The sound of feet running through puddles echoed throughout one of the various alleys of Shinto Teito. Yukari Sahashi and her Sekirei Shiina were running from someone, or something. Yukari and Shiina had been searching for any leads to find Shiina's fellow Sekirei Kusano. They came across another Ashikabi and Sekirei and did battle with them which eventually led them into an alley.

Yukari and Shiina rarely terminated other Sekirei and once they were defeated Yukari would 'interrogate' the unfortunate Ashikabi. Normally they would ask them if they'd seen or heard anything about Kusano, Normally. This however was anything but normal.

Namiji lay on the cold cement of the alley as her Ashikabi Takano was being woman handled. She didn't mind if that's all that was happening as long as they weren't terminated. As long as she didn't cease functioning then they would be fine, they would live.

As Yukari was interrogating Takano about the whereabouts of Kusano a loud noise that sounded like a trashcan falling over came from the alley. Strangely enough, the red clad Sekirei was suddenly nowhere to be seen. Turning their heads towards the sound the three were dumb founded to not see the Sekirei they just defeated anywhere.

"N-Namiji?" said a suddenly worried Takano. "Where did she go?" asked Yukari "I have no idea" said Shiina. "Namiji?" yelled a suddenly worried Takano "Namiji this isn't funny! Come out now!" His demand was only met with silence. Finally, after a few tense seconds, a shadowed silhouette could be seen walking towards them out of the darkness.

"Namiji there you are! Thank god I was getting worr…." All three on lookers lost the color in their faces as out of the darkness stepped a woman. This woman had gray hair tied in a ponytail and wore a black leather top with a grey haori hanging over her shoulders.

It wasn't just her visage alone the trio were afraid of, oh no, it was what was in her hands. In her right hand she held her katana, ever present and caked with blood. In her left hand however, that was the stomach churner.

The severed head of Namiji was being held by her long brown hair with an absolute look of horror plastered on its face.

"Have you wastes of flesh seen a large dark monster running around anywhere? I asked this girl here but she said no. it's too bad, for her anyway." Karasuba said as she casually tossed Namiji's head to the side. "Y-you killed Namiji! I'll kill you!" roared a furious Takano.

Takano pushed Yukari off of him and charged at Karasuba. "Yare, Yare, such an impatient little worm." Takano reared his fist back to punch Karasuba, as he brought his fist towards her two quick silver blurs swished past his arm and cut it into pieces.

Takano screamed in pain and surprise and tried to back up but another quick slash separated him from his legs. "W-what? What is this? Why is everything suddenly upside down?" were Takano's last thoughts after one last slash cut him cleanly in half.

What was left of Takano quickly fell to the ground moment later, blood and bone and flesh hit the cold ground. "Disgusting" was all Karasuba said as she looked at the remains of her newest victim. "Oh well, so much for answers, would you two happen to know where… crap" Yukari and Shiina had ran as fast as they could the second Takano charged at Karasuba and were nowhere to be seen. "Just like mice, I don't feel like playing cat and mouse with them right now though." Karasuba put her thumb under her chin and smiled lightly. "Where did you run off to Bruce-kun?"

With Bruce

"Damn it feels good to be a free man again." said Bruce in his casual clothes as he stretched his limbs causing a loud pop to be heard from his left shoulder. "I wonder which part of the city I'm in though; I didn't exactly grab a map on my way out." Bruce thought to himself as he walked the sidewalk.

It was midday now and after that epic battle with the robots he decided to sleep in, in someone else's house. Those people were a strange bunch in the house he slept in, first they try shooting him as soon as he gently knocked on the door causing it to fall down. It wasn't his fault the door was so weak. Then they had the nerve to try and bargain with him as soon as he killed 3 of them. I mean who does that. No respect. Now that he thinks about it though, the place looked more like a warehouse than a normal house. Oh well.

He really had to admit though, he felt a hell of a lot stronger and all the people screaming the cars and bikes screeching hell, even the cars beeping and trains didn't bother him anymore. He could probably even take that damn air horn that Karasuba first used against him.

