Infinite Stratos: Advent of Will
There are some changes I will list:
1) After the Kidnapping: The six months that Chifuyu and Ichika spent before she left for Germany for a year.
2) Ichika's interaction with the Byakushiki.
3) This fan-fiction will incorporate parts of each I.S. Medium (Light Novel, Manga, and Anime) with some changes here and there AS NECESSARY.
4) This fan-fiction will incorporate parts of Green Lantern (Comic and animation) AS NECESSARY, mostly focusing on Ichika's power.
5) This is the Dialogue layout: "Regular Dialogue"- "Ring Dialogue"- "Ion's Dialogue"- (Ichika's thought Dialogue)-{Sound effect} –"Aya's Dialogue" - "Adara's Dialogue"
6) Most importantly: I DO NOT own Green lantern as it is the property of DC Comics and all it subsidiaries and I DO NOT own Infinite Stratos/ISインフィニット・ストラ as it is the property of Izuru Yumizuru, Media factory, and various other companies.
(Read it like the "A*row" intro.)
My name: is Orimura Ichika and I am the avatar of Will.
Once, I was just the younger brother of an ace I.S. pilot, until a plot against her put me in harms way, but in finding the strength to overcome my fear and protect my family, a powerful force chose me. Now, I am the "Beacon of Light" in the darkness, where those in fear of evil may go to. I AM: THE GREEN LANTERN!
Chapter 10: The White Knight.
Contained informative chaos. That was what was going on. All this information was pretty hard to sink into my head. I needed air and left the ship to gather my thoughts together. I flew off into the air in whatever direction I could take. I had to wonder what the future had in store, what the universe expected from me, what was expected from this ring, and what my friends and family would say if say if something happened to me. Can I fill the role that true heroes behind, and if so, do I have the right? I know I have a duty to this ring but do I have what it takes to do it right?
I could only run the questions in my head as I, without realizing it, flew out of Japan.
Back at the ship Chifuyu-nee and the others still in a quiet discussion about the situation.
"WHAT THE HELL!" She yelled. "I understand that he needed to learn this, but that was too much to lay on him all at once!"
"I'm sorry, but I was sure he would have taken it in without trouble!" Ganthet apologized with a slight hint of annoyance. "He had such a similar mind set as Hal Jordan that I thought-!"
"ICHIKA IS NOT HAL JORDAN!" Chifuyu-nee had enough. "I get that Jordan-san has left a large hole in the ranks of the corps and in the hearts of those who knew him, but don't you DARE put the expectations you had on him on my little brother! He is still a child by our people's standards, too young for this kind of responsibility!"
Ganthet remained silent. She was right. He had put Hal's image on Ichika so completely that he had almost forgotten who it was that had the ring now. Sayd remained quiet as she knew he needed this realization, while Ion and Aya studied the drama as it unfolded.
"…I'm truly sorry." Ganthet bowed. "I forgot myself. It has only been a year since his death that I still have not gotten over it. We have worked together for so long that I had forgotten how fragile a human he was." He then floated to the right side of his control panel and smiled a little but turned so his back was to everyone. "Hal and Walker were of the few who got my jokes. Both I and Hal Jordan had always been close like brothers since the Manhunter war long ago, something we we're responsible for…"
"So past failures came back to haunt you?" She figured. "And Jordan-san saved you when things got worse."
Ganthet Nodded "He always knew the best way to handle a situation and has "pulled our bacon out of the fire" more times than I could count. He even saved the Guardians of the Universe from complete physical and political destruction. When he took a seat with us, he made a fine leader. After he left the seat, we strove to be more honest and upfront as he did with not just the corps but with the universe at large."
"And what about Saint Walker-san?" Chifuyu-nee asked, trying to drawing his feelings out. "What was he like?"
