Ore, Sanjou!

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"Tch, what's he doing in the middle of a fight? That bear's about as useful as our own bear."
"Zzzz..."
"Still though, it's touching, isn't it? Almost enough to make you cry."
"Zzz... Snrt! Cry? DID SOMEONE SAY CRY?"
"W-Wait, I didn't mean - "

Ryuutaros groaned. "Come oooon! Get hit, already!" His bullet ceased when a yellow sphere of light floated in out of nowhere, circling around him. "Kuma-chan?" Ryuutaro's blatant switching between languages was ignored, and Kintaros forced his way in. Out of surprise, Ryuutaros wasn't able to put up a defense in time, forcing him back out of Ryoutaro. The purple light on the belt shifted into yellow, and it spoke again.

"AXE FORM."

The armor that had clamped onto Den-O previously floated outwards, spinning around before attaching onto the black bodysuit in a different configuration, creating a sturdy looking yellow suit of armor as the purple headpiece disappeared. It was soon replaced by a golden visor with an axe blade sticking out of it. Kintaros had replaced Ryuutaros as the dominant imagin, and had just transformed into Axe Form.

Hands moving as though he had done this a dozen times before, Kintaros adjusted the pieces of the DenGasher, turning it into a large axe. He dynamically stepped one foot to the right so that his feet were very far apart before placing his left hand on his chin, rotating his head to the left, causing a cracking sound to emit from his neck. "My strength has made you cry!"

The pass was pulled out again, Kintaros placing it in front of the belt. It spoke again, but the words were different this time.

"FULL CHARGE."

Kintaros' axe began to glow with yellow energy, and he began to slowly pull the axe downwards, preparing to toss it up. "My strength..." He proceeded to do so, the axe going up ridiculously high, spinning all the while. In response, Kintaros leaped up to a ludicrous height, catching the axe in midair and aiming to bring it down on Gruntilda's head.

"Will make you cry!" If it hit, then the blow would be ridiculously painful, if not crippling. Either way, something was going to explode.

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Kazooie choked. "Gaaag! Banjo I can't breeeaaath!" Once she was released, she looked over at the guy with Banjo, who was doing something... weird. "Huh, who's this weirdo? And what does he think he's-"

Then she saw him jump sky high and aim an axe blow at Grunty's head. "Uh oh, that doesn't look good! Banjo, get ready to bend backwards!" She ducked into his open backpack and stuck her upper body out the top, then pushed her feet out of the bottom of the bag. "'Cause if i know weirdos with arial manuevers, that things's gonna leave a crater when it lands!"

She wasted little time taking off- man, did Banjo gain weight?- and ducked behind a building, in case it got too bad.

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Needless to say, it hit dead on the mark.

Banjo didn't have to ask Kazooie for instruction again. Her motions were all familiar; he knew what they were leading up to, every time. He recongized the backwards tug at his backpack, and it felt natural, like a numbed body part returning to life. Sensing she was having troubles, he crouched and did his part, pushing off the ground to give her the extra momentum she needed.

The good ol' Talon Trot. Man. MAN, it felt so good. Especially on his poor feet.

Unfortunately, this also gave him a perfect view of the resulting explosion from the devastating attack. "...faster, Kazooie, FASTER!!"

As they ducked behind a building, a plume of smoke and fire blasted by. Anything that was were they were standing not moments ago would have been incinerated.

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Out of the smoke, Kintaros, in Axe form, stood. His knees were bent and the axe, which he was still holding onto, was embedded on the ground. He didn't look up as he spoke the name of his finishing move. "Dynamic chop."

Oddly enough, the explosion seemed to spontaneously generate tissue paper that fluttered down in the air. Kintaros acted as though this were completely normal. In fact, he reached out his hand, allowing a piece to fall into his palm. He then tossed it up into the air. "Wipe your tears with this!"

