Episode 36: Mortal Uprising Pt 1: The Bigger They Are
Vert is on her computer to get ready to see her public. "Welcome everyone this is your favorite Goddess Vert here. No silly or lewd intros today. We will have a marathon of three parts which it will be too big for one sitting. After the three parts of the Lastation ending, we will return to the wacko intros. Okay let's get started," Vert said as the scenes changes with Neptune, Natal, Vert, Noire, Gene and Uzume have arrived at the Lands of Shadows to see nothing but a vast wasteland and scattered ruins.
"These are the Lands of Shadow," Histoire said as her book is on Gene's right hip.
"Wow, this is quite empty even for a wasteland like this and it's so vast," Gene said.
"So where are all the bad guys?" Uzume asked.
"What are you talking about?" the six jump at the weird old man standing behind them.
"Where you come from old man?" Neptune asked.
"Well I live within these plains to taken in the lonely beauty," the old man said as they all raised an eyebrow. "My name is Willis," he said.
"Oh, I am Vert and these are my friends," she said.
"A pleasure milady," Willis said.
"We are here to seek the Juggernauts. Do you know where they are?" Vert asked.
"Well I have a map that shows where each one is located. So, I can admire them from afar," the old man said to hand her a map.
"Thank you, sir," Vert said to bows her head to curtsy in respect for them to step back to check it out.
"So, each of these beasts are on different areas of the Lands of Shadows. Thank you mister," Noire said to turn around to see he isn't there anymore.
"Wow, the old man can move," Neptune said.
"Do you think he is a bit suspicious?" Gene asked.
"Naw," the girls said in unison.
"Whatever, let's take these things out," Gene said to split off to hunt each one down.
Vert is in her Green Heart state to fly above the sand to try and find one of the Juggernauts. "These lands so vast and lonely," she thought to see a big mountain in front of her as she sees it was moving. "Oh, I must be seeing things. Mountains can't move," she said as she is in shock to see a big turtle with a massive piece of rock as its shell with many small holes.
"Oh, my goodness. This is going to be tough," she said as she is wielding her polearm with the big turtle spreading energy beams from the holes of his shell with Vert flying around to dodge the incoming energy barrages. She is striking the shell but her attacks are not effective.
"Tough indeed," she said as she is dodging incoming energy beams from the holes. She launches a magic spear into one of the holes to make contact for blood to gash out of the hole like a fountain hearing the beast wail in pain.
"That must be the key of defeating it," Vert said as she is lobbing magical spears at the beast into its hole to cause some damage for it summons a big wave of energy to block the incoming projectiles and knocking Vert away.
The turtle opens its big maw to gather energy into it and spit a massive energy beam as Vert barely escape the beam as she slashes the air to summon a big twister to hit the shell knocking it a bit.
"Time to put you down," Vert fires a bunch of wind orbs into the mouth of the beast as the orbs explodes within its stomach ripping it inside out killing it. "One down," Vert said as Noire is going after the second beast flying high in the air noticing something in the clouds.
A massive bird is swooping through the sky like a knife minding its own business. "A giant bird. Time to turn you into a roast dinner," Noire summons her long sword to cast a barrage of fireballs with the bird gracefully dodging her attacks to unleash big bolts of lightning from the sky trying to Noire.
She is deflecting away the bolts with her blade. "You got to do better than that," Noire said as the beast lets out a big blast of electricity to stun Noire as the bird tackles her dragging her through the sky.
She struggles under the monster's talon as she shoves her blade into its claw making it let her go. She is slicing up the air to send out flaming crescents to crave into the feathers with blood gashing out of the gaping wounds to moan in agony.
"Stop crying and fight," Noire said to kick the bird in the head to stab into the bird's eye. The Bird hits Noire with its wings as the monster summons a big lightning twister to surround it for Noire gets sucked in taking large amounts of damage.
She cloaks her blade with flames and slash a omni directional energy wave to cancel out the attack. She slices up the talons off the body with blood raining down from the sky like rain.
"Time to finish you off," she uses her sword to draw a magic circle above her to raise her hand to power up the spell. "Flare Cannon," she conjures a huge orb of fire to make contact the belly of the wounded monster to blast it with enough force to turn it into ash falling around her. "I am awesome as usual," Noire said to fly off with Uzume looking for her target.
"Gee I wonder where the beastie is at," Uzume said as she hears a bark to turn around to see a huge wolf. "Oh, a big doggie," she said sounding excited. The wolf rushes at her to bare its large fangs as Uzume pulls out her megaphone. "Here doggie, fetch," she screams into her phone to create an orb made of sound waves to launch it.
