Insane Cafe 4: The Insane Frontier

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

"Wait, what?" Junior uttered just in time for Stripetail to miss it. He was gone in a flash, leaving the three alone with the two dinosaurs.
"Acquainted, he says," Junior said with a sly curl of his lip, twiddling his clawed fingers in the air. "A teleporting, wizarding, british-food eating squirrel."
"Who can read minds," Diddy added, giving an amazed little laugh. "Yeah, sounds like this is gonna be a long haul kind of deal. Uh..."
He pulled his hat down a little, hiding his eyes.
"Say, Lizard lips. Uh... how deep in this do you wanna get?" Junior gave him a startled little look. "Wait... you mean--"
"Only if you're game," the kong said softly, smiling. "I mean... we're already rocking one stupid whim today, right? And it's not like any of these guys probably haven't already guessed."
Usso looked at the Swimmer, drinking her tea. She had a very kind presence to her... not unlike his mother had. He couldn't get a bead on the raptor. He had the look of a warrior to him.
Junior gave a drawn out sigh after a long moment of hesitation. "You know what? You're right. He knows-- we both know he knows. Our secret's out with these people, so what's the point?" Junior said to the kong. Then he gave a little smile. "Sure. Let's go-- full balls deep. Might as well make our first impression an honest one."
Usso cocked his head. The two were looking at each other a bit funny.
Diddy turned to the two dinosaurs, and smiled. "This firebreathing no neck sheddy-skin brat is Bowser Junior."
"And this hairy slack jawed country goody-two-shoed yokel is Diddy Kong."
Junior suddenly drapped an arm around Diddy's shoulder, and Diddy did the same, both smiling like a pair of idiots. "He's my boyfriend."

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The man in bandages didn't stop to look at who was talking. "Yes, we have two heavily injured men in here," he said. His scorched fingertips worked quickly on sealing the wounds, but he didn't want to say aloud what he thought-- they both had lost too much blood. They weren't going to make it.
"If you have any medical knowledge, please help me. God willing, I'm going to do everything in my power to save these two. I believe they just stopped something terrible from happening here."

[Nick22]

Stripetail heard the mans voice and emtred into the room- or at least what was left of it. ' a scene of carnage meet his eyes along with the foul smell of burning flesh. blood- both mortal and non-mortal was pooled all over the room ' a heavily banadaged man lay stopped over two men. stripetail sensed a largr amount of heat coming from him " i am a healer.' lord Stripetail at your service. from the looks of things they were in a pitched battle with some sort of demonic entity. the small and scent of the blood over there could not come from a mortal.' he said. " Lets just say i've had my share of runins with demons..' he said going over to where g and Rogan were ' Stripetail could tell at a glance that both men were in real bad shape "  Theres no time to get them to a hospital.. Lets see if I have any healiong elixirs on me.. ' he reached inside a pouch  in his robesfiddling around  for a few moments and finally came out with a vial filled with blue green liquid." these will close their wounds..' he said. pour it onto them and they will stop the bleeding..

[tempestwheel]

"Well, you sound like you're a regular to these tournaments," Kiara told Vushu, "Are there any tips you could give us?"

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Bentley was gathering parts from his collection plus local junkyards and autoparts store. "I'll need to keep my machine's motion on a perpetual level," the turtle muttered to himself, wanting to do some fixing.

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"LEt's go find some carrots to eat," Rabbit smiled to Fox.

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

The bandaged man stared at the wizard as he began to apply his healing solutions to the injured men. His stare lingered for awhile, and then snapped back to the two men. "They'll need an infusion. They do have emergency medical cards-- both O positive, so they'll take any type. It'd probably help if we take them somewhere warmer once their wounds have healed."
He looked up at the squirrel with his piercing, fire-scorched blue eyes as he held out a hand asking for some of the healing solution. "The one in the black coat has frost bite on his leg bad enough to cause gangrene to set in, if we don't treat it soon, Mr...?"

