"The Awakening"
Written by: Chief Aki
E-mail: chiefaki@hotmail.com

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Disclaimer: All respectful characters belong to their creators. All other characters are the sole property of me and may not be used without my permission. No money is being made here.

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Part IV: Shattered

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It's been weeks since the battle at the Command Center. Weeks of worrying for Ness. He didn't know where to start looking. The people that had abducted Star and the others have left no traces. He feels utterly useless.

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Somewhere on the other side of the planet, two familiar figures are practicing combat with each other. One is a red head, the other blonde. The blonde girl seems a bit younger than the red-haired girl but she is much better in combat.
"All right, Natasha, Yumi, that's enough," says a man's voice.
Natasha and Yumi stop to look at the blonde man who had kidnapped them weeks before. He is known as Mr. Young. They don't know his first name and he hasn't cared to share it with them. He's a strong soldier. And like them, he is a child of an Amazon sorceress; there had been five sorceresses previously. They both remember when they entered the city, the Amazon capitol, Sirene City. At first, it had seemed that they were in the middle of nowhere, then the air seemed distorted for a moment and a huge technological city appeared before them, yet very in tune with nature, indicated by the various gardens and trees and plant life throughout the city. They found out later that they city had been cloaked over by a shield. The five guardian statues stand at the doorway to the city as if protecting it from harm. The five statues of the last generation of sorceresses, the greatest ones to ever live since the beginning of the nation itself. In the middle of the city, there is a giant statue of the first queen of the new Amazon nation, Medea. She looks like a great warrior. The palace seemed to rest more in the mountain than on it. Various terraces cascade down the mountain to the city below. It seems like a hidden paradise.
They had walked into the palace and it was huge. It was there; they saw the picture of the last generation of Amazon sorceresses. Jocasta Leonhart had been a beautiful blue-eyed woman with long black hair; she had been the Amazon queen and was the descendent of the first queen, Medea. Fiala Young was a woman with blue eyes and shoulder-length blonde hair. They learned she was the half-sister of Commander Jamieson and Mr. Young was her son. Jacobi Highwind was a blue-eyed blonde who wore her hair up in a braided ponytail. Her younger sister Ottavia Francois, a blonde woman with hair that fell a bit past her shoulder, except for her hair in the back, up in pigtails, with crystal-clear blue-green eyes which makes Yumi a nearly exact copy of her mother. Natasha looks like her mother, Takara; both have the blue eyes and long hair, but Takara wore her hair in a half-ponytail with a blue bow, the back flowing freely in the wind (as seen from the picture) two tendrils on either side of her face.
Ottavia had been killed in the attack ten years ago, when Blade had saved Yumi's life. Takara and the others had more tragic deaths. Natasha had been ashamed of it, but she admits why her and her father never get along. He never thought she was there, but she had been hiding. Her father murdered her own mother before her eyes. Why? For reasons she does not know to this day. He has gotten away with that and so many other things. She remembers very clearly what happened that day.

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Takara, seven months pregnant, was sitting in a rocking chair with her young daughter, who looked like a miniature copy of herself, a young Natasha. The young girl put her hand on her mother's stomach, feeling the younger sibling inside her mother kick. Suddenly, outside of the room, they hear voices; Takara got a scared look on her face.
"He knows," Takara said softly as she picked up Natasha and rushed over to the closet.
"What's going on mommy?" a young Natasha asked.
"Shhh…everything will be fine baby," she said to Natasha as she opened up the closet and felt along the back wall. Out of nowhere a passageway was revealed, small enough for a tiny person to fit through. If Takara wasn't pregnant, she could have fit through easily and could have escaped with Natasha, but it was too late for anything now. She had to save Natasha. She knelt down taking off her amulet, and put it on Natasha. The girl looked at it with awe. That was the amulet, the amulet that had been passed down through generations in Takara's family. It was the mark of an Amazon sorceress, on of Siren's children. She looked down the passageway in which her daughter had to climb through; if Adonis caught Natasha here…
"Natasha, go through the passageway, don't come back you hear me…stay away from this room," Takara said to her daughter.
