Sid's Undead: Maka Engages the Witch Hunter/ Fight Professor Stein
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DURING THE WEEK OF MEET DEATH SCYTHE
After school the next day, Maka, Soul and Marx discussed how they would all fit into the apartment. The solution was simple, Marx would sleep in soul's room in his weapon form. At one point, before this he had gotten used to it, he did plan on eventually finding a place to sleep, and his weapon form was the perfect way of sleeping in a compact space.
It was also during that week that the idea had been thrown around of Marx becoming a second weapon partner for Maka or Black-Star. They were the only ones close enough to match his soul wave length, so it was only logical that one of them would partner up with him.
Maka seemed like the better choice, because Black-Star and Marx fought each other way too much for Tsubaki to handle. Marx had even been learning and practicing through intense meditation, how to make his soul even more flexible, and allow some wiggle room for his friends to be a perfect match.
That Friday, it became official Marx had become Maka's second weapon partner permanently. She and Soul had gotten him a new pair of combat goggles and a night vision headset for his helmet as a welcome to the team present.
1 WEEK LATER, MONDAY MORNING-CLASSROOM
"Did you hear, rumors are going around the school that someone's been attacking students." Soul said pausing for effect. "They say it was that teacher who died, Sid who's now a ZOMBIE!"
Maka, who was sitting next to him, jumped in her seat. On that note, she retaliated at Soul with her Maka chop.
"Soul, you have to learn to shut your mouth sometimes buddy." Marx said coolly from his seat next to them.
A few minutes later after further discussing the matter of the death and possible reanimation of Marx's favorite teacher, death scythe walked in the door acting macho. Marx grimaced at the sight of Maka's father, he was reminded of what happened last week between them.
Maka and soul sweat dropped at the man's presence and attitude, even more so when he stared right at them. Marx tried to avoid Death Scythe's gaze, but he seemed to stare right at him for a moment too and then returned to arguing with soul. Marx simply stared into space not paying attention to the man, and thinking about how far he had come in the past months since leaving home.
It was something he was proud of, despite the fact that he was stuck with remedial lessons still was not so bad to him. He thought about sharing the 40 kishin souls he had collected with his buddy Soul, but he didn't know if he should so he decided later he'd ask Maka about it and if it was even possible.
Just then Marx was snapped out of his thoughts by Maka who told him they were being called to the death room. Marx asked her why, she told him she didn't know, soul threw in his two cents and they all walked to the death room together.
THE DEATH ROOM
After they entered, Marx was the first to speak up wondering where the jolly Grim Reaper was. He noticed something else was different, like they were being watched, there was only one person he knew who claimed to be an assassin and that person was probably why he had that feeling.
Black-Star then made his presence known with his usual gusto, Marx was annoyed slightly but kept it to himself. He really didn't like unwelcome surprises, especially Black-Star's. the two teams then made their way to the mirror and Maka proceeded to call lord death by writing his phone number on the glass.
The grim reaper appeared on the mirror, greeted them, and explained why they had been called to the death room. The news was less than stellar, thanks to them all needing remedial lessons, they had to deal with the attacks on students that were occurring.
It was who the perpetrator is that struck Marx with some pain, his former favorite teacher Sid. To top it all off, the price for failure was expulsion for all of them, even for Marx because he was now one of Maka's partners, and shared the burden of remedial lessons between the three team members.
"You're going to kick us all out?!" Both teams shouted simultaneously in indignation.
Black-Star just started to laugh, and be himself, he ended up getting head-chopped from lord death. Everyone else was still stunned from the thought of immediate expulsion from the academy if they failed. Black-Star rose up, and started to brag that he would take care of it himself.
Marx snapped out of his funk, and asked lord death for a possible explanation on who might've caused Sid's rampage. He wasn't very forthcoming on the details, and simply gave the Weapons and Meisters some small amounts of intel on their targets, a name and locations.
A FEW HOURS LATER-NIGHT-HOOK CEMETERY
The 5 friends had been walking for a while, the march out of the city was long and filled with conversation. Mostly about who was really behind all these strange occurrences, and why of all things expulsion. Marx's opinion on the matter, for himself anyways, was that he didn't read the fine print, and it was his own fault for not going over the details concerning his enrollment completely beforehand.
Maka was down in the dumps and wondering why, she of all people was in risk of expulsion. Marx tried to comfort her, telling her that they wouldn't fail and they'd keep fighting until they hit the top. Maka was grateful for having Marx there to talk to, since Soul was busy hanging around with his other best friend Black-Star. Marx approached his old teacher's tombstone knelt down and paid his respects.
