~Little Tokyo High~ : Creators Corner

[DashStPierre]

Dash: *sees Mak coming* Hey man! Well hope this is enough for ya (out steps about 400 students, with armor and weapons) Guru Lou set everything up so that they can learn how everything works as we fight.

[leamur]

Taichi had to gag for sometime as the smell was quite potent and once he thought he was free of his troubles several things ht him all at once.  First was  the tremendous headache he had from Sayuri's punch!  Second was the fact that he was naked (he had his trunks on of course!) to which he did an awkward dance of embarrassment.  Then he realised he was on his own.  He began to panic as he knew his mom would kill him if anything had happened to his sister, so he began to stumble around to look for her but had second thoughts when he saw the green cloud that was seeping out of the school.  "Kazuko?  Kazuko!  KAZUKO!" he yelled as he put his hands on his head in desperation.

"Quit despairing my fine farmyard friend!"

"Huh?"  Taichi turned to see a small penguin in a blue suit and dark shades.

"Your sister and friends went thata way."  He pointed towards the open school gate.

"Where have they gone?"

"To the edge of town."

"Why?"

"To fight the ninja bunnies of course!  Like lambs to the slaughter" the penguin shook his head slowly and tutted.

"WHAT???!!!!"

"You know?  The ones that have been terrorising the school?"

"Errr..."

"Where you asleep or something?"

"Well...kind of."  Taichi replied slightly embarrassed.

"You can catch up with them if you run, but you might want to try and put some clothes on first!"

"I'll never get there in time!" he yelled in despair and slumped to the floor.

"Maybe so, but they might be able to help you" the penguin replied pointing to the gate as several police cars pulled up.  "I have some other battle to moderate.  So long my fine farmyard friend." 

Taichi watched him waddle away and realised the penguin was right, he needed help and not only to get some clothes but to save his sister and the other students.

"What happened here?"  One of the police officers asked.

"I'll explain later" Taichi replied as he jumped up.  "I need to make a phone call!"

[ApacheMan2K]

Meanwhile, Makoto saw a few other students, including Kazuko. He quickly says, "Dash! I think we're getting more friends coming our way!", as he points him to their direction.

[DashStPierre]

Dash: Great...but I don't have weapons for them...I hope they know martial arts.


With that, a rumbling could be heard...and Dash looked up and saw a huge crowd of black clad ninja bunnies in front of him. After a tense silence, the lead bunny said, "Alright, we are going to finish you off and then finish what we came to do..."

Dash: Not if I or my friends have anything to say about it! Hey guys, point your weapons to teh sky and hit the button on teh handle!

With that 400 students pulled out swords, clubs, nunchakus, etc and pointed them to the sky. Then in a swirl of light, they suddenly were all covered in armor much like the SPC Extra Topping Armor. After a chorus of oohs, ahhs, and assorted exclamations, Dash said, "alright everybody, fighting positions!" Everyone assumed a stance, ready for the charge of the bunnies

"Hey Mak, you ready to do this?"

[ApacheMan2K]

He nods. "We'll have to protect the newcomers. I'm not sure if any of them can fight, so I'm not letting them take any chances unarmed. Be careful out there, Dash, and kick some cotton tails." He bounds towards the new group, preparing to defend them and assist those who can fight. He stands in front of them as he watches the whole clan approach the whole multitude.

[leamur]

"Mom I've got no time to explain..."

"What is it honey?  You sound a little flustered, is everything ok?"

"Like I said no time...Kazuko and the other students have gone to the edge of town to fight this group of crazed ninja bunnies and...Mom?"

There was a muffled thump on the other end of the phone. "Mom? MOM!"

"Burpburpburp...please insert more money to continue the call..."

Taichi slammed the phone down and backed out of the booth, putting his hands on his head in desperation.  He looked up and down the street, people were staring at him as he had forgot he only had his trunks on and was reminded of this as the police officer approached with a coat to cover him.  He did not care though and would not have the coat, his sister was in danger and something had happened to his mom!