"Saint Walker… He had been a moral compass with his devout belief in hope. He would always find a way to make me and Sayd laugh even through the darkest times and many came to him for moral advice in times of personal crisis. He saved many souls from corruption and inducted many who felt great hope in his words of wisdom and still he always smiled no matter how horrible the things he had seen. For him, there was a positive spin for everything. He always felt that much of his strength came from his wife and two children. "
Then Ganthet began to shake. All those memories were starting to take their toll, his feelings bubbling to the surface. "When they died, I didn't know what to do… I had to tell their families of their loss, I had to tell the respective corps of their sacrifice. I had to do so much with getting everything back in order. So I kept smiling and pretending that their sacrifice was an expected result of their dedication to the safety of the universe, but in truth, I was dying inside. I was angry, sad, and in pain. I had no time to grieve as all that work dipped into everything I did." He turned to his companions. "And I, without realizing it until now, distanced myself from those closest to me…" He couldn't say more as quiet sobs could be heard. Sayd swiftly went to his side and held him.
"My apologies, but he needed this." She said softy as she held the crying guardian in her arms. "I had worried that he was losing himself in his work and he never truly opened himself to me, or anyone else for that matter, about Hal and Walker's deaths. They were like younger brothers to him."
"…I understand. I would've been a wreck if something happened to Ichika." Chifuyu-nee said with her features softened some. "Sometimes the responsibilities we carry take precedence over what we want to do. Ganthet carried that burden when the universe needed him most. I think its best that he takes the time to heal in private."
"Understood." Sayd agreed. "We are sorry for burdening your brother with the task ahead of him, and we will be more delicate when next we meet, and I hope it will be as friends."
"I welcome that." She said with a slight smile. "Now go take care of your husband."
Sayd only smiled and with that the transmission ended. Chifuyu-nee was left with her thoughts for a minute before she straightened out and turned to the floating eye on the control panel.
"Now then, Aya." Chifuyu-nee began.
"Yes, ma'am." Aya answered in response.
"We are going to find my brother."
"Understood searching for Green Lantern energy signals." She was quiet for a moment but questions swirled her processors. "Ms. Orimura?"
"Yes, Aya?"
"What is the feeling of loss like?"
Chifuyu-nee was surprised not by the question itself, but who the question came from. For an A.I. to ask about something like that meant she may be capable of growing further as an individual. She took a moment to think before finding an answer. "What would happen if you lost a part of yourself?"
"I would simply head to the nearest Oan repair depot for part replacement."
"Now what would happen if they didn't have any parts to replace what you lost for some reason or another? Never mind the fact that they do."
Aya calculated the answer but couldn't find anything satisfactory except. "I would be incomplete."
"That would probably be the feeling we would have when we've lost someone close to us."
"I do not fully understand." Aya said, unsure of what it meant.
"Don't worry about it." Chifuyu-nee sighed. "I just hope you never have to get that feeling."
"Ms. Orimura, I think -! Attention! Yellow radiation detected in the 55th Quadrant!" Aya alerted. "It is attacking Mr. Orimura!"
"Where is that!?" Chifuyu-nee ordered.
The screen pulled up the map of the earth and two blips in the same area. South Africa.
"I want us there now!"
Some time before, a really good distance away.
I was flying pretty fast but hadn't noticed as I was lost in my thoughts. (What does it mean to be a Green Lantern? How can could I be the light they need? Do I have the right to use this ring? Do I have the strength to be… more?) The questions kept coming and I didn't have the answers. I looked at my ring wondering how I could I carry on the will of such great people. I looked away from my ring and realized that I didn't recognize the landscape.
"Ring, where are we?" I asked as I saw a tree that I recognized from a book somewhere called a Baobab or something.
"We are currently in Africa on the southern section." The ring answered. "At the current speed we will be in the capital of Verenigde City."
"Seriously?!" I shouted. "Hmm… I've always wanted to go there… Why not?" I shrugged as I decided my new destination.
South Africa grew from a small nation into a free republic that reached half the entire country ten years before the new era began and the I.S. from there, which are known for their speed and the rescue teams and self-defense force that utilized them, dominated the I.S. Grand Prix, a major racing circuit. While they do have an imposing aura about them, they're generally more a peaceful nation, unlike North Africa, which is now run by a corrupt despot. I remember I was going on a class trip there some time ago, but it got canceled before we even got out the classroom due to a skirmish between the two nations breaking out. But now this was a good chance to go see the sights and get some things off my mind.
