The Android Experiment – Chapter 14: Pomp_X_Circumstance
Authors Note: So uh... I replayed Resident Evil 2 remake with my friend yesterday. We wanted to see who would finish first in a speed run and... of course I lost. I'm terrible at games when compared to her... Anywho, this chapter is inspired by Resident Evil. I wanna finish the Illusion Killer Arc and the Quantum Burst Arc before going back to Aureolus and Gunha Arcs. So. Well, I hope you all enjoy this action packed chapter. I feel like I could've done better and I knew I would start getting frustrated if I reread it for the hundredth time so. Here it is everyone!
This is my first time writing out scenes like this in their specific way so hopefully it's acceptable?
PS: Oh yeah... and I watched an entire documentary just so I could know the scientific stuff I went into for this chapter. I regret it.
Chapter 14: Pomp And Circumstance
An inconspicuous black van drove through the streets of Academy City's nineteenth district.
There was not a single other vehicle within the driver's eyesight, but he didn't pay that minor detail any mind. This place was always a ghost town, for as long as the young man knew. That didn't mean that the prefecture's streets weren't taken care of though and the city made sure to keep the place tidy. And unlike the infamous Strange of District 10, District 19 was actually pretty well developed, despite the lack of people.
It looked as if the place could have and did have a bigger population then it really had. But alas, these days this district had a population adding up to exactly zero. Yes, not even a single student, teacher, or even a normal citizen of Academy City lived here. Not a single soul.
Dorm buildings stood in rows down the street with a height around over 20 stories tall… and yet… this place was a ghost town. Why was that?
It was… peculiar… to say the least…
And the young man whose job it was to transport that dark colored armored van drove through this empty place with a pace that perfectly matched his average looking face.
He had a cap on his head that displayed a dark red biohazard symbol on it, and though the rest of his uniform was what you would've expected from someone who transports materials from Point A to Point B, he also had an extremely thick weapon shaped in the form of a pistol on a holster that was attached to his uniform. But it was no normal pistol. It lacked the presence of the ammo clip where there was supposed to be bullets inside of the mag, and in its place was a strange see-through battery-like compartment that had a purplish like electricity sparking out from the insides of it, trying to escape from the storage but failing. Almost like plasma…
It looked like a very futuristic weapon, and the pistol, from its grip to the end of its barrel, was an entire foot and two inches long.
The man that was merely transporting materials to where he was told to bring them to was equipped with such powerful weaponry, and yet there was not a single soul in sight from where he drove the van some more after taking a right turn down a street that had the street sign labeling it as -Shiganshina 41-
Where was this man going?
What was inside the black van the man was driving and what would the materials be used for?
And…
Why would he have a gun if there wasn't anything he'd need to protect himself from?
Especially If District 19 was completely empty…
Those questions would remain unanswered for an unknown amount of time.
An inexperienced person, or even anyone who was remotely normal really and had a keen sense of what normalcy was, may have had thoughts running along the lines of, What's a strange black van doing around here? Or even, Hmm, there's definitely something going on up here…. Well… that person would only be half right.
District 19 was… a testing ground, of sorts. Akin to District 7, it actually used to be a pretty popular district that bolstered a fair twenty-five-ish percent of Academy City six years ago.
Back then….
District 19 was a famous place where only the most special and most remarkable of Espers lived, as District 19 housed and developed only the most promising of Espers. Everyone wanted to go to and live in the famous District 19, and those who lived in District 19 themselves were popular and would brag about it often. The dorms were top of the line and so were the schools. But… after the shutdown of the district that was put in place in order to reveal and foster the utmost hidden talents of the strongest Espers, Levels 3, 4 and 5, the place became a ghost town. Empty, forgotten schools laid here and there, and vacant dorm buildings lined the streets with eerie shadows. District 19 was discontinued in its prime due to reasons that said 'Separating certain Espers from others was unfair treatment. And thus, made them feel inferior which greatly diminishes the growth of their personal reality'. It was decided that separating the strongest from the weakest, District 7 for the lower half of the levels (0, 1, and 2), and District 19 for the higher half of the levels (3, 4, and 5), would lower the chances for a diamond in the rough from breaking through. The strongest Espers often came from Levels 1 or 2 and putting them in with other weaklings would greatly hamper their growth. When it came to personal reality and Esper power development, the saying, 'Show Me Your Friends And I Will Show You Who You Are' couldn't be truer. And the repurposing of District 19 didn't just stop there, because as it took more of a backseat role in Esper development, that didn't mean it was not just going to simply gear itself towards other things. In the place of Esper development, it took up the role of trying the more dangerous experiments that had the chance to hurt a lot of people if they went wrong.
