First Hunt: Amazonz
Regular text: AMAZON
Talking: "AMAZON"
Different language: AMAZON"
Amazonz Driver and Emphasis: AMAZON
Thoughts: AMAZON
Radio Communication and Intercom: AMAZON"
Disclaimer: Kamen Rider Amazons and Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet are two properties that are not mine and they never will be. This is a fan story crossing over the two universes for fun. Nothing more.
The room was silent aside from the typing on the keyboard and the mutterings of the man typing. The man at the computer was wearing baggy pants and a tank top under a long coat. He had long greasy black hair with bleached tips. His right eye was a milky white color while the other eye appeared to be fading as well.
"…if the Cells are able to adapt so quickly in a regular body and are amplified by the human cells in the person themselves then I predict that the Cells will have some kind of reaction like that if injected with human cells, especially if those Cells are in turn injected into a persons body…"
He continued to mutter, focused intently on the computer screen in front of him. His right hand reached over to a container nearby and opened it, taking out a white egg. He cracked it on his desk and held it over his mouth, pausing his muttering to eat the yolk raw. While the man was chewing, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve and swallowed what was in his mouth.
Before he could get back to work, a chewing noise caught his attention. The man quickly stood up in his chair and turned to the door, finding it was opened and that a lone figure in a cloak was standing in the doorway. The figure had a large black item with a red light in the center in his hand. However, he was eating the item as he stared at the man at the desk.
"Oh, it's you. So you've finally found us huh?" the man smirked. He looked past the figure to see several puddles of a strange liquid all over. "And you've taken down all of my security without as much as a scratch?! Holy shit! That's impressive! I guess it WAS a mistake to make this room unable to hear sounds outside of it." The man sheepishly scratched his head as he laughed.
The figure in the cloak swallowed what he had in his mouth before throwing the object in his hand away. Moving aside his cloak, he revealed a black belt with a face on the buckle. The buckle itself had two handles colored silver and had purple eyes.
The man at the desk opened a drawer and pulled out a belt of his own before putting it on.
(Music Start)
His belt was silver and black instead of being entirely black and had green eyes along with a withered appearance "Very well. You want the samples…come and get them."
In unison, the two twisted the left handle on their belts.
ALPHA! / SIGMA!
(YOU!)
"Amazon" the two said, the man in the cloak speaking for the first time.
Fields of energy suddenly erupted from the two, changing them.
Theme: Armour Zone By: Taro Kobayashi
(Omae wa dare da?!) Amy and Ledo were back to back while sitting on the ground in a completely blank space, the two of them holding hands. The two were in their regular attire only with their Amazonz Drivers equipped onto their waists.
(Oreno naka no ore) In an instant, the scene changed so the characters switched from Amy and Ledo to Amazon Omega and Ledo, then Amy and Amazon Alpha, and finally Amazon Omega and Amazon Alpha before switching back to Amy and Ledo.
(Kage ni kakureta sono sugata misero!) The two stood up while still holding each others hands.
(Whoa! Souzou no derivation) They suddenly changed back into Amazon Omega and Amazon Alpha and got into ready stances.
(Fureru karada akaku kiri-kizami) The scene changed so that it was suddenly in the base of the Extermination Team.
(Kokoro wa doko da?) It focused on Mamoru, who was eating a hamburger.
(Get out me sagashite mo!) The screen flashed and showed him in his Mole Amazon form briefly before showing his powered up mode before it changed back to Mamoru.
(Whoa! Shinzou ga hotobashiru) All of a sudden, the scene changed once more, showing off the back of The Figure In The Cloak, who turned towards the screen. While he was on screen, the screen constantly flickered between him and Amazon Sigma.
(Dake) Across from Sigma, Amy and Ledo could be seen, the two having tattered clothes and being covered in bruises and cuts. Their Drivers were still equipped onto their waists
(Hey-hey) They flickered back and forth between Omega and Alpha as they reached to their respective Drivers.
(We live in Armour Zone!) They started to run at Sigma as they twisted the handles. In unison, the two shouted "AMAZON!" before energy exploded off of them.
(Kaze wo kire koe wo karashite) Alpha slashed and punched at several Amazons around him. He jumped into the air and cut at the throat of one while he landed, the blood of the Amazon squirting onto him.
(Kemono ga warau kono machi de) Omega roared as she ran through several Amazons while swinging her arms around, the blades easily cutting through the Amazons.
(Kuu ka kurawareru ka no sadame) The Extermination Team could be seen fighting against several Amazons as well with Mamoru in his Amazon form, the Team managing to kill them.
(Oh Yeah!) Alpha and Omega were once again back to back, but at separate ends of a ship and in the rain. The two roared in unison but their roars could not be heard.
(Hora kanashimi no aji wa nodomoto) The two spun around and ran at each other.
(Tsumedatenagara kieru nasty) Omega flickered back and forth between her Amazon form, her Imperfect form, and Amy.
(Ikiru tame ni nani wo kurau) Alpha flickered back and forth between his Amazon form and Ledo.
(All Race uragire) The two quickly approached each other, repeatedly flickering back and forth between their human forms and their Amazon forms.
(HOW DO WE SURVIVE?!) Finally, the charging characters reached each other, slashing with the blades on their arms. However, they repeatedly flickered back and forth still; while the Amazons slashed, when it flickered back to their human forms, instead of attacking, the two ran into each others embrace.
Meanwhile…
"There is a gas leak, please evacuate the area immediately." The voice repeated through the area.
The source was a young man in a white jump suit with a megaphone. He repeated the phrase as people walked by, some of them groaning about the bad luck of the situation.
"Why did this have to happen now?" One of them said.
Others tried to talk to the man.
"Hey, what's going on here?! You can't just kick us out of here for no reason!" one of them shouted at him.
"Sir, I'm sorry, but at this time it's too dangerous for anyone to be in there. We have people working on fixing the situation but at this time please be patient." the man spoke into the megaphone. Given that the person he was talking to was right in front of him, it was definitely jarring.
"This is the third "gas leak" this week! What's really going on here?!" this time it was an older woman who was asking.
"I have already told you" the man with the megaphone replied. "There is a gas leak and it-" before he could finish repeating his sentence, the older woman grabbed the megaphone and pulled it down.
"Stop with that! We're standing right next to you, there's no need to speak into that!"
"I apologize"
"Now tell us what's really happening here!"
"Yeah! Come on we have things to do!"
