Author's Notes:

Sorry I've been inactive for a bit :/ I was hospitalized and wasn't able to write. I'm fine now so I'll keep going. :)

Chapter 15- Revolt

Andromeda watched as the Doctor tinkered with her hologram projector. He pressed a button and a display lit up showing the school message board.

"If your void breaks… you'll die with it too." The Doctor read aloud. "Can't keep a secret like this for long…"

"Doctor, what are they planning to do with the voids?"

"Use them as weapons. Storm Tokyo Tower and get across the wall." The Doctor shut off the hologram. "We need to warn Shu."

"About what?"

"There's going to be a revolution, Andromeda. Shu can't keep his kingly act for long."

….

The trucks outside the school were loaded with supplies and weapons. Everywhere, students were carrying boxes and shouting orders. The Doctor and Andromeda came out of the building with their hands tied behind their backs. A pair of students led them to the back of a truck.

"I hope you have seat belts." The Doctor said before he and Andromeda were shoved into it. The back was full of crates containing different supplies. The students closed the back and the vehicle started moving.

"Great." Andromeda grunted. "Nothing like being prisoner to the humans…"

"Oh dear." The Doctor looked around.

"What is it, Doctor?"

"They made a big mistake." The Doctor smiled.

"What?"

"They put me in a truck with a lot of stuff."

Andromeda smirked as well. "Better get to work then."

….

Shu sat in a small jeep at the front of the caravan of vehicles with Inori and Yahiro. The car stopped. Standing up, Shu shouted to the people behind him.

"I'll go over the plan one more time. The machine controlling the ghost units is here in Tokyo Tower." He took out a buch of papers containing the Doctor's findings and flipped through the first four pages. "I'll use voids to generate an electric shock through the structure to disable the pilots' connection. All I need you to do is clear a path for me. If we succeed, then the defense should be rendered powerless and we'll be able to cross the wall. Let's work hard."

"They're here!" One of the students shouted.

A couple of small endlaves, referred to as insects, dashed towards the caravan.

"Don't worry! We have voids on our side!" Shu shouted.

"Exactly what I was afraid of." Shu turned to find the Doctor and Andromeda standing beside the jeep.

"How the hell..."

"Made an electromagnetic spoon." The Doctor held up a spoon with a bunch of wires and a battery pack strapped to it then threw it away. "Give me and Andromeda our stuff back."

"Why should…"

"We don't have a lot of time, Shu." The Doctor pointed at the incoming insects. "We can help. Just let us."

Shu reluctantly reached under his seat and pulled out the amplifier, sonic screwdriver, sonic sunglasses, and Andromeda's blaster. He then gave it to them.

"That's more like it." Andromeda checked her weapon.

The Doctor put on his sunglasses. "Give the order, your majesty."

"Begin the operation!" Shu shouted.

A group of students charged forward at the insects. The Doctor and Andromeda ran forward as well. The insects opened fire. Some of the students were hit and fell to the ground. Some students' void got shot so they crystallized. The Doctor used the AT shield to save as many as he could from the bullets. He combined his sunglasses and screwdriver to fire a much stronger sonic blast at one of the robots, making it collide with another and explode. Andromeda hid behind a building and fired at the oncoming insects. Her plasma shots seared through the tough armor of the robots.

"Shu!" The Doctor called out. "Path is clear!"

Shu immediately jumped down from the jeep.

"Shu…" Inori said from behind him.

Shu nodded and pulled her void out. Andromeda spotted one of the girls being pinned down by an insect. She then ran towards her and fired her blaster.

"Oi! Over here, mate!" Andromeda managed to disintegrate the robot's top half and made the rest of it fall over. She ran to the girl and crouched down.

"Are you OK?" She asked.

"I can't move."

Andromeda examined her and found that her legs had been crushed.

"I'll get you back for some medical help." She picked the girl up and headed towards the trucks.

Shu dashed towards a pair of insects and destroyed them with one slash. He stood back to back with the Doctor.

"Early as usual…" the Doctor said sarcastically.

The duo had insects coming in at all sides. Shu used Inori's void to destroy the robots on his side while the Doctor fired wave after wave of sonic blasts. They managed to clear a path to the tower.

"Shu, now's our chance!" The Doctor shouted.

Shu ran towards the tower. A row of insects stood at the foot of the structure in an attempt to defend it but Shu managed to slice through them all. Ritsu stood at the side along with a male student. Shu let go of Inori's void, letting it go back to her, and pulled out both of their voids. The boy's void was a grappling hook which Shu used to scale the tower until he arrived at the core power source. He then switched to Ritsu's void which was a short but wide blade with electric currents running through it.

