Chap 8

A/N: So how did you like the last chapter? Must have felt great to have Frank Costably out of the picture eh? But we still aren't finished yet. We have to get Minaka killed. But we're not going to have killed just yet. We still have some of those gang hideouts that our OC character has to take out. Plus it might be interesting to have the cTOS in Tokyo just to improvise the story a little bit more. I'm not going to introduce this right now. But maybe in the later chapters of the story.

So without further ado let's get started.

Disclaimer:

I do not own Sekirei.


[Previously]

"Target eliminated Kocho. At last my revenge is fulfilled."

"You must be happy now huh?"

"Well with that guy taken out of course I'm happy. That fucker has been hiding from me all this time and now was the chance to take him out. I can't let this guy continue to live as he has done numerous crimes around the world. I've saved the police some trouble of finding that guy. With that taken care of, I have to focus on taking out Minaka and end this crazy plan of his. I have a feeling that this second phase of the plan will begin."

"Indeed. I can tell that once all the sekirei are winged, there will be some chaos that would ensue."

"We'll be fine Kocho-chan. After all, I can't depend on you guys too much. I have to pull my weight on this."

"You know I thought that you would be one of those ashikabi who would just use us as tools to succeed in this game. Once the game is over, I feared that you might throw us out."

"I'm not one of those guys if you haven't noticed already. I see you as people even though you guys are from a different planet. You show emotions that aren't foreign to us such as happiness, sadness, anger, depression, joy. In the end, you aren't aliens. Rather humans with capabilities that surpasses the average human being. I don't really see a difference out there."

"Thanks Marshall-san. That means a lot to us sekirei."

"Anytime babe. Anyways, I'm nearly home. Just hang on tight."

As Marshall arrived home, he parked his car and entered in the house. After such a long and exhausting day all he wanted is to have some sleep. His sekirei already felt the tiredness sweeping their ashikabi's body so they didn't disturb him with their usual antics. They knew what type of job he does and they can't blame him as he is stuck in this place forever. He can't go back to his homeland since he is in exile after all. But now it just eases him as he got that freaking nightmare out of his mind for once in his lifetime. Two years may not be long but with these reoccurring nightmares of your family getting killed does prove to be long.

Well the rest of the day went by quietly without anything alerting them.

[Present time]

A few days later after Marshall killed Frank, the second phase of the Sekirei Plan begins. Now all that Marshall has to do is to focus on taking out Minaka. But first Marshall has to go to the gun store and buy some additional weapons in his arsenal.

Once he arrived at the gun store, he checked to see if he can find any weapons that would suit him. He found an M1014 Shotgun. After that, he bought some buckshot rounds for his M1014. Once he did all the buying and all, he left the store and proceeded on as usual.

When Marshall arrived home, he started to place some orders secretly for some 40-round curved magazines for his Thompson along with more buckshot shells for his M1014. Once he got that ordered, Marshall got a text message. This time it is from Minaka.

"There is an unwinged sekirei out there and whoever get the last one will ultimately start this phase. What the fuck?"

Marshall then decided to call his sekirei and tell them about this. Uzume may have an idea of what Minaka might be saying.

"I may have an idea of what he meant by the last sekirei having to be winged. He might be talking about Kagari. After all he is a sekirei and hasn't been winged yet."

"Really? Kocho can you get some data towards Kagari?" asked Marshall.

"Sure thing. Let me see..."

Kocho typed a few codes in the computer but the server said "No Results Found". Marshall was quite surprised at this.

"Are you sure there is a sekirei named Kagari?" asked Marshall.

"Yeah."

"Hmm. Doesn't seem that the server doesn't lie. Can you tell what he looks like? I mean you have met him quite a lot when you were in Izumo Inn." said Karasuba.

"Well he has short silver hair and black eyes. Really slim figure that befits a woman. That's all I could say."

"Why don't you type that in Kocho? We may find results from that description."

Kocho did as she was told and typed in the physical descriptions that Uzume told them. The results came out and Uzume confirmed that this is him.

"So this is the Defect Sekirei you were talking about Kocho. Number six Homura."

"Homura?" Uzume asked in confusion.

"That's his real name. Kagari is just his pen name. Says right here that he works for a host club nightly. Interesting indeed."

"He never told me that."

"Probably because he didn't want to have his identity exposed or something so he resorted to covering his real name with an alias. Just like how I did." said Marshall.

