I Don't Own Anything I'm Just A Crazy Fan.
Chapter 2: FEAR.
Ichika's room.
Fear is a natural emotion one felt. It helped our ancestors survive dangerous situation. It allowed people to live longer, instead of diving head first into situation that could end in one's death. However, as man has evolved and created a society away from natural dangers, such as predator, many humans will never experience true primal fear. Unfortunately, Ichika Orimura, is not one of those people.
When the door opened he entered fight or flight mode. The fear he felt when he locked eyes with Chifuyu was unlike anything he had ever felt before. When he fought the [Silver Gospel], he felt what he thought was fear, but he was wrong. When he fought Phantom Task at Kyoto he thought he felt fear. No, that was wrong. He was scared, but right now as he stared into the eyes of his enraged sister, he felt true primal fear.
The world's only male IS user acted on pure instinct when he embraced Ani and jumped out of the window. As he was falling, he activated his IS, the [Byakushiki] and flew as fast as the thrusters would take him.
As the girls in the living room wondered what was going on about with Ichika, and who was the owner of the second pair of shoe, they suddenly heard Chifuyu boom her voice. This was followed by the sound of breaking glass, and the ignition of [Byakushiki]'s thrusters. The group of girls rushed upstairs only to see two rooms open. The first was empty with a broken window and messy bed, but otherwise very clean. Rin and Houki knew it was Ichika's room. The group of looked towards the other room and saw Chifuyu grabbing some gear and putting on combat boots, before she took a katana from the wall.
"Miss Orimura, what is going on? Where did Ichika go?" Charlotte asked, but this was ignored by a clearly enraged Chifuyu.
"Did that pervert thinks he can bring a girl home! I'm gonna gut him like a damn fish!" The woman roared before she leaped out the broken window and started traveling via the rooftops of the neighborhood.
"Girl?" Houki started.
"Did she say Ichika brought a girl to his house?" Rin continued.
"I think we all heard the same thing. Hehehe." Cecilia let out a small laugh.
"My bride has been unfaithful. How unfortunate." Laura said.
"I'm not happy Ichika. And neither will you." Charlotte added.
"Ladies, are you okay?" Tatenashi asked as she and her sister felt a clear shift in the atmosphere of the room. The five girls suddenly ran out the house before activating their machines and began the hunt for the traitoris boy. The two Sarashiki sisters ran after them outside.
"Onee-chan, we need to stop them! They might kill Ichika!" Kanzashi said to the surprise of Tatenashi.
"Kan-chan, are you feeling alright?"
"My chest hurts Onee-chan. It feels like someone ripped out my heart, but I know what they're doing is wrong." Kanzashi said with a fire in her eyes, that surprised her older sister.
"I feel the same, Kan-chan. Okay let go stop them and then we make Ichika pay us back with some sweets." With that being said, Tatenashi, and Kanzashi, both activated their machines and chased after the other rampaging girls.
With Ichika, and Ana.
As the [Byakushiki] flew through the city, Ichika was trying to figure out his next course of action. He knew that it wouldn't be long till he had several mechanized girls after him. Literally, every second counts. He was brought out of his mind when he felt Ani's had placed a hand on his face.
"Listen to me, geez!" Ani said.
"Sorry, I'm a little stressed right now." Ichika said trying to lighten the mood.
"I know. Head towards the woods, I have a secret place." Without asking any questions, Ichika flew towards the woods, but his radar showed that there were several IS users nearby him. If he could see them, then they could see him. He quickly landed the two in a clearing and thanks to their actions, Ani didn't have shoes, while the IS pilot suit had brought out some shoes. Ichika picked up his girlfriend and rushed in the direction she pointed. As they entered a hidden passage with a ladder that led to darkness, Ichika heard the sounds of several IS thrusters above them. The two quickly made their way down the ladder and as Ichika was about to continued, Ani suddenly leaped on towards him.
"Huh?" Ichika by reflect caught her and started to carry her in a princess cradle.
"Carry me please."
"What?"
"I really want you to spoil me. After all, that was the scariest moment of my life, when your sister walked in. I didn't think she would act that why when she saw me." Ani said teasingly.
"I'm pretty sure it was the fact you were giving me a blowjob that set her off."
"Hehehe, want me to finish off where we left off. I could tell you were close." Ani said as she rubbed her head next to him.
"Sure, later on, when were safe."
"Hopefully we will get out of this alive." Ani said with a somber tone. Ichika stopped in his tracks and looked at Ani,. He planted a kiss on her before continuing.