That was why this place was more isolated then the rest of the city and even had a quarantine zone-like security protecting it. That security was deemed, the Hound Dogs. A military force created by the Superintendent of Academy City and lead By Kihara Amata. It was the Hound Dogs' purpose to protect this District, and to snub out other potential threats to Academy City. Permanently.
But what here was being protected by the Hound Dogs in District 19? I'll name few off the top of my head for you all here;
Nuclear Research on the most dangerous atomic elements to create new sources of energy called fusion reactors.
Developing dangerous/helpful strains in certain pathogens and organisms to create a super version of said being.
Developing tech that used the older generation's technologies as a base schematic to be more appealing to the older generations.
Experimental Robots with Artificial Intelligence to take the place of Anti-Skill and/or Judgement.
And most of all…
Research and Development in order to create more effective and deadly weapons against humans and Espers alike.
Just like the pistol this man driving the van has.
From reverse engineering the simple pistol to be smaller or bigger to creating entirely new weapons ranging the size of a single arm that can rip through a tank with a single bullet, this District alone bolstered more than 90 percent of the weapons that made up Academy City's Anti-Skill personnel. So, this place was a big deal everyone regarded as the 'Area 51' of Academy City, as no one was ever allowed to go there, not even to visit. Once, there was even a petition passed to provide arms with a considerably less lethal aspect to the weapons for the younger members of Judgement who weren't allowed to carry real weapons that could potentially hurt someone (because Judgment is mainly comprised of students, mostly). They asked for tools that relied on non-lethal means instead of the traditional gun powder bullets that were super effective when used against humans in the meta, such as advanced stun-batons and the like, but the Superintendent of Academy City vetoed it nearly immediately, giving the reason that they were working on much more important matters which required the attention of the very staff that they couldn't spare as they would have had to switch in the middle of a certain project.
That petition was submitted three years ago.
And those researchers are still developing that certain weapon that prevented District 19 from making those less lethal arms for the Judgement sub-division of Anti-Skill to this day.
And here this van was… delivering cargo to that very district from overseas.
"Ahhhh yeaaahhh…." The driver gave a great sigh as he took his left hand off the wheel and stretched his back out a bit when he finally arrived at the facility he was supposed to go. He drove into a 7 storied grey building that had no windows with only a single hand, which alluded to his skill of the automobile. "Finally here." He said as he pulled into the garage area with bright white lights beaming down on the van.
There was a checkpoint he had to get through first though, and the Hound Dog in dark armored clothes waiting by the verifying station gunned the driver down into a slow and immediate stop. The driver wasn't scared from having a gun pointed at him though and simply rolled down his bullet proof window and waved out a friendly wave to the armored personnel who was aiming the thick black assault rifle in his hand to his head, just in case the driver was a potential threat, of course. Believe me when I say this, Hound Dogs do not take their jobs lightly.
"Stop the vehicle now and prepare your ID Card as my colleague checks the van." Still holding the gun, the Hound Dog nodded to his comrade that was on his left and with a nod his teammate did as he said.
The driver nodded to the Hound Dog in power, and even though this was all routine by now he couldn't help but think, We've known each for three years and I still don't know his name. Hound Dogs were ghosts, dead to the world because giving up their previous life and identity was a requirement to join, so the driver knew that was why. But that didn't mean he liked being treated so roughly all the time.
The Hound Dog who went to the back of the van walked up to the doors of the cargo area, his mask and entire body was coated in thick ballistic armor that could withstand the kinetic force of a shotgun easily. The visor on his face was tinted red from the heads-up display on it that recorded his and his allies positions on a mini map on the top right of his vision. He walked up to the doors that lead to the van's insides, and held the heavy assault rifle in one hand as he opened one of the doors, ready to fire an entire round into the group of people inside that would probably come out.
The door opened up slowly and the Hound Dog nodded with a single bead of sweat rolling down his bearded chin inside his helmet, Just the weapons from Bangkok, like I thought. But I got to be prepared every time, right? That's the way he was trained, and that paranoia would be something he carried throughout life, as Quantum Burst was in this city and his commander, Kihara Amata, had informed them all to be extremely aware. Told them it was okay to have an antsy trigger finger and come up with any excuse they wanted to shoot something. Everything was replaceable in this city and putting Quantum Burst down was the most important.