The dog tries to catch it to bite into it for it explodes making the wolf angry. "Oppies," she said as the wolf are spitting ice needles from his mouth. Uzume is jumping and flipping around to avoid the monster's attacks.
"Bad doggie, I am going to punish you," she lets out a big sonic wave to hold it in place for its ears are about to bleed from the intense pressure. It leaps over Uzume to bash her with its tail to knock her onto the ground.
The beast gets her into its mouth trying to eat her but Uzume manages to use her strength to hold open the maw of the wolf. "Time to play doggie," she slips out to punch the wolf in the jaw to break out one of its fangs. She grabs it and shoves it into the wolf's left eye causing it to bleed and lose it in the process.
Uzume is shooting sound orbs trying to get a hit on the monster as it is dodging her assault. She conjures a sound orb as she rolls under the fangs of the beast for she kicks the orb like a soccer ball to score a hit on its head.
The beast fights back to headbutt Uzume to launch her as she catches herself in mid-air to catch the wolf's tail to use her strength to spin it above her head. She tosses it into the air as she dashes up and begins using powerful punches to push it higher in the sky. "Time for spiny drill," she cloaks her fist in energy shaped like a drill to dash through the beast splitting it in half instantly killing it.
"Oops, I might have over done it," Uzume said cracking a sweet smile as she goes off with Gene wielding his sword to see a big worm coming at him popping out of the ground.
"It keeps jumping in and out; Histoire can you hold in place please?" he asked with her book clinging to his hip.
"No problem," he takes out her book letting her appear to cast a powerful time spell to make the worm struck in place still in mid-air.
"Rolling Thunder," Gene conjures a spell for lightning bolts are rapidly hitting the beast until it gets knocked onto the ground. He fires more lightning bolts to shock it further until it whips its long lower body to smash into Gene to launch him onto the dirt. Luckily his armor took the major hit as he is dodging incoming acid shots coming from the worm's mouth.
"It's so weird, why does it feel wrong facing these things," Gene said as he rolls under the tail of the Juggernaut as he gathers energy into his palm and fires a beam of lightning to strike the belly hearing the beast cry in pain.
He gets eaten by the worm with Gene powering up his blade with Histoire's help for Gene severs the head from the inside to be covered in guts. "That was easy," he said as he felt like someone is watching him.
"Something wrong?" she asked.
"I had a weird feeling that's all," he said to head back for the others.
Within the caves by the sealed door, Clayton sits on a rock thinking of the times he first met Gene and his sister within an orphanage in his town. "They were only street rats when I met them. I brought him along with his sister to give them a better life and this is what he gives me in return. Seduced by that blond bitch and twist him to be her slave. What a waste of time and potential," he thought.
"Sir. Gene and his group are progressing swimmingly," Williams said on the radio.
"Good. Only a matter of time before I claim my prize," Clayton said as his mind is on Vert. "For wasting my perfect student, I will make her pay tenfold," he said.
Elsewhere Natal is using his arm cannon to blast at a large boar for the beast is not fazed by the attacks at all. Natal powers up to his new Super Mode for his hair is no spiky and golden for he grabs onto the tusks of the boar to give it a powerful right hook to knock it into the side of a mountain seeing it burst violently into a splash of bloody gore.
"This is cleared," Natal deactivated his Super Mode to get in contact with everyone. "How is your progress everyone?" he asked on the radio.
"Everyone beside Neptune got to kill their Juggernauts," Gene said as Neptune is in her Goddess armor having trouble with a giant moth peppering the battlefield with energy orbs blowing up on the wasteland.
"Stupid bug. I want to make you part of my note collection but since I must kill you. That's a no go," Neptune said as she fires multiple homing lasers to strike her target burning its wings off to land on the ground.
She is rolling out of a gust of wind as she is chopping off its legs with her gun blade as she transforms her blade into a rifle to shoot potent magic bullets to put heavy projectiles cutting the hide of the giant beast.
"Photon Blaster," Neptune fires a big beam of light to pierce through the Juggernaut's head killing it instantly. "Oh gee, what a mess," Neptune said to go back to the others.
Gene sees Willis in front of him to be greeted by the old man. "So, I see you have taken care of the Juggernauts," he said as everyone gathered around Gene.
"Yeah, we manage to defeat all of them," he said.
"So, you are looking for the Mask of Chaos?" the old man asked.
"Yes, we are here to destroy it," Histoire said.
"Interesting. I will take you to the entrance to the mask," Willis said as they go through the wasteland as they felt something wrong here.
"Gene, are you okay. You seem tense?" Natal asked to detect anxious with his sensors.
"My master isn't a fool. There must be a trap ahead of us," Gene said.
"We should be extra careful," Natal said as they arrive at a cave to feel a powerful source of dark energy deep within the cavern.
