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Last time on Tekkaman Z!
Takaya temporarily can't Tek-Set because of Drano! Meanwhile, Galt launches the Mechatama II ballistic missile towards the Space Knight Command Center! Saber successfully Voltekkers Axe, but just because the basket was made doesn't mean the inning is over!
*Axe shatters Saber's faceplate*
Will Shinya be all right?
Axe: "Shinya no baka… Oreno kachida!"
Or will he be sent to the next dimension?
We'll find out today, on…
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Tekkaman Z
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Episode 3: Tension Rising
By: Kajitani Eizan
Setting: Around 7:30 PM, Space Knight Command Center.
Miyuki Meter: 68 hours remaining.
"How does it feel, traitor?" mocked Axe. "How does it feel to have the wrath of Axe jammed into your throat?"
"K…k…" Saber choked, desperately trying to breathe. He weakly grasped Axe's arm, trying to push it away, but it was to no avail. He felt his mind start to fog up…his vision began to blur…he felt dizzy and disoriented…
Sumimasen…Takaya…
The vision of the 'wrath of Axe' faded to black as Saber gave up his struggle to stay conscious.
"Shin-e…Shinya."
Axe savagely withdrew his weapon, allowing Saber to freefall.
***
"Oh yeah!" exclaimed Takaya. "TiTiLiCIOUS, right there!"
"Shimatta…" groaned Aki. "Is that even a word?"
The two were playing Periodic Table ScrabbleTM in the rec room. This was quite a challenging game; it played like normal Scrabble except that element symbols were used on the holographic game pieces instead of letters.
Aki placed some pieces on the board. "Ha! ClONeWArSISGaY! Beat that!"
Hmm… thought Takaya. I can't lose to her; she'll make me 'pleasure' her, and of course Miyuki will be dead long before Aki's satisfied…damn it…Wait! I know!
"Oh! HIKOSeIJURo right there!" yelled Takaya, placing his pieces on the board.
"Dammit!" cursed Aki. I KNEW I should have convinced Jamison not to name his element Jamisonium…and O'Rourke just HAD to call his element Rourkium…I was looking forward to being able to force Takaya to spend hours and hours just massaging and sucking my—
"Earth to Aki!" called Takaya, waving his hand in front of Aki's face. Aki blinked. "I won! And you know what that means…"
Aki groaned. "But Takaya, I HATE doing that! It's so…nasty…especially when…"
Takaya grinned like an idiot. "Don't worry, it's not as if I'd make you lick the underside or anything nasty like that…"
Aki gave him the finger and began her job.
***
"Attention Space Knights!" barked Axe. Jamison glared up at the viewscreen, which contained the image of the menacing green Tekkaman.
"I'll never give in to your—" started Jamison.
"Shut up," growled Axe. Jamison shut up. "As you have all witnessed, I have incapacitated Saber. Although you may be able to save him by rushing him to your medical facilities, I won't let you do that." He paused. "However, I might be willing to let you save him…for a price."
Jamison groaned. "What do you want, you bastard?"
Axe chuckled. "You will give Blade to me, along with his crystal, which you will place in a separate container. I sense through the Tek-net that he is currently unable to Tek-set." He paused, pleased with his rhyme. "You must also give me Miyuki. If you do this, I will spare Saber and your base—for now."
"I cannot make such a trade," stated Jamison. "What do you think I am, stupid?"
"Yes."
"Shut up…that was a rhetorical question."
Axe chuckled. "Well then, I guess I should Voltekker your base and be off."
"Last time, you missed," pointed out Jamison. "And even if you didn't, our shields would have protected us from most of the damage."
"But last time, I was at a distance and was totally hammered," said Axe. "That was all the way back in the last episode. But how well would your shields hold up against a Voltekker fired at point-blank range?"
Jamison gasped. "No…the Zero Voltekker…"
"Yes," stated Axe. "And there's nothing you can do about it."
Jamison lowered his head. We're doomed… he thought, depressed. Unless the Allied Military saves us… He raised his head toward the heavens. Please, God, let the Allied Military—
Suddenly, looking at the viewscreen, he had an idea.
***
Aki sighed. She was about halfway through her job.
"Yes, more," said Takaya. "Keep going."
"Do I have to?" she pleaded.
"Yeah…that's the way…I like it," sang Takaya. He kinda liked the song, even though it was two hundred years old.
She continued to scrub the toilets in the bathrooms. She hated this job. It was so nasty. Especially when a lardass like Mac used the toilet and stank up the whole place.
"Can't we afford a janitor?" she whined.
"No," Takaya replied, "not since you almost killed the last one. The company refused to let us hire any more janitors unless we paid triple the price."
"So why don't you do it?" asked Aki, scrubbing away at the underside of the bowl.
"I do," he said. "We work on rotation, but since you're female, hotshot Ringo cheerfully volunteered for me to fill your timeslot. You're going to make up that time, and then some."
He studied her, watching her scrub.
"Why don't you lick the underside?" he mocked.
"Shut up!"
***
"Shunt all shield power to the lasers!" shouted Jamison.
Everyone stared at him, then the viewscreen, then him again. Suddenly, there was a flurry of activity as everyone rushed around to perform the command.
Axe laughed. "Trying to go out in a blaze of glory, are we? Well, I can easily dodge your pathetic lasers."
