decision Tori collapsed to her knees crying. She had realized something was very wrong here. Old Man Pika who had been badly injured in an attempt to protect her from Aiko hadn't come back. He was dead just like Kazuo. This had gotten to be too much for her as she began subbing. Though Zenichi wasn't one to show much pity he couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Tori.

"...I'm sorry...I saw him during, well whatever just happened to us. But we got separated when we were attacked by a hoard of creatures."

Zenichi tilted his attention to the floor.
"Maybe if I had found him...he would be here now...for that I'm sorry." Though in truth it probably wouldn't have made much difference hopefully what he said meant something to her. However someone else in the room was feeling a bit less sympathetic right now.

BITCH!" Kanbe screamed, walking towards Tori, attempting to reach down and grab her by the shoulders. If he succeeded, he'd roughly pull her to her feet to look him in the eyes as if she were a child. "Why don't you stop your fucking moping and get something done. You can take this; you surviving proved that. What the hell more do you need? Stop sitting on your ass, and try doing something productive for a change. Crying and moping never got anyone anything." If the woman made any moves to strike him, Kanbe would attempt to throw a knee to her stomach. Kanbe wanted to beat some sense into the stupid little wench, but he knew no one around would like it. If anyone else moved to grab Kanbe, he would throw the girl at them and try to escape the room, pushing anyone that got in his way out of it.

Most of the people in the room went silent as Kanbe seemed to blow up at Tori who seemed to have been cracking under the pressure. Tori hadn't made any moves to retaliate at Kanbe or to try to calm him down. She just sat motionless on the floor where she had been since realizing that another one of her freinds had died. Neither Zenichis attempts to comfort her nor Kanbes anger seemed to phase her much at the moment.

"Aww man...that guy looks dangerous should we try to help her?" Red whispered to Prime.

"Uhhh...you can go help her, I uhh...still feel kind of tired from fighting all those zombies!"

"What's with them?" Electra asked Asuka as if wondering if it was ok to leave Kanbe and Tori alone.

"It's none of our business, just let them sort out their own problems." Asuka said as the two of them turned to leave walking out of the room. Outside the two of them passed Ryou who had already left earlier. As the three of them left they couldn't help but feel that someone was watching them.

[nishi]

Kanbe was fucking up Zenichi's plan, the girl would be useless to him and since people were starting to leave he would have to turn the situation around soon or else he might not be able to use anyone.
'Shit'
Zenichi thought as he stood up with a pissed off expression.
"Hey let her go!"

Zenichi gritted his teeth slightly, he had left the X-Rifle on the floor and hoped that if this guy had tried to fight him that his suit would keep him safe, besides this guy could still have some use later and killing him would be pointless.
"Nows not the time for this shit, Is this how you spend your time between these fucking wars? Fighting each other? We should be planning or training for the next time!"

[jjrev609]

JPimpin started laughing. It started low and grew loud and boisterous.

"Ha this guy said we should be training, ha ha ha, sorry guy but who the hell are you? Last time I checked you're just a noob and whose gonna listen to you?" the ninja couldn't stop laughing throughout his statement. He calmed himself and wiped a tear from his eye.

"That was a good one, whew, but seeing as to how you have things under control I'm goin' to get somethin' to eat. So yeah next time." JPimpin said while walking toward the door. Outside he looked around for a bit seeing if anyone was around and spotted the three leaving.

"Ayo you guys wanna get sumthin' to eat, I kinda don't feel like eating by myself and I'm bored, so whattya say?" the ninja asked while scratching the back of his head.

[Benry]

Sendo shrugged. These guys were too arrogant to train together. The guy's intentions were good but look at the way that ninja treated him. Putting his clothes on, Sendo walked outside and spotted the group of three leaving. He was a bit interested in Asuka as she was a really strong girl. He liked that. As he approached he saw the ninja get there before him. Jpimpin asked them about food and now that he thought about it, he was hungry too. "Sounds good. I'm hungry too" He said looking at Asuka and smiling. "Are we going?"

[Shad²]

AS Ryou saw the two woman walk toward him he realized one of them was unfamiliar to him. Did she use her points to revive someone? Why didn't she choose her freedom he thought. It was strange how normal he was percieving someone to be revived. Ryou realized one's perception of reality was something very flexible. AS they passed him by he made no effort to engage in a conversation with them or follow their pace.

"Ayo you guys wanna get sumthin' to eat, I kinda don't feel like eating by myself and I'm bored, so whattya say?"

Ryou looked back to see the ninja scratch the back of his head. Ryou had always thought that he was a bit strange. But nonetheless he was one of the strongest people in that room. Ryou faced in fron of him again and kept on walking.

[KßзŁŁ]

"You wanna fuckin' coddle her? Fine," Kanbe said, pushing Tori towards Zenichi roughly. "I don't have time to fuck around planning for some fight we have no information on, and training is a waste of all our time. If you think any of these assholes," Kanbe said matter of factly, motioning towards the whole room, and ending by pointing his thumb back at himself, "are gonna watch your back, you're wrong. Sure, we might help each other out, but you need to be worrying about yourself right now," Kanbe said, turning his furious gaze at Tori. "You'd do well to remember that." Kanbe said, turning away from them both and towards the exit.

