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9.1
"You wanted to see me Charles?" Wolverine asked as he entered the office of Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X.
"Logan, please take a seat." Xavier offered politely but Logan refused.
"I'll stand." He said curtly. "So, what's the situation?" Wolverine asked knowing something was up. No matter the Loop, there was always something up for the X-men.
"Well, I received a call from some 'Loopy' friends." Charles said with Wolverine nodding in understanding. "And said that we had to meet as soon as possible, meaning today."
"So? Who are this people?" Wolverine asked curious, many visiting Loopers didn't involved themselves a lot with the X-men unless they replaced one of them.
"If my 'memory' serves me right, we are close acquaintances, but really I don't know a lot about how they really are." Charles confessed. "And she seemed that the two of them just 'awakened', and contacted me immediately."
"Two, huh?"
"Yes, and I just wanted to let you know of their visit, so we could discuss 'things' through." Charles informed him, to which Logan just nodded understanding.
"So when do they arrive?" The man with metal bones asked only to be answered by the sound of the doorbell.
"Just now." Charles said with a small smile. "Why don't you go and receive our guests, Logan?"
"Whatever." Any other day Logan would've refused to act as a door man, but he was curious about these Loopers, and wanted to assess if they were going to be trouble.
After walking up to the door, Logan with his enhanced sense of smell, detected strange aromas from the persons outside. Not really surprising since Loopers tended to come from literally anywhere on the Multiverse. Opening the door, Logan find a lone figure of a girl no older than 15. But the most striking thing of this girl was her long silver hair.
"Excuse me, I don't mean to intrude, but I'm looking for Charles Xavier." The girl asked politely enough, but Logan couldn't help but feel something was off about her.
"Yes, we were expecting you." Logan said before narrowing his eyes suspiciously. "But weren't supposed to be two of you?" He only saw the girl, bur he could still smell the second one.
"Oi! Am I invisible or something?" said a very deep toned voice coming from the girl's head, or more specifically her hair. "Or you just have bad eyesight?"
"Sasmson! Don't be rude!" The girl admonished to her silver hair before turning to Logan. "I apologize for Samson's attitude. He gets somewhat cranky when he's hungry."
"Damn straight!" Samson said. "There better be some food up in this place!"
"Please, just ignore him." The girl said before remembering something, "Oh I almost forgot! I'm Filia, nice to meet you, mister…"
"Logan." The X-man answered following the girls advice and ignored the talking hair for the sake of his sanity. "And just so you know, I am also 'awake'." he warned so that she wouln't try any funny business.
After letting their 'guests' in, Logan then showed them towards the Professor's office.
"Filia, it's been too long," Xavier greeted. "If my memory is correct, you haven't aged a day."
"And you have aged gracefully, Charles." Filia returned the pleasantry. Although it was weird to exchange such friendly greetings with someone who she really didn't know besides her 'in-loop' memories telling her they had been friends.
Logan who had seen the exchange couldn't help but to butt in. "Okay, I'll bite. Who is she replacing?" It was obvious she girl was replacing someone who was close to Charles, but he couldn't pintpoint who she was.
Smirking, Xavier turned to Filia and asked politely. "Filia could you please show Logan what your 'talent' is?"
"Oh! Sure..." She responded slightly hesitant. "When I 'woke-up' I found myself being able to do this." Filia said as she extended her arm and made a small metallic pen in Xavier's desk to rise up and float in the air.
"No way!" Logan almost shouted in complete shock. "She can't be replacing…!"
"She is."Charles answered confirming Logan's suspicion. "Filia here, is replacing Magneto."
9.2
"Damn you Trask and damn your metallic abominations!" Filia shouted in the middle of the unveiling of Trask's Sentinels to the world, earning the attention of everyone present for her sudden outburst. "You are nothing more than a bigot and everyone here supporting this, are no better than him." She accused them.
As a parasite host, Filia was no stranger to been discriminated; heck even when she managed to pass as a 'normal' human, she was still discriminated for being a woman. But this? Creating killing machines to exterminate an entire race of people only because their genes were different was by far the most inhumane thing she had ever witnessed.
"You and the people who allowed this should be charged for crimes against humanity!"
"But that's where you are wrong!" Trask answered with an ugly smirk. "Mutants aren't humans! Our law doesn't recognize them as such." And he was right, International Law didn't recognized mutants as people, so that made it okay to kill them without repercussion at least in the United States. "And more importantly, Officers! Take that woman away!"
Then several police officers started surrounding her, preparing themselves for any sort of resistance. "Lady, you better come with us peacefully."
Filia didn't care if she was all alone on this place against Charle's wishes or that she had several people anxious for her to do a wrong move and fire at her. "I believe I have the right of free speech!" Filia countered only to be rebutted by Trask.
"Not if you're a mutant! Which my Sentinels can determine if you are one of them!" He then turned and order for the activation of said killer robots.
Once the sentinels were turned on, they began to scan the public looking for traces of the X-gene to locate any mutants. All of which there was only one: Filia.
"Mutant Entity Detected: Target Aquired." One of the Sentinels reported as it lock-on to Filia.
"Go get her then!" Trask ordered.
"Loading Battle Protocols."
"I think not!" Filia said as she elevated herself of the ground using her magnetic powers. Casing every civilian spectator to run away of the mutant and the battle that was to ensue. "If you attack me first, then I'll be forced to defend myself and retaliate!" she warned but it seemed that if fell in deaf ears.
"Get that mutant!" Trask ordered again and the sentinels began walking preparing their engines for battle.
"Beginning mission." The sentinels said as they started to fire their weapons towards Filia, who just expertly evaded them, and then she tried to use her magnetic powers on the robots with no results.
