SBS Time!
Kerokuu Kazami: Is it bad that this chapter reminds me of Fantastic Four? You know, because of cosmic radiation...
Game2002: No, because that's the point, but honestly saying, I can't remember if that was really the inspiration or if I came up with mines first and then realized that it's similar to Fantastic Four's…
JakeCrusher: I think the Frogadier backstory could us some more layers. How about this: Frogadier tried to steal food from an unruly gang of Pokemon. They discovered him, so he had to run away, eventually finding a nearby crate and hiding inside.
Game2002: There's no point in detailed or complicated backstories if they won't have any impact at all to the present. Sometimes it's better to keep things simple.
Touhou 14.5's genre is announced, and I'm looking forward to it! According to many people, however, it's already not worth playing. Like I'm going to let that stop me from enjoying this game!
Chapter 7
The Overlord Strikes Again
Atrocitin was doing paperwork in an office room on Wuhu Island when he received a phone call from a staff member of his company that representatives from the military were here to see him. "I have time," he told the staff member. "Tell them they are free to come in."
A few minutes after he hung up the phone, Robin and Reflet were let into the room. "It is a pleasure to see you, Mister Atrocitin!" Robin said to him. "My name is Robin, and this here is a fellow tactician of mine and also my twin sister, Reflet!"
"It is an honor to see you, Mister Robin and Miss Reflet!" said Atrocitin as he stood up to shake their hands. "Please have a seat!"
The staff member who let them in prepared two chairs for the two tacticians, and then Robin said to Atrocitin, "I will get straight to the point in order to not give you any wrong impressions, Mister Atrocitin."
"Please do so," said Atrocitin. "I prefer it that way."
"If you insist," said Robin. "Yesterday on the place called the Bionis, after you showcased your invention, the Super Exo, there have been reports of someone wearing the very same exosuit, or at least a very similar-looking one, showing up and attacking someone with it."
Atrocitin was shocked to hear this. "What are you talking about?! How can there be someone wearing my Super Exo already?! All the ones currently in existence are still within my company! None of them have gotten outside yet!"
"Please do not be agitated, sir," Robin told him. "We are not here to accuse or arrest you. You have a long history of providing for the society, so we do not believe that you would use your invention for something like this. According to eyewitness description, the suit looks almost exactly like your Super Exo, save for a pair of eviler-looking eyes and a cape. Do you think it is possible that someone modified one of your existing suits or even copied your design?"
"As far as I'm concerned, there have been no reports of stolen suits or blueprints," said Atrocitin. "I wouldn't deny the possibility of hackers, however, since there are concept arts and information on the suit stored in my company's computers."
"If you are willing, please let us get to the bottom of this," Robin told him. "Only a few people witnessed this, so in order to prevent whoever was inside that suit from showing up again to cause more eyewitnesses, please allow us to find out who the culprit is."
"I would be very pleased if you would look into this!" Atrocitin said to him. "While I do not know of anyone who resent me for my success, I do know a couple of people who consider me to be their business rivals, but I doubt any of them would do this sort of thing."
After their discussion was over, Robin and Reflet left the room, and the latter said to the former, "Are you really sure he's not behind this? He has a criminal record in the past, you know."
"That was about three decades ago," said Robin. "I believe in people changing for the good, and Atrocitin is an example of such people. I truly believe he is sincere."
"I'm not sure… His supposed force of habit of saying that he wants to take over the world strikes me as suspicious…" claimed Reflet.
"We have someone else to look into, remember? Rosalina told us who she really is and also about Manith A. Rottinbren," Robin reminded her. "We should find the latter and confirm if she is really telling the truth."
Manith approached Alina as she was working on a computer located in front of the "army" of modified Super Exos and asked her, "How is the A.I. programming coming along? My son has just requested that some Super Exos be sent to the Bionis to aid him in capturing Rosalina. He needs them as a distraction to keep law enforcers busy while he breaks into the hospital to get her."
"They should be able to work properly now," Alina told him, "but I can't guarantee that they will have the best A.I. To make them behave like humans would require about a day of programming to pull off."
"As long as they are competent enough to destroy things, that should be enough," Manith told her.
While Robin and Reflet were at Wuhu Island visiting Atrocitin and looking for Manith, Chrom and Lucina stayed behind in the hospital at Colony 9 to keep an eye on Rosalina to make sure that the Overlord doesn't return to capture her.
