____________________________________________________________________________________________ Ginga GIRI GIRI! The Universe is in Danger! By SSJ Heero (http://66.75.107.143/animenext) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ---- Recap ---- [Chibi characters of the six appear in the foreground as scenes from the last episode play in the background. Though, you can't see 'cause this is text. Haha!] SSJ: LAST TIME! ON GINGA GIRI GIRI! ...We weren't in it. Amiko: Except for in the last parts, where we run into some cop or other we met before. Kensou: Meanwhile, Jallopsimon has some fun and takes out a naval fleet on his own. Cindy: A bunch of computers for the government are finally revealed. TM: Rantmon takes the Atma and reforges it. Davis: Worst of all, Black Amiko and Shadow TM join forces! The super genius and the strongest person on earth! Holy crap, we're screwed! SSJ: Oh yeah, Sauron and company were in it, along with... Hayden?! What the Hell?! All: Anyway! On with the show! ---- Chapter 43: Jet Grinding Madness ---- [SSJ and company wasted no time looking around for a route to escape. The street before them collapsed and fell away, for they were pretty high up on a bridge. The pieces fell and smashed into the river several stories below. There absolutely was no escape for them. Well, there was an escape path for their chocobos only, at least. SSJ got an idea, since it was a Jet Set Radio Future chapter and all. As a passing group of teens skated, grinded, and flew past, SSJ leapt onto one of them, and quickly, the rest did the same. Soon after grappling with the teens, everyone had the jet skates of their own. The passing gang did not seem to like that much, however, as one of the guys stipulated.] Guy: HEY! Give us back our skates! TM: Rather not. (With that, TM punted the guy straight into the air, and with a bling and a sparkle, he was gone. Jarrett was quick though, for just after he did that, more missiles shot from the machine of his. With swears, each of them went their own way just as the missiles struck the bridge and the very piece they were standing on fell to the water below. And SSJ was yelling over it all.) SSJ: We'll all meet eventually! Just get away! (As they all skated or grinded their away from the machine, each caught a brief glimpse of their four birds dashing away, to the other side of the city. Kensou swore.) Kensou: Damn. We have to get to the other side before they do or else they'll escape. (With him was Amiko, who nodded as they grinded down a metal rail lining a long flight of stairs.) *** [TM and Cindy were gracefully skating and grinding on the walls and rails in a tunnel elsewhere as Jarrett followed quickly in his machine.] TM: Damn it, why us?! (Missiles tore through the walls just before TM as he skated upon them, flames racing from them and leaving two black trails following him. Cindy leapt and ducked to avoid the constant falling rubble from the explosions just above or below her. Such a troublesome day! The two suddenly were out of the tunnel and into open light. They flew through the air, for the tunnel's end happened to not be complete. Cindy spotted a bridge a ways below them and pointed it to TM, who grabbed her and landed on the rail, amazingly grinding away with little pain. He looked up at the robot as Cindy leapt off and skated on her own.) TM: Geez, that guy is persistent. Cindy: How the Heck do you guys know him again? (TM sighed as he struggled to remember so long ago.) TM: A long, long time ago... Wait, it was like four months ago. Anyway, we were stuck in this one town where this robber kept robbing banks and leaving clues for us to figure out. SSJ figured out a pattern and we caught him with that guy's help. (He leapt at that moment to avoid a passing traffic light, landing on the ground beside Cindy as they entered the streets. They passed an intersection over the cars, seeing Jarrett's machine in the distance.) Cindy: What happened next to make him hate you guys?! TM: When we caught the robber, that cop took his eyes off of the guy for a second trying to catch us with our huge bounty. We escaped, and I guess that robber saw a window of opportunity and escaped as well. Feh, it was his stupidity that made him lose- (BAM! He crashed straight into the fist of Jarrett's machine. The impact sent him reeling as he was shoved away. He scraped along the asphalt as Cindy skidded to a halt before the robot as it raised its giant metal fist into the air to smash into Cindy. But Cindy was quick on the draw, pulling out two of her guns from her holsters and launching many bullets at the machine. The momentum shoved her back on her skates, and she flipped and somersaulted away and landed by TM, who