"Come on" the policeman said as kindly as he could as he began to coerce Taichi towards a police car.  "I'm sure your sister will be fine."

"I need to go there...I need to go there NOW!"

"Ok there's no need to be like that.  Please can you get into the car and we'll see about getting to your sister."

Taichi quickly jumped in the back and the police offcer got in the drivers side.  He angled the rear-view towards him and sighed "do you still want to go to your sister?"  Taichi nodded ferosiously.  "Hold on then!"  With that the police car shifted into reverse and screeched out of the gate, sirens blaring and sped off down the road.  He could only think of his sister as for some reason he just knew his mom was ok.

Sakimi, Taichi's mom, had only dropped the phone in shock but had wasted no time in darting across the room to her handbag and whipping out her cell-phone. She hit the speed dial as she ran down the stairs to the garage, taking two at a time and almost tripping at one point.  "Pick up, pick up!" she hissed under her breath as she waited for the other person to pick up.   In the meantime she had sped across the concrete floor to an old battered locker in the corner, which she skillfully unlocked with one hand as she began to take off her kimono with the other.  The phone was clamped between her shoulde and horn.

"Lu-"

"Omitsu.  BBS.  Edge of town.  GO! GO! GO!"

"Sakimi?"

She hung up and hoped that her sister had understood.  Quickly swapping the cell from one ear to the other and hitting the next speed-dial, she reached in and slid a rack out, with a heavy suit hanging on it.

"He-"

"Oni-cha!  BBS!  Edge of town.  GO! GO! GO!"

"Sakimi!"

She smiled as she knew he remembered what to do.  Hanging up before he could say anything else she threw her cell down onto her kimono and pulled the jacket off the rack and slipped it on.  She prayed that this old suit still worked and heeved it down, stumbling about as she slipped it on.  After a few short seconds there was a loud click as it snapped into place, it felt heavy and awkward but she had no time to think about that.  She grabbed the helmet and pulled it on.  "HAI!" She yelled and took up a fighting pose.  "Now its time to save those kids!"  With that she threw the garage door open and strode into the side street, which gave Mr.Tako from next door a fright as he was turning on his Kawasaki super bike.

"I need to borrow your bike Tako-san!"

"Take it, just don't hurt...Akimoto-san?"

She winked and the revved the powerful bike up, before rocketing down the street.  She did not know where she was heading as she raced down side streets, cutting over main roads and running through lights.  The 'edge' of town was a big place but she guessed there was only one place suitable for a battle near to the school, so she headed that way and hoped she was right.

In the meantime at the edge of town the two sides were facing each other off.  Some of the students were beginning to have second thoughts, a day of school would probably have been better than facing deadly ninja in armed combat.  A siren cut through the silence on the side closest to the city, many thought they had been saved and that the army had come.  Instead their hearts sank as a lone police car pulled up and a kid dressed only in a pair of trunks got out. The police officer got out then jumped back in and began screaming in his radio for back-up.  The kid stood motionless for a second and then stumbled down the embankment onto the battlefield and began to shout "Kazuko! Kazuko!"

"Oni-chan? Where are your clothes?" An attractive female ram asked as she stepped from the student battle line.  The kid ran up and hugged her without replying.

"I'm so glad you're ok!"

"Taichi" she said slightly embarrassed.  "There's no need to hug me so-"

She was interupted by the angry roar of a motor-bike as it flew through the air, landed and then power-slid between the two armies spraying the bunny ninjas with dirt.  The rider expertly brought it under control and then skidded to a stop in the middle of the two forces.  She instantly spotted the rams at the front and rode over to them, "Taichi, Kazuko! Are you ok?"

"Mom?" they said together.

"No time to explain.  You need to get out of here now and take your friends with you."

"But we can fight!" someone shouted out.