But Quantum Burst was not in this transport vehicle, just the usual bunch of weapon shipments. The Hound Dog even switched between X-Ray and Thermal and found nothing out of the norm. And doesn't Quantum Burst have wings anyway? Ehh, not important. With a breath of relief, the Hound Dog relayed into his helmet's comm link in a serious voice, "Preps all good back here. Gonna go verify the driver's ID Card now."
"Roger that, Wolf-43." The Hound Dog could've just called that out, but he knew that if the Driver was a dud or something it was better to have the edge, however small it was.
Wolf-43 reached down and grabbed a thick black tablet that started glowing blue as soon as he took it out of his belt holster. Three blue dots appeared on the black tablet's screen that looked to be high tech, and soon it was replaced with the words 'Adam Sandler' along with the gentleman's picture and other identifications like the man's birthday, occupation, home country, and even blood type. But that was not what the Hound Dog was looking for. Wolf-43's eyes went for the green 'verified' that should've been on the bottom left of the ID Card that popped up on his tablet, and when he saw it he gave the all clear, "All right, ID is all good too."
With a small nod Wolf-43 closed the van door and patted the vehicle like it was a horse, "This one is good to go, Halk-629." He finished seriously.
Just in the front of the van, The Hound Dog member holding a gun to the driver's head let go of the pressure he had on the trigger and pointed it away, "Sorry, Adam," He said, but he didn't sound very sorry about anything really, "Quantum Burst has already destroyed nine of our facilities over the past two months alone, and put a hiatus to their said projects. So, you can see the effort we're putting into this a lot, right?"
Adam nodded his head slowly, sweating a bit from having a gun pointed to his head. This happens all the time, but I can never really get used to it. The gates to the garage started opening up, and Adam saw the two Hound Dogs bring up red glowsticks and point in the direction of the storage area they wanted him to go to.
So, it's floor G-1 this time, huh? He started driving the van to the right path that was the second of the two paths that broke the garage into two areas, and with a lot of twists and turns it finally gave way into a clearing after going down the ramp that went a full story underground. Adam parked the van in an empty parking spot that was between dozens of other vans of the same color. He smiled when he finished it with the van in the perfect position, and he took the keys out and exited the vehicle before going to the back in order to open up the rear storage doors.
With a professional gait, Adam Sandler came to the back of the armored van and opened up the door.
"We're in boss." He said.
And then three members of Skill Out in full body armor came out of the weapon cargo boxes that looked to be real weapons.
One of the three Skill Out member's suit had a darker color scheme then the rest, and the dark black glove on his right hand was a lot less armored and thinner too when compared to the others. That one got out first, and when his legs touched the concrete ground of the facility's floor, he relayed in a leading voice as he pressed a button on the left side of his helmet, "Adam got us in, Eyesight." He looked back to Adam and nodded at him before looking to one of his fellow Skill Out members that had the only feminine body out of the four of them. "Light Out. We're up. Everyone else work with Adam, Bluebird, and Paramount, so you can secure an exit for us. I want those Hound Dogs dealt with along with any others that may be a problem."
"Understood, Boss."
"Got it, sir."
Kamijou Touma had a fierce look on his face as he unholstered his assault rifle and took a strong step forward, his comrade, Light Out, coming up on his left side, "Good. Today's mission is the stealthy retrieval of a certain device called Capacity_Down. Apparently, it can prohibit even the strongest Espers from using their abilities affectively by suggesting certain high-pitched tones that interfere with the arithmetic part of the brain. The only person here it can really affect here is you, Light Out, so be careful. As for Capacity Down, if we can get it to Tinkerer for repurposing and sabotage the others this'll all go according to plan. Anyway, let's move out immediately."
At exactly the same time, everyone who was on that mission with him said at the same time, "Roger that, Commander."
Human Cloning.
One may hear this or read this word and think; Definitely Science Fiction. But unfortunately… they would be very, very wrong.
It is actually scientifically possible and is a completely explainable idea as well.
In the natural world there are two ways to clone a Homo-sapient (or any other mammal for that matter). The first is the easiest and you may have heard of it already.
Twins.
They contain the exact same DNA and are found naturally in a lot of places in nature. Twins aren't just exclusive to human beings like how one may assume because, believe it or not, there are some mammals out there that go through this process unknowingly. In science it is called Artificial Embryo Twinning, and it is the most cost effective, and longest way to make real life clones. As it takes the normal nine months to grow the pair of babies from embryo to human being. And like how the name may suggest, this technique mimics the natural process that creates the natural identical twins we see occur in life every now and then.
