A long chapter, but I think you'll like it.
INTERLUDE: Continuity? What's That?
*fade in*
STRAVO: Hey, what the hell?
ZAIA: Where'd everything go!
DALTON: Hey, where's my car?
CYRAN: Yaaa! What happened to New York?
KUJA: Holy shit, what is this?
STRAVO: Does anyone know what's going on?
DALTON: Don't look at me!
CYRAN: Where are we?
KUJA: Looks like a big black void to me.
ZAIA: Don't be a smartass, this is serious.
KUJA: *growl*
STRAVO: All right, how did we end up here? More importantly, how do we get back?
KUJA: We can't.
ALL OTHERS: WHAT?
KUJA: Or at least, we can't do anything personally to get back.
KELLY ANTILLES: Hey, what's going on?
ZAIA: Kelly, is that you?
KELLY: Yeah, it's me. Where the hell are we?
DALTON: That's what we've been trying to figure out.
KELLY: Any luck?
CYRAN: Nope. We've just been yelling at each other.
KELLY: Typical.
STRAVO: Cyran, why don't you shut your mouth and let me think?
CYRAN: Oh, I wouldn't want to interrupt THAT, would I?
STRAVO: Come a little closer and say that.
CYRAN: Yeah right! What do you think I am, stupid?
STRAVO: Yeah!
CYRAN: Asshole!
DALTON: Will you two cut it out?
BOTH: NO!
ZAIA: Look, can we just calm down a bit and figure out where we are?
KUJA: I already told you.
ZAIA: No you didn't.
KUJA: Yes I did.
KELLY: Then repeat it.
KUJA: Fine. *a beat* We are in a place I like to call Limbo. Whenever I, that is, the real me, stop writing, all my characters and thoughts go into Limbo. They stay there until I start the story back up, at which point they all return to their normal universes.
STRAVO: So that's why we're here? You're not working on the story?
KUJA: Basically.
CYRAN: Lazy bastard.
DALTON: That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
KUJA: No it's not.
DALTON: Yes it is. Limbo? A place for characters not being written or some gibberish? That's crazy.
KUJA: No it's not. You do it too.
DALTON: I do?
KUJA: Yep. Everyone does. Most characters don't remember it because when they return to their normal universes, it's like it never happened at all.
ZAIA: Wait a minute. If we're all characters from the story, then what's Kelly doing here?
KELLY: Yeah, what am I doing here?
KUJA: How should I know? I'm not me. Well, I am, but not in that sense.
*silence*
CYRAN: I hate you, KUJA.
KUJA: You can't hate me!
CYRAN: Why?
KUJA: Because I hate you! I'm the one holding the grudge here, remember?
CYRAN: Oh yeah.
KELLY: Why on Earth are you holding a grudge?
CYRAN: Because Zaia hugs me and not Kuja.
KUJA: *growl*
KELLY: *coldly* Oh. I see.
KUJA: It's only because you're not there, Kelly! If you were there, I wouldn't be worried about Zaia?
ZAIA: *coldly* Oh really?
KUJA: No! I mean, I like you too, Zaia, a lot, and-
KELLY: Oh, a lot, huh?
KUJA: No!
ZAIA: You don't?
KUJA: ACK! I can't flirt with two women at once!
DALTON: *to STRAVO* should we step in?
STRAVO: Nah, it's more fun to stand by and watch him flounder.
DALTON: Good point.
CYRAN: Ha! Now both of them hate you!
KUJA: Shut your trap!
CYRAN: Wanna make me, metalhead?
*KUJA begins trembling with rage*
KELLY: *to ZAIA* Hug him, will you? It'll be hell for all of us if you don't!
ZAIA: Oh, fine.
*ZAIA hugs KUJA*
KUJA: Yay!
CYRAN: Now that we're all happy again, *pulls a guitar out of his traveling bag* who's up for a round of Kum-by-a?
*group piles on CYRAN, and a cloud of smoke eclipses the severe beating he receives. When the smoke clears, his clothes are torn and rumpled and his guitar has been broken over his head*
CYRAN: *dreamily* Lookit the purty stars…
KELLY: Hey Kuja, if you're not working on the story, shouldn't you make a public service announcement or something? People are waiting, after all.
KUJA: Right. *clears throat* I'm sorry, everyone, but due to the presence of a skewered llama in my neighbor's backyard, I have been unable to work on this story.
*silence*
ZAIA: A skewered llama?
KUJA: Hey, it's as good a reason as any.
*more silence*
STRAVO: You are one royally fucked-up person, you know that?
KUJA: That's what the doctors say. Only they use a lot more syllables.
*fade out*