"They won't go mom and I won't leave my friends" Kazuko protested.

"Hmmm...stay close  to-"

Another bike roared over head and power slid to a stop, although not as elegantly as the first and two riders jumped off.  Both of them were rams and both heavly armed like Sakimi.  It was Omitsu and their brother!

"Mom whats going on?" Taichi began.

"Yes what is going on Mom?" one of the bunnies cut in sarcastically.  "Come on girls I'm getting tired of this, lets skin 'em!  Fancy some lamb chops tonight?"

"WAIT!"  Sakimi bellowed and checked the Ninja advance.  "Firstly you'll regret that! Secondly...don't you want to know who is going to kick you pretty little faces into next week?"

"Er...I-I do!" a student called out.

"Oh please!" the sarcastic ninja protested.

Sakimi jogged over to the other two.  "You remember the intro?"

"Erm...Sakimi I don't think there's ti-"  Omitsu began looking slightly worried at the glinting metal of the ninja swords.

"Sure"  Matsukichi (their brother) cut in.

"Right I'll start"  Sakimi exclaimed.  "Out-numbered but never out-gunned"  She yelled as she took up a fighting pose.

"Er...we'll have you on the run?"  Omitsu continued.  The others sighed.

"The BALLISTIC"  Matsukichi roared.

"Battle"  Omitsu said more excitedly as she remembered the words.

"Sheep"  Sakimi said in a blood-chilling whisper.  "And if any you lay a finger on my kids I'm going to do non-specific things to you that will cause you excrutiating pain!"

"I don't remember that part" Omitsu whispered to her brother.

The bunnies took a step back from the mad ram and her crew.  The fact that they were 'battle sheep' did not bother them, nor did the crazy threat but what did scare them was the word ballistic and now the ram's suits were begining to whine as somehting inside them began to charge up.  The bunnies took another step back looking at each other nervously.

"Are you all afraid of this mutton, her silly lambs and some kids?"  One bunny shouted out and the ninjas quickly forgot about ballistics.  A mistake they would shortly regret!    They began to advance.

"Are we going to use the same old plan?"  Matsukichi calmly asked Sakimi.

"Yes"

They both turned to Omitsu, told her that the nijas had called her a mutton and thew her into the enemy before she could say anything.  She was quickly surrounded and they raised their weapons for the kill.  If only they had known what would happen next!  Omitsu began to sob about being called a 'mutton' which quickly turned into a bawl.  Suddenly her armour opened and the ninjas' eyes widened as an innumerable number of missiles casscaded out, whisteling in every direction and blowing the hapless ninjas beyond all believable bounds!

[DashStPierre]

Dash: Wow, and I thought 4th of July in LA was big...alright guys, we can't let teh sheep have all the fun...(grabs his sword which is now charged up) LET'S GO!!!


And with that Makoto, Dash, and the students charged in and began walloping ninja bunnies. Dash and Mak dealt with the leader while the students began cleaning house on the rest of the bunnies with the BBS. The battle raged on for hours. Finally just after nightfall, the bunnies were all lying in a heap with the leader and a couple of her cronies on the ground, lookign obviously hurt but not defeated like the rest.


Dash looked at them with fire in his eyes..."Im going to finish this right here, right now..." with that he grabbed his sword and he began to light on fire...the bunnies stepped back, in a fighting stance not sure what to expect...Dash, still on fire, sheathed his sword...and extended his hands out til he looked like a cross and began to rise into the air...the fire then began to dissipate from around him, but was building in his outstretched hands...Mak knew what was coming so he pulled the students and the BBS back...


The fire kept building in Dash's hands until he finally put his arms together in a pose familiar to fans of Street Fighter...

"Go back to where you came from...Peter Cottontail...SUPER SOLAR FLARE!!!" With that, Dash unleashed a huge beam of fire that exploded in front of the bunnies. The explosion blew them well into the Little TOkyo night sky, and the leader cried, "Mark my words, we WILL be back...and my name is not Peter Cottontaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiillllll...."her voice trailed off into the night.


