IS Virus: Episode 10 -Quarantine-

by tonbonkittybon

When the four seasons converge before the sunrise, they will burst into a flame of judgement. Sokoto is the daring summer. Autumn is the deceptive autumn. Madoka is the harsh winter. The Silverio Gospel is the flowing spring. They have all been brought together in Japan. It's time. SEASON 1 FINALE

1. Convergence

Infinite Stratos Virus: Episode 10 - Quarantine [SEASON 1 FINALE]

Part 1: Convergence

-00:00-

The time was midnight. The setting was the resting place of those who had given up on life. Nothing could be more fitting for a final showdown, save for highly enhanced exoskeletons that, supposedly, only women could use. Until now. When five years ago, a male emerged as an IS pilot, he would save Japan from two potential disasters, and he earned the mostly reluctant admiration of the women of the world.

Now, present day. Another male has emerged as an IS pilot. The renegade. Who knows only hurt, fear, resentment, and vengeance. For his fallen comrade Squall, and for the lives that have been ruined because of the IS, he vowed to destroy Japan. Or, at the very least, the region surrounding Mt. Fuji.

As soon as the troops entered into the vicinity of the region, a gigantic siren blared throughout, declaring a potential state of emergency, and ordering all citizens residing anywhere in Chūbu to evacuate. Unfortunately, with the frightening speed of the battles seen so far, it was already too late.

The brigade of 21 pilots blasted their way into Mt. Fuji. Leading the charge was Tabane herself, piloting the Silver Streamline.

"Listen up, everyone," she shouted, "We're launching a surprise attack the moment we see him! Don't nobody let up even for a second!"

"Are we finally going to kill him?" Laura asked, "Or do you still need him for some god forsaken experiment?"

"He can't die that easily," Chelsea said, "Let's just attack with the intent to kill. That way, we can at least ensure he is unconscious."

"What about M and Autumn?" Laura remembered, "They've sided with the renegade..."

"They still have their doubts about him," Tabane said smugly, "After Squall got axed, their anger is overloading. And the moment they lose control of themselves is when I'll finish them."

"I see him!" Someone shouted from behind, "He's down by that tree!"

"I get first crack," Tabane prepped for an IB, "I can't wait to see the fruits of my labor."

Tabane charged energy into her feet for three seconds, and let loose a Mach 2 Ignition Boost. Laura waited until Tabane blasted off to charge in. Chelsea sent a quick message to Cecilia, against her better judgment, before motioning the other pilots to get in formation and charge in.

Tabane rushed Sokoto, who was by himself, kneeling beside the tree, still holding his dead comrade's hand. She smirked as she readied to punch his lights out when she finally came in range.

But just when she was about to reach him, Silver appeared out of nowhere and kicked her away, crashing in the ground. Laura saw the Gospel and fired her railgun, but Silver threw her shield into the rockets to cancel her shot. Laura moved in and activated her AIC, but Silver threw her sword in the way, opening her wings to envelope Laura.

Chelsea tried to thrust her sword into the bright energy ball, but the shield came back and blocked her strike, and the ball exploded sending a massive shockwave that repelled her and Laura. Silver caught the shield and threw it to Sokoto, who used it to block Tabane's sudden attack and throw off the other pilots. Silver rushed back and repelled everyone but Tabane, who would've thrown Silver backward, were it not for Sokoto socking her mouth. Tabane was forced behind the line of scrimmage, with Laura and Chelsea at her side, and 18 pilots behind, versus Sokoto and Silver, shield and sword.

"So..." Sokoto said, "You heathens gathered here after all...and I half-expected you to surprise me with hoodies..."

"Don't you dare make light of us, renegade!" Chelsea pointed her saber at him.

"Or what, privileged b*?!" Sokoto blurted out.

Laura readied her railgun, "Take that back, Schwein sauger!"

"You don't have an aura!" Sokoto shouted, "You're not even human, so butt out!"

Tabane raised her hand to Laura's face to stop her from doing anything reckless. She turned to Sokoto, "Fine. We'll skip the foreplay and jump right into it. Sound good?"

