by Literary Eagle and AleeN
Having finished with lunch, Lesell Charis and the others teleported out of the reverse world to rejoin Ranma, Amuro, the Nut, and Babbit. However, those four were nowhere to be found.
"Ranma!" Lesell called out, "Amuro! Geez, where did they go?"
"Metroid, Metroid?" said Metroid, sounding completely baffled.
"Do you think something bad happened to them?" asked Literary Eagle.
"I don't know," said AleeN, "But I guess that would explain why we didn't hear Babbit and the Nut arguing anymore."
Our heroes searched the corridor, calling out for their missing friends, but there was no sign of them. "What do we do now?" asked War-Ouki, who was perched on top of Lesell's head.
"There's not much we can do, except keep going," said Lost Magi, "and hope that we'll meet up with the others later."
"And if we don't," K'thardin added, "Then at least I can have Ranma's collection of hentai doujinshi when we get back to the Kingdom."
"What?" K'thardin added, when he saw Lesell and Literary Eagle glaring at him. The next thing he saw was a pair of large mallets being swung at him. It was also the LAST thing he saw for a little while.
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"What happened?" said Ranma, looking around.
"I don't know," said Amuro, checking himself for bruises, "One second we were just standing in the corridor, and the next second, the wall opened up and sucked us in!"
"Well, it could be worse," said the Nut.
"Yeah, at least you still have me," said Babbit, smiling at the Nut.
"I was wrong, it couldn't possibly get any worse than this," the Nutgroaned.
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Meanwhile, Lesell and the others were standing around K'thardin, who was lying on the floor.
"Hey, old man, are you okay?" asked AleeN, poking K'thardin with his foot, "Hey, wake up!"
"Uh... wha..." K'thardin groaned, "Kup? No, my name is Teaspoon, and my job on Cybertron was washing dishes...
"Everyone sweatdropped.
"Nice going, you two," said AleeN, glaring at Literary Eagle and Lesell, "You hit him too hard this time!"
"Well, maybe we can let him rest at that inn over there," said Lost Magi, pointing at a small building that had appeared at the end of the hallway.
"Hey, why didn't we see that there before?" asked War-Ouki. Everybody turned to the prophetess Literary Eagle for an explanation.
"Um..." she said, "because it's convenient for the story?"
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Ranma, Amuro, the Nut, and Babbit looked at their new surroundings. There were tables everywhere, and above each table was a fearsome set of tentacles and other evil-looking implements of physical violation.
"Hey, look!" said Amuro, pointing at the far end of the room. Four other people were there, and they appeared to be having a picnic, which looked very odd, given that this place was evidently a torture chamber.
"Wait a minute," said Ranma, his eyes widening with recognition, "One of those people is Richard Chilson!"
"Richard!" shouted Amuro and Ranma, running towards the little picnic group. The Nut and Babbit followed.
Richard looked up from his cup of tea. "What the-? Ranma! Amuro! You came for me! Um, who's the guy with the bat?"
"Yeah, we came to rescue you," said Ranma, "We're also here to find WWPRish's friend Ken."
"The guy with us is the Total Anime Nut, and the white bat is his friend Babbit," Amuro added. The Nut nearly choked on his own tongue at Amuro's use of the word "friend", much to Babbit's amusement.
"Ken?" said the guy sitting next to Richard, "That would be me. Where's WWPRish? Is he alright?"
"MarvelBoy took him back to the Kingdom," said Amuro, "So who are these other two people?"
"I'm Mistress Maji," said the woman sitting across from Richard, "and this is Bonehead."
"Oh, I see you've met the Total Anime Nut already?" Babbit asked Maji.
"No, she means that the guy sitting next to her is named Bonehead!" shouted the Nut, the veins on his forehead bulging dangerously.
"Why don't you calm down and join us for some food?" asked Ken, "Mistress Maji magically created this great picnic after she freed us from the torture tables.
"Seeing as they hadn't been able to finish their lunch, Ranma, Amuro and Babbit were quick to agree. The Nut just stood there, steam practically rising from his ears.
"You're right that the Nut really needs to calm down," Babbit said to Ken, "It's up to me to keep him under control, but it's not easy!"
"ARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!" the Nut screamed. His stomach then growled, and he sighed and sat down to eat with the others.
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Lesell and her companions went into the inn. AleeN and Literary Eagle grunted with the effort of carrying K'thardin.
"Hi, folks, can I help you?" said the man at the front desk.
AleeN and Literary Eagle dropped K'thardin when they saw who the man was. "OW!!!" K'thardin exclaimed, having been rudely awakened by the fall, "What the heck was that for? You just enjoy using me for your own personal entertainment, don't you?"
