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Awhile ago, I gave some of my Bakugaiden next gen beeps updated references, because they really needed them.

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Another comic practice, though read as a manga this time (right to left), and I tried imitate Bakushoden style for this. Aiirobon, I'm sorry for subjecting you to pain.

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Bakugaidenshoden Next Gen.

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Sky-Soarer (Sorabon) and Tenacious-Tealer (Tiirubon) in their mecha forms.

So I tried drawing mechas. I still need some practice drawing mechas, but hey, it's a start, right?

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Crushed! (Part 1 of 2)

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Author's note: "~~" means the scene changes, while "--" means a different perspective of the same scene.

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Plot Synopsis: Porukabon finally summons the guts to confess to Shianbon, but his heart gets broken. Unable to handle the rejection, he storms off somewhere, only to wind up captured by the Neo Musketeers and subsequently corrupted, now he's out to destroy his heart breaker! Will it be possible to stop him?!

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[In the Main Base's living room]

Beautiful music plays as two biidaman, and man and a lady, walk to the bow of a ship. The man then raises the lady into the air, as he does so, she stretches her arms out to seem like she's flying, what a very familiar sight. "I'm flying Jakkubon! I'm flying!"

The camera then pans to Polka and Tosukana on the couch, sobbing at this scene while they're holding tissues. "*sniffle* Th-That's s-so... BEAUTIFU-U-UL!" Polka bawled, his tears shooting like a water spout, before blowing into the tissue he was holding.

"This is *hic* too sweet!" Tosukana hiccupped as he tries futility to wipe away his tears with his tissue.

They both continued to cry as the sliding doors to the living room open and Sora walks in, wanting to know what's with crying. "What heck are you guys bawling about? I can hear your crying all the way down the hall." He turns to the television to see the romantic scene in question, then grimaces. "Eugh, you guys are watching a romantic movie? Gross." He looks back to the two. "Why the heck are you guys watching a romantic movie?" After saying that, Tosukana throws the tissue box he had next to him right at Sora, and it hits him square in the face, leaving a perfectly rectangular red mark across his face. "OW!"

"None of your business!" Tosukana yelled at him. "And it's not gross, it's beautiful!"

Sora rolled his eyes as he gently rubs the red mark. "Whatever. Anyway, did you guys really have to watch this at my place and not at Tucker's house?"

"Does it matter?" Tosukana inquired with a raised brow.

"Yes! Because mushy lovey-dovey romantic stuff is gross!" Sora argued.

"That's not a good reason." Tosukana contended.

"Yes it is!" Sora countered.

Now it was Tosukana's turn to roll his eyes, he then lets out an exasperated sigh. No point in continuing this argument, it's pointless anyway. He turns his attention to Polka when he hears him giggling. "Huh?"

His giggling also caught Sora's attention. "Porukabon?"

Polka didn't catch his name being called, he was too preoccupied in his own fantasy to even hear him. He fantasized about the same boat scene, but with him and Shian, and Shian is the one holding him up while he outstretches his arms as if to fly. "I'm flying, Shianbon! I'm flying!" He was so caught up in his daydream that his failed to realize he actually has his arms outstretched while now standing up on his tiptoes.

"Porukabon? Porukabon??" Sora tried calling out to him, but it fell on deaf ears. He slightly puffed up one of his cheeks and grumbled. He went off-screen for a moment, then came back with a comically large megaphone. 

"Oh no." Knowing what Sora was going to next, Tosukana preemptively covers his (invisible) ears.

Sora raises the large megaphone, inhales, then screams into the speaker. "HEY! EARTH TO POLKA!"

The moment Polka heard the booming of Sora's voice through the megaphone, he lets out a shriek, and jumps up high into the air. "YAAAAH!" He then falls back down onto the floor and lands with *THUD!*. "AGH!" His eye is now a swirl. "Ow..."

Sora snickers. "Welcome back, Porukabon."

When Polka recovered from his mild daze, he swipes the comically large megaphone from his hand, jams the loudspeaker onto Sora's head, then picks the megaphone up by the handle, and yells into it. "DON'T FREAKING DO THAT AGAIN!"

The yell powered up by the loudspeaker sends Sora flying and crashing into the wall, leaving a Sora-sized indentation in said wall. "N-Noted..." Sora uttered in a pained, squeaky voice while dazed.

"Hmph." Polka scoffs as he tosses the megaphone away, then crosses his arms.

"Sheesh..." Tosukana uttered as he stared at Sora, he felt kind of bad for him, but he did deserve that for surprising Polka like that. He then shifts his gaze to Polka to ask him something. "Anyways, what happened there, Porukabon?"

"Huh?" Polka glances to him. "What do you mean, Tucker?"

"I mean, what were you daydreaming about just then?" Tosukana questioned.

His cheeks gain a pinkish tint. "Daydream?" He turns away and denies it. "I wasn't daydreaming."

Tosukana smirks. "You sure you weren't imagining that boat scene with yourself and Shianbon just then?"

Polka's cheeks got redder, did he actually say her name aloud while he was fantasizing? How embarassing! "N-No! No I wasn't!" He snapped back.

"Yes you weeeere.~" Tosukana sung teasingly.

Polka turned and snapped at him. "SH-SHUDDUP! I was not! I don't like her like that!" 

"Polka, I know you crush on Shianbon, it's obvious. No point in trying to deny it, especially with that reddish-pink face of yours." Tosukana stated slyly.

Polka wanted to keeping denying it, but he couldn't figure out a retort to fire back to try to prove to Tosukana he's wrong. After sputtering for an answer, he finally conceded. "Okay fine! I have a crush on Shianbon, alright?! Will you knock it off now?! God!" He huffs, crosses his arms once again, and turns his back to him.

Tosukana snickers a bit. "Okay okay, I'll stop." He pauses for bit, then asks him. "When did you start crushing on her?"

Polka took a moment before responding. "After she saved me from hitting the ground after I fell out of that tree..."

Hearing that answer, Tosukana flashbacked to the time where he and his friends were playing a game of baseball, he accidentally hit the baseball into a tree, and Polka offered to go get it. He climbed the tree, and crawled onto a branch, and he was about to grab it when said branch snapped from under him, lucky for him, Shian managed to catch Polka right before he hit the ground, and unlucky for Sora, the baseball fell and bonked him on the head. Tosukana noticed Polka was blushing, but Polka himself told him it was just the shock of suddenly falling out of a tree. Tosukana knew there was something more to that, but at the time, it wasn't appropriate to point it out given the circumstance. "I figured that would be why."