"But…why Mommy…I…" Natasha said hesitating, not wanting to leave her mother.
"Go on baby, I love you…" Takara said softly, kissing her daughter on the forehead. She knew this would be the last time she would see her dear child.
Natasha nodded and hugged her mother, "Bye, Mommy."
"Bye, my little Tasha," Takara said, hugging her close.
Natasha reluctantly got into the corridor and started crawling down it. Takara closed it behind her, and thanked herself that she had it secretly installed it behind Adonis' back. She walked out of the closet, and closed the door behind her, awaiting her prevailing destiny. As Natasha continued crawling down the corridor, she could hear voices, angry voices-one specifically her father's.
"Well, Takara, I never knew you were such a traitor. I trusted you," Pablochiva said, a nonchalant tone in his voice.
"Traitor!?" Takara answered, her voice raised in protest, "Of all people, you calling me a traitor after what you've done to me and Natasha! You betrayed us, Adonis, don't you ever…ever call me a traitor! You deceived me, Adonis. How could you say you loved me when…"
"Shut up, Takara," Adonis interrupted, "Where's Natasha?"
"I don't know, I haven't seen here," Takara lied.
"Good," he said flatly.
"Good??" she asked suspiciously, Takara didn't like how he had said that, she was afraid of what might happen to her daughter, "What are you going to do to Natasha? If you even…"
"I won't do anything to her, yet…" Adonis replied, a bit of malice in his voice; Natasha, who heard it down the corridor, froze at her father's words, "…unless I have to."
"You wouldn't…" Takara said horrified, "You monster! How can you not care about your own children!"
"Child," Adonis said, knowing she was thinking about the child inside, "Takara, child. Don't worry. I'll learn to love Natasha as she will learn to love me, if she obeys."
"You bastard!" Takara yelled, hatred evident in her voice, "You'll never get away with this."
"Oh," Adonis said evilly, "but I already have."
Natasha's whole body froze up as she heard bullets rip through the air, followed by her mother's scream. Seconds later, a large thump was heard, as her mother's body hit the floor. She sat there, and clutched her mother's amulet tightly, tears flowing from her eyes.
"Goodbye Mommy. Goodbye Natesa," Natasha whispered softly, "I'll love you both always."
She continued crawling out the corridor and ran away from that awful place for awhile, hiding in her own little spot. Later, somebody was sent to search for her and brought her back. She looked at her father's face as he tried to appear sad.
"Natasha, I'm sorry, I have something awful to tell you," he said, playing the part of the heartbroken man, "Your mother's dead. We believe that someone was out for me and got her instead."
Hearing the lame excuse her father had given her for her mother's death, Natasha cried out once more. She wanted to yell at him, scream at him, ask how could he do that to her. But she couldn't. Hearing the words he had said to her mother made her think better. She would obey him for the time being so she could live, like her mother had wanted her to. The day would come when he would pay for what he did to them all.
Natasha cried the whole night. Not only for her mother, but also for the loss of an illusion she had for her father and the lost life of an innocent, her own sister. She cried for the loss of her own innocent childhood, that had know nothing of pain, and for herself, and for the living hell she would endure for the next eleven years.

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Natasha closes her eyes, remembering it very clearly. She has learned that he had not only killed her mother, but he had also managed to kill Fiala, Jacobi, and Jocasta. After Jocasta's death, the only heir to the throne, Andrea, was just three years old. So until the time was right for Andrea to rule, Jacobi's daughter took over as the queen. In the end, Andrea and her older brother Adam both had been murdered as well. The only survivor of the Leonhart family is the eldest son. Until he settles down and has a family, and more preferably a daughter, Jacobi's daughter still acts as the Queen of the Amazons. Since Yumi is her cousin, Yumi is now the Amazon Princess. Fiala also had a daughter, Clio, but she was killed off by the military. Everyone says this is the reason for Mr. Young's coldness.
