GVS2: Battle Revolution
Conceived By: Lone Wolf SIX
Written By: Lone Wolf SIX
Disclaimer: Lone Wolf SIX doesn't own Guilty Gear or any of the games, anime, movies, books and the like that are the property of other people. All original characters in this story are his creations and property. All insert characters are copyrighted or owned by their respective represented real-life entities.
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Chapter 25: Child of Chrono part 3: No Mercy: Showdown
A week passed since Mriya Falken appeared and disturbed Hikki's privacy. There was no sight of her after she was last sighted at the city park, where she met Hikki. It was expected that she would not come again, at least, to cause disturbance.
It might be proven wrong today.
Mriya arrived at the mansion and observed the surrounding area. She did not see anybody around the house; Zofeah, Ky and Rock were at the Mayship for an urgent meeting with Yuuki. Iori, May, Bridget and Malin took a stroll at the city park. Athena, Justine, the casts of Gensoumaden Saiyuki. The rest were nowhere to be seen. Yet Mriya cared nothing about them. She was concerned of Hikki. "His disturbing force is spreading," the woman whispered. "Heh. Foolish little brother."
She, then, saw Hotaru sweeping the pavement and approached her. "Haii, how can I help you, ma'am?" Hotaru asked.
Mriya looked down at her. "I was wondering whether I can meet Hikki at this mansion. Is he present right now?"
"Haii, he's resting inside his room with Yuu right now," Hotaru replied. "Can you wait here, while I go inside and call him?"
"You don't have to do it, honey," Mriya spoke and put a hand on her scalp, smiling grimly at her. "You don't have to."
Hotaru gasped in shock. "A-anata wa…"
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The entire mansion trembled. Hotaru was sent crashing into the building. Mriya entered the mansion and looked inside the living room. "Well, well, I'm very sure you still want to call him, right?" she mocked the Futaba firefly.
"What's going on here?" Mriya turned around and saw Rock who had arrived at the mansion with Zofeah and Ky. "Hotaru! Kisama, what have you done to her!?" he demanded and pounced at Mriya. The woman easily evaded and moved to the middle of the room, watching at Rock who was attending his wife.
"The idea of believing in true love doesn't applicable to me," Mriya insisted. "Why should I need such lowly feeling when I know I don't have to need one?"
"Are you, by any chance," Ky said and lifted his Thunderseal, "Mriya Falken?"
"Mriya Falken?" Zofeah uttered in surprise. "No way! I thought she died in the accident!"
Mriya laughed. "But I survived, thanks to the Chrono magic. What? Do you think you have enough information regarding this troublemaker, Zofeah? Oh, I get it. Your brother hasn't told you everything about me. What a pity for a secretive little brother."
"You say what?!" Zofeah demanded. He stepped forward, backing Ky who was already in his Holy Knight stance. "Ky, take Hikki and Yuu to the Mayship. Mriya is looking for them."
"But…"
"Hurry up. Now!" Zofeah pleaded. Zofeah could say nothing more and nodded, before he rushed upstairs. "Rock, leave this place with Hotaru. It's too dangerous for both of you to stay here," the organizer said.
"But Zofeah…!"
"Just do what I say, damn it!" Zofeah replied.
Rock tsked at the response, but did not do anything to object it. "Please be careful," he spoke and carried the unconscious Hotaru away from him. Zofeah looked at them and sighed in relief before he turned back at Mriya.
"Answer me, sister Mriya," Zofeah demanded and put his hands on the buckle. "What's your reason of coming at this mansion? And above all, what grudge have you got against brother Chrono? Why are you doing this? Why?"
Mriya laughed again. "Foolish of you. You have no right to be concerned of Chrono. He's one sickened brother who doesn't deserve to earn the title of the Falken clan. Oh, one more thing. Anyone who stands in MY way shall not be spared. Even my own siblings."
"If your intention is to mess with us," he spoke and summoned dragon wings from the buckle, "I shall stand in your way."
Mriya grinned. "Very well," she uttered and opened her palm, releasing an intense Chrono gale from it. "I shall grant your wish. Prepare yourself."
"I will gladly fight you," he spoke. "GVS2 official organizer Zofeah Falken, accepting challenge from GVS2 contender, Mriya Falken."
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"Well, you think we can finally get rid of this trouble, Miss Yuuki?" John asked.
"Excuse me," Yuuki insisted as she read the latest edition of Newtype Magazine. "I still haven't figured out the truth behind the forbidden Chrono magic. And then, this Mriya appears from nowhere and begins to disturb Hikki's life. Huh, why me?"