Sora walks back over to the two, rubbing the spot where the baseball fell onto his head. "And I still feel that pain every now and then. Owie."

"Heh, I guess you really *fell* for her, didn't you, Porukabon?" Tosukana joked.

Polka groans. "Ugh, that's a joke my dad would make."

Tosukana laughs. "Sorry, couldn't help myself."

"Ugh, how cheesy." Sora remarked while turning away. Tosukana glared to him and throws another tissue box at him, and this time it hits him on the side of his head. "Ow! Stop that!"

"Anyway..." Tosukana began before turning to Polka, him still having his back facing him. "Why haven't you told her how you felt yet?"

It took Polka a couple seconds to reply. "I... I don't think she'll like me back..." He answered hesitantly.

"Not like you back?" Tosukana stood up and went over to him to place a hand on his back. "Dude, you won't know until you tell her how you feel."

Polka gazed to him and sputtered. "B-Bu-But I-I'm too afraid to tell her!"

"Then let me help you!" He offered. "I've watched enough romantic movies to know exactly what to do!" 

"Are you sure..?" Polka asks, uncertain if Tosukana would really help him with this endeavor.

"Positive! And trust me Polka, I can help you win her over!" Tosukana insisted. "What do you say?"

Polka mulls it over for a bit, then lets out a sigh and agrees to his offer. "Fine, I guess you can help me confess to her."

Tosukana squealed in delight, then grabs Polka's arm. "Great! Now let's get you ready!"

"Ready?" Polka uttered in bewilderment.

"Yeah! We get you into a nice suit, then find a nice bouquet of flowers for you to give to her!" Tosukana turns to Sora. "Sorabon, do you want to help-" He stopped himself when he saw that Sora was no longer at the spot he was just standing at, then stares to the door to find it open and him standing in the hallway.

"Nope! I told you, romance, not my thing, plus, I have more important things to be getting to, now if you'll excuse me, I have to go play video games- I MEAN, go do heroic stuff with my dad! Later!" With that said, Sora zooms off, and the sliding door closes, leaving Polka and Tosukana on their own.

"Well, I guess that just leaves the two of us." Tosukana turns to Polka. "Now let's go get you spiffied up for your big moment!"

Polka didn't want to do this, something in the back of mind feels like something is going to go wrong, but if Tosukana says he knows what to do, then he trusts his judgement. In addition, it's probably better he tells Shian that he likes her now rather than wait until later, just to get it over with. Surely this cannot go horribly arwy, right?

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[Later at Biida Park.]

After getting Polka all nice and fancied up, and finding a nice bouquet of cyan flowers, him and Tosukana head to where Shian said she'd be, Biida Park, and they find her chatting with Tiiru and Dot, aside from them, others were just minding their own business a fair distance away. "There she is, but she's still with Dottobon and Tiirubon..." Polka mumbles.

"She did say she's hanging out with them." Tosukana states.

"Ye-Yeah, but... I-I was ki-kinda hoping they would b-be off doing something else while sh-she waited, a-and no one else would be around..." He stammered. "I-I don't want t-to humiliate me-myself..."

Tosukana places a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Polka, everything will be fine, those biidaman are a little far away to pay you any notice, but I will be watching from the bushes just incase something does happen." He lightly pushes Polka forward, then hides in the nearby bushes, once in there, he shoots him a quick thumbs up. "Go get her, bud!" He then ducks into the foilage, only his eyes are showing now.

Polka stops and just stands there, shaking for a bit. Oh gosh, he is really going to do this, he is really going to confess his feelings to his crush. He wants to turn back, but it's too late for that, he's here now, may as well just get it over it and hope for the best. He takes in a deep breath, then breaths out. "You can do this, Porukabon. Just tell her how you feel. Be confident!" Clad with his suit and with bouquet in hand, he wills up the courage, and approaches over to the three. "Uh, he-hey guys." He uttered sheepishly.

Upon hearing him, the three turn to him. "Oh my goodness Porukabon! You look so nice!" Dot exclaimed.

"Whoa, I agree!" Attested Tiiru. "You look pretty good in that."

Polka blushes and rubs the back of his head, but he looks aside and doesn't say anything. "I'll say, you don't half-bad in that suit." Shian's compliment makes him blush deeper. "I gotta ask though, what's the occasion, and what's with the flowers?" She asked with a slightly raised brow.

Polka gulped. This is it. 'Don't back out now, Porukabon, you've wanting to tell her for a long time! Just say it!' After internally urging himself, he faces her, and shakily holds out the bouquet for her to take. "A-Actually S-Shian, th-they're for yo-you."

"F-For me? Wha..?" Shian needed a second to process. Why would he give her flowers? What would she even need them for? Pop's garden back home? He's probably allergic to some of these.

Dot's eyes glimmered and she put her hands together at Polka's gesture. "Awww!"

Tiiru is simply stands there, unsure of why Polka is gifting their sister flowers. They know that Shian is not really into flowers that much. Were the flowers even hypoallergenic? They wouldn't want "Mom" to get allergies if they weren't and Shian chooses to take them home.

Meanwhile, Tosukana is watching from the bushes. "This is already going well so far!" He muttered excitedly to himself.

Polka shakes his head and clears his throat to compose him, he then gets on one knee, and outstretches the bouquet a bit more, and speaks in the most "handsome" voice he could muster as he also pulls off the "handsome face" he learned from Shirobon. "Shianbon, after you saved me after I fell out of that tree that fateful day, I have had feelings for you, and I can't keep them boxed up anymore. Shianbon, I like-like you. Will you accept me as your boyfriend?"

"Oh my gosh!" Dot squeaked. She knew of Polka's crush on Shian, and she was so glad he finally got the courage to tell her how he felt about her.

The realization finally dawned to Tiiru. "Oooooh, that's why you're giving her the flowers." 

Meanwhile, Shian just... couldn't figure out what to say right away. She didn't think Polka liked her like that, he gave her no indication that he crushed on her, actually, now that she thinks about it, those weird looks he sometimes gave her and how he sometimes blushes near her makes a lot more sense now. How the heck did she not connect the dots sooner? It was kinda obvious.

She felt... awkward, to say the least. She doesn't return those feelings, and Polka needs to know this. Better to rip off the band-aid than to lie about reciprocating his feelings.

"Porukabon, that's nice and all," She lightly pushes the bouquet back to him. "but no, I won't."

Polka felt his heart shatter. "N... No..?" The flowers in the bouquet wither. "Wh-Why..?" He shakily asked as his eye began to water.

