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TEAMCLAW
EPISODE IV
--------------------------The Packages of
Meyhem---------------------------
Version 2.0
Part 1 Last edited on 7/5/05
Part 2 Last edited on 7/12/05
Part 3 Last edited on 7/12/05
Originally story by Jeremy Blake (www.jerbl.com)
Rewritten and
Illustrated by Mike Blake(Monisawa)
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© 2005 Mike
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-------------EPISODE IV : part
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Cleaning up
the mess of equipment, that still lay strewn about the floor like a
junkyard,
Nemo, Yoru and Tsuki worked busily alongside the human Rebecca. Peacefully content, Nemo began the
conversation, "So what is this all about?" He
tilted his head up in her direction while
still keeping his mind at the task at hand.
"About
what," asked Rebecca, "There is a whole lot that you don't know and I
could spend hours telling you about it." She
turned and picked up pieces alongside Nemo and placed
them next to
the underground closet opening.
"First
of all, how come you know Viktor? I know
that he is obviously known worldwide among the animals, but why is he
after
you?"
She turned from
Nemo and worked harder, while trying to think on how to say it. "To answer that Nemo, I would have to
explain where you are from and why we are here..."
"Thats
right,” Said Tsuki, who was bent over into the hole, dropping the
equipment
that was placed next to her by Nemo and Rebecca, to Yoru.
"Nemo is an Alien."
Nemo glared
at her as she smiled sheepishly, though obviously ignoring his glares.
"Actually
Nemo and I belong to Earth, but we are from an ancient forgotten fold
in
reality. This fold is known as The
Animal Paradise. Built and established
eons and eons ago, this place was a sanctuary for animals of the world
to flee
from the threat and harmful actions of mankind."
"A
fold," asked Nemo slightly confused? "You mean like a rift?"
"Yes,"
Rebeeca stated, "but the problem is that where the crack should be, or
other
words the way to get to the Paradise has been sealed up for the past
ten
years."
"That is
how long you said that you had been looking for me.
How can that be considering that I know that
I am not that old." Duchess was
barely over ten years old and she had a hard time getting around.
Rebecca did
not know how to answer that question. If
what she was saying was true, how old did that make himself, Nemo
thought to
himself?
Rebecca continued
her explanation, "Back to explaining about Paradise, as I was saying,
it
is a place of utmost beauty and peace. Though
it has been ten years since I last saw it, and I
can't actually
remember anything about it because I was so young, I know it is an
awesome
place to be in."
"So
how do Viktor and Tenalt fit into the picture?” Asked Nemo.
"Somehow
Tenalt discovered the gateway and so the High Council, the people that
are over
The animal Paradise, decided it was time to seal the door.
They could not endanger the lives and the peacefulness
of their ways to some power sadistic psycho...even if that meant
closing the
doors to all the animals that wanted sanctuary. On
the day they were blasting the gate; Tenalt stormed the
palace wall
and broke into the palace. All of the
Royal Family that was given charge to watch the gate on the human side,
had
made it through the gate except for one boy." She
turned her head in the direction of the
child that she had brought with her. Sitting
on the couch, he looked contently around the room,
though not
speaking, or moving from place.
"He...”
said Nemo?
"Yes,
he is a Prince by birth. He had been
given charge to stay behind, though just an infant, but to be in our
hands and
to be protected. He was supposed to
bring up the rear of the exodus into the gateway. But...."
Nemo
figured he knew the rest of the story. Obviously
seeing that the boy was still on the human part
of Earth and
seeing that Rebecca was also here, meant that something had gone wrong.
"So
Tenalt and Viktor...how come they did not capture the prince," Asked
Nemo?
Though
Rebecca looked and acted like a strong character she seemed to be
emotionally kept
up inside, as the moment she struggled to remember brought back bad
memories.
"...After
that," She continued, "I was left alone. You
and Amy left me and told me to teleport
away if they did not return....you never returned and the palace began
to blow
up and I had to leave. That is all I
will tell about mine and your past..."
Nemo wanted
to know who Amy was, but decided not to press the issue.