"Natasha?" Yumi asks, looking at her friend, "Are you all right?"
Natasha opens her eyes, interrupted in her thought by Yumi's voice.
"Yes, I'm fine Yumi," Natasha replies to her softly.
"Princess Yumi, come with me. The Queen wishes to see you," Mr. Young says, interrupting them both, looking at the younger woman with his blue eyes.
Yumi nods, then looks at Natasha, before she follows him to see her cousin.

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Back at the Command Center, D-boy is sitting as his desk, rubbing his temples. He feels frustrated, and angry with himself. He hasn't slept much in the past weeks and hasn't come one step closer to finding her. Every trail they follow leads to a dead end.
"What am I missing?" he asks himself out loud.
"Sleep, it looks like," D-boy raises his head to see that Mac is standing there.
"Yeah, but I won't be able to sleep until I have her with me and I know that she's safe-until I can actually hold her with my own arms," D-boy answers looking at Mac, "I try and all I do is toss and turn or have a restless sleep. I've failed her, haven't I?"
"You haven't failed her, D-boy. How were you supposed to know this was going to happen?" Mac asks him.
"But…still…" D-boy says quietly, "I should have never left her side, then she'd be here with me. Without her, I don't know what to do Mac. I feel so lost."
Mac lays his hand on D-boy's shoulder, "Hang on, lad. We'll find her."

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"At last, we've found her," says a young blonde woman with blue eyes.
She slowly walks up to a giant status tube filled with a green liquid. Inside the tube is something that looks somewhat human. A young woman is sleeping inside of it. A woman forever changed. Her forearms are a bluish color; her fingers are long and now look like claws. She has five slender tails that when close together almost look like one, each end razor sharp. Her body is a bit grayish in color. She has pitch-black angel wings and long blonde hair. On the top of the tube in bold lettering is GENESIS ANGEL. She is sleeping inside, dreaming of memories of long ago. The reports officially state that she died ten years ago in a Radam attack, only to be rebuilt as a killing machine. Half-human, half-Radam, she is the symbol of a twisted experiment that Pablochiva created then locked away so many years ago-a symbol of fear. The woman smiles as suddenly the glass cracks and the liquid starts to leak out. She narrows her eyes and concentrates looking at the glass. Suddenly the glass tube shatters, spreading its contents all over the floor. The woman watches as Genesis Angel starts to wake up. Genesis starts to slowly pull herself off the floor. She then senses the woman and looks over at her, revealing her blue-green eyes.
"Don't worry, I'm a friend," the woman says.
"Who are you? And what do you want?" Genesis Angel asks.
"I'm Concordia, a Radam sorceress," she answers, even though it is partly true, she is not a Radam but human. She has served under Golbez's control for many years though, and he's controlling the Radam.
"Concordia…" Genesis Angel says slowly.
"Well, you have two choices. You can have Pablochiva put you back in that thing or you can come with us, and join us…to destroy them all.
Genesis Angel smiles, "I shall go with you."
She wants no better chance to destroy them all…destroy those who would dare oppose her and the Radam. After all, she is a Radam now, even though she's retained some human traits.
"They are fools, those humans, and now they will all pay," she thinks to herself, "Through selection the choice was made, the conception led to my evolution and now I will have liberation. I am Umi Francois no longer, I am Genesis Angel."
Concordia starts walking away, "Come, we must now go to my master, he awaits."
Genesis Angel slowly follows, already know who her master is, he has been with her the whole time during her sleep, and she will obey only him. Angel smiles to herself, for now there is going to be hell to pay for Pablochiva and the rest of humanity's mistake.

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Back at Sirene City, the alarms go off and are followed by an explosion somewhere in the city. Yumi and Natasha run outside of the palace to see what it is.
