Instincts took over. Hoss bolted to the hall with only one thought in his head. The thought of preventing unarmed people from getting sucked up into the fight they didn't know was coming.
He was about to use shunpo, but stopped when he could feel Chifuyuu running and barely keeping up with him. A smirk spread across his face as he slowed down the pace a bit.
Hoss thought, 'I can't let down anyone. Time for me to crash a party.'
With one last stride, Hoss lept into the air and forced his foot against the door. The force of his 200 pound frame hitting the door caused it to give immediately and as it fell, Hoss drew his zanpackto and readied himself for whatever laid in weight on the other side of the wall.
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Head Captain Yamamoto looked out over his captains. To say he was irritated would be the understatement of the year, he was downright pissed.
"It has been a several weeks since the shinigami researcher Ryoichi Marugo defected. And all we had was a conflict one week after the defection. Even after a complete defeat, you are still unable to capture him." flames started to appear in the room as the temperature climbed.
Captain Kurosuchi took a step forward and began a presentation for the Head Captain, sweat rolling down his forehead.
"Head Captain, the 12th division has never stopped looking for the defaulted researcher Marugo. His spiritual powers were effectively destroyed after the fight between him and the Living Shinigami." Before anyone could protest the newfound information, the head of the R&D department continued. "Because of this, Marugo completely fell off the radar. However, something came into contact with him that recreated his spiritual energy signature. It's weak, but yet strong enough to register on our radar." Pulling a printed report out of his sleeve, "It appears to be what the humans call an Infinite Stratos."
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"A conflict has been detected. Satellite surveillance shows that the IS academy is under attack." Spencer bit back a string of curses as he thought about the new information.
"Airwolf, take us up to full speed. Now."
A sonic boom echoed across the ocean as the black stealth chopper accelerated to mach 1.25
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Hoss had seen quite a few things before, but this one took the cake.
It was an IS with a cannon mounted on each shoulder, no arms but in their place were bulbs with several machine guns mounted in them. He only got a second to examine it before it turned around and started spraying the area he was standing, with no suitable cover.
When the dust cleared and smoke settled, Hoss stood there panting with a small clear panel about his size with his hand against it. Removing his hand, the kido shattered.
"Well, that was close." seeing the shock on the pilot's face, Hoss brought up his revolver. "Now, I'd say it's my turn." Leveling the firearm, Hoss brought back the hammer with his thumb on his left hand. Before he could pull back the slack on the trigger, an explosion and distinct quad jet turbine whine filled the air. Ignoring the debris falling, Hoss pulled the trigger.
The bullet only hit the shields before mushrooming over and falling harmlessly to the ground, energy payload, minus spiritual assist delivered with no effect to the IS.
The pilot started to laugh. "That's it? How could you take down Heaven's Angel if that's the best you can do?" A grin spread across Hoss's face as the woman threw her head back and laughed like she was at a Second City comedy show.
"Because I'm just getting warmed up." Without warning, Hoss snapped his left hand up, a ball of blue energy partially formed," Hado number 33. Sokatsui." The light blue ball of energy flew at the IS. Instead of crashing against the shields, the kido tore through it and slammed into the armor. Smoke and steam wafted off of the heavily scorched armor.
"Got ya." Hoss muttered as the pilot slowly began to loose consciousness and fall.
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Chifuyuu watched in amazement and horror. Hoss had somehow formed a ball of blue, flame like energy and shot it like a bullet at the IS similar to one of the energy cannons on an IS. The blast burnt through the shields and destroyed parts of the armor. The pilot fell to the ground, blood oozing out of the burns on her body. She could tell that the IS frame was totaled and burnt out. Watching, she saw Hoss waled up to the scorched hull.
"Sorry about that." He muttered. "Duty comes first." His face was stone and somber, but Chifuyuu could tell something was bothering him about the blue energy he used. However she dropped the topic before things could go bad. Hoss turned on his heels and went out a secondary exit.
She followed Hoss outside, and looking up she could see 4 IS units of Phantom Task. She could hear Hoss mutter something about using his powers. A sonic boom echoed through the air and two of the IS were hit by stealth aircraft missiles Eyes scanning the sky, her eyes settled on a black attack hellicopter. It was of a design similar to a Bell Defense Aerosystems, but in the same way different. The helicopter banked, the accelerated and spun around backwards and hit the IS with a burst of cannon fire.
