Phantom Fighters

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Musaigen no Phantom World is owned by Soichiro Hatano and Kyoto Animation
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche

First off, many thanks to those who reviewed this fic, I really appreciated it and this gave me inspiration to work on the next chapter and here the current story arc picks up where the last chapter left, in which after two chapters where Togami had recurring nightmares, the plot thickens as he gets kidnapped and the Togami family will slowly get in a situation the moment that the heir went missing, but something will happen that would affect the characters in this story arc, especially Naegi, so read on and enjoy!

Ch. 4: Fantomu Sekkin

Mai and Kurumi glanced at Haruhiko and Ruru talking, and there they happened to saw Naegi walking, as he passed by Haruhiko's group, but then a Phantom suddenly appeared, resembling a centaur-like being where the upper body has a humanoid feature while the lower body resembles that of a spider's body, resembling a black widow. It appeared behind Naegi, and when he turn around, he stared wide-eyed in surprise and realized that it was a Phantom.

Haruhiko saw it and became worried that Naegi is about to be taken, and he and his team raced towards the scene, but the Phantom, identified as the Phantom-Spidus, spits out thick webbings and Haruhiko, Mai and Kurumi were tied up, and they tried to break free but the web's silk was strong, and even Mai is bewildered that she has difficulty in breaking free, and with her arms immobilized, she could not use her techniques, and Haruhiko asks if she could free herself.

"Mai-senpai!"

"Unnff…what…?"

"Can you break free?"

"I'm…trying…!"

"Can you use your techniques?"

"Only if I could free my hands!"

"How much time do you need?"

"Well…"

Mai told Haruhiko that she needs five minutes to break free, and seeing that the Phantom-Spidus used its webbing to snatch Naegi and is heading towards a 16-story mall, Haruhiko tells Kurumi to have his teddy bear stall the Phantom, and Kurumi nodded as she tells her teddy bear, Albrecht, to go after the Phantom, which it grew in size and confronted the Phantom, resulting in a brawl, causing nearby passerby to run away from the scene.

While Albrecht appeared to have the upper hand, the Phantom spits out thick webbings all over the teddy bear's body, immobilizing him, and the Phantom proceeded to go after Naegi, who is slanting against the car, terrified at what he is seeing and wondered if he is going to die.

"No…no way…!"

Fortunately, Kirigiri and Yukizome noticed the commotion and got there in time, where Yukizome said that the Phantom in front of them is the one that got away the other night and told Kirigiri to destroy it before it escapes to kill another victim, which the younger teen girl nodded as she took out what appeared to be a palm-sized card holder and brandishes it in front of the Phantom, saying that she will make sure that the Phantom will not get away this time.

By then, a metallic belt materializes around her waist, and there she inserts the card deck onto the belt by sliding it and an armor materializes around her, which was colored dark navy blue and has an appearance of a European knight while the helmet has a vague design of a bat, and there she took out a rapier and went after the Phantom, cutting the web and freed Naegi, and there she told him to get away from here, much to his bewildered confusion.

"Hurry!"

"Wh-what…?"

"Get up and run!"

"Um…"

"Don't just stand there! Get going!"

"O-okay…"

"Move it!"

"…"

Naegi could only watch as Kirigiri went after the Phantom and the two brawled, and at the same time Haruhiko, Mai and Kurumi were also bewildered at the scene they are seeing, and wondered if Kirigiri also has an ability like them or if she is another secret experiment from the Alayashiki, as they never seen anything like this before, which Haruhiko and Mai are debating over this while trying to break free from the webbings even as Ruru tries to rip off the webbings.

"Mai-senpai…"

"Yeah?"

"Did…you see that…?"

"Yeah…"

"Is she…like us?"

"Don't know…"

"We got to break free…"

"I know…!"

As Team E struggled to get out of their current predicament, the scene shifts at thebattle where the armored girl is fighting the spider phantom, evading the webbings and find an opening where she did a few sword slashes which somewhat reduced the phantom's movements. Naegi could only watch in awe and bafflement as he is bewildered at the turn of events.

As he decided to reach his cellphone to call the police, he picked the card holder by mistake, and brought it out, and though he realized his mistake, he has no idea what would happen next as a metallic belt appeared around his waist, and this bewildered the 15-year old boy, and in his confusion he attempted to remove the belt, but accidentally puts the card holder onto the center of the belt, resulting in being covered by a black-colored, generic-looking armor.

Naegi became more alarmed at what is happening and he has no idea what just occured, and wondered aloud if someone is playing a trick on him as he felt that this PRACTICAL JOKE has gone too far.

"Hey! Is this some kind of a joke?"

Team E stared in surprise as they were taken aback at what they just saw, as Haruhiko, Mai, and Kurumi could not believe what they just saw, but Haruhiko told Mai to try breaking free, which she is struggling to do so, as she wanted to get out of the webbing and take the phantom down before it claim another innocent victim like last time.

"Mai-senpai!"

"I know!"

"Try to break free!"

"I'm working on it!"

"We go to get out of here!"

"You don't have to tell me twice!"

"Give it all you got!"

"Geez...!"

Back at the battle scene, the armored girl was having some difficulty in restraining the phantom Spidus, and did a SPELL which summoned a phantom of her own, which appeared to be a rather large bat, which looked bio-mechanical in nature, and she commanded the phantom to provide her a weapon. The phantom bat screeched and its body glowed, as it dropped a huge lance-like weapon and the armored girl caught it, and began go after Spidus and attacked it.

The armored Naegi could only watch as he felt compelled to do something about it, and as he looked around, he saw a sword sheathe, which he picked it up, and upon inspecting it, revealed to be a katana, and he decided to go help out and charged towards Spidus and did a sword strike, hitting the phantom's hide as he hoped that this would be enough to kill it.