As the people continued to shout at him, all the man could do was patiently wait and listen to them.
Any moment now…the hunt should start… he thought to himself.
Somewhere in the evacuated district, a small group of people silently walked through the area. All of them wore uniforms that wouldn't look out of place on police officers or military. Three of them carried guns while another two had knives. The last one had no weapon at all.
"Oi, Fuku, where did you say the target was?" a woman with a knife asked into her headset.
"The ID Code is approximately in the building 10 meters ahead on the left."
"What's the rank?" a younger man asked.
"It's listed as Rank C, so there shouldn't be much of a problem while fighting it"
The group reached the building and walked in, being careful in case there was anything unsavory inside.
"Ugh, it smells like crap in here" a man with a knife commented.
"Get over it. We just need to get in and get out" one of the guys with a gun told him.
"You say that like it will be easy." Another one remarked.
"Mamoru, can you sense them in here?" the leader asked.
The one without a weapon, Mamoru, nodded.
"There's definitely one in here"
One of the two women shined a light up the stairs. Turning to the others, she motioned to the stairs.
The one in charge nodded at her but pointed at two of them. "Takai, Ryusuke. With me. Ai and Misaki, cover the exit in case they get out. Mamoru, be prepared to transform."
The others nodded and got into position. The female with the shotgun, Ai, got near the door with another person with a shotgun, this person being a male named Misaki. Mamoru, the one without a weapon, stood near them.
Takai, the female with the knife, started to go up the stairs with the one in charge behind her. Then Ryusuke, the man with the knife, followed behind them while drawing a gun.
The three climbed the stairs slowly and carefully. When they reached the top, they found an empty hallway with blood everywhere. The door at the end of the hallway especially had a lot of blood on the floor.
The three walked towards the door. When they entered the room, Ryusuke covered his nose in disgust.
"Ugh! It stinks." He said aloud.
The one in charge rolled his eyes while shining the light over the room. He found several body parts littered around the room while a giant figure was perched in the corner of the ceiling with string coming out of it.
"Target found. Hunt: start." The one in charge pulled the trigger. A single bullet struck the figure and caused it to fall while screaming in pain.
The giant figure got to its feet and looked at the three who just entered, screeching at them. The giant figure looked gruesome, looking somewhat human but also having a spider-like appearance that made it seem rather monstrous.
The giant spider ran at the three humans.
They all got out of the way as it attempted to tackle them, falling face-first onto the ground. Ryusuke unloaded three bullets into its back, causing a bit of blood to spurt out as it screeched. It got onto its knees and dove at Ryusuke, who jumped to the side. The spider got onto its feet and swung its arms wildly at the three. Takai ducked under one swing and lashed out with a kick to its gut before slashing at it with her knife.
The person in charge fired a few bullets at the spider. In response, the spider decided to run, shoving past Takai and going into the hallway.
"Target is coming down!" Ryusuke shouted down the hall as the three chased after the target.
Down the stairs, Ai patted Mamoru on the shoulder before pumping her shotgun then aiming it towards the stairs. Misaki pulled out a wire and strung it across the doorway.
As soon as the spider appeared at the staircase, Ai pulled the trigger of her weapon. The resulting bullet knocked the spider back a few feet.
Mamoru reached to the shoulders of his uniform and gripped them. As he began roaring, he started pulling at it. The uniform ripped at the back as steam erupted from his body.
"Oi! I can't see!" Ai called to him as she pumped her shotgun again and moved out of the way.
"Ow! Fuck, that's hot!" Misaki cried out in pain while getting out of the way.
The spider started to climb onto the wall and jumped down the stairs as the other three chasing it reached the stairs and started climbing down.
Misaki and Ai started to shoot it, stunning it briefly.
Mamoru glowed as his skin began to shift and contort, mutating him. He dashed at the spider and tackled it to the ground as the steam dissipated to reveal his new form. His skin was a silver color. Parts of his chest and legs had dark blue. Across his skin were bulky armor-like parts that were silver. His fingers had elongated so they were more claw-like and blades jutted out of his elbows. His face was more monstrous and had a horn where his nose was in his human form.
Mamoru was shoved away from the spider, which got to its feet only to be blasted again by Ai.
Takai loudly called out as she jumped at the spider from her position on the stairs. The spider avoided her and tried to run at Misaki. The man ducked out of the way as he spider fell into the wire in the doorway. The wire shocked the spider and caused it to screech in pain.
Mamoru ran up behind it and drop kicked it the rest of the way through the door. The other five filed out of the door after it with the first one out being Ai, who shot the spider in the back as she exited.
Ryusuke stabbed the spider in the back then withdrew his knife and shot the wound. The spider screeched as it squirmed around on the ground.
"Mamoru. End it." The man in charge said.
Mamoru nodded and walked over to the spider while growling. He started to roar before driving his hand into the spiders back, blood flowing from the wound and onto the ground. After a few seconds of Mamoru moving his hand around, he yanked his arm out with blood spurting from the wound and an object being ripped out.
The object was a ball with a pulsing red light on the inside of it. It was covered in blood and the innards of the spider monster.
Mamoru crushed the object in his hands, the light dying down instantly.
The spider stopped moving and it liquefied into a pile of goop. The only thing remaining was the silver arm bracelet with the red eyes. The figure in charge walked over and picked it up then wiped it on his sleeve.
"Target…killed. Hunt: Complete."
The man with the megaphone didn't react in any way as he heard the news in his earpiece.
He brought the megaphone up to his mouth. "We've almost cleared up the situation but we ask you remain cautious and patient as we finish."
"What did we say about using that when we're right in front of you!?"
A tan woman looked out to the ocean while standing alone in her office. She wore a white uniform reminiscent of a suit.
A pale man with a briefcase walked in calmly. He wore a black version of the uniform the woman wore.
"Ma'am, the Extermination Team has taken out the target. The fleet commanders have warned you that it is getting much harder to cover up the Amazon attacks and to solve the situation before they solve it for you."
"This isn't news to me. What's the actual problem?"
"…A Nozama fleet ship has been spotted on the horizon."
"If that's true…the Amazon problem will get much, much worse." The woman turned to her assistant. "Get me Ridget. We will need to discuss what to do."
"Ledo!"
Ledo looked up from his work. "Amy!" he called.