In nature, twins form very early in development when the embryo splits in two. Twinning happens in the first days after the egg and sperm join together, while the embryo is made of just a small number of unspecialized cells, these cells are called stem cells and they can transform into any cell the human body may need (Espers that have regenerative type abilities can create stem cells en masse). In the scenario where twinning occurs, each half of the embryo continues dividing on its own, ultimately developing into separate, complete individuals. Since they developed from the exact same fertilized egg, the resulting individuals are genetically identical in every single way.
Artificial embryo twinning/cloning uses the same approach, but it is carried out in a Petri dish or real-life tank resembling the womb instead of being inside of the mother. A very early embryo is separated into individual cells, which are allowed to divide and develop for a short time in the Petri dish. The embryos are then placed into a surrogate mother, where they finish developing, and then that mother has a one hundred percent chance of having two completely healthy twins. Again, since all the embryos came from the same fertilized egg, they are genetically identical and are clones of one another.
But as for the Radio Noise Project. Artificial Embryo Twinning was not used. For the cloning of Misaka Mikoto's DNA map, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer was required. It would be impossible to clone Misaka Mikoto using the previous method because the fourteen-year-old girl was already born and the germ cells from her mother and father were needed to even have the one billionth chance of recreating her in that way.
So, like I said, the next best thing was SCNT.
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer. This concept's process is a lot more difficult to apply and it uses a totally different approach when compared to artificial embryo twinning. However, it produces the same end result: an exact genetic copy, or clone, of an individual. This was the method used to create Dolly the Sheep and over Twenty Thousand copies of Misaka Mikoto.
This is where things start to get fishy. But hang with me here, the cloning of Misaka Mikoto by twenty thousand times is completely possible with science and technology as long as it is applied in the correct ways and concepts.
Listen up.
The things you will need to know in order to clone Misaka Mikoto is a few very important things. I will list them here.
A Somatic Cell. The Somatic Cell is basically any cell in the body other than the sperm and egg cells, the two types of reproductive cells. Cloning Misaka Mikoto using the reproductive haploid cells would be impossible with her current age and development, so it is a good thing the egg cells aren't required in Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer.
The next thing you'll need is a mother's womb. But this can be artificial, as tanks replicating said womb were mass produced in advanced on par with the project's beginnings.
And well… the next thing you would need is donor egg cells. I'll tell you why in a moment.
This is where things start to get technical so listen up boy and girls. I'll be doing this in three steps, ok?
Step 1: Misaka Mikoto's somatic cell is needed in order to read and take away it's DNA map. In mammals, every somatic cell has two complete sets of chromosomes, whereas the reproductive haploid cells have only one complete set. Misaka Mikoto's X and Y chromosomes are from both father and mother so her being a female is a handy advantage for this type of cloning. That is why Dolly was also a female.
Step 2: The Nucleus, or the DNA is extracted from Misaka Mikoto's Somatic Cell. The nucleus is the part of the stem cell that is the compartment that holds the cell's DNA. The DNA is divided into packages called chromosomes, and it contains all the information needed to form an organism. It's small differences in our DNA that make each one of us unique. And it is those small differences that we need for the cloning of Misaka Mikoto.
Step 3: Now we just transfer her Somatic Cell's nucleus to the blank donor egg cell. Moving an object from one place to another basically. To make a clone of Misaka Mikoto, researchers involved in the experiment isolated a somatic cell from the original Misaka Mikoto. Next, they removed the nucleus and all of its DNA from the donor egg cell to make it blank. Then they transferred the nucleus from the original Misaka Mikoto's somatic cell to the blank egg cell. After a couple of chemical tweaks, the egg cell, with its brand-new nucleus, will begin behaving just like a freshly fertilized egg. It develops into an embryo from there, which is implanted into a surrogate mother (In this case the tank that replicates the womb) and is carried to term for nine months, though this can be sped up using certain growth hormones. This transfer step is most often done using an electrical current to properly fuse the membranes of the egg and the somatic cell.
The clone of Misaka Mikoto that would be created in this way is an exact genetic replica of the original that donated the somatic cell. And this Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer would be done in a facility that effectively provides all of the needs for said method.
One of those facilities, an unnamed research building just on the north east outskirts of District 7, had over two hundred Hound Dogs stationed throughout the building.
It was a single floored building on the outside, but it actually went five stories underground below the first floor. It was this very place where over twenty thousand children with the exact same DNA as Misaka Mikoto were born/created and sent to other facilities in Academy City to rapidly grow inside of tanks before being let out for indoctrination by Testament using Transcranial Electromagnetic Stimulation in order to copy information onto their human brains to alter how they think and what they believe in.
CRASH!
