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OldBean
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OldBeanI'm sure very FEW people know about this story. I had the story and characters for it planned along time ago, and I finally posted it at TFF. I haven't finished the story yet though. But I'm posting the chapters here anyway, even though they're at TFF :P. Why is this so? Because, I am giving the Final Fantasy Haven a exclusive 'One month later' mini chapter once all the chapters are done. I guess that'll make all you worthless people wanna join FFH, eh? 
Also, please comment in the comments topic, m'kay? I'd love to hear some criticism. That way I can improve, right? =P
By the way, disregard all the 'comment at TFF' messages in the later posts unless you really want to post. just PM me the comments until I manage to make a comments topic. Admins, don't worry, I'll weed out all the comments later when I get the time.
Anywayz, lemme get started.
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Chapter One, A new light
This was it. The big moment. In a few moments time, OldBean, an owl, will become temporary mayor of Inner Beanland while Mayor Gondour goes to visit the remains of what used to be China a long time ago.
“Citizens of Breathlight, I will, before I visit the historical Great Wall of Chimps, will regretfully pass my status of mayor to OldBean. Temporarily.” he added, with a look of real hatred towards OldBean. OldBean did not look upset, quite on the contrary, he looked rather cheerful.
“Right, OldBean,” said Dr. Moo, backstage. “This antidote, or potion, whatever you people call it these days, will make sure that you will not be anxious or nervous while on stage. DRINK IT!” he yelled, as OldBean tried to dispose of the antidote in a nearby bin. “It cost half me life making that!”
“Quite hard to believe, really.” said OldBean, who was still smiling. “If it did take that long, you must have looked into the future and noticed I would become mayor! Isn’t that right?!”
“Er…I guess so?” Of course, Dr. Moo was not being truthful. Time Travel seemed ridiculous to him, let alone prophecies and that sort of stuff.
OldBean got up on the stage. Everyone in the crowd groaned.
“It is I, OldBean! And Mayor Gon-home-to-mummy’s reign of terror is over! I, will for once, allow entertainment in this, town, village, whatever. Okay people, lights, music, action…”
“Wiggles!” yelled Boda.
“Shut UP!” insisted OldBean.
A woman got up on the stage. She looked rather beautiful, and danced to a song called “Don’t eat it”.
“Geez, I wish they’d stop ripping of the songs from back in 2000. That’s just lame.” whispered Mr. Lep.
“SHUT UP, SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP HERE!”
“EXCUSE ME!? THIS IS A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT! NO SLEEPING ALLOWED!” cried out OldBean.
“THIS DAY MIGHT AS WELL BE THE DAY I DIE!”
“THIS DAY MIGHT AS WELL BE THE DAY I RISE!”
“SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU! CRYING OUT LOUD! SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO GAMBLE HERE!” said a nearby person. Of course, later on, the guy got arrested for no reason at all. |
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| Quote: | Chapter Two, The Rise and Fall of OldBean
OldBean was partying at his house at his recent ‘temporary’ becoming of Mayor. He fell asleep rather quick. But the next day, was to be rather hectic. OldBean would not have been prepared for it regardless anyway. Although, some could argue that OldBean could live without it.
“MY TOP HAT!” yelled OldBean. “ITS GONE! IT IS GONE! WHO STOLE IT?!”
He ran down stairs, only to find Mr. Lep reading the newspaper. What he was reading was a review of the new talk show “Ask Marin”. Apparently, users unbelievably gave it a 10/10.
“LEP, EXPLAIN YOURSELF! WHERE IS MY HAT?!”
“Your hat?”
“YES, MY HAT, YOU BUFFOON!”
“Haven’t seen it.”
“Really?” whispered OldBean.
“Yup.”
“Damn, I’M GONNA CALL THE RSPCA!”
“Why the PCA?” asked Mr. Lep. “Sounds ridiculous.”
“We’re animals, so if you’ll excuse me, nuthead…”
“K. I’ll go and make a ham sandwich.”
“NO! DON’T LEAVE ME!” cried OldBean.
Eventually, OldBean gave up pestering everyone and went out to search for it. No matter how lame he thought it was, he found it as a good stress reliever when he saw the next door neighbour accidentally spray himself with a fire extinguisher. However, he did not find the top hat. Then all of a sudden, he heard a sound below the earth. The sewers? He felt a strong power surging through his body. He went down, into the sewers.
“’ello? Anyone here?” called out OldBean. No one answered. He ventured through the sewers more. It was dark, he needed some light. But there was a glowing light in front of him. He was terrified, as all people would be at this point, and like most people, he ventured forward anyway. What he saw was unbelievable.
“HOLY SMOKEROOS KICK THE SOCCEROOS BACKSIDE….”
The entire area was full of $1000000 cheques. OldBean didn’t know anyone who would leave that much money lying around in a sewer. But what he saw ahead of him was what made him whimper. A yellow sphere was in front of him, and inside it, was a man with a rather terrifying look about him. He wore a black long cape, and had a rather large mask on him. This person was no reincarnation of Zorro.
“What are you doing here, fool? Leave this area unless you want to feel the wrath of my power!”
“Er, mate, you do realise this is Halloween? Not scared here, shut up. Thanks!”
“Fool, feel my power, surging through you like a bolt of lightning, DIE!” |
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| Quote: | Chapter Three, The Chimps
OldBean was panting hard outside, he had just escaped death.
“Right, that does it! I am now TRULY, GOD DAMNIT CALLING…THE RSPCA!”
He did not call the PCA though. He instead regretfully phone called Mayor Gondour. Apparently Gondour was still wondering whether the wall was truly called the ‘Great Wall of Chimps’.
“’ey, er, Gondy mate, I was wondering if you could help me out here? This weird guy in tights is trying to kill me!”
“Heh. Spider-Man ‘nuff? I thought you said you wanted to be mayor? You have the entire town at your control. DEAL WITH IT.”
And he hung up.
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“I’m telling you, this guy tried to kill me!”
“Sorry mate, but April Fools was ages ago!” laughed Mr. Lep.
“O RLY?”
“Heh, you still got that habit.”
“Shut up.”
They were back at OldBean’s house. The place was full of laughter.
“I SAID, SHUT UP! WANT ME TO COMMIT SAPPAKU?!”
“Soap Pikachu?” wondered Boda.
“It means suicide.”
“Course we don’t want you too, but geez, this is ridiculous! More ridiculous than the time Dr. Moo told me that my next girl friend would try to kill me with a ridiculously large gun!”
Sure enough however, a ridiculously huge gun was seen right outside the door.
“Anyway,” continued OldBean. “I think we should go have a visit to Mr. “I am almighty”. People like that really get on my nerves.”
“I thought you were scared?” asked Dr. Moo.
“Why do I care?”
OldBean detoured back to the sewers. Apparently, the stranger had disappeared. But all the cash remained.
“HOLY SMOKEROOS KICK THE SOCCEROOS…”
“OldBean, that line is really getting old.” said Mr. Lep.
“Your face is old.”
“Your name is old.”
“And proud of it!”
They continued through the sewers, and found some chimpanzees.
“WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE CHIMPS DOING HERE?!” yelled OldBean.
“Probably from Chimpina.” replied Dr. Moo.
“The place is called China, git. Are you being brainwashed by Mayor Gondour too?”
“What happened to Mayor Gon-home-to-mummy?”
“Eh, it was getting old.”
“Like you.” s******ed Mr. Lep.
“And very much unlike your face too.” replied OldBean sarcastically. “Anyway, what we gonna do with these guys?”
Boda shrugged. “Beats me. Kill ‘em for money?”
“Geez, mate. I are you being brainwashed by Marin’s article on Runescape? What on earth is the world coming to? First Chimpina, now this.”
They stared 5 whole minutes at the chimps. They decided it wasn’t much.
“Geez, this is boring, lets call it a day.” insisted Mr. Lep.
“We are not leaving! And I thought I was in love with the TV!” said OldBean.
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After searching most of the sewers, they gave up on any evidence.
“Well, lets REALLY go home now!” said Mr. Lep.
“Oh fine then, you moron.” said OldBean.
“Th…pla…Co..tra…oo…hood…ore…honey…”
“Come on, lets go.” said Mr. Lep angrily.
“SHUT UP FOR A MOMENT!” yelled OldBean.
Silence.
“Of course we….ore honey…”
“ut….money exchan….ates…”
“Who the hell are those people talking?” asked Boda.
“How the hell should I know? Wait, that voice, Electus Contra, President of Contro Corporation!”
“What the bloody hell are people so important doing in a sewer?” wondered Dr. Moo.
“Well, he explains the $1000000 cheques I found.” OldBean grinned, looking at his backpack stuffed full of cheques.
“I doubt Control Moron would leave that much cheques lying around. Maybe that stranger…” Dr. Moo wondered for a moment.
A nearby door banged open.
“What are you all doing here?” asked Electus.
“Oh man, not you. And I had to deal with people with proper grammar.” OldBean sighed.
“Hmph. I heard that you have been attacked by Zeromune as well. He seeks power to conquer and destroy all the world.”
“Again, like all fictional bad guys? Do they ever wonder where they’d go once the entire planet, doesn’t exist?”
“Naturally, the planet would not itself be destroyed. The planet would instead be lifeless. No plantation, no wildlife, no nothing.”
“Oh, I get it.” said OldBean, burning angrily. “And you were discussing problems with bills you had to pay for while we’re gonna die? The bloody hell are you?”
“I admire your caring for everyone, but I have a luncheon to attend to. I assure you, this person will arrested by the police.”
“A person with that much power captured? Gimme a break, if he gets away?”
“Well, that’s just your problem isn’t it?” replied Electus.
“You’re telling me, you don’t have a care in the world as long as you’re rich, with fame and power?” asked Mr. Lep.
A man walked out of the door.
“That is the way we operate. Get the job done, nice and quickly.” he said.
“And you call yourself famous, you’ll be losing fame soon enough, moron.” fired up OldBean. This had done it. Electus drew out a gun.
“Oh car rap…” OldBean whimpered.
“And it comes to this, doesn’t it? Go to hell, or run. Or pick up a brave fight.”
“I’ll fight…” said Mr. Lep gruffly. He picked up a stone and threw it at the man.
“Ouch. Did you know we wore body armour?”
“Oh crap, rest is up to you, Mr. Bean.” And with that, Mr. Lep ran for it.
“Argh…did you guys forget about my magic top hat? Its right on top of my head, I found it on my escape. Dare attack, I’ll magically attack you.”
“Give it a rest, magic does not exist!”
“Wanna bet?”
OldBean twirled the hat around. A carrot fell out.
“Bloody hell,” said Dr. Moo, amazed. “The rabbit trick does work!”
“Idiot,” OldBean whispered. “Magic exists, but my top hat can’t do it. Its just a carrot I picked up. I distracted him with it. WE RUN NOW!” He yelled.
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“Okay then,” Boda asked. “What are we gonna do with the cheques? Make a army to go against Contra and beat Zero up?”
“Nah, crap idea. Make an FBI.” said OldBean. They were back at his house, and any moment now, they’d go off and begin.
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“Doesn’t it look marvellous?” OldBean said a month later. “Don’t you think the FBI looks nice?”
They were in front of the building. They noticed through a mirror that an office woman was at the counter. A hedgehog that resembled the fictional Sonic the Hedgehog gave away free samples of the new food the bakery had. And on the top of the building, were words shining in the light. The words were also engraved on the sides of the building. And they said:
OldBean FBI IB |
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| Quote: | Chapter Four, First Battle of Inner Beanland
“So, what does ‘IB’ stand for?” asked Dr. Moo.
“Inner Beanland. I mean, we do live in the inner part of it.”
“Oh, right. Okay.”
They entered through the door. The hedgehog walked up to them.
“Ah, Mr. Bean! I hope you are doing well today?”
“God, you people! Don’t call me Mr. Bean! I don’t even have a surname!”
“You…don’t?” said Mr. Lep in awe.
“Nope. Never dreamed of it.”
“Oh, hello, sir!” said the hedgehog, scanning Mr. Lep. “First visit? My name is Darius Lonjunctio. Please fill this form out if you wish to join our group!”
Mr. Lep filled the form in:
First Name: Dennis
Middle Name: ___________ (Not required to register)
Last Name: Lep
Is that all I really needed to fill out, Mr. Lep wondered.
“Why hello Dennis!”
“You just said hi to me the other moment…” said Mr. Lep
“Oh yes!” Darius scanned everyone else carefully. “I know you, you’re Boda, the person who can never seem to get into a relationship!”
“Why the hell did you tell him that…?” Boda whispered to OldBean.
“Oh, and why, you’ve already registered, both of you!” he said, looking at both Dr. Moo and Boda. “Gabran Moo, correct?”
Before Gabran could answer though, the woman at the counter ran towards OldBean.
“I-I have a letter…”
OldBean took it and opened the envelope. He noticed that the letter had the Contro Corporation logo on it. He read the letter.
We are attacking.
“The bloody hell? WE’RE GONNA BE ATTACKED?!” OldBean yelled in frustration. It was as if things were tough enough already.
“Well, well, well. Looks like our letter arrived too late.” President Contra himself was standing in the doorway, with that gun in his hand. “I believe one of you has offended me highly, and has been fighting against my corporation bravely. That person will pay. Show yourself now.”
OldBean walked out in front of Electus.
“Well, mate. I must admit you’ve had me. I surrender myself in the name of the Lord!”
“Hmph, very funny.” He loaded the gun, took good aim, and fired.
“Sad thing is, you’ll probably get your own talk show after this, just like Marin.” laughed OldBean. Electus had just stepped onto a trapdoor when it had been activated. He was now miles beneath the building. But all his soldiers remained.
“Oh, crap. What now?” OldBean said angrily.
“Well, lets run for it and let our Bean Squad attack them too. Call all of our forces, I’d say.” said Dennis. “RUN!”
They ran through all the gunfire, and due to the good training of the Bean Squad, no one was harmed. But Gabran had better things to think about.
“Hang on,” he said. “Where the hell are we going?”
“We’re flying to ‘Chimpina’!” yelled back Dennis. “Word is that Zero is looking for some sort of Relic there! We can escape everyone here too!”
“What, and leave everyone to die? You gotta be kidding…” But when OldBean looked up at Dennis, he looked serious.
“Come on, look, no one’s injured! Everything’ll be fine! Lets go!”
“What about Contra? He will kill everyone here regardless of rather they’re men, women, dogs, cats, and his family!”
“His family works here?” asked Dennis, stunned.
“No way, man!”
“Well, lets go anyway. It’ll take a while for Contra to the top floor from all the way up there. The exit in the trapdoor leads to the 71st floor, you see.”
“Goody, I guess its safe to go then!” chuckled OldBean. The security measures were rather good in his opinion. “So, where is the BeanPlane?!”
“Geez, and I thought the BatMobile was bad. Anyway, its at the hanger. Duh.”
They went to the hanger, it seemed that Electus’ top dog, the man they met in the sewers, was right in there.
“I’m attaching a bomb onto the Plane, just a little more and…” He caught sight of the owl, cow, dragius, and human.
“Well, well. Going somewhere, are we?”
“Oh, did I forget that there are more complex traps around here?” laughed OldBean. The trap activated, and the man fell to his…
“Surely he didn’t die?” asked Dennis, not assured by OldBean.
“Oh, no. But he’ll be down there for a long, long, long time….”
They got rid of the already ticking time bomb with Gabrans help. They threw it at the door in the 71st floor, when they reached the skies. The windows smashed, and the bomb went in.
“That’ll give Contra some trouble getting back down, after he just came back up.” grinned Dennis.
They flew off into the distance, to China, where Mayor Gondour and possibly Zero, would be.
“Well, what are we doing there when we get there?” asked Boda. “Not like we’ll just say hi to them and take our leave.”
“We’ll try to get that relic Zero is after and look after it. And obviously, keep it away from him. And if I see Gon-home-to-mummy, I’d like to give him some words of respect."
When they reached the remains of what used to be China, OldBean said “Well folks, this where it all starts…”But he would not believe later how true his words were.
They all looked down from above, and from seeing the horrible sight they just saw, they all gave a bellow of fear. Zeromune was right there, ready to attack them. |
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| Quote: | Chapter Five, Fakes Evil
Zero was right there, with a glowing energy ball in his hand, the colour of it bright purple. It was a fearful sight.
“Well, this time, we have weapons! DROP THE BOMBS, I hope this works!” yelled OldBean.
The bombs had no effect, Zeromune’s shield protected him, nothing made a scratch when all of the bombs has been used.
“HOLY SHIP HARBOUR, THE HELL ARE WE GONNA DO NOW?!” Boda yelled at OldBean. He merely shrugged, the look of fear no longer on him.
“Fire all weaponry. We need survival badly. Boda, control the ship for a while, please.”
“WHAT?!”
“You heard me.”
OldBean left the cockpit and had a good look at Zeromune.
“’ello, Zero, ‘ma man! How you doin’?”
“You should never have come.” said Zeromune darkly.
He blasted the energy ball at the helicopter, and it came tumbling down from the air.
“OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN…”
“Boda, shut up! Its part of the plan!” yelled back OldBean. OldBean braced for impact, and yelled his favourite line…
“I say Old Be-an…!”
The copter ended up right nearby the Great Wall of China. The wall has survived all those 1000 years. Other than that, China was now quite wasted.
“Explore the wall, I say?” asked Dennis.
“Er, okay. Not that its that exciting.” shrugged OldBean.
Despite what he thought, the wall did become quite exciting to look around. But then they met Gondour.
“Oh, geez. I didn’t expect you here!” growled OldBean.
“Oh, sure. I’ve been investigating the wall and have finally got its true name. It is indeed China.”
“Yeah, well let me just make it a stupid name!”
Silence.
“Where me go. Me know relic. Shiny thing. Mujashia! Mujashia!”
“Okay now, who the hell are you?” asked Gabran, looking at the wild girl who had just popped out of nowhere.
“Hang on, did she say ‘relic’? Lets follow her, she’s pointing somewhere.” insisted OldBean.
“How the hell does she know it’s a relic?!”
They all walked off to follow the girl, leaving Gondour yelling “Come back here right now! I demand an explanation! Your time as mayor is until 6 more months! COME BACK HERE!”
OldBean came back, with a package that contained a time bomb.
“Hey, pal. I just wanted to pay some respect to you, you know, for making life easy for me? Take this parcel, a small gift from me.”
OldBean walked off, leaving Gondour completely stunned.
“K, lets go.”
They followed the Mechanid girl around the forest. She did not say anything. Until they ventured deeper.
“Me name Mujashia!”
“I worked that out somehow all by myself, thanks.” replied Dennis, but Boda through a angry look at him.