"Bro., I'm not into you." She tells him bluntly. "I like you and all, but not in that way."

He stares to the ground, tears falling from his eye. She didn't like him back... Polka sorta expected this to happen, yet, the truth still crushed him.

Seeing Polka in this state, Tiiru glares and whispers to Shian. "Shianbon, you didn't think you could've let him down more gently than that?"

"What?" She whispered back. "He needed to know I didn't like him like that."

"Did you need to be so blunt about it?" They ask.

Dot chimes in hushedly. "I'm with Tiirubon. You could've told him more nicely."

"I still got my point across, didn't I?" Shian inquired. "I already told you guys, I'm into someone else." She says, not realizing she said that aloud.

Hearing that, Polka gazed up to her. "Someone else..?"

'S**t, did I say that out loud?' She cursed internally. "Uh, no. I didn't say that." She tried to bluff.

Polka was not buying it. "No, I heard you loud and clear." He stands up. "You're into someone else." His grip on the withered bouquet tightened, and his voice raised as he continued speaking. "Why didn't you tell me sooner so I didn't waste my godd**n time?!"

With Polka getting aggressive, Shian reacts in kind. "Because it's none of your godd**n business!" She snapped. "Plus, how was I supposed to know you liked me? You barely made it obvious!"

Tiiru stepped forward a bit, hands held in a "calm down" gesture. "Please calm down you two."

"STAY OUT OF THIS!" Polka screamed at them.

Shian got defensive. "DON'T YOU YELL AT THEM!"

From the bushes, Tosukana didn't expect things to take a sour turn, nor for it to become a scene. "Oh no, this got ugly fast. I should step in before it gets even worse." He comes out of his hiding spot and rushes over to them, hoping to diffuse this situation while feigning obliviousness.

Tiiru sees him running over all of a sudden. They stare at him bewildered. Where did he come from? "Taka?"

"Hey everyone! I was on my way here when I heard yelling. What's going on this time?" He asks, pretending to act like he doesn't know what's happening.

Polka swiftly turned to him. "Don't you pull that crap!"

Tosukana flinched, not expecting Polka to turn on him suddenly. "P-Porukabon, what are you-"

Polka cuts him off. "Don't you pull that fake obliviousness BS! You know full well what was happening!" He jabs a finger into Tosukana's chest. "Why the FREAK did you not warn me this was going to happen?! With all the romance movies you watch, you should've known something like this could happened, now you made me a fool of myself! You got my hopes up for nothing!"

"You tried to help him, Tucker?" Dot questioned him.

"I-I..." Tosukana stammered, trying to come up with a good answer. He decided to drop the oblivious facade at this point, no need to keep it up any longer. "I... I tried to-" He was cut off adruptly when Shian grabs his arm and pulls him away from the enraged Polka, then stands infront of him protectively.

"I don't know what the heck you're talking about, but you need to f*cking lay off and leave him alone!" She bellowed.

The hand that held the withered bouquet clenched tighter. "You f*cking know what?!" Polka slams the bouquet down onto the ground. "SCREW YOU! I DON'T YOU NEED YOU!" With that he storms off, crying until he was out of the group's eyesight. Silence soon followed. The whole scene caught the attention of some of the biidaman at the park, but they all went back to minding their own business once the scene was over, trying to act like that didn't happen.

Shian takes in a deep breath before sighing. "Oh my bon..." She then turns to Tosukana. "Tucker, you have some explaining to do."

"And after he's done explaining," Tiiru added while glaring at their sister. "*We* need to discuss some things."

She raised a brow. "What?"

In the bushes across from where Tosukana was formerly hiding, the Neo Devil Trio, or Neo Musketeers, watched all the drama go down, no one noticed they were there. "Ooooh, draaamaaa.~" Dandylion sung quietly. Once the show was over, the three ducked down and sat upon the ground.

"That was like a scene from a movie, except it was actually good." Lucifer commented.

"Pffft, yeah. She straight up shot him down. I *almost* feel bad for Porukabon, but not really." Hades remarked.

"Oh poor Porukabon's little heart, and I thought *we* were the bad guys here." Dandylion says with fake sincerity while shaking their head. "What a shame."

Hades brandishes some kind of black and dark red device. "What a shame indeed."

Lucifer raises a brow upon seeing the aforementioned device. "What are you planning to do with that, sis?"

"Oh, just a little something that will, shall I say... "assist" Porukabon, and make Shianbon regret turning him down." Hades answered somewhat sinisterly.

"You're going to use that on him? Hades, hasn't he been through enough?" Dandylion questioned, partially concerned, but mostly not.

"Nope." She replied. "Despite how One-Eye feels about Ms. Blunt right now, convincing him will not be an option, so I have a little plan to rope him in." 

The siblings huddle together to discuss said plan. "Oh come on, do I really have to wear *that?*" Dandylion whined quietly.

"You're the second tallest here. You have to for the plan to work." Hades states hushedly.

Dandylion groans softly. "Fiiine."

"Why are we whispering?" Lucifer asked whilst whispering.

There was a pause before Hades shrugged. "I don't know, we don't know who's listening I guess."

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Somewhere at a clearing in the far outskirts of Biida Park, Polka was venting and taking out his frustrations on a rather large rock. "God freaking DAMMIT!" He screamed as he managed to punch an indent into the stone. "What a waste of my godd**n time! I figured crap like this was gonna happen, yet I held my f**king hopes up! I'm such a f**king IDIOT!" He punches another indentation into the rock, causing some pebbles to fly, before resting against it, and began sobbing into his knees.

He didn't cry for long as he heard a little girl shrieking. "Huh?" Polka looks up to see what he thought was a chubby dark green little girl getting chased by a large kumaron. "HELP ME!" She cried out. Guess Polka has to put aside his self-appointed pity party for later and help this little girl out!

She trips over a little rock, then turns her body to face the kumaron that was towering over her, it roars as it moves in to attack her. She screamed as she braced herself for its attack.

"HEY! LEAVE HER ALONE!" Polka yelled to the kumaron, making it stop in its tracks and turn to face him. It roared once more as it began charging at him on two legs. 

Polka was a bit scared, but he plants his feet firmly into the ground, put his hands around his biidama, and fires off a biida shot at the rampaging kumaron. The biida shot made a direct hit on its head, and it knocked it right out. "Ha! Gotcha!" He then rushes to the girl to see if she's alright, and holds his hand out to help her up. "Are you okay?"