"What's going on?" asks Yumi, surveying the scene.
"A single Radam sorceress has entered the city along with a few military soldiers. Take her out," Mr. Young replies.
"Military soldiers? What are military soldiers doing with a Radam sorceress?" Natasha asks, looking at him.
"It only means one thing," Mr. Young replies calmly. "The military has joined forces with the Radam."
"If that's true…they've sold out Earth!" Yumi cries out, not believing what she is hearing, that a human being on this planet betrayed them to the Radam.
Natasha clenches her fist. She knows her father is sick and twisted, but she never thought he would stoop that low. She first joined the Space Knights to correct her father's mistakes, and even if she is not with them any longer, she still has to do that. If it means going against the military to do that, and even going as far as killing her own father, she will, if it means she can save Earth and the rest of humanity. Natasha looks in the direction of the battle quickly forming between the military and the Amazon troops.
She clenches her fist tighter in anger, "Let's go."
Yumi looks at her and nods, and they both take off, their speed incredible. They can now jump from the roofs of building to building in seconds flat. Since the discovery of their powers, originally entrusted to their ancestors by Siren herself, they've become stronger and faster than they ever imagined in their human forms.
"We're closing in…" Natasha says to Yumi, looking straight ahead and eyeing the battle.
"Right," Yumi answers, "There she is."
There the sorceress stood, a tall blue-eyed woman with orange hair. She is smiling evilly as she watches the battle on the streets below from a rooftop.
"I'm going on ahead-start burning the city," she orders.
"Yes, Sorceress Atalanta!" the military soldiers answer as they continue their attack.
"Firebolt!"
Atalanta turns as she hears Natasha's scream and dodges a giant ball of fire. She looks up at her two opponents coming straight at her.
"Damn! I missed…guess I'll try again!" Natasha states as she looks at Atalanta.
"Give me your best shot, little girl," Atalanta says smugly.
Natasha jumps up into the air, and the winds pick up as she spins around. When she raises her arms in the air, the wind spins around in a circle in front of her, becoming more visible as it picks up dust, "Windblade!"
The wind charges at Atalanta becoming a whirlwind. Atalanta crosses her arms, and looks straight at the whirlwind.
"Barrier Circle!" Atalanta yells.
"The shield blocks Natasha's attack and the whirlwind disappears.
Atalanta smirks, "Nice try. Now take this! Ice spear!"
A giant shard of ice hurtles as Natasha and Yumi, who barely get out of its way. They watch as it impales a nearby building.
"That was too close," Yumi says.
"Thunderbolt!" Natasha screams as a single bolt of lightning comes crashing down. Atalanta jumps out of the way.
Yumi stands up and closes her eyes, "Tetanus Wind!"
A vacuum shock wave goes flying at Atalanta and lands a direct hit, causing her to fly backwards. She growls as she gets up.
"Oh…you're going to pay for that! Ice Blade!" She screams as spears of ice come flying by her.
Yumi and Natasha try their best to dodge them but can't dodge them all; Yumi gets cut on her arm. A javelin of ice impales Natasha in her shoulder, and she lets out a scream of pain.
"Natasha!" Yumi cries as she runs to her side, and helps her pull the shard out.
"I'm fine…Heal," Natasha assures, casting a spell on herself, to heal the wound.
"Cure Light," Yumi says, aiding her in her healing.
"Arrow of Fire!" Atalanta yells, wasting now time, streams of fire head towards Yumi and Natasha,
They both look up at the incoming fire streams, knowing they won't be able to move in time.
"Barrier Circle."
Yumi and Natasha look away as the streams of fire nearly reach them, only to be diverted to the side by an invisible shield. The fire disappears. Atalanta, Yumi and Natasha look up in the direction of where the voice came from.
"Mister Young!" Yumi cries out, extremely happy.