Yes, that's it, thought Jamison. Keep boasting and laughing. Just wait until you figure out what we're really doing…
Laser turrets popped out of the ground as the shields dropped. The gunners manned their stations and aimed carefully. Very carefully.
"FIRE!" yelled Jamison.
***
The young woman lay in bed with her blond lover, basking in the afterglow. The last twenty minutes or so had been marvelous; the two had shared passionate kisses, the contact between their bodies heightening the experience even more so. And then they had merged into one being, a being that perpetually felt ecstasy even without the use of ecstasy. Or something.
The woman rolled over to kiss the blond man next to her. "I think we had better get up…"
The blond man flashed her a smile. "Well, how about we go to a restaurant for dinner?"
"Sure, I'd love to," replied Miss Kisaragi with a smile, "but later. There's something I gotta do right now."
"Okay, then, see you later," the blond man said as she walked out of the room.
Wait a second… "Wait!" called the man. "Didn't you forget your clothes?"
Miss Kisaragi jumped back into the room, her face beet-red. One quick change later, she left the room again.
***
Axe chuckled as he lazily dodged the weak lasers that sailed toward him. The yellow-white beams of energy sizzled by him, occasionally hitting an errant bird that had the misfortune of being in the way. ZAP! Another avian creature fell from the sky in a black flurry of feathers.
These creatures look so beautiful when they fall, thought Axe. Maybe I can eat them after I obliterate this pathetic Command Center. They look well done. I just wish the Center would run out of power already…although I can dodge the lasers up here, I can't get much closer. They'd actually be able to hit me. Only a little more time…
Jamison clenched and unclenched his fists over and over again. He was staring at the viewscreen, waiting. Watching.
Only a little more time, he prayed. Just a little more…
***
Takaya walked back towards the rec room. "Man, I was in there a long time," he complained. "I coulda been out in five minutes, but no, I just HAD to find a really interesting ten page article on the news console…"
He glanced at a wall clock. It read 8:20 PM. "Damn, was I really in there for half an hour? Well, Aki must be done with her work…I guess she'll just have to clean the one I had just used later…"
To Takaya's surprise, Aki was still scrubbing away. "Say, Aki," he asked, "shouldn't you have been done by now?"
Aki sweated. She didn't want him to know the REAL reason she was not done…
"Um…I went out to eat…" she fibbed. Wow, that's a lame excuse…
Takaya raised an eyebrow. "In the middle of a janitorial duty?"
"Er…well…yeah…"
Takaya narrowed his eyes. "Aki…have you been cheating on me?"
"Why would you think a thing like that, Takaya?" Aki replied innocently.
"Oh, nothing, it was just a joke," Takaya fabricated. "Haha!"
"Right…"
"Well then, I'll see you later," Takaya called as he walked out the door to grab dinner from the medical ward. "I should be resting anyway."
After closing the door behind him, Takaya briskly walked toward the infirmary. Hmm… he thought. She says she's not cheating on me, but then who was that in the scene before the last? And who could that blond guy have possibly been…?
***
"I tire of this!" shouted Axe.
"Well be patient a little longer, dammit!" mumbled Jamison.
"Excuse me?"
Oops! thought Jamison. Did I say that out loud?
"Yes, you did," replied Axe.
"Dammit!"
"Anyway, as I was saying, I just realized I can just Voltekker you from up here; your shields are down! Have a nice day!" With that, Axe began to charge up his Voltekker cells in preparation for a massively destructive Ascendant Voltekker, a new technique taught to him by Omega.
I wonder why Omega didn't teach any of this before, thought Axe. Why the hell did he wait until Saber defected to bestow the damn thing instead of letting Dagger use it to kill Blade?
"Okay, I'm ready!" shouted Axe.
Oh shit, thought Jamison. He paused. Okay, good, I'm not saying this out loud. Damn, I just need to delay him for ten more seconds…I know!
"ASCENDANT VOL—"
"Axe!" interrupted Jamison. "Do you know what time it is?"
Hmm…I forgot my watch again… thought Axe.
Out loud, he said, "No. What time is it?"
Jamison smirked. "It's 8:27 PM."
Suddenly, the viewscreen was filled with a bright white light, and milliseconds later, a deafening roar was heard. The Space Knight personnel shielded their eyes.
"NOOOOOOO…" screamed Axe as his body was ripped to pieces and vaporized by the Mechatama II ballistic missile.
Finally, the Space Knight personnel looked up to the viewscreen to see only a bright blue sky filled with hope. The birds flew across it, the symbol of victory in the grand standoff between Axe and the Command Center. New beginnings promised to—
"Oh, shut the fuck up," someone said.
Suddenly, everyone burst into cheers and hugged each other. Jamison struggled to get away from Maggie, who couldn't seem to hug him enough.
"Sir, your plan to delay Axe with the lasers worked perfectly!" congratulated Tina.
Somehow, thought Jamison, recalling his dramatic line, that wasn't as effective as it was when Blade said it…
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Next time on Tekkaman Z!
Is Aiba Shinya really dead? Who was that blond guy? On a completely unrelated note, what's Ringo up to?
Will Takaya ever regain his ability to Tek-set?
Takaya One Episode into the Future: "TEK-SETTA!"
Will the Aiba boys be able to stand up to their greatest adversary yet…Bulma's tea? Next time on Tekkaman Z!
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End Chapter 3
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