Chapter 2
(Yuuko's P.O.V.)
I had just exited the museum carrying an unconscious and badly injured Akihisa on my shoulder. I looked around, seeing that all of the students, teachers and other people had made it outside. I saw rescue teams helping other people who had been injured in the earthquakes, and looking for people who went missing when the earthquakes hit.
I called out for help for Akihisa, and soon enough, some paramedics came and took Akihisa from me, telling me not to worry because he was in good hands before taking him to the hospital. I then went to look for the teachers and the eight other people who made up our group. After I found them, everyone started to ask me questions.
"Oh, thank God, Yuuko. Are you all right?" Ms Takahashi asked me.
"I'm fine," I replied.
"That's good, but where is Akihisa? Is he all right?" she asked me, concerned, a worried expression on her face.
"She's right. Where is Akihisa?" Mizuki asked, just as concerned.
"Yeah, Yuuko. Where is he? Is he safe?" Kubo then asked me, worried.
"Yeah. Where's Aki?" Minami then asked me, as well.
Just about everyone in my group had a concerned expression on their faces and in their eyes. I then finally decided to tell everyone where Akihisa was.
"Everyone, please don't be alarmed, but Akihisa got seriously injured while he was with me. He was unconscious, so I picked him up and carried him out of the museum on my shoulder. Some paramedics then took Akihisa from me before taking him to a hospital. After that, I then went to look for all of you, and here we are, now," I told everyone, remaining calm and collected.
After I had told everyone what happened to Akihisa and where he currently was, or rather, where he was currently being taken to, each of them all had a different expression on their faces and in their eyes. Minami, Mizuki and Kubo had worried expressions, while Shouko still had the same expression that she always does, but I could tell that, on the inside, Shouko cared.
While my brother, Hideyoshi, wasn't as concerned as everyone else, he still muttered that he hoped that Akihisa would be OK. As for Aiko, she had her hands over her mouth and an expression of shock, while Yuuji and Kouta just stood there with blank expressions. Yuuji had his arms crossed, and Kouta had his hands at his sides. Ms. Takahashi took a deep breath and exhaled before suggesting that we all head somewhere safer than our current location.
Everyone, including myself, then headed to a safe location. I then used this opportunity to discreetly sneak off once again so that I could try to find out what was really going on, and started to watch a news report on a huge TV screen on a building that was talking about what was going on.
(Third person P.O.V.)
"We now have a bird's-eye view of what is happening from one of our news choppers. As you can see, there appears to be what looks like giant scorpion-like robots. They are armed with what looks like miniguns on their tails, and flamethrowers in their heads. They also possess what appears to be missiles in their claws.
"These metal behemoths appeared just a few short moments after the earthquakes and began to terrorize the city and rob all of the banks in the area, with most of these semi truck-sized scorpion robots at the largest bank in the city.
With reports coming in saying that the police and JSDF are unable to stop this major threat due to the robots being covered in some kind of armor plating, making any and all conventional weapons that both the police and JSDF possess completely useless. It seems that nothing can stop these mechanical monsters," the news report said.
"So, that's what's going on. I'll bet that whoever built those robots and is controlling them is also responsible for causing those earthquakes. I'd better find somewhere where nobody can see me so that I can change into my outfit, become Giganta and stop those robots and whoever is controlling them," Yuuko said to herself shaking nervously knowing that this was her first time of many more to come that she would have to do something extremely dangerous.
Yuuko soon found an alleyway. After checking she saw that there was no one around to see her, Yuuko then went into the alleyway and summoned her outfit before leaving the alleyway. She then used her powers to grow to a size of 55 feet.
She then began to walk to the part of the city where all of the scorpion robots were, the ground shaking with every step that she took. Thankfully, there were no people around, because the remaining police and all of the rescue teams had already evacuated the entire city block so as to make sure that no civilians would be harmed by the robots, or any of the fighting between them and the police and JSDF. As a result, Giganta could head to her destination without worrying about accidentally crushing something or someone.
Meanwhile, at a nearby bank, after tearing through any and all resistance, some of the scorpion robots had entered with one of them opening up, revealing a cockpit with a person inside. The person was a male wearing a long sleeve green shirt and a bullet proof vest on top of it. He was also wearing a pair of camouflage pants and a pair of black leather sap gloves for hand to hand combat and a balaclava and a pair of black combat boots. The man then began to take money from the bank's safe while the other scorpion robots, which were controlled remotely, stood guard outside.
