AKB0048: The Fallen Idols of Injustice!
Chapter 14: Mein Kempf! (My struggles!)
AN: Going to go a bit controversial on that one. Since alternate Chris AKA the Chancellor Maiden wished to destroy every humanity's flaws...yeah...
Kasumigastar - Trial Island...
"All diversions ready?" Mayuyu Type 3, who was assisting back at the base, said.
"Count on us, Mayuyu!" Alito winked.
"Alright...Chieri, Nagisa, Suzuko, Kanata, and Sonata, are you ready?" the CG followed.
"We're positioned and ready!" Kanata nodded.
"The Alternate Idols, all set in attacking from the North to assist Chris and Alito?" the CG said.
"Sure do!" Alternate Augusta nodded.
Central
Numerous groups of troops surrounded the Kasumigastar Court Exterior Area as snow covered parts of their armor. Strong winds blew strong as the ominous figure of the Chancellor Maiden stood above the building, eyeing intently. Her eyes glowed blue as she clenched her fists, anticipating the arrival of the rebellion.
Soon enough, Chris summoned numerous icicle skeletons in the coast of the Kasumigastar Court Island. The Maiden of Absolution had also learned the necromancer skills from the same entity of Death during the four years before coming to AKB0048's dimension.
"NOW!" Chris commanded as the skeletal armies and the alternate idols charged in from their assigned direction straight towards the Kasumigastar Court Gardens...
The Chancellor Maiden's eyes met Chris and Alito's eyes.
"So...we finally meet...my duplicate." the Chancellor Maiden clapped slowly as she approached the Maiden of Absolution and the Maiden of Wind. "As I have expected from my deductions, why am I not surprised?" the Chancellor Maiden smirked.
"And I cannot believe that I'm you should i lose my shit." Chris frowned.
"I knew they'd pull you over eventually. Both you and your stupid love don't belong here." the Chancellor Maiden exhaled cold vapour deeply as she clenched both of her fists. Blue veins bulged upon her knuckles.
"Our obligations don't end at the borders of our dimensions alone..." Alito frowned.
"I am this world's savior. Everyone revered to me as their queen, as someone who could bring them out of their misery. Why? Because I protect this world and AKB0048 failed! I succeeded where they fail, Chris...Why can't you see it?" the Chancellor Maiden frowned.
"Yeah right, you call killing innocent beings, taking away their freedom by imposing ridiculous curfews that go against our values as human beings, and even brainwashing virtually every AKB0048 members to go against what they are fighting against all the time, protection?" Chris questioned with tinges of anger and disgust as her eyes glowed blue faintly.
"Disobedient children will be punished, my alternate selves. After all, humans themselves will never comprehend the sheer amount of stupidity they possessed." the Chancellor Maiden simpered evilly.
"What do you mean?" Chris frowned.
The Chancellor clenched her fists...
"The more I listen to Nagisa and co. singing, I realise what a bunch of sick and miserable fools they are, believing that they are able to free mankind from the entertainment ban just based on songs alone...Hahahaha...Fools, aren't they; trapping in their own wonderland as if they are Alices from that fucking book itself! The more happiness they give, the more hatred I feel. Those hypocritical bastards always contradict themselves that they need an iron fist to rule them all!"
"That's good enough reason for you to rule over mankind?" Alito frowned.
"Humans...they are just pathetic little creatures for greater beings to be trampled upon...A pile of nothing but opinions, secrets, hatred and flaws. People go to war over one stupid crystal because they are nothing but greed and avarice! Environments were destroyed because of said flaws! Wars waged, relationships torn apart, peace torn apart because of rivalries between friends, siblings, and even idols! Bloods shed throughout the beginning of time because of conflicting ideologies! Those stupid rivalries and emotional baggage that the Idols of AKB0048 carried in their everyday lives, yet they claimed themselves to be the voice of reasoning? You see...they are nothing but bunch of lies and absolute, fucking misery!" the Chancellor Maiden smirked as she continued,
"Want some example? Mayu Type 3 is just nothing but a poker face, a pile of emotional wreckage hiding inside the weak, pathetic, cybernetic body of hers! Cheerful towards her audiences, and emotionless towards her friends; a pathetic attempt to lie about one's own emotions, is it? Chieri is nothing but an egotistical moron who puts herself above others without any care for her idol friends! Nagisa is nothing but a generic, low self-esteem, emo, whiny pussy whore-in-distress who clings on to her father excessively so much that she failed to defend her own dreams! Orine? That goody two shoes son of a bitch works in a DES factory, manufacturing components for DES's mechas before coming to AKB0048 but is too stupid to figure out? On the other hand, is she just putting a magnificent facade just to fool us? She said that she didn't know that she was working at a DES factory before leaving for Akibastar! HAHAHAHAHA! Who does she think I am? Four? Three? Anyone with at least a bit of commonsense will know that Lancastar is the main factory sites for DES and DGTO's weaponry, and yet Orine doesn't know? Either Orine is really, REALLY dumb, or is just putting on a brilliant, deceitful facade that only I can see through...Pity she has to die while believing her own bullshit..." the Chancellor smirked.