On the first floor of the building where Project Radio Noise began, a mass of black smashed straight through the roof and into the ground before exploding into a fog of red and black blood from the speed and force it had impacted to itself by crashing like that. Quantum Burst raised his head up weakly and took in a deep husky breath from where he laid in his own blood without his left arm and right leg. The black mass of wings around him started changing to huge thick black watery claws that stabbed into and attached itself to Quantum Burst's sides and hoisted him up so he could see.
Before he could even think he heard the words being shouted, "Quantum Burst is here! On the first floor! Let commander Amata know immediately so we can get back-up from Floor- SQUELCH! – Ahhhh…. Ghehhh… blurgh…" A black blade pierced the heavily armored Hound Dog's throat and chest while two smaller dark blades split from the first one and decapitated the guy's head entirely like it was scissors cutting paper.
Quantum Burst rose the man's body into the air even though it was already dead, and another blade broke out of Quantum Burst's back that was bigger than the others. It moved into position and aimed its sharp end towards the Hound Dog's body. Then, it flew.
Split!
Dozens of the other Hound Dogs that were already preparing for Quantum Burst's arrival watched as Eli Remi carved up their heavily armored teammate in two just after decapitating him.
It had all happened so fast nobody there could have reacted in time to save their comrade. In only three seconds Quantum Burst barreled through from the roof, got up with red and black blood all over his body that only had half of its limbs, and then proceeded to filet the man closest to him that was trying to warn everyone.
Well… that man did warn everyone, but not before losing his head and being split in two.
Blood spurted out of where there was supposed to be a head, and the heavily Armored Hound Dog's body that was cut in two fell to the ground with everything going red and completely limp.
The two dozen Hound Dogs that were supposed to be guarding the elevator connecting to the rest of the facility gulped down the spit and bile in their throats before facing what must have been the devil itself with wide eyes and quickly beating hearts.
Quantum Burst didn't have an arm and leg, but his black monstrous form that was two times the height of a normal human-being made him look like a demon in their eyes. The unknown mass enveloped his entire body like a second layer of skin that he could control at will, and it perfectly hid how injured he really was. The way he moved and controlled it didn't let his enemies know that he was missing a couple of limbs.
BOOOM!
Fresh red blood barreled out of Eli's right arm that exploded from his reverse link to someone in the building, and he bit down in a scary way that the dark blood covering his body mimicked. He was hurt, but that did the exact opposite of making his enemies feel at ease. Because in their eyes the very blood that Eli was rapidly losing was just adding on to the already plentiful black mass that so easily diced up their comrade like butter.
And for the Hound Dogs to fear him, mercenaries that killed problem children on the low without anyone ever knowing… that said something about how demonic he must have looked to the trained soldiers who were a lot more hardcore usually.
"Don't be scared of that trash. Fire!" Amata Kihara's voice echoed through all of their helmets exactly when Quantum Burst hurled the dead body of his victim down to the ground and turned to each one of the soldiers who were panicking as they realized their bullet proof armor wouldn't do them any good here. "Every shot that hits him will be rewarded with half a million dollars." At that, even though the Hound Dogs were doubting their chances at victory and were thinking about running away, they still stood their ground and aimed their weapons that were created to specifically go up against Quantum Burst.
BANG BANG BANG BANG!
RA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA!
Without thinking twice, the Hound Dogs fired volleys of purple electricity from their thick black assault rifles at the demon. Quantum Burst simply raised up his left hand that had already healed back by now, and when he clenched his fist the black blood on the ground all around him raced into the air and condensed into hundreds of small but thick black spheres that he positioned at the exact points the projectiles would've hit him, and letting the ones that wouldn't pass by him harmlessly. He kicked out his other leg that was back now and he started running at insane speeds in zigzags, so he wasn't so easy a target. That movement, as quick as it was, was not going to be enough for Quantum Burst to evade against bullets that went as fast as 2500 miles per hour. He knew the Hound Dogs weren't amateurs and he knew that he couldn't run as fast as he could fly in such a small space, so it was apparent that he also knew that if he didn't put up that small barrier with hundreds of black spheres that followed him around he definitely would've been ripped apart from the twenty four people trained to kill him. The condensed beams of energy that hit the black spheres of an unknown mass was so powerful that it made them explode. Like mines being shot by a pistol.
Bang!
BZT! BZT!
POW!
