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The following is a non-profit fan-written story. Demon King Daimao and its characters are not owned by me, it's owned by Shotaro Mizuki, Artland, and Sentai Filmworks. I also don't own Loups=Garous, nor their chracters, as they're owned by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Production I.G., Trans Arts, Dentsu, Bandai Visual and Sentai Filmworks. Support both official releases.
In what was previously the SVC building, Eiko looks from a glass window, entertained by the view from above the remains of the futurustic Tokyo..
"Well, this view sall serve a good enough look at the carnage." she said.
A mysterious figure appears behind. "It doesn't matter. As long as those young, feeble minds are out there, it shall not trouble me at all." the person said, who doesn't seem to sound like 2V.
"Oh, there you go again. You're quite the selfish man. You just want to eat. Wouldn't you be worried turning overweight?"
"It's not a matter of weight, but of finding the perfect kind of flavor. That one girl…I still want to find her…"
"Whatever that girl is. I don't think she'll be that big of a threat."
Back with Hazuki and Mio in Mio's apartment home, as Hazuki cooks breakfast, she then sneezes.
"Hey! Someone's talking about you!" said Mio.
"Damn it…I swear, what used to be SVC headquarters...I still think there might be something more there!" said Hazuki.
"Oh, that again? As great as I like to join in conspiracies, I just don't think it's possible. It's been abandoned for months. No way in hell is there anything fishy going on there."
"That's what you think—" Hazuki then sneezes, as she then growls and opens the door and yells "FUCK YOU, BUILDIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!" as she then slams the door shut.
"H-Hazuki? You better need to cool down and rest, 'cause signs of yelling at inanimate objects means you're a little looney."
"Yeah. Yeah…"
"Also, congrats on yelling your first ever F-word." Mio said with a chuckle.
"Just wanted to let out some steam."
"At least rest a little, 'kay?" Mio then returns to check on her multiple monitors.
Hazuki sighs, then thinks to herself, "I won't be satisfied…until that god-forsaken building is out of my sight. For the rest of my life."
[2nd opening: "Arlandria" by Foo Fighters]
Ain't that the way it always starts Hey, don't go and turn the other way
A simple round of conversation
Became a shameful equation
I flipped from station to station
Don't say there's nothing more to say
Come on, hear me out
Hush, hush, settle down
Button up, don't make a sound
Shame, shame, go away
Come again some other day
You used to say I couldn't save you enough You are not me
So I've been saving it up, I started saving it up
And when you said I couldn't give you enough
I started giving you up, I started giving you up
Arlandria, Arlandria
You and what army?
Arlandria, Arlandria
Oh, God you gotta make it stop!
Oh, God you gotta make it stop!
Episode 9: Toxicity
"A WHOLE OTHER ALTERNATE WORLD?!", the group exclaimed.
"Correct." said Mitsuko. "She must really have that big of an ego, that CIMO8 probably have built her some sort of gate that can take her to any kind of world she wants, but even alternate universes."
A long pause then happens, as the group exchanged unbelivable faces.
"So…how did you know this, anyways?" said Keena.
"I'll tell you when we get to my laboratory." said Mitsuko.
"Don't tell me…" said Lily.
She leads them to her office, as she hits a part of a wall, turning the small part over into small button numbers as she types 061411 as now a part of the floor opens, with stairs below.
"Don't be afraid to follow me, guys, c'mon." said Mitsuko.
"Well, we'd never thought to see a laboratory, but it's possible." said Gavin.
"And what happened more sooner was me killing a guy. Wow, that could not have sounded out-of-context. But hey, he still deserved it." said Keena.
They walk to the stars, following Mitsuko until they reach the bottom, as the lights turn on, showing every nook and cranny of the laboratory.
"Welcome, my friends! I call it the Mitsukopad!" said Mitsuko.
"And not Mitsukoratory?" said Kanna.
"I admit, as punny as it sounds, that at least tries to be funny." said Arnoul.
"Nevermind the beezwax, guys. What's important is that." said Mitsuko as she points to a gate-like structure, with a computer keyboard on the low-right side, also a notable tiny red light flashing above.
"Nope, still doesn't explain why Eiko's basically pulling a Butterfly Effect on us. How does that know why it's Eiko, anyways?" said Michie.
"Eiko's is most likely a prototype CIMO8 made. Believe it or not, it's actually inferior compared to this one, which is probably what CIMO8 was trying to do. This one acctually is able to identify, as I say "wannabes", as a way to alert the cops. However, knowing CIMO8's security, they probably already knew that and realized the cops wouldn't localize them anyways." said Mitsuko.
"So they probably not just used Eiko to travel around the school for a bit, to be cautious, but possible blueprints of our notable technology…" said Lily.
Keena gasps, then saying "And they're copying us to see if they're able to one us up!"