As I got closer to the city, I noticed smoke coming out from the city. Worried, I flew faster until I saw fires all over the place coming off buildings and terrified people running about. Recue teams were at full operation. Medical workers and self defense units were doing their best to contain the situation while fighting off soldiers.
"What going on!?" I yelled. "Ring, why wasn't I told about this!?"
"Yellow energy radiation is causing interference." The ring replied.
"Yellow energy?" I questioned. "Never mind I'm going in!" Deciding to put that to the side, I headed to the city to provide assistance and save some lives but as soon as I reached the outer edges of the city...
{BOOM!}
"AH!" I yelled at something yellow hit me square on. I fell some feet down before I corrected myself. I looked around to see what hit me but nothing came to sight until a voice spoke.
"Hm. Hm. Hm. So. The great Green Lantern graces us with his presence." said the voice. "Funny. I thought you'd be taller."
"And who, may I ask, is addressing me?" I ordered as I took on my serious persona.
"I am the nightmare who haunts the dreams of "would-be" heroes."
"That tells me nothing. Now answer me!"
{BOOM}
"UGH!" Instead of a reply, an explosion happened right next to me, knocking me back. I readied my ring and created a bubble shield to fortify my defense, but against an enemy you can't see, I'm not sure how effective I would be against who ever it was that's attacking.
"Aww. The little hero thinks that soap bubble will protect him. HA HA HA!"
"I demand you tell me who you are!" I was getting tired of this guy, and his creepy voice sounded familiar.
"I don't take demands from you!" Then a yellow beam of energy fired out of nowhere and pierced the bubble hitting me square in the shoulder. As it broke through, it felt like taking a sack of potatoes to the head and when it hit me I could only think about the pain. (AGH! I think this is what getting shot by a bullet feels like.) Fighting the pain, I fired multiple shots while I backed away from the direction of the shot that hit me. Just when I thought I was a good distance away, yellow colored machines suddenly appeared, ten in number, with barrels pointed right at me. (AW CRAP!)
"DIE!" Was all I heard as the flying drones fired.
The ship was entering African airspace while my sister, in the captain's seat, scanned for me. She understood from the conversation that yellow energy meant one, or more, Sinestro corpsmen may have come to earth to take me out.
"Aya, E.T.A.!" She ordered.
"Estimated time of arrival four minutes."
"Are the ship's weapon ready?"
"I'm sorry, but the ships weapons are deactivated."
"What!? Why!?" She demanded.
"The ships armaments and hyper drive are sealed by Oan lock protocols, which separate me from the programs needed." Aya explained. "Without Guardian Ganthet's approval code, I am unable to unlock both systems."
Chifuyu-nee was in a bind as she knew Ganthet was not emotionally up for another talk and even contacting them may take time. Deciding to take matters into her own hands she walked over to the bridge door.
"I'm heading to the Hanger bay! When we get to the location, open the doors, I'll be heading out in my I.S.!" She said as she readied herself for battle.
"But if the enemy combatants are Sinestro Corpsmen, your weapon will be out classed and your identity will be known as multiple recording devices are in use, possibly revealing the identity of Ichika Orimura."
"Then that's the risk I take. I have to save my little brother." Chifuyu-nee said as she was heading down the hall. She quickly made her way to the hub that leads to the hall that connects to the hanger bay, as she turned to the direction of it, Aya came down in her machine eye pillar.
"If there was a possibility for you to become capable to fight on par with a Lantern corpsman, while ensuring your identity remained out of earth media control, would you take it?
"If it helps me save Ichika faster then yes." She looked at the eye for a second as she wondered what was going on in Aya's processors.
"Then I believe I may be able to assist you." She said highlighting the elevator next to her.
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Let face it. I was getting my butt kicked.
As my invisible enemy, who has access to bit drone technology, was busy taking me apart, I looked at my situation, hoping to find a way to counter him.