"Aw, I'm getting bored already," Terry jokingly commented. "There aren't many trustworthy opponent to fight with ever since I challenged Zofeah. Come on, Yuuki, do me a favour and find me an opponent."
"I have absolutely no authority of organizing a battle," That Girl insisted and glared at the Fatal Fury. "Why don't you go and ask Zofeah? At least, he knows everything about the tournament better than I am."
"WAAA! I'm getting bored already!" Goku cried. "Why can't I find someone to fight with? Ne, Sanzo, you should be thinking of the same thing, right?"
"Urusai, baaka zaru," Sanzo demanded and whacked his head with his tessen.
Yuuki looked at the people who apparently grew bored after a week of idleness. She sighed and put the magazine. "Now, everyone. How about…"
EXPLOSION!
Almost at once, everybody onboard Mayship rushed upward and saw a huge column of smoke rising up to the sky. They saw the sight of two people exchanging attacks in the air,
Yuuki saw Ky, Rock, Hotaru, Hikki and Yuu approaching the ship. "Can anyone tell us what the hell is going on right now?" she demanded.
"We've got a bad news," Ky said. "Mriya arrived at the mansion, and right now she's fighting with Zofeah."
Hikki gave out an unpleasant look of surprise. "Oneesama!?" He turned around and ran toward the mansion, but not before he was seized by Ky. "Let me go, damn it! I want to see oneesama!"
"No, you mustn't go!" Ky insisted. "Zofeah wanted us to bring you and Yuu to safety! You mustn't go there at any cost!"
"I don't care! I must see her! Let me go, damn it! Let me-"
Hikki fell onto the ground unconscious. "This should shut him up for a while," Ky remarked with a karate chop. He looked at the shocked Yuu. "Take him to the ship, and please take a look of him for a while."
"Y-yes."
"Mister Ky… Hikki's sister has arrived…?" fearfully Dizzy asked. She was afraid not because of the fact that Hikki got a sister (who allegedly died in the incident 10 years ago), yet because she could feel the disturbing force. The disturbing force which was so familiar to her; to her Gear half, to be exact.
Ky looked at his wife and nodded. "I don't know why she comes here, but if what Zofeah says is right, Hikki's in grim danger."
"What do you mean?" Iori questioned.
"The woman's here to kill Hikki."
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Zofeah gasped breathlessly. Never he had been fighting seriously like this before, not like the time he fought against the lone wolf Terry Bogard. Standing before him, however, Mriya remained energetic and full of evil force as ever (perhaps because of the negative Chrono Install effect he had mentioned earlier, that she stood as if nothing happened to her? Whatever.). Even with the aid of the Sacred Belt, Zofeah still didn't stand a chance against the woman.
Instead of making another move, Mriya opened her palm and slyly smiled at Zofeah. "This battle is way too boring. I get to fight only you, and it bores me to death," she remarked and unleashed a Chrono orb from it.
"What… what are you talking of, sister Mriya?" Zofeah demanded between his breaths.
"Ever since I escaped death," she spoke, effortlessly concentrating her power into the orb, "my instinct hungers for massacre and bloodshed on this very planet. Yes, I know it's against the law of nature to kill someone without particular reason, but why should I need one when I know I don't have to? And to finally be able to fight with someone as strong and as stubborn as you, I feel very grateful."
"However," she continued, "it's still not enough for me. I want more bloodshed, and that's why I will involve everyone else in this outrageous event. You, and everyone else will become a part of this sensation of sadism."
"Now watch," she spoke, releasing the orb. Zofeah watched at Mriya and was put into an utter disbelief. The orb began to materialize and, to everyone's surprise who arrived at the battlefield-
"By the name of Holy Order, what the heck's going on?" Ky demanded, rubbing his eyes in disbelief.
-broke off into pieces, materialized again before finally formed a portal gate. Subsequent to that, a group of newcomers walked out of the portal and watched the area around them in wonder.
"This is NOT what we want to," Sanzo grumbled.
Goku blinked in surprise. "Eh? Aren't those…?"
Kougaiji, Lirin, Dokukaguji and Yaone (courtesy of Gensoumaden Saiyuki) blinked in marvel. "How the heck did we get here?" Kougaiji questioned.
"Beats me," Dokukaguji remarked.
"Yahoo! Baldie Sanzo!" Lirin cried and waved at Sanzo.
Bridget and May gasped in shock. "No way!"
Malin blinked. "Am I seeing double?"
The other side of May, supposedly nonexistent anymore, better known as NEO Mistress May, silently stood before them. An extremely vengeful and murderous glare came out from her eyes, as she summoned energy orb from her palms. "Korosu…"
"Impossible!" Leona exclaimed. "I thought we had destroyed their base!"
