Recollections of a Tekkaman
Copyrights:
-Teknoman / Tekkaman-Blade and related characters are property of Sotsu-Tatsunoko Productions Inc. / Saban Entertainment.
-The Character "Tekkaman Shard" was created by me (Teknos Shard) and is not to be confused with "Teknoman Shard" which was created by Leizel Ann. They are totally different characters!
"Teknoman Blaze" and "Tekkaman Shrapnel" are also my creations.
-"Teknoman IceBlade" is the property of IceBlade.
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I have decided to use terms from both Tekkaman-Blade 2 (I have not seen the original Tekkaman Blade series) and Teknoman.
For example:
Teknoman = Regular ordinary armored Form
Tekkaman = More powerful form of A Teknoman.
Note: Tekkaman status can ONLY be reached when a Teknoman uses another Teknoman's transformation crystal in conjunction with his/her own.
Blastor = Ultimate (almost god-like) State - Highest level a Teknoman can possibly reach. Though, there is currently no knowledge of anyone who's been able to or have tried to achieve this state.
Just so people don't get confused when reading this chapter, the names of the energy weapons that Teknomen and Tekkamen use are series specific. Teknoman have their Teknoblasters, and Tekkamen have their Voltekkers - Same type of weapons, different names for them.
When a Teknoman rises to Tekkaman level, the names of his abilities change to fit the format of his new status (I don't think this makes sense, and I am the one writing it!).
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Recollections of a Tekkaman
By Brandon Atkinson
Chapter 4 - The Battle Begins....
Shard and IceBlade watched in horror as Shrapnel hit Blaze with his more powerful energy blast.
A bright explosion shortly followed, and Shard and IceBlade were momentarily blinded.
When the light finally faded away, Shard saw Blaze lying in human form on the ground unconscious.
"Shard, while I distract Shrapnel, you get Blaze out of here." Iceblade half-whispered.
"Right, but try not to get yourself killed, okay? I don't like to bury my friends." Shard responded.
"NOW!" IceBlade said.
They broke free of their restraints and disappeared in a blur of lines. Shrapnel was 50 meters away, and he was facing Blaze, so he did not see Shard and IceBlade make their move.
***
In his "blurred" state, Iceblade, now in his Tekno-form, began his attack on the person who used to be his friend.
IceBlade was fast, charging in and striking his opponent then running away, before he could react.
"WHA-!" Shrapnel gasped staggering from the wounds inflicted by IceBlade's weapons. He had no idea where his enemy was.
Meanwhile, Shard, also in Tekno-form, exited out of his Blurred State just long enough to pickup the wounded Blaze and then Blurred out again. This did not go unnoticed by Shrapnel who happened to be looking in that direction at the time.
"So, these attacks are just a diversion to buy Blaze time to escape. Well, I will get her and the other one soon enou- ARGH!" Shrapnel staggered from the force of another blow. "I will deal with this annoying pest first." Shrapnel thought.
"Enough of this!" He roared. He made a gesture with his right hand and somewhere off to the right of him, a scream of pain could be heard and IceBlade was forcefully returned to the visible world. IceBlade hit the ground hard and laid still.
Shrapnel walked over to where IceBlade was lying, and hauled him to his feet by his throat.
"First I'll kill you, and then I'll kill your friends." Shrapnel sneered.
"I don't think so, not if I have anything to say about it!" IceBlade said.
Then he closed his eyes tight and muttered something.
Finally in a louder voice he said "LIGHTBLAST!"
A real bright light, almost equaling that of the sun itself, flared up into Shrapnel's face, blinding him and causing him to lose his grip on IceBlade.
"AHHH! MY EYES! MY EYES! What did you do to My Eyes?!" Shrapnel screamed covering his face with his hands.
"Take that you bastard!" IceBlade muttered. He flew away to a safe distance, and began casting another spell.
The light quickly faded and Shrapnel shortly regained his sight. His left eye had been destroyed and the left side of his face had taken some serious damage. He turned to where IceBlade was.
"ARGH! You F***ing ASSHOLE! You destroyed my eye! For that I am going to make you suffer greatly before I kill you." He declared.
