Wacko12: Seriously, you just come here and ask about porn and not say a word about the actual chapter? Don't be a dick. The answer is no, this is not a porn story, so leave.
Zesterios: Thanks.
DL: Well, Tatsumi can still move and fight, so it ain't that bad.
FFH: You think they'd just come and kill him in a second? He's got precautions for a lot of things. He just got lucky that Tatsu found a way to freeze Esdeath's power for a few minutes. If not, THEN he would have been destroyed in less than a second.
Mailbawx: I did make Es more rude to Leone, but I also specified that that was her showing anger at Leone for losing. To be fair, the 'buff' isn't a buff, he hasn't gotten stronger, he just used his brain to combat Esdeath. She has natural monstrous strength, so he filled the room with gas that makes her unable to move. Got an OP ability, makes her unable to use it for a little bit. And did you feel that way throughout the whole chapter, or just when I said it?
J.f.w: Just a vial, like what you'd get from a needle, but Tatsu just had a drop, so that can be milked for a LONG time.
Oh right, the scientific method… might have forgotten the specifics and just made him take a gambit…
He's a scientist, a man of knowledge can never stand up to someone like Esdeath in a match of strength, so he uses his mind to fight her on an equal level.
WE PASSED 20 CHAPTERS AND 150 FOLLOWS. I really gotta remember to scream that out when they happen, not a while after. Also, I really gotta pick up my pace, 20 chapters and Stylish still isn't dead. At this rate, the end is gonna be past 100. Hm… any arcs I should skip, or should I make them kill all Wild Hunt members quickly. Oh, maybe have the Jaegers and Night Raid meet, Esdeath holding all her subordinates hostage and any that go against her will to join forces will die(or quit their participation in the Empire.) So many possibilities, I just hope I do this story justice and don't make it worse the further on we reach.
Oh yeah, another thing I forgot, the sneak peak into the best future 2 chapters back. Anyone get why I named his first kid Alice, I used some word play when he said he found out Es was pregers. And FFH, you know the reason so you can't answer. Tease and hint however; yes.
Enough self deprecation, time to get on with the story.
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"Oh, fuck off you Jojo ripoff." Tatsumi didn't really care about Esdeath losing her power, only that this man was hurting his friends.
Stylish ignored the comment and continued speaking.
"I must commend you all for getting here so easily. My men are nothing to scoff at, but only three of you truly catch my eye." He turned his back to the glass and kept on monologuing. "The strongest of the Empire, her lover who is somehow resisting this incredible toxin I created, and a street rat that seems to be in possession of Lionel, a teigu with miraculous healing powers, I'd just love to see if their abilities are as great as they are written."
He pushed some buttons on Perfector before facing them once more.
"That girl with a giant pair of scissors however, she doesn't seem special in any way, shape, or form." He scowled.
"If Lionel can fix any wound, then this shouldn't do anything to the blonde. Since the boy can withstand this, then type 4 wouldn't kill him outright. Esdeath is in her safe space, so she's fine as well." The doctor talked to himself, yet he found no reason to murmur.
"Hey, jackass, what are you going on about." Tatsumi had tried moving Extase to get to the man, but the blade wouldn't budge. When that failed, he had tried to break the walls around the room. None seemed to be made of the same material as the previous ones. While his fists didn't get damaged, neither did the walls. He was going to try the ceiling before he heard what the psycho said.
"Hmm? Oh, it's quite simple. If you two don't survive this, then my expectations were far too high, but if you do, then I can get you three without having to kill the fourth after she's wasted my supplies." He pressed one button closest to his pinky and green gas came in place of the blue.
Tatsumi knew this was bad and lifted both Sheele and Leone onto his shoulders to keep them away from the heavy gas. When the cloud touched his legs, he could feel a horrible burning sensation.
The boy grit his teeth as he put the two atop Esdeath's box. Said General hated this situation. If she had access to her ice powers, this poison would never have even been released, but Stylish had robbed her of them. If memory served, it took only five minutes for her Extract to respond to her after Tatsumi ingested some.
With the rate of how quickly the gas flooded the room, they'd be lucky for four.
Tatsumi was looking around the room, desperately searching for some weak point he could exploit. He felt like he was going to get a panic attack.
'Why do you do this to yourself?' Tyrant questioned, the spirit of the armor appeared leaning on whatever wall the brunette faced.
Tatsumi got over the fact that the dragon came and went whenever he pleased after many unsuccessful attempts at calling him. So this visit didn't surprise him.
"Not now, I don't have time for this." He said, throwing a bookcase on the floor.
'Child, when will you realize that you will always have time.' The suit snapped its fingers and Tatsumi froze.
He found himself unable to move his mouth either.
'Why the hell are you trying to stop me!' While he couldn't say it, he could still think it.
'Look around. Well, through your peripheral vision, your eyes can't move either.'
He did as told and focused on his surroundings.
'Everything is frozen! How did you do this?'
'I haven't stopped time if that's what you think. Everything is going the exact same speed as before.'
'But not even the gas is moving, so what's going on?'
The armor groaned and rolled its eyes, as if the answer was obvious. 'I only altered your perception of time, nothing more. Your brain is so powerful it can think fast enough that everything seems to have stopped. If I didn't keep this from happening when you first got your abilities, you would still be on the boat and have gone insane well before the demon took a step.'
'Okay, I get how you did this, but you still haven't told me why. I'm in the middle of something and I need to find a way out.'
'That's exactly my reason. Why do you trap yourself here? You have my ability to evolve. Nothing should be able to kill you after the first hit. So why are you being pained by this.' The suit kicked the air, phasing through the green fog. 'The second it touched your skin, antibodies should have been created. So I ask; Why do you squander your powers? Disregarding the toxin, you can make your muscles into hulking masses of power and bash any wall down to stop the scientist from killing your friend and hurting your lovers. Why do you not act?' Tyrant actually started to sound angry near the end.