"So it seems that he isn't winged huh? Do you think that they are going to direct the fight at Izumo Inn?" asked Karasuba and Marshall could see the glint of excitement sparkling in her eyes.

"You really wanted to go there because she is your rival to take down? Anything else besides that?" Marshall didn't really want to know the other answer as he knew that she wanted to fight other sekirei that would be in the way.

"Well you know me honey~. I really love a good fight."

"You really don't change huh?" Marshall shook his head at his silver haired woman.

"But I don't fight without reason. You are my ashikabi and I am your sekirei. We have a purpose and that is to win this game and spend the rest of our lives with you." said Karasuba while the others nodded at that statement.

"I don't believe that this would be the case. As you can tell, Homura is already on the move right now and it seems that a resident living in Izumo Inn is chasing after him."

"Minato huh? I have to back him up as their might be some ashikabi who are probably after Homura. After all that kid might get himself into danger he might not know."

"Well looks like we are going to have some fun fighting. So let's get started shall we?"

"Let me grab my M9 just in case there are some thugs out there who might try and interfere with the game."

"We can take them on honey~. Just give us a big fat kiss and they'll be out soon enough~!" Toyotama said in a flirty tone.

"Well let's just hope that MBI doesn't go after us as Sekirei aren't allowed to harm humans."

"But they don't know you since you are grayed out in their profiles. It wouldn't be such a biggy!" said Uzume.

"You may be right but you may never know Minaka. He may seem to be a crazy person at first but I can tell that he has some alternate plans prepared ahead of time. Let's not underestimate MBI for now." said Marshall.

"I agree with Marshall-san. Minaka tends to treat this Plan like a chess game where he could think of at least four to five moves to outmaneuver the opponent. We'll have to improvise our odds if that were the case."

"Tch. So much for complicated strategies when you can easily take out the king himself." Karasuba snorted.

"But I don't want you to harm my first love. Even if he did break my heart, I still don't want him to be beaten up." Kazehana said while Marshall cocked his eyebrow. He didn't say anything though.

"In any case, rushing mindlessly in MBI will just be like a chicken running around with their heads off." Marshall said while everybody, even Kocho, snickered at that comment.

"Ara ara. You have guts my darling to call me a chicken~. For that I should give you punishment~."

"Yes yes. Punish me later when this is all over. For now we must at least focus on aiding Minato."

So Marshall grabbed his M9 pistol while he wore his signature outfit. He hid his pistol in the inside of his trench coat while he placed his white mask on. He didn't bring out his car since his sekirei told him that they'll take care of the transportation. He hopped onto Yomi's back and off the sekirei go. The only sekirei with him were Yomi, Kazehana, Ichiya, Akitsu, and Toyotama. Marshall admired the view of the city below him.

"Homura is right there!" yelled Ichiya.

"I also see some sekirei down with what appears to be an ordinary boy." said Akitsu without any emotion.

"That might be Mina alright. Settle us down there."

So all his sekirei went towards one of the rooftops of the buildings. As they arrived, they were met with what appears to be several other sekirei. At first Marshall didn't know who they were but that doesn't matter now does it?

"Alright girls, pick your opponents here and the objective is to make sure that Homura doesn't go towards MBI. I have a hunch that this sekirei might do something drastic as that." said Marshall.

"Well then shall we get started?" Ichiya already went towards her opponent.

"Toyotama, you and Yomi go towards the other two trying to get at Homura. I believe its that girl wearing the yellow and black suit while the other one seems to be wearing a filly dress. Kazehan and Akitsu. Both of you stay with me just in case he does something drastic."

"Right darling~! Let's go Yomi-chan!"

Yomi sighed but nonetheless went with Toyotama. Kazehana and Akitsu stayed near Marshall's side.

"Mina! How nice to see you!" Marshall cracked his knuckles and you could easily hear the cracking really well. Even though he has a prosthetic arm, he could still do it.

When Minato heard the familiar voice, he turned around and saw the rumored White Masked Ashikabi. But the thing that surprised him is that the White Masked Ashikabi is Marshall himself!

"Is that you Marshall-san?"

"Now I told you to call me when you are in a tight situation and I could tell that you are in one. Haven't I?!" Marshall said in a scary tone that made Minato scared a bit.

