Chapter 10: Howls of doom
07:57 AM (Japan Time), Thursday December the 13th…
"… Heh, heh, heh… Thursday the 13th!"
"… Damn it all…! Will it… ever end?"
"Who knows? It's the Infinite Naraku! The ultimate execution method of the Demon Tribe!"
"E-execution! You're gonna… kill me?"
"Nah! I copied that off some cool guy…"
"Shit…! Anything but death…!"
"Heh, heh, heh… There, there… Despairing, I see… Heh, heh, heh… Good, good… As Sidious would say… "He could fear the boy's anguish. That was good."…"
"Who the hell is this "Sidious"…?"
"Ask your precious Boss! The guy's one of the reasons for his name!"
"What…?"
Subaru had been moaning and sounded weak by now as he convulsed atop the bed as Ganondorf raped him while having Subaru's face be glued to the sheets: he still had the blindfold on and the same ropes: Ganondorf began to say something, Subaru gasped in fear, he began to shudder and tremble, Ganondorf made fun of it, quoted someone and then snickered when Subaru demanded to know.
"Oh well. But that doesn't matter too much. The nuke's about to be fired!"
"NUKE?"
"Kidding! Gotcha!"
"You bastard…! You don't joke with nukes!"
"Tell that to Liquid."
"Stop bringing up fictional guys!"
"You'd prefer real creepy guys? Like the one that kept Futaba on his manor's basement for a year and a half?" He snickered.
"You damned coward!"
"Heh, heh, heh. I'm sneaky. Like good ol' Colonel Olrik."
"Get to the point!"
"Oho. Demanding, aren't cha? And if I don't want to? What'll you do? Bite my balls? Heh, heh, heh."
"Sheesh."
"Heh, heh, heh. You're an amusing guy when one peels off those layers of "kind", "nice" and all that crap… When I expose your true character… As someone who has stepped into the Dark Side of the Force… And fed off it for years… Until those Jedi wannabes ruined it all…"
"Don't make fun of the 3 years I spent sinking into even deeper depression: they were 3 wasted years!"
"Heh, heh, heh. So it'd seem."
"You bastard…!"
"You need something to stimulate ya. Here ya have!"
He picked a candle placed in a nearby table and began to drop wax on his nipples and navel: Subaru groaned and hissed while agitating left and right as if trying to get away: he tried to crawl back but the guy was gripping the ropes tying his right leg with the right hand and pulling towards him: Subaru cursed something undecipherable under his breath.
"Yeah… Anger, anguish, hatred, grudge…! Deepen into them! Open the floodgates: let the anger flow out!"
"Shut the damned trap up…! Hypnosis master wannabe! Go sell your show somewhere else…! Damn it!"
"Heh, heh, heh. Let's put some action."
"Oh shit."
"YO! YO! YO! The planning battling crackling balancing genius of martial arts actually beat the 3 Musketeers! News of the year! The year will YEARN for ya!"
"What!"
"Oh yeah. That Shinobi punk actually managed to beat the 3 of them and rescue Hyde."
"Impossible!"
"Oh no, not impossible! He firstly disabled Omega's knees: he then used a distraction to plunge it through Sigma's core from behind and finally shot some knives at Blood Shadow, paralyzing him."
"Shit."
"Heh, heh, heh. That's the price to pay for underestimating the chap: he's got brains in case you hadn't noticed! Been training endlessly inside of the behemoth and coming up with new tactics and abilities… It caught the 3 Musketeers with the guard down!"
"Devil. And we're back to having those 2 stage something!"
"But those 2 are the lesser of 2 evils, ya know?"
"Sheesh!"
"Beware… The Ing strike back!"
"Stop bringing up random stuff!"
"Heh, heh, heh. Let's allow our speaker fellow to continue. And in the meanwhile… Off I go! Hah!"
Ganondorf released inside of Subaru's ass and then picked a string of anal beads with a ring at the end of the string: he began to insert them and closed the ring on Subaru's cock so that his cock's bulging and movement would be pulling them in: Subaru groaned as Ganondorf picked a vibrator next and stuffed it inside of Subaru too.
