Memoirs of a RAFian

[Cloak]

So, without preamble, for I'm still quite tired:

CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
Golden Opportunities

"We need to destroy the scans and data taken from them," Cloak continued. "Otherwise whoever is behind this can just make and extrapolate more armors."

"Right," Richard agreed, "Goom, Aquilai, Yarin. You've the body that whoever-it-is used to scan Parker's armor. Have you made any headway with locating the source of the wireless signal?"

The three hesitated, before Goom spoke, "We could not pinpoint it, not exactly. We tracked it two four possible locations."

"We must be thankful for small favors, then," Dino commented. "What did you do with the body afterward? Destroy it?"

The three shifted uncomfortably again. Aquilai looked a little livid though.

"What?" Gaz asked shrewdly.

"Well, think of the prosthetics we could generate from this technology," Goom said. "Amputees could walk again! The deaf could hear again, the blind could see again!"

Cloak could easily see the double-edge sword qualities of such technology. It could, indeed, be used for all those things. But it could be quite easily used for crime and deception, as Gary proved already.

Then there was the problem of overreliance. Many species were overreliant on their technology already, humans especially. If it was taken away from them, they'd be rather hapless and helpless, being so accustomed to living with it. That is not to say that there wouldn't be some who would doggedly survive, but the layman . . .*

"We're getting offtrack," Azzy said. "The point is you found the locations."

***

Xavier Aurum was a proud, arrogant, narcissistic man. He believed the Chrysaor Armor made him undeniably invincible with its regenerative abilities, double air-dashing, plasma cannon, and forcefield generation.

Then Parker came in. His SPARTAN training linking to to his RAFian training, and Aurum really stood no chance. Parker claimed the Chrysaor Armor for his own.

---
*Actually a legitimate concern of mine. And I'm including myself in that.

[redtailedsaffa]

I share your concern. Included it in a Richard speech in my first fic.

[Gaz]

Keep up the awesome work!

[Cloak]

I intend to, Gazzy.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
Mustering the Force

"Okay, then," Phoenix said, "best to come up with a course of action."

"How about split into teams to investigate the four coordinates?" Slushie Man suggested airily.

"Right," Richard nodded. "Cloak, Gaz, Goom, and Dino -- you investigate the northern coordinates."

The four nodded their acknowledgement and acceptance of the plan.

"Duff, Slushie Man, Yarin, and Saffa -- take the eastern coordinates."

The four made acknowledging and accepting sounds.

"Underseen, Helen, Sam, and Aquilai -- take the southern coordinates."

They murmured ascent.

"And Abby, Horse, Guy, and Block -- take the western coordinates."

They murmured their agreement.

"Okay, then," Richard said, "Phoenix and I will monitor your progress from here. Best get going, we haven't a clue to how much time we have."

"Right!"

Then they were off.

***

Parker was battling Petra Foreman and Owen O'Connell in the Nova Strike and Dark Slash Armors respectively. Petra was out of her mind and Owen was coldly methodical and heartlessly malicious. The battle was vicious and merciless. But the two only had their own interests in mind, and were not working together, which would have been the smart thing to do but both were quite prideful and exceedingly arrogant.

Especially when they destroyed the last of Parker's Ride Armors.

Parker smirked as was easily able use that to his advantage and reclaim both their armors as his own.

[Underseen]

Parker is getting some level ups.

[redtailedsaffa]

Ha ha, I only just got the reference in the chapter name.

[Cloak]

*sleepily* Huh? Reference? Oh . . .

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:
Sky, Earth, and Discovered

BAM!

zzzzz-BLAM!

TSEEEEEEEWWW!

Parker was trading shots with Xavier Conrad, who was wearing the Falco Armor (the one whose primary weapon made the "TSEEEW" sound), and Gaea Eckles, who wore the Gaia Armor. They were actually coordinating some of their attacks, but it appeared to be accidentally fortuitous.

Parker was basically dancing around their shots with an agility unseen before.

 "Yes, run! Run, little man!" Xavier Conrad crowed.

"Yes!" Gaea Eckles agreed. "Flee in terror!"

"Boisterous fools," Parker muttered. He was using an old steel crate as cover. Then, almost as an afterthought, he hissed frustrated, "Oh, shut up, Tyr."

***

The other teams had reported that their locations were thoroughly searched, but deadends.