"You what? You killed...You killed Orine Aida?" Chris's eyes widened.
"It's deceitful excrements like her that caused Akibastar's downfall! Working and helping out DES's weaponry while maintaining a clever facade..." the Chancellor Maiden clapped slowly. "Oscar material, don't you think?"
Chris clenched her fists and gritted her teethes...unable to comprehend the beast that her alternate self had slipped into...
"Chiharu...Nothing but just a tool for luring out humanity's worst aspects - lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride, all while covering her own real motives with that cute, yet fake smile of hers! Sonata, an idol who's nothing but a disrespectful fucktard! Akira Igrashi? A prime example of why corrupt kings and queens fall from time to time - thinking that might is right when it is not AT ALL! Shiori Arisawa? She is the essence of human hypocrisy! Caring for your mates in one and appreciating their efforts, and then refusing Kanata the chance to succeed her when that was Kanata's dream all along! A pity...Kanata has to die with that piece of hypocritical filth...reminds me why idolising is always a scary thing..." the Chancellor shook her head, took a deep breath before continuing.
"Then let's see...Yuka Ichijyo, a fine example of an unfaithful bitch who placed work as her 'first boyfriend' and Mamoru as her 'second boyfriend'. Pathetic...You see now, Chris, humans are nothing but just piles and piles of flaws and there is so many of them, yet so little time! Those flaws did not just exists in idols alone, they exists in the filthy race they called, the human race! As one people said, humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice!" the Chancellor Maiden cackled.
"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice...'Chancellor'" Chris shook her head as her eyes flared up in bright blue. "You are aiming to be the next Adolf Hitler!"
"Adolf Hitler...he was wrong in many ways, so I was against him, and never gave so much of a damn about him. He can rot in hell for all I care. But I do think he was right about one thing the more I read what was to be his long, lost, sacred scripture of his..." the Chancellor smirked.
"The Mein Kempf...the detailing of Adolf Hitler's personal 'struggles' of doing the coup de' tats against the Weimer Government during the 20's..." Chris thought.
The Chancellor continued, "I will be the one who will end this misery we're in..."
At the same time...
"How're we supposed to figure out where the heck Mr Sono is beneath these whole stacks of crates?" Sonata's eyes widened as soon as she saw what was in front of her.
Right in front of the Nagisa and co.'s eyes were stacks of crates.
"Damn...just look at the amount of armaments the Chancellor Maiden is willing to use in order to reinforce her iron-fisted regimes...Sickening..." Kanata frowned.
"Hey look, an e-book!" Chieri gasped.
"There might be useful information regarding the Chancellor's ulterior motives, but we have to search for you father first..." Kanata frowned.
"But it says here..." Chieri's eyes widened when she saw the e-book's title, her hair stood up in fear as chills went down her spine.
"How could it be such...such a coincidence?" Chieri shook her head.
The idols present gathered around and their mouth gaped in fear as cold sweat broke out within their bodies...
"T...The Mein Kempf..." Suzuko trembled.
"You don't mean..." Nagisa frowned.
"It isn't hard without reading it...The Chris of this world...wants to be..." Suzuko gulped, shaking her head, though.
"The next...Adolf Hitler..." Chieri frowned.
"So you lots figured out the Mein Kempf, is it? Seemed that the Chancellor must have misplaced it, but I will make sure none of you escapes here!"
"Everyone DUCK!" Kanata shot out as she saw streams of aqua arrows raining down upon the idols.
