SailorStar9: Chapter 50 goes up. This is Chapter 51. Read and review.
Disclaimers I don't own Sailor Moon and D. Grey-man since if I did own them both, the Planetary Senshi will have equal footing as Sailor Moon and the Allen/Lenalee pairing would be canon. But you don't see that happening do you? However, I do own the pairing, I hope.
Chapter 51: The Power of the Marshalls
In the makeshift office...
"Don't rush! Do it precisely, quickly and neatly!" one of the technicians instructed.
"Please check this." Koumi requested.
"Yes." one of the technicians replied, taking the papers from him.
"A rather slow arrival for a Chief who should be commanding." Malcolm remarked.
"My apologies." Koumi replied. "There were things to be taken care of."
"It's... Lenalee, isn't it?" Malcolm asked. "Where is she?"
"She's waiting in the infirmary with Lavi." Koumi replied.
"Waiting?" Malcolm echoed.
"With the Akuma attacking now, there is nothing an Exorcist who has lost their Innocence can do." Koumi replied.
"Is that so?" Malcolm inquired. "If worst comes to worst..."
Koumi gasped, recalling what Lenalee had told him.
"Please let me go to Hevlaska's place, brother!" Lenalee requested.
"Lenalee..." Koumi gasped.
"I can get her to put the Innocence into my body!" Lenalee insisted. "At that time they weren't adapters.... but... I might be able to respond to the Innocence! I can... probably protect everyone at Home, and you too, brother!"
"Koumi!" Kanda snapped him out of his thoughts. "How's the situation?"
"What did you come here for?" Koumi looked at him. "You were supposed to wait in your room."
"You think I can wait peacefully?" Kanda retorted.
Slamming his hands on the table, Koumi added, "It's impossible, there's nothing you can do. You'll get in the way!"
"Koumi... you..." Kanda growled.
"Please go back, Kanda." Koumi requested. "I can't let you die right now."
"Che!" Kanda snorted and stormed off.
"Kanda!" Marie called out to the enraged swordsman.
"Wait!" Koumi stopped him. "There are things for you to do, Marie and Miranda. We can only rely on you two. Please support Allen-kun and the rest, who are fighting ahead."
Back in the battlefield...
Allen was slicing through the Akuma horde with his blade.
"Heaven's Compass!" Bookman added in his attack.
"It's not a big deal." one of the two surviving Skulls remarked, having already completed three new Skulls.
"It's not something to worry about." he chuckled at his next victim.
"Please hold on!" Allen dashed in through the smoke. "I'll help you now!"
"Congrats." the Skull grinned, after scanning the researcher. "You passed!"
"Stop!" Allen hollered.
"Kid!" Bookman retorted, jumping in, as three Akumas blocked Allen's attack and allowing the Skull to continue its work.
"On!" the Skull chanted, creating another Skull.
"Stop!" Allen hollered, before the Akumas pushed him back into a wall.
"Crown Belt!" Allen unleashed his attack, extending his coal and destroying the Akumas around him.
"Damn!" he hissed, seeing another Skull created, before an Akuma grabbed his head from below, pulling him upwards.
"Gotcha!" the Akuma grinned. "Die!"
Allen screamed as the Akuma crushed his skull in.
"Heaven's Compass!" Bookman's attack intervened. "Did I make it in time, kid?"
"Thanks, Bookman!" Allen called out to the aged Bookman below.
"Bookman...?" he gasped in horror when the old Bookman was stuck onto a wall and started to turn into stone.
Looks like I got done in by the Akuma's ability... Bookman noted mentally, before smirking as the group of Akuma closed in on him. This is the last... my fingers won't move...
"Bookman!" Allen hurried downwards, only to be intercepted by a combined Akuma.
Below...
"How is it?" Reever asked.
"It's be done in a little bit." Mavi replied.
"Don't rush, do it neatly and exactly!" Reever told him.
"Yes sir!" Mavi answered, continuing his work.
"Damn!" Reever hissed, looking at the Egg. "If it goes on like this, the Egg will go back to the Earl of Millennium!"
As long as it is within the Order's hands, the Earl of Millennium can't create new Akumas. Bak hissed as he watched Lulubell continue with her mission. There's no way we can hand it over.
Please, a little more time! Reever begged.
The sound of Mavi breaking his screwdriver alerted Allen. Taking his distraction, an Akuma gripped his head tightly within its grasp.
"No one will disturb us now!" the Akuma grinned. "I'll rip you apart like this!"
"Kid..." Bookman muttered, the Akuma's grip on Allen's head tightening.
"How dare..." Allen muttered as the Egg sank into the gate. "How dare... you do this to my Home?"
"Keep blabbering. What can you do in a condition like this." the Akuma mocked, tugging hard on Allen's hair.
In response, Allen droned on his mask, his Clown Belt extending to destroy the Akuma around him.
"I won't let you do as you like anymore!" Allen hollered.
"Fool!" the Akuma hissed as one of Allen's Clown Belt stuck through its head.
