Academy Chronicles: Rise of the Skylanders
Chapter 19: A Talk With LOSE
"I am grateful at the very least that your smirk is concealed behind that helmet, hedgehog." Izanami, LOSE's grand leader said to me, remaining as stoic as ever.
"I am in no mood to experience your attitude."
"I'm in no mood to experience your shit." I said.
With that, Monokuma pressed a button, causing an electric shock to spread through the helmet. Naturally, it hurts. Badly. My body convulses in response as I let out an uncontrollable growl.
"Don't make me repeat myself." Izanami said.
"Hey! Leave him al-GAAAAH!" Sayaka screamed, her attempt to save me in vain as Monokuma activated his electric punishment to my partner.
Both stop as we finally had a chance to breathe, although my anger is piqued the moment I saw Sayaka suffer. No way I'm letting them do that and get away with it.
"Hey, stop i-"
Not a good idea, as evident by the second wave of electric shock that coursed through me. Spent and weakened, me and Sayaka got on our knees, reeling from the pain.
"Are you done, now? This is making me sad." Ronin said to me.
We just stayed silent.
"Haha! We got them to shut up! Finally!" Kaos laughed.
Spyro, looking up to his archenemy growled. "What do you want to do? Kill us?"
"Monokuma did say he wanted something from us. Spit it out." Homura said back.
"That I did! That. I. Did." Monokuma said. "In fact, I'm getting what I need right now!"
"…What?!" Makoto replied.
"You don't see it, but I'm actually scanning your whoooole bodies with just this helmet! Collecting data on your thoughts, your powers, your internet history, all that jazz!" The bear laughed.
"All thanks to my genius fucking engineering! Yooou're welcome!" Kurokuma said, leaning over to Izanami, nudging her to get her attention.
"…Please don't if you want to live." Izanami said back.
The all black bear held his hands up. "Okay, okay, fucking hell…"
Monotaro tilted his head in confusion.
"Wait, who made those again?" He asked, to no response.
"And what are you using this data for?" Kyoko asked.
"Hahahahaha! You think we'll tell you?!" Kaos barked back. "Fool!"
"I dunno, you seem like the fool here. Aren't you the type of guy who would blurt out your plan going 'I am Kaoooos' and flaunt about how genius it is?" Spyro grinned back.
That was the last straw for Kaos. He reached out for Monokuma's devices and presses it, shocking Spyro. His wings vibrate violently in response as he screamed.
"Not this time, SkyLoser!" Kaos said.
Spyro collapsed on the floor, groaning.
The device Kaos had then begins to beep.
"It's done. We gotta go." Ronin said. "We can't lose a minute."
He then turned to us. He noticed everyone who wasn't shocked preparing to get up. He reached over and
"Don't even think about attacking us while we leave, or you're in for the shock of your lives. Nobody's getting in between me, and my clients. Alright? Consider your options." Ronin warned them, hand close to the device.
"So you're not gonna kill us?" Tails asked.
"No time." Monokuma said. "We'll let what we're gonna do with our data kill you instead! You can run, you can hide, but you're gonna die! See ya! Puhuhuhuhu!"
Izanami then glared at us.
"The helmets will detach once the remote's signal is out of range. With that, you are momentarily free until your untimely demise. You either savor your last days alive, or you can go after us. Although by the time you reach us, our plan will be ready and there will be no escape. So either approach brings you the end, so I am not concerned."
"You're making Liberators, right?" Kyoko asked.
"…No comment. You can see for yourself if you want. Now, farewell."
Izanami then walked away, with only some small comments off to the side. I couldn't make them out well over this helmet although I could swear she was talking about Ragna…
They open up a portal and walk inside before vanishing. Just like that, the vacuum seal on the helmets released as they all fall on the floor. We breathed the fresh air for a moment, recollecting our bearings before trying to figure out what to do next.
"…You know, if someone says they can't confirm or deny anything, I'm preeeettty sure that means it's true. So, they're makin' Liberators." Neptune said for reassurance and levity.
We all turned to her.
"I'm just saying!"