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Chapter 7: The Chaos Within   

Delphine Kiminsu runs up to the helicopter, stopping just outside. She looks down at the  wooden cane in her hands, then grazes the wood with one of her throwing stars. She then cracks  the outer shell in two as though she were opening a walnut, and slides the sleek interior rod  onto the pilot's seat in the helicopter. The staff, roughly four feet long, is an unearthly  transparent silver color, and seems to be slightly illuminated.  

DEL: 'Hello there! It's been nearly ten years since the last time I saw this rod...'  
Picking the staff up and leaping into the pilot's seat, Del picks up a speaker and flips  a few switches.  

DEL: 'Zero-sama? Zero-sama, I have obtained the Destiny Staff.'  

ZERO: 'I'll take it here, thanks. And don't call me 'sama' ever again.'  

Del whirls around to see Zero standing right outside the small helicopter.  

DEL: 'You surprised me!'  

ZERO: 'I did?'  

Del bows her head and offers the Veal Cane.  

DEL: 'Forgive me, I underestimate your power.'  

ZERO: 'Whatever.'  

Zero takes the rod and smiles contentedly.  

DEL: 'What are my next orders, Zero-sama?'  

ZERO: 'Quit calling me 'sama'. I'm not Japanese and neither are you. What's the point?'  
DEL: 'Forgive me, Zero-sama.'  

With a somewhat disgusted sigh, Zero prepares to warp away, when she stops and looks back  up at Delphine.  

ZERO: 'You DID remember to take out the trash, didn't you?'  

DEL: 'But Zero-sama, it isn't trash day.'  

ZERO: 'Did you kill Moon?'  

DEL: 'KILL her?'  

ZERO: 'Yes. It isn't that hard.'  

DEL: 'But...Zero-sama, is that necessary? All Six Weapons are now under your control, there is  no way anyone could possibly-'  

At that moment, the chair Del's sitting in begins bending out of proportion, holding her  into place. The various buttons and knobs on the control panel in front of her sharpen into  long spikes, as the chair slowly lowers toward them.  

DEL: 'I'm sorry! I'll kill her, I'll kill her!'  In a split second, the helicopter returns to normal.  

ZERO: 'I've got alot to do, I'd advise against questioning my methods again.'  

DEL: 'I humbly apologize, Zero-sama. Forgive my insolence.'  

ZERO: 'Sure.'  With that, Zero disappears.  

DEL: 'And what of the other two?'  And then she reappears...  

ZERO: 'Hang on...other two what?'  

DEL: 'Forgive me, I must have forgotten to mention.'  

ZERO: 'So mention, mention!'  

DEL: 'It seems there was another survivor from the plane crash. It's the Green Gibbon!.'  
ZERO: 'Gibbon? Yeeeaaah, he's immortal. We can thank my father for that. Just leave him here  on the island, he isn't getting off anytime soon. And even if he does, I doubt he'll be much of  a problem. What about the other one?'  

DEL: 'It seems that Eternal Gamer is still alive as well.'  

Zero stands silently for a few moments.  

ZERO: '...Gamer? I don't believe it. Kill him, too. ALL the Receivers must die. They could  turn out to be a real problem if left unchecked.'  

DEL: 'Yes, Zero-sama.'  

ZERO: 'So Gamer and Moon are on this island, right?'  

DEL: 'Yes.'  

ZERO: 'Great, I'm sure even you can figure out what to do from here. Byes!'  

With that, Zero vanishes again, taking the Veal Cane with her. Delphine hops back out of  the helicopter and looks around, then runs back into the jungle.  

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Eternal Gamer stands on the beach, scanning the horizon. Gibbon walks up to him,  munching on something.  

GG!: 'What are you lookin' for, Moby Dick?'  

EG: 'There should be a rescue plane to investigate the crash. It should've been here long  before now.'  

GG!: 'Think they'll see us?'  

EG: 'If we do something to get their attention.'  

