Fanfic 11
Chapter 3
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SKREEEEEEEE!!
"Quickly, we must deploy the Seraph Units!"
The iron-grating hiss-squeal tore through the air all SKREEEEEEetc.- like, making the people inside the hidden underground science facility/slash/military base all hold their hands to their ears in pain and turn down the volume on their speakers.
"Roger! Get our pilots into those Seraphs!"
The man only known as Injiki sat in his chair at the top of the room, overlooking the people at the control panels and other computer-esque objects scurry frantically to input the correct commands that their jobs required. Injiki had a small smile on his face. It was almost time. The final trial for the Seraph Units. If all went well, then the Greatening could be accomplished without anything else needed. And the Greatening needed to be accomplished, because it was his life's work to accomplish the Greatening. Fuh-pah!
"Where is Kani? Why is he not in SU-0001?" Injiki said a bit whimsically, his hands rubbing together as if they were being controlled by something else that wasn't attached to him.
"He's still laying in bed and watching TV!" came the reply from his headset. "No response from his communicator!"
"Worthless child. GO GET HIM. If he does not pilot Seraph Unit 0001, then the encroaching alien threat will become too much for us to handle! And prep Seraph Unit 00038 as well, and get Rice in there, she needs to run pass-defense!!"
"Yes sir!"
"Ahh.." Injiki was happy, in a 'I'm kind of not like you, but that's okay because you'll all understand THE REALITY OF LIFE SOON' type of way. He was so close to his achievement... all he needed was his somewhat-useless step-son to pilot the fucking robot/[SPOILER] hybrid and beat up some fucking weird-ass aliens so everyone wouldn't FUCKING DIE. WAS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? HUH? ANYONE? God.
*****
Kani lay on his bed, in the darkness. In the adjoining room, the tv was on, sending small flickers of light into the OTHER adjoining rooms, not just into Kani's bedroom. Kani was a strange child, one that didn't like to do that much. Sure, he liked to sit in his room, and guesstimate on how much stuff other people did, and try to figure out why everything was SO DAMNED WORTHLESS IN THE END, but he wasn't *like* the other weird kids that you think about when you start thinking about that kind of thing. He didn't want to pilot the gigantic robot/[SPOILER] for BRIC, even though his step-dad really really really wanted him to. Kani thought for a moment on just how badly Injiki had wanted for him to get into that robot and save the city from a rampaging also- gigantic rampaging monster that was rampaging through the rampaged city that was getting rampaged on.
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"'Kani, get into Seraph Unit 0001. You can save the city,'" Injiki had been very adamant about his step-son's involvement, going so far as to give his aide a message to relay. Right then, Ratino, said aide, was trying to coax Kani out of one of the BRIC service closets with a bag of candy. "Really! Just try it!"
"Ehh," Kani ehh-ed, not even moving from his not-so-much-hiding- place. He didn't want to move, so indifferent to the situation was he.
"You... seem indifferent to the situation that we're in. Have you no opinion about it at all?"
From above ground, a great shaking was heard, and also felt, as the ground BELOW them shook as well with the force of a giant gross alien thingy stomping around up there on ground level and blowing shit up.
"Meh."
"DAMMIT KANI, DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE YOU FUCKING BRAT! GET OUT HERE AND SAVE OUR SORRY ASSES!"
"..."
"..er, I mean, 'I'll give you more batteries for your Walkman'. How does that sound?"
"..."
"...fine! I'm getting the janitor! Then HE will make you save humanity!"
---
Kani sighed a bit, but not that much, because he found himself unable to bring forth enough energy to put much feeling into it. The communicator next to his bed was beeping and beeping, and giving off some sort of weird sounds that seemed strangely familiar...
"-UCKING PUNK, WE'RE ALL GONNA GET VAPORIZED! YOUR ASS! HERE! GET! NOW!"
