Disclaimer: I do not own Medabots or any related names and brand,I am writting this fic out of fun and I'm not making any profit from it and I'm poor,please don't sue me! My friend Palladin created the female Space Medafighter X and certain related concepts.
AN: Damn writer's block! This is a tough part for me, but once we hit the tournament things shouldn't be as hard...I hope so anyway.
by:HellRavenmon
The little gang landed softly without a noise in front of a temple ground's entrace. Space Medafighter X, Seagaru, Spiritus, Syren, Shadow Rose K and RedRogue looked around. They were in front of one of those large red japanese gate (I forgot the name of those thing >
"Tsukimine Temple... why would Kinlyu challange us to come here?" Inquired Shadow Rose.
"I was about to ask that." Added Syren.
Beyond the gate all they could see was darkness. The temple's park wasn't illuminated during the night, far in the distance right in front of them, in the darkness, they could make out the shape of a huge tree, the sacred tree of that shrine. The park was filled with trees. A perfect place for an ambush, it was as close as you could get to a ninja's natural habitat.
"This... is where I defeated Kinlyu 3 years ago." Answered X.
"We had chased him here... and that's when..." Started Spiritus, but then stopped, looking toward RedRogue.
"Don't be afraid to say it... this is where I attacked you. If Spiritus hadn't reacted I could have harm you Miss Kasumi." Continued RedRogue. "Spiritus and Seagaru engaged me while Miss X continued on to fight my ... Medafighter at the time."
"Oh...I remember now, you told me that story before. You almost defeated them both but they managed to convince you you could escape Kinlyu's control." Commented K.
RedRogue sighed and looked up into the night sky, memories flooding her Medal "Yes... I still can't thank you enough for what you did. If you hadn't been there I would have never be able to rebel against my... Master's... wish. I would have been forced to keep on hurting people while my deepest wish was to help them... I might have ended up in a scrap yard ."
"You? In a Scrapyard? You almost sent US to the scrap yard! Even with Kinlyu defeated you would have managed to escape!" Replied Seagaru.
"She...she almost beat you two?" Asked Syren, looking in disbelef at RedRogue, then Spiritus and Seagaru.
To Syren, Spiritus and Seagaru were among the most powerful Medabot in the country, and together they were almost invicible. If a single MEdabot managed to hold them both it would mean she was extremely powerful!
RedRogue looked down, embarassed, as she scratched the back of her head. "Well... It was a long time ago."
"Yeah, it's not like we haven't improved since then." Pointed out Spiritus.
"Yes...you two kept training all these years while I spent most of my time as a Nurse-type. I probably got a bit rusty, I did had trouble with that Rubberobo Samurai last time. I'm sure you could beat me easily now." Added the Hattori Ninja. "Beside I could care less about my battle skills."
"Let's not dwell on the past anymore, we have a Ninja to catch. Everybody stay on high alert, K and I will take point, followed by RedRogue and Seagaru, Spiritus and Syren you watch out back and deflect anything that might come at us. " Ordered Space MEdafighter X, her Shadow Sword bursting into existance.
"Right!" Agreed everybody.
Shadow Rose K and RedRogue both readied a blade in one hand, a kunai in the other, Spiritus unleashed her Shadow Sword while Syren drawed her real ones. Everybody was ready.
X looked at K's weapon quizzically. "I didn't know you knew how to use close range weapon."
"I'm not very good at it, but I tought it could be useful to block incomming projectile. I don't want to use the Rose Storm Defense yet, it's a family secret technique, so I don't want to use it too soon." Answered the girl.
The all female group of fighters slowly walked into the park. All of them were used to see in poorly lit conditions and the darkness was no trouble for any of them. They slowly passed the large sacred tree, splitting in two group only for a while to walk around it. Soon they found themself on an stone alley betweem the tree and the shrine of the temple. Everything was calm but they could all feel the agressivity and anger in the air. None of them could point out the exact origin of it, but Kinlyu was defnitly there with them. Our heroes slowly formed a circle, making sure every angle was covered. The tension was so thick, even a Shadow Sword wouldn't have been able to cut through. X took a deep breath.
"WHERE ARE YOU KINLYU?" She shouted.
"My...my... you're impatient to meet your demise." Rang the voice of the infamous Kinlyu Fuuma.
RedRogue shvered as she heard the voice of her previous Medafighter. The ruthless human who force her to harm... and kill humans. Horrible memory of pain she caused and pain she felt returned to her, she couldn't stand all of it and she collapsed to her knees, holding her head.