As they ventured even more deeper, they noticed remains of the long ago Battle of Silence. The tents were still there, and the food were still there. Sadly for Gabran, the food was no longer in any condition to eat.
“Relic here.” Mujashia said. OldBean went up to the box in which she was pointing to. He opened it, and looked inside. There was nothing in there.
“Die, weaklings. You were so gullible to have thought that a random girl would have found the ancient relic. In the first place, how could she have known it was even a relic!?” Zeromune’s voice came directly from Mujashia. “You will pay for the price for your stupidity, and you will earn it now!”
Mujashia exploded, no blood came out though. She was a mere puppet. OldBean and the rest of them were greatly injured, but got away to escape death, yet again.
“I KNEW there was something wrong with that girl! Zero, I am going to kill you!” yelled Boda.
“Shut up, Boda. As we are in no condition continue, I suggest we heal up here, have some rest.” said OldBean.
“What, you mean you’ll let Zeromune about 3 more steps ahead of us?!” complained Dennis, scandalised.
“Well, if we go injured, we’ve had it. From this point on, we have to be cautious of the many dangers around here.”
“Geez, its only been a while and bad stuff is already happening. You think your becoming of mayor is an omen?” asked Gabran.
“Omen? OMEN? No way, my friend! OldBean may as well be the best mayor in history! Temporary or not!”
“And that,” whispered Dennis to Boda and Gabran. “Is coming from the beak of an owl that wears a top hat.” |
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| Quote: | Chapter Six, The Relic of Realism
The next day, they all got up to cook some food they caught. Boda did not like it.
“Pfft,” he went. “Salmon. Trout. Tuna. Pike. Do I have to eat this?”
“Yes, you do, now SHUT UP.” yelled back OldBean.
“Yeah, since when did you ever eat trout? I thought you lived on POPCORN!”
“Well, an owls gotta try out everything, right?” he replied.
“And you still haven’t accepted my challenge of not wearing that top hat for one month.” said Dennis.
OldBean merely shrugged, and merrily cooked the fish and ate it.
“WOW, he can eat Tuna!” yelled Boda.
“Well, duh.” said Gabran. “Fish is edible.”
After they had had their food, they continued through the forest, being cautious all the way through.
“Oh my god, a butterfly!” screamed Boda. “It might shoot butter at us! There is a reason they call them butterflies you know!”
“And there is a reason,” said Gabran before Boda could continue rambling. “That people would like to call you Soda. Get rid of the ‘o’ in the name, and put in the 's'. Re-arrange it. ‘Sad’. You are a sad, sad, pathetic weak hopeless and loveless…”
“Will you two shut UP?” said OldBean again. “Geez, just what we want when we’re gonna scale the building ‘Granus’ Tower’ from the outside!”
“The outside?” Boda, Dennis, and Gabran were rather surprised. “The outside? Why can’t we go through the inside? Why the hell are we going there anyway?!”
“For a start, the path in the tower leads to ‘Mt. Granus’.” replied OldBean. “Zero headed there. But its too risky. Contra set up troops in the tower, he expected us to escape the FBI IB and come for the relic. Hopefully though, if all went well for Zero, the troops will have been killed by him.”
Everyone gulped. They marched off for the tower, which when they arrived, was very, very tall. They could hardly scale it without falling back down and dying. Of course, OldBean would survive, as he could fly.
“So, plan is? Commit suicide?” laughed Boda.
“I hardly see whats so funny, my friend.” he said to Boda. “But if you are THAT scared, we might as well ask Dr. Moo for some of that Confidence Potion.”
“I’M NOT SCARE-” Boda started, but Gabran already took out four glasses from his backpack, and filled them with some Confidence Potion. They all took a glass.
“I brought it in case we’d need it.” said Gabran proudly. “It seems we did. With such confidence, we will not be afraid that we will fall, we will believe we will succeed! And without fear, there can be no loss!”
They drained all their glasses. It tasted rather good, unlike other medicines and potions. OldBean felt determined, that he would reach the relic. But this didn’t really matter, as OldBean could just fly up there.
“Well, gotta fly!” he went. “I say Old Bean!” And he flew off.
They all scaled the tower with confidence, and without anxiousness and nervousness with them, they felt as if they could do anything. But about when they reached three quarters of the building, the potion wore off.
“Don’t look down, down look down.” Boda repeated to himself, still clinging onto his rope.
“That saying never really helps out, now does it?” said OldBean, all the way at the top.
“Ah man, while you’re just enjoying your view, we’re being ambushed, with 99% percent of defeat!”
Sure enough, all the windows smashed open, and the troops loaded their rifles, and aimed.
“No high tech security for you this time.” one of them sneered.
“Well, its up to me again, isn’t it?” decided OldBean. OldBean went inside the tower and yelled “Who ya gonna call?! The fatso from Italy? Wait, I know, how about that guy from Chimpina, you know, the guy who cries for his mummy?!”
The troops didn’t round on him. They knew it was a distraction. As they were about to fire, OldBean said, “Well folks, at least you have some brains. But if you want larger ones…” and then he flew straight at all of them. They all fell out the window. OldBean helped everyone into the tower.
“Well, at least you finally killed SOMEONE, OldBean!” yelled Dennis.
“I didn’t kill, they have parachutes! And due to their very bad security, all the troops down there will be questioning the troops that were once up here about their identity! And it could take ages for all I know, bloody hell, the time to get all the way up here’ll take long!”
“Speaking of that,” Gabran said, “Don’t you think we should HURRY UP!”
And so they all ran to the top of the tower, and went up the mountains without ease. But they finally made the end of it, nearby the very top of the mountain, was the relic.
“Can’t…breathe…” Boda complained. OldBean ignored him.
“The relic of Realism,” the relic went. It was odd to find a relic that could talk. “if you wish something to become real, you have found your chance. Deep within your hearts, lie your truest desires.”
“Okay guys, watch it. This could be another fake for all I know.” said Dennis. Everyone else was almost sure about it.
“Worth the risk.” OldBean went. And so he took the relic. He felt power surging through him, but now that power of confidence and achievement. It was the bad sensation he had felt three times already. The relic went out of control and shattered, and once OldBean opened his eyes again, he noticed a blue light energy ball in front of him.
“Lies your truest desires..” the energy ball went. “Claim me, and all your dreams will become true.”
OldBean still thought it as a trap. He looked at the others, they all frowned.
“Seems too real.” they replied to his look.
“How do I take it, is the question.” he went.
“Claim me, grasp me, use me for everything to be real…”
Grasp…OldBean touched the energy ball, and all was gone. The energy ball released its energy and all four of them tumbled down the mountain. They were very badly injured when they reached the very bottom. Surprisingly, they did not die.
“Wow, and we escaped death again.” whispered Dennis. “How?”
“A little bit of confidence,” Gabran said, “Never goes amiss.” And he pointed at his backpack, apparently, the potion did really wear off. It was just their fear breaking out of them temporarily. Their belief that they would live made it all worth while.
“Idiots!” Zero’s voice boomed. “You fell for yet another trap! There is no Relic of Realism! If you are that dumb, it may as well be called the Relic of Unrealism! But it is too late now, you are surrounded. Admit defeat, and surrender yourself to me.” |
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| Quote: | Chapter Seven, Second Battle of Inner Beanland
Electus and his troops withdrawed from the FBI. It was a hilarious sight, all of them running for their lives, but Giacomo had no real time for that.
“All right men,” he started, but Dranon interrupted him.
“Sir, we have a message from Sir Bean.”
“Do not call him Bean. He wants to rather be called OldBean. What is the message?”
“He says he’s returning. But it’ll take him a while with some difficulty that he seems to have right now. He wouldn’t tell me what it was.”
“Right then men, we need to rally up more resistance in case they come back with stronger, more skilled, and more deadly troops. I’ll be right back.”
And with that, he left the area. He went to the 63rd floor, The Meeting Room. He did not know that a Contro troop was hiding in the air ducts. But he heard the noise, and shot the man dead.
“Blimey, Gia. Never knew you had a knack for spotting troops.” said Randal, looking at the gaping hole in the ceiling.
“There is a reason I’m leader here. Get more Bean Squad members to the front entrance, 71st floor, and the dungeon entrance. Call the elite squad to the weaponry area, Cafeteria, and get Qualia the nurse protected by the best man you can find.”
“Yes, sir.” The man replied, and he walked off. Giacomo heard a rattle on the ceiling. He had expected that, the enemy was parachuting to the 71st floor. He went to the elevator, and put in the token.
“Access granted to special areas for 24 hours. Name, Giacomo.” a voice said. He pushed the button to the 71st floor and waited. He got his knife, and gun ready, the enemy was probably waiting right in front of the elevator. When the doors opened, he fired away at all the troops, they all went down in a few hits.
“We can’t just stand around, get moving, don’t use the emergency exits by the way.” he added, when a man made for one. “The enemy is taking everything into advantage. But the traps more than to make up for it."
An alarm went off again.
“Red alert, Red Alert! The weaponry area has been infiltrated!”
And so Giacomo made for the elavator, and went to the 3rd floor. It was a trap, he’d had it. There was Electus, the president of Contro Corporation. Electus pointed his gun and said, “So long, mighty warrior.”
And the gun fired loudly. |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Eight, Zero Survival
OldBean was at the bottom of the mountain, all hope lost. Zeromune ‘zeroed’ onto him and created another energy ball.
“And now,” he said. “You shall pay the price.”
With the effect of Confidence potion, OldBean dodged the attack.
“Pay the price?! Geez, I haven’t even payed for my car rental yet!”
Zeromune created a larger ball and directed it at the tip of the mountain. Boulders came rolling down towards all five of them.
“Watch it!” yelled Dennis as he pushed OldBean away. The boulders did not harm Zeromune though, as he still had his barrier.
“You thought you could defeat me..? You are narrow minded, no brains at all.”
He struck another energy ball at the four. They dodged, but the blast hit Boda.
“BODA!” they all yelled. Boda flew far away, not seen in sight after he had past the remains of the War of Silence.
“I’m gonna get you for this!” and Gabran charged at Zeromune, his attack only reaching as far as Zeromune’s barrier. The touch of the barrier brought a sort of electrical shock through his body, and he feel to the ground. He moved no more.
“Ah man, Denny, don’t give it up too.” whimpered OldBean. “RUN FOR IT!”
But no sooner than he said run, Zeromune disabled his shield and charged at OldBean and held him up high in the sky.
“You think,” he said. “That you can actually outsmart me with saying ‘run’ as fast as possible? Idiot.” With that, he dropped OldBean and kicked him far away. He too, flew off out of sight. Zeromune now glared down at Dennis.
“You will be next.”
And he pointed his finger at Dennis, a mighty looking gun materialised. And he said, “This is the end, for all of you.”
Dennis ran for it, but he got shot by the tranquilliser dart, and went down. |
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| Quote: | Chapter Nine, The 3rd Floor
Giacomo lay on the floor, dead.
The man beside Electus was shocked.
“Check if he really is dead, you can’t expect much from a very skilful warrior.”
The man checked him. Due to Giacomo’s armour, the man did not hear any heart beats.
“Oh my god, HE REALLY IS DEAD!”
“Hmph, a few bullet shots would certainly make things certain.” And he fired five times at Giacomo. His body moved, but he did not make a sound. He was dead. Blood was pouring out of him.
“Adios, Giacomo.” Electus said, and as he headed for the elevator, Giacomo got up and shot down the man right nearby Electus.
“Aren’t you meant to be dead?!” asked Electus. Giacomo merely waved his finger at him.
“We studied the bullets you tried to fire at OldBean back down at the sewers at Breathlight. We developed a armour that makes sure your bullets do not affect us.”
Electus stared back at Giacomo in awe.
“B-but, wait about your blood?!” he said, looking at the red substance pouring down to the floor.
“That, is not blood. That is tomato sauce. You can tell the difference between blood and this, but from afar, it doesn’t make a difference does it?” And with that, Giacomo shot Electus six more times, reloading his bullets.
“I have armour against you as well, Gia. Remember a long time ago, when we had that ultimate battle? A sample of your bullet, helped the same way as a sample of my, bullet. Now, let us see how much more ultimate a battle we can have!”
The two constantly fired away at each other, none of them falling in battle. They ran out of bullets.
“Now, the moment I’ve been waiting for!” Electus shouted, and took out a bullet from one of his pockets. He fired at Giacomo’s head, as the same time as when Giacomo through a grenade. The two fell in combat, but Giacomo was the victor. Giacomo got up, badly injured, and stared at Electus’ unconscious body.
“Indeed, it was a ‘ultimate’ battle. But too short, in my opinion. Very useful technique, just standing in front of your opponent, hoping he’ll run out of bullets. Idiot, you rely too much on what you have.” And with that, Giacomo moved the body. He then proceeded to the first floor with the grenade he took from Electus when he moved his body. The battle was still ensuing. The commander was right there, jeering at random Bean Squad members and laughing hard. He was at the center of the room. Taking this to good effect, Giacomo told all the Bean Squad to retreat trying their best not to get injured, and through the grenade into the center of the room. It exploded, and the troops lay on the floor, unconscious.
"Unlike you, we don't kill unless necessary." |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Ten, Escape from China
OldBean woke up. He couldn’t see anything, but then his eyes started focusing. He was right next to Mayor Gondour with Boda, at the Great Wall of China.
“And you call yourself the mayor of the century.” Gondour snorted.
“Oh, is that right now? I’m dumb? Why don’t you go heading to the west and get killed by Zeromune, THEN we’ll see whose better!”
“Actually, we can’t go into that area at all. Zeromune duplicates are surrounding the area.”
“WHAT?!” yelled Boda, shocked. “What about Dr. Moo?! And Mr. Lep!?”
Silence.
“Well, at least we know what he meant by ‘surrounded’. That, and he can make duplicates of himself. We need to strike back. Is there anyway to destroy the barrier that protects him?”
“Old fart, we are as clueless as you are. Maybe power stronger than his can destroy it.”
“I doubt it. I’ve seen what he can do. And it bloody hell well hurts.” said Boda.
“I need to get back to Inner Beanland.” thought OldBean aloud. Everyone heard.
“Why?” said both Gondour and Boda together.
“Weapons. FBI IB. Electus. Contro Corporation. A joint of strong weapons, we can surely defeat Zero.”
“But what about Dennis and Gabran?” asked Boda. He was so worried that he started using their first names.
“Zero has them. Sad but, they’ve had it.” sniffed OldBean. “Anyways, can we use your copter?”
“I might as well leave with you, I don’t want to do here either.” shrugged Gondour
The journey back to Beanland was bad. Gondour and OldBean continuously argued.
“I say, OldBean! We needed a FBI! OldBean Federal Bureau of Investigation in Inner Beanland!”
“CRAP NAME!” yelled Gondour.
“Ironic you call it crap, as you rule over a place called ‘Inner Beanland’.” laughed Boda.
All of sudden, Zeromune’s duplicates rounded in on him. One of them was the real Zeromune, but all of them had the same strength. All of them combined would mean total chaos.
“Oh man, geez! Why us?!” and so OldBean tried to dodge all the attacks, but the copter got hit. It started tumbling down like the BeanCopter.
“We gotta try…”whispered OldBean to himself. He climbed out of the copter, and looked up, but too soon. An streak of purple light just went by him.
“We’re getting closer to Beanland…”said Gondour.
“AND?! We need to survive!” yelled Boda. And as he said it, a blue energy ball hit him, and fell out of the copter.
“Boda...”
All of a sudden, all of the duplicates disappeared, leaving only the real Zeromune. He flew towards the copter, and created a green energy ball.
“So long.” he said, and he shot the ball at the copter as it fell from the sky.
“Did I mention we had parachutes?!” said Gondour, and they both parachuted out of the copter before it got hit by Zeromune’s blast. |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Eleven, Mission Failed
They landed into the town of Summeron. They were in Northern Beanland. The place had been taken over by Contro Corporation, and with this, sneaking around the town wasn’t going to be so easy. All the manholes had been cemented over, and a soldier would usually be next to the once upon a time, entrance to the sewer, just in case.
“Now, the hell are we going to do? Inner Beanland is rather far away from here, and by the time we get there, Contro will have taken over!” said Gondour.
“Well, we need to beat Zero first. Better taken over than dying, right?” said OldBean. “I think its time to break into Contro Corporation!”
“WHAT?!” yelled Gondour, shocked.
“Well, not like it’ll be a breeze, but its worth it right? We need to steal some of their weapons.”
“How are we going to break in?” asked Gondour. “There is a mass security system on the 43rd floor which needs four people or something to get past.”
“Oh crap, is it possible to trick the system?” asked OldBean.
“Not that I’m aware of.”
“Well, for a start on our plan, how are we going to get to the Contro Building? I mean, the entire town is full of soldiers that’d probably kill us on sight.”
“Stealth, my friend, stealth.” replied Gondour. “It always helps.”
OldBean looked around the area. Soldiers were on lookout on building tops, all the alleyways were taken into watching too.
“Well, some stealth adventure, huh?” said OldBean sarcastically.
“Not really, look.” Gondour pointed at a man drinking beer. It was the man OldBean had arrested previously out of anger.
“WHAT?! Encouraging people to drink beer is illegal?! Well, let me put it to you mate,” the man said to the soldier in front of him, “If you say that drinking ‘good tasting beer’ is illegal, it should be you that gets arrested, not us!” But of course the man got carted away to jail again. OldBean took this as an advantage , when some of the soldiers took the man away, leaving the way to a cemented sewer entrance free.
“Okay, that’s done and done.” Gondour said, “But how are we going to get down there?”
“We need some sort of explosives, but that’s at Contro. And this is the only way into Contro.” whispered back OldBean, when he thought he heard movement. “The cement has to be gotten rid of form the inside.”
“What if the manhole had been cemented a LONG time ago?” asked Gondour. This struck OldBean hard.
“Well, that’s back to Square One, huh?” OldBean continued to think up more ideas before the guards came back to their stations.
“Eh, this is close to impossible.” concluded OldBean. “We’ll have to get captured to get into the building.”
“Count me out of this then.” said Gondour.
“Well then, that’s to Square One, again.”
OldBean heard footsteps, there was no more hiding it.
“I’M GOING OUT!” OldBean yelled, and he flew into sight.
“Who ya gonna call, the fatso from Italy? Wait, I know, the guy behind me?!” |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Twelve, Contro Corporation
Gondour lay sharp objects on the road out of the enemies sight, while OldBean was being was being captured. The troops put him in a Contro truck, and when it started to drive away, the tyres went flat. The troops saw Gondour, who had an unreadable expression. As they started to get out of the truck, OldBean struggled out of the truck and slammed the doors into the faces of the troops constantly. Finally, the two troops fell to the ground, unconscious.