Silver retreated into its standby mode.

Sokoto glared, "Whatever you say, devil play girl."

"Huh..." Tabane cringed.

"I know everything about your little scheme!" Sokoto deployed the Gospel, "I know it was you who fired every single bit of missilery on the planet right here! And I know you made a deal with whoever piloted the White Knight to make a spectacle of the most powerful weapon in the world, just to turn people's heads sideways and say, F* YOU!" He changed his color scheme to blood red, "Gotta say...pride makes you screw up so much s***, don't it?"

"You..." For the second time in her life, Tabane was utterly broken, "Who told you this?..."

"What nonsense are you sputtering, renegade?" Laura couldn't wait any longer. She jumped and prepped her wire daggers, "Save your false testimonies for the dead!" She charged ahead and unleashed the daggers at Sokoto, who blocked them all with his shield. She plunged her sword into his shield, but he caught it. He used the wings for her, but Silver redirected them behind him. They enveloped Chelsea, who tried a sneak attack, but was caught long before. Sokoto hopped over and threw Chelsea into Laura before blasting off towards Tabane, who stood her ground with some pilots protecting her. He dodged all pilots in his way to get to Tabane. Once their punches connected,

"No two ways about it!" Tabane said, "You have to die!"

"Amuse me," Sokoto said as he allowed the anger in him to overtake his body. The anger translated into additional power, enough to repel Tabane with a single push and deal with the pilots behind him.

-(EARLIER) 23:16-

Meanwhile, Autumn and Madoka snuck their way into the camp by jumping into a truck and killing the drivers. They donned their outfits before they came into view of the camp guards.

"Finally..." Madoka said, "I can finally taste the blood of my victims..."

"More where that came from," Autumn pointed, "Look who's come to greet us."

At the gates, two guards came to check on the contents of the truck. Once everything was all clear, they let it pass into the compound. The duo saw more than they bargained for back on the hills. Torture unimaginable , enough to make even Autumn look away. At one point, they were forced to open the hood just to burn off a man's penis. After which, they drove into the garage.

"So, now what?" Madoka asked.

"I've done a preliminary scan," Autumn explained, "No communications or IS tech within or without. This place is completely cut off from the outside world, meaning no help for anyone."

"So, we can start killing them?"

"Live stream first. We get caught or finish exploring, then we kill."

"Fine..." she grumbled as they walked out to do their part.

Autumn went to her assigned station and carried a tray of mediocre food to a cell on the top floor.

"Hey!" Someone found her, "Where do you think you're going with that?!"

Autumn froze, but immediately regained her composure, "What? Can't I eat my own food at my own job?"

The officer stared at the tray, "You wanna eat...THAT..."

Autumn realized that the tray was full of slightly rotten food. With extremely quick thinking, "Ok, fine! The guy didn't wear the pants the way I wanted him to, so he ain't getting this s***!"

"Little overboard, but totally understandable," the officer said, "Just make sure it's not a repeat steal. We're short on lumber this month after all..."

"I got it," Autumn said as the officer left. She walked the other way and thought, 'Does anyone in the camp make any f***ing sense?!' Then, she dumped the tray in a trash can and started her private channel link, 'Let's just hurry up and get to the slaughterfest...' She waited until she felt her necklace vibrated, meaning she has an undetectable connection to all Japanese broadcasting satellites. She tapped her chest and interrupted every single channel to stream everything she saw. She began her walkabout, touching off on every corner, making sure she looked everywhere for what she needed. She hated every moment of it.

"I don't know what I've just seen," she whispered, "but I would give anything to unsee it. There are men-well, men I understand, but little boys who don't even know what the word puberty means? Being made to become a slave-look at this right here." She looked into a room where- "They deprived his senses and turned him into a walking sperm bank. Ok, that's mild, but over...heeeeeerrreeee...Gotcha!" Cafeteria. "They are thoroughly searched every five minutes and-" Someone asked her to stop, and she picked him up and slammed him against more prisoners. "Yeah...sad, ain't it?"

