Episode 37: Mortal Uprising Pt 2: Descending Evil
Vert skips the intro to go right to telling the story as it resumes with the Vert and gang going into the caves to feel the darkness from the dark spire and mask filling up the interior. "It's so thick here in these caves. We are very close," Histoire said feeling total dread from the atmosphere.
"I am quite amused. You got this far Gene," Doctor Insanity projecting his voice through the caves. "You can't not stop our work from coming into fruition," he said.
"As if," Uzume said.
"Pipe down experiment. I have more where that came from," the mad doctor said as they enter into a large cavernous area to see something quite ominous.
"Do not come any closer," a girl said to be a CPU but horribly disfigured along with multiple failed CPUs blocking their way.
"More failed CPUs," Vert said as she braces herself drawing their weapon along with the others.
"I could be one of them," Uzume said as she places her hand on her chest to see the lead girl has her eye missing and half of face looks like burnt flesh along with her leotard hiding part of her medical scars that look quite dishearten.
"Yes, my dear. You were the only one who was successfully while the others not so much at best. They look like this but they make good exposable cannon fodder," the mad doctor said as they angered the group quite a bit.
"You monsters, you can't just use children like that," Neptune said in angry as the doctor laughs at them.
"It's for the sake of the world," the doctor said. "Alice, take care of them," he ordered as the leader CPU leading the others brushes her brown hair away from her bleeding red eyes.
"Oh course, girls in attack formation," Alice said as the disfigured CPUs go on the attack swinging their weapons at the group with Vert blocking Alice's blade.
"You know you are being used as tools," Vert warned her as they both of exchange blows and dodging their own.
"Does it matter, like I have anywhere else to go," Alice said as she rolls under Vert's polearm blade and punches Vert in the stomach with enough force to spit up blood. Alice is wielding her dual blades to go on a full-frontal assault pressuring Vert with swift blade work.
Vert is conjuring gusts of wind to try and knock the younger CPU off her balance. Alice is batting the blasts of wind away as she is unleashing a barrage of energy crescents with Vert flying away from the incoming attacks.
"Tornado Slash," Vert gathers energy into her polearm's blade and lets out a big cyclone to catches the young CPU for her body is getting teared up by the sharp winds. Vert snaps her fingers to make the tornado implode causing a great amount of damage to Alice as her leotard was destroyed leaving her bare naked covered with bloody cuts and nasty bruises.
Alice is seeing her allies getting killed by Vert's friends with Gene chopping off a girl's head with blood shooting out of the neck slot with Uzume uses her megaphone to unleash powerful sounds waves to destroy their ear drums making blood out of their ears.
Natal is turns his arm into a machine gun to shoot multiple targets as he pops a shot into a girl's head with brain matter and bits of bone appearing on the wall. Neptune is slicing CPUs with her blade as she split a girl in half with her guts and bones scattering on the floor.
"Shit," Alice is holding her chest to be pain as her powers are straining her body.
"You can give up now," Vert said.
"No I have a job to do," Alice said as she cuts the air to make an energy X and send it flying at Vert.
She evades to sever off Alice's hands in a swift motion instantly disarming her as she stabs her blade into her chest. "Damn it, it really hurts," Alice said coughing up blood onto the floor.
"I am sorry," Vert said sounding regretful as she pulls out the polearm to hold Alice in her arms.
"It's okay. Death is a welcome change from the constant pain of enslavement," Alice said as the luster in her eyes disappears for she dies due to blood loss.
"So, this is Clayton's world for the sake of humankind. What a hypocrite," Vert said as the others finished off the failed CPUs leaving behind broken bodies of girls ranging from 5 to 18 years old.
"Good riddance," the doctor voice boomed throughout the caves. "My good butler take care of them," the doctor said.
"Of course, sir," Williams appears within a tall heavily armed robot walker. "Well Gene, you were our leader's greatest student but you will be missed," Williams said as he fires a barrage of missiles as the five manage to evade with Natal shooting energy beams to damage the mech walker.
Vert flexes her Leanbox Processor units to cast multiple magic spears to destroy the legs and fire a single powerful spear to pierce the center of the chassis crippling it. "Well that was easier than I thought," Vert said as they withdrawn their weapons.
"Well I done my job. Sir, you can do the rest," William shuts down as the doctor is gaining data preparing for his fight Gene and his team.
