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Tales of the Multiverse Bit 96

What the hell am I doing here?

Kennedy "Kenny" MacIntosh found himself tied in a chair inside a classroom somewhere in the Human Village with Keine Kamishirasawa standing in front of him and she had the full intention to discipline the short-tempered man.

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While Vita, Signum, Vaas Montenegro, Needles Kane, Geraldo Axel and Nadia "Ms." Fortune are still in the city, we head back to the mansion where we see Kenzo walking inside with the attempt of finally ending Nodoka Takehara's life.

Kenzo looks around cautiously, "I'll get her this time." he muttered in declaration.

Unbeknownst to him, Marcus "The Kane" McGee is just right behind him with his baseball bat in hand and a rather creepy stare, the douchebag then swung the baseball bat towards Kenzo and the next thing the intruder see is total darkness.

bzzzttt...

Aka woke up from her unconscious state, she's still dazed but she remembers everything. Earlier tonight, she went to an abandoned mall to hunt down more Nightmares but only to encounter Vita, Signum and a group of crazy-looking individuals that she doesn't recognize, though the clown stands out at least. She believed that they're stealing her prey, so she threatens them which resulted in a fight between her and Vita, and at first, she thought she can defeat her but she was wrong and despite how much she doesn't want to admit, Vita is far more stronger than she expected which no doubt is the reason why she lost to her.

Right now, Aka is fully awake and she has no idea where she was. She then noticed Kenzo right next to her in a knocked out state while being bounded by pink chains on a chair. She then looks at herself and frowned, she was also bounded with pink chains, which only means one thing.

Aka is being held captive.

Suddenly, the door from the right side opened with Marcus, Xyrielle "XY Girl" Yona and Nanoha Takamachi entering the room.

"Ah! Looks like you're awake, Miss Red." Nanoha greeted with a smile.

Aka growled in response, "Oi! What the hell are you gonna do to me?!" she demanded, "Let me go!" she yelled.

XY facefaulted, "Geez... hostile much." she uttered.

"Pipe down Red!" Marcus yelled while picking his nose, "We're not gonna do anything to you." he reassured, "Then again..." he uttered, "... if you've proven to be uncooperative then we've just might." he admitted, "So I suggest that you calm down." he advised.

"How can I calm down when I'm chained on this chair!?" Aka yelled in annoyance.

"I said pipe down Red!" Marcus yelled back, "You Red-head should calm down your Red blood and your Red temper or else you'll see Red." he commented with a blank expression.

"What's up with you and Red!?" XY retorted in disbelief.

"Calm down Xyrielle!" Nanoha advised in panic.

"Oh! You'll see red!" Aka roared, "Once I got out of these chains with my drills, you'll be dripping in red!" she declared and tried to turn her hands into drills but for some reason it's not working, much to her shock, "What? Why can't I use my ability!?" she exclaimed in confusion.

"We figure out that you'd try to break out those chains with your drills, which is impossible by the way, so we decided to cuffed your hands with an Anti-Blessed Prism Cuffs." Marcus explained, "These cuffs had the ability to cancel out any Blessed from using their Gifts." he added.

"A very convenient item." Nanoha admitted.

"I still can't believe that the Science and Research Department managed to come up with something like this." XY grumbled in disbelief with an image of Dr. Michael Pating, Dr. Caesar Apoy and Jimmy Neutron appearing in the background while giving them a thumbs up.

"Damn you!" Aka cursed.

Marcus shrugged his shoulders, "Oh well... we'll deal with you later." he uttered before getting in front of Kenzo, "Time to do some interrogation." he beckoned before grabbing a jar filled with yellow liquid and then splashing it on Kenzo's face, "Oi! Wake up you son of a bitch!" he demanded.

This woke up Kenzo but felt weird with the liquid dripping down his face, "What the hell!?" he squawked, "What kind of water is that!?" he exclaimed.

"It's pee." Marcus answered nonchalantly.

"Gross!" XY squawked in disgust, "Out of all liquids, it had to be that!" she exclaimed.

"Why you bastar-" Kenzo tried to say only to receive a slap on the face, courtesy of Marcus.

"Quiet!" Marcus shouted, "You have the right to remain silent!" he declared.

"How are we going to interrogate him if you're telling him to keep silent!?" XY retorted.

Kenzo smirked in response, "Interrogate?" he mocked, "Tough luck..." he scoffed, "... you won't be hearing anything from me." he gloated which resulted with another a slap on the face, courtesy of Marcus.