"Goom, how many times do I have to tell you?" Dino complained. "I'm not a taxi."

However, Gary did not count on his little hidey-hole being discovered by one with Earthsight.

"There's a tunnel in that warehouse," Cloak said, pointing it out to the others. Cloak looked at Dino and said, almost apologetically, "It's not big enough for you, even in your compacted form, though."

"Could you widen it?" Gaz asked.

"Might risk collapsing it . . ." Cloak said, appraisingly.

***

"H-how . . .?" Gaea said breathlessly as the drained former Gaea Armor fell away from her.

"Give it back!" Xavier whined like a spoiledchild. "Give it back! I bought it! It's mine!"

Parker ignored him, and had tne authorities arrest the two.

[redtailedsaffa]

Lol, DinoTaxi is becoming quite popular, eh?

[Cloak]

Well, it's kinda her schtick.

Well, I finally decided to make a new book based off an idea that I've been sitting on for a while:

• Book CCI: "A Story of Toys" -- The RAFians are reimagined as toys.

Remember, the title isn't set in stone.

CHAPTER NINETEEN:
Strike, Blow, Fizzle

"Are you sure that this is even the right place?" Dino said.

"How many warehouses have a secret underground tunnel in them?" Goom asked rhetorically in an exasperated manner.

Suddenly, blazing from the warehouse, was an armored person cloaked with forceful energy.

"Well," Cloak said, drolly, "I think that's a significant sign that it is right place."

***

Parker managed to find and reclaim the Slashing Strike Armor from Blake Slycer. The armor itself looked as if some used the Ultimatrix on Hork-Bajir DNA.

"You . . . you . . . you loser!!" Blake blustered finding his armor, which he paid so much for, was now junk.

Parker snorted at this . . . then was ambushed from the shadows, with an "ugh-oof".

It was Karai Jensen. She was wearing the Ninjitsu Armor, and using it far more effectively than anyone before her.

"Okay," Parker said, recovering from the attack in a rather ungraceful way. "I've been getting complacent. You're good."

But she melted into the shadows again. Parker couldn't see her. The Ninjitsu Armor was dedicated to stealth, and Karai was using it with deadly precision.

"Oh, wonderful," Parker muttered.

***

Cloak held his hand out and easily stopped the "Nova Strike" attack of Gary's Apex Armor. Then, firmly grasping his helmet, he swung Gary in a wide arc to Dino. Dino easily caught him in her mouth, and, being in her compact form, she worried him like a dog with a bone.

"St-st-st-st-st-stop-p-p i-i-i-i-i-it!!!" he protested, voice vibrating.

It is little wonder why ne never noticed a Goomba slipping away, into his warehouse complex. . . .

***

"There!" Parker said, frustration dissipating. He had managed to reclaim the Ninjitsu Armor after a vicious three and a half hours.

Parker knew he would require rest before going after the rest. Also, because Tyr wouldn't shut up about it.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Lol, maybe I should just give up and paint myself yellow and black. 

Heh, don't get between a dinosaur and her chew toy. 

[Cloak]

LOL, on both counts, Dino.

Now, the list.

• Book XLVI: The Worst Plague

The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.

• Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons

The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.

• Book XLVIII: Go Away!

The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.

• Book XLIX: RAFian Tales

RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.

• Book L: Maul

The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.

• Book LI: Erised Orbs

The RAFians must face their greatest desires.

• Book LII: RAFians Alive!

Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.

• Book LIII: The Pain Reliever

The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".

• Book LIV: Beyond the Veils

Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.

• Book LV: Dangerous Deals

Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.

• Book LVI: Of One Mind

Malice seeks out the Unimind.

• Book LVII: The End of Time

The RAFians must contend with two Kryptonians (who think they're Time Lords) and prevent them from ending time altogether.

• Book LVIII: Hematomimic

The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.

• Book LIX: Sins of Youth

Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.

• Book LX: The Replacements

The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.

• Book LXI: Arachnoids

The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.

• Book LXII: Personal Tissues

The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.

• Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow

The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.

• Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon

A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.

• Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite

Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.

• Book LXVI: The Merging

The Universes begin colliding and merging.

• Book LXVII: Be A Doll

The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.

• Book LXVIII: They're Such Cards

The RAFians are sealed into cards, which end up trapped in an ancient leather-bound book, and it's up to three kids to free them.  An out-of-continuity book.

• Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island

Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.

• Book LXX: Corrupted

The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.

• Book LXXI: Artificial Skins

The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.

• Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety

The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.

• Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians

The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.

• Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea

The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.

• Book LXXV: Vacation Photos

The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.

• Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin

The RAFians must contend with gremlins.

• Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence

The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.

• Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh

The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.

• Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol

Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.

• Book LXXX: Savage Heart

Cloak battles an ancient being called Garrotik.

• Book LXXXI: Slave Islands and Juggernauts

Three RAFians are taken prisoners by the Knights and sold into the slavery of New Genoshia, while the others deal with a juggernaut.

• Book LXXXII: Shredding a King

The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.

• Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show

The RAFians are forcibly recruited to Mojo's programs.

• Book LXXXIV: The Drinker

The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker.

• Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh

The RAFians must face Joker Gas.

• Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain

The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.

• Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen

Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.

• Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow

The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.

• Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin

The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from.

• Book XC: Virus Alert!

The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.

• Book XCI: A Youthful Thief

The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.

• Book XCII: Calendar Creep

The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.

• Book XCIII: The Branding

Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faerie's possession.

• Book XCIV: The Void Zone

Nothing like a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  Sorry.

• Book XCV: An Epic Yarn

The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.

• Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators

RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.

• Book XCVII: The Box

The RAFians must cage thirteen Revenants released from Pandora's Box -- each representing and amplifying a particular feeling (i.e. hatred), while looking for the perfect host.

• Book XCVIII: From the Shadows

The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors, but not everything is what it seems.

• Book XCIX: Grimm Prospects

The RAFians discover Malice controlling several "wesen" with control collars akin to April's in "Catwoman from Channel Six" and get stuck in one-on-one battles to the death with them.  One will die.

• Book C: Loop-De-Loop

Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Aila, and Aquilai.

• Book CI: Get 'Em, Shaw

The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.

• Book CII: Threadfall

The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of Thread.

• Book CIII: Siren's Song

The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.

• Book CIV: Resistance is Futile

The RAFians must deal with a hybridization of the Borg and the Hive chips (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) -- which the Mark cannot protect them from, nor the Unity energy can destroy.

• Book CV: The Titan

The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.

• Book CVI: A Stony Glare

The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.

• Book CVII: Spritely Pests

The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.

• Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?

The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . .

• Book CIX: Going Backwards

A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.

• Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday

The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again.  A RAFian will die in this book, and it is within the continuity.

• Book CXI: High Price Stakes

Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.

• Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market

The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.

• Book CXIII: A Silenced World

The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.

• Book CXIV: The Bureau

The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.

• Book CXV: To Tell the Truth

Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.

• Book CXVI: Skin Crawlers

The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion).

• Book CXVII: School of Stepford Lies

The RAFians must save the children from a school that turns them into Stepford students at Terenia's school.

• Book CXVIII: Ol' Salty

The RAFians must deal with the Salt Man.

• Book CXIX: The Great Race

The RAFians hold a race that Aloth cons himself into.  Who will win?

• Book CXX: Ape Escape

The RAFians must help super intelligent apes -- Caesar the chimp, Brutus the gorilla, and Maestro the orangutan -- reconcil their misanthropy.

• Book CXXI: A Different Kind of Unity

The RAFians must contend with a parasitic "unity".

• Book CXXII: The Great Brain Robery

Someone is stealing brains for an unknown purpose.

• Book CXXIII: The Bounty Hunter

The Knights, in their hypocricy, hire a Tsul'Kalu bounty hunter to collect select RAFians (to taxidermy).

• Book CXXIV: New Controllers

The RAFians confront Zirconians.

• Book CXXV: Creeping Crystal

A wave of crystallizing energy is sweeping the land. . . .

• Book CXXVI: The Element Feeder

The RAFians deal with a creature who feeds on a specific element and matures to a different element each time as it matures. . . .

• Book CXXVII: The Rider and the Walker

The RAFians come up against the Ghost Rider.

• Book CXXVIII: Headhunters

What will happen when RAFians lose their heads?  Seriously.

• Book CXXIX: The Color Purple, Man!

The RAFians confront the Purple Man, who manages to turn the entire government against them . . .

• Book CXXX: The Nemetrix Beetle

The RAFians confront the Black Beetle with Nemetrix properties.