"Ani, I will protect you with my life. I promise, I will never let anything happen to you." Ichika said with a firm tone and a stern gaze at his lover.
"I know, I just wanted to hear you say it. Now hurry, I have a few tools that might help up ahead." Ani stated as she pointed Ichika towards this odd unfamiliar place to him. As they moved Ichika wonder where they were. Ani explained that she found this place about four years ago. She didn't tell him about it, because it was so unsafe, she didn't want anything to happen to him. But over these four years, Ani had been modifying this old WWII imperial Japan navy bunker.
They soon entered a large open room, but they coniued beyound that to a smaller, but still sizable room filled with a ton of tech and it looked like it was a makeshift room for the young inventor. This was surprising to the world's sole IS user. He put Ani down, and she made her way towards the nearby closet. After rummaging for a few seconds, she put a pair of shoes on.
"Wow, how did you afford all this?"
"You be surprised what a few thrusters designs can be sold for. Oh, I only sold to official government and didn't use any back channels. Mama was a lifesaver with that, considering her position in the government." Ichika never met neither of Ani's parents. Not that he didn't want to. In fact he was eager to meet them, but they had busy lives. He was sure Ani's father was the CEO for an international company that were involved with IS machinery, while her mother was a former IS pilot for Japan, and in the last Mondo grosso she got third place. So he knows what she looks like, but never met her.
"Ichika! Hey! You still there?" Ani said.
"Huh? Ah sorry."
"Geez twice in one day. Did you catch what I said?"
"Um... you love me?"
"While that is very true, we need to work quickly. Summon [Byakushiki] so I can analyse the materialization sequence. If I have the data and it is based on quantum entanglement principles, I should be able to counteract it." Ani stated as she started to bring out several sensors and other machines Ichika didn't know about.
"But if I do that, our location is going to be known. ISes can track each other." Ichika stated.
"I know that. Which is why you'll need to get me enough time to get this device online and working."
"I can't take on all of them! They're way better than me."
"I got a little boost for you." Ani pressed several buttons and in the larger room a new device was revealed.
"A shield?"
"This is not just any shield. It's my pride and joy. This little piece of tech has a the ability to absorb energy and store it. Once store, you'll have a choice, you can either unleash or you can recharge your energy levels."
"Recharge my energy!" Ichika was shocked, why hadn't anyone thought of this considering [Byakushiki] was a energy hog.
"I know [Byakushi] has an issue with its energy usage, so I made this in the hopes that this would have alleviate the problem a little."
"But my IS has only one open slot and that's taken by my sword." Ichika knew he wouldn't be able to carry this everywhere he went if he couldn't store it away.
"I have a feeling [Byakushiki] might be willing to take this." Ani winked. Ichika decided to have faith in his lover and activated [Byakushiki]. He picked up the shield and to his shock, another slot opened and accepted the shield.
"How in the hell. [Byakushiki] refused to take in anything before."
"Ichika, the AI inside has its own Likes and Dislikes. You can't make a girl do something she doesn't want to." Ani said as she began to read the data coming in from the device.
As Ichika was admiring the new shield that was already colored to matched his color scheme. He saw his radar and saw that the others were making a B-line towards him. But they were underground and he didn't know if there was another entrance. Several of the girl tried to call him, but he just ignored them.
"Ichika, the naval sensor was just tripped. I think one of them found the other opening. I'm sealing the path, but they won't hold out against an IS, let alone several."
"They're coming, got it." Ichika looked at his radar and saw the five units closing in fast, with two separate units in the back. He was able to hear the sound of crunching metal now and entered a fighting stance. But he suddenly thought of an idea. He could probably get one of them or more with a sneak attack. He waited till the last second used [Ignition boost] and powered up [Reiraku Byakuya].
"ICH-" As the five girl broke the last barrier, they saw a yellow blur charged at them. Laura was knocked back and her points were depleted completely once her ultimate barrier was triggered.
"Eh, Mein Gott!" Laura in her locked down IS saw Ichika with her suit.
"Sorry about that, Laura." Ichika said as he moved away and turned towards the others, who were already attacking.
The first attack was from Charlotte who fired a volley from her [Gram] SMG. Ichika was a little horrified that Charlotte fired when he was right next to a defenseless Laura, he raised his shield and it expanded. From the main body and energy shield expanded from the body, allowing Ichika to protect the German representative. He turned his head to the right and saw Rin with her blades out.
"You Bastard!" Rin roared as she struck Ichika with one of her blades. However Ichika raised his new shield to block the attack. The force of the attack alone knocked backed the sole male IS user. As he got his barings, Houki charged in with Cecilia's [Blue Tears] bits.
