Author: Nadz
Email: vegitto02 at yahoo dot com

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DragonTek (Part III: The Vengeance Saga)

Chapter 34 – Shadow in the Night

The man landed on the ground, and he froze by what he saw. Before him lay the body of his long time team member. Tears welled in Shinjo's eyes as he knelt over his friend, Gecko. His face had been completely mutilated, and he was covered in thick blood. Shinjo couldn't bear the sight anymore and walked over to Peric and Rubiko, both murdered in the most brutal of fashions. One by one, he walked towards each member of his team, silently paying them his last respects. He cried tremendously, for this was the team he had trained, and these were the men who had accompanied him on many missions on Io. They were caring souls, respectful of human life and safety.

"Junto…" Shinjo stopped short of the youth's mangled body, only to lose control and collapse to the ground, weeping hard for the teenager. He raised his fists and slammed them to the dirt, cursing himself for not being able to protect his crew.

'What did they ever do to deserve this? They didn't want to leave their families back home…'

Shinjo cried, burying his head in his hands.

'But they still came here for me… and this is how I repaid them…'

"Tekkaman Blood…" he seethed, raising his head and wiping away his tears. "I will kill you…"

"It's too bad you won't get that chance," the voice said, its host lowering to the grass in front of the knelt Shinjo. The man looked up through his tears and recognized the form of Tekkaman Spear standing before him. The Radam gripped his weapon and pointed it at his target.

"You fucking Radam…" Shinjo choked, getting up. "You bloodthirsty murderers…"

Spear backed away several steps, for a white aura materialized around the enraged man. Shinjo's eyes became red with fury, and his hair appeared to stand more upright. He let out an enormous roar as he continued to burst forth with chi. Without wasting another moment, Spear thrust his spear out at the man, who grabbed the handle of the weapon and jabbed its blunt end back at his attacker.

"I'm saving my power for Blood," Shinjo rasped. "And not wasting it on a weakling like you!"

Shinjo threw out a punch towards Spear, who blocked it easily with his left hand. Shinjo widened his eyes and realized that he and this Tekkaman must have been of similar fighting power. However, there was no way Spear would have blocked it without having felt some pain.

'It's because I'm not as strong as my cousins; Vegita and Kenshin could easily trash him,' he thought as he jumped and attempted to deliver a roundhouse at Spear's head. The Radam ducked in time and lashed out with his lance, grazing Shinjo on the leg. Shinjo stepped back and regained his balance, his face reflecting the light of the moon shining down.

"I thought I recognized you," Spear said. "You were one with Blade when you decided it would be nice to injure my brother Saber. I think you deserve a beating; big brother has come to hunt you down."

Shinjo only gritted his teeth, realizing that he had to get out of there or else he would be seriously injured again. His body was still weakened from his last fight, and he wasn't doing so well in this one either. But then his eyes widened with rage, for Spear had kicked Junto's body while laughing. That was it; he had enough. Shinjo lunged for Spear and stuck out his right arm in order to release a chi blast.

"What!" Shinjo gasped as he felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder blade. Blood seeped from his wound, and he reached up to feel the object that had hit him. It was sharp but disk-shaped, and it had several small spikes sticking out from it. In fact, some of these spikes had burrowed into his back.

"The star of a ninja," he softly deduced.

"You're absolutely correct," Spear replied. "You're good at recognizing weapons."

'Where did it come from?' Shinjo wondered as he unsuccessfully attempted to remove it with his free hand. 'Spear is in front of me, so there is no way he could have done that. Regardless…'

Shinjo lunged again, attacking with his left hand, and this time, there were no interruptions. The man somersaulted over Spear, who thrust his lance upwards. Shinjo dodged and delivered a strong side-kick to Spear's backside. The Radam grunted as he was knocked forwards, but he turned and swiped at the man's torso. Shinjo jumped above him and came down with an axe kick, nailing him on the shoulder.

"That hurt, you bastard!" Spear roared as he staggered back, clutching the area.