"Anybody got enough extra money to feed an old man that's down on his luck?" Kanbe shouted in Jpimpin's direction. "Food's the best idea I've heard all week,..." Kanbe said, trailing off a bit as his voice became somewhat softer. "It's been a while since I've had any..." He mumbled under his breath.

[nishi]

Zenichi went to catch Tori so she wouldn't fall, dropping his cigarette while doing so. It wasn't an intended action, more of a reflex then anything else.
"Does it have to be this way?"

Zenichi said more to himself then to anyone else, he had taken a risk and it looked like he fucked up. The people in this room seemed to have an blatant disregard for the well being of each other, at this rate he wouldn't be able to use any of them. Zenichi looked into Tori's eyes.
"Are you ok?"

[Defectron]

OOC: The visions carrot top shows everyone aren't definite. Their based off of the most probable outcome of countless possible futures and the very act of showing these may in fact change that outcome. So what is seen here is not definite.

IC:




Outside the apartment Jpimpin was the first to reach the two women.

"Ayo you guys wanna get sumthin' to eat, I kinda don't feel like eating by myself and I'm bored, so whattya say?" the ninja asked while scratching the back of his head.

Asuka was the first to look over at Jpimpin "Why not, I kind of feel like having Thai food. "

"Asuka, we had Thai the last two days I want something different." Electra said in annoyance.

"Ummm...I hate to tell you this but that was half a year ago." Asuka said putting a hand on Electra shoulder "Remember I just brought you back today."

"Oh....So...has anything changed while I was gone?" Electra said slightly embarrassed.

Before Jpimpin could make any suggestions about any places to eat Sendo caught up with them. Although he'd never said it he kind of had a thing going for Asuka. But theyed never had anymore of a relationship then professional aquantances. When he heard them talking about food he ran over to them before saying "Sounds good. I'm hungry too" He said looking at Asuka and smiling. "Are we going?"

"Yeah, we just need to decide on where to go. I guess Thai is out since Electra here ate it for the two days a couple months ago."

"It's not my fault I died."

Around this time Kanbe finnally caught up with them, almost the whole group was present now.

"Anybody got enough extra money to feed an old man that's down on his luck?" Kanbe shouted in Jpimpin's direction. "Food's the best idea I've heard all week,..." Kanbe said, trailing off a bit as his voice became somewhat softer. "It's been a while since I've had any..." He mumbled under his breath.

"You guys all want me to treat you huh? Well I suppose it couldn't hurt being in my business pays pretty good you know. Especiually now that I've got my old partner back."

Kekko who had gotten too distracted by what was going on in the room to notice Jpimpin leaving came running out of the building. Up ahead she spotted the large group of gantzers walking away to get a bite to eat.

"Hey wait up! I want to come too!" she shouted running after them

Atop a nearby building

Pavarti and Carrot Top both watched the group of gantzers leaving. Pavarti glanced at Jpimpin, although he was far away her vision was good enough to put that of an eagle to shame as she recognized him as a man who had bested her in combat once before. Not a small feet for a regular gantzer.

"Hmmm I remember him, I cut off his penis awhile back." Pavarti said motioning towards Jpimpin who was trailing after Asuka and Electra. "I think I saw those two women as well, they must be pretty good to have survived this long."

"You really cut off his dick?" asked the little red haired boy with a sadistic grin.

"I had intended to burn all the way through his body with my strike but it fell short."

"Hehehe...that's pretty funny, I think I'll jack their crackers and freak em out a bit!"

"Hey wait! Shiva doesn't want us to make any moves until the plans ready!" Pavarti said worried that her impetuous younger sibling could screw up all they had worked for. Hanumon had certainly been a bad influence on Carrot top and the other newborns.

"Don't worry! I'm just going to show them a couple temporal ghosts."


Back at the group

Kekko came running after the other gantzers who were debating where they should eat but before she could get there she tripped over her own feet in suprise as she saw something terribly unexpected. She was now in the middle of a rocky forest surrounded by mountains and full of pine trees.

"What in the world...."

"AAAAGHHH!" She could hear her own voice cry out. Kekko turned to see herself suspended in mid air, blood trailing off her body. In front of her was what appeared to be a giant shiny black box seemingly floating above a small stream, her blood was falling off her body landing into the water.

"Now do you understand? Your inferior flesh sticks you call arms and legs can never harm my perfection. Inferior being, your inadiquate evolutionary path has doomed you to failure." it said in a voice that sounded like a 1950's self help film narrator.

"G-Go to hell!"

"Your body confuses me! It has both male and female parts! Your large mammary glands and DNA shooter have doomed you! I will now seperate your male and female parts." Moments Later Kekko seemed to be shredded apart, how she had been sliced to bits when there was nothing visible holding her she had no idea though.

The vison before her faded away as Kekko slumped to her knees, cold sweat running down her face "W-What the hell was that....?"

Further ahead

Just as Jpimpin was making his suggestion he suddenly found himself in a very bizzare place. He was in the middle of what appeared to be a strange village of what appeared to be mud huts. The sky was strange, it wasa purple color with very few clouds, what was this place? Something was hiding inside of the huts, he couldn't make out what they were but they seemed to be scared of something. It was then someone landed next to Jpimpin, it was a blonde haired girl with pale skin and pointy ears like an elf. She vanished as what appeared to be a white ball of fire came screaming down from the sky impacting where she had just been. Jpimpin raised his hands to sheild his eyes from what appeared to be a blazing hot inferno that was engolfing him but he felt no heat at all. This was an illusion. Whjen the smoke cleared he saw something he hadn't expected. He saw himself standing on top of one of the nearby huts. Strapped to his back was what looked like agiant metal turtle!