“All your cars are belong to us.” said OldBean, who seemed to be on the verge of laughing.
“Well,” said Gondour, slightly shaken. “I guess that means we have a truck all to ourselves then, aye?”
“Yup,” nodded OldBean. “As the truck has the Contro logo on it, the troops will think that we’re one of them, driving off somewhere, which in our case, is Contro Corporation itself.”
“One problem,” said Gondour, looking around. “Just where is Contro?”
“We’ll just search the entire region until we find it. Best hope we have anyway.” shrugged OldBean.
“Look!” yelled Gondour, pointing at the back of the truck. “A map! We could use this!”
“Well, no duh.”
They used the map and located the Contro building. It was massive. They drived into the carpark, only to be met with ten soldiers blocking their way.
“ID and password?” asked one of them lazily.
“Don’t blame us for the tight security.” said another one of them. “Everyone expects OldBean to pop up here, as if!”
“Well, that means you can let us pass?” asked OldBean, his face hidden by a helmet he found in the back of the truck.. “I mean, with him all the way in China, how can he even possibly break in?”
“Good point, you may pass.” and so they all left.
“Tight security…”snorted Gondour. “…I rather say ‘lack of security’…”
“Yeah, and since they know what I look like, we better use stealth.”
“Okay. Let me go talk to the guard. I might be able to make him lift all security, with my mayor authorities.”
“K. Just go out there, say your royalty, and get your arse kicked into jail.” OldBean rolled his eyes. “They know what you look like, bonehead. They’re after you too.”
“Oh yeah…”
OldBean walked towards the front door. It required a card key.
“Well, Gondour, check the truck for any key cards.”
Gondour checked the truck. He found a blue security card, and he handed it over to OldBean.
“This card,” he said, “ Only works on this door. We need to find the others.”
“But the soldiers around here have the cards…”said OldBean, who gazed around. He spotted a soldier. “Should we ask him for a card?” OldBean asked.
“Wouldn’t it be suspicious?” asked Gondour. “All the troops have security cards…”
“Trust me.” OldBean replied, and he walked off.
“Excuse me, but do you happen to have a card key? I’ve lost mine.”
“Are you nuts?” whispered the soldier. “Don’t talk to me! If they find us slacking off, they’ll demote us to lieutenant! After that, they’ll demote even more, to the lowest rank ever! Hey…” said the Soldier, looking at OldBean. “Its you! Call security!”
But before the guard could sound the alarm, Gondour shot him down with a tranquilliser dart. “Its nice to have one of these.” he commented. “Maybe we should keep this to sneak around.”
“Good idea.” said OldBean, rolling his eyes again. “As it’s the only weapon we have anyway.”
OldBean took three key cards from the guard.
“Floor 93, Floor 56, Floor 43...isn’t that the floor with the mass security system?”
“Yeah,” said Gondour. “I dunno what it does though. Lets move the guard away into a locked area, or we’ll get caught.”
“How?” asked OldBean, looking around. “lock him up in one of the cars?”
“No, lets throw him out into the ‘wildlife’.”
They threw the man outside, and the ten men immediately to the front gate again.
“Lets leave them to it…”whispered Gondour, and they both sneaked into the building.
They walked towards the elevator, only to be noticed by Electus himself.
“Dreadful ordeal,” he said. “I only just escaped from the old man’s crudely built FBI. My troops are still there but, they’ll manage.”
OldBean felt insulted. He was not old, it was just his name.
“Hmph. The old fart seems to have been finished off, I believe. I noticed Mayor Gon-down-to-popularity’s copter, crashed in Summeron.” said back OldBean. OldBean had changed into a enemy costume before he entered, he found it lying around somewhere. This raised OldBean’s hope that infiltrating the building would be easy. Even though the uniform was too big for him, he managed, as there were other owls working around the area.
“Really?” asked Contra. “That makes matters good. I’ll arrange a letter to the FBI that their leader has fallen, and they must surrender.”
“I forgot how to get past the security system on Floor 43.” blurted out OldBean suddenly.
“That?” asked Contra. “THAT?” he laughed very hard. “Why, you must be very dumb, my friend. You need it to scan you, and then you are allowed to pass.”
“What about the ‘four people’ thing?” asked OldBean.
“There is no four people thing. If you meant the four guards, don’t worry about them.”
This calmed OldBean down a lot, but then he remembered a bad fact: he needed to be scanned.
“What floor was the armoury? I forgot.”
“The armoury IS the 43rd floor.” said Contra, confused.
“Oh, right. Sorry, bad memory.”
Contra eyed OldBean suspiciously, but walked off, when OldBean didn’t say anything.
“Well, we got through that pretty well, huh?” said OldBean to Gondour, who was wearing purple clothing as a disguise.
“Well, wow.” said Gondour, shocked. “How are we supposed to get through the 43rd floor?”
“We’ll knock one of the guards out, and scan.” replied OldBean silently.
“Hey, how about that guard I shot down earlier…?”
They went back outside, and asked the ten guards for the unconscious body. They seemed rather terrified of it, but nevertheless, handed it over.
“Okay, so, we need weapons, huh? Floor 43 please.” OldBean said, and he inserted the blue key card.
“Time to scan,” and Gondour threw the unconscious body into the room, and it was scanned immediately.
“Lets go in now.” but when he entered, the alarm went off.
“Oh dear.” Gondour s******ed.
“Moron, are you gonna stand there in laugh? HIDE.”
They hid behind crates of weapons, but only then they realised there were security cameras in the room. Luckily, they hadn’t been caught yet. The door blasted open. Four guards stormed into the area.
“What the hell are you doing here, Francis?” said one of the guards, kicking the unconscious body.
“Eh, he probably went bonkers again and knocked himself out.” the other said.
“What about the alarm?”
“Eh, he probably touched the equipment.” yelled back the other guard over the sound of the alarm, he was searching the entire area just in case. OldBean hoped he didn’t get spotted. The guards left with the still unconscious body, the alarm turning off.
“So now, how are we going to get these weapons outta here?” asked Gondour, eyeing the crates.
“I’ll call the FBI.” and OldBean took out his mobile phone.
“You have one of those?” said Gondour, amazed.
“Pfft, I only brought it in case of emergencies.” and he called the FBI. After the call, OldBean said “Well, they say they’ll meet us at the top of the building, but we gotta watch it, and so do they. The building is protected highly. And besides that, we still need the key card for the 94th floor.”
“We do have the key card for floor 93 right? Maybe we can scale the building from there?”
“SCALE? My friend, I can FLY up there.” OldBean rolled his eyes again.
“Air ducts?”
“Gondy, this is no video game. Geez. Even the ducts are being monitored. Security has been improved dramatically. But first, we should move the weapons.”
As soon as they touched the crates however, the alarm went off once more. With great difficulty, they moved as many crates as possible inside the elevator. But they couldn’t take all of the crates, as the elevator probably couldn’t support it all.
“Lets get in.” said OldBean, and they got in. He was surprised security hadn’t arrived when they touched the crates. He inserted the other blue card, and they arrived at the 93rd floor. When they got out of the elevator however, they were met with guns pointed at them.
“Don’t move.” a guard said.
“Oh dear.” whimpered Gondour.
All of a sudden however, the windows smashed open, and a helicopter crashed through. “HOLY COW.” yelled Gondour. “HOW THE HELL DID A HELICOPTER GET HERE?”
There were bodies lying everywhere.
“Er, whoever sent it must be very stupid.” said OldBean.
A plane arrived nearby the window.
“Climb the rope and we’ll get the crates!” said a familiar voice.
“BODA!” yelled OldBean. He did not expect him to be alive still. “HOW THE BLOODY HELL…”
Boda shrugged. “Dunno.” he said. “I’ve been running from Zero for a while, ended up at the FBI too. With difficulty, with the troops everywhere in town and stuff. Anyway, we’ll take you to the Rooftops so you can use the door up there to get into the 94th floor. I’m sure there should be a spot somewhere in the room where you have to enter a password to use the elevator. You see, you can’t use key cards for the 94th floor. You need a password.”
“And all this time we thought we needed Card Keys…” whispered OldBean. “Anyway, we’ll get ‘em. What’s the password?”
“Dunno, but I doubt Contra would leave his men locked up in a room. Check the place.”
OldBean scanned the room, and found a piece of paper duct taped to a wall. It said “473747936905356878643394578329693785”.
“Some bloody long password.” complained OldBean.
“You need to enter it.” said Boda. OldBean entered the code, and moved all the crates to the rooftops and loaded the plane, with the help of some FBI workers in the plane.
“Lets go.” Gondour said. “I’ve barely had any food recently.”
“Will you just stop WHINING?” yelled back OldBean, who said right behind Gondour in the plane.
“Take off. We’re going to the FBI, now folks!” said Boda, and the plane took off. Electus was barely visible down at the very bottom of the building, but OldBean could still see him, waving his fist at them. |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Thirteen, Attack
They landed straight in front of the FBI. The battle was still ensuing. A guard ran towards OldBean, but Gondour shot him down, and Boda used his powers to send him flying away.
“Well, that’s that. What we gonna do now?” asked OldBean.
“I thought you planned that out.” said Gondour.
“Well, for one thing, we can always finish the battle!” yelled Boda, and he charged into the FBI and used his powers to make enemies repeatedly bang themselves into walls, hopelessly running into each other. OldBean looked up, he saw something at the top of the building repeatedly changing colours. It was Zeromune, OldBean thought.
“Gotta go.” OldBean said, and he went off flying to the Roof tops. Once he landed, he was face to face with Zeromune.
“Now is the time for you all to die…” he said darkly. OldBean then started to wonder why he even flew up there. He just felt like it when he saw Zeromune. And then, he noticed, he just wanted to feel heroic. He didn’t even have a plan.
“You are all hopeless against me…” he ranted on. OldBean didn’t know what else to do. He tried to fly back to the bottom of the building, but Zeromune created a barrier, stopping OldBean from flying more closer. But then, a huge explosion was heard down below. OldBean suspected it was around about the 34th floor. Zeromune flew away from the building once again, and headed to another building top. He stared at OldBean, not even doing anything. OldBean, taking that Zeromune wouldn’t attack him, looked down below to see what was going on at the bottom. He noticed that there was a humongous gapping whole in the center of the building. Apparently, the explosion was very powerful.
“I shall take chance.” Zeromune said darkly, yet again, and he started firing energy balls at OldBean. He didn’t get hit, but he planned to fly away the next time he was to be attacked. OldBean’s mobile phone rang.
“FELLOW COMRADE BEAN.” a voice said. OldBean recognised it at once.
“MR. LEP! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!”
“Nope.” said Dennis. “When I woke up, I was at the FBI. Dunno how. Anyway, I was wondering what was going on, and I pressed a button to get out of the room. It opened the door but, the place exploded. It still hurts, but m’okay.”
OldBean then realised what the explosion was. Zeromune materialised a gigantic laser gun. “Time to die.”
OldBean decided to gaze further down, and he saw a bad sight. The Harriers that the FBI pilots were flying in went berserk. They started firing random shots everywhere.
“Damn!”
OldBean dodged a shot. He didn’t think things would be so bad. It couldn’t happen though, he couldn’t get hit. Everything would keep going, he knew it would, it always did. The many times he almost drowned in water, he survived.
“OldBean!” he heard in the mobile phone. It was Gabran. “GET THE HELL OUTTA THERE!”
OldBean did as instructed, dodging all the fire, and he lept down from the roof top, past the barrier Zeromune had made. When he was close enough to the ground though, he started flying, and landed safely onto the ground. |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Fourteen, Rusted Wall
OldBean ran for it, and hid in a building, but a harrier started to head for his way, and he ran back to the entrance of the FBI, with the harrier crashed.
“Oh dear.”
OldBean noticed tanks coming to the FBI, with more harriers. FBI IB Special Forces were also getting ready for a attack. OldBean didn’t know how they could manage to dispose of Zeromune, with the battle in the building still ensuing. That wasn’t all though, men from the circus came, fire coming out of their mouths, preparing to burn someone with their entertaining tricks. Then there was the police heading their way, with stolen Contro Corporation weapons. When he saw the weapons though, he noticed that the FBI IB special forces were using the same weapons, from the crates he brought. And if he thought that was enough, he saw troops hiding in a sewer. This was war. And to add to the causes, there were C4s at almost every building he saw. He also saw Gabran, spraying around his “Sleep Tonic” at random passer-by’s. “Go to hell, good people or bad people! Hell do I care! Just eat my…pants?” he yelled. And then he saw Sephy, the Sephiroth look-alike. “Fear my power!” he said, and then he dived down from the building he was standing on top of, and he smashed head first into a FBI IB car. And then he also saw Mega-Crap, who also dived from a building, and smashed also, head first, not into a FBI car, but into the garbage dump, which incidentally had a C4 planted right next to it, which exploded. “THIS IS NOT THE END!” he yelled. “I AM MEGA-CRAPPY, AND I WILL HAVE MY DAY…oh wait, I‘m not mega crappy…”
Zeromune hovered to a bit to the edge of the building he was on.
“Attention, Zero!” a officer yelled. “Surrender now or…or…or…”
“Or say ‘or’? How pathetic.” and he transformed his arm into a gun. He fired away. OldBean couldn’t see anything until the smoke cleared out, and saw many destroyed tanks, and a slightly smoked up Sephy. “Do not underestimate me.” Zeromune said. “Dare attack me, and I’ll attack you.”
All of a sudden, the Special Forces popped up.
“Zeromune! Surrender and we will not attack! If not, you’re gonna get lasered badly.” said the leader, holding his laser gun.
“I was just about to say the same thing to you…” Zeromune said darkly, and he picked up his laser gun that was now on the floor with his other hand, and fired away. Now the entire place was smoked up, with the Special Forces retreating to the sewers, which were eventually flooded, but the Special Forces made their way back to the FBI anyway. OldBean used his mobile phone.
“’ey, Gondour.” said OldBean. “Make sure to make them laser Zeromune ON DARN SIGHT. WE ARE LOSING A ALREADY LOSING BATTLE HERE!”
“I am not Gondour.” said a familiar voice. It was Electus’ best man. “My name is Zacharos, and you’re going down.” And suddenly, a stolen harrier popped up nearby OldBean, which started to fire at him. He needed to take the harrier down somehow. He dodged the attacks by hiding behind a wall. He called Boda. “BODA, MAN! GET ME SOME SORT OF WEAPON TO ATTACK A HARRIER, OR GET SOMEONE TO DESTROY IT!”
No answer. He called Gabran.
“HEY, GIMME SOME WEAPONS TO DESTROY A HARRIER, OR GET SOMEONE TO DESTROY IT!”
No answer. But there was a reason for it as soon has he saw Gabran running around spraying Sleep Tonic at Special Forces. And so he called Dennis.
“’ey, I need weapons! Or can you destroy that harrier out there?!”
No answer. The signals were being blocked from the building somehow. And then he remembered, the carrot. He took off his top hat and threw the carrot out to the harrier.
“What the hell is this?!” wondered Zacharos. “Not the damn carrot again.’
“It bloody hell is!” yelled back OldBean. “Its gonna bloody block the signals to your corporation! No communications to them, eh?!”
While he was distracted, OldBean flew off towards the harrier, and went into it by crashing right through the glass. He pushed random buttons, while Zacharos struggled to push OldBean out. The harrier started firing away at random areas, hitting one of Gabran’s Sleep Tonics(“Oh no! Why my bottles?!). Eventually, OldBean hit the right button…several times. And incidentally he targeted Zeromune, and the missiles fired at him. His barrier was now destroyed, and he could be attack freely. |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter 15, Visit to the Underground
Zeromune’s shield was destroyed, and OldBean himself was surprised. All of a sudden Zacharos pushed OldBean out of the cockpit, and tried to run him over, but OldBean flew out of the way and the harrier ended up crashing into some building quite far away. Zeromune evidently noticed his barrier was gone, and started firing away randomly as to eliminate all threats he had, with both his gun arm and laser gun. In the end, the entire place looked like a junkyard. OldBean got a phone call.
“OldBean, come to the 100th Floor Basement! We got something interesting to tell you!” he heard Gondour say from the mobile phone. And so he took off for the FBI entrance, only to stop at about three quarters of the way, due to Zeromune firing around the entrance randomly, preventing him from entering.
“Sewer time.” sighed OldBean, and he took off to a manhole…only to be found with the fact that it was cemented over by Boda and his powers, to stop Contro troops getting into the building secretly.
“Well, that’s just nice now, isn’t it?” sighed OldBean. Zeromune apparently heard what Gondour said, despite being far away from OldBean. He started to fire rapidly at the sewer entrance. The cement was gone, and there was the manhole, which eventually also got destroyed by Zeromune.
“Go.” he said, and a surprised OldBean clambered in, only for Zeromune to use his power to cement the area again.
“Darn.” OldBean couldn’t do a thing, and this was probably going to finally be a one way trip to the FBI. And so he flew around the sewers, looking for the secret entrance into the FBI building, only to be met with Contro troops, waiting to strike.
“PUT YOUR FEATHERS UP, JACK-”
But before the soldier could finish off showing off his offensive hatred to OldBean, gunfire could be heard. And eventually a huge explosion could be heard, and the entire sewer ended up looking as if a gigantic bomb fell on it.
“Put your feathers up, for a great jackpot!” yelled OldBean, spotting the secret entrance to the FBI, though it was quite blown up now. All the Contro troops were unconscious. He proceeded through the entrance.
“OldBean, man! Where the hell were you?!” asked Gabran.
“Well, for a start, Mr. Zero-Donuts-Left-for-you helped me come here for some reason. Beats me, don’t ask.” OldBean added, seeing Dennis preparing for a question attack. They were now at the 100th floor Basement.
“Anyway, what did you want to tell me about?” asked OldBean.
“We are-” started Gondour, but Dennis interrupted.
“-going to tell you about Zeromune’s past.” |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Sixteen, No History
OldBean looked around the room. He saw a computer screen flashing with the words ‘where is the salami?’.
“How the HELL…did you get that info?!” he demanded.
“Erm, we…umm…you know when we did some research on Zeromune about two months ago?” said Gabran.
“Like hell I do!” yelled OldBean. “What you got? How you get it?”
“Sewers.” grunted a nearby voice. “The very same place you found him.” replied Boda.
“What did you find-”
“OldBean, calm down! We know this is all exciting but we gotta keep our heads straight!” yelled Gondour across the table.
OldBean looked rather mad, and turned around, and saw something that lifted his emotions. Television…but Boda made a sound that sounded like a bird. “Bean! Listen up!”