Ledo was an attractive young man wearing a green button up shirt outlined with a dark green color. The shirt had two pockets on both sides of his chest and his dark green collar was outlined with white. He had on dark blue pants held up by a dark brown belt. On his hands was a pair of gloves. Appearance wise he had light purple eyes, lightly tanned skin, and white hair with bangs covering part of his face while the sides went down to his cheeks.
The person who called out to him ran up, a grin on her face and a picnic basket in her hand.
Amy was a beautiful young woman wearing a brown crop-top that exposed her belly and belly button. Above that was an orange blanket-like coat with yellow frills. Aside from that she had on an orange skirt with yellow frills. Appearance-wise she had light blue eyes, slightly blushed cheeks, and short, light brown hair with bangs and two braids. Almost unnoticeable was a small red and yellow clip in the left side of her hair.
"You're just in time for my lunch break." Ledo wiped his forehead.
"Why do you think I brought this?" Amy retorted, holding up the picnic basket.
The two walked away from the scene, finding a secluded spot at the edge of the ship. They set up the picnic and sat down, starting to eat.
And with that, they began talking.
"So how was work?" Amy asked.
"We're sorting through the items that we've recovered. Most of them are fairly useful but others have deteriorated from being under the water for so long."
"Like what?" Amy bit into her fish.
"Some of the technology is little more than scrap at this point, and in the rare instance we find documents they're useless as well. Still, sometimes we find jewels and technology that miraculously still works, which is good." Ledo picked up a sandwich and started to eat it. "And how about your work?"
"It's just training some new recruits. They seem to be getting the ideas for the most part but there are a few who have no idea what they're doing." Amy set her food down. "There was this one girl who ended up getting all the important mail mixed up and I've been a part of the group who's been helping to sort it out."
"Really? How's that going?"
"We've been making good progress and I don't fault the girl. It was an accident."
Ledo nodded as he bit into his sandwich.
"By the way-" Amy started but was quickly interrupted by another voice.
"Excuse me, Ledo."
Ledo and Amy turned around to see an attractive young woman in an orange tank top and green short shorts.
"Bellows, what's wrong?" Ledo asked.
"I'm sorry to cut into your break, but Ridget needs you immediately." Bellows informed him.
Later…
Ledo walked into the office to find two older women standing there.
"Ridget, you wanted to see me?" he said.
Ridget, the younger of the two women and the one in a purple uniform, adjusted her glasses as she looked at him.
"Hello, Ledo. This is Faith, head of the Nozama fleet."
"I know who she is." Ledo said. "Part of her fleet was integrated into ours a little under two years ago."
"Nice to know that I'm known." Faith didn't turn to Ledo. "But I require your help with a mission."
"You need my help? What for?"
"One of the ships of my fleet has been spotted on the horizon. The plan is to avoid it but first a team needs to be sent in to take care of something dangerous onboard the ship."
"Dangerous? What is it?" Ledo crossed his arms.
"Confidential." Faith responded without missing a beat. "But if it were to…say come aboard another fleet and wreak havoc, I doubt there would be a lot of survivors." Faith turned to Ledo after this. "And what's to say the other fleet won't be Gargantia?"
"You said it yourself that the fleet will avoid it." Ledo pointed out.
"It can swim. Also, don't you want to protect the lives of the innocent? If you leave them to die when you had the chance to save them, how badly will you feel?"
Ledo grit his teeth. "What can you tell me about this mission?"
Faith grinned. "I knew I could count on Ridget finding me help." Ridget visibly stiffened with anger visible on her face. "You will be sent with a team that is trained to deal with what is dangerous onboard the ship. And you are encouraged to bring any weapons you may have lying around." Faith walked towards Ledo and extended her hand towards him. "Do you accept?"
Ledo looked Faith in the eyes for a few seconds. He hesitantly extended his hand out and shook hers. "I accept."
The door slammed open, the man with greasy hair stumbling into the room. He reached his computer and fell into the chair.
He removed his hand from his neck and looked at it to find it was covered in blood.
The man groaned then reached over and grabbed an egg. He cracked it and ate the yolk raw before wiping his mouth.
His hand reached to his keyboard. He typed something in but stopped after a moment to catch his breath and rub his neck.
"I'm not healing fast enough. I can't go on like this…"
He heard footsteps from the hallway and whined. "I just got here."
The man turned his seat towards the hallway to find multiple shadowy monsters approaching. He fell forward out of his seat, landing on all fours. His left hand grabbed the handle on his belt.
"A…Amaz-" he stopped to cough, blood splattering across the ground from his mouth. "Ah fuck it!"
ALPHA!
The next day…
Ledo looked down at the gun in his hands.
It's been a while since I last used this weapon. I have to be extremely careful that I don't hurt anyone with this unless I need to.
Currently, Ledo sat on a boat with a group of people he did not know. They all wore uniforms and all but one of them had a gun or weapon in their hand. The boat was piloted by another man in a uniform while there was a man with a tablet next to him.
"So." The one who was obviously the leader of the team spoke up. "You're that space-man we've been hearing about, right?"
Ledo looked up at him.
"What if I am?"
The leader smirked. "Well space-man, what have you been told about this mission?"
"Just that something onboard the ship needs to be taken care of, that's all."
"That's all?" one of the girls, who was polishing her knife, laughed obnoxiously. "If that's the case you're not going to have a good time when you figure out what we're hunting."
"What are we hunting then?" Ledo crossed his arms.
"You wouldn't believe us if we told you." One of the men, this one having a knife, replied calmly.
"Space-man, remember?" Ledo said. "Try me."
The group didn't respond as they looked between each other. Finally, the leader sighed before leaning forward. "Look kid. This is a lot more serious than that Faith chick made it out to be. The dangerous things aboard that ship are living creatures that can easily kill all of us if we aren't prepared."
"So we're supposed to kill them? I was under the impression that a lot of the people on this planet don't kill unless they have to, like with fish for when they need to eat. Then again, I shouldn't expect much from a group that looks to be essentially mercenaries"
"Killing them is the only way we're going to stop them." A man with a shotgun replied. "It's a bit messy and difficult but we don't really have another option."
"Fine. If that's what this mission is for I'll go along with it."
"Just stay close to us Space-man, and you'll be fine." The leader said.
"Excuse me" the one who had no weapon, innocently began speaking to Ledo. "If you're going to fight with us, how are you going to do it?"