IceBlade was about halfway through casting the spell when Shrapnel suddenly charged at IceBlade. IceBlade didn't have any time to get ready as Shrapnel attacked. He was even more ferocious than before. Shrapnel slashed fiercely at IceBlade with his lance scoring a few hits in the process.
IceBlade managed to get one of his swords up in time as Shrapnel brought his lance at him again. Deflecting the blow, he jabbed at Shrapnel with the other sword, and missed.
Shrapnel grabbed IceBlade's free weapon out of his hand and tossed it away.
"Shit!" IceBlade thought.
Then Shrapnel activated his laser whip (the thing that Tekkamen use to retrieve their thrown weapons) and wrapped it around IceBlade causing him to drop his remaining sword.
"Now you wont get away!" Shrapnel said. He then thrust his lance right into IceBlade's chest.
"AAAHHH!" IceBlade screamed.
"I think its time that I send you on your way...to Hell!" He powered up his Voltekker.
"NO!" IceBlade exclaimed.
"Goodbye IceBlade, it was nice killing you." He stated evilly.
"VOLTEKKA!" He yelled as he activated his now fully charged energy weapons.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" IceBlade screamed as the powerful energies tore through him.
***
Shard had gotten Blaze away from the battleground safely and was now tending to her wounds as best he could in the cave behind the waterfall.
"Shard?" Blaze said weakly.
"Yes, I am here." He answered.
"What happened?" She asked.
"You were hurt pretty bad. Iceblade distracted Shrapnel long enough for me to get you out of there. I don't know if he is all right." Shard told her.
"Shard, IceBlade wont be able to even hold his own against someone as powerful as Shrapnel. He has become far stronger than i had thought possible. You wouldn't survive either in your present state. Neither of you are powerful enough. It seems that I also wasn't strong enough..."
"What do you mean 'in my present state'?"
"Shard, I don't have much time left, and where I go next, I wont be needing my powers. I want you to take my crystal and use it to enhance your own abilities, if you can." She handed her orange colored crystal to Shard.
"I don't know how."
"You will shortly. Now open your thoughts to me."
Shard new better than to argue with her (even in her weakened state, she could probably still kick his ass right into next year!) so he let her into his mind. Suddenly his memory was a jumble of information and images, like when Blaze had shown him what happened at antarctica - only now it was much more ...
When it ended, the crystal outline on Blaze's forehead began to dim, and slowly fade out.
"Shard," she said in his mind "I know you will be victorious."
And with that, the crystal outline completely faded and Blaze's presence faded from his mind and she died.
"Goodbye Blaze... I shall avenge your death even if it means my own!" Shard said, his voice filled with sadness.
Shard turned to leave the cave that held the cairn of rocks which was Blaze's grave. He looked up just as a bright explosion filled the sky in the distance. In the back of his mind, he felt IceBlade scream in pain.
"Oh Shit! Time just got a heck of a lot shorter." Shard thought.
He knew what to do now. Before Blaze had died she gave him all her knowledge, training and abilities... he hoped that he was now an equal to Shrapnel and there was only one way to find out.
His mind was a jumble of information, it would be awhile until he could sort the information and clear his mind enough to even begin analyzing it. Shard saw bits and pieces of tactics and other 'things' in his mind.
He wondered why Blaze hadn't used any of these abilities against Shrapnel when she was fighting him...but there was no time to figure out any of this now, his best friend was getting his butt royally kicked by someone who used to be his friend.
"TEK-POWER!!!" Shard yelled holding Blaze's crystal high over his head.
It flared brightly, more so than it normally would, and Shard was surrounded in orange light.
He barely able contain a sudden cry of pain as his existing armor was reformed right on his body, and that meant that whatever adjustments the TeknoPod had originally made to his body were also being redone - he was being reformatted, almost like a floppy disk so to speak. The orange light that surrounded him began to change color. It was changing from orange to white.
Shard blasted off towards the battle while he was still re-transforming.
He hoped that IceBlade would still be all right.
***
The energy blast subsided but the pain did not. Shrapnel pulled his lance out of IceBlade's battered body and threw him to the ground.
