Chapter 18: Aftermath

Guyvers Blue, Psychic and Red appeared in their home at about 19.00. Kyriu was sitting at the computer; he turned around to them as the armours disappeared.

"That was a lot of training." He stated.

"We did a little more than training, Uncle." Ran informed him.

"Really?"

"Yes, Chronos can't rely on its base in Phoenix anymore."

"You've destroyed it?"

"Yes we have, Kyriu," Sonnet replied, "I just hope that Chronos doesn't rebuild it."

"These armours are cool, Sonnet," Mutaru said, "I wish we had been able to get them sooner."

"Don't get cocky my friend," Sonnet cautioned, "They don't make you indestructible, and there are a few things about them that you need to know."

"Like what?" Ran asked, sitting down on the sofa.

"For example, the units draw some of the energy they need from the host. After a while, the host would feel exhausted."

"I feel a little tired now." Ran commented.

"That's because you used the mega smashers," Sonnet informed her, "The amount of energy they draw from a host is high, you probably wouldn't have been able to fire a second blast."

"Agito couldn't," Ran said, "His Gigantic armour shut down as we flew out of the building."

"He must have been too exhausted to keep it active." Sonnet said.

"Are you speaking from experience?" Kyriu asked.

"Partially, I've been a little drained in the past after using the unit, but my power unit recharges me within a few minutes."

"What about us?" Mutaru asked.

"Depends on your physical fitness," Sonnet told him, "The better shape you're in, the longer you'll be able to keep the armour active."

"How do you know this?"

"I read a few of the files on the effects a Guyver has on a human back at Chronos Phoenix."

"How else does it affect them?" Kyriu asked.

"They will now have those organisms on their backs that allow Guyver to telepathically communicate with each other."

"What else?" Mutaru asked.

"There are quite a few things. I memorised the contents of the files when I read them."

"Can you write them down for us?" Ran asked.

Sonnet looked at Kyriu.

"Can I use the computer?"

"Of course."

Kyriu closed down what he was working on and vacated the chair. Sonnet took his place and began typing. After two minutes, she handed Ran and Mutaru a printout detailing how the Guyver affects a human host.

"Shred that as soon as you've read it," She told them, "Don't want the wrong people to find that information."

"OK."

Sonnet looked at the clock.

"I'm going to return to Phoenix. If any Chronos employees are at the building, I'm going to deal with them. You two should rest. After work tomorrow, I'll contact the others and arrange another training session."

"Got to work Saturdays?"

"Unfortunately, I have to work every day. Possibly overtime now that Phoenix has been destroyed."

"See you later then."

Sonnet summoned her armour and teleported herself to the roof of a building across the street from the ruins of the Phoenix Building. Many people were gathered around the remains, even though it was early morning, but Blue couldn't see any Chronos staff. She began scanning the area with her sensor orbs, noting that there were a few fading life signs in the basement of the building, but no one that could threaten her. She activated her gravity orb and flew down to street level, remaining in the shadows as much as possible. She wasn't completely successful, however, as several of the people near the building noticed her. Reacting from this, she flew up, and positioned herself above the remains of the building and observed the crowd at the same time. Suddenly, her sensor orbs warned her of a presence behind her. She turned around, noticing Paul Kushtar hovering there, in his human form.

"So you are the third Guyver." He stated.

"Yes, I'm Guyver Blue," She replied, then feigned ignorance, "Who are you?"

"My name is Paul Kushtar, you and your friends have destroyed my Branch of Chronos. For that I'm going to kill you."

Sounds a little cliché! Blue thought as she activated her sonic swords.

"You can try Kushtar, I've been curious as to how powerful this armour of mine is."

"You don't stand a chance," Kushtar confidently said, "You'll be dead by sunrise."

"We'll see!"

In his human form, Kushtar fired an energy blast from his hand, similar to that of a weak mega-smasher blast. Blue quickly flew and moved herself so that she was behind him. She fired a few shots from her head laser into his back, these beams punched through his Chronos uniform, and the skin beneath. Blue could see these injuries were not serious and, based on what she knew about zoalords, would heal within an hour, at most.

"You're fast."

"I'm a lot stronger than Guyvers 1 and 3 are."

"Yes, I can tell. I was aware that you were stronger than the others, but I don't think you'll be a threat to us for much longer."

He must be referring to the new model of zoanoid that I'm supposed to start designing soon, Blue thought, He, and the other zoalords, will be very surprised when they see it's not a threat to me at all, I'll design it with weaknesses that I can exploit.

Blue then sheathed her swords, opened her hands and fired two pressure cannon gravity balls at him. This attack, although quite weak for a standard Guyver, was 4x more powerful for Blue. Kushtar was heavily injured by the blasts, as one ball blew his right arm off at the shoulder, taking a chunk out of his torso as well, while the second ball punched through a weak shield that he'd been able to generate, and rip through the lower part of the torso. Both injuries caused a large amount of blood to pour out of his body and fall towards the ground. Kushtar was quickly losing consciousness, but he managed to signal another zoalord, on the Ark, to teleport him on board, to safety.

[I'll kill you when I next see you, Guyver Blue.] He telepathically said as he vanished.

That sounded cliché too, Blue thought, I wonder how Imakarum Mirabilis will react to his defeat?

Blue scanned the area again as she vented steam out of her mouth vents, finding nothing of interest, she teleported back to her temporary home in Tokyo.