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.
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Recollections of a Tekkaman
By Brandon Atkinson
Chapter 5 - To The Death: Shrapnel vs Shard
Sparks showered the ground as blades clashed, Shard with his crystal sword and Shrapnel with his ice lance. They grappled, then jumped back, and charged again and repeated for a bit. Shard jumped away again, but this time he blasted off into the air in a streak of light. Shrapnel did the same. They began to attack eachother in mid-air, both streaks of light moving in tight arcs and conecting with one another in a sortof figure-eight pattern.
Shadow watched the battle while trying to heal IceBlade who was suffering from injuries recieved during his battle with Shrapnel's goons and in battle with Shrapnel himself. Shadow worked as hard as he could casting healing spell after healing spell, trying to save the brave warrior, but to no avail, IceBlade's body refused to respond to the spell's effects. IceBlade was dying. Despite this, Shadow continued his efforts. He refused to let this brave warrior perish. He then felt several prescences near him. Shadow looked up and standing before him were several Teknomen. One of the Teknomen, silver-grey in color, spoke to him.
"You need some help Shadow?" He asked.
"Yeah." Replied Shadow.
"Well then, lets get to work." He said.
The Teknoman called over the rest of the group and they got to work on IceBlade.
Meanwhile up above, the battle raged on. Shrapnel tried to stab Shard with the end of his lance, and missed. Shard then threw a punch at Shrapnel's face, it connected and Shrapnel was sent reeling back a fair distance.
Shrapnel regained his composure and chanted something.
"I summon the tiny spirits of invisibility. Let my form become your form..."
He quickly faded from view, and moved closely behind Shard. He reappeared and clasped his hands together to form a ball and raised them high above his head. He then smashed it into the back of Shard's head.
"WHA-!" Shard exclaimed.
*SMASH!*
The massive force of the blow sent Shard smashing into the ground causing another small smoke billowing crater.
"ARGH Shit! I forgot he could do that." Shard thought as he hit the ground.
When the smoke cleared, Shrapnel was hovering in the air, looking down at his foe.
All that was visible of Shard was part of his torso, head, and his left arm. The rest of him was stuck in the ground.
"Well well well. It seems that you've lost Shard. I will destroy you like I did all the others who have fought against me... and lost. Heh heh heh." Shrapnel said
He then charged up his Voltekker, and fired it at Shard.
"I don't think so pal." Shard thought.
Shard cast a protection spell and braced himself for the onslaught of enrgy. The blast hit and fully engulfed him. After a few seconds of withstanding the torrent of energy, the spell was beginning to disperse, it was then that Shard made his move.
Shard blasted up out of the sphere of energy and smashed his fist into Shrapnel's face, sending him flying. Shard then went on the offensive and hit the Dark Warrior before he hit the ground. He started to unload upon Shrapnel, putting all his rage and anger into his attacks, making them even more powerful. Shrapnel couldn't even get time to gather enough strength to defend himself against his fully enraged enemy. Shard ended his attack with another uppercut, which sent Shrapnel soaring through the air and hitting the ground hard 50 meters away.
***
Meanwhile, the Teknomen had managed to stabilize IceBlade, and had now gone to work on his injuries. While they did this, Shadow allowed himself a glance at the battle nearby.
"You GO Shard! Kick his ass!" he thought. His thought was interrupted as his attention was turned elsewhere.
"Hey Shadow, can you give me some help with this chest wound?" One of the female teknomen asked.
Shadow then got back to work.
***
Shrapnel struggled to get up off of the ground. His armor was riddled with cracks.
"Shard! You will pay dearly for this, I swear it!" Shrapnel stated angrily.
Shrapnel then began to gather energy in his hands.
"This is my strongest spell attack, I hope you find it excruciatingly painful heh heh heh." Shrapnel thought evilly.
When he had gathered all the energy he could, he shot it toward his enemy. Shard saw it comming and braced himself, his shoulder pods opened up and the 4 discs in each pod began to glow a dull green. Shrapnel's spell attack fizzled out as it's energy was absorbed by these discs.
"What?!" Shrapnel exclaimed.
Now Shard began to gather energy of his own, combining it with Shrapnel's energy, the discs in his shoulder pods changed color from the dull green to a blazing white. He then quickly chanted an attack spell, combining its destructive energy with that of what he had already gathered. Shard then released all this energy as one huge blast!
"TAKE THIS! ULTRA VOLTEKKA!" Shard shouted.