"So you have been on the run and hiding
for the past ten years," Nemo asked?
"That
is a long time," Exclaimed Tsuki.
Yoru was
propped at the top of the hole listening to the story.
Seeing as to the fact that no one had been
bringing him things to sort and place in the tunnel, he was content and
listening.
Rebecca
sighed and pulled all of her emotions together. "Yes
it was a long time, but now that I found you, we
might stand a
chance."
"A
chance against what,” asked Nemo, "when they blew up the palace, didn't
that destroy the gate?"
"No...the
gate is still intact, but can only be opened by the presence of a
member of the
Royal Family."
"Which
is why Viktor wants you and the boy," Nemo concluded.
"So
why don't you just go to the gate and teleport through," asked Tsuki?
"Yah,"
put in Yoru, "Nemo is doing fine with the humans. He
doesn't need any paradise."
"Unfortunately,"
Rebecca stated, "Tenalt and Viktor stationed their Headquarters on the
entire mountain that contains what was left of the palace and the gate."
Yoru and
Tsuki looked wide eyed at her. "The
entire MOUNTAIN," asked Tsuki?!
"That
is amazing, that fortess must be HUGE and filled with thousands of
Viktor's
henchmen." Yoru stated.
"Yes, this
is exactly why I have been looking for Nemo. I
knew that he was powerful, and I knew that if he was
still alive, he
could get into that fortress with no problem at all."
Nemo looked
hesitantly at Rebecca, "I can't defeat an entire fortress full of men
bent
on trying to kill me!"
“But what
about the legend of Nemo defeating an entire army…”Rebecca stated in
question.
Nemo
smirked; he knew that he was not remembering that much information. He could definitely NOT defeat even one of
the robots from his dream. Getting his
mind off of the issue he went back to work. Not
worrying about the rest of the junk on the floor, Nemo
began to
shove it back down into the hole. It was
close to morning and they had to get it back in the hole.
Jumping out of the way, Yoru called out in
surprise, “Watch it!”
Rebecca and
Tsuki and Yoru, stood back and watched as Nemo shoved the last of the
junk into
the hole. Sighing, he pressed the button
and stepped away as it closed.
“I hope
that you didn’t need anything else from the chamber, because I buried
it.”
Rebecca
shook her head, “I got everything that was important.
It seemed that you had quite a collection of
artifacts from our part of the Earth.”
Nemo tilted
his head, “Actually I stole them from Viktor and Tenalt.
They were considered a danger by the former
HQ, so I was to relieve them from their grasps.”
Rebecca
looked questiongly at Nemo, “You mean that they
were from their labs?”
“Yes, HQ had
received tips from unknown sources that Viktor and Tenalt possessed
dangerous
artifacts.”
She smiled,
“So you’re saying that you stole your own sword back?”
Nemo glanced
at the sword that he had placed against the corner of the wall, so that
he
could work on cleaning the room. “It
sure seems that way.”
Rebecca stopped
and thought momentarily, “I wonder if Viktor and Tenalt gave HQ those
tips so
that you would get your things back, so that you might remember
something and
lead them to me and the prince.”
Nemo rolled
his eyes, “that sounds like a likely story, but a little far-fetched.”
“Even so, we
are talking about Viktor,” Tsuki added in.
Nemo smiled,
but wanted to change the subject, “So where have you been staying, or
in other
words, living at for the past ten years.”
Rebecca
carefully walked over to the couch opposite to the one that was facing
her,
which had the prince on it, and sat down. Stretching
out, she reached far with her hands and legs
and they relaxed
limp. “We have actually never had any
place to live before. Viktor and Tenalt
has always been tracking us and trying to find out where we were. We have never had a stationary place to live.”
She looked over at the prince and
sighed
once more.
Nemo turned
to look at Tsuki and Yoru. Keeping the
equipment a secret from the humans was a burden, but trying to keep two
humans,
was different. Nemo could not even think
of trying to hide them at his house. He
wasn’t about to go to the palace, or whatever it was, and take on
Viktor’s
Worldwide Headquarters of evil, so they needed some place to stay.