While keeping watch on Rosalina, Lucina was listening with great enthusiasm to her telling her about the wonders she witnessed in space, such as impressive sights that can only be seen in the deepest reaches of space, the various kinds of alien life forms she encountered, and the different kinds of planets she came across.
"Wow! A planet made entirely of diamond! I've heard of scientists discovering such a planet, but I didn't believe that it was really one-hundred percent diamond!" commented Lucina.
"It's true; I've been onto its surface!" claimed Rosalina, and she showed her a diamond ring she was wearing on her finger. "You see this diamond? This is taken from that planet!"
"Really?!" Lucina said in awe while looking at said ring. "I'm sure scientists are going to go crazy if they see this!"
"Everything everyone on this planet knows about space is nothing compared to what I've learned and seen!" claimed Rosalina.
"It must be very fun out there, isn't it?" asked Lucina.
"People will probably have different opinions, since there are lots of dangers out there as well," Rosalina told her. "It can either be an amazing experience or a frightening one. Space travel is not for everyone."
They both chatted for several minutes, and eventually, Chrom came into the room and said to them, "There's been a report about people causing trouble out in the city, and the police are having problems dealing with the troublemakers."
Lucina stood up and asked, "What do you want me to do?"
"You stay here and continue keeping watch on her," Chrom told her. "I'll go and handle this."
"Okay," said Lucina with a nod. "Be careful."
After Chrom left, Rosalina asked Lucina, "Is it all right that you don't go with him?"
"My father is a very powerful swordsman, more so than me, so he can take care of himself no problem!" Lucina told her. "We're told to take care of you after all, so someone has to stay in this room."
It was as Chrom said, there were troublemakers causing trouble in the city. A total of five Overlords were thrashing the place, shooting down buildings with their weapons equipped in them and attacking innocent people. Due to their armor and strength, the police was unable to do anything about them.
One of the Overlords was firing bullets rapidly from its wrist guns all over the place when it was slashed in the back by an energy sword wielded by Shulk. This wasn't enough to take out the Overlord, however, as it turned around and fired at the teen, but he easily dodged the bullets by stepping to the side and then attacked the robotic suit again, slashing it multiple times in the front.
Several gashes were made on the Overlord, and the electricity coming out from the circuitry inside was starting to make it malfunction. It eventually fell on its back and became seemingly inactive.
Shulk then walked up to it and, having seen the Super Exos on television before, wondered who was inside it, so he reached for the face plate and removed it, only to find that it was empty inside, which surprised him.
Suddenly, he had a vision that another Overlord was jumping at him with spikes on its knuckles, so he jumped away from the fallen Overlord the moment the vision ended. Immediately after he did so, the Overlord he saw in his vision fell towards where he originally was and made a dent in the other Overlord's body with its fist.
When the second Overlord looked up, Shulk swung his energy sword at it and sliced its head clean off. Despite this, the Overlord was still able to stand back up, though its movement was a bit unstable. Shulk delivered another slash, this time cutting it in half by the waist and destroying it for good.
Reyn then came over to Shulk with what looked like a sword that had a shield attached to the front of it. "Man, these things are a joke!" he told the latter. "I took on two at the same time and defeated them one after the other in a matter of seconds! Whoever made them should be ashamed of themselves!"
The fifth Overlord suddenly showed up in front of them and was going to fire from its wrist guns, only to be stabbed through the chest from behind by Chrom's sword. This wasn't enough to destroy the Overlord, however, as it turned around to attack the blue-haired man, but he quickly laid waste to it with a few more sword strikes.
Chrom looked at the robotic suit for a few seconds before shifting his eyes to Shulk and Reyn. "I see that you took care of the others," he said to them.
"Yeah, and I was just saying that these guys are a joke," said Reyn.
Chrom looked at the Overlords again and suddenly realized something. "Wait a minute… The both of you described Rosalina's attacker as looking… something like this, right?" he asked the two.
"Yeah, they look exactly like the one who attacked…" said Shulk, but he cut off his phrase when he realized something. "Wait a minute… Oh no…"
Another Overlord broke into Rosalina's hospital room through the window, grabbing both her and Lucina's attention. The latter quickly got up and pulled out her sword to ready to take on the intruder. The Lumas all hurried over to Rosalina's arms and huddled together tightly in fear.
The Overlord got up from a kneeling position and said "Surprised, ladies?"
"You're the one from yesterday!" Rosalina said in shock.
"Yes, and I am back to take you away again! Nobody is going to stop me this time!" the Overlord told her.
"You're not taking her away!" Lucina angrily said to him.