"Perfect, I gather combat data to put up a counter offensive. They are so screwed," the doctor said as he calls Clayton on the radio. "Sir Williams and the girls had fail but they served their purpose," he said.
"I am counting on you, Doctor. We are close to decoding the barrier around the mask," Clayton said.
"Of course, I will kill the traitor and bring his head to you," Doctor Insanity said as he waits for his targets.
The group is going into a set of ruins to see weird marking on the side of building. "This is so eerie," Neptune said.
"I know right," Uzume said as Gene sees a painting of a large horned figure looming over the world with cities in flames and people suffering. "Is this the spirit of the Mask of Chaos?" he asked.
"Could be," Vert said.
"The dreadful spirit Mon was a powerful spirit that ravaged the earth thousands of years ago. The Lastation CPUs seal him within the mask because he was too powerful to fight. That very power will empower Clayton and Humankind will have a new leader to follow," Doctor said.
"By destroying it," Gene said wielding his sword pointing it at the mad doctor.
"Sacrifices must be needed. The old must be sweep aside for the new, Lastation had to be destroyed along with any traces of it human or otherwise," the Doctor said.
"That is too cruel," Uzume said.
"You are just don't have the stones to reshape this world with your own hands," Doctor Insanity said.
"Well, your world will not happen," Gene said as he and Natal go into Vert's Lily Unifier with Vert tapping into her lover's power to use chakrams for her to shoot multiple bolts of lightning. The cyborg uses his feet jets to dodge the thunderbolts as he brings up his hand to absorb the spell to power up his next attack.
He fires a powerful finger beam to hit Neptune to stagger her and then let out a rapid-fire volley of finger beams damaging her Goddess Armor with the last one knocking her into a building.
"Sonic Boom," Uzume shouts into her megaphone to let a big wave of sounds to rock the entire area hitting the doctor hard with Neptune is shooting several magical lasers from her gun blade in rifle mode to slam the cyborg.
"Not good enough," Doc. Insanity tosses energy bombs onto the ground to spread waves of energy to knock them around. Vert digs her heels into the ground as she swings her weapons to unleash big electrified gusts getting the doctor. She switches to Natal to go close range to pound her armored fists into the cyborg delivering fast hard hitting blows.
"Dragon Impact," she empowers her fist with magic and land a strong strike to launch the cyborg into several buildings. She switches back to normal raining down magic spears from the ceiling.
"Gene is right, he is no joke in a fight," Neptune said as she and Uzume tag team to unleash a hell storm of magic spells blitzing the villain.
He catches some of the spells to empower himself to charge a powerful finger beam and fires his attack with Vert slapping the beam aside with her polearm. She accesses Gene's powers to spin her weapons in front of her to create a magic circle to shoot out a large ray of electricity to catch the villain off guard sending him into a small building.
Uzume is about to hit Doc Insanity but he fires an energy blast to blow off Uzume's leg and fall onto the ground to have a bleeding severed leg losing everything below her upper thigh. "Oh no, my leg is gone and hurts so much," Orange Heart said as D.I. is ready to kill her off. Neptune comes in and stabs her sword through the cyborg's chest.
"That's for Noire, asshole," she severs him in half with her blade and blast him to dust with her magic laser to be beside the wounded Uzume. "Uzume. Man, you are having a bad day," Neptune said.
"Yeah Nepsy, I need to patch myself up," Uzume said to heal her severed limb.
"She is unable to fight. Neptune use Croire to get Uzume to the cabin," Histoire said.
"You guys better beat that meanie up for me," Uzume said.
"Sure thing," Neptune said to warp Uzume back to the cabin with only Neptune, Vert, Natal and Gene to go to confront Clayton Bel who is sitting on the floor waiting for his student and friends.
Vert lets Gene out of the Lily Unifier to see his master. "So, you manage to come here," Clayton said.
"Of course, I am going to put a blade through your throat," Gene said.
"It's very sad. You are nothing more than a servant to this girl's wishes," Clayton said.
"Better to be a servant than to be a slave to you," Gene said.
"How dare you. You and your sister had nothing then I came along to give you a fresh start. You had a home in that town and good income for your sister. You owe me boy," Clayton to stand up wielding his sword.
"It's not worth it in the end. You turn me into a monster for your own purposes. It ends now," Gene goes into his Goddess Armor with Vert using Natal to summon up gauntlets and shin guards with Neptune getting ready to fight.