Dash then fell to the ground, unconscious...

[ApacheMan2K]

Mak quickly darted by Dash's side, knelt near him, and turned him over to see that his eyes were closed. He looked towards the crowd for help, and he shouts to the sheep family, "Excuse me! Do any of you have a phone? I need to get him to his home; he's exhausted himself...yet, he also saved us. I think he deserves to rest for a while." He stood up from his kneeling position, looking towards each member of Taichi's family, not caring if they see him as a human or not, for he and his friend were still in a critical situation.

[leamur]

Sakimi panted as she scanned the area for any ninjas who might have escaped all the missiles and kids, but there was no sign of movement from the heap of defeated bunnies.  The boy's special attack had impressively seen off the leader and she was puzzled as to how he could use such a power.  "Only the Nyanki can do that" she thought.  Her team drew up along side her, smoke pouring out of their suits exhausted missile tubes.   Matsukichi was heavig from the fight as well but was elated at the victory, but Omitsu was still fruious about being called a mutton.  Her suit kept on clicking as it tried to expel more missiles.  Seeing that there were no enemies left to fight, Sakimi relaxed and took off her helmet.  Taichi and Kazuko came over to her wide-eyed as they had never seen a battle or their Mom act like that before.  They decided afterwards not to annoy her again!

"Did we just do that?" Matsukichi began as he took off his helmet.

"I still can't get over them calling me mutton!  Grrrr....click click clikc!"  Omitsu chided.

"Don't worry little sister I'll fix it with a special sushi!"  He replied as he took off her helmet.  "You must come to, Sakimi.  Where have you been all these years? You must bring your family to!"

"It was quite a reunion wasn't it?"  Sakimi replied.  "These are my children Taichi and Kazuko" she continued, placing her hands on their shoulders.  They would have replied but were literally shell-shocked from the battle.  "That's your aunt Omitsu and Uncle Matsukichi."  A smile and a slight bow was all the kids could manage.

At that point Mak asked them for help and they went over to see what they could do. 

[ApacheMan2K]

As the BBS approach Mak and his worn-out ally, he says to them, "My friend's given his all to save us, and our school. He deserves the rest of the day off so he can get his energy back, but I'll need help getting him back to his house. Do any of you think you can help me?"

[leamur]

"Day? Don't you mean night!"  Kazuko exclaimed.

"Kazuko! This young man is right, his friend does deserve a rest after what he has been through."  Sakimi said softly, although she was still was puzzelled as to how he could summon that sort of power.  She knelt down besides Dash and checked him.  "Hmm, he does seem very tired.  Where does he live?"

Taichi noticed something odd about Mak but he was not sure exactly what it was, there was just something 'different' about him.  He did not bother himself with it though as he remembered there was someone else he had forgotten about.  "Sayuri!" he suddenly shouted.  The others looked at him, "I...uh...I...Sayuri!" he yelled again and ran off in a panic.

"Who's Sayuri?"  Matsukichi asked no one in particular.

"It's Taichi's girlfriend"  Kazuko replied.

"I'll go and see if he's ok"  Sakimi said.  "Big brother can you go and see what the police are up to and see of they can give this young man a lift home.  Little Sister can you go and see if anyone else wants any help."

"What about me?"  Kazuko said eagerly, not wanting to be left out.

"You can stay here with this young man and make sure he does not get any worse."

"Oh...Ok."  She knelt down prettily besides Dash.

By this time a fleet of emergency vehicles had arrived, along with a couple stalls selling hot food and battle memorbelia and a gardener.  The police officer who had given Taichi a lift to the battle walked up to his senior officer, glad they had finally showed up.

"Begging your pardon sir, but what took you so long?"

"Do you know how long it takes to get together enough officers who would go up against ninja?  Anyway it looks like you have the situation under control."