Madoka connected through her bracelets, ensuring that the live stream stays uninterrupted. And while Autumn seemed to have gotten the cringeworthy aspects of male torture, she got the extreme aspects. "I never thought I'd have Blue balls from seeing this many heads roll," she grunted, "I wanna kill these women so badly..." She stumbled upon the courtyard, where women have men on their knees by the chains, forcing them all to witness a little boy...suffocate? "Well, it's just her crotch, it ain't-WHAT THE F***?!" This was a hazing. A very septic initiation to all new prisoners. They were warned that if they ever lifted their heads, something worse would happen to them. "I have discovered all that is unholy..."

Autumn had wondered into the fields, where men and boys had to cut wood and turn it into lumber. "Take a look, people. If it were a little boy instead of a little girl, I guarantee you it'd be different." Then she saw a man getting electrically prodded by a female guard. When he asked if he could get back to work, she kneed his gut and accused him of obstruction. Then, a swarm of guards make quick humiliation out of him. "I just realized...don't they have a pool here?"

"They literally squirt semen in here..." Madoka sniffed the tray she delivered to a prisoner, "That, or testosterone, but this is just so wrong..." After she saw how their daily food supply was maintained, she thought nothing could top that. And then, she went to the cell to deliver the tray.

A man was severely unaware of his current standing in the world, and wanted nothing to do with the women around him. So...they had the idea to give him a facelift. Swap his face with that of a woman's. Without anesthetics or morphines. Madoka was hit with a bad case of irony. She remembered a time when she wanted to scar her face unrecognizable because of her likeness to those who shan't be named.

And not five seconds after she witnessed the cell did she decide that she had seen enough.

She mentally wired a private text to Autumn, who was lucky enough to be in the bathrooms went it was sent, "PLEASE LET ME KILL :("

Autumn felt the urge to kill as well, but she had to hold it in beca-

Not two steps out of the MANually-cleaned toilets did she wander into deja vu as well.

A 10-person gang-raping in progress. Against one little boy who simply asked when he could see his mother again. The guards responded by stripping him and having their way with him. She suddenly flashed to the empty streets of Austria, that night she lost her way and couldn't find her mother. Then, they came.

Autumn sent to Madoka, "Go wild. Eat everyone. ;)"

They cut the broadcast and walked up to confront the people that triggered their memories. They saw that there was no way of curing the trauma that the males were suffering. So, they stormed into their respective areas and killed all the women first. Then they slowly walked to their targets and endured their heartbreak.

Madoka didn't need to say anything to see the impact firsthand. She knelt down and gently ran her hand across his bloodied cheeks, and he wailed. She went down and hugged him. "It's ok..." she said, "You won't endure anymore..." The more she stroked his face, the more he calmed down, to the point where they decided that it was enough. She cuddled up to his head and snapped his neck. She stood still and covered his eyes, mourning the life he had prior to this. Just then, the guards came and held her at gun point.

"What do you think you're doing?" One of them demanded, "You're aiding the enemy by doing this!"

"Oh...am I?" she hissed, "Because I'd like to think I'm toying with the enemy."

"Kill her now!" The official commanded, and the guards fired on her. But no bullets came through. "It can't be..." she shook, "Is she a pilot?!"

Madoka didn't give her any time to process the situation. She threw a scaffold into her eyes and ripped it off. She did the same thing with the other guards, prompting the last to radio for help before Madoka killed her as well.

"Go on..." Madoka was consumed by bloodlust, "Bring them to me..."

Autumn held the boy down as he begged for his mother.

"Please..." he sobbed, "I want to see mommy again...They hated her because of me...I wanted to say I'm sorry..."

"It's ok..." she said, "I've been through this before..."

"Really?" he asked.

"They took my parents too... and I had to live a cruel life since then..."

"Why?"

"Dunno..."

The guards saw what happened and confronted her at gun point.

"If you don't want to die," the officer who put a gun on Autumn's head said, "give the boy to us..."

