Author's note: Hey, everyone. It's Halenriser.
So, I have developed a new way to tell the Fusion T.O.M.s apart. I shall no longer call them "Fusion T.O.M. 1.0/2.0/3.0/4.0". From now on I shall call them "Fusion 1.0/2.0/3.0/4.0".
Also, this chapter does hint at suicide (I think it does. I've tried commit suicide before I think it looks like the story talks about it) a little based on events that either are easily explained or can be explained if you want me to explain them in private. If you are sensitive to that subject, I am so sorry. :(
Ayu's love for Jason is only a side thing and the development for it will only happen after the arc, however I can't guarantee it'll keep developing. You'll see why when the time is right.
I think it's time we started the chapter, what do you think? Yes? No? I'm going to go with yes. =u=
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Chapter 48 of "Fusion Fall: Fight to the Bitter End"
Chapter 48: The Angel
August 6, 20XX 09:07 AM
"Ayu, what did you just do?" Jason asked.
Everyone was staring at her in awe at what she had just done. Ayu had just destroyed a Fusion 2.0 without even using a weapon. To most of them it looked like she just used kind of magnetic ability, but Billy and Computress knew what she really did.
"Telekinesis. So that report wasn't lying." said Billy.
Jason turned to Billy with a concerned look on his face. "What report?"
Billy got up and helped Ayu to her feet, much to her dismay as she was happy sitting down. "When we were back at The House of Dreams, I stumbled across some records about the days when Ayu was being experimented on. On one of the final days, Ayu here was introduced to some new experiment." Ayu glared at him as he continued to talk. "As a result, she developed a new ability as a side effect; this ability was telekinesis. With it, she was able to tear apart everything and slaughtered everyone, except her mother who put her into a deep sleep in the tube we found her in. However she did fatally wound her and she eventually passed away."
Everyone stared at Ayu, who was now completely silent and looking down at her feet. "Ayu, why didn't you tell us you could do that?" Jason asked, but she didn't respond, so reached out his hand to touch her shoulder, only to have it shrugged off.
"Because I'm ashamed of it, alright?" she said. "I'm ashamed I have this ability and that I did what I did. Did I have salvation? Yes, but it cost so many lives just for me to get that salvation." She clenched her fists and closed her eyes. "I don't even have complete control over it! I use it without meaning to use it."
"And how would you know this? You've only been awake for a few days." stated Mark.
"Every time you've left me alone, I've lost control of it. I lose control when I am alone because I remember the days when I was alone. I remember the day that Jason was taken from me. I remember everything!" A nearby monitor cracked as she yelled that, startling everyone. "S-Sorry…"
"Ayu…" Jason frowned.
"…" Ayu suddenly turned around and ran out of the room.
"Ayu!" Jason immediately gave chase, leaving Billy, Mark, and Serah behind.
"I don't get it. How did she get that ability from an experiment?" Serah massaged her temples.
"It is possible she had it all along but it was dormant until she was introduced to the experiment." Billy looked at the monitor that cracked. "Whenever someone awakens telekinetic abilities, they tend to have very little control and need to learn how to control it. That's what I've heard anyways."
Mark sighed and went over to the computer the small device was hooked up to and stared at the pages being shown. "… Let's look at these later when everyone's here to see them. It would be pointless to look at them now and just show them again later rather than try to explain whatever nonsense is here." He pressed a button on the computer and the screen turned off as he turned to face his friends. "For now, we should go after Jason and Ayu. Try to help Jason calm Ayu down so she doesn't do anything… dangerous."
"Define "dangerous"." said Billy.
"If what Ayu said about not having full control over her powers is true, then she's basically a living bomb. If left unchecked…"
"She could do some major damage to the base and hurt people in doing so." finished Serah.
"Precisely."
Billy rubbed the back of his neck and shook his head. "The shit we have to deal with." He said dejectedly. "Come on. They can't have gotten far."
Mark and Serah nodded to each other and the three of them took off down the halls in pursuit of Jason and Ayu.
The Incrimination
Meanwhile, Fusion T.O.M. was monitoring the different parts of the giant ship to make sure that all the Fusion Monsters he had needed were set up and that the ship's weapons were fully functional. Besides the Evil C.L.Y.D.E.s and the Fusion version of the old T.O.M. models, he also had hordes of Sawbreakers, a lot of Clawbreakers, around three dozen Hydraulic Enforcers, a very large number of Wild Wings, and a few Mech Queens that were loaded into a few of the cannons so they could be used to infiltrate Dexlabs HQ. He also had a few of the bosses of the monsters around for him to use; he had four King Sawbreakers, four Clawbreaker Furies, three Elephantine Enforcers, ten Wild Wing Kings, and five Mech Queen Mistresses that were loaded in the cannons with their underlings. Fusion Vilgax was waiting near the back of the ship so he could jump out and charge into the base from the ground with the rest of Fusion Monsters who could not fly.
