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Insane Cafe 4: The Insane Frontier

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"My next roll!" Shoukichi called, the sumo tanuki male charging and began to roll into a ball.


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ah, thats the name. from what i've been told he's not someone you want to mess with ' Korin Said.
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 Chong blasted away at the guards with magic, a bolt hit a guard in the face causing to fall back with a scream.' Hurry up!' He yelled.
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 old spyro bowled a strike on his 6th frame. as both they and team veldin now had leads of 75 pins. tiger bowled a strike pulling his team even with team digiworld. ' we're catching up' tiger grinned. after 6 frames the scores were thus:
 team kissings crushers 2340, team pridelands 1173.
Team Veldin 2162, Team cooper 2087
team Dragons 2081, Team Winter 2006
 Team  Monster world 2301, team Digiworld 2287
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 kiyo took a break after her latest bowl - which was a strike- to order a round of hamburgers and tempura
 flash snacked on a plate of mawashi fries. which in earth terms was a super-super-super-super size order
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"We need to at least not humiliate ourselves," Kiara said, seeing the score. She went over and kissed Kovu, which always motivated him. "Good luck, big boy."


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kovu did his turned and knocked down 95 with his first roll. ' yeah! kovu pumped his first he gopt up, it was by far his best roll of the game. ' only 5 more to go' he grinned as he walked back up the lane.
 agumina knocked down 75 in her next roll and tigress knocked down 80. ' hey, you have horns ' agumina complained ' come on girl stop complaining, you've been winning most of the game ' tigress replied as she headed back for her second turn.
_ Sly knocked down 85 on his next turn.
 Cynder-S went for 65 in her next turning sliding to the side as missibng a good number of pins.
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(Mawashi)

Ms. Swimmer took a few steps back and leapt onto the lane. As she approached the pins, she forcefully swung her tail in an attempt to knock down as many pins as possible.

Doctor Kerzach was sipping some green tea as he planned his next move.

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"All right," the mining boss said via radio. "We're going to be doing some mining here! Spike, how do you feel about harvesting lava? Analysis reveals the lava of this planet to be very rich in so-called 'rare-earths', which are vital to the manufacture of everything from electronics to vehicle components Terrafin, you'll be helping extract lighter metal ores from the cooler rock outcroppings. Any questions?"

An automated drone barge carrying ingots of refined light metals lifted off into the ash-clogged sky as it headed for the Spire of Winter

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(Weyard)

The convoy was now speeding over the lush green plains of Weyard. The guards opted to fallback as the hail of gunfire and magic overwhelmed them. Of course, the sleds were too fast for them to catch on foot as well.

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Swimmers swing knocked down all 100 pins, cutting into the dragonss marghin, by 15 pints as Cynder-S knocked down 2 on her second turn.
 kovu knocked down his 5 remaining pions, and kopa finally managed to get his team a strike, as the pridelanders began doing much better scoring-wise. it made little difference to kiyo however as she bowled a 90 on her first roll, then picked up the spare on her second. entering the final frame these were the scores.
 Team Kissing crushers 2712, Team Pridelands 1898
 Team Veldin 2448 Team Coopers 2423
 Team Winter 2483 Team Dragons 2479
 Team Monster World 2765, Team Digiworld 2740
 last turn for everyone stripetail said.

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"I think you're big enough to do well in the ring," Jing told her father. "You have the gut of a sumo."


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9ozais palace)

