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"Oh, I reckon there's been a misunderstandin' – on your end!" the bandit growled, marching forward and prodding Nio in the chest. "D'you fellers even realize what happened? Ain't no ghost has ever busted outta their paintings under the watch of E. Gadd before!"
"Who are you?" Mystle asked before it dawned on her. "Oh wait…I'm just gonna guess Snatchee your name?"
"Yer darn right it is! Not that that's any business of yours, you hooligans!"
"Hooligans? You're a Bandit!" Luigi said to her.
Drakus smacked himself in the forehead. That was very clearly the wrong thing to say, as Snatchee immediately narrowed her eyes dangerously at the plumber.
"That's not what he meant," Kanade cut in. "What he meant was – I mean, we just thought it was interesting that you're a cowboy, er, cowgirl… you know, since you are a Bandit and everything."
That didn't seem to make things much better. "Don't ya think I get enough flak for that already?" Snatchee said impatiently. "So I'd rather enforce the law than break it! That ain't a crime! As a matter a' fact, it's by definition the OPPOSITE of a crime!"
"What… are you all?"
Ryuko grimaced, clenching her fist lightly and trying not to look at the damage she'd caused to the old abandoned house that was, as of thirty seconds ago, collapsing into nothing more than a pile of rubble. Apparently Furina put so much force into that vacuum that she'd not only turned the so-called Devil into a mist that got dragged into the vacuum, but the force transfer had also rocked the foundations, along with creating a wind cannon shaped trail of destruction to the north.
How the fuck were they supposed to know supernatural creatures were so fucking fragile? It wasn't like some of them were used to being strong enough to topple buildings with their bare hands! With her scissor blade, sure, Ryuko knew how to pull off a wicked cool flying slash, but with her bare hands?!
Ugh. The last time she'd even really punched someone was when she was dealing with Ragyo, and that bitch just wouldn't go down.
Ahem.
"... That's a complicated question, not gonna lie," Ryuko answered after a moment's indecision, looking back and forth at the group that she'd found herself in front of. Satsuki knew them by reputation. Apparently the club leader went by Gremory Rias, and the pervert was named Hyodou Issei. Aaaand maybe the tiny one was named… Toujou…? Or something? She'd heard a few girls squealing about how cute one of them was so…yeah. "I mean…some of us aren't human, myself included. And I guess we saved some universes, and I saved the world? I dunno, I guess that hasn't really gotten into the news much."
"Wait- you saved the universe? When? How? From what?" the blond guy spoke up, stepping forward with his hand held firmly on the hilt of his sword and wearing a strangely… not really hostile, but more mistrusting… expression on his face. Ryuko didn't really mind, she'd seen that face more than a few times even during the rebellion against Ragyo.
"An ice dragon that apparently had issues, Britain but led by a butterfly, Arthi over here, another Carmen Sandiego, and an intergalactic empire." Drakus said.
"...From… Kiryuuin Ragyo…? And the Life Fibers…?" Ryuko responded awkwardly, scratching her head and trying to puzzle out why it seemed like the entire group of them except for Issei seemed so confused. "... I dunno what to tell you guys, there was a whole shitload of stuff that happened. I was in a coma for two months, a good chunk of Japan got abducted by aliens, the entire world almost got consumed by clothes… I had to go fight Ragyo in space…"
She shrugged, cracking her knuckles on her right hand using her thumb and leaning against a nearby tree. "Really. Not sure what else to say here. I mean, it was all over Twitter and LINE… pretty sure there's some videos about it on Youtube and NicoNico?"
"...Wait…that was you!?" Issei spoke up, for lack of recognition by anyone else in the group. "I thought I was going crazy- nothing like that happened here, but I was out on a trip with my family and, and…."
He shuddered a little, grimacing. "... That was a weird half hour."
"Yeeeaaaahhh… sorry about that," Nui winced, looking away and running her hand through her hair. "Sis did her level best to stop Ragyo but… well. It was kinda chaotic. Lotta shit happened. Anyway. That's my sis. Ryuko Matoi, don't wear the name out."
"Don't apologize, when I woke up there were a bunch of naked girls around me! It was like a dream come true!" Issei paused, then cleared his throat at the awkward looks everyone else was giving him (except for Rias, who was smiling as if she expected that kind of thing). "... Well. I was naked too. It wasn't fun when they started screaming and trying to beat me up."
"Yeeaaaahhhh… lotta clothes just kinda exploded. Couldn't really stop that part," Ryuko shrugged, then shook her head. "Whatever."
The nearby phone rang, and Raiden answered with a curt "Yes?"
"There appears to have been a flaw in our plan," Hellen's voice said, "but it means nothing."
The ghost currently sat in her personal suite, sharing a large, stuffed crust pizza with Wattles, Captain Metal, Gara, Vanitas, Cami, Z-Dragon, Gargoyle, and the Shadow Hunters. Many plastic cups and many large bottles of root beer sat on a table nearby.
"Good job scouting out this hotel," Spandam said, "Did you get the blueprints as well?"
"I'm not sure," Lucci said, "They looked similar to a set of fakes Iceburg had."
He passed over the documents. Spandam sighed when he looked them over.
"This is just a prototype Cutty Flam was making. It's not a real Medalia. Looks like we'll have to bank it all on getting those X-Squad people that Akainu talked about."
"Pretty audacious of you to work with a ghost," Jabra noted towards Kronos. "Now they're attacking the hotel in force. Though by now they should be slowed down by our giant friends."
"Your stupidity seems to have increased over the years," Lucci said, "Let's not forget the X-Squad are people involved in the attacks against several criminal organizations and empires."
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