was again on his feet.) TM: Man, this'll be troublesome. Cindy: Yeah. *** [And SSJ and Davis weren't in a much better situation. After leaving the Crew, they ran straight through an open pipe, skating and grinding and spinning throughout the inside before they were launched out over the dam.] SSJ: DAMN IT! Davis: WHY US?! (As they tumbled and fell through the air, they crashed straight into the water, quite glad that the surface tension was broken by the water flow. They were engulfed in the flow and traveled quite a way through the dam before one of them finally got out. Davis caught hold of the side and pulled himself onto a small platform over the damn. He coughed out water and looked about him, seeing more bridges and platforms around the dam. He caught no sight of SSJ, though. He was taken aback to suddenly hear a high-pitched voice beside him.) Voice: Damn it, that was too dangerous! (Davis looked beside him and saw Kero, holding onto jet skates almost as big as he. He sighed as SSJ fumed, looking at his hands and tail and wings.) SSJ: Damn it, not again! (Davis sighed and sent flames into the water just before him. As steam rose, SSJ dipped his tail into it and poof! He was back again and slipped back into the skates after pouring the water out.) Davis: That's getting quite inconvenient. SSJ: *Getting* inconvenient?! It already WAS inconvenient! (Suddenly, winds shot everywhere. Darkness fell upon the two. They turned about, quite surprised and confused. Was it Jarrett?! No, they did not hear the hum of the jet pack of the robot. But they saw a shadow on the water. They turned about and saw the most inconvenient person and the most inconvenient time, recognizing his afro first.) SSJ: Oh geez... Davis: Not... (But it was so. From there came the Team Rocket chorus, and Team Voldemort was seen standing upon the waters of the dam. As the violins and instruments sounded, then came their motto.) Voldemort: To send the world to devastation. Peter: To make minions of every nation. Malik: To strike down the lameness of self-insertion fics! Bakura: To kill you all just for kicks. (And so they went through all their names in dramatic fashion. The Maze brothers then struck a pose as well.) Voldemort: Team Voldemort is blasting off at the speed of light! Peter, Malik, & Bakura: Surrender now or prepare for our bite! Maze: Ma-Ze, damn straight! (SSJ and Davis sweatdropped. Geez, they wouldn't help their day. Dealing with the robot cop was enough, but Team Voldemort was getting quite annoying. As the chorus ended and Malik put away his boom box, Voldemort stepped forward on the water, frozen from a spell of some sort.) Voldemort: Okay, we've missed a couple of chapters, but we're here and ready to kill you all, finally... Hey wait, where're the rest of you?! (Davis and SSJ shrugged as the skies seemed to darken over Team Voldemort.) SSJ: We had to split up for a bit. Davis: But don't worry, you'll have enough fun with us. (Voldemort fumed, and with a wave of his hand, he sent his minions forward. The Maze brothers along with Malik and Bakura leapt forward, pulling their fists back in a menacing manner. SSJ and Davis were ready to dodge, but then the four opponents landed, SSJ had his sword out as Davis held up his fists. But the four's hands were empty with palms raised towards the two in pride as the Maze brothers declared their game.) Ma: Now that we're prepared, we will see a fair game. Ze: And you will lose and we'll gain fame! Bakura: Right here is where the battle will begin! (Bakura pointed to another platform, where a big-screen TV was stationed along with stereos, a PS2, and several controllers.) Malik: It's a four-on-two no-holds-barred Virtua Fighter 4 tournament! (Davis' and SSJ's were narrowed. No way were they losing at this...) *** (And they didn't, for SSJ found it hilariously easy with Pai as he knocked the Maze brothers out of the ring as Davis tossed Bakura and Malik out with no problem using Aoi. They sighed as Voldemort's flunkies groaned in disappointment. SSJ and Davis sighed as they turned to Voldemort. BOOM! They barely dodged a blast from Voldemort's finger, pointing straight at where the PS2 was. SSJ suddenly glowed in anger as his eyes narrowed.) SSJ: No... VIRTUA FIGHTER 4 DOES NOT DESERVE THAT! (Davis sweatdropped as SSJ landed gracefully on the flowing water, standing upon it with his feet glowing from Chakra. He dashed forward to Voldemort, who again pointed his finger at the boy. Then he saw SSJ's fingers crossing as water was thrown away from his flaming skates.) SSJ: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! (With a wisp of smoke, suddenly, there were two more SSJ's with the original, all dashing towards the