Member OG Special Edition Part 3

Chapters of Member OG Special Edition

Chapters 1-5 - 6-10 - 11-15 - 16-20 - 21-25

Chapter 11: Qwirtzok

Based on chapters originally written by GORE-ILLA, Fusion, and Yami Yoshi.

Scene One: Dark GORE and Diskun’s Return

Dark GORE-ILLA and Diskun landed headfirst in the burning sand. "Ah, looks like you've made it," a voice spoke in amusement. GORE looked up and saw Lupus there, mounted on a camel. "If you've escaped, then you must have retrieved the Sword! Very well then, hand it to me!" Dark GORE looked at the almighty sword in hesitation and handed it over to Lupus. "Excellent. Now on to the Forbidden Citadel of Armik-Rulens!"

Scene Two: The OGers’ Plan

Yami Yoshi, Fusion, and Black Skull Dragoshi rested along the lukewarm Sahara earth as they waited for something. Finally SwordMaster rushed down the hill sweating and panting for air. He continued to breathe heavily, "Lupus- Dark GORE's with Lupus- and they're on their way... to-to the citadel!"

Yami Yoshi shot up to his feet. "Then we must stop him and get back my cheesecake at long last!"

Scene Three: The Citadel Emerges

Finally, the caravan of camels came to a stop as the riders dismounted their beasts of burdens before a small pedestal which rested there.

Dark GORE asked, "Why are we stopping? Where's the citadel?"

Diskun nudged GORE in the ribs and whispered to him, "Shut up, you'll see!"

Lupus the Turk walked through the crowd holding the Crystal with both hands while Koopa followed him. Lupus then kneeled before the ancient pedestal. It was mad of stone, but looked old and tarnished. The hieroglyphics engraved on it were just as old and nearly impossible to make out. The Turkish dictator solemnly placed the Crystal of Burathiis atop the pedestal. Lupus and Koopa then ran back to the crowd as a blinding flash swept throughout the entire area.

A large rumbling was heard as the pedestal glowed. It now looked as if it had just been constructed, with the hieroglyphics showing up clearer then ever and even dancing around in circles. More and more of the giant stricture emerged from the concealing sand until what looked like a giant fortress had risen, with the pedestal containing the crystal protruding from the roof of the ancient yet marvelous structure.

Lupus yelled, "The Citadel has risen! Follow me to the Tomb of Qwirtzok!" Lupus stayed behind as the entire group passed by him (bowing as they passed) until Dark GORE came up to him. Lupus waved his hands to stop GORE and told him, "Not you, Gorilla man. I have a special mission for you..."

Scene Four: Rematch

Yami Yoshi's team of rebels finally stood at the doorstep of the Citadel of Armik-Rulens. SwordMaster reported, "Lupus and his men came in here about fifteen minutes ago. If we hurry we might be able to stop them before they revive Qwirtzok!"

The others nodded and looked at the two, very heavy double doors. SwordMaster and Fusion pushed at the first door while Yami Yoshi and BSD covered the second door. Both doors slowly swung open and revealed a dark, ancient doorway. The only light in this room was provided by the glowing hieroglyphics which danced across the walls, ceiling and floor.

Yami Yoshi muttered, "I have this strange feeling that I've been here before..."

Fusion shrugged, “It’s just a bit of déjà vu, happens all the time.” He then looked around him uneasily. “But it’s just too quiet in here…”

BSD pointed to thin air and shouted to the others, “Hey, can’t you guys see that Lemmy Koopa has a plan?”

SwordMaster smacked his forehead. “Not the imaginary friends again…”

Dragoshi snarled at SwordMaster, “THEY’RE THE KOOPALINGS AND THEY’RE NOT IMAGINARY AND THEY’RE MUCH COOLER THEN YOU AND HAVE A REALLY GOOD PLAN SO SHUT UP BEFORE I GET EXTREMELY ANGRY!!!!!!”

Yami Yoshi assured his fellow yoshi, “Okay, BSD, calm down. What’s Lemmy’s plan?”

BSD pointed up and alleged, “He says we should ask the monkey hiding in the rafters for directions!” The group stared up at the ceiling and saw Dark GORE hanging from the rafters.

His cover blown, Dark GORE leaped down to the ground of the first floor hall and ran towards, who slashed at Dark GORE with his long sword. GORE stayed out of SM’s range, however, and when the opportunity presented itself, GORE fired a ball of red energy from his glowing bionic eye. It grew into a giant laser cage which trapped the swordsman.

Black Skull Dragoshi dashed across the hall, screeching as he rapidly approached Dark GORE and jumped at him, but GORE swatted the dinosaur away. BSD recovered quickly and continued swiping angrily at the giant gorilla with his oversized claws. But Dark GORE matched him blow for blow and finally sent him flying back into a wall.

Fusion then stepped up to fight. Dark GORE and Fusion leapt into the air from two opposite directions, passing each other in midair in classic anime style. Dark GORE and Fusion both appeared to have landed safely on the ground, but Fusion then staggered in pain and fell over, unconscious.

Dark GORE-ILLA then turned and faced his final opponent. Yami Yoshi. The two stared at each other for a moment before rushing at each other. Yami Yoshi quickly stopped to lay a Dark Egg and chucked it at Dark GORE in an attempt to surprise him. Dark GORE skidded to a halt and swung his fists together like a bat, hitting the shady egg and sending it flying back towards Yami Yoshi, who dived out of the way as it hit a distant wall and exploded. Oddly enough, the citadel walls were unaffected.

Yami Yoshi decided, “Time for my trump card…” as he bowed his head and rushed toward Dark GORE, striking the oversized ape directly in hi midsection. GORE stumbled backwards, temporarily dazed. Yami Yoshi took the opportunity to leap into the air and flutter his legs rapidly, kicking the primate frequently in the face until he ran out of juice and fell dead on the ground, exhausted from the attack.

Dark GORE took this opportunity to regain his footing and deliver a stunning punch to Yami Yoshi’s jaw, sending the black dinosaur soaring across the hall until he slammed into a wall and passed out. “Foolish pedestrian,” Dark GORE grunted as he turned to leave. But the battle had not yet ended…

Scene Five: Quazi-Dream Sequence

Yami Yoshi groggily crawled along the floor before realizing that he was no longer in the Citadel of Armik-Rulens. Dark shadows surrounded him from all sides, looking as if they were about to devour him whole without a second thought. But even the dark shadows crept to the side in fear as a man walked past.

He was no ordinary man. He appeared to be an ancient Egyptian, garbed in a white, silky body suit with a long cape fluttering behind him. And crowning the man’s head was a neatly wrapped turban. He spoke in an ancient tongue, yet Yami Yoshi was able to understand exactly what the man spoke. “Hello, Yami Yoshi.”

“W-who are you? Where am I? I want answers!” Yami Yoshi threatened in vain.

The man spoke again, “Yami Yoshi, do you not know of your heritage? Deep within your veins flows the blood of a pharaoh.”

“A… pharaoh?”

“Yes. The Egg you were around your neck has mystical properties. Keep it with you at all times. But your heritage is of little importance now. Your main objective at the moment is to dispose of Qwirtzok before he regains the power he had in centuries past.”

“But I can’t take down even Dark GORE on my own, let alone Lupus and Qwirtzok!”

“Then you shall learn one of the Arts of the Ancient. The Mind Crush. It tortures the mind of the dark one until he is either purified… or goes insane. Use it well.” With that the man muttered some words under his breath which Yami could not make out. A warming, yellow light surrounded the Egyptian - the most beautiful light which Yami Yoshi had ever beheld. The light then shot forward like a laser beam at Yami. Yami Yoshi screamed an attempted to duck at first, but the beam hit him directly on his forehead. The light formed in the shape of a yoshi egg. Suddenly Yami Yoshi could remember as if he had experienced it yesterday. Flowing through his head was memories of the Mind Crush - how to use it, being cautious with it, instances in which it would be strong and instances in which it would be weak. “Use it well, Yami Yoshi, descendant of the Pharaoh…”

Yami opened his eyes to behold the Egyptian once more, only to realize that mysterious world had disappeared. Yami Yoshi was back in the citadel hallway and witnessed Dark GORE lumbering down the corridor, as if no time had passed from Yami Yoshi’s blackout to this moment. The dinosaur needed to catch the mammal’s attention and so yelled, “Hey, GORE! I think ya forget something!”

