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*The airship arrives, cloaking itself the best it can*

Tejas: *Into the radio* Target reached.

*The vessel that was following the Dragonwing IV stops when the ship cloaks itself. It looks around, trying to detect anything, but it can't. It turns around and heads back to rejoin the battle against the Metamo Ark.*

*The planet Asura has many watch towers spread out along its surface, along with a very large facility in the center. It looks to be heavily guarded.*

*Back at the space battle, one KHAOS ship manages to slip past all of the Arwings and starts shooting at the cannons on the ark itself (hint hint Nigel)*

*Inside the ark, Seth and Zerato finally reach the large room where they had been abducted into. The room used to be completely enclosed by walls, with a few windows here and there, but now the back walls are blown out and exposed to space. One KHAOS ship has latched onto the frayed edge of the floor and KHAOS soldiers are spilling out onto the ark. They see Seth and Zerato and begin firing.*

Seth: Blast these guys! *deflects some shots with his shield*

Zerato: *looks around* ...

Seth: Hey, when I said, "Blast these guys," I was talking about you! Use your cannon!

Zerato: ...My arm cannon isn't used offensively.

Seth: What? *deflects another shot* Then what is it used for? *gets his bow and arrow and shoots one of the soldiers, only to get hit by a shot due to his lapse in defense* Gah!!

Zerato: *shoots a light blue beam from his cannon at Seth, which heals his injury when it connects* Healing.

Seth: Oh... Well...that's...different. But it doesn't really help us against these guys!

Zerato: My ships are over there! *points to a spot in the room where a tall, cylindrical rocket stands next to a red pod thatstands on three legs and has a large white flower on top*

Seth: Huh? You have ships of your own? *shields against more attacks* And those are them?? What can they do?

Zerato: If I can reach the Onion, I'll be able to help you fight more offensively.

Seth: All right, if you say so! I'll shield you!

*Zerato runs for the red Onion while Seth strafes in front of him while holding his shield in front of him, blocking attacks aimed at both him and Zerato.*

*Before Zerato can make it to the Onion, one of the KHAOS soldiers pulls out a plasma grenade and throws it at Seth. The explosion knocks him back, injured, in spite of the shield. Zerato quickly turns around and heals Seth with a beam of his cannon. Seth quickly gets back up.*

Seth: All right, I've had enough of this! I'm charging them head-on! *brandishes his sword and charges at the soldiers*

*The soldiers fire continuously at Seth, injuring him, but Zerato fires his healing beam at Seth and heals all of the injuries instantly. Seth reaches the soldiers and starts swinging his sword madly, dispersing the enemies. Every time Seth is attacked, Zerato heals him, making him virtually invulnerable. Finally, all of the KHAOS soldiers go down except for one, who frantically placed one of his palms on the ground. Seth quickly struck him down, but a demonic red glyph started glowing on the ground, centered on where the soldier had placed his hand. Red mist started rising from the glyph, enshrouding Seth. Zerato looked on in confusion. Suddenly a terrible roar filled the area and Seth was tossed from the mist out over the edge of the damaged floor, falling into space.*

Seth: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Zerato: ...!

*The crimson mist dissipates, revealing a blood-red cyclops wielding a large club standing where the glyph once was. It turned its ghastly white eye to Zerato, let loose another roar, and started lumbering over to him. Zerato quickly ran the rest of the distance to the red Onion, where he called out about 20 red Pikmin. With his army behind him, Zerato turned back to face the boss.*

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*A laser fires from the KHAOS ship, which hits the cannon that Silver Biospark is operating and destroys it.*

Silver: Blast! My cannon's out! Can somebody get that thing?

Firestar: Uhhh... *tries frantically to line up three Meteos without success*

Future: *is currently occupied with decimating a platoon of enemy ships in the giant space dogfight*

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*The Dragonwing IV lands safely on the planet Asura, some distance away from the central facility. None of the large watch towers seem to have noticed them, but there are still plenty standing between DG90 and the facility.*

Tejas: Alright. Unlike most covert ops, we will NOT split up this time. I do not want a single one of you dying. Is that clear?

Sakura: But I sneak better alone! ....Besides, without Mariko here, we lack the outside support we need to makethis work! ><

Kojiro: I don't see why we can't just rush in and kick all their asses!

Tejas: If they become alerted to our position, we could jeapordize the operation as a whole.

Libra: ...I don't think we're alone...

Tejas: ?! Wha? What do you mean, dear?

Libra: I sense... a normal human in that crate... *Points at a crate in the room*

Tejas: *Opens it*

??? (Familliar sounding female voice) WAAAAAAH! >< *A black haired, straight haired girl in a school uniform and glasses springs up and points a handgun at Tejas. He is unphazed*

Tejas: Calm down, Mariko.

Mariko: Oh... It's you guys... *Lowers her gun*

Tejas: *Turns on communications monitor* This is the Dragonwing IV... we'd like to inform you that we have recieved additional aid.

*Commander Card Hero is on the flag bridge listening in to communications while General Pepper barks orders at everybody. Things are pretty loud and chaotic.*

Card Hero: What? ...Oh, additional aid? Okay, that's fine. ...Wait, who is it?

Tejas: Our former analyst, Mariko. She's good with data, and finding structural weaknesses.