"Maybe if I play 'dead', he'll think I am..." IceBlade thought.
He closed his eyes and was very still.
Shrapnel towered over IceBlade's body. "Ha!" he snorted. "What a pathetic excuse for a warrior you turned out to be." He kicked IceBlade a few times until he was sure he was 'incapacitated'.
"Argh!" He winced from the force of the kicks "I'll get you for that!" IceBlade thought.
Shrapnel turned and walked away from IceBlade. IceBlade then resumed silently casting the spell that had been so rudely interrupted by Shrapnel.
***
Shard flew towards the battle field. He could sense what was happening to IceBlade, that his friend was on the ground and Shrapnel was standing over him. He sensed that IceBlade wasn't dead and breathed a sigh of relief. He also sensed that IceBlade was "silently" casting a spell, a long one, one that was extremely powerful, and could use up almost all of his energy reserves. How Shard knew that, he wasn't sure. Shard hoped that he was not yet visible to the enemy. His armor had finished reconfiguring itself, and he now looked quite different, he also felt stronger and faster than he had before.
He focused his thoughts and carefully sought the presence of his battered friend through a mind-link. He felt IceBlade's presence.
"IceBlade, can you hear me?"
"Yes."
"Good, its going to take me a while to get there, so hang on."
"I will try, but this guy is tough."
"Yes he is, but we will make him pay! Oh by the way, Good luck with your spell."
""Wha-? How'd you know that I was casting a spell?" IceBlade's asked, but Shard had already ended the mind-link.
Shard then concentrated thoughts and Blurred.
***
Shard wasn't the only one who was en-route to the battle field. For at that moment, a shadow moved in the woods below.
***
Shrapnel continued to walk away from the supposedly incapacitated IceBlade, wondering where had Blaze and the other Teknoman had gotten to.
"Now..." Thought IceBlade, and he slowly got to his feet.
Sharapnel heard something scraping the ground behind him, turned around, and saw IceBlade getting up.
"Are you still alive?!? Oh well, at least your turning out to be challenging prey. Heh heh heh." The evil one said chuckling.
"More than you know Pal!" IceBlade muttered.
IceBlade then pointed his remaining sword at Shrapnel and it began to glow, then burst into a very intensely burning red flame.
Upon seeing this, Shrapnel smirked and said.
"Now what can you possibly be doing?"
"This ... CORONA FIRE!!!!!" IceBlade yelled.
The effect was instantaneous. First, there was a flash at the end of his burning sword. Then, a real bright flash at Shrapnel's feet, and finally, a column of bright flame shot up from beneath Shrapnel, turned orange, then bright blue, and finally pure white as the flame approached and passed 1000,000 degrees. Then suddenly the flame disappeared and there stood Shrapnel in heavily singed and smoking armor. His armor was even blacker than before (if that's possible).
"Heh heh heh, My turn." Shrapnel said chuckling evilly as he again charged his Voltekker, his armor seemed to be no longer smoking.
As he is about to fire, a small missile-like object smashed into Shrapnel from behind, and he lost control of the already gathered energy in his Voltekker and it caused an explosion that rocked the surrounding country side.
When the explosion subsided, there stood Shrapnel looking pretty much the worse for wear. His armor was beginning to crack in several places.
"ARRGH! Who did that?!?" he yelled.
He didn't get an answer. He looked around but didn't see anyone. A shadow flickered at the edge of vision for a split second, then he felt a presence behind him.
He turned around to look in IceBlade's direction and saw the back of a Teknoman standing there in front of IceBlade.
The Teknoman pressed his right hand against IceBlade's chest. A white glow encircled the hand and soon it covered IceBlade as well. In a moment or two, IceBlade was fully healed and all traces of battle damage were gone from his armor.
"Thanks." IceBlade said.
The Teknoman just nodded his head and turned to look at Shrapnel. The newcomer was clad in black, bluish-purple, and dark-green armor with smokey-grey trim. He was also holding a very long sword that had a huge jewel on the end of its hilt.
Shrapnel immediately knew who this Teknoman was.
"Shadow." He seethed.