The idols managed to evade the barrage, but they tripped and fell upon evading it out of anxiousness and shock.
"It must be Chiharu! These aqua-based arrows look very familiar!" Chieri frowned.
The alternate eighth Haruna Kojima gave a seductive smirk as she materialised her Armor of Aquarius while approaching the idols.
"Unless you lots are willing to join the soon-to-be Fuhrer of the entire galactic cosmos, you might as well surrender and mayhaps your death can be swift and painless..." Aquarius Chiharu spoke.
"T...the what? Fuhrer?" Sonata gasped.
"The Chancellor Maiden wants to be Fuhrer? That will be World War II all over again! Do you know the damage and repercussions that will impact the innocents that AKB0048 have been sworn to protect?" Chieri shot back in disgust.
"Wouldn't that be a necessary compromise? The soon-to-be Fuhrer couldn't just go on sitting around doing jack! In the end, she decided that the only way that she can, and will, make the world a perfect place...will be to reset it." Aquarius Chiharu smirked.
"The...The Final Solution?" Chieri frowned.
"The Final What?" Nagisa asked, beads of sweat fell from her forehead.
"According to the history books, before Adolf Hitler's defeat in the hands of the Allied Forces in World War II, that 'Fuhrer' initiated a plan that will 'virtually eliminate every Jews in existence'. If the Chancellor Maiden wants to be like Hitler...she's going to wipe off every single human-beings whom she deems evil. In other words...every one of us..." Chieri spoke with a tinge of fear upon her throat.
"The..." Kanata's eyes widened, her irises shrunk in realisation of the plan the Chancellor is going to unleash...
Chieri nodded.
"The Holocaust."
Back to Kasumigastar Trial Garden...
"No way in hell you're going to unleash The Final Solution!" Chris clenched her fists.
"What? Do you really think humans will ever learn from their mistakes? All they do every single day is creating chaos left and right! They will always find reasons to justify fighting, rivalries, and improving technological warfare! What do you think those elections are for? They are nothing but encouraging idols to fight against one another, creating disarray, chaos, and breaking of relationship left and right as they strived to achieve the same dream from Day One! What do those idols of AKB0048 do? Nothing but just singing plain old poppy songs about summer love! Summer love is nothing but just a bunch of deceit, lies, and self-torment, knowing that in the end, all your efforts in chasing after the girl or boy you desire just goes up in smoke! Iiwake Maybe, Ponytail to Shushu, Gingham Check, Everyday Katyusha, Manatsu No Sounds Good, and that Nagisa no Cherry, all of them depicted lying one's own heart in front of your crush, all in the name of feeling better, coagulating one's own lie into a web of deceit! Songs like this caused the human spirits more harm than good! I, on the other hand, am willing to take matters into my own hand and at least DO SOMETHING, instead of just standing around like some hippy idols who's main job is to 'transmit our hearts into others' but do fuck all! It is my job, as the Fuhrer, that I see that the flaws of humanity be wiped out of existence! I will teach those disobedient children what it means to go against a higher being!" the Chancellor Maiden declared.
"Even if we have flaws, that does not mean literally taking just the flaws of the few and judging the entire human race for this, isn't it? Sure, Dualium Crystals caused World War III, but it has already happened! There's nothing we can do about it except to move on and learn from our mistakes! That is what everyone is doing! You don't expect AKB0048 to be goddesses, ain't it?" Chris frowned.
"That's when I come in! Either they choose to side with those idols that do nothing but to sing poppy songs regarding summer love, or they join me! I bring salvation and life, and yet they don't appreciate me...Pathetic really..." the Chancellor Maiden clenched her fists.
"Or maybe just let go of your tragic past by knowing that it isn't entirely your fault that the entire Fuschia family died? That maybe, just maybe, opening up your heart bit by bit just to see the hope that humanity can offer. That maybe, people like Orine Aida, Chieri Sono, Kanata Shinonome, basically, the entire AKB0048 members and the people of Akibastar, had always wanted to tell you that you are not alone...but you refused to see it because you're just wallowing in self-pity about something that you cannot change!" Chris frowned, her fists clenched as her veins bulged in determination.
The Chancellor Maiden's eyes widened as her smirk faded into anxiety...