"Most likely. However, they're inferior due to the fact that they're better at making their own projects. You know, it's funny how we know a lot about them yet can't localize them." said Mitsuko with a small laugh.
The group respond with a small groan. "No side-jokes, ma'am, just keep up with the exposition." said Arnoul.
"Oh, right." Mitsuko then clears her throat, "The odder thing is that she was oddly specific. She's not even in an alternate present, she's on an alternate world…and it takes place in the future."
"Guess she wanted the easiest path. Apocalyptic, maybe." said Gavin.
"As long as Roland Emmerich doesn't direct it, it's okay. Goddamn "Pull-Ups" line…" said Michie.
Keena then steps forward. "We're in."
"WHAT?!" the rest of the group exclaimed.
"To just let Eiko ramble around not just that world, maybe other ones? No way! She might kill innocent people and abuse her power! We can go beyond than just our Academy! Who's with me?!"
After a small pause, then Gavin raises his hand, "I'm with you! Not just for love, but she just shouldn't screw around others like that!"
Lily shrugs, "Parallel worlds…well, that shall be amusing to witness and be involved with. I'll go, too!"
Michie chuckles a bit, "Well, that does it, I have to join in. Can't leave myself behind. I'm in, too."
"This might be a problem, though…that means we can't defend the Academy. I just know Eiko could have something up her sleeve, knowing her. She could send some of her fellow teammates to attack us…" said Keena.
After thinking for a while, Kanna then raises her hand, then saying "Me and Arnoul shall keep the Academy in company…if you don't mind."
"Well, that's fine enough with me." said Arnoul.
"But…hmm…" said Keena, with slight concern.
"Keena-kins, hey, I know you want all of us to be together, but it's best to let them fight their own battles, which could involve a possible attack here. We don't want any major risks." said Gavin.
"Even so…" said Keena.
"Trust us, Keena. If I was lying, my ears would twitch." said Kanna.
"What happens when you shake your legs, like what you're doing, right now?" said Michie.
"It's this parallel universes business. Scaryyy…"
Keena then laughs, then hugs Kanna and Arnoul. "I'm happy that you both understand. When the time comes, kick ass for us, 'kay?" she said.
"You got it!" said Kanna.
"Count on us." said Arnoul.
After hugging them, Keena then walks to Mitsuko. "The four of us are going, and no one's gonna stop us."
"Mm, you're all pretty brave. You know what they say; time heals all wounds!" said Mitsuko.
"There's no time machine around your lab, ma'am." said Gavin.
Keena, Gavin, Lily and Michie approach the gate as Mitsuko then deals with the controls.
"Accourding to the gate, this universe takes place in 2035. I count on you to know possible future dangers!" said Mitsuko.
"We aren't scared at all, but they're probably gonna be scared of us!" said Lily.
"We'll be totally safe, you can guarantee it!" said Michie.
"So…for the benefit of flash photography…" said Gavin.
"Both couples shall kiss!" said Keena as she kisses Gavin, then Lily and Michie also kiss each other.
"Do I need a camera?" said Mitsuko.
"Oh, no, it's sort of our catch phrase thingy. That was sort of a practice session." said Keena, chuckling.
"My idea. All mine." said Gavin proudly.
"'Kay, flashy lights, vibrant colors, dramatic typing…now over the top lever pull!" said Mitsuko as she indeed pulls the lever to make the gate functional.
"Now,as Van Halen once said, let's go ahead and JUMP!" said Keena as the four of them jumped through the gate.
"The world is at stake, their lives is at the line, will they be able to save be world before—" Mitsuko said, before being interrupted by Kanna, "Thank you for the stock lines, ma'am, but try to practice being serious." "I'm trying to add a positive light about this, wolfy."
"Still…really hope they can make it out fine." said Arnoul
In the alternate future Japan, it's a sunny day with no clouds above as the group have now arrived in an empty street, with a camera noticing from one of the electric posts.
"Well, the films were wrong. Even on a crappy future, there can still be days such as this." said Michie.
"Actually, this future doesn't look too crappy to me…" said Lily.
"Yeah, it's looks perfectly fine…but I do feel suspiciousness." said Gavin.
"Thing is…where could it be?" said Keena.
Back with Hazuki and Mio…
"Hazuki, look! There are people there!" said Mio.
"Where?" said Hazuki, now quickly joining her to see the monitor.
"It's from camera number…10, so only a bit behind us!"
Hazuki immediately runs out the door and climbs to the roof.
"Hey, don't leave me this time! Even if I don't jump on roofs like you, I'm coming with!"
"Take your tiiiime!" said Hazuki in a slight teasing tone.
"Uuuugh…note to self; she's the new Hazuki Makino, although it's still a rough change…" said Mio as she runs.
Back with the group, Lily starts pondering.
"Hmm…maybe we should check houses to see if people are inside."