"Ah well it was all thanks to the BBS and a kid who shot fireballs out of his hands."

"Really?"

"You must remeber the adverts sir?  Anyway here's one of them now!"

"Hmm, I thought the Pizza Cats would have handled this."  The chief turns to Matsukichi.  "Thank you for your help."

"It was nothing!"  he replied slightly embarrassed.  "The kid who finished the leader off deserves the real praise!"

"Praise? Praise! For wrecking my field!"  the gardener cut in.

"The ram is right, you would not want sexy ninja bunnies running riot through the city would you?"

"Don't know 'bout that" the gardener replied.  "Bah...I'll go and tend to mi field.  Next time you want a battle, find someone elses field ta do it in!"

They watched him grumpily stomp down to the field, yelling at the kids to get off.  The police chief turns to the police officer.

"Can you see to it that the kid who defeated the ninja leader is checked up and taken home.  Also can you take that gardener away before he upsets anyone!"

"Yes sir!" the officer replies.  After saluting him he called to some other officers to hep him.

"Now sir what is your name as you need to be commended!"

[ApacheMan2K]

As he saw Taichi run off, he noticed it was because of Sayuri. He thought to himself that he could relate; if Makoto had what Taichi has, he'd probably have done the same. He also notices how cute Kazuko looks, but he tries to keep that out of his mind for now.

He said to the officer, "His name is Dash St. Pierre. I don't know what happened. But, whatever it was, it must have wiped him out. Anyway, I'll lead the way to his house."

[DashStPierre]

Dash began blinking and saw all the people gathered around him. "Uhh...hi...can anybody tell me what happened? The last thing I remember was I rose into the air, I was on fire, then I shot something really big and then I passed out." He tried to get up but Mak wouldn't let him. He was a little sore from using the attack anyway. He saw the policeman there next to him and he weakly said, "Oh, hi officer...what's up?"

[ApacheMan2K]

He looked at him, surprised that he'd wake up when he thought the explosion he saw had put him in a week-long coma. But then, he realized that he is just half-awake. Judging by the visible charred patches and dents found on his whole armor suit, he figured that the explosion did quite a number on him. He shook his head and insisted, "You need to save your strength."

[Blackcat]

Meanwhile, Jack has finally stopped crying like a baby and he fells better.

“Woah, is night already? I guess I have to go home” he thought, he started to walk back to his place, slowly, his body still hurts a lot for all the punches and kicks he got…

[leamur]

Kazuko was getting a little impatient, no matter how impressive the kids attack had been (she was sure she would find the details out at school) she wanted to go and see if her brother was ok.  She had watched the kid and now the police were here and he was being properly taken care of, there was no need for her.  However she felt a bit unsure as to what to do, should she excuse herself and leave or wait till the kid had been dealt with.  "What am I doing!" she yelled in her head.  "How can I leave my brother like this?"  With that she stood up and excused herself adding how she was glad to see that the kid was getting better and ran off in the direction her brother had gone.

Meanwhile towards the other edge of the battlefield, on the side closest to the woods, Taichi was still searching desperately for his girlfriend.  Despite being out of breath he continued to call her name, praying everything was ok and that maybe she had already left the field.  Just as he was about head back in-field to search there, someone called his name.  He ran towards the voice, it did not sound like Sayuri's but whoever it was must know where she was.  As he got closer the twins jumped on him from nowhere, almost knocking him over.

"Taichi!" they cried in unison. "We're so glad you're here!"

"Sayuri's hurt!"

"And she won't let us help her!"

"She's hurt! Wh-What do you mean?!" he replied in shock, fearing the worse.

"We were fighting the ninja"

"Everyone else had cool weapons"

"But we only had a bin lid and builders helmet between us"

"So we teamed up with Sayuri"

"Because she had a sword"

"So she did all the fighting and we covered her back"

"Then this one bunny threw these pointy things at us"

"And we hid behind the lid"

"And they all bounced off"

"But Sayuri"

"She turned to see if we were ok"

"And the ninja she was fighting took a cheap shot while she was not looking"

"And stabbed her in the tummy!"