“Anyway,” said Gabran. “We found in the sewers. Some documents stuffed out of sight. There was a bag hidden in that huge mess of one billion dollar checks. And yeah, you heard me, Contra didn’t go back for them in fear of Zeromune. Anyway, we brought some more checks with us, by the way.” he grinned, and OldBean laughed, but then said, “What about the bag? What documents?”
“The documents are highly, strictly, and all that, confidential.” whispered Boda. He seemed rather confused. “The documents were under full protection for some reason, but it ended up in a sewer junkyard somehow. The documents speak of a failed experiment at Contro Corporation.”
“WHAT?” burst out OldBean suddenly. “WHAT? Failed experiment…Zeromune?”
“Maybe.” said Gondour across the table yet again. “It might even be possible he stole the documents. And its VERY likely since HE was in the sewers too. That, and the document mentions him.”
“Then what is the whole ‘maybe’ thing about then?”
“Well,” said Dennis, lifting up one hand. “There was one experiment,” he ticked off his thumb , “there was another one,” he ticked his finger off, “and surprisingly, there was another one too.” he said, ticking off his middle finger. “Altogether, three.”
“This isn’t First Grade maths test, remember?” said Gondour, rolling his eyes.
“Shut up.” Dennis advised him, “or you’ll be down on the floor before you say-”
All of a sudden, a huge explosion was heard, and Gondour fell to the floor. He got back up on his seat and said, “Before I can say anything.” Boda laughed. OldBean and Gondour were expecting some sort of giant mechanical robot to break in and attack, but Gabran said, “Its just noise from the battle. We’re safe.”
“Anyway,” continued Dennis, “The first experiment, escaped.
“As do most experiments.” interrupted OldBean. Dennis glared. “Carry on!” OldBean said.
“Anyway, the second experiment went mad, destroyed areas rather close by the Contro Building-”
“That’ll be the the ruins of the Grand Universe building! And the Summeron Library, the Jaskel airport…” OldBean interrupted again. But Dennis didn’t react.
“Quite right, OldBean.” said Dennis. “There was also a major problem that occurred due to the madness of the experiment.”
“What?” asked OldBean.
Gondour laughed. “I forget to tell you that, they were all human. The experiments.”
“What’s so funny about that?” asked OldBean, confused.
“Well, erm, umm, I dunno. I have loads of reasons.”
OldBean continued to stare.
“Anyway,” continured Dennis once more, “ the big chaos that occurred was…well…a giant explosion that ripped up the entire area. I think the blast even affected the Great Wall of China. Surprising, eh? That the blast which did not harm US harmed the WALL?”
“I don’t get it…” said OldBean, but then…“Hey! Wait! The experimental barrier shield!”
“Exactly.” said Boda. “Back then in 3001, the experimental barrier shield was in test phase. It created a protective barrier…well duh…and anyway, it protected the area ranging from your house, to the Contro Building.”
“What? My house? Am I connected to Contro?” asked OldBean, stunned.
“Hell no, my man. It was just a coincidence. Anyway, the barrier wasn’t working so well, and apparently the experiment from Contro escaped at that time too, and went berserk, and fired at the barrier. The barrier deflected and reflected everything the test experiment did to it, which ended up injuring it. That, and it escaped somewhere. And umm…it didn’t get only the great wall of China. There was also the Granus Mountain. Some really scientific dude made this fake crystal that was for April fools, but it went to the extreme by actually injuring the person who would take it. Yes,” answered Boda to OldBean’s amazed look. “That was the crystal we took. It wasn’t a trap planned by Zeromune at all. Anyway, no one actually ever found it, because no one even actually knew about it…until that unfortunate moment when we got hit about four hours ago.”
“Hard to believe that it was four hours since you guys went down. Ruined China and Inner Beanland is rather far apart.” said Gondour.
“That’s not all. Lets not give China the glory of damage,” said Gabran, “There was also the ruins of Paris, Rome, and all that. Bloody hell anyone survived that. No one really died.”
“Wow.” OldBean was surprised he never actually heard anything about this, but then he remembered that he went to the museum in South Langarico.
“That and…” Boda paused.
“That and what?” asked OldBean.
“It created…some sort of portal, all the energy! Magic may not seem to exist, but you’ve seen Zeromune do it! That, and the portal!”
“Where did it lead?” asked OldBean yet again.
“Some shiny, sparkly sort of fairy tale looking place. Except the crystals, statues, gargoyles more commonly, can harm you. That and the place was deserted. The portal closed some time later, everyone left the dreaded place in time.”
“Any research on the place?” asked OldBean, yet once again.
“OldBean, you’re full of questions aren’t you?” sighed Gondour. “Anyway, yes. We researched it, and so did the people back then, duh. No leads though. No rip in space or any of that scientific nonsense apparently though. Scientists couldn’t get at it all. Neither could we.”
“Any leads on the experiment?” asked OldBean. “And what happened to the first?”
“All this research concludes one of those two may have been Zeromune, but I doubt it. Why would he run? He was strong. That, and he wouldn’t just go bonkers yelling, ‘my mummy wouldn’t buy me Ice-Cream.’” said Gondour.
‘Well said there, Gondour. “ said OldBean. “The third?”
“In that case, its even more probable for Zeromune to be the third. The third doesn’t have anything. Anything. All the documents are like, burnt up in crisps.” said Dennis, and he spilt out some ashes from a nearby cup. “Uh huh. The ashes were in the document when they could have been tossed away. They must really love torturing the thieves that steal from them.”
“Them?” OldBean’s head was swirling. He was very much confused now.
“Contro Corporation.” answered Boda. “And while we’re on the subject of Contro, nearby the building is a monument to the great chaos the second experiment caused. It apparently says, ‘The first will descend, the second will join, and the third will ascend.’ Sounds rather fishy even though it’s a monument, if you ask me. I’m willing to bet its about the three experiments.”
It was now OldBean’s turn to speak. “Why did Zeromune let me come here though? I think we can get started on that topic now!”
“He might have been the third, and he, for some unknown reason, wants you to know about the mysteries surrounding the experiments at Contro.”
“Hey, wait…”wondered Gondour, “…how did he know you were going to come here?”
“I think he heard me somehow, with his powers and all.” shrugged OldBean. “Any other ideas?”
“Nope. But he must somehow be related, or he wants us to put a stop to whatever is about to happen. But I’m sure, whatever happens next, after its done, he’ll target us for some other reason.” said Gabran.
Another bang was suddenly heard. OldBean was curious to was what going to happen next, following the explosion.
“Anyway, but about the part about ‘Zeromune’s History’?”
“Oh, that? We deduced that the only reason that he was in the sewer that was apparently very close by your house was because there was some sort of power source there. And the reason Contra was there was because of the same reason, he came to investigate the events that occurred about six years ago. Rather amusingly, for some reason, he brought with him large sums of money and Zeromune attacked him. All the better for us.” grinned Gondour. “Anyway, after that, Contra ran for it, and Zeromune remained, and eventually he attacked you. And then, Contro came to investigate the scene after Zeromune had left, and he met you, and that’s about it.”
“What the hell was that about, money exchange rates and all?!” asked OldBean impatiently, wanting to know the truth. He needed to know the truth.
“Oh, when we arrived, their business there was done. They just discussed some business issues and blah, blah, blah in the end. Nothing else.”
“Still, what the hell does that have to do with his history?!”
Gabran sighed.
“We’re getting to that. How did the document get in the sewer? Contra wouldn’t have brought it along.”
Silence.
There was another explosion, and this time, it effected the room they were in. Even though they were deep in the 100th floor, it wasn’t helping. The tables cracked and all the people sitting on the chairs fell off, and the wall behind Gondour cracked open. Apparently, the wall was actually a secret entrance, which had been used by the wrong person.
“Show time, folks.”
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Seventeen, The Plan
It was the same man that OldBean and Contro Corporation had arrested previously. He was armed, ready to attack them all…with a stick in his backpack.
“Gimme all your money!” he yelled at OldBean. And then he noticed the computer on a desk nearby and added in, “And all your internets!” Gondour whispered to Boda and said, “Get the fake ready, and make sure the moron doesn’t make more use of that lame term, the ‘internets’.”
The man looked more different now. He looked rather much like a complete idiot. He had obviously tried to make himself look tough and disguised himself, using make up and a torn circus outfit.
“Well mate,” said OldBean, “If you ever feel like wanting to use the little boys room, you’re certainly allowed, considering its overflowing right now.”
“’an the ‘ell do I want want with a damn toilet?” he asked rudely. “Gimme all ya’ money!” At this, he drew out the stick which was in his backpack, and as he did so, Boda took out a fake Dark Blade and charged at him.
“ARGH!” he yelled, as Boda was getting nearer, “Get ‘im out, he’s trying to kill me, and he’s not afraid ta’ do it!”
“Neither are we, nutcase.” Gondour said, rolling his eyes.
“Don’ you go roundin’ on me, sonny Jim!” said the man, looking at Gondour, but then he looked back at Boda who had stopped halfway, and he was now trying not to keep the ‘so deadly sword’ in his view, but he could not. And so, he looked at Gabran.
“Gimme all ya medicinal…medicinal…medicinal crap. JUST GIVE IT ALL TA ME!”
“And what are you planning to do, sell them all for ‘profit’?” laughed Gabran.
“’en the bloody ‘ell with you folks,” the man said, and then he looked at Dennis.
“You,” he said. “You look look like that ol’ Mr. Gumblus from that Mernia poster that ‘em old nutheads at that science lab excavated.”
“Oh geez,” said OldBean, rolling his eyes. He sighed. “How did you get away from Contro Building?”
“Well, all I can say is that this giant thing that looked like a giant toe crashed into tha’ building, an’ I got tha’ free run!”
“The Hind D.” OldBean rolled his eyes. It had saved his life, but had also saved a worthless persons life as well. “And you’re here for? The little boys room? You can go, and remember, its overflowing! And pay us Two Dollars for it too!”
“Whaddya’ say!?” said the man, getting up. He had just fallen over a chair. “What I say I was ‘ere for?! I WANT YO MONEY!”
Dennis yawned. “Rats ass. Very funny, considering what you’ll do to us isn’t as painful as what we’ll do to you. But we can pay you if you do something for us.”
OldBean blinked.
“What?”
“Shut up.” said Dennis, and now he started talking to the man again. “What is your name?”
“I got no name!” he yelled back. Gondour could clearly be seen in a corner of the room, with a laptop. He was playing a internet poker game out of boredom.
“Nonsense, crackpot old wrong doer! And you thought ‘I’ was the naïve one…”
“I’m telling ya, I got no name!” he said once again.
“SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUT, UP!” burst out Gabran suddenly. He too, had taken to a laptop, player Internet Checkers. “I NEED CONCENTRATION!”
“And you also need some more CONSTIPATION!” yelled back Dennis.
“Oh geez, CAN’T WE ALL SHUT UP?” burst out OldBean as well.
Silence. Boda had not said a thing. He yawned as well.
“Seriously, dudes. Want some teamwork going on around here? Why don’t you just go and play some internet team games like…oh wait, I can’t think of any.”
Silence.
“Well, I’ll be goin’ now an’ all…” said the man, but Boda used his Gontrix powers to make him fall over.
“You won’t be going anytime soon.”
“An’ I thought I was the idiot!”
“Okay, what is your name? No lies, talk.”
“Okay, okay, okay! And Mrs. Jakso’ll kill me…”
“What?” s******ed OldBean, thinking up a rather funny idea. “Your name is ‘Mr and Mrs Jakso?”
“HELL NO, MAN! MARRIAGE, BLOODY HELL…”
“Talk already or fear the wraith of my…blade?” said Boda.
“Okay, okay! I’ll talk!” said the frightened man.
“Oh geez .” Yawned Gondour.
“Oh geez.” said Dennis, rolling his eyes. “Everyone here won’t stop saying ‘Oh Geez’. AND NO ONE WILL STOP YAWNING!”
“Denny, the way you talk, you almost make us seem like clowns.” said OldBean.
“Anyway, ma’ name is Zerf Yodel!” the man said. Silence.
“Yodel? That makes a familiar sound…” wondered Boda. “Yodeli…”
“DON’T MAKE THAT SOUND!” said Zerf, covering his eyes. “I’m very sensitive about it!”
“Usually when people say that, they cover their ears.” said Gondour, gazing up from his laptop. “Oh crap! I’m losing! Gotta act fast…”
“I thought you were playing poker?” asked Dennis from the other far side of the room.
“Eh, I went onto that website of that famous talk show, Ask Mr. Cuddlebear.”
“Cuddlebear…” s******ed Dennis. OldBean whispered to Boda.
“What the hell are you doing?”
Boda cleared his throat. “Mr. Yodel?” Dennis laughed uncontrollably.
“Wha?”
“Wanna join our FBI?” asked Boda.
Zerf looked offended. “Job opportunity?! Hell no, mate. I live out in ye’ streets and live using stealth, I have to eat stuff from out there and…”
“Stealth, you say?” wondered Boda. “Hmm…wouldn’t you like to join? We’ll pay you, and no payment required to join and all that.”
Zerf looked curious to find out more about this wonderful opportunity. Boda barely had time to mention all the other finer parts about it.
“I’ll take it, mate! I need the money for that new thing they call the Binel Deluxe!”
“Good. Your mission is to…sneak into Contro Corporation, steal more weapons for us, bring ‘em all here.”
“What, to take down Zero?!” said OldBean. “He saved my life!”
“Why though?” said Gondour, looking up again. “We’re not gonna attack him yet, its just a necessary precaution.”
“Oh, okay. What you feel about the job?” OldBean asked Zerf.
“BLOODY HELL, Contro? That’s the easy place ever! All the air ducts may be monitored, but I can confuse the system with ‘em chaff grenades. Then there are those lame soldiers! Just knock one of them out and steal their clothes! Bah! That, and the fact they were helmets for some reason help out a whole lot too! No one can see your damnit face, and…”
“Okay, okay, we get the point!” yelled OldBean. “Just get your arse down there!”
“K, wish me luck Captain!" |
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Eighteen, The Plan still Unknown
“Er, what we do now?” asked OldBean.
“Well, you’re the boss…” shrugged Dennis.
The usual silence began. The room was rather ‘busted up’ now.
“Aw, damn!” said Gondour in dismay. “I lost!”
“Eh?” said Dennis. “I thought you were cuddling Mr. Cuddle-”
“Nah.” yawned Gondour, yet again. “Poker is better. I lost my money.”
Everyone else laughed.
“Anyway, Boda.” said OldBean, turning around. “You sounded like you had another plan up your…your…sleeve…”
“Eh? This?” Boda took out a set of playing cards out of his sleeve.
“GIMME!” And soon, Gondour was wrestling the cards out of Boda’s hands.
“Gimme back!” and Boda started wrestling the cards back from Gondour.
“Please, gentlepeople, we are trying to talk.” said OldBean smoothly. They all shut up.
“I’ll have my cards back, thank you.” sneered Boda, and he indeed got his cards back. “Anyway, plan is, something I’m not gonna tell you about.”
“Eh?” OldBean was surprised. “Why not?”
“Suspense has its good sides.” he frowned, and then said, “Hey, why is Moo keeping quiet?” They gazed deeply at Gabran, who seemed to be muttering randomly to himself.
“Ninety-nine sixties, fourteenth quarter, Six point eight…”
“Gone insane.” cracked up Gondour. “I knew he wasn’t all there.”
“Three…two…one…”
As many things that were quite strange happened to them, OldBean expected Gabran to throw a ticking time bomb at Gondour. However, Gabran continued.
“Zero…Negative one…Negative two…Negative three…”
“Um, first he was randomly saying mathematical blah, now he’s…ticking away?” Dennis was completely confused.
“Eh, what?” said Gabran, looking up at them. “Wassup!?!?”
“Yup.” Gondour continued to laugh. “He IS a little cuckoo in the head…hey, lets go back to Year One Literature tests! Dr. Moo felt bad.”
“Something ain’t right.” said Boda, gazing at Gabran. “He doesn’t talk this much mathematically…”
“’ey, Moo.” OldBean said, proposing a fake greeting to Gabran. “Welcome to the land of the loony bin! Please insert your ticket in this box over here, and you’re all set to try out all of the crazy adventures!”
Gabran looked up at OldBean specifically this time. “Zat is a OWL!”
“Somebody, go steal some of his Luck Potions.” OldBean commanded, and he kicked Gabran as he said it.
“Why?” they all asked, excluding Gabran.
“Just do it.”
A few moments later, Dennis came back with some of Gabran’s luck Potions, and forced him to drink it. Gabran went, in OldBean’s mind, ‘bonkers’. He yelled random speeches.
“MESA LOVSA CHOCALATA!”
“There, this…cow. Mad cow. Fat cow.” said Gondour, pointing a Gabran. “Is he…umm….as an insult….a cow?”
Everyone snorted. Gabran suddenly said, “BWAAAAAAAAAAAGH! KING LUFIO LOVES US!”
“Barking mad.” Boda shook his head rather mischievously. He seemed to be on the point of laughing, but this went unnoticed by everyone except OldBean.
“You did something to him?”
“Er, nope.” Boda grinned. “Just wanted to make everyone say ‘BODA DID IT!”
“Erm, whatever.” replied OldBean. But he couldn’t help noticing that Boda was still grinning. He seemed to look as if he was doing a TV commercial.
“It’s nothing. Really. I just can’t help remembering when Gabran made a hole in his bed somehow, and he fell through it.” he grinned harder. “And apparently his dog was under the bed. It was have been a painful experience, once the dog found out who attacked him.”
“Anyway, send Gabran to Zeromune. Now.” said OldBean.
“WHAT?!” everyone, except Gabran, yet again, cried.
“You heard me.”
***
“Barking, howling mad.” OldBean could hear Gondour saying as he went into the lift. When the lift door shut, however, Gondour couldn’t get out. Both he and Gabran were shut in. This went unnoticed.
***
After about five minutes, OldBean said, “Its taking that bloke a friggin’ long time, alright. He’d be back by now. You think he noticed whether or not that it wasn’t a real elevator?” he could make out distant sounds of doors slamming shut, but then he noticed, that the attack above had stopped. But a ever louder sound was heard, and it was coming from the auto locked fake elevator. Gondour had apparently decided to climb up the emergency hatch in the elevator, not knowing that he was about to be ‘swamped’.
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OldBean
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| Quote: | Chapter Nineteen, No History in Reality
All was quiet. Gondour had not returned. “I’m checking it out.”
OldBean walked towards the fake elevator. A flashing orange light was on the panel next to it. OldBean stared at it.
“It appears the guy has gone home to mummy, who is apparently fixing the front door.” he sighed. “Gondour has taken the bait. He climbed up the emergency hatch and is probably on the 99th floor basement now.”