"So we meet again..." Shadow said pointing his weapon at Shrapnel.
"You wish to fight me?" Shrapnel said taking the gesture as a challenge. "So be it then." Shrapnel brought out his lance. "My Warriors," He sent out telepathically. "you will deal with IceBlade. I shall handle this one."
The responses came a few seconds later, "Understood Master." "Yes Sir." "As you wish Master." "It shall be so My Lord."
"Lets rock!" Shadow said adjusting his grip on his weapon.
As they are about to do battle, a commotion erupts from the area of the forest where Shrapnel first appeared. 4 Teknomen appeared and charged at IceBlade.
IceBlade dove out of the way of the oncoming attackers and picked up his other sword on the way. Now that he had both of his weapons, he could finally cast some his more powerful attack spells. He really didn't need the swords themselves to cast the spells, he did, however, need the jewels that were embedded in the pommels of the weapons - for they served as magical amplifiers and are more powerful when paired. That, and when certain spells are cast using the jewels, the swords look cool, and the damage done to the target of such a spell is great.
"To my swords, I call the power to turn back the darkness." He chanted.
IceBlade's swords began to glow as the jewels were powered up. He then held his swords out in front of him and crossed them. The glow intensified and it looked like IceBlade was covered in a radioactive-like aura making him look really supernatural. He then charged his TeknoBlasters and smiled evilly beneath his helmet. "This wont hurt me as much as its going to hurt you guys!" He said. Then he yelled, "TeknoBlast!" , fired his TeknoBlasters and released the built up energy from his swords. The two blasts of energy combined and shot forth toward the 4 evil Teknomen at an incredible rate.
Meanwhile, Shadow and Shrapnel were engaged in single combat. Shrapnel thrusted his lance at Shadow, Shadow deflected the blow with his right gauntlet. They jumped back from each other. Shadow charged at Shrapnel and leaped into the air, holding his sword high above his head, ready to bring it down upon his enemy. He did so, but his swing was blocked as it had run into a force field of some kind. Shadow looked at Shrapnel and noticed that Shrapnel's helmet crystal was glowing very brightly.
"Incredible, he's using mental energy to form that shield." Shadow thought.
Just then, a huge explosion nearby, blew the two warriors apart from each other as IceBlade had unleashed his magic-enhanced Teknoblast upon his 4 opponents.
***
The explosion was incredible. There was smoke billowing out of the huge crater that his attack caused. The smoke cleared and there were 3 Teknomen still standing, the fourth had been vaporized.
"NO!" IceBlade exclaimed in his thoughts. He had put just about everything he had into that attack, and then some! Without any Magic Power, he was now forced to rely on raw strength alone. IceBlade continued to look at his adversaries, he noticed that the reason they survived was that they had managed to raise some kind of shield that was strong enough to protect them against the attack that had just annihilated their comrade.
It was becoming clear to IceBlade that he was having the worst kind of luck anyone could get. 2 of the 3 evil Teknomen charged at IceBlade, all he could do was block their attacks. One Teknoman, in dark grey armor, swung his weapon - a spiked-ball and chain - at IceBlade, IceBlade raised his sword to block. The ball and chain had wrapped around the blade, and pulled it out of IceBlade's grasp. The other Teknoman, garbed in dark purple and pinkish-red armor, engaged IceBlade in close combat, using what appeared to be an ax of some kind, while the grey Teknoman now stood aside waiting for a chance to attack. The grey Teknoman saw his chance as The Purple/red Teknoman forced IceBlade's attention elsewhere leaving his left side was unprotected. He decided to use this opertunity to his advantage. He swung his ball and chain at IceBlade's unprotected side and .... It connected. IceBlade screamed with pain as he swore visciously at himself for not keeping an eye on the grey Teknoman.
The Third Teknoman, black and dark green in color, attacked with his weapon - a firece looking spear. IceBlade managed to avoid his attack by mere inches. The purple Teknoman swung his axe-like weapon at IceBlade's lower back, more specifically at the spot where his upper torso armor ended and the armor protecting his ass began. The blade of the weapon hit its mark, broke through the armor, and cut deep into the flesh beneath and snapped the spinal cord! IceBlade barely controled a scream, falling into a heap as his legs suddenly gave out from under him. The Dark Teknomen then set themselves upon IceBlade, pounding the living daylights out of him, and there was nothing he could do to stop them!