Dark GORE spun around to glare at Yami Yoshi in rage. “You! Pathetic reptile! How did you recover so quickly? No matter, I will dispose of you here and now!” Dark GORE slammed his fist on the ground in a futile attempt to frighten Yami.

But the yoshi did not move. Instead he fixed eye contact with Dark GORE-ILLA and shouted, “Mind Crush!” The Millennium Egg glowed with an ancient glow as the same egg-like mark appeared on Yami Yoshi’s forehead. It then shot out like a laser towards Dark GORE-ILLA and fixated on his skull.

Dark GORE clutched his head and dropped to his knees, screaming in pain. Within his mind the demons and angels battled on and on for control of the mind. Either one would defeat the other and gain complete control of the brain, the mind would be destroyed during the battle, or… something else. A beam of light shown forth from the center of Dark GORE’s head, which reached down farther and farther until it could reach no further. And Dark GORE was halved. The two pieces flew in different directions, obscured by the blinding light.

The light finally died away, revealing two gorillas in perfect health. One of them was the old, good GORE-ILLA we all know and love. The other was the vile Dark GORE who had defected to the side of Lupus. Dark GORE stared in confusion- seeing GORE-ILLA, Yami Yoshi, and the other OGers who were now regaining consciousness seemed to frighten Dark GORE. So he turned and ran.

GORE stretched. “It feels good to be back in my own body again. Thanks, everyone.”

Yami looked ahead, “We’ll all have time to talk later. Right now we need to find Lupus and stop him before he revives Qwirtzok and dooms us all!”

Scene Six: Revival Preparations

Deep beneath the surface of the Citadel was a vast circular room. Robed figures were lined up along its wall. And in the center of the room was a humongous casket, large enough to house a giant. It was here that the hieroglyphics glowed at their finest. A small staircase emerged from the floor and spiraled up until it ended about twenty feet above the casket, and still it did not reach the ceiling.

One of the robed figures was scaling the staircase at this very moment until finally, he reached the top of the column of stairs, from which he looked down on the casket and his men, who began to chant softly but slowly they got louder.

Scene Seven: A Few Paths Too Many

Yami Yoshi, GORE-ILLA, Fusion, BSD, and SwordMaster rushed down the hall as loud chanting echoed throughout the entire fortress. Suddenly the five heroes screeched to a halt as they beheld a fork in the road. There were five paths, each leading in different directions. GORE’s red eye glowed intensely until he stepped down in surrender and warned his comrades, “My scanners reveal nothing. Any ideas?”

SwordMaster suggested, “Well we can split up and each of us will take a different path.”

Fusion shook his head. “Too dangerous.”

“Yeah, who will Lemmy go with?”

SwordMaster barked, “Well I don’t see you coming up with any ideas, Mr. All-Powerful! And BSD, shut up.”

Fusion glowed with intense power as he shouted, “Is that a challenge, weakling?”

“Yeah, who will Lemmy go with?”

“I believe it is, Fusion. Or it would be if there was anything worth challenging!”

SwordMaster drew his ancient blade while Fusion charged several energy balls within his clenched fists. They were interrupted by Yami Yoshi, who spoke in an odd voice, “They’re all wrong.” The rest of the group stared at Yami in confusion. The yoshi stepped to the side of the wall and punched one of the panels, which disappeared as a rumbling sound took its place. In the room that led to the three paths, the floor opened up and revealed a long and winding staircase which led downwards. “Hurry up,” Yami ordered as he dashed down the stairs.

GORE-ILLA, Fusion, BSD, and SwordMaster shrugged and walked down the stairs at their own pace - until they saw that the stairs were crumbling behind them! They rushed at their top speeds to the bottom of the stairs which floated above a possibly bottomless pit. Eventually the group saw themselves approaching the last stairs, which connected to a ledge where Yami waited. Suddenly, the stairs there collapsed as well. “They’re falling from both sides!” Fusion yelled as he flew into the air, holding SwordMaster while BSD flew as well with GORE hanging from his stubby tail and together they reached the ledge where the door awaited.

“Hurry up!” Yami snapped. “We’re running out of time!” And before the others could ask anything, the yoshi had disappeared into the doorway.

Scene Eight: Lupus…

The time was quickly approaching. Lupus still stood on the platform overlooking Qwirtzok’s casket, with the cheesecake in his outstretched left hand’s palm and the a knife in his right hand. He shouted, “Lord Qwirtzok! Accept this offering!”

Scene Nine: They’re…

GORE, Fusion, BSD, and SwordMaster rushed through the underground hallways, where the hieroglyphics on the wall glowed brighter then ever before, as they attempted to catch up with Yami Yoshi. They heard chanting slowly get louder.

Scene Ten: …Revives…

Lupus brought the knife down on the uneaten cheesecake, and a small sliver flew down, slowly approaching the casket. “Arise, and meet you new master!”

Scene Eleven: …Too…

The group continued rushing down the hallway until they saw Yami Yoshi sprawled across the floor. “Ugh… what just happened?” Yami asked.

The chanting got louder. GORE yelled, “I don’t think we have much time left, let’s go!” SwordMaster helped Yami to his feet and the group ran off down the hall.

Scene Twelve: …Qwirtzok!

The sliver of the cheesecake finally landed softly on the face of the tomb. All the hieroglyphics in the room emitted blinding glows as they danced around, faster then ever. The casket’s lid slowly slid off as Lupus’s maniacal laughter echoed throughout the mausoleum.

Scene Thirteen: …Late.

Yami Yoshi, SwordMaster, GORE-ILLA, Fusion, and BSD ran up to another set of heavy double doors and shoved them open as before, only to be blinded by the bright light. They heard Lupus’s familiar evil laugh, but in addition they heard another laugh which they had never heard the likes of. It was an ancient, evil, booming laugh. “We’re too late!” Fusion shouted.

“Yeah, who will Lemmy go with?”

“Shut up.” SwordMaster added.

The light finally died down, revealing a figure from ages past. He was extremely tall, about seven times taller then GORE or Fusion. He wore some sort of ancient armor which appeared to have been carved from some sort of stone. His face was emotionless and dutiful, like one of those British guards. And on his head he wore some sort of ceremonial Egyptian crown.

Lupus introduced, “OGers, meet Qwirtzok - the God of the Sands.”

Qwirtzok stated in a disclaimer format, “Please note that the title of God is only figurative language to show off my powerful abilities and I mean not to claim that I am not affiliated with or one of the God and/or Gods who may or may not have created this Earth so do not sue.” He then tapped his forehead, stomach, and shoulders in the sign of the Cross.

“Alright, now just destroy those meddlers so I can use Yami Yoshi’s cheesecake for my evil purposes.”

Qwirtzok’s gaze moved from OGer to OGer until he finally settled his eyes on Yami Yoshi and leapt back in surprise. He pointed at the dinosaur and shouted, “You- YOU! Pharaoh Yoshi, after all this time…” Qwirtzok then took a closer look at Yami and realized, “Ah, you are not the one whom I sought, you are too young. You must be his heir. Very well! I challenge you to a Shadow Game!”

“A Shadow Game?” Yami asked in shock. It looked like his favorite anime was being acted out before him.

“Yes, a classic game of Duel Monsters! Climb the stairs to your dueling platform and we shall begin our game! And the loser… will play a penalty game… called Death! GwahahhahahAhahaha!!!111”

To Be Continued in Chapter 12: Yami Yoshi Versus Qwirtzok - Yami Yoshi must duel Qwirtzok in a deadly card game in which the loser must embrace death! And what will the other OGers be up to in the meantime? Find out next time!

Chapter 12: Yami Yoshi Vs. Qwirtzok

by GORE-ILLA, based on posts written by Fusion, GORE-ILLA, and Yami Yoshi.

Scene One: Qwirtzok's Challenge

Step by step, Yami Yoshi advanced the staircase to what could very easily be the final battle of his short life. Qwirtzok menacingly awaited the hero on the other side of his own tomb, needing no staircase since he was tall enough to be one himself. So Yami Yoshi finally reached the top of the staircase to the destined duel. Yami reached into an invisible pocket and pulled out his handy Yu-Gi-Oh deck of cards and asked, “You ready?” as he rested his cards on the ancient stone pedestal which was used for dueling ages past, but Qwirtzok’s magic made the pedestal look as new as if it were created yesterday.