surprised Voldemort.) Voldemort: What the Heck?! (Then SSJ was past Voldemort, leaping into the air, and the two clones disappeared with smoke. He leapt back onto a rail and grinded around the dam as he admired his work on Voldemort. Voldemort coughed out colored smoke. Davis saw from his vantage point a spray paint can in SSJ's hand. He grinned.) Davis: Gonna take him out Jet Grind Radio style, huh?! SSJ: Damn right! (Davis grinned and leapt upon the rail as Voldemort rubbed his eyes, covered with graffiti. A sudden tickling was on the back of the wizard's neck as SSJ flew past again. The Dark Wizard forced his eyes open and glared at SSJ, but then Davis flew past, cans a-spraying. Right in the eye! He grabbed at them in pain and screamed.) Voldemort: DAMN KIDS! (SSJ then yelled at Davis.) SSJ: Come on! Finishing move! (SSJ and Davis leapt upon Voldemort at the same time, filling both of the wizard's ears with paint, and then all throughout the body. Colored smoke and the constant hiss of the cans filled the air as the Maze brothers, Malik, and Bakura looked on at their master. SSJ and Davis suddenly were grinding back on the platforms and walkways around the damn again as the minions caught sight of their master. Right across Voldemort was pictures and symbols advertising GGG. They sweatdropped and became white with fear as they looked up at Davis, his right arm outstretched. A red aura came to the boy's hands. The minions gulped as they realized what was happening. Davis sent an explosion racing towards them, and another to Voldemort, and soon, they were in the air, howling in pain. As they neared disappearing, they yelled in unison.) Team Voldemort: Team Voldemort is blasting off agaiiiiinnnn... (And with a bling and a sparkle, they were gone. SSJ and Davis skidded to a halt as they admired their work. They shot glances at each other and nodded, and soon they were away from the dam and skating their ways back up to the streets.) *** [TM and Cindy were having quite a bit of fun fending off Jarrett's attacks as they skated about the town, eventually arriving at a giant parking garage. It certainly would be the best place to hide, since it was too small for the robot to follow and with many places to hide. Missiles raced through the tiny levels towards Cindy and TM, who grinded and sailed over cars, skidding out of sight. Jarrett swore as he drove the machine around the building. TM panted as he leaned upon a pillar of the garage, looking over the corner at where Jarrett was. He saw nothing but the trees and the buildings. No way! It disappeared! He slowly got to his feet and peered past the corner at where it should have been. As he stared and wondered, he failed to hear a certain hiss of the new-age hovering machine behind him, past the garage as Jarrett smiled. He did hear the screaming of a missile, though, as it raced his way from behind. Twirling about, he saw it clearly as it speeded towards him, and hastily, he ducked to avoid the missile as it flew overhead and hit a car, making a hole through the ground of the garage. TM looked back at the machine and saw yet deadlier things. Several flashing spheres landed upon the ground and cars about him as he turned pale. He barely leapt out of the way as explosions came from the bombs and threw him away and out of the garage as a good half of it crumbled and collapsed. TM skidded along the grass, leaving a large grass stain upon his back as he looked up at a shadow falling upon him. Jarrett's machine was right over head. He swore as Jarrett grinned and raised a robotic arm.) Jarrett: Well, that was troublesome, chasing after you and all! (But then from the roof of what was left of the garage, a rather large rail fell and landed upon the top of the robot, still holding onto the structure. Jarrett opened the hatch of the robot with surprise. He looked at the damage it did to his robot, causing a rather deep dent. He fumed, and didn't hear in time the sound of rockets or grinding. Cindy flew past as she sprayed paint all over the man's face, and he reeled in pain as it stung his eyes. As Cindy smiled and leapt off the rail, and she left a rather large streak of paint down the robot's side as she landed by TM.) TM: Didn't that hurt? (And Cindy grabbed TM and helped him to his feet.) Cindy: Hey, this is Jet Set Radio Future here... (TM sweatdropped as she pointed to a convenient floating can of blood, which seemed to represent a healing item. He nodded as she continued.) Cindy: Well, your power doesn't seem to be worth much. (TM glared at Cindy as she smiled, and then the two skated away as Jarrett got back into his robot, frustrated and angry from the pain clawing at his eyes. As he checked his screens, he