Rewind!
Este Bolta's beach area
Kirsch: Huh. Where's MC and the others?
Lilac: They called and said they're coming over, so they should be fine.
Pubraseer: I texted them that we'll wait for the next boat so they got time, but they haven't actually read it yet. Maybe they're rushing...?
Gorou: Eh, Isaribi's with them and he knows the place. Wanna drink with me in the meantime, Pubraseer?
Pubraseer: Sounds nice, but I may as well wait for them to get here.
Gorou: Aww...huh?
Gorou: !!
Lilac: What? ...the news?
Gorou: Muirauqa IV local news. They text when something happens, and apparently they picked up a speeding ship on radar? Summer vacation brings the dummies.
Kirsch: Oh my god what if MC and the guys are on that boat? Kidding.
Pubraseer: Heh, it could happen.
Kirsch: Pffft, no way.
Speeding ship
MC: OH MY GOOOOD
Sadayoshi: MC, don't let go!
Zaniah: Nooo, someone stop this crazy thing!
Ship's gone pretty far from Este Bolta now.
Yuhang: What kind of dumb broad whips an engin--WHOA
Isaribi: W-wait, someone's inside! Maybe they can help, whoever it is! GUYS, Y'ALL GET--
Isaribi rolls into the ship! There's two total strangers inside knocked out!
Isaribi: Whomst???
Yuhang: Isaribi, we're on a crash course to an islaaaand!
Isaribi: OH NO
Yuhang: Are we gonna get sashimi'd!?
Isaribi: Like hell I am!
Sadayoshi: By the way who are those people?
Isaribi: Dunno!
Island incoming!
MC: goodbye cruel world / we gotta jump!
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(A) Sadayoshi: MC, get a grip! Hold onto me!
(B) Sadayoshi: Right! But there's only ocean around us, so hold onto me!
---
Sadayoshi hugs MC with both arms!
Isaribi: I'll grab the two whos!
Yuhang: Zaniah or whatever? You gotta jump too!
Zaniah: Nooo, my ship! My MONEEEEY!
Yuhang drags Zaniah away from the system panel or whatever!
Isaribi: NOW!
The party jumps off the ship! And then the ship manages to crash into the only building on the island.
Title Card: I'm Not Saying Goodbye
Isaribi: Everybody okay!?
Isaribi manages to swim to shore carrying those two whoevers! Yuhang comes next and lets go of Zaniah's neck. Then finally Sadayoshi carrying MC.
MC: oof I thought I was gonna die / oh god land ho / We're okay!
Sadayoshi: MC are you okay? I could have given you my floatie ring if the cruiser speeding off didn't make me lose it.
Isaribi: Welp. Yuhang, you good?
Yuhang: Yeah. Girl's out cold tho... she swallowed water when we jumped, so we might need to thump it out.
Sadayoshi: Hmm... she still seems to be breathing, so she should wake in time.
Isaribi: Oh, so we all good. Where are we though? (looks around)
???: (wakes up) AH! Uh, where are... Lady--
???: Z-Zanini... ah!?
Surprised party!
MC: whomst. W-wait!
Strangers A and B run up to Zaniah, looking horrified!
Isaribi: Girl's fine and should wake up soon. Who you guys?
???: Y-you guys fought Zanini but then saved her?
Fan 1: Uhh, we're Zaniah's Fans 1 and 2. Please don't mistreat her.
Fan 2: Fans? Well...I guess we're like family. I'll kick your asses if you try to rough up Milady!
Fan 1: If Zanini's waking up soon, we should bail before she sees us here...please don't tell her we're here.
Fan 2: Kind of annoying to ask favors of the people who fought her but...yeah, I'm asking too please.
Isaribi: W-wait we don't even know where--
Fans 1 and 2: KTHANKSBYE (run off)
MC: What. They don't seem dangerous, but still. Hmm...
Sadayoshi: Hmm...they're suspicious too if they're a villain's family, but I'm not sure it's fine to leave them unsupervised on unknown territory.
Yuhang: Eh, they don't seem to be villains either if they didn't attack. And they're bold enough to follow a villain they were worried about.
Yuhang points at Zaniah. Zaniah starts twitching.