"Not so sure. They'd think we're drunk or soemthing. It'd be like "Hey, we're from a past in another world, shall we help you?" Then, they'd slam the door on us! Like they would buy that." said Gavin.
"Maybe we could try not telling them the "we're from an alternate world past" part." said Keena as Hazuki is seen leaping from a roof to try to attack them with her knife.
"Holy shit, Keena, behind you!" yelled Gavin as Keena then is able to stop Hazuki by using her hands to stop her wrists, preventing her surprise attack. Hazuki then backflips back.
"What's your beef?! Do you work for the enemy of something?!" yelled Keena.
"Are you guys infected by the virus? Or are you people from around here?"said Hazuki.
"Not gonna tell you, since you almost tried to slice me!"
"Force of habit…both of us haven't communicated with ones like our own in a while…damn it, my apologies…" said Hazuki as she bows.
"W-wait…what's going on?"
"Have you been in a coma for the past 12 years or something?"
Keena sighs, "You have no choice but to believe us in this."
"Are you…from overseas or something?"
"We should indeed tell her the truth."s aid Lily.
"Okay, yes, we're from overseas and also…werefromanalternatepastandhe ardaboutyoursituationsowetoo ksomesortofgatetotakeustothi sworldand—"
Hazuki then interrupts Keena, "Slow! Down! I do not speak the hyperfast language."
Keena takes a deep breath, "We're from the past, but from a completely different world. We took some sort of gate to take us here since there's a girl who's quite evil that might be damaging this world."
A small pause happens. Hazuki tries hard not to laugh.
"Yeah, who saw that coming."
"Actually, I believe you."
Another small pause happens.
"You're not lying, aren't you?"
"No. My, uh… friend actually immediately noticed that she's indeed not from this world."
Mio then joins in. "The green-haired girl, right? My hacking skills was able to identify her. Already from looking at her, she's bad news."
"Of course, she's bad news, Lily, what are you, blind as a bat?" said Michie.
"Um, Michie, that wasn't me who said that, it was her." said Lily, then pointing to Mio.
Yet another small pause happens.
"Holy crap, you two have the same voice." said Gavin in a distraught tone.
"And they're both blonde." said Keena.
"Not the point here, guys!" said Mio. "Listen well—" Mio then gets interrupted by a couple of the virus infectees slowly approaching from two directions.
"No time for exposition, Mio! I dunno where they came from, but we should take them out, anyways!" said Hazuki.
"What the—zombies?!" said Gavin.
"We gotta deal with this again?!" said Michie.
"Wait, again?" said Hazuki.
"Long story. Do we need guns against these guys?" said Keena.
"They don't bite you, but if they grab you, they'll try to pull your damn limbs off. Luckily, they're slow to attack."
"Good, cause hopefully, you enever try to attack me again."
"Force of habit, but looks like we might be teammates from now on."
Everyone then all prepare their battle stances.
"You're not gonna fight?" said Lily.
"Oh, I am. Watch." said Mio as she pulls out her familiar small blue monster plushie thing. "Her name's Mindy and she's all I need for these kinds of fights.", she continued as she pulls out a pair of nunchucks.
"Better do something than nothing." said Lily.
"Likewise."
"On my mark…" said Hazuki as a few seconds then roll by.
"GO!" yelled Keena.
"Reckless, aren't you?" said Hazuki.
"You're one to talk!" said Gavin.
The whole group begin their attack facing 9 infectees. Keena starts with a powerslide, avoiding them, then successfully attemps a powerful double bycicle kick, able to smash both their heads off. "A staple of rock and roll just saved me there." She said.
Gavin delivers a couple of european uppercuts to an infectee as he then lifts him in a suplex position and delivers a spike brainbuster on it, effectively knocking him out permanently. He then shouts out "O-le, ole ole ole!"
Lily throws two punches then backflips and jumps, "Sphererical Womp!", also able to demolish the infectee. "Didn't sound like I belched the move's name this time."
Michie uses her screech attack on two more infectees, blowing all the body parts with the exeption of the heads as they land on the ground. She then kicks both heads straight up to the sky, creating two twinkles. "Did that without steroids. Wait, are steroid jokes still funny?" she said.
Hazuki twirls her knife and crouches as she slices an infectee in half. "Somebody order a dead split?" she joked.
Mio dlivers three nunchuck attacks against the remaining infectee, then wrapping around it's neck, and somehow able to pop the head off. "And that's a wrap." she said.
"It's sort of disturbing that they don't seem to have blood in their bodies…" said Keena.
"Hm, they must be slightly more mutated ones…" said Hazuki.
"So wait, the virus itself can probably turn these people into even monsters?" said Michie.
"Correct. Best to go back to our apartment to fill you in the details."
They then run away on a different direction, as a mysterious figure is on a roof wearing a full body black armor, only watching them run.
