"Send you back? What do you mean?" The girl asked Flynn innocently, "You have to send yourselves back! Beating the Necromancer cancels the timer and you can go home!" She didn't seem to be aware, or maybe she didn't care, that she wasn't speaking in terms people would all understand.
"BINGO~!" The little girl pointed at Rex, and smiled, "That's exactly what you're fighting! I hope you're all ready because I only have a little more time to explain," She jumped up on a log so she could be seen by everyone a bit better.
"Uhm, now that you've kind of got the technical explanation of them being the dead brought back to life, here's something else you need to know. They aren't just mindless brain eaters that you might be aware of, some of them have lots of weird powers! They are going to be kind of tough sometimes, but I managed to summon people who I knew would be able to handle any situation you're all thrown into! So things should be easy, so long as you don't completely drop your guard!"
She smiled brightly, "Uhm, any last questions before I take you to the nearest zombie attack? We need to take care of things,"
Token Loli!"Send ourselves back?" The doom marine repeated the girl's explanation, body language showing he was very exasperated despite his helmet blocking the looking of his face twisted in anger. "You little..." Flynn held back what he was going to say, he didn't need to make an enemy of the person who brought him here. Yet. He really didn't want to be killing more zombies. He's already been through what felt like an entire army's worth of zombies, and if what the girl said about strange abilities was true, they may not be quite as weaksauce as the ones back home.
Taking a better glance at the people he would be stuck with, it seemed there was quite a large variety here. Some were like himself, soldiers who fight through superior firepower. Others seemed to have a more medieval style to them, probably preferring melee. Some just seem flat out bizarre(including one who claimed they were a zombie, but didn't look it) but that was to be expected. He could already see this ending poorly.
"Yeah, I got a question" Flynn said when the girl told them they were about to be thrown into the fight. If he was going to go though hell again, he would at least like to know who to curse. "What's your name?"
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Sometimes I even amaze myself. Currently: Nice and sneaky like"Oh! My name is Shahandralohasralahwapegnagatentoulee Sarahslagathrabalan," She smiled as she finished pronouncing her absurdly long name, "Uhm, but I guess you people aren't used to this world's names, so you can call me... Sarah!" She giggled.
"Any other questions? We should probably get moving..." She seemed to start moving towards where they needed to go.
Ivankov seemed to be trying to comprehend everything he had been told. He wondered if Devil's Fruits were involved in this weirdness, "Sarah? That's much easier to pronounce than that other name! I think if I tried pronouncing your full name I'd die trying!" He made a dramatic fainting imitation, and waited for someone to react.
Jessica checked the 'watch' on her left arm, the Pipboy 3000. Her head hadn't suffered any kind of injury apparently, and her weapons weren't with her for some reason, except for the spiked knuckles she was wearing. Seemed she was to rough this out? That didn't seem like a fun prospect, these zombies reminded her of the Feral Ghouls, who fighting with her fists she could handle until one of them exploded, or the Super Mutants got involved. She sighed, accepting her fate for the moment but, honestly, she seemed to be thinking along the same lines as the guy who asked the girl her name; she wasn't exactly enthusiastic about suddenly helping people out when they weren't even in her own world.
Token Loli!Shauntal continued writing, "Despite the wishes of some members of the group, the heroes couldn't leave until the world had been saved." She paused and looked up at Sarah, the girl wanted to take them to the site of a zombie attack now? She would've liked a chance to get better acquainted with the cast but if people were in danger, that could wait.
"Die? I know that it's an odd name but isn't that a bit much?" she asked, directing her attention to the man with the unnervingly large head.
Sato got a bit closer to the group, although she still remained away from the others. If they were leaving and there were zombies about, going with them would be the safest idea. Plus, if she helped finish this sooner, she could get back to her friends faster.
Burn up, hurricane of justice!To say Harpuia was skeptical was a gross understatement.
Zombies? Nothing but a myth used for media entertainment. Perhaps she meant mechaniloids that act like zombies, such as the ones summoned by Anubis Necromancess III.
Regardless of how ridiculous this all sounds, Harpuia had really no choice but to follow the strange girl.
"Why does everything have to loop back to YGO?" -Guy who ruined YGOThe Scout raised his finger, almost as if he was in class, with a question for his teacher:
"Yeah, I have a question, knucklehead- did you bonk your head or something on your way here? You want us to fight zombies?! Are you crazy, man? I'm not going to do anything for you! So you get me back on my world or I'll beat you into pulp!"
Aang walked towards the Scout, slowly raising his hands, as if he was trying to calm down the Scout:
"Now, now, there's no need to be offensive—"
"What the hell are you talking about? No need to be offensive? What are you, the official peace president of the universe?... And why the hell are you bald?!"
The expression on the bald boy's face changed, as he suddenly became a bit more happy, and started to talk with a more cheery tone:
"Well, it's a tradition for every Air Nomad to be completely bald, you see, it helps us ma—"
The Scout quickly interrupted him, waving his arms around:
"It was a rhetorical question, numbnuts!"
Stone was about to ask the girl more questions on he situation when she insisted that he follow her instead.