"I can't control them!" Filia uttered completely shocked. "Are they not made of metal?" Apparently not, because they remained untouched. 'I guess I have no other choice.' She thought before shouting. "Your turn Samson!"
"Hell yeah!" Samson cheered as he make himself known after remaining completely still for several hours. "Let's beat these pieces of junk." The hair parasite declared as they both launched themselves towards one of the sentinels.
As the battle raged on, the sentinels proved to more prepare for combat than they appeared since they attacked with precise shots and coordinated attacks. Well, everyone except one, who refused to make a move against Filia. Much to Trask's anger.
"You malfunctioning piece of junk! Move!" He shouted trying over and over again to make it move and follow his commands, but it was useless. "What is wrong with this piece of crap?"
Suddenly, the Sentinel moved and declared. "Remote control overridden. Setting new protocols." And after a few seconds of silence, the sentinel turn towards the fight and attacked it brethren. "Setting new primary objective: Protect Best Friend!" The sentinel stated as it crushed another's sentinel head. "Are you okay Filia?"
"Carol?! Is that you?" Filia looked at the giant robot completely shocked.
"Yes, I just 'awoke'!" Carol trying to smile only to find out she had no lips at the moment. "Anyway, no time to chat; let's put these monstrous machines out of commission!"
"Right!" Filia cheered happy to have her friend here and helping her.
[-X-X-]
After the battle was over, Filia and SentinelCarol escaped the scene and hid on a secret base, Filia had prepared in case something went wrong at the unveiling ceremony.
"Thanks for helping us, Carol." Filia said looking at the tall robot. "We were lucky to have you there."
"Yeah, whatever." Samson butted in. "I could've take them all on my own."
"I'm sure of it." Carol said in her robotic sounding voice that made it difficult to tell if she was been sarcastic or not. "I just want to know why you two were in such a dangerous place."
"Carol, we had to do something."Filia began to explain."The government was trying to deploy robots to chase and exterminate an entire group of people only because they are different and because they think they're dangerous!"
"Are they?" Carol asked.
"No! I mean, Probably, I mean…" the mistress of magnetism struggled to figure out how to explained it to her friend. "Just because you can be dangerous, doesn't mean they are. It is the same as in our world with Parasite Hosts! Heck even with women in general!" She said the last part sounding a little angry. "Just because women can become Skullgirls doesn't mean you have to discriminate against all of them!"
"I know what you mean Filia! More than anyone else; not only I am a woman, I was forcefully turned into a parasite host and into a monster."
"So you do understand the pain mutants have to suffer every day, except now the government wants to get rid of them!" Filia then turned to Carol with a steely look. "Please help me, Carol! Help me help mutants everywhere!"
"You don't have to ask, Filia. I'll support you in any way I can." Carol replied. "But first..." Then Carol's sentinel body began to shrink and take on her more familiar form, except she was still the color of the sentinels. "I'm still getting the hang of this transformation spell, Ben taught me." It was the same one he used to take upon a more human like appearance, but unlike him she only ever uses it to cover her scars and veinly skin.
"You'll get the hang of it." Filia said with a smile. "Now come on and we'll make sure the government never creates more sentinels ever again!"
9.3
"Samson?"
"Yes, kid?"
"Where are we?" Filia asked as she looked at her surroundings which looked kind of cartoony.
"I don't know." Samson answered. "But we are blond this Loop." Yet another Loop where he wasn't his elegant black coloration.
Filia, looked at her hair for a second before looking at her clothes. "Blue top, green tie, blue bottom, white knee socks socks…I guess blond looks well with what we are wearing." After assessing her appearance the Host walked up to a hill to get a better view of her surroundings.
"Hey Look!" Filia said excitedly as look at the horizon not too far away. "Looks like an old timely kingdom."
"But way more colorful." Samson said. In fact everything was way too colorful. "Makes my eyes hurt."
"Come on! let's see what we can find." Filia said as she ran towards the place. But when she was about halfway point, an explosion was heard from inside the kingdom before a blue and pink streak on the sky passed over their heads.
"What was that?" Fila asked confused.
"If I'm not hallucinating, it looked like a blue witch carrying a pink man, and both were wearing crowns." Samson informed. Good think he was constantly looking overhead. "It looks like she was mannapping him."
"Well, we better go after them!" Fila proposed ready to fight for a rescue mission.
"I knew you were going to say that." Ever since they began Looping, Filia just had this sort of Hero complex, as if trying to compensate for the sins of her family, the Medici. "But if we get into bigger trouble, I'll get to say I told you so."
"Let's go Samson! You know what time it is?"
"Yeah, Time to kick asses!" Samson said getting pumped for some fighting.
"I was going to say 'Adventure' but yours works too." And with that, the human girl and her talking hair ran towards the snowy hills and pointy snow capped mountains.
[-X-X-]
Kick-ass time! Come on grab your friends.
We'll go to very distant lands.
With Samson the Hair
And Filia the Human
The fights will never end
It's Kick-ass time!
9.4
Filia was scared. All around here there was only darkness and she was completely alone. Not even Samson was there for her.
"Anyone in here?" Although she was scarred, Filia walked through the darkness afraid that if she stopped moving it would eventually consume her. "Please, anyone. Help!" She pleaded but her voice seemed to just fall into the void forever unheard.
Filia walked like this for a few minutes until she saw a shimmer in the distance. "Light?!" She said with higher spirits as she run towards it. Even if it led her to no one in particular, at least she would be outside of the Darkness.
As she made her way towards the light, the darkness surrounding her started to recede, revealing that Filia has been walking on a paved road this whole time.