Bruce strolled through the streets humming a small tune to himself, one of his favorites. Lilium from elfin lied, damn he liked that show. Unfortunately nothing lasts forever, from the safety of her room; Matsu watched the monster Ashikabi casually stroll through the streets via satellite link.

Matsu's eyes widened with worry as she saw the monster that looked like a human walk freely down the streets. She scanned the surrounding area and noticed that his Sekirei were nowhere near him. She also noticed that "His collar is off?" she said to no one in particular. "And why aren't his Sekirei with him?"

Using her amazing I.T. sorcery, Matsu began to scan all MBI files and found a new entry log named under "Takami Sahashi, I wonder what Mina-tans mom has been up too" she opened the data file and was surprised by what she found.

"Everyone get up here! Something big has happened!" Matsu yelled. Soon everyone's footsteps could be heard and the door to her room opened. Minato Sahashi entered the room with his harem consisting of Kazehana, Tsukiumi, Kusano, Homura and Musubi.

"What's up Matsu?" asked Minato "Mina-tan, Mina-tan I have some bad news." "What is the matter Matsu?" asked Tsukiumi

"Well you all knew of the monster Ashikabi right?" "Aye, that foul beast, I have yet to meet with him but when I do I will surely put it in its grave."

"That might be a whole lot harder than you may think miss panty flash" said Kazehana "And why is that?" asked Tsukiumi "because I've had a small scuffle or two with him, he's one tough cookie"

At this everyone became quiet and just stared at the wind waker. "What?" "You fought with him!? When!?" everyone asked "Before I met Minato or any of you. I drop kicked him in the head with enough force to terminate a normal Sekirei and he just got back up like it was nothing. It slightly worries me."

Everyone became silent at this new revelation and stared at Kazehana with a look of disbelief. If even she, Number fucking 3, easily one of the most powerful Sekirei in the game, couldn't beat this thing, then they were in a bind.

"Anyways" began Matsu "I still haven't told you the bad news"

"Out with it then!" yelled Tsukiumi. "Ok get a load of this, according to this file here, Bruce A.K.A. Venom A.K.A. the monster Ashikabi escaped from MBI's confinement last night and battled with 3 robots that attempted to recapture him. I have the video feed here if you want to watch it."

"Play it" said Kazehana.

The group huddled within Matsu's room watched the monitor with anticipation as they watched the climactic battle between Venom and the unique looking robots. They watched in awe as Venom was hit in the gut by the purple robot and was taken hundreds of feet above the ground.

They were even more surprised when they saw him fall from the sky like a meteor and crash into the roof of a huge building and proceeded to fall through it. After a couple minutes of nothing happening they were all wondering what happened, eventually he just stepped out of the front entrance like nothing happened.

"He is indeed a resilient foe" proclaimed Tsukiumi getting agreeing nods from the rest of the group. They continued to watch and everyone's eye went wide when they saw him rip into the red robot with his teeth and pull out what looked like human organs. In one last ditch effort the orange robot tackled Venom and flew high into the sky with the intention to self destruct and take venom with it. Venom however managed to fit his maw around the robots skull and began to crush it which caused the countdown to stop.

"What is he?" Matsu asked no one in particular. "Wait a minute, where's Miya?" asked Minato. Everyone stayed silent for a couple seconds until it hit them, "Oh no, she went out shopping and is probably on her way back by now…" said Homura "This does not bode well" said Tsukiumi.

"Why do I get the feeling I've been here before?" Bruce said to himself as he continued to walk down the street. "It certainly smells familiar" he said as he sniffed the air. "Wait a minute, I do know this place *sniff* *sniff* is that Lavender?"

As Bruce rounded the corner he bumped into someone causing them both to fall. Bruce shook his head and looked at who he hit into. It was a woman with purple colored hair wearing a white haori with a purple hakama.

"Oh my excuse me, you're quite the strong one to be able to knock me down"

"Ah I'm sorry; I wasn't watching where I was going, let me help you up." Said Bruce as he offered his hand, the lady took the kind gesture and rose from the awkward sitting position.

"Why thank you mister…" "Wayne, Bruce Wayne, pleasure to meet" "Oh my how polite, my name is Miya Asama, pleasure to meet you" said Miya with a slight bow.