Qwirtzok bellowed with laughter, “You think you can defeat me with those crappy pieces of paper? Paper dubbed, edited, and distributed by BANDAI, of all companies? You make me laugh! Even your successor used the state-of-art rocks to play with!” as he shuffled a deck of sixty heavy stones which bore monster’s images engraved on them. The ancient cards stacked up atop a floating table which floated before Qwirtzok. “We each have 8000 Life Points! And the loser must play a Penalty Game! If I win, the ropes holding my Sword of Qwirtzok above your head will inexplicably shatter, and it will fall and kill you!”

“Sounds like it’s more of a penalty then a game, but…” Yami Yoshi shrugged. “But what if I win?”

“Well, in the extremely unlikely choice that I am beaten in battle, I’m afraid that the ropes holding my Sword of Qwirtzok above your head will inexplicably shatter, and it will fall and kill you!”

“...What?”

“Err… I said the ropes holding my Sword of Qwirtzok above your head will inexplicably shatter, and it will fall and kill… me!”

“Oh, alright. Continue.”

“Actually, that’s about it. Now it’s time to play! Since I’m the oldest, I go first!”

“No! It’s youngest first!” Qwirtzok then zapped him with a colorful laser. “Fine then, go first. Age before beauty!” Then Yami got zapped again. “Alright, age and beauty before me!”

“Much better. Shadow Game start!!!” Qwirtzok made some funky-ass poses with his hands, causing the first stone tablet to sit up, revealing the carven image of a nerd in suspenders. "I start with Urkel the One-of-a-Kind Forbidden One! It is a legendary monster which kills the opponant with one hit! It's unstoppable!" The nerd magically appeared and began chanting in Ancient Egyptian as a ball of energy formed above his upraised hands.

Yami Yoshi smirked, "Aha! You have activated my trap card- the Anti-Urkel! It destroys Urkel for no reason!" Urkel then spontaneously combusted. "And I also play Time Bomb! It will automatically kill you after 99999999999547589748959465896598649856489659846589 6589465986063056 turns have passed! You don't stand a chance!" he continued smugly as a bomb with a timer too wide to actually fit in the room appeared.

"Well played!" Qwirtzok bellowed. "I admire your skills. But are they enough to conquer Screech the Other-One-of-a-Kind Forbidden One? Its is a legendary monster which kills the opponant with one hit! It's unstoppable!" The nerd magically appeared and began chanting in Ancient Egyptian as a ball of energy formed above his upraised hands.

Yami quickly shuffled through his hand, then sighed in relief. "Aha! You have activated my trap card- the Anti-Screech! It destroys Screech for no reason!" Screech then spontaneously combusted. The battle continued like such for quite a few turns, so let's turn our attention outside the arena, shall we? PLEASE?

Scene Two: Ringside Battle

"What's up with GORE?" SwordMaster pondered aloud.

Fusion shrugged, "I have no idea." Fusion, SwordMaster, GORE and BSD had been playing the Four Swords with linked GBAs for the last hour, ever since Yami Yoshi vanquished Qwirtzok's Sanford and Son, the Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Other-Forbidden One.

However, GORE continued to make his Link pleasure the wall, while he himself was sweating, drooling and constantly sniffing the air. Finally GORE leapt and took one big whiff of the air. He whispered in a raspy voice, "I founds it..." then in an even scarier whisper, "...my precious!" GORE immediatley lunged forward at Qwirtzok's tomb, where a slice of cheesecake lyed on the floor, although it was covered with ants, stone, sand and dust balls. GORE wharfed it down immediately and sqeaked, "CH3333333Z3!" Then GORE returned to his normal posture as if nothing happened, crawled out of the tomb, strolled over to the other adventurers, plopped down on the floor and started playing seriously.

Fusion observed, "According to my hypothesis, it would appear that, when GORE is in the presence of cheese-related products, his intelligance drops dramatically until the said cheese is found and devoured." Fusion then put down the "Sciency Term Thesauraus" and resumed playing the game. But Lupus was not as satisfied.

"Hey, man, that was Qwirtzok's cheesecake slice! This calls for an extremely pointless and unmotivated yet slightly amusing fight scene!" Lupus shouted as he tore the four-way link cable from the gamers. Bad move there.

Fusion immediately released somecolorful-ass beam with a cheesey-ass name, which sent Lupus flying back severl feet until he recovered and fired a Cheese Ray which just barely missed. "Ha! Better luck next OG!" Fusion bragged as he dashed forward with his Warlocke Punch(which was the same as a "Warlock Punch" but Fusion changed the name so Nintendo didn't kick his ass in court), but he also missed and slammed into some ancient prophetetic carvings depictung Fusion crashing into that wall.

GORE ran towards Dark GORE and punched him. Dark GORE replied by punching him back. Then GORE punched him again. Um, pass!

Black Skull Dragoshi swiped his claws at Diskun, slashing him in half down the middle. But the two halves of Diskun were still alive and kicked Dragoshi in the shins before hot gluing themselves back together.

And lastly, SwordMaster drew his sword at Koopa and shouted, "En guarde!"

Koopa waved his hands in refusal. "Sorry, I don't..."

"Touche!"

"Pardon?"

"Parlay!"

"Yeah, I don't think you know what you're saying..." Then Koopa ran away. Okay, enough of this. Back to the lame-ass card game.

Scene Three: The Final Blow (Already? Daaaaaaamn!)

Qwirtzok shouted as the last of his Forbidden Ones(Rodney Dangerfield) was annihalated. "That was my last Forbidden Card!"

"And my last Anti-Forbidden Card!" Yami shouted back.

"Now what am I gonna do? Use my normal cards?"

"Well, I guess so."

Qwirtzok snapped his fingers, and his three remaining stones, the only non-Forbidden ones, floated before his face. "Man, now I actually have to use STRATEGY? This bites. Well I play Talking Rooster, and I power it up with the +1 Parasol, rasing it's Attack Points to Infinety +1! Beat that!"

Yami Yoshi looked over his five remaining cards carefully thinking, "Take Over the World Card? Nah, I'm saving that for graduation. Wait, theBURN AND PILLAGE THE HOPELESS TOWN card! ...Nah, his last card might be an Anti-BURN AND PILLAGE THE HOPELESS TOWN card. That would suck!" Finally he decided, "Well I play Gravy the Pig Warrior in attack mode!"

Qwirtzok began cracking up. "BWHAHAHAHHAHAAHA!!! Do you honestly believe that you can defeat I, the Almight Qwirtzok with that, the WEAKEST monster in ALL of Duel Monsters? I mean, look at it! It only has a measly Infinitey -1 Attack Points! How do you expect to win now? Talking Rooster, finish him!"

But Yami Yoshi waved his pointer finger in defiance. "Uh-uh-uh! I'm not done yet! I arm Gravy with the Fairy's Shinguard..." Qwirtzok gasped. "...and the... DWARVE'S MONOCLE!" Qwirtok screamed. "Now Gravy, attack with your Infinitey +2 Attack Points!" Gravy the PIg Warrior fired a laser from its monocle which instantly wiped out the Rooster. Qwirtzok's Life Points dropped down to 1.

Qwirtzok began to laugh again. "Ha! You see, I still have 1 Life Point,a nd my last card will guarantee victory!"

"Wrong again!"

"Whu?"

"Remember that Time Bomb I set up at the beginning of the match, about, say, 99999999999547589748959465896598649856489659846589 6589465986063056 turns ago?" Yami pointed up at the timer, which now was a long row of 0's.

"Oh no!" shouted Qwirtzok.

"Oh yes!" Yami replied as the bomb burst, showering the field with confetti. Qwirtzok's Life Points dropped from 1 to 0. Yami looked down at his Millenium Egg, and saw that it was flashing oddly. It looked almost as if it were... cheering.

“Impossible! How could I have lost?” Qwirtzok shouted as he slammed the floating table with his fist, causing his remaining cards to hop from the aftershock. “Oh well, time for the Penalty Game!”

As he spoke, the ropes holding the Sword of Qwirtzok above Yami’s head inexplicably shattered, and the Sword fell towards Yami. “The hell?” Yami wondered, but had little time to ponder. He immediately produced a Dark Egg and tossed it at the blade of the falling sword. It hit the sword right on the tip, causing it to turn in midair, pointing towards Qwirtzok. Then Yami leapt up into the air so his backside was facing the Sword’s handle. The he shouted out, “Dark Omelet!” as he shot a barrage of Dark Eggs from his ass to the Sword’s handle. The Sword shot forward like a rocket, flying right through Qwirtzok’s chest.