"What's this place…?" She wondered out-loud when suddenly the sky turned red, illuminating everything around her.
"This…this is…!" Maplecrest. This place was the suburb where all of her classmates, including Carol, lived. Except this wasn't the peaceful and colorful neighborhood she remembered. No, it all looked dead. A perverted version of the otherwise peaceful Maplecrest, with rushing dark clouds, haunting monochrome buildings. And that wasn't everything, on the streets, ghostly apparitions of the people and animals roamed this nightmarish place.
"W-what's going on…?" She wondered feeling goose bumps. But her only answer was a haunting creepy laughed that resounded everywhere.
" We're gonna get you~! "
Then from beneath the ground a giant green tendril spinning like a drill burst out and almost pierced Filia if she hadn't moved out of the way. "That was…!" But Filia had no time to think before the next attack came, this time in the form of a green energy sphere that exploded when it collided with the ground where Filia was before dodging again.
"WHO'S THERE?! SHOW YOURSELF!" She demanded only to receive more of the creepy laugh.
"Weak!" The voice said after it finally stopped laughing. "You really are weak." The voice said sounding awfully Familiar to Filia.
"Show yourself, coward!" she demanded again despite she been the one who was afraid.
"Scared?" The voice asked as its owner spent out of the darkness. "Well you should be." She said as she revealed herself to be another Filia.
"I-It can't be." Filia took a step backwards away from her double. "Y-You aren't me!"
"No, I am not you." The other Filia smirked. "Because I am the real one. You are the fake."
"NO!" Filia shouted "I am the real one!" she declared as she slowly started to fade away. "What's going on?"
"Tsk." The other Filia didn't look pleased. "You may run, but you can't escape me, or yourself!"
"No!" with that as her final words, Filia completely faded away.
[-X-X-]
"NO!" Filia screamed as she woked up from bed.
"Kid? What's wrong?" Samson asked rather grumpy for been awaken in such manner, but he was still concerned by his host well-being.
After some heavy and deep breaths Filia finally managed to calm herself down. "N-Nothing Samson…it was just a nightmare."
"You sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure…" Filia answered although still a little shaken about it. "Sorry for waking you up…let's go back to sleep."
"Okay." The parasite said not wanting to press the issue further. And so the two of them try to return back to sleep, with Samson succeeding in the next 2 minutes or so, but Filia wasn't so lucky.
'It was just a Nightmare, nothing more."
Yes, just a Nightmare.
9.5
"Another fused Loop…" Samson sighed exasperated. "And again, I'm not in my classy black coloration. "Instead he was blue. As he complained about the injustice of it all, Filia took a good look at her surroundings.
"Another Green Hill." Indeed, it was similar as when the two of them were heroes of Prince Gumball and lived in a tree house at what was known as the Grasslands. "I wonder what this Loop is about."
"If I didn't know any better, I would another Loop were you can play the hero." Samson said sarcastically.
"Samson…You know why I do it." Filia said not liking his tone. "I need to find a purpose in my life, and the first step is to repent for my family's sins." She said dejected. Maybe, just maybe that haunting nightmare will finally go away.
"You aren't like them, Kid." The blue hair assured. "Even before you and I joined together, you weren't like them."
"I was an alpha bitch in school, and threw away my last name to get whatever I wanted from the teachers and my fellow classmates…" Filia reflected gloomy. "I still don't remember everything of my past, and frankly if it's worse than what I now know, I wish to remain ignorant."
"Kid…"
"But being ignorant doesn't excuse my behavior, whenever I remembered it or not." She said with more confidence. "Although I could never repent enough for the sins of my entire family, I'll do what I must to give back to others what the Medici stole for them."
"Even if the people in this world know nothing about the Medici?" Sassom pointed out what he thought was a fault in his host plans.
"Even still." Filia declared not discouraged of her own goals. "Now what should we do?"
"I don't know." The parasite shrugged. "Check your in-loop memories for some clues."
After a few seconds of silent concentration with her eyes closed, Filia snapped her eyes opened and said. "Samson! There is this evil scientist that is turning cute helpless animals into robots! We must stop his evil plans and free those poor animals!"
"I knew it…" Samson said under his breath. He knew they were going to play heroes AGAIN.
"Anything else?"
"If we curled into a ball and rotate rapidly we can gain a boost in speed and attack enemies!" Filia told almost as if she had just read it on an instruction booklet. "Come on Samson! We gotta go fast!"
[-X-X-]
Look out as they storm thru. Filia and Samson.
Don't doubt what they can do. Filia and Samson.
Filia, she can really move!
Samson, he's got the attitude!
As one, they're the fastest thing alive!
9.6
Filia 'awoke' once again. But this time strangely enough she did so while awakening from a nap. Felt sort of surreal but that wasn't important to dwell on it. The first thing she did was scan her environment and she found out she was inside a classroom; surrounded by fellow students, listening to a lecture from their teacher, a middle-aged man with blue messy hair, with a bent back and wearing large reflective glasses. Mikisugi-sensei he was called according to her in-loop memories.
While on the middle of the lecture, a loud bang of the door startled the whole class and everything fell into complete silence. Then the door, which was strangely made of steel by the way, was kicked opened breaking from the frame and thru the opposite windows.
Filia was completely on alert, worried that they were in the middle of some sort of attack but before she could do anything, a large imposing figure stepped through the door. It was another student, if the uniform he was wearing was any indication, but he looked too large and old to still be a high schooler. Frankly the parasite host was slightly intimidated by him.
Gamagoori Ira, if Filia's memories were correct.