"I-I didn't want to trouble you so I-"

"Cut that bull crap Mina. We are friends and after all, its right for friends to help one another. Am I right?"

"Yes that's right."

"Then call me next time when you are in a tight pinch you dumbass! You are smart in the books but not in the streets department. But regardless, we have a job here to do."

Minato nodded and it seems that Homura started to head out again towards the MBI.

"Akitsu. May you do the honors and freeze the surrounding place so that he doesn't move any further?"

"As you wish Marshall-sama."

So Akitsu created an ice wall blocking Homura's path. The sekirei tried and used his fire abilities but they were proven to be futile.

"Minato convince him not to make a rash decision and take on MBI by himself." said Marshall.

"Kagari-san! You have to listen to me! You can't go take on MBI as the odds are going to be against you! I know you are a powerful sekirei but please don't do anything rash!"

"Why would you want to stop me Sahashi-san? I have to end this mad game of this man!"

"Kagari or rather Homura. Do you think you are being rash about this? I may not like this game that this guy created but Minato is right. With the way you are right now, you'll be stopped real easily before you can even step inside MBI. Do you really want that to happen to you?"

"So White Masked Ashikabi is here eh? But with the way things are going, if I don't make a move right now, then all of the other birds will be in harms way. For that I have no other options but to face Minaka directly."

"You're really stubborn aren't you? Like I said if you do that, then you'll be nothing more than a chicken running around with their heads cut off. Think about this real well Homura."

"Tch. You're just like the others that follows Minaka's orders aren't you?"

"Not really. Just helping this poor sap of a man out here." Marshall said while pointing a thumb at Minato. Minato's head was covered by a thick black cloud with thunder crackling around it.

"You don't have to rub it in you know..."

"It's the truth!"

Then all of a sudden, Marshall had an inkling that somebody or rather some people are watching him from a distance. He doesn't know who the hell they are but he knows for one thing that they aren't here to play nice.

"Kazehana. Akitsu. I have a bad feeling about this. It feels as if there are some people trying to kill me. They aren't sekirei that's for sure. I'll have to find out who they are and what they want."

"Well then my dear, shall you give me a nice and loving kiss before you go? I have a feeling that Kagari isn't really going to listen about it."

"Sure thing dear. Come here Akitsu. I have to give you one as well."

Akitsu blushed at him but she nonetheless smiled at him. He gave each of his sekirei a passionate kiss before he left.

"Minato, for now you are in charge of this. I have to investigate something quick. Don't worry about me okay? Just focus on the task at hand!"

Marshall bolted out from the building's top roof and got a call from Kocho.

"Yo Kocho."

"I picked up some scanners indicating some threats from where you were pinpointed a while ago. I could tell that these aren't the ordinary enemies that you encountered a while ago. From what I can tell from the security feed, these people are assassins from the Black Organization. And I could tell that they are after your head."

"Thanks Kocho. I'll have to give them a little present for doing that."

"I'll give you the coordinates of where they are located."

"Much appreciated. I'll see you soon."

Marshall then ran through the alleyways as it not only provided him some darkness under the cover of night but also the fastest way of finding them. Then all of a sudden, he spotted some person dressed in all black paramilitary gear. Marshall assumed that these are the assassins Kocho was talking about. He placed a suppressor on his M9 and fired on the special ops assassin. As he took him down, it alarmed the others towards this position. He exchanged gun fire with them taking them down as he went to cover. Once he reloaded another magazine, the moment he stood up, he was shot at the stomach. But he was able to kill the special ops down regardless. Groaning, he stood up albeit shakily and felt the warm substance known as blood seeping out of his wound. He was able to walk towards the opening of the alleyway but he slumped against the wall. He waited for a good two or three minutes until his sekirei spotted him.

"Let's get you near to an MBI hospital and they can treat your wounds there." Ichiya said to her ashikabi but he shook his head.

"I know a place where they can give me the best treatment that not even MBI can give. I know a friend that runs a place there."

"But-"

"Arrggh! Just do it Ichiya. I'd rather not go to an MBI hospital for now. After all why should I go to the enemy's hospital." Marshall gritted his teeth as he feel the blood pool around his lips.

"Alright then."