"Unfortunately, I'm not letting anyone say no for an answer, and I plan to get this done as soon as possible," said the Overlord. "I'm on a tight schedule, you know." The Overlord then turned to the window's curtains and pulled them together, an action that made everyone else curious.
When he was done, he walked over to the light's switch, another action that made the others curious, and turned off the light. Because the curtains had a layer that completely blocked out sunlight, the room became more or less pitch dark when the light was turned off. In the midst of the darkness, one could hear some cries.
Light poured into the room a bit when someone pulled open the curtains to jump out of the window. Lucina quickly flicked the switch back on, but for some reason, the light didn't come back on. She didn't bother with it and ran to the window instead and saw the Overlord flying away with a seemingly unconscious Rosalina in his arms. "Oh no!" the swordswoman gasped at the sight of it. She then reached for her handheld receiver to tell the others what happened. It was at that time the light turned back on.
Manith and Alina were in the hideout, watching everything that was happening through the Overlord's point of view, as the latter's eyes had cameras that linked back to where the former two were.
"Dad! I got her! You can fire the missiles now!" the Overlord told Manith through wireless communication.
"Yes, I can see that," said Manith. "I will do as you say, so hurry up and get back here." He then took out his cell phone and entered a particular 4-number combination on it. Just by doing that, he was able to command a satellite located within orbit of Tooneria to fire a total of six medium-sized missiles at the planet, all of them heading towards the Bionis.
As the missiles were closing in on the island, heading for Colony 9, a winged creature happened to be flying past underneath them. As a result, the missile in lead struck it from above, injuring it greatly and knocking it out of the air. The remaining five missiles continued on their way towards Colony 9.
They struck different parts of the city and caused large amounts of destruction to it.
KABOOOOOOOOOM! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
"We are now approaching Colony 6," Gyde told the Smashers as the bus traveled down the road heading to said location. "Due to being close the Ether Mine, that city has lots of ether-related products, and they come at great prices too!"
As usual, the Smashers weren't paying all that much attention to him, opting to look at the scenery outside and talking among themselves instead. It was because of this that Popo noticed something in the distance using a pair of binoculars. "Ooh, a Charizard!" he said with eyes glued to the binoculars. "Didn't know they are found on the Bionis as well!"
Popo continued looking at what he believed was a Charizard, but then he noticed that something was wrong with it. The supposed Pokemon looked to be in a weak condition and was flying towards where they were. Eventually, it crashed onto the middle of the road, blocking the way forward, causing the bus to come to a sudden halt and making Snake plant his face onto a lunchbox he was eating out of.
"What is that?!" asked Captain Falcon, looking at the orange, winged creature that fell onto the road.
Most of the Smashers got down from the road and approached the creature, and Ness said, "It's a Charizard!"
"I didn't know they are native to the Bionis!" said Young Link.
"They're not," Gyde told him.
Dr. Mario walked up to the large obvious wound on the Pokemon's back and said after inspecting it, "It's a very deep and serious wound! If nothing is done, it will die for sure!"
"That's horrible! What do we do?" asked Pikachu.
"Let's take it to one of the veterinarians in Colony 6 quick!" suggested Gyde.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's carry it into the bus at once!" said Captain Falcon.
"No wait, I have a better idea!" said Popo before running into the bus. He came back out a few seconds later with his backpack, and he reached into it to take out a Pokeball.
"That's my Pokeball!" said Pikachu.
"Sorry, but that Charizard needs it now!" Popo told him. "It's a good thing we're using Pokeballs that can be reused on more than one Pokemon!" He threw the Pokeball at the Charizard, and because the Pokemon was in a near dying state, it did not break out at all.
"Quick! We must get it medical treatment at once!" said Dr. Mario, so everyone quickly got back onto the bus to continue on their way to Colony 6.
TO BE CONTINUED
Trivia:
1. There really is a planet made of diamond in space.
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The silhouettes of two people were seen facing each other.
Do you think you are strong?
Do you want to see the world?
You may think you are strong in your own world…
but how strong do you think you are…
compared to people from other worlds?
Are you interested in testing your strength against people you have never seen or heard of before?
Do you want to see what different worlds have to offer?
Give your answer…
They both ran at each other, and when within range, they jumped at each other, the one on the left with his fist pulled back, while the one on the right had a wand of sorts pulled back.
The one on the left was a mustachioed man with a cap, while the one on the right was a woman with a bowtie on the back of her head.
Their respective fist and wand clashed with each other…
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