GG!: 'I know what we could do, but I don't think Moon would agree to it...'  

EG: 'What's that?'  

Gibbon glances with half-mast eyes at EG, who slightly curls his lip in a disgusted  manner and looks back at the watery horizon.  

EG: 'What are you eating?'  

GG!: 'A candy bar.'  

EG: 'Where did you find a candy bar?'  

GG!: 'In one of Moon's pockets. I also found two credit cards and $80 in cash. I could buy a  game and a half with that!'  

EG: 'Gibbon, I hope you didn't-'  

GG!: 'Hey, what kind of person do you take me for?! I only took the candy bar, she'll be better  off without this calorie machine tempting her anyway.'  

EG: 'I can't believe you ransacked her pockets while she's unconscious. You're pathetic.'  
GG!: 'Yah, but I'm good at it.'  

Gibbon holds up a card.  

GG!: 'Look, it's her driver's license. I didn't know she weighed 105 pounds...'  

EG yanks the card away from Gibbon and looks sternly at him.  

EG: 'OK, let's have it all...'  

GG!: 'I was gonna give it back, I swear!'  

EG: 'Shutup and hand it over, and you're going to apologize when she wakes up!'  

MOON: 'Apologize for what?'  

Gibbon and EG whirl around, hiding the stolen goods behind their backs.  

GG!: 'Oh, you're up! How ya feelin'?'  

MOON: 'Outside of a phenomenal headache, I guess I'm okay. But-'  

At that moment, she notices EG standing next to Gibbon.  

MOON: 'You!'  GG!: 'Now, hang on! He's on our side again!'  

MOON: 'He's- ...you're gonna have to explain that one.'  

GG!: 'Later, just take my word for it.'  

EG: 'I believe I owe you a large apology as well.'  

MOON: 'Well...why not? Things are crazy enough as it is.'  

GG!: 'Hey, how long have you been out? Not since the crash, I hope.'  

EG: 'That's impossible, I found her in the jungle. Had she been knocked out as a result of the  crash, she would've been closer to the shore. Or...'  

Moon shakes her head.  

MOON: 'No, I did black out from the crash, but I came to on the beach. I was amazed I lived  through it and then washed up on shore without drowning.'  

EG: 'It's odd we didn't find you sooner, this island is not all that big.'  

GG!: 'So what the hell were you doing kissing dirt in the jungle? On your way back from a  party?'  

MOON: 'You might say that...'  

GG!: 'Say WHAT?! You went to a party and *I* wasn't invited?! What a rip, do these mortals  have any idea who I am?!'  

EG: 'Did you happen to run into Delphine?'  

MOON: 'That's right...did you meet her, too?'  

GG!: 'Well, we weren't formally introduced, buuut I almost got a scar to prove our aquaintance.  Y'know, I have another scar from back when I was still mortal. Wanna see it?'  
EG whacks Gibbon upside the head.  

EG: 'Moon, do you have the Veal Cane?'  

MOON: 'I don't like veal.'  

EG: 'Nevermind, can you just tell us the story from the beginning? But please make it short.'  

MOON: 'OK. I woke up on the shore just as the sun was coming up...' 

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Moon slowly opens her eyes and lifts her sand-sprinkled head. After attempting a deep  breath and choking on sand, she rises to her knees and scans her surroundings.  

MOON: 'How did I get... Oh my god, the plane!'  

Leaping to her feet, Moon looks back at the ocean.  

MOON: 'Oh, no...all those people. Am I the only survivor?'  

As she dusts herself off, an object in the sand catches her eye. Leaning down to get a  better look, she recognizes it as the wooden rod she brought along.  

MOON: 'Hey...it's my lucky staff!'  

She picks it out of the sand and brushes it off.  

MOON: 'I had no idea it was THIS lucky. Hm...anyway, I guess I'd better try to find someone.  Maybe I'm not the only survivor...'  

At that moment, a glowing object flies into the ground alongside her, knocking a plume of  sand into the air.  