“OldBean, how the hell can you have one hundred basements?” asked Dennis.
“Oh, the rooms are smaller as they go.” whistled OldBean. “But this room is the largest.” But then he turned to Boda and said, “You’re confusing me. What plans do you have? What about the weapons? WHY THE HELL IS GABRAN NUTS?”
“Never mind for now.” said Boda. “We’re just gonna wait for Yodeli-”
A man named Zerf walked through the entrance the busted wall had hidden. He was back, happy and alive. But he didn’t look at all pleased that much.
“’oo said that?” he asked.
“Never mind, what you have?” asked back OldBean.
Zerf frowned. “Well, the top assasins ‘ave gorn an’ took all ‘em weapons. They’re heading towards a ruined building for some reason.” but then he smiled. “I got some documents, though! I heard you lot talking about some science experiment, and I’ve gorn and got more documents!”
OldBean pushed his way through Boda and Dennis and grabbed the files Zerf, and put them all laid out onto the table, and most apparently, opened them.
“I believe tha’ some sort of payment was in order?” asked a impatient Zerf.
“Oh, just take the sack.” Boda shoved a one hundred dollar note towards Zerf, along with the sack they found with the previous documents. “You can put all your payments in there.” And then, they all gathered around the documents.
Excitement flooded the room.
“Which should we read first?” asked OldBean, staring weakly at the numbers on the documents. There was 004, 005, 006, 007, 009, and 011. 010 was missing. He sighed and said to Zerf, “Its always the most common number that goes missing. Where is 010?”
“Tha’ was all I could find.” Zerf scratched his head. “There weren’t any other documents there, see? I got to scan the entire building. Everyone in the building went to da’ ruined building.”
A wrecked area wasn’t in the concern of the trio at the moment. They were all staring at the documents.
“Which one should we read first?” asked OldBean.
“Obviously, the one which says ‘004’. We already have 001, 002, and 003.”
And so they all read from the document.
pg.1
The three experiments being worked on at Contro Corporation were based off the ones at Lufio Corporation.
A ruined building that looked similarily like Contro Corporation came into OldBean’s mind. Was the building the troops were heading to, in fact, Lufio? And then he remembered that Gabran yelled out something about Lufio. Was that part just gibberish? But then OldBean thought, nah, he was just recalling stuff he heard about, nothing special.
The experiments were called
It was obvious that all four of them had stopped reading at this point. “If the name Zeromune is in here, all our dreams will come true!” said Dennis.
Zorolos, Serenel, and the legendary
They all held their breath.
Tech Armour.
“That’s it?” said Boda weakly. “Just a tech armour..?”
It was apparent that Zerf was just reading along with them with pure boredom, but yet found the facts amazing, even if he didn’t understand them, for he was all of a sudden looking like the crook he was.
“Don’t give up hope just yet, I guess. We’re not done yet.” said Boda, and they continued to read.
Something in Zorolos mind snapped through one of the experiments on him. He went chaotic, blasting everything in his way to smithereens. He was at last, apprehended by the legendary hero Zeromune.
Dennis practically fell off his chair. OldBean hooted loudly and accidentally ended banging his own head on the desk, his beak hurting. Boda however, was left to himself and his imagination, saying, “But our information says he disappeared…maybe I misunderstood the text.”
But OldBean and Dennis’ mind were concentrated on the single name, Zeromune. It didn’t piece together with what they had seen of the legend. They read it again. The paper definitely said, ‘legendary hero’. It even more didn’t make sense with it saying Zorolos was defeated by Zeromune. The information they had told them that Zorolos had been wrecked by one of his attacks being reflected back at him. But they hadn’t finished reading yet, so they couldn’t just come to conclusions.
Zeromune defeated Zorolos by a simple tact of reflecting his attacks back at him. He took advantage at this tactic using another experiment. This experiment, however, was being developed by Lufio Corporation.
So, the barrier wasn’t created by Contro, it was created by Lufio…
The experimental barrier was stil in testing phase. However, it had great strength and power. So powerful it deflects even the strongest force directed at it. The barrier ranged from the house of a citizen living in Breathlight, to the Contro Corporation building. Lufio and Contro had strong ties, and so, the barrier was connect to them. However, the resident of the house was on holiday, and therefore, Lufio took this as a chance to end the barrier there. The owner of the house, if he or she ever found out, couldn’t complain either way, since their house would have been protected either way. However, the technology at Lufio was stronger than the technology at Contro. Zeromune used this deflecting power against Zorolos, who was currently charging a shot. When he fired away, however, he got a blast of his own might. He disappeared that day, but sources tell that he is still out there somewhere. Zeromune, however, ever since this long battle, decided to take a well earned rest, and took up a job at Lufio. His job was to eliminate all threats that could harm the world, but he didn’t do any serious battles. He was still seriously injured from the battle.
“And he took refuge in a toilet?” said OldBean, awestruck.
***
Gondour was now in the 99th floor. He looked around. He appeared to be in some sort of swamp, which somehow ended up in the room. He looked at Gabran, who suddenly reverted to normal.
“Eh, wha? When, and how, and why are we…”
But then he was Gondour, lighting up a match, and he threw it to the other side of the room.
“You never know what dangers are over there, you know.” winked Gondour at Gabran.
“Yeah, well, you’re creating the very danger you’re speaking of! THERE IS A OIL CAN THERE!”
“Oh crap.”
The fire was spreading everywhere in the room, and Gondour grabbed Gabran and ran towards the door at the other side of the room, apparently unaware of the fire.
“NUTCASE, THE FIRE IS THERE!”
“Well, better burned then burned for eternity!”
“BUT THE SWAMP-”
Too late, Gondour had stepped in. With the combined weight of Gabran, the two started sinking into the water. Gondour just realised he was previously on a portable island.
“Noooo…”
***
A slight ‘bump’ was heard on the ceiling. OldBean gazed up. He didn’t see anything, and therefore continued reading.
Serenel, however, was a different case. The news released on Crazy News plainly said ‘the crazy experiment escaped from the crazy lunatics! NOW THAT’S CRAZY!’ But the real news however was that Serenel hadn’t just escaped, but also took a walking battle machine that was…gigantic. There was no other word for it. The destructive walking battle tank, or machine, was named Chaos. It did not even look close to a machine. It was shaped as a toy human like rat. It looked real. Only it wasn’t real enough to fool people into believing it was a giant. The machine had nuclear launch capabilities, and itself also had a barrier. The machine had machine guns as well, as well as laser guns. It was armed to the ‘teeth’. If any missile headed towards its face, the laser gun inside the ‘nose’ of the machine would destroy it all. No damage taken too, courtesy of the barrier. It was controlled by the use of the control room inside the beast. However, should prove necessary, the machine can also be used manually instead of being put on the ‘auto’ mode. Despite its weight, it can jump to high areas. This comes to a disadvantage however, the battle machine can be damaged heavily by falling onto a hard platform from high areas.
This time, Boda noticed the other ‘bump’ sound from the ceiling. He wanted to check out what was going on, but he remained silent, reading along with everyone else.
***
Instead of drowning to their deaths, Gondour and Gabran ended up in yet another room. Slightly confused as to how they stopped drowning, they both decided to continue to the other side of the new room to open the door. But this time, they were confronted by Giacomo, the top mercenary and best man of OldBean FBI.
“State your purpose.” he said.
“STATE MY PURPOSE!?” Gondour effectively yelled out so much that the two soldiers standing beside Giacomo covered their ears. “EXCUSE ME?! I’M THE FRIEND OF OLDBEAN!”
“Name?” Giacomo asked lazily.
“Gondour. Mayor Alfred Gondour.” said Gondour.
The two soldiers snorted.
“Sorry but we need more proof than that.” replied Giacomo. “OldBean gave us strict orders-”
But Gondour had had it.
“WHAT?! We’ve been locked up in an elevator! We’ve been stranded on a portable island! And now we’re being confronted by special FBI top secret-ops Sumo Wrestlers! Do you think we seriously still require IDENTIFICATION!?”
“Yes, indeed.”
Gondour rushed for one of the soldiers, who was clearly enjoying Gondour’s annoyance, and grabbed one of his guns. He then instantly pushed Giacomo to the wall, and grabbed the other soldiers gun. The two soldiers and Giacomo, although cornered, were grinning madly. Gondour pointed the guns at them.
“LET US PASS AND WE’LL PAY YOU CHOCOLATE!”
Giacomo shook his head. “My friend, the guns are not loaded.”
Gabran looked terrified, but Gondour yelled, “Out with it! Don’t worry, its just a enemy tactic!”
“As you can see, I’m too injured to attack you, and my men are unarmed. You are safe to check if the guns are not loaded. Go on.”
Gondour check the guns. Apparently, they were indeed, not loaded.
“ITS NOT LOADED!”
***
It was all still quite. Zerf was just examining the area. The three were still reading.
The machine was developed by Contro Corporation, which is the same area in which Serenel escaped. She has yet to be sighted.
The Tech Armour however, was the armour that the legendary Zeromune wore. It was dark red. But since the battle against Zorolos, the Tech Armour has disappeared for some reason, and Zeromune was since then seen only wearing a dark blue cloak, and the infamous Tech Armour Helmet, which was still the usual Dark red. It is unknown what he wears underneath, but it is assumed he still has the Tech Armour Plate Body, seeing as only the platelegs were found. What he wears for legs however, is more protective than the Tech Armour. The armour he wears is a historical item, at least, a part of it. Since it is also Dark red, this does not interfere with his colouring. It is called the Galactasol.
At this, the document 004 ended.
“And now, 005.” OldBean breathed heavily. |
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| Quote: | Chapter Twenty, The Escape of the Unescapable Dungeons
Gondour was now holding two unloaded guns. He was done for.
“Oh geez. Fine then. Identification.” and he handed over his I.D. card for the OldBean FBI IB.
“Authorized.” Giacomo said. “What are you doing down here, Alfred? Moo?”
“Oh, OldBean told me to bring Gabran to Zeromune, but I took the fake elevator.”
Giacomo shook his head. Gabran looked simply terrified.
“The Adventures of Alfred Gondour, the dim-witted Mayor.” Giacomo sighed. “You are going to have to brave all the ninety-nine basement floors now, I’m afraid. If you seriously didn’t get past the swamp…well, you’re done for.”
“Then how are YOU going to get out?!” yelled Gondour.
Giacomo sighed.
“I’ve been through many training sessions, believe me. I too, am going to brave these areas. Excellent training ground, if you’re truly advanced.”
Gabran was still terrified.
“Why hand me to Zeromune?”
“Oh don’t worry.” Gondour rolled his eyes. “I’m sure Bean has some good ‘old’ plans ready.”
Giacomo walked to his two accompanies. He said something that Gondour could not hear, and rather quickly, they ended up at the door, and went past it, shutting the door behind.
“Follow.” Giacomo said.
“Wait! How did I stop drowning?!” yelled back Gondour. No answer. It seemed that even he who helped create the building didn’t know it all. Gondour followed Giacomo, with Gabran tagging after him. With them following Giacomo, all they had to do was run, and they eventually ended up at the 43rd floor basement after tons of weird areas, consisting of caves and swimming areas, and other things. It was unbelievable. With Giacomo, they ended up at the 43rd floor without a problem. The 43rd floor basement didn’t look remotely like a basement at all. It looked like most of the other rooms they had seen. Caves. Water. Traps. And far away, there was a door.
“Behind that door,” Giacomo said, “Is the entrance back to the first floor.”
“Why didn’t you just put a emergency exit right at the 99th floor?!” asked Gondour, scandalised.
“We thought all major people at the FBI knew all the traps.” Giacomo said, looking at Gondour with a smile. “Apparently you were too dumb to notice that the elevator was fake.”
They reached the door, and climbed out. And thus, Gondour finally escaped, his very own adventure, ending here, no matter how short it seemed.
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| Quote: | Chapter Twenty-One, Interference
As OldBean moves towards the 005 file, the phone nearby rings. Boda answers, and puts the phone back down.
“Gondour made it.” he said. “But Zeromune isn’t even there. And he reports that several of the Contro troops are heading to the south-east.”
“Lufio Corporation…” OldBean thought about the building. “Give me a map. One from about ten or so years ago.”
“Eh? Lufio Corporation Building doesn’t exist anymore, you mean?” asked Dennis.
“Ruins of it does. I think it’s like that because of the attack Zorolos made. Anyway, I need one.”
“No need.” And Giacomo walked in. “Come to the First floor.”
OldBean went up to the First Floor by using the secret entrance that Zerf created, with Dennis, Boda, Giacomo, and Zerf himself. Once he got out, he was behind the receptionist counter. He climbed out of the little space and went outside with everyone else.
“Our intelligence does not require a map.” said Giacomo. “The Lufio is the most visited area by tourists. Should be easy to find anyhow. The South-East area is full of people visiting the area.”
“We are going to get there…how?”
The woman from the receptionist counter appeared.
“All the trains to Eastern Beanland have stopped. Contro must stopped any means of transportation there, because apparently we can’t even teleport you there. All the teleportation signals are being blocked.”
“How about we just have a drive in the BeanMobile?” said OldBean with a innocent tone.
“Yeah, and just get shot down for trespassing.” yawned Dennis, who threw OldBean a newspaper.
CONTRO CORPORATION ATTACKS THE CAUSE OF SOON TO BE WORLDWIDE DESTRUCTION, OLDBEAN FBI IB
“You expect them to let us pass through the state borders without dying in the process?”
“Funny how the government isn’t involved at all.” said the woman. “You’d have thought all the commotion…”
“There ain’t anything they can do except sit on their lazy bottoms. We take action!” yelled OldBean.
“How?” said Boda quietly. “Now they even check their own trucks. Our old method of sneaking in doesn’t work anymore.”
“How about we do a all out full scale attack on them instead of sneaking? I’d say, I love kicking their-”
“No, Gondour.” yawned, this time, OldBean. “Contro isn’t a sitting duck.”
“Then WHAT DO WE DO?”
“I wonder, if anyone has ever heard of the underground?” asked Gabran lazily. “And OldBean, why did you want to send me to Zeromune anyway?”
“I wanted to send you to him because of your stupidity, but instead of increasing it, the Luck Potion removed it. I expected him to act, but not violently. Either, no. Underground won’t work. The state borders are now too heavily guarded.”
The woman’s cellphone rang.
“It’s for you.” She said. OldBean took it. It was with utmost surprise, the president?
“You two, Bean and Contro, are on the brink of causing another war. End it now, I say, or you two will be spending a life time in-”
But then he stopped speaking. He never said ‘jail’. Electus had now just interfered.
“How nice of you to want to have a little chat with me, dear old squashed bean!” Contras voice said. “I’m sure you’ve noticed that your little secret operations have now ended, because the government is now in my complete utter control, and the worlds strongest power will soon be mine! You can’t stop me, now that the power of the government itself is in my control. I can demolish your pitiful FBI building anytime I wish without casualties! If you dare continue to fight back as a small resistance group, prepare to die!”
At this, the phone hang up. OldBean was speechless.
“A resistance group, we already are.” Boda said. “Just as my father Foda said back in the first war. He never told me what happened in it though.”
“Well, if they’re gonna try and squash our resistance, me might as well squash their little groups.” said Giacomo. “For the meantime, lets plan our operations here before Contra sends his troops and government troops here.”
With this, they all headed towards the inside of the OldBean FBI. Once they reached the planning room on the 73rd floor, they sat down on the chairs, with the planning papers in front of them on the table.
“We’ve already got Contra’s plans down.” growled Giacomo. “The first is to find Zorolos, who disappeared around ten years ago. They’re heading to Lufi-”
“Lets go to Lufio already then.” OldBean said angrily. “That’s what we’ve been trying to do since the start.”
Giacomo, simply looked up and said, “Well you’re the boss. How we’re going to get there is the problem.”
“Oh yeah…”
“That is why our first Plan is to sabotage their security, so we can sneak in.”
“How?”
Gondour was suddenly irritated.
“Bean, listen to the whole thing first, will ya?”
Giacomo continued.
“Apparently, the legs of the Tech Armour that Zeromune used to wear are being protected at Contro Corporation…in Electus’ own office. Security groups guard it almost every second. But apparently, there doesn’t seem to be enough guards at the state borders to stop people from entering. So, a tiny portion of guards at the Tech Armour will be moved to the borders every four hours. So, if we deal with the guards at Contro, the whole entire guarding system goes down.”
“Eh? Whats the time limit for them then?” asked OldBean.
“Three hours. Enough to say, one hour is enough to get to Contro. If we get to the guards before the other group gets to them, our mission should successful.”
“Why can’t they just hide the armour at the government where almost all troops are standing guard?”
Giacomo didn’t seem to get it either.
“We don’t know. But needless to say, they left a major flaw in their plan. That is why we get to take down major security down there.”
But Boda seemed to spotted a major flaw in their plan too.
“But, even if we do take down the small group, what stops them from continuing to guard?”
“Wouldn’t they love to investigate the cause of the guards’ disappearance? That, and when I said ‘small portion’, I meant a half of the group. The other half will panic, all chaos breaks. The other half of which we have removed is what was required to guard a gigantic part of the borders. That is where we break in through. And if we can, we can steal back the Tech Armour legs. But we need someone who knows how to go in and out of Contro…”
Zerf started bouncing up and down uncontrollably.
“I’M YA MAN!”
“That is all nice and done.” said Giacomo plainly. “Only our flaw in the plan is that Contro is in the east. Which they are guarding with the borders.”
“Then what the hell is the entire point of the plan..?” asked OldBean, dazed.
Gondour snorted.
“Isn’t it obvious? We’re gonna parachute in. No doubt some so called ‘royal air force navy supreme masters’ copter’s be there patrolling. They’ll most likely attack us.. That is why we are using a auto piloted plane to get you there. As they attack, you parachute. Easy and simple?”
“You’re gonna use that same technique you used to save my life at Contro? With the Hind D?” said OldBean, amazed.
“Um, what technique?” asked Giacomo. OldBean just stared at Boda.
“You seriously telling me you didn’t send it?” he asked. “And you’re seriously telling me you didn’t hear it even crash?”
“Er, no?” Boda replied. “Maybe because there wasn’t a Hind D sent by us? Besides, how could I hear it when you caused all comotion down around the first floor at Contro? The guards were in utmost uproar. They were beside themselves.”
“Wha?” said OldBean, completely lost in his mind now. “We never caused commotion down there anyway. What’s going on..?”
“Then how did Electus find out?” asked Boda simply.
“Find out what?”
“Find out how you broke in!” replied Boda angrily.