Unfortunately, Spidus' hide was so thick that the katana's blade broke in two, surprising Naegi and the phantom used its spider legs to kick Naegi out of the way, and the armored Kirigiri told him to stay out of the way and make a run for it, stating that he is no match for that phantom, which he could only moan in reply after being dazed by the phantom's attack.

"Hey!"

"Ow..."

"Don't get in the way!"

"Uh..."

"You'll only get yourself killed!"

"Ouch...my back..."

"Just take a hike and get going!"

"..."

The armored knight then commanded her phantom to attack Spidus, which the bat phantom did, as it dashed towards the spider phantom and struck it down. By then the armored knight ran towards Spidus, in which the bat phantom ran towards the armored knight, then attached itself onto the knight's back, its wings turned into a cloak that flapped behind.

Haruhiko, Mai and Kurumi stared in surprise as they never seen anything like this, but he told Mai to try breaking free as they need to know what is going on here, which she said she is almost free from the webbings as she is just moments away from freeing herself.

"Can you...?"

"I'm almost free...!"

"Hurry!"

"I am...!"

"..."

"Okay...just a little more..."

"Mai-senpai..."

"Almost there...!"

The scene shifts back at battle where the armored knight ran towards Spidus, but as she is nearing the target she jumped up very high, and once reached the desired distance she dropped down, where she aimed the lance's tip downward, and the cloak wrapped around her body, taking the form of a drill and speared towards the target in great speed.

As Mai broke free, she began using her technique to free Haruhiko and Kurumi, and once the two are freed from the webbing, they turn around where they saw the DRILL-LIKE SPEAR hitting the target, and Spidus EXPLODED upon being struck, and the impact sends the three Team E members back, but Mai managed to hold on and maintain her stance while Haruhiko uses his body to cushion Kurumi's fall. There Mai asks her friends if they are okay, which Haruhiko told Mai that he and Kurumi are okay.

"Haruhiko...!"

"We're fine!"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah!"

"Kurumi...is she...?"

"She's okay! She's not hurt!"

"Are you sure?"

"Don't worry!"

As the three Team E members got up, they glanced at the scene where the smoke slowly cleared, and you can see the armored knight standing there while Spidus appeared to have been obliterated, and Haruhiko could only stare in shock and awe, as he never seen anyone defeating a phantom with such effort, and he is wondering if she is also a phantom hunter from another school or is a government agent like Koito.

At this point Koito arrived at the scene, and witnessed the battle, which also made her curious and glanced at both the two armored figures who only stood there, and she approached Haruhiko asking him what just occurred here, and he told her what he knows, and she became suspicious towards the two entrants in armor. She is wondering if the two teens in armor are a product of experiments by Alayashiki or if someone stole data and used it for personal gains, which Haruhiko said it is unlikely given that they fought the phantom that is about to attack a nearby city, but she is not thoroughly convinced and said the two entrants need to explain themselves.

"That does not give enough merit."

"Koito-san..."

"Those two...they need to explain themselves."

"Eh? You didn't have to be that..."

"We don't even know if they can be trusted...how did they get those armors? How is that girl able to summon a phantom like that? It even merged with that person..."

"Why don't we ask them nicely? Maybe they're good guys..."

"That would depend on the outcome..."

"..."

Amid all this, the armored Naegi approached the armored Kirigiri, and asks her what just happened here and why is that phantom after him as well as why he is suddenly wearing an armor. He really wants to know why, but he was rebuked and told to forget what just happened, which did not sit well with him and insisted in wanting to know why, yet she kept on rebuking him.

"Forget what you saw and leave."

"Eh?"

"You heard me."

"But..."

"Go home."

"Not until you tell me what just happened!"

"This is not your problem."

"For me it is!"

However, Ruru shrieked as she told Team E that she sensed a strong phantom which Haruhiko asks if she is sure about this, which she nodded in a nervous way, and Koito asks Ruru if she can sense which direction the phantom is heading, in which she pointed at the sky, and she asks Ruru if this phantom is really strong, which Ruru said that it is.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

"Is it very strong?"

"Very strong!"

"Is it nearby?"

"Yeah! I can sense it coming!"

"Where?"

"Um...eeek!"

Then all of the sudden, a phantom appeared, and it was quite huge, which visually appeared to be bio-mechanical, and resembled a Japanese dragon. Haruhiko stared in surprise as he never thought that he would see such a massive-sized phantom, and Mai braces herself in case they need to fight that dragon-like phantom.

The new phantom then roared before spitting out a very hot fire breath, which Team E narrowly evaded, but in the process it melted three parked cars, and the dragon-phantom turn its attention towards the armored Kirigiri and Naegi, in which Kirigiri sensed that they are in an open area with little to no means to seek shelter, and told Naegi to run as she state that they are at a disadvantage right now.

"Damn!"

"Uh..."

"Run!"

"What?"

"You want to stay alive? Run for it! Unless you want to get melted and become fried fleshling food for that phantom!"

"Ehhh?"

"It's your choice!"

"Oh man!"

Indeed, as the dragon-phantom began to hover and went towards the two targets and sputs out a huge fireball, hitting the nearby cars as the two armored teens make a run for it, but the phantom spits out another huge fireball, and it struck a parked gas truck, which exploded, and the impact semt the two armored teens away as the shockwave sent them hurling to unspecified areas.

To Be Continued...

Hope you liked this chapter, as the phantom Spidus appeared to be tsaken cared of, but a new problem came as a massive phantom in the form of a huge Japanese dragon appeared, and is HUNGRY for food, which Team E, and the two teens in armor are on the phantom's menu…

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The next chapter continues as Team E tries to fight off the massive phantom, but what will happen to the other two teens…?

See you in 3 to 4 weeks…