MOON: 'Hey!'  

A masked figure stands before her...it's Delphine, but she is indistinguishable due to  the handkerchief over her face. Moon gazes with uncertainty at the figure before her for a few  seconds, then reaches down to pick up her staff. Another glowing object shoots between her hand  and the cane, missing both by only inches. Moon jerks her hand back.  

MOON: 'What are you doing?!'  

Still without speaking a word, Delphine snatches the staff and makes her getaway.  

MOON: 'Hey wait, that's mine!'  

Delphine continues running, but stops short when a transparent blue wall appears out of  nowhere directly in front of her. Looking back, she sees Moon standing firmly with her left arm  extended.  

MOON: 'Don't make me do anything unladylike. Give me back the staff and I won't hurt you.'  
Del stands her ground and stares coldly at Moon.  

MOON: 'Okay.'  

With her left arm still extended, she slowly raises her right hand to her forehead.  Delphine glances over her shoulder as the blue wall behind her wobbles like gelatin.  

MOON: 'Mind Prison!'  

A stream of electricity flows out from the 'wall', creating a sphere around Delphine.  The 'wall' flows into the stream of electricity and surrounds Del in a bubble of sorts. Moon  opens her outstretched right hand. The Veal Cane begins floating away from Delphine and toward  her. Without flinching, Del pulls out a glowing shuriken and gently pokes the bubble surround  her. It dissipates in seconds. The Veal Cane now inches from Moon's hand, Del throws another  star, which flies directly inbetween the staff and Moon's palm. Moon jerks her hand back with a  yelp as Del lunges for the Veal Cane.  

MOON: 'I don't have time for this!'  

Placing both hands on her forehead (again), she disappears into thin air. Delphine  quickly scans the area, but all is quiet. After a few moments of silence, Moon's voice echoes  from all over.  

MOON: 'Gemini Echo!'  

At that moment, hundreds of Moon replicas appear all around Delphine. She glances around  nervously, as she knows that only one is the real one, but she has no way of knowing which it is.  All of the clones speak at once:  

MOON: 'Who are you, and why are you after that staff?'  

Narrowing her eyes, Del cups one of her glowing shurikens in her hands. Realizing that  she is preparing another attack, Moon begins casting a spell of her own. But in a matter of  milliseconds, Del is glowing a bright silver color and moving impossibly fast. A shower of  throwing stars flies out in all directions, shattering through the illusions like a hot knife  through softened butter. The real Moon ducks for cover, revealing her identity. Nonetheless,  one of the stars flies squarely in her direction. As fast as she was hurling the stars, Del  raises her left hand, creating a small forcefield in front of a crouching Moon. The shuriken  hits the shield without a sound. As Moon looks up, the forcefield emits a huge shockwave on the  side she's on, knocking her several yards away.  The battle scene calms. Del stands silently in the morning breeze, looking over at Moon,  who lies motionless on the sand. Slowly rolling over onto her stomach, a severely injured Moon  begins pulling herself in Delphine's direction. Del walks over and looks down.  

MOON: 'Please...that was given to me a long time ago by a friend. It's very important to me...'  

Looking at the pleading expression on Moon's face, Del hesitates a few seconds, then  removes the handkerchief over her face. Confused, Moon examines Del's facial features. Suddenly  visions of her childhood friend flash one after the other in her mind. With a gasp, her eyes  widen as she gazes at the figure standing above her.  

MOON: 'D-Del?'  

Delphine doesn't answer.  

MOON: 'Why?'  

DEL: 'Forgive me, Moon. I cannot allow even you to interfere with my destiny.'  

With that, she mercilessly kicks the already injured Moon in the head, rendering her  unconscious.  

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MOON: 'And the next thing I knew, I woke up in that rock.'  

Eternal Gamer looks off to the watery horizon with a very alarmed expression on his face.  
EG: 'Gibbon...you are aware of what this means?'  