“Well, you seriously telling me that the guards that attacked us at the top of the building didn’t have walkie-talkies? Come on now!”
“Guards attacked you?” wondered Boda. Giacomo was obviously not interested.
“Never mind the current event news!” he said. “Lets just get on with our current plan!”
They all nodded, and headed straight to the hanger, where they saw the ruins of Gondour’s helicopter.
“It’ll never be the same.” sniffed Gondour.
“It’s beyond repair.” said the woman. “You know, Zeromune could have totally decimated the copter if he wanted to. The question is, why didn’t he?”
“He didn’t want to use up all of his energy on a copter that doesn’t even have a pilot anymore, obviously.” said OldBean. “I bet he stored some of it back into him. Now where is the wreckage of my BeanCopter?”
“It is still in China.”
OldBean sobered up.
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INFO: The teleportation device that the woman mentions sends you to areas via CyberSpace. If Cyber isn't possible, it sends you yourself to another location in lightspeed, rather than just making you disappear and appear at the other edge of the world. Cyber transportation is not recommended, as you could obvious get stuck in limbo in the CyberWorld which you obviously can't see a thing in. Its all just a set of chips, isn't it? If you get stuck in Cyber transport it'll take a while to fix the machine so you can finish transfering over. And that'll take a LONG time...
Info not included at TFF, exclusive at FFH, even though it isn't really that important :
This is to be added to the OldBean encyclopedia when I do it after OldBeanZero. (The above info)
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| Quote: | Chapter 22, File 005
OldBean stayed behind while the others were doing their mission of bringing down the enemy soldiers. He decided to read File 005, who would complain if he did?
The Galactasol
The Galactasol is a strange, dark red-ish, armour. It originates from areas that no one knows of, which is why Galactasolum sources are quite rare. Galactasolum was believed to have been from outer space, the meaning for its name. This theory was proven false however, when sources were found on Earth. The sources on Earth or even moreso rare though. The Galactasolum needs to bond with a host to survive. However, the Galactasolums powers and etc depend on the wearers mood. If the person is in a bad mood, the powers that will be increased are strength, and aggression. If the person is evil, purely evil, the same effects that occur with bad moods will happen, only with more special powers, such as flight. This theory has been proven true, due to the events that are mentioned in file 010.
File 010 was the one that was missing from them. Why was it that all the important stuff had to be kept from them?
In the cases of good hearted people and pure good, which are essentially the same, powers to rival the ones of pure evil are given, although since this is evil and good we’re talking about, in the case of evil it is more like, ‘whatever you can do, I can do better’, as said by a Lufio official. As to the appearance of the Galactasolum, it is a dark, slimy, gooey substance that when joined with the body, stays on the body forever unless a new medicine or spray to remove the darkness/power from the person is made soon. It has also been discovered that when merged with armour, the armour is then called Galactasol, and is naturally undefeatable. The only known means of defeating the armour is the will of the person wearing it. If the person chooses to no longer wear the armour unless necessary, the armour only works when the person needs to use it. However, this doesn’t stop it from being invincible. It has been heard that many people wearing Galactasol armour near the Contro Building at the time ‘The Rip’ occurred, the power within the ‘Rip’ almost cracked the armours up. This has not been confirmed to be the reason, however.
At this, the file ended. As OldBean proceded to File 006 however, Gondour bursted into the room with Gabran and co.
“Damn!” said Giacomo loudly. He was holding a dark red plate leg armour in his arms. “We got the armour, and we crashed their security, but we got another barrier.”
“What?” asked OldBean.
“What? You tell me.” said a frustrated Gondour. “Contro is being a lot more serious than usual now, they seemed to have a lot more spare soldiers around. That, and Electus is heading our way right now.”
OldBean thought he saw a figure outside the window. But it couldn’t be, they were at the high part of the building, how could someone be looking out? And then he noticed the armour. The red seemed to have darkened more. Was it usual for the Tech Armour to do this?
“Check this out.” said OldBean, sliding the document over to the others. They read it.
“This is some news!” said Gabran.
“Not.” said OldBean. “Check out the Tech Armour. It lightens, and then it darkens. You think you got the Galactasol armour instead?”
“I doubt it.” said Giacomo. “But I’ll look into it. Right now we’ll have to plan defences for the FBI.”
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| Quote: | Chapter 23, Ask Niram Studio
OldBean started deeply into the armour. The colour of the red lightened.
”Er, yeah. The defenses, er, yeah. The switch to activate them all, 84th floor…”
”Okay.” Said Giacomo. “I’ll deal with it. Get the FBI troops ready to attack.”
”Hey, OldBean.” Said Dennis. “Don’t you see some sort of rip over there in…mid-air?”
OldBean looked through the window. There was a massive rip in mid-air, alright. And the inside of it so looked…shiny. There were crystals…
”Well, I’ll be.” said Gabran in awe. “It’s the rip!”
And it was indeed, the rip. Everyone rushed towards the window to get a better look.
”Holy cow,” said Boda, looking shocked. “And I thought I’d seen the worst when Lep lost his wallet!”
”Shut up.” Dennis stared at Boda with a piercing look. He had lost his wallet once in a garbage dump with a mysterious mirror. He didn’t like the place much. OldBean saw the size of the rip was more massive now he stepped closer. He wondered if he could enter the rip, like the last few years some brave explorers had…but what if the rip shut off? But it didn’t matter much, when they looked down below after hearing a loud crash. A dark black figure was seen nearby a TV studio that was surprisingly nearby the rip. OldBean and the others saw Contro troops gaining on him.
”What the hell? Are they attacking us already, or are they doing something else?” wondered OldBean. Giacomo was staring at the dark figure with hatred.
”That must be the reason Contro went to the ruined Lufio Building. To get him…Zorolos.”
”Weh?” OldBean looked to Giacomo. “Did you say…Zorolos?!”
”Yeah, I’ve seen him before. I wanted to keep it quiet, but it seems like it’s going too far. Look.”
Sure enough, the dark figure raised his arm, and a flash of blue light was seen. They all shut their eyes. When they opened them, the Contro troops were all eliminated. Zorolos went into the rip. When he disappeared, the rip didn’t disappear. It was still there.
”If that really is Zorolos, we gotta defeat him quick!” panicked OldBean. Giacomo raised his hand to shut him up.
”There is no use. He can’t be defeated by anything like mere guns.”
”Then what are we gonna do!?”
”Defeat him with something more powerful. Something close to the range of Zeromune’s power.”
”Where the hell are we gonna get…oh!” said Gabran, apparently surprised at his own thought.
”Weh?” said OldBean again.
”The Galactasol armour. Contra and Lufio altered some of the armours so it didn’t cause side effects to the wearers personalities and stuff. We have a whole stash of them, thanks to Zerf.”
”Yeah, I was pretty good to yeh, eh?” said Zerf proudly.
”Lets put them all on then. I’ll just wear the helmet, I won’t be able to wear a human sized giant armour.”
”Same to me.” said Boda. “I cannot wear such. I’ll wear the helmet too. And the weapons, OldBean! We have to take those!”
”How’re we gonna get into the rip?” asked the woman.
”Sorry Lucinda, you just stay here and handle the troops. I don’t know how to get in either.” said Giacomo. “The TV studio though. That might be a good try. It seems tall enough to let us enter the rip. We can fly there in case troops will be attacking us.”
***
And as such, they flew to the Studio with the BeanJet. It was a plane with speed, but no firearms. Sure enough, a missile shot them down, but thanks to the great armour of the plane, they weren’t injured.
”Drop onto the roof!” yelled Gondour. They all did.
”Now, for the rip!” But as Gondour said it, the roof gave way for some reason, and they fell to some floor beneath.
”Hello,” said a familiar voice OldBean had heard on Ask Marin. “Welcome to the Ask Niram Studio!”
”Weh?” said OldBean a third time, after getting up in his ‘armour’. He looked at the figure.
”Weh?” he said again. “What happened to Ask Gondour? CuddleBear? Marin? Lep?”
”Do not ask. What are you doing here?” It was apparent that this was Marin just using another name.
”Well, we were wondering if you noticed we were on your roof trying to entire a darn rip in the sky.”
”Oh no. You only get those types on Rune-“ But then he looked through the crashed ceiling.
”What. The. Hell.”
”Fact taken, get us back up.”
A studio man came by.
”No. Contro is storming the place now. You might wanna use the secret elevator.”
”Aw geez.” Said Gondour. “Another secret elevator. One in every town. This one had better not be another booby trap.”
Sounds of people running up the stairs were heard.
”Go!” said Niram. “And may God be with you!”
”I’m atheist.” Said the man next to him.
”Be glad God doesn’t know that. Now go, Young one, go!” he boomed to OldBean who almost fell over. The voice was irritating, but hilarious.
”Just tell us where the lift is and we’ll go!”
”Oh yeah…it…umm..err…I forgot.”
”WHAT?” shouted Boda. “And you run this place?!” OldBean however, had a sudden idea, and hoped it was right.
”Let’s check every elevator and see if it has a hidden button to press to get to the roof.”
The door broke down. Contro troops pointed their rifles at them all, and said, “Put your hands up and surrender!”
”I SURRENDER!” yelled Dennis, who lifted his arms up, and accidently dropped his Half Galactasol weapon. It dropped with a bang to the floor, and it started firing away randomly.
”Aw, crap…” said Giacomo under his breath. He did not have his hands up. The weapon fired away at the Contro troops, who all fell back and ran for it, some got shot down, and some got stuck in the doorway and got shot.
”Well…err, how about that, huh?” said Dennis proudly. He picked up his gun. Everyone stared at him.
”Hey, I didn’t kill them, it was the gun. It’s its own fault it killed non-innocent people.” They all laughed.
”There is usually one in the staff room…” said Zerf. “I should no’…” And so they checked the staff elevator. It had a hidden button alright. They leapt with joy, only until they saw something. A mysterious dark shadow was seen on the floor. It disappeared.
”And things couldn’t get weirder.” said Giacomo. “Let’s use the button.”
They pressed it. And the lift shot up faster than any other lift in the world.
”HOLY CRA-“ OldBean couldn’t finish the word. He banged his head, his beak hurting badly. The speed was too high. Everyone also lost balance, Zerf repeatedly fell down onto the floor, Boda accidentally used his powers against his own feet, making him levitate, and Giacomo was holding onto the two, trying to keep balance. Dennis wasn’t doing so well. He and Gondour repeatedly head butted each other, again, accidentally. Finally, the lift stopped, they stepped outside in pain. They looked at the rip. They could see a shining object in the rip. The place was going to look like a crystal made palace, in OldBean’s mind.
”Next time,” he said, “We’ll use the ladder.”
They jumped into the rip, which sealed up. The place was definitely made of crystals.
”Ergh, now we’re stuck for eternity in here!” yelled Boda. “We’re done for!”
”A few lives is worth the lives of over ten thousand people.” said Giacomo. OldBean thought he felt movement behind him and the others. He turned around. No one was there. Was it him, or was somebody watching him ever since their quest to save Beanland and the world? Was someone working behind the scenes? He had a bad feeling about this…
”Lets be cautious.” said OldBean. “I feel someone is keeping watch on us, and I don’t think it’s someone good…”
They all nodded. A large missile suddenly came past, blasting some of the crystals into smithereens.
”And now you shall face the almighty power of Chaos, the undestructible creation of Lufio and Contro together! And combined with the power of one of the two experimental guardians, we shall be unstoppable!” yelled a female voice. They all turned away from the blast. It was Serenel.
”Ho boy, are we dead.” said Dennis, looking at the beautiful but dangerous girl, to his pathetic no longer charged weapon. “We’re toast.” |
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| Quote: | Chapter 24, Chaos
”Zorolos, come and use the laser beam!” she cried. She was wearing a blue type of armour, with a blue cape to add to the beautiful effect of the colour. OldBean looked into the distance. Chaos wasn’t using auto mode. Zorolos was controlling it. But then the laser cannon fired. The crystal floor started to crack. OldBean, Gondour, and Dennis were separated from Giacomo, Boda, Zerf, and Gabran. Serenel flew towards the top of Chaos, and sat there laughing.
”Fools, do you really think that you can defeat three legendary creations?” a nearby voice laughed. It was Zorolos. He wasn’t even in the cockpit of Chaos; he was controlling it through physic powers, right behind a nearby crystal wall.
”…we’ll have to defeat both of them to stop Chaos.” said Giacomo. “We can use the situation to our advantage. We’re separated. That makes two separate teams. OldBean, Alfred and Dennis. Me, Zerf, Boda, and Gabran. As for Chaos itself, we have no choice but to dodge the attacks. Zorolos has to be defeated to stop it.”
”Oh come on.” said OldBean. “You know we’re bad at fighting!”
”The word ‘try’ comes to mind.” he said. “Lets get to work.”
”Take a load of this!” yelled Serenel. Chaos fired with its laser cannon again. Giacomo and his team struck down to the floor. Serenel started to float in the air, and she caused a wave of unseen energy to occur, and wiped out OldBean and his team. It was useless for them all to even make moves at the two experiments.
“Useless.” said Zorolos. He stepped out from behind the crystal wall. “We aren’t your ordinary experiments. We have a title. The Legendary Warriors.”
”Lies!” burst Boda out. He got up. “My father told me of all the warriors! Their names were Zero, Zeromune!”
”Wha!?” said OldBean, shocked.
”Marshal! Colonel! Kyselia!”
”Ah.” laughed Zorolos. “But we are the other legendary warriors. We are the warriors of Darkness.” Now this time, he sent out a unseen powerful force, which pinned them all onto the crystal walls.
”Argh…your powers…they’ve improved.” said Giacomo. The two warriors looked shocked at the sight of him.
”So…” Serenel said. “It was you…”
Silence. OldBean didn’t get any of what Serenel just said.
”No matter.” she said. Her whisper was barely audible. Chaos jumped to a unbelievable height, right onto the side Giacomo’s team was on. “We’ll just eliminate you.”
As Chaos was about to fire with missiles at the two teams, a flash of light made them all shut their eyes. They heard Zorolos and Serenel yell, “Zero!”
”Zero?” wondered Dennis. They all opened their eyes. “Zero…Zeromune?” They saw that Chaos’ metal legs were on fire. There were numerous slashes on the metal. Someone seemed to have attacked with some sort of energy blade…
”He…he’s gone.” Serenel said.
”Aren’t you and Zeromune on the same side!?” asked Gabran.
The two looked worried.
”No.” said Zorolos, looking at the smoking Chaos. “No.”
”Haven’t you wondered? Whether someone was protecting you pests from behind the scenes? Attacking you without your knowledge?” said Serenel. OldBean had been wondering this for a while. So Zero was on their side? Why did he attack them then?
”Then why did he attack ‘em ‘en all?!” yelled Zerf.
The two people’s faces were clearly showing hatred. Serenel floated down to the dark crystal floor from the burning Chaos.
”Haven’t you wondered how we were always one step ahead of you? Hmm?”
OldBean didn’t understand.
”Document Number Ten.” said Zorolos, who flew to the dark crystal floor, rather than float. OldBean now had the answer, but wanted to ask something else. Gabran asked before he could.
”What does Zeromune have to do with that!?”
”We shall say it again.” Zorolos said, his black cape shining even more darkly if possible. “How were we always, one step ahead of you?” At this, they flew into the air, grabbed each others arms, and disappeared. Chaos seemed to have randomly vanished too.
”How are we gonna get out of here?” asked Gondour. “How are we gonna get back to you? How come we didn’t even fight and did pep-talk instead?”
”They were…too powerful for us.” Giacomo shook his head. “They’ve improved…”
OldBean looked at Boda who was on the other side of the crevasse.
”You seem to know a lot about this.” he said to him.
”I’m keeping most details quiet on behalf of the warriors.” he said. “Until the situation becomes too much.”
”It already is too much.” said OldBean.
”Not to the maximum extent.” replied Boda.
”What was that about your plan with making Gabran going crazy? And yes, I know that you mixed his potions and gave one to him!”
Boda grinned.
”Nevermind.” he said. “It wasn’t going to work out anyway.”
”How are we gonna get out?!” OldBean heard Gondour yell. He looked around. The random rip wasn’t going to pop up. Now OldBean thought about it, it wasn’t a rip at all. It was a portal. Maybe everyone started calling it a rip because it looked like a rip…in his mind, he didn’t see anything but flashes of light when he entered the floating three dimensional diamond.
”We’ll just explore the place for now, I guess.” said OldBean. “We can get back to each other by walking, now Chaos isn’t blocking your path.”
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OldBean and everyone else continued through the confusing area. The place was very clean, even for crystal. The floors sparkled more than anything else. Finally, they reached a small hole.
”What’re we gonna do now?” asked Gondour. OldBean was getting sick of his of his constant questions. Before he could suggest that he should go check what was behind the hole, another flash of light made them shut their eyes once more. Once they opened them, a narrow path was revealed. Someone had yet again helped them ‘behind the scenes’. Boda waved his hands in a certain sequence, stood there calmly for a while, and said, “No one’s here according to my powers. But I doubt it.”
”Why?” asked Giacomo. “Your powers have never been wrong.”
”Because not just anything would’ve caused footsteps.” he said. Dennis looked around.
”I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
”And so have we.” said a female voice. The seven of them turned around. She was wearing a blue jacket on top of a white T-shirt, to match with the jacket, blue pants. She looked as if she was part of a maintenance team, with the professional look. Only without all the dirt and the spanners. Standing next to her, was a blonde haired man, wearing jeans and a black T-Shirt saying, ‘Eh’. He was holding a laptop. Standing next him was yet another person. He was wearing light-red armour, with a white oblique slash on his helm, where the mouth would usually be. And despite the fact they couldn’t see his face, he was definitely not smiling. Standing next to him, was yet again, another person. He was wearing what seemed to be a plain black suit, with a brown cape. He too wore a helm, which was brown. His face was visible, but the rest of the armour covered his mouth. And as the red armoured man had a slash for him, he had a dark sword in his right hand. OldBean suspected this was a Galactasol sword, only with the good powers. Right behind them all, was what seemed to look like a large purple, metal, cylinder shaped protective guard for whatever was inside it.
”Kyselia.” said the woman.
”James. And please, call me Jim.” said the blonder haired man.
”Marshal.” said the red armoured man.
”Colonel.” said the brown armoured man, with a bow.
A black figure was seen falling onto the purple case, and when it got onto it, it made cool ninja like movements down the case, clinging onto the crystal support nearby it to get down. When it finally did, it said, “Rose.” She had long red hair, and was obviously dressed as a ninja.
”Who,” said Boda, backing away, looking surprised. “Who the hell are you folks? You can’t be…”
”The legendary warriors.” said Kyselia. “We are them.”