The other Jpimpin seemed to be looking around for the blonde haird elf girl. But he didn't see her hands come up through the roof of the hut grabbing him by the ankles. The other Jpimpin seemed to spasm as if her were being electrocuted before falling to his knees. The blonde haired girl emerged behind him. "I just disrupted the electrical impulses in your nervous system. You put up a good fight, but it looks like the game is mine. Goodbye!" She passed her hand through the back of his head like a ghost. When she did this something seemed to happen as the other Jpimpin fell over apparantly dead.

After that moment the real Jpimpin found himself back in reality, what had he just seen?

Kanbe had also found himself in a strange place around the same time as Jpimpin. Kanbe found himself looking at the backside of someone who looked just like him. They were both standing on the edge of a large rocky cliffside. Kanbe was apparantly looking out at the mountain scenerey, but his other self was wearing a gantz suit. What was going on. Before he could ponder this any further something strange happened without warning a small black cube shot through his body! It didn't do any damage , it must be an illusion. But his other self wasn't so lucky, the cube taking him by suprise nailed him on the back of the head drilling into his skull.

"Your inferior sensory systems inadiquacy has cost you your life. Have a nice day." the tiny cube chirped in a tiny electronic voice before leaving the gaping hole in the back of his skull. The illsuion faded right after that leaving him standing by the others.

Sendo also received a vison at this time

Sendo appeared in the mountains, he looked down at a man that appeared to be himself. For some reason he was missing an arm and a leg and was bleeding badly. Though this wasn't as eye catching this other Sendos gantz suits remaining hand was colored bright red. Surrounding the wounded Sendo was a number of tiny cubes.

"How pitiful, your meaty appendage is gone and you can no longer move. Let us laugh at him!"

"Yes, that nose on that odious object he calls a face is quite rediculous wouldn';t you agree?" another cube chirped. In unison all of them began laughing in high pitched voices that seemed to grate on Sendos ears. Then as one all the tiny cubes launched themselves at his head drilling into it. How had Sendo gotten so wounded that he ended up in this situation though? And what in the world were those cubes?

The last people to experience a vison were Asuka and Electra, both of them were in the same place.

Asuka could see herself lying on the ground bleeding, Junior also lay broken in pieces beside her, what was this place? It looked like some strange room that was organcally formed. Humans hadn't made this place wherever it was. Electra knelt over her with tears in her eyes.

"That was really stupid of you two. Trying to take me on your own." someone said.

"The likes of you cannot prevent it, why bother? Your world will still exist. All I ask for is a world of my own. Yet you still try to stop me....you people will oppose me to the very end it seems." The person talking was a child he appeared Indian but had white hair and gold colored eyes.

Electra looked at him with hatred before picking up Asukas Gantz katana and running at him. She slashed downwards, but the blade vanished and reapeared slicing her own body from behind.

"It's over." the child said as the vision faded

Away from the group Ryou could see everyone seemed to have stopped, all of them were looking really freaked out for some reason. What was with them?

Back in the room

No one else had left yet. Zenichi had stayed behind to try to comfort Tori whom he had prevented from being knocked over by Kanbe.

"Are you ok?" he asked though he hadn't yet gotten any sort of response yet.

No one else had left yet and the silence was getting kind of awkward.

"Ummm...I don't think training would be that bad an idea." Chiyo said walking over to him breaking the silence.

"Yeah, we'll do it with you." Tomo said followed by Osaka. "Were really not very good, weve been here a long time but we hardly have any points." Tomo had completely lost her arrogance since this mission had ended. "I just want to try to bring my freinds back."

[Shad²]

Eyou slowly walked towards the group. He could see in their eyes that mentally they weren't present. As if they had all fallen in a trance. Then within seconds they returned to normal. Ryou stopped. He retracted his sword and holstered his X-Gun. The surrounding area gave him no clue to what just had happened. As everything appeared to be normal again he kept on walking the path his was on earlier.

[jjrev609]

The ninja stayed silent for a while trying to assess what he had just seen.

It's inevitable, but not like that. She made it look too easy. He shook the thought away and focused on what was at hand.

"Are we still eating, 'cause I want some Chinese if that's alright."

[nishi]

Zenichi's eyes dimmed slightly as he released any hold he had on Tori slowly and Began to put on his school uniform over his suit. He was starting to feel bad about the way he had first thought of these people, in the end they were the only ones he could work with. No he was using them, wasn't he?
"Thank you....ok if were going to do this right we should all go somewhere else first, Anywhere else really. Bring any weapons you may have, it would be best if we had at least one of each of the equipment so that we can learn as much as possible before the next time. The Bikes in the other room are a slight problem since we can only really get them outside of this place during a mission from what I can see, cant really think of any other way to test them."

Zenichi began to wrap up the X-Rifle from the floor in his school uniform jacket.
"I've been analyzing the situation and trying to piece things together as I went but...I can already tell there is most likely large gaps in what I know. If you guys wouldn't mind explaining what each of you know and or figured out to all of us we may all learn more and thus be able to form some kind of plans to stay alive."