"I am going to make you pay Clayton," Neptune said.
"Too bad about your little girlfriend. If she wasn't a goddess, she would had lived," Clayton said.
"Bastard," Neptune tosses her gun blade as Clayton catches it unharmed.
"I will be undone by rookies," Clayton draws out a dagger to insert it into the Ark on his arm to summon his knight armor. He merges within it to take control as Vert transforms into Next Green with Natal still active in her Lily Unifier.
"Histoire. I need you to prepare some powerful spells," Gene said.
"Various spells can up to 3 seconds or 3 minutes for use," Histoire said.
"Good enough. Prepare yourself master, we are not going to lose like last time," Gene said as Vert is first to clash with Clayton with the old master blocking her physical strikes for she is increases the amounts of blows per seconds with Clayton skillfully deflecting her punches with his sword.
"Laser Array," Neptune fires multiple laser strike with magical rays to hone in on Clayton to break off from Vert to dodge but Vert deliver a powerful kick to knock the wind out of Clayton. Gene weaving through his guard to thrust as Clayton bats it away with Histoire summoning a big twister of flames to engulf Clayton cooking his armor in supper heated blazes.
"You are getting better but not enough," Clayton said as he lets out a burst of energy to dispel the twister for he is knocks Vert away with him clashing with both Neptune and Gene at the same time.
Gene is conjuring lightning bolts making his master break his attack with Neptune shooting a magic laser to push the old master back. Vert flies in to pound her foot into the large torso of the knight armor and use her newfound strength to grab Clayton's arm to toss him across the cavern to slam into a wall leaving a crater behind.
"Gravity Well," Histoire casts an orb of high gravity trapping Clayton within the sphere getting damaged and pin down by the intense pressure.
"Damn it," Clayton said as Vert switches to normal to launch a barrage of magical spears to impale the Clayton onto the wall.
"Tornado Slash," Vert gathers energy into her blade and releasing a powerful gust of sharp winds to slam into the large knight with Gene following up with a gust of electric charged winds.
Histoire made the gravity sphere implode as Clayton is taking massive damage with Gene about to strike at Clayton but he clashes steel with his former student.
"You can't beat me Gene," Clayton said.
"Not alone. Histoire now," he said as Histoire powers up his blade to push back for Clayton is quite surprised.
"Wait what," Clayton said as Gene lets out a powerful swing to knock his blade out of his hands leaving him vulnerable.
"This is the end," Gene slashes across his chest to destroy the knight armor for Clayton is forced out with his Ark damaged beyond repair losing his powers.
"No this can't be having. My dream, I am so close," Clayton said.
"It's over, we won," Gene said as Clayton hear something in his radio to have a smile on his face.
"Sir, the Mask of Chaos is unlocked sir," a grunt said as a Dark Spire is in the far corner of the cave reacting to Clayton's command for him to draw massive amount of dark energy to knock everyone back.
"Where did this power come from?" Histoire wondered as Clayton laughs at this.
"I have lost the ark but I have a trump card. The powers of the Dark Spire are at my command," Clayton said as his body is starting to grow pale for his body is powered by the Dark Spire. "Now to claim my prize," he said.
"Oh shit. The Mask of Chaos," Gene said.
"Yes. This fight is nothing more a distraction until the mask was finally released from its slumber. Now is time to have humankind enter the golden age with me leading that vision," he said to grab the mask to put on his face for he takes in the power of the ancient spirit while jumping right by the black pillar.
"He is absorbing the pillar," Histoire said as Clayton is changing and growing into a monster.
"This power, supreme power," Clayton roared in an inhuman shout as the cave is beginning to fall apart for the group to leave back to the Lands of Shadows.
The mountain gets destroyed by Clayton's new monster form with him becoming an engine of raw destructive power with big goat like horns coming out of his head. "I am the true god of this world," he roared as his body is as big as a mountain with piercing yellow eyes staring down the group.
"More like a devil. Girls let's end this for good," Gene said as they prepare for a final battle against Clayton with Gamindustri hanging in the balance.
It returns to Vert at her PC to drink a glass of tea from giving her audience a great telling of her latest chapter. "Okay folks. One more to go until the end of the Lastation arc. See you soon," she said to turn off the screen.