Hello, my name is Jiece Reno. I am running a small production of a video game that is still in its developing stages. Nowadays, I tend to have a lot of spare time on my hands, and I do enjoy a good fanfiction, so I thought I might as well write one.
Disclaimer: I solemnly swear that I do not own Gantz or any of its characters. I do, however, own the name Toshiro for the sniper in the Buddha Temple hunt.
So without any further preamble, Chapter One.
Chapter One
'Damn' thought Toshiro as he fired off rounds from his X-rifle. 'It just won't die!'
Toshiro was engaged in a dangerous fight against a statue. Not any ordinary statue, mind you, but a Buddha statue. Of course, it could also move. And fire a formidable arsenal of strange weapons, all of which could pierce the suit the others were wearing. But the part that made it so dangerous was the regeneration.
'Uh-oh, here it comes!' thought Toshiro as the statue turned towards him. It was an exchange that had been going on for a while now. He shoots, blasting the darn thing to pieces. The thing regenerates, all of the pieces flying together, the force moving them unseen, like some kind of sick puppet show. Then it fires a laser from a paper lantern on one of his arms, aiming at the location Toshiro had just shot at. In short, it was a rather hopeless battle on his side, and just a matter of time before the thousand-armed statue caught him.
'Not going down without a fight,' Toshiro said to himself determinedly. 'I've got to keep firing. Sooner or later I'll frag(1) a weak spot.' Just then, the statue began to fire(?) his laser at Toshiro. Climbing immediately out of sight, he positioned the X-rifle again, waiting until he got a clean shot. 'This is going to take forever. Don't know if I can hold out! Maybe if I injure it with something other than the gun… cutting it for example. One of the miniature statues dropped a trident, I'll try that.'
Just as he began to climb down from the roof he was on, he noticed something strange. The girl, not the creepy stalker one with the hair, and not the one with the amazing tits, but the one that looked like Lara Croft. She was saying something… was it to the statue, or that impressive boy, Kurono, whose horribly injured body he could barely see? Forgetting about the trident, he situated himself on the roof once again and watched through the aiming complex on his rifle, as an insane martial arts fight began to unfold.
Sei Sakuraoka was not a normal teenage girl. Most girls, at her age, were obsessed with their weight. Sei did martial arts, and therefore never put on very much weight, even after big meals. Most girls were also fairly obsessed with boys. Sei never cared for any guy because they were all too cock-loose and unattached. She just wanted a guy who, for once, actually cared, even if he was a total pansy. Kurono was not a pansy, nor did he not care about the girls he liked. That much was evident when he realized that he had no chance with that dekapai(2) girl, and subsequently cried. At first she thought this meant she had given away her virginity to a weakling, but was proven wrong when he wiped out the gigantic statue of the Siddhartha. If that wasn't cool, then she didn't know what was.
But the most unusual thing of all by far was that she was in a fairly otaku-like suit using martial arts against a thousand armed Buddhist statue. After some fucker with a gun had already killed her. Now there's something most girls don't do every day.
Kicking the statue in the face, Sei looked at the strange alien she was fighting. It had about twelve arms in actuality, most holding fairly normal objects. Of course, this description excluded the knives that occupied about half of his hands. Suddenly the statue's lantern began to blink. Out of experience from watching it fight the sniper (AN: Toshiro), Sei jumped backwards preemptively as the laser shot out of the lantern's window. She escaped by a thin hair as the beam tried to trace a path toward her. Dodging, ducking, and weaving towards the statue, she noticed a little pitcher in one of its many left hands. Her eyes widened as she remembered exactly what had happened the last time it had tipped over.
FLASHBACK
"Don't hurt Masaru!" cried Kishimoto as she leaped in front of him.
Smiling evilly, the statue threw the acid out of the pitcher onto her.
Kishimoto screamed as the acid burnt through her suit and dissolved her entire lower body painfully, gruesomely, leaving a head, arms, and torso (plus her bust).
Kato cried as the one who loved him so much died in front of him.
END FLASHBACK
Before a repeat happened, Sei twirled like a ballerina and, pirouetting beautifully, kicked the pitcher so that the acid fell upon the statue itself.
The statue tried to regenerate (after all, all that had happened was the atoms separating), but couldn't. It was then he realized that his regeneration disc had been dissolved, as well as most of his entire left side. For once, the cruel smile on his face faded, leaving in its place a wide, openmouthed cry of pain and terror, as the statue realized that, for the very first time, he too was mortal.
