"Hey, Katie, what are you doing?" Shin asked as he walked out onto the balconey.
"Hm? Oh, I was just thinking. Shin, can I ask you a question?" Katie asked as Shin sat in a chair next to her. 
"Sure, what is it?" Shin replied.
"What happened when you guys first went up against Akutoo?" Katie asked looking into Shin's eyes. "Well, it all started on a normal day....." Shin started the story.

"Hey, Shu. Pass it over here!" Shin yelled from the other side of the yard. Shu threw the football as far as he could. Unfortunatly it was too far. The football went way over Shin's head and into the woods.
"Ah, man. Shu!" Shin complained. He ran into the woods to look for the lost ball. Nasuti was in the den looking out of the window at the five playing football.
"I know it's been a year, but I can't help but worry. They havn't practiced once since they defeted Arago." Nasuti said to herself. She looked down at the cup of tea in her hand, and then turned back to her computer. She had finally stored all her grandfathers disks on the Troopers away, hoping never to have to use them again. She sat down and started grading the papers in front of her. She had been convinced to take over her grandfathers classes because she knew how and what he taught.
"One-chan, When is dinner?" Jun asked from the doorway, with Byakuen behind him.
Nasuti looked at the calander on the wall, "I beleive it's Touma's turn to cook tonight."
"Touma-ni-chan? I guess we'll be ordering out again, won't we." Jun said turning around, "I'll get the number for the pizza place ready."
Nasuti laughed to herself. They had found out over the course of the year that although Touma is very smart, he's a major clutz in the kitchen.

"Hey, Shin, when are ya going to fix supper?" Shu asked as Shin emerged from the woods.
"Sorry, Shu, it's not my turn tonight." Shin replied brushing some leaves out of his hair.
"Who's turn is it anyways?" Ryo asked.
"Well, I cooked last night, so that means that it's Touma's turn." Seiji replied.
"Touma! Please tell me you not going to try and cook." Shu begged.
"Hey, the more I practice the better I'll get." Touma defended. A large sweatdrop appaered on everybodys heads.
"Touma, we know you want to cook, but don't you think you could try another time, and just let us order out." Shu whined.
"Shu, you say that everytime. This time I'm going to try." Touma stated as he headed into the house everybody following.
"Come on Touma, just give it up. You can't cook. Please don't make us suffer." Shu complained walking into the kitchen.
"Shu, I'm not going to listen to you. Now get out of here." Touma nearly yelled pushing Shu out of the kitchen.
"Shu, just give it up. Your not going to win." Seiji said from his spot on the couch.
"Yea, we'll probably end up ordering pizza anyways." Ryo added as he sat down next to Seiji.
"Hey, guys, I've got the number for the pizza place. Who's ordering?" Jun asked as she entered the room with Byakuen behind him.
"Hold it, Jun." Shin said from the his spot in front of the TV, "Touma's got it in his head that he's going to try to cook."
"He's accually going to try?" Jun asked in surprise. Everybody somnly nodded their heads.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting kinda sick of pizza." Shu complained.
"What?!" Shin gasped, "You accually don't want pizza."
"Hey, I never said that I wouldn't eat it, I just wish we had something else for a change." Shu defended.
"Yea, I agree. We have pizza atleast once a week." Sage said. Suddenly a loud crash came from the kitchen. Everybody turned toward the door.
"Umm, Shin, you didn't really need that light blue tea set did you?" Touma asked peeking out of the door.
"You broke the tea set? Touma are you sure you don't need help?" Shin asked standing up.
"I'm sure, now sit back down. Supper will be ready in a couple of hours." Touma gestered slipping back into the kitchen.
"Was that tea set expensive?" Seiji asked looking at Shin with consern.
"Luckly no. It was something I had picked up at the discount place. But, If he broke those he's in the same cabinit that does have the expence set in it." Shin said worridly looking at the kitchen door.