Ledo blinked before holding up his gun. "With this. It's a weapon that recruits are given to use if they're caught in combat without their machine. It doesn't use bullets, but uses a high power beam of light that heats up whatever it touches to dangerous levels almost instantly, though the heat settings can be controlled. It's quite effective on living things, or so I've heard."
The one without a weapon moved closer. "Can I see it?"
Ledo was prepared to shake his head but couldn't bring himself to look at the boy in the eyes and do it. Cautiously, he passed him the gun. "Keep your finger off the trigger and be extremely careful with it."
The boy sat down next to him while looking over the gun. He experimentally aimed it forwards, with the two people across from him moving out of the way as he did.
"It's a bit small, isn't it?" the boy lowered his arm.
"The design is supposed to be compact for easy transportation. The technology inside is advanced beyond the majority of the technology on Earth."
"Really? That's so cool!" the boy grinned.
"So where's your gun?" Ledo asked.
"I don't use one. I have another way of fighting that doesn't require weapons."
Ledo nodded. The boy soon passed him the gun back.
"I'm Mamoru, it's nice to meet you!" Mamoru extended his arm out to Ledo for a handshake.
Ledo hesitated but took the hand and shook it. "Ledo."
Mamoru turned to the others and started pointing at them. He pointed at the two with the knives first. "He's Ryusuke, and she's Takai. They use knives but Ryusuke also uses a gun a lot, but he's not as good at hand to hand combat as Takai is." He then pointed to the two with shotguns. "She's Ai, and he's Misaki, the two of them use shotguns and Misaki specializes in traps and stuff." Mamoru turned to the people near the front of the boat. "The person driving is Takeru while the guy with the tablet is Fuku. Takeru is the guy who works behind the scenes and helps out a lot while Fuku keeps track of the target and helps out with his rifle if he needs to." And lastly, he turned to the leader. "And he's Shido, the one in charge of all of us. He uses a pistol."
"Hey, Takeru, how much longer till we get there?" Takai asked.
"We're about five minutes away from the ship." Takeru called back.
"Enough chit-chat then. Get ready." Shido ordered.
Aboard the ship, the man with greasy black hair watched as his attackers disintegrated into goop. He then winced as the smell hit his nose.
"That was a mistake." He picked his nostrils and walked back into his room while closing the door.
He sat back down at his computer and hit a few keys on his keyboard. He paused as he noticed movement on the screen.
On the screen, a boat could be seen pulling in.
The man grinned. "Looks like Nana was wrong. This camera system turned out to be useful."
Amy stared out at the water, concern on her face.
Ledo…
"Amy, are you still worried about Ledo?" Amy heard. She turned in place to find her two friends walking up.
"Melty, Saaya." She said.
"Come on, he'll be fine." Melty, the smaller of the two said to her. "He's handled a lot worse than this."
"I just can't help but feel worried. Like something horribly wrong is happening."
Saaya, the bigger of the two placed her hand comfortingly on Amy's shoulder. "I'm sure he'll be fine. Let's get to work, maybe that'll calm your nerves."
Amy nodded hesitantly before the three turned and walked off.
They failed to notice the figure under the water that was moving towards the fleet at a fast rate. The figure peeked its head out of the water to stare at the fleet, its violet eyes expressing no emotion.
Ledo looked around the ship he was now on, finding nothing but stained metal and debris.
"Come on. This way." Shido had his gun at the ready.
The group walked through the ship, weapons at the ready.
After a bit of time, Shido held his hand up to stop them.
"What's wrong?" Misaki asked.
"Fuku, what's the status on the targets?" Shido asked into his earpiece.
After a few moments, Shido nodded. "Don't go this way." He said to Ledo.
He led them away from the hallway they were going down and into another. The group repeated this process for the next few minutes until Shido stopped them entirely.
"You're sure?" he said into his earpiece. "…understood." He then turned to the others. "Get ready. When we enter this room, all hell will break loose." Shido warned them. "Mamoru, don't transform just yet."
"Fuck." Misaki swore.
"Fuku said that this room has multiple Amazons in it but we need to get through it. It's the quickest way to get to our destination though so we need to hurry after we make so much noise." Mamoru explained to Ledo.
"What are Amazons?" Ledo spoke up again.
Ryusuke turned to Ledo. "Just going to warn you: when this door opens, you're going to see some shit."
"Get ready." Shido cocked his gun. He rested his hand on the doorknob for a second before yanking the door open. He barely looked into the room before opening fire on whatever was inside.
When he got a few steps in, the others ran in as well and started to shoot, or in Takai's case, start yelling and stabbing.
Ledo walked in after them and was surprised to find that they were attacking several humanoid figures. The figures were certainly monstrous but each strike of a bullet or a blade caused blood to coat the floor.
The monsters did attempt to fight back but did not last long in the ambush.
Ledo didn't raise his gun to fire at any of them but turned around to find there were more appearing in the hallways as a result of the noise.
They charged, so he hesitantly raised his gun up and pulled the trigger. The beam hit the ground around the monsters, causing them to stumble forwards in surprise and fall face-first onto the ground.
He did repeat this, not once hitting the monsters at all.
Then Misaki shoved him out of the way. "Come on man, this is life or death, take it seriously!" he started firing at the monsters in the hallway. The bullets struck them and stunned them.
The others finished up and helped out, shooting at the monsters in the hallway.
Ledo stood at the back, unable to raise his gun up.
"That's enough!" Shido ordered. As soon as the bullets stopped flying, Shido closed the door and locked it. "They know we're here now. Get the Registers and let's go!"
Ledo glanced at where the monsters were and found their corpses had dissolved. All that remained were the silver arm bands they had.
The arm bands had faces on the edge, the faces having red glowing eyes. The group got to picking up and arm bands, minus Ledo, who just stared.
He turned around to stare out the other door in case other monsters appeared.
"STOP!"
The sudden voice randomly coming up out of nowhere caused everyone, including the monsters at the door, to stop what they were doing. The only other doors to the room shut and locked.
The voice chuckled as if it saw them stop. "Nice to see my position of the Alpha still works…for the most part at least."
"What the hell?" Takai looked up.
"I'm speaking to you through an intercom system that I developed. Now that I've got your attention I'm going to need you to follow my every direction."
Shido scowled as he looked down one of the doors.
"Now I know what you're thinking: "my, what a strange voice! How do I know I can trust it!" my answer is: you don't. But unfortunately you're kind of stuck where you are. So it's my word against yours. Either follow my directions and end up alive, or get lost and die a painful, bloody, and horrifying death. Your choice."
