Hey, guys. So, just a quick message to promote my other account, Stalokills.
I made that account first. The pieces on this one mostly focus on anime-related universes and powers, while the other account is for ones that don't have those direct influences of stories or characters. I did this because...well, I just wanted to. So, if you like the stories on this account, go check out some of the pieces I made on that one.
If you're not a usual fan of anime related stuff, that account's good for you. If you're a strict anime-only type, that's good too.
Although I suppose working on like 6 or 7 stories at a time might be a bad idea, I have too many ideas in my head and if I don't get them down, then they just vanish.
Anyways, most of the pieces on that already have a decent amount of chapters, so feel free to explore it. Thanks!
Lincoln jumped from the ground from a running position, flying up through the air and landing on the roof of a building. He peeked over the edge to look down on the damage below. Surprisingly, it wasn't that much, just a small crater in the ground. Enough to cause a panic of course, but not enough for it to be an exceptionally strong monster. At least this fight wouldn't take up too much of his time.
He jumped down towards the ground. As he fell downwards, he saw a small flash of light concealed just barely behind the smoke rising from the crater. He blinked as a small ball of yellow light and heat flew past his face, hitting the building behind him. It exploded, propelling him forward just a little.
Geez, that almost hit me! He thought as he landed. He stood up straight, looking into the smoke, trying to catch some sign of life in there.
"Hey, you gonna come out or am I gonna have to go in?" He asked loudly. There was a moment of silence without an answer. "All right, guess I'm going in."
He walked forward to the crater, paradoxically careless yet careful as usual. He stepped through the smoke and was out of it fairly quickly.
Looking down in front of him, he saw a small being crouched down, its hands wrapped around its knees. It would have looked fairly human to him, except it had pitch black eyes staring up at him and the long purple hair coming down. He blinked in surprise as it crouched there and stared at him.
"You're different." It whispered in the voice of a little girl. "I wonder why?"
"Are you the one responsible for all this?" He asked, setting his fists on his hips as if he were scolding a child.
"No, it was Big Brother." She said. Lincoln blinked.
"Big-" He was cut off by a punch to his face, launching him thirty feet in the opposite direction. He slammed into a building, which covered him in concrete debris.
The dust and rubble finally settled, and he saw a tall monster, extremely buff and with different shapes orifices.
"Oh."
What?" Child Emperor said, surprised. "A monster attack?"
"And so close to the Tornado's home." Twenty-Three only used Tatsumaki's hero-name, to hide their personal relationship from their colleagues. Of course, anyone with a brain could see what was going on between them outside of work, but inside they remained as separate as possible to avoid complicating things. "Either this monster is very strong, or very stupid."
"Most likely the latter." Bang, S-class rank 3, said, sipping on his punch. He quietly listened to the report given by the association.
"If there was an attack, then no doubt Lincoln-tan is caught in the middle of it," Twenty-Three said. Tatsumaki raised an eyebrow.
"The albino brat? Why they even let a brat like him become a hero, I'll never know." She huffed, crossing her arms. Child Emperor shot a glare in her direction out of the corner of his eye but that was all. King stood silently in the corner of the room, the familiar sound of the King's Engine growing louder and louder.
"Nevertheless, I must go to help him." She said. A flash of disappointment showed on Tatsumaki's face.
"Hmph, like I care." She said, crossing her arms. "Go help the runt if you must."
"I would like to come, as well." Child Emperor spoke up. Everyone looked at him strangely, not remembering when the Child Emperor had met the white-haired boy.
"Are you sure, Child Emperor?" Twenty-Three asked. The young S-class nodded, meeting Twenty-Three's questioning look. The cyborg shrugged and moved to leave, Child Emperor close behind. L
Lincoln jumped down from the hole in the building, landing on the street below him. He brushed the dust off his shoulders and looked at the monster that had attacked him.
"I guess you're her 'Big Bro,' huh?" He asked. The monster stalked closer to him, it's body shivering and pulsating as it didn't say anything out loud, most likely only to itself.
Lincoln realized that talking wasn't going to do much. At least most of the other monsters he beat actually spoke to him, but the last two-
Wait, this one looked just like the one that attacked Zendrant city, and the one that he and Twenty-Three had faced when they first met (Chapters 1 and 2). That little girl called this thing "Big Brother." They had to be connected in some way. If they were more of these guys, then they could cause a lot of damage.
"Oi, you, whatever your name is!" Lincoln yelled at the little-girl-monster. It looked in his direction but didn't speak. "How many brothers you got?!"
"That's a strange question." It said, somehow its whisper reaching him over that distance. "You're strange."
"You're strange." Lincoln shot back nonchalantly. The girl monster blinked.
"I just have Big Brother. He keeps getting hurt, so I keep having to help him." She said, rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet, still crouched. Every wing seemed shaky and slow, like a video game character that was lagging.