Ichika found himself relying on the shield a bit too much, but there was nothing else he could do. He kept blocking and blocking until he saw that the energy gage from his shield was full. To Houki's surprise, Ichika recovered and charged with an ignition boost, Houki crossed her swords to block his strike, but if was a faint. He pressed his shield in front and unleashed all the stored energy in one go. Houki watched in horror as she was thrown towards the nearby wall and see her lose hundreds of energy points. She only had 44 of the 800 total she started with.
In her shock, she failed to register the fact that Ichika was still attacking. [Yukihira] entered its second form and with a single strike, Ichika severed the right hand of [Akatsubaki] and depleting the remainder of her points.
"Ichika!" Before Ichika could answer the enraged Houki, he was struck by [Shenlong]'s [Ryouhou] cannons.
The first two blast were direct hits, and knocked Ichika down to 613, and he would have lost more points had he not move using [Ignition Boost], but when he was getting his bearings, Cecilia shot him with her sniper rifle.
"Die you unloyal Git!" Cecilia said as she fired a constant barrage of sniper shots, but luckily for Ichika, the shield was able to take the shots and absorb the energy of attacks, but as he was focused on the English woman, Charlotte and Rin attacked from Ichika's blindspot. He couldn't block both of them, so he decided to take Charlotte's bullets, while blocking [Souten Gagetsu]. However, Charlotte had brought out her two [Rain of Saturday] Shotguns and blasted Ichika at close range. His points tanked and the force of the two attacks blasted Ichika into a wall, causing even more points to disappear.
"Ichika, use the shield! I still need a little bit more time." Ani said as she opened a channel with Ichika. He noticed at he only had 132 points left. Left with no other option, he channeled all the stored energy inside the shield and watched as [Byakushiki] began to glow yellow and his energy points began to rise.
"What the hell is he doing?!" Genuinely confused, Rin asked to no one in particular.
"He's recovering energy, it's that shield." Charlotte noticed the energy flowing from it into the main body of [Byakushiki].
"Oh so he's been using us again." Cecilia said.
"I never used any of you! Why didn't it register with any of you, that I wasn't interested!" Ichika shouted.
"Huh?" All the girls in the room said with collective shock.
"Did you really believe that I was that dense? For the love of- I'm not into any of you. I can't believe I have to say this."
"Wait then all those times you-" Horrified Charlotte spoke up, but she was interrupted.
"Yes Charlotte, I knew all about your feelings, and everyone else's."
"Then why didn't you say anything?!" Houki shouted.
"How do I put this lightly, you're all fucking crazy!" Ichika shouted. "You literally have no idea how relationships work. You are all abusive as shit and you don't see me as a human being! Ever since this damn machine was built, women don't see men as equals anymore!"
"How in the hell have we been abusive?" Rin said.
"Ok, are you acting dense now, or you really want me to list examples, because Rin I have many examples." Ichika began to recall several times when the girls would harm him physically, in Laura's case times when she would make unwanted sexual advances. Rin had the record for the number of physical assaults. Houki was a close second. Cecilia had punched him with a mechanized arm and had shot at him with a air gun during the school festival, though not real was still dangerous, he could have easily lost an eye. Charlotte opened fire on him under the order of Chifuyu and he did remember her flashing him, then punching him, which was why he was left with extreme pain. He was certain Cecilia was trying to kill him with her cook, he saw her put perfume in the food for the love of whatever cruel god there was.
This revelation suddenly dawned on the five in the room, that he was telling the truth. However they entered a denial state. Ichika was hoping that they were gonna come to their senses and let him be, however, this was not to be the case.
"It's obvious that Ichika is sick. We just need to get him some treatment."
"Rin what the hell are you talking about?"
"Oh course, Rin he just needs some help. He must be really sick since he saying such weird things." Charlotte added.
"No. I am completely well. You're in denial!"
"We just need to get him out of that IS first. Ladies we need to help Ichika since he's so unwell." Cecilia said as she raised her starlight.
"So were gonna fight after all. Fine!" Ichika entered a battle stance and had his sword enter its second form. He wanted to enter [Byakushiki] second shift form, but he saw a message state that the form was not advised at this time as the new shield was being integrated at the moment. Accessing it would hinder if not outright cause the intergradation to fail.
Ichika raises his shield and braces himself for the blast, but the attack never came. He then noticed a wall of water protecting him. This was followed by a massive barrage of missiles attacking from behind him and locking onto the three girls in front of the only male IS user.