"Oh my, oh my... quite a large explosion this time, isn't it?"
"Man, our power levels have been changing like crazy lately! What's up with that?"
"Um... I think Tsukasa's influence may have to do with it.
"Oh, it's that Dickaydo bastard, is it? ONORE, DICKAYDO!"
"That's not how you pronounce it, Senpai. And we're not in - "
"Shut up!"
"Wrong language! Stupid Momo! Stupid! Stuuuuupid!"
"Why you little brat...!"

Kintaros pulled the belt off of his waist, and in doing so, the Den-O armor disappeared, and a yellow sphere of light exited Ryoutaro, returning him to normal. He placed the belt back somewhere inside his jacket, as well as putting the pass in his back pocket. He timidly looked around him. The explosion definetly was bigger this time. He hoped no one was hurt by it.

Ryoutaro looked around at the small crater he had formed, looking around for any civilians who might have been hurt by the explosion or something. He didn't see Banjo or Kazooie.

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Kazooie cringed. she could feel the incinerating heat generated from the impact, and it ruffled her feathers more than Bottles' attempts at home cooking.

Ugh, he was the reason why she ate bird feed in the first place.

When it seemed like the heat died down, she trotted back out from behind the building she ducked towards. Now THAT... was a big crater. "Alright, Banjo, you can take your paws off your eyes now." she smirked, giggling a bit. Then she put a wing to her beak in thought. "And while we're at it, you need to go on a diet. May legs feel like they're about to give out down here, so no honey dipped pizza for a month!" She folded back into his pack and got comfy, then peeked her head back out.

"...by the way... since when did explosions secrete tissues?"

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Banjo couldn't hold back a frown. He liked honey-dipped pizza.

Still, it was the kind of harping and nagging that he had been missing so, so much. In this crazy place, Kazooie was a familiarity that was warmly welcomed.

He got back on his feet as she withdrew, peeking out from behind the building and glancing towards the... "...ho boy," he meekly got out. "That... is big. Bigger than the last crater she fell into."

He waved to Ryoutaro. "Hey! Um... n-nice work!"

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Some smoke got in Ryoutaro's nose. He kind of sniffed a few times before getting into a sneezing fit, various internal fluids being shot out into his elbow. In the middle of this, he noticed Banjo and Kazooie. When his nose stopped making a fuss, he jogged over to them. The seemingly small effort, combined with the strain from the previous, yet short, fight, left Ryoutaro a little short of breath by the time he reached them.

Breathing heavily for a moment, Ryoutaro bowed his head. "Um... I apologize if my imagin caused any trouble for you."

"GIVE ME THE BUBBLE GUN!"
"No! Wai, wai~!"
"Pfffthgahgrh! Come here, you little brat-!"
"Oh dear, oh dear..."
"Zzzz..."

Ryoutaro winced at the commotion in his head. Mental links could be kind of annoying at times. "They can be a little rowdy..." He seemed to forget that Banjo would, more than likely, have no idea what an imagin even is.

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Kazooie raised a feathery brow, snatching up a tissue with her wings and handing it to Ryoutaro, in an attempt to ease his sneezy elbow. "What kinda gin? You part of an imaginary beer-making factory, White-out?" She moved her free wing into a thumbs down, sticking out her tongue. "No thanks, we know one guy with an afiliation towards alchohal, and he's one too many for my taste..."

She shuddered, not needing further reminder of Jolly Rodger's existence.

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[And I blame graduation and work. FORGIVE ME YOU GUYZ.]

"Trouble?? That was great!" He looked up and reconsidered. "...um, a little destructive for my liking, but I guess this city rebuilds real fast. I mean, there was another brawl here just last week and you could barely tell..."

He frowned at Kazooie. "I don't he means that kinda gin, Kazooie..." He shrugged. "I still don't know what he means, but either way, they put Grunty in her place pretty well!

"Speaking of..." He bit his lip as he glanced at the smoking hole. "...I think we'd better get out of here before she recovers."