"So, it's just this guy?" He said to himself. "That means if I want this guy to stay down, I'll have to take out that one over there. But she looks really human, so I don't know if I'll be able to do that."
The monster charged at him, and Lincoln easily tossed it aside with a right hook. It skidded along the ground and stopped about twenty feet away.
"Hey, girl, you got a name?" Lincoln asked. The girl monster blinked.
"Why are you asking me that?" She asked him.
"It's rude to answer a question with a question," Lincoln said. He didn't know if it was, but it was the only idea he had in his pocket. The girl was quiet for a moment.
"Yuni." She said. She looked over at where the monster was shaking the pain off. "That's Sota."
"All right, Yuni-san. Can you get your brother to stop being mean?" He had plenty of practice persuading his sisters, so she shouldn't be any different. If this didn't work, he would just have to go ahead and punch her.
"No." She shook her head. "Father said to let Brother hurt people."
"Father?" Lincoln blinked, surprised. Was there a stronger monster out there? "Who's your Father?"
"He's a scientist." She said. "He makes Big Brother stronger."
"A scientist?" So he's human? Lincoln thought. This was getting weirder.
The monster jumped on him again, only to be punched to the right this time, landing another 20 feet that way.
"Yes. He said if we do what he says, he'll make it stop." She said, seeming to hug herself tighter. Lincoln blinked, not liking where this was going.
"Stop what?"
She never answered though, she just kept rocking back and forth.
"Lincoln-tan!" He heard a familiar robotic voice yell. He turned and saw Twenty-Three jump down towards him, close behind her was the kid he saw a while ago.
"Oh, it's you guys." He said as they landed on the other side of the street. They ran towards him.
"There was a report of a monster. Are you all right?"
"Yeah, I was just taking care of it. I'm fine." He said as they stopped next to him. He looked over to where the monster was getting up again. Twenty-Three frowned.
"That one looks oddly familiar." She said.
"Yeah, it's apparently the same one that you fought when you met me." He said. Her eyes widened.
"What?! How is that possible?" She almost yelled.
"The girl over there says that she 'helps him when he gets hurt.' I guess she can bring it back from the dead."
"So, we just have to get rid of that girl, then?" Child Emperor said, uninterested. He must have thought there was more of a challenge.
"Not yet. I think there's more to this, she mentioned something about a 'Father.' I want to question here more."
"First we gotta take care of the big guy."
"I agree. That seems the much more present threat." She said. "However, if the one over there is indeed capable of healing him, then this will be difficult."
"I'll take care of that one," Lincoln said. "Can you get her somewhere she can be questioned?"
"But you're just a C-class. I think it would be better if you let us handle this, Lincoln-san." Child Emperor said, pulling out a tablet from his pack. "No offense to you, but I would prefer to keep the damage to a minimum."
Lincoln looked at the smaller boy, confused. The monster jumped once again, this time launching itself at Child Emperor this time. The young S-class quickly typed away on his tablet.
Just as the monster was about to land on him, two large metal appendages shot out from the heroes backpack and impaled the monsters' legs. It was stopped in its tracks.
"Will you two be able to handle it on your own?" She asked. Lincoln nodded in confirmation, a little ticked at the direction this fight was going in.
Twenty-Three went to secure the girl as the monster swung its fist at them. Another appendage shot out of Child Emporer's bag and impaled the monster's arm.
"This monster relies solely on physical strength. While it is strong, it's intelligence is lacking." Another appendage shot out, and all four appendages launched the S-class hero backward as the monster used its free arm to smash the ground where Child Emporer was. The young S-class typed away furiously on his tablet, as the metal appendages shifted and changed to what he needed.
This thing is no problem for me, Child Emporer thought with a smirk, I think just one shot from my new toy should get it done. He typed away on his tablet, summoning one of his drones from his lab. It was a little far, but with the rockets that were upgraded recently, it should be here in less than 40 seconds. Should just hold it off enough to get a good shot in.
The monster charged at him with incredible speed, but his reflexes were faster. His appendages jumped him out of the way and up the side of a building. There he made his plan of attack. He detached one of the appendages by hand, leaving him with three. He jumped towards the ground. As he landed, the monster was on him, but he was prepared for this. He dodged just under the monster's swing. Two of his appendages shot up and impaled the monster's arms yet again.
He used his last appendage to shove the detached one through its chest and into the concrete below. Child Emporer jumped back as the metal retracted on itself, opening on both ends to anchor the monster to the ground.
"This is over." Child Emporer said as the large drone arrived overhead. It needed only a second of charging while the Monster attempted to remove the anchor from its body, but it was too late. With a bright orange light, the drone shot a beam of intense energy at the monster, hitting it dead center. It exploded on impact heat and fire enveloping the thing's body entirely, destroying a large portion of the concrete underneath. But something was wrong. The explosions from his test with this drone were usually bigger than that.