Zaniah: O-oof, I'm alive!
Isaribi: Oh you're up. Ya swallowed some water so--wait, hold up!
Zaniah: Shut up! MY SHIP!
Zaniah looks at where the ship crashed. It blows up and tosses a screw over to where she is! Whomp whomp.
Zaniah: M-my ship... (Zaniah.exe has crashed)
Sadayoshi: Well then.
Isaribi: Umm...y-you good, girl? There weren't any tour people on, so I guess it really was yours?
No response.
Yuhang: (...this is all our fault, huh?)
Sadayoshi: (W-well...she's not faultless either but...)
MC: (...it sorta is our fault to start with, I guess?)
Sadayoshi: ...hm. Please be careful MC. I sense someone else in the bushes.
Giansar shows up!
Giansar: Goddammit what the hell just happened!? ...no one's come yet, so I better bail to another planet soo--
MC: Wait what, Giansar!? Why!? / Yoooo, how's it been?
(AB) Giansar: What!? MC!?
(C) Giansar: Sup...is that what you expected me to say!? Dammit, it's you MC!?
Giansar: Are those heroes with you? Dammit, did you somehow manage to figure out my location!?
MC: Um / Surprise! / Giansar, where are we?
(AC) Sadayoshi: MC, do you know him? He doesn't seem to like you.
Isaribi: Damn, you THAT famous?
MC: Uh, he's a villain I fought once.
Surprised party!
(B) Isaribi: w-wait, what
MC: I've been looking for your villainous ass, Giansar!
Giansar: >:C
Isaribi: Oh my god? We just randomly crashed here and you're already planning an arrest??? Awesome!
Giansar: !?
Giansar: Oh, a bluff.
Yuhang: ...Isaribi I think you just snitched.
Isaribi: W-what, I wasn't supposed to say that!?
Giansar: Goddammit...
Giansar looks so done with this.
MC: Are you still up to villainy even after your big perfect plan blew up?
Flashback!
Giansar: ...I still hate heroes, including you guys, but I had a little fun here. See you guys probably never.
Present
MC: And here we are again!
Giansar: little bITCH
Isaribi: Holy crap, MC stop taunting the villain!
Giansar: Ugh forget how you guys got here, I gotta go!
Giansar tries to leave.
Sadayoshi: ...so you're a villain MC had to cross blades with? Then there is only one thing to do! (charges Giansar)
Yuhang: Dang, and he's still unarmed.
Giansar: WHAT
Sadayoshi: Surrender!
Giansar: oh fml
Giansar taps his phone and transforms!
Isaribi: W-what!? It's 3v1 here!
Yuhang: Wait, I'm in? Well okay then.
Giansar: (...so that girl back there isn't with them?)
Giansar: Whatever, you attacked first!
Giansar jumps back, Parallel Weapon in hand!
Sadayoshi: Stand down and you won't be hurt. Though I doubt you'll comply.
Sadayoshi clicks on his phone, and MC's phone starts ringing! Transformation request incoming!
MC: Let's question him! / I'll be gentle when I tie you up!
Party's transformed!
MC: ...okay, stream's on! We can go!
Giansar: (They got connected!? ...wait, even if they could, they can't reach the outside to do anything besides stream. I can still shut them up!)
Everyone's squaring up when Zaniah comes over!
Zaniah: How dare...how DARE! MY SHIP!
Isaribi: N-now hold up! Okay we were wrong for getting on, but dammit, it's your fault the ship's blown up!
Zaniah: Dammit, I know! But I still can't just back down here! Transform me!
Zaniah suits up!
Yuhang: ...shouldn't you pick your fights better?
Giansar: Huh. Well whatever, I'mma leave now--
Sadayoshi: Are you prepared to face your crimes? Very well.
Giansar: uggggh
MC: Uhh...t-time to fight! Get ready guys!
Yuhang: Mkay, we're all in the same crashed ship and everything.
Zaniah: HOW DARE
BATTLE START (more happens after)
Zaniah: Nooo...
Giansar: Goddammit why me too...
The rest of the party wipes off their sweat.
Yuhang: Dang you two are strong.