Ahh yes. Ratino. He was always concerned with Kani's well being, going so far as to let him live there while he went to school. Maybe he *should* go down to BRIC... it wouldn't be the first time. He still remembered when he initially was put into Seraph Unit 0001's cockpit and was ejected up to ground level to fight a big monster that was doing explosionistic things and had violentified tendencies.
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"Whoa DAMN, that thing's FUG-LY." Was the general consensus coming from Kani's radio speaker. All around him were electronics and thingies and two control sticks that assumably controlled the robot in some way, not that he knew because he had just been thrown into the cockpit and ejected up to ground level to fight a big monster that was doing explosionistic things and had violentified tendencies. He hadn't even read the user's manual yet. And it was almost 3,000 pages long.
Outside the Seraph Unit 0001, a big, giant, ugly, big, massively large monster-creature(don't worry, it was only as big as SU-0001) was stomping around like some big thing in a Godzilla movie, dealing destruction and whatnot, because that's what they do. It also looked like someone threw up some jambalaya onto a big blob of toxic waste. GROSS.
"Okay Kani," came Ratino's instructions from BRIC HQ a long ways under the ground. "All you have to do is use Seraph Unit 0001's controls, and kill the.. um... whatever that ungodly thing is. Okay? Good."
"Pfeh." Kani interjected, his head hanging down upon his chest and his entire body not even beginning to think about moving to follow those commands. Such pointlessness surrounded him. Why even try, when he would undoubtedly fail? He did not know, and therefore he didn't try to understand. He would not be able.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" came the yell from the speaker, right before sounds of a scuffle and more yelling. Ratino was a bit upset at the whole 'gonna die horribly' thing.
KROOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!
And then, before Kani could even think about not wanting or trying to react to anything around him, the monster, later labeled Jethro, shot forth a MIGHTY STREAM OF [CENSORED], causing Seraph Unit 0001 to COMPLETELY DISINTEGRATE COMPLETELY.
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Kani was lucky to have survived such an attack. Luckily, he wasn't killed, and woke up later in the hospital. He was fine, no injuries. Sigh. Like it mattered. His head lolled against his chest limply, his will to move totally not there. He didn't want to pilot the robot any more. There was no point.
"Okay, now just make sure to kill this one, or we're all boned."
One of Kani's eyes opened, and noted that he was sitting inside the cockpit of Seraph Unit 0001, and that the voice of Ratino was coming in through the speaker. Looks like his ambivalent musings overpowered the physical response that accompanied armed men busting into his room, carting him down to BRIC HQ, and throwing him into SU-0001. Such was life. Sigh.
*****
"Dammit, that little shit isn't moving again. What the hell did you do to him?"
Ratino's angry question reached the ears of Injiki, who didn't turn the small smile upon his face. Oh, they wouldn't understand what had been done when Kani was simply a mere child. Such things weren't in the comprehension of most. But the purpose he held was beyond that of anyone, even Injiki, and even though Kani still did not know, it mattered not. For it would serve itself just as well.
"Nothing. He's fine. What are his readings?"
"Readings are.. well, not high. Which doesn't fucking surprise me, seeing as how he's about as lifeless as my dic-- hey, wait."
Injiki's small smile widened, just a bit, like 2 millimeters in width and probably 3 in height. "What is it? Are his readings INCREASING?"
"Yeah, they are.. but he isn't moving! How... how can this be, he isn't even moving, and his readings are still moving up!"
"I feel I must tell you of the power of the Seraph Units, my friend. They have a potentiality to create immense power, but through conventional means it remains lost. It must tap into the inner self of the pilot who drives it. The Seraphs do not feed off emotion, though, as one might think. They feed off NO EMOTION."
"...er, pardon?"
