Ending One
Tetsuo stepped back by instinct and walked right into the barrier, from which he was flung into Kaneda.
Akira was watching this with much amusement, while a half-forgotten Kei was cracking up.
Kaneda moved a rock off of his self and sat up, rubbing his head.
Tetsuo walked over to Kaneda. "Uhm, you OK?"
Kaneda jumped onto Tetsuo and wrestled him to the ground.
"This has been amusing," Akira began, "But there is no point in revenge if Tetsuo doesn't remember anything."
Kaneda froze in mid-punch and Tetsuo peeked out from behind a block. "No you don't!" Kaneda said. "No way, no how!"
Tetsuo looked blankly from Kaneda to Akira and back again. "What'd I do?"
Akira spoke clearly. "Kaneda, move."
Kaneda shook his head.
"Kaneda, move."
Kaneda shook his head again.
"Kaneda, move or be moved."
Kaneda moved.
"Tetsuo," Akira continued, "come with me."
Akira and Tetsuo both disappeared.
Kei began, "What the..." Then she disappeared.
Kaneda looked around at the gathered crowd. "Uh, anyone know what just happened?"
The crowd all looked around and murmured to each other, trying to find a good answer.
Kaneda nodded his head. "Good. Now, which way to the new city?"
*
Tetsuo sat by a tree, gaping and eyes wide. Then he grinned. "That was awesome!"
Akira stood, stone faced, staring right at Tetsuo. "Now, for your memory." He put his right hand onto the top of Tetsuo's head.
Tetsuo shifted uneasily. "What are you doing?"
Akira closed his eyes in concentration.
Tetsuo glared up to him. "Ok, now I'm freaked. Hey, kid! Didn't you hear me? What are you..."
Akira opened his eyes. They were glowing pure white.
*
Kei stood in the middle of the Baby Room. She looked around dazedly. "What am I doing here?"
"I thought that you might need a lift back." Kiyoko said.
Masaru looked around. "Where's Kaneda?"
Kiyoko smirked. "He's taking the long way around." Kaneda sped up on the now his motorcycle, ignoring the loud yells from behind him, telling him to "get back here with my motorcycle". He looked straight forward and saw the edge of the of the new-new city, where it hooked up with the new city.
*
Akira raced through the confines of Tetsuo's mind. He saw memory after memory: Tetsuo's mother and father, Kaneda, his bike gang, his everyday life, then there seemed to be a skip, and it ended with the led pipe incident and the weaving of the memory of what was happening right now. Akira went back to the skip and stopped right over it. Everything was there, starting with the time Tetsuo got into an accident avoiding Takashi, all the way to when Tetsuo decided to come back, it was just all jumbled together. Akira mentally took hold of the beginning of the jumble and gave it a little tug. It all began unraveling in order and taking place in Tetsuo's memory. "Good," Akira thought to himself. "Now I can have true revenge!"
*
Kei walked over to a small corner and sat down against the remains of a once brightly colored wall. "Kaneda," she thought to herself, "Please come back okay!"
*
Kaneda continued down the sad excuse for a highway until he reached a mountain of rubble in the middle of the road. "Oh great, now what?" He still had a good fifty miles at the least before he reached the old city, and the government building.
*
Tetsuo sat stiller than stone. Now it was all clear what happened. Not to mention, he had attacked Akira head on with a led pipe. And now Akira, the strongest thing that ever existed, wanted revenge on him. Tetsuo disappeared.
Akira shook his head. "What a fool," he mumbled, then disappeared.
*
"Akira has restored Tetsuo's memory!" Kiyoko said.
Takashi shook his head, and Masaru said, "His revenge is going to take him a while."
*
Kaneda was half way up the mountain of rocks and beer cans when he dislodged a medium sized rock, starting his second avalanche of the day. He found a small indent in the rubble and ducked into it. He heard the motorcycle being slowly crushed and covered. When it quieted, he poked his head out. Now half way up was the top. "Alright!" he said, and jumped down.