"Aaaaaaah!" Shu shouted as he thrusted the sword through the core. A jolt of electricity shot up through the tower and into the room above where all the pilots were in their stations. The sudden blast of electric current made the room burst into fire. The entire tower collapsed due to the explosion. At once, all the insects deactivated as well as the endlaves guarding the wall.

"Come, everyone." Arisa stood amongst the crowd. "Let's cross the red line while we can."

….

The sun had risen as the trucks drove through the gate in the wall. All their efforts had paid off. Shu watched the students walk through to the other side.

"It's over." Shu smiled. Inori, the Doctor, and Andromeda joined him.

"We still need to have a talk, young man." The Doctor said with a cold voice.

Shu's smile faded. "I know… and I'm sorry, Doctor."

"Come on, guys. We should follow them." Andromeda said.

The group started walking until Nanba and Ritsu stood in their way.

"What's with you two?" Shu asked.

They immediately pulled out guns and pointed them at Shu.

"What's the meaning of this?!"

"Shu!" Inori tried running forward but was stopped by Yahiro.

"Great work, Mr. President." Nanba said. "Your help is no longer needed. We'll go on our own from now on."

Shu clenched his teeth.

"There you have it." Arisa walked towards them.

"Arisa?! Did you do this?!" Shu shouted.

"Do I really need to answer that?"

More students surrounded them and held out guns as well.

"OK…" the Doctor stepped forward and took his sunglasses off. "We all need to lower our guns and talk."

"Move out of the way, Doctor." Arisa said. "Didn't Shu imprison you?"

"Yeah he did… but that doesn't mean he deserves to die."

The Doctor raised his arms sidewards, covering Shu.

"Doctor, why are you…"

"What are friends for?" The Doctor looked to his side and found Andromeda pointing her gun at them as well.

Arisa groaned. "Very well then."

The students closed in and cornered them in front of a crater. Shu felt a hand shove him into the mound. It was Souta with his left eye covered in void crystal.

"Souta!" The Doctor shouted.

"I'm not doing… anything wrong…" Souta mumbled.

Shu looked up at the crowd gathering around the hole. They all shouted hateful remarks at Shu.

"Shu!" Inori managed to escape Yahiro's grip and came running down the crater.

"Inori!" Shu reached out.

Suddenly, a blast shot into Inori, going through her and taking her void out in the process. Inori slumped onto her sword.

"Inori!" The Doctor shouted. He saw multiple endlaves converging around the area. They lined up around a figure standing on the fallen Tokyo Tower. The Doctor squinted his eyes and tried to make out the face. His eyes then widened.

"Gai…"

Gai stood amongst the endlaves. His hair was now white instead of blond and his clothes were white as well. Void crystal covered the area around his right eye.

"Gai…" Shu watched as Gai jumped down and landed right in front of him.

"Long time no see, Shu." Gai them grabbed Inori's void and cut Shu's arm off in one slash. Blood sprayed out all over the floor. Shu's severed arm glowed and turned into a silver beam that wrapped itself around Gai's arm.

"Shu!" The Doctor slid down the slope. Gai pointed his sword at him.

"Let me help him, please!" The Doctor shouted. Gai lowered the sword.

The Doctor turned around. "Andromeda! Your coat!"

Andromeda immediately slid down and handed the Doctor her coat. He then used it to wrap around Shu's stump arm and tie it through the sleeves. Suddenly, an aircraft zoomed overhead. It released a couple of bombs. The Doctor looked up then looked at Gai.

"Those are nuclear warheads. If they hit us, we'll all die. Da'ath and humans."

Gai jumped to higher ground and raised his hand. An energy blast came out and extracted the voids of the nearby students. He combined them to form a silver missile.

"Go." Gai shot the missile upwards. It created an energy shield that destroyed the falling warheads. The missile then penetrated the aircraft and exploded. The void shattered into a million pieces. The students whose voids had been extracted started crystallizing. The Doctor watched in horror as Nanba, Ritsu, and another senior dissipated into the air.

"Stop it! Don't use the students as weapons!" The Doctor shouted. "You harm anyone else, you're going to have to deal with me!"

Gai stared back. Ayase and Tsugumi came out of the truck.

"Gai!" Ayase yelled. "You're OK… but how?"

"Ayase, step back!" The Doctor said. "That's not Gai."

"But I am Gai, Doctor. I have all his precious memories."

"No you're not. You're just another Da'ath in another body."

A girl suddenly came screaming with a scythe void out. It was Miyabi.

"Damn you!" Miyabi shouted as she charged forward. Gai immediately raised his hand and shattered her void. Miyabi screamed as she started crystallizing to nothing.

"No!" The Doctor stepped forward. "No one else!"

Gai turned back to the group. "I am not the same man I once was. Choose: obey me… or die by my hand."

"What's wrong with you, Gai?!" Tsugumi moved forward.