"You wanna see her again...don't you?..." Autumn whispered.

"Yes..." the boy said.

When the guards saw that they were ignored, they fired. Autumn moved the boy's heart into the officer's line of fire. But the other bullets hit her barrier. The boy was shocked.

"Why..." he exasperated.

"This," Autumn swung around the boy and kicked the gun out of the officer's hands. Then, she shot everyone surrounding them. She laid the boy down and plucked a lone flower to give him.

"Give that to her," she said, "and tell her I picked you up and took you home."

"Ok..." he muttered tearfully, "But...what about you..."

"Your vengeance is now mine," she stood up and faced the oncoming crowd, "No need to sully your hands."

"She's in league with the renegade!" Someone shouted, "Get her!"

An alarm blared throughout the camp. All prisoners were being told to go back to their cells. Not that it mattered, because Autumn and Madoka had one simple objective: make sure no one leaves here alive.

-00:15-

Sokoto was still juggling pilots left and right. Neither side can seem to get in a solid hit. He was throwing attacks away from him because his real aim was to find a way to get through to Silvia. So far, Tabane was moving too fast to get any data on her weaknesses, if any. Finally, Chelsea distracted him long enough to catch him in Laura's AIC, and Tabane got a hard punch in and revealed her enhancements to the Streamline. She opened her palms and pelted him with numerous giant energy balls, rendering his shield and sword unusable. He fell hard to the ground.

"Ugh..." he grunted, "Watch a bit too much Dragon Ball Z, huh?..."

"Give up now, pipsqueak!" Tabane said hovering above him, "I got you figured out!"

Sokoto read from her aura that the worst has happened. He crossed his fingers-

"They didn't ditch you!" She said, "They hid until you can show everyone your little discovery! You wanna take the IS away from us!"

"What...even..." Laura said, "Didn't we have enough reason to take him out?..."

"Yeah, but I can't help it. I love rubbing it in his face," Tabane pointed to his now raging face, "So, I blocked his stuff and deleted...whatever he did..."

"YOU WHAT?!" Sokoto was right. Everything he and his new sisters did was all for naught. Which meant f*** everything and wing it. "Silver," he whispered, "Boot up Bodies by Drowning Pool. Hold it until I say the word "play", ok?"

"Wait," Chelsea interrupted, "Why couldn't we broadcast his defeat?"

They all stared at him and realized that they could've shown the world that they dominated him long before. Tabane was just fooling around, but now it was time to get serious. They connected to national television and gathered the other pilots for one final round.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Sokoto said, rising to their eye level.

"You're down on energy and out of breath!" Laura said, "You might want to end it now and avoid the suffering!"

"Nah," here he comes, "I'm always ready to play." The right time. Silver hit play.

(Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the-)

Sokoto convinced himself that Silvia was gone forever and allowed himself to be consumed by vengeance.

Tabane and two other pilots noticed what he was trying to do, so they rushed him and tried to punch him down, but he shielded himself with his wings. They kept pounding until they were pushed back by a sudden burst wave. The wings opened up.

(-FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!)

Sokoto and Silver emerged, angrier than ever. The wings turned into red energy blades. Just one swing of the wings was enough to shred a standard issue IS. And its pilot.

Tabane shielded her eyes. She expected him to do this, but not this soon. Or to a song. The energy readings she got from him were tenfold compared to just a few days ago! She peeked into his display helm:

EMERGENCY OVERRIDE. CONVERTING EXCESS ANGER INTO WING ENERGY. MAX THREE MINUTES TEN SECONDS.

Laura remembered what she saw on TV during the previous escape. The renegade did the same thing, but he shot out lasers to scar the earth, instead of concentrating all energy in one area. And they just saw that energy utterly shred someone! She thought of trying to convince Tabane to retreat-

(Beaten, why for? [Why for?])

Sokoto scratched his wings into Laura, blasting her to the forest floor. Laura fired her railgun and wired daggers in an effort to cling herself to the renegade and bring herself back to the sky. Sokoto swatted the rocket away and allowed her to grapple onto him and yanked her up. She caught him with her AIC and blasted him.