Card Hero: Oh, that's great then! Well, carry on--

*The front windows of the flag bridge are busted open as a KHAOS ship crashes into them. A lot of the power goes out as the workers scream and run for cover.*

Card Hero: What in the name of?!?

General Pepper: Battle stations, everyone!

*Everyone in the room readies their weapons, (whatever they may be) and aims them at the ship. The ship's door slowly opens and a bright orange light floods into the dark room. Somebody steps out. He appears to be wearing a KHAOS uniform, but his skin is all a bubbly orange color, as if his body is composed of lava-lamp material.*

????: Greetings, invaders of the Zera system! Your ship looked like it wasn't using enough fuel, so I came here to BURN SOME! *aims his hands at the Ark's defenders and shoots streams of fire at them*

Card Hero: Get down! *jumps to the side*

*Everyone starts shooting their weapons at the mysterious orange figure, but they don't seem to have much of an effect, as he just continues roasting everything while laughing insanely.*

????: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! If you can't take the heat, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN!

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*Meanwhile, Zerato and his red Pikmin army are currently battling the red cyclops. While Zerato frantically tries to determine the cyclops's weak point, the giant swings club, knocking back a lot of the Pikmin but not killing any.*

Zerato: *loads Pikmin into his cannon and fires them onto the cyclops's eye*

Red Pikmin: *start whacking the eye*

*The cyclops blinks, trying to shake off the Pikmin, but they manage to hang on. The cyclops eventually gets so frustrated with trying to remove the Pikmin that it starts flailing about and falls onto its stomach. In this position, Zerato notices that the top of the cyclops's head is scarred and cracked.*

Zerato: *fires more Pikmin onto the top of the cyclops's head, where they start attacking for decent damage*

*The cyclops roars and get back to its feet, shaking its head violently to dislodge the Pikmin. Then it takes a deep breath and breathes fire at Zerato and his Pikmin.*

Zerato: *takes scorching damage*

Red Pikmin: *are immune to the flames and look at Zerato oddly, as if wondering why he's taking damage*

Zerato: *gathers his Pikmin together and fires them at the cyclops's eye again, hoping to knock it off balance again*

*The cyclops tries to ignore the mass of Pikmin attacking its eye and swings its club down toward Zerato, who leaps to the side in the nick of time. Then the cyclops gets agitated enough to fall over again.*

Zerato: *calls the Pikmin attacking the eye and fires them at the scarred part of the cyclops's head*

*After taking enough damage, the cyclops's head suddenly explodes, blowing the Pikmin off. The cyclops stumbles to its feet, roaring in pain, and finally stumbles off the edge of the floor and falls into space, where it collides with an enemy ship.*

Red Pikmin: *jump around and wave their stems, cheering*

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*Meanwhile, Nigel's group isn't having much luck with the KHAOS ship that is encircling the Metamo Ark, taking out its cannons. It fires another laser at Future's cannon, which is by far the most dangerous, while the Golduck is still distracted with taking out other enemies.*

Future: *suprised by his cannon exploding* Golduck?!

Silver: Argh... This isn't working! Nigel, Firestar, you have to take out that thing before it takes out any more of our cannons!

Firestar: *scrabbling furiously on his touch screen* I'm trying, I'm trying!

Nigel fires off three in quick succession.

*The Meteos are launched out of Nigel's cannon and immediately home in on the KHAOS vessel. The ship tries to lose them, but the Meteos can't be shaken and soon catch up to the vessel, exploding on impact and destroying it.*

Silver: Whoa... Good job!

Firestar:

Future: ... Golduck! Golduck duck duck duck Gol! *leaps out of his seat and starts jumping about frantically, as if trying to get everyone's attention*

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*Where Zerato is, the celebration over the defeat of the cyclops comes to a close when two more KHAOS ships hover over to the edge of the floor. The doors open, ready to unleash a fresh horde of soldiers onto the ark, when a series of lasers fly by and destroy the two ships before they can land. Seconds later, a specially-designed Arwing flies by.*

Falco: Aw yeah! Now this is the kind of job I can learn to love!

Seth: *in the back seat* Hey! There's Zerato! *gets on the comlink* Hey Zerato!

Zerato: ... *opens his link* ...Seth?

Seth: Yeah, it's me! When I was falling, this nice little toucan rescued me!

Falco: Toucan?! Listen, blondie, I'm a falcon! Falco Lombardi! Sheesh, even my name should tell you that!

Zerato: ...Well, I'm glad you made it.

Seth: Me too! Now why don't you get in your ship and join us? We still have a job to do!

Zerato: *quickly orders his Pikmin into the Onion, then gets into his rocket and launches it*

Falco: Next stop, planet Yob!

*The Arwing glides around gently until it's traveling alongside Zerato's rocket and they both zoom off toward the nearby green planet with the red Onion flying behind them.*

Future: Golduck duck duck Golduck!

Firestar: Hey, what's gotten into Future?

Future: *starts tugging on an article of clothing of Nigel's*

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*Meanwhile, on Asura, a patrol of KHAOS soldiers starts walking near where the Dragonwing IV is sitting, unaware that it's there. Searchlights are swiveling about the area from the many watch towers.*