• Book CXXXI: It's Tought to Be A Mod

The members of a primitive forum declare Demos and Blue to be mods. . . .

• Book CXXXII: Who-Zilla?

An energy reaction begins turning RAFians into monstrous creatures in 3XXX.  Out-of-continuity book.

• Book CXXXIII: Well, Techadon-ally . . .

The RAFians confront Techadons who assign them qualitive quatilities, and refuse to acknowledge any defeats.

• Book CXXXIV: The Mind's Eye

The RAFians face Spellbinder and his realistic illusions.

• Book CXXXV: Bas-ic Instincts

Bas awakens and attempts to take control of Cloak and other felines.

• Book CXXXVI: Midas Duck

The RAFians must contend with a very strange golden idol and a greedy sneak-thief.

• Book CXXXVII: War with the Warworlds

The RAFians must defeat two heavily-armed Warworlds.

• Book CXXXVIII: Solar Sucks

The RAFians must save Estelore from a device able to suck out her stellar substance and lifeforce.

• Book CXXXIX: Hounded

The RAFians are attacked by hellhounds that only Demos can see, although Cloak can "see" them via Earthsight.

• Book CXL: Politics

The RAFians, much to Cloak's chagrin and irritation, get caught up in the middle of Realm Walker politics.

• Book CXLI: Buggy Afternoon

A Bug is after Parker's blood, to "avenge" their brother slain by the SPARTAN.

• Book CXLII: Cloak's Nightmare

Cloak has an exceedingly vivid nightmare of the Great RAFian Purge. . . .

• Book CXLIII: Cloak and the Olympians

Cloak confronts and defies the Olympians.

• Book CXLIV: Down to Earth

The RAFians have gravity-related problems.

• Book CXLV: Hittin' the Dino-Sauce

The RAFians learn the dangers of Dino-Sauce.

• Book CXLVI: Blood Feud

Shanker's past comes into light. . . .

• Book CXLVII: She's Back! A Dino Story

Pretty much a shameless parody of "We're Back! A Dinosaur Story".

• Book CXLVIII: A Journey into Her Past

Delving into Noelle's pre-RAFian life and her relationship with Ardnalil-Shicom-Maar.

• Book CXLIX: Mortality and Morality

The RAFians face some rather conceited Leviathons.

• Book CL: Utter Pandemonium

Cloak, Gaz, Saffa, Underseen, and Hunter investigate odd goings-on at a theme park island named "Haunted Island".

• Book CLI: A Reality Rewrite

Cloak, Faerie, Broken, and Broken's protege discover a magical, reality-altering typewriter.  Cloak, being a Realm Walker and the other three, being magical, are immune to its rewrites of reality.

• Book CLII: The Coming of Galacticron

The RAFians must save Earth from Galacticron.

• Book CLIII: Theft of Intellectual Property

The RAFians must contend with Brainiac.

• Book CLIV: The Contingency

The RAFians must battle the Talos Project and their living weapon -- Weapon XLIX.

• Book CLV: Muppet, Muppet Man

Parker and Gaz are turned into Muppets. ()

• Book CLVI: Larval Ambush

The RAFians must deal with insectoid creatures who are parasitoids with humans.

• Book CLVII: As the World Doesn't Turn

The RAFians must stop a group of feline aliens from stopping the world from rotating.

• Book CLVIII: Princess Pearls

A few girls of RAf discover the Princess Pearls.

• Book CLVIX: Attack of the Killer Produce

The RAfians must deal and cope with killer produce.

• Book CLX: Moonscarred Menace

The RAfians investigate mysterious disappearances on Moonscar Island.

• Book CLXI: League of Assassins

The League of Assassins set a number of Assassins after Blue.

• Book CLXII: Dark RAFians

The RAFians come up against an evil team modeled after them, attempting to usurp their postions.

• Book CLXIII: Danger Rising

The RAFians' training sim gains sentience.

• Book CLXIV: Moody

Gaz and Saffa accidentally have Moodulators attached to them.

• Book CLXV: Bound Together

Some RAFians get molecularly stuck together.

• Book CLXVI: The Legion of RAFians

The 31^st century RAFians are being picked off and controlled by a group calling themselves the Fantastic Fatalities. May be an out-of-continuity book.

• Book CLXVII: Monster Mash

A deranged Yeerk tries to merge its DNA with a Geonosian Brain Worm to rid itself of its Kadronna dependency.