When Quantum Burst jumped into the air, a black mass pushing him off the ground and leaving behind a dark trail in his wake, bullets coming from 24 different places near the elevator made lightning spark out from the black blood that conducted the strange energy rifle round, and the electricity arced out from each of the black spheres and went straight into Quantum Burst who started lighting up purple as even though he dodged it he really didn't because his black blood was a conductor for the current. It slowed him down, but the strange bullets didn't slow him down enough. Quantum Burst's breath came out in a low growl as he landed and pushed through the pain. Just like last time, a single huge claw that looked like a sharp version of a spider's leg ripped out of Quantum Burst's back with the sound of something ripping through his flesh. Unlike the other entities Eli summoned from that world, this one came directly from inside his body rather than just appearing out of his skin, so this one was a darkish red and was tougher and stronger than the others. Quantum Burst bent down like a beast in the gunfire and exploded for the nearest Hound Dog who was shooting at him. When the Hound Dog saw that the huge black mass was coming for him, he immediately dropped his weapon and barrel rolled away to try and survive.
The man in full body armor wasn't quick enough, and like a horror movie the killer claw coming out of Quantum Burst's back that he could control like another arm ripped through the soldier's chest as if he wasn't even wearing armor. The limp man couldn't even scream out as he was dropped to the floor with a slam.
DARAT!
"AHHHHHH!"
CLEAVE.
POW!
"BElcchuee…. Arhggg…."
BANG BANG BANG!
"RowrrGHHHH!"
Gunfire, ear-piercing screams, and sounds of people being ripped apart by a monster reverberated into the air like a real-life horror movie. The monster had a black mass arching out from him at all times that seemed to have a mind of its own, and dozens of dark spheres surrounded him, moving accordingly to collide with any bullets that would be direct hits and slowing them down before they pierced the monsters thick secondary layer of skin. To the Hound Dogs, who were sweating and realizing that the longer this went the less of a chance they had of survival, he was some kind of monster that just couldn't be anything that was born on this earth. They thought Quantum Burst was some kind of alien that came from outer space, and as it ripped through another one of their comrade's chest they started sweating as they felt they didn't have much bullets left in their mags. They knew the special issue rounds were working, because Quantum Burst was not moving nearly as fast as what his average running speed was recorded to be. And for some reason these bullets were not triggering the damage reflection link they all knew Quantum Burst had.
There was only about 18 Hound Dogs left, and they each knew that as when they looked at their heads-up display, they saw the red dots that indicated their allies going dark quickly. They all started to scatter as they shot from their hips so it would be harder for the monster covered in a dark mass to get them and the screams of two of their comrades rang out just a second later.
Quantum Burst took down two at once by slamming them into the metal alloyed wall as they were too close to one another, and he let out another low growl as he backed away with blood running down his mouth in droves. Damn… for some reason my ability isn't working against these bullets. What the heck are they- BOOM! The monster's torso blew apart like someone had placed a grenade directly inside of him. Black blood blew away from him, and for a split-second Eli Remi's human body was exposed, but everyone who was panicking trying to shoot him weren't calm enough to see what Quantum Burst really looked like without the mass coating him in a second layer of skin. Inside of the unknown mass that was a dark color, Eli Remi growled an even more menacing growl as blood dripped off of him and fell on the ground. To be inflicting this much damage… They have to be blowing her apart down there… Quantum Burst was strangely calm, and when the gun fire started to slow down from the Hound Dogs running out of the ammo in their magazines that could hold sixty-six bullets, both parties knew in that quiet who had the advantage now.
"No… NONONONONO! PLEASE NOOO!" Quantum Burst started taking slow steps forward as everyone had run out of bullets at basically the same time, the ones who still had bullets used up the rest of them at their partners screams. And when Quantum Burst chose one of those Hound Dogs to go for first, they dropped their gun and started running away, completely ignoring the fact that they could have just used their secondary. "HELP! SOMEONE- Argh! - SLICE. ARghhh….Plercghhhh…" That Hound Dog looked down and found a claw piecing through his stomach like… he was about to be eaten alive. Everything for the man started going dark when he was dropped to the ground.
In his vision, he saw even more claws ripping out of the monsters back as it walked away from him, and in those six seconds it would take his teammates to reload, the dying man saw grenades being thrown and arms and legs flying in all directions. Some were smart enough to use their secondaries that had the same ammo type as their assault rifles that was made specifically to counter Quantum Burst's true damage reflection… but… even still it wasn't enough. None of them knew how much those bullets were working until they stopped shooting at him with them and it was made all to clear as now… the monster was just a blur as blood flew through the air like someone turned on a sprinkle. The man's vison went dark next… and his last thoughts were… I deserve this… The amount of people and children the man killed over the past year alone was… unfathomable. And as he died… he felt like he was finally a human. He felt like… death was a release from the mercenary life he couldn't ever truly escape.