"I AM GAMAGOORI IRA, DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE CHAIR!" The huge man shouted. "Students of second year class K! We have determined that there is someone who intends harm against Honnouji Academy among you!" He said, less loudly but still somewhat loud. "Excuses will fall on deaf ears, this person will be punished immediately!" He eyed them all in an attempt to further intimidate and weed out who he was looking for.
The tactic seemed to work, since one of Filia's classmates jumped out off the desk and threw a smoke bomb into the floor engulfing the whole classroom with heavy smoke to make his escape. While he took the door, Gamagoori opted to use the windows and jumped right through them.
After everyone went to the windows or hallway to get a better look at what was going to happened, but Filia remained seated with trying to process what she saw. "What the hell?"
Then she felt a hand rest upon her shoulders making her turn and look at a girl around her age with black hair with a red stripe, whom Filia didn't recognized from her Loop memories as one of her classmates. "Yes, that is what everyone says the first time…" The girl said with a slight chuckle. "You look like you had a rough 'awakening', meet me after school and we'll talk about this Loopy business." And with that she walked out of the classroom leaving Filia utterly confused.
'Just where did we land this time?'
[-X-X-]
Filia did meet up with the girl, named Ryuuko, and talk about what this Loop was.
Apparently was somewhat replacing Ryuuko's best friend Mako in this world where people fought thanks to special clothes made out of these 'Life Fibers' which were from an Alien origin and that the 'Big Bad' of this place was planning to use them to kill everyone on the planet by covering in clothes.
All of this made Filia speechless.
"I know…my Loop is kind of weird." Ryuuko, the local anchor, admitted with a small chuckle.
"Oh no, it's not that weird." Filia said after a few seconds of silence. "I can attest that my Loop is far weirder, it is just that this place is far stupider. No offense." Really, there was no other way to described it.
"Some taken." Ryuuko shrugged off, "Although you made me curious…How crazy is your loop?" She knew her Loop was out there on the weirdness scale, but for Filia to claim that her Loop was stranger, that would meant there was some crazy s**t in that Loop.
"Believe me when I say that if I go into detail, we might as well skip classes tomorrow because we would be here a LONG time." Filia said sounding tired. "You'll just have to wait until you loop there, heck I'll give you the Tour myself."
"I'll anxiously wait." Ryuuko answered with a little laugh trying to live up the mood. "So…do you think you can handle this place? You can take this a vacation loop if you want; I can take care of everything myself."
"As tempting as that may sound, I insist that you let me help." Filia say earning a raised eyebrow as response. "I kind of on the middle of a redemption/finding-my-own-path journey."
"Ah!"
"Besides, if I don't make him exercise Samson will grow lazy." That and she was tire of all the jabs towards her weight. She only waited 64kg (141lbs) because Samson also eats, and his calorie intake added to her own.
"Samson?" Ryuuko asked confused.
"Ah! Sorry, he had been sleeping this whole time and I kinda forgot to introduce him." Filia apologized as she began to tug her own hair. "Hey, Samson! Wake up!"
"Uh? Is school over?" A drowsy voice coming from Filia's head said. "Is it lunch time?" Samson asked earning a pout from his host.
"Anyway, Ryuuko this is Samson!" She introduced the parasite, "Samson this is Ryuuko."
Samson then 'stretched' his head a little just so he could see this Ryuuko girl. "Oh, didn't see you there." He said curtly. "Do you have any food, I'm starving."
"Nice to meet you too." Ryuuko said sarcastically but at the same time she was a little weirder out by the parasite. "So your hair talks, huh?"
"Hey! I am more than just hair!" Samson said.
"Well, he is a Theon and I am his avatar." Filia tried to explain but she only got a confused look from Ryuuko. "Although nowadays Theons are known as Parasites and us Avatars as Parasite Hosts."
"I don't mind the Host part, but I take offense on the Parasite part." Or at least then it was used as a derogatory term towards him or to discriminate Filia.
"Long story short, we have more of a symbiotic relationship. Samson grants me powers and I grant him nutrients." Not to mention that if they were forcefully separated Filia would die, not that she would confess that so easily to anyone.
"Huh? Kinda like Senkestu and I." Ryuuko commented.
"Senketsu?"
"I also kinda forgot to introduce you to someone…" she said scratching the back of her head. "Oi, Senkestsu, why don't you introduce yourself." She said to her clothes.
"Hello. I'm Senkestu. Nice meeting you." The Kamui, greeted politely.
"So your clothes talk, huh?" Filia asked with a small smile for repeating the same line Ryuuko.
"You see, Senketsu here is a Kamui, and I'm his wearer…" Ryuuko also responded with a small chuckle. It seemed that the two of them had more in common that they initially thought.
[-X-X-]
Today was the day a supposed tournament style fight with Ryuuko and the Student Council. It was sure to be an exciting event, a shame that Filia would have to miss it since she had a more important task ahead of her.
After many training sessions just for fun, Ryuuko had deemed Filia strong enough for a special task while she fought the so called Elite Four and their Leader, Kiryuuin Satsuki; all of whom were unawake.
Filia didn't mind the task all that much, besides she was anxious to see how far she had come by having a good battle with a strong opponent. Speaking of which...
"Excuse me, are you Harime Nui?" Filia asked as she approached a pink Lolita with extremely long blond pigtails, who was walking down the streets in direction to the Honnōji Academy where the tournament was been help up.
"Huh? Why did you ask fatty?" Nui mocked her using a sugary and naïve sounding tone. Something that Ryuuko said the girl used to get under the skin of her opponents.
"Because I was sent here to kill you." Filia answered in a nonchalant manner, causing the Lolita to burst out giggling uncontrollably.
"My, you are so funny, Fatty…" Nui managed to say after she got her giggling slightly under control.