[Nick22]

Lord Stripetail at your service " Stripetail said as he haded over the vial "  5 drops on each cut should be sufficient. As for the frostbite that will have to be treated through more direct measures. warming the body through  my healing abilities.. which are .. strong.. I've been doing this sort of thing for a long time. you have to.. when you deal with powerful magic regularly as I do." his left paw began to glow with an orange light to demonstrate this. with right paw he rolled up the trouser to see the deep vibrant purple of the frostbitten area.I'm going to draw out the cold through that wound. What will come out will look like blood, but.. it wont BE blood." ' He pressed his left paw to the middle of the frost bitten leg and began to intone an spell " reparium  blutus revocum ilmuso. Reaparium Blutus Revocum Ilmuso." very gradually, a purple liquid began to collect at the wound and began to run out, down the leg and on to the floor.

[Serris]

"Understood." Deimos saluted as Stripetail teleported away. He mentally sighed as he missed out on actual live-combat. Sumo wrestling just wasn't doing it for him.

Ms. Swimmer nodded and held up the teapot. "Tea anyone?" she asked.

When Diddy and Bowser Jr. introduced themselves, Deimos simply shrugged.

Ms. Swimmer shook both their hands. "Pleased to meet you two."

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

The two quickly got off of each other and hastily looked around to make sure no one else was looking. For good measure, the two leaned away from each other as if they were trying not to be associated with one another.
Usso blinked.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you two were a couple."
"We're not."
"What?"
Diddy held up a finger. "And for the record, you can call me 'Dale' and him 'Ben'. We're two traveling friends who look a lot like some prince and some adventurer on some planet we've never been to... right?"
Usso blinked again. "Huh?"
Junior face palmed. "Don't use our real names in public, alright?"
Usso tilted his head. "Why? Mawashi's a really tolerant planet, I doubt they--"
"It's, uh... it's not Mawashi we're worried about, Usso," Diddy said. "Let's just leave it that. When we're not around people, sure, call us by our real names. But in places like-"
The kong spun his finger in the air.
"This, we're Dale and Ben, got it?"
Usso erred for awhile, but then nodded. "Right, gotcha."
"Great!" Junior said through nervously clenched teeth. "That's just great. Okay. We're so not going to regret this one bit. Nope. Not even starting to regret it right now."
"Keep it cool, 'Ben'," Diddy said, as he looked to the two dinosaurs. "Sorry, enough about us. Who are you two?"
The two boys heard Mrs. Swimmers name and gladly shook her hand.
"And yes, I'd love tea!" Diddy said, his tail waggling. Junior eyed the raptor. "Okay, so now you..."
His eyes turned to Usso. "And then more of you... Ussop, right?"

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"Very well," Graham said with a nod as he continued to apply his strange herbs. "I'm sorry I have to meet you under such circumstances, Lord Stripetail. My name is Joshua-- I saw a bit of the creature these two were fighting. You said it was a demon, correct? I certainly wouldn't doubt it if it was."
He took out a strange looking syringe with a tiny faded label on it that read 'Stimpack' and injected it into the area just above the part of the brown-coated man's arm. "By the grace of god, these two happened to be in the area, and wounded the thing before I entered in. Maybe it's also by the grace of god you've also come. I never like to think any life is beyond saving, but I doubted I could have steadied their wounds if you hadn't come."

[Nick22]

The divines go by many names master Joshua. God, as you mortals put it, is simply one of those. whatever form of them you worship, that is between you and them. i serve them in my own way, as do all beings, whether good or not. Yes it was a demon, by the smell of it, a powerful one..' He noticed a piece of black horn lying in a puddle of blood and pulled it towards him with a gesture and studied it, his face narrowing.. ' great. a wendigo horn . Very powerful demons that assume the forms of missing and frozen men, they appear mortal, covered in the remains of flesh. only powerful magic can kill them. bullets cannot kill them, even ones through the head and heart." he turned to G's leg which was now turning back to normal color the liquefied  frostbite was now rapidly pouring out of the wound near the knee, and the area that was purple was starting to rapidly shrink. " Both these men are extremely fortunate, few have faced a wendigo in combat and survived to tell about it." He turned to Joshua " the spell i'm casting on this man not only removes the frostbite, it allows the body to quickly recover lost blood, what a transfusion would take hours to accomplish, this can do in 15 minutes. require quite a bit of energy though, its not to be undergone lightly." So what brings you here master Joshua?' he asked, as he continued working on G's leg.