Qwirtzok muttered, “So… you are worthy of… your ancestor,” before disintegrating piece-by-piece until nothing remained. The Sword struck the rear wall of the temple and shattered, freeing all the souls whom Qwirtzok had imprisoned within the potent scepter. So ended the reign of Qwirtzok… for a few chapters, at least.

To Be Continued in Chapter Thirteen: The Flying Tower! Qwirtzok has been beaten, but can the OGers stop Lupus before he escapes with the rest of Yami's cheesecake? Find out next time!

Chapter 13: The Flying Tower

Based on posts written by Lupus, SwordMaster, Fusion, Yami Yoshi and GORE-ILLA.

Scene One: Chase Scene=

Lupus's jetpack sped from the burial chamber while the Turk carried Koopa and Diskun under his arms, and Dark GORE hung onto a rope which was dangling from the jetpack for no apparent reason. Yami Yoshi pointed at the fleeing Turk and shouted, "After them!"

As BSD and SwordMaster prepared to dash, GORE ordered, "You two stay behind and finish off the rest of Lupus's troops here, then wait outside for us!" The duo reluctantly nodded and turned their attention towards the attacking TWIFATIT officers.

So now the group was back down to just Yami Yoshi, GORE-ILLA and Fusion, like it was when the adventure started. Well technically they all started out alone and met in the second chapter, but who's keeping score, other than me? Wait, where was I? Ah yes, the chase. Fusion flew up beside Dark GORE and the two began sissy-slapping each other in midair. However, Fusion wasn't watching his flight path and slammed into a wall while Lupus and his gang flew through the doorway beside it. Fusion swore as he peeled himself off the wall and saw that GORE and Yami were ahead of him.

GORE, on the other hand, leapt from wall to wall like the ape that he was as he gained on the fugitives, who were now flying up the bottomless pit where that hidden staircase once rested. GORE found it harder to leap in this wide room, as he had to continuously make very long leaps across the room, slowing him down even more. Finally, he decided to risk it all and propelled himself straight at Lupus and his crew, reaching out towards them with his huge gorilla arms in preparation for a bear hug. Lupus seemed perfectly vulnerable with his minions keeping his arms occupied, so GORE knew that this was the prefect chance to finally end the evil Turk's reign. Lupus, however, chuckled as he raised his right leg suddenly and kicked GORE in the chin. The gorilla yelped in pain as he began tumbling towards the black nothingness, until he managed to swerve himself in midair towards the nearest wall. GORE's sensors immediately calculated that the same maneuver would be impossible to perform on Lupus as he approached safety at the top of the well, so he continued his wall-jumping.

The determined Yami Yoshi flapped his legs as best as he could in the longest Flutter Jump of his entire life, groaning as he neared even closer to the TWIFATIT bandwagon. When he was too exhausted to dare fluttering anymore, he shot out his long, sticky tongue, which wrapped around Dark GORE's mechanical leg. The tongue pulled its owner forward like some wild rubber band, and Yami shot into the air, past the angry Dark GORE and even past the person he intended to capture! Instead he flew right through the ceiling and into the Citadel's first floor, right before the five crossroads. Lupus jetted up through the hole seconds later, and Yami Yoshi was there and ready with a Dark Egg, which on collision, scattered Diskun, Koopa, the jetpack, Dark GORE and, most importantly, the cheesecake from Lupus's person. Yami swiped back the beautiful cake which still had not lost its glow after all those weeks and gazed into its rich, cheesy(the good kind) goodness. But that just made him all the more vulnerable to Diskun's Razor Disk, which slashed Yami's hands, causing him to drop the cheesecake, before the Disk returned to Diskun's hands lodged in the cheesecake. Koopa then head-butted Yami in the stomach, which would not have hurt so much if Yami had not collided with the thick stone wall. He fell over and watched Lupus's group go down one of the six passages, one of them yelled, "Quickly, to the secret exit!" Unfortunately Yami could not recall which path they took due to temporary doublevision caused by his little meeting with the wall.

GORE and Fusion finally showed up as they leapt and flew up from the secret former staircase. After a quick chat with Yami, the trio dashed down the entrance hall and exited into the Saharan sands. Immediately they heard a humming sound coming from behind the Citadel. Knowing that it could only mean no good, the OGers rushed behind the ancient fortress just in time to see a large tower behind the Citadel. The odd thing about it was probably the jet engines which were attached to the tower and charging energy as I type. The rockets then burst to life and the tower flew up into the air. They could hear Lupus's voice shouted from the tower, "Yaha! The Twif-Tech Flying Tower of Doom is a success!" Fusion immediately flew off in pursuit of the aerial menace.

Scene Two: Fight Scene

SwordMaster and BSD stood back to back as they were surrounded on all sides by armed TWIFATIT soldiers. The groups was closing in. "I guess this is it," BSD sighed, "Too bad I'll never see Lemmy again..."

"Will you shut up?" SwordMaster slapped the dinosaur. "It's not over yet. Before we go, we should take out as many of them as possible in a final charge! Are you up for it?"

"Yeah!" BSD flapped his wings as he dashed through the crowd, waving his sword about and stabbing as many things as possible.

SwordMaster himself slashed his sword horizontally at the generic-order soldiers, hewing down one after another. "Hiyashito Karishiya Miyantotro!" SwordMaster shouted what is Japanese for nothing, because I just made it up. But it still sounded cool and he matched it with a cool pose as he pointed his sword upwards at the sky, causing a large percentage of the soldiers to drop dead for no reason. "That takes care of that!" SwordMaster mused as watched BSD cleaning up the remaining his troops. However, it was then that something else caught his eye. In the corner of the room was what appeared to be a TWIFATIT soldier still garbed in the heavy cloak. However, this figure appeared to be a bit large compared to the other troops, and SwordMaster swore he saw a glint of light reflected off the figure whose face was distorted by the cloak's hood. SwordMaster stared in confusion, and the figure rushed at Sword in an all-out attack. "You might be a big boy, but I bet you cut like the rest!" SwordMaster boasted as he slashed his sword at the figure, shredding its cloak, but doing nothing else. "Wha-?" SwordMaster wondered before he was knocked out by the stranger's right hook which felt as if it were an anvil.

BSD, whom had just finished off the last of the normal troops, shouted, "SwordMaster!" as he saw his friend pass out from the punch. "That's it! You're going down!" The mystery hybrid shouted as he dashed towards the creature. As he grew closer, he could make out the enemy's appearance beneath the torn cloak. It was completely coated in metal appeared to be the spitting image of video game superstar Mario. The Metal Mario stomped forward slowly to face BSD as the dragon approached. BSD slashed at him with his blade, but obviously, Metal Mario's armor was impervious from it, so he simply swatted it away. BSD attempted slashing at the creature with his claws, but that plan caused even less damage. BSD was able to dodge the metal golem's next swing, and then shouted "Magma Egg!" as he flung a reddish egg at Metal Mario, slamming him in the face. Metal Mario's face turned red from the heat. "Aha! So you hate heat! And they called me crazy for majoring in generic fire-based attacks!" So Dragoshi shouted, "Dragoshi Flame Barrage!" as he unleashed a giant wave of flaming balls of flame at Metal Mario. When the attack was finished, Metal Mario's entire body had a reddish glow. "I bet you must be softened up now!" BSD threatened as he socked Metal Mario in the nose - and pulled back in pain. Not only was Metal Mario unaffected and still freakishly strong, but now he was also extremely hot. Metal Mario demonstrated this principle as he wrapped his burning hands around Dragoshi's neck. The fused creature gagged in pain as Metal Mario tightened his grip.

However, at that very moment, Metal Mario looked odd, as if take by a trance. He slowly removed his steaming hands from BSD's thought, backed up a little more, and exploded on the spot. When the smoke cleared, Dragoshi found himself facing a mysterious man waving his right hand about in odd motions as the metallic glove he wore glowed brightly. The glowing and hand motions had, however, stopped with Metal Mario's life. "W-who are you?" BSD asked in fright.

"I am Introbulus, the master of metal. I believe we meet before at Lupus's Tower of Rulation. I request permission to join your crew."

