The Mutant Ashikabi
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After Z finished his call, he crushed the phone in his hand and headed out, only to come face to face with a frowning Karasuba.
"So," said the Black Sekirei, "what were you doing in there?"
"That's classified," said Z as he pushed past her, only to stop as Karasuba grabbed his neck and lifted him off the ground.
"I'd like an answer now," said Karasuba dangerously.
"I'm afraid you don't have the proper clearance," said Z, still managing to shrug as his windpipe was slowly crushed.
"I. Don't. Care," growled Karasuba.
"There are some things I keep secret for a reason," said Z.
"Karasuba!" yelled Takami from the doorway, "What do you think you're doing?"
The two of them turned and saw a particularly irate Takami standing there eying the Black Sekirei as she held her Ashikabi by the throat.
"Relax, Vice Director," smirked Karasuba as she tossed Z to the ground, "we were just having a discussion."
"You should be more careful with your 'discussions,'" said Takami, "you know what would happen if you killed him."
"Tch," said Z as he got up and headed to the door, "it takes more than that to kill me. I'm going on a walk."
"A walk?" exclaimed Takami, "You can't just take a walk! You're the Ashikabi of the two most powerful Sekirei in the Disciplinary Squad! You're a target all by yourself."
"Please," scoffed Z, "if an enemy can actually overpower and kill me, then they'll have well earned it."
With that, the young-looking mutant walked out of the room, heading for the elevator to the ground floor. As he left, Karasuba wondered what it would take for her Ashikabi to finally reveal his secrets. Making a decision, she got up and went to grab her sword.
xXsceneXx
"Jeez," sighed Z as he walked through the streets of Shin Teito, "it's been too long since I could just relax like this. There are way too many psychos and megalomaniacs trying to rule or destroy the universe these days."
The mutant sighed then chuckled slightly, "I wonder if Minaka would be considered a part of those categories? He's sure got the insanity bit down."
As he walked, he passed by several people going about their lives and he smiled, these people were happily oblivious to the pain and suffering in the world. As he paused to take a breath of air, he was caught off guard when what felt like a metal pole slammed into the back of his skull and sent him flying.
As Z jumped to his feet, he heard sinister laughter that made a slight chill run down his spine. The last time he had heard that voice, was the closest he had come to death in a while.
"Well well well," laughed a the voice, "I didn't think you survived our last fight, Zeta."
"Funny," said Z as he turned to face his opponent, "I thought the same of you, Tesla."
Standing behind the Ashikabi was a muscular man wearing metal armor with conduits running through it, and through the seams, scarred flesh could be seen. Z frowned as he remembered this old adversary and the trouble he had caused him.
xXflashbackXx
Deep within the core chamber of a powerful fusion reactor, two figures were locked in an intense brawl. They continued to trade powerful blows, but both of them were able to shrug off any injury and keep fighting.
"You won't beat me," laughed a younger Tesla with skin unblemished by the scars his present self had, "not with this much energy to feed my powers!"
"Only one of us is walking out of here," said Z as he slammed a powerful punch into his opponent, sending him skidding back, "and its not going to be you."
"We'll see about that," said Tesla as he got up, absorbing the atomic energy that was filling the reactor core.
Z frowned as burns formed on his skin from the radiation the reactor was giving off, his regenerative healing factor removing the injuries in a second. Cracking the metal covered bones in his neck, he got into a fighting stance and charged at the enemy mutant.
Tesla's skin glowed with energy and he swung at the SHIELD agent, sending him skidding back, but Z countered by ducking low and sweeping out Tesla's legs before slamming an elbow into his gut.
"You may be stronger here," said Z, "but I have experience on my side."
"We'll see about that," said Tesla as he ripped a metal piece out the core and used it as a club, smashing it into Z's face, dropping him with a slice across his cheek.
"Sneaky," muttered Z as the cut closed up.
Tesla swung the metal piece again, but Z blocked with his forearm and caught the arm in a lock, popping out the joint with a quick blow to the elbow, causing Tesla to cry out in pain.
"Heh," chuckled Z, "seems that, though you can match my strength and durability in this energy filled chamber, but you don't heal like me."