*
Tetsuo appeared right in the center of the new city, then Akira appeared two feet in front of him. Tetsuo said, "Hmpf!" and disappeared, soon followed by Akira. Anybody who noticed this just ignored it.
*
Kei sat up suddenly. "Wait!" She said, "does Kaneda know how to get here?"
They all looked around at each other, then to Kiyoko. She shook her head. She could only find Kei, but not Kaneda.
*
Kaneda kept running through alleyway after alleyway, looking for an abandoned motorcycle. He almost ran right into a guy talking with a really cute girl. But most importantly, he was holding a motorcycle helmet.
"Sorry, bud!" was all Kaneda said before jumping on the bright blue model X- 19888 motorcycle and driving off, still looking for the Government building and the brakes.
*
Tetsuo popped up in a field of tall grass. He looked around, not seeing Akira. He smirked and turned around, walking right into Akira. Tetsuo jumped back by habit, slamming into a barrier. He felt an unknown power going through him. "ARAAA!" He threw himself forward into the dusty dirt. "What was that?" He looked up accusingly at Akira.
Akira looked almost flustered. "It wasn't me!"
They both turned to a see a floating #19, also known as Lady Miyoko. Kiyoko gasped loudly. "Lady Miyoko!" Takashi looked up from the ground. "What? She's back?" Kiyoko disappeared.
*
Kaneda was driving as fast as he could, trying with all of his might to get to the Government building in time, when he realized that he didn't have a clue of where he was going. He stopped with a loud SCREECH, and slammed his fist against the nearby remains of a building. "COMMON!" He yelled, "THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Then he noticed that his hand was throbbing. "OW!" He grabbed his hand in pain, then looked up to the sky in hopelessness.
*
Tetsuo glared at Lady Miyoko. "Don't interfere, witch!"
She remained floating calmly, holding her prayer beads, stray hairs floating from her bun. "I am not interfering."
"What did you call that little trick?" Tetsuo spat back.
Lady Miyoko replied, "Protection."
Tetsuo clenched his jaw. "Protect yourself from this!" He sent a power beam straight at Lady Miyoko, causing sparks against the barrier, but definitely having the upper hand.
Kiyoko appeared next to Lady Miyoko. "You have to get out of here!"
Lady Miyoko looked to her. "Kiyoko! But I can't! My power is not enough to transport yet again!"
Akira saw Kiyoko next to Lady Miyoko. "KIYOKO!" He disappeared and reappeared in front of her. "You must leave! It's not safe!"
The power beam broke through the barrier. Kiyoko's eyes grew wide with fear as she screamed, watching the beam that could turn her and the rest of the world into dust in an instant fly towards her.
Akira turned around and set up a barrier of his own, and trembled with the effort of holding the beam at bay. "GO!" he shouted. Then he softened his voice. "Please, go."
"Akira," Kiyoko whispered, then disappeared, taking Lady Miyoko with her.
Akira relaxed, knowing that both Kiyoko and Lady Miyoko were out of trouble, weakening the barrier just enough for the beam to get through. It hit him, sending him flying. He stopped his flight backward with his powers.
"So, she's your little princess, too, eh?" Tetsuo smirked.
Akira regained his normal stone faced composure.
Tetsuo began powering up. "Now, lets begin!" Kiyoko reappeared in the Baby Room with Lady Miyoko. Kei turned to look and gasped. "Look!"
*
Both Takashi and Masaru turned to look. "Kiyoko! Lady Miyoko!" Takashi said, then got up and ran to them. He crouched down next to Kiyoko and said, "You both alright?"
"Oh, Akira," she whispered. "You've turned your revenge into a fight for the world."
Masaru and Kei made their way over to them. They sat down, making a small circle as they gave their silent comfort to each other. Kaneda looked up to the government building. "Yes!" he said. He dropped the motorcycle to the ground and ran to the sewers, still clueless on how to get in otherwise.
