Powerslave Part 3:
The Stand Powerslave used in this chapter is the creation of the Youtuber Purmello.
In the holding cell room, Shizuka was being confronted by the police chief about the unconscious bodies on the floor. He glanced back and saw the crowd of his subordinates, eagerly staring him down. He winced and swept off his forebrow. "The ambulance will be here in just a few minutes. Why are these cops unconscious?" He asked Shizuka. The Sundays had targeted some specific brain cells and zapped the electric signals out of them, but Shizuka realized that "a ghost performed advanced brain surgery" would not help her out.
So, with nearly the entire police department staring at her for an answer, Shizuka decided to play dead. She fell limp to the ground and closed her eyes. "Oh, god, someone, call another ambulance!" The chief opened her cell and crouched down to check Shizuka's pulse. Shizuka left an illusion on the floor, but stood up as invisible and sneaked out.
The crowd of cops were blocking her way, so she simply created an illusion of herself strangling the police chief, and they all ran into the cramped cell in order to save him and hopefully score a promotion. Shizuka. joyfully skipped out of the room and down the hallway, hoping to find Mello. "Jesus, this fucking cop was a real pain to handle. But, me and Mello will be able to…
The shock felt like a punch to the stomach. Before Shizuka's eyes, Mello was being carried away by the ambulance, his head cracked open and his eyes frozen still. Despair, sorrow, and thanks to Cicierega carefully having stalked her, self-hatred drowned Shizuka.
"No. No, it can't be.I'm stupid. So stupid! How did I ever think I could challenge Hellstrom! If I hadn't tried…If I hadn't tried, he wouldn't have been dead. Maybe if I turn myself in, Hellstrom will spare my father." Shizuka turned herself visible, but kept her tears unnoticed, and held her hands in the air. A cop immediately rushed forward and handcuffed her.
Cicierega hummed a bit on "Born in the USA" while taking a nice long sip of his coffee. The plan had gone exactly as intended. Mello was taken away in an ambulance that was going to be crashed into the ocean, thanks to it's mysteriously insane driver, and Shizuka had been mentally crushed, so she was no longer an obstacle. Hellstrom's main enemies, both out of the way! Maybe he would finally be turned into a vampire, and grow beyond human.
Cicierega lifted the cup to his mouth, but then smashed it into the ground.. A hellish pain shrieked in his head and his body felt like it was pumped full of sawdust. Unable to withstand the pain he collapsed into a quivering heap on the ground, to the shock and confusion of his coworkers. Cicierega quickly spotted the problem: all Mello's pain had been stored into a Bloody Sunday that currently had his ankle in a death grip. Which meant Mello was conscious in the ambulance.
Cicierega sent Powerslave directly into his own nervous system and removed any thoughts and desires of wanting to escape the pain, creating a synthetic grit which allowed Cicierega to move. He stretched over and grabbed his cellphone, and with trembling fingers he put in Mello's number.
The ambulance broke every speed limit as it's insane driver hurled it down the street. "Dr. Feelgood" rang out from Mello's pocket. "Nurse, if I move I might spill more blood. Could you hold up the phone?" Mello weezed. When she did, Cicierega's roar nearly shook the phone out of her hand. "You bastard! You think you're going to get away with this? God gave me the gift to force any criminal into a confession! You truly believe that you can rebel against absolute justice?"
"Cut the bullshit. It's not very hard to predict that the driver is going to crash the car. Erase the effect on him, and I'll get rid of the pain on you." Mello was ice cold. Cicierega's pride wanted to say no, but he gave in. "The girl is still in my trap, you know. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty." Cicierega whispered with pure animosity. The ambulance swiftly slowed down, and the pain lifted from Cicierega. He laid down to catch his breath and for a few seconds, he felt wonderfully calm.
"Mello! It's going tohurt, but try to stop it!" Cicierega's anger burst forth anew when Shizuka called out, when he realized that the girl had heard the entire conversation. Knowing that Mello was alive would undo all her despair! He was not, no, he could not let her escape!
Shizuka was tired of mind-games, so she just had Achtung head-butt the cop holding onto her and then break her handcuffs. She hastily had an illusion of the police chief chasing her down the corridor, and all the cops in the room followed after. Shizuka knew that she should probably escape, but she decided to take the opportunity to get some information. She walked over to Cicierega, who was still on the ground trembling after the shock of the pain.
"Well, we won. I might leave some parts of your face un-minced if you just tell us where Hellstrom is hiding." Cicierega felt an intense desire to strangle Shizuka, but his expression remained stoic. "Hellstrom is the pinnacle of strength, he is inherently superior. I could never betray him." Shizuka shrugged. "Well, I gave you the choice."
Achtung dove forth to kick the wounded Cicierega, but at the last second he bit Shizuka in the foot. "Arrrgh! You cocksucker!" She howled at the top of her lungs, attracting the attention of the cops that she had previously distracted. They came rushing into the room, confused and terrified as they in vain tried to find the invisible Shizuka.
Shizuka tried to get Cicierega off of her, but everytime she tried to kick him off he got even deeper into her foot. "Goddamnit! Get off!" Shizuka broke into a cold sweat as the other cops spread through the office. Eventually Cicierega let her go, since he had finished his attack.
Shizuka looked down to check on her foot, and when she saw seemingly empty space instead of her own body, her blood froze. Not seeing her own body, the sense of being unreal, made her feel nauseous in her very soul. She crouched behind a desk and turned visible.