"By the name of NESTS," the NESTS Kusanagi army marched from the portal, "we shall cleanse and purify this world from all illness."
"Looks like the Abyss isn't effective anymore," Yuuki stated in surprise. "Or at least… the dimension has been greatly disturbed."
"Uhh… why there's another me?" Dizzy asked. "Wait a minute. Isn't that…?"
Dark Dizzy coldly grinned. "We meet again, Dizzy. After the hardships I have to endure inside the Abyss, I've returned to avenge my defeat."
"Where the heck is that alternate Mito?" Alternate Anji demanded and summoned his Alternate Zessen.
"Wazzup, fool!" Mr. T greeted.
"I knew I should've asked Ciel for more weapon upgrade," Zero whispered.
Robo Sol, Metal Gear Ray (courtesy of Metal Gear Solid 2) and Leopoldon (courtesy of Guilty Gear Isuka) were the last to appear from the portal. The gigantic Saint Bernard robot cutely wiggled its tail, while Robo Sol rode inside its cockpit. The Metal Gear observed the surrounding area before activated its weapon system.
"All your base are belong to me," monotonously Robo Sol declared.
The final boss of Last Blade 1, Kagami Shinnosuke, observed the battlefield before he broke into his own of demonic laughter. "Heh, I shall show to them the price for denying the Hades' order," he spoke and withdrew his "Young Phoenix" katana.
"Anata…!" Hibiki gasped.
"Finally, Hibiki, I've found you," Setsuna of Last Blade 2 growled and withdrew his Blade of Eighty Days. "Finally…"
"I can't believe this…" Zofeah stated after finally got back to his feet. "There's no way you can summon them and use them against us! There's just no way you can do that in this universe!" he spoke.
Mriya grinned and summoned gale from her body. "What's wrong, Zofeah? Are you afraid of losing already?" Then she broke into a sinister laugh, releasing more gales from her body. "Allow me to demonstrate the true power of the Chrono magic," she spoke before the gales wrapped her body. What happened next was the most shocking occurrence of all; super-durable composite plates formed and clamped together on her body, forming a series of armour. Mriya floated above the ground in accordance of the transformation, combining the Chrono magic with a force the Daredevils immediately identified from the very first time the Guilty Gear tournament was held.
"What the…"
"Impossible!"
"I thought it supposed to be destroyed!"
"Why does it look like me? Sol-chan, where are you? Oh, I forgot he's already got Kagura. WAAA!"
The transformation was complete. Slowly Mriya descended to the ground, all in her new look. Not exactly her new look, considering it was a direct carbon copy of Justice's battlesuit, minus the spike found on the original version. Added to its revolutionary look were a pair of metallic wings, spreading out and vibrated to the powers combined; and the shoulder-mounted cannons, now in their slicker and slimmer design.
But it was not only the Chrono magic and the battlesuit that put a fear inside each of their heart.
It was the power.
The frightening power the Daredevils had experienced and witnessed had returned. The power originally created by That Girl to improve the survivability of humankind, and in return, devastated them. The power Omega Rugal desperately wanted to take over (and failed). The power two female characters of Guilty Gear possessed; albeit the first and the original owner had transformed into a super-cute, super-mean girl, not mentioning her obsession to the world's greatest fan of Queen.
The power of Command Gear.
And it brought everybody into a total surprise. Yuuki, especially, never realized that another Gear (other than Dizzy, Justine and Sol) would exist. Dizzy felt an uneasy feeling inside of her when she stared into the woman's ruby eyes. She could feel her Gear half roaring in rage, demanding to be unleashed, and tried to suppress it with her own strength. Justine, on the other hand, was completely shocked. Frantically crying, "not fair! Not fair! She's not supposed to be a Command Gear! No fair! Sol-chan!" she executed her Command Gear Mark 2 Mode and glowered at Mriya in anger.
"Enough with all these lames," Mriya spoke, in a voice blended with those of evil entities, "I shall destroy everything on this planet with my power." She summoned a light blade from her hand and lifted it straight to the air. "Falken Schneider."
The blade fell on the ground, cutting everything at and around its path. The Daredevils and fighters alike managed to jump out of its range, only to face their respective opponents. Zofeah was the only one left. He was unhurt, partially because the attack wasn't aimed at him. It was done to break the huge mass into several groups, leaving only him to face her.