They both burst into tears.  "Its all our fault"

Taichi's heart skipped a beat.  "Wh...where is she?"

The twins led him by the hands to where they had left her.  He gritted his teeth and prepared for the worst, although he could not imagine her being hurt or...he just kept telling himself that everything woukd be ok.  As they got closer a girl armed with a sword stumbled out of the edge of the woods and threw herself on Taichi.

"Hello there Mr Handsome!" She said drunkenly.

"Sayuri?"  Taichi said, sounding relieved and confused at the same time.

"That's right.  How do you know my name?"

"It's Taichi!"

She took a step back and looked at him really hard, the way a drunk does when he tries to recognise someone he is not quite sure about.  "Taichi!"  She yelled in delight and embraced him.  "I'm sorry about your face hun but...but...bah!"  She slumped forward and he had to stoop to catch her.  Taichi gave the twins a puzzelled glance and they looked back equally confused.

"Are you ok Sa-"  Taichi began.

"I'm fine, never felt better!"

"But that ninja stabbed you!"

"Oh thats nothing."  She giggled.

"Nothing!"  The twins protested.  "How can you say that?"

Taichi frowned and gently laid his girlfriend down to a look at the wound.  The blade had definately cut through her blazer but there was no blood!  Instead there was something black and hard underneath, so he quickly undid her blazer and found that she was wearing a stab vest.  He breathed a sigh of relief as did the twins.

"It's cool isn't it?"  Sayuri chuckled.  "I got it with the sword.  Its stops you getting cut by the stabby things but...but...it still hurts."  She pressed her hands against where she had been stabbed and began to whimper.  "Taichi I want to go home."

He scooped her up and gave her a kiss, he felt like crying himself as he was overjoyed she was ok.  "Don't worry I'll get you home, but what were you doing in the woods?"

"And why didn't you tell us you had that stab thing on?"

"Little people in the woods"  Sayuri giggled.  "They say why you fight...you to young....and blew this dust and...I'm a pretty butterfly!"

They all looked at each other bewildered and then stared into the forest.  "I think we should be going now"  Taichi said after a few long seconds, the twins nodded in agreement and they briskly walked back towards the emergency vehicles and hot food stalls.  On the way they bumped into Sakimi, who gave her son a hug and fussed over Sayuri before getting the story from the twins.

[ApacheMan2K]

Mak watched Kazuko run off, and he figured that she went to look for her brother. For a brief moment, he thought to himself about Taichi, that he is very fortunate to have a family that cares for one another.

Relieved that all is well with the school, Makoto led the officer, and the officer helped Dash along the way home.

[Blackcat]

Jack finally arrived home, took a shower, then some painkillers and bandaged the places that hurt most.

“Dude, why it always have to be like this?  No matter where I go, since that ninja club incident last year I always get on trouble” he thought, and went to bed, he really need to rest. “Screw homework!, I’m not in the mood”. And maybe he was going to miss some days of school, not only his body was hurt but he was also depressed. Hid dad was never home, hid mum died when he was little, and ZZZZZZZ

*He fall asleep…

[DashStPierre]

It would be many an hour before Dash became completely conscious again...but when he did, he was in his bed, in his room with a towel on his head. he wasn't wearing his armor (since it was beat up pretty bad in the battle thanks to that super attack he did...he was still a little woozy when he looked around and saw all the peopel around his bed...

Dash: Wha..wha...what happened? I had this really weird dream, I was fighting these ninjas, and then I shot this huge fireball or something...and hten I passed out...and then I woke up." He then pointed to all the people who were there and said that they were all in it. "Was I dreaming?"

[ApacheMan2K]

Makoto shook his head. "It was no dream," he said. "Were you the one that...caused that explosion?"