"You'll have to ask Yami Yoshi, our leader," SwordMaster spoke weakly as he rubbed his sore-ass head. "By the way, I was able to catch some of the hand motions you used to explode that guy. How did you do it?"

Introbulus held up his right hand, which was covered by the metallic glove. "This is the Iron Gauntlet. It grants me many things, most importantly to control and manipulate robots and any other sources of metal. That tin man I just trashed was your average industry line Metal Mario. Very strong dudes based on one major robot of the same name who aided other forces in terrorizing the world three years ago. Back in the time of the Party Goers..."

"Who're they?" Dragoshi scratched his head. "Does this have something to do with Mario Party?"

SwordMaster walloped Dragoshi over the head. "Don't you know about the Party Goers? They were a mighty group of adventurers who only wanted to party, but they were always being stopped by evil organizations. That was back in 2000. But in 2001... They disappeared without a trace. In honor of the Party Goers' memory, their adventures were recorded in the hall of fame known as the On-Going Story Board, the place to read up on the exploits of legendary heroes known as "OGers". But some say their nemisises still walk the earth... But enough o' this ancient history! Let's take Intro to meet Yami!"

"Lead the way!" Introbulus bowed. "By the way, you haven't happened to see a cloak named "Jim" hanging around Lupus, did you?"

Scene Three: Covert Scene

Fusion flew along the side of the Flying Tower, dodging the machine gun turrets' fire. Fusion worked his way towards the middle of the castle, where GORE had predicted that the central control room was located. He tore into the floor and through a small throng of MISH operatives, then finally into the central control room. Fusion quickly examined the monitors in search of the right wires to break in order to break the bird. A thorough gutting and examination of each computer revealed nothing. Looking around, he saw a plug plugged into an outlet and muttered, "Wonder what this does..." as he yanked it out of the wall. Red alarms flashed and sirens blared as Fusion felt the ground falling beneath him. "Impossible! The entire tower's energy was plugged into an outlet? Where does the electricity come from? Well I guess I have more important things to worry about!"

Scene Four: Not an Escape Scene

Lupus stood in the escape pod bay. No, this was before Fusion unplugged the tower. He was looking into an escape pod where Koopa, Diskun and Dark GORE sat around. "Stop loafing around! It's time for the escape pod tests!"

Dark GORE asked, "Isn't that a little inconvenient, what with the OGers following us and all..."

Lupus immediately pressed the "Eject" button and laughed manically as he watched the pod land safely in the Sahara. "They used to laugh at me in college, but who's laughing now? I successfully tested an escape pod which was not constructed by me on my underlings! Take that, imaginary bullies!" Then the alarms went off as the Tower began to fall. "Damn, I knew I should have used batteries instead... but the plug was cheaper then the AAAAAAAAAAAAA batteries! Stupid Energizer..."

Scene Five: Death Scene

"How long is Fusion taking? We need to get rid of that tower!" Yami shouted.

GORE pointed up, "That tower right there?"

"Cool, it's coming back!" Yami looked up and saw the Tower falling straight towards him and GORE. "The he-"

BOOM!!!!

Scene Six: Cliffhanger Scene

Yami Yoshi opened his ways to find himself in the hottest place he ever felt. "-ll?" It was a dark and dreary cavern. Yami couldn't make out anything in the darkness.

"That's right, Yami Yoshi..." a figure in the darkness spoke from atop a rock in a hoarse and raspy voice. Flames shot out from behind the figure, illuminating his green, scaly, demonic voice. "THE hell! Yahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhaaharrrr!"

To Be Continued in "Chapter 14: Qwirtzok's Oasis"- Is this the end of the main character? What of the other OGers and Lupus, did they escape the Flying Tower's crash in time? And can we really have another chapter on Hell just four chapters after the first? Find out next time!

Chapter Fourteen: "Qwirtzok's Oasis"

Based on posts written by Yami Yoshi, GORE-ILLA, and Lupus.

Scene One: Punk'd

"Welcome to Hell, Yami Yoshi... for all of eternity!" the green-skinned demon cackled as flames shot out from behind him. Yami Yoshi backed away in fear. The flames then dimmed, and the demon rolled along the cold stone floor, laughing like no tomorrow. "HA! You fell for it! I can't believe he fell for it!"

Yami straightened himself in confusion. "W-what? This... isn't Hell?"

The devil shook his head, "No, no, no... but you are dead. Welcome to the Sand God's limbo! My name's Beezlebub, by the way."

"I'm confused. Explain."

"Well, you see, every demigod has his own limbo, where they go when they die. There's also a revival point hidden within the limbo which will bring anyone back to life- which technically makes the demigods immortal. You are now in the limbo owned by Lord Qwirtzok. But last time Qwirtzok "died", he could not return to this limbo - a powerful pharoah had put him into a death-like coma, or a coma-like death, which prevented Qwirtzok's soul from leaving his body for the limbo or waking up. Until Lupus revived him with the slice of cheesecake. You are here because you must have recently touched the cheesecake slice which woke up Qwirtzok."

"Of course I did, I made that cheesecake! ...But how do you know of all this cheesecake stuff?"

"Oh, they told me," Beezlebub remarked offhand as Lupus and GORE-ILLA stepped into view. "They also touched the cheesecake prior to their deaths."

"Yo," waved GORE.

"Long time no see," Lupus commented.

"Is... there any way out of here?"

"Why yes," Beezlebub explained. "Qwirtzok's revival point can be used by mortals and demigods alike, but first you must bypass all of Qwirtzok's securities which can knock you into the real afterlife. I was just explaining it to these guys when you finally woke up, and I decided to try out that prank on you."

"So, what are we waiting for? It's gotta be somewhere in this cave!"

"Actually..." Beezlebub shoved Yami, Lupus and GORE through an opening into a scorching desert. "It's somewhere out here, in Qwirtzok's Dunes!"

"****!" Yami Yoshi swore. "MORE desert? That's just messed up."

"Just go on! I'll be watching your progress from a safe distance."

Scene Two: Back in the Real World...

Fusion floated above the crash site. "Hey, where the hell did Yami Yoshi and GORE go? They were right where this pile of smoking rubble now is just a few moments ago! Unless... they went out grocery shopping?"

It was then that Black Skull Dragoshi, Introbulus, Jim and SwordMaster ran up to the wreckage of the Flying Tower and began digging through the rubble, having seen the entire accident. Dragoshi then remembered, "GORE has metal parts! Can't you, like control them?"

"Of course, easily-traumatised child, just look ahead while I pull them out, and you'll probably see nothing too bloody to haunt your nightmares or amek you develop a complex of some sort." Introbulus closed his eyes in concentration as he raised his Metal Fist into the air. Among the objects that emerged where a tron, steel jagged pipe which Yami Yoshi's body was skewered on, and GORE-ILLA, who's organic part of his body was mutilated beyond recognition. "You didn't see that, right? If not, I'll just bring them up closer for you." BSD rain off crying.

Scene Three: The Dunes of Qwirtzok

"I can't move any more... I need... water..." Yami gasped as he crawled through the desert.

Lupus and GORE, who were walking at a brisk pace ahead of Ymai Yoshi, turned to face their fallen companion. "Fine with me," Lupus commented as he and GORE continued the trek alone.

Yami Yoshi immediately scrambled to his feet. "Hey, you don't just keep walking away!"

"You said you couldn't move any more."

Yami Yoshi was silent. A tumbleweed rolled past, and GORE, now moronic from nearby cheesecake, hummed, "I can see clearly now the rain has gone-"

All of a sudden, GORE"s bad singing was interuppted by a booming, "MWAHAHAHA!!1"

Lupus sighed, "Not another one."

The voice shouted, "You fools! Beelzebub has you working for him! He wanted you to find the Qwirtzok's Oasis fr him so he can follow you to the living world and conquer it with an ancient organization's aid!"

Yami Yoshi shrugged, "If he was following us, he'd be right behind us, would he not?"

Yami turned around and saw Beezlebub peeking out from behind a rock. He waved meekly, "Um... hi?"

The ??? person shouted, "Beelzebub, your time has come! I'll never forgive you for what you did to the world five hundred and sixty three years ago!"

Beezle wondered, "Who are you? The ??? kinda distorts your figure."

The man responded in a deep voice, "I am... RALPH NADER." Everyone immdeiately gasped. Nader the continued, "Nader wants cake."