"Dammit..." muttered the Royal Hong Kong police officer as he shoved his gloved hands on the front pockets located at his British DPM pants. "Why can't I get a more logical answer..."
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"No, my head is feeling just fine actually! Thanks for asking mister Scout~" She smiled and turned around, as she declared, "Well, if there are no more questions then we must be off!" She began to lead them away from where they were.
Ivankov stood up dramatically, "I'm OK!" he declared to the person who asked, "I wasn't going to die after all! HEE HAW!" He laughed loudly.
Jessica quietly followed behind Sarah as they moved on.
For those who actually followed, they would notice a change in the scenery after just a little ways, as once they escaped the natural cover of the plants, the world beyond showed a large greenlands that quickly stretched into a wasteland. Apparently the zombies have caused damage to the ground they walked on.
Those who could fly, again except for Reimu since she is already flying, would notice as they left the cover of the plants that they could as easily fly here as they could normally.
Token Loli!Unsteadily, Suika followed. Beating up zombies sounded kind of fun. Beating up zombies with Reimu while drinking sake sounded even more fun. Speaking of Reimu and sake, Suika took another drink and looked up at the flying miko.
"Heeeeyyyy, Reimu-chaaaan, do you have any sake?" she asked, in spite of holding an unlimited amount of it in her gourd.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up.""We have to kill the zombies?" Reimu asked, ignoring the request for sake—and Suika—in favour of checking her pockets. Good, no shortage of ofuda... not that she could ever really run out, but still. Plenty with which to seal zombies, explode zombies, cut zombies, and maybe just bludgeon zombies. Then, if she ran out, there were still the Hakurei Yin-Yang orbs.
Axe slung over one shoulder and in danger of bludgeoning anyone stupid enough to stand near her, the Old Axe Armour was following after the main group, humming to herself. Thirty seconds later, she randomly announced that she was probably a zombie. Probably. "I don't know, I don't look decayed, do I?"
"Sounds like a plan to me." Ayumu stated, following after the girl along with the others. Still, a bit of personal feeling crept into him, and he unconsciously gravitated closer to the little girl that had summoned them. Perhaps it was due to his daily life revolving around the other girls, but the zombie felt more at ease when he was closer to the summoner.
Always be ready to do the unusual and unexpected.While all the others (including Aang) began to follow the girl, Scout remained at the back of the group, still complaining:
"How do you know my name? How does the little girl know my name?! How does dat' work?! How did you get dat' information- wait... are you a RED Spy?! I want answers, you hear me? Answers!"
Roxas certainly had plenty of questions. He was quite confused about all this, but it was hard to ask when so many others were. And some of them simply shortened the amount he himself needed to ask. So... fighting these 'zombies' was the goal? Sounded simple enough... even if it sounded annoyingly similar to his days with the organisation.
...Well... on the whole, this group seemed decent. Certainly wasn't full of scheming liars seeking to use him for their own ends, or stab each other in the back a few times in their own little plots. That was always a plus. Although the Nobody still wasn't sure if they could exactly be trusted...
Ignoring the drag queen's over-dramatic antics, Doom Guy followed after "Sarah" towards whatever zombie problem she dragged them here for. He reached over his back and pulled out the chaingun, it's multi-barreled goodness gleaming from the over head sun, a belt of ammo trailing out of his backpack and held up by Flynn's left hand to keep it straight going into the gun feed. Sure, he could just pull out the BFG and finish the whole thing in one shot, but he didn't feel like wasting plasma ammo if there was none to be found here, certainly not on zombies.
As several people in the group began to talk and reveal just how strange (and annoying) they are, one girl in medieval knight's armor admitted that she was probably zombie, making that two. Combined with what she had said about having fought Dracula only made it more strange. Giving her a look down followed by a rather hard poke in the forehead, she seemed human enough to him besides looking slightly pale "Nah, you're fine" But I'm still wearing my armor to sleep He mentally added. Considering how strange these wackos were, keeping his armor on and a weapon in hand at all times may be the best plan.
Sometimes I even amaze myself. Currently: Nice and sneaky likeShauntal chuckled at Ivankov's response. Well, weird characters usually made a story stick in the reader's mind for longer, so she couldn't exactly say he was bad. Just...odd.
"We should probably stick with the others." she said, smiling awkwardly at the strange man.
Rubicante and Sato followed Sarah and the others quietly.
Burn up, hurricane of justice!"Oh, I know all of your names! But I'll leave introductions to you all to figure out yourselves. As I said, I don't have much longer to explain things," the girl said, "I know all of you because if I didn't, then how would I know who to summon?" She laughed at this after thought.
As they approached a village, they would see zombies shambling along around the outside of it, "Ah, here's the first few, luckily they're just Crawlers
◊, so don't attack them yet! I'll take a moment to explain things right quick," She now seemed to be speaking in quite a hurry, since while the zombies were a good distance away from them, and they wouldn't reach them for a bit, a few members of the group are more trigger happy than the others.