Gibbon, still munching on Moon's candy bar, smiles broadly.  

GG!: 'I think girl vs girl fights are very sexy!'  

Ignoring that comment, EG looks seriously at Gibbon.  

EG: 'Zero now has all six Weapons along with the NEO Crystal.'  

Gibbon turns serious.  

GG!: 'Yeah, it's...just a matter of time, I guess.'  

MOON: '...is this guy talk, or would you mind letting me in?'  

GG!: 'Wait, I'm wondering...if you were so injured from your fight, how did you get right up  when you regained conscioussness?'  

MOON: 'Huh? I dunno...it didn't hit me until now...'  

GG!: 'Maybe it was that weird chick?'  

MOON: ''Weird chick'?'  

GG!: 'Yah, the tall one with the pale skin...I think she said her name was...Alice. No, uh...  Amy Rose! That can't be it...Annie Thief?'  

Gibbon lowers his head in thought for a moment, when he snaps his fingers.  

GG!: 'ANAL LEAK!'  

EG: 'Good god, it was Alethea!'  

GG!: 'Or that.'  

MOON: 'Alethea who?!'  

EG: 'There is no TIME for this now! Look, the sky is growing dark.'  

Moon and Gibbon look up to see ominous clouds covering the sun.  

EG: 'Zero's plan is coming to fruition.'  

GG!: 'Or it could just be a thunderstorm...'  

MOON: 'Hi there, remember me?'  

EG: 'You might as well fill her in, there's nothing we can do stuck on this island. Even if we  were to escape, we don't know the location Zero has chosen for the rebirth.'  

MOON: 'I'd appreciate a bit of enlightenment.'  

GG!: 'That's probably a good idea...you'd better listen in too, EG, there's some stuff in here  you probably didn't know, either.'  

Moon and EG look at Gibbon, who turns toward the ocean.  

GG!: 'OK, here's the story in a nutshell: The NEO Crystal...the Crystal contains a being. A  specimen from an alien race who, like parasites, attach themselves to planets and feed upon the  living resources. Once the planet has dried to a wasteland, the 'Parasites' fall into a state of  hibernation, so to speak. Suspended animation that lasts for thousands upon thousands of years,  until life has returned to the planet to which they are attached. At that time, they awaken and  once again feed upon the living resources until nothing is left. And the cycle goes on for  millennia...the lifespan of this species is unknown.'  

EG: 'And it is Zero's goal to release this being, which means the end of the world as we know it.'  

MOON: 'But why? Why on earth would she want to release an overblown parasite like that?'  
GG!: 'Who knows? I don't know. All I know is that...I can't let it happen again.'  

MOON: 'Again?'  

GG!: '...to see everyone you love dying one by one. Every place you know withering into  nothingness. Your whole world...everything you've ever known...to sit and helplessly watch as  it's all shattered like a broken dream. It's not the sort of thing you forget. I can't let it  happen again. I couldn't take it.'  

Moon and EG stand silently as Gibbon continues to gaze into the distance. Although his  eyes meet the horizon, they are seeing deeply-buried memories of a time and a world that no  longer exist. Seeing Gibbon in such an out-of-character state of serenity moves EG to break the  silence.  

EG: 'It doesn't have to happen again, but we need to act fast.'  

MOON: 'OK, so suppose Zero DOES free this Parasite. Why don't we just go and kill it?'  
Gibbon breaks his gaze over the ocean and turns back to the other two.  

GG!: 'You don't understand...this isn't just any random specimen of the species. This sucker's  the granddaddy of them all. THE ultimate Parasite.'  

MOON: 'Well, bingo! That's why Zero wants to release him so badly, to syphon his power!'  
GG!: 'Are you kidding?! Zero's strong, but she can't even begin to match the strength of this  monster.'  

MOON: 'Don't be so sure. Assuming the hole in the ceiling of the prison was Zero's work...'  EG: 'I can confirm that it was.'  