"THEY RUN ON DISPASSION, ON LETHARGY, ON INDIFFERENCE! THE MORE UNFEELING, THE MORE UNEMTIONAL THE PILOT IS, THE STRONGER IT BECOMES!!" Injiki was raving at this point, yelling triumphantly from his chair, standing on the arm rests and shaking his fists in victory toward the dull grey ceiling above him. "THE MERE FACT THAT KANI IS SO LIFELESS IS BRINGING ABOUT THE AWESOME POWER THAT IT HOLDS! NOTHING CAN STOP IT!" It actually was very possible he had stopped talking to Ratino completely in the middle of that. Wouldn't surprise anyone.
"You're saying these things run off Stoicovsky Particles."
"YES!! AHHAHAHHHHHAAA!!!"
"..." Ratino stared at Injiki, not talking.
"..." Injiki stared at Ratino, not talking.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Uh... huh. Gotcha."
And with that annoying long-assed panning shot out of the way, Ratino finally passed off his commander as being totally batshit and went back to wondering why Kani's readings were going up.
Injiki was calm by that point, his own low chuckling only reaching his own ears. Ratino knew the source of the Seraph's power now. That meant that when the fight was over, he had to die. There wasn't any other way. It was too bad, Ratino had really been a good aide. A little hot-tempered, but still good. Injiki made a note to have Ratino killed, and resumed his busy job of watching the big screen in front of him that showed various things to him.
*****
SKREEEEEEEEEEEE+1.
Big explosions were occurring all around SU-0001, and Kani wasn't moving still. Well, I guess he WAS moving technically, if you take into consideration the rocking back and forth the big bi-pedal half-sentient weapon was doing because of the resultant force of the monster- explosions, and gravitational rotation of the planet, and such, but if you're using a relative point of reference from inside the cockpit, Kani really wasn't moving that much.
"Why..." Kani muttered, before almost blinking
'Why...' he re-intoned in his head, because it took less effort to think it
than speak it. 'Why am I in here? Why are any of us "in here"? Is there a greater purpose for my being? For what is that then? I shouldn't care... I don't care... I mustn't care... to stop........ inside....'
And with those thoughts finished, Kani's eyes glossed over, his vision blurring, his body not even caring enough to focus his eyes to see the big monster that was kicking his ass and the asses of all the buildings around him and not around him. Every iota of his being had stopped caring, and if Kani had any control of it, he most likely would've stopped his unconscious respiratory functions and the other things his body does without needing a constant reminder. Such things... just didn't matter. Too much effort was taken in keeping those up. Even... his thoughts. Were then stopped.
*****
"CHRIST, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENENING?" Ratino was agitated, looking at the computer readouts and the constant updates on Kani's status. The power that Seraph Unit 0001 was outputting was more than he thought possible. It was inconceivable. SU-0001, which was only a mere machine and not anything else, after all, could only do so much. It couldn't reach past the human boundaries that had been placed upon it. ...OR COULD IT? "Commander Injiki, I can't explain what is happening! This is beyond my comprehension!"
"I KNOW. Eheeheehee!!"
"...dammit sir, please don't do this right now. I'm under a lot of stress."
"LOOK, YOU FOOL!"
On the giant monitor that displayed the fight going on up on ground level, the big fairly-undescribed monster was launching big blasts of energy from it's pie-hole right at Seraph Unit 0001, who was still simply standing there and taking it like a wussy. But then suddenly, a faint glow began to emanate from around SU-0001, and the next energy blast was simply ABSORBED into it! Creepy!
"What? Sir, what is that?" Ratino was confused still. "What is it doing?"
"It's projecting a TOTAL-DISREGARD FIELD, protecting it from all attack! That means... that means..."
"Fine, sure, whatfuckingever." Ratino rolled his eyes and went back to his seemingly futile job of trying to discern why the hell the world hated him right then.
"It means Kani had finally achieved... ENNUI MODE." Injiki whispered, his words once again only reaching his own ears. His eyes widened as he finally processed his own statement. It had happened. He made another note to kill Ratino, because he now knew of another secret that the Seraph Units held and couldn't be trusted with the information.