"Ichika, are you alright?!" Kanzashi said a she flew near him.
"Man find this place wasn't easy." Tatenashi said with her cheery voice and raised her lance towards the other three. "You ladies, as the student council president, I order you to deactivate your machines."
"Wait, you're on my side?"
"Ichika, I think we need to have a talk about leading girls on."
"Oh for the love of- I swear I was pretty clear to you all that I wasn't interested."
"Also you owe me and Kanzashi some desserts after all this." Tatenashi added on. The student council President looked down and was surprised to see both Houki and Laura down. Laura was extremely skilled for a first year student and Houki had the world's only operation 4th generation machine.
"Wow, have you been holding out on us." Tatenashi stated with genuine surprise.
"I got lucky with Laura, and Houki wasn't at a 100%" Ichika finished. As the two groups of three stared down one another, Ichika got the call he was waiting for.
"Ichika, get low now!" Ani shouted.
"Got it." Ichika descended from his current elevation, as did the other two, but the three hostile women in their machines, saw this their chance to attack. As the three of them move to attack, drawing their weapons and locking on, they found that their targeting systems were going haywire and several error messages appeared.
"Ichika! What's going on?!" Kanzashi asked. [Uchigane Nishiki]'s spear dematerialized, as did one of her arms and the left particle cannon. [Mysterious Lady]'s lance was the first to vanish for Tatenashi, but soon the nanomachines in the water did before parts of the main body as well.
"I can't stay in the air!" Cecilia sniper rifle was gone, as were her bits. She lost one of the two thrusters on her machine and began to fly out of control till she hit the wall and slid down.
Charlotte lost her [Gram] SMGs and tried to bring out another weapon, but nothing was appearing from her Rapid switching. Rin lost the [Ryuhou] cannons first, then her main weapons. As for Houki and Laura, both of their units just disappeared. Ichika had landed on the floor and willing deactivated his IS. As he watched from the floor of the old imperial naval base, he couldn't help but think that he was watching the end of an era. For the first time in history, there was a countermeasure to the Infinite Stratos. The machine that has changed human society so drastically, now had a way of being defeated that wasn't another IS. He knew the IS wasn't gonna vanish overnight. It was in the world and it would have a place always, most likely, but it was no longer on top.
"Ichika, what the hell did you do to our machines?" Rin roared in anger as the last of the [ShenLong] vanished.
"Oh, I didn't do anything. She did." Ichika said as he pointed to the door that led to the lab Ani was in. At that moment Ani had stepped out of the lab and had some sort of cannon in her arms, with a clear tank on her back with a light tanish liquid inside of it. Ya
"Get the hell away from my boyfriend!" Ani shouted as she point the cannon at the girls. Blobs of goo ejected themselves from the cannon and stuck onto the five girls. The girls quickly realize that this was no ordinary liquid. It was extremely sticky and it harder very quickly.
"I'm trapped!" Houki remarked as she was stuck to the ground and couldn't move.
"What on earth is this?!" Cecilia shouted as she was unable to move.
"It's in my hair!" Charlotte was stuck on the floor with her back clinging to the surface. As the five of them were unable to move. Ani joined the three.
"Hello there, my name is Ani Taro. Pleasure to meet you. Thanks for helping Ichi." Ani said as she introduced herself to the two Sarashiki sister.
"Oh, so this is the vixen that stole Ichika's heart. I'm Tatenashi Sarashiki, student council President. This is my sister Kanzashi." Ani waved at the younger sister in acknowledgment.
"So Ichi is your nickname?"
"I thought it was cute. He's my number one." Ani replied with a smile on her face. Tatenashi was starting to see why Ichika picked her.
"Aw, isn't that sweet. Say Toro-san, what did you do to our machines?"
"Oh that well here's what I did." Ani began to go on a small lecture of what she did to cause the jamming field. Ichika tried to keep up, but it was lost on hi every quickly, however a look of pure shock appeared on the two sisters.
"You did what with the quantum entanglement projection field?" Kanzashi asked with shock clearly in her voice.
"I used a process similar to the way [Byakushiki]'s shield is able to absorb energy from attacks..." Again Ichika got lost in the conversation. This was noticed by Ani, who grabbed his hand and intertwine her finger with his. This act was noticed by the other girls, but what they took more notice of was the smile forming on Ichika's face. This smile the boy was making was different from any smile they had seen before. It was genuine and full of joy.