"W...What?" she stammered.
Back at the arena of crates...
"Whenever we sing those that you called 'poppy songs', we make people happy! We give joy and reach out to the hearts of people who needs it the most!" Kanata frowned.
"Yes, our lives ain't all about rainbows, sweets and cute stuffs, but it ain't all doom and gloom every single time! Those songs that we sang aren't poppy songs! They are songs that will bring us like-minded people together in the hopes of making our voices heard throughout the galaxies, all in the name of lifting up the Entertainment Ban!" Chieri followed.
"It's songs like these that will brighten their otherwise gloomy days! It's songs like these that tell them that they are not alone; that amidst all of the trouble they have gone through, we will still be there for them through thick and thin! Yes, our lives are unpredictable and who knows what they might bring? But we ain't gonna just sit down and do nothing! We have to keep moving forward, and those songs will keep us, and our fans', hearts going until we defeat the DES and DGTO!" Nagisa nodded.
"And how, are you going to keep that futile resistance of yours?" Chiharu smirked. "You know that in the end, life will balance itself with destruction, so those all good things coming to an end!"
"Oh yeah? Know this instead!"
A huge blast of ice nearly froze Aquarius Chiharu were it not for her Aquarius Aura. However, the ice blast damaged the circuitries that conjured up the aura and thus failed to regenerate another.
"C...Chris-sensei? But I thought..." Kanata's eyes widened, it was the Maiden of Absolution all right.
"Concentrating water particles and freezing them, melding them into my image and creating another Me." the icicle-created Chris winked.
Aquarius Chiharu crossed her arms and frowned. "So...a bastardized version of you...What's the point? You're all gonna lose any way!"
"The songs they sang bring our hearts together. I thought that my life is at an end, that it has no purpose. However, their songs and the idols themselves let me realise that I'm not alone! They let me realise that it isn't my fault that the Fuschias died! Their emotions poured into their songs relate to me and allowed me to open up to them as I helped them along my journey to discover myself! Now look at where I am now! My humanity has returned, and I will do whatever I can to return their favor for regaining it!" Chris clenched her fists.
"But...but this isn't possible!" Aquarius Chiharu shook her head.
"Chiharu...It isn't what you called poppy. The idols and fans are doing something! They are helping one another in overcoming everyday odds, giving joy and adding colour to one another's lives! They are the ones who showed me that the journey of life isn't something I should venture alone! Their songs provide me the courage, the strength needed to face my fears! Now that past is gone and that I never turn back, our world is winning the war against DES and the Entertainment Ban!" Chris replied.
"That's your ideals! It's not true! What you're facing now is reality!" Aquarius Chiharu shook her head in denial, her eyes flaring up in crimson.
The icicle clone transformed into Vollkommen as the Dualium-based aura glowed as bright as the radiant sun.
"Is this proof enough?"
Aquarius Chiharu's eyes widened at the majestic figure spreading out her mechanical wings.
"Chiharu...remember what they say. A few sins from humanity isn't enough to justify us as a whole. For every worst in humanity, there will always be the best in all. Remember what is AKB0048's motives - to bring joy and colors to everyone in the galaxies! If they can convince me that it isn't the end of my life so to speak, if our world has towered over the Akibastar assault, and if my past can be freed which resulted me pulling of my awakened form... I'm sure you will know that there are other ways to maintain peace in this world." Vollkommen extended her right hand and simpered.
"The fans no longer blame your failings to protect Akibastar five years ago. They're willing to forgive you, if you're willing to forgive yourself, and help us in ending this nightmarish reign once and for all!" she continued.
Aquarius Chiharu's tears welled up on her eyes; her slaving protocol was malfunctioning because of the Dualium Aura.
"C...Chris..." the pink-hair idol fell on her knees and cried, finally convinced in peace's possibilities.
Back in the Court Gardens, however...
"Idealistic thoughts will forever be a fantasy that will never come true! AKB0048 has gone insane, singing non-stop, expecting things to change and for the Ban to be lifted...Pathetic really. I might be moping around, but at least I accept that life for me will not get better and leave it at that. I accept that humanity is lost and that only I can rule over the filthy humans and AKB0048 idols! They are insane, I am not!" the Chancellor Maiden smirked.
"Insane? How?" Alito frowned.