• Book CLXVIII: Jumping to Conclusions

A xenophobic, reliously-zealous, former government man confuses Cloak with a "Jumper".

• Book CLXIX: You Wish!

An ancient lamp is uncovered, and an ancient warlock seeks it out, while RAF gets caught in the middle.

• Book CLXX: Hat's Off

The RAFians must deal with a quartet of hat-like aliens.

• Book CLXXI: You Are What You Read

The RAFians must deal with a "Captain Marvel"-style vigilante, who turns supervillian.

• Book CLXXII: Wrath of the Colossuses

The RAfians must stop the rising Nazca Colossuses.

• Book CLXXIII: The Year Without RAF

Estelore tells the RAFian version of "The Year Without Santa Claus".

• Book CLXXIV: Kidnapped

The government begins to kidnap RAFians.

• Book CLXXV: Lockdown

The RAFian database had been hacked and lockdown activated.

• Book CLXXVI: Exhile

Cloak discovers the "Book of Prophecy".

• Book CLXXVII: Swarm of Supermen

RAF is under attack from Kryptonians. Out-of-continuity.

• Book CLXXVIII: Dullsville

An alien tick turns RAF in't a boring, drab place.

• Book CLXXIX: Technovampirism

A malicious Galvanic Mechamorph assimilates technology into himself.

• Book CLXXX: Go to Hell

Some RAFians are sent to Hell, and must escape.

• Book CLXXXI: Schism

Parker and Cloak have a conflict of methodology. Out-of-continuity.

• Book CLXXXII: Caught in the Middle

The RAFians are caught in the middle of the Wager of the Octessence and their Exemplars.

• Book CLXXXIII: A Fractured Mind

The RAFians try to help a mutant boy with multiple personality disorder.

• Book CLXXXIV: The A.R.A.

The RAFians must battle the A.R.A.

• Book CLXXXV: Orphanage of the Damned

The RAFians must face a "Granny Goodness" and her brainwashed orphans.

• Book CLXXXVI: Remnant A.E.

The Earth blows up, and the RAFians must survive space. Out-of-continuity.

• Book CLXXXVII: Dried Out

The RAFians must deal with a strange creature created by black magic.

• Book CLXXXVIII: Hammer Time

The RAFians must deal with sentient hammers who possess those worthy to wield them, forged by Singularity.

• Book CLXXXIX: Shenecron's Pets

The RAFians must battle Shenecron's monstrous pets.

• Book CXC: The Prism

Four RAFians are seperated into the emotional spectrum.

• Book CXCI: An Attention Hog

The RAFian deal with a rogue quantum lichen.

• Book CXCII: The Engulfer

The RAFians must deal with creature created of the DNA of two RAFians and a Heinlin.

• Book CXCIII: The Horde

The RAFians must battle self-replicating creatures.

• Book CXCIV: RAF 1602

RAF, set in 1602.

• Book CXCV: Reanimated

The RAFians must deal with a creature that reanimates dead bodies as its own.

• Book CXCVI: Making of a Monster

This book'll deal with Malice's backstory. Chances are RAFian appearances will be relegated to cameos.
Anyway, I did come up with a few more book ideas . . .

• Book CXCVII: The Annihilator

A young sorceress is tricked into releasing a vengeful spirit from a mirror and into the body of a war machine.

• Book CXCVIII: Heart-Numbing

Fragments of the Mirror of Khione pierces the eye and heart of a RAFian.

• Book CXCIX: The VSSL

An alien invasion scout comes to earth, eventually looking for a Terran-made device called the VSSL.

• Book CC: Conscience Corral

Someone's capturing the "angelic" side of all consciences . . . leading to abject chaos and darker impulses uninhibited.

• *Book CCI: A Story of Toys

The RAFians are reimagined as toys.

Remember, all titles are subject to be changed.

Well, that's it until I'm off tonight. Gotta be at work in an hour.

[Cloak]

Now, what you guys actually come to this thread for, a new thread -- er, chapter. God, I'm must be more tired than I thought.

CHAPTER TWENTY:
Only One Remains

"Uh, Dino?" Cloak said, starting to be concerned.

"No! Mine! My chew toy!"

"I can't tell if she's joking," Gaz commented, slightly worried.

Gary charged the energy around his body, forcing Dino's jaws to open. Freeing himself.