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[pfft, you didn't take as long as I did to post last time I AM OBVIOUSLY THE MORE HARDCORE PROCRASTINATOR]

... Alcohol? As in, ima...gin? Ryoutaro shuddered. He really didn't want to imagine what would happen if the imagin were given alcohol. Actually, considering that they were odd time demon things, he didn't even know if alcohol would affect them. "Er... no, that's not exactly what I meant..." Ryoutaro mentally smacked himself for not realizing that they wouldn't know what imagin were. It's not like everyone in the world traveled through time. "It's... a long story." That was a sufficiently vague explanation.

As for the destruction, Ryoutaro bowed apologetically. "Sorry. Usually, the explosion isn't that big." At the very least, they didn't cause a crater in the gr... well okay, they didn't USUALLY cause a crater in the ground.

And apparently, the person who had just blown up could recover. Ryoutaro had heard of weirder things. For a moment, Ryoutaro considered bringing over the DenLiner. His imagin appeared to be thinking on similar lines.

"You need to get out of there? Aight, I'll bring the DenLiner!"
"No! No! Me! Let me drive!"
"Ryuuta, I don't think that's a very good idea..."
"Zzzzzzz..."
"Everyone, not yet. I still need to figure out more about this place."

But first, a question. "It... regenerates? What was it, anyway?"

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Kazooie couldn't hold in a giggle. "'It...' Snrrrrrk- Haahahaha! That's the best thing to call Grunty, isn't it?" Giggling a bit more, she finally got a hold of herself. "She... Is an old warty bag of gas with enough spell power to destroy a whole building. I STILL can't believe how easily she blew up our house."

Man, as much as she wanted to turn Grunty into a pecking post, she had to share Banjo's Concern. She seemed a bit stronger than last time, that's for sure...

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Banjo nodded in agreement with Kazooie's explanation. "She's a witch, so I'm sure she has spells to heal herself. I guess that's why she's so sturdy..."

His gaze kept darting back to the hole warily. "Um, so. I don't know about you guys, but I'd like to go before she starts the chase all over again..."

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"Ryoutaro! Imagin!"

"Eh?" Ryoutaro's statement of surprise was said out loud, probably confusing Banjo and Kazooie a bit. He needed to be somewhere else. Now. He supposed it made sense there were imagin everywhere. Had they had problems with them before...? If not, why would they only appear now.

He nodded at Banjo and Kazooie. "I got it. Thank you for the explanation." Somewhere behind him, an enormous portal opened up, and a giant train popped out of it. The train seemed to be floating in midair on tracks that it merely created in front of itself. "I don't want to be around when it regenerates... and I have to go somewhere." Not even considering that either of them might want to know what was up with the giant train, Ryoutaro stepped into DenLiner, Once he was inside, he looked over and bowed. "Thank you for your help.

The door closed, and Denliner flew off into another portal, disappearing.

[Exit Ryoutaro]

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Kazooie watched it all unfurl from Banjo's back-pack, even tilting her head at the magic train... But she's DEFINATELY seen weirder. "Well, alright, sheet cloth! Glad we could be of service!"

As soon as the Denliner made its way away, Kazooie looked down at Banjo. "As for YOU," she began, pecking at his noggin. "I guess i wasn't really thinking straight earlier. I forgot that you needed me." At this point, Banjo would probably be a bit upset by her sudden haughtyness.

But then, she opened her eyes and gave him a wink. "...As much as I need you, Banjo. Now step on it! We don't need Grunty on our tails again!" she harped, ducking down into his backpack.

Yep. she missed being with Banjo. Not to boss him around, but because of their friendship.

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And just when he thought he couldn't be surprised anymore, Banjo reeled back in shock when a train appeared and took the strange person away, disappearing as quickly as it came.

It should've disturbed him greatly. It should've left him questioning his sanity and/or vision.

But he was too busy getting his head pecked. "OW," he stressed, rubbing his head and groaning. "Aww, Kazooie, come oooon..."

He calmed at Kazooie's words, however, and smiled hugely. It was hard to go insane when she was around. Everything seemed right with the world.

"Ahh... right!" With that, he dashed away from the ITS.

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