Upon hearing him yell that attackname, everyone, even IceBlade who had just now regained consiousness, quickly turned to look as Shard unleashed the amount of built up energy toward his enemy. The huge ball of pulsating energy came at Shrapnel so quickly that he couldn't even dodge it. It slammed into him like a butterfly getting hit by a mack truck!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...!" Shrapnel screamed as the massive blast of energy smashed into him.
*K-A-B-O-O-M-!*
The mushroom cloud-like explosion was so huge that everyone in the area was momentarily blinded from the intense light it caused. When everyone regained their sight, they noticed that it was expanding - right towards them!
"Holy Shit!" Everyone but Shard thought at the sametime.
Shard saw this and quickly made some motions with his hands, said a short chant and all the Teknomen dissappeared. Shard then did the same for himself, only milliseconds before the ground on which he had been standing was destroyed by the expanding cloud of doom.
***
Inside the cave, the air shimmered slightly as 9 Teknomen and right behind them, 1 Tekkaman suddenly appeared.
"What the fuck happened?!?" The silver-grey Teknoman exclaimed.
Before Shard could answer, a weak voice said:
"It was a teleportation spell."
Everyone turned towards where IceBlade, now in human form, lay.
"Blaze was going to teach it to me one day." He said, then broke into a coughing fit.
Shard turned towards the entrance. The light of the explosion had died down.
"I'm going back to look around." He stated. "Shadow, you're with me."
"Right." He responded.
They then left the cave. The others got back to tending to IceBlade's injuries.
***
Smoke was still billowing out of the huge crater left by the Ultra Voltekka, as Shard and Shadow flew into the area.
They landed to examine the crater's edge.
Shadow whistled as he surveyed the damage. "I think you over did it a bit." He commented.
"It was the only way. He had to be stopped or he would have killed us all." Shard responded.
Shard looked down into the crater. He noted it went pretty deep.
"Stay here and keep an eye out for anything, I'm going in." Shard said to Shadow.
"Okay, be careful Shard." Shadow said.
Shard activated his thrusters, and began to descend into the depths...searching for any sign of Shrapnel.
When Shard reached the bottom, he still hadn't found anything except scorched earth. He looked up at the top, he guessed that he was about 800 feet below ground.
Shard did a search of the bottom but still didnt find anything. Then he flew back out of the crater and then he and Shadow returned to the cave to report their results.
***
Shortly after Shard and Shadow left the area, down in the bottom of the crater, the ground was disturbed as something broke through from underneath the surface. It was a hand. It looked a bit scorched, and it was twitching slightly.
The end
Author's Comment:
WHY WONT THIS GUY JUST DIE!?!
The answer is, I'm not finished with him yet. :-)
Some Background info of how this story came to be, and plans for future works:
The reason why i had originally started writing this story in the first place (Jan 1999) was because a couple of friends wanted me to do a story, since they were doing some also. I had decided that i would try my hand at writing a Teknoman/Tekkaman fanfic. After 1 total plot rewrite and a few revisions, this version of the story is the result. It took me 1 year to get it to the state where I was satisfied with it and thought it was suitable for others to read. I will be writing a few more stories about Tekkaman Shard. Look for The Evil Tekkaman Shrapnel to return in the 3rd story titled "The Return."
What I hope to write next is a crossover with The Guyver, which the events in it will shortly follow the events in this story. I will be assuming that the events that take place in Guyver episodes 7-12 don't happen, because I have yet to see those episodes (I will someday :-). The story will be titled "The Hunt."
Special Thanks go to:
UPN & Fox 29 WUTV Buffalo - For showing Teknoman in the first place (then taking it off so quickly, but I won't go into that right now....).
Urban Vision - For translating and releasing Tekkaman-Blade 2.
Teknos Warhammer - If I hadn't read your fic's first I would have never even formed any ideas for my own fic.
Leizel Ann - For giving me some advice early on about how to write one of these things... and for posting the fic on your site.
Tyara Chao - For helping me with Shard's description (The drawing you did helped alot. Thanks ^_^)
Tekno - For helping me with Blaze's death scene and some of the fight scenes
Guyver C - For helping with the other character descriptions
Carter P. (IceBlade), Matt D. (The Gemmaknight) - For being the first one's to ever read this story, helping with ideas when I ran out and for pointing out any errors that I had made.
And last but not least, The readers for taking the time to read this story to the end.
Anyway, that's enough of my rambling....
Oh yeah, before I go, I ask you to please email me at autobot_city@hotmail.com with your opinions of what you thought of this chapter, and of the whole story sofar...also any ideas for future Teknofics are greatly welcomed as well. Thanks.
Until next time, TEKNOPOWER!