"Fuck you," growled Tesla as he broke Z's grip and popped his joint back into place with a grimace, "you won't beat me! Not here! Here, my power is INFIITE!"
Z breathed hard, as he could feel the radiation burning at him while his powers reversed the damage as soon as it occurred. He could drag this fight out, but with Tesla's powers allowing him to absorb the radioactive energy that was being emitted from the reactor core and convert it into more strength and durability for himself, he would eventually lose a battle of attrition. He needed to end this. Even his powers had limits.
Suddenly, it hit him: power has limits! If his did, then perhaps Tesla's did as well. It was time to do or die and test that theory the best way he could. He'd give Tesla what he wanted.
"You want power, Tesla?" said the mutant as he gathered his strength, "Then, TAKE IT ALL!"
Z slammed punch after powerful punch into Tesla's gut, slamming the mutant into the barrier surrounding the inner core of the Fusion Reactor. Z continued his onslaught, causing the barrier to break, allowing his opponent to fall into the core itself and become bombarded with the energies produced by the nuclear fusion.
Tesla's body began to glow as he absorbed all the energies and he began to cry out in pain as they filled him to his fullest capacity and continued to be absorbed. His powers began to fluxuate before he screamed and the fusion plant was ripped apart by a nuclear explosion akin in power to a reactor core meltdown.
xXflashback endXx
"That battle changed me," said Tesla, "absorbing all that energy caused a mutation in my powers. Now, I don't need to absorb energy for power, now I AM POWER!"
The Hydra mutant's body glowed with energy and he slammed a fist into the agent of SHIELD, sending him flying back, slamming through a tree trunk, coming to a stop when he smashed into a concrete wall, causing said wall to crumble.
"The mutant named Tesla is no more," laughed the enemy, "now, you can call me Meltdown!"
"Lovely," growled Z as he pulled himself out of the rubble.
The two mutants charged at each other before slamming punches at kicks into each other's bodies, creating small craters to form from the explosive clash of force. Unfortunately, the matchup was not in Z's favor, as, even though the two of them had matching levels of super strength, the now renamed Meltdown's blows came with an extra kick from the blasts of energy he expelled with every hit, and as their titanic struggle waged on, the genetically engineered warrior wasn't sure if he could win.
"Looks like you're going to die here, agent of SHIELD," smirked Tesla as he kicked Z across the street, sending him crashing into a building.
"Damnit," growled the mutant as Meltdown began to charge a ball of energy in his palms.
Meltdown was about to fire his attack, when suddenly, spears of ice erupted from the ground, forcing him to dodge or be impaled.
"You will not harm Ashikabi-sama," said Akitsu as she landed in a crouch.
"One girl won't save him," said Meltdown as he prepared to attack her, but he was cut off, quite literally in fact, when a blur shot past him and Karasuba's sword separated his arm from his body.
"Sorry," smirked the Black Ashikabi, "but I have a vested interest in keeping this kid alive."
"Damn you," growled Meltdown as he used a burst of energy to cauterize his stump, "you'll regret interfering. You do not know the power HYDRA has supporting it."
Using his remaining arm, the mutant threw down a flash bang, giving himself time enough to escape from Z's angry Sekirei. Once the two saw that the threat had left, the two Sekirei walked over to their downed Ashikabi to check on him.
"Are you alright?" asked Akitsu.
"I'm fine, Akitsu," said Z, "thank you for the assist."
"Now," said Karasuba, "the two of us are tired of you holding out. You're gonna tell us what's going on NOW, or things are gonna get ugly."
"Fine," grunted Z, "I guess you've seen enough anyways to be covered under need-to-know protocol, so here it goes…"
xXsceneXx
"Things have been rather dull recently," mused Homura, the self appointed Guardian of unwinged Sekirei, "but at least I haven't had an attack recently."
As the androgynous man walked down the streets, in casual gear of course, he paused when he saw a young woman with long black hair walking down the street. Suddenly, he felt a familiar heat surge through him as his breath hitched and he clutched his chest.
"No way," he muttered, "it's her..."
Staggering after the woman as she walked away, texting on her phone, the Fire Sekirei unknowingly set more events in motion that would forever change the tides of the coming war.