MOON: '...that's the power of atomic structure. We're talking creation and destruction on a  sub-molecular level, here, you just don't get any more powerful than that.'  

GG!: 'You've never seen Phat Boy with gas, have you?'  

EG: 'Whatever the case, we need to find a way off this island.'  

GG!: 'Or we could take advantage of the situation and come up with three seasons worth of  sitcom...'  

MOON: 'This island is probably part of the Hawaiian chain, huh?'  

EG: 'A distant and primitive link, probably somewhere on the tail end.'  A small distance away, Delphine peeks over from behind a palm tree.  

DEL: 'I suppose...now is the time to make my move.'  

GG!: 'Hey, do you guys hear that?!'  

Del's eyes widen, and she ducks down into the brush. EG and Moon look around. A light  buzzing sound can be heard. Gibbon makes a disgusted face.  

GG!: 'EEEGGG! Eeeew!'  MOON: 'It sounds like...'  

EG: 'A boat!'  

He points to a small motor boat as it turns into range from behind a large rock. There  are three men on it. Moon leaps into the air excitedly and calls over.  

MOON: 'Hey, we're over here!'  

GG!: 'Hooold the phone!'  

Gibbon points to the men on the boat. Two of them are carrying unusual guns.  

GG!: 'Either they're fishermen with a very interesting alternative to the rod & reel method, or  they're not here to be our friends.'  

Eternal Gamer unsheathes his sword.  

EG: 'They're from EON.'  

MOON: 'EON?'  

GG!: 'EON!'  

The two men with guns leap out the boat into the surf, aim in the general direction of  the three castaways, and advance towards them. Eternal Gamer raises his sword up to his own  throat.  

EG: 'I know I'm the one you're after, if you step any closer, you take me home in two pieces.'  

Before anything else can happen, however, he blacks out and falls to the ground. Before  Gibbon and Moon can assess the situation, they follow... A fourth man with a heavy club looks  down at them as the two other men drag the unconscious bodies into the boat. Having watched the  entire scene played out, Delphine backs into the jungle.  

DEL: 'A diversion...clever. Guess my job's been taken care of...or atleast Zero will never be  the wiser.'  

With that, she disappears into the jungle.  

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Possessed Spam slams his weight onto the luminescent bars.  

SPAM: 'I've swatted mosquitoes tougher than this!'  

ZERO: 'Those bars operate on an energy level. No matter how much force you exhert on them,  they reinforce with the same physical push.'  

SPAM: 'Uh...'  

ZERO: 'The harder you push, the harder they push back. It's literally impossible to break 'em.'  

SPAM: 'Oh.'  

Zero sits on a simplistic throne in the center a small, metallic room. The NEO Crystal  sits on a pedastal in front of her, and Spam is locked in a small cage off to the side. Six  glowing spheres circle Zero's throne. Within each one is the image of one of the Six Weapons,  three of which also contain the silhouettes of Bo, Mart, and WB individually. The NEO Crystal  shakes violently on its pedastal.  

ZERO: 'My father isn't a patient man. But then, his rebirth is long overdue...'  

SPAM: 'I don't get it, what are you waiting for? Why don't you just free the damn thing and end  the world if you want to so badly.'  

ZERO: 'Is that what you think I want to do?'  

SPAM: '...'  

ZERO: 'Planetary destruction is so clichι, I've got something more self-gratifying in mind.'  
SPAM: '...'  

ZERO: 'They key word here is power. According to plan, the rebirth should've taken place  fifteen years ago.'  

SPAM: 'You've piqued my interest. Go on...'  

ZERO: 'Really? OK, it's been a long time since I've told anyone about myself. I was conceived  eons ago, but only seventeen years have passed since my actual birth.'  

SPAM: 'So...you have a mother?'  

ZERO: '...no, they whacked my grandmother REALLY hard with a 4Χ4 and skipped a generation. Of  course I have a mother. Not a human mother, though. But that's another story... Anyway, my  birth was the sign that my father's REbirth was near. At the age of two, I was mature enough to  understand my destiny...and clever enough to defy it.'  