"Are you saying that you'll hinder us again, Allen Walker?" Lulubell inquired. "I won't forgive anyone hindering Master!"
Landing on the ground, Allen slashed through the Akuma before him.
"He really did it... with a flourish." Bookman noted.
"Are you alright?" Allen asked, his mask sliding off as he turned to Bookman. "I'll help you now!"
He was about to aid Bookman when his left eye activated before he was kicked away by an Akuma.
"Kid..." Bookman muttered when Allen was knocked back.
Allen had landed on a platform, panting for breath as a shadow flashed past him.
"Please... help us." a researcher pleaded.
"Are you okay?" Allen asked the injured researcher.
"Yes... but barely." the researcher replied.
"Perfect." the Akuma smirked. "I'll send you all to the next world in one go."
"Akuma!" the researcher exclaimed in horror as the Akuma powered up.
"Too easy!" the Akuma grinned as Allen leapt at it.
Allen blocked the energy beam with his blade. Pushing through, he slashed at the escaping Akuma before being knocked back by an explosion.
"Are you injured?" he asked the researcher.
"I'm okay." the researcher replied. "Thank you very much."
"Allen-san." he gripped Allen's hand, before turning into Lulubell. With a whip slash, she slashed the teen across his face.
"You're still so naïve," Lulubell smirked. "Being deceived by just an appearance."
"Lulubell..." Allen managed to choke out before passing out.
"Rampaging around as he feels like it, you Exorcist bastard." an Akuma retorted as he knelt before the unconscious Allen.
"Wait!" Lulubell stopped him from cutting off Allen's head. "This is perfect; we'll take him along. The license passed on by the 14th... let's kill him in front of Master."
"Yes, madam!" the Akuma replied.
Turning back to the Egg, Lulubell added, "We're retrieved the Egg as well, so we'll retreat!"
Below...
"Yes, yes, yes, yes." one of the two Skull urged, as the reformed Skulls entered the gate. "Come along now, rookies! This is your new home!"
"Hurry, hurry, come now!" his companion remarked.
"I'll head back before you... kill any survivors." Lulubell instructed as she hovered over the gate, hanging onto an Akuma, with an unconscious Allen beside her, carried by two Akuma.
"And while you're at it, find Athena and bring her back. Master will be pleased to kill her himself." she added before she was dropped into the gate.
"Yes madam!" the Akuma holding onto her replied.
"Kid..." Bookman mumbled as Allen was about to be taken into the gate.
"Well... I guess this is goodbye, old man." one of the Akuma grinned. "Did you really think you can win with just two?"
Just then, the Science Department survivors had finished with their talismans and had guarded Bookman from being attack. Another talisman had stopped the two Akuma from bringing Allen through the gate.
"What's this? We can't move!" one of the two Akumas holding onto Allen demanded
"A barrier?" his companion inquired. "It's the talisman!"
"I won't let you guys take them!" Bak hissed, holding onto the barrier mechanism.
"Don't take the Science Department too lightly!" Reever retorted in front of Bookman.
"Don't talk!" the Akuma snorted, kicking the barrier.
"Don't think this piece of shit will last!" the two Akumas holding onto Allen started pounding on the shield.
"There's a limit on the talisman we made on the spot!" Johnny gasped as the spotlight Bak was holding to started smoking.
"I know!" Bak replied.
"Wake up, Walker!" he hollered. "You'll get kidnapped!"
"Allen, wake up!" Johnny shouted.
"Wake up, Walker!" Bak urged.
"Allen!" Reever shouted, struggling to hold on to the barrier.
"Kid..." Bookman muttered.
"Wake up, Allen!" Johnny cried.
In the infirmary...
"What is is?" Lavi asked.
"Allen-kun!" Lenalee's eyes widened as a vision of te unconscious Allen appeared in her mind.
Back in the battlefield...
Waking up now, Allen sliced through the two Akumas holding him with his Clown Belt.
"Thank you..." he looked over at Bak. "Everyone."
"Shit." Bak hissed as the spotlight broke down and exploded.
"Time Record!" Miranda burst into the scene on Marie's shoulder. "Activate!"
"Yes, yes, yes?" the Skull blinked as time stopped.
"Surround the target; Time suction begin!" Miranda instructed, her power encasing the dropping Egg . "Reverse!"
Allen's eyes widened as the Egg returned.
"The Ark! It's a pretty comfy ride, kiddo." Marshall Zokalo remarked.
"Now, now..." he chided, the rest of the Marshalls surrounded the Egg. "How do you want to be cooked? Come on, tell me Akumas!"
"Attack!" the leader of the Akuma army ordered.
"That's..." Marie blinked.
"What?" Reever inquired.
"Is that a monster?" Bak asked as a giant combined Akuma emerged from the gate.
Staring down at the group of Exorcists surrounding the Egg, the large Akuma was met by Marshall Zokalo's laughter.
"Zokalo-sama is very lucky today!" he chuckled, causing all those who did not know him very well to sweatdrop. "There's never gonna to be fun like this, Daddy! I'll go ahead if you don't mind."