Upon the monitor, SU-0001 suddenly exploded with light, albeit a very dull, seemingly uncaring light. The light was overpowering, and it blanked out the monitor for a few moments, causing all instruments to show up as being unreadable. And then, after the light vanished, the monster that had previous been there... WAS NO LONGER THERE. Instead, all there stood was the gaping crater where the ground used to be, with Seraph Unit 0001 standing in the middle, again motionless.
"...wtf." Ratino muttered, pulling a silver flask from his pocket and quickly taking a swig before laying down on the floor and cursing at the ceiling. The few other operators that sat at the terminals around him glanced down at their sub-leader, but continued not-talking out of fear for their lives.
"THE GREATENING." Injiki giggled a bit insanely. "So... close... if only the last piece of the puzzle would come onto the board..."
"Hey guys, I'm here!" came a happy female voice from the speaker as the differently-colored Seraph Unit 00038 appeared on the monitor in the general vicinity of the crater and looked around.
"DAMMIT, RICE!" yelled Ratino from his spot on the floor, waving his arms and accidentally sloshing a good bit of whiskey from his flask onto the steel floor. "The monster is fucking DEAD! DEAD! GONE AND DEAD! EVERYTHING IS FUCKING ITSELF UP JUST FINE WITHOUT YOU! GO AWAY!"
"...awww man." SU-00038 slouched a bit, then dejectedly plodded away.
"Sir!"
Ratino GLARED at the terminal operator that had finally spoke. "WHAT?"
"Er.. uh.. we're getting some strange readings here, and--"
"OH, STRANGE READINGS, YOU SAY?" he yelled sarcastically, scrambling to his feet so as to lean right into his face. "REALLY now?"
"Sir, just look!"
Ratino looked at the screen. He then blinked. He then looked at the big-ass monitor that showed above ground. From the sky, a bright light was shining, a pillar of luminescence like no other, piercing through the air, blinding all those who looked upon it. A brighter flash, then the light was gone. And in it's place, a form stood where before there was none. A form, standing before the non-moving SU-0001, in defiance, in anger, indignation, in appall...
"OH JESUS."
Yep, it was Jesus. The son of God, the one and only Christian Messiah, the healer of the afflicted, the guy who turned water into wine. Jesus. Literally.
He was also about 60 meters tall, too. Hey, who knew?
QRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! came the thunderous cry from the giant maw of Jesus as he reared back and punched SU-0001 with a mighty right-cross. The attack blew right through the TD-Field and clocked SR-0001 full in the face, knocking the mightyfied weapon onto the ground and sending it back hundreds of feet through breaking concrete and buildings and such.
"Finally..." Injiki was happy, happier than he had ever been before in his life. For at that moment, he fully, truly, really knew the destiny of the world and everything on it. The Greatening was closing in... the final piece had appeared, and now the battle taking place above his very head would decide the future. THE FUTURE OF THE ENTIRITY.
SU-0001 slowly, slowly, slooooooowly stood up, arms hanging limply at it's sides. It didn't react further, so powerful were the waves of pure uncare fueling its being. But it didn't have to move, for the giant robed form of Jesus was already bearing down upon it, eyes lit up like the very embodiment of heavenly wrath.
Only another second passed, and the light broke free, engulfing SU- 0001, Jesus, the destroyed city around them, the monitor screen, the sky, EVERYTHING. From within, a piece of music started playing, sounding as if being brought inside the hearts of every man, woman, child, and dog upon the Earth. A warm melody, a light piano, perhaps a harp, even a Gibson bass; they were all possible, inside the minds of everything.
"Sonuvabitch." Ratino cursed, lighting up a cigarette and taking a puff right before his head EXPLODED in a shower of light.
"Here... finally... GREATNESS..." Injiki whispered shrilly, right before HIS head exploded in a shower of light.
Then everyone's head exploded in a shower of light. Then the WOLRD'S HEAD exploded in a shower of light!
...........................
