An Angel Adventure: Land of the Living Dead

[The High Flyer]

After some time of wiping and dusting, the carvings became visible. Everyone came closer to the headstone to read the tiny writing, which looked unusual and out of place on the gigantic headstone.

To gain immortality, one must plead allegiance, sacrafice, and take away. With immortality, comes something of value, but something untrue. Eternal life will be given to those who do as he says.

"What the heck does that mean," HF pondered.
"It seems thats like some fine print on every headstone on here, that's why its so small. I guess it's like a 'Hey, you wanna live forever, you gotta do this!' But it doesn't sound so nice and legit," JCD replied.
"So you mean...these living dead guys are "pleading allegiance, sacraficing, and...uh taking away?" for "him" to live again, and live forever..?"
"Precisely..or well, that's what would be precise at the moment, with our limited knowledge."

They all looked away from the headstone and started to examine what was, the lgendary Land of the Dead.

"Eck...well we've got that, now what do we do?" SB asked.
"We dig up the grave," Arenas said solemnly.
"What?!"
"I suppose that does make sense...I mean, it's not like the residents of here just lie in their grave all day...they walk around. Maybe they haven't vanished, just vanished back to their grave...which would mean that they themselves, their state of mind, is alive back on earth!" Victor said, almost to himself as he tried to solve the problem in his head.
"Still doesn't answer alot of questions," Psnoo said with concern.
"Well, are their any other fine ideas?"

[Sugarbutt]

They all turned to Victor. He looked sheepish for a moment. "Well...I suppose we dig." He said simply.

SB backed towards the way they came. "I think I'll just go...recruit." She smiled, and turned around to sprint towards the ladder.

"Just a minute there lass." Jack said grabbing her by the collar. He looked around at all the others gathered before him. "We can't have ye running off all by your lonesome now can we?"

"Jorri'll come with me won't you?" SB grabbed her former co-kick, and drug her to her side. "Does that appease everyone?" She asked hurriedly, eyeing the giant headstone.

"I was wanting to help-" DL started.

SB covered her mouth, and started pulling her towards the ladder. "We need more help." SB whispered, as they reached the base of the ladder. SB looked up. "That's a looooong way up there..." She murmured, grabbing onto the sides and placing one foot on the bottom rung.

[Secret Pseudonym]

As the two kicks climbed back up the ladder under DB's watchful eyes, everyone else turned to Psnoo. "What?"

"Shovels?"

Psnoo grumbled. "That's not the sort of thing I can get out of there myself, you know. They're just a little long and unwieldy. I mean, it really was meant for smaller things...like screwdrivers." Everyone took a step back and she grined mischieviously. "Now, y'all jes' need to calm down for a spell- Ouch!" DB smacked the back of her head. Psnoo pouted and rubbed it. "Fine. I see no one around here has a sense of humor..."

Still grumbling, Psnoo twisted around akwardly so she could at least see her own pocket...

There was a gasp from the crowd...

She looked down at hands that were surprisingly long and thin...noticed she was all but wrapped around her own spine...

"Aww...smeep-seempit. We're clay-mation, aren't we?"

[johnchrisdepp]

"Ooh..how fun!" JCD said hopping up and down.."Look Victor I'm just like you now.."

" I can see that.." Victor said smiling uneasily..

" Now" said Jack staring strangly at his long clay hand...."Shall we get digging?"

[_depplove]

"Wait, wait," DL pleaded, climbing up the enormous ladder with SB in front. "Who will we recruit? I was thinking Ichabod. Because he's good with the, uhm, dead people. You know. And it would also be quite fun to see him in claymation..." She sniggered.

As soon as they reached the near top and SB was all the way through the portal, DL stuck half of her body up and out of the hole while the other half was still in. "Lookie, lookie! I'm half real, half claymation!"

"Come on," SB answered with a glower. "Stop playing around, we have to get other Angels and members!"

With a crestfallen expression on her face, she climbed all the way out. She led the way out of CC's office, but as soon as she opened the door, she walked smack into Ed Wood.

"Oh, oh, I'm sorry Eddie!" she shouted frantically, helping him up and handing him the camera that she had carried down into the Land of the Living Dead with her. "I got a good amout of footage of the JA Academy like you asked, but I got only about a minute of footage of Hell. I'll let you get the rest if you come down with us."

