Chapter 15: As he pleases or DudeZero’s the hero

DragonGirl had pulled out from Kiki’s delivery service and driven down to the misfit town. They were now searching for Tru Anjel, to see if she wanted back. They cruised through the town.

"Where is she?" DragonGirl said.

"I don’t know, she should be here." Nikkia said. They suddenly saw Anjel and Saionji standing right in front of them. Anjel had her eyes demurely downcast and she was clad in an aqua and white fuku. Her hair was done up in a ludicrous black bun and she had somehow acquired a dot on her forehead.

"Good day," Saionji said coldly. It seemed he had gotten over his departure from the show.

"Um, Anjel, do you want to come with us?" Winter asked nicely.

"No, I must stay with my Saionji-sama." She said.

"We were going to go to Bubblegum crisis," DragonGirl said.

"Good luck." She said, smiling. Saionji’s eyes widened, and he slapped her across the face.

"How dare you wish another luck! You are my bride!" He shouted.

"Gomen nasai, Saionji-sama." Anjel said. Jasper cocked his head.

"We don’t speak Japanese here." He said. DragonGirl gave him a dirty look. Then she turned to Saionji.

"How dare you treat her that way!" she asked. He shrugged.

"She is my bride." He said. DragonGirl thought for a moment.

"But if someone beat you in a duel, you would not have her anymore, ne?" she asked. He nodded, then shrugged.

"Yet, none of the losers could beat me here." He said. DudeZero, who had been sitting in the back trying to avoid Witch-Child, sat up.

"Hey, I could!" He said. DragonGirl looked at him.

"Really?" she asked. He nodded.

"Provided you have the proper sword." He said, smiling. DragonGirl was confused for a moment, then she realized. She brought out her (deep breath) arsenal imitating, clothing providing, random mallet enterprising, encasing a factory of tiny worker midgets who create the items as the need arises and go home at 7:00 sharp every night only to get up at 6:00 every morning and work some more and really they work hard some are seamstresses and some are blacksmiths and some just steal items from other animes but they’re not really crooks so you really should appreciate all the work they do…..Where was I? Oh yes, randomly random backpack. She pulled out a blade that was about five feet long and two feet thick.

"Here you are." She said, handing the buster sword to DudeZero.

"Meet me at that building over there, If you want to duel." Saionji said, "Come, Anshi, I mean, Anjel." He said, leaving. He turned halfway.

"Oh, you’ll need this." He said, tossing DudeZero a green rose signet ring. DudeZero put it on, mumbling,

"Mmm, pretty!" DragonGirl rolled her eyes and started the car.

Saionji and Anjel walked by as the group arrived at the building. Witch-Child sat in the car.

"Me and Hookums are gonna stay here, OK?" she said. The rest nodded.

"Good, we’ll be first." DragonGirl murmured. They all got out, and DudeZero grabbed a strangely familiar handle. After watching various inverted water droplets, They were let in. The doors were opened.

"Eerie," SilverWolf remarked. It was exactly like the dueling forest, but everything was green.

"A bit obsessive, ne?" Jasper said. DragonGirl gave him a look, "What?" he asked. She shook her head,

"All right, Dude? We are gonna go across the way, OK?" He nodded. They got into the elevator.

"If the egg’s shell does not crack, the chick will die without being born." SilverWolf started.

"We are the chick, The world is our shell." Nikkia continued.

"If we do not break the world’s shell, we will die without truly being born." Jasper continued further. Then they all looked at DragonGirl who was carefully abstaining. She finally cracked.

"Oh, fine! Crack the world’s shell! FOR THE REVOLUTION!" they all shouted the last in unison and emerged from the elevator. They emerged into the watch tower to find perfectly constructed replicas of all the chairs. A half-played game of green-tinted cards lay on the green-tinted table. Nikkia sighed. She looked around at the green tinted replica.

"You know, I used to think Juri was the most obsessive of all these."

"What was that?" SilverWolf asked.

"Oh, don’t get so pissy, she was just ripping on your ice queen." DragonGirl said. SilverWolf sat in sulky silence.

Meanwhile, DudeZero finally arrived beneath a phenomenal green spinning upside down castle.

"Wow." DudeZero said, in his typical vapid manner. Ansh-, I mean Anjel was there, wearing a light blue version of the rose bride dress. She even had the little crown. She took out two roses from her lapel.

"The first to get the rose knocked from his breast is the loser." She said, placing a green rose in Saionji’s pocket and a brown one in DudeZero’s who had strangely grown a dueling outfit. Ansh-, uh, Anjel, had stepped up to Saionji. She chanted.

"Rose of the noble castle, Power of kendo that sleeps within me, heed your master and come forth!" a light exploded, and she fell. A perfect replica of the sword of Dios came out of her breast. Except it was, you guessed it, tinted green. He pulled it out and chanted.

"Grant me the rose bride!" Across the way on the tower, DragonGirl murmured,

"At least we know where his priorities are." DudeZero took out the giant buster sword and waited for the swipe. The battle started, and Saionji lunged. DudeZero stepped aside, and with one motion of the huge sword, sliced the green rose away.

"I lost! Again!" Saionji said, "Great, now I have to spend the rest of my life in my room." he said, walking off. Ansh- Anjel walked over to DudeZero, her eyes woobling.

"Zero-sama, I am yours." She said. She hugged him, and his eyes bugged. All of a sudden, the rest appeared from the hidden elevator and pointed and laughed.

"Uh," DudeZero said, "Maybe I’ll stay here. She needs deprogramming." Witch-Child appeared too.

"I’ll help. I’m good at torture." She said, grinning evilly. DudeZero ran down the jillions of stairs, Ansh-, I mean, Anjel in hot pursuit, evidently forgetting about the elevator. Or maybe he just didn’t want to spend all that time with a nut. In any case, after no time, they were back at the car. DragonGirl got into the driver’s seat out of necessity, and they drove off, leaving Witch-child and Dude-zero to change Anjel from an Anshi droid back into her normal pissy bitch self.

"Bubblegum crisis?" DragonGirl asked.

"Hai, Hai." SilverWolf said.

"One Hai, is sufficient." DragonGirl said.

"Hai, Hai, Hai!" SilverWolf said. Nikkia, Winter, Jasper, and DragonGirl rolled each of their eyes.

TO BE CONTINUED