Ledo looked down the hallway in front of him.
I don't trust this voice. But it seems to hold some kind of power over those "Amazons". Even if it has some kind of ulterior motive, there's nothing I can do about it. The only thing I can do is go further into the ship with this team. I just can't hesitate on pulling the trigger if I see another Amazon.
"Oh, and don't worry about getting hurt while I'm directing you. I control the Amazons through my voice so they won't lay a single claw on you."
Yeah, that's reassuring. Ledo remarked.
"I can also control the doors from where I am. Little perk of this machine in front of me." Clicking noises were heard and the door with the Amazons behind it started to unlock. "Just one word and they burst through that door. So make your decision. I can promise you my directions won't lead to you getting hurt."
The team knows what they're doing. But I don't know if they're safe to be around. Ledo thought.
"Come on already. Trust me. If I wanted to kill you wouldn't I have ordered the Amazons to do so already? They outnumber you in the hundreds."
Ledo growled. He hesitantly nodded.
"Tch. Like hell we will!" Shido shouted at the voice. "Open the doors and let us go!"
"I see you've made your decision." The door with the Amazons behind it locked again. "Okay. I'm opening the doors. Follow the hallway and whatever you do, don't look behind you."
The door in front of the team opened up. They entered it and started to walk but ignored the door closing again behind them. The group continued to follow the hallway.
"Turn left here and follow the hallway for about one minute." The voice instructed them.
"Left?" Ai said aloud.
"Just ignore him. We know the path; he's probably just trying to trick us." Ryusuke said.
"Not doing a very good job at it." Misaki grinned.
"No! Stop!"
The group continued walking.
"Put the gun down! You're not going to be hurt!"
"This guy's an idiot." Takai commented.
"It's just strayed along the path by accident, don't worry about it. It's docile. Here, you can pet it if you want."
The group stopped at this.
"What?" Misaki said aloud. "Has this guy lost it or something?"
"No? Okay I guess that's to be expected. Turn right here and go down the stairs. Then go down the last door on the right and go straight. You're close."
"Hey! Stop screwing with us!" Takai shouted.
The voice stopped for a moment, as if unsure of what to say.
"Finally shut him up." Misaki patted Takai on the shoulder.
"Oh, you guys are still here?" The voice said.
The group looked at each other in confusion.
"I'm sorry but there's been a bit of a mistake. What made any of you think I was talking to any of you?"
This caused Shido's eyes to widen in shock.
"Come on Shido, you're smarter than that. Ryusuke and Takai too? Though I kind of expected this stupidity from Misaki. It's nice to see that Ai is still looking good though. Still a damn shame you matured more in looks than intelligence."
"Excuse me?!" Ai yelled.
"Hey." Mamoru spoke up for the first time in a while. "Where did Ledo go?"
Earlier…
"Okay. I'm opening the doors. Follow the hallway and whatever you do, don't look behind you."
The door in front of Ledo opened up. Taking a breath, he started to walk forward into the hallway. He took notice of the door slamming shut and locking behind him but kept walking. When he reached the end of the hallway, the voice spoke up again. "Turn left here and follow the hallway for about one minute."
He followed the instructions and kept walking, both hands cautiously on his gun if need be.
Soon enough, he noticed a humanoid figure walking into view about five feet away. He stopped and raised his gun up as it turned to him.
"No! Stop!"
Ledo didn't lower his gun but the Amazon just stared at him curiously.
"Put the gun down! You're not going to be hurt!"
Ledo grit his teeth and kept his eyes on the Amazon.
"It's just strayed along the path by accident, don't worry about it. It's docile. Here, you can pet it if you want."
The Amazon sat on the ground like a pet, still eyeing him but not moving to hurt him. Ledo just stared as his gun was still aimed between its eyes.
"No? Okay I guess that's to be expected. Turn right here and go down the stairs. Then go down the last door on the right and go straight. You're close."
Ledo followed the directions but closed the door behind him and locked it. He then followed the stairs.
"Oh, you guys are still here?" The voice asked after a bit of time. "I'm sorry but there's been a bit of a mistake. What made any of you think I was talking to any of you?"
Ledo blinked in confusion.
"Come on Shido, you're smarter than that. Ryusuke and Takai too? Though I kind of expected this stupidity from Misaki. It's nice to see that Ai is still looking good though. Still a damn shame you matured more in looks than intelligence."
He reached the last hallway and followed the direction to walk straight.
"Sorry about that. Bit of confusion. Anyways, you're going to want to open the door at the end of the hallway. Your prize is there."
Ledo headed towards the door, noticing that the hallway leading to it had mysterious liquids all over the floor, the liquids being similar to what the Amazons turned into when they died. Along with that, there were multiple silver arm bands all over the floor and there was a putrid smell in the air that caused Ledo to cover his nose with his shirt.
Ledo eventually reached the door and prepared himself, using one hand to hold up his gun while the other was going to be used to open the door.
He took one breath and then pushed the door open. His gun found itself aimed at the lone occupant, a figure sitting in a chair that was in front of a desk. There were papers on his desk covered with mathematical formulas and writings.
After a second, the chair spun around to reveal the man with greasy black hair that had bleached tips. His grin was wild as he showed off a bloody wound on his neck.
"Why hello stranger! Good job on completing your mission! For your prize, you get to survive!" the man applauded wildly.
Ledo didn't change his expression as he stepped forward. "Who are you?"
The man's grin didn't drop as he stopped applauding. "Not funny? Guess so, not really a situation to be joking around in." With a bit of a struggle, the man stood up.
"My name is Jin Takayama. I'm a scientist. And boy do I have a story for you!"
The two sat in silence for a few moments, in fixed positions as if waiting for something to happen.
Jin's arms eventually dropped. "Damn. I just noticed how bad I look." He looked down at his attire. "Must look like some dirty asshole, right?" Jin said aloud.
He turned around and sat back down in his chair then turned the chair towards the computer. "Can't be helped. So, you just want an explanation, right?"
"…yes." Ledo finally said.
"And he finally speaks!" Jin laughed. When he stopped laughing, his fingers met his keyboard. "So, how much do you know about this ship? My guess is not a lot given how confused you seem."
"…what were those things?" Ledo asked.
"Those "things" are called Amazons. And the group you were a part of for a bit is a team formed to take care of them. Anyways, Amazons are monsters of sorts that, put basically, eat humans. They're not human and they could rampage at any given moment."