Back at Mio's apartment home, the whole group all sit in chairs.
Hazuki then says "This whole mess started when I was only 2 years old. It started when some chemical spills infected the waters outside from a power plant. Instead of warning us, they tried to take take of the problem as quickly as they could. Considering how much people drink water, it would've turned ugly quicklier. They apperantly though they could take care of it easily. A year later, about 10 thousand people were reported to be infected. It took only 5 years before a high percentage of people worldwide would be caught by it. We're stuck with this damned virus for generations to come thanks to recklessness and overconfidence…"
"Jesus…" said Keena, destraught.
"Presumably, it is said that they don't mutate, but recent research have shown that it's a slow process at first, and that they can turn into fast, ferocious monsters that show no mercy. When their whole blood is gone, it would mean they're close to their second mutation, but we're able to stop it just minutes ago. For a while, it seemed that they wouldn't enter through to here, but they've been slowly entering in somehow in the past few days." said Mio.
"As a result, We've been taking care of things around here. There are civilians in houses, but need police to guide them." said Hazuki.
"Just you two? No one else?" said Lily.
Both Hazuki and Mio remain quiet as Mio then covers her face.
"Your friends died, didn't they?" said Gavin.
"Two of them are out there somewhere and one of them died, but not from the virus…she was murdered from a different sort of subject. Her name was Yuko Yabe. One of her friends thought she was plaguerizing from him, and even though we hid her and found a way to keep her safe with the police finding her, she still got killed." said Hauzki.
"I was a fucking idiot…all I could think was how the plan failed instead of mourning on her death…and got mad at Hazuki for no real reason other than being so selfish at myself…" said Mio, on the verge of tears.
"Mio…we've been through this. Ironically, we got too overconfident ourselves…Yabe would not want us to keep suffering for her, okay?" said Hazuki.
"F-fine…my apoligies for that…" said Mio.
"Were you able to avenge her?" said Keena.
"No…but maybe we still have a chance. You see…considering you're not even from this world, I assume you've never heard of the SVC. They're supposedly a protection service agency to take care of us, but in reality, they were taking kids our age so that the person in charge, Riichiro Ishida, can eat their organs."
The rest of the group respond with a gasp. "What a sick fuck…" said Michie.
"And you're planning on an attack on him, correct?" said Lily.
"Actually…the 4 of us faced him and he even threaten to eat me. One of our friends, naked Ayumi Kono just plain killed him. Looking back, I was horrified, but now…it would've made more sense if I killed him myself."
"So, you must have had these kinds of skills, recently, then." said Gavin.
"Actually…I was useless…couldn't defend myself like my friends, couldn't do anything…and then one day…while going out to hang around with Mio, a car pulled over right next to me, a guy then got out of the car and pulled out a gun, then aimed right at my forehead to threaten to shoot me unless I give him all the money I had, which I did. That's when I realized…I didn't want revenge, I just plain wanted to straight up murder him as payback. Mio warned me not to get involved, but it's either feel useless in a setting like this, or at least fight back. Mio just agreed, knowing that it's probably best not to back down without a fight. It wasn't for money. People like him needed to die. And so she hacked the the whole system, localizing the fucker's house so I can end his life. I immediately ran out, localized the house and as it turns out, he was about to shoot his little sister, who was only a baby, after already shooting his father, mother and uncle after an altercation. I figured it'd be more justifiable now to let this go unpunished.
And so he tried to shoot me, but I sliced his neck and proceeded to stab him, over…and over…and over… and over again. But not because of my own needs, but because he was just nothing but scum, no, lower than that. The girl found a new home with new parents…but she's ready and old enough to know what happened to her parents, all I hope is that she can move on. And so, it's the only time I've killed an actual human being, and it'll be the only one. I've controlled my rage since then, and trained, fighting to stay alive to what comes our way. It feels just about right. There's my story up to this point. Anythign else left to say?"
Ther rest of the group stare in concern and awe.
"Nothing else needs more to be said. And I thought I was the only one who once felt useless…this girl found a way to overcome her obstacles and never backed down from a fight…and just like me, even killed a person who would commit a grave action…I believe that as long as we're in this world, we should help her, and mabe even this whole world to become better." Keena thought.
"Hazuki?" Keena then said.
"Yes?"
"I admit…I can relate."
[2nd ending: "Audience Of One" by Rise Against]
I can still remember
The words and what they meant
As we etched them with our fingers
In years of wet cement
The days blurred into each other
Though everything seemed clear
We cruised along at half speed
But then we shifted gears
We ran like vampires from a thousand burning sons
But even then we should have stayed
But we ran away
Now all my friends gone
Maybe we've outgrown all the things that we once loved
Runaway
But what are we running from?
A show of hands from those in this audience of one
Where have they gone?
END OF EPISODE