Soul and Black-Star had been trying to antagonize the violent zombie teacher out of hiding. Then, Marx felt the sense that something was wrong again. His instincts were ringing alarm bells like crazy in his head. "Maka, move!" He shouted but was too late, Sid had grabbed her by the ankle and hung her upside down in his grasp. The undead teacher then threw her at Marx, and made a run for his tombstone.
Marx caught Maka and he then transformed into a shiny black, classic M16/M203 with a shark face painted on both sides of the barrel, a shoulder strap and a modern adjustable stock. Maka then grabbed Marx and pointed him at Sid.
"Drop the weapon, Sid! And surrender now!" Marx shouted furiously.
"Ah Marx, one of my favorite students. Thank you, for being respectful of my grave. Since you've always been respectful of the man I was I'll kill you last." Sid said with an eerie tone. "Now, it's time I gave you all another lesson. At the end, you'll be dead. Time for the first period."
Tsubaki and Black-Star all readied themselves for a fight. Soul, ran to Maka and transformed. Maka caught him and slung Marx over her shoulder. She then twirled Soul and readied herself to fight Sid.
"Tell me Maka, do you fear death? If you let me kill you, then you won't have anything to fear anymore!" Sid shouted as he charged at Maka and slammed his tombstone down on the ground near her, in a vain attempt to kill.
"Fear is something we need, it helps to keep us alive and make us stronger!" Maka said proudly.
'She dodged my strike with such a small margin for error!" Sid thought to himself surprised by how well Maka dodged his attack.
Maka then got up and retaliated at Sid with her soul resonance ability the witch hunter, only for that to fail as she slipped on the swing causing it to back fire at Black-Star. Black-Star jumped to side wide eyed in surprise.
Soul and Maka argued between each other about whose fault it was that they had messed up their attack. If Marx could roll his eyes he definitely would have at that moment.
Sid then dove underground, and Maka jumped backwards and stood back to back with Black-Star, who seemed to have a plan as he had Tsubaki form a star with her chain around them. Sid then attempted to strike at them only to be caught when black star made his move.
"Trap Star!" he shouted as Sid was wrapped in chains and unfortunately so was Maka and her weapons.
"Why did you have to chain me to this guy, dumbass?!" She shouted at Black Star angrily, Marx and Soul agreed with her on that front. Black-Star only stood back and laughed with his hands behind his head.
THE DEATH ROOM
The gang was being watched by the grim reaper, his son Death the Kid, and Kid's weapons: the Thompson sisters: Liz and Patty. Death and his son conversed on why the teams had been sent to deal with the teacher, and how that teacher had been revived as a zombie. The four of them then discussed who it was that revived Sid, a question that death answered with another question.
"Do you remember my weapon death scythe and his first Meister?" Death inquired to his son.
"Yes, that was Maka's mother, wasn't it? What does that have to do with this?" Kid asked his father.
"She was his second Meister; his first Meister was a genius and possibly the best Meister to ever graduate the academy. Dr. Frank N. Stein." Death answered
"So, this Meister was your weapon's first partner." Kid said
"And you sent a group of students to go collect his soul?" Liz added cynically.
"He should send you big sis, you can do it." Patty chirped happily.
"Maybe if I felt like dying. You may have overestimated me a bit patty." Liz said
"These are remedial lessons right, aren't you asking a bit too much? You know what's going to happen, they'll die." kid said in a calm tone.
MYSTERIOUS LABORATORY-1 HOUR LATER
"Well this is the place. Be on guard everyone." Marx said as he stood back and surveyed the area with a keen goggled eye.
"This guy has got stitches on his house." Soul said as he looked on the ground and saw small robotic mouse scurry by.
"Interesting architecture, wonder what kind of guy this stein is" Maka observed cautiously.
Black star stood back with Marx and eyed the front of the house with suspicion, Tsubaki stood shoulder to shoulder with Black-Star. Then they all heard a strange screeching noise, like wheels on a tile floor. Then out came a man in a white lab coat who was covered in stitches with a big screw sticking out of his head. Then the wheels of man's chair hit the door stop and he toppled backwards.
"damn it, still doesn't feel quite right. Maybe that'll take care of it. I'm going to try that again." He stated coolly as he walked back in the house, and prepared to repeat his entrance.
"Shouldn't we stop him?" soul said
"But we just met him, isn't that rude?" Maka said
"I'd like to see what happens next." Black star said with curiosity
"Yeah, so would I." Tsubaki said nervously.
Marx remained silent. What happened next was a repeat of the same entrance as before, ending the same way. The 5 teens all looked at the man with their faces ruffled.
"Is there something you kids needed me for?" the strange man on the ground asked the 5 teens.