The white-haired boy watched the fight from a distance.
"Wow, that was a pretty cool fight, dude," Lincoln said in awe as if he was watching something from a television show. Child Emporer proudly smirked at the older boy.
"Well, it's-" He was cut off as one of his appendages suddenly shot out again without his command.
Huh? Was all he could think before being launched to the side. His two other legs shot out and rolled, shielding his body from the concrete. When he was upright, he saw that the monster had gotten up again. What? That blast should've been enough to kill it.
That's when he saw that the monster's eye was glowing bright orange.
It must have absorbed most of the energy from the blast. Damn, if I didn't have automatic defense on I probably would be dead. The monster's eye glowed brighter for a moment before it thrust its arms out and shot the energy at the S-class. He jumped out of the way quickly, barely escaping the outer explosion. After the dust settled, the glow was gone from the monster. So, it can absorb energy and shoot it back out, but only once. Or is it just as much as I put in? Nevermind, looks like I'll have to avoid any attacks based on energy. I should have been more careful with this thing.
The monster charged at Child Emporer again, but he was prepared. He charged head-on, barely dodging under its arm. Two of his appendage shot through the monster's body and threw it off to the side. As soon as it hit the pavement though, it got up again.
The wounds are already gone. It must have some kind of healing factor, but how good is it. Just impaling the body does nothing, I should try cutting off a limb next.
The monster charged again, and once again Child Emporer dodged. He brought up one appendage, but the monster spun and grabbed it with a speed that it didn't possess before. Child Emporer panicked and attempted to jump back, but not before the monster destroyed the appendage.
Damn it, has it been holding back? I may not be able to use energy, but turrets should be enough to immobilize it long enough to cut off its arms. That's this thing's only weapon.
He quickly typed away on his tablet, going on the defensive as he attempted to stay out of the monster's reach. Just stay out long enough for his drones to get, only a couple more seconds. It chased him through the streets of the city. Luckily by now, the police had evacuated the immediate residents, so there wouldn't be any collateral damage. Still, there was the occasional straggler that he had to be aware of. This thing was a lot faster than it was before, and it had some hidden abilities that it didn't know about, but it was still stupid.
When the drones did get there, Child Emporer was still just outside of that thing's reach. They wouldn't fire if he was so close in proximity. This, he was prepared for. He threw an adhesive C4 charge at it, which just barely attached on its foot. But that was enough. He used his legs as a shield, throwing himself to the right as the charge exploded, knocking off balance and sending it tumbling. The drones activated almost immediately, all six of them firing on major body parts and appendages. He had made sure that these rounds were anti-tank rounds, specialized in piercing even the hardest of metals, in case this thing decided to get a little more resistant to damage.
"Cut off the limbs, but focus attacks on the head." Child Emporer said to himself, typing away on his tablet. The monster roared as its body was pierced hundreds of times, its healing factor not quite able to keep up with the damage being dealt to its body. Child Emporer the machines on the back to extend blades in preparation for his attack. "All right, now!"
The shooting stopped and Child Emporer was on it. He lifted his appendages and brought them down in a cutting motion. But suddenly, the monster was on its feet, and both hands grabbed the appendages in midair. Before Child Emporer could react, the monster pulled in opposite directions, ripping the appendages right out of the backpack. Child Emporer panicked and jumped back out of the reach of the monster. He reached to type on his tablet, only to find it gone from his hand.
Where . . . ? He then spotted it, right under the feet of the monster. It stomped on it, crushing it to pieces. This is bad. This thing is a lot tougher than I anticipated.
Meanwhile, Lincoln looked on from the rooftop above. Maybe I should step in now, he thought as he jumped down.
The monster charged and Child Emporer, who put his fists up and braced for the fight before the monster was suddenly gone from his sight. The S-class hero blinked as he looked around for where it went.
"Hey, you okay dude?" Lincoln asked, suddenly in front of Child Emporer. The younger boy blinked and looked over at him, wondering where he came from. Suddenly, there was the thud sound of a body hitting the ground, and Child Emporer looked behind him to see the monster on the ground a good 30 feet away from him.
"Wait, how-"
"I guess it's my turn." Lincoln walked past the younger boy and towards the monster. "This thing is strong, I'm getting excited," he said with a smile.
The monster got up shakily, the sudden punch had nearly destroyed its body, and the drop had shaken it up a little bit. It saw new prey to fight, and it charged blindly with rage. Lincoln pulled back his fist, deciding to put a little more power in this punch, just to see how much this thing could take. When the monster got to him, Lincoln planted the punch dead center in its chest.
There was a gust of wind as the monster was knocked slightly back before its chest exploded in a rain of blood that splatters the building more than fifty feet behind it. The limbs and head of the monster fell limp to the floor. Lincoln blinked, looking down at the monster.
". . . damn it," the white-haired boy sighed. "One punch again."