"So, basically, there are Zones. Some of you might have noticed back there that you can't fly, though if you weren't paying attention you may not have~. The reason is because it was a "No Fly Zone", which means that while in that area, nothing can ignore gravity, and both Wings and Air manipulation fail as well. Also Reimu up there was able to fly because her power is flight, which is a long explanation so I'm just going to leave it at that. You'll find other locations that specifically limit One Thing from happening, so be careful not to step into a zone that might limit your more important powers or weapons! Zones are non-lethal though, so if stepping into a zone will kill you then you can't step into it," She took in a massively long deep breath. How the hell had she said all that without breathing?
"Now, in this village, there is a "Fly Zone", which means everything in it is capable of flight should it choose to do so. That includes the zombies, but that also includes ALL of you! So every one of you will suddenly gain the ability to fly and with perfect control, easy as walking! Good news is this village doesn't have many zombies in it so while you may not be practiced in such combat conditions you will be able to handle the few here I'm sure of it!" She took in yet another massively long breath, "So, with that, show me I made the right choice! I have to go for a bit, so clear out the town of zombies!"
And with that, she waved her hand in farewell and vanished with a loud sound that was similar to slapping someone.
Ivankov "Hmphed" looked at the zombies, "Nasty creatures..." Flying? No flying? What was that little girl even going on about? Zones? Is it someone's power? He just looked at the oncoming zombies and let the others handle this, they didn't look difficult anyway.
Jessica looked at them, "Hey, wait... aren't you going to give me a weapon at least...?" she was far too late already, and sighed. She decided to sit this fight out, though she actually seemed to be using the lack of weapons as an excuse to not fight.
The three crawlers coming at them hardly seemed intimidating in any way other than looking horrible and disfigured.
If there are any questions or concerns regarding zones put them in the Discussion, I'll be happy to oblige appropriate explanations that aren't a loli's rushed couple of paragraphs. Part of the point here was to confuse the characters, heheh, despite hitting all the points.
Token Loli!Being poked in the head hurt, and the Old Axe Armour brought down her visor as soon as she could, rushing forwards at a bizarre speed for someone in plate armour. Then there was a zones explanation and... zombie killing time! Despite the hugeness of her axe, the armoured zombie had no difficulty throwing it like it was a light piece of paper... and somehow getting it back in time to throw it again.
The best thing to describe Reimu as, once the explanation was over (so everyone could fly here? That would be fine), was a machine-gun. She could throw a lot of ofuda, yes, but in this case she had the Hakurei yin-yang orbs shooting needles, too. It was quite an impressive rate of fire.
One of the zombies was unlucky enough to be subjected to a technique Suika liked to called 'stagger towards them and hit them really hard'. Normally this might not be the most effective strategy against a shambling corpse, but when you looked like an eight-year-old girl yet hit like a freight train fired out of a railgun punches tended to be more effective then usual.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."The three zombies went down rather quickly, and it was almost like a game.
However, the noise of the fight drew the attention of the other zombies and it seemed like the horde were a bundle of flies coming at honey. Something alive! And they looked hungry. It really added to the effect that they were all flying, up from the village and straight towards the group.
Jessica spoke up, using VATS to count the number of opponents, "One hundred... no, over three hundred that are coming at us..." She sort of backed up a bit, moving towards the far end of the group.
Completely contradictory of what Jessica was doing, Ivankov bent down before jumping high into the air, "HEEEE HAWWW! NEWKAMA KENPO!" He did a twirl in the air before kicking a hole right through one zombie, then another, and another, "HAH! Cannon Fodder!" He found the sensation of not having to go back down a bit odd but as the girl had said, it was easy.
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Token Loli!"This is just great."
Stone muttered, feeling a bit panicky when he saw the zombies coming in. He almost dropped his MP5, which was slinged on his neck, before he got to shoulder the weapon and take aim.
"Here goes." Stone said before he began to fire at some of the zombie's chests in semi-automatic mode.
Roxas listened to the explanations silently, trying to make sense of it all. Zones? Why were there 'zones'? How did it allow flight without pixie dust?
"Ugh... this is just weird..." Roxas muttered to himself, and glanced at the trio of zombies slowly shambling towards them. Okay, definitely not Nobodies. Sure, they were physical remnants that seemed to lack a heart, but Roxas was quite sure these creatures technically existed... well, not any more, since they were quickly destroyed.
"So... why did you need all of us again?" Roxas asked the strange girl. Then the reinforcements arrived. "...Oh."
...Well, looked like he had work to do. In a bright flash of light, the Kingdom Key appeared in Roxas' hand. Believing in his power to fly, the Nobody gave an experimental hop, finding that he could float well enough. Huh, this wasn't much different to flying in Neverland...
Rising in the air, Roxas approached the horde. He threw the Keyblade, watching it arc towards the group and cleave through several before it finally disappeared, once more appearing in his hand. Free of blood, as well.

Aang looked at Rex, tilting his head slightly and raising an eyebrow:
"What do you mean by brain-eating rotting zombies? What are zombies, anyway? Are they nice? Where do they come from?"
The boy started directing his questions not only to Rex, but to anyone near him.