[Serris]

Ms. Swimmer poured Diddy a cup of tea. "It's a Mawashiian blend. It's called 'Mist Peaks'. It's a traditional drink of the sumo wrestlers on Mawashi."

Deimos sipped some tea and noticed Junior eying him. He scowled. "Can I help you?" His tone, while not hostile wasn't too friendly either.

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Mr. Bigmouth cut away open the hatch on a crashed military scout ship and peered inside. There was nothing of much interest there, except the skeletal remains of the pilot, a set of sealed survival gear and a starmap on a small drive. He took the survival gear and starmap, placing them in his enchanted messenger bag.

Mr. Bigmouth then noticed something odd. The craft's engines were a similar type to those used on the Spire's shuttles...and they were in pretty good shape too! He radioed Nick and Nani. "Nick! Nani! I found a ship with usuable engines. I'm going to need help to remove them."

[Nick22]

Couldnt we restart the engine/' get back to the spire so we can have a better look at ity?' Nick said as he came over and looked at the craft ' this loooks similar to an escape vehicle the Phoenix has ' He said. ' i could try using my ring phone to power it..
_ nick i'm not sure thats what the phone is for..'Nani said  it has magical defenses Nani. it should have enough magic to do thi nick said pulling it out.
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 as the glider reached the final turn of the final lap the reserves were rapidl;y dropping, ' we;re down to 10%  ANgel said, Stitch had collasped from the exertion, and Angelwas about to the same.

[Serris]

Captain Carson used the last power up and opened the throttle to full. The glider shuddered before it rocketed across the plain. She was barely able to make out the crowds cheering in the stands that flanked the finish line.

"Come on. We're almost there!" She held the controls as the ship shuddered under the powerful acceleration.

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Mr. Bigmouth examined the rest of the ship. The control panel had fallen into the lap of the long dead pilot and the nosecone of the ship was badly crumpled. In addition, most of the ship's control surfaces had been torn away by the crash. "We should just remove the engines and transport them back alone. The rest of the ship is useless except for raw materials."

He looked at the wrist mounted display. "How much life do your gas mask's filters have?"

[tempestwheel]

Sly and Carmelita were dancing to the beat. "You were always fast on your feet," Carmelita admitted, "As to be expected from a thief...." They had to dance between the big bodies of the local residents.

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Ozai's racers were gaining speed as the final lap was underway. They were making more careful use of the powerups.

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"Where to now?" Other Oliver smiled.

[Nick22]

I've got just over an Hour' nick said as he examined the restr of the cockpit " we might need help to get it out of her as i don;t think the 3 of us can get it out on our own..
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 Hex and the Skylanders were closing the gap between themselves and the glider, and the margin was now  under 3 seconds.

[LoyfeCycleProtector]

"Thank you! I've never heard of it before," Diddy said graciously as he accepted the cup of tea that was handed to him. "In the jungle the only tea we're able to get are strong mints, so a change of pace is nice."
He was taking a sip of the tea while Junior eyed the raptor irritably. "No. Why? Did you wanna be my minion or something?"
While still taking his sip Diddy kicked Junior's shin under the table. The koopa didn't yelp, but he merely folded his arms and stared at the raptor quietly, eyeing him up and down with a petulant little smirk.
"Ah!" Diddy breathed as he emerged from his sip. "It's sweet! Kind of like a clover tea!" He leaned in near the koopa and muttered to him.
"Easy. Don't pick a fight with someone you just met, brat."
"You're not the boss of me, knuckle dragger."
"I'm close enough-- and you know you're all the better for it."
Junior snorted a spun his head over to Usso, keeping his gaze away from both the raptor and the kong. His cheeks were puffed a bit. The kong merely rolled his eyes and gave Deino an apologetic look.
"Hmph, whatever. So what was that deal about, Ussop?"
"Usso," the boy said mildly, trying to acclimate to all the new faces and names he now had to know. He was never particularly social, before the war or during it. "And I'm going to be security on your guys' ship."
As he said 'your guys'' he looked at Mrs. Swimmer and then Deinos.
Diddy gave another 'ah' as he finished another sip.
"I think what Lizard Lips is asking is why Stripetail thinks you're high class enough that you're worth a million a month."
Diddy looked to the two dinosaurs. "And why did you two join? We're not entirely sure what Stripetail's crew is actually setting out to do..."