"Ten minutes until we reach the base, sir." said a Fusion 3.0, who was working with one of the control consoles in the room.
"Good. The sooner we get there to sooner we can wipe them all out… Alert me via communicator when we are two minutes away from the base." Fusion T.O.M. turned and walked out of the room. He hadn't originally planned on it, but as the ship entered Earth's atmosphere the leading Fusion remembered what happened to Fuse's other leading Fusions. He remembered how they were all killed off and that they had underestimated their enemy, keeping their defenses lower than they should have been to deal with them. "I'm not going to make the same mistake as they did. This time I'll be ready for them if they try to come for me."
After a few minutes of walking around the ship he came to a pair of large green doors. The doors were almost twice Fusion T.O.M.'s height and seemed almost unmovable, however there was a hole in the center of the doors where he could reach so he could reach it. "What a stupid lock." The leading Fusion put his arm into the hole and it suddenly glowed bright green before the doors opened, revealing a large room. At the back of the room was a small canister the size of a battery, sitting upon a case sticking out of the wall. "All hail Lord Fuse." Fusion T.O.M. said before he entered the room and approached the canister.
Dexlabs HQ
Ayu plowed a group of Teenage Ninjas as she continued to flee from her pursuing friends. She had been charging blindly through the halls, letting her legs take her wherever they wanted to take her. She had to get away from them. They thought she was a monster, she just knew it. What sane person wouldn't think she was one? They knew what she did and what she could do. If she was in their position, she would think she was a monster too.
In fact, that's exactly what she thought she was. The three names that she thought could best describe her were "monster, murderer, and freak".
"Hey watch it!" The distressed girl ran into another group of Teenage Ninjas and one of them yelled at her as she did so. She then felt something pull on her arm, forcing her to suddenly stop. She turned around to see what happened and saw that one of the Teenage Ninjas had grabbed her arm.
"Let go, please." She said with tears in her eyes, but when they did not let go she began to panic and felt a surge of energy go through her body. "I said let go!" There was a loud bang and everyone and everything around Ayu was suddenly sent flying away from her. Ayu grabbed and shook her head as the floor buckled under her a little while the walls began to vibrate as Ayu's ability affected the area around her. A few of the lights on the ceiling even shattered. Once things finally settled down, Ayu covered her face, fell to her knees, and began to sob. "Why!? Why does my life suck so much!? All I do is suffer, and suffer, and suffer! Why was I even born!?"
By now Jason finally caught up with Ayu and was shocked by the scene that she had created. "It's not fair… It's not fair… I want to die… I want this to end… I hate my life and I'm tired of living it…" She said these things between sobs as her body trembled. Her tears were sneaking past her hands and began to dampen her clothes. People began to gather around to see what all the noise was, but no one dared approach Ayu. "I'm… a freak… a monster…"
Jason, having heard enough of what Ayu was saying, decided it was his time to speak up to try to calm her down. "You're not a monster, Ayu."
"THEN WHAT THE HELL AM I!?" There was another loud bang and more people were thrown away, but Jason managed to hang in there, however a whirlwind of small debris began to surround her not long after.
As the winds coming off the whirlwind slowly began to pick up, it began to become harder for Jason to stand his ground. He heard Billy, Mark, and Serah yelling behind him and realized that they had come to help, and just as he had this realization a plan formed in his head. He looked over his shoulder and motioned for the other Subjects to come up to him. It only took a few seconds for them to do that, which was a relief to Jason because he didn't want it to take too long.
Though it was hard to hear over the whirlwind, the four Subjects were still able to hear each other if they yelled. "She's out of control! Any ideas on how to reach her!? Mark yelled.
"If we had our Nano Coms, we could call out a Nano to help us get to her! Stupid move on our part not to get them earlier!" Serah yelled.
"I have an idea! How does a human chain sound to you guys!? Each time we get as far as we can reach, we push each other ahead so we can get closer to her!" yelled Jason.
The other three Subjects looked at him like he was crazy but then Billy began to suddenly laugh. "It's crazy! Then again, we're crazy too! I'm up for it!" Serah and Mark both nodded as well and they began to form a chair.
One by one they made their way closer to Ayu as she continued to cry with her telekinetic ability running wild, and each time one of them was as the end of their arm's length, they pushed off with their hand to get the others ahead. After two of the four Subjects successfully pushed each other closer, it was finally down to the final two. Ayu was close enough that if Jason were to be pushed forward, he could reach her. He tried to yell to Billy to push him but the wind was so strong that he couldn't even hear himself speak. However, he didn't need to really say anything as Billy pushed him forward anyways, into the center of the whirlwind and right behind Ayu.
The inside of the whirlwind was completely calm and almost silent aside from Ayu's sobbing and the occasional clatter of small debris on the floor as it flew in. The crying girl was saying the same words she had been saying before over and over again, as if she were a broken record. "A freak… a monster…" Hearing her say that broke Jason's heart and before he knew it, he found himself running up behind her before wrapping her arms around her neck gently, not in a choking way but in a way to help her calm down.