Boda was already flooding with questions. “Why did Zero attack us?!”
”Zero? About time we filled you on on that.” said Colonel. “That was not Zero. That was an enemy masquerading as Zero. The real Zero wears red. He does not have a black cape. And he has never, been able to shapeshift his arms. That ‘Zero’ you speak of is Genesis.”
OldBean was about to shout “WHAT THE HELL?” but thought better of it. Rose obviously realised this, and said, “We’ll fill you on the details…”
”Firstly,” said Marshal, “Genesis is the person that Serenel said was working behind the scenes. He is, the fourth experiment. Secret. Not even mentioned in the documents. We overheard the conversation between you guys.”
”How do you-“started Gabran, but Jim cut across.
”We told you, we’re the legendary warriors, although I’m not technically a warrior. We know the past events of ten years ago, and such.
”Then where is the real Zero?” asked Gondour.
”Off with Kristi
, gathering the last piece of a necklace that could destroy the world.” said Rose. “Even though the necklace itself is normal, the jewel it carries isn’t. If it is inserted into Chaos Two,” At this, she pointed at the large purple case, “We’re done for.”
”Chaos Two?” wondered Giacomo, but then Gondour finally couldn’t take it, and asked, “HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET OUT?”
Jim shook his head. “There is a rectangular shaped portal over behind Chaos Two. It leads to a garbage dump. We also found this wallet-“
”MINE!” yelled Dennis, grabbing the wallet Jim just took out. “THAT IS MINE! GARBAGE DUMP!? THAT’S WHERE I LOST IT! WOW!”
Everyone just stared at him.
”In any case,” Jim continued, “We’ll explain here. It is too risky to be explain outside.”
”Back ten years ago, Zero destroyed the original Chaos. That is the one you saw previously.” Kyselia said. “It was rebuilt. But Chaos Two, this is a more improved version of it.”
”What did Serenel mean by ‘protecting behind the scenes’?” asked OldBean.
”Well, that would be Zero.” she finally laughed. “They’re scared of him. He pretty much busted them good a few years ago. It was spectacular. They also know that he is stopping their plan to activate Chaos, and therefore, Genesis acted as him, making Zero’s popularity of ‘legend’ decrease. But us, we know who he truly is. Zero is the real deal. Genesis is just the beginning, as his name states. The beginning of the era of idiots. Oh, and your father, Foda.” she added to Boda. “He did not randomly disappear ten months ago. He was out with Zero, and still is. He left without telling you, as it was urgent. Zero and me recalled the Legendary Warriors, all of us, due to Electus and Genesis.”
”Phew.” Boda said. Rose then spoke.
”Genesis, however, has given up on finding the necklace for some reason. But he still has Zorolos search for it in case. His true mission currently is to activate the original Chaos’ overload mode. If the machine self destructs, it could wipe out an entire state.”
”How do you activate it?” asked Gabran.
”A small portion of Galactasolum.” said Marshal. “It is highly dangerous if fused with a living object.”
”The source of it is scarce nowadays.” whispered Colonel. “That is why it is rather hard to-“
But OldBean cut across.
”Does Zero still have the tech armour platelegs?”
”Yes. He still wears them.” said Kyselia with surprise. “Why?”
”You’re in luck then.” he said. “Gabran, take it out of your backpack. The so called, ‘tech armour’.”
Gabran pulled it out.
”We thought it was techy, but it seemed to be a bit ‘gacky’ to be so.” said OldBean.
Kyselia took it.
”We’ll keep this.” she said, and handed it over to Rose. “Now, anything else you wish to understand?”
”Nope.” said OldBean. “Other than what was Zero protecting us from? And did Zero come by earlier?”
”Zero was protecting you the whole way.” she said. “The Hind D. He sent it. The shadows you saw. It was him. And he did come by earlier, to stop Chaos from eliminating you.”
”Why do we matter so much to this?” asked OldBean. He didn’t understand what legendary heroes wanted with them.
”We’ve noticed as such that you wanted to stop whatever was going on.” she said. “We wanted to help you in anyway, without you knowing for the meanwhile, because you seemed unable to defeat a giant walking death machine. Now, shall we step outside?”
”I think not!” said a voice. They all looked in the direction of the voice. It was Genesis, still wearing the fake Zeromune armour. “We have our Galacta, and you’re all going to die, because we have the necklace too, we beat Zero there.” Rose acted quick and got to the top of the case, and said, “Don’t even bother, you can’t even get inside.”
He laughed.
”I don’t need to. Chaos Two responds to the Solum itself.” and as he said it, the purple metal casing started to open. Rose quickly leapt of it, and with much effort, landed back down without getting harmed. Chaos Two was revealed. It was the same as the original, only the casing proved to be a place to store more powerful missiles than the original held. It leapt from the crystal area, crashing the crystal ceiling above, revealing the night sky. It disappeared. Genesis made to follow it, but was interrupted.
”It seems with have a guest here.” said a cool, but dark, voice. Zero, wearing his magnificent red armour and holding his green glowing sword, was walking towards them, with Kristi, who was another ninja, and Boda’s father, Foda.
”Stop right there.” Kristi said. “You know you can’t escape.”
Foda used his own powers, and created a wall to cover the area in which Chaos Two once stood. They were all inside it now, staring at Genesis.
“Outnumbered.” said Marshal.
Genesis merely laughed.
”Lets see what you can make of this, Zero.” he said. “I’m going to have Zorolos make Chaos self-destruct right in the center of Inner Beanland. And I’ll also have Chaos Two to fire missiles at the government. Poor Electus, who’ll be dealing with destroying the FBI. How are you going to deal with such?!”
”Wait.” said Kyselia. “I thought Chaos needed Galactasolum, and Chaos Two…”
Genesis laughed ever harder.
”They both have inputs for both.” he said. Foda got rid of the walls, and said, “Kyselia! Get to Chaos before you destructs, on the double! Kristi, defeat Electus!”
Zero and Genesis moved into the area in which Chaos Two stood.
OldBean and the others evacuated the area through the portal. Zero and Genesis, moved into the area in which Chaos Two stood, and Zero said, “And I,” and at this, he raised his sword. “shall rid the world of you!”
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Chapter 25, Nothing in the Beginning
Zero and Genesis charged at each other; as Zero slashed out with his sword, Genesis jumped to an amazing feet, right to the outside of the area. Zero took to the portal.
”No you don’t, coward!” shouted Genesis, who jumped back into the area and ran after Zero. As he pulled out his laser gun, Zero back flipped over Genesis and slashed with his sword. Genesis’ armour reacted dangerously, and squirted back black liquid at Zero. It hit him near the mouth. The skin absorbed it. Zero felt a great surge of good and power within him, but thanks to his willpower, he retained his personality. He could fly now! He jumped and focused on staying in the air. He was floating. He moved out of Genesis’ range. He flew to the crevasse, and leaned behind a crystal wall. He saw his armour’s colour changing from red to dark red; though not ask dark as Genesis’. A gold aura was around him. A laser blast from Genesis’s Galactasol gun made a hole in the wall. Zero flew once again, out of range. He landed at the spot OldBean had arrived at. He turned around. Genesis was charging his weapon, and a large blast came his way. Zero dodged it, and flew straight at Genesis in light speed.
When he got into close range, Zero punched him and Genesis fell deep into the crevasse. When he thought it was all over, Genesis himself flew out of crevasse somehow. The dark powers of Galactasolum didn’t allow flight.
”Fool, there was a large quantity of Galactasolum down there.” he said. “Fear me!” and flew straight at Zero. Zero pointed his sword at Genesis who got stabbed right in the heart. No blood leaked out, nor did Galactasolum. The substance must have hardened. But Genesis didn’t seem to show any indication of pain. Zero had just merely stabbed the armour. The armour released large bursts of energy which sent Zero right out of the crystal area. He looked around. The area was on a remote island. There was no getting out of here without the portal. He looked down and saw Genesis, holding a large container. Genesis said, “I won’t be needing you, I’ve got my sources. With both the necklace and Galactasolum, Chaos Two will be unstoppable. And considering only a small portion of Galacta is needed for Chaos One, we have everything we need. So you at the top of the world, Zero.” And he flew straight into the portal. Zero couldn’t let him get away. Zero shot with his gun at Genesis, but the laser merely just recoiled and hit Zero back in the chest. Thanks to the armour he wore and Galactasolum, he didn’t sustain heavy damage. Genesis flew straight threw the portal, which disappeared moments later. Zero was now stranded on the island…unless he flew straight off it. He turned from the huge hole in the roof that Chaos Two had made, and saw Chaos Two itself. It emerged from the water, looking much like a ship, with it’s rat shaped head at the front of it, and it burst off into the distance. Zero flew after it at top speed.
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| Quote: | Chapter 26, Indestructible Chaos
Kyselia was flying with her plane, looking down on the city below. It was Claza. She turned around in her seat, and saw a missile heading for the plane. She grabbed her parachute and went down into the city below...
Once she had landed, she noticed everyone was running as fast as possible out of the city. They had obviously seen the explosion. She looked skywards. Was it just her, or was there some black liquid dropping from…Chaos? The black liquid hit the pavement, and she stared at it. Galactasolum! She ran from the area as hard as she could, as Chaos drew nearer. If it hit her, her personality and such would be changed for good, unless she could resist such power. As she ran, some powerful force sucked her into the city square. Chaos. Serenel was floating above it, with Zorolos controlling it with his powers from…somewhere.
”What do we have here?” she said. “A legend…”
She aimed a energy ball at Kyselia, who ran for a nearby electronics store. She entered, but didn’t shut the door. What chance did it stand against a giant walking death machine? She grabbed a mini television, and grabbed out her crossbow, and one flame arrow. Chaos sucked again, and she was in the city square once more.
”There is no chance escaping!” cackled Serenel. “There is no point!”
As Chaos took one step forward, Kyselia lobbed the mini television where Chaos was to put his other metal leg down, and she shot the flame arrow at it. It didn’t sustain much damage, but the leg definitely seemed as if though it was a machine not used for several years.
”What is a pitiful television going to do to a giant?” yelled Zorolos from wherever he was. “There’s no use! Give up!” He was right. The television might have done something, but it was thanks to the flame bow. It wasn’t enough.
Serenel laughed, “Three minutes to self-destruct!”
Three minutes was barely enough time. It might have already passed by the time she managed to get down an alleyway to hide. Then she saw OldBean flying by, who was carrying some sort of missile launcher. He dropped it, and said, “Use it!” and flew off. But where to use it? There was barely any place to fire at. She scanned Chaos. There was what happened to be a rail gun, laser guns, and a protective barrier around it so she couldn’t enter. It seemed to have activated as OldBean dropped the launcher.
”Fifteen seconds to victory!” she shouted. There was nothing for it, as Chaos sucked her into the centre again, and the shield disappeared, she aimed at the rail gun. The missiles nearby the rail gun exploded, causing Chaos to backaway, and explode. Zorolos came out of hiding in the sewer, and Serenel and him flew out of the area. Chaos didn’t self destruct, and therefore the explosion didn’t do much harm to the area. Everyone nearby cheered at Kyselia, until Chaos….did self-destruct. Chaos wasn’t defeated properly. It’s Auto Mode was probably activated and still working. Chaos exploded and black liquid splat everywhere. Kyselia dodged all the liquid and ran for it. Some of the liquid hit her, and she wiped it off before it could be absorbed. She ran until she reached a garbage dump. The mirror Dennis spoke of was just there. She jumped into the mirror, which she fell into, and she ended up in the crystal area. She grabbed her jetpack and flew out of the area, from the island, searching for Zero…
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| Quote: | Chapter Twenty-Seven, Galactoid
Kristi was outside the office of the president, now Electus.
”Activate Galactoid. Now. Yes, I am aware of the risks, and how much damage it may do! THAT IS THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE I WISH TO HAVE OCCUR! ACTIVATE IT! GOOD DAY!”
Electus walked out of the room, while Kristi was holding into the chandelier above. She dropped down. She entered the room. It looked professional, alright. She looked back, and listening for any noises. None. She headed for the laptop. It required, not a password, but certain card keys to be logged in. Where the card keys were to be inserted, it did not tell. Eight keys definitely could not fit into a laptop. She headed behind a bookcase, and used her walkie-talkie. She tried contacting Rose, it didn’t work. A mobile phone most likely wouldn’t work in that case either, then. She scanned the room once more. There was a card key on the bookcase she was hiding at. She kicked hard. The key fell into the narrow space of the back of the wardrobe she was at. She slided out, and picked it up. It was an area access to Area 82. She decided to look for the entrance to it. What else was she to do? She headed out of the room. Electus was heading right back with a evil grin on his face. There was no hiding now. As soon as he would see her, she was done for. She headed back into the room, and hid right next to the door, and took out four rocks. As soon as the door opened, she threw out one of them. Electus took them for a intruder sneaking behind him, and walked straight back off. She ran out, putting the other three into her pocket, and headed for a door saying ‘Room 34’. She didn’t have a card key for that. How many doors in this whole place needed cards? The door opened anyway when she reached it though, and there was Rose.
”Hey.” she said. Kristi was stunned.
”How come I couldn’t contact you if you were in here?”
”All the rooms stop any contacts.” she said. “Lets go and destroy Galactoid.”
”Galactoid?” Kristi wondered. “I heard about some sort of experiment on altering Galactasolum. Wouldn’t messing the project up destroy it anyway?”
”I guess you’ve got a point.” Rose said. “But if the Galactasolum fuses with a being, it’ll be chaos. Lets get rid of everyone first.”
”Everyone?” Kristi was shocked. “How are we supposed to get rid of ten thousand people or more?”
”Cause some sort of alert.” said another voice. They turned around to an area with a helm that looked similar to Zero’s. It was Giacomo.
”What are you doing here?!” spluttered Rose.
”I need…to finish some unfinished business.” he said, his head shaking.
”Well, okay.” said Rose. They moved to a door saying ‘A 82’.
”Well, here goes.” said Kristi. She inserted the card key. A alarm went off.
”INTRUDER ALERT! ALL PERSONEL EVACUATE! GALACTIC SOLDIERS COMING TO DESIGNATED AREA!”
”Oh man.” said Giacomo shaking his head. “It was a trap.”
A bunch of black armoured soldiers headed towards them. Giacomo saw a hidden switch behind the helm. He ran towards it, and as the soldiers fired, he hit the switch. The floor gave way. Wait, it didn’t give way…it opened. They fell down to some unknown area, with all the shots from the soldiers missing them. They landed and got injured badly. The soldiers were unconscious, the armour was too heavy.
”So,” Rose said. “The plan to corrupt the project is a failure now, hmm? We can’t even get back up?”
There was a nearby locked door. Kristi headed towards it. There was a huge amount of noise coming from behind the door.
”Electus!” burst out Giacomo all of a sudden. The door blasted open, and Kristi, Rose, and him got blasted onto the walls.
“Oooof!”
They fell unconscious for a while, and then woke up to find themselves at the bottom of a giant mechanical horror. Galactoid. It was black in colour, and was loaded with laser cannons, laser guns, and Galactasolum missiles.
”Oh ho, never thought you’d come and settle it once and for all, Gia!” said Electus’s voice from the giant. “Remember before?”
”Yes.” he replied. “You’re responsible for destroying the last piece of information that Lufio made about Galactasolum! The fact that it can become a hideous beast…”
Electus laughed. “There is no point stopping me.”
The head of the machine turned towards Kristi.
”YOU!”
It fired at her, and she jumped a step back to avoid it.
“Wha..?”
”This is personal.”
He fired a huge Galactasolum missile at them, which they clearly could not avoid. They ran for it nonetheless, and got hit. The power was incredible. They couldn’t move a muscle without feeling extraordinary pain. They just lay there.
“Don’t move, just lie there and die slowly…”
Giacomo thought he was the only one that Electus had had a problem with. What in the world did Kristi do to him? What? There was no way she could have caused the Apocalypse, now that was just a pathetic idea…
The giant moved closer, and lasered them. Only, it didn’t touch them. What? They opened their eyes to see that the laser cannon was only charging. Electus clearly thought they were in no position to move. He was right. They weren’t. But then they saw Galactasolum coming from the area in which the missiles had hit. It was coming towards them, and then…
Kristi was on her feet again, in a cool looking stealth suit, her weapons glowing. She could pretty much fly too. The same happened to Rose. Giacomo’s armour felt heavier but at the same time lighter. He could fly too.
”WHAT?” shouted Electus, his voice not even hurting their ears, due to the powers of the solum. The speaker in the machine wasn’t helping much.
They flew up close to the machine. The created a energy ball, and sent it right where the cockpit would be. It literally, broke into bits. The entire place was on fire, the power of Galactasolum was so strong that when the armour was hit with some of the force of the blast, the armour hit back them. They blasted off somewhere, not knowing a thing. They opened their eyes. They were on top of a building, many people down below yelling things like, ‘Kill him!’, and ‘Free the beans!’. Electus was right down in front of them on the rooftop, he got up, but Giacomo kicked him in the backside, and he fell right off, down into the angry crowd who moved aside, letting him hit the ground…only did he? They swore they saw some people moving towards the spot in which he was falling. Now, their mission done, they flew off into the distance, looking for Chaos.
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| Quote: | Chapter 28, One Way Track
Zero, now just a blur of gold, with a slight hint of red inside it, was keeping chase with Chaos Two. It didn’t seem to know that Zero was right behind it. Of course it didn’t. It was auto-piloted straight to the center of Inner Beanland. Zero looked back while still flying. It was a one way track. The island was no longer in sight. Zero wondered how to land on Chaos. He had learnt how to start flying, but not landing. He flew over the monstrosity, until he was close enough as possible to the ground, and then landed his feet onto it. What was he to do now? How was he going to destroy it? The reaction to the Galactasolum Genesis carried activated it, but that would mean that Galactasolum was already in the machine…what about the necklace? And then the answer hit him: It couldn’t use its strongest attacks without the necklace, hence not attacking Zero. Genesis had not inserted it just yet. And then he wondered if he could use his energy attack on the head of the machine, to destroy it…but then that would leak the Galactasolum into the ocean, and that wouldn’t have been a pretty sight. Then again, maybe he could destroy it when it reached the city….but then the city would be all busted up and that wouldn’t be a pretty sight either. Then he looked up at the sky…and it landed right on top of Chaos Two’s head! Oh man, not now, thought Zero. If Galactasolum touched this bird, it would be good bye to planet Earth. Zero moved for the bird, but the speed on which Chaos was moving was too fast. He tripped. He concentrated on moving to the bird as fast as he could, and got up and moved…really fast. Galactasolum still had its great effects. He tried shooing it away with his sword, only it just kept on dodging somehow. Then he saw a tag on the bird’s feathers...courtesy of ‘the beginning’. Zero had been afraid of that. Now, he had to eliminate the bird. He slashed at the bird, only it dropped down to underneath the head to the …’oil’ storage.