(OK, review time. I'm battered, bruised, and in lots of pain. My left arm and right leg have seen better days, meaning I won't be as effective in close quarters combat. As for my enemy, he's invisible and somehow able to attack without setting off my ring's sensors meaning it might be a new experimental weapon and I may as well be fighting blind. He's creepy in a "familiar" way and seems to have it out for me, so he might be someone I've tangled with in the past. His weapons are yellow flying drones that can attack me in any position and is able to penetrate my shields. When I do shoot one down, another comes from nowhere to take its place. I need an angle, a form of attack, but how?)
As I tried to figure my enemy out, he didn't feel like waiting.
"If you're done thinking about where you'll be buried, I believe I have solution for that." He said with a slimy tone. "I burn up your body and spread your ashes to the winds!" He then fired away.
While I dodged most of the shots, some hit and I was getting weaker by the moment. Then five of the drones converged on each other and combined forming a bigger drone. The other drones firing, keeping me in place, while the big one charged and blasted me dead on.
It hit. It hurt. I blacked out.
My enemy's big drone moved to the crater it made, I was unconscious in the center of it. As it readied another charge a blue wave of energy sliced it in half causing it to split in two and explode.
"WHAT!?" The invisible man yelled. "WHO DARES!?"
"I dare." Said an armored woman, calmly walking into the field. She stood tall as she sunk the tip of an energy broad sword with it's glowing blue blade in the ground, her right hand on top of the handle's end. She wore a violet body suit incased in white armor with bits of black and magenta from her waist, legs and arms. Two large white and magenta bit engines following at her sides. Her head was enclosed in a full white and magenta helmet with fins on ether side. Her tone was vibrating as to hide her voice. "I would suggest that you leave while I still feel merciful."
"Who the hell are-!" The invisible enemy stopped in mid sentience as he recognized her. "YOU! YOU'RE THE WHITE KNIGHT!"
"Never mind that, let's just get this started." She said as she removed the sword from the ground, took flight, and readied her stance.
"Heh! All right then!" The bits immediately went to work surrounding her. I've always wanted to kill a legend!
"Humph!" was all she said as she waved her sword in a circle. From it, a wave of bladed energy sliced through each and every one of the bits, making them explode.
"If sending these toys after me are all you can do, then I have to question whether or not, you have the brass to face me directly." The knight mocked. "Then again with a creepy voice like yours, I doubt it."
"I AM NOT A CREEP!" He screamed as the sky cracked and broke apart revealing himself using a box -like device that was firmly crushed in his hand. Wearing a yellow army fatigues with black boots, gloves, and balaclava with a symbol of a different Lantern Corps on his back and on his belt buckle. He threw away the box, then created a yellow rifle construct, raised his ring at her, and began to recite his oath.
[In the deepest pit of bravery]
[Fear is the greatest slavery]
[To those who walk the blackest night]
[Behold the terror of Maltimor's might!]
"Quite a name, but I don't think you can live up to it." She said. "In my opinion I'm sure you come up "Short." In reality she didn't think someone would take the time to speak an oath in the middle of a battle, but this also meant that he was sure of his power. She could use that against him.
"Damn B!tch!" He yelled as he took aim. "I am the terror that moves through the minds of the populous, putting order through fear, and ensuring death to all who stand in my way." He then started shooting at his opponent. "Die, Die, DIE!"
Even though she dodged each shot with expert precision, she had to admit, he has some long range skills, but he was angry and that made him sloppy. She moved towards the sky as she made her way closer and closer to him, motioning him to try his luck. As for Maltimor, he took the bait and changed his gun into a serrated knife-like sword. Dashing towards her; he swung it, looking to behead her fast but she blocked it and kicked him back, swinging her own blade almost taking a leg off if he hadn't backed away further using her kick for his momentum.
