Devil Survivor 2: The Birth Of A New World
Chapter 2: Vs Tokyo Branch
...Day light has come, and a new day arises... a saturday towards ideals clashing, and a new world... coming. Hiro and the Anguished One come to prepare themselves for the coming of unnecessary battles that may come their way, whether it is a personal one or just misunderstanding doesn't matter, but there will be confict, that's for sure. "Day has come, the Void has swallowed Chiba by this "morning", so now, the world doesn't have much time left."
"We better hurry."
"Hm, let's. ..." He suddenly becomes silent, the Silent Anguished One that is...
"Hm? What is it?"
"Hm? Oh, it is nothing, but it has come to me that since I am now your comrade, it is only appropriate that I have a name yes? I am called the Anguished One, no more, no less, and I am all sort of what people may call a 'god' to some degree, so... I wonder, is it time that I am called with a human name?"
"Hm, you're right."
"Hm, very well, in that case, I am... Al Saiduq, that is my name from now on."
"Al Saiduq, hm, very fitting, I think."
"Yes... though I do feel sort of like a new person in this new name, someone like me who has been curious about people's culture until now..."
"Huh? Kid?" It's Dera-Deka, the detective in hiding from JP's eyes. "What are you... doing? Who is that?"
"It's you."
"Hm? Oh, you're that person who has escaped Yamato Hotsuin's judgment and went in hiding amongst people." Al Saiduq, as of now, said.
"Hm? Yeah, you told him kid?"
"He's an ally, so why are you here?" Hiro asked.
"Hiding, as usual, so I take it that things are about to become serious, it's like in a baseball pitch where everything is at stake, so what are you guys up to?"
"...We will... restore the world... and bring forth a new one."
"What?"
"This may seem unbelievable for a human like you, but it's true, the Shining One has a world he wishes to create." Saiduq said.
"A new world? Hm, like a new pitch that will decide everything."
"Yes, your daughter... she's involved into this but... I can't guarantee that she won't be hurt, so..."
"Hm, things went that well huh, well, Airi has always been the spoiled one, she never get a chance not to argue with her brother. Do what you must kid, I'll be rooting for you... and please bring Airi back to her senses, well, take care, and good luck to your ideal new world thing." He said leaving the area.
"He has been here from the beginning, he knows of the plans of JP for this world, hm, he's rooting for us, it seems there are some people who are worthy of being kept alive after all." Saiduq said.
"Let's go." Hiro said. The two come across the Tokyo Branch near an intersection street with some people who seem to have joined with them... "There they are."
"Yes, the Tokyo branch under Shijima Daichi's command."
Upon hearing Hiro's and Saiduq's voices, Daichi and the others turn to them. "Huh? Hiro? Is that... wait, who is- It's that weird guy!" Daichi said.
"Hiro? What are you...?" Io asked.
"Hiro? What are you doing? And... that weird guy!" Hinako said.
"I'm joining this fight." Hiro said.
"Huh? You're joining? Don't tell me you and that weird guy up to something!"
"Hiro, what are you doing?" Jungo asked.
"I am..." Hiro begun...
"I have no ill will against you people, but the Shining One has a world he wishes to create, I would like to lend your support and strength to him." Saiduq said.
"Huh? A world he wishes to create? But... the fact that you're here means you're willing to fight friends from both Tokyo, Osaka... and Nagoya altogether!"
"Hiro, what are you- What did that guy do to brainwash you!" Daichi asked angrily, he's glaring at Saiduq.
"He didn't do anything, it was I who asked him to help me."
"Yes, that is true, me and the Shining One are on a path to renew this world." Hiro and Saiduq said.
"What?"
"That's nonsense! The fact that you're here means... No, we won't allow to fight, or rather, we won't allow to start more petty wars!" Hinako said.
"Hiro, think about this. There's still time for a non-violent solution." Jungo said.
"Y-Yeah, Jungo's right. We can't fight, we should be working together, isn't that just a simple thing to do?" Daichi said.
"Y-Yeah, Hiro, you can come with us and..." Io said.
"I can't, I cannot join you, because... I want you guys... to..." Hiro said.
"Hiro, we're friends right!" Daichi said.