"Again I'm sorry about bumping into you, I'll be on my way now, have a nice day" Bruce said with while giving a small wave.

"What a nice man. He looks a little familiar but I can't put my finger on it" Miya thought to herself as they walked in opposite directions. "Purple hair, never thought I'd see such a thing" thought Bruce as he continued on his merry way down the street.

Back at Izumo inn everyone that was gathered within Matsu's room let out a sigh of relief at the avoided combat that could have taken place.

A couple hours had passed of doing nothing and Bruce was okay with that, or at least he liked to think so. After leaving the disciplinary squad he found himself with little to occupy his time. He declared a one sided war on the Sekirei and he was going to do his best to take them out, but then his thoughts drifted back to Uzume and her perky and happy attitude and he thought to himself "Does she really deserve to die?"

As Bruce was caught up in his inner monologue, a group of ruffians passed by and one of them seemed to intentionally bump into him. Bruce thought nothing of it and decided to keep on walking, that was until the ruffian grabbed his arm and turned him around.

"Oi Oi what the hell's your problem man, going bumping into people without even the decency to apologize, I ought a beat the crap out of ya right here and now, though I might forgive ya if you get on your knees and beg for forgiveness." said the apparent thug.

Bruce smiled wickedly "oh this is gonna be fun" "Now now Gentlemen, if you would all kindly follow me I'm sure we can work this out like civilized people." Bruce said getting some curious looks from the group of thugs, their looked to be 5 of them and they all looked so… tender. The group of thugs followed Bruce into an alley which was the biggest and last mistake of their miserable lives.

As soon as the group entered into the alley way Bruce spun around and quickly backhanded the thug that first grabbed him and sent him flying into the wall. "You fucker! Get him!" yelled one of the thugs as they all charged at Bruce.

Bruce quickly jumped in-between two of them that were charging at him and pushed both of their heads into the sides of the walls that made the alleyway. "Oh, that gave a nice splat sound; it's been a while since I've had soup. Oh well, two down, two to go."

"You go!" yelled thug #4 and pushed thug #3 to go after Bruce. The thug reluctantly gave in and charged at Bruce who let out a sigh. When the thug reached Bruce he brought his arm back and swung it forward to try and punch Bruce in the face.

Bruce caught the fist and swung the thug by his arm into the wall and slumped down clutching his arm in pain. Bruce looked to his side and saw a large dumpster on wheels and smiled. Bruce casually walked behind the dumpster while whistling and gently kicked it. The Thug screamed in terror as the dumpster came rushing at him and crushed him against the wall.

Bruce looked at his handiwork; he could see the thugs arm sticking out from behind the dumpster and smiled sadistically. "Sorry, but I don't eat garbage. Ha, listen to me would you, I'm better than Schwarzenegger with all these one liners.

"You, you're insane!" yelled the last thug. "Me… mad? Most likely" Bruce shot out a string of webbing from his wrist that latched onto the thug jacket and yanked the thug towards him. Bruce turned the thug around and grabbed a hold of his arm

"You ever hear of the cereal rice krispies?" "Y-yeah" "And you know the three mascot characters?" ""Snap, crackle and pop?" "Yeah those guys, anyway they gave me a small idea" "W-what's tha-AARRRGGHHHH!" the thug screamed in pain as he felt a section of his arm break "Snap" Bruce grabbed the thugs other arm and applied immense pressure causing it to crack. Once more the thug yelled in pain as tears streamed down his face "Crackle" Bruce then grabbed the thug by the neck and lifted him off the ground. The sound of bone breaking was heard as the bones in the thug's neck gave in to Bruce's strength until finally "pop"

Once the thug was dead Bruce looked to the first thug that he backhanded that lay unconscious on the ground. Bruce strolled over to the unconscious thug and crushed his head beneath his boot causing brains and bone to paint the alley.

As Bruce began to walk away from the carnage he left behind him, a pain suddenly sprouted in his chest. At first it was a small pain, barely noticeable, but after a few seconds in turned into something horrid. Bruce fell to his knees and clutched his chest as his breath started to become ragged. "God damn it, what the hell is thi-AAARGH!" Bruce fell to his back and clutched his chest once more.