The shields on the first IS held, but the second one wasn't so lucky. As soon as the end of the burst hit the shield, the IS ran out of energy and the rounds passed through. Nothing stopped the cannon fire from tearing through flesh and bone. The second and now remaining unit was locked on by an anti-IS missile and exploded in mid air.
When the chopper finished engaging the IS, it came in and landed. The side door opened as the rotors slowed down to just over an idle. A figure, about Hoss's own height and with dirty blonde hair in a buzz cut came over, holding several firearms.
"Hoss!" Said man was already running to the black chopper, crouched down, and ready to take some of his friend's load.
A Phantom Task IS tried to take out the futuristic war bird, that was until the newcomer threw two of the firearms in his hands at Hoss and pumped the rack on a tactical shotgun, the round forced the pilot to pull up and away from the sitting target. Crimson red drops hit the ground and the rotor blades of the chopper, spraying the three people nearby and the walls with a fine red mist.
"Tabane modified these bad boys with some of her own anti-IS technology." The newcomer still held the modified firearm in his hands. "Any of them should be able to reach out and touch an IS."
Hoss already had a M16 rifle in his hands and handed the lone remainder of the group of firearms to Chifuyuu who looked at the weapon in disgust. Ripping back on the charging handle, Hoss loaded the rifle and snapped it up to his shoulder, a three round burst came from the barrel and forced the IS into a crash.
"Works for me." Hoss yelled over the chatter of automatic fire and sounds of other IS engaging in combat. "Duty and honor, being an ex-soldier had it's advantages."
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The futuristic black stealth war bird started to lift off the ground. With the helicopter hovering about 5 feet from the air, the landing gear retracted and the two side turbines wound up, starting to scream through the air, and pushed the airframe through the air.
While Airwolf drew attention up and into the air, Hoss had a firearm, the tactical Remington 870 Express Magnum modified with shield pierce Spencer used earlier. Pumping the rack, Hoss waited. When there was no attention paid behind the pair of IS in a alley between buildings.
"AND IN THE MORNING TO ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA. BOOTS ON THE GROUND. SUBS IN THE WATER. AND FEET IN THE AIR." The yell startled the two pilots that were scanning the area for anything that would fight against them. Two shots tore through the shields and Hoss dove for cover from the incoming fire from the IS.
Leveling his revolver, he fired and took down the two IS pilots.
"Forgive me as I am only doing my job."
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Hoss escorted the two Orimuras to the Black Widow. They climbed in and Hoss started the engine. With a stealth helicopter distracting the IS, the hastily assembled plan was for Hoss to take the Orimura sibliling to a safe house that set up by H.I.M or to a place Hoss felt would be secure. All the gauges read in the good ranges, the fuel and supplies that remained that had been airdropped just a day before sat besides a concrete barrier.
The high horsepower V8 started and Hoss looked around. With no IS baring down on him, he got in the car and got moving
As the flat black modern muscle car slid through the area, it did attract the attention of a few IS pilots. A rocket flew and barely missed the Camero.
"Screw being sneaky." Hoss yelled as he stomped on the throttle and spun the Black Widow around a corner. Tires screamed in protest from the overload of power being applied suddenly. The bellowing V-8 headed for the IS academy's lone bridge connecting it to the mainland of Japan, monorail connection and all.
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"It is decided then, we shall send Lieutenants Kira Izuru, Shunhei Hisagi, and Rangiku Masumoto. They shall meet up with the Living Shinigami Hoss Lohmar to investigate the location of Marugo's last battle and have orders to eliminate him, should they find him. Departure is immediate. This meeting is dismissed." Yamamoto slammed his cane onto the floor of the meeting hall and the captains disbanded.
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Two hundred miles an hour, that was what Hoss had the Black Widow up to and he had his hands full with two IS on his tail even though Spencer and AirWolf were supposed to keep the IS busy.
The scream of a missile heading down on them told Hoss what he needed to know. A sharp snap of the wheel to the right send the missile crashing into the ground below. The damage took out part of the wall along the street. Hoss knew he was going to have his hands full.