"Should've seen that coming," Gaz said.

"Don't 'should've' over yourself, Gaz."

"What?"

"Oh, never mind."

***

Goom had easily bypassed Gary's stringent safeguards successfully and easily. Clearly, Gary hadn't ever entertained the possibility that someone of Goom's Goomba stature would penetrate his defenses so thoroughly and so effortlessly. Goom was disappointed by this obvious oversight on Gary's part.

"Pathetic. Pitiful." he grumbled, as he found the sole computer console in the room. This computer console looked to be pretty sophisticated, but a little beaten up by the ravages of dirt and bugs. Goom wore his disgust very openly.

"Let's go and get to work on this piece of junk." Goom muttered, beginning to go through the files at a speed Goom found a bit too slow.

***

"Just let this be a lesson to you," Parker snarled at the people whose armor he reclaimed, "don't mess with me or my armor. 'Coz then I'm gonna come after you, and kick all your butts. Remember it!"

Then he walked off, as one moaned rather pathetically.

[redtailedsaffa]

You never "should've" over yourself.

Oh, and Abby emailed me with a change in her RAFsona - morph-capable half-ghost:

Well, for the most part, my main ability would be to use my ghost form, (you know: neon green eyes and white hair, but mine would be a more silvery color.) But occasionally, and especially when necessary, or when I don't want to draw attention to myself (because transforming to ghost causes a large white flash).

[theyoungphoenix]

You never "should've" over yourself.

Oh, and Abby emailed me with a change in her RAFsona - morph-capable half-ghost:

Well, for the most part, my main ability would be to use my ghost form, (you know: neon green eyes and white hair, but mine would be a more silvery-grey color.) But occasionally, and especially when necessary, or when I don't want to draw attention to myself (because transforming to ghost causes a large white flash) I'll use my morphing ability.

And I forgot to tell you (but since I'm on now I should just do it here) that I will have a majority of the same abilities as Danny, except no ice powers. Annndddd.... I think that's all I needed to add, I think... I'll email Saff if I should remember any other details.

Oh, and edited that quote just a bit. I think I was distracted when I sent that email to you Twinny... But yeah. Oh, and hi Cloaky!!

[Cloak]

Sorry, guys, I try not to just arbitrarily change characters with no explanation . . .

That being said, here's a couple of new book ideas:

• Book CCII: "Dinovolving" -- Dino undergoes a drastic change with some unlikely friends. From out of town.

• Book CCIII: "Abby Gets Everlost" -- Abby is changed after an involuntary trip to a strange "zone".

Titles may change.

Now, the penultimate chapter . . . unless I decide to end it abruptly.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE:
An Unexpected Climax

"Now," Goom muttered, "files deleted. But to make sure he can't do this again . . ."

He looked around, and saw something that stunned and shocked him. He slowly approached a button the size of his foot.

"No way . . . even this idiot couldn't be so stupid," Goom said, with a rather stupefied tone of voice. It was a large red button with "SELF-DESTRUCT" in white lettering on it. "It can't be that easy."

***

"No! You're not chomping on me again, you bizarre saurian mishmash!!"

"Who you calling 'bizarre'?" Dino said, rushing him, he screamed and ran away. Using his Nova Strike to get some distance. Dino gave chase like a dog after a spritely squirrel.

She was really having too much fun with this. Cloak found it hard to surpress a smile.

"Call your monster off!" Gary whined.

"C'mere," she said stretching out her head, opening her maw . . .

BOOM! BOOM!! BOOM!!!

"My warehouse!"

Goom was walking sedately away from the explosion, as the phrase goes, "like a boss". He said, "Then you really shouldn't mark your self-destruct buttons so clearly and legibly. Or even have one at all. I've never understood why you villainous types always feel the compulsion for such liabilities."

Goom neatly dodged Gary's stomp and landed on his head, which he appeared to be unaware of.  Goom looked rather disinterested with this fight and leaped down from Gary's head, as the wearer of the Apex Armor bellowed his frustrations.

"I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"

"Not likely," said a quiet voice, as a hand appeared on Gary's shoulder. "And I'll be taking back what you took."

And Parker reclaimed the Apex Armor for his own. Gary fainted when Dino sniffed him.

"So . . . was that a suitable distraction?" she said, referring to the whole "chew toy" business.