Chapter 10: final confrontation

"Yes and believe me ragyo, this will be your final battle." Tai declared drawing his sword and shield. "Really, my final battle huh?" asked ragyo in a snarky tone. "I highly doubt that." Tai glared at the white haired woman with his teeth gritted and his stance solid and unmoving. "Nui, take care of him would you please?" asked ragyo. "With great pleasure and respect lady ragyo." Nui replied with her usual cheeky smile. "Sending your grunt out to fight me ragyo?" asked Tai "Be a woman and fight me yourself." "Trust me, if by some miracle you actually do kill nui I will fight you." Ragyo announced. "Careful boss, they're toying with you?!" Gaia exclaimed. "Yeah I know that G." replied Tai as he went to activate his transformation sequence. Tai pressed the button and spun the rim to his first form and slammed the rim shut activating the sequence. "HENSHIN!" cried Tai as the sequence kicked in and soon enough he was in his basic combat mode. "Alright nui harime, get ready to pay for your sins." Exclaimed Tai

Meanwhile at the kiriyuin manor

"Satsuki wake up he's gone!" shouted ryuko causing satsuki to shoot up like a rocket and tear outta bed and find ryuko. "Ryuko what do you mean, who's gone?" asked satsuki. "Tai he's gone, I woke up this morning to prepare for our fight with ragyo and nui but when I went to get him up he was gone?!" exclaimed ryuko in a rather worried tone. Soon after satsuki heard what sounded like a muffled alarm coming from Tai's workshop. "Do you hear that?" asked satsuki. "Yeah, sounds like an alarm." ryuko replied. The two made their way to the steel door that led to their brother's private workshop and opened the door to a loud blaring alarm repeating the phrase "Intruder detected!" over and over again. "What was the point of putting that thing in here if he can just muffle it with his door?" asked ryuko as she switched off the alarm and checked the monitors. "I have a feeling he meant to do that." Satsuki answered. "You're not wrong satsuki, look?!" exclaimed ryuko. The two saw that nui and ragyo were already here and Tai was fighting them alone. "What is he thinking fighting them on his own?" satsuki asked. Ryuko then remembered that Tai told her he had been having nightmares of nui and ragyo killing her and satsuki for the last couple of days, but she couldn't tell satsuki that she would flip shit. "I don't know but we have to help him ASAP?!" exclaimed ryuko. "Right, I'll tell the elite's then." Satsuki added as she walked out the door.

Meanwhile at Honnouji academy

"LIGHTNING SLASH!" cried Tai as he swung his sword at nui releasing a burst of green energy. "This is gonna hurt." Nui exclaimed in a deadpan voice in her most straight looking face to match her tone. Nui was then hit by the surge of energy and knocked back on her ass. "Okay, I'll admit you're not that bad." Nui complimented as she dusted herself off. "I have to be, so I can protect my sisters from you two." Tai said in a deathly calm tone. Ragyo was honestly taken aback by his statement. She remembered when she would have done anything to protect satsuki when she was just a little girl. "What are you thinking ragyo get those thoughts outta your head, he's the enemy an obstacle in your way." Ragyo thought to herself. As ragyo looked on to see how nui was doing she witnessed something new. Tai had made his glove's rim expand again and turned it to the second form. "CHOU HENSHIN!" cried Tai as he went into his second form. "Nui, be careful he has much greater power now." Ragyo warned. "Big deal, doesn't mean he's tougher than me-!" nui gloated but was cut off by Tai's fist slamming into her gut. "I'm stronger than before because I have less armor, my armor is so heavy on purpose to contain my immense power level." Tai explained as he slowly removed his fist from nui's gut. Nui then began to violently cough up blood. "What the hell?!" nui exclaimed as she held her quite possibly bruised ribs. "My full power level without the armor is calculated to by twenty times ragyo's full power." Tai exclaimed calmly. "How is that possible?" asked nui. "Because, I'm 75% life fibers, and I've had to fight my whole life just to survive in the slums of Osaka." Answered Tai.