Zenichi stood up after he finished wrapping up his X-Rifle in his coat and held it under his arm. He looked over at Snake and then the three nerds.
"You guys can join us if you want, in fact I would prefer it if you did. If we all work together it would improve our chances, but...I won't force you or anything."

Zenichi looked down noticing his cigarette on the floor.
'Bad habits are hard to kill....do I really care about them?'
Zenichi thought rubbing the cigarette into the floor with his foot.

"Its your choice where we go, but I suggest moving as soon as possible. I wouldn't want to waste any time."

[®onnie ®ude]

OOC: I like how Kanbe's post was read back to me. Please don't do the same with me.


They were dead...all of her friends were dead...

"BITCH!" Someone screamed at her, it was Kanbe and he grabbed grab her by her shoulders.

Her eyes only fell to the side as so that she couldn't see him.

She then felt herself be pulled to her feet and she stared back at him with tears in her eyes as he glared into hers. Violating her emotions she was showing off toward everyone around her. He was staring at her as if she were a child, but even if she didn't like it she felt as if she deserved it.

'Is he going to hit me...he should...I don't want to go on anymore...I don't want to live!' She thought to herself.

"Why don't you stop your fucking moping and get something done. You can take this; you surviving proved that. What the hell more do you need? Stop sitting on your ass, and try doing something productive for a change. Crying and moping never got anyone anything."

He was beginning to not realize how tightly he was squeezing her and despite her not struggling her eyes were showing signs of fear and pain. He was absolutely right though, at least right now she thought he was.

Zenichi then stood and shouted out to them, "Hey let her go!" he shouted at Kanbe sounding as if he were pissed off by belief and his expression further accentuated his anger. He then gritted his teeth slightly, “Nows not the time for this shit, Is this how you spend your time between these fucking wars? Fighting each other? We should be planning or training for the next time!"

Tori's gaze shifted to the side to see who this was that had come to speak on her behalf. 'Idiot...this “shit” doesn't end after the hunts...its an ongoing nightmare.' she thought to herself and scoffed at his stupid remark. They were all going to die here regardless of what they did.

"You wanna fuckin' cuddle her? Fine," Kanbe said, pushing her into Zenichi quite roughly.

Tori fell into him without much will to stand and was caught by him in a strong embrace.

"I don't have time to fuck around planning for some fight we have no information on, and training is a waste of all our time. If you think any of these assholes," Kanbe said matter of factly, motioning towards the whole room, and ending by pointing his thumb back at himself, “are gonna watch your back, you're wrong. Sure, we might help each other out, but you need to be worrying about yourself right now," he informed, turning his furious gaze at Tori. "You'd do well to remember that." He then turned away from them both headed toward the exit.

"Does it have to be this way?"Zenichi called after him.

'It was always this way...things will never change...to think otherwise is just wishful thinking. Wishing for the inevitable to come true.' Tori Sekihara thought as she closed her eyes.

Zenichi glanced at Tori, but she didn't attempt to stare at him. “Are you ok?"

“If everyone you grown to love died...how would you feel? I feel like shit. Let me go...please.” She begged.

Zenichi's eyes dimmed slightly and he released any hold he had on her. When she was free she grabbed Kazou's sword and hugged herself as if she felt cold. Her eyes were red and puffy and she only had one thing on her mind. She'd find that man and make things right...she couldn't go on like this.

Outside...

Tori saw Kanbe and the others , approaching them with speed in her step and Kazou's blade in hand. “I thought about it.” She shouted reaching him and attempting to turn him so that he was facing her. If he was facing her she'd continue,“Yeah I'm fucking talking to you you worthless sack of old shit! Hello, I'm fucking Toriyuki, Toriyuki Sekihara...and if you don't remember, I saved your fucking ass before! That's right...I...saved...you.” She then leaned in so he could hear her, “Me...not the perverted ninja, not the chick with the dick...Not Biggie not fucking Tupac!...ME, THAT'S WHO!” She screeched into his ear.

She then would move back and raise her sword. “You fucking owe me and I'm cashing in on that...you owe me a fight and I'm not going anywhere unless I get it! Raise your rusty ass blade old man...” she demanded ignoring the tears that were falling from her eyes.

If she was going to die here and now she wanted it to be by her terms and not that damn black ball, 'Forgive me Shadow, but I can't take it anymore...I tried, but I can't...Miles is gone...Kazou...and even Old Man Pika...'

She then spoke to Jpimpin despite insulting him before, “If she asks about me...I no longer remember her, okay?”

[KßзŁŁ]

Kanbe let himself be turned around by Tori, ignoring the visions he'd just seen. He let her speak her mind, but couldn't hold back his laughter as she began talking about him owing her a fight. "You may have saved my life, but I never asked you for shit. I should be dead and gone by now, and to be honest, I'd prefer it that way. There's no way you can understand how I feel, and I'm not about to sit here and try to explain it to you. I haven't given a damn since I died the first time, and if you think you're going to change that by telling me I owe you something, you need to get your head examined. If you want a fight, I'm sure you'll get one, but I'm not gonna be the one to give it to you. You want my head? Go the fuck ahead and take it." Kanbe finished as he knelt down and pointed at his neck. "You'll be doing me a favor."