(Can't take much more! [Here we go! Here we go! Here we go now!])

The instant it hit, Sokoto grabbed the wires and used the recoil to swing Laura into two other pilots. Chelsea stabbed him and kicked him back, becoming his new target. But he got hit by Tabane's palmar blast and the pilots' rockets. Another pilot came down with her great sword, but he broke it with a single fist.

(ONE! Nothing wrong with me!)

He brutally murdered the pilot with one slash of his wings.

(TWO! Nothing wrong with me!)

Then, he shot out a gigantic laser show, destroying all things caught in its path and causing more damage to the forest.

(THREE! Nothing wrong with me!)

Several regular pilots got caught in the blasts.

(FOUR! Nothing wrong with me!)

Chelsea protected Laura using her saber while pulling her in for another charge.

(ONE! Something's got to give!)

Tabane saw a blind spot, and she motioned three more pilots to follow her in.

(TWO! Something's got to give!)

All surviving pilots flew in, dodging everything trying to get to the epicenter of the energy release.

(THREE! Something's got to give!)

Laura and Chelsea thrust their swords forward, while the remaining pilots fired another round of energy blasts. It was enough to counteract the lasers, giving Tabane a wide opening to burst in.

(NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!)

Silver anticipated that kind of surprise attack. She turned off her lasers and slammed her wings in Tabane, who dodged them and landed straight for Sokoto. He followed up with another brutal jaw punch, building his anger up even more.

(Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the)

It was a different story at the prison camp. Autumn and Madoka were having the best time of their lives. They got to kill just as much people in this one place than they did throughout Japan as Phantom Task members, maybe even more.

(floooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!)

Madoka most of all, because she jumped off a second floor railing and spun in midair, letting loose a light machine gun.

(Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the)

Madoka landed her feet on a skull and scraped the rest of the interior with blades and blood.

While Autumn remodeled the exterior extensively. She had already unleashed her Shinomure and cleared out the numerous trees and female staff using her wind blades alone. Now and then, she would literally toy with her female victims before she-

(floooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!)

-literally tore them up.

Needless to say, they most certainly finished their objective. And now all that's left is to take out the trash.

(NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!)

They let out a final war cry before finishing their job. At the same time Sokoto let out a scream that the whole region heard.

(Push me again. [again])

Sokoto chased after anyone that was near him, managing to kill off five pilots with just his bare hands, and at one point seriously wounding Chelsea.

(This is the end! [Here we go! Here we go! Here we go now!])

Tabane punched him away and engaged in hand-to-hand combat, stretching over the base of the mountain. The pilots provided cover fire, while Laura and Chelsea moved behind, waiting for a chance to triple team him. Sokoto kept his wings to the ground to leave a massive trench behind.

(ONE! Nothing wrong with me!)

Tabane slammed him with her hook shot and pulled him up into a giant energy blast. He twisted around her and slammed his wings into her.

(TWO! Nothing wrong with me!)

Tabane grabbed his leg, and Chelsea rushed in for a quick burst.

(THREE! Nothing wrong with me!)

Sokoto caught her sword and threw her away, but that left another wide opening for Laura to blast her rocket in.

(FOUR! Nothing wrong with me!)

He took the hit and swung down to block Tabane's blitz. But Chelsea's surprise attack pushed him into Laura's AIC.

(ONE! Something's got to give!)

Everyone got a pound in him.

(TWO! Something's got to give!)

Each hit shook him up even more, and eventually he had enough emotional turmoil to break the AIC.

(THREE! Something's got to give!)

And Laura felt it. She tried to hold him in place, long enough for the rest of the party to drain his shield energy.

(NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!)

But it was nowhere near enough. With the clench of his fists and a hearty shout, he easily shattered the AIC.

(Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the)

Sokot moved towards Laura, but Tabane quickly blasted in his face. She kept punching him until she saw his wings enclose on her. She caught them, but she couldn't keep them from closing in on her until Chelsea leaped up.