”Ah no.”
Was it just him, or did the bird somehow just swallow some Galactasolum? It wasn’t like Chaos was leaking or anything…until he saw that the bird wasn’t any ordinary bird. It had a rather sharp beak! It just simply pecked into the cans and got some Galactasolum? Amazing…but now Zero had another problem. The bird was probably going to transform into one of those super cool monsters that are indestructible unless you turn into some sort of weird thing that has the same powers as the monster, those types you see on television. And it did. And then the cans leaked themselves. The Galactasolum was all liquid, but it was now slimy liquid. Gooey liquid. Now the Galactasolum was swallowed by the bird, the whole lot! Genesis sure didn’t care about the bird at all. The bird, having swallowed large amount of Galactasolum, grew larger, and larger, and seemed to be in pain. Blood was ending up everywhere, Zero didn’t look. He activated his ‘close’ feature on his helm, which shut off the section is which the eyes would be so it would look like he was wearing sun glasses. It did pretty much seem like that too…only he looked ‘cooler’. When the sounds were no longer heard, Zero made to deactivate the feature, until he fell into the ocean. He burst straight out of it, and flew high into the sky. It was a horrible sight. Chaos Two had simply merged with the bird, which was by now a liquid monster. A flying liquid black dragon monster. A flying liquid black dragon monster with some parts of Chaos Two actually protecting it from being harmed, not that it really needed protecting thanks to the Galactasolum…now Zero thought of it, the bird was practically made of Galactasolum now. It was high in the sky, the size of a dragon, not even looking like a bird, it did indeed look like a dragon now. Due to the merging with Chaos Two, it gained all of Chaos’ powers. The dragon fired a huge beam at Zero, who didn’t get harmed, thanks to his new powers. But he got blasted far back anyway, and ended up right close to the shore of a beach. He was somewhere in Beanland now. He looked up, and saw the dragon flying somewhere…whatever Genesis trained the bird(now dragon) to do, he definitely also trained it to continue moving to Inner Beanland after the merge. That was all nice and handy to Zero. Zero flew off into the air, and then into the distance. Then he finally saw OldBean and everyone else on the deck of an airship. He landed onto it.
”What’s the situation?” Zero asked.
”Well, we saw a damn large giant dragon flying past, and it seemed to have a pretty bad intention.” said Foda.
”I know, skip the details on what’s going on at the city, will you?”
”Well,” Kyselia’s voice started shaking. “The dragon, it flew right over one of the towns, and destroyed it. No one was harmed, thanks to a little girl seeing the dragon beforehand. Everyone evacuated quick enough. It seems to be heading…for the city.”
”I know that too.” said Zero. “What I really need to know, is what it’s doing right now.”
Jim was using a radar screen, with OldBean and Gabran. Giacomo was merely looking at the maps.
”I think its reached the city now.”
Everyone groaned, Zerf, just stood there on the deck looking pretty bored and irritated.
”An’ I thought I was gonna have som’ fun, an’ now we have ta’ deal with flying dragons?! Wha’ chance was there on tha!?”
”Not much, not that we didn’t expect it, we’ve had a lot of weird stuff happening in our journeys, be happy.” said Marshal.
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Nathan just sat there in the pub, drinking up all the beer, the wine, spirits, you name it. He was the only one in there.
"Son, are you gonna leave at all?" asked the bartender.
"Naw." he said. "Rum is nice."
A sound that resembled an earthquake was heard by Nathan. Actually, who wouldn't have heard it?
"What the hell was that?"
He walked outside of the pub, and looked up.
"HOLY COW!"
There was a cow alright. It was in an airship. After it passed, he made to turn around, until he saw something else.
"HOLY COW!"
There it was. a Black, waterlike, dragon flying over the town. He ran back in the pub.
"WHAT THE RUM WAS THAT?"
And he turned to the door and stared at it. The bartender looked worried.
"Nathan, you-"
Then it happened. The dragon just flew straight threw the pub, and then it took off, into the distance. Nathan didn't get it. The entire town looked as if it was flooded with water, dyed black.
"Son, you might want to stay in here." said the shaking bartender.
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OldBean suddenly burst out, “It’s gonna blow!” and he pointed his wing at some place. They stared at the direction. Another blue beam coming through! The airship broke down into halves, and they all fell down somewhere in the city. Luckily, they ended up on the rooftops. There was the dragon. It perched itself in the center of the city, even with the flood of black liquid. OldBean turned around to be face to face with Genesis.
”You.”
”Me.” he laughed. “I made that ‘relic’ trap to get rid of you. It was never some pathetic April Fools joke that was never found. Mr. Contra got his details wrong, I created it! It was never programmed to talk, that was me talking, magically, far from you. The wonders of Galactasolum.” he said, and OldBean swore he saw some red in Genesis’s eyes. He had succumbed to the evil powers of Galactasolum. Everyone else just stared at the rooftop of OldBean and Genesis, even Zero didn’t act.
”I’ll step in if you need a hand. This is your fight.”
”Sheesh.” said OldBean. “I told you guys, I’m hopeless at figh-“ then he stopped. He didn’t need to go into fist to fist combat and all that. If the armour was made of liquid, and probably some of he himself, OldBean could probably freeze Genesis. His only hope was that Galactasolum wasn’t some sort of warm substance. He looked around, the dragon was blasted apart the entire area, probably all the other Beanland states even, with its power. There wasn’t anytime.
”Once again as my fellow comrades did with a certain girl.” Genesis said. “A few minutes for battle…three.”
He got that fact right, by three minutes the city was probably just rubble. And then OldBean gazed around hopelessly looking for some way to freeze Genesis. Then he realised the place was flooded and he was on the rooftop of an also flooded building. Then he came up with it. The top hat of fake magic! There was some sort of part in the top hat in which he could store stuff, but not heavy stuff. If it was heavy he wouldn’t be able to fly and stuff. He took out of the top hat a rock. Something that probably wasn’t even gonna work. And then he wondered if he used up thirty seconds already. If he didn’t take action, thirty will have passed. Genesis just stood there bored. Zero wasn’t very happy with the effect of boredom cast on everyone. Everything was too quiet. Well, except for the constant sound of buildings being ripped apart. OldBean threw the useless rock at Genesis who merely just walked aside to dodge it. OldBean thought he heard a sound. He turned around and saw a small figure quite much like himself, only without the top hat. He couldn’t see it from here. The figure moved on the far away roof top it was on, and fired a laser straight at Genesis. The armour didn’t counter attack with some powers of its own. It actually got Genesis who fell onto a highway track below. How lucky was that for him? Now OldBean thought about it, at least someone could have fallen down into the flood. Nobody even did. He looked back at the figure. It wasn’t even there anymore, it disappeared. Zero looked surprised, but didn’t care less. And then he said to everyone, “How are we gonna attack the dragon?”
Kristi, Giacomo, and Rose’s powers had worn off somehow apparently, and their armour and clothes seemed rather much destroyed. They might have been attacked by the beam the dragon sent earlier before he reached the airship. Everyone stared at him.
”You.” said Colonel. “You can stop it. Your Galactasolum effects are still on you. Even though it’s technically indestructible since it’s now made of water, and Galactasolum, you might be able to use it’s own powers against itself. You have Galactasolum, and so does it. An equal match.”
OldBean looked eager and said, “Hey! I want to help too! I didn’t just sign up for my own journey so I could have someone else touch the finish line!”
Zero nodded, but OldBean could tell that he was smiling. Zero deactivated his glasses, and said, “You can get Genesis and stop him from throwing the necklace at the dragon.”
Gabran also looked excited.
”What are we going to call this dragon!? Chaotic Dragon?!”
Boda and Dennis shook their heads, and Dennis said, “Come up with a better one when you’re typing up the newspaper report, will you?”
Zero flew up into the air, and in a burst of light, he disappeared to the dragon. OldBean didn’t seem to want to lose the spotlight, and jumped into the highway tracks…
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| Quote: | Chapter 29, The Invincible Trio
When OldBean landed, he thought he heard something flying nearby, he turned around. Nothing was there. Everyone else hopped down too, Zerf looking merely bored.
”Come on, m’ bored.”
Boredom didn’t last long. Genesis was no where to be seen. As the group moved on, Genesis jumped out of the black water and fired away with energy balls. They all rolled out of the way, OldBean flying upwards. The blasts destroyed the highway, and with that, they fell. OldBean was still in the air. As he just floated there in the air, an energy ball hit straight in the back. He fell, and almost made contact with the substance, but started flying upwards again just in time. Where did the blast come from? Then he saw it. Serenel and Zorolos.
”It’s not over yet!” Zorolos yelled. Uh huh, it was definitely not over yet. There was still the entire world to save, and after that, he’d have to pay the bills for the damages in Breathlight. Argh.
OldBean threw his last carrot in his top hat at Zorolos, who merely just raised his arm, opened his palm, and blocked the carrot. All that was seen was blue smoke. Zorolos was on the defensive, Serenel was on the offensive. She just sent the almighty weapon of destruction right at him again. The energy ball. He started to wonder whether or not they could do anything else. He flew out of the way. He needed some area to stand. And then it happened. Kyselia and the others just popped out of nowhere. She was in a plane, the others just on the roof tops. Hey, he could stand on the plane! He flew onto it, and landed on the left wing. Then Genesis proved he had more than some crystal orb. He raised his arm, and opened his palm. The entire area was red all of a sudden. He closed his palm, and everyone felt a great pain in their heads. Kyselia lost control of the plane for a while, but then regained it, and flew high into the sky. Boda and Foda just flew right at him, and floated on the left wing, the place he was at.
”No point. We need to attack them all. Divide into three groups.” said Foda.
”Great, I’ll lead what, you’ll lead what, and who’ll lead what?”
The red disappeared.
”Make up your own group. I don’t care if it isn’t even.”
”Um, okay. I take you, and Kristi. Oh wait, I’ll take Zerf and Dennis too.”
”Right.” said Boda. “I’ll take Rose, Mr Red and Mr Scary.”
”Yeah, just take all the cool guys. And their names are Marshal and Colonel!” said Foda shaking his head.
”M’kay. Sorry pops.”
Foda looked deeply embarrassed. “Kyselia can take Serenel herself, with the leftovers supporting her. We can take Zorolos, and you OldBean, can take Genesis.”
The dragon might have fired off a laser beam of sorts, since one of the buildings just…broke into bits.
“Right.” said OldBean, looking determined. “I say Old Bean, shall we defeat the moronic trio?”
”Yes, I believe we shall.” said Giacomo from the rooftops. They formed into the groups. OldBean flew straight at Genesis, who was also floating in the air. Genesis just threw some star knifes at him. They were golden, and looked like ordinary knives, only they were a lot stronger. Foda, still floating in the air, used his physic powers to make the knives fall into the dark water below. OldBean continued to fly straight Genesis. He caught a glimpse of Giacomo firing at Serenel with his Galactasol gun, and Kyselia firing with the plane. No avail. The attacks just got blocked out. He continued to fly straight at the enemy. Genesis looked bored still, and waved his arm, and they all blast backwards. Zerf held onto Foda, Kristi still on one of the rooftops. She just jumped on all of them, and fly kicked through the black dragon, no effect. She went right through it, and continued to move towards Genesis, who was unaware of her presence. He turned around, and got kicked right in the face. She held tight onto a building to stop herself from falling. OldBean looked around. Bad progress. He was right. Serenel and Zorolos had switched their positions. Zorolos was now on the offensive. Colonel remained unaffected of the pain the others were feeling in their heads. He had a Galactasol sword, which had been defeated by it’s owner, the good in him. He slashed right at Zorolos, who fell from the building, right down into the flood below. Genesis punched Kristi, who just let go and fell to the black flood too. Dennis was also holding onto Foda. Foda flew straight at Genesis, and Dennis jumped off Foda, straight at Genesis, and said, “Trick-or-Treat!” and threw a box full of good tasting chicken right at Genesis’ face. His fury broke. A flash of light, and they ended up somewhere far away in a grassy area.
”Argh, that hurt.” said Dennis, rubbing his head.
”Well that is just nice!” yelled OldBean. “Now we’re miles away from the scene!”
”Its not over yet.” said Foda. “Cling onto me everyone.”
”An’ I haven’ even done anything yet!” roared Zerf. They all clung on, and Foda, somehow just started flying at top speed, and ended right back at the lovely wasted place.
”I think I’ve exhausted myself.” said Foda. “I’ll fall back…”
And he flew somewhere out of sight. They were all on a rooftop once again. OldBean looked at Serenel. She got, quite literally, watered by Kyselia and the others. Everyone on her team seemed to have confused her by attacking her from different spots, and since she hadn’t mastered the power created a protective barrier, one point for the good guys. Kyselia flew straight at Serenel, who got hit and too, fell into the flood. OldBean searched the area for Zero this time. He was right next to the black watery dragon, dodging the attacks. Then he realised he wasn’t paying attention to the fact that Genesis was about to strike. He turned around to be hit full on the face by a energy ball. OldBean got blasted backwards, and he didn’t have the strength to start flying again. He just fell and fell, and then something fell out of his top hat, and he caught it in his wings. Perfect.
OldBean, as Genesis closed in to deliver the finishing blow, threw out a small photo, encased in small glass as well, of him and his grandfather…well, not really grandfather. Foster. He was adopted as an orphan. His foster grandfather was an idiot. He actually dreamed of destroying Beanland itself as well. OldBean wondered for a moment, all bad guys want to destroy the world. Fact is, what are they going to do after that? He was saving to destroy this photo by having it squashed by some large monster or something but, it’ll have to go. If the glass broke, and the armour Genesis wore got hit and it got, ‘sticky’, the glass would get stuck too. Well, he could only guess. OldBean threw the small photo right at Genesis’ fake Zero helm. The helm got sticky alright. And the glass was caught right next to his throat. Genesis stopped as OldBean continued to fall into the water, and he too, fell into the deep water. OldBean wasn’t going to give in just yet. As Genesis fell down faster than him, OldBean grabbed hold of him, and waiting for some of the energy in him to come back before he hit the water. And then, he let go, and flew off straight at another rooftop, yelling his favourite line.
”I say Old Bean!”
The end is near…
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This chapter was originally FFH exclusive, but I've changed my mind due to personal reasons..=/.
| Quote: | OldBean 1.5 Director’s Cut
Chapter 31, One Month Later
OldBean was on the couch, watching television. It was, magnificent. The softness of the couch, the entertainment of the television, it was glory. Only the gods would get this sort of luxury…and only the gods. Because the gods definitely didn’t get idiots breaking in every five minutes. Boda and Foda burst in.
’Who ya gonna call?!’ they both shouted, and they high-fived each other. Like Father, Like Son. They’re idiots. The blue little Dragius was smiling at the couch, in which the grey little guy just jumped on. The luxury was no longer a gift of the goddesses.
’So, ma’ man, hows it been goin’?’
’Not so good, get outta my house.’
’But we live here now.’
’Not.’
Boda cleared his throat. ‘I have lived at this house with both you, and Gabran for longer than two years. So, if you’ll allow my father…’
’You’re missing me, nutcase!’ yelled Dennis from the other room.
’Shut up, Lep!’ OldBean called back. Kyselia just walked in.
’Do you know where Alfred is?’
OldBean waved his feathers at her.
’Uh, uh. If you want advice, you go straight to the master. Me.’
OldBean thought he heard a snigger coming from the basement.
’Shut up, Moo cow.’ OldBean called at Gabran. He continued.
’What is your problem?’
’Well, er, Zerf just decided it would be nice to show off his backside in the streets.’
’A good solution,’ said OldBean, ‘would be to take out your frustration on him, like I did on my first day. Arrest him.’
Everyone in the room laughed. Dennis angrily yelled back from upstairs, ‘Can you folks shut up!? I’m trying to watch Ciglev Three…’
’I don’t think that’ll work,’ she said. ‘Not even the officers want to get near him. He’s surrounded by like, thugs of all sorts. And they’re pretty disgusting.’
Gondour burst in too. OldBean was wondering why he never installed security guards at the front door to stop people barging in uninvited.
’Now now, Selia.’ he said, pushing the little owl off his couch and sitting down. He put his hands behind his head. ‘The matter is simple.’
’Get off my beautiful couch!’ said OldBean as he got up, flaring with anger. ‘That thing cost me a fortune!’
’Of what? One million?’
’No! It almost cost me Dennis’s life!’
’Shaddup!’ he heard Dennis yell. ‘I’m trying to watch ‘Ciglev Three, the Remake’!
’Whatever Leap-ster!’ yelled back OldBean.
’Now, now, my young friend…’
’Shut it. I’m older than you, and you know that you should respect your elders!’
’Older than me by one damn month. Now, my friend.’ he continued. He spoke to Kyselia with a professional voice. OldBean was furious.
’To deal with such morons, you have to-‘
’Give them money!’ yelled OldBean.
’No, OldFart.’ said Gondour. ‘You have to simply-‘
’Give them back their well earned luxury!’ burst out OldBean again. Gondour had no choice but to hold OldBean down to the carpet so he couldn’t bounce back up.
’No. The point is-‘
OldBean whipped off his top hat so he could escape, he flew off.
’Now, as I was saying.’ Gondour continued. ‘The point is that he won’t give in unless you offer him something. Knowing Zerf, he wants more empty tin cans for some strange reason. You can simply, lie to him.’ he smiled at her. ‘I hope your business is going well.’
OldBean came back flying out with a fire extinguisher, and yelled, ‘Fire in the hole!’ and he fired right at the tiny little crack in the ceiling.
Gondour snorted. ‘What the hell was that meant to do?’
OldBean laughed. ‘Just wait and see.’
Tons of dust fell right on Gondour. OldBean thought he saw a frog falling out of the tiny little crack somehow too. He looked up. Apparently the crack was large than ever now. Gondour started yelling, ‘Get it off me!’
OldBean in confusion and panic, accidently sprayed Gondour with the extinguisher. Gondour ran out of the house.
’Sorry!’ OldBean called after him. He was still the clown of the group. The leader of the humour people…or whatever you called them. Life wasn’t as bad as he thought. Having to sit on a comfy couch wasn’t the best luxury you could get. He still had his private room at the OldBean FBI…
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Done! And what a coincidence, my post count at TFF was 100 due to this chapter. Wierd, but w00t! That, and over 30 posts already here thanks to this too. =)
Comment please, folks, please! I'd love to hear some!
BTW, a sequel and a prequel will be coming your way...
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