Sadayoshi: We had an easier time winning since they kept getting in each other's ways.
Isaribi: Welp! Sorry we can't leave y'all unsupervised!
Isaribi and Sadayoshi pin Giansar and Zaniah down, then MC closes the party's transformations.
Yuhang: Oof, I wanna get back to that island tour we were gonna go on...
Sadayoshi: I understand but we have no ship to take us back.
Isaribi: Yeah, and where even are we? I ain't never seen this place before.
MC: Really? Giansar, where are we?
Giansar: ...wait, you dicks really came here blind? Why ARE you guys on this deserted island on the ass end of nowhere?
MC: w-wait what
Zaniah: Because these four barged onto MY SHIP! Don't think I'm ever forgetting your names!
Sadayoshi: O-okay, but you attacked first.
Isaribi: Y-yeah our bad for getting on the wrong ship. We were gonna go on a boat tour.
Sadayoshi: And somehow we got on a villain's ship instead...
Yuhang: Then Zaniah pulls up crying and screaming and ends up whipping the engine on. Girl those speeds are illegal!
Zaniah: It's your fault my ship blew up!
MC: So then the ship just drove off, crashed into the building on this island, and now here we are.
Giansar: (closes eyes and inhales)
Giansar: Welp. Worst case scenario.
Zaniah: Hey! It's the worst case scenario for ME! I'm just some passing phantom thief!
Isaribi: w-what
Giansar: Hey, I'm a victim too. I was just chilling in my safehouse. (looks at burning wreckage)
Isaribi: O-okay so maybe you were...
Giansar: Forget that, you guys owe me a settlement for property destruction.
Zaniah: Oh, and the money for my ship getting totaled!
Giansar: What, does heroism allow vandalism these days or something?
Zaniah: HMMM, not very heroic!
Giansar: And now you wanna ask favors? Hellll to the no.
Zaniah: I know right? We're victims!
Giansar and Zaniah: Now let us go!
Surprised party!
MC: W-whoa...wow they actually get along...
Isaribi: O-okay fine, you guys are victims here!
Sadayoshi: I don't think we necessarily need to care since they're villains...
Yuhang: But we still need to listen to them since we don't know where we are.
Sadayoshi: But...
Isaribi: Well what if we make it conditional? They agree not to attack or run off, and we can untie them. Then we can get to talking.
Giansar: Then you also have to promise not to arrest me until after we get out.
Yuhang: I guess that's fine. We're on a deserted island, so there shouldn't be any danger.
Isaribi: And they aren't in the middle of doin' crimes, so we can just call the police on them later I guess.
Sadayoshi: ...well if you two are going that far, I suppose...
Sadayoshi reluctantly takes off the bindings and puts them inside his phone.
Zaniah: GOD finally! This wouldn't be the end of it normally!
Giansar: ...ugh. Well anyways to recap, this island is deserted which is why I made a safehouse here to begin with. Comm lines should be up, but those are my private network that only streams to underground peeps. I got jamming up to stop connections besides streaming.
MC: Oh no that's right! Streaming's the only thing that works!?
MC fiddles with their phone, but it keeps saying "out of service area."
Yuhang: Huh, mine's not working either.
Sadayoshi: What? Turn off the jamming now then.
Giansar: I can't, you guys blew up my base.
Sadayoshi glares, then looks at the smoking wreckage.
Giansar: We can't get close like that, and I can't go fixing it. Either it all crashes, or we wait until the backup power dies. If MC can use VP, then the comm locks must've bugged out...ugh fine, I'll let you into the lines for now.
Zaniah: Wait, I can't connect to Anonymous then!? Then how...
Giansar: You must've jumped my comm lines like MC did somehow. Ugh.
Isaribi: S-so, that means we can stream but can't call for help?
Giansar: ...no one watching does that, so we can't expect them to help.
Sadayoshi: And we have no ship now...
MC: So we'd have to swim...? Wait, Isaribi!
Isaribi: W-wait. I could swim off the ship to here, but the currents around this island are too fast. (sighs and looks off to sea)
Isaribi: MAYBE under ideal circumstances, but not even I can carry y'all alone. We don't even know where and how far it is to the closest landfall.