"Don't get close to Sir Gai!" One of the endlaves pointed its gun at her.

Suddenly, another endlave ran into the other, grabbing it and shooting its arm off. Daryl's voice came out of the speakers.

"You're in the way, runt!" Daryl used his gun to shoot down more endlaves.

The Doctor grabbed Shu. "Let's go."

Andromeda and Inori followed him while the rest of the students made it across the wall in the trucks.

….

The Doctor managed to get the four of them to a nearby underpass and was now tending to Shu. Andromeda entered the codes the Doctor told her into her holographic projector. Live footage of Gai appeared on screen.

"To every human being living on this planet… I am Gai Tsutsugami."

"Andromeda, plasma blaster." The Doctor said. Andromeda handed him the gun.

"Your lives are all in my hands. All movements are being followed by 256 Leukocytes."

"This might hurt a bit, Shu." The Doctor shot the side of Shu's wound, sealing it. Shu screamed in agony.

"Hereafter, no military will mobilize without my permission. Also, any approach within a 300 kilometer radius of central Tokyo will be considered a hostile act and the Leukocytes will fire."

"Is he OK?" Inori asked.

"Yeah…" The Doctor sat down and watched the hologram.

"I have only one demand: don't interfere."

*THREE DAYS LATER*

Inori and Andromeda ran through the back alleys holding bags of packaged food and bottles of water. Andromeda stopped her for a moment. A group of antibodies walked past them.

"Alright, come on."

They made their way back to the Doctor and Shu who were inside an abandoned building. Shy was lying on the ground holding his arm.

"Ah, finally. I'm starving." The Doctor grabbed a pack of chips and started eating.

"Is he still like that?" Andromeda pointed at Shu.

"Unfortunately…"

Inori handed Shu a candy bar but he refused it. "Don't you want to eat?"

Shu stayed silent.

"We should at least set up camp. It's getting dark." The Doctor said.

….

The four stayed silent staring at the campfire. They were inside an abandoned building. The Doctor put a pot filled with water over the fire with an opened can of beans sitting in the middle.

"So what exactly is the plan?" Andromeda asked.

"Get to the center of the rift, find the TARDIS, close the rift." The Doctor replied.

"Huh?" Inori spoke up. "Wasn't the TARDIS destroyed?"

"Yeah." Andromeda joined her. "I scanned for your capsule's signature when I entered this planet's atmosphere but it was nowhere to be found. What happened to it?"

"She crystalized and dissipated... absorbed the apocalypse virus right out of me." The Doctor answered

"It's destroyed, Doctor?"

The Doctor smiled. "No. Hostile Action Displacement System. Displaces the TARDIS' particles when in physical danger. All I need is quick blast of the sonic and the TARDIS will materialize in the same place."

"So, why haven't you done that before?" Inori asked.

"Well, Inori, the thing about the apocalypse virus is that it's a method of transportation. The bodies crystallized get teleported to the void for the Da'ath to convert. The TARDIS, however… she's afraid of inter dimensional travel. Knowing the old girl, she'd probably use the HADS seconds before entering the void. The key though… the key's essential to reassemble the TARDIS."

"So what does that mean?" Andromeda said.

The Doctor grabbed Andromeda's hologram device and sonicked it. A map of Tokyo appeared with a blip on the GHQ facility with the rift. "The key's also located at the opening of the rift. We get there, use the key to activate the TARDIS' reassembly then close the portal for good."

Inori nodded.

"Sounds good to me." Andromeda took back her device. She looked to her side to find an empty spot where Shu had been. "Oh god… Doctor?"

"On it." The Doctor got up and scoured the area. "You two stay in here."

The Doctor went outside and saw a shadow enter another nearby building. He quickly followed the figure into the structure.

"Shu?" The Doctor searched the corners of the ground floor and found Shu sitting and crying by a corner. "There you are. Let's get back, supper's almost ready."

"Why?"

The Doctor raised an eyebrow.

"Why are you helping me?"

"Why not?"

"Because of everything I've done to you!" Shu's tone changed.

"Shu…"

"I fought you, I sentenced you to jail, I became your enemy!"

"Yes!" The Doctor yelled back. "You betrayed me… you betrayed my trust, you betrayed my friendship, you betrayed everything I've ever stood for… you let me down!"

Shu looked at the Doctor with teary eyes. "So… why?"

"Why?"The Doctor's expression turned from anger to neutral. "… you are many things, Shu… but you're not my enemy..."

The Doctor reached his hand out to Shu. "... and I can't just watch as a boy who lacks guidance suffer."

Shu used the Doctor's hand to lift himself up.

"Doctor... I don't deserve this..."

"I'm terribly sorry, Shu... but I'm exactly what you deserve."