"I don't mind." Marshall Cloud replied.
"Do as you like." Marshall Tiedoll added.
"I'm only interested in women." Marshall Cross remarked.
"Don't try to act cool; you guys are boring as usual." Marshall Zokalo rebuked. "Then I won't hold back!"
Jumping up, he activated his Innocence in mid-air.
"Hit! Hit! Hit!" he chanted. "Madness!"
Twirling his twin-headed blades, he cut through the Akuma's head, causing it to implode from the inside out as he landed.
"I can let go, right?" he asked, chuckling.
"Come on!" he challenged, ripping off his mask.
"Wow..." Reever was stunned as chucks of the giant Akuma fell about him.
"Don't look away." an Akuma warned as it proceeded to tear open the barrier.
"Shit!" Reever hissed as he focused.
"This..." the Akuma mocked, tearing open the barrier. "Is the end!"
"Allen!" Reever gasped when the teen's blade was embedded into the Akuma's head. Allen kicked it away before it exploded.
"Shit!" Mavi gasped as another two combined Akumas appeared.
"The Marshalls... kill them! Kill them!" one of the combined Akumas chanted.
"They're over here too!" one of the surviving researchers remarked.
"Hey! Hey!" Reever chided as four more combined Akumas appeared from the gate.
"Is this really okay?" Marshall Zokalo inquired. "It's like a dream!"
"Maker of Eden!" Marshall Tiedoll summoned his Innocence. "The Embracing Garden!"
At his command, a horde of vines encased the surviving researchers as white roses blossomed and birds were heard chirping.
"The Embracing Garden!" Bak remarked. "It's the technique that boosts the strongest defense in the Order!"
"I'm relieved..." Renny replied. "There's nothing we could have done by ourselves."
"Hurry! Hurry!" one of the Skulls urged the newbies into the gate.
"Quickly, go in!" his partner pressed.
"Tapp." Johnny muttered as he watched.
"Johnny!" Bak tried to stop the injured researcher from going down.
"I'm sorry, but I'll leave the researchers to your care, Froi." Marshall Cloud remarked as she landed in the man-made garden.
"I don't mind," Marshall Tiedoll replied. "With this level, there's going to be some extra with just the three of us. That is, if that hoodlum's technique isn't getting rusty."
"Are you talking about me?" Marshall Cross inquired.
"Is there anyone else?" Marshall Tiedoll returned.
"Huh, your talk." Marshall Cross snorted.
"It's time to end this," he smirked, pulling out his revolver. "Judgment."
"Lau Shimin," Marshall Cloud activated the parasitic monkey-like Innocence on her shoulder. "Activate!"
At her command, the monkey returned to its true form.
"Parasitic anti-Akuma beast, Lau Shimin." Marshall Cloud introduced her Innocence. "Go!"
At her command, the large monkey knocked one of the combined Akumas with its charged up fist. Using a wall as leverage, the monkey continued to hammer into the Akuma before the Akuma could even charge up its attack. With a kick, it knocked the Akuma away. Another Akuma took over, firing its attack point blank at the monkey who merely blocked it with a hand. As the reflected energy rained down on the Akumas, Lau Shimin finished up the first Akuma it was fighting with a kick to its head.
"You're good." Marshall Cross remarked.
"You should work too." Marshall Cloud reminded him.
"Work, huh. It's the word I hate most." Marshall Cross replied.
"Do you want to get whipped?" Marshall Cloud threatened, crackling her whip at him.
"Not a bad idea." Marshall Cross replied. "I'll rather spend time with a gorgeous woman than fight a bloody battle."
With that, he fired fourteen shots at the two combined Akumas in front of him, each bullet meeting its target as the Akumas imploded. Without even looking, he fired another shot at the Level Three Akumas behind him.
"Fools." he remarked as the three fell to the ground, before getting impaled by Marshall Zokalo's blade.
"Hey, don't get in the way, Cross." Zokalo reminded him.
"E...xor...cist..." one of the defeated combined Akuma choked beneath his feet. "E...xor...cist..."
Marshall Zokalo chuckled before slicing through the Akuma.
"They're... amazing." Miranda was stunned in awe.
"It feels so damn good!" Marshall Zokalo declared after the battle as rain poured down on them.
"Command Center, this is Lab 5." Marie informed Koumi over the transmitter. "This is Noise Marie, do you copy? All Akuma have ceased action."
SailorStar9: Now that's done. In the next chapter, the exorcists defeat all but one Combined Akuma. However, when Lulubell comes back for the egg, she transforms into a liquid form, and the Marshalls are unable to damage her. Lulubell traps Miranda inside her liquid form and escapes with the egg. The Marshalls use their anti-Akuma weapons to fire at Lulubell, despite Miranda being inside her. However, Miranda is protected by Allen, so she was not harmed. Meanwhile, Johnny went looking for Tapp. However, Tapp was already a Skull and thought of Johnny as an enemy. Johnny is then swallowed up by the only remaining alive Combined Akuma. And Allen heard someone laughing, foreshadowing that a Level 4 is coming.