"Yeah."
"Then why are we fighting?"
"Are we fighting? I am merely asking for your cooperation, you're the one challenging us."
"Wha..."
"That's bullshit! The fact that you want to create a world of your ideals means you don't care about the other ones, no, we'll cooperate together and form a new ideal for all of us, so we'll fight you if you're not here to surrender!" Hinako said.
"Sigh, as I expected, this would only lead to a conflict." Saiduq said.
"Unfortunate, but..." Hiro brings out his cell... "If the only way to resolve this is to break their ideals... so be it." Flaash, flaash! Lucifer is summoned.
"Yes, though man is full of competitive side, I do believe they could achieve peace." Saiduq said summoning Metatron.
"Dammit, whoever wins this, no hard feelings okay?" Daichi said.
"Sure, bring it on." Hiro said.
"Hiro... I don't want to fight you, but..." Flash! Io glows in green.
"Hm? That's..." Saiduq is familiar with this light.
"If I have to fight you, then..." She floats in mid-air, then... she gathers strength, then the green light emanates all over everyone, except the citizens of Tokyo, she holds a spear like lightning bolt that is as her weapon, this is Lugh's power.
"As I thought, it is Lugh's power."
"She gained control of it?" Hiro asked.
"Yes, it seems this will be a difficult fight."
"Hm, as long as the truth is with us..." Hiro said. Flash. A circular light emanates above him.
"Hm? Shining One?"
"H-Hiro? You..." Daichi said.
Hiro spreads his arm, then two cards of demons show, giving forth... this is a fusion spell. "Ah... Ah!" Flash! A barrier that is impregnable form around Hiro and Saiduq.
"Ah, you have reached the depths of possibilities you could muster, well done Shining One, as long you have that determination, we shall prevail." Saiduq said as both Lucifer and Metatron gather up for the battle. "Now, let us go!"
"Hm!"
"Now... everyone, rise up! The battle is on!" Io said floating in mid-air while carrying the spear like lightning bolt.
"Alright, keep at it Io, we-" Shake, shake! An earthquake... "Huh?" Hinako is the first to respond to that.
"That's..." Jungo said.
Behind both Hiro and Saiduq, a bonfire of a grand entrance erupted, then... abblaaze, ablaaze, abllaaze! The great destroyer, Shiva, comes. "Oh, that sounds fun, let me join in as your demon, child of man!" He refers to Hinako who he comes to admire as a great dancer.
"Shiva? Oh, wow, alright, let's go!" Hinako said.
"Shiva is on our side? That's... cool! Alright, as long as we have strong assets on our side... Hiro, no matter what happens, we'll be friends right? So no hard feelings... there will be no hard feelings after this!" Daichi said, confident that his group will win for sure with Io and Shiva as their greatest assets.
"Hm, sure, come on then." Hiro said prompting them to attack first, or if they do not, that's fine.
"Alright, let's go, Shiva!" Hinako said.
"Alright, time for some fun, show me your strength, face despair! Ha ha ha!" Shiva begun swinging forth its spear, Pasupata, that it has used during the Alioth attack.
"Hm, leave him to me Shining One, you take care of your friends you have forsaken." Saiduq said. He comes to confront Shiva face to face. "You are the great demon who has been revered as the great destroyer, but... can you surpass truth itself?" Saiduq said forming a serious expression, snap! Then with a snap of a finger... Metatron comes beside him...
"Truth? What do you mean? Ha ha, are you afraid to face me? Well, here I go, taste the burning force that penetrates everything in this universe!" Shiva gathers his spear, Pasupata, then... ablaaze, ablaaze... Ablaaze-! Ablaaze! A pillar of flame is sent towards Saiduq.
"Hm," Snap. He snapped his finger. Ablaaze, ablaaze, ablaaze-! boom, boom! Saiduq is engulfed by the flames but...
"Alright, that mysterious guy is dealt with, now..." Daichi said confident that Saiduq has been taken care of but...
"Hiro, surrender now, there's no more side of your own support now, you cannot-" Hinako said offering a surrender choice to Hiro but...
"I think not." Hiro said.