She takes his hand and helps herself up. "Yes I am. Thank you so much for saving me! That thing decided to chase me for no reason!"

Polka smiled a bit. "Heh, it was no problem I guess." As he was talking, he was unaware someone was approaching him from behind. "I gotta ask though, what're you doing out here? Did you get lost or something?"

He never got his answer as he was suddenly snatched up from behind by an armored-up Lucifer. "GAH! What the?! LET ME GO!" Polka tried to break free from his hold, during his struggle, he caught a glimpse of his holder. "Lucifer?!"

"Yeah, it's me, and I suggest you stop your struggling." He raised his armored talon until it was barely touching Polka's chin. "That is, if you don't want to get your new suit ruined."

Polka could care less about his suit right now and cares more about what their motives with him are. He tries to chomp on Lucifer's wrist to get himself free, there was an audible *CLANG!* of metal, then he cries out and starts spitting profusely. "AUGH! Ow! Yuck! Pft! Pfffft!"

"I don't know why you thought trying to chomp me was a smart idea." Lucifer remarked.

"Bleh! That wasn't just a cry of pain, doofus! That was mostly a cry of how disgusting your armor tastes! It tastes as bad as those Bontendo Switch cartridges! Do you ever wash this thing?!" Polka spat back.

His insults ticked Lucifer off, but also baffled him somewhat. Who in their right mind would taste those bitter cartridges? Not like Lucifer would know, not like he tried doing that or anything- oh nevermind that, he was insulted, that what matters at the moment. "How about you shut up and watch your tongue before you lose it, punk!" He threatened as he moves the claw to touch Polka's chin.

Polka gulped at this and froze, then he glances to the girl with a pleading eye. "Don't just stand there, help me!"

"Oh Porukabon, I would, but..." She undoes her disguise, revealing herself to be Hades!

"HADES?!" He shouted out.

"Is there really a need to shout out my name?" She quipped.

Groaning is heard from the kumaron. It sits up, then takes off its head, revealing it to actually be Dandylion! They rubbed the newly formed bump from where Polka's biida shot hit on their head. 

"Owwww..." They whine before standing up and turning to glare at their siblings. "Next time, one of you guys is wearing the tacky costume and getting hurt!"

Hades rolled her eyes. "Oh quit your whining."

Polka growled. "Grah! Enough of the chatter, and let me go right now!"

"Oh, what would be the fun in that?" Hades inquired. "Especially if we need you for something."

"I'm not in the mood to deal with you guys right now! I've already had a bad enough day as it is! I don't want any part of your scheme!" Polka hissed.

"Oh, we already knew that, getting crushed by your crush and all that." Hades gets out the evil-looking ray gun-like device. "And we weren't intending on asking you."

"Y-You saw all that- YOU THREE WERE SPYING ON THAT?! YOU NOSY PIECES OF-" Polka adruptly stopped his bellowing upon seeing the device in her hands, he went from raging to worried when the second thing Hades said began to sink in.

"What's that..?" He asked hesitantly, not really wanting to know the answer.

"What, this thing?" She raised the evil ray gun up from her other hand before lowering it back into it. "Don't worry about it, actually, you wouldn't have to do any worrying once I'm done using this Dark Energy Ray on you."

"DARK ENERGY RAY?! WHAT?!" He shrieked.

"Hold him still!" Hades commanded Lucifer as she tries getting closer to Polka, evil device in hand. Lucifer nods, and his hold on Polka tightened.

Oh heck no! Polka wasn't going to let himself become their test subject! He resumed his struggling, he kicked his feet about as he tried to forcibly remove Lucifer's arm from around his throat to try to pry himself free, grunting and shouting as he did so. "NO! AGH! LET ME GO! LET. ME. GO! I'M NOT GONNA BE YER GUINEA PIG! ARRGH!" 

Lucifer growled as he started having difficulties holding him still. "Knock it off you brat! And stop your screaming! You're too far out here for anyone to hear you! Just let it happen!"

"NO!" Polka refused to let up, he couldn't afford to let them win! Eventually though, he wound up exhausting himself, Lucifer is much stronger than he is, all his efforts to escape ended up being futile.

"You seem like your about done." Without wasting another second, Hades sticks the device onto Polka's biidama. "Don't worry, this won't hurt you... much!" She turns it on, and the Dark Energy Ray began transmitting dark energy into Polka through his marble.

When she said it wouldn't hurt him much, she lied. He closed his eye tightly as he began to writhe, grunt, and cry out as he felt the dark energy course through his body. He used what reach he had to grab the sides of his head as he felt the dark energy begin to take hold, he then painstakingly moved his hands to cover his face. "Ggh! N-No! NO! AAAGH!"

The device soon shuts off, having run out of dark energy, not long after, Polka fell quiet, his hands fell from his face, and he became eerily still. Hades removed the device from his biidama, which was no longer blue, but is now almost completely black. She gestured for Lucifer to put him down. "The transfer's done, you can put him down now."

Lucifer sets him on his feet and gets next to Hades as Polka slightly hunches forward and softly groaned. "Is he just about done complaining yet?" Dandylion questioned as they just about get their other foot out of their kumaron costume. "Such a tacky thing. Ugh, never again." They mumble before stepping over to their sister.

Hades turned to her sibling to answer. "Yup, he's quiet as a snail." She turns back to Polka to give him a simple command. "Porukabon, open your eye." He obediently does so, his eye color is no longer sienna brown, it is now a very pale brown, it no longer had an eye-shine, and he has an evil, hateful glare, though this look wasn't because of what the siblings had done. He began growling lowly and doing the motions of wanting to beat someone up. "Tell me, Porukabon, how do you feel?"

"...ANGER..." He replied robotically and darkly.

"Anger, eh? I see." Dandylion stepped infront of him, knelt down to meet his eye, and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Anger over what?"

"...BROKEN...HEART..." He answered robotically and lowly.

"Ooh, that is something to be angry about, huh?" They comment. "And we certainly know whose fault that is, don't we?" Polka didn't answer, but he responded by making a low growl-like noise, then hisses the name of his heart-breaker. "SHIANBON..."

"Mm-hm, and since Shianbon is the one to break your heart," Dandylion raised their fist in front of him, then clenched it, a bone-cracking sound effect is heard after they did so, and speaks a bit darkly. "Destroy her! Crush her like how she crushed your heart! Make her regret ever rejecting you!"

Polka growled and nodded, then spoke lowly. "YES, MX...." With that, the Dandylion ushered him off to fulfill his mission as he continued to slowly punch his own palm.

