Welcome to the desert duel

Nika put her cloche hat on as she prepared to set out.

"Seriously? You're dressing all fancy for a fight?" Kumi asked.

"No, he said our mother is there. I'm not going to reunite with her wearing a dumb tracksuit," Nika stated.

"Oh yeah, Fuka-ba too."

"I could care less about her. I honestly blame her more than Yuni for tearing our family apart."

"How? Kasumi was a bitch ever since she came out of the womb. You heard what she said back then."

"I still believe she's been brainwashed. Jouzu keeps mentioning his enemies. If they have similar powers to him, than perhaps one of then forced Kasumi to act like that."

"Sis, she hates us. Back then and now," Kumi said sternly.

It was rare for Kumi to get serious, but she did care greatly about Nika.

"Believe what you want, just like I do," Nika replied back.

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Nika and Kumi arrived to the meetup point and stared at everyone else present. In addition to Ryuujin, Tetsuka, Honoka, and Zeno were present.

"Everyone's here, time to set out," I said as I warped us all to Yuma, Arizona.

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A rental car salesman laughed maniacally as he gazed at his phone.

"What dumb bitches! They have no idea everyone of my cars has a built in tracking feature. Now just gotta send the trajectory to Thrasher and we're all set," he thought.

"Get fried asshole!" Kumi shouted as she slammed her lightning tonfa into the salesman, sending him flying into his own building.

"You ass! Who the hell are you!?" the salesman screamed.

"69 mil Kumi bitch!"

"Looks like we get first blood. Feel free to duke it out with whomever attacks you, but don't leave the county," I stated as I summoned my dark flame katana hammer.

It was time to have some fun. I gazed at the oncoming army flying in the sky. They all wore red robes and pointy red hats with horns. It was the Superbian strike force hyperēphania, a group of Omni grunts that served one of the more troublesome Omni-Deitys. Good thing I got Honoka and Tetsuka to the Omni plane.

"Alright, Zeno and Nika, you avoid those guys since they're Omnis. Everyone else, let's see who gets the most kills. And I'm in this too," I smirked as I flew forward and began destroying the army.

Everyone else flew off in their own direction, looking for opponents.

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"My wind isn't making you feel queasy right?" Zeno asked Nika.

"No worries, it feels fine Nika replied.

Zeno suddenly jolted Nika away as an arrow flew straight past her. He looked down to see a malicious looking anthropomorphic roadrunner holding a bow and arrow.

"Sorry Nika, looks like I gotta fight this guy," Zeno said as he gently placed Nika down.

"Relax, the arrow would've turned into a net," the roadrunner smirked.

"What the hell is this? A roadrunner man?"

"I'm Willy Gonzales, the fastest trickster this side of the Sonoran desert," the roadrunner smirked as he sped away.

"Ugh, don't tell me I have to catch him. Maybe Nika could help- huh? Where'd she go?"

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"MMPH MMPH MMPH!" Nika shouted as she was carried away by a grizzled anthropomorphic Coyote.

She was mummified in tar with just her eyes visible.

"Relax, that's what we call toon tar. It peels right off," the coyote snickered as he ripped the tar off Nika.

Sure enough, Nika was fine, but all her clothes and hair were gone.

"KYAAAAAAH! MY CLOTHES! MY HAIR! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" Nika seethed with fury as her face went bright red and she tried to cover herself up.

"*Whistle* and how you gonna fight good ole Yosemite Barbosa lookin like that?" the coyote smirked.

Nika glared and immediately began drawing clothes and hair on herself.

"Not bad. Didn't know you had toon powers too girl," Barbosa grinned.

"I'm not a toon! I'm a journalist!" Nika glared as she drew an anvil that fell on Barbosa's head, flattening him like a manhole cover.

He scrunched free of the anvil before returning to normal.

"Now lemme play around with you too."

Barboss=a ran up to Nika and spun her around and around. When she stopped, she was dressed like a clown complete with makeup and a multicolored afro. Barbosa then placed a mirror before Nika, causing her eyes to jump out in shock as she screamed.

"WHA!? WHAT HAPPENED!? MY EYES-"

"Relax, you're just experiencing the effects of my toon zone. Isn't it wonderful? You can be tarred, clowned and even flattened like a pancake, and be totally fine," Barbosa smiled as he punched Nika in the face with a boxing glove sending her flying into the air.

"Oops, think I hit her out of the toon zone, well. Guess I'll go retrieve her."

Nika groggily opened her eyes to find herself falling. She rapidly drew a parachute and floated to safety. As she landed, she came face to face with a man in a suit. He had a handsome face and short black hair with a reddish tint. He glared as Nika trebled before him.

"[Who are you?]" he growled in English.

"Tourist," Nika squeeked.

"Japanese? Why'd you come flying at me?" the man growled.

"Relax, she's with me," I said telepathically to Phoenix.

"Muramasa? *Tch* Coulda cleaned all this up myself," the man growled as he stared at an oncoming horde of hyperēphania grunts.

"Who are you?" Nika asked.

"Who am I!? [I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PHOENIX KINGMAN TOMBSTONE!]"

The landscape became engulfed in fire as many of the goons burned to death.

"Didn't even fire a shot. What weak shit," Phoenix growled as he walked away.

"Um, aren't you going to extinguish the fire and, help?" Nika asked as she sweated like crazy.

"Don't care, do it yourself."

Honoka then arrived and stared at the flames.

"I saw a large burst of fire and came here. My, what delectable flames," Honoka mused as she began munching on some of Phoenix's flames.

"And he's gone! Wouldn't wanna tussle with Mr. President," Barbosa laughed as he emerged from under a rock.

Honoka lit him on fire turning him into soot. He then returned to normal a second later.

"Careful, he's a-MMPH!?"

Before Nika could warn Honoka, she was bound and gagged by Barbosa. He then tied her to some nearby railroad tracks.

"This isn't in toon world, so you'll die when the train comes in about 5 minutes. Unless of course someone saves you," Barbosa whispered before speeding back to Honoka.

"You've got 5 minutes miss swordswoman before the train comes and the damsel goes splat!"

"Ohahaha! I shall incinerate you well before that you foolish toon," Honoka smiled.