"Hell?" he repeated with that famous smile. "I would love to get footage of the real Hell! I could use it in my newest movie - Attack of the Flesh-Eating Corpses..."

She grinned and took him by the arm. "Perfect!"

As she stole his phrase, he studied her more closely. Narrowing his eyes, he mentioned, "You took my angora."

Her face falling, she slowly took it off (with a shirt on underneath! o_<) and handed it back to him. "It's just so... so... comfy. Sorry."

"Don't worry about it," he said and ran it along his cheek, smiling dreamily. "I know it is."

Snarfing, she began walking in the direction of Ichabod's forest. "I say that we go get ol' Ichy. What say you to that?" She looked pointedly at SB.

[Sugarbutt]

SB shrugged. "I think we're in need of the Johnny's angels as well...I've sent out a few notices and posted a memo in the Angel Academy. So far it's not worked as you can well see. But I suppose we could attempt our own adventure. The Angel Knapping Recruiting Adventure!" SB grinned at DL. "I think we should start back in our original training thread. What say you to that?"

DL pondered a moment. "You mean-?" Her eyes lit up.

"Yup! We go after the Fiend. Quite the adventure!" SB grinned wickedly, and looped her arm through DL's. "Shall we?"

They turned around and headed back to the academy.

[Dangerbabe]

"Claymation, eh?" DB pondered this idea. She then reached into Psnoo's back pocket and pulled out a couple of handkerchiefs. "Clay, too. How handy." She smushed them up and began working with the clay blob.

"We're supposed to be digging," Psnoo said with a raised eyebrow.

DB quickly formed two balls of white clay. "You want to draw a couple of irises on these?"

Psnoo stared. Arenas snarfed and reached into Psnoo's back pocket pulling out a black Sharpie pen.

"WOULD YOU ALL STOP REACHING INTO MY PANTS?!" Psnoo hollered, snatching the pen away from Arenas. "Sheesh!" She quickly drew dark circles on the white clay balls.

DB removed her sunglasses and popped the eyeballs into the sockets, blinking a few times. "Holy carp! It worked!"

"Uh..." Psnoo winced, "you look a little creepy...they're not really synched up..."

"Hey, they do the job." DB grinned at Psnoo then gasped. "Shirts like that should be banned, Primera...is that the kind of stuff you've always been wearing?"

CC cleared her throat and imagined several shovels out of thin air. "Shall we?" She tossed them at the angels and sidekicks.

"Ugh," said HF, "how deep do you s'pose we have to go?"

"Six feet's the usual," sniffed Sands. "I usually go for shallow graves, or a river, but you do what you have to do."

They all began digging.

[Candy Queen]

Roxie walks out in front of DL and SB with Willy Wonka at her side "Are you guys sure Fiend and Duke aren't in Vegas?"

"Well its worth a shot isn't it?" SB replies.

"I thought that DB left Willy in her Bio Thread... Why do you have him?" DL added.

"Oh well I was just wandering around, lost as usual, and I walked past DB's Bio Jack was screaming at the top of his lungs so I peaked in to see what was up and Roux and Willy were fighting. Seems Willy wanted some chocolate and molds but couldn't find any and Roux wasn't helping like DB told him to so I decided to seperate them and so I brought Willy with me. Anywho... What are you guys up to?" said Roxie

"The usual... Going into the Land Of The Dead to help Victor, getting recuits... you know... Same old same old here at JA" DL replies.

"Sounds fun can we help?" Piped Willy

"What about your Chocolate?" SB asked.

"It can wait... For a few minutes..." Willy said

They all looked at him in shock before he added the last part. Then they go their separate ways DL and SB to recuit people and Roxie and Willy to CC's office to help the others.

Roxie imagines for two paracells and there they are... They used them to get down the hole... not noticing there was a ladder.

"Where do you suppose they are?" He asks her.

Roxie looks over the rim of her sun glasses and spots them "There they are... Digging, it looks like... Wonder why..."

[Sugarbutt]

SB and DL approached the Strip. SB was about to burst through the door when DL grabbed her arm.

"Wait. Look!" She said pointing to a note pasted on the door.

"Do not dare enter the den of fanfic and interrupt the writing process or you will be eaten by many bearded dragons."

"Hm...doesn't sound too horrible..." SB mused, her hand returning to the knob.

"No!" DL cried. "We can't have you eaten...we'll have lost a helper, not gained one."

"So what do we do now?" SB pouted.