"There, that's finished." Touma said as he emptied the contents of the dustpan into the wastebasket. He then looked around the kitchen. "Ah, here they are." Touma said as he took a cookbook down from the shelf. "Now, what should I fix?" He asked himself as he leafed through the book, "I could try some Okinomiyaki." Touma then thought back to the last time he had tried that. They ended up eating pizza. "Maybe something else." Touma closed that book and took another one down. "Hmm, an American cook book. I didn't know Shin had any of these. There has to be something in here." He thought as he started to leaf through it. "Hey, this looks good. Hoosier Pork Chop Supper. I wonder if there is any porkchops in here." Touma asked himself as he walked over to the frig. Opening the meat drawer he found six pork chops. "All right, let us see what the resipe is:

1 medium onion, sliced ('I wonder if this is a medium one.' Touma though as he held up a large onion.)
3 tablespoons cooking oil
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
4 pork chops ('Hey, this only serves four. I guess I'll just add a litte more of everything to make it for six')
2 large potatoes, peeled and sliced
1 large carrot sliced
1 can tomatoes with liquid, cut up ('Can? All we have are the ones in the veg. drawer. And what liquid are they talking about. Maybe water will work.)
1 cup frozen peas ('frozen? Why do I have to feeze these first?)

"OK, first saute onion in oil untill tender. Hmm, I wonder how thick I'm supposed to slice it." Touma desided to slice it into thick peices. He cut the onion into six even peices. "Now i need 3 tablespoons of oil. What is a table spoon?" Touma looked into the drawer were the silverwear was, "Well, we use this spoon at the table, so I guess it's the table spoon." Touma poured the oil into the spoon three times. and layed the six neatly sliced onion in the pan. "I wonder how you're sopposed to tell it's tender?" Touma waited untill the onion was brown on both sided and then took it out. "Ow, that's smarts. I guess I could of used something to get it out." Touma said sucking on his burnt finger, "Ok, step two, combine flour, salt and pepper."  Touma combined the three item, but instead of using the teaspoon he used the tablespoon. "Ok, now coat the pork chops." Touma looked back and forth from the porkchops to the flour. He finally picked up the porkchops and droped them into the flour making a white fog. Touma coughed a few times and faned the flour dust away. "Ok, now I... Brown them." Touma layed the meat into the still hot pan. He flipped the meat a couple of times and removed them to put the next couple of peices in. "What do I need next... add potatoes, carrot, tomatoes, and onion. Well, the onion is done. All I need to do is cut everything else up." Touma said trufuntly thinking that this was all going just fine. About ten minuets later he changed his mind. He had cut himself several times and had burnt two of the porkchops.
"Touma! I smell something burning, are you sure you don't want any help?" Shin yelled from the other room.
"I'm sure Shin. I've got it all under control." Touma said as he dumped the vegetables into the skillet with the six porkchops, with bearly any room to spare. "Oh, about forgot the liquid with the tomatoes." Touma said as he poured some water into the skillet with some of the items spilling out and burning on the stove. About a half hour later, "I'll go ahead and put the peas in and let it cook a few more minuits and then it will be ready." Touma said as he dumped the glass full of frozen peas into the skillet. A few more minuets later. "There all done. It doesn't look exactly like in the book, but it at looks ediable." Touma thought as he went about setting the table.
"All right, guys, suppers on." Touma announced. By now Nasuti had appeared downstairs wondering when the pizza was going to get there. Everybody entered the dinning room.
"Hey, that doesn't look to bad Touma." Shin commented as he sat down. Touma had already dished out everybodys servings.
"All right, food at last." Shu sat down and stared at his plate.
"What's wrong, Shu?" Nasuti asked noticing his look.
"Umm, why don't you guys go first." Shu suggested.
"Why don't we all try together." Seiji suggested, and everybody agreed. All at once they took a bite. "Um, Touma, why is mine all burnt?" Nasuti asked looking down at her plate.
"Hey, mine too." Seiji said as his knife bent when he tried to cut it.
"Sorry, I accidently burt a couple of them." Touma admitted. Suddenly, Ryo, Shin, and Shu jumped from there chairs and ran to the kitchen.
"What's with them?" Nasuti asked looking in the direction they had went. Seiji looked at Ryo's plate. "Well, Nasuti, we got the burnt ones, and they got the raw ones." Seiji said calmly. Nasuti just held up her hand to her mouth trying to get that vision out of her head. "Touma, didn't you cook them at all?" Seiji asked.
"Yea, all the book said was to brown them, so I did. Once I'd set them in the skillit they would be brown so I took them out again." Touma explained. Seiji put his hand on his face and shook his head, "Oh, and Touma, did you realize you forgot to fix Jun something." Touma hit his head.
"Ops, Oh, well. I guess we'll be eating pizza agian anyways. At least he wasn't in here to relize I had forgotten him." Touma said sitting back in his chair, "Though you do have to admitt I did a little better then last time."
"At least last time you acually cooked the meat." Shu complained comming out of the kitchen and heading upstairs.
"Aren't you going to wait for the pizza, Shu?" Nasuti asked.
"Na, that stuff made me sick. I don't think I could look at anymore food tonight." Shu said looking a little green.
"Me, too." Shin and Ryo added heading upstairs.
"I'll go order a small pizza then, I know Jun is still hungry." Nasuti said leaving the room.
"Don't worry about me, Nasuti, I not too hungry anyways." Seiji said standing.
"Hey, Nasuti, I'll get the pizza for ya." Touma offered.
"Well, all right. I just ordered a small one." Nasuti said, "Here are the keys."
"Thanks I'll be back in a few minuets." Touma said as he left.