[Defectron]

Ryou had paused to see everyone frozen in place for a split second. Their eyes all looked vacant as if they had left the world. Then as suddenly as it had happened everyone seemed to blink back to reality. Ryou had no idea what had just happened here and decided it would be best if he continued on his way instead of getting involved in what had just happened.

Above Ryous location

"Oops, looks like I missed him, think I'll get him too!" Carrot Top said only to recieve a slap on the back of his head from Pavarti knocking him off his feet.

"You fool around too much, just like your care taker. Come it's time for us to leave!" Pavarti said with a tone of slight disgust. This whole plot was making her have misgivings. Shiva said he wanted to make a new world for them. But was he really right to do that? This world was corrupt, it was full of stupidity and almost everyone and everything in it wanted both her and the rest of her kind dead. But at the same time it felt like this was the wrong decision. It felt like they were running away. "Shiva, you'll really do it won't you...what should I do?" Pavarti thought to herself as she looked at the palm of her hand as if wanting to use it to grab her own destiny. But Shiva had made his decision, neither she nor anyone else could stop him, it was only a matter of time.

Ryous location

As Ryou walked home he found himself in the midst of a dense fog. The streets were dimly lit by the lights of nearby shops and restaurants that were begining to close up. As he pasued beneath a traffic light he became aware that he wasn't alone anymore. Standing next to him was an extremely pale girl who appeared to be in her 20's. She had long hair in the same style as Chiaki Kuriyamas but it was blonde, clearly died. She also wore a leather jacket as well as shades which was very strange considering that it was night time.

She glanced over at Ryou and seemed to look at the otufit he was wearing before smiling. The signal changed for walk and they both proceeded foreward, they couldve gone before since there was no traffic. The city sure seemed desolate right now as if they were the only ones there.

"That's an interesting outfit you have there. Some people might assume that its for cosplay, or maybe some sex game...or is it something more?" the mysterious woman said as they reached the other side of the street. "You look like your down on your luck right now, and I don't have anything to do right now, mind if I buy you a drink to kill some time? My name is Kyuuko Hano." This was very odd, it seemed much too deliberate to be an accidental meeting.

Back in the room

After Tori left Red burst into tears "All of Tsundere chans freinds are gone....th-that's horrible...just like the end of Saikano!" Red sobbed out.

"We'll do the training! To protect Tsundere chan!" Prime shouted as he grabbed Zenichis hands with tears in his eyes.

Chiyo looked uneasily between the three nerds and Zenichi. Chiyo and her two freinds were the only ones who had been here more then one mission. But were they really qualified to explain the secrets of this room. Before Chiyo could say anything Osaka began to attempt to explain.

"This gun makes things blow up" Osaka said holding up the X-gun with a serious look on her face.

"Uhhh...I think he already knows that Osaka, maybe you should let me explain, I studied up on most of the things here on my spare time." Chiyo said as she took the gun from Osaka.

"That's the level two boomgun!" one of the nerds piped up.

"Ummm....no we don't really have an official name for this. But Tomo likes to call it an X-gun because when it opens it makes an X shape. If you press the first trigger it will take an X-ray snapshot of whatever you point it at. If you fire with the second trigger after that, even if you aim somewhere else it'll blow up. I've been reading alot of physics and elctronics books trying to figure out how it does this but so far I have no clue. I think it might be beyond what our level of science can tell us."

"Wow Chiyo that sounded really smart..." Tomo said looking at the gun.

"The bigger one that looks like a rifle works the same way. This other gun here is for capturing. Like the X-gun it uses the first trigger to lock on its target. None of us have really done anything with the swords though since we aren't good with that kind of weapon." Chiyo then picked up a controller "This thing that looks like a PSP tells where enemeies and allies are. And if you press this button here it can make you invisible."

Outside

Thunder cracked as it began to rain, making things even worse. It wasn't bad enough that they had to deal with that fog but now there was freezing rain on top of it all.

"So anyone up for Chinese?" Jpimpin asked half heartedly breaking the uncomfortable silence caused by the temporal ghosts.

"Y-Yeah that sounds like it would be good..." Electra said shaking, not fromt he cold but from what she saw.

"Ok, Chinese it is..." Asuka agreed forcing a smile No one seemed to want to talk about what they had just seen. However despite the forced silence the truth was they were all to wrapped up in what they had just seen to notice Tori approaching them at a running pace splashing through the puddles of cold water as she went. She stopped within hearing distance of Kanbe and shouted "I THOUGHT ABOUT IT!" trying to ingore how drenched she was getting int he rain. As she said this Tori slowly raised her blade. This wasn't with the intent to kill Kanbe, but with the intent to end her own life.

Junior flew over observing them "Ooh, this looks like it's going to be good! Been awhile since I saw a little girl die. I hope it's slow! Yes both of you, lets dye this rain water red tonight!" Sometimes Asuka really hated her weapon.

Looking over at Junior and then at Tori Asuka shouted"What are you doing? Put that sword down!" Asuka shouted over at Tori who ignored her. She pulled out her X-gun and aimed at Tori.