*
Tetsuo disappeared, then reappeared right in front of Akira. He reached out to grab Akira by the neck, but Akira's image disintegrated around his hand. Tetsuo felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. Spit flew out of his mouth as he fell to the ground. He tilted his head out of the dirt, only to be rewarded with extreme pain. He reached to the back of his neck and yanked it away quickly as it touched something that wasn't his neck. He brought his hand in front of his face and saw blood drizzle down his fingers.
Akira smirked. "Had enough?" And another lightning stream left his hands, headed for Tetsuo's head.
Tetsuo rolled out of the way, but the power of the blast sent him flying into one of the few trees.
Tetsuo gingerly stood up, his right leg supporting the majority of his self, giving him a very crooked stance. He thought to himself, What was I thinking? I can't beat him! I might as well attack him head on with a led pipe! Tetsuo mentally slapped himself because he had.
*
Kaneda staggered into the Baby Room. Kei looked up at the noise.
"Kaneda!" She smiled. "What took you?"
Kaneda took his way down the pile of rubble in large bounds.
"Shuddup!" He ran over to the little circle. "I need to go!"
Kei started chuckling, and Masaru pointed to his right.
Kaneda nodded his thanks and ran.
*
Tetsuo smirked. "You may as well kill me, but it won't change that you were easily used by the likes of me!"
Akira stayed calm, refusing to have his anger take the best of him. He replied, "Yes, that is true, but it will make me feel better!"
With that, he shot a red beam at Tetsuo and sending him through the tree he was standing in front of.
Everything was beginning to go dim. Tetsuo gritted his teeth, refusing to lose consciousness. He got up, his pride not letting him stay down. "I refuse to lose" -he lifted up his left arm- "to a brat" -he lifted up his other arm- "like YOU!" A huge energy blast enveloped him and spread in a white arc from him.
Akira didn't have time to do anything as the white light seemingly swallowed him.
The world silently vanished in a sea of white light.
Tetsuo stepped back by instinct and walked right into the barrier, from which he was flung into Kaneda.
Akira was watching this with much amusement, while a half-forgotten Kei was cracking up.
Kaneda moved a rock off of his self and sat up, rubbing his head.
Tetsuo walked over to Kaneda. "Uhm, you OK?"
Kaneda jumped onto Tetsuo and wrestled him to the ground.
"This has been amusing," Akira began, "But there is no point in revenge if Tetsuo doesn't remember anything."
Kaneda froze in mid-punch and Tetsuo peeked out from behind a block. "No you don't!" Kaneda said. "No way, no how!"
Tetsuo looked blankly from Kaneda to Akira and back again. "What'd I do?"
Akira spoke clearly. "Kaneda, move."
Kaneda shook his head.
"Kaneda, move."
Kaneda shook his head again.
"Kaneda, move or be moved."
Kaneda moved.
"Tetsuo," Akira continued, "come with me."
Akira and Tetsuo both disappeared.
Kei began, "What the..." Then she disappeared.
Kaneda looked around at the gathered crowd. "Uh, anyone know what just happened?"
The crowd all looked around and murmured to each other, trying to find a good answer.
Kaneda nodded his head. "Good. Now, which way to the new city?"
*
Tetsuo sat by a tree, gaping and eyes wide. Then he grinned. "That was awesome!"
Akira stood, stone faced, staring right at Tetsuo. "Now, for your memory." He put his right hand onto the top of Tetsuo's head.
Tetsuo shifted uneasily. "What are you doing?"
Akira closed his eyes in concentration.
Tetsuo glared up to him. "Ok, now I'm freaked. Hey, kid! Didn't you hear me? What are you..."
Akira opened his eyes. They were glowing pure white.
*
Kei stood in the middle of the Baby Room. She looked around dazedly. "What am I doing here?"
"I thought that you might need a lift back." Kiyoko said.
Masaru looked around. "Where's Kaneda?"