"Man, this is too easy. It looks like it was good idea for me and the others to work for that mad scientist guy, after all," the man said in a cheerful and pleased sounding voice. Then, all of a sudden the ground started to shake in some kind of rhythm which the man immediately noticed. "Huh? What the hell is going on out there? There were only supposed to be two earthquakes because of the explosives we planted, so why am I feeling more of them?" the man said to himself, confused.
He then used one of the cameras that were built into the remote controlled scorpion robots to see what was going on outside of the bank he was in. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. He saw what appeared to be a female giant who was fighting against and destroying the scorpion robots, and she was winning. He then called his employer on a communicator that had been built into the scorpion robot.
"Professor Shioda, sir!" the henchman said, worried.
"What is it? There had better be a good reason for you calling me. Have you finished emptying out that safe yet?" the henchman's employer asked impatiently.
"No, sir, but there is something very important that I must tell you," the henchman responded, frightened.
"Very well. What is it?" his employer asked sternly, his voice sounding irritated.
"Well, sir, it would seem that we have a problem, and a big one at that," the henchman reported to his employer, sounding as though he was intimidated by something.
"What do you mean 'we have a big problem'? Are you talking about the police or military? I already told you that neither the police nor the military can stop my robots. I designed them to be far more superior weapons than anything the police or the military currently possess," his employer responded, obviously irritated.
"No, sir. It's not the police, and it's also not the military. You won't believe me when I tell you this, sir, but it's a female giant who's fighting against and destroying your robots, possibly trying to stop us, sir. Here, have a look for yourself," the henchman said worriedly as he sent his employer the live video footage from his location.
"Dammit! I don't care who or what it is that is trying to stop us and ruin my plans, so get out there and get rid of that female giant. I don't care what you have to do in order to do it. Get rid of her, now!" his employer ordered aggressively.
"Yes, sir. Right away, sir," the henchman said to his employer, sounding both worried and surprised. He then turned off the communicator.
Meanwhile, Yuuko, now as Giganta, was currently fighting off the scorpion robots. She grabbed two of them by their tails and spun them around like a carnival or amusement park merry-go-round before throwing them both with great force at a few other scorpion robots, destroying them in the process.
She then turned and faced three more of the scorpion robots who began to fire their minigun tails at her. She shrank down to normal size in order to dodge their gunfire and make it harder for them to hit her before growing back to her giant size and grabbing the one of the scorpion robots closest to her by its tail, lifting it up and swinging it down on the other two, using it like a club, destroying three robots.
She then turned around and saw eight more scorpion robots, ready to attack. Giganta was about to charge at them, but she saw five more of them appear, making a total number of thirteen of them. They then charged at her from all directions, firing their minigun tails and missiles from their claws, trying to swarm her, but she narrowly managed to dodge the projectiles that were coming at her by shrinking back to normal size.
"Whoa! OK! This is not good!" Giganta said, her voice sounding panicked as she got out of their line of fire. She now felt slightly fearful which, as she soon recalled, could affect her powers. Because of her fear, Giganta grew ten feet taller than the size that she grew to before, making her 65 feet tall.
After calming herself down, she grabbed one of the scorpion robots by the tail and broke its two claws before using the scorpion robot's minigun tail to shoot five other scorpion robots in the head, destroying them. She then used the scorpion robot's body that she was still holding as a shield and picked up the two claws that she had ripped off earlier.
She then threw the robot as hard as she could at two more robots, destroying them. She took the two claws that she had picked up and stabbed them through two more robots, leaving them motionless.
There were now only three left. Two of them charged at her while, for some reason, the third one tried to escape. Giganta then shrank to normal size and got behind the two that had charged at her. She then grew back to 65 feet tall and grabbed them by their tails, tying them together before punching them both in the head, disabling them. She then grabbed them and threw them in front of the last one to block its path of escape.
She began to walk up to the last of the scorpion robots. It fired all of its weapons, including a flamethrower that came from its head, in a desperate attempt to try to stop her, but it was futile. She simply shrank to normal size, making it miss every shot. She then grew again and ripped off the robot's tail before ripping off its claws. Finally, she ripped its legs off, leaving it without any appendages.