"And after I am done with you, Ragyou and the Original Life Fiber are next." Filia added making Nui go completely silent. "What? Didn't find that joke funny?" It was strange for Filia to act as mockingly as she was before meeting Samson and being the Alpha Bitch at school, but Nui liked to mess with people's head then she could play the same game.
"Who are you?" Nui asked a little more leveled looking at Filia with uncertain eyes.
"My name's Filia." The host answered before she smirked. "And this is my friend Samson." And as soon as those words left her hair moved and shot several tendrils towards the blond with the intent of filling her with holes.
Nui without moving one bit, block the incoming attack easily with a purple sword in the form of half a scissor. "You want to have some fun?" Nui asked returning to her cutesy persona. "Let's have some fun before I meet with Lady Satsuki!"
"Let's go Samson!" Filia shouted as Samson began to grow and stretch himself in order to cover Filia. Then faster than a blinking eye; he transformed himself into a black version of Filia's normal uniform.
Meanwhile Nui saw the whole thing with slight curiosity. What Filia was wearing wasn't a Kamui, heck it didn't have any life fibers on it. Instead of clothes she used her hair; making her wonder if she should collect her for Ragyou. Anyway, she didn't have much time to ponder an answer since she had to evade another attack from Filia. "Missed me!"
"Not so fast!" Filia then transformed Samson into an octopus and launched his tentacles to try and grab Nui, but the blond defended herself by knocking away the tentacles with her scissor blade.
"Ma, ma! What a weird hair you have!" She mocked but deep down she was trying to figure out how the thing worked.
"Not as weird as your face!" Filia countered by launching more of her hair tendrils which formed some 'teeth' into them and making it spin creating several makeshift chainsaws. The attacks came fast enough that Nui had to parry again instead of dodging.
"Still not fast enough." Nui commented. "Maybe if you did more exercise and lose some weight you could be faster."
"This coming from the girl that has yet to attack." Filia replied. "What's the matter, scared?"
"Not really!" Nui said playfully. "Although if I keep playing with you I might be late to see Lady Satsuki." After that she 'slide' and appeared behind Filia with her scissor blade ready to strike. "I can't be late!" then she swung her blade ready to cut of Filia's head. And as soon as the edge was about to make its mark, it came to a sudden and complete stop. "What?" Nui said surprised as she tried to pull back her blade and found she couldn't do that either. The she let go of the scissor blade when Filia's hair attacked her again and the blade remained suspended in the air as if it was frozen in time.
"That's a nice blade you have here." Filia admired it as she took the blade for herself and it turned red.
"What did you do?" Niu asked once again forgoing her cutesy persona.
"Did I forget to mention that I can control metal?" Filia smirked, enjoying the look of confusion she got in response.
"But that isn't…"
"Made of Metal? I know," the Mistress of Magnet interrupted. "But I managed to implant some metal into the blade. Why did you think I made you parry all those attacks?"
"What…?"
"Very thin hair fibers made of metal. I implanted them into the sword and now I can control it anyway I want." She demonstrated by controlling the blade and making it look like there was an invisible man swinging it. "Thanks for the blade, I really appreciated it."
"Ng." Nui eyes hardened. "You have my blade now, so what? It's not like you can actually hit me with it." And as soon as those words left her mouth, Filia disappeared from in front or her to behind her.
"Really? Because I think I just did." Filia laughed as Nui armed fell to the ground and her now stump of an arm started to bleed like a broken hose, making the Lolita scream in pain "They don't call me the fastest thing alive for nothing." Now that was an exaggeration to make herself look tougher. Ryuuko was faster than her during their spars and the title she borrowed from whomever she replaced in that Loop where she defeated that scientist that was turning animals into robots; Dr. Robo-something.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT MY ARM'S WORTH?" Nui exploded in rage. "YOU…YOU PISSED ME OFF!"
"Well you know what they say, better be pissed off than pissed on!" She ought to thank Samson for that witty response later on because the look of unfathomable rage in Nui's face was priceless.
"I'm gonna kill you!"
"Bring it on!"
[-X-X-]
"Did you have fun?" Ryuuko asked Filia once they met up again back at Filia's home for the Loop after a long day of fights.
"It was a fun fight." The parasite host admitted. "Even though relentlessly taunting my opponent isn't really my style." She said as she admired the half scissor blade she had taken from Niu.
"Hey, it is a good way to unbalance any fighter and have them committing basic mistakes." Boy, she had learned that lesson by being in the receiving end. "Do you want to keep it?" Ryuuko asked seeing Filia inspecting the sword over again.
"Can I?" The host asked seeking permission. "Isn't this from your dad's?"
"Yes, but I have spares in my subspace pocket." The anchor explained. "Besides, it might come in handy to have a weapon besides you hair." Another lesson she had learned from the Loops. Never rely solely in one weapon or skill.
"Hey! I told you I'm not just hair!" The Theon complained but it only caused the two girls to chuckle.
"Go back to your donuts, Samson. You deserved to enjoy them after a battle like that." The host told between chuckles.
"Damn straight!" He answered and continued with his eating.
"Anyway," Ryuuko continued where she left off. "If you want it you can have it. Heck I can give you the missing half too." She offered.
"Thanks, but no thank you." Filia declined the generous offer. "This half is enough." She continued to look at the blade. "Although I was thinking…maybe…make some modifications, if that's okay with you."
"No, it's cool." Ryuuko said shrugging. "What do you have in mind?"
"Well…"
[-X-X-]
"And here I thought you said a giant pair of scissors was silly…" Ryuuko commented as she saw Filia's 'modifications'. "Do those things even have an edge?"