Shinjo continued to burn with the white aura, and he jumped into the air, ready to deliver a big chi blast upon his opponent. However, this time there was an interruption – Shinjo twisted and fell to the dirt. Out of nowhere, a larger and thicker ninja star had buried itself in his chest. The man grunted in anguish.

"Brat, I would like to introduce you to Tekkaman Shuriken," chuckled Spear. Shinjo breathed heavily as he saw a black armored warrior step out from the surrounding woods, moving like a shadow.

Tekkaman Blood turned around one last time, studying the result of her labor. Although she could not bring herself to harm the children, she showed no mercy to their parents. Dozens of mangled, dead bodies lay behind her as she used a man's shirt to wipe the dripping blood that coated her jagged lance.

"You all deserved your fate," she whispered, thinly smiling. "You tried to hide from my Radam family like cowards, but now you will never be able to hide from anybody ever again. What a shame..."

With that, Alena exited the bunker and retrieved Kotukari. She took to the sky for her next target.

'Okaasan… Nio… Okaasan… Nio…' were the words racing through Kenshin's mind as he flew towards his house in Japan. Only one thing mattered now – making sure his mother and sister were safe.

"Two on one seems a bit unfair, doesn't it?" Spear asked in a low voice. "Just as when you and Blade teamed up together against my poor brother?"

Shinjo spit in pain as he managed to remove the weapon from his chest. He felt more of his blood drip out of the wound and remembered that his shoulder blade was still bleeding from the first ninja star. He still had to remove that weapon or else his right arm would soon be immobilized.

"All you Radam deserve to die," Shinjo growled as he threw the ninja star at Spear, who knocked it aside easily with his own weapon. Shuriken stepped towards the fallen Shinjo and stopped before him.

"Naturally you'd feel that way after seeing your men dead," Shuriken said. "What is your name?"

"Fuck you," Shinjo spit. 'I can't waste time with these two; if Blood collects all of the balls, we're history. I need to get at least one so she can't get all seven, but I'll have to get away from these two first.'

"A rude fellow, you are," Spear chuckled. "Anyway, it seems you're not much of a fight for us. It's good that you came all the way out here, leaving your friends undefended this time."

"What?" Shinjo gave Spear his full attention.

"I've sent two others, Tekkamen Scimitar and Tekkaman Masamune, over to the area where you had fought Saber. I figured that Blade and Miyuki would be around there somewhere," Spear answered.

"Your bastard soldiers won't be able to find them."

"Don't worry, they have methods for drawing them out," Spear said as he raised his spear above his head. "But for you, there will be no hiding place. I'll just bury you right here with your men."

Shinjo just got out of the way as Spear drilled his weapon downwards. Shuriken lunged towards Shinjo and struck out with a short sword, but Shinjo managed to get out of the blade's path. Shuriken followed the man, who blew past the two Radam warriors and headed for one of his fallen men. Shinjo noticed that the scouter lying in Namite's hand was still intact, and he grabbed it from his fallen friend. He quickly fitted it to his face and turned around, only to notice Shuriken fire several ninja stars out from her arm. Shinjo used a chi blast to knock them all away, and he held his fingers along the side of his face.

"Taiyo-ken!" he yelled as he used the bright glow from the moon to saturate the space with a brilliant white light. Shuriken and Spear grunted in pain as they floated in the air and used their hands to cover their eyes; they cursed at Shinjo for having blinded them so easily.

After one last look, Shinjo took to the sky in search of the remaining Dragonballs.

"Now for the two-star ball," Alena sang sweetly to herself as she flew towards the appropriate direction. Giru, a witness to its new owner's cold-bloodedness, stayed silent for the majority of the trip. He did not like her at all, for she was much too vicious for him. He remembered how Pan used to abuse him, but now he considered her extremely angelic in comparison to this girl he was currently helping.

'What was that?' Alena thought to herself, suddenly stopping mid-flight. Hovering in the air, she extended her chi and tried to capture what she had just felt seconds ago. 'It's a chi… a very strong chi headed north of here. In fact, nobody else can possess this chi except for… Kenshin…'

Alena turned north and flew in that direction, keeping her own chi level at an undetectable level.