He has stood there, watching the battle, seeing how Natasha and Yumi's attacks weren't working on her. He knows he has to take care of Atalanta himself.
"Lunar Light," he says calmly, raising a hand in the air, as streams of light comes winding down, and Atalanta screams as the attack hits her. After the spell is finished, Atalanta lays on the ground bleeding all over, looking extremely trashed. They watch as she slowly struggles to get up and looks at them all.
"This battle is far from over," she says disappearing.

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"Ugh, I knew he was wrong for sending Atalanta there to do the job, she never gets the job done right. She was to severely beat them not get severely beaten," says a young woman with dark eyes and long black hair.
"Easy, my lady, that is the plan to an extent. At least she drew them out," a young man says appearing from the shadows of the forest, looking at her back with his emerald eyes, his black hair blowing in the breeze.
"Ahh, Cain, is everything set?" she says looking at him.
Cain nods looking into her dark eyes. He is Cain Carter, Tekkaman Saber, nearly killed by his own twin brother. Until she came, out of the darkness, his nearly lifeless body just lying there, he had heard her in his mind.
"Do you wish to live."
"Yes."
"What do you wish for other than to live?"
"To have my revenge. To finish what I started. I wish to destroy."
"If I let you live, will you join me?"
"Are you a Radam?"
"Maybe, maybe not, answer the question."
"I'm not sure. How can you help me?"
"We can help each other. We both want the same thing. You want the same thing I do and more."
"More…"
"Join me, and we'll destroy them all. And you will have a place beside us. Cain Carter, Tekkaman Saber."
Cain for some reason felt a kinship with the voice. He did join their side willingly, and they nursed him back to health. Ten years have passed since that battle, and only now he is ready to return to Earth. Five of those years were spent recovering, three were spent retraining, one was spent to prepare for this moment and the last one to reach this star system he despised so much. When he met the woman who saved his life, he figured she was the one in charge, but she actually followed in the shadow of her mother and father. The others thought of her as a mindless heir, while her big-mouthed little sister Hera seemed to show intelligence.
But Cain learned different, she isn't mindless, she is brilliant. She keeps to the shadows, observing her "prey", plotting out things in her head, keeping as silent as death. She is very powerful, not only as a warrior, but as a sorceress too. He was even more surprised when he found out that she was a tekkaman, along with her sister. She is the more powerful of the two, and although Hera loves to flaunt her abilities, she does not. Hera has a hard time defeating her enemies since her enemies know what she is going to do, so she has to constantly be on her toes. Her older sister is more conservative; she only lets the abilities that needs to be shown be shown-the most simple attack, more powerful than ever imagines. Graceful, swift, and deadly, she always brings a quick death to her enemies effortlessly before slipping back into the shadows, as if she were never there. She seems powerless at a brief glance but anyone who is with her a while knows better. Cain is awestruck by her, by the power she's shown in battle, her intelligence, and more recently her beauty.
When he first met her, he noted how beautiful she was, but wasn't interested so much at first. Intrigued yes, but interested no. The more he got to know her, however, the more beautiful she became to him. Now all he can think about is her; he wants to be with her at all times and is extremely pleased when he can keep her company. He keeps telling himself that he is evil, that there is no such thing as love in his life. Later on, however, he can't deny the impossible. After all, she is like his other half; he admired her so much. "Yes, it's true though strange," Cain had thought to himself one day, "Tekkaman Saber is in love."
"Everything is going pretty much as we've planned, Lady Ariadne," Cain replies to her.
"Good. Then the last of those crystals are set up to make the field?" Ariadne asks him.
"Yes, all we need is the bait for those two to go in," Cain says smiling at her.
"Let me be the bait!" says a woman's voice, sounding a bit childish.
Cain grits his teeth; he recognizes the voice instantly, the voice of a girl that annoys him to hell. Hera appears in front of them both.
"Sis, let me do the pleasure of shattering them all," Hera says smiling.