'You know why, I can't just make new evolutions. I've only been able to redo anything that you once did.'
'And why is that?'
'I don't know. Whenever I try to change myself, nothing happened.' He tried to do something different from Tyrant the day he told Night Raid about his plan to convert Esdeath, like glow or gain wings, anything. But nothing would change and ever since the tournament he's had no time to try again.
'If you can't create any evolutions, then why have you been able to become human?' The armor tapped Tatsumi's chest. 'I did not possess this ability, yet whenever you change, you will yourself to return to your weak base form. If you couldn't evolve into what you wished, you would have stayed amphibious, your skin would not revert from scales to flesh. When you bit that sword and spit it back out, your mouth would still have such elasticity. But nothing has stayed against your will. If you wanted, you could be exactly the same as before we merged. You say you do not have the ability to evolve, yet you know this is not true. It is not that you lack the ability to do so, you only have the absence of courage and drive to go into the unknown. So as my host, show me that you truly deserve my powers. That you aren't shackled by fear and can move onwards to save those close to you.' The armor vanished into mist as the books clattered to the floor alongside the shelf.
Tyrant had told him the truth that he didn't want to accept. That he still felt like he would be a monster if he didn't stay human, but what the hell was his humanity when people were in danger.
Closing his eyes and standing still, he took a deep breath, the gas burning his lungs.
Then the pain from the poison seemed to stop. It just felt like a mist.
'I can do anything with my strength.' His hands slid on Stylish's barrier. The doctor watching his movements with curious eyes. 'The only question is 'what?'... C'mon, Lubba uses manga, so maybe something from there can help.'
Hellsing, no. Fate, no Fairy Tail, One Piece, no.
'Ugh, I have to know something. If I can't break through this wall and hit Stylish at the same time, he'll have an opening, and who knows what he'll do next, be it more poison or something else. So who or what had immense breaking force?' The gas was only around his waist, so he had plenty of time. If not, he could try out what Tyrant showed him and think for as long as he needed.
Taking a step back, he looked at the entire barrier, the weakest point was where Exatse was lodged into, but he tried to pull out the scissors before... wait, instead of pulling them out, what about shoving them deeper? It could crack the whole thing and let him break through the glass and Stylish's head. Shame Sheele couldn't lodge the Teigu closer to the center and Stylish, but you have to work with what you got.
Pulling his fist back, Tatsumi focused on the muscles, making them grow and strengthen for his big punch.
A *CRACK!* was heard as Extase was shoved into the glass, all the way to the hilt. The material gained spiderweb cracks that spread from ceiling to floor.
Stylish was distracted for only a moment, the shock of his defense breaking showing all over his face. That one instant was all that Tatsumi needed, he launched forward, smashing through the weakened barrier. One arm at the side from hitting the glass, the other behind him to cave Stylish's skull.
Having no information on Tatsumi made him a wild card, as such, the doctor had no idea the boy could increase his strength to levels he had only seen from Esdeath and Budo. Such mysteries are what drove him to cut the human body open and see what it could take. It was his dream to make a perfect creation, to splice the bests of every species together so his legacy would continue throughout time.
Before his head was separated from his neck and splattered on the wall behind him. Stylish thought about how unfair this was. 'I still had so much more to do.'
The brunette rushed to open the blood-splattered door, quickly dissipating the cloud on the floor. He had no clue what buttons to press to stop the toxin, with how this man operated, the wrong one could likely blow up this base.
Shaking that thought out of his head, Tatsumi went back to the trio of women and moved the two Raiders to a safe place for them while they slowly got feeling back in their body, on a table in a room at the end of the hall. Running back to Esdeath as soon as he could. She wasn't happy that he got her last, but it made sense why, she was safe from the green gas while the others weren't. Though the downside of her box was that the blue paralyzing gas had gotten close to her before she made it, resulting in the substance pooling around her feet. Despite the fact of her having an incredible immune system, she'd probably take the longest to recover out of the group.
Though that didn't mean she couldn't move.
When she felt her blood freeze once more, the general let out a sigh of release. She had been with the feeling of the demon for so long, it felt wrong to be without it. But now that she had her powers back, she could use them to help her infected body.
Tatsumi yelped when Esdeath stood up in front of him.
Leone, thanks to Lionel, was able to move her head at this point, albeit, with much effort.
"So, Snowflake, mind sharing your secret?"
The woman didn't speak, she wasn't able to do that without possibly damaging herself. Instead she walked robotically towards Tatsumi and traced letters in his palm.
"I... am... using... Extract." The bleunette showed her arm and a contraption like Cross Tails was shown. There was a poll going out of her jacket down her forearm, turning into a disk at the back of her hand, having one line of ice going down each of her fingers. When she wiggled them, each poll moved like paper and didn't snap.
"Ugh, lucky bastard, meanwhile I gotta wait for, like, twenty more minutes."
"Mhmhmh."
"And Sheele's probably got a few hours."
"Guess all we can do is wait..." Tatsumi looked around the room for a second before asking Sheele something. "You got that 'airhead' book with you?"
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Not the most eventful ending, but I don't think it was that bad.
Dio is dea- I mean Stylish is a vampi- I mean I need to watch Jojo before I actually make references.
Well, with that mini-arc out of the way, we can move on. After this was the intro to Su-san and Chelsea, as well as Bulat coming with(by popular vote) Zagan, the spear that can manipulate nature. So until then, I hope you enjoyed and review.
Have an Awesome Day/Night- N.I.A.
PS: Sorry for the late update, the end of the chapter was difficult for me to come up with.