They clashed as each swing hit blade to blade as both fighters tried to feel out an opening. As Maltimor swung his blade, he realized he wasn't getting anywhere with an opponent that can go blow for blow with him. Every time he sped up, she would match him. Every military technique he used, she would counter it with the same precision. He drove his sword down only for her to block it, then in record time, she let go of her weapon and worked his body with ten blows to his abdomen, grabbed her sword before it fell past her waist, and took a swing at him, only for him to move back just in time. He was in pain, he needed a way to defend against her, and then it hit him. A heavy war armor to deal with her attacks, and get some hits in. Making a bright flash of yellow light as a diversion, he managed to get some distance from her to create his defenses.
"AH!" She said in surprise as she backed away from the flash. When the flash died down, she saw what could only be a large being covered from head to toe with yellow and black metal, his shoulders and chest emblazoned with the Sinestro Corps symbol, and floating with a yellow machine rifle. "Tch!" She look at the crater with me still knocked out from earlier. She looked back at the enemy and knew her sword might not be enough to get though and that she didn't have time for this. So she lowered her weapon and uttered two words:
"Cavalry Mode!"
The effect was immediate as the large Pods disappeared and blue fins formed around her body armor, a blue circle appeared in her helmet and her leg armor had blue covers on her shins. Her skirt that had blade like ends disappeared and her two of the four fin skirts broke off and vanished leaving two of them that had one on her over her left leg and one behind her right. Her sword, that she was so well known for, changed as well as the hilt became a long handle and the blade shortened and became brighter. She then grabbed it with both hands and spun it into a battle stance.
Maltimor was surprised to say the least but held firm in his belief that she would not get pass his defenses. But that belief would be broken as he sudden found himself with a hole in his armor and a spear in his chest, his skin could feel the tip of the blade just lightly touching him where his heart would be. White Knight backed away with spear in tow as she pointed it at him.
"That was me going slow." She pointed out. "Don't think for a moment that I can't reach through your armor."
"Che!" Maltimor said in a panic. He knew with his power, he could out-class her in an instant but he also knew that he was at a disadvantage with her unknown new form, the fact she did not fear him, and no plan to go on. With no other option he had to make a tactical retreat.
"In that case, don't think for a moment that this is over, Knight!" He then created another yellow flash bomb, but instead of flinching away, she stood firm focused on the center. You could use the same trick only once before she learned to defend against it, but he disappeared when the light faded.
Checking her surroundings for a moment and determining that Maltimor had truly left she changed back to her original form and Headed over to me. I was still unconscious as she checked to see if I was all right. Seeing as I was still alive, she sighed in relief and carefully picked me up and flew to the ship in the short distance. I opened my eyes for a moment to see the legendary White Knight carrying me. Noticing me, she could only mutter. "You really do worry me, you know?" I was going to say something, only to pass again.
When I sort of came too, I was in some large container filled with blue colored water and a mask over my mouth and nose. It was hazy but I saw Chifuyu-nee talking to Aya in her eye ball form, I couldn't hear what they were saying but it seemed serious. I was about to move but then sleep came over me so fast…
I woke up in bed. But not mine; it was the infirmary in the ship's medical bay. When I looked at myself, I was wearing plain white pajama shirt and pants. I was about to get out when pain hit me all over my body. Thinking that it would be better to rest, I laid back down. Not sure of what had happened, I began to recall the fight I had with the invisible attacker and the beating I took from his bits. I felt stupid. Looking back, there were a number of things I could've, should've, done that would have changed the outcome of that fight. As I kept thinking about what I should have done back then, the door opened with Chifuyu-nee came in with a flat tablet-like object with a hologram of a person standing with its arms out and data next to him.
"So, you're back to the land of the living?" She said, looking up with a furrow in her brow. She only does that when she is holding back something she wants to really say. "I'm going to assume you got in over your head."
"I'm lucky to be alive…" I said, setting myself into a more comfortable position. "The only thing I can really be thankful for is White Knight saving me." I gave her a look that said that I knew.