In the center of the immense throne room, a large man, dressed in very fine red robes stood over a magic piece of parchment. this parchment showed not only the list of those competing this year in the sumo tournaments, but where they were from, as well as a visual representation of the person as well. with the newcomers, ozai was working on adding home location and images of them to his list, along with the list of regulars. normally Ozai only wore his Mawashi(which was hanging up on a peg next to his throne) but for important occasions like this, he wore his royal robes.  Ozai paused , a smirk running over his features. it had been many years since Stripetail had visited him, and ozai was determined to pull out all the stops to show off both his and mawash'is best features. not because he need any sort of approval from the old wizard, but also because ozai hoped to pull one over on his fellow guardian. while Stripetail wasnt competing directly in the contest, his friends would serve nicely as a proxy.. Ozai lifted up a few names from the parchments with a gesture - those of Scooby Kopa and Kovu- and their faces appeared next to their names ' this is going to be.. fun' he turned to Marita the hippo, who was standing nearby ' fetch my propagandist Marita,dear and be quick. i'm going to make an announcement of my wager wth the seer'
- Yes, Great Ozai' Marita bowed ' any instruction I should pass on? ' no, i'll handle that myself " Ozai replied with a nod, and Marita headed out of the throne room at a quick pace.
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 Kiyo finished her last roll of the mattch - knocking down 97 pins- and headed over to the food area of the alley ' get me 3 fish some tortilla rolls and some cheese ' she said, and those were quickly brought out alone with a set of mini skewers. kiyo quickly went to work magically multiply and turning them into a form of fish taco.' once every is done with their last turn , she called out, come up and get your fish. think of it as a thanks for playing' snack' the foods magical, so you can eat as much as you like. there will also be desert, once everuones had their fill' Kiyo said
 meanwhile the monster world team won thanks to thier youngest members who knocked down 87 pins on her last- and the teams last roll. that was 2 more than needed Team Monster won 2902-2900.
 Angela wion the match for Team Veldin with a 77 on her turn- Team Veldin won 2713- 2700. kissing Crushers ended up with 2978, while the Pridelands broke 2000, andfinished with 2087,  the last match not finished was team winter against team Dragons, and it was captain carsons turn after young spyro wrapped up the scoring for the dragon with an 80..  a strike or spare from carson would tie the score and have the two teams go to a bowloff. the current score was ream dragons 2865, team winter 2765 as the dragons waited for carson to go.
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 nice work everyone ' Stripetail said as he got up from his seat at the scorers table. a table covered with  plates  full of food appeared next to the lanes, and kiyo say at a seat working on a batch of fish  her claws sliced and diced  quicklym, her face a study of concentration despite the large smile on her face.
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Thundra, a bird, was Ozai's main propagandist.

"The great king needs me?" she grinned excitedly. Her husband Iago was also a servant at the palace.

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"Eh, at the very least we got food out of this," Kiara smiled hungrily.

"I shouldn't have let you talk me into this," Carmelita said to a smirking Sly.


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flask grabbed some fish and began eating the young wo;lf pup was hungry, and happy as both of her parents and her 'aunt' was happy' for her performance' that was fun ' she said in an eager voice, as tiger, Tigeress and Dixie petted her on the head. ' we'll get you guys next time ' Agumon said as he and agumina joined t o others for a snack.
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 korin gazed over the mining site  looking around at all the equipment.
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 i need you to give an announcement for me, about a wager i have with the seer ' Ozai said to her ' send iago to the seer, for instruction on the details of the wager.' he ordered, a smile on his face.
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Sara looked over the mining equipment.  "Guess we should pick out some equipment & get started." She said to Korin.

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Joe looked over the medical equipment and supplies, including the medical tricorder that Jason had lent to him.  "Everything looks like it's in proper order." Joe said.

"It better be, you only checked it all out 3 times." Gomamaon said.  "isn't once enough?" He asked shaking his head.  At times Joe was just to cautious.  But better then being totally reckless, he thought.

"No sense in being careless.  Best to be safe and do a few extra checks on important things."  Joe said.

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Spike got off of the transport.  he walked over to where the equipment was and looked it over to see if he could see any that made sense for him to use.

Terra fin got off of the transport and looked around.  "Does look like a right warm place.  Great place to roast some marshmallows, sausagues." He said.


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"What's the announcement, my king?" Thundra saluted with her king, as Iago flew over to collect the more private message.

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"I think I could use some more food now," Vitani commented, enjoying what Kiyo had made for them.

"So how long has this Ozai guy been king?" Kiara asked between bites


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i'm not sure how long exactly, just that hes been our ruler for as long as i can remember' kiyo replied as both Kopa and kovu piled food on their plates. scooby was munching on a taco and had already wolfed down 10 of them.. ' but why we love to sumo on here, is because it expresses the strength of our people, in physical terms. theres a kind of - pleasure- in seeing two wrestlers test their strength against each other. not that theres in a gap in gender here, as there is elsewhere- women are treated the same as men, and we accept those of us who like the same gender- but sorry ladies I'm taken  by my main squeeze Shoukirchi here.  in our world the biggest physically leads the family, while most of the time, thats a male, in others its a female. in our family shoukirchi is bigger than me.."
 do you have magic here/ dixie asked as she munched on a piece of fish. " not really, we favor physical strength over magic and other nonphysical energies.  sumo is what we are known for, that and our thousadns of amusement [arks and movie theaters..
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 speaking of movies.. we're going to head to one in a little bit Agumina said.
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 i came here to make myself stronger and better able to protect my daughter' Panda kIng said' to aspire to perfection, in terms of technique.
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"Out of all the weight classes here on this planet, what's the average weight then?" Kiara asked curiously, "Since no one I've seen here is anything short of huge!"