"N-no more…! These things will tear me apart…!"
"Submit to the Dark Side and become my apprentice!"
"Like Hell!"
"Heh, heh, heh. Stubborn, aren't cha? Oh well. I've got some surprises in store for the renegade and those guys… Let's see them vent off their bad mood in my pets, shall we?"
"YO! YO! YO! Hey! It's Torus Malignus! What's up, man?"
"BURO~! What did ya call the great me~?" Ox growled.
"Torus Malignus!"
"What the fuck is THAT?"
"Evil Bull!"
"Bull! I'm an OX! OX! My name is OX!" He growled back.
"YO! YO! YO! Warus Rockus – samus says otherwise~!" Moon Disaster seemed to shrug.
"BURO~! The fucking meddling rascal! Show your hide! If you're not a damned coward!"
"Did ya call, Valencia Bull?" War Rock laughed.
"BURO~! I'm going to rip you to shreds! I have enough with my horns and fire~!"
"Bring it on, Bullying Man!"
"BURO~!"
"STOP ALREADY!" Cepheus growled.
"Whoa! FM King! Majesty!" Ox gasped in fear.
"What, cha? Ya came to steal my spotlight?"
"Your friend is missing, he might be suffering and the BEST you can do is FOOL around?" Cepheus scolded.
Good point! When will you do something USEFUL? We'll have to TALK once I get outta this Hell! Subaru inwardly cursed.
"Got no patience to search there and there!"
"Ah no? Then maybe I better tell Vadous to shut you in the server?"
"Grah! Akatsuki told ya!"
"Indeed he did!"
"What's going on NOW?" Vadous growled.
"You called the guy? Run for your hide and smile~!"
What a lame rhyme! That the BEST you can do, Rock?
"Sheesh. When I get my hands into the lil rascal…!" Vadous fumed out of built up frustration and annoyance.
"Did the 3 Musketeers recover?"
"Yeah. The wounds weren't that grave. Some 10 hours of auto-repairs and redesigning the armor's strength were enough… Now they're reviewing the battle data to be ready for the next encounter."
"And, by the way, this is live. I've got an antenna intercepting their exchanges 'cause I've placed invisible Voltic Eye Viruses there and there to gather info. Heh, heh, heh." Ganondorf chuckled.
"Like I care…! Go broom the yard…!"
"Broom the yard? Why not. Let's invent Broom Wizard."
"How lame!"
"All housewives will buy it and I'll be a MILLIONAIRE!"
"Sheesh."
"Heh, heh, heh. However… You're but an aperitif… The main dish has yet to begin… Sink into despair and hopelessness! Mwah, hah, hah!"
Shit! And who is the main dish? Tsukasa – kun? Gino – kun? Damn it all!
08:43 AM (Japan Time)…
"… Well, you 3… How is it going like?"
"We've made some progress in the training. We're taking a break. Any news out there?"
"The latest data unit transmission log led to Iwate Prefecture, close to Hokkaido yet I'm sure it's a dead end to try to divert our attention elsewhere… No… I'm convinced that our answer is indeed in south-western Japan…"
"I see. Well. We'll just have to keep poking there and there."
Vadous was speaking with Omega over the radio as he read some data displayed on one of the command bridge's screens: it suddenly frizzled and the face of a Night Baron showed up there.
"Mwah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah."
"Shit. This rascal again. Who the hell are you?"
"… I'm you lowlife! You lowlife's shadow…!" The Night Baron replied with obvious arrogance.
"Why do I feel like I've heard that before?" Vadous grumbled.
"I've come to make you lowlifes regret your betrayal! On the Beyond!"
"Oh yeah? Impress, you megalomaniac leftover rascal."
"SHEESH! Go, Fenrirs!"
"AU~H!"
"What now, wolf-men?"