Out of the ablaazed explosion... "Hm," Saiduq is protected by the barrier of Infinity, both Hiro and Saiduq seem to have reached forth the depths of infinite possibilities, making them virtually invincible to some degree so... "You cannot surpass truth itself, take this." Snap. A snap of a finger...
"Huaa-!" Metatron gathers up strength with it stretching out its muscles and arms... then... it gathers up some energy on its arm like it's charging... and so... "Huuaarggh-! Face the light of truth!"
Flaash, flaash, flaash! "Using the judgment of truth itself... we shall vanquish anyone and anything in our path, now, begone!" Ablaaze, shoock, shoock-! Blaast-! boom, boom! Saiduq casted an elastic blast called Truth Word or Word of Truth, which surpasses that of falsehood, and those who are in the way...
"Guurrghh-!" Shiva is burned to a crisp by a burning light that is blinding that it made the others avert their eyes, Hiro doesn't need to since he's not facing his other direction where Shiva is. "Guurrghh-!" The great destroyer himself is vanquished.
"Urgh! N-No, Shiva!" Hinako said.
"H-Hey!" Daichi said.
"Hmph," Hiro said turning around... as the light diminishes...
"Hm," Saiduq is snapping his finger forth and forth, then... Shiva, who is badly injured, is standing still... then he kneels as his strength has diminished that he can't stand anymore.
"Gurrgh, amaizing, that your strength would surpass mine... it's unbelievable! Well, I had fun, bye!" ablaaze, ablaaze! He banished in the same manner he appeared here, only to be sent back to where he came from.
"Hm, the great destroyer is taken care of."
"No, Shiva, you-! You..." Hinako said staring at Saiduq.
"You guys will have to deal with me." Hiro said stepping forward towards his former comrades... they are still are actually. "Sa, who will go first?"
"Hm," Io responded by gathering some energy into her lightning spear. "I will... not be defeated, I swear that upon this spear..."
"D-Dammit, Shiva is toast, and Io is all we have... grr, fine, have it your way Hiro!" Daichi said summoning Black Frost, a manifested demon of his desire of being someone with potential, and Jack Frost is pretty much... well, in the past days, Daichi would use Jack Frost since it reflects him a bit. "Sa, everyone, let's go!"
"I don't want to fight, but if it's for the sake of everyone cooperating... I will make you understand the magnificence of friendship!" Jungo said.
"Prepare yourself Hiro, Io, you're our secret weapon!" Hinako said.
"Hm, Hiro, in order for you to come to your senses..." Io presents a lightning bolt, this is...
"Hm," The impregnable barrier is still on Hiro's case so he shows no fear, as in truth itself will remain invincible for all time no matter what lies are spread. "..."
"Sa, here I go, break my spear if you can!" Shoock, shoock, boom! She hits, but...
"Oh I will... and... you will..." blaast... blaast... Hiro gathers up energy... Lucifer reflects his own actions with it spreading forth its wings around, then...
"Hrooaarr!" It gave forth a roar with it spreading around Tokyo, making sort of a vibration that makes some pillar of light rise up all around Tokyo, then... they all gather around Hiro.
"Hiya-!" boom, boom, shoock, shoock-! Io continued assaulting Hiro with all sort of lightning bolts of Lugh, her inherited demon as of now.
"Hiro, no hard feelings on this... Hiya!"
"Yehahaha!" Daichi summoned Black Frost and fired a gigantic fireball towards Hiro.
"Yosh, no hard feelings on this!" Whoosh, gust, gust, freeze, freeze! Both Hinako and Jungo combined their powers and form an icycle storm towards Hiro, combining all of their attacks, Io's attack, Daichi's attack, and the other two, the attack become sort of an almighty that cannot be blocked by mere barriers so... BOOM, Boom! That was enough explosion to decimate everyone, but... as truth is invincible...
The smoke clears out, revealing Hiro is unharmed, and he's accumulating some energies around Lucifer. "You cannot subdue truth." He said with an almost expressionless or emotionless expression on his face. blaast, ablaaze, freeze, gusst, shoock! Lucifer, with its wings spread, fired all sort of elemental attacks that emerged out of the six wings, the other two wings blasted an almighty attack as well as darkness, making the team of Tokyo branch...
boom, boom, boom! "Gurrgh!" Daichi is sent flying behind him.