"Quiet!" Marcus demanded, "We're going to interrogate you!" he reminded, "First question..." he began, "... what's the color of my underwear?" he asked.

"Hold up!" XY interjected, "What the hell are you asking?!" she questioned in disbelief, "You can't ask something like that!?" she added, "And why the hell are you asking people about the color of your underwear!" she exclaimed with an angry look.

"It's red by the way." Marcus revealed with a serious face.

"Who cares!?" XY squawked, "And red again?!" she pointed out, "Why are you so fixated with that color!?" she questioned in disbelief.

"Calm down Xyrielle!" Nanoha intervened, "And Marcus, please do this seriously!" she scolded with a hand on her forehead, she's still not used with Marcus' antics.

"All right." Marcus complied before slapping Kenzo once more on the face, "Okay! Who the fuck are you and why the fuck are you trying to kill Nodoka?" he demanded, "Who the fuck sent you and what the fuck are their motives?" he added.

Kenzo scoffed, "You won't be hearing anything from me!" he replied with a grin, "No matter how much you ask!" he mocked.

"I see." Marcus uttered, "Then I guess we'll just have to force out answers from you." he declared.

Before anyone can utter a single word, we see Rex Salazar and Danny Fenton entering the room while carrying a bloodied and battered Eddy Skipper McGee with one of his left hand missing which made both Kenzo and Aka paled in response upon setting sights on Eddy.

"This guy wouldn't have died if he just confessed." Rex uttered.

"He kept his mouth shut in the end and look what got him because of it." Danny added.

Kenzo began to sweat in fear.

"I see." XY uttered, "Should we order a coffin?" she suggested.

"Make it two." Marcus requested while jabbing a thumb at Kenzo, "We got another one here and I got a feeling that he'll be keeping his mouth shut in the end." he stated nonchalantly.

And with that, Kenzo finally gave in, "No! Please! I'll talk! I'll talk!" he squawked in panic, "I'll tell you everything!" he exclaimed, "I don't want to die! Please!" he begged.

Suddenly, Eddy's right hand slaps Kenzo on the face while slowly getting up, "You moron!" he yelled, "You make me go all through that!" he exclaimed in annoyance.

This taken Kenzo in shock, "What? I thought you're dead?" he squawked, "What about your hand?" he asked in confusion.

"Here it is!" Eddy presented before showing his left hand and then using it to slap Kenzo's face once more, "I can't believe this guy." he said with a chuckle while the rest began to snicker.

And despite the crazy situation, Nanoha can't help but giggle at the gang's antics.

Later that evening, we see everyone gathered around the living room and surprisingly, Aka is with them though she is still tied on a chair.

"Why do we always had to gather around the living room for every meeting?" Randy Cunningham questioned rhetorically.

Marcus then sets up a whiteboard, "It's better here than the bathroom..." he replied sarcastically before turning to Randy with a horrified look, "Huh? Could it be that you want to hold the meeting in the bathroom!" he pointed out.

"Like hell!" Randy yelled back.

"By the way..." Eddy spoke while jabbing a thumb at Aka, "... should she really be here?" he questioned.

"Well... we just can't let her stay around right next to a suspicious man." Yoshika Miyafuji answered.

"Just to let you know that this girl is suspicious too." Vita reminded.

"Also... what happened to that guy?" Akane Isshiki asked while referring to Kenzo.

"Oh! He's back to sweet unconsciousness after I smashed his head with jar of pee." Marcus replied with a calm smile.

"What's up with you and that jar?!" Taro Yamada retorted.

"Marcus! Can't you at least try using a different method of putting someone to sleep." Shamal scolded.

"I would love to use the table but I figured that it's too much for his head." Marcus reasoned.

Wakaba Saegusa stared at the blue-haired troublemaker in disbelief, "Marcus... I have no idea what to say with that..." she uttered.

"Okay! We're getting off track here." Signum interjected, "Are we going to start the meeting or what?" she asked.

"Of course!" Marcus complied when his face turned serious, "Thanks to that guy, we finally discovered the truth behind the death of Nodoka's parents." he revealed.

Nodoka Takehara is taken aback by this, "R-really?" she asked while Aka stared at her in shock, she had no idea that Nodoka's parents were dead.

"That man killed your parents and there's no denying that but it turns out that he wasn't actually a relative to the executive who was poisoned, he was just hired to act as one." Marcus explained.

"What!?" Fate Testarossa Harlaown gasped in shock.

Nanoha nodded, "The man confessed that his boss was responsible for everything, from the executive's poisoning to Nodoka's parents' assassination." she stated.

"Who is his boss?" Duncan Nelson inquired.