"Lupus, where are you going?" GORE asked.

Lupus replied, "This desert bores me, so I guess I'll just leave here the easier way. PLOT HOLE!" A small, glowing vortex opened before Lupus, who hopped in post-haste. GORE lunged towards the portal, but it snapped shut before him. But GORE still smirked in a suspicious manner....

Scene Four: Funeral

Fusion, BSD, SwordMaster and Introbulus bowed their heads while folding their hands in prayer as they watched over the row of three gravestones set up for Yami Yoshi, GORE, and Lupus. However, before the preist who appeared from nowhere could start reading, a purple vortex opened on the ground above Lupus's body. Readers would recoginze this as the same Plot Hole which Lupus escaped into in the pervious scene, and also as the same Plot Hole which spits Lupus out in this scene. Lupus immdeiately flew away, cackling maniacally. The Plot Hole vanished.

SwordMaster asked the preist, "You're only charging us for two funerals now, right?"

Scene Five: DESERT MADNESS

"Crap, there he goes!" Yami Yoshi shouted as he kicked the dust. He finally noticed GORE's smirk. "Whay're you so happy about?"

GORE giggled, "Nothing..."

Yami wondered, "Why're you still acting like an idiot? Lupus left with the cheesecake already, so I'll just ignore the subject completely until a plot point is revealed later in this chapter. Wait, what were you saying again, Mr. Nader?" Yami asked as he turned to Ralph's corpse, which Beexlebub then kicked behind a rock before quickly. Beezle then also noticed the bloody knife in his hand and hid it behind his back. "Oh... he was just talking about... how the Oasis of Qwirtzok helped him 563 years ago, and how I didn't follow him back into the real world and attempt to revive an ancient evil organization to conquer the world until it was stopped and I was sent back to this limbo. Good friend of mine, that Nader. Now move on and don't look at his corpse behind this rock, also forget my mentioning of the word "corpse"."

"I'm down wit dat," GORE siad as he and Yami Yoshi continued along the desert with no sense of direction. However, it was not long until hunger overcame the pair.

"Man, I'm soooooo hungry..." Yami moaned. he then noticed GORE licking his lips at something he held in his left hand and blocked from Yami's view with his right. "What is that?" Yami asked with anger. "What have you got there?"

GORE ignored Yami as he muttered, "Man oh man does it look cheesey..."

Yami quickly ran up to GORE and pulled his right arm, revealing the one thing he desired. "MY CHEESECAKE!!!! What the hell are you doing with it? How did you get it?"

"Nipped it off of Turkish dude as he left instead of jumping into portal. Must satisfy my cravings..." GORE reached towards the cheesecake with his right hand, only to have it bitten by Yami Yoshi. GORE shouted, "Ack! What was that for?"

"This cheesecake is mine! ALL MINE! I made it!" Yami Yoshi shouted as he pulled the cheesecake from GORE, who was sucking on his thumb. GORE responded by punding hard on Yami's foot.

"Well I got back!" GORE shouted as he stomped on Yami Yoshi's foot. Yami then hopped on his other foot while clutching the wounded one and yelling in pain. GORE swiped the cheesecake back and hummed, "Finders keepers, losers leapers!"

"It's weepers!" Yami asked as he shot out his tongue, which wrapped around the cheeseckae na dpulled it towards his mouth.

GORE grabbed Yami's tongue with one hand, squeezing it while removing the cheesecake with his other hand, before thw outstretched tongue had returned to his mouth. "How dare you question me, the leader of this group!"

Yami then rammed his head into GORE's crotch, causing GORE to shout in pain as the cheesecake flew out of GORE's hand and into Yami's. Yami held it on his outstretched paln and pointed out, "Leader? I'm the leader! I started the adventure, I'm a Moderator, it's my cheesecake, and it's weepers!"

A small Plot Hole immediately opened next to Yami Yoshi's head. Lupus's hand reached the portal, grabbed the cheesecake, and pulled it through as the Plot Hole closed. Yami and GORE stared at each other, then GORE broke the silence by shouting, "LEAPERS!!!!"

"That's it!" Yami Yoshi yelled as he tackled GORE to the ground. The two rolled along the ground and traded blow for blow. They then slid down a large incline until they were along the edges of a seemingly very deep pit.

GORE stopped and pinted at the pit, asking, "Hey! What's that giant hole in the ground?"

A loud roaring echoed throughout the desert as a large creature which resembled an extremely long centipede with the head of a dragon. "It's a Geji Dragon!" Beezlebub pointed out before he disappeared again.

GORE leapt at the Dragon and tackled it, causing it to topple over and smash onto the other side of the pit. The Dragon recovered almost immediately and snapped its jaws at GORE, who dodged as many of the bites as he could in fright. Yami Yoshi took this oppurtunity to turn yellow and run back up the incline. He didn't make it far, however, before he realized that he couldn't abandon GORE (After all, who else could he eat if he went without food for much longer?) Yami began thinking, "Hmm... what to do?" Yami looked down and saw his Millenium Egg flashing brightly as if it were attempting to communicate with him. Yami somehow understood the message and muttered, I got ya!" as he pulled out his deck of Duel Monsters cards. "If they worked with Qwirtzok, they might work here," he deduced. Yami shuffled through his deck and stood behind a rock which was just shorter then him- the perfect podium. Yami then laid down a card face-up on the rock and shouted, "I summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Surely enough, the legendary Duel Monster materialized ot of thin air on the edge of the incline's top. Yami shouted, "Blue Eyes White Dragon, use White Lightning on the Geji Dragon!" The monster blindly obeyed as it emitted a beam of high-density rock, which cut right through the dragon's skull. It roared in pain as it fell back into the pit.

GORE caught up with Yami, who was reshuffling his deck. "Well, that takes care of that. Wait, what's that card right there?" GORE asked as he pointed to a card which was set atop the deck.

"Huh? Oh, that's Monster Reborn- it allows the user to revive one monster... hey, we need revival!"

"Do you have another?"

"No, just the one. But who should I use it on?"

GORE asked in deppression, "Well, it's your card... you should use it..."

"Sure, right away! I play Monster Reborn on Y-"

GORE waved his hands as he yelled, "Hey, that's not what you're supposed to say!"

Whatever Yami would have ended up deciding would be unknown forever, as at that time, one last Plot Hole appeared behind Yami's head. Lupus's arm reached through and swiped the card from Yami's hand. Yami shouted, "Hey!" as he spun his head around in search of the theif, and the hand then returned to snatch the rest pf the deck. Yami immediately spun around and saw the Plot Hole. "Lupus! I should have known!" Theough the Plot Hole, Yami could see Lupu's head, and his hand which was holding the deck of cards. "That's it, I'm coming after you!" Yami leapt at the Plot Hole, only he slammed into it as if it were a brick wall and fell over.

"Ooh, what are these things?" Lupus asked intimidatingly.

Yami shook his fist at Lupus. "Give them back, now!"

Lupus shook his head. "NO! You'll escape and ruin my entire plan again! I have the power of opening Plot Holes! You don't! Nya nya! Koopa, where's my Fire3 spell?"

Koopa's face appeared as well alongside Lupus's, peering into the Plot Hole. "Right here sir."

Yami predicted Lupus's next course of action and balled, "NOO! IT TOOK ME TEN YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO COLLECT THEM ALL!"

Lupus shouted, "Fire3!" as the deck of cards was covered in flames. Lupus laughed, "Bye bye, cardboard thingies," as he dropped the flaming cards through the Plot Hole, sending them into the desert, where the cards were blown around by the desert winds asthe flames slowly overwhelmed them.

Yami Yoshi cried, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Inside the Plot Hole, Koopa held up an intact card and pointed out, "Sir Lupus! You didn't burn one of the cards!"

Koopa handed the card along to Lupus, who pointed out, "You're right. Hey- this is the Take Over The World card! Fire3-"

"Wait, sir! I don't think you get it! I believe the card has very good uses..."

Lupus smirked smugly. "Oh, I catch your drift. Fire3-"

"USE IT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, DAMMIT!"

"Oh, NOW I get it! I paly Take Over the World Card in Take Over the Word mode! BWAHAHAHAH!!"

Yami muttered, "I knew I should have used that card before now..."

Lupus then looked down into the Plot Hole and realized, "Oh, is this thing still on? My bad." The Plot Hole then vanished into the desert air...

