I do not own Kill la Kill in any form. This is a work of fanfiction.
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Chapter 26: syrup coating
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Credit to WolveHulk for inspiration with this chapter.
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Gamagori's assault team had reached their target school of Kami-Kobe, and begun lining up for the attack. They were not surprised to be met with resistance rather quickly, in the form of the Armed American Football Corps, who were all decked out in protective gear. Gamagori stood among the Honnoji students, ready for an attack at any moment. Both schools were attempting to face each other down, coming to an old school 'Mexican standoff'. "So, did you guys come all the way out here to just stare at how badass we are?" Armed Faction Representative Kyuji Obayashi chuckled.
"Hardly. Much like the other schools, we are not leaving without the deed to the school." Gamagori barked back.
"Is this all you really brought?"
"This is merely the first wave. Rest assured, we have another company sized force waiting. Now, in accordance with Lady Satsuki's wishes, I am to give you the opportunity to surrender once, and only once. What say you?"
"Surrender just isn't our style. We'd rather stand and fight."
Gamagori cracked a smile at his response. "I like your spirit. Refusing to stand down and choosing to fight is what I'd hoped you would want to do. This should be a good fight.
All of the Honnoji students in the first and second columns readied themselves, almost like a phalanx formation. They took out small rulebooks with the Honnoji symbol on them and started throwing them at the Kami-Kobe students, which cut them all over like blades. Obayashi signaled the second defensive line forward, and they were oddly enough, wearing large cuts of meat. The Honnoji students readied another salvo of rulebooks and threw them. When they would hit the steaks, they stopped cold. "Haha, you like our non-explosive, non reactive armor? Your rulebooks don't stand a chance of hitting us."
"Pincer formation, go!" Gamagori shouted.
Students rushed along both the right and left flanks of the Honnoji students, running to bottle the Kami-Kobe students in. The American Football Corps matched their move and sent students up the flanks and they clashed, bodies from both sides going flying. Before too long, Obayashi had everyone clear a path up the middle, and Armed Faction Deputy Rep Kenta Sakuramiya drove up an American M103A2 Heavy tank which was covered in steaks as well. He opened by ordering the gunner to aim at the Honnoji line. "Rulebooks ready!" Gamagori called out.
Honnoji students on the first and second columns produced rulebooks that expanded to form human sized shields. The M103A2 fired, the HEAT (high explosive, anti-tank) round detonating on contact with the shields. When the smoke cleared, the Honnoji line stood firm, unfazed by the round. Next, they fired an armor piercing round at them. The hardened steel spike bounced off and flew back at the tank, striking by one of the external fuel tanks, igniting the fuel vapors and making the fuel tanks rupture. The Kami-Kobe students abandoned the burning tank and started to fall back. Feeling the need to show off, Gamagori produced a small rulebook and threw it at the tank, aiming it down the barrel of the gun. The rulebook slipped through the barrel and bounced around until it struck one of the warheads for the gun, making all of the ammunition and powder charges cook off at the same time, blowing the turret apart. The force of the explosion knocked a few students around, from both sides.
All of the confusion allowed Honnoji students to flood in and start taking the school from the inside. Eventually, the school was captured and Gamagori declared his team's assault a victory.
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Jakuzure's assault on Abekamo Academy was going according to plan, aside from the fact that Mako was helping them. The regular music department was using their sonic instruments to cause severe structural damage, and some of them were engaging Abekamo students as they rushed out to defend the building. Mako had made her way to the perch of Saburo Seiryu, striking him on the forehead hard enough to both knock him out and leave 'Mako' imprinted backwards on his forehead from her engraved knuckles. "Damn, girl, where do you get your energy from?" Jakuzure pondered with a smile.
The continued sonic assault on the building caused part of it to collapse. Luckily, the section that collapsed had been abandoned when the attack began. The barrier started to fade, the other two student council members unable to maintain the energy required. Seeing that they couldn't keep up the fight, Taro and Jiro started to flee. Taro was blown out of the building by a powerful strike from Mako's spiked bat. He rolled to a stop, unconscious. Jiro was cornered by Honnoji students and made to walk back out to the courtyard. He immediately surrendered.