"Amazons…" Ledo repeated.
"Yup. What makes them work are the Cells inside of them." Jin explained, pulling up an image on the computer of what looked like a cell. "These Amazon Cells are an invention made aboard this ship, and they mutate the user from a human form into one much more monstrous. I use a version of these Cells myself, but unlike the others, who are just humanoid figures the Cells mutated into it, I injected myself with these Cells and can become an Amazon with a device."
"You injected yourself with Amazon Cells?" Ledo questioned.
"Yes. In order to combat the Amazons that lost control. I do regret killing them but there wasn't really much I could do about it." Jin shrugged. "Moving along, these Amazon Cells were so dangerous the rest of the fleet left. But they weren't really clever enough to know that running would solve nothing and there were still Amazons with them in disguise. Everything was fine for a bit, just me, my two partners, and the Amazons here. They were peaceful, due to our status as "The Alpha and the Omega", but then he showed up. The Sigma."
"Sigma?" Ledo repeated.
"Yes. Sigma is another Amazon like me, but what's special about him makes him much different than any other Amazon. He defeated me, left me for dead, and killed my partners, Haruka and Nanaha. This was only a day ago too. Fucking sucks, right?" Jin hissed. "So, you're going to help me."
Jin turned his chair and opened a drawer before pulling out a briefcase. He set it on the desk and opened it up.
"Go ahead, take a look." Jin backed up.
Ledo kept his gun aimed at Jin while he stepped towards the briefcase and looked into it.
Inside of it, there was a belt on the bottom panel. The belt was primarily black and silver and had the design of a face on it. It almost looked entirely like Jin's but it had upwards pointed eyes instead of downward. On the top panel were three panels next to an arm band like the Amazons had; only it had glowing blue eyes. Only two of the three panels were filled, the first of the three being a plain vial. It had the label '0' and was filled with a clear liquid. The next panel also had a vial inside of it. This vial had the label '1' and had a clear liquid that had a slight red and green hint to it.
Jin reached into a drawer and pulled out a needle while starting to clean it.
"That belt is an Amazonz Driver. That arm band is an Amazonz Register. It has medicine in it to suppress the Amazon side. As long as the blue eyes are on that is. And those two vials contain Amazon Cells. The one with the '0' has Cells that are a part of the batch of the original Amazon Cells that were created. The one with the '1' has an updated version of the Cells, and are the other half of the Cells I injected into myself."
"And the third slot?"
"You can ask Sigma where that went. He took it when he left. Inside of it there were Amazon Cells that are extremely advanced. They've had further modifications to them, but I'll probably just explain later. That one had '2' on it, but that's not really important now though."
"…why did you get a needle out?" Ledo turned to find Jin had taken off his Driver and placed it on the table only to reveal a leather belt underneath the Driver that he also took off.
"Don't get the wrong idea. I need you to hold your arm out."
"What?"
"How else will I inject you with the Amazon Cells?" Jin asked.
Ledo simply stared.
Amy ran alone through the ship. She reached to her bag while pulling out a package.
And my next stop is-
She barely had a chance to react when a figure appeared from the shadows and grabbed her. The figure clamped his right hand over her mouth and wrapped his left arm around her neck to restrain her.
Amy let out a muffled shriek of surprise and started to struggle against the grip of the figure.
The figure sniffed her hair and face then licked her cheek.
"You taste like sweat. But you smell interesting. You'll do." The figure removed his hand from her mouth and reached for something.
"HELP ME! SOMEONE HELP!" Amy screamed when the hand was removed.
"Scream all you want." The figure pulled a needle from his pocket and passed it to his other hand before pulling out a vial with a clear liquid that had a slight green and red tint. It had the label '2' written across it. He held it up for Amy to see. "No one will get here in time."
Amy's eyes widened in fear as the figure put the vial to the needle and pushed it. He pulled the stopper back to fill the needle up. The vial dropped to the ground and shattered when it was empty. The needle was passed into the figures right hand.
"PLEASE! HELP!" Amy frantically screamed as the figure stroked the side of her neck.
"This won't hurt. But give it a few seconds to kick in and then it will. And it'll get much worse when the Cells awaken fully." The figure said in a monotone voice as he aimed the needle towards her neck and then slid it into one of her veins. He pressed the stopper down, emptying the liquid into Amy.
In the distance, a group of people walked into view while looking for the source of the screaming. They quickly found Amy and the figure.
"What the fuck?!" one of them shouted.
"Hey! Stop!" another called as the group started sprinting towards the two.
As soon as the figure finished with the injection, he pulled the needle out and tossed it to the ground.
"That's enough for now." He shoved Amy forward then turned around and jumped high enough in the air to land on the roof of a nearby building.
"What was that?"
"Holy crap!"
The group responded in their own ways to what happened as they reached Amy.
"Hey, are you okay?" one of the women tried to comfort her.
"What did he do to you?" an older male asked.
Amy didn't respond, her eyes wide as her hand was on her neck. Her breathing got heavier while her eyes glowed an inhuman red color. At least they did before they slowly closed and she fell forward into the arms of one of her attempted rescuers.
"Inject me?" Ledo said.
"Yes. I myself find it hard to fight so I need someone else to do it. My Cells are already on overdrive trying to heal this." Jin pointed to his neck wound. "And even then it still hurts like a motherfucker. I need a successor and you fit the bill."
"Why would I accept?" Ledo questioned.
"No one is safe with the Amazons around. The only way for everyone to survive is to kill them all. The others work well to kill them, but I've met them, they only do it for a paycheck. You on the other hand fit the right body type and seem like the type of guy who'd do whatever it takes to protect others even without money. Of course I'd pick you over one of the others."
"You must be insane."
"Not the first time I've heard that. Now are you going to do it? Because if we don't hurry I'm sure the team will leave without you…actually, what are they doing?"
"I think they're going to try and kill all the Amazons on the ship."
Jin thought over this for a moment. "Oh…I get it. We better go now." Jin put his belt back on then turned to his desk and started packing everything up, transferring everything in his computer onto what looked like a laptop. He then put the vial back in the briefcase and closed it before going to the corner of the room to pick up a cage. Ledo was surprised to find that he had missed the cage with the chicken inside of it when he entered.
Jin gave the briefcase to Ledo and started to pack his papers and laptop into another briefcase.