"Fine, just don't screw it up," Ariadne says looking at her younger sister.
She has come too far; she has finally been the one to carry out one of her father's plans…important plans…her father wanted Earth. It is the most important thing her father wants, Earth and the Crystals. To have Hera screw up now…but she has no choice but to trust her. But the danger of one of them getting caught up in the field is great. She rather have her own sister get caught than Cain. She doesn't know why, but she doesn't want him to get hurt.
"All right!" Hera says, taking out her tekka crystal, "Tekk Setter!"
Hera transforms into her tekkaman form, Tekkaman Ashura, and flies off to grab some attention.

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In Sirene City, Natasha and Yumi's tekka signs flash. There is a tekkaman in the vicinity.
"There's a tekkaman coming straight at us!" Yumi cries, searching the sky for it.
"Well, what are we waiting for!?" Natasha yells, her tekka crystal forming in her hand.
"Tekk Setter!"
Two green streaks of light take off from the city. Vesna and Hiver search for the tekkaman who is coming to meet them. They both swerve as a red streak of light flies between, then curves around to face them. A light suddenly shines as Tekkaman Ashura appears in front of them.
"Well, well," Ashura says, "What do we have here? Two lame excuses for a tekkaman or what?"
"A lame excuse huh?" Vesna retorts, "I'll show you what this little poor excuse for a tekkaman can do!"
"Well come on then little girl," Ashura snaps back, flying off with Hiver and Vesna in tow.
"Just a little bit more," Ariadne thinks, watching them from afar as Ashura lead the two towards the little surprise they have in store.
"Will this work, my lady?" Cain asks Ariadne.
"It has to, these are the last of those crystals," Ariadne says in a rather calm tone, "We lost the rest when we used them on Blade ten years ago, and there is no way to make any more."
Ashura looks down as she leads Hiver and Vesna away from Sirene City. She notices that she's within the field of crystals; now all she has to do is get out before the crystals activate.
"Start the activation sequence for the crystals," Ariadne orders.
Hiver stops, seeing a slight glow from the ground below, "What's that?"
Vesna doesn't notice but keeps on pursuing Ashura, who suddenly turns around, her voltekker emitters coming forth.
"Voltekker!" she shouts, sending the ruby colored energy as Vesna, before turning around speeding away from her. Vesna barely dodges it, then resumes the chase, and then stops as Ashura whirls around to face her, a considerable distance between them.
Hiver sees the crystals emit a radiating pulse of light, "What's going on?"
"Now!" yells Ariadne.
The crystals glow bright and Vesna finally notices them, "What the hell…?"
Suddenly a pulse of light is emitted by the crystals and starts to bind themselves to Vesna and Hiver, creating a pathway between the two. They start screaming immensely as their armor glows. Both of them crash into the ground below, the light still bound to them. Appearing as lightning between them and the crystals, it spreads throughout their armor, making it impossible for them to move.
"What's…what's happening?" Hiver screams. She feels like she's being constricted by her own armor.
Ashura hovers in the sky, watching the two tekkamen writhing in pain on the ground, screaming in agony; she sees red lines along their armor, "They're beginning to crack."
"My body!! My body feels like it's coming apart!" Vesna utters through her horrific screams. Her armor looks like it's about to shatter into a million pieces.
Cain watches silently by Ariadne's side, smiling to himself. Ariadne watches Vesna and Hiver intensely as if their suffering feeds and empowers her.
"Just a little while longer," she says so softly that only Cain can hear her.
Mr. Young watches from a distance, his eyes wide, not knowing what to do-unable to do anything. Vesna and Hiver's crystals appear as huge cracks deck their armor. Ashura laughs evilly as she watches how much pain they are enduring, yet she is impressed by how long they are holding on. She watches as their armor continues to crack, and then their crystals glow violently before shattering into pieces; their armor splintering from them only moments later. They lay unconscious, their bodies shuddering in the aftermath of what has happened to them. Ashura continues to laugh, her black, blue and red armor glistening in the light of the setting sun. Ariadne smiles to herself, knowing her father will be pleased. Cain watches the sunset, wondering how long it will be to he has his own special reunion.