***
Shrapnel had quickly recovered from the explosion, an saw that one of his minions was destroyed.
"Stupid incompetant fool forgot to cast his barrier shield..." Shrapnel thought to himself.
Shadow also had recovered from the blast and had taken notice of IceBlade's handiwork.
"Impressive." Shadow remarked.
Shadow then saw IceBlade's horrible defeat at the hands of Shrapnel's Dark Teknomen.
"Savage Bastards!" Shadow thought.
He charged at the the Teknomen and engaged them in a melee.
Shrapnel, seeing this, decided that his warriors could handle Shadow. He told his warriors so and then left to find where Blaze and Shard had hidden themselves like the cowards.
***
When Shard reached the battle field, he was shocked to see his best friend laying on the ground like he was run over by a train. He also saw 3 Teknomen involved in a melee with another Teknoman nearby. He un-blurred, in human form, beside his fallen comrade and assessed his condition. IceBlade was in worse shape than Shard thought was humanly possible. The only thing that Shard could do right now was to get IceBlade's body to begin the healing process. He mind-linked with IceBlade and did so. He also took control of his nervous system and shut down the pain recepters at the damaged areas.
"I can't heal you by myself right now, but I can at least keep you from feeling anymore pain for a while. Rest my friend." Shard said. And with that, Shard put IceBlade into a forceful slumber. Then he with drew his prescence from IceBlade's mind.
Shard looked over at the melee and saw that the 3 Teknomen had completely surrounded the fourth. The unknown Teknoman was just barely holding his own, but wouldn't last much longer.
"3 vs 1, that's not right." Shard said reaching into the bluish monk-like outfit he was wearing, and pulled out a Diamond Tek-crystal. "So, let's even up the odds a little...TEK-SETTER!"
Shard was then engulfed in a blinding column of white light as he transformed.
Now, before the 3 evil Teknomen and Shadow, stood a warrior garbed in sky-bluish-almost white armor with patches of deep blue and gold here and there,with grey-black "skin", and topped off with an emerald green cape that ran to his ankles and a crystal sword with a diamond edge that was about a molecule thick - in other words, a sword of death.
"Okay, whose first?" Shard asked the 3 evil Teknomen.
They took their time in deciding who was the first person to fight Shard. They even did Rock - Paper - Scissors - which all ended in ties. While they decided who was going to be first, Shard began to sort out the information that Blaze had given him. There was a lot of stuff here Shard noticed. Eventually, after giving up on a decision, the evil Teknomen all charged at Shard as one.
The charge was rather short lived however, because Shard then sliced the 3 Teknomen neatly in half with one stroke. They fell to the ground in a pool of their own blood and guts.
"That's for IceBlade." Shard said.
Shard turned to Shadow, and asked: "Would you like to do the honors.... um... what did you say your name was?"
Shadow replied "With pleasure, and the name's Shadow. And you are?"
"Shard."
"Ah. I'll only be a moment..."
Shadow mumbled something, then he held out his palm, face up, and suddenly there was a ball of flame in it, and it was getting bigger. When it reached the size of a basketball, Shadow shouted: "FIRE BALL!" as he hurled it at the 'Pile-O-Teknomen'.
There was a huge explosion and another crater. When the smoke cleared, all that Shard could see that was left of the Dark Teknomen were little peices of scorched armor.
"Cool." Was all Shard had to say.
Shadow and Shard went over to where IceBlade lay.
"Is he gonna be ok?" Shadow asked.
"I honestly don't know Shadow. IceBlade was beat up pretty bad, and to make matters worse, his spine was completely severed. I don't know if I can heal him but I will try. Shard replied in a grave tone.
"Not if I have anything to say about it." A voice said.
Shard and Shadow looked around for the source of the voice, but they didn't see anyone.
Suddenly a huge explosion threw the three of them across the clearing.