Tori then continued on with her rant “You fucking owe me and I'm cashing in on that...you owe me a fight and I'm not going anywhere unless I get it! Raise your rusty ass blade old man...Yeah I'm fucking talking to you you worthless sack of old shit! Hello, I'm fucking Toriyuki, Toriyuki Sekihara...and if you don't remember, I saved your fucking ass before! That's right...I...saved...you..Me...not the perverted ninja, not the chick with the dick...Not Biggie not fucking Tupac!...ME, THAT'S WHO!” after she stopped shouting she paused for a moment breathing deeply and letting her tears mix with the rain before turning to Jpimpin and saying “If she asks about me...I no longer remember her, okay?” in a much quieter voice.

The old man in question who had stayed silent during her rant then began to speak up finally. "You may have saved my life, but I never asked you for shit. I should be dead and gone by now, and to be honest, I'd prefer it that way. There's no way you can understand how I feel, and I'm not about to sit here and try to explain it to you. I haven't given a damn since I died the first time, and if you think you're going to change that by telling me I owe you something, you need to get your head examined. If you want a fight, I'm sure you'll get one, but I'm not gonna be the one to give it to you. You want my head? Go the fuck ahead and take it." Kanbe then knelt down in the traditional seppuku position in one of the cold puddles ready to take a beheading strike. But would Tori take him up on his offer?

"Ohhh..even better...just like a samurai movie! Hehehe..." Junior said giggling as he hovered above them.

[nishi]

Zenichi was a little annoyed that Tori had acted in such a way and left, that was one less person he could sway in his favor.
'Typical, I let my guard down a little to give a shit about that bitch and she treats me that way? Well fuck her.'

"All of Tsundere chans freinds are gone....th-that's horrible...just like the end of Saikano!" Red sobbed out. "We'll do the training! To protect Tsundere chan!" Prime shouted as he grabbed Zenichis hands with tears in his eyes.

'Why did they care? Its not like she was going to help them, so why did they want to help her?'
Zenichi racked his mind trying to figure it out, but his thoughts got him no where. After hearing what the girls had to say Zenichi moved a little closer to Chiyo to make sure which button it was that made the person invisible.

"Some people mentioned a few times about that, I think the guy said something about changing frequencies. I tested out the sword and rifle. The swords have two buttons, one makes the blade extend, the other retract, I'm still not sure as to how long the blade can extend though. As for the rifle its pretty effective for sniping, the range as far as I could tell could go somewhere around one kilometer."

This was good, Zenichi was able to get quite a lot of useful information. But something was bothering him, these girls they knew quite a lot, and from the way the others acted it was unlikely that they were helped so....just how long did they have to suffer in this room? Zenichi moved in closer putting his hand on Chiyo's shoulder.
"Really, thank you you guys."

Zenichi turned his attention to the rest of the room.
"Lets all try our best ok? We can survive, all of us!"
Zenichi was trying to boost the moral of everyone, it seemed like they really needed it.

[Shad²]

"You look like your down on your luck right now, and I don't have anything to do right now, mind if I buy you a drink to kill some time? My name is Kyuuko Hano."

Ryou wondered where this woman came from and what she wanted from him. he even offered to buy him a drink which was pretty strange from a woman. She wasn't his type anyway, he liked tan. But just as he was about to turn her down his stomach started to growl.

''Make it a hamburger'' He said while still walking not even looking at her.

[Defectron]

OOC: Oh so close! Oh well here's half of the update!

IC:

Ryou seemed to be having trouble making up his mind. Kyuuko smiled slightly, yes she remembered him, he wasn't someone she knew well, but he was one of the right people.

''Make it a hamburger'' he said after considering her offer.

"Alright, that'll be cheaper anyway." Kyuuko said with a smile. The two of them made their way over to a run down looking fast food restaurant. There didn't look to be any customers inside, the only people there were a few sullen looking employees who looked like they would rather be somewhere else.

After paying for Ryous meal the two of them sat down, who was this person? She seemed to know something about him but wasn't tilting her hand to give him any idea what her cards were. Before he could ask her anything she spoke

"Have you you ever seen the 1964 film Kwaidan? It's a horror movie anthology directed by Masaki Kobayashi, in my opinion the best horror film to ever come out of Japan. It's an interesting movie, without it movies like the Ring, the Grudge and half the other mass produced goods in J-horror just wouldn't be the same." Where the hell was she going with this? Did she just bring him here to talk about movies? "Kwaidan is actually based off the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, a foreigner who moved to Japan and assimilated perfectly into the culture. Yeah, that's something I've never been able to completely do myself no matter where I move to." What the hell was she going on about? She looked Japanese to Ryou despite the died blonde hair. Maybe she was born outside the country? "When I first saw Kwaidan, I was kind of irritated at the way the last story "In a tea cup" ended. In that last segment a writer is recounting a tale of a man who drank the soul of a phantom Samurai. "In a Tea cup" ended mid way through the story. It bothered me, what happened to the man who drank his soul? Did the phantom Samurai ever get his soul back?" Kyuukos words suddenly began to become incoherent to Ryou, his vison was beginning to blur as well.

Suddenly Ryou seemed to black out, he couldn't keep his eyes open. Then with a start he sat back up awake, but he was no longer where he had been before in the fast food restaurant. He was sitting in a chair in what looked like some sort of dimly lit movie studio. In front of him was a set. It wasn't anything unfamiliar either, he knew the place portrayed in this set quite well. It was the room with the black ball. The one difference being that instead of a ball was a black cube about the same size. How the hell had he suddenly gotten here? The hamburger and fries Kyuuko had bought him were still in his hands but it seemed to have cooled down to room temperature. Kyuuko had walked up onto the set, accompanying her was a small dog, it looked just like the dog who had been in the room that went free. Was that really Barky or just a dog that looked like him? "This is where I live, I don't have a perminent place to stay right now which is why I'm camping out on my set. This is my dog Barky."