Her reaction was a small smile and a raised eyebrow, meaning she was somewhat surprised. I always knew she had something to do with the "White Knight Incident", I just wasn't sure in what way, and after seeing the I.S. armor up close, I figured it out. She IS the White Knight. (You know, I can only think back as the girls in my class squealed at the mere mention of her, calling her White Knight-Onee-sama, and the guys wondering how hot she was with out the mask and armor. I wonder what they would say if they knew my sister and the White Knight were one and the same. Well, I doubt they'll figure it out like I did. I mean, I pretty sharp about things.)
She explained so far, after she saved my bacon, she placed me in the medical bay and Aya took it from there. From the bio-scan, I had bruises all over my body, a broken arm, cracked tibia, and micro fractures on my ribs. Aya then quickly, but carefully, hovered me over to the tank with special fluids filled with swimming nano-bots to fix up the major damages while keeping me asleep. With me safely out of harms way and receiving medical attention, she went back to the city to help out. Turns out, the city was attacked by the north with the Sinestro corpsman, Maltimor as he calls himself, leading the charge but after he left. Most of the invaders bugged out as well, leaving the destruction of a quarter of the city behind. Some of the soldier's left behind kept fighting but with the combined forces of my sister and the fast moving Self - Defense force, they were quickly captured and would be interrogated and tried for their crimes. It didn't take long for news crews, out in the battlefield, to record White Knight helping out with the relief effort. Needless to say the world at large will find out about this soon enough and either be up in arms about it or welcome the warrior that challenged the world. As for me I had been asleep for two days in that tank and let out an hour ago and placed in the bed.
At the moment, I was not feeling good, ether it was the bruises from the beat down I got from Maltimor or my feelings of being weak when the people needed me. Chifuyu-nee saw the look I was making. "Use what you've experienced as a stepping stone to better yourself."
"Yeah…" I said agreeing to her words. But then I had a question that anyone in there right minds would ask. "How exactly did you get your I.S.? I didn't see any stand-by equipment."
"That's for another day." She replied. "You just focus on recovering."
"Ok…" I said.
"Besides, I need to get a certain someone here to answer that. Do you mind if I bring Tabane here?" She asked, as the ship was still Ichika's.
"Sure, just keep her away from anything important." We both knew she had a habit of taking apart new tech that interests her.
"The optimal location would be the conference room on the third level." Aya advised. "Shall I redirect the hanger bay to the second hub level?"
"How many levels are on the ship?" I asked, concerned about getting needlessly lost one day.
"This ship has five standard levels for different uses." Aya answered.
"OK then, as long as the conference room is the only room she gets to." I warned, thinking back on that time when I was six and she took my toy remote car's electric battery and added a supped up engine that blew a hole in a wall. I've never seen a person move so fast when my sister came home and saw it. She chased her for miles.
With that said you should get some rest. It's already 23:00 P.M." She turned to leave. "Good night, Ichika."
"Good night, sis." I then turn to the wall panel with a blue eye on the screen. "Good night, Aya."
"Rest well, Mr. Orimura."
"Aya do me a favor?"
"Yes, Mr. Orimura?"
"Just call me Ichika, please?"
"Of course, Ichika."
As I laid there I thought about the only person who I knew is the quack of a scientist, Tabane Shinonono, the very one responsible for the creation of the I.S. and the one to create the Shirokishi, coincidentally named White Knight by the world. After I.S. took off, she and her family went under protective custody. It was the last time I saw Houki.
As I was about to go to sleep, I wondered how Houki was doing and if I would get to see her again…
Next Chapter: Blue Hope!
While Ichika recovers, Tabane arrives. With her habit of taking apart machines and her being on a space ship, will Aya be OK? Meanwhile, Maltemor is not in the best of moods and he still has a job to do with South Africa.
The chapter is suffering ALP (Another Late Post.) Sorry. But it's better than no post I guess. I decided to add enhancement to her Shirokishi I.S. to better handle fights against ring users. Hope you like it.
As for Maltimor that armor was based on an old yellow War Hammer armor design. For those of who where waiting for Chifuyu to take the stage. "It ain't over yet!" Maltimor still has work to do and those two are going to clash with… Well, I don't want to spoil it. See ya next time!