'I'm coming for you, boy,' she smiled wickedly, and her eyes glowed with glee.

"This is the city nearest to their old base, isn't it?" asked Tekkaman Masamune to his comrade.

"Yeah, and the traitors Blade and Rapier were around here, weren't they?"

"According to Saber and Spear," Masamune replied, studying the city below. The late afternoon had arrived, and sunset was due in an hour. Masamune considered that to be plenty of time for their task.

"Let's start, Masamune," Scimitar said as he lowered to the ground. He observed that the city was quite active, but that was expected since the last bugger invasion occurred over three weeks ago.

'I suppose life has come back to normal around here, but we'll change that rather quickly.'

Citizens stopped short in their tracks and screamed as the two Tekkamen flew above them. Their eyes flashed a menacing red as they generated their deadly weapons. Scimitar noticed a bald man's eyes grow with fear as Scimitar brandished a scimitar while Masamume materialized a masamune from his body. Cars crashed into one another, and people on the street began to flee as the two swooped down.

"Wait, Scimitar," Masamune suddenly interrupted him. "Do not kill any of them."

"Why the fuck not?" Scimitar shot back with a sneer. "They're stupid humans!"

"Yes, but they are also feed for the plants surrounding this city. Tonight the plants will strike, and it would be unfortunate that we took away potential captors," Masamune explained.

"Yeah, whatever, I'm not going to listen to you. I'm here to terrorize, and people don't feel fear unless they're faced with death. If you don't wanna kill 'em, I don't care. Do whatever the hell you want."

"Imbecile," Masamune replied as he brought his sword down upon an empty car, splitting it into two and causing it to explode. At the same time, Scimitar ran after the bald man and cleaved him into clean halves. Masamune shook his head in disapproval, and Scimitar flashed him his eye.

"You're all going to die today!" yelled Scimitar, laughing with glee upon seeing people flee.

Miyuki continued to worry about her friend as she rejoined her brother and Aki. Milly and Levin had both gone to the labs to work on designing the Sol Tekkaman units. Miyuki began to feel hungry and even a bit dizzy. Kenshin's running off like that did her no good either; it only stressed her even more.

"Miyuki, are you alright?" Takaya asked, touching her shoulder.

"Yes," she responded. Her brother could see the stress on her face, which had become a bit paler.

"You don't look so good," Aki said gently, as she put her hand on Miyuki's forehead.

"I'm fine!" Miyuki replied in a tenser voice. 'I can't break Takaya's heart now.'

Her thoughts were interrupted as they heard Milly's voice through the intercom.

"Hey, you all, turn on the television now!" her high-pitched voice squealed.

"What the…" Takaya said when the picture appeared. It was a special news report, showing live footage of the damage being laid to the city. They watched in concern as the camera showed people fleeing from the streets. They gasped as they saw a brown-armored being step in front of the camera and face it.

"Another Tekkaman," Aki said in shock. "And it's not Spear or Saber."

"I hope you're watching this, Blade," Scimitar said as Masamune joined him. "You and your renegade sister better come out right now, or else more people will end up looking like this trash."

"You bastard!" Takaya yelled, seeing Scimitar pick up and show the two halves of the slain bald man. Scimitar laughed as he tossed them aside, and he dug his weapon into the skull of the news reporter covering the story on scene. Blood splattered onto the lens of the camera, and Scimitar flashed a red eye.

"Don't worry about that shithead," Scimitar laughed. "He was stupid enough to come out here."

"Brother," Miyuki said, disgusted. "We have to stop them!"

"No, Miyuki, you stay here," Blade snapped back. "Your arm is still injured."

"Those people out there will be more than injured if both of us don't go," she pleaded.

"Then stay far away from fighting, Miyuki. Just come, but don't fight," Blade responded. Within moments, Takaya sprinted towards the room in which they had kept Pegas. Miyuki ran for the base's exit.

'People cannot die because of me,' she thought as she arrived outside. "Tek—"

As Miyuki pulled out her transformation crystal, she doubled over. She lost her balance and fell to her knees, starting to cough violently. Miyuki looked at her hand and gasped – she had coughed up blood.