THE END!
Chapter 3
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SKREEEEEEEE!!
"Quickly, we must deploy the Seraph Units!"
The iron-grating hiss-squeal tore through the air all SKREEEEEEetc.- like, making the people inside the hidden underground science facility/slash/military base all hold their hands to their ears in pain and turn down the volume on their speakers.
"Roger! Get our pilots into those Seraphs!"
The man only known as Injiki sat in his chair at the top of the room, overlooking the people at the control panels and other computer-esque objects scurry frantically to input the correct commands that their jobs required. Injiki had a small smile on his face. It was almost time. The final trial for the Seraph Units. If all went well, then the Greatening could be accomplished without anything else needed. And the Greatening needed to be accomplished, because it was his life's work to accomplish the Greatening. Fuh-pah!
"Where is Kani? Why is he not in SU-0001?" Injiki said a bit whimsically, his hands rubbing together as if they were being controlled by something else that wasn't attached to him.
"He's still laying in bed and watching TV!" came the reply from his headset. "No response from his communicator!"
"Worthless child. GO GET HIM. If he does not pilot Seraph Unit 0001, then the encroaching alien threat will become too much for us to handle! And prep Seraph Unit 00038 as well, and get Rice in there, she needs to run pass-defense!!"
"Yes sir!"
"Ahh.." Injiki was happy, in a 'I'm kind of not like you, but that's okay because you'll all understand THE REALITY OF LIFE SOON' type of way. He was so close to his achievement... all he needed was his somewhat-useless step-son to pilot the fucking robot/[SPOILER] hybrid and beat up some fucking weird-ass aliens so everyone wouldn't FUCKING DIE. WAS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? HUH? ANYONE? God.
*****
Kani lay on his bed, in the darkness. In the adjoining room, the tv was on, sending small flickers of light into the OTHER adjoining rooms, not just into Kani's bedroom. Kani was a strange child, one that didn't like to do that much. Sure, he liked to sit in his room, and guesstimate on how much stuff other people did, and try to figure out why everything was SO DAMNED WORTHLESS IN THE END, but he wasn't *like* the other weird kids that you think about when you start thinking about that kind of thing. He didn't want to pilot the gigantic robot/[SPOILER] for BRIC, even though his step-dad really really really wanted him to. Kani thought for a moment on just how badly Injiki had wanted for him to get into that robot and save the city from a rampaging also- gigantic rampaging monster that was rampaging through the rampaged city that was getting rampaged on.
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"'Kani, get into Seraph Unit 0001. You can save the city,'" Injiki had been very adamant about his step-son's involvement, going so far as to give his aide a message to relay. Right then, Ratino, said aide, was trying to coax Kani out of one of the BRIC service closets with a bag of candy. "Really! Just try it!"
"Ehh," Kani ehh-ed, not even moving from his not-so-much-hiding- place. He didn't want to move, so indifferent to the situation was he.
"You... seem indifferent to the situation that we're in. Have you no opinion about it at all?"
From above ground, a great shaking was heard, and also felt, as the ground BELOW them shook as well with the force of a giant gross alien thingy stomping around up there on ground level and blowing shit up.
"Meh."
"DAMMIT KANI, DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE YOU FUCKING BRAT! GET OUT HERE AND SAVE OUR SORRY ASSES!"
"..."
"..er, I mean, 'I'll give you more batteries for your Walkman'. How does that sound?"
"..."
"...fine! I'm getting the janitor! Then HE will make you save humanity!"
---
Kani sighed a bit, but not that much, because he found himself unable to bring forth enough energy to put much feeling into it. The communicator next to his bed was beeping and beeping, and giving off some sort of weird sounds that seemed strangely familiar...
"-UCKING PUNK, WE'RE ALL GONNA GET VAPORIZED! YOUR ASS! HERE! GET! NOW!"