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After finishing up at Kami-Kobe and leaving a small occupation force at the school, Gamagori took the rest of his assault team to Osaka. There was little need to, but he took them anyway, as he was under orders from Satsuki. The fight between Ryuko and Takarada continued, his golden crab suit surprisingly quick for its size and weight. When Takarada turned to strike at Satsuki again, Ryuko became enraged and charged him with lightning speed. She swiped her sword so fast, the shockwave wasn't apparent for a couple of seconds. She hit her target, which was the legs on the right side of the suit. Takarada didn't think he had been hit, since the strike came so fast. He went to move the suit and the legs fell from under the shifting weight of the crab suit. Ryuko aggressively slashed away at the suit, cutting it to pieces with ease. She cut until only a small portion remained around him. She was about to stab straight down and finish him off, but Satsuki told her to stop. "Okay, hold on now. We just came here for the school, we didn't come here to kill anyone."
"Hmm, okay. But only because you say so." Ryuko responded, putting her blade away.
Satsuki ordered some of the arriving students to take Takarada into custody. Once he was ferried away, Ryuko rejoined her fiance. The relative peace and quiet they were sharing was soon shattered by multiple, rapid explosions. Satsuki gave Ryuko a wink, signaling her about the plan they had formed. "What the hell was that?" Ryuko asked.
"Seems like the secondary attack is happening." Satsuki answered.
"What secondary attack?"
The ground erupted and Jakuzure flew up into the air and started hovering over the others. "Hey, Lady Satsuki! Their base is destroyed!" Jakuzure said so Satsuki could hear her.
Ryuko tried to look confused for the sake of the plan. "What base? What's going on here?"
"The Nudist Beach base. Their local base has been taken care of."
Ryuko, Satsuki and Jakuzure were all in on it. Jakuzure knew what to strike to make the attack seen successful but not enough to destabilize the structure, and both Satsuki and Ryuko were planning a staged fight to draw attention to themselves, the whole time another team was secretly moving supplies and resources in through another entrance. "Nudist Beach is all my guys! Why are they coming under fire?" Ryuko blurted out.
"Calm down, Ryuko. This is necessary."
"Necessary my ass! What did they do to us?"
Satsuki drew her sword. "Ryuko, it was necessary. Calm down, unless you feel like you can fight me into changing my mind."
Ryuko drew her sword and pointed it at Satsuki, who activated Kamui Junketsu and pointed her sword back at Ryuko. "If that's what it'll take..."
Both ladies shot towards each other and their blades clashed, the sound loud enough to break glass. They steadily slashed at each other, intentionally striking so they only barely broke the skin but not deep enough to hit anything vital. With one powerful strike, Satsuki knocked the blade out of Ryuko's hand and over past Gamagori. Mako saw the fight and ran over, grabbing Ryuko's sword. Gamagori stood in front of her, blocking her path. Mako and Gamagori were both unaware of the plan, but they were acting as was thought they would. Jakuzure landed next to Mako, just as she was about to start carrying Ryuko her sword. "Mankanshoku, what do you think you're doing?" Gamagori inquired.
"I don't know what's going on, but I don't think Ryuko should be fighting without this." Mako replied.
Meanwhile, the staged fight continued. Ryuko was aptly blocking and dodging the planned misses, until she managed to take Satsuki's sword. In the process, she knocked Satsuki off her feet. "Have I convinced you enough?" Ryuko asked.
"Lady Satsuki, don't worry. We'll be there to help, as soon as this ape gets out of the way." Jakuzure said, arousing Gamagori's ire.
"Mankanshoku, Lady Jakuzure, I suggest you stand down and leave them to it."
"No!" Mako spat out.
"Mankanshoku, don't make me-"
"Don't make you what?" Jakuzure interrupted.
"I was going to say discipline."
"You won't lay a hand on her." Jakuzure growled.
Gamagori raised his hand to strike them. At the same time, Mako and Jakuzure jumped up and team punched Gamagori in the face, knocking him over and allowing them to run to Ryuko and Satsuki's position.
Just as they ran up, Ryuko was helping Satsuki get up. "You okay?" Ryuko asked.
"Yes. Looks like everything went off without a hitch." Satsuki answered.
She gave Satsuki her sword back and they both powered down their Kamui. Mako handed Ryuko her sword and she put it away. "Were you two really fighting?" Mako asked.
"It was all staged, all part of the plan." Ryuko told her. "Sorry you had to be left out of the circle like that."
Jakuzure powered down and took Mako's hand and kissed it. "I'm sorry for not telling you about it. Can you forgive me?"
"Yes. It was part of the plan, so it's not like you wanted to hide anything."