Touma slowly entered the jeep and started it. "Why is it that nomatter how hard I try I can't grasp the notion of cooking?" Touma asked himself as he entered Tokyo, "I mean what's so hard about throwing a bunch of ingrediants together." Touma parked the jeep in front of the pizza place and slowly got out. "Hey, Touma."
"Hey, Aoki." Touma greeted the boy as he walked in.
"Did ya burn supper again?" Aoki asked ringing up the order on the register.
"A little bit, the rest was raw."
"How come you guys only ordered a small pizza." Aoki asked looking at the order.
"Cause I about killed Ryo, Shin, and Shu." Touma explained.
"I'm guessing they got the raw meat." Aoki guessed. Touma nodded his head.
"Hey, don't feel so bad Touma." Aoki said, "I mean not everybody can be good at cooking. I'm definantly not."
"At least you don't burn Jello."
"Hey, don't start that. You know it was an accident. Why do you think I work out here all the time?" Aoki asked. Touma just shugged. "Hey, guys can I help back there?" Aoki yelled into the kitchen.
"What?! Do you think we've gone crazy." One of the cooks answered.
"Why would we let someone like you back here." Another asked.
"Yea, I'd almose let Touma there back here before I'd let you. And I've almost died from his cooking!" A third one added.
"It was an accident Michio." Touma yelled at them.
"Whatever." Michio replied.
"Is that pizza ready?" Touma asked.
"Yea right here." Aoki said as he handed him the pizza. Touma took the pizza and walked out of the pizza place.  He got into the jeep and tried to start it up. The engein turned over but wouldn't start.

"What now?" Touma asked leaning back into the car. He looked up into the dark black sky. "That's funny.I don't remember hearing about any rain." Touma said looking closer at the dark clouds.
"WHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" A voice echoed througout the city.
"No! It can't be." Touma gasped as a steak of lightning arced across the sky. "Who's there!" Touma yelled into the sky.
"I'm your enemy. You may of been able to defete Arago, but you cannot defete me!"The voice boomed.
"That's the exact same thing Arago said" Touma yelled back.
"Bring your friends and you'll see how much stronger I am then Arago was. You have till tomarrow. If you don't show I'll assume you relized the truth." The voice said laughing.

"One-chan, when's Touma-oni-chan going to be back?" Jun asked.
"I don't know, Jun. He should of been back by now." Nasuti replied. In the background they heard a door slam. "That much be him now."Nasuti said heading downstairs.