Ahh yes. Ratino. He was always concerned with Kani's well being, going so far as to let him live there while he went to school. Maybe he *should* go down to BRIC... it wouldn't be the first time. He still remembered when he initially was put into Seraph Unit 0001's cockpit and was ejected up to ground level to fight a big monster that was doing explosionistic things and had violentified tendencies.
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"Whoa DAMN, that thing's FUG-LY." Was the general consensus coming from Kani's radio speaker. All around him were electronics and thingies and two control sticks that assumably controlled the robot in some way, not that he knew because he had just been thrown into the cockpit and ejected up to ground level to fight a big monster that was doing explosionistic things and had violentified tendencies. He hadn't even read the user's manual yet. And it was almost 3,000 pages long.
Outside the Seraph Unit 0001, a big, giant, ugly, big, massively large monster-creature(don't worry, it was only as big as SU-0001) was stomping around like some big thing in a Godzilla movie, dealing destruction and whatnot, because that's what they do. It also looked like someone threw up some jambalaya onto a big blob of toxic waste. GROSS.
"Okay Kani," came Ratino's instructions from BRIC HQ a long ways under the ground. "All you have to do is use Seraph Unit 0001's controls, and kill the.. um... whatever that ungodly thing is. Okay? Good."
"Pfeh." Kani interjected, his head hanging down upon his chest and his entire body not even beginning to think about moving to follow those commands. Such pointlessness surrounded him. Why even try, when he would undoubtedly fail? He did not know, and therefore he didn't try to understand. He would not be able.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" came the yell from the speaker, right before sounds of a scuffle and more yelling. Ratino was a bit upset at the whole 'gonna die horribly' thing.
KROOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!
And then, before Kani could even think about not wanting or trying to react to anything around him, the monster, later labeled Jethro, shot forth a MIGHTY STREAM OF [CENSORED], causing Seraph Unit 0001 to COMPLETELY DISINTEGRATE COMPLETELY.
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Kani was lucky to have survived such an attack. Luckily, he wasn't killed, and woke up later in the hospital. He was fine, no injuries. Sigh. Like it mattered. His head lolled against his chest limply, his will to move totally not there. He didn't want to pilot the robot any more. There was no point.
"Okay, now just make sure to kill this one, or we're all boned."
One of Kani's eyes opened, and noted that he was sitting inside the cockpit of Seraph Unit 0001, and that the voice of Ratino was coming in through the speaker. Looks like his ambivalent musings overpowered the physical response that accompanied armed men busting into his room, carting him down to BRIC HQ, and throwing him into SU-0001. Such was life. Sigh.
*****
"Dammit, that little shit isn't moving again. What the hell did you do to him?"
Ratino's angry question reached the ears of Injiki, who didn't turn the small smile upon his face. Oh, they wouldn't understand what had been done when Kani was simply a mere child. Such things weren't in the comprehension of most. But the purpose he held was beyond that of anyone, even Injiki, and even though Kani still did not know, it mattered not. For it would serve itself just as well.
"Nothing. He's fine. What are his readings?"
"Readings are.. well, not high. Which doesn't fucking surprise me, seeing as how he's about as lifeless as my dic-- hey, wait."
Injiki's small smile widened, just a bit, like 2 millimeters in width and probably 3 in height. "What is it? Are his readings INCREASING?"
"Yeah, they are.. but he isn't moving! How... how can this be, he isn't even moving, and his readings are still moving up!"
"I feel I must tell you of the power of the Seraph Units, my friend. They have a potentiality to create immense power, but through conventional means it remains lost. It must tap into the inner self of the pilot who drives it. The Seraphs do not feed off emotion, though, as one might think. They feed off NO EMOTION."
"...er, pardon?"