"Want to find out for yourself?" Filia turned as she swung her new weapons. From the original sword, Filia managed to create a new pair of thin swords with the appearance of a pair of giant Hairpins. "Want a spar?"
"Yeah, let's see what those hairpins are capable off!" Ryuuko said as she made her own scissor blades appeared. "Let's go!"
From that day forward, the two girls would spent the rest of the Loop sparing with each other, having lots of fun, and when the last day of the loop came, they promised each other to keep on fighting and getting stronger so that their next spar is even better.
9.7
Filia awaken once again in a situation she didn't expect. Being attacked with several missiles by what looked like the military. Mainly because she was a giant around 40 m. Or maybe 80 m. Or was it 200 m? She wasn't really sure since been this big made it difficult to gauge distances and heights correctly. Bu the important thing was that she is giant and being attack by the military.
'What is going on?' Luckily for her she was surrounded by this strange force field that protected her from the missiles and explosions giving her time to think and check her in-loop memories.
'Ugh! everything is hazy.' Her memories weren't very clear or even understandable. All that she knew was that she was supposed to go somewhere to get something defeating any obstacle that came her way. 'This is definitely going into my top five worst awakenings list.'
Filia was at lost here, she didn't know what to do, if continue the mission or what. If one thing she had learned from reading comic books, one of her hobbies she kept secret from EVERYONE, was that giant monsters are she either bad guy or a misunderstood creature who wanted to do good.
'Guess the only thing to do is to continue what I'm doing and find out.' Filia then launched some sort of attack that exploded in the form of a cross; something she hoped wasn't a vain attempt at ironic symbolism. With that attack, she managed to break her way down to a underground city complex where a giant red robot almost her own size was waiting for her.
'Guess this is it. This will tell me if I am the good guy or the bad guy.' Filia thought before she tried to speak. "Excuse me, could you please help me?" she said but the sound of her own voice was too alien even for her. 'I don't think they understood me.' She thought when the only response she got was being fired with giant weapons by the red robot.
But, once again the massive fire was useless against her thanks to the strange force field. Still that didn't deter the robot in front of her which continued to fire at her with different weapons.
"Enough!" Filia shouted as she was getting tired of being under attack. Despite not being hurt by the fire, it was still really annoying; like mosquitoes that didn't leave you alone and kept on trying to bite you. In her slip, Filia summoned two large appendages that looked like cloth from her 'shoulders', for lack of a better term, and tried to swept out the robot's guns away from it, but instead she accidently strike the robots arms and cut them off causing the red robot to heavily bleed purple 'blood'.
"Oops. Sorry!" Filia apologized but once again her speech was too strange to even be intelligible or pronounceable by humans. 'If I wasn't the bad guy before, this kind of cements it.' She really didn't want to cause more damage than she already had, so Filia was about to leave when the armless red robot came charging towards her. "I know you must be angry, but please I just want to leave." She futilely said before the red robot launched itself roaring of all things to try and bite her. Instinctively Filia defended herself and ended up decapitating the robot in front of her with her foil-like appendages. "Please do not hate me." Filia apologized hoping that in this strange world they'll manage to repair the poor robot she accidentally slaughter.
'I hope that if I leave now further destruction can be avoided.' Then another robot appeared, this one carrying a cylindrical object in its arms. Filia didn't have much time to think before this new robot tried to shove the object towards her and thru her force field. When she saw the robot succeeding in penetrating her strange force field, Filia knew she was in danger. 'I hope this works!'
Then there was a gigantic explosion than consumed the both of them. As the explosion died down, Filia noticed she was unhurt thanks to the magnetic force field she put on herself when the first force field was penetrated. 'What happened to the other robot?' she wondered as she look for it only to find it completely damaged. 'That was a suicide bomber!' This people were really desperate trying to get rid of her. 'Yep. Definitely I am the bad guy.'
Filia knew that now it was time to retreat and go back to whatever place Giant Monsters like her come from; the bottom of the ocean or maybe in Deep Space. But once again as she was about to call it quits and prevent further destruction and chaos, another robot appeared, this time it was purple and had a strange horn on its head. 'Not another one!' Filia thought desperately. "Please let me go! I don't want to cause trouble." She pleaded once again hoping that they could at least understand the feelings she was trying to convey. And surprisingly enough, she received an reply.
"Filia is that you?" The purple robot asked using the same strange language as Filia's and the monster girl quickly indetified who the robot was.
"Carol?!"
"We really need to stop meeting in the opposite sides of a battle." Carol joked trying to liven up the mood. "So did you just Awakened?"
"I didn't mean to attack the red robot, I was trying to aim at its guns but I ended up cutting its arms by accident!"
"Eva's, or better said, Evangelions." Carol said. "We aren't robots, but living organic creatures with cybernetic machine and computer components grafted onto us. We look like robots because we are covered from head to toe in metallic plate armor that hides our true organic form."
"Cyborgs…?" Filia widen her eyes in shock. "Does that mean that the other two Eva's were alive?" now she felt even more guilt for doing what she did.
"It's not your fault." Carol reassured. "You just 'Awoke' and you didn't know. Besides, we kind of attack you first because we thought you were the rampaging Angel Zeruel."
"Angel?" Filia repeated back confused. "Is that what I am?" Honestly she didn't look anything like the traditional 'angel' image of white wings and golden halo.
"We'll is it a very long story," And very nonsensical. "But the gist is…" Carol trailed off for a few seconds before talking again. "Could you excuse me a second?" she asked before ejecting a strange capsule from her neck and put it away on the floor. "Sorry, my pilot Shinji was screaming and pulling my controls to make me move and attack you."