SPAM: 'Wow! At the age of two, I was still eating pacifiers.'  

Zero gives him an odd look.  

SPAM: 'I was a growing boy.'  

ZERO: 'I was not like other children, and I knew it. I was not blind to my powers, and quickly  learned to utilize them to my benefit.'  

SPAM: 'So you were a bully.'  

ZERO: 'I also knew that as I grew, so would my strength. While dear old dad was stuck in that  tiny little ball, growing weaker by the minute as his hunger increased.'  

SPAM: 'You're thinking about overpowering your own father?!'  

ZERO: 'Not thinking about it, I will. I have sharpened my powers to their peak, if I were to  syphon my father's strength as well, I would be invincible.'  

SPAM: 'Invincible to what?! You're already stronger than the entire human race!'  

ZERO: 'That's where you're wrong. Sensing my father's scheme, Mom devised a counterplan.'  Zero looks upward at the six spheres circling her throne.  

SPAM: 'The Six Weapons?'  

ZERO: 'My mother is strong, but my father is stronger. With her power alone, she could never  defeat him. So she designed these Six Weapons to utilize the strongest power in the universe. A  power stronger even than good and evil, mind and soul, life and death...'  
SPAM: 'And this power iiis?'  

ZERO: 'Friendship.'  

SPAM: 'Friendship?'  

ZERO: 'Friendship.'  

SPAM: '...that's cheesy.'  

ZERO: 'Hell yeah, but you'll find that more often than not the truth IS cheesy.'  

SPAM: 'And I know the rest! Six 'Receivers' of prophecy shall don the Weapons and smite the  evil which doth feed upon the life of the earth!'  

ZERO: 'Cut the crap.'  

SPAM: 'Six guys'll get together and kill Parasite. I've heard all about it in my dreams.'  
Zero chuckles.  

SPAM: 'What's so funny?'  

ZERO: 'That was as destiny had it. But I have changed fate.'  

A broad grin stretches across Zero's face.  

ZERO: 'I am stronger than destiny.'  

SPAM: 'So that's why you've been so careful to obtain the Six Weapons. You're determined to  make sure that prophecy doesn't come to pass.'  

ZERO: 'Bingo. Why don't you try our home game?'  

SPAM: 'So what then? What do you plan to do once you've syphoned your father's power if you're  not going to destroy the earth?'  

ZERO: 'I'm getting tired of this conversation. Our little encounter with the Vengeance Blade  left me wounded, and I must free my catch from its prison soon. If dear old dad dies of  starvation before I can sap out his power, I'm screwed. I'm going to take a nap.'  

With that, Zero hops off her throne and begins walking away.  

SPAM: 'Hang on, I've got one more question!'  

ZERO: 'Spit it out.'  

SPAM: 'In three of those spheres...I see Bo, Mart, and WB. But why are the other three empty?'  

ZERO: 'Now you're just being dense.'  

SPAM: 'Double G says I'm good at that.'  

ZERO: ''Bo, Mart, and WB' died after I sent their plane crashing into the ocean.'  

SPAM: 'That was you?!'  

ZERO: 'Shutup, Spam.'  

SPAM: 'Yes- hey! Now look, only Double G tells ME to shutup!'  

ZERO: 'They are Receivers. Since their respective Weapons are under my control, their souls  cannot be reborn.'  

SPAM: 'And since the other three are empty...'  

ZERO: 'They're still alive. One is accounted for, and is currently seeing to the other two.  Once she's done that, she'll report back to me like the idiot she is and then I'll finish her  off.'  

Spam leaps angrily onto the bars again.  

SPAM: 'You may have very carefully and intricately layed out this plan, but you know how the  saying goes! Even the best lying rats of men and awry go mice! Uh...'  

Zero lightly shakes her head in disgust and walks out.  