"THEY RUN ON DISPASSION, ON LETHARGY, ON INDIFFERENCE! THE MORE UNFEELING, THE MORE UNEMTIONAL THE PILOT IS, THE STRONGER IT BECOMES!!" Injiki was raving at this point, yelling triumphantly from his chair, standing on the arm rests and shaking his fists in victory toward the dull grey ceiling above him. "THE MERE FACT THAT KANI IS SO LIFELESS IS BRINGING ABOUT THE AWESOME POWER THAT IT HOLDS! NOTHING CAN STOP IT!" It actually was very possible he had stopped talking to Ratino completely in the middle of that. Wouldn't surprise anyone.
"You're saying these things run off Stoicovsky Particles."
"YES!! AHHAHAHHHHHAAA!!!"
"..." Ratino stared at Injiki, not talking.
"..." Injiki stared at Ratino, not talking.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Uh... huh. Gotcha."
And with that annoying long-assed panning shot out of the way, Ratino finally passed off his commander as being totally batshit and went back to wondering why Kani's readings were going up.
Injiki was calm by that point, his own low chuckling only reaching his own ears. Ratino knew the source of the Seraph's power now. That meant that when the fight was over, he had to die. There wasn't any other way. It was too bad, Ratino had really been a good aide. A little hot-tempered, but still good. Injiki made a note to have Ratino killed, and resumed his busy job of watching the big screen in front of him that showed various things to him.
*****
SKREEEEEEEEEEEE+1.
Big explosions were occurring all around SU-0001, and Kani wasn't moving still. Well, I guess he WAS moving technically, if you take into consideration the rocking back and forth the big bi-pedal half-sentient weapon was doing because of the resultant force of the monster- explosions, and gravitational rotation of the planet, and such, but if you're using a relative point of reference from inside the cockpit, Kani really wasn't moving that much.
"Why..." Kani muttered, before almost blinking
'Why...' he re-intoned in his head, because it took less effort to think it
than speak it. 'Why am I in here? Why are any of us "in here"? Is there a greater purpose for my being? For what is that then? I shouldn't care... I don't care... I mustn't care... to stop........ inside....'
And with those thoughts finished, Kani's eyes glossed over, his vision blurring, his body not even caring enough to focus his eyes to see the big monster that was kicking his ass and the asses of all the buildings around him and not around him. Every iota of his being had stopped caring, and if Kani had any control of it, he most likely would've stopped his unconscious respiratory functions and the other things his body does without needing a constant reminder. Such things... just didn't matter. Too much effort was taken in keeping those up. Even... his thoughts. Were then stopped.
*****
"CHRIST, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENENING?" Ratino was agitated, looking at the computer readouts and the constant updates on Kani's status. The power that Seraph Unit 0001 was outputting was more than he thought possible. It was inconceivable. SU-0001, which was only a mere machine and not anything else, after all, could only do so much. It couldn't reach past the human boundaries that had been placed upon it. ...OR COULD IT? "Commander Injiki, I can't explain what is happening! This is beyond my comprehension!"
"I KNOW. Eheeheehee!!"
"...dammit sir, please don't do this right now. I'm under a lot of stress."
"LOOK, YOU FOOL!"
On the giant monitor that displayed the fight going on up on ground level, the big fairly-undescribed monster was launching big blasts of energy from it's pie-hole right at Seraph Unit 0001, who was still simply standing there and taking it like a wussy. But then suddenly, a faint glow began to emanate from around SU-0001, and the next energy blast was simply ABSORBED into it! Creepy!
"What? Sir, what is that?" Ratino was confused still. "What is it doing?"
"It's projecting a TOTAL-DISREGARD FIELD, protecting it from all attack! That means... that means..."
"Fine, sure, whatfuckingever." Ratino rolled his eyes and went back to his seemingly futile job of trying to discern why the hell the world hated him right then.
"It means Kani had finally achieved... ENNUI MODE." Injiki whispered, his words once again only reaching his own ears. His eyes widened as he finally processed his own statement. It had happened. He made another note to kill Ratino, because he now knew of another secret that the Seraph Units held and couldn't be trusted with the information.