"Well..." DL pointed to the door, where an addendum appeared. "We can always try again later..."

"Please call again when the dragons are away."

SB sighed. "Alright. Then what shall we do now? We've gotten Roxie... Think that's enough?"

DL shrugged, and pulled out her trusty cell phone. "We'll find out." She pressed the speed dial for DB and waited as the call was connected.

[Dulcet Drifter]

Drouxl was lost. Completely,terrifyingly, horribly lost. Each hallway looked like the other and she was getting twitchy.The slightest noise put her on edge. With her luck she was alone in the building. Not particularly paying attention to where she was going, she never noticed(amazing as this sounds) the giant hole in the ground that was glowing red. With a surprised yelp she stumbled into the hole.

"OW!" she cried, as she hit the dirt bottom, smacking her head on the ground right before she blacked out.

Coming to again, Drouxl slowly took in her new surrounding with confusion. Where was she? Standing carefully, she examined her now bruised body. Oh the agony!

"There they are... Digging, it looks like... Wonder why..."

Drouxl whipped her head toward the voice and grinned. People. People she recognized.

"ROXIE!" She screamed excitedly, rushing toward the other girl with newfound glee. She enveloped the other girl in an exuberant hug. "Oh my gosh, what are you doing here? What is Willy doing here? Why are you all claymated looking?" She asked in a rush. As an afterthought she added, "What am I doing here?"

Roxie laughed at the sudden onslaught of questioning. "We're here to help."

"Help?" Drouxl asked. "With what?" Spotting the others...apparently digging, a new question popped into her head. "What are they doing?"

[Dangerbabe]

DB's phone rang. She put her shovel down and answered. "Cuidado piso mojado."

"DB, it's SB! We've got Roxie, but not the Fiend 'cause she's fic writing."

"Well then get your booty back down here. You guys can help us grave rob."

CC and Jack were diggin in rythym singing "Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for meeeee..."

"And make it quick," Arenas yelled into the phone and DB's ear.

Just then, Jack's shovel clanged against a hard object. "Come on, lasses," he said, "I think we've found somethin'."

[The High Flyer]

After lots of grunts and sweats, sighs and frustration, they got to the coffin.

"How do we open it?" Psnoo asked.
"Maybe imagine it open? Works on everything else around here...well not here in particular but..." Arenas continued to stumble around her words..
"No need for that girls, just call out 'Rise and Shine!'" Victor said, cupping his mouth for volume.

Slowly, the coffin door began to open, revealing a decayed... clay body.

"So that's that," CC said, scratching her head.
"And this means...they're back alive? On Earth?" Drouxl asked.
"It would seem that thats the case," Victor said.
"So what's going on now?" George asked, holding his nose from the moldy smell.

"We can go find the guy and ask him some questions, interrogate him. Or we can, you know, hang around here and see what happens." HF said with a shrugg.

[_depplove]

"Alright," DL said back into the cell phone and then snapped it shut. "SB, we've got to get back down there! We have enough people already."

She decided to sprint back to the office and then, with a great boldness, take a flying leap into the hole. As she hurdled down into Hell, literally, and reached ground, she let out a huge wail as she landed with a loud THUMP.

"Owwwww!!" Whining wasn't going to help, though. Rubbing her backside, she waited until SB came through the portal at a sensible slow pace, and then caught up with the rest of the Angels and 'kicks.

She turned her eyes from the corpse to Victor to everybody else. "What now? Do we have to find the living dead... on earth?"

[johnchrisdepp]

" ugggg! No!" JCD yelped grabbing hold of Victor once again, " Theres nothing scarier then a corpse!"


"ehem!" Victor Grunted.." But I am in fact merried to one that I love very much.."

" Oh I'm sorry Victor..But..shes well..alive..but dead..umm..You know what I mean.."JCD said awkwardly still grasping victor tightly..

" Well..anyways..what now?" Victor said..

[The Protective Horserider]

"Back to earth then, I guess" Obs answered

"Yeah, but where do you suggest we start?" JCD asked her fellow kick

"Good question" SB said while wondering "What do you think the undead would want to do?"

"Er.. I'd like to eat something" Drouxl blushed

"There's no time for that now, we have to sort out where to start" Psnoo said slightly irritated

"No, no, I meant that I would like to eat if I was an undead"

"Oh, right. Well then. Let's go back to the land of the living! And er, the undead of course"