"I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK! I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK!" Screamed the poor Medabot, if she could do it she would have been in tears.
"Look what you've done to my RedRogue!" Declared Kinlyu, still invisible and undetectable. "She was a cold hearted assasin and you made her what... a soft hearted nurse? I tought I could get you back RedRogue, but it seams that is impossible."
"YOU MONSTER! RedRogue never wanted to hurt anybody! She NEVER was cold hearted! Replied Shadow Rose K, putting a calming hand on her Medabot's shoulder. " She never recovered from the HORROR you put her through! RedRogue is my friend and I will never let you harm her again!"
RedRogue looked up to her Medafighter and slowly stood up, taking her hand in her own. "Thank you my friend."She said before looking toward the Shrine "I'm ready to fight you Kinlyu, even if I despise violence I will TAKE YOU DOWN!" She shouted, recovering from her panic attack, ready to fight.
"That'll teach me not to use a Medal I picked randomly... Well if I can't have you back, I can't let the secrets technique I tought you be known to the world, and since I want to take my revange on you X... all I have to do is... DESTROY YOU ALL!"
And with that, Kinlyu's giant shuriken burst out of the wood on both side of the lace and soared at top speed toward the group. In a flash Spiritus and Syren were in position and deflected the two deadly blades with their sword, forcing the flying weapon to fly back toward the trees in a large arc. In a blur, Kinlyu appeared on top of the Shrin before leaping down and charging at incredible speed toward X and the others, he had a kunai in both hands. The 4 Medabot and two humans quickly reacted and leapt out of the charging ninja's way. He kept running and smashed the small fence surrounding the massive sacred tree, ran up it's trunk a few meters before jumping off it. While in mid air he threw his kunais toward X and RedRogue that just landed from their dodge. Meanwhile Syren and Spiritus had spun around after avoiding Kinlyu, barely managing to block another assault from the twin shurikens. Once again the blade bounced off their blades, but didn't slow down. Two saw blades flew through the air, bounced off Kinlyu's Kunai, forcing them toward the ground before their trajectory curved toward the launcher who was coming back toward the ground. Both projectile had come from Shadow Rose K who wanted to protect her friend and her Medabot.
Kinlyu sneered beneath his mask and in lightening quick motion he cuaght the two incomming blades betweem two fingers of each hand. K gasped in surprise, Kinlyu was impressive. The dark aura around the two blade suddenly burst into nothingness before being replaced by another one. Kinlyu had broken K's Tekage No Jutsu and infused his own Shadisvara aura into the blades.
"Not bad little girl, but THIS is how you throw flying blades!" called the man, throwing the saw blades back at Shadow Rose K.
The blade were certainly TWICE as fast as when the girl threw them. K barely had the time to roll to the side before the first blade could hit her, then she quickly had to recover and she leapt into the air, above the trajectory of the second one. When she landed her instinct was ringing like a blaring alarm and she quickly ducked. The first blade had already made a turn around and she lost a few hair to the attacker. She spun around as quickly as possible, drawing back her kunai she had sheeted to attack Fuuma and block the second one, sending it to the ground. Meanwhile Kinlyu had dodged a blast from Seagaru's laser, then had to quickly deflect a rapid blow from Space Medafighter X's Shadow Sword. The attack was avoided but his knife was cut in two. X's Shadow Sword could go through the hardest of metal and Kinlyu didn't had the time to infuse an aura to the blade. He didn't had the time to worry about that because in a split second X would retaliate with another blow and he wouldn't be able to block that one. There was a flash of light at the corner of his eye and the man didn't have any choice left. In a blur he dissapeared just a tenth of a second before X slashed upward and Seagaru's laser hit the ground where he used to stand.
"Where did he go?" Asked Seagaru, confused.
Shadow Rose K spun back toward the remaining blade and with awesome reflexes she drew another one and quickly threw it. The two blades hit each other and felt to the ground. Spiritus and Syren were back against each other, the two giant shuriken flying around them like circling shark. Both Medabots knew they had to neutralize those two weapons before they could be of any uses to Kinlyu. At least for now they were keeping them busy, but this was not the kind of battle where you can afford to stall an opponent. Even if that opponent was just a giant shuriken. Spiritus lauch herself toward one of the shuriken, her blade hit the ground, missing her target barely as it changed it's course incredibly fast, it quickly circled around her and scratch her left shoulder, forcing the Tiger to retreat before a second assault. Syren deflected an attack and decided it was time to use another kind of method.
"Swords aren't working." She commented.