Upon the monitor, SU-0001 suddenly exploded with light, albeit a very dull, seemingly uncaring light. The light was overpowering, and it blanked out the monitor for a few moments, causing all instruments to show up as being unreadable. And then, after the light vanished, the monster that had previous been there... WAS NO LONGER THERE. Instead, all there stood was the gaping crater where the ground used to be, with Seraph Unit 0001 standing in the middle, again motionless.
"...wtf." Ratino muttered, pulling a silver flask from his pocket and quickly taking a swig before laying down on the floor and cursing at the ceiling. The few other operators that sat at the terminals around him glanced down at their sub-leader, but continued not-talking out of fear for their lives.
"THE GREATENING." Injiki giggled a bit insanely. "So... close... if only the last piece of the puzzle would come onto the board..."
"Hey guys, I'm here!" came a happy female voice from the speaker as the differently-colored Seraph Unit 00038 appeared on the monitor in the general vicinity of the crater and looked around.
"DAMMIT, RICE!" yelled Ratino from his spot on the floor, waving his arms and accidentally sloshing a good bit of whiskey from his flask onto the steel floor. "The monster is fucking DEAD! DEAD! GONE AND DEAD! EVERYTHING IS FUCKING ITSELF UP JUST FINE WITHOUT YOU! GO AWAY!"
"...awww man." SU-00038 slouched a bit, then dejectedly plodded away.
"Sir!"
Ratino GLARED at the terminal operator that had finally spoke. "WHAT?"
"Er.. uh.. we're getting some strange readings here, and--"
"OH, STRANGE READINGS, YOU SAY?" he yelled sarcastically, scrambling to his feet so as to lean right into his face. "REALLY now?"
"Sir, just look!"
Ratino looked at the screen. He then blinked. He then looked at the big-ass monitor that showed above ground. From the sky, a bright light was shining, a pillar of luminescence like no other, piercing through the air, blinding all those who looked upon it. A brighter flash, then the light was gone. And in it's place, a form stood where before there was none. A form, standing before the non-moving SU-0001, in defiance, in anger, indignation, in appall...
"OH JESUS."
Yep, it was Jesus. The son of God, the one and only Christian Messiah, the healer of the afflicted, the guy who turned water into wine. Jesus. Literally.
He was also about 60 meters tall, too. Hey, who knew?
QRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! came the thunderous cry from the giant maw of Jesus as he reared back and punched SU-0001 with a mighty right-cross. The attack blew right through the TD-Field and clocked SR-0001 full in the face, knocking the mightyfied weapon onto the ground and sending it back hundreds of feet through breaking concrete and buildings and such.
"Finally..." Injiki was happy, happier than he had ever been before in his life. For at that moment, he fully, truly, really knew the destiny of the world and everything on it. The Greatening was closing in... the final piece had appeared, and now the battle taking place above his very head would decide the future. THE FUTURE OF THE ENTIRITY.
SU-0001 slowly, slowly, slooooooowly stood up, arms hanging limply at it's sides. It didn't react further, so powerful were the waves of pure uncare fueling its being. But it didn't have to move, for the giant robed form of Jesus was already bearing down upon it, eyes lit up like the very embodiment of heavenly wrath.
Only another second passed, and the light broke free, engulfing SU- 0001, Jesus, the destroyed city around them, the monitor screen, the sky, EVERYTHING. From within, a piece of music started playing, sounding as if being brought inside the hearts of every man, woman, child, and dog upon the Earth. A warm melody, a light piano, perhaps a harp, even a Gibson bass; they were all possible, inside the minds of everything.
"Sonuvabitch." Ratino cursed, lighting up a cigarette and taking a puff right before his head EXPLODED in a shower of light.
"Here... finally... GREATNESS..." Injiki whispered shrilly, right before HIS head exploded in a shower of light.
Then everyone's head exploded in a shower of light. Then the WOLRD'S HEAD exploded in a shower of light!
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THE END!