"Bark!" the little dog said as it looked over at Ryou. It looked like Barky and had the same name. But it could't be the same dog from the room! This was all too weird!

"At the time I didn't really appreciate the true meaning of "In a Tea Cup" most people probably wouldn't. It's something that only someone who has something to tell can appreciate. And it's something I know quite well right now. I think I neglected to tell you earlier, I'm an independent film maker. Right now I'm making the sixth film in a series of movies. Have you heard of the film series G-Status? That's what this set is for, yeah I'm living on the set for the movie I'm making. I'm not suprised if you haven't heard of it it's not too popular right now. It's about a group of people who died and were recruited by this mysterious cube to fight against otherworldly creatures. The sixth film is supposed to be the last one. But even I don't know how it will end, and when I find out how it will end I'll no longer be able to tell that ending to the world. Yes, I'll be no different then that writer who never finished his story "In a tea cup". Of course the movie will have an ending. even if we move in nearly concentric circles we must ultimately come to a new place, that place will be the end. But will it be the true ending? I'll have no way of being able to tell at that point." Kyuuko said as she walked over to the black cube sitting down on top of it looking over at Ryou. Ryou was obviously very disoriented and confused about what was going on, but he would serve her purpose well. Things were coming full circle once again.

Back in the room

After hearing what the girls had to say Zenichi turned to face the room saying "Lets all try our best ok? We can survive, all of us!"

"Alright! When are we going to do that training? Is it ok if I call you master?" Tomo asked a little too enthusiastically.

"Where are we going to meet for the training?" Prime asked looking between the girls and Zenichi. He wasn't in great shape which would make any sort of physical training a pain but it was better then dying.

"Maybe we should go first before we disscuss that, I don't really want to stay in this room any longer." Chiyo said glancing back at the black ball.

[nishi]

Zenichi gave a warm inviting smile.
"Sure if you want, We should train as soon as possible to get accustomed to the weapons, and pick some place secluded where no one would bother us."

Zenichi began to walk into the hallway heading for the exit, leaving enough time for the others to join him.
"I'm up for suggestions on where we should meet to train, sorry but my house is kind of out of the question."

[Shad²]

So many thoughts went through Ryou's mind. How had he gotten here? Who was this women? Did she know about Gantz? Why was his good hamburger ruined? Why did she pick him? And why did that dog look so familiar? But strangely enough as he continued listening to her started to lean in more and more. Ryou was interested in what she had to say?

''What are you trying to say?''

[Defectron]

As Zenichi walked out into the hallway followed by the nerds and the girls he said "I'm up for suggestions on where we should meet to train, sorry but my house is kind of out of the question."

"Maybe we could train at school after it gets dark out. I don't think anyones over there." Tomo suggested.

"W-What? But at school? I don't know if that's a good idea." Chiyo said looking a little nervous about doing this at their school.

"Don't worry what could happen?" Tomo said jinxing her suggestion.

"Well I can't think of anyplace better. Maybe we should give that suggestion a try." Prime said, but was this really a good idea.

"Ok, lets meet there at 10 tommarow then agreed?" Tomo said with a smile, Chiyo looked at the others hoping someone would have another idea. What if one of the teachers showed up while they trained?

As they left the only person left in the room was snake. Aftera long awkwards silence the following text was displayed on the ball.


"I d0n't supp0Rt l1v3 1n's 4nym0r3"

After which the letters faded and a number of lasers shot out teleporting Snake away. The next thing snake new he was reapearing in what looked to be someones apartment. Man this place was dirty! Where the hell had the ball sent him? As he looked around he caught sight of something he hadn't wanted to see. Two people in the dark seemed to be fooling around in bed! That damned ball had teleported him intot he room of someone who was having sex! What made matters worse is that he could tell from the deep voices the two people in bed were both guys!

In Kyuukos studio

As Ryou listened to Kyuuko go on about her project he became curious. From what he saw of it her movie was very similar to what he was living. The fact that she was talking to him couldn't be coincedence. ''What are you trying to say?''

"Trying to say? Oh nothing , I just needed someone to talk to about this to get it off my chest. Though I'm afraid that if you are interested I can't tell you how my movies going to end. You should watch the first five if you like the idea, their all on dvd." Kyuuko said as she rummaged through a fridge, she took out a piece of raw meat which she began to chop up.

"Barky likes fresh meat, most vets say this isn't all that healthy to keep a dog on this sort of diet regularly so I only give it to him sparingly."

"Bark! Bark! Bark!" the little dog jumped up and down as he watched Kyuuko chop it up before putting it in a dish for him.

"Most Japanese movie directors I talked to prefer cats to dogs, especially anime directors, except Oshii, he likes dogs just like me. I visited one time with Barky, but Barky bit his bassethound in a sensitive spot and since then I thought it was best to leave him at home." This was getting frustrating, was she going to say anything or not about gantz? Was this really all just one huge coincidence?

"By the way, you've been holding that hamburger for about an hour without eating it. It won't taste as good if you do that. Isn't that right Barky?" Ryou only remembered holding this for about ten minutes at the most, how had an hour passed without his knowledge?