"Urrgh!" Hinako is blown away by a blast of fire.
"Gruurrgh!" Jungo is sent flying by gusts of wind.
"Urgh!" Io managed to remain in mid-air... and then... "Huh?" She turns to Hiro, he's not yet done with the attack...
shoock... shoock... "From the thousand lies... come... infinite truth!" Hiro said as his cellphone glows, prompting Lucifer to attack again.
"Hrooaarr!" It gathers a lot of energies for an attack, bllast, blaast, blaast! This attack is called Armageddon, an attack that penetrates everything. bllaast, blaast, blaast-! Boom, BOOM, boom! This is enough to decimate everything on sight of the attack.
"Ugh!" Io couldn't keep up with the attack and her lightning spear disappears as she cannot contain it anymore. "Ugh, H-Hiro..." The last thing she sees is Hiro as he is covered by the smoke that rose up from the attack. "Ugh." She loses balance and fall on the ground.
"Whoa, gurrghh-!" Bump! "Ow!" Daichi's head hit the street lamp, making him lose the ability to stand up.
"Urgh!"
"Augh!" Hinako and Jungo are sent flying towards a car barricade and hit their backs. Making them unable to fight now, it seems both Hiro and Saiduq won.
"Hm, it's over." Saiduq said as he comes to Hiro's side.
"..." Hiro watches his friends as they lie on the ground, wounded, this is not necessary if the fight was to be avoided, but unfortunately, it wasn't, so this had to be the result. "...Hm," Hiro walks towards them along with Saiduq.
"Have you calm down now?" Saiduq asked.
"Ugh... dammit... I..." Daichi said trying to get up, he has some few lumps on his head, due to him hitting the street lamp.
"Ugh, everyone... I... lost..." Io said trying to get up, she could only sit with her legs on the ground however, as she looks down in sorrow and despair... she turns to Hiro. "... ...Hiro, why...?"
"Ugh... urgh..." Jungo is pretty wound up in his state as well...
"Dammit... I cannot win..." Jungo's other companion, Hinako, is wounded too. She tries to maintain her balance using her hand on the ground as she tries to crawl towards the others... "E-Everyone..."
"So, can I speak now?" Hiro asked. None responded as they feel like they lost all the energies to fight back. "So, to make things clear up, I never intended to fight you guys, I suppose you guys had the impression that we were, won't we?"
"Hm, that is true." Saiduq said.
"Ugh, what are you implying Hiro? Aren't we your enemy?" Hinako said sort of frustrated.
"Are we?" Hiro asked back.
"We are? No, of course not you idiot! We were just trying to get everyone together..."
"You were the aggressors, we were only asking for your cooperation."
"Ugh, just what are you trying to do man? You invaded Tokyo, we were waiting for you last night and you didn't came... we were under the impression that you joined either Yamato's group or Ronaldo's group." Daichi said. "Just what are you up to man?"
"Hm, if you had allowed me to explain earlier, this could have been avoided you know."
"Ugh, Hiro... what are you trying to do with that mysterious guy?" Io asked.
"Quite simple actually, we're bringing a new world." Hiro said that with a closed eyes, and sort of a tranquil personality.
"Yes, a world without Polaris as administrator." Saiduq added.
"Wh-What?"
"Wha... You serious? You're bringing forth a new world?
"A new world? Just what kind of world are you making? Friends shouldn't fight..."
"A new world? Geez, you could have told us that earlier?" Io, Hinako, Jungo and Daichi said.
"Did you allow me to?" Hiro asked back.
"Oh uh..."
"Geez, and we thought you have either joined Ronaldo or Yamato, so what type of world are you making?" Hinako asked.
"A world of freedom, as it should be. We are free to think what we like, free to abide by the law, and free to make our own decision." Hiro said.
"Hiro..." Io said. "But, Hiro, don't you like the current world...?"
"What is there to like in a world that is now on a brink of disappearing?"
"Th-That's..."
"Yes, it is too late for this one, but, a new world is still an option." Saiduq said.
"But... isn't the idea of a new world frighten you? You will..." Io said.