Giansar: The currents are huge, so most ships don't come near here. Which was why I put a base here.
Isaribi: ...wait, is this the Dead Area? Fishermen don't go near there.
Giansar: Yeah. Also, even if a ship came by, there's jamming to stop sonar pings from finding this place.
Sadayoshi: So you ARE hiding something!
Giansar: Never mind that now! We are goddamn SHIPWRECKED!
Shocked party!
MC: Oh no!
Zaniah: That can't be! I just came here to look for treasu--
Isaribi: what
Zaniah: NOTHING! Anyways, waiting for help isn't an option then.
Yuhang: Yeah. I guess I can go looking for food here though.
Giansar: Do you not get how serious this is...?
Sadayoshi: Hmm, so we need to find some way to escape...
Everyone thinks about the situation. Giansar fiddles with his phone and sighs.
Giansar: (Okay it SUCKS MC and the others are here, but they don't seem to know about my work. I can't get away if their side's help comes, so I'd have to bail first, especially while I can still move...)
Giansar: UGH I gotta stop thinking about that! Whatever, I gotta get off this island.
MC: So Giansar, can we come too?
Giansar: ...why?
MC: Um, I heard you earlier.
Flashback!
Giansar: Goddammit what the hell just happened!? ...no one's come yet, so I better bail to another planet soo--
Present
Sadayoshi: Wait...doesn't that mean--
MC: You have a ship out of here, right? You had to have one to get here before. Come on, we're all friends stuck in the same boat~
Giansar looks Very Displeased. He pulls out a weapon for a bit and considers using it before putting it away, concerned it'll get taken.
Giansar: UGGGGH this is coercion! ...fine...I'm outnumbered anyway.
MC: (Not the plan, but poker face!) / (Oh he said yes!)
Zaniah: Wait, you have a ship? So we AREN'T stranded. Ugh, all that stress for nothing.
Giansar: I never said you could come.
Zaniah: Oh come on, we're both on the wrong side of a beatdown and got tied up!
Giansar: Is that really how you ask anyone for a favor?
Zaniah: Oh fiiine. I mean, please let me board.
Yuhang: Huh. So we're partying together 'til we get out?
Sadayoshi: It's more monitoring of them so they don't escape.
Giansar: Whatever, just until we get off this damn rock. Shut up and follow me, ugggh.
Isaribi: Man you sure bitch a lot. Oh well, thanks for lettin' us onboard!
MC: Emergency times, cease fire until we get back.
Giansar leads the party off. Sadayoshi brings up the rear.
Sadayoshi: ...I can't believe we have to work with a villain. (kicks sand)
Later
The party follows Giansar to some inlet.
Giansar: It's in there. (nods towards inlet)
Zaniah: Huh. Nice hiding spot.
Giansar: Well yeah, it's for emergencies.
MC: Oh, so this is the sort of place you hide things in.
Giansar: Heh, it's not like I pull the same thing all the time, so showing this one isn't a huge deal.
Sadayoshi: How dare!
Yuhang: ...aiyah? Hey guys?
Giansar: Shove your hero act up your ass and sit there if you don't wanna come. See if I care how long it takes to get help.
Yuhang: Guys?
Sadayoshi: What!? I was extending some grace because you said you wouldn't cause any more harm, but I have no reason to go easy on you.
Yuhang: Guuuys!
Sadayoshi and Giansar: WHAT?
Yuhang: I think there's a Monster eating the ship.
Yuhang points at a Shark Monster chewing on the engine portion of Giansar's ship!
Isaribi: what
Zaniah: w-wha
Sadaysohi and Giansar: WHAT
MC: Oh no!
Sadayoshi: MC, transform us so we can eliminate it!
Giansar: Okay it's a goddamn emergency! MC, transform me!
Zaniah: Alright, bring it freak!
MC: Wait hold up the contracts are coming in all at once!
MC is trying to process everything... The party transforms...
Isaribi: Okay, I got this fish freak captain!
The Shark Monster pulled out Giansar's ship engine!
Giansar: W-wait!
The Shark Monster runs away and turns invisible!
Giansar: GET BACK HERE GODDAMMIT
End of Episode