(flooooooOOOOOOR!)

Chelsea slashed bits of his wings off, enough to free Tabane and make him wince. Tabane punched Chelsea forward.

(Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor!)

Chelsea was able to get some good hits, and then she traded blows with Tabane. But he was able to push them away, while dodging Laura's sword strikes. Laura fired her railgun, and he took the hit, only to propel himself into the normal pilots.

(Skin against skin, blood and bone!)

Sokoto proceeded to slice through the IS and literally tear her up.

(You're all by yourself, but you're not alone!)

Once he was done with that pilot, he IB'd into the rest of the regular pilots. And no one was fast enough to stop him.

(You wanted in, and now you're here! Driven by hate, consumed by fear!)

He sliced up the rest of the pilots in gory fashion. On the off chance that Tabane, Laura, or Chelsea got close enough to hit him, he simply moved out of the way so that they could finish the job for him.

(Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor.)

Upon killing the last of the regulars, Sokoto threw Chelsea into Tabane and slowed her down. He caught Laura's hand sabers, but couldn't see her wire daggers fly into his wings and pin him to the ground.

(Let the bodies hit the floor! LET THE BODIES HIT THE)

Laura fired on all cylinders and slammed her blades and railgun into him, followed by Tabane's sudden energy bombardment. Chelsea stomped on his face, then pushed Tabane away from him before his wings exploded.

(FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRR!)

He broke his restraints and flew straight at Tabane, who met his fist with hers. She tried to wrangle him in, but he kicked her down to the mountain's side. He kicked her gut at the same time she blasted his face. Chelsea stabbed his back and flung him to the mountain's summit, which Laura conveniently blew off thanks to Sokoto dodging her rockets. Laura flew up to take him on, but he rained down a thousand energy comets in an attempt to finish them.

(ONE! Nothing wrong with me! TWO! Nothing wrong with me! THREE! Nothing wrong with me! FOUR! Nothing wrong with me!)

By that time, Autumn and Madoka had killed literally every single person in the camp. The stood panting, not for air, but for more blood to spill. To them, 20,000 was insignificant. They needed a million.

Just then, they noticed the shower of energy bullets raining down on the Suicide Forest. Then, they realized that the renegade was fighting Tabane, the creator. And she has the Black Rain and the Crescendo under her control too. Their blood was worth 1.2 billion women.

(ONE! Something's got to give! TWO! Something's got to give! THREE! Something's got to give!)

They deployed their ISs and powered up their Ignition Boosters to Mach 1.5, through sheer deranged murderous thoughts alone.

(NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!)

They blasted off towards the smell of brimstone. Madoka collided with Chelsea. Autumn rammed Laura aside.

(Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the flooooooOOOOOOR!)

Chelsea's wound was starting to become unbearable as she struggled to fend off Madoka's onslaught. Laura did not expect Autumn to return to his aide. She tried to use her AIC on Autumn, but the force of the wind alone kept her at bay, not to mention the damage the wind blades caused.

(Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor!)

For the third time in her life, Tabane was shaken. She honestly thought that doing Squall in would demoralize them. The renegade must have done something to their heads, she thought. She came to the conclusion that she cannot drag this out any longer. She didn't have to, as the renegade plummeted downward, still firing the comets at her, finishing off what remained of the Suicide Forest. She IB'd into him.

(Heeeeeey! GO!)

Madoka very quickly overwhelmed Chelsea and destroyed her IS.

(Heeeeeeey! GO!)

Autumn threw Laura against the mountain, pounding her with wind and fists, chopping away pieces of her IS.

(Heeeeeeeey! GO!)

Tabane was blown back and mildly wounded when she was slashed twice by his wings.

(Heeeeeeeey! GO!)

Sokoto kicked her back against the mountainside. He pointed his wings at her and let out a Mach 2 IB.

But when the song ended, so did his Emergency Override. The Silver Gospel not only reverted back to her original blue color scheme, but Sokoto was separated from her. They both hit the ground hard.