Giganta was about to leave to find more of the robots when she saw a person come out from what looked like a cockpit in the last robot that she destroyed. She then grabbed the man who came out from the cockpit as he was trying to escape. She brought him up to her face.
"All right. Talk. Are you the one responsible for causing those earthquakes earlier?!" Giganta demanded.
"N-No! I-I j-just work for the guy behind all of this. I swear! I'll even tell you where he is. Just, please don't hurt me!" the henchman said, his voice shaking with fear.
"All right. Who is the guy who's responsible for all of this, what is his name, why is he doing all of this, and where can I find him?!" Giganta demanded again.
"OK! His name is Professor Atsuhiko Shioda! He's a scientist who specializes in machines and a former school teacher who taught robotics. He is doing all of this because he needs money to keep doing his robotics research, and also for revenge against the government and scientific community for cutting his funding and firing him, as well as sending him to prison because they found out that he was building and selling robots as weapons to the highest bidder. As for where you can find him, he is currently at the biggest bank in the city, emptying out its safe, but that's all I know, OK? I swear!" the henchman said, still fearful.
"Good. That's all I needed to know, and as for you, I'll make sure that the police come to take you into their custody," Giganta said seriously as she hung the henchman by his shirt on top of a nearby flagpole. She then headed towards her destination, the ground again shaking with every step that she took.
Meanwhile, Professor Atsuhiko Shioda was currently emptying out the safe of the bank that he was in with the help of two of his seven remaining henchmen, while two other henchmen, who were also piloting scorpion robots, were standing guard outside of the bank along with the remote controlled robots, while the last three were busy robbing three other banks in the area. The Professor wore black shoes, black pants, a blue button shirt, a grey tie and a white lab coat. His eyes were blue and he had brown hair in a buzz cut.
"All right, boys. The safe is almost empty. As soon as all of the safes in all of the banks in the area have been emptied, I want everyone to report in over the communicator so that we can all get out of here, got it?" Professor Atsuhiko Shioda said to his henchmen over the communicator that was built in to all of the scorpion robots that had cockpits.
"Yes, sir," the remaining henchmen replied.
Just a few minutes later, the professor's henchmen called him on their communicators. "OK, Professor Shioda. The three of us have completely emptied the safes and are now on our way to meet up with you and the others," one of the henchmen said over the communicator in a clear, deep male voice.
"What? Only the three of you? There should be four of you! Where is our fourth guy?!" the professor said, impatient and irritated.
"I don't know, sir. I've tried contacting him, but he is not he's not responding," the henchmen reported, calm and collected.
"DAMMIT! If he's not going to answer, then we are leaving without him. I have just about finished emptying this safe. Hurry up and meet with me and the others so we can all get out of here," the Professor ordered his henchmen over the communicator.
It didn't take long for all of the henchmen and the Professor to meet up. "All right, then. Let's all get out of here. Come on," the professor said over the communicator, his voice serious and demanding.
Suddenly, they heard a voice. "The only place you are going to is prison, Professor Shioda!" a booming female voice said. Then Giganta walked out from behind a building, the ground shaking with every step she took.
"Huh. No wonder I'm one henchman down. It's because of you. Well, no matter. That's just one less henchman to pay," the professor said smugly, a smirk on his face.
"You and the rest of your goons had better put all of that money back where it belongs if you know what's good for you," Giganta said sternly.
"Oh, please. You may be a giant, my dear, but you are still out numbered, and outgunned. Go get her, boys," the professor ordered aggressively.
"Bring it on, and the name is Giganta, by the way," Giganta said, getting ready to fight.
She and the scorpion robots then charged at each other. The henchmen and remote controlled robots fired their weapons at her, but Giganta shrank to normal size and ran behind them to make them all miss. Then, she grew back to 65 feet in height, grabbed two of the henchmen's robots by their tails and slammed the two robots into each other, disabling them completely.
She turned around and delivered a kick to the robot of the third henchman, sending it flying into the air and crashing into the ground, making all of its appendages break. She then delivered two powerful punches, one from each hand, to two of the remaining four henchmen's robots, making holes in them, then ripping them in half.
The professor then ordered his remote controlled scorpion robots to form a perimeter to protect him. Giganta then took the tails of the scorpions that she had ripped in half and used them like chain weapons against the last two henchmen's robots destroying them, smashing the halves that she was holding in her hands on them.