"What did you do!?" She turned to Cicierega and kept herself from shouting. "I grew tired of your cowardly escape attempts, so when I was biting you, I attacked your brain directly and gave you a crippling fear of being invisible. If you turn invisible, the sheer disgust may very well give you a heart attack."
Shizuka had also grown tired, tired of Cicierega's constant tricks. She attached an illusion of herself to Cicierega, and shouted over to the cops. "Hey! I'm here!" While they tried to capture Cicierega, Shizuka escaped into the hallway. "Now I'm in the home stretch, Mello. This bastard is getting what's coming for him."
Though, Shizuka had gotten so used to being able to turn invisible, that she didn't think to sneak away. While the cops were split between which of the two copies of the same person to follow, Cicierega acted. In order to quickly control multiple cops, he sent Powerslave's signal through his coffee. The small amounts of liquid that got into their bodies contained one simple message. "Pursue the other one, and kill her."
Shizuka tried to escape through the police station but was ambushed and surrounded by three cops. They were large and burly, and their facial expressions didn't scream peace and harmony. Shizuka flash bombed them and got away, but the shouting all around her signaled that she was about to get swarmed. She needed to hide.
Cicierega was using the coffee trick on more and more cops, sending them to search for Shizuka and to block the exits. But the results were frustrating. Mindless drones were useful tools, but they were easy for Shizuka to trick. With a snappy motion he took out his cellphone and called his master.
"Yes, Cicierega? How is the girl doing?" "Master, I beg for your forgiveness. My men can't catch her, she is simply too slippery. If you could send in some of your prime soldiers, I will bring you a feast in criminal scum." "Hmmm, I wanted to save those for the big climax. But, it would be boring for the girl to constantly escape. They'll be on their way."
It was late evening, but the sun still shone. He called over some of his drones and changed their orders to follow him, before walking outside to the sewer drain. When the grid started to shake, they held out umbrellas, allowing the creature to sneak out protected from the sun. It was an odd mix of terrifying and beautiful. It's limbs were slender and muscular, it's face was so pale it shone, but looked forever undernourished, and it crawled along the ground with an incredible grace. It wasn't a full on vampire, but an especially strong zombie. It didn't have intelligence, but relied on animal instinct and a constant desire for blood.
Carefully keeping it under the shadows of the umbrellas, the cops led the creature into the station, and Cicierega bowed before it. "Please, oh mighty creature, find Shizuka Joestar and I shall give you my men's blood as a gift." Cicierega had planted an intense loyalty in his men, so they did not mind his horrific declaration. "Her blood has stained the carpet in the main office. You can follow it's trail." The creature hissed and ran off on all fours. But the search didn't last long.
A door to a janitor's closet materialized from thin air, and Shizuka stepped out of her hiding place right in front of Cicicerega and the vampire. "Ohohoho, you realize that this game is over? That you can't hope to compare to this magnificent creature?!" Shizuka nodded solemnly. "Yes, you're right. You truly outsmarted me. That creature would rip anything that bleeds into pieces, I simply don't stand a chance." Cicierega laughed even louder. "Yes! It's the prime example of a predator! The monster to usurp humans from their rule of the food chain! And as it's servant, it will give me incredible power!"
"Oh, it's truly brave of you to work as it's servant, since if you slip up for a second, it wouldn't hesitate to consume you." Cicierega continued to eat up the compliments. "Yes! Yes! But even so, being near it's godlike strength is enough for me!" Shizuka couldn't help but smile. "But, isn't it strange that it hasn't attacked me yet? Oh, and your next line is ´Huh?´" "Huh?" Cicierega stared at the zombie laying on the floor, eagerly licking it's lips but not attacking Shizuka. "Y-you're right! It should attack at the sight of your bleeding…"
Shizuka smugly showed off her foot. Using her laser, she had cauterized her wound and sealed it. "What it would probably prefer to my burnt wound is the fresh smell of your blood, sir." Shizuka laughed. Achtung Baby appeared from behind her, shooting it's laser into the vent. "Take a look at your wrist!"
Cicierega looked down, and his face turned pale when he saw a Bloody Sunday sneakily erasing the pain of Shizuka's laser burning through his wrist. "I've used a system of mirrors to attack you indirectly, and you were so focused on attacking me that you didn't even notice!" Before he could stop it, the laser cut through his skin and blood started pouring out. The zombie turned around at the smell of this new food source, and lunged towards Cicierega.
"No! Master!" But it ignored his cries stabbing into his stomach with it's long claws.
Shizuka stood back for a moment as the zombie brutally attacked Cicierega, before she sighed. "You deserve this, but I don't deserve to witness a murder." Achtung beat up the zombie with a sunlight-heated fist."ShizuShizuShizuShizuShizuShizuka!" It was sent flying into a wall, and crumbled into dust.
Three hours later, Shizuka was tapping her foot against the floor in the waiting room of the hospital that Mello had been placed at. It was past midnight, so the day of her final fight against Hellstrom had finally arrived. When Mello came walking down the hallway, completely healed without any bandages, she felt a strange mix of "Hell yes!" and "What the Fuck?"
Without a word Mello took a disgusting piece of flesh with slithering tentacles from his pocket. "Hellstrom healed me when I was knocked out. Seems he wants you to face him together with your companion." Shizuka laughed. "Well, let's give him what he wants!"
Oh boy, this one took a while! Especially since I had the entire previous chapter edited and everything but literally forgot to upload it (LOL). Well, It's finally here. The final arc of Achtung Baby Future.