"There is a Dark Spire down there," Vert said feeling uneasy as Willis stops at the mouth of the cave.
"Well we are at the end of this road and you have our thanks," Willis said as Noire raises her eyebrows at this. Suddenly a beam appears to cut through Noire's head for everyone was in shock to see Noire's lifeless body flops onto the dirt with bits of her brain and blood pouring out of her exit wound.
"Oh shit," Gene said as Neptune is panicky for she is holding her friend in her arms with tears going down her face to look Noire's once red eyes are now devoid of life and luster.
"Noire, this can't be happening. Noire, NOIRE!" Neptune is overwhelmed with sadness and rage with the doctor laughing at this with his finger red hot.
"Oh, how sad, not," Doctor Insanity mocked them as Neptune is consumed by anger ready to pounce on the mad cyborg.
"You fucking bastard. You took her away from me," Neptune shouted.
"Oh, is she your lover. I am so sorry as if anyone would miss that bratty teenager," the doc said trying to taunt her.
She wants to go up to try to attack him but Doctor Insanity fires a finger beam to strike her down to fall back beside Noire's corpse. There is a small hole in her shoulder with blood seeping out of her armor. "Noire, I am so sorry," she said.
"I knew it. It was a trap, was it?' Gene demanded as Willis laughs at him.
"You don't miss a beat Gene. You are the Master's student," Willis deactivates the hologram to reveal to the mad doctor's robot butler.
"This was a massive trick to get you guys to do the dirty work for us as the gate is linked to the lives of the Juggernauts," Insanity said.
"You got to be fucking kidding," Gene said.
"This isn't good. We need to get the mask before they do," Histoire warned.
"So, sorry; Gene but your worth has ended, bye," the doctor and the butler teleport out of there for a bunch of soldiers and robots to appear defending the cave.
"I had been used again," Gene is feeling ashamed at this as he is defending the others against lasers and bullets. Neptune is moping on the ground on her knees holding her shoulder with blood rushing down her arm.
"Neptune, hold still," Uzume gathers green energy to pulse into her shoulder for the magic energy manage to fix up her shoulder leaving it a bit sore. "Okay, better than new," she said as Neptune looks depressed.
"Noire, I am such a terrible friend. I can't even protect you," Neptune said still moping.
"Nepsy, snap out of it," Uzume smack her across the face.
"Hey that hurts," Neptune said.
"Noire wouldn't want you to be sad. You need to defend this nation to honor her memoires," Uzume said.
"Your right, this is so out of character for me. Thanks, Uzume," Neptune said.
"Everyone needs a painful shot of reality," Uzume said as Neptune bends down to kiss Noire's cold lips and pull down her eye lips closing them shut.
"Noire, I will defeat this madman for your sake and the civilians you long protected," Neptune said as she switches blade into a rifle to start shooting the enemy with precision with Gene using Histoire to use her spells to freeze targets in place as Gene cuts them to pieces.
Vert is stabbing robots with her pole arm as she creates gust of winds to blow the soldiers and mechs away. They are standing in the middle of a mass of flesh and metal. "This isn't good. We have to pursuit them," Vert said.
"What about Noire. We can't just leave her here," Neptune said.
"We must continue," Histoire said.
"Histy, that's so cold," Neptune complained.
"You do realize if we reverse the power of the crystal. This whole reality will cease to exist," Histoire said.
"Your right but still," Neptune said.
"I know you are best friends but you must continue and make sure this doesn't happen again," Histoire said.
"Thank you Histoire. Now guys let's get a cracking," Neptune said as the remaining five heroes must go deeper into the cave to stop Clayton and his Farsight merc corps unleashing an unspeakable evil.
Elsewhere in the deepest part of the cave; Clayton, Williams and Doctor Insanity are at a large shrine where the Mask is being held in. "Interesting, it's hidden until we decode the pass code into the wall. This will take some time," he said.
"Sir, Gene and the others are within the caves," a grunt said.
"Let's greet them well. Williams, grab a mech walker and destroy them," Clayton said.
"Right away boss," Williams said as he teleports away leaving the duo behind.
"Gene is persisted just like you," the doctor said.
"Yes, I taught him well but he is only the student and I am the master. I will prevail over him and with this Mask, I will make a better home for humanity free from the goddesses meddling," he said to look at a nearby Dark Spire he brought along.
"Of course, I will take my station just in case my butler fails," Doctor Insanity said to warp out of there as well for the final battle over the fate of the humanity is at stake.
It goes back to Vert as she just finishes telling the end of the episode. "Told you this is going to be rough and it's only going to worst. Hope you enjoyed part 1 of the Lastation Arc finale. Stay tuned to part 2, bye," she said as she shuts off the web camera ending the broadcast.