Kiyoko smirked. "He's taking the long way around." Kaneda sped up on the now his motorcycle, ignoring the loud yells from behind him, telling him to "get back here with my motorcycle". He looked straight forward and saw the edge of the of the new-new city, where it hooked up with the new city.
*
Akira raced through the confines of Tetsuo's mind. He saw memory after memory: Tetsuo's mother and father, Kaneda, his bike gang, his everyday life, then there seemed to be a skip, and it ended with the led pipe incident and the weaving of the memory of what was happening right now. Akira went back to the skip and stopped right over it. Everything was there, starting with the time Tetsuo got into an accident avoiding Takashi, all the way to when Tetsuo decided to come back, it was just all jumbled together. Akira mentally took hold of the beginning of the jumble and gave it a little tug. It all began unraveling in order and taking place in Tetsuo's memory. "Good," Akira thought to himself. "Now I can have true revenge!"
*
Kei walked over to a small corner and sat down against the remains of a once brightly colored wall. "Kaneda," she thought to herself, "Please come back okay!"
*
Kaneda continued down the sad excuse for a highway until he reached a mountain of rubble in the middle of the road. "Oh great, now what?" He still had a good fifty miles at the least before he reached the old city, and the government building.
*
Tetsuo sat stiller than stone. Now it was all clear what happened. Not to mention, he had attacked Akira head on with a led pipe. And now Akira, the strongest thing that ever existed, wanted revenge on him. Tetsuo disappeared.
Akira shook his head. "What a fool," he mumbled, then disappeared.
*
"Akira has restored Tetsuo's memory!" Kiyoko said.
Takashi shook his head, and Masaru said, "His revenge is going to take him a while."
*
Kaneda was half way up the mountain of rocks and beer cans when he dislodged a medium sized rock, starting his second avalanche of the day. He found a small indent in the rubble and ducked into it. He heard the motorcycle being slowly crushed and covered. When it quieted, he poked his head out. Now half way up was the top. "Alright!" he said, and jumped down.
*
Tetsuo appeared right in the center of the new city, then Akira appeared two feet in front of him. Tetsuo said, "Hmpf!" and disappeared, soon followed by Akira. Anybody who noticed this just ignored it.
*
Kei sat up suddenly. "Wait!" She said, "does Kaneda know how to get here?"
They all looked around at each other, then to Kiyoko. She shook her head. She could only find Kei, but not Kaneda.
*
Kaneda kept running through alleyway after alleyway, looking for an abandoned motorcycle. He almost ran right into a guy talking with a really cute girl. But most importantly, he was holding a motorcycle helmet.
"Sorry, bud!" was all Kaneda said before jumping on the bright blue model X- 19888 motorcycle and driving off, still looking for the Government building and the brakes.
*
Tetsuo popped up in a field of tall grass. He looked around, not seeing Akira. He smirked and turned around, walking right into Akira. Tetsuo jumped back by habit, slamming into a barrier. He felt an unknown power going through him. "ARAAA!" He threw himself forward into the dusty dirt. "What was that?" He looked up accusingly at Akira.
Akira looked almost flustered. "It wasn't me!"
They both turned to a see a floating #19, also known as Lady Miyoko. Kiyoko gasped loudly. "Lady Miyoko!" Takashi looked up from the ground. "What? She's back?" Kiyoko disappeared.
*
Kaneda was driving as fast as he could, trying with all of his might to get to the Government building in time, when he realized that he didn't have a clue of where he was going. He stopped with a loud SCREECH, and slammed his fist against the nearby remains of a building. "COMMON!" He yelled, "THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Then he noticed that his hand was throbbing. "OW!" He grabbed his hand in pain, then looked up to the sky in hopelessness.
*
Tetsuo glared at Lady Miyoko. "Don't interfere, witch!"
She remained floating calmly, holding her prayer beads, stray hairs floating from her bun. "I am not interfering."