"Shinji?" Now that name sounded awfully familiar, she was sure she had heard that mane before… "You don't mean…Ikari Shinji, do you? The one Peacock told us about?"
"Yes, He is." Carol admitted. "As one of the Original 7, I was anxious about meeting him but I found out he wasn't awake this loop." She explained with a little bit of apprehension. "So he is kind of …"
"A 'Whinny Little B****' ?" Filia offered the description that Peacock use to refer him.
"A was going to say a troubled angsty teen but that description works too, yes." Or at least that was how Peacock described him in a nutshell. "I tried to ignore Peacock's opinion of him but…it seems that she was right." She hated to admit it though. "I am no stranger to angst myself, but this guy really takes it to another level."
Carol hated to sound like a hypocrite, but at least she had a reason for been so angsty and depressed. She was from her room kidnapped in the middle of the night, experimented against her will, suffered through constant surgeries, being mentally r***d and brain washed to serve as a weapon against a monstrous being of destruction, and when she finally managed to break away from all that, she had her parents not recognize her for her monstrous appearance and scream at her things like 'monster' and 'freak'. In comparation, Shinji abandonment issues and insecurities really couldn't compare.
"But I heard he got a lot better once he started Looping." That was the only consolation she had, but it was going to be difficult to meet the Looper version without thinking about his 'unawake' persona.
"So…? What now?" Filia asked. "Do we bail?" Because she really wasn't looking forward for a fight against her best friend.
"Not if we are this height, we can't." Carol pointed out. "Do you know any transfiguration powers or spells?" she asked only to receive a negative shake of the head. "Guess I'll have to do it for the two of us." Carol then walked up to Filia and placed her hand on her friend. Then the two of them began to shrink and transform back to their more familiar forms.
"Sorry for the coloration, I'm, still practicing that." Carol said told using human speak, now looking like herself except a lot more purple and green.
"It's not a big deal." Filia assured. Being who knows how big and made of whatever the heck Angels are made of was way worse than looking really pale and having complete black sclera for eyes. "So where do you want to go?"
"As far away of Tokyo-3 as possible."
"Tokyo-3? Really?!" Filia couldn't help but laugh at the name, and she wasn't the only one since Carol ended up joining. And with that the two Off-collored girls walked away into the distance.
[-X-X-]
Back in the NERV Headquarters everyone looked at the scene completely dumbfounded.
"Sir, what just happened?" Fuyutsuki Kozo, second in command of NERV Hq asked to his commander officer, Ikari Gendou.
"I…I don't know." He admitted just as confused as everyone else. But what he knew was that Seele wasn't going to be happy about this.
9.8
Carol awoke submerged in the bottom of a lake. This strange location almost caused her to panic, if not for the fact that she quickly realized why she couldn't drown.
'I'm an undead.' A reanimated corpse that didn't need to breath, so drowning wasn't an issue. 'Still, I better get out of this place.' Carol then began t made her way back to the surface by walking. Once she was to the surface, Carol noticed the black sky above her before she moved on to inspect her body; Sickly gray skin, no pulse, raggedy clothes, and possible bad odor; yep she was definitely an undead.
"Although the Hockey Mask is intriguing…" she commented out-loud as she touched the plastic mask. Was she a Hockey player? One that drown on the lake and came back to life? That sounded like a plot of a bad movie. "All I need now is to join the local underdog team and teach them the meaning of teamwork and family and we got the Family Friendly Movie of the summer." Zombie Hockey. In theaters soon. "Wow, were did that come from?" That wasn't her usual thought process at all. "I got to stop letting Peacock drag me away when we are just the two of us Looping."
After that Carol then decided to look around the lake which housed several cabins, meaning this place was some sort of camping ground. 'Maybe I can find help somewhere…' but then she reconsidered. How would people react to when seeing her undead appearance? Not very welcoming, she deduced.
After so more walking, Carol stumbled upon a bunch of campers drinking beer, smoking weed and acting promiscuous. 'That's not appropriate!' she thought as she watched them from the dense greenery. 'Someone should teach them that what they are doing isn't right.' And what better way to teach them a lesson than being scared by a ghoulish undead monster. 'Okay, here we go!'
[-X-X-]
"Okay, clearly I didn't think things thru." Or paid attention to her in-loop memories. They would've told her of her 'triggers' that caused her to go on a rampage and kill people who acted irresponsibly like the one she encountered. "I think a loop in isolation wouldn't be so bad under these circumstances…" and with the recent murders of these campers, the people in charge would have to close the camp, meaning people will not come near this place or her. "I know it isn't much coming from me, the one who killed you all, but I am really sorry…" Carol apologized at the mountain of severed limps and heads she had made. "Truly and deeply sorry."
Her only consolation would be that no more people would have to die.
[Few months later]
"Again..I am deeply sorry…" Carol once again apologized but this time to a bunch of unmarked graves. "I didn't know they wouldn't close down the place, but I'm sure after this, they will close it down for good."
[One year later]
"Although I am sorry, I can't help but feel that some of the blame should go to the owners of this place who refuse to close this place down after all these murders." Carol said this time to a communal grave she had prepared.
[Two years later]
"Okay, now I think the owners of this place aren't the only ones who should share the blame with me." Carol said exasperated. "After all these murders and all the haunting stories of this place, people should know better by now NOT to come to this place. But did you guys listen? No, you guys came here to party, do drugs and have unprotected sex, not giving a crap. And if you guys don't give a crap why should I?"
[One year later]
"You know what? Screw this place and screw you guys! I'm getting out of here!" Carol was really angry this time. "Maybe I'll go to a place where people aren't as irresponsible as you."