Lucifer and Hades stare at Dandylion, slightly stunned. "Geez Dandy, you sure can get... "dark" when you want to be." Hades acknowledged.

Lucifer nodded. "Yeah. Your name may be Dandylion, but you sure get sinister when we least expect it." He smirked. "I like that."

"Me too." Hades attested.

Their siblings' compliments made them blush and hold their cheeks. "Aww, thank you! You two flatter me." They lowered their hands and did a little clap. "Now how about we go watch the show go down?"

"H**l yeah!" Shouts Lucifer.

"Great idea. I can't wait to see the annoying cyan one get crushed!" Hades exclaimed. "Shall I get some popcorn?"

Dandylion bounced. "Ooh! Yeah! Let's have the big bucket!" 

"By the way Dandy, how did you manage to make that sound effect anyway?" Lucifer inquired. "Hope you didn't actually hurt your hand.

Dandylion opened their palm they made the sound with to reveal a joy-buzzer-like thing strapped around their hand. "This sound buzzer! I found it in a gag shop."

Lucifer chuckled. "Heh, nice."

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Back with the main group, Tiiru and Dot just finish talking to Shian about how she should've taken Polka's feelings into consideration instead of just being straight up honest. "So you rather have me lie to him?" Shian inquires.

"That's not what we were saying." Tiiru objected.

"What we we're trying to tell you is you should've let him down gently. Something like "Polka, I like you, but I see you more like a friend than a boyfriend. I'm sorry you had to learn this way, but I hope we could still be friends." would've been a better response, other than just... being outright honest." Dot explained. "He might not have taken it as badly..."

"And not saying you were into someone else would've also helped." Tiiru muttered snidely while looking aside, but Shian clearly heard that.

"Shut up, Ti! I didn't think I said that out loud!" She snapped, then turned back to Dot. "And Dotto, when you put it like that..." She pauses, then sighs. "Yeah, I could've worded it better. Porukabon probly wouldn't be as pi-" She briefly stops to correct herself. "-'as upset' with me right now."

"This is all my fault." Tosukana admitted. "I encouraged him to confess to Shian and got his hopes up."

"Yeah, and not only that, you forgot the "G" part in "GBs," Tucker. How could you ever forget that part??" She questioned him, rather upset that he forgot the "gay" part in their best friend duo name.

Tosukana looks away and gazes to the ground. "I guess I got so eager to try to help Porukabon gain the courage to confess to you that it just... completely slipped my mind somehow... I'm sorry Shian..." He lets out sigh afterwards. "I didn't mean for this mess to happen..."

"Bro," Shian puts a hand on his shoulder. "while I am kinda upset at you for forgetting, your heart was in the right place for Porukabon, though with all the romance movies you watch, you should've considered this mess happening as a possiblity."

Her remark made him let out a little chuckle. "Yeah, I should've. I didn't watch too many romance movies where that happened, but I still should've known better."

Shian nodded. "Maybe you should lay off those kinds of movies for a while, dude." She joked.

Dot spoke up to ask Shian something. "Shianbon, if you don't mind me asking, um, what does "GBs" stand for?"

Shian replies with: "It's an acronym for me and Tucker's duo name. We'll tell you what it stands for later." She rests her hands on her sides, then raises one of them up. "Alright, enough talking, I think now's the time to go find Porukabon. Anyone know where he could've went?"

Everyone went silent as they start hearing the crackling of electricity. It was barely quiet, but it began to sound like it was getting closer. Tiiru voices their concern "Uh, no, but does anyone else hear a crackling sound getting closer." Their question made everyone turn to the source of the noise, and see a yellowish-orange electrified shot heading towards them!

"LOOK OUT!" Tosukana shouts to everyone.

Luckily everyone, including Dot (whom used the spring function of her wheelchair) dodged it. The area where the group once stood crackled with electricity for a bit. 

"Where the did that come from?!" Yelled Shian. Her question was soon answered when Bolt-Striker flies in, Polka is armored up within it, and is staring her down with an evil, angry glare while growling lowly. "Porukabon?!"

They have a stare-off for a moment, then Polka utters lowly and robotically. "DESTROY... SHIANBON..."

"Wait, WHA-" She was cut off as Bolt-Striker began firing three more biida shots, all aiming directly at her. "S**T!" She barely manages to avoid getting hit and the following explosions.

"Shianbon!" Dot, Tiiru, and Tosukana all call out at once.

After evading Polka's attacks, she swiftly turns towards to yell. "Dude, what the FREAK do you think you're doing?! I get I broke your heart and all that, but does that really warrant destroying me?!" Polka answers by getting much some smaller biida cannons to come out of the main one and firing some more biida shots at her. "GAH!" She gets out of the way of the attacks, but she starts making a run for it as Polka chases her down.

"I don't know what's gotten into Porukabon, but we have to help Shianbon!" Shouts Tosukana.

"Right!" Tiiru takes out their phone with an open app. "Time to call Tenacious-Tealer!" They press the button on the app, but nothing happens. "Huh?" They press it again, same effect. "Why the heck isn't it-" They check to see why it wasn't working and quickly found out the problem. "Low phone battery?! Are you kidding me?! This is the worst possible time for that to happen!"

"Why didn't you park it somewhere close-by?!" Tosukana exasperated.

"I didn't think Polka would start attacking Shian, Tucker! Plus, we aren't allowed to park around here!" Retorted Tiiru.

Dot speaks up. "I have a way to get to our mechs quickly, Tiirubon."

They turn to her. "You do?" Shortly after their inquiry, Dot presses a button on the handle of her wheelchair that makes handlebars and a footrest come out of her wheelchair's backside. Tiiru stares wide-eyed in awe. "Whoaaa! What's this?"

"A new feature I added." She replied proudly. "Now hop on!" Tiiru nods and hops on.

Tosukana takes out his phone. "While you two go get your mechs, I'm going to call Sorabon for back-up!"

They both nod simultaneously. "Alright!"

Dot looks ahead. "Hang on tight, Tiirubon!" With that, they both take off, Tiiru yelling "WHOAAA!" until they were out of earshot.

"Now to call Sorabon for his assistance!" Tosukana tries to call Sora, but after waiting a bit, it goes to voicemail. 'Sorry, your hero is busy! Try calling again later!' He tries calling him again, same effect. "C'mon, pick up!" Third times the charm. He tried calling him a third time, once again, same result. "Why isn't he picking up?! What could he even be doing at a time like this?!" Tosukana shouts in frustration.