"What are you doing?" Ledo asked.
"I'm getting out of here. The team is going to blow this bitch sky high."
"Ai, are the charges ready?" Shido asked.
The team had traversed the ship, killing any Amazons along the way. Right now, Ai was behind an engine and was sticking a box to it while pressing buttons.
"Almost. After this one there's one more point on the ship that we need to blow up for this to work."
"I know that. I meant have you activated them yet?" Shido responded.
"Oh. Yeah, of course I did." Ai casually replied.
Off to the side, Mamoru was looking down the hallway for something.
Misaki walked up and patted him on the shoulder. "Sorry Mamoru, but maybe he'll be alright and we'll find him."
"Doubt it; he's probably being eaten as we speak." Takai didn't look up as she cleaned her knife.
"Don't be so harsh Takai! Maybe he survived." Ryusuke said.
Before she could respond, Shido turned to them. "Ai's done here. Let's move on."
Jin led Ledo through the hallways, Ledo aiming his gun at the back of Jin's head.
"…you know you don't have to aim that at my head. It's not like I'm going to attack you with my arms full or anything like that." Jin remarked.
"Doesn't hurt to be cautious." Ledo replied.
"Touché." Jin laughed.
After a bit of time, the two got outside where Ledo and the team arrived on the ship.
"So we just wait here until they get back?" Jin sat down. "Sounds boring."
Ledo didn't respond. The two sat in silence for a few moments when Jin reached into his pocket and pulled out two eggs. He held one out to Ledo while cracking the other on the chickens' cage. After eating the yolk and wiping his mouth, he turned to find Ledo just staring at him.
"No? Suit yourself." Jin cracked the other egg on the cage then ate the yolk of that one too."
After a short amount of time, Jin heard a noise and looked to the left, finding there was an Amazon that resembled a spider approaching. Ledo spotted it as well and nearly aimed his gun at it when Jin stood up.
"Oh? Guess you'll get to see what exactly I want you to get into." Jin smirked at Ledo then pulled his coat back to show off the Amazonz Driver around his waist. "But get ready to help save me, the Cells are already working to heal me and this will just make them want to die."
He walked towards the Spider Amazon and pulled at the handle on his belt. He held the handle there as the belt spoke.
ALPHA!
"…Amazon." Jin said. His lips curved into a smile as he released the handle.
WILD WILD! W-W-W-WILD!
Jin exploded in a burst of red and white energy.
Ledo covered his eyes as a result of this explosion and the Spider Amazon was taken by surprise as well. As a result of the energy, Jin could hardly be seen mutating.
When the energy died down, it revealed Jin's new form. He had skin that resembled a suit, only it was colored red with green scars all over his body. His legs and arms had black armor on them with spikes. Said spikes looked a bit like fins but looked very dangerous. His chest was silver and was covered in scars as well. His face on the other hand appeared rough and animalistic with a black mouth and nose. His right eye was a pale white color while his left eye was a faded green and a horn jutted out of his head. He had spines going down his back.
"I am…The Alpha Amazon." Jin cracked his neck.
"Amazon…Alpha…" Ledo repeated.
"Amazon Alpha…I like the sound of that." Amazon Alpha chuckled. "Now…let the hunt begin."
Alpha walked towards the Amazon. It lashed out with a punch but missed as Alpha ducked under it and slugged it in the gut. He then jumped up and harshly drove his knee across the chin of the Spider.
As it stumbled back, he slammed his fist into its neck then lashed out with a kick to its face. He then swung his leg back around to drive the spikes on the back of his shines across its chest. His arm then lashed out to cut across its shoulder.
The Spider screeched in pain as the gashes dripped blood onto the ship.
Alpha cracked his neck then blocked a jab from the Spider. He retaliated with a fist to its face then a kick to its knee.
The kick sent it flying into the air. Alpha took his chance and kicked at it again to send it flying into a wall.
After that, he reached to his belt and wrapped his fingers around the handle.
"Should I risk it?" he wondered aloud while reaching for his neck. He lowered his arm slowly after a moment. "Nah, that's risking too much."
He looked back to the Spider to find it was running at him. Chuckling, Alpha started to scratch one of the scars on his chest.
The Spider didn't get close when Alpha punched forward with as much force as he could, driving his hand into its body.
He retracted his arm to pull out another black sphere that was blinking red. The Spider collapsed to the ground while heavily bleeding from the gash.
"Maybe it was a better idea to risk it. This is fucking disgusting." Alpha squeezed the sphere harshly. It crumpled up almost instantly with the red light dying out and liquid oozing out from it. The Amazons body disintegrated and liquefied.
Alpha tossed away the scraps of what was obviously the Amazons heart and wiped his hand on his leg.
He walked back to Ledo while his skin seemingly liquefied and contracted on itself. The figure contracted until it was now less Amazon-looking. It changed colors to reveal it was now Jin again.
Jin grinned as he walked back towards Ledo. "Well? How was tha-" Jin stopped talking as the wound on his neck seemingly opened back up. Black liquid reminiscent of Amazon blood started flowing out of the wound. Jin fell to his knees then fell forward again onto his face.
"Shit. That was a bigass mistake." Jin said while he passed out.
Ledo was able to do nothing, just staring at the unconscious figure.
What…what was that?
It was at this moment when the other group came back on the deck.
"Get ready to go-" Shido stopped when he noticed Ledo.
"Ledo!" Mamoru excitedly called.
"Is that…" Ai pointed to Jin.
"It is!" Misaki pointed as well.
"Jin Takayama…" Ryusuke said in surprise.
"You guys know him?" Ledo asked.
"Not now. We'll explain later. If he's alive, grab him and let's go." Shido ordered.
The team was on the boat now, the boat quickly getting away from the ship.
"Fucking hell! Look at the haul we got!" Misaki cheered as he looked through the bag of arm bands that had glowing red eyes. "We're gonna be rich!"
Ledo stayed quiet as he held the bandage to Jin's neck, doing his best to stop the bleeding.
Shido stared out of the boat. "Ai, are we far enough?"
Ai nodded. "Shall I do it before we get out of range?"
"I was hoping you would."
Ai reached into her pocket and pulled out a small box before opening it to reveal a red button. She pressed the button.
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Ledo's head spun around to find an explosion happening on the ship. Then a second. Then a third. Soon the ship was filled with explosions and was sinking into the sea as it burned.
"That qualifies as a hunt?" Ledo looked at Shido.