AleeN and Literary Eagle didn't even hear the remark, because they were still staring at the man in disbelief. "I-It can't be! It's Chan Makibi!" said AleeN, once he had managed to find his voice.
"Who's Chan Makibi?" asked Lost Magi.
"He's Seion Makibi's brother-in-law," said Literary Eagle.
"Seion's brother-in-law?" said Lesell, "You mean this guy here is married to Seion's sister Kiyone?!"
"That's right, he married Kiyone and adopted Sasami," said AleeN.
"But... he was supposed to have been killed by Kagato!" Literary Eagleadded.
"Yeah," Chan Makibi grumbled, "That jerk Kagato came here, saying to me, 'Leave your stupid inn, I'm gonna build my fortress here.' Well, there ain't no way I was going anywhere, so I stayed here and he had to build the fortress around my inn.
"Everyone sweatdropped.
"But, why did you stay here all this time? I don't think you could possibly have had any customers in the middle of Kagato's fortress!" said Lesell.
"It's the principle!" Chan Makibi declared, causing Lesell to roll her eyes.
K'thardin groaned and sat up. He turned slightly pale when he noticed who everyone was talking to. "Ch-Chan Makibi!" he said, startled.
Chan Makibi's eyes narrowed. "Wait a minute," he growled at K'thardin, "Sasami told me about you... You're the one who keeps hitting on her adult counterpart!"
"Um... ah... er..." was all K'thardin could manage to say.
Everyone yelped when Chan Makibi took a rifle out from behind his desk.
"RUN!!!" AleeN yelled, dashing out of the inn. Lost Magi and Metroid were quick to follow.
"Of all the anime goddesses, why did you have to hit on Tsunami?" Literary Eagle complained.
"Just shut up and run!" K'thardin retorted.
Lesell soon found herself to be the only one left facing Chan Makibi, except for War-Ouki, who was still sitting on top of her head. Lesell frowned and prepared to use a chant to the goddess Belldandy. NOBODY threatened her team and got away with it!
However, before she could do anything, War-Ouki suddenly pulled his large gun out of thin air, causing Lesell to yelp in pain and dump the cabbit off her head. "Geez, that thing's heavy! Are you trying to give me permanent neck damage?!" she yelled at War-Ouki.
"Oops," said War-Ouki, his big eyes looking too cute for Lesell to stay angry with him. The cabbit then turned to Chan Makibi, "Sorry, mister, but you scared my friends, and that wasn't nice, uh-uh, nope, not nice atall..."
With that, War-Ouki fired a blast from his big gun, creating an enormous hole in the floor in front of the desk. Chan Makibi yelped and ran for better cover.
"I care about my friends," said War-Ouki, "and I happen to be armed to the teeth, uh-huh, yep." He put his gun away and casually began to groom his whiskers.
Lesell mumbled something about this never being covered in priestess school, then picked up the cabbit and left to join the others.
Chan Makibi stayed silent for a long time, thinking about what the cabbit had said. "That armed furball is right," he said to himself, "What's the point of staying here, if there aren't any people in my life this way?"
Reaching into his pocket and taking out an old photograph of himself with Kiyone and Sasami, Chan Makibi came to a decision. "Hang on, Kiyone and Sasami, I'm coming home!" With that, he grabbed a water cooler, tossed it through the nearest window, and leapt through the newly created exit, running for the Kingdom as fast as he could. And that's how Kiyone's husband returned home. Ain't it sweet?
Lesell and War-Ouki rejoined the others just in time for the floor to drop out from under them. They were all quite surprised to suddenly find themselves dumped outdoors... Not the outskirts of Lemonwood Forest, but an entirely new outdoors that they had never been to before.
"What happened? Where are we now?" said Lost Magi.
Everyone turned to look at the prophetess. "I think that we've been thrown out of Kagato's Revenge, and dropped into another lemon fan fic," said Literary Eagle.
"But which one?" said K'thardin. Frowning in concentration, he looked at their surroundings. "Carrots," he murmured, thinking out loud, "Carrots everywhere. Oh no... OH NO!!!"
The others were about to ask K'thardin what he was talking about, when they suddenly noticed Tenchi working at one corner of the carrot patch. A short distance away, Sasami was walking towards them. Everyone took another look at Tenchi, then at Sasami, then back at Tenchi, then at the carrot fields surrounding them.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" everyone screamed.
Lesell and Literary Eagle immediately began vomiting at the very thought of what was about to happen. AleeN and Lost Magi fainted dead away, and Metroid whimpered and hid behind a tree.
K'thardin's eyes glowed red from behind his sunglasses, and a fireball began to form at his fingertips. War-Ouki brought out his huge gun and stroked it with one of his adorable paws.
War-Ouki and K'thardin looked at each other, nodded, and then turned to the carrot patch in front of them. "Let's do this," they growled at the sametime.