Shard looked up from where he was thrown and saw Shrapnel hovering in mid air about 20 feet up.
Shrapnel, his armor nolonger showing any damage whatsoever, suddenly descended to the ground and walked over to where IceBlade was thrown by his little explosion. He could clearly see that his old friend was writhing in pain - apparently Shard's little treatment had worn off.
"I can see that you are in great pain Teknoman IceBlade. Why don't you allow me to end it for you?" Shrapnel offered.
"Go to hell." IceBlade said.
"Been there, done that. Why don't you go in my place?" Shrapnel said as he picked IceBlade up by the throat with one hand. With the other hand he took hold of his weapon, which appeared out of nowhere, and stabbed IceBlade just below his chest armor. IceBlade screamed. As if that wasn't enough, Shrapnel then removed his hand from IceBlade's throat, muttered something which caused his hand to glow electrically.
"Lets see how you like a MEGA SHOCK." He said placing his hand on his weapon's blade. The electricity surged from his hand through his lance and into IceBlade.
"NO!" Shard cried.
IceBlade screamed in pain, again, as the electricity surged through his body, totally frying it. When the shock ended, Shrapnel then took hold of IceBlade, removed his lance, dropped it on the ground, and hurled IceBlade's body at Shard and Shadow. Shadow caught the "crispy crusader".
"Shadow, look after him." Shard said as he undid the clasp holding his cape onto his chest armor and let it fall to the ground behind him. He then charged at the Dark Tekkaman with crystal sword in hand.
***
Back at the cave, 3 figures, dressed in purple jumpsuits and white boots and helmets, were waiting outside the entrance while another figure was walking out.
Figure 1: It's Teknoman Blaze all right. There's a cairn of rocks marking where she's buried. It seems that there was another person or persons there too.
Figure 2: Obviously.
Figure 1: There's another thing, the Transformation Crystal is missing.
Figure 3: The other person(s) must've taken it.
Figure 4: Possibly.
Figure 1: If Blaze is dead, then that means that the Teknoman called Shrapnel is in the area.
Figure 2: We must inform the commander about this possible new development. Back to base.
They turn to leave, but find their way blocked by a group of Teknomen.
Figure 1: Wha-!
One of the Teknomen, a male clad in silvery-grey armor covered in a violet over-cloak, moved forward a step and said:
"Blaze was our friend. We cannot allow you or anyone else to desecrate her resting place. So, it seems that you will have to be 'removed'."
The second figure said quietly to the others:
"When I say so, transform and attack."
In a slightly louder voice he said to the Teknomen:
"You are no match for us, as you will soon find out. NOW!"
The four figures suddenly ripped out of their suits in a flash of light and now standing before the Teknomen were: a huge green monster with a horn coming out of its forehead, a sand colored bat-like thing with huge shoulders, a huge red thing with black claws; yellow eyes; it basically looked like huge screwed up crab, and another bat-like thing but this one was covered in purple fur and had long sharp teeth.
One of the Teknomen, a female clad in dark reddish-orange and navy blue armor, said:
"Well that's certainly original. Gotta give them points for creativity."
The other Teknomen chuckled at her comment. The monsters were pissed off by it.
The now enraged monsters charged at the Teknomen. The Teknomen readied their weapons and also charged.
The battle was very short lived because the Teknomen weaponry sliced through the monsters very easily.
As the monster parts hit the ground, they began to dissolve. In a few seconds, there was nothing left of the monsters. A few of the Teknomen were surprised when they saw this.
The silver-grey Teknoman turned to the others and said:
"Let's Go. Shrapnel must not be allowed to escape!"
With that, The Teknomen left as quickly and as quietly as they had come.
End Chapter 4
Author's Notes:
For those of you who have seen The Guyver, you know who and what those monsters are. For those of you who don't, I would recommend renting either of the 2 Guyver live-action movies, or checkout the anime series.
The reason why, i put them in the story was because i wanted a sortof preview of what the next story would be. That, and I needed some sort of a way to bring the group of Teknomen into the story.
well, I'd better go and start work on the next installment in this story.... so until next time, JA NE!
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