"You'Re right, let's shift tactic. You ready?" Replied Spiritus,Syren didn't say a word but just nodded. "Allright, on the count of three." Continued Spiritus, her optic following the flying blade closely.
"I...2...3!!!"
"TIGER FINALE!"
"SONIC SCREAM!"
Spiritus slashed dowarn, sending a vertical shockwave of dark energy from her Shadow Sword, while Syren unleashed the full power of her ultrasonic weapon. The blasts hit both giant Shuriken at the same time, sending them off course. The two shuriken ended their flight hitting large tree, the only thing that protect them from turning to scrap metal was the Tekage No Jutsu animating them. Sadly now, Spiritus and Syren could do nothing but watch their friend battle their human opponent, their Asimov Chip preventing them from even targeting the ninja, let alone hurt him.
Space Medafighter X looked around, she too didn't know where Kinlyu had gone.She looked up just in time to see him fall down from the tree's foliage, feet first. She did an impressive backflip, worthy of Shadow Rose K and RedRogue's ability, avoiding the dropping kick. Kinlyu's feet went through the flat stone covering the alley, but it didn't seam to faze him even thge slightest. He charge at full speed toward X, a kunai ready to strike. The modern Samurai woman held her sword ready to parry but to her total surprise he avoided her at the last minute and went passed her like a breeze.
"YOUR LASERS ANNOY ME MEDABOT!" He roared, launching himself at Seagaru, a few feets behind X.
Seagaru screamed in fear and surprise and brought her arms up, protecting her face and chest at the last moment as Kinlyu slashed with his weapon. Seagaru's dragon head lasers were scratched but this was not the end of the Ninja's attack who brought his feet up and kicked Seagaru in her gut, sending her flying backward. Shel anded hard on the ground next to Shadow Rose K. She slowly rose her head up, she was in bad shape.
"How...could a human...be...so strong?" She asked.
Without even looking back, Kinlyu dodged an attack from X, dashing away from the group who got together around the fallen Seagaru.
"Tsk tsk tsk. Backstabbing? That is not very honorable, Samurai X." Teased Kinlyu, waving a finger toward Kasumi in an acusing manner.
"Even backstabbing is honorable compared to YOU Kinlyu!" Replied Kasumi, pointing her blade of dark energy toward the red clad Ninja.
Kinlyu ignored her "It seams it's harder to handle all of you than I tought. You are truly bothersome, thus I'll be forced to show you a secret technique I didn't even mentionned to you RedRogue. I didn't tried it last time we fought here X because I was underestimating you, but I won't make that mistake twice."He declared, reaching toward the metal cylinder strapped to his chest.
"Be ready for anything, I never knew what that cylinder was." Commented ReRogue, obviously nervous.
Kinlyu grabbed it in one hand, like he was holding a staff weapon of some sort. He brought it up in the air before slashing downward like it was a sword, stopping when it's tip was pointing toward Shadow Rose K. At that exact moment something burst out of the tip at incredible speed. It took a split second for the entire crew to understand, that metal cylinder was actually a long metalic whip! It flew threw the air at the speed of a bullet. K barely had the time to move slightly to the side before it hit her right in the face! The tip of the whip scratch the top of her left shoulder. A second later the whip suddenly curved to the side and like a dangerous tentacle it lashed out at the girl, slapping her hard on the left cheek, sending her colliding with Seagaru at her side, both felt to the ground as the whip recoiled back toward Kinlyu. The whip was hanging in mid air, spiralling around the Ninja like some kind unearthly pet snake. Shadow Rose K was holding her cheek as she slowly got up, there was a long bloody cut there.
"The strength of that thing is incredible." She said, looking back toward Kinlyu.
The ninja was laughing mianiacally. "This is the Secret Fuuma Technique of the Serpent Dragon Whip! A deadly weapon on it's own, this metallic whip becomes even DEADLIER when controlled with Tekage No Jutsu! This game is over X, nothing you can do can harm me now!"
"Oh yeah? Take that!" Called Seagaru, blasting at the bragging human with her laser.
"I told you...NOTHING!" Shouted the man as the tip of the whip lashed out and slashed through the laser beam with incredible accuracy, dissipating the attack.
"Surrender and I might let some of you live... if I feel compassionate!"He then coldly proposed.
To Be Continued...
Aren't I just mean? I'm leaving you in the middle of a tensed action scene. Will X and her gang stop Kinlyu? Or will his Serpent Dragon Whip be enough to take our heroic girls out? To find out what happen next, don'T miss the next chapter of Third Challenge!