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Meanwhile, Shiro and Sora were in a heated video game battle, lots of button mashing was heard, until...

"WINNER!" The video game announcer announced.

"DANG IT!" Sora bellowed as he stood up and stomped his foot. 

"I win once again kiddo." Shiro remarked.

"Grr, you cheated! Best 8 out of 10!" Sora demanded.

"Heh, you're on! Huh?" Shiro noticed Sora's phone going off on the nearby coffee table. "I think your phone's going off, Sora."

Sora glanced to his phone to see it was Tosukana trying to call him. "Tucker's calling me."

"Aren't you going to answer it?" Shiro inquired.

"Nah, he's probably calling to ask me to help him with Polka's "romantic interest" thing eugh." Sora answered.

"Ooh, Polka has feelings for someone, eh?" Questioned Shiro, very much interested.

"Yeah, but I ain't about to go into that. Romance is not my thing nor my business, it's weird and gross." Sora states, then makes a proclamation. "Back to the game! And I WILL win this time!"

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After failing to reach him a third time, Tosukana groaned and decided to leave a voicemail. "Sorabon, we're having trouble over here, and we really could use your help right now! Please get over here as soon as possible!" 'End of message.' "Hopefully he'll get that one, but I'm not going to stand here and wait for him!" Tosukana goes off to find his mecha as well.

Via a spy camera and a portable TV monitor, the Neo Musketeers watch this all go down from the safety of behind a conveniently large boulder while munching on popcorn out of a comically large bucket. "Oooh, this is getting good!" Dandylion says before eating some more popcorn.

"C'mon, destroy her already!" Lucifer shouted, then stuffed more popcorn into his mouth.

Shian kept running away, trying to not get hit by Polka's barrage of attacks, until an explosion from a biida shot that barely missed her grazes her leg and causes her to fall forward. "WAAH! Oof!" She winces and grabs her injured leg. "Gah! Frick!" She turns her body around, wincing as she does so, to see Bolt-Striker looming over her, charging up for another attack. "PORUKABON STOP!" She screams, then makes eye-contact with him. "Look, I'm sorry, okay?! I get it, I messed up and I hurt your feelings, and I should've worded what I said better, but you shouldn't have to destroy me over this! Snap out of it, dude! Do you really think you have to kill me over this?!"

Polka stares at her silently, after what felt like a minute, he replies. "YOU DESTROYED MY HEART... NOW I'M GOING TO DESTROY YOU!" He fires the charged shot at her.

[Continued in Part 2.]

[speeding-fox]

More Bakugaiden Next Doodles (Sora Edition: Part 2).

I mostly wanted to practice with silly expressions and other things. (Sora's face on the top left is based on this screenshot.)

Small continuation on the bottom left doodle (Basically they go visit a wax museum and Sora gets frightened by a very convincing looking wax statue of a monster.):

Sora: I- uh- of course I knew it was fake! I was only acting scared! Heh heh.

Violet, not at all buying it: Sure you were, Onii-san, sure you were.

[speeding-fox]

Back at it again with even more Baku next gen doodles.

Shianbon belongs to @karaoke-bomber

[speeding-fox]

Crushed! (Part 2 of 2)

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[Part 1]

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Author's note: "~~" means a scene change.

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Thinking this was it, Shian braces herself for impact, only for a red biida shot to hit the charged shot, destroying it. "Porukabon!" Shian and Polka turn to the direction the shot as well as the source of the voice came from, and there stood Tuscan-Dragon in mecha form.

"Taka! Thank bon!" Shian cries out out of relief.

"Porukabon! You need to knock this off right now!" Tosukana bellowed to Polka.

Polka growls lowly at him. Shortly after, he transforms into mecha form himself. Tosukana sighed. "You don't want to make this easy, do you?" Polka responds by firing at him. "I'll take that as a no!"

Shian uses their battle as a chance to get away so she doesn't get caught in the crossfire. She winces as she stands up, and began limping away. "D**mit! Had I been faster, I wouldn't have gotten hurt!" She muttered to herself. 

She turned around to make sure Polka wasn't going after her, only to see Polka and Tosukana fight. She'd stay and watch, because who doesn't want to watch a good fight, but she knew she had to get away to avoid getting injured further. Before she turned around to do so, she noticed something about Bolt-Striker's main Biida Cannon, it is usually yellowish-orange/orange when in mecha form, but this time it was almost all black, then it clicked for Shian. "Something's up with his biidama! That's why Polka's acting like this!" She had to tell this to Tosukana! "Tucker! TUCKER!"

Tosukana turned to her direction. "Huh?" Before he could address what it is she needed to tell him, Polka takes advantage of her distraction by grabbing Tuscan-Dragon's robotic arm and began swinging him around in circles twice, Tosukana screaming as he did so, before throwing him at Shian, now she is screaming as well. She doesn't have any time to get away, but luckily for her, she was scooped up in time by the robotic hands of the transformed Tenacious-Tealer, and unluckily for Tosukana, he slams face-first into a thick tree trunk, an audible *CLANG!* is heard upon impact, and he is left dazed.

Tiiru lifts up their sibling to meet their and assess her. "Shianbon, are you okay!?"

"Aside from my leg, I'm alright." She glanced over to the dazed Tuscan-Dragon. "Can't say the same for Tucker though." She looked back to her mechanized sibling. "What took you so long?"

Dot arrives in her Spotted-Flitterbug and answers her question. "We had to make sure to get anyone else nearby evacuated." Tiiru nods in confirmation.

"That makes sense." Shian affirmed.

Dot turns her attention to Tosukana, then hovers next to him to check on him. "Tosukana, are you going to be alright?"

"I'll be fiiiine little yellow ladybug..." He replied dazily, then he helps himself up and shakes his metal head. "I mean- I'm fine, Dottobon!"

"Let's hope so." Shian remarked as she glances up just in time to see an electrified shot coming everyone's way. "LOOK OUT!" Everyone swiftly hovers out of the way by taking to the air before it could hit and potentially stun them, and Tosukana retaliates by firing at Polka to distract him. 

Tiiru shields their sibling. "We need to get you out of here, Shianbon! Dottobon!"

Dot hovers over. "Yes, Tiirubon?" 

They place Shian on one of Spotted-Flitterbug's wings, where she proceeds to grab it. "Get Shian to safety! We'll take care of Polka and hopefully knock some sense into him!"

Dot nods. "Got it!"

"Guys WAIT!" Yelled Shian. "I know what's up with Porukabon! Look!" She points to his darkened biidama. "His biidama is almost black!"