Scene Six: Beezlebub's Orders

"Are they dead yet, Beezlebub?"

"Not yet, Sir Qwirtzok. They've defeated the Geji Dragon, but Yami Yoshi's cards have been destroyed in the progress."

"This is not acceptable. It is the perfect chance to kill that dinosaur bastard who sent me here before reviving myself, and if I can't get them, I'll have you killed without taking you to my Oasis, which I was going to reveal the location of when you kill those pests. Don't let me down, Beezlebub."

"I'll try my hardest. Rest assured, they will not leave this desert without a bigass fight."

"You better. I don't want to have to take matters into my own hands..."

Scene Seven: Bigass Fight

Nobody spoke a word during the quiet trek. Tears were still fresh in Yami's eyes as he held all the charred remains of his Duel Monsters cards that he could find. And GORE was still regretting not eating the cheesecake when he had the chance. This sadness prevented the duo from noticing the huge-ass tank which openly approached until it was just several feet away from them. And by huge-ass, I MEAN huge-ass. It was about seven hundred feet tall. The front of the tank had a large, spiked plowing wheel attached to it and was littered with dozns of traps. At the top of the tank was the sterotypical tank cannon and the cockpit in which Beezlebub sat at the controls. This impressive monolith was lifted into the air almost immdeiately. Beezlebub gasped, "WHAT?"

GORE was standing at the side of the tank, holding it up with his one organic arm. He remarked, "A few problems with your death machine, anomynous villain. One: All the traps are in the front, leaving every other side exposed. Two: The tank is made out of palstic and weighs approximately two pounds, according to my sensors. Three: Your tnak cannon is too high up to hit anything. Four: I'm really pissed and hungry right now!" GORE flung the tank into the arm. It landed upside-down against the cliff wall, but now the canon was aiming at Yami Yoshi. When it was about to fire, Yami clogged the cannons with a Dark Egg and watched it explode seconds later.

The cliff wall was completely annihalated by the explosion. Where it once stood, a narrow stream of water, only abot two centimeters thin, flowed. Yami grinned. "Water, at last!" He licked the water and spat it out immediately. "Ugh! It's all sandy!"

GORE scanned it with his handy cyborg eye. "This water appears to be water which has escaped and is flowing away from the Oasis, but the desert sands have tainted the water and deprieved it of its power. The good news is that if we follow this "river", we should eventually reach its source at the Oasis- taht is, assuming that the "Qwirtzok's Oasis" I recall Nader mentioning, even though I forgot the details of the conversation, is the revival point."

Yami Yoshi promised, "I swear, that's the last lengthy explanation!"

With that, Yami Yoshi and GORE strolled along the stream for quite some time until GORE pointed and shouted,, "Look, palm trees in the distance! We must be close!"

However, at that time, a strong wind picked up and sand covered the area. GORE heard Yami speaking in the same odd voice from the CItadel, "Curses! I knew he would not let us leave! On your guard, Gorilla!"

Before the surprised GORE could correct Yami Yoshi's misnaming of him, he was overcome by a familiar laugh from just a few chapters ago, "Gweh heh heh! Good to meet you again, Pharoah! I knew you were living through the hatchling!" The sandstorm picked up, pushing GORE back as he held up his arms to shield his eyes, but as he did so, he made out Qwirtzok's outline in the center of the storm. Qwirtzok continued to shout, "You fool! Do you honestly believe taht you can take me down on my own territory? I'd laugh at such a claim!"

"No, Qwirtzok! Have you forgotten the move I mastered you with so many years ago?" the odd Yami Yoshi reminded. GORE took this oppurtunity to glance towards Yami Yoshi, but all he could make out was Yami Yoshi's outline and a glowing, miniature Yoshi Egg-like object floating around Yami's neck. "Mind Crush!" A beam of light shot through the sands, connecting the glowing egg with the outline of Qwirtzok's head.

Qwirtzok screamed in pain, clutching his head as the sandstorm faded away as if it had never been. Yami shouted out to GORE, "Now, GORE! Take him down! (before the Mind Crush is rejected by his great magic!)" Without a single glance at Yami, GORE rushed towards Qwirtzok and uppercutted the giant in the chin with his organic arm, then leapt from Qwirtzok's chest until he was right in front of his face and winded up his cyborg arm. "GORE Punch!" he shouted as the mechanical fist slammed into Qwirtzok's face, sending the wizened sorcerer flying into the distance. GORE then dashed towards him, shouting, "Now to finish this!"

However, Yami then shouted in his ever-odd voice, "No GORE, stop! If he dies here, he'll die for good, and this limbo will collapse along with everyone on it- including us!"

GORE stopped in thought, "Yeah, that kinda makes sense. Well, we'd better get moving!"

Yami Yoshi then asked in his normal voice, "C'mon GORE! What're you standing around for? We're so close to the Oasis!"

"Huh? I just said something along those lines! Whatever, let's move on." So GORE and Yami Yoshi, now sounding and acting like his normal self, ran towards the oasis, shining with beauty despite the ugliness of its owner.

"Woohoo! We're finally here!" Yami Yoshi shouted as he leapt into the air. Yami immediately scooped some water up in his cuped hands and said, "Seeya in the other world, GORE!" before he disappeared.

GORE then wondered, "There's something odd about that yoshi... like taht changing voice! But then again, it might just be puberty kicking in," as he swallowed his handful and vanished.

Beezlebub, scarred and charred but still with life and dignity, grinned evilly as he approached the oasis. He turned towards Qwirtzok's crippled form and offered, "If you ever need a job, you're free to stop by and take up your old post! Same place as the first time!" Beezlebub then took an expensive, fancy glass cup out from his jacket pocket and swirled it through the Oasis, finally he raised it and shouted, "I dedicate this toast to the MPVP- who will now return to ruin the universe due to two stupid OGers!"

"Hear hear!" Qwirtzok shouted. Beezlebub took one sip and also vanished from that world.

Scene Eight: Back To Life

And so GORE and Yami Yoshi were restored to life where they had died. They rejoiced and cheered until they remembered taht they were in the Sahara Desert. So they rushed across the Sahara Desert on tehir way back to Tokyo. It was then taht Yami raised the question, "Hey, how is it that we can reach Tokyo from the Sahara Desert, especially if they're on the opposite sides of Eurasia?"

GORE answered nervously, "Uhh... it's a wizard! ...Or a plot device! ...Or a wizard's plot device! Yeah, that's it!"

But when they reached Tokyo's entrance, they found a most unusual greeting from a man piloting a cheese-cake shaped robot. That man was named Lupus. Lupus greeted, "Greetings, visitors, and welcome to Lupusopolis! I hope you enjoy your stay! By the way Yami Yoshi, remember that Take Over the World Card you had?"

Chapter Fifteen: "Lupusworld"

Based on posts written by Yami Yoshi, Lupus, SwordMaster and Introbulus.

Scene One: Cheese it!

"Lupusopolis?" Yami Yoshi asked in fright.

"Correct- the capital of Lupus World! Now, you're in breach of Rule 718234721: No Yami Yoshis. To court with you!"

"That's not fair!" GORE spoke up.

"This world being fair is in breach of Rule 3452385923490425239045.3. Now surrender or be destroyed, or some pleasant mixture of the both!"

Yami Yoshi and GORE examined Lupus's huge robot walker. It was shaped like a large cheesecake with a horizontal crescent-shaped visor across the front through which Lupus's cockpit was visible. It also possessed two mechanical arms with pincer-like hands. Two legs, tick as tree trunks, descended from the cheesecake body to the ground. And two machine gun turrets were placed beneath the cockpit. There were also jet engines protruding from the cheesecake's back. Yami Yoshi concluded, "We'll take our chances!" Lupus nodded as he pressed some buttons and pulled some levers. The large legs retracted into the robot, and the jet boosters propelled it across the area while the machine gun turrets blared like crazy. Yami and GORE dove in opposite directions as the machine gun fire tore through several crates which were stacked at the Lupusopolis entrance for no particular reason. GORE shouted, "It's Sonic Adventure 2 all over again!" The macine guns and jet boosters died down, and the legs returned as Lupus reached the other side of the area. Lupus's robot then charged across the open, yet desolate, field to reach the others and began swinging its claws around like mad. Yami and GORE lunged at the mechanical monster. Yami and GORE frantically waved their legs and fists, respectively around at the Cheese-Bot, but none of their hits came even close to hitting it, so the robot grabbed both of them in its powerful arms and began squeezing their bodies with its visor-like grip. No amount of struggling helped either hero. It seemed like the end, until....

