Okay...
So, I've decided to take a shot at a Date A Live fic that isn't a crossover with Bloodborne and or a Self-Insert for once. Basically, my intentions for this story is to sort of fix how overly complicated Date A Live made its story.
And what inspired me to make this fic was the movie Hardcore Henry, you can thank me friends on Discord for showing me that.
Also, thank you Tohka Yatogami for helping me with another one of my crazy stories!
Anyway, have fun.
Prologue
Elliot Baldwin Woodman pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.
Elliot was a man in his fifties but despite his white hair and beard, he didn't truly look the part of an old man. He wore a brown suit, a white dress shirt, and a pair of brown slacks.
He sat in his wheelchair with his secretary Karen Nora Mathers behind him.
"It's one thing after another, isn't it?" Elliot asked rhetorically.
Karen shook her head. "I want to blame him, I really do, but I know this is my sister's fault for this mess."
Elliot and Karen stared at the monitor in front of them. It showed a bird's eye view of a DEM building in the middle of the city, it appeared that the top few stories of the building had been destroyed, but they could see a few people on the now exposed floor of the building.
A young man with long blue hair laid still on the floor, a stab wound through his chest blood pooling beneath him.
A young girl about seventeen years old with a voluptuous figure and bluish-purple hair.
And finally, another young girl with hair that seemed to have the color of a purple-to-white gradient, and a dark sword in her hands.
Elliot and Karen watched as the Wizard, Ellen Mira Mathers fought with the purple haired girl, got the stuffing beaten out of her, then escaped with Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott.
The young man and blue haired girl tried to talk to the girl with purple hair, but she attacked them.
The indigo-haired girl tried to restrain her with some kind of musical power, but it failed. The girl, visibly shocked, fell to her knees.
The purple haired girl sent a wave of dark energy her way, but the young man stood in front of its path, attempting to block it with his arms.
Elliot sighed, his mind took him back to when he made the decision that allowed this mess to get as frustrating as it was right now.
Elliot and a fellow colleague stood across from each other, between them was the body of a young man on an operating table, about seventeen years old. The poor boy's body was riddled with gunshots, not unlike the holes of swiss cheese.
"Elliot, don't do this." the other man said to him.
"I have to do this, it's the only possible way to fix things." Elliot stated.
Elliot held out his hand, it started glowing with a strange blue energy.
The other man grabbed his hand and gave him a cold stare.
"Elliot, the Association was willing to forgive your involvement in this mess because of how forthcoming you were with how all of this happened. And with what Isaac's planning, we don't have the time to properly put your head on a chopping block. You're on thin ice as it is. Do not do this, Elliot."
Elliot hung his head in melancholy. "...This is the only way."
"Two wrongs don't make a right, Elliot. What if he goes out of control? We both know why the Liches were hunted down to very last. Thanks to you and Isaac's stunt, the Reverse Side is in chaos, the Balance is broken, there's an entirely new dimension, and damn near every supernatural creature is slowly dying off due to the lack of reiryoku in the world. Do you really think we need some kind of undead monster running around too!?"
"I know the risks dammit!" Elliot snapped. "But she… she fell for him."
The man raised an eyebrow. "She? You mean that thing you and Isaac created… fell in love with this random kid?"
Elliot glared at the man for calling the First Spirit a "thing", he sighed and looked at the bullet hole ridden body of the young man.
"Yes. She fell in love with him. She saw something in him. Maybe that something is what we need right now."
The man gave Elliot a sorrowful look. "You're grasping at straws, my old friend. This has a huge possibility of ending horribly for everyone. It's not just our world involved anymore. Eurasia looks like a meteor hit it and over 150 million people are dead. Are you prepared for more blood on your hands?"
Elliot's gaze was unwavering. "If it means fixing what I help do, then yes, I am prepared for the consequences."
The man sighed. "By the Allfather, you're still as stubborn as ever. Fine then, I'll get the phylactery set up. We're starting the operation as soon as possible. How long has the body been dead for?"
"Ten hours." Elliot stated.
"Good, we have at least fifteen hours left until the soul leaves the body. More than enough time to make a high-quality phylactery." The man then glared at Elliot. "Just remember one thing, Elliot. If this ends up biting us in the ass, the responsibility for this fall solely on you."
Elliot nodded. "I know, thank you, my friend."
Miku POV
What in the world just happened? She should be dead, shouldn't she?
Huh? Why is it so cold? A-Are those pillars of ice?
A cough caught her attention.
Shido was… he was standing right in front of her. D-Did he take the blast for her!?
"Ah! Fuck!" Shido shouted in pain. "One hell of a spicy meatball, you want spaghetti with that too!?"
"Yo, Miku, you alright?" he asked, his voice ragged. "I was able to pull a last-minute trick with Zadkiel, but I don't think it'll work a second time."
Shido turned around the condition of his body made Miku cover her mouth in shock.
His body received a large gash from his right eye all the way to the left side of his hip. He was bleeding profusely, but it wasn't just the wound that caught her attention. It was the cybernetic implants that she could see in his body.
His right eye didn't look human anymore, it was just like a black orb with blue glowing lines and a dot in the middle. She could see hints of an artificial jaw, some of the muscles on his torso weren't even the right color, probably also artificial. She could see some of his exposed ribs, they were surprisingly intact and blue glowing lines could be seen on them.
Shido flinched at the look of shock on her face.
"Sorry you had to see that." He turned back around, now facing Tohka in whatever new form she took. "Don't worry about it, it's my baggage to deal with."
"Shido… what are you?" Miku asked.
He gave an empty laugh, something that sent chills down her spine.
"Apparently, I'm a cyborg who was revived in the same way one would make a Lich."
"...A Lich... c-cyborg?" she didn't understand.
"As I said, don't worry about it, it's my problem anyway."
"W-Why?" She stuttered. "I don't understand. Why did you save me?"
"Tch, after all this, you still don't get it, do you?" He shook his head. "I'm a man of my word, always have been, always will be."
Miku stared at him, shocked.
"This… man, Shido Itsuka, keep his word to me. He protected me."
Miku gently grabbed Shido's arm. "...Shido."
"Sh… Shido..."
Miku and Shido turned to Tohka.
"She said his name, is coming back to her senses?"
"...Shido." Tohka repeated the name again, dark reiryoku emanating from her body in waves.
"...S-Shido." tears fell from her eyes, her face contorted into a mix of rage and sorrow.
"SHIDOOOOOOOOO!" she screamed in sorrow and pain.
The dark reiryoku from her body turned into a dark pillar of energy that was almost suffocating to Miku.
T-This is unreal! How can something this powerful exist!? Oh God, what kind of monster is this!?
"Tch," she heard Shido click his tongue. "Going to be dining in Hell after this one."
He stomped his foot on the ground hard enough to cause a massive amount of cracks in the concrete. Purple light came out of the cracks and a throne made of gold burst from the cracks.
Shido jumped onto the throne and pulled out the sword stuck in it. He cut the throne in half with the sword making it break apart into pieces, the pieces fused with the blade in his hands changing it into a massive single-edged zanbatō-like sword.
"Halvanhelev!" Shido shouted.
Tohka summoned up a dark mist which produced a throne similar to the one Shido summoned, but of a silver color. It too broke apart and fused with her blade to make a massive sword.
"Paverschlev!" Tohka shouted.
The two were now exuding such an amount of reiryoku it was ridiculous.
"You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight, Tohka?" Shido asked.
"How can he say another dumb movie reference in this kind of situation!?" Miku ranted in her head.
Tohka charged at them, bringing the full brunt of her dark power onto them mercilessly.
Prologue End