"Bark!"

[Shad²]

''My hamburger?'' Ryou was now getting upset. He threw the hamburger up and started walking to the set.

''You drug me, kidnap and you start talking about some kind of movie and all you see is that you wanted to get it off your chest? What the hell is wrong with you?''

[nishi]

"Hmm, yeah the school could work. But to be safe everyone should bring something to cover your face, that way if someone catches us we can make a run for it without them knowing it was us."
Zenichi said as they were all walking away from the building.

"In case something like that does happen and we don't get to train at the school we should meet up somewhere else....like back here."
Zenichi began to walk away from the group going back to his house.

"I'll meet you guys there at 10 then."
Zenichi planned to get there a little sooner so he could scout out the area from across the street or something, for now he would have to go home and hid his X-Rifle so his dead beat mother wouldn't sell it to get her fix. As for the rest of his stuff he would make sure not to take off the suit or remove the sword from the holster while he wore his clothes over it. He could always just sleep in his clothes, if his mother saw it while he was sleeping she would probable think it was some Otaku shit or something, it wasn't that far fetched for him anyways.

[Defectron]

OOC: Next update will have the update for the rest of the group regardless of whether or not kanbe or tori make a move, this will be posted on monday at the latest

IC:

"My hamburger" Ryou tossed the hamburger aside as he walked towards the set.

''You drug me, kidnap and you start talking about some kind of movie and all you see is that you wanted to get it off your chest? What the hell is wrong with you?''

Kyuuko looked confused for a moment "I drugged you? What are you talking about? I just suggested we come here since I felt like showing you the set of my movie. Remember we rode here on my bike?" Kyuuko was putting ona genuinly confused look, but was this all an act? What purpose could she have for doing this?

"You don't remember? That's pretty strange! You know alien abductees sometimes report experiencing missing time. But things like aliens couldn't possibly exist here now could they?" As soon as Kyuuko finished this sentence Ryou began to black out again.

"I don't need you here anymore, I think it's time you went home. This is all just a dream." he could barely hear Kyuuko say as his mind went blank.

When he came to he was lying in his bed. Had that all just been a dream? But if that was the case why didn't he remember coming home? If it hadn't been a dream then that was even more confusing, who had that woman been? And had she drugged him or done something else to him? Most confusing of all was what the motive behind doing such a thing could possibly be. There was one good way to figure out if this was real or not, she had said her five previous movies in the series were available on dvd. If he found them he would know.


Earlier by the apartment

"Hmm, yeah the school could work. But to be safe everyone should bring something to cover your face, that way if someone catches us we can make a run for it without them knowing it was us."

"OOOH! I'll bring my ufo ranger mask!" Red said happily "I'm gonna be a real sentai hero!"

""Wah, we'll look like burglers...but I guess it can't be helped." Chiyo said apprehensively.

"I'll meet you guys there at 10 then." Zenichi said before they parted ways although he actually planned on geting there sooner. At first it seemed it would be an easy trip back but then he noticed some sort of commotion further away that seemed to involve most of the other people in the room. What were they doing over there?

[®onnie ®ude]

OOC: I'm writing Tori out of LOG this time around.

IC:

"You want my head? Go the fuck ahead and take it." Kanbe insisted as he knelt down and pointed at his neck. "You'll be doing me a favor."

Tori held an unreadable expression on her face as she decided how to react to such words. She hadn't expected him to want her to kill him. She believed he would have killed her instead with no remorse. For this reason alone she closed her eyes, raised her blade and slammed it down to the ground.

She then opened her eyes realizing that she had instinctively missed Kanbe entirely. She then glared at everyone else and turned on her heel, proceeding to turn her back on those who she was forced to know as her team.

As she walked away she began to think, 'What if I would have killed him?' and 'Why didn't I?'. Maybe it was something she couldn't explain. The fact that they were on the same boat scared her and forced her to react in the only way she could. She would choose to separate herself from everyone not really sure how long she could remain sane while around them.

These weren't her friends. Her friends were dead...

[Defectron]

OOC: Make all your last posts now, whatever has no time to occur here will occur off screen

IC:

As Tori walked away leaving everyone in silence Electra was the first to break it.

"So yeah...whose up for Chinese?"

Tori hadn't taken Kanbe up on his offer, whether the ragidy old samurai was glad or dissapointed that she hadn't followed through no one knew. Though if those mysterious visons were any indication, death still may not be far away.

[nishi]

As Zenichi walked closer to the group his grip tightened on the concealed X-Rifle he held under his arm. Since he didn't really have any reason to help either of the two apparent ones fighting he decided to not take action. It seemed the problem solved itself without blood shed, when Zenichi had finally caught up with the group he simply nodded to them.
"Oh....hey."

Zenichi would walk with them since they seemed to be going the same way, for now at least.

[Shad²]

The first question that ran through his mind was if she could be an alien. Her tone when she mentioned that there couldn't be any aliens that place was pretty sarcastic. Ryou still didn't know what she wanted or why she chose him.

''Her movies!'' He thought as he sat upright.

But as fast as he sat up he fell down again, fast asleep. Ryou was exhausted from the last hunt and he'd reached his limit.

The next morning Ryou had a big breakfast and immediately went in to town to find those movies.