"We came to hunt and kill. We did that. That's all." Shido replied.
Ledo looked at the others to find they weren't responding at all to the explosions after the initial few. Misaki was looking through the Registers, Takai was polishing her knife, Ai was fiddling with something with wires jutting out of it, Ryusuke leaned against the wall and passed out, and Mamoru was playing with the chicken through its cage.
"Just who are you guys?" Ledo asked.
"We're an Extermination Team. And we exterminate Amazons discreetly." Shido answered. "Fuku, radio into Gargantia and tell them we're on our way back."
Ridget watched the smoke in the distance with a blank look on her face.
"Well?" Faith asked. "We took care of the Amazon problem."
"No. You took out one of the sources. But the products still remain."
"What do you expect me to do about them? My team is doing the best they can. And the other members of council seem to be disagreeing with me on how to handle it."
Ridget didn't respond.
Faith's assistant walked in.
"The Extermination Team has just radioed in. They're on their way back."
"Send a team to go meet them. Tell them to help those injured."
Ledo stepped onto the ship, the briefcase in one hand while his free arm was supporting Jin. Jin's Amazonz Driver was draped across his shoulders and the other briefcase was in his other hand. A group of people rushed over, some of them with first aid kits.
"What happened to him?" one of the members of the group asked while checking on Jin.
"There was…" Ledo paused.
They won't believe me if I tell the truth.
"A pirate. He slit his throat and ran off."
"You sure? This looks like this wound was caused by an Amazon." The person looked at Ledo.
Ledo sighed. "Okay, fine it was an Amazon."
"That makes this easier." The person said. "We'll take care of him, don't worry"
The person waved to someone else, who helped him carry Jin away.
That guy knew what an Amazon was. How far does this monster secret go?
"Well space-man, this is where we're going to have to part ways." Shido walked over. "See ya." He grabbed the briefcase and tugged at it. Ledo didn't release his grip, Shido pulling his arm with it. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Jin gave me this. I'm going to keep it safe for him."
"Don't be ridiculous. You think you can trust that man?" Shido growled.
"I trust him more than I trust you." Ledo responded. "On a life-threatening mission you simply warned me to stay close and remained vague instead of telling me what it was we're hunting. If Jin wasn't there this mission could have ended with my death. And the way you speak of him it sounds like there's still something you're not telling me."
"There are some things you are better off not knowing."
Ledo pulled the briefcase out of Shido's grip. "That doesn't matter. In the short time I've known the two of you Jin gave me more reason to trust him than you have. And I'm going to give him his stuff back, whether you want them or not." Ledo turned and started to walk away.
Shido scowled as he did, Ryusuke and Misaki walking up.
"You really just going to let him walk away?" Misaki asked. "He knows about the Amazons now."
"If anything he'll warn his friends and the word will spread. Maybe was should go after him." Ryusuke suggested.
"He knows about the Amazons, yes. But that doesn't make him any safer from them. If anything it just means he's more at risk. And if he does try to spread the word, who will believe him?"
Ledo continued to walk alone throughout the fleet.
I've got to find Amy and tell her what's happened. She needs to know what I've learned. If Jin was telling the truth then the Amazon Cells should be able to help me stop the Amazons…by becoming an Amazon. But…am I really going to fight them by myself? Perhaps I should get Jin's help. After he heals up we-
"LEDO!" a voice shouted behind him.
Ledo spun around to find Bellows running up to him.
"Bellows? What's wrong?"
"I heard from Ridget that you were coming back. I'm glad I found you."
"Ridget contacted you just to tell you I was back?" Ledo raised an eyebrow.
"It wasn't for me, it's for Amy."
Ledo stiffened. "What happened?"
Ledo burst through the door to find Amy unconscious in a hospital bed. He immediately went to her side.
"A group of people found her being assaulted by some guy. The guy stuck a needle in her neck and injected her with something, but the doctors have yet to find out what it is."
"Injected her?" Ledo turned to Bellows, his eyes filled with rage.
"It's being looked into. We have the needle and the broken vial right here and the liquid that remains in the vial is being studied as we speak." Bellows pointed to a tray that had the discarded needle and the shattered vial on top of it.
Ledo glanced at the tray. His eyes ran across the contents on top when he noticed a piece of glass that had tape with a number written on it. His eyes widened.
"Does that say 2 on it?" he pointed.
"Yeah. I don't get it either. It's really suspicious and if that's just the number 2 I'm afraid of what will happen if there are other vials around." Bellows said.
Ledo wasn't focused on that. Instead he seemed to be lost in thought.
He set the second briefcase down and opened it up, looking inside at the papers Jin had.
"What are you doing?" Bellows asked but was ignored.
Ledo finally grabbed a page full of mathematical formulas and pulled it out before holding it to the broken glass.
"It's a match. The two on the glass and the two on this page are a match. This is Jin's handwriting." Ledo realized.
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"Jin? Ledo what are you talking about?"
(Amazon...)
Jin said that the stolen vial had a 2 on it. And if it was just shattered on the ground along with the needle, then Amy was injected with the contents of the vial. The foreign substance in her body is currently unidentifiable.
(Amazon... Amazon...)
But if this vial has a formula inside it and was packed away with the other two vials containing Amazon Cells, and injecting yourself with the formula turns you into an Amazon…that means that…
(Amazon... Amazon...)
Ledo turned to Amy.
(Amazon!)
Amy…is an Amazon.
Next Hunt: Beginning
(Kaze wo kire koe wo karashite)
"Amy! What's wrong, are you okay?!" Ledo questioned.
(Kemono ga warau kono machi de)
"Our analysis has shown that they are indeed Amazon Cells inside of her. These are to suppress them and make sure she doesn't awaken as an Amazon." Faith explained to Ledo.
(Kuu ka kurawareru ka no sadame)
"He's lying." Faith started to say.
(Oh Yeah!)
"So you'll do it?" Jin smirked.
(Hora kanashimi no aji wa nodomoto)
"Trust me, this is just the beginning. Shit ain't hit the fan yet, but it will soon." Jin leaned forward.
(Tsumedatenagara kieru nasty)
Fuku looked up at his team. "Faith has a mission for us."
(Ikiru tame ni nani wo kurau)
I have to do this.
(All Race uragire)
Shido's eyes widened and his gun arm relaxed. "Wait-"
(HOW DO WE SURVIVE?!)
"Amazon"
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