realized that a great deal of the main one was covered with a thick line of green. He swore.) Jarrett: DAMN IT! She couldn't have gotten the camera! (But she did, and as he looked through the other screens, he raced forward, unaware of the many things just before him that the side screens couldn't show. Street lights toppled over, cars were turned over, trees were knocked down, and people were screaming and yelling before Jarrett had the sense to go sideways to avoid problems. He saw TM and Cindy racing onwards before him, and he grinned as he raced towards the two kids. He came nearer to the two, even as they grinded and flamed onwards, leaving black trails in their wake. Jarrett still approached with his velocity, and TM and Cindy were sweating as he came dangerously close. He reached out an arm, for his missiles were depleted, and was about to clasp its fingers around Cindy... Until he was slammed into a wall by a giant ball and crane. He flew into a decaying building and crashed straight into it, sending smoke and dust away as the bricks and old cement hit the robot as it fell to the ground. Layer after layer of old materials crashed atop the machine, and finally, all went dark within the cockpit. Jarrett rubbed his throbbing head as he looked about his seat. The controls and lights were working perfectly. The screens weren't. He silently cursed as he realized all the external cameras were destroyed. And finally, he pulled his robot up until he heard no tumbling of rubble, then opened the hatch to look outside. Light flooded into the cockpit as he looked at the ball and crane before him. If it wasn't for the damned graffiti, he would have seen it just fine! But then he looked at the bigger problem, and saw his robot dented and cracked from the impact of the building and ball. He grabbed his hair and swore and swore and swore. This was definitely not good for him!) Man: Hey! You shouldn't have gotten in the way! (Jarrett turned to the source of the sound, finding the operator of the ball and crane. Damn demolition project! How old-fashioned can you get to use a ball and crane?! Jarrett pulled himself back into the cockpit and pulled and turned its controls. The machine moved and sputtered and ultimately sparked and turned dark. None of its lights worked then, and Jarrett turned white.) Jarrett: Aw, shit... This isn't good... (Weakly and dizzily, he pulled himself from the machine and skidded down and onto the streets, where a large crowd of spectators looked up at the spectacle. A robot right in the middle of bricks of a collapsed building. Jarrett then wept as he heard police sirens and the squeal of police tires. And he slowly turned around and caught sight of who stepped out of the cars. He saw the suit, the hair, the badge on his front. His chief was here, and clearly not happy with what happened. He saw the vein on the man as he tried to be restrained.) Chief: Praytell... Why did were you compelled to take the drone and ride around the city, destroying a bridge, a parking garage, a hundred cars, the sidewalks here, and interrupting a demolition project?! (Jarrett fell to his knees and shrunk before the very angry and very twitching man.) Jarrett: Well... Ah... There were these kids... And... AH, I'M SO SORRY! (And Jarrett wept and begged at the chief's feet as he cried for mercy and forgiveness, in spite of rain from a broken fire hydrant, pieces of the building just behind him, and TM and Cindy laughing and howling a distance away. The chief groaned.) Chief: Do you know how much property damage you have caused?! You have even wrecked this expensive piece of equipment! This is all going to our budget, and I can't stand you ruining our name any longer! You're fired! Get out of my sight! (And as the Chief pried Jarrett off the man, TM and Cindy approached the wailing man. The chief stepped into the police car with dignity and drove away, quite angry and exasperated. TM and Cindy stepped up to the man as they saw the car disappear across an intersection.) TM: Man, he was not happy. Cindy: No, not at all... I feel sorry for you, David-chan. (Jarrett twitched and hastily got to his feet, yelling at them.) Jarrett: You guys! Stay there so I can kill you! (Jarrett quickly drew a pistol from his pocket, surprising TM and Cindy, who couldn't draw in time as Jarrett put pressure on the trigger... But then there was a crash as a chocobo landed upon Jarrett, a bullet flying up and hitting a wall. TM was taken aback as other chocobos slammed straight into that one, Jarrett crying in pain as their talons scratched across his back in a rather humorous way. They were dashing ahead, past TM and Cindy as they realized it was their own chocobos. Close behind, they