"Not exactly, boss… Half-dead wolves… The skin and muscle has fallen apart in some spots and you can see its bones and insides. Rather gross in my opinion." Omega grumbled.
"Eat these!"
"Charged shotgun shot!"
"What's going on?" Acid Ace asked as he showed up on one screen.
"Forgot you guys were coming over… Another invasion! All hands: repel the invasion! Black Ace: door lock!"
"Doors locked. New hacking attempt detected."
"Always going for the same trick? That won't help you win."
"Bah! I've got plenty of means!"
"Buro~! I've come to help too!" Ox Fire exclaimed.
"Eat this, you lot!" Harp Note fumed.
"Did you like my fan hysteria show?" The Night Baron laughed.
"Very exciting." She drily replied.
"So?"
"Go carp. Go sell takoyaki in Oosaka."
"Buro~! I'll turn ya into a yakiotoko!"
"Roasted man, eh? Only for flesh-eating neophytes!" The Night Baron came up with some lame motto.
"Sheesh." Acid Ace grumbled.
"There some bigger baddies here! Black-colored, bigger, and more aggressive… And tougher to beat!" Sigma warned.
"Eat these! Stormin' Bolts!"
"Spinning Spear!"
"Mwah, hah, hah, hah. Struggle, struggle AND STRUGGLE~! The great me am invincible~! Genius! Supreme! Magnificent!"
"Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure."
"Skeptical lot, eh? How about this? Go, Hunters!"
"You never tire of using those, do you?"
"Never the everlasting ever!"
"Never say never again." Acid Ace shot back.
"Heh, heh, heh. Your doom's coming closer, lil girl!"
"You shut up. Lolicon."
"Tell that to Phantom Black: the guy kidnapped your precious spoiled girl buddy twice, ya know!" The Night Baron laughed.
"Signal tracing… 3 control passwords detected…"
"Input these: "Queen", "Empire", "Palace"… Each one with a Capital letter at the beginning and in Alphabet…" Vadous ordered.
"Roger. Passwords inputted… Control granted."
"OK! Mine!"
"What? Uwah!"
The Night Baron seemingly froze as Vadous quickly typed commands into the console: several files seemed to be transferred out of the Night Baron and into the computer.
"Perform security scan: store all of them in a quarantine directory before allowing them into the main storage!"
"Acknowledged."
"Signal jammers: on!"
"Roger. Signal jammers: on."
"The enemies are disconcerted and lack coordination! What's more: they're attacking each other!" Omega reported.
"Obviously. They depend on the signals emitted by the Denpa Body to properly function in group."
"Warning. UAV incoming from SSE. 100 units."
"100! What's in their missiles?"
"The same "fog" used in the WAXA strike."
"I knew it, damn it. Bubble shield: on! Is there any important satellite or Wave Road in an 800 meters radius or height?" Vadous grumbled before issuing orders.
"Negative. Space is free of objects save for approaching UAVs. Currently 730 meters away from HQ."
"Good. Fire the "Copy Canceller": I'm sure they're Denpa Bodies." He guessed aloud.
"Affirmative. All of them are Denpa Bodies. 5 seconds to firing."
"They can't get here in less than 18 seconds at this rate." Acid calculated in the meanwhile.
"Sufficient time. Perform IR and X-Ray and dimensional scans of anything in a 1 kilometer radius: in all directions! There could be a stealth squad hoping to catch me with the pants down."
"Speaking of UAVs… Did you figure out something from the one that you retrieved the other day?"
"Kir Osh spent 6 hours dissecting it. It was stolen off the JSDF about 2 weeks ago but the JSDF didn't report it for fear of a scandal. They pretended that they were defective units and returned to the factory that had produced them. The control signal came from a JSDF satellite but all logs were already erased by the time we found out."
"Sheesh. The JSDF…! Scandal, scandal…! What about national security, huh?" Acid Ace sighed.
"Buro~! Stubborn guys." Ox Fire muttered.
"What about sensei?"