[One year later in Manhattan]
"F***!"
9.9
Filia 'awoke' this time, not in the middle of being attacked, but in-mid flight of a red Bi-plane over the ocean. She only freaked out for a few seconds before checking her In-loop memories for instruction in how to fly the plane.
"Samson? Are you doing fine?" Filia asked to the Theon that was her hair, which was blue once again.
"Yep…Just don't talk to me…until we land…" Samson responded sounding somewhat sick.
"Are you airsick, Samson?" She asked concerned only to receive a hasty nod so she didn't push the issue further. 'Just hope he doesn't barf.' This thought brought up an interesting question. 'Wait? Can he even barf?' Samson could eat, but he didn't have a digestive system, all of what he consumed went directly at her, so he could extract nutrients from her…so if Samson were to vomit, would that mean it was going to be her own vomit? Could she vomit from the back of her head?!
'Goddesses, I think I'm getting sick too.' Filia thought while looking for a place to land the plane. Fortunately for her there was a spacey shore on an island up ahead. "I'm going to land the plane Samson." Filia informed slightly scared. Although she had the memories of flying and landing the plane before, this was going to be the 'first' time doing so. "Here we go!" she announced and prayed that they wouldn't die in a fierily explosion.
Luckily for them, Filia managed to land the plane without crashing, and soon enough they were safely back on the ground. "That was sure an experience, wasn't it Samson?" Filia asked as she wiped away the sweat that had form on her forehead.
"Sure, as long it is the last one." The Theon was still feeling woozy. "If you need to fly again I'll just become a pair of wings for you. I don't care if I have to carry your 64 kg (142 lbs) all across the ocean!" And he really meant it too; he refused to get back on a plane like that.
"Hey! Don't you start with the weight jokes!" Filia said offended. "It is because you keep eating so much I gain that much weight!" And because of it she was called a fatty by many people, especially Peacock. 'I'm just Hollywood pudgy that's all!'
"Hey, I'm not giving up my midnight snacks!" Samson retorted. "If consume a lot of energy from you, I don't put some food into you, I might die," H pointed out. "And need I remind you what would happen to you if I were to die?"
"I'll die too." Filia pouted already knowing all of this. "Which doesn't exactly holds much weight (no pun intended) now. If you die and that makes me die then the Loop just ends for me. And I'll find myself waking up in another Loop."
"Well, that's…" But before he could continue a nearby noise from the bushes caught his attention. "Kid, to your 6 o'clock!" He said making Filia turn 180°.
"Who's there?" Filia demanded ready to fight if it came down to it. Then from the bushes, a familiar figure made itself known.
"Filia! It's good to see you again!" Carol said as she stepped away from the bushes and walked all the way towards the symbiotic duo. "It's been so long!"
"Really?" Filia said confused. "For me it has been just one Loop." Relatively short one too.
"Well for me it has been around five and the last one was somewhat long. " Carol explained. "I Looped as the first Kamen Rider." Which strangely enough had a very similar 'origin' story as her own; being kidnapped by Shocker and forced to undergo a procedure that turns her into a super-powered cyborg. Heck, the 'Rider Kick' was exactly the same as her own aerial kick.
"Kamen Rider?" Filia repeated curiously. "What's that?"
"Well it is kind of complicated to tell in one go…" Carol rubbed the back of her head. "I can tell you all of it later, first I think we should investigate where we are."
"Oh, I've been here before." Filia casually commented. "Well, not exactly here, as here in this island, but here as in this Loop before."
"So…can you explain to me the animal ears?" Carol asked as she pulled her own foxy ears on top of her head. "Are we Ferals?" referring to the half human half animal race that lived in their world.
"Weird! I don't remember them from the Loop before…" Filia confessed as she too pulled her own animal ears.
"Hey, watch it!" Samson jerked away. "That hurts a bit."
"Oops! Sorry."
"What should we do then?" Carol looked at Filia for guidance. "What's this Loop about?"
"If I'm not mistaken, any second now we will be attacked by this egg-shaped scientist that transforms cute little animals into robots, to try and find these magical emeralds to try and conquer the world." Filia explain what happened in the last loop.
"That's horrible!" Carol frowned, knowing firsthand what if feels to be experimented on and used as a weapon for nefarious purposes. "We should go stop him, right now!"
"Yes! Let's go!" Filia was about to start running before she stop herself. "Huh Carol? Do you think you could keep up? No offense to you but thanks to this Loop I can move at supersonic speeds."
"Oh, I think I can manage!" Carol smiled as she summoned Buer Drive from her subspace pocket and connected it into her spine. Then it began to spin around like the turbine of a plane propelling Carol at incredible speed from one side of the beach to the other and finally back with Filia. "How do you think I manage to fly?"
"That's great Carol!" Filia cheered now that they were no problem at all. "Now we can go teach that Eggman a lesson!" And show him it wasn't okay to abuse animals like that. "Come on! Let's go Carol! Samson!"
And with great speed both Parasite hosts dash away to another adventure together by first traversing through the colorful tropical paradise of this Emerald colored Hill Zone.
9.1.- That's Not Neato! Yo! where yo curleh mustache at?
9.2.- Hyper Friendship Sentinel Force. Yo! When's Mahvel?
9.3.- Skullgirls Time!
9.4.- The Nightmares We Left Behind.
9.5.- Skullgirls SatAm.
9.6.- Until Your Hair is Dry! Oh and Filia... "Don't Lose your Hai~r!"
9.7.- Filiael the Hair of God.
9.8.- Skullgirls the 13th part 2: the Snip Count Continues!
9.9.- Filia the Hedgegirl 2 introducing Carol 'Painwheel' Prower.