The others gazed to his biidama, and sure enough, she's right! They can see dark energy swirling around in his main cannon's marble. "That's why he's acting like this!" Exclaimed Tiiru.

Tosukana gasps. "So he's not acting like this by his own will, whatever energy is in him is sending him on a vengeful rampage!" 

"Wh-Who would make my brother act this way..?" Dot questioned somberly.

"We'll find out later, right now we need to focus on get Porukabon to snap out of it!" Shian proclaimed.

"I think healing him with a healing shot should work!" Tosukana shouts as he fires at Polka's biida shots to destroy them.

"But how do we even get close enough to heal him if he won't stop firing at us?!" Inquires Tiiru.

"I might have a plan!" Shian claimed.

Tiiru grunts as they fire at Polka's biida shots to assist Tosukana while hovering in front of Spotted-Flitterbug defensively. "Let's hear it!"

Shian discloses her plan of action. "He's after me, right? Use me as bait to have him think Dotto is helping me get away, and when he's distracted, BAM! You and Tucker dog pile him onto the ground before he could go after me, then one of you can hold onto him while the other fires a healing shot!"

Both Tiiru and Tosukana turn to towards her to object to her plan, Shian was already hurt, she shouldn't be putting herself at risk anymore than she already is, but they stop themselves and thought about it for a moment. Even though she would be potentially be putting herself and Dot in more danger, her plan... could actually work. Dot thought the same about her plan, even though she knew herself and Shian would be at risk, if it was the only way to get her brother to wake up from the state he's in, then she was willing to try.

"I'm aware of the potential danger in your plan if it fails, but if it may bring my brother out of this state, then I'm willing to try." Dot says with a gleam of determination in her eyes.

"As risky as that sounds, it just might work." Tosukana told her.

"For once, I'm with you on your plan, Shian." Affirmed Tiiru.

"Alright then, let's do it!" Shian proclaimed.

The plan was set in motion. As Polka fired more electrified shots at them, they all get out the way, Spotted-Flitterbug swiftly flies forward as Shian laid low and held onto the wing tightly, and dodges any oncoming shots with ease and it zooms passed Bolt-Striker in the opposite direction, now having Polka's focus on them. Shian looks back to taunt him, she catches her eye on something interesting hiding behind a conveniently large rock, but she'll address that later. "Hey dude! Betcha' can't catch me!"

Polka growls. "I WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY!" He was just about to chase after them, but he gets tackled by Tenacious-Tealer and Tuscan-Dragon, and crashes into the ground, knocking him into a daze for a moment.

Tosukana got off of him and went into position to get ready to heal his friend as Tiiru lifts Polka up and pins his metal arms behind his back. When he got over his daze and realized what was happening, Polka began screaming and tried flailing around wildly to try to escape Tiiru's grip. They tried their best to hold him in place for Tosukana to fire his healing shot. "I'm not able to hold him for long! Tucker, NOW!"

Tosukana charged up his shot. "Biida..." Then he shoots it while shouting "HEALING SHOOT!" It makes direct impact. Tiiru lets go of Polka as he shrieked.

Everyone braces their eyes as a bright flash of light envelops him, the light soon dies down along with Polka's screaming, before long, it completely clears, and Polka, no longer in mecha form, is out cold on the grass, and his biidama appears to be back to normal as it no longer has that dark energy swirling around in it. The kids cheer at their success. "We did it!"

Spotted-Flitterbug floats down near the knocked out Polka, Dot wanting to make sure her brother is okay. Shian carefully stood up on the wing and rests a hand on the shield. "Don't worry about him, Dotto, Porukabon's tough, he'll be fine! His biidama is back to normal, so whatever we got out of him just knocked him out." She tells her as she gives her a reassuring wink.

"...Yeah, you're right." Dot smiles a little. "Polka's strong. I know he'll wake up soon."

"Now that just leaves one question..." Everyone turns to Tosukana as he asks this question. "Whom could've made Porukabon turn evil?"

Shian turns her attention to the conveniently large rock nearby. "I think I might have an idea."

The Neo Musketeers barely peek from behind said large rock. "You don't think she knows, right?" Dandylion asks hushedly.

"I think she knows." Hades answered quietly.

"While hanging on to Spotted-Flitterbug, I saw something interesting hiding behind that rock over there while in the air." Shian points to the rock the Devil siblings are hiding behind. 

"Oh she definitely knows." Lucifer murmurs.

"Tucker, Ti, I think you two should blow it up." Shian suggested.

"Oh f*ck! She totally knows! Grab everything and let's scram!" Lucifer whispered-yelled to his siblings as they hide back behind the rock, then scrabble gather their things, including the large popcorn bucket before they got exposed, but they weren't quick enough, the rock gets blown up, and they were exposed right before they could get to their aircraft nearby.

"THE NEO DEVIL TRIO?!" Tosukana, Tiiru, and Dot all call out simultaneously.

Dandylion sheepishly waves at them. "Uhh, he-hey, Jr. BiidaCops. Heh heh..."

"Of course! I should've you three would be behind this!" Tosukana yelled.

"Well, correct, we were just hiding behind a rock..." Hades quips while poking two fingers together, trying to play dumb.

"Don't play dumb with us!" Shian bellows as she points an accusatory finger at the trio. "You three are behind Porukabon turning evil and having him try to destroy me!"

"Hey! We had nothing to with Porukabon going nuts!" "Yeah, we were just minding our own business! It's not nice to point fingers at us just because we're the bad guys!" Lucifer and Hades retort respectively. Dandylion nods and decides to add to that. "That's right! How rude of you guys to accuse us of evillifying Porukabon! We don't even have some kind of dark energy ray to use to do such a thing!" There was a beat, then Dandylion covers where their mouth would be and mumbles. "Oopsie..."

Hades proceeds to bonk Dandylion on their head with a comically large mallet and scold them. "You doofus! Why did you have to get specific?! You shouldn't have said anything!"

"I didn't mean to! It just slipped out!" They cry out.

The group of four are now growling and glowering down at the trio. "Hey, guys, you know what I'm thinking..?" Lucifer asks his siblings.

"Yup." Both Dandylion and Hades reply.

All three scream out "RUN!", then book it to their aircraft. They barely make it there when Tuscan-Dragon and Tenacious-Tealer fire biida shots at them, then the following explosions send the trio and their aircraft blasting off. They three yell out "WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAAAAIN!" until they fly far enough to disappear in a *ting* star.