"Professor Shioda, I have a question for you. Are you the one responsible for causing those earthquakes earlier today?!" Giganta asked sternly, a serious expression on her face.
"Yeah, so, what if I am?" the professor replied cockily, yet not without a hint of irritation.
"You can't do this, Professor Shioda, because not only are you breaking the law, but your actions can, will, and already have hurt innocent people, one of those innocent people being a friend of mine!" Giganta proclaimed, almost as if she was lecturing the professor, a serious expression on her face.
"Ha! You think I care about what happened to your little friend? Do you think that I care about what happens to anyone? No. I don't. This country and its government, as well as the scientific community, didn't care about what I was trying to do for them with my research. They all fired me from my teaching job and cut my funding, I then had to build and sell robots as weapons in order to make money to continue my research, and if that wasn't bad enough, all of the people who fired me from my teaching job and cut my funding had me arrested and sent to prison for doing that.
"If anything, they are the real villains here, and if they didn't care about what I was trying to do for society, then why should I care about them and what they think, or anyone, for that matter? Besides, that little friend of yours was probably some stupid little idiot who deserved it, anyway," Professor Shioda said proudly.
Giganta then clenched her fist in anger. After what the professor had just said to her, once again, Giganta's emotions affected her powers. Because of her anger affecting her powers, Giganta then grew even larger then she already was. She now towered opponents at 150 feet tall, which terrified the professor. Gigantic then shouted in a booming voice, deafening the professor and his henchmen.
"YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR HURTING MY FRIEND!"
The professor then sent his remote controlled scorpion robots out to try to slow her down while he desperately tried to escape out of fear of the female giant. The robots fired all of their weapons, but they had no effect on Giganta. She then lifted her foot and stepped on the the seven robots, crushing and destroying them with ease.
"I detest bugs!" she said, annoyed.
She only needed to take three steps before she had reached the Professor. She picked up the robot that he was piloting and ripped off its claws, legs and tail before ripping open the cockpit and grabbing the professor with her giant hand.
She then reached down and grabbed his seven henchmen who were trying to escape on foot. She took the severed tail of the robot that the professor was piloting and used it to tie them all up before heading to the nearest police station where all of the police officers looked at her in astonishment and fear. She handed the professor and his henchmen to the police to be arrested.
"There is no need for you to be afraid, officers. I'm on your side." Giganta said, calm and collected.
"You'll pay for this, Giganta! I swear, I will get revenge on you!" the professor shouted, his voice full of anger and hatred.
"Yeah, yeah. We all hear you, but you won't be getting revenge on anyone for a very long time, considering where you're going, Professor Shioda," a police sergeant said casually.
Giganta then left once again, the ground shaking with every step that she took as she disappeared from sight.
The next day, Yuuko was on her way to the hospital to visit Akihisa, but she was a little bit worried that someone might recognize her as Giganta. However, the great spirit spoke to Yuuko once again.
"Yuuko, you do not need to worry, because while you wear your outfit or use you powers, nobody will recognize you because your identity is protected by a powerful magic that makes people not recognize you while you wear your outfit and use your powers, even if people are looking at pictures or video footage of you as Giganta. So, your secret is safe," the voice of the great spirit said reassuringly.
"Thank you, great spirit. It gives me great relief to hear that," Yuuko said gladly a smile on her face.
She soon arrived at the hospital and made her way to the front desk where a woman sat. "Excuse me. I'm here to visit a friend of mine. His name is Akihisa Yoshii. Could you please tell me which room he's in and how to find it?" Yuuko asked a woman with blonde hair. She was wearing glasses and a female nurse's outfit.
"Yes. He is in room number 25, which is on this floor. Just take a right turn at the elevator, then head straight down, and then make a left turn, and his room will be at the very end of the hallway," the woman said cheerfully, a smile on her face.
"OK. Thank you so much," Yuuko said thankfully.
"Oh, and one more thing. You are not the only person visiting him today. There are two other girls with him right now, so please don't be surprised. There were also a few other people who came to visit him, but they have already left," the woman informed her, still smiling cheefully.
"Oh, I see. Those were probably our other friends, and the two girls must Minami and Mizuki. Thank you for letting me know," Yuuko said.