Suddenly
Tsuki exclaimed out, “Nemo, I forgot to mention something to you! The other day, when I was bored, I put
together pieces of some equipment that I had found in one of the other
closets
in the house and I invented a sonar device.”
Nemo, who was
unsure where Tsuki was going, looked over to her, “I don’t see how your
crazy
inventions, of which I told you NOT to build, will help us find a place
for
them to live.”
“Wait,” she
called, “just listen for a sec’. As I
was saying, I built a sonar device that Pings a wave of sound through
the air
and bounces it off of other objects. When
the unit I hold takes the incoming wave of energy, it
creates a
schematic map of everything in the room.”
Nemo was
still unsure of where she was going. She
was wasting his time and the time that the whole group had to figure
out what
to do with the two new humans. “Tsuki…”
he began to add in, but was cut off.
“…So I
decided to test it on the ENTIRE HOUSE,” When she said that, she
expressionately
swung her arms in a big circle. “And
what I found when I did that, was that twenty feet below this house was
a very very
large object, of which was hollow.”
Nemo was
doubtful that it was anything important, “It was probably just a false
reading.”
“Nope,” she
defiantly exclaimed.
“Alright
then,” Nemo decided, “It is a layer of rock that was put there millions
of
years ago.”
Tsuki glared
at Nemo, “My inventions are not crazy.”
Yoru laughed
and coyly walked over to the single seated sofa that was next to the
prince and
sat comfortably down. “This could go on
awhile,” he said directing his comment towards Rebecca.
“Nemo and Tsuki always fight about her
inventions.”
“Inventions,”
Rebecca said in question, “what kind of inventions?”
“Well,” Yoru
pondered for a second, “Though she hasn’t done it for awhile, she takes
the equipment
that HQ would send us, or pieces of old ones that lay scattered
throughout the
secret compartments and would either modify them, or create something
totally
new. Most of the time, they would
malfunction, or explode.”
“They do
not,” exclaimed Tsuki, who had pulled from her conversation with Nemo
to yell
at Yoru. She was getting angry.
Suddenly
everyone stopped talking when they heard a beeping noise.
Nemo’s ears
perked around, trying to identify the noise. “What
is that?” He asked out
loud.
Rebecca
listened for a moment, but then gasped, “Oh no!” She
reached for her pocket and hurriedly
brushed the overcoat aside to grasp at something in her pocket. “I forgot to check my Communication Receiver.” Pulling out a small square, but shiny object,
she tapped on the screen and brought the urgent noise to a stop.” Quickly reading something on the screen,
Tsuki dashed up behind her on the couch and peered over her shoulder.
“Looks like
an e-mail,” commented Tsuki.
Half in thought
in what she was reading Rebecca nodded her head in agreement to Tsuki’s
comment. But then suddenly she called
out, “Great! They got the information I
wanted.”
Everyone in
the room was looking in question at Rebecca, except for the Prince.
She smiled
and put the object back into her pocket. “I
have to go and pick up something from the post office.”
“The post
office,” asked Yoru?
“Yah, what is
a post office?” asked Tsuki.
Nemo turned
from Rebecca to the young cats, “What do you mean, what is a post
office? It is where all of the humans’
mail gets sent
to!”
Tsuki
sheepishly looked in surprise and felt rather foolish.
“Oh,” she finally said.
“What do you
need there,” asked Nemo?
Rebecca stood
up and was securing her hooded overcoat. Drawing
the strings together at the neck, she hurriedly
tied them and
turned to Nemo. “I can’t explain
everything, but during my many wanderings I found an underground
network of
highly special information specialists. If
they don’t know what you want, they can find it out for
a certain
price. I already paid them, and they
just sent me an e-mail that they have my information that I requested.”
“What…”started
Yoru.
“…Information
is that,” Finished Tsuki?
“It has taken
almost a year for them to gather the information, but this package has
everything that we will need. The
schematic of the entire fortress, the information of duty of
guards….EVERYTHING.”
Nemo groaned. For some
reason, the thought of such an
impossible mission made him feel nauseous…
END
PART I
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