"What did you call that little trick?" Tetsuo spat back.
Lady Miyoko replied, "Protection."
Tetsuo clenched his jaw. "Protect yourself from this!" He sent a power beam straight at Lady Miyoko, causing sparks against the barrier, but definitely having the upper hand.
Kiyoko appeared next to Lady Miyoko. "You have to get out of here!"
Lady Miyoko looked to her. "Kiyoko! But I can't! My power is not enough to transport yet again!"
Akira saw Kiyoko next to Lady Miyoko. "KIYOKO!" He disappeared and reappeared in front of her. "You must leave! It's not safe!"
The power beam broke through the barrier. Kiyoko's eyes grew wide with fear as she screamed, watching the beam that could turn her and the rest of the world into dust in an instant fly towards her.
Akira turned around and set up a barrier of his own, and trembled with the effort of holding the beam at bay. "GO!" he shouted. Then he softened his voice. "Please, go."
"Akira," Kiyoko whispered, then disappeared, taking Lady Miyoko with her.
Akira relaxed, knowing that both Kiyoko and Lady Miyoko were out of trouble, weakening the barrier just enough for the beam to get through. It hit him, sending him flying. He stopped his flight backward with his powers.
"So, she's your little princess, too, eh?" Tetsuo smirked.
Akira regained his normal stone faced composure.
Tetsuo began powering up. "Now, lets begin!" Kiyoko reappeared in the Baby Room with Lady Miyoko. Kei turned to look and gasped. "Look!"
*
Both Takashi and Masaru turned to look. "Kiyoko! Lady Miyoko!" Takashi said, then got up and ran to them. He crouched down next to Kiyoko and said, "You both alright?"
"Oh, Akira," she whispered. "You've turned your revenge into a fight for the world."
Masaru and Kei made their way over to them. They sat down, making a small circle as they gave their silent comfort to each other. Kaneda looked up to the government building. "Yes!" he said. He dropped the motorcycle to the ground and ran to the sewers, still clueless on how to get in otherwise.
*
Tetsuo disappeared, then reappeared right in front of Akira. He reached out to grab Akira by the neck, but Akira's image disintegrated around his hand. Tetsuo felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. Spit flew out of his mouth as he fell to the ground. He tilted his head out of the dirt, only to be rewarded with extreme pain. He reached to the back of his neck and yanked it away quickly as it touched something that wasn't his neck. He brought his hand in front of his face and saw blood drizzle down his fingers.
Akira smirked. "Had enough?" And another lightning stream left his hands, headed for Tetsuo's head.
Tetsuo rolled out of the way, but the power of the blast sent him flying into one of the few trees.
Tetsuo gingerly stood up, his right leg supporting the majority of his self, giving him a very crooked stance. He thought to himself, What was I thinking? I can't beat him! I might as well attack him head on with a led pipe! Tetsuo mentally slapped himself because he had.
*
Kaneda staggered into the Baby Room. Kei looked up at the noise.
"Kaneda!" She smiled. "What took you?"
Kaneda took his way down the pile of rubble in large bounds.
"Shuddup!" He ran over to the little circle. "I need to go!"
Kei started chuckling, and Masaru pointed to his right.
Kaneda nodded his thanks and ran.
*
Tetsuo smirked. "You may as well kill me, but it won't change that you were easily used by the likes of me!"
Akira stayed calm, refusing to have his anger take the best of him. He replied, "Yes, that is true, but it will make me feel better!"
With that, he shot a red beam at Tetsuo and sending him through the tree he was standing in front of.
Everything was beginning to go dim. Tetsuo gritted his teeth, refusing to lose consciousness. He got up, his pride not letting him stay down. "I refuse to lose" -he lifted up his left arm- "to a brat" -he lifted up his other arm- "like YOU!" A huge energy blast enveloped him and spread in a white arc from him.
Akira didn't have time to do anything as the white light seemingly swallowed him.
The world silently vanished in a sea of white light.