"Spawning" Bruce heard a voice say in the back of his mind. "What? Spawning? No, I refuse!" "Can't stop" "THEN I'LL KILL IT!" Suddenly images began to flash through Bruce's mind. An image of a small red bird sitting on its eggs flashed through his mind. The next was an image of a blue bird feeding its hatchlings. The last image was of a crow killing a snake that attacked its nest.

"You, you want me to raise it?" a feeling of reassurance washed over him as though it were confirmation to his question. "Then we'll need to find a safe place for the little angel" Bruce said as he shakily picked himself up and walked off into the night.

Back at MBI

Benitsubasa and Haihane were lounging around in the DS HQ, not really doing anything at the moment. Haihane was watching an anime called fate/zero and Benitsubasa was sitting upside down on the couch. Only the sound of dramatic music and blades clashing could be heard coming from the television until Benitsubasa finally spoke up.

Benitsubasa let out a long angry sigh "This is complete bullshit; he's OUR Ashikabi, not just hers! Why can't we go out and help look for him!?"

"Because we'll get in Karasuba's way apparently, and she doesn't like to share" said Haihane. There was nothing but complete silence between the two until Benitsubasa spoke up again with a small grin on her face.

"Well what do you say we go and 'tweak' the rules a little and see if we can't find him?" at this Haihane paused her show and turned her head toward Benitsubasa with a raised eyebrow.

"You realize we risk getting terminated for trying something like that right?"

"Minaka doesn't really give a crap I'm sure, if anything he'll be excited about us breaking the rules a little to add to the fun of his stupid game." Haihane had to agree with her logic on that one. The professor was a bit more than insane when it came to the Sekirei plan.

With a nod of agreement from Haihane the two of them prepared to go after their monster of an Ashikabi. Now Benitsubasa knew how 'special' her Ashikabi was when it came to fighting or as he liked to refer to it as 'feeding'. They needed to be ready.

The duo walked their way through the tower until the finally reached the armory. In front of them stood a large sliding metal door with a card swipe next to it. With a quick swipe of her MBI card the metal door reseeded up into the ceiling and allowed them entry.

Rows and rows of weapons aligned the walls of the large room. Machine guns, snipers, rocket launchers even swords and knives were present. But these weren't

What they were looking for. The two continued down the hallway of the large room until they reached an area with a sign over head that read 'testing'.

As the two went to open the door to the testing facility they were both surprised to find it locked. Benitsubasa tried swiping her card in the machine next to locked door only for it to flash red and say 'declined'. "What the hell!" Benitsubasa yelled in anger.

"Oh my, trying to get into the restricted testing facility I see, for shame girls, for shame" the annoying and enthusiastic voice of Minaka said from the intercom.

"Minaka, let us in there god damn it!" yelled Benitsubasa once more as Haihane stood in the corner deciding to let her do the talking.

"Now why would I do that Beni-Chan? Could there possibly be something in there you could want hmm?" said Minaka in a sarcastic tone.

"You know damn well what we want! I know you've been developing special weapons in there for capturing Bruce again!"

"Special weapons, whatever could you mean? Oh wait, could you possibly be referring to the sonic guns I've been developing?" Benitsubasa didn't need to see Minaka to know that he had a smile plastered to his face while he said all this.

"Now let's just say that by some slim chance that I don't decide to terminate you both for breaking into a restricted area and try to acquire my weapons, why should I let you take them? I seem to remember telling you both explicitly that you are not to go after Bruce. Or am I wrong?"

"Because it's interesting" said the monotone voice of Haihane once more as she kept a placid look on her face. There was nothing but silence from the intercom for nearly a minute, no doubt from Minaka weighing the pros and cons of his next decision until finally.

"ok" the once red light that denied them entry lit green and the door was opened revealing a massive testing facility with targets lined up against the wall and all sorts of scientific equipment that they didn't understand. At the end of the room there was another sign they both saw that read 'sonic weapons'.

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Hello my readers, I apologize for not updating for so long, I have my found myself unable to concentrate lately and little time to myself. Any who I hope you enjoyed it and hoping for more. Don't forget to leave a review and tell me what you think!