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Polka groaned as his eye fluttered open, he then winces and rests a hand on his head while he uses the other one to help him sit up. "Uggh, my aching head..." He starts to rub his head.

"Porukabon, you're okay!" Dot calls out, relieved her brother is finally awake.

"Huh?" He turned to her. "Dotto? Ugh, what the heck happened, and why does my head feel like someone hit me in the head with a large mallet?"

Shian was the one to answer. "Those Devil dorks turned you evil or something and it made you want to try and kill me. One of the explosions from your attacks managed to graze my left leg."

Polka gazed to her as she spoke, then down to her bandaged leg, then looked aside to avoid eye-contact, it was obvious how he felt now that everything was coming back to him. "Oh... yeah... now I remember..."

It was silent for a second, until Tosukana hushedly calls Shian's name while giving her an expectant look. "Shianbon."

She sighed. "Dude, look, I..." She rubs the back of her head sheepishly. "I'm sorry about what I said earlier, I could've worded what I said better, but I didn't want to sugarcoat it. I just thought it'd be better to be honest than to lie, y'know? I didn't really think to take your feelings into account, so... again, sorry about that."

Polka quietly listened to what she had to say. He remained silent for a bit, then lets out a sigh, and shifts his gaze to her. "It's fine. I'll admit, I acted out of line. I never really had my heart broken like that, so I... didn't know how to properly handle that kinda feeling, so uh, I'm sorry too, and I'm sorry for hurting your leg and trying to destroy you."

"Dude, it's the Devil Dorks fault they made you do those things, don't even sweat about that." Shian states. "Let's just put this whole thing behind us and keep it between us and remain pals, alright?" She holds her hand out to help him up, as well as shake on it.

Polka smiled. "I couldn't agree more." He takes her hand and helps himself up,, shakes her hand once, then lets go. "If having a crush eventually ends up with me getting turned evil, then I'm not gonna crush on anyone for awhile." He joked.

Shian laughed a bit at that. "Sounds like a good idea."

"Oh, and Tucker." He turns to him. "I owe you an apology as well for snapping at you. You were only trying to help. I wasn't really thinking."

"It's alright, Polka. If anything, I should be the one apologizing to you." Tosukana reassured before rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. "I started this whole fiasco in the first place. I got so caught up in trying to help you that I didn't really think about anything else, and if anything, I shouldn't have tried to resolve a situation that wasn't any of business."

"Right, you shouldn't have." Polka agreed.

Tosukana nods. "Yeah, but I have learned my lesson, to not stick my nose in other people's business without their consent, that, and I also learned today that I should definitely not take up a job as a matchmaker when I grow up."

Everyone laughs at Tosukana's joke, until Tiiru spots something in the sky approaching them, though it was too far to know what it is right away. "Hey guys, what's that?" They point out the oncoming object, prompting the others to look where they were pointing.

Polka squints and puts a hand above his eye to shield it the glare of the sun and to try to get a better look. "It looks like a bird."

"It looks more like a plane." Dot corrected.

"Wait, isn't that Sky-Soarer?" Tosukana questioned.

"Sorabon? He shows up now?? What the heck took him so long?" Shian remarked.

Sora (in mecha form) swoops in and makes a landing, then strikes a "heroic" pose. "Don't worry guys, your hero is here! Tucker said there is trouble! Where is it?!" Sora asks while surveying the area, ready for the potential battle.

"Uh, it's already been over with, dude." Shian answered.

"Yeah, you came too late." Tosukana added.

"Aw what? I missed out on the fun?! Aw man!" The mecha kicked up some dirt before slouching and looking towards the ground. "That's so lame!" 

"What's "lame" is you being late. What the heck took you so long anyway?" Shian inquires.

"Uhhh." Sora turns away, trying to come up with a good lie. "I was..." He droned on "was" until a lightbulb appears above his head briefly as he came up with the perfect lie. "I was busy helping out my Dad with heroic matters! Yeah!"

"Right..." Shian muttered. None of the others looked like they believed him, but they can't prove he was lying, so they decide to let it slide.

After a brief pause, Sora decides to ask the fateful question. "What the heck happened anyway?"

Shian and Polka glance to eachother, then smirk as they get an idea, and glance back to Sora. "You wouldn't have wanted any part of it." Shian began.

"Yeah, a lot of mushy lovey-dovey romantic stuff happened." Polka finished

Sora grimaced. "Ewwww. Why did you call me for if it was gross stuff like that!? I told you romance is not my thing!" He paused for a second. "Don't tell me you're both boyfriend and girlfriend now."

Right after Sora asks that, they both hold hands and reply "Yes, yes we are." Tiiru, Tosukana, and Dot stare them, wondering what they're doing, and not catching to their mischievious plan right away. "What are you two-" Tiiru tries to ask, but gets shushed by the both of them.

Shian continued. "And we love eachother veeery much." She turns to Polka. "Isn't that right, Polky-kun?"

Polka turns to her and nods. "Oh of course, my beautiful starry-eyed beauty."

"Eeugh, yuck! I'm out of here! Call me when there is real trouble and not when anybody's acting romantic!" With that, Sora takes off and flies back in the direction he came from.

Once Sora was out of earshot, Polka and Shian burst out laughing. "Did you two seriously put on a show just to gross him out?" Tosukana inquired. 

"Yeah." Polka chuckled. 

"He deserved it for being late." Shian added, chuckling as well.

"Do you think he'll figure out you two were just messing around?" Dot asked.

Polka shrugged. "Meh, he'll find out when he finds out."

"Soooo... now what?" Tiiru asks.

There was silence until Polka answers. "Anybody down for ice cream?"

Shian and Tiiru's eyes light up. "Yeah!"

"After everything that went down, we could all use one." Stated Tosukana.

Dot nods in agreement. "I agree."

"Yeah, it could also help out with my lingering headache." Polka joked, getting a few laughs, then with that, the group began making their way to the nearest Ice Cream shop. Polka then turns to Shian as they're walking. "What do ya' want? You're order is on me."

"Porukabon." Shian chuckled as she playfully elbows him. "You know don't have to keep the charade up."

Polka feigned disappointment. "Aww." He then let out a little chuckle. "Heh, can't say I didn't try."

As much as Polka was fooling around, he was somewhat serious. Even after everything that went down, he still had a crush on Shian, though he feels it's best to try to keep his feelings for her platonic to avoid repeating that whole fiasco, besides, she does like somebody else after all, though he can't help but wonder: who is the biidaman that Shian has feelings for? Well, that's a question for another time.