"I will only destroy the administrator himself, no one will administer any sort of destiny for us, we're free to choose and seek the truth were are seeking for." Hiro said.
"Yes, humans are free to find their purpose and find their own reason for existing, that goes the same for all of you." Saiduq said.
"But... what would happen then? Will everything... be erased?" Hinako asked.
"No, the only thing that will be cleaned is the Akashi records that set the destiny of mankind, so far however, you have defy fate itself and bring forth salvation to mankind, this world will not be cleansed, only the perspective of people will changed, and everyone will have freedom of their own decisions."
"...Wow, you guys... have much bigger ideals than both Ronaldo and Yamato."
"Hm, but... why are we fighting? Fighting friends wouldn't solve things." Jungo said while lying on the ground.
"Neither does dodging the issue will solve things Jungo." Hiro said.
"I'm not though, I just don't like fighting friends."
"Ugh, I know what you mean, Hiro, buddy, are you sure about this? I don't know if we can help in our own condition right now..." Daichi said acknowledging at least the pain he's feeling right now.
"Yeah, you beat us up pretty badly." Hinako said.
"Hm, I can't move a feet." Jungo said.
"Hm, me too, I'm exhausted." Io said. "Hiro, what are you...?"
Hiro turns around. "Then stay there, we'll deal with both Yamato and Ronaldo on our own." He said that.
"Stay safe Tokyo branch, when the time has come, you shall lay witness to the birth of a new world." Saiduq said as he and Hiro walked away, well, he's floating in his case.
"Ugh, ha ha, those guys... I never thought Hiro would surpass that of both Yamato and Ronaldo's ideals." Hinako said gazing at the sky while lying her back on the barricade car.
"Yeah, Hiro... so he didn't want anything to do with Ronaldo and Yamato... he's at his own intention, freedom..." Io said understanding Hiro's intent. "But, I suppose for us, we thought he was being self-centered, no, we were wrong."
"Ugh, yeah, geez...dammit, I can't move a inch, and now Hiro is planning to take down the other branches... that's crazy! Can he do that?" Daichi said groveling on the ground in pain near the street lamp where his head bumped into.
"Huh, I bet he would, and I am confident that he will succeed, besides, this is Hiro we're talking about, from what I have seen, he seems to have an habit to make the impossible... possible. Ha ha, after all, he's Hiro." Hinako said, she's admiring the view to the top where the sky seem to be gathering.
"Hm, yeah, if it's Hiro, friends would listen." Jungo said lying on the ground in a relax way while watching the view above. "I wonder, is Jungo watching all this?"
"Meow." Speaking of Jungo, Jungo, the cat, watches the group from top of a roof of a building, he's unnoticed by the group though.
"Ha, ha ha, you guys are certain about this huh, well, I guess I'll just have to put my faith on Hiro too." Dachi said looking up along with the others...
"Yeah..." Io slowly lies down on the ground, watching the sky along with everyone else. "Hiro..." She closes her eyes with a delightened smile... "Good luck!" She said that with all of her heart praying for Hiro's success.
...Meanwhile, somewhere in Nagoya...
"Hm, it seems the Tokyo Branch has lost, as expected of Hiro, and it seems he brought another guest." Yamato and his faction are ontop of a building branch here in Nagoya, they go around using terminals of the buildings.
"Oh, is it time for us to move out?" Fumi asked. The rest of the faction of the merit system are also here, including...
"Chief, should we move out?" ...Makoto Sako.
"No, I'll be heading out to prepare for something, you are all free to do as you wish." Yamato said with his usual sarcastic and wicked looking expression. After looking through his binocular telescope, he orders the rest to move out while he prepares a trumph card of sort.
"Hm, alright, we'll head out, let's see who oppposes us, and crush them." Fumi said.
"Yeah, we'll let our fists answer for us." Keita said smirking.
"Hm, very well, excuse us chief." Makoto and the others left, while Yamato look out through the city that is now being consumed by the slow Void.
"Hm, a city like this... should it be on based on merity system, there would be no weakness... only the strong shall survive... and we shall all be flawless, ha ha... ha ha!"
...End of Chapter 2...