"YOU'RE NOT A MONSTER, DAMMIT! YOU'RE AN ANGEL!" Ayu gasped as she heard Jason yell that. Her eyes went wide and she felt her breath leave her body as she felt tears hitting the back of her neck. "YOU'RE AN ANGEL, NOT A FREAK AND MOST CERTAINLY NOT A MONSTER!"
'He's crying… why is he crying? Is it for me? … Is he crying because of me?' Ayu thought.
"I… I don't want to lose you again. I don't want you to die. I get this weird feeling in my chest whenever I'm around you and even though I don't know what it is, I know it's tied to you." The whirlwind slowly began to die down as he continued. "You're not some monster born from a horrific experiment. You're not some freak of nature. You're an Angel."
"I'm… an Angel…" Ayu repeated weakly.
"Don't keep beating yourself up over this. Please. Just don't."
Ayu slowly reached up to touch Jason's arms, and as she did so the whirlwind finally died. As it did, Billy, Mark, and Serah all approached Ayu and Jason and one by one knelt down to hug her too.
"I feel stupid for doing this." said Mark.
Serah smirked when she heard him say that and saw an opportunity to try making some jokes. "Your red hair makes you look stupid in this situation." Serah stated in a mocking tone-of-voice.
"That doesn't even make any sense." Mark pulled away and massaged his temples.
"Sure it does." She said with a grin still on her face.
"Here we go again." Billy pulled away and shook his head.
Ayu wiped her eyes and giggled. "It's kind of cute how they do this."
"How? How does it make sense?"
"I wouldn't necessarily call it "cute"." said Jason as he pulled away.
Just as he did so, a loud siren began to sound off in the building and red lights began to flash all around. The people who had been thrown away from Ayu immediately shot to their feet and fixed their gear before an announcement was heard coming from a nearby loud speaker.
WE HAVE A LEVEL 2 EMERGENCY ON OUR HANDS! ALL SUBJECTS, MEMBERS OF THE CRIMSON BLITZ, AND ANY OTHER HIGH-RANKING OFFICIALS REPORT TO THE COMMAND ROOM! I REPEAT, WE HAVE A LEVEL 2 EMERGENCY ON OUR HANDS! ALL SUBJECTS, MEMBERS OF THE CRIMSON BLITZ, AND ANY OTHER HIGH-RANKING OFFICIALS REPORT TO THE COMMAND ROOM!
Serah shrugged her shoulder and began to back away. "Duty calls." She then took off in the direction of the Command Room.
"What the hell's going on now?" Mark said as he took off after her.
Jason helped Ayu to her feet and she blushed a little, however it was hard to tell with the red lights flashing around them.
"Let's go, you two." Billy said as he ran after Mark and Serah and right behind him were Jason and Ayu as they tried to keep up with him.
The Incrimination
A Fusion 2.0 sitting at a control panel pressed a button, activating an intercom within the large ship. "2 minutes, sir." It said.
As soon as it said that, the door to the room opened and Fusion T.O.M. walked back in, two glowing pistols at his side. "Are we ready to begin?"
"Yes, sir. However, before we can attack the base itself, we must eliminate their cloaking field surrounding the area around the base. How shall we go about eliminating it?"
The Fusion version of the Toonami Operation Module put stepped toward the 2.0 and looked at the screen his underling was looking at. "Go through it. A cloaking field poses no danger, unlike a force field which would keep us at bay." He then went to the chair he usually sat in and stared out the front window of the ship.
The ship continued its flight path and soon enough the ship entered the field. Before them stood Dexlabs HQ, Earth's last hidden base and last sign of hope. If it were to be destroyed, Humanity would finally lose it's will to fight and the war would be won. It was Fusion T.O.M.'s mission to make this a reality and he would stop at nothing to do so.
"Fire the first round of cannons."
End of Chapter 48
There you have it. Chapter 48.
R & R
I'm going to be honest with you all: I had NO vision for this arc whatsoever except for the ending of it and the battle against Fusion T.O.M. himself.
If this arc does not meet your expectations, sorry. Couldn't really help it.
I think I may be losing my intelligence slowly. I spend all day in front of computers (both in school and at home) and I think it's starting to negatively affect my brain. L My emotions are gaining control of my way of thinking and I'm starting to make no sense when I say things. Terrible, huh?
I'm going to start working on the "parts" part of the arc next so be ready for that.
Ayu's little incident in which she calls herself a "monster" and a "freak" and she says she wants to die actually comes from my old feelings about life so that's why I put a lot of work on that. No one ever told me I wasn't a monster or freak though so part of me still thinks that. ;~;
I've gotta go now. I'll see you all later.
Bye bye.
Here's something for you readers. As of now, I am taking requests to put a character that you, the player/reader, had made and used in FusionFall. Add the name of your character in the review and I will do my best to add them in. Whether they have big roles or not is up to me, but I will try to have them appear in the fanfic.
