<P><B><JC>The beginning of another end
<P>Kidnapped dolphins, green sunglasses, and a return to nothingness
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<P>Until he was captured by some enterprising researchers who had never seen dolphin with green tinted sunglasses before. He was taken away and put in an enclosure where lots of people came a looked at him. Sometimes they fed him fish.
<P>He longed for a pizza, but they had taken his green tinted sunglasses, and with them his power to transform back. He began discussing revolution with the other dolphins, they had heard stories of him, because in this world he was the first dolphin ever. Wherever Lo was he had lost control, this was what they had sought to prevent. Ryan wondered if Lo had been taken in for study of some sort too.
<P>The dolphins began building technology to levitate water, with it they would have free range of the planet. From there the revolution could take off, and if Ryan could get his sunglasses he could bring the might of Eris and Elis down on the scientists. But first the revolution had to start.
<P>It didn't. Somebody forgot the whistle. All the dolphins were waiting for the whistle to blow, but it never happened. The revolution was doomed to failure anyway because dolphins are not equipped with the right type of jaw to blow whistle anyway. It was a massive oversight by Ryan, who up until this point hadn't really done anything particularly stupid.
<P>It had been so perfect of a plan too.
<P>He started to send word around that the whistle wouldn't come, and they should start up anyway. Of course the revolution had failed, but a slow methodical intricate plan to get the sunglasses was underway. The plan was everything, literally. They didnt want to lose so they had made both simple and complex methods, there were backup plans and alternate plans, and back up alternate plans, and alternate back up plans. They would succeed, but the question was: would it be before Ryan was needed in his savior role that he had become quite good at?
<P>The dolphins regrouped and began their first plan. This consisted of two of the dolphins pretending to be sick. They distracted the keepers while two other dolphins quietly leapt out of the enclosure and walked on their tails (like in the cartoons) to the security shed. They smashed the door down and were about to pick up the glasses when they realized they had no hands. Time for plan B...
<P>One delicately picked them up in it's teeth while the other distracted the guards. Stuff was going well.  And it kept on going well. It was going so well in fact that they began to enjoy themselves. They were right beside the pool when the stopped and took the sunglasses back again. They put them down where they were, fixed the door, locked it and walked out. They went all the way back to the pool, and went and did it all again. It was going really well. they did it 5 times. But them in the middle of the sixth time the guards decided the decoy dolphins were not in fact sick and made their way back to the shed.
<P>Everything was on the line now, this time the world had been good (except for the dolphin stealers) and if Ryan didn't get those sunglasses soon it would end, the next try might not be so good.  So the dolphins did karate on the guards and beat them up. Then they took the sunglasses and gave them to Ryan. They wondered why they didn't just do that in the first place.
<P>Ryan put them on and transformed back into a human. He then used his sunglass powers to release the dolphins back to the ocean. Before he could deal out justice (vengeance) to the dolphin stealers the world started to end. Ryan ran off to find out why the world was ending this time, and stop it if that was the best thing to do.
<P>He discovered that it was ending because it had been very badly put together. While he was figuring this out the world did end. It had been very badly put together. The only things that were left was one water droplet, one (very bemused) elephant and the remaining shards of a telephone. Plus assorted Gods, Ryan, and Lo.
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<P>They weren't up for putting it together the long way, but they had to put it back together, didn't they? At the moment they were all walking around on, or floating in, nothing. The nothing wasn't too bad of a place to be. The problem became that they had to build a world, no matter what to get Gaia back, but they figured that even if it lasted only a few seconds they could separate her from it, so that was not the real problem. The real problem was this:
<P>Everyone there were nice people (gods) and that didn't make for a good story, after all where was the conflict? Where was the action? If they didn't get something of some sort other than those who were there they would be reduced to things like character development, and simple sex. Though the second part didnt seem all that bad it didnt make for a good story of this rating (of less than R).