"Now, to finish them off," Ashura says as she whips out her sword, preparing to finish the job.
Ashura flies towards them only to encounter numerous shots of sparkling Zitron energy from the Amazon sol tekkas. She makes mental notes, while dodging the numerous shots, that these sol tekka are the color of blood red, and are more advanced. They have an array of weaponry and are sleeker in design, and are smaller than the military version. They have more speed, mobility and definitely more firepower, when one of the shots takes off a pretty good chunk of her armor.
"Hmmm…they aren't bad," Cain says softly, looking at Ariadne, "They could make pretty good soldiers."
"Yes, they could," answers Ariadne, who then gasps; Cain then looks at what she is gasping at and sees Ashura fall to the ground.
He then notices more sol tekka approaching, different from the other and seeming more advanced. He watches a white, a blue, a pink and a dark green sol tekka show up, each more advanced than the one before it.
Ashura slowly gets up, growling, "Those bitches will pay for that."
She flies towards the nearest one, the white one, who easily dodges her. The white sol tekka retaliates by shooting her in the back, sending her crashing back down to the ground.
"Hmmm…she's got spirit," the white one says calmly.
"She's a bit angsty, is she not?" says the blue one.
"Yeah, so, let's just kick her ass!" the pink sol tekka says, anxious to fight.
"Yeah, but is she ready to face all four of us?" the white one asks, looking down at the wobbly Ashura, who's shaking her head.
The dark green sol tekka watches Ashura. The design of the suit seems almost flawless; the suit is the smallest and the sleekest. The most advanced of its kind, it has a vast array of weaponry and its speed is incredible when given the chance. The suit is made to fit its pilot like a second skin, hugging every curve and feature of the woman's body as mush as possible. It is a powerful weapon in itself, surpassed only by the mind of its pilot.
"Now, now, my dear cousin," the dark green sol tekka chides, looking at the pink one, "let's not be too anxious."
"She is right you know," the white one complies.
"My Queen," the green one says to the white, "Why don't you and Miss Corman finish off the rest of the Radam; my cousin and I will handle her."
"Are you sure you will be all right?" the blue one asks, obviously Miss Corman.
"Yes, don't worry, we can take care of ourselves."
The Queen nods, "Let's go."
The Queen flies off, followed by Miss Corman.
The remaining two sol tekka watch as Ashura flies toward them. The dark green one is able to dodge easily, being the most advanced and most experienced. The pink one is not so lucky. Ashura's tekka sword slices into her arm, but only enough to damage the suit and not the person. The two sol tekkas fire rounds of Zitron energy. Ashura is able to dodge some but one of the green sol tekka's hits her, thus impaling her to the ground.
"Ohh…" Ashura winces, "She is going to pay."
"Wow," Cain says, "whoever that woman is, she's good."
"Well, I think I will see just how good she is," Ariadne replies to his comment, her tekka crystal appearing in her hand.
"Now, Ariadne," Cain says calmly, gently grabbing her by the arm, "I think we should watch. This woman is definitely a worthwhile soldier to overcome, and we must observe. She will be a hard one to destroy and besides, Hera needs her ego deflated a bit."
Ariadne can't help but smile at him. She then turns to the battle.
The dark green one flies over to her cousin, "Are you all right?"
"Yeah."
"Go see if Princess Yumi and Lady Natasha are all right."
"But what abo..."
"Don't worry," the dark green one says interrupting her, "Just go and see if they're all right."
"Right," the pink sol tekka nods and flies off in the direction where Yumi and Natasha are.