There was only four Hound Dogs left now. And as the dark monster with black blood dripping down from it to the ground and 5 five red claws ripping out of its back along with a 9-foot tail stepped forward and grabbed the fourth one, the other three had finally finished reloading their weapons.
"I'm done! I'M DONE!"
"DON'T TELL ME THAT! JUST FIRE!"
"YEAH! Just let up- BAM!" A headless body was thrown to the third who had no chance of reacting on time. And the man who was just slammed to the ground by his own comrade's body found a blade 5 feet long being placed right through his left lung. Blood started leaking out from inside of his helmet and his life started slipping away as Quantum Burst took a step back with another horrifying growl that worked as a fear factor to cause panic.
The fear of death made one think through things poorly, and over the years, whether Eli was going for the kill or not, acting like he was more powerful then he really was made his opponents think twice. That was why he manipulated the dark mass to make him look like a monster. That was why he hid inside of that monster to hide his body that was caked in slick red blood from all the bullets that really did hurt him. And that was why he let out a defiant roar as he leaped into the air with a claw ten feet long and slicing it right though–
BOOM!
BANG BANG BANG!
POW!
Nothing was left of Eli's head when it exploded, and a red fog came over from where he was. All the gunshots stopped for a second when the last two Hound Dogs saw the black blood dissipating and the monster falling down onto the ground when the person controlling it died. The Hound Dogs had a ray of hope when one of them said, "Did that… really kill him?"
"I DON'T KNOW! Just keep shooting Tiger-005!"
"But what if the damage reflects back!?"
"It won't! Or else these bullets would've been hurting us this entire time if his ability could work against them! Quantum Burst won't work! Not when he's dead!" After the mini dispute, the last two Hound Dogs that were missing their entire unit started lighting up the headless boy on the floor before it could regenerate back.
But… they were so focused that they didn't see the dozens of small black bladed masses floating in the air just under the ceiling. Each one was in the form of a katana, and the weapons made of black blood were so dense that it was even harder to break than real katana.
The Black Katanas that seemed to have a mind of its own aimed for each of the two of the soldiers' heads that were attacking its host body. And then… they flew silently at a velocity that was five times the speed of sound.
All the gunshots stopped immediately and the thuds of bodies falling to the floor reverberated through the quiet facility that had machinery going quietly in the background. The elevator door that the Hound Dogs were trying to protect started beeping and going from the number 7 up until it got to one.
SQelCH.
sqUisH.
After 5 seconds of quiet, the sounds of chewing and flesh being put back together finally stopped.
"haaahhhh…haaaahuuuuhh…." Quantum Burst took in deep breaths of air as soon as he sat up with a soulless look on his face like he was a zombie. And the light came back to him as he remembered what he was doing here a couple years ago before he died. That's right, they are trying to use Reverse Link against me to slow me down. covered in red as he sat up with an ear-splitting headache, he stood up on his legs and realized that he didn't have any clothes really from being exploded over and over again on the way here.
Eli thought with a confused look on his face as he remembered a metal encased bullet with purple plasma trailing behind it fly by his head. My ability wasn't transferring the damage for some reason. He looked down to the ground and saw the thick rifle, Huh. These things are definitely new. He had thought they were normal guns at first, but when he looked closer and saw the strange purple lightning sparking out of the assault rifles the Hound Dogs used against him, he realized, How did they get those weapons? And how are they bypassing Quantum Burst?
He was smart, and even though it was his brain that was used as the first bio-processing core, he didn't know the answer to that question. Eli reached up to his ear and realized he didn't have his earpiece. Damn it! I have to get a move on. No time to get it back. He knew it was around here somewhere, but he didn't think he needed the Blasphemies help for the rest of the operation anyways. There was a radio noise clone somewhere in this facility that was being killed over and over again just to deal damage to him.
And…
As the elevator dinged again Eli thought about what they would've had to have done to one of the clones to deal this much damage to him. I'm starting to think… they are just opening her up and just putting grenades inside of her and- BANG!