"Ah. Queen Tia. We managed to hack into her Hunter – VG and we extracted the Denpa – Henkan program to replace it with a fake that appears to be the same thing at a superficial look. Last time I checked she wasn't a genius hacker so…" Acid Ace replied.
"Confirming destruction of all UAVs."
"Good job. There aren't any others?"
"Negative."
"Keep the shield on just in case. The culprit could try to use "hyper-space" to have them drop on us all of a sudden…"
"Roger."
"Let's see what was in this damned punk… Hmmm… Control programs, talk program, emitter, receiver, self-destruct device, core, memory, power cables… Receiver's data… Remaining log… Tokushima Prefecture? We're getting closer, yeah. I'm sure it's on that area." Vadous began to check out the files.
"Night Baron Denpa Body repelled by Bubble Shield. Destruction confirmed."
"Eat that. You get that for butting here twice."
"Buro~! I'm gonna beat that Phantom Black jerk!"
"Don't get confident. You'll have to get past Shinobi first." Omega scolded Ox Fire with some annoyance.
"P-pass…" He gulped.
"Sheesh." Acid Ace sighed.
"Gonta – kun… Try to show some more courage, will ya?"
"S-sorry, Misora – chan… Man…. I need some spices…"
"Speaking of Luna – chan… We should keep an eye out too: they could try to use her as bait or something like that."
"Wouldn't surprise me, coming from Hyde… We'll handle that." Acid Ace calmly replied.
"I'll need some time to fully analyze the data."
"Let's go back. We're advancing slowly but surely…! Hang on! Subaru!"
14: 45 (Taiwan Time)…
"… But I've really got to commend you! I'd never seen you use such tactics before, Shinobi!"
"I am grateful, my Lord. I sacrificed food and sleep to train again and again until I achieved new revolutionary tactics."
"That's my loyal foreign valet!"
"… Roger, my Lord…"
"Hmmm? What's the matter?"
"N-nothing, my Lord! Shall I got get you the head of Akatsuki?"
"Don't bother! I'll pick it myself!"
"R-roger."
"Hum. So you've improved somewhat, it'd seem…"
"Hmpf!"
"Oi, oi… How many times do we need to go over this?"
Hyde was congratulating Shinobi inside of a living room somewhere made of steel and having an armchair, a side-table, a large holographic screen in front of it and nothing else: Shinobi sighed when Hyde brought up the "valet" title again but he then tried to come up with something to divert his attention elsewhere: Phantom tried to start a chat with Assassin but it merely folded its arms and looked offended: Phantom sighed and was seemingly getting tired of the whole deal.
"Bah! Mind not the circus, Phantom! They will only make a lot of noise, after all."
"Circus? Sheesh."
"Hmpf!"
"Sheesh. Go train in the simulator!"
"Hmpf!"
Assassin flew off while Hyde rubbed his hands in excitement: Phantom sighed as he seemingly predicted further trouble.
"Hyde~… Don't get cocky~…"
"I'm getting amused! Let us continue where we left off! You can go away by now. I'll call if needed."
"Roger."
Shinobi bowed, stood up, and walked out followed by Phantom: they both looked backwards as they exited the room: Hyde drew his Mu Star Carrier and inputted commands: a 3D orchestra formed and began to interpret what seemed to be some national anthem but it was totally off synchro and only created what seemed to be, at the best, a parody of it to begin with: both sighed and Shinobi shut the door.
"Hyde~… The guy will NEVER realize that this is not his stuff. He should play some board game instead." Phantom sighed.
"Guess that." Shinobi muttered.
"I'm off to checking up with our own Security Wizards. We don't want the damned Night Baron to spy on us, anyway."
"Of course."
Shinobi headed off into another room that only had a mattress on the floor and little else: he pulled off his balaclava to reveal his whole face: he did look around Subaru's age and his hair grew in a chaotic manner forming spikes.
"Phew. I needed to vent off my head from time to time. Anyway… Ever since those guys did that to me… Guess that guy must be staying far away so as to not to cross paths with me… Whatever. Your role ended a long time ago, anyway." He muttered.