The dark green sol tekka whirls to face a very angry Tekkaman Ashura coming at her. She flies upwards, just missing the swing of Ashura's sword. Flipping, she uses Ashura's head as a springboard then whirls around, watching her opponent crash back into the ground head first. Ashura gets up holding her head, her anger enhanced by the painful pounding. She lets out a scream of rage as she charges after her opponent, who has so far made a fool out of her.
"She's letting her emotions take over her actions, instead of common sense," Ariadne says in a disappointed voice.
They watch as Ashura tries to take out her enemy but failing at each attempt.
"Hera, let's go." Ariadne echoes through her mind.
Ashura stops her attack, looking over in the direction that Ariadne and Cain are in, "But why?"
"You've done a pretty good job of making a fool out of yourself."
"But…"
"Now…"
Tekkaman Ashura looks at the dark green sol tekka before flying off. Ariadne watches her go, shaking her head before she and Cain disappear into thin air. The sol tekka takes off in the direction which her cousin flew to earlier. It isn't long before she finds her holding an unconscious Yumi in her arms.
"How's Princess Yumi doing?" the green sol tekka asks, "And Lady Natasha?"
"They got it pretty bad, they'll be out for awhile, but they're okay except…" the pink sol tekka says, drifting off.
"Except what?" the dark green one asks.
"Look," the other one says pointing at the pieces of armor and crystals around them.
"What is this, their armor?" the green one asks.
"Look," the other one says pointing at the pieces of armor and crystals around them.
"What is this, their armor?" the green one asks.
"Yeah, and the little shards of crystal, were their tekka crystals."
"But then that means…"
"Right. They're no longer tekkamen and we've got a problem."

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Hours later, Mr. Young walks down a corridor of the palace, silently thinking as he walks out onto a balcony. Natasha and Yumi are at the hospital resting comfortable until they recover fully-if they do.
"What's going to happen now?" he thinks to himself, "'She' was going to rely on Vesna and Hiver to stop any possible threats that would be posed to us during the process, and now she is going to have to put them through too, that leaves us vulnerable. We will have take that chance and hopes nothing becomes of the world while we take a small vacation from it…so to speak."
"I hope you're happy," a woman's voice says.
Mr. Young turns around to see a young woman standing in the archway, with cold blue eyes and long white hair, flowing effortlessly in the breeze, giving her a ghostly appearance.
"What do you want?" he snaps at her. He is not in the mood for her games; but then again he's never in the mood to put up with her.
"Oh, what's wrong? Oh, I know, now everyone can see how you screwed up this time."
"And what about you? You shouldn't be talking," he says to her, "Do you enjoy patronizing me?"
"Hmmm…it is one of my main goals in life. But you really aren't worth my time. I don't know what she sees in you." The woman says walking off.
Mr. Young sighs and shakes his head, looking up at the stars. It isn't long before he feels a pair of arms around him, and she is standing by his side.
"Don't mind my cousin, you know she's like that, just ignore her," his love says softly to him.
"I really admire you, you know that? For putting up with her all those years; she acts like such a child, and she supposed to be more mature than you," Mr. Young says looking down in her crystal clear blue eyes.
"Just give her time," she says to him.
"Time for what? 'She' has chosen her for the process, I think she's running out of time." He says softly to her, as she lays her head on his shoulder, and closes her eyes.
He runs his fingers gently through the long strands of her silver hair, and holds her close. He wishes that this moment would last forever, even though he knows it won't
"Umm…excuse me?" a girl's meek voice calls out, "Mister Young? Miss Summers?"
Both of them turn to look at her. The young girl steps back a bit.
"I hope I wasn't intruding but…"
"It's okay, what is it?" Miss Summers asks her.
"'She' has sent us the signal. We're all ready to go. Your cousin, Princess Yumi, and Lady Natasha have been already moved on board."
Mr. Young looks down at his love as she softly reaches for his hands, gently squeezing them.
"It's time," he says softly to her, and she nods slowly in reply.