Soon, she arrived at Akihisa's room. She had opened the door to see Akihisa in bed, recovering from his injuries, as well as Minami and Mizuki with him. According to one of the doctors in the hospital that Yuuko spoke with about Akihisa's condition on her way to his room, Akihisa had several damaged ribs, some broken, and others simply cracked or fractured, as well as a broken right arm, a sprained shoulder, a fractured left knee and a sprained ankle.
Mizuki and Minami both looked at Yuuko with hatred and anger in their eyes.
"Well, if it isn't little Miss 'Got-Akihisa-put-in-here-in-the-first-place! You stuck up little bitch!" Mizuki said furiously.
Yuuko looked at the both of them. "Hey! I carried Akihisa out of the museum on my shoulder to get medical treatment for him!" Yuuko said defensively.
"So, what? You're also the reason why Akihisa got badly injured and is in a hospital bed right now!" Minami said angrily.
"Oh, really? This coming from the two girls who constantly abuse Akihisa both physically and verbally almost every day, if not on a daily basis!" Yuuko retorted, her tone one of irritation, a serious look in her eyes.
"So, what if we do? Besides, we do if we hurt him it's justified, usually because he said or did something stupid!" Minami shouted, getting angrier.
"THAT'S ENOUGH! ALL THREE OF YOU, BE QUIET, RIGHT NOW!" the three of them heard a voice shout at them. They turned around to see that it was Akihisa in his hospital bed who had shouted at them.
"But, Aki-" Both Minami and Mizuki tried to speak, but were cut off by Akihisa.
"No. You don't get to judge her, nor do you have the right to. Besides, I'm the one who asked her to sneak off with me, and when I saw that she was in trouble, I helped her, and she selflessly returned the favor, because that is what friends do for each other. So, if you both want to get angry at someone, then get angry at me. I'm already used to it.
"Oh, and, in case you two have forgotten, we ended that little heated rivalry between us and her a long time ago, and she along with Kubo, Aiko and Shouko all became good friends of ours, and if that doesn't mean anything to the both of you, then you two girls can get the hell out of my hospital room!" Akihisa said angrily. The girls were shocked. He had never spoken to them like this before.
"That was very well said, Mr. Yoshii, but you do need to rest and let your injuries heal, so please don't go overexerting yourself. It is, of course, in your best interest." They all turned to see a doctor standing in the doorway to Akihisa's hospital room.
"Oh, and as for you three young ladies, this is a hospital not a kickboxing ring, so if you three want to have a shouting match with each other, or fight, or whatever, then please do it somewhere else," the doctor said loudly, but calmly as he walked over to Akihisa's bed to take a look at his charts.
The doctor was a fairly tall man with black hair and green eyes. He also had a mustache and goatee and was wearing a white doctor's coat and a surgeon's outfit underneath it. He was also wearing black shoes.
"Yeah, sorry about that, doctor. So, how long will it take for all of my injuries to fully heal?" Akihisa asked sheepishly, looking up at the doctor.
"Well, judging by the number of injuries that you have and how bad they are, I would say about four months," the doctor said calmly as he looked at Akihisa with a raised eyebrow after reading his charts.
"What?! But, then all of my school work is going to pile up, not to mention the absences!" Akihisa said worriedly.
"Don't worry. I will talk to the teachers and the principal of your school and see if we can work something out for you," the doctor said kindly, a genuine smile on his face as he winked at Akihisa.
"Really? Oh, thank you so much," Akihisa said thankfully.
"Don't mention it. I'm just looking out for as many people in this hospital as I can," the doctor said humbly, a smile still on his face.
Omake:
Somewhere in a maximum security prison, in one of its many prison cells resides the diabolical mad scientist, and now the first enemy of Giganta, Professor Atsuhiko Shioda. "I will get out of here, Giganta, and when I do, you will pay dearly for ruining my plans and putting me in this prison cell. This, I swear," the professor said to himself.
Author's note:
Hello again, everyone. I hope that you enjoyed the second chapter of Giganta Yuuko Kinoshita and can't wait to see my three new pictures on DeviantArt that I am still working on, which I will spend quite a bit of time doing, meaning that I am going to take a little break from writing, but don't worry. After my pictures are done, I will get started on writing chapter 3 immediately, so please be patient, and thank you all for taking a little bit of your time to read my fan fiction.