So they were able to find the hospital Marshall told them and he was rushed into the emergency room where they did some surgery on him. Once the surgery was complete. The doctors came out and told the girls about the results. They were surprised that he'll be out in a week's time since the technology they have was really high tech and that a ballistic trauma wound like that can be easily healed. His sekirei were surprised at this but they were glad that their ashikabi will be alright. They left the hospital as it was night time and they also needed their sleep.

A week later...

Marshall was finally discharged from the hospital and he decided to stay put from doing some crime ass kicking. When he returned home, all of his sekirei threw him a welcome home party. Marshall smiled at the warm reception. Once the welcome home party was over, he then had the strength and power to go back to do his job as a vigilante.

Marshall was quite surprise that the second phase of the Sekirei Plan is going slowly. Which meant that he could still take out some gang hideouts. He usually takes out gang hideouts solo so he didn't bring his sekirei with him. But when things involving the Sekirei Plan starts, he knows that he can't go out there solo which is obvious because all of the ashikabi have heard of him as the White Masked Ashikabi.

Well its one of those days in which Marshall has to take out a gang hideout. Getting his white trench coat along with wearing his white hoodie, he slipped on his black sweatpants with some blue rhino designs. Grabbing his phone, he then decided to use his Thompson SMG and M1014. Slapping on some of his magazines, he then went out to his car while grabbing Bow with him.

(Now readers, if you watch Watch Dogs gameplay, we are going to do that from now on in this story.)

When they arrived at the gang hideout, he parked the car and the two went out to take down a certain gang lord running that area. Hiding behind a crate, he scanned the area using his phone. Once he got a good look of the environment around him, he then told Bow to stay down as he is going to disrupt some of their phones in the area. Bow nuzzled his master and so Marshall got to work on hacking their phones while stealing their money in the process. Plus he hacked the security cameras around the area as he doesn't want to get spotted by the boss himself.

Once he did that, all of the gang members got confused as to why their phones were hacked.

"Hey guys! Find the guy and kill him!" said one of those thug members.

"Right! I'd hate to have the boss at my neck for this."

So the gang member went out with their weapons and patrolled around the area in search for him. Marshall just shook his head as these guys were making it too easy for him. He found one guy who was near him and so he used his taser to kill him. Once he did that, Marshall hacked the explosion plants near their positions so that he can make his job real easy.

The explosion took the gang members by surprise but Marshall took this as an opportunity to take out the gang members. He opened fire at them and he took out a good number of them using his Thompson SMG. He then switched to his M1014 as he is going to do some close quarters combat. After all a shotgun will do the trick.

He ducked to cover and shot one of the nearby gang members painting the wall red with his blood. He then continued to take them out while Bow helped out by mauling the other gangsters on the face. The shootout continued until he spotted the boss fleeing away from the site. He switched to his Thompson and shot him several times. He took out the last of the forces until they were all finished.

"Mission accomplished." said Marshall.

"Alright good job. But with the looks of things, gangs aren't the only ones that you need to be worried. Terrorists, drug dealers, and Fixers are also coming in this city. It seems that the capital has a lot to offer." said Kocho.

"I don't doubt you on that one. This place is practically a crime nexus. I'm still quite surprised that these guys haven't even saw anything suspicious about the Sekirei Plan."

"Minaka tends to have a lot of connections and that's how the public doesn't know about the Sekirei Plan."

"I wouldn't be so surprised about that."

"In any case, the second phase is still going on but rather slowly. This should give you some time to do all of your business out there."

"I hear you. But anyways, I have a text message from one of my colleagues so I may not be able to come home. If that were the case, don't fix me anything to eat."

"Should I heat up some leftovers?"

"That would be fine. After all, we need to finish those up."

"Alright then. I'll see you later."

"You too."

Marshall ended the call and drove off to park somewhere safe and isolated. He stored his weapons in the back of the trunk and he checked his phone to see who sent that text message. Sure enough it was from Z3A3.

"Meet me at the Zen Dragon bar. We're going to have to catch up on old times my friend."

Marshall shook his head but he nonetheless got into his car and drove towards the bar. He knew where that place is since he usually goes there with JB and Z3A3. Once he arrived there, he saw Z3A3 out there reading something on his phone.

"Yo. Kept the seat warm for me?" Marshall greeted.
"Nice timing D-Punk. We have a lot to talk about and I don't plan on ordering some sake." said Z3A3.

"It seems that this is what catching up on old times is eh? Well don't mind if I do. Haven't talked to you in forever."

