Tucker looked between Kaede and the soldier Kaede had called Tomoe.
"Wait, you know this guy!" Tucker exclaimed.
"WE know this guy. He's the asshole who led those bullies against me when we were kids. He's the one who personally beat my dog to death!" Kaede explains.
"You're THAT asshole?!" Tucker shouts to him.
"Quite the mouth you have, Kaede." Tomoe remarks.
"No mouth. I vaguely remember scaring you assholes so hard, I could see the shot stains in your pants." Tucker bites back.
"I see." Tomoe growls. "You're him. She's had you assholes that far back."
Nana looks back and forth between the two party's, not knowing what to say.
"Besides, from what I hear the little things I did simply to pass the time are nothing compared to what you plan to do." Tomoe continues.
"Ugh." Kaede groans. "Would you people stop talking like I know what your talking about and just speak plainly?!"
"And risk more of your soldiers, or worse yet, Diclonius arriving to help you? I think we're done talking." Tomoe aims his gun at Tucker and fires, a shot that is easily deflected by Kaede.
"Yes we are." Kaede hurls her vectors at him but Nana's own vectors intercept hers.
"I'm not going to let you kill him!" Nana declares. Kaede was about to deny she was going to kill him before realizing that's exactly what she was planning to do. She shook her head to get her mind off those thoughts... and the DNA voice and mentally reassessed herself to one of defending Tucker. Tomoe was a bully, but that's all he is, Kaede wouldn't kill him if she could help it, even if the jerk really deserved it.
Seeing Nana go after Kaede, Tomoe opened fire on Tucker, hopeing to get him out of the way quickly. To his surprise, Tucker used his sword to block his bullets. The two parties ran for cover as Tomoe laid down covering fire for himself.
Meanwhile, Kaede blocked an attack from Nana, sending her skidding back a few feet. She instinctively took out her pistol and fired, aiming for Nana's legs. The shots were easily deflected, but it bought her enough time to charge Nana and get up close again. The two brawled it out with their vectors where Kaede found hers were physically stronger than her opponents. As she held Nana off, she started forming a plan.
Elsewhere, Aiko and Mayu scurried down the back streets of Kamakura along with Donut and Lopez as the soldiers chased them.
"Ah! What do we do?!" Donut cried.
"Nosotros podriamos pelear." Lopez suggests.
"Lopez, now isn't the time to wonder what the school looks like." Donut lightly chides.
"Oh vamos. Tenemos armas y todavía tengo mi armadura ya que no me la puedes quitar." Lopez reminds them. "Se están metiendo con López la pesada... perra."
"Doesn't Lopez have that bullet proof armour that worked for Sarge?" Aiko questions.
"¡Gracias!" Lopez cries out. Gunshots start flying, closest to the two soldiers. "Al diablo esto." Lopez says before taking out his own pistol and charging at their pursuers. The soldiers swiftly take cover and fire on Lopez, but their shots just harmlessly plink off of him. He fired at the soldiers, each shot hitting its mark, and just like that, the troop marching after them was dead.
Donut gasped. "Lopez, you saved us!"
"Por razones más allá de mi comprensión." Lopez replies.
"Thank you." Mayu bows respectfully towards him.
"We owe our lives to you." Aiko follows Mayu's example.
"De nada. Es bueno que te muestren algo de aprecio por una vez." Lopez replies.
"Yeah, pencils are great Lopez." Donut agrees.
"Mierda. Debería haberte dejado morir antes de saltar. Qué oportunidad perdida.." Lopez grumbles.
"Should we find the others?" Aiko asks. "They might have more of those soldiers chasing them and they don't have their armour like Lopez."
"Right, agents Donut, Lopez, Aiko, and Mayu to the rescue!" Donut exclaims.
"Me aseguraré de que nunca dejes este conflicto con vida." Lopez says to Donut.
Back with Kaede and Tucker, They has split off somewhat to fight their current opponents. Kaede for Nana and Tucker for Tomoe, though the two were still in visual range of the other two.
"Why do you fight with him?" Kaede asks Nana as she sidesteps a vector swipe from her.
"Because papa told me too." Nana answers as she deflects an attack from the Queen Diclonius.
"So you just do as you're told without questioning what is right or wrong!" Kaede exclaims, deflecting an attack from Nana and sending another two vectors her way.
"Papa told me what you will do! I can't let you do it!" Nana exclaimed, yawing her vectors to propel herself away from Kaede's attack, giving her her range advantage.
"You people keep talking like I'm going to do something bad! I was just walking! I was just walking when you found me the other day!" Kaede yells back to her.
Nana stops attacking to consider Kaede's words. 'It's like she really doesn't know.' She thinks. 'Could... could what everyone says be wrong?' Before Che can think more on this, she shakes her head. 'No! She's just trying to distract me. I have to catch her, for papa's sake.' She attacks again.
Tucker isn't having it easy as Tomoe puns him down and attempts to find a way through Tuckers sword. If it weren't for his quick reflexes, Tucker would have been shot by now. He learned to fight with his sword, but he wasn't as adept in blocking with it.
"You bring a futuristic sword to the fight but a gun is beyond you?" Tomoe taunts with a smirk.
"Maybe a gun's too primitive for me." Tucker smirks "It's cute watching you play with your old toy." Tomoe snarls and unleashes another hail of bullets which Tucker blocks until he runs outta ammo. "Also, mine doesn't run outta ammo." (It does, But Tucker's never seems to, so we're gonna pretend it doesn't) Tomoe angrily throws his gun away and takes out his combat knife and pistol.
"You're asking for it, bastard." Tomoe says.
He fires the pistol only for the shot to be blocked, he the heads in for a stab but Tucker grabs his arm. Now in ideal position, Tucker swings his sword, but Tomoe maneuvers away from it despite having his arm caught. Tucker thinks to cut off the brats arm, but he fires a shot close to hitting Tucker's arm causing him to instinctively let go. He fires another three shots only for them to again be blocked.
As Kaede and Nana continue to fight, the two become more aggressive in their blows in a desperate attempt to off the other.
"Yes. Keep going. Once this defiant one is out of the way, kill the ones she cane with, especially Tomoe" Kaede could hear. "Make him suffer before he dies."
"No." Kaede mumbles in defiance of the voice. This briefly throws her concentration off allowing Nana to easily force half of her vectors back with an upcoming blow, the force turns Kaede on her right foot when, in an act of desperation, she sifts her vectors to all attack Nana to her left at full force. The resulting attack blows Nana away.
Tucker closes the distance and swings his sword freely, causing Tomoe to take evasive maneuvers. Seeing this, Tucker doubles down on his offensive strategy,'eventually slicing through Timor's knife.
"Heh. Just proves bigger is better." Tucker quips. He then swings again resulting in screaming as his victim fell to the ground with their left arm and leg severed. Looking up, Tomoe seems just fine. Taking a moment to look at who he cut through, he finds the prone form of Nana, withering in pain on the ground.
"Oh my God." Tucker says with genuine concern.
"Useless Diclonius." Tomoe spits meanwhile. Kaede approaches the scene to cover her gaping mouth with her hands in horror of what she was partially responsible for.
"Ah, ah, ah, papa! Please help me papa." Nana said among her laboured breaths.
Soon, Simmons came out of no where.
"Come on guys, we ran off or killed all the other soldiers. We have to go!" He drags the two along with him and away from the scene. Tomoe can only watch, unable to do anything while out numbered 2 plus a Diclonius and low on pistol ammo. And just like that, the three disappeared from sight.
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