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"I see..." Joshua said cryptically, continuing to dress the bite mark. "I was a translator once. The Blackfoots would tell me all kinds of stories. Whenever there was a particularly harsh winter they told me of men who resorted to cannibalism to survive. They said that would curse them and turn them into Wendigos. The fact that they really exist doesn't suprise me as much as the fact that one managed to make it into this sports stadium, of all places."
He glanced at the broken window. "And it's not dead, is it? Perhaps we should tell the stadium security. I heard them say they'd like to continue with sumo tournament of the threat is resolved."
His piercing blue eyes turned back to Stripetail.
"I came to learn about some of the cultures that exist in the far reaches of space. We New Canaanites believe that for every planet there is a god watching his people-- a celestial father of millions. I feel to know the God of my world, I should observe the work of the gods of other worlds."
His eyes turned back to the men he was healing. "It's strange..."

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Eric was stunned by the many different options for recreation this planet offered. "Where should I go first?" he asked Eris. "I don't really know my way around these parts, I'm afraid."

[Serris]

Ms. Swimmer poured herself some additional tea. "We're friends of Stripetail. We assisted him during the Battle of Surf Point."

Deimos shook his head. "It's not our ship. Captain Carson was hired by Stripetail for this journey." He stretched his arms out.

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Mr. Bigmouth took a seat on the repulsorsled and radioed some of the extra laborers to help them. He lowered his darkened faceplate, ignited his plasma pole cutter and began carefully cutting away the warped and battered hull. The laborers began setting up a crane from the repulsorsled.

"Nick, Nani," he said. "Once I remove the hull plates, I'm going to need you to disconnect the wires and pipes."

He lowered the darkened faceplate of his gas mask and continued cutting away the hull plates.

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Captain Carson pushed the engines of the Aestorican Glider even harder. She radioed Fred. "Fred, how much more power can you squeeze out of the reactor?"

She banked the glider slightly to dodge a barrage of chopsticks fired from a Mawashiian racer.

[Nick22]

We're at maximum Captain " Fred said ' also we have 5% left in our energy reserves. if we keep this up we ae goinmg to burn through our last reserves in 2000 feet. thats 100 feet short of the finish line."
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Every World is different master Joshua. They all worship the gods, but by different names and in different ways" stripetail said as the frostbiten leg returned entirely to a normal color and the wound s on the leg and around the rest of the body began to close up. ' good the spell is working, as it should. How goes your patient Master joshua ' Stripetail asked.

[Serris]

Captain Carson looked at the rearview camera. The opponents were closing in fast. "If I throttle back, we won't make it."

It was then she had an idea; the rules never said the finish line had to be crossed at the level she was flying at.

She quickly put the ship into a sharp climb. At the apex of the climb, she cut the ship's engines and gently aimed the Aestorican Glider's nose down, putting the craft into a steep power dive towards the finish line.  

[Nick22]

Tiger climbed out his seat and went down the  stairs to the Engine room " What are you doing tiger" Agumina called down to him " we need you on offense! ' i''m going to charge the engine using my ring and my horn. we just need enough juice to get us over the line. Angel was about to collapse as she saw Tiger approach her " Take a seat " i'm taking iver. we're almost there ' Tiger said .  Angel stopped charging  the engine and fell to the ground." Carson! I';m charging the engine once it gets above 10% Floor it. We're not going to be able to coast to a win.. the other two teams are going too fast for that.
 Toger activated his armor and began sending charges from his torn his mouth and his ring into the engine.  Tiger was much more powerful magically than Angel or Stitch and the engines energy levels began rising rapidly ' Hit the thruster! Tiger roared as the engine passed 10% reserves

 I have no idea" Eris Began when she heard her name called.  A large Red maned lion ran up to her ' Laval! Eris shouted happily ' where have you been? i've been looking for you.. ' well Eris, theres this disturbance at the main sumo ring so they shut down the matches until that gets fixed. Laval said.  ' well.. this is Eric ' Eris said motioning to the deliveryman' Eric this is my friend Laval.

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

"Hello Laval!" smiled Eric, extending a hand to shake. "Sorry to hear about the sumo ring! Should we investigate or leave well enough alone?"