"I won, Kurono," Sei cried confidently. Nearly too late she noticed the flashing of the little paper lantern. But before the laser could be activated, the Buddha statue's head exploded. The body crumpled to the ground as Toshiro the sniper walked forward.
"Thanks," said Sei, "a lot."
"Not a problem," said Toshiro
Suddenly, from the neck of the statue rose an eerie green thing. As it began to run away, it ran smack-dab into Kudou, that stupid accountant-looking guy who had been using the cloaking device this whole time. It tore through him in the hopes of getting away, only to find Kato on the other side with a Y-gun.
SCWOOP! The Y-gun shot its net at the alien, capturing it in its webbing. "Bye," said Kato, pulling the second trigger.
The alien thrashed around some more before completely disappearing. "Well shit," said Toshiro, smiling. "Sure didn't see that one coming"
"Yeah," said Kato, unsmiling. "Now we can all go home" As if waiting for someone to say the cue for it to begin, the multicolored lights began dissolving the body of Kurono.
SKIP TO WHEN THEY'RE ALL IN THE ROOM.
"What happens now?" asked Sei. Toshiro pricked his ears up, as he too was curious. They all were back in the room, Kato being the last one to show up.
"Now," said Kurono, "the scoring begins."
"Scoring?" questioned Toshiro. "Scoring of what?"
"Gantz, that's that black ball over there, gives us points based on the number and difficulty of our kills and captures," explained Kato. "For example, if you killed an ordinary statue, then you could get around one to five points. The gigantic Buddha statues, the enormous Siddhartha, and the statue with the arms are probably worth a great deal more."
"It also has a bad habit of assigning you a nickname," said Kurono, kicking the ball. Gantz lit up and played a cheerful tune as it read, "Let's start the scoring!"
Lara Croft (Sei hid her face in shame)
0 points
Nice assets… but you need to do stuff!
Stop killing them halfway!
"I think it's talking about the arm statue. I mean, I only killed about half of it. The other half would have killed me if he hadn't stepped in." Sei remarked, pointing at Toshiro.
Rooftop Sniper (Toshiro grunted)
7 points
Total: 7 points
Only 93 more to go
"What happens when you get one hundred?" questioned Toshiro.
"You can leave the game," replied Kato. "Or at least that's what we think. Oh, my turn!"
Katou-cha LOL ("What does that mean" "Oh, Masaru Kato's my real name" "Toshiro")
10 points
Total: 15 points
Only 85 more to go
"That many? The only one I really killed was the boss!" said Kato.
Dumbass ("Annoying nicknames, huh?" "Shut up Sei")
8 points
Total: 46 points
Only 54 more to go
"Well, that's all," said Kato. "The doors can be opened now, so feel free to leave. (Damn, I feel like a tour guide saying that.) We'll all be called back here at one point or another, to fight again. The warning to get ready is a ringing sound in your ear, then your ear will wiggle, then you'll be transported. Be sure that you leave your suit here, so that if you can't reach yours in time, you can still wear it for your next mission."
"What about you, Kurono?" asked Sei. She looked at him thoughtfully, realizing that he came in his suit meaning he didn't have any clothes to change in to. Kurono sighed and said, "Well, I lost my clothes once, so now I have to take this home with me after every mission. But it's not so bad. Helps beat off the bullies."
"I'll see you later then, Kurono," said Kato
"Bye Kato, Toshiro. You coming Sei?" asked Kurono. Sei blushed and mumbled something along the lines of "At least I can drive" to herself as they left.
"If you would like to show me the rest of the process next mission, I would be very grateful," said Toshiro, walking towards the door. "But now, I must go."
"Bye," said Kato mechanically. As Toshiro left, Kato sank to his knees and began to cry and break down. 'Kishimoto' he thought. She had sacrificed herself for him. He would not let that go to waste. Determinedly, he stood up. Then he remembered his words to Toshiro from before about the hundred point thing. Walking over to Gantz, he touched the smooth black sphere and voiced his thoughts out loud.
"What happens when you get one hundred points?"
Gantz lit up with sudden activity. Colored letters flashed across the screen
1) Be released from the game and have all memories erased.
2) Receive a powerful weapon.
3) Revive someone from the databank
Kato's eyes widened at the final option. "Gantz, show me all of the people in your databank!" he shouted angrily. "Come on, move it" As the pictures came onto the screen, he looked at the bottom and saw her face. 'Kishimoto' he thought. 'I will revive you. I will!'
END OF CHAPTER ONE
(1) A military term that basically means to blow up or shoot. Used it to make Toshiro seem more military.
(2) A term for girls with big boobs.