"Ichika is head over heels for her. I never had a chance." Tatenashi thought somberly to herself as she was interested in the boy romantically. She even told Ichika her real name, a taboo for anyone outside of her family, so she was gonna make him family, but the game was lost before she even entered.
As if something just hit the lone male IS user, he started scanning the room. This action didn't go unnoticed by the others. Ichika looked towards the area all the girls entered from and entered a cold sweat.
"Ichi, what's wrong with you?" Ani's voice gave out a hint of concern.
"Where's Chifuyu-nee?" It was at that moment Ichika leaped on Ani and got her on the floor. Tatenashi and Kanzashi saw something fly near them. They looked towards the wall and saw a sword sticking out of where Ani was standing.
"ICHI-KA!" Chifuyu roared a she entered the room.
"Oh fuck, we're dead." Ichika stated as he got up and be himself in front of Ani.
"Chifuyu-nee, we can talk this out." Ichika said as he was trying to get Ani to the lab to unjam the ISes. He could flee is he had his IS, but without it, he was fucked.
"Ichika, I know that woman behind you has corrupted you. It's gonna be okay, all I need to get rid of her. So I need you to move." Chiyufu said as she drew another blade. As the young man's mind was starting to race with how he was get out of here, only one option was clear to him. He slowly inched his way towards the embedded sword and drew his blade against his sister.
"Ichika...so you're this corrupted. I will hold nothing back, if we do this."
"I'm not moving. If you want to get to Ani, you'll need to do it over my corpse." Ichika took the Hassou stance. The world to Ichika seemed to fade as he began to focus on Chifuyu. If was she said was true, he was only gonna last about 30 seconds and that was being generous. He infofmed Ani of his idea and with the other trapped, she thought it was the best plan.
When he turned his head to face Ani, Chifuyu leaped towards them. Ichika was able to block the first strike, but he knew that it was a feint. Even so the amount of force in the attack, shocked him.
"Get going!" He roared as he focused on avoiding and blocking any attacks, Chifuyu responded to Ichika's actions, by breaking his guard. Before she could disable him, he rolled and was able to recover his sword. As Ichika took up a another stance, Chifuyu couldn't help but be surprised. She had expected that she was going to finish this scoffle in a matter of seconds, yet he was able to recover. She had underestimated him, her brother. Granted he was nowhere near her.
"Why is he fighting so desperately. I'm trying to help him." Chifuyu was trying to figure out why Ichika was fight back so hard, he was clearly in the wrong and she was just trying to help. He had always been a good boy. He always did what she asked, he never asked for anything, did all the chores.
"Ah, he's interested in girls now. That's why he's not listening to me. He's been seduced by sex. Don't worry Ichika, your dear older sister will take care of you. Whatever you need." Chifuyu's face turned into one that struck pure fear into the heart of Ichika.
"Her eyes are fucking glazed?! Oh fuck she's not well." Ichika thought to himself as he saw his sister. He was being overpowered by her and there was nothing he could do. It was at this time that his defense was broke and he felt immense pain erupting from his stomach. He left the air in his lungs eject itself from within as did the romantic lunch he made earlier.
As he fell on his from the pain, he saw Chifuyu make his way towards the door, but he looked down towards his white bracelet and saw that he could activate it.
Ani stepped out from the lab and saw met with the sight of a wrathful Chifuyu. That same primal fear Ichika felt at first now flowed through the young woman, but it soon vanished when she saw [Byakushiki] in it white glory. Ani rolled away from the former world champion, narrowly avoiding her blade. She ran into Ichika's arms and he flew as fast as the thrusters would take him.
As he flew towards the entrance the girls had used, he saw the white light of outside. He didn't know where he was going to go after this, but that was a bridge they would cross after they escaped. If only fat were so kind. As he exited and saw the ocean, he saw several [Uchigane], but these were the JSDF variant.
"ICHIKA ORIMURA, LAND IMMEDIATELY OR WE WILL SHO- ANI?!" The squadron leader said in her personal IS. Ichika looked at the blonde woman and instantly realized who it was.
"Oh no, It's mama." Ani said as she knew things just got a whole lot messier.
End of chapter.
Author Note:Hey guys, so here's chapter two. To the guest that keeps asking me to update, thank you for your continued interest in these story, but please understand I can't focus on soley writing, I so have a social life and work to do. The chapters will arrive when they are finish, to me this didn't feel complete and I'm not happy with he chapter, but I don;t want to leave you guys hanging. I don't like to do a half-ass chapter. Again I like the premise of this story, but not sure if I will continue it, since I like writing OPERATION BLAZE a lot more. Till next time maybe?