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"Thank you father," Jing bowed respectfully.

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"You might be able to tell from my gut size, but I'm about 75 pounds heavier than my lovely wife here," Shoukichi smiled, kissing Kiyo.


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Captain Carson looked down the bowling lane and saw the pins. The rest of her team looked at her expectantly.

The woman nodded and took a deep breath. She leapt and dove into a sliding tackle. She then kicked off one of the side barriers to correct her course so she'd strike the middle of the arrangement.

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Two workers clad in heatproof exoskeletons hopped aboard a shielded skiff that they rode out to the middle of a fresh lava plain. Cracks emitted plumes of steam and volcanic gas. They used poles with scoops on the end to harvest the glowing yellow lumps floating on the lava.

"Spike, those lumps you see floating on the lava are what we're after. They're super-dense so they'll float on molten rock like a cork on water," a worker said via radio. The same worker reached out and scooped up an aforementioned piece of ore and deposited it in a ceramic container where it emitted a rather pleasant yellow glow.

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"Yea, those do look tasty.  Spike said.  Though he wasn't hungry, having eaten a quick snack on the way here.  

He went into the lava.  He walked slowly so he'd not be surprised at a sudden deep spot.  he found the lava pleasant, like a nice hot tub.  He picked up a few of the ores they they had pointed out and put them into a ceramic container he carried.   The few spots he had to swim across he made sure to keep his head above the lava so as not to do any damage to the gas mask.  And those ores he'd carry back to the sled, leaving the cereamic container on the sled since he doubted it could take the heat of the lava.

He continued doing this.  Being sure to rest.  And when he rested he sat down on the hot ground soaking his feet in the lava so he'd not have sore feet.

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Terra Fin swam down into the earth and picked out some ores that seemed to be similar to what the ones they had sown that they were looking for.  These he put on a pile on one of the sleds, carrying as many on each trip as he could easily carry.


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carsons strike knocked down 85 pins. ' ok you need to knock down all 15 pins to force a rolloff spyro-w said to her. ' no pressure ..' he grinned.
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the smallest here are about 400, give or take Kiyo said to kiara ' big one can weigh several thousand . the king is the largest of all he weighs close to 10000 pounds
- does Ozai wrestle at all? kopa asked " only the superheavyweight champion ' Kiyo replied to him.
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"So we won't have to worry about facing him," Vitani noted.

"Lucky us," nodded Kiara.

"Kiyo and I can show you around the city more, if you wish," Shoukichi offered.


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what is the name of the movie you guys are going to? Kopa asked ' monsters of mawashi, i think its called Agumina replied. " Know anything about it? we donmt have movies in the Pridelands. Kovu said." they diont have them in Warfang either' Cynder said " which is one of the reasons Spyro and I like traveling to see the others so much- it allows us the chance to see stuff like that.
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i've seen a movie with Cynder here before- Cynder-S said ' it was fun.. ' that was a different planet. each one is different. Spyro-W replied
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 we get holofilms where we are from' Clank said pulling up an image of one ' this one is called Captain Qwark's presidential profiles in courage' ' that ones headed to the holobin ' ratchet smirked.
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 well those who dont want to go to see a movie, can spend the night at the Ozai hotel here. rooms are very reasonable.' Kiyo said ' while sumo is our favorite sport, we are aklsio popular as a tourist attraction. ' follow me to the theater, and those who are going in, can depart, those staying, well shoukitchi and i will show you some of our favorite sites. the night is still very young.
 A red parrot landed on Stripetail shoulder, and it was wearing ozais royal insignia. ' ah iago, nice seeing you again stripetail said to him. ' What do you need from me?' He asked.
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"The great King Ozai has requested I send you this wager his wishes to make with you," the fat parrot replied, handing him the parchment.

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"Exploring this place could be fun, I know we'll find plenty of food," Kiara commented.

"And we'll be happy to guide you," Shoukichi nodded.

"You coming Sly?" Carmelita asked.