saw Amiko and Kensou, frantically running after them.) Amiko: MATTE KUDASA~~~I! [Subtitles: WAIT, PLE~~~ASE!] Kensou: Tomare! [Subtitles: Stop!] (And as Amiko and Kensou sprinted past on skates with barely a notice, Cindy and TM nodded at each other before skating after them as well.) Cindy: Wait, please! TM: Stop! (Onward in the street, the chocobos dashed past an intersection, and there was a pipe sticking out from the wall. There was the sound of stepping as someone came to the end of the pipe, and out from it stuck SSJ's and Davis' heads. As the chocobos trampled past, they realized their faces had been just a couple of inches away from hitting a chocobo. As they stepped back in shock, they saw Amiko and Kensou dash past, Amiko's arms flailing and Kensou pumping his arms trying to speed up. And then they saw Cindy and TM speed past, doing very much the same thing. SSJ and Davis exchanged surprised glances before getting out of the pipe and skating and grinding after them. And then there was a giant lump of dashing kids as TM and Cindy met with SSJ and Davis.) TM: Where have you two been?! Davis: Team Voldemort. (SSJ calmly turned to Cindy as he grinded along the rail between sidewalk and street.) SSJ: You two? Cindy: Robot chased us, so we had a troublesome day. (And the four nodded at each other was they merged with the Amiko and Kensou, who had much larger problems on their mind.) Amiko: How do we stop them?! (At that, SSJ opened a much needed plot hole just beside him as the chocobos crashed past a fruit stand. Apples and oranges flew across the place, not quite different once they slammed into the ground. Amiko bowed as they skated past as SSJ pulled out and tossed a couple of spray cans to her. TM got the hint and pulled out his own cans.) SSJ: We need ten of them to speed up, get ready to leap onto the birds! (And as SSJ's skates suddenly burst into fire and he sped onwards and shoved off the rail, there came a loud chirp from Amiko's bag around her shoulder. The chocobos came to a halt immediately as SSJ flew past, cursing as he slammed into the ground and skidded along it in a rather painful, yet humorous way a la Love Hina. There from Amiko's bag stuck out the little blue chocobo's head, which the author forgot was even there most of the time. The rest of the Crew came to a halt right beside the chocobos as Amiko hugged and squeezed Tenpi with tenderness. TM and Cindy patted their chocobo as Davis scratched his golden one behind its head. Tenpi and Amiko and Kensou's chocobo conversed a bit in their chocobo tongue before the two as their owners patted and petted them kindly. And SSJ was swearing and cursing as he painfully pulled himself from the ground as his chocobo came and pecked at him. SSJ looked up and glared at his chocobo, who seemed to be unaware of the immense pain its owner just went through. Still SSJ sighed as he patted his chocobo before collapsing on the ground. The rest of the Crew leapt upon their chocobo's backs as SSJ's own bird picked him up and placed him on its back. The rest of the Crew were unaware as they finally had their chocobos go onward, passing SSJ with little more than a laugh.) TM: Haha... What a weird day... Davis: All that exercise has made me a bit tired... (And Amiko was patting and rubbing Tenpi as Kensou drove their chocobo.) Amiko: Pretty smart, Tenpi-chan! You should have done that sooner, though! (And as they went onwards, towards the horizon, into the grassy distance. The sky was fresh and clear still, half an hour minutes after the chapter began. Peace and quiet seemed very good right now, considering the day they just had...) ---- To Be Continued ---- - ENDING SONG: FOR REAL (YEAH, IT'S FROM SAIYUKI. DEAL WITH IT.) - tachidomatte'ru kimi no senaka wa sabishige na mama boku wo toraeru kimagure na ai de tsutsumitai shinjirarenai kotoba bakari ga egao no naka de kiba wo muite'ru sono kakera ni ai wo sagashite'ru itsuka wagamama na utagoe ga kimi ni todoite sonna shunkan ni kono sekai wa kawatte yuku nani wo mitsukete yukou jikan wo kirisaite kimi no soba ni iru yo sore ga yasashisa nara nani wo mitsumete iyou sono te wo sashidashite tsukanda genjitsu wo Let it go shinjiyou ---- Preview ---- [The Naruto Main Theme plays in background. The six appear as chibi style, and random scenes from the next episode play, though you can't see because this is text. Haha!] SSJ: Hey, hey! Next! On GINGA GIRI GIRI! Amiko: Hey, time seems really weird here... Kensou: Does it seem like things keep on repeating itself? TM: Is it a Groundhog's Day chapter? Card Captor Sakura? Both?! Neither?! Davis: Well, find out next! It'll have the best ending theme yet! Cindy: Next! On GINGA GIRI GIRI! "The Melody of Time" ----