Z3A3 just laughed at him and he pulled the seat. Bow just lied on the ground sleeping.

"First things first, what happened a week ago?" asked Z3A3.

"Got shot by some assassins from the Black Organization. Had to go to the hospital our friend Ayumi Sakura worked on."

"That's really bad news. The Black Organization, or as I call them BO, are on the move and they've already killed two of my contact vigilantes. To have sent some assassins towards you must mean that they have your file in their database."

"Well too bad for them, I already hacked into their database and screwed up their profiles using one of my specialized virus codes that I have invented myself." Marshall told him quietly but Z3A3 heard him clearly.

"Hmm interesting. So you made yourself unknown huh? That's what I like to see in you my friend. But there are also some bad news. Something I know you don't really want to face in the future."

"What would that be?"

"The BO not only got some assassins but they also have hired some Fixers as their mercenaries, sleeper agents, along with some bio-chemists."

"Its like dealing with Jade Ember times ten. This is definitely troubling news. So how can we take them out?"

"Glad you asked. I have a friend of mine who worked for the FBI and is an undercover agent for me."

"Really? That's neat. But wait. If that is true, then how can he give you information while providing the FBI at the same time?"

"Simple, he gives me names and I hunt them down. The rest of the small time players are left for the FBI."

"He has to be real careful about this you know?"

"I told him that and he knows what he's doing. Plus he's been doing this for quite a while so I can fully trust him."

Marshall just sighed.

"You know one thing that we both can agree on and I can definitely speak for all vigilantes out there...this job is going to be death of us someday."

"I can't deny that. After all we are fighting armed thugs with connections. Plus they are infested here in Japan. Unpredictable things can happen at any given time."

"I agree with you on that. But haven't you ever thought of what caused us to be like this in the first place? The start of it all?"

"What are you going at with this? Surely you haven't been hooked up on that much morphine back in the hospital?" Z3A3 wondered what just made him start to become all philosophical about this.

"I'm not high on morphine. Just took the time to reflect on things in life while I still can."

"Well...yeah. I've thought about it. For me, it was because my family was targeted by Frank but with that guy out, now the BO has a bead on them. I know what happened to you in Chicago that lead you to become a vigilante like me."

"The public now calls us 'guardian angel' because we took out those big time players. We aren't heroes as the public sees us. Sure we may have taken them out because they are criminals and that alone is a good deed. But the reason we are like this is because the police here are not doing their jobs properly. I call those police men nothing more than a bunch of lazy asses. It even comes down to some of them using their position as a power trip and proclaiming that they are doing this under the name of the law. That to me is nothing more than a load of horse shit."

"You have to admit that MBI owns nearly ninety percent of the capital in terms of stocks and all. Plus they have their own security forces out there so they are doing a pretty good job."

"But as you know, a single corporation taking nearly the whole capital will eventually lead to riots and all that."

Z3A3 nodded. Marshall just sighed and took a smoke. They were silent for a minute until Marshall continued.

"Sorry about that. I just had to get that out of my system." said Marshall.

"No problems. Some of the points you brought up were valid and I can't deny those claims. But as you know me, I just let nature takes it course." said Z3A3.

"True true. Hopefully things aren't going to take a turn for the worse."

"That's what I'm hoping to believe but sometimes...life just decides to screw us over and we have to figure out how to get back on the road."

"Well anyways...is there any additional info I might need?"

"When Jade Ember fell, BO came over and took everything from that organization. They are now using some of their contacts and converting them over to their side. They are also good in disguises so if there is anything suspicious about them, then you can bet that they are from the BO."

"Well intuition runs really high through my family so I know when to look out for those guys."

"That's all I have. Its getting late. Nice to have this chat. Reminds me of old times."

"Yeah...it does feel nostalgic."

Marshall woke up Bow and they both drove off to their home. Marshall took a shower and parked the car in the garage. He saw his sekirei asleep so he carefully went over to his bed and slept soundly.


A/N: sorry if the fight scene is crappy. I'm not really good at doing a full description like the others since my mind is constantly barraged with other shit. So sorry about that. Anyways how do you like it?

Oh and before I go please check out the new story called "Portal of the Other World". I based it off from the anime series "Gate" so let me know how it is. If you have any ideas for that story, then please leave your comments there and I'll see what I can do with them.

As always, have a good day to you folks. I'll see you later :)