As soon Eli thought that his chest exploded as blood flew everywhere again. The Black substance he was controlling started racing back to him from where it was scattered all over and it started forming the base of the spine that was obliterated due to his link to the person who had sustained similar injuries. Quantum Burst knew for a fact now that somewhere in this building a little kid was being tortured and played around with like a human voodoo doll that was connected directly to him. And it made him so angry to think about as he began controlling the Black mass to form a layer of armor around him that kind of resembled real clothes if it were not for the fact that Eli's black blood was… well… black…
He resembled a demon as he stood amongst bodies that painted the facilities first floor red. The elevator he was trying get into started ticking even more as it got closer to the ground floor, and he rose his dark black left hand up into the air as all the Black Blood that had dispersed earlier started racing for the host body and accumulating so that Quantum Burst started getting thicker and thicker until he resembled monster more than human. Clawed blades ripped out of his back with chewing sounds and a thick bloody sword formed in hilts at his hips even though it wasn't a real sword.
Quantum Burst felt his spine reconnect completely and he would've fell down earlier too if he wasn't using that strange mass to hold himself up until his chest regenerated back.
BEEP.
The sound of the elevator dinged out again.
Phewm.
Ra-tA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA!
And when the door opened up a rocket propelled missile shot out along with several grenades and bullet trails from the dozens of Hound Dogs that could fit in the extremely huge elevator that had a capacity capable of holding 50 people despite how small it may have looked from the outside.
Explosions rang out as the machinery needed to create clones blew up from the heat seeker RPG that detonated when it missed. And then…
…Quantum Burst's monstrous form gave a loud scratchy growl that was louder than any of the bullets could have ever been. It was a terrifying sound that would remind one of a rushing waterfall, or an earthquake.
It was a horrifying growl ripping out from a large creature.
END
OMAKE #1
At a Mcdonalds in Academy City. A twelve year old Mikoto was on her tippy toes so she could see the employees from behind the register.
"Uh.. Hello, someone..." She called out those words, and then she smiled when someone finally came.
The waiter came up to the young Mikoto with a smile, and he said with a straight face, "Welcome To Mcdonalds, how can we clone you today?"
OMAKE #2
"And that's how the earth was made. We are really just a bunch of dust if you think about it." Touma bowed after finishing his presentation for his project. He looked at Ms. Komoe and she nodded at him. With a frown Touma continued, "Fine," He said, clearly annoyed, "Any questions anyone?"
Tuchimikado's hand was the first one to go up. "Uh... If olive oil is made of olives. What is baby oil made of?"
"No no no no…" Aogami said, he stroked his imaginary beard deep in thought, "The better question is, What is virgin oil made of?"
Touma facepalmed from in front of the class and everyone started laughing except for him.
Another student raised his hand with a smirk plastered to his face and Touma just looked at his classmate and said, "Don't question me fool."
OMAKE #3
"Why is Eli so OVERPOWERED!" Cried a random guy somewhere in the crowd.
A guy who was in professional clothing looked at the script, and then he said, "Don't worry, he will be nerfed in the nuclear update. Next."
Another fan raised their hand, "Ah, yes, you."
"How do I remove my crippling depression status debuff."
"I believe you have to reach one of the healing guild castles and have one of them cast a diagnostic spell on you to see if the origin of the debuff is a glitch of the human brain, but otherwise, waiting for the debuff to expire is a valid strategy. You can also shorten the duration of the debuff by doing certain activities, but the most effective way to do that is partying up with a support class animal, like a dog or a cat. Anyone else?"
"What do humans taste like?"
"Roast Beef and Baked Potato, sir."
"MMMMMM!"
"Ahhhh! Someone is touching me with their wiggly bits!"
"Dude, chill, it's just a spider."
"AHHh! That's even worse!"
OMAKE #4
OOMPA LOOMPAS DANCING IN THE DISTANCE
OMAKE #5
"Eli," A concerned citizen sat with the curly haired boy who was chewing on a cheese stick, "How many people did you kill?"
Eli just shrugged, apparently not knowing the answer, "I don't know. I really couldn't tell you how many people died, I lost track after the third body hit the floor."
The concerned citizen sighed, "Oh god. What have I created."
"A human being."
"Obviously…"
OMAKE END
Authors Note: Well... I still don't know what omake means because I do not-uh speak zeh language. But I think it's just like... an afterward? Or kind of like credits or something? I keep seeing people do it on other sites too so I guess I just kind of came up with those on the spot cause I'm a bandwagon person. Anywho. What did you all think? Comments? Ideas for the future?
Anyway. This chapter wraps up with a bit of warfare from Quantum Burst Vs. The Hound Dogs. And we also see that Kamijou Touma is taking advantage of the chaos and leading a raid on a facility in District 19. I wonder how that will turn out...
Heh heh heh… I think I did pretty good this chapter. I only hope that I explained certain things well enough so that they made sense to you all.
Well. See you all later mates!
(Imagine Mario Saying "Bye Bye!" In His Happy Italian Voice)