"The definition of insanity, my dear Alito...Don't you know? Insanity is...doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting shit to change! This is what AKB0048 has been doing for years on end without any results whatsoever! I came in, added destruction in the mix and within months, voila, the Ban is no more! That's what I don't like about humanity. They keep doing the same shit repeatedly, thinking that maybe this time; they will get somewhere...FUCK NO! People's flaws need to die! Their flaws must be eradicated for the world to be saved from insanity! I will reset this world, and create beings on my own image!" the Chancellor Maiden cackled.
"And here I am...thinking that I can do whatever I can to convince my parallel self to stop..." Chris frowned.
"That's what you are too! You're insane!"
"I might be, but when is humanity sane? Isn't that what makes it interesting?" Chris smirked.
"I see it only as a way to end! I had enough of your stupid preaching!" the Chancellor Maiden roared as the ground shook with great force.
"What?" Chris's eyes widened as she grabbed Alito close to her to prevent any repercussions.
"Everyone run!" Alternate Nagisa screamed.
"What balances life? Destruction! AKB0048 represents the beginning...then I will represent THE END!" the Chancellor Maiden cackled as the ground surrounding the court building soon gave way to reveal an enormous, circular structure with mechanical components and circuitries strewn around its body. Enormous cannons were sticking from all eight directions upon its body. The head of the circular structure looked like a dragon eating its own tail...
Chris frowned. "So...you decided to go with The Final Solution by creating the cycle of life and death itself...The Ouroboros."
Back in the arena full of crates where Alternate Chiharu had just rebooted.
"I never believed that an ice clone is able to do the same thing that the real deal does!" Sonata gasped.
"Then again, I guess I still have loads of my powers that have been expanded upon. Just need some time to adapt to them, ja?" the ice clone winked.
"It's good to see you back to your sane self, Chris. I still can't believe this is what happened should you decide to open up your heart despite your doubts, but it's good to have you back and running!" Alternate Chiharu gave a weak smile.
Just then, the team could feel a huge rumble beneath their feet as they tried to balance themselves. A huge, looming shadow shaped like a large circle soon followed as they looked at the object that casted it.
"What in all of Vollkommen...?" Kanata's eyes widened.
"The Ouroboros..." Ice Clone Chris frowned.
"The Ouro...what?" Sonata wondered.
"The Ouroboros represents life and destruction, depicted by a serpent eating its own tail; a symbolism of a cycle, the devourer of everything, yet eternally renewing everything in its wake. It's what the Chancellor Maiden wants."
"You mean..." Alternate Chiharu's eyes widened.
"Her aim is to destroy everything and reconstructing everything in the name of the Fuhrer - herself. My parallel self...is way beyond redemption." the ice clone frowned.
The idols stared at the huge, looming structure with factory lights glowing ominously in the dark, grim skies.
"THE WORLD IS AT AN END! ALL WILL KNEEL BEFORE THE ELEMENT THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE ZERO, FOR I SHALL RECREATE THAT WHICH IS BROKEN! FUHRER DES GROBDEUTSCHEN REICHES!" The Chancellor Maiden unleashed her Absolute Zero form as she landed on top of the intertwining head and tail of the Ouroboros...
Amidst the clusters of Kiraras looking upon the ominous figure, alternate Hikari Kimishima, the ninth Yuko Oshima, clasped her hands close to her mouth. Her eyes shrunk in fear and remorse at the long-term damage that she had caused because of her disappearance, no thanks to her over-zealousness...
"Just...just what had I done...?" Alternate Hikari fell on her knees, devastated.
Even with the lessons that Chris had learned so far about humanity, she still could not persuade her alternate self to let go of her past.
Her alternate self had completely succumb to a point beyond redemption, a point where she's determined to become the next Hitler...
Now the final battle is staring blankly at Chris and Alito's face as the Ouroboros represents the Chancellor's final step in recreating the Holocaust...
Will the Kiraras of the alternate dimension be able to get to Chris and co. soon?
Can Team Chris & Alito be able to stop the Ouroboros?
Can they prevent another Hitler in the making?
Can the alternate Hikari come to terms with her own mistakes and assist Chris and Alito in the final hurdle?
Tune in next time for next episode of AKB0048: The Fallen Idols of Injustice - Center Novae Idols unite!