A shaded figure leapt down from some tall bulding which he had been scaling during the entire fight just to pull off this stunt, and lunged diagonally towards Lupus's robot, swinging his sword around in cool poses, slicing off the robot's arms and freeing both GORE and Yami Yoshi... then he slammed into a mailbox and struggled for several minutes before finally freeing himself. Lupus shouted some generic villain escape statement before he took off with his jet boosters.

The duo then turned their attention to the shadowy, sword-wielding dude, whom they immediately recognized. "SwordMaster?" Their companion was worse for the wear. He now had torn clothes, long hair and a short beard.

SwordMaster greeted, "Hey guys. Where the hell have you been?"

Yami Yoshi replied casually, "Dead."

SwordMaster nodded nochalantly as he continued, "Oh, right. Anyway, while you were gone Lupus conquered whatever's left of the world."

GORE-ILLA realized, "So thats why there's Lupus World. And you didn't try to stop him??!!!"

SwordMasterexcused himself, "Hey, I was um... sleeping at the time. It's all Fusions fault, anyway."

Fusion stepped out of the shadows. "What? What did I do?" His gold armor was scraped, scratched, dirty, and was now even rustier then C-3P0's.

SwordMaster replied, "Well you could've found him in time if you weren't busy haggling with that preacher! Well anyway, he used the card to take over the world and, eh, I'll explain when we get back to the hiding place- before Lupus gets back!"

Scene Two: Dark-Ass Future

So SwordMaster lead the two through the dark and dreary alleys of Lupusopolis, in the abandoned area of town, away from he beautiful sparkle and glitter of Lupusopolis's sckyscrapers and elegant tower. Here there were torn down buildings. The stench was unbearable. Drunken bums stumbled and wrestled about. As they passed the bums, the even more dissassmbled area of the metropolis. The bum's screams were replaced by silence. Pure, frightening, bone-chilling silence, except for the sound of rat's squeaking and the tune that plays in the Friday the Thirteenth movies whenever Jason's about to murder someone. And there was also the sound of tree-trunk wide feet stomping on the ground behind the group. Yami Yoshi wondered, "The hell is that noise?"

GORE spun around and saw a mechanical cheesecake-like mass croching behind a garbage can which was obviously way too small to conceal the bulky robot. But GORE shook his head and said, "It's just a cat!" The others nodded in belief, unaware of the slight smell of cheese which Lupus made sure reached GORE's nose.

SwordMaster warned the others, "Lupus must never discover the location of our secret hideout!" Finally they reached a rusty old Nintendo sweatshop. SwordMaster said dramatically, "Guys, welcome to your new home!" as he swung the door open(causing the entire front wall of the builiding to collapse) SwordMaster shouted to the others who were awaiting him, "Hey, look who I found!"

Black Skull Dragoshi looked up from an old Game Boy Advance game while Introbulus and Jim turned their attention away from tea tehy were drinking over a laboring table which was once called "the kiddies' table" back in the sweatshop's heyday. BSD rushed towards them and shouted, "You're back, at last!"

Introbulus and Jim also rushed toward them flamboyantly until they realized, "Wait, I forgot. I don;t even know you."

Yami Yoshi introduced, "I'm Yami Yoshi, the leader of this group-"

"And I'm GORE, I eat the cheese." That comment caused the others to look at GORE strangely, but Introbulus didn't notice.

Yami continued, "You must be new to this team. When did you join?"

Introbulus waved his hand, "Oh, waaaaay back in 2003."

"Wha- "waaaaay back"? How long were we gone?"

"Oh, seven years. It's 2010."

"...****!"

SwordMaster pointed out, "Is there something wrong with GORE? He acts as if there were cheese nearby."

"He's probably picking something up from a dairy shop a few mile away-"

SwordMaster grabbed Yami by the shoulders and looked seriously into his eyes. "There is no cheesecake left. Lupus stole all the cheesecake and cheese-related products IN THE WORLD the second he became Grand Emperor and stashed it all in a hidden vault for his own enjoyment back in 2003!"

Suddenly Lupus's robot smashed through the eastern wall, completely incinerating it. In one of the robot's repaired hands was a whole cheesecake. "That's right, SwordMaster! But before I kill you all or turn you into gargoyles or something, I think I'll have a little snack!" The glass window of the cheese robot cockpit slid up. Then the robot raised a fork with its right arm, stabbed it into the cheesecake and plucked a ripe slice from the delicious cake. The arm then slowly lifted the fork towards Lupus's mouth.

Everything seemed to go in slow motion. GORE trampled towards the cake idiotiaclly, drool pounding on the ground like hail drops, but Yami held him back and explained in a booming voice that this battle was meant for SwordMaster and his honor of Defending cheesecake, not them. And SwordMaster dived towards Lupus, shouting, "NNNNNOOOooooooOOOOOOoooooOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOooooo ooOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOooooooooOOOOO! " Lupus opened his mouth wide as the fork raveled towards it. SwordMaster slashed his sword diagonally through the air, knocking the fork out of the mechanical hand and onto the floor, where GORE would lick it up several minutes later. SwordMaster simultaneously kicked the rest of the fresh cheesecake out of the robot's left hand, and it went flying onto a table on the opposite side of the sweatshop. Then it returned to normal motion.

Lupus shouted in anger, "You will all die for that outrage!!! Prepare laser!!" as a huge-ass laser emerged from the top of the robot, charging up energy quickly. "Now you're all going to burn! Fire!"

So the cannon shout out a marvelous, orangeish beam of some sort. All the OGers began leaping out of the way. GORE was still in the path of the laser as he ran towards the cheesecake, but Introbulus waved his Iron Fist, granting him control over GORE's cyborg parts as he tossed the gorilla to safety. But then all the OGers realized something which made them look at each other in horrorexcept for GORE, who was too dumb to figure it out at the moment) if GORE was in the path of the laser, then so was...

BOOM!!!

"MY CHEESECAKE!" Yami Yoshi screamed. The entire cheesecake exploded in a grand finale, leaving nothing behind, but the western wall collapsed in the progress. Yami Yoshi dropped to his knees and began sobbing loudly. GORE regained his senses and began to wonder WTF just happened. SwordMaster began to feel guilty for not defending the cheesecake. "I deserve no fanfare." Black Skull Dragoshi shook his head in sorrow. Introbulus cursed, "I've seen some gruesome things before, but that just takes the cake- and I've watched Roseanne, trust me!" And above all, Fusion thought to himself, "Does this armor make me look fat?"

Let's say that, for some reason, you were to follow Lupus through every day of his life. You'd recorded every one of his emotions. He's had his share of anger before, but nothing can compare to the horrific amount of pure anger resonating from Lupus which could frighten you even if you weren't looking at him at all. Lupus had never been that angry before in his entire lifetime. He shouted, "No! I never got to savor the sweet, tender, morsels of the goey cake! You shall all pay!"

SwordMaster waved his sword in anger. "US!? Aren't you the one who vaporized the cheesecake?"

Lupus was slightly calmer now. "Well, yes. But it wouldn't make sense if I took revenge out on myself! Besides, you dodged my attack, thus leaving the Cheesecake open for a full-on frontal assault! You do not deserve the Cheesecake! No one does! This ends NOW!!!! " Lupus then took out another cheescake-

"Hey!" shouted Yami Yoshi

-and tossed it into a nearby Hole to the Earth's Core.

"What is he doing!?!" Black Skull asked in bewilderment.

Fusion looked shocked. "Oh no! He woudn't..."

Lupus leapt out from his robot and faced the crater, "I summon Lord Chaos! From whom all evil and dispair arises! Come forth, oh lord of darkness! Strike down all those who oppose the evil!"

The ground shook violantly and, seconds later, a winged, several-yard tall beast flew from the crater. A hige demon with long black horns and a wicked tail, and skin as orange as the fiercest fires.

Fusion gaped in fear, "...Awwww (insert profanity)".

To be Continued in Chapter Sixteen: Chaos- The OGers have proved themselves to be incapable of rescuing an innocant cheesecake. Now how will they defeat Garland's sinister transformation? I doubt either of them are even at Level 2, even!

Chapters of Member OG Special Edition

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