He frowned. "Sister Mriya… you even had yourself changed into a Gear? I cannot forgive you for this…"
"Fool. It was not that I was forced to become this," Mriya spoke. "But it was a price for my survival. The clan leader offered me immortality after seeing what happened at the facility. He asked me whether I would sacrifice my body and soul in order to gain immortality, and he asked me whether I agreed to be transformed into a Gear. I agreed, hence, this is the reason why I'm here." Again, she summoned the light blade and glowered at Zofeah. "I'm supposed to assassinate Chrono as ordered by the clan leader, but you have appeared in my path. Therefore, I shall exterminate you as well."
"It cannot be helped after all," he hissed and opened his battle stance, facing the new Command Gear. "Please forgive me, sister Mriya, but I must end this."
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Bridget was shocked. He could have sworn that May was still beside him. He could have sworn that May would never gain her Mistress alter ego. But how could this happen to him? And why at the very time?
"Korosu…" NEO Mistress May hissed and glowered at Bridget. "Omae wo korosu…"
"Why… why this has to happen?" he whispered in disbelief. "After all the hardships I faced together with May…" He stared at NEO Mistress May, who was later accompanied by the NESTS Kusanagi army. He shrugged. Whatever it was, NEO Mistress May or not, she was still May. May would forever be May. He would never lay a finger on her, and he would never-
"Stop mumbling like a sissy!" Bridget was startled and looked at his right. "I don't care whether she's disguising as me or not! But there should only be one Mistress May, and that would be ME!" gallantly May declared and pointed a thumb on her chest. "Bridget, don't get fooled! She is all but an illusion created by the woman to distract you."
Bridget frowned. "But she's still May…"
May lifted his face and landed a hard slap on his cheek. "Baaka! There is only one May in Guilty Gear, and there is only one Mistress May in this fanfiction universe! And I'm the only one! Get yourself together, damn it! Bridget!"
Rubbing his bruised cheek, Bridget stared at the Japanese pirate. She was right. There should be only one May in Guilty Gear universe, and there should be only one Mistress May in fanfiction universe. A smile carved upon his face. "You're right. I have no reason to worry," he spoke. "So, original Mistress May, what's your suggestion?"
May grinned and put both hands on her hips. "Well, what else?"
Bridget grinned and took out his metallic yo-yo. "And what are you going to do?"
"Me?" She, then, looked at the army and confidently grinned. "I think I should test the Yagami-ryuu fighting style oniisan taught me."
Bridget stared at May with a gleaming sight. "Oh? That sarcastic red-haired I'm A Gay guy?"
May glowered at her lover. "Don't mock him. Oniisan may look mean, but he's quite nice. Well, at least, to me."
"Stop loitering around," NEO Mistress May demanded and pointed a finger to the two. "Kill them." Immediately, the NESTS Kusanagi army charged toward Bridget and May and fired torrents of Dark Sweepers at them.
"Not so fast!" May insisted and executed one of the taught Yagami-ryuu martial art, the altered Dark Sweeper. It moved fairly slow, unlike the original Dark Sweeper, but it created a massive explosion upon contact with the opposing Dark Sweepers. "Whoa… I never thought Dark Sweeper could be that devastating!" she commented.
"DIE!" A NESTS Kusanagi jumped over the explosion and rushed toward May. May looked at the charging opponent and chuckled mockingly and opened her arms. The NESTS soldier landed a Moon Harp Positive onto May, but miraculously the pirate wasn't affected. In fact…
COUNTER!
May counterattacked the NESTS Kusanagi with Iruka-san Loop Counter, causing the soldier to bounce off to the air. May followed with an altered Demon Scorcher, sending him further midair. Bridget blinked in amazement. He never thought that May would become that strong. He wanted to applaud her, but that might have to wait.
"Korosu…" Bridget turned around and faced NEO Mistress May. "Omae wo korosu…"
Bridget sighed. "Alright, alright. You ask for it. Ready?"
"SHINE!"
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"The battle has started, and everyone's fighting very hard against their opponents," whispered Aurora as she sat under the cherry blossom tree, accompanied by several songbirds. "So that's why he has to leave. He has to stop the battle before someone suffers from the consequences. He has to stop the battle from lingering, before someone has to bear the aftermath." She closed her eyes and clasped both her hands. "Good luck, Chosen One."
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Author's note: GVS2: Battle Revolution is finally reaching its ultimate showdown, which depicts the end of this marvellous series. (Holocaust occurs at background, as readers and Daredevils alike cry "Eh?! It's going to end? No way!!") Ahem. Yes, I have to admit, this series has been going for a very long time, and there are possibilities that it will be dragging if its production is prolonged. However, that does not mean that it's the end of everything. Lone Wolf SIX hasn't showed up yet, and the battle just started. Everyone's getting curious of this and that, but have no worry. All secrets and mysteries will be revealed in "Children of Chrono" arc. All will.