"Mayaka Takehara." Marcus answered with a solemn expression, "The current owner of the Takehara Corps. and Nodoka's aunt." he added.

Nodoka's eyes widen in shock, "N-no... no way..." she muttered.

"Are you sure about this?" Panooki Zarrya asked in concern.

Nanoha nodded, "According to our captive, Mayaka is jealous of her older brother, Akio Takehara, after their father's inheritance was given to him." she began, "Mayaka wanting the inheritance to herself, decided to frame Nodoka's father by poisoning a very important executive and ordered our captive to assassinate her father while posing a relative of the important executive." she explained.

"But despite that, she knows that Nodoka's mother, Sanae Takehara, would have receive the inheritance, so she had her added to the crime and had her assassinated as well." Marcus furthered, "Supposedly, Nodoka would have the inheritance to herself but Mayaka managed to convince the rest of their family members to transfer the inheritance to her while Nodoka was left with nothing except for her parents' savings." he concluded.

"Oh my God..." Javelin uttered in horror.

"Horrible!" Fate cried out in anger, "That's utterly horrible!" she shouted.

"Greed and jealousy really pushes one person to the wrong direction." Ichigo Kurosaki uttered in disgust, "We all know that but this one is just too much." he pointed out.

"Any more info?" Zafira pressed on.

Marcus took a deep sigh, "This is going to be a real shocker but Mayaka want Nodoka dead as well." he revealed.

"What!?" Panooki gasped.

"She already had the inheritance to herself!" Edwin "Ed" Horace Williams pointed out, "Why does she want Nodoka dead as well!?" he asked in confusion.

"Either she wants no one getting on her way or she wants Nodoka gone for good." Vita assumed.

Marcus shook his head, "Probably the latter but who knows for sure." he replied.

Nodoka then stood up from her seat, "I... I... I need to be alone..." she uttered, "T-This... this is too much for me to take in..." she admitted.

Marcus nodded, "All right." he complied.

And with that, Nodoka made her way out of the living room while everyone watches her walk away with concern looks. Meanwhile, Aka, whom was silent all this time, could only stare at Nodoka's retreating form with worried looks.

Hayate Yagami looks down sadly, "I can't believe that her own relative would do something like this." she muttered in shock.

"Just like what Ichigo said..." Geraldo spoke, "Greed and jealousy really pushes one person to the wrong direction." he stated, "I've been there before and it's not pretty." he admitted.

"I agree with you." Ms. Fortune said in agreement.

Everyone stayed in silence for a minute until Hayate spoke again, "Is that all you got from you're interrogation with that man?" she pointed out.

"Actually..." Marcus uttered, "... there's one more thing that he told us." he added.

"What is it?" Mumbo asked.

"The Dark Forces are in this city..." Marcus answered, "... and they're planning something bad." he revealed.

bzzzttt...

Somewhere in Uminari City, we head inside the building of the Takehara Corporation where we see Flirtare and Squall Meusel walking down the halls.

"Looks like our work is in full hands in this city." Squall mused.

Flirtare smirked, "I believe so..." he said in agreement, "I always thought that we only need to deal with the little drill girl but it turns out that the entire New Age Avengers along with this TSAB group are present in this city." he pointed out before shrugging his shoulders, "Oh well... where's the fun without them." he admitted.

The two then proceeds to enter a large room and inside is filled with crudely drawn creatures locked inside numerous cages.

"Oh~ Arisu~" Flirtare cooed.

"Hai~" a preppy voice replied as a girl came out from one corner, "What does Arisu Nightmare can do for the two of you?" she asked with a bright-demonic smile.

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Arisu Nightmare

Arisu is a young girl with a long hair with several black, pink & white strands that is tied in pigtails, she had red eyes with stars and she had shark-like teeth. She wears red & blue blazer jacket over a blue dress shirt, she wears a red skirt, black leggings and red boots with ribbons.

"We were just wondering how many Nightmares have you collected this far?" Squall asked with a smile.

Arisu giggled in response, "Ooh... there are tons of them, that I've lost count!" she cheered, "Why you ask?" she asked while tilting her head to the side.

"We'll initiating Phase Two of our plans." Flirtare spoke, "Sooner or later, Takehara Corporation will soon fall into chaos." he presumed, "And during that... our friends we'll be having the time of their lives." he declared with a sadistic smile.

A/N: Inspired from someonestupED, damnlastwords, Jamesdean5842, Hope the Victor and Ace Neptune. All OCs and concepts not created by moi were given permission for me to use by it's respected creators.