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Gibbon slowly opens his eyes and looks around, trying to adjust to his dark surroundings.  He's in a small prison cell, cold and empty except for the cot he's lying on, a top-less toilet  that wouldn't be fitting a public restroom, and a dimly lit light on the ceiling. There is a  guard standing outside the cell. Gibbon sits up and rubs his head.  

GG!: 'Man, this story's got more knock-outs than a boxing special on Pay-Per-View.'  

He leaps off the cot and rubs his rear end, then looks over to the guard.  

GG!: 'Hey laughing boy, this bed's harder than a Calculus exam. Can I get a cushion in here or  something?'  

The guard ignores him. Gibbon walks up to the bars.  

GG!: 'Oh sunshine, I don't think you heard me.'  

The guard jabs a long dagger into the cell. Gibbon steps back to avoid it.  

GUARD: 'Keep it quiet.'  

GG!: 'Well, you have a nice day, too.'  

MOON: 'Gibbon, is that you? Are you okay?'  

Gibbon looks around.  

GG!: 'Can I atleast get an aspirin or something? I'm hearing voices...'  

MOON: 'Gibbon, I'm coming in telepathically.'  

GG!: 'Ooh, more psycho stuff! Where are you?'  

MOON: 'I'm in the cell next to you. This way the guard doesn't know we're talking.'  

GG!: 'Where's EG?'  

MOON: 'A couple of guards escourted him off about fifteen minutes ago.'  

GG!: 'And you've just been sitting there?! If I recall correctly, you can pull off a few  interesting tricks of your own. Let's blow this place wide open!'  

MOON: 'I've already tried that.'  

GG!: '...I'm not going to like what you're gonna say next, huh?'  

MOON: 'There's some sort of magic barrier over everything in here, I can't penetrate it.'  
GG!: 'Too strong?'  

MOON: 'No, that's not it...it's not like anything I've ever encountered before. I don't know  how to get through.'  

GG!: 'Lemme give it a shot.'  

Gibbon claps his tails together and looks around. He claps them again, but there's still  nothing but silence.  

MOON: 'What did you try?'  

GG!: 'An earthquake.'  

MOON: 'Oh, that would've been a pretty picture.'  

GG!: 'Weeell, it didn't work anyway. So now what?'  

MOON: 'I don't know...'  

GG!: 'Have you tried picking the lock?'  

MOON: 'Wouldn't do much good, this place is too heavily secured.'  

GG!: 'Pfft, so what good are YOU?!'  

MOON: 'I've been thinking...'  

GG!: 'That's a bad habit.'  

MOON: 'I think the plane accident was staged.'  

GG!: 'Huh?'  

MOON: 'This whole thing was planned, it's too far out for coincidence.'  

GG!: 'Explain.'  

MOON: 'For one thing...how did Del get on the island? Had she used a boat or helicopter, we'd  have heard it.'  

GG!: '...so?'  

MOON: 'She was waiting there. Waiting to take my lucky staff...the very item she had given me  as a symbol of our friendship ten years ago...'  

GG!: 'To give to Zero! So Zero was the one who shot the plane out of the sky?'  

MOON: 'It makes sense.'  

GG!: 'And no rescue planes ever came becaaauuuse...'  

MOON: 'Zero screwed with the tracking equipment. They probably never even noticed that the  plane went down until just recently. Although by now it's too late...'  

GG!: 'Yeah...the EON guys probably found us by tracking EG. Being one of their top agents, I'm  sure they had some kind of special sensor implanted into his body.'  

MOON: 'Well...so now what?'  

GG!: 'I think this is the part where we unmask the culprit and he says: 'And if it weren't for  you kids and your dumb dog, I'd have gotten away with it!'.'  

MOON: 'I'm ignoring you now, GG!.'  

GG!: 'No, wait! Wanna play twenty questions?'  

At that moment, the lights go out, flooding everything in pitch blackness.  

GG!: 'You could've just said 'no'...'  

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