The 5 students then figured out who he is "Dr. Frank N Stein" and questioned him about why he killed and revived Sid. The man's response was, that to him 'everything is an experiment' including himself. Stein then stared at them intensely, Marx knew what was happening and narrowed his eyes with the silent expression of two can play at that game.
He was collecting data on his opponents, noticing the differences between Maka and both of her partners with one partner being caring and earnest, another being brash and reckless, the third was gruff, trusting, and sad due to an extreme loss, Maka was creeped out and attempted to cover herself. Then he moved on to Black-Star and Tsubaki, with Black-Star being himself, the center of attention, Stein was not impressed by his team's souls either.
Stein then attacked Maka and her partners, stein's attack left them feeling dazed and wary of the next attack. Marx sensing the immediate danger, transformed his arm and attempted to block stein's next attack on Maka and soul.
Marx failed, and was painfully tossed aside and knocked out by the doctor, as he caused soul to transform back to his human form he grabbed Maka and started marking on her gut with a black marker. He then mused out loud about how and where he'd make his incisions and turn her skin to sandpaper.
Black-Star then charged in and used his soul wave attack on stein stunning him and setting Maka free of stein's grip. Stein was still standing, thus surprising black-star as his attack had done nothing. Then Stein revealed that he was flexible with his soul wavelength, and had actually connected with Black-Star for a moment.
Stein retaliated at Black-Star using an attack similar to his own, seeming to fry him alive for a brief moment before Black-Star crumbled to the floor giving the appearance of death. Everyone was shocked at his apparent death.
Maka then knelt down in the feeling of hopelessness and soul then successfully attempted to get his Meister to snap out of it. the two of them with renewed faith, planned their retaliation at the doctor, Soul and Maka began to resonate their souls and use the witch hunter.
They were building up energy for their attack, the doctor then mused at the fact that they were going to use it. their attack hit stein and he caught it holding them back, with his glasses cracking. The witch hunter was shattered, and the two of them were sent flying back
(Play the song: Challengers from Dragon Ball Z Budokai Soundtrack)
Marx woke up and pulled himself to his feet, seeing his friends broken caused something different for Marx, for the first time since his arrival in this world, his calm and gruff demeanor faded and something shattered in his mind.
"Black-Star, Soul, Maka. you killed one of my best friends and hurt the others. That's it!" Marx was enraged. In his blind fury, the ground began to crack and he started to scream loudly in pure rage.
His power then rivaled stein's after a short time of powering up, stein merely observed as his opponent began to increase in strength. A red aura of power encompassed Marx, steins aura was blue, both of their soul wavelengths clashing in power, caused the environment around them to be riddled with yellow sparks and electric discharges.
Marx's power reached its limit and he charged at stein, throwing rapid punches kicks and jabs at the doctor. Stein dodged his strikes and countered them, sending the enraged Marx onto the defensive. The both of them were clashing like two forces of nature, the world around them becoming lit up with their power.
Stein was keeping his cool and retaining his smile, this served to infuriate Marx even more. Marx was relying purely on instinct like a frenzied wild animal, the doctor had spotted his opponent's weakness and began to use it against him, causing Marx to lose himself to his power and tire out. Stein saw his chance and used the loss in his opponent's pace to strike him in his stomach, causing Marx's aura to fade and for him to cough up blood.
(End Song)
Marx was almost paralyzed with pain and fell to the ground, he still had some strength left and crawled to his team. The two weapons then attempted to shield their Meister from the doctor. Stein casually walked over to the trio and patted their heads.
"You've earned a passing grade. You gave up your bodies to protect your Meister." Stein said calmly.
"What?" Both of the weapons said simultaneously.
"And I repeat what?" soul added clueless about stein's statement.
"This was all planned out by Lord Death; your extra lessons are complete." Stein explained coolly.
"If this was just a test, then why did you kill Black-Star?!" Soul shouted indignantly.
"Yeah." Marx chimed in.
The two of them looked black star's way and saw that he was still alive. They then inquired about Sid, he admitted that when he was alive he wasn't the type of man to lie. Stein admitted as well that even though it was only a test, it was fun to give them a scare. He then jokingly offered them a stay in his home, the teams refused angrily.
THE NEXT MORNING-CLASSROOM
The teams were all wiped out from last night's events. Marx was unusually silent, Soul and Maka then discussed the possibility of death scythe being the substitute teacher again. Maka wanted anyone but him, then they all heard a familiar sound, the sound of a certain man's computer chair rolling down the hall.
The 5 of them were all shocked when stein rolled into the room, sliding around the floor and coming to a stop. Maka and her partners were all wishing now that it was Death Scythe instead.
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