"Attention all personnel."
"What's that?"
"The Grand Conductor shall declare the opening of…"
"Sheesh."
"…the immortal rising dancing tuning singing alluding Vienna National Orchestra…"
"Those titles were needless." He grumbled.
"Rise, my orchestra! Rise over the ashes and ruins of the plebeian Vienna: we shall rebuild the noble and prideful Vienna, feared all across the old continent! Rise, my armies! Spirits of national pride~!" Hyde began to chant using the speakers.
"Oh come on. Someone shower Master with cold water. The last thing I needed, truly."
"Hyde~… When will ya quit with this scandal? You want people to hear to it so badly… Then why don't you encode-beam those into radio repeaters and cause some confusion amongst the guys out there? At this rate we'll all go mad." Phantom grumbled.
"Hum! This time around you had a point, half-hired evening tabloid emissary."
"Save me the extravagant titles. Got no need for them!"
"Fine! Then you handle that."
"Yeah, yeah."
"… I'm the ghost in the machine~…" A familiar voice echoed across the whole place.
"Kurayami? Impossible! You lowlife are locked up!"
"Seems like it's a recording left behind."
"And I'm the big sis in the machine~…" Another voice added.
"And now that Kanaya lil girl too! I knew it: they were up to no good, messing up with the systems!"
"Can't be helped: they owned this thing longer than we did… So they had time to set up their own systems."
"Sheesh!"
"Complain to Mr. Universe."
"Be quiet! Send that signal! Now!"
"Yes, yes. Just wait a couple minutes, will you?"
"You better do your job properly, you syndical!" Hyde grumbled and seemed to be extremely impatient.
"A bird once said… "Birds!"… And thus the birds came to be." Kurayami's pre-recorded voice chuckled.
"Not bad, Ku. It's my turn to shine! A gal once said… "It!"… And "it" came to be."
"Oh come on. Ka… Isn't that a bit too gross or pervert?"
"Hmmm… Maybe. Let's try something else. A pine tree said "pine tree!" and pine trees came to be." Kanaya rectified.
"That's better."
"How absurd." Shinobi growled.
"Shi-no-bi!"
"Yikes!"
Shinobi rushed over to Hyde's room and stood there while Hyde rubbed his hands and seemed to have another of his "bright" ideas given the smug grin: Shinobi sighed.
"You'll be the court buffoon!"
"Master! I'm a prideful ninja! Not a commoner!"
"Hyde~… Build a 3D one for your entertainment."
"Isn't that signal done yet?"
"Do you want those 3 to come storm us?"
"Eh… No!"
"Then wait a bit: the stronger the encoding the harder they'll have it to trace it all the way here." Phantom sighed.
"Alright, alright! By the way: Shinobi…"
"Y-yes, my Lord?"
"Hmmm…" He looked suspicious about something.
"What is it?" He gulped.
"I seem to have the vague feeling I've been waiting to ask something but now I can't remember what it was about. Maybe it was nothing important to begin with…?" He frowned and tried to remember.
"Eh… Dunno, my Lord."
"Whatever. Just go shave your chest."
"HUH? A-alright. Don't have any chest hair yet though…" He muttered to himself with some defeatism.
"Hmmm? Did you say something?"
"N-nothing, my Lord! As you command!"
Shinobi rushed back to his room and sat cross-legged on the floor while sighing and slapping his forehead in defeat.
"Lovely. Maybe I should've waited a few more days, even. Luck wants to be ironic with me."
"There. Done. Go ahead." Phantom sighed.
"Listen up, you decaying Vienna lot! My ghostly armies shall sweep the ground with you lot on it! And Vienna shall go back to its old formal and grand glory~!" Hyde exclaimed.
"Sheesh. When will they leave me alone and grant me some time to properly meditate? Else I can't focus on my next battle!"
"Welcome to the club, man. If only life was easier… Oh boy."
That asides… Night Baron! We're coming for your neck! Heh, heh, heh…!