Tai then grabbed nui by one of her insanely large pig tails and threw her into the air. "THIS IS FOR MY FATHER ISHIN!" yelled Tai as he kicked nui in the spine. He then flew under her "THIS IS FOR SATSUKI!" yelled Tai as he punched higher into the air only to fly above her. "THIS IS FOR RYUKO!" yelled Tai as he grabbed nui's legs and swung her into the academy's wall. "AND THIS IS FOR ME!" yelled Tai as he finished nui off with a concentrated energy blast three times his size. The blast then connected with nui making an explosion so big and powerful it sent ragyo back onto her ass. "And then there was one." Tai exclaimed as he lowered himself down to ragyo's level. "You killed nui?!" exclaimed ragyo in disbelief. "Yeah but what I did to her when compared to what I'm GOING to do to you, that was a quick death." Tai informed her in a tone so filled with malice and so laced with venom ragyo thought she might die just from his words.

Meanwhile at the mankanshoku residence:

"Hurry up mako we need to get going." Ryuko repeated for what felt like the hundredth time. "I know, I know?!" mako exclaimed as she desperately put her two star uniform on. "Ryuko, come see this." Satsuki ordered. "What is it?" asked ryuko as she looked up at the school only to see a plum of black smoke rising from the building. "You don't think Tai did that do you?" ryuko asked. "Honestly, I'm more worried he was the one that got hit by it." Satsuki confessed fear in her eyes. "I doubt he was, but still it is a possibility." Ryuko admitted.

Meanwhile back at Honnouji academy.

Ragyo had been thrown around quite a bit by tai, her hair was all messed up she was bruised, she had a black eye, her dress was in taters, and her right arm had been completely ripped off and was now in the hands of her son who she not too long ago thought dead. Tai had since gone into his final form and was lasting a lot longer than he did in his bout with ryuko some months ago. "I guess all that training paid off, huh boss?" asked Gaia. "Yeah it sure did G." Tai replied. Tai then dropped the bloody arm to the ground and made his way over to ragyo. Ragyo was beyond worried, she was downright terrified of Tai and his strength. "Why did I ever think I could defeat him?" ragyo asked herself as Tai drew closer. Tai drew his sword and hit the butt of its hilt to his belt buckle's top a computerized voice then replied by saying "Full Charge" and his blade began to glow green. "This is it ragyo, no more last minute saves for you." Tai said in a cool calm voice. "Action zero, quadruple slash final strike." Said Tai as he readied his sword. Tai then rushed her and slashed her diagonally left and right then top to bottom and finally horizontally. As Tai sheathed his sword a delayed explosion occurred and as Tai turned to see ragyo truly was dead he smiled under his helmet. "Finally, it's done." Tai said to himself. "Now you can truly rest in peace dad." Soon after Tai returned to his civilian form and heard the faint sound of car engines nearby. "Must be the girls and the elite's." Tai guessed. "Boss, they're gonna be pissed you didn't wait." Gaia warned. "Yeah I know, doesn't mean I had to though." Tai replied as he sat himself down on a rock. "Actually, you did need to wait for them." Gaia argued. "I did?" asked Tai. "Yes you did." Gaia answered. "Whoops, my bad." Tai joked. "Your bad, your bad, I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" ryuko screamed. "Now would be a good time to run." Gaia advised. "Nah, I got this comin'." Tai replied. "YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT YOU DO!" ryuko yelled as she got ready to punch Tai in the face. But for some reason she stop just short of actually punching him. "You're lucky you survived the fight, otherwise I might just breakdown right here." Ryuko said tears welling up in her eyes. "I'm sorry, I just didn't want you two getting hurt." Tai said as he wrapped his arms around ryuko and hugged her. "Let's just go home, please." Ryuko said her voice muffled by her brother's chest. "Sure thing kid, besides the fight is finally over." Tai replied as he looked into the sky.

The End