Touma had raced into the house slamming the door begind him. "Hey, becarefull. I don't think Nasuti would appreciate the door being broken." Seiji comented from his place on the couch.
"Seiji, we have trouble." Touma said hystaricly.
"What? Touma, settle down. What is going on?" Seiji asked making Touma sit down.
"Seiji, a new eveil is in Toko." Touma replied.
"Hey, Touma, where's the pizza?" Nasuti asked as she entered the room. She noticed the look in Seiji's one visiable eye. "Seiji, what's wrong?"
"Nasuti, go get the others." Seiji commanded.
"But, Seiji they're still..." Nasuti started but Seiji cut it of with a look, "Jun, come on. We need to get the guys down here."
"But, I thought they were still sick?" Jun asked. Nasuti didn't answer but pushed Jun up the stairs.

A few minuets later eveybody was downstairs listening to the news Touma had for them. "This has got to be the worst timeing." Ryo commented.
"You guys can do it." Jun said cheerfully.
"Jun, none of us have practiced at all this past year." Shin informed him.
"Shin's right. None of us are at are best." Ryo aggreed.
"And we only have untill tomarrow." Shu added.
"What are you going to do?" Jun asked looking at the others.
"We have no choice but to fight." Seiji replied.
"I suggest that you all get some sleep. That's all you can do now." Nasuti suggested. It was agreed and they all went to bed.

"Where's this creep at?" Shu asked pounding his fist into his hand. The five warriors walked into the now empty city donned in their subarmors.
"Well, it looks like you acually had the guts to come." A voice announced from the top of a building.
"More warlords? Why do they always send someone else to do their dirty work?" Seiji asked lookin at the warrior that topped a nearby building.
"Come down and fight" Ryo yelled.
"Not quite yet. First let us see how you fare aginst these soldiers." The warlord said as an army of soldiers appeared around the Troopers. The Troopers armored up and started fighting. "These weaklings defeted Arago!" The warlord gasped," They have to have more power." The warlord called upon more soldiers. 
"Where are all these soldiers somming from?" Shin yelled as he was attacted by 50 more soldiers.
"Lets get this over with" Touma telled notching an arrow into his bow.

"ShinKou Ha"

The others soon followed.

"Sou En Zan"
"Gan Tessai"
"Rai Kou Zan"
"Chouryuu Ha"

In no time the soldires were all gone. "Ah, so this is their great power. pitifull." The warlord commited as he jumped from his perch on thebuilding and landed infront of the Troppers. "Now you will fight me" The warlord announced as he attacked. Right away Ryo let loose his surekill. "Is that all you have to offer?" The warlord laughed," That was just a nice warm fire." 
"What?!" Ryo gasped when he replized it didn't work. "Shu, Seiji, Touma let's try a combined attack." Shin suggested. They waited untill the warlord wasn't paying attention to them and then attacked.

"Shin Kou Ha"
"Gan Tessai"
"Rai Kou Zan"
"Chouryuu Ha"

The warlord tumbled from the power that was unleashed. "Ryo, use the kikotei." Seiji suggested.
"All right, lets do it." Ryo yelled. The power of the four Troopers combined with Ryo and created the kikotei and he then attacked.

"Sen Kou Zan"

"AHHH... I'm sory I failed you my lord!" the warlord yelled as he was dystroyed.
"These warriors are a lot stronger then Arago ever was." Touma commited.
"You truly are weak" A voice said comming from the shadows.
"Who are you?" Shu questioned.
"I am Akutoo. The warlord you just defeted was only one of the weakest. You'll find me harder." 
"We'll see about that" Ryo said as he started to attack with the kikotei.
"You are too weak. I'll give you till tomarrow to think about your surrender." Akutoo laughed as he unleashed a blast of power that threw the five Troopers back and broke the Kikotei up giving the Troopers their powers back, and then dissapeared.
"Ryo!" Nasuti yelled as she approched the battered Troopers.
"Nasuti, what are you doing here?" Seiji asked in a weak tone.
"Shhh, you guys be quiet. Jun and I will watch over you. Just get better so you can trash that idiot." Nasuti said as she started to bandage their wounds.

Hi,

Well here's the first part. Hope you like it. Please e-mail me with any suggestion or praises. I'll even take flames as long as you e-mail me. Please.

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