Author: Nadz
Email: vegitto02 at yahoo dot com
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DragonTek (Part IV: The Justice Saga)
Chapter 52 - Rays of Death
'Who the hell is coming here?' Shinjo wondered, warily waiting by the mountainside. He looked into the communicator and saw Aki's face. She definitely looked worried, but she had to stay composed.
"Aki, I think you should get out of there as quickly as you can," he said. "Evacuate the base."
"If we do, we'll just be exposed outside," Aki replied, stressed. "We're better protected inside."
"I'll stay out here then. If I can distract this Tekkaman until the others arrive, that's enough."
"But isn't a powerful one coming?" she asked, concerned. "What if it's stronger than the others?"
"Aki, I faced Tekkaman Blood," he replied, his eyes narrowing as he felt a fighting aura approach rapidly. 'Usually Tekkamen don't have fighting auras, but this one does. That means that this one has chi control, but it doesn't feel like Alena's chi at all. Who the hell could this be?'
"Like I said," Shinjo continued, but Aki had already noticed his distracted look, "I'll be fine."
"Shinjo, why are you doing this?" Aki said. "How're you so sure when you haven't faced it yet?"
"I will survive," he said determinedly, "because I won't leave you behind to mourn my death."
"Shinjo…" Aki trailed, her throat tight. For some reason, she was feeling deathly worried about him, and her chi was feeling very uneasy. She was about to say something, but Shinjo got distracted again.
"It's here, Aki," he whispered. As the object came closer towards the mountain, Shinjo noticed its purplish armor and the black cape that flowed behind it. The Tekkaman was holding a robot like machine in his hand, and Plague threw the Unit to the ground below him as he faced Shinjo, hovering in the air.
"This mountain is the Space Knights' hidden base," Plague said. "Is my deduction accurate?"
"Hardly," Shinjo replied, his face absolutely serious.
"Then tell me where it is. Or I'll pick you apart until you squeal it out, you… you Saiya-jin?"
"Hm?" Shinjo asked himself, following the Tekkaman's red eyes, which were looking at the tail wrapped around his own waist. He quickly looked back up at him, and he heard him growl like an animal.
"I thought all of them have been killed!" Plague boomed. "But obviously you still remain. Alena destroyed all but you, but I guess I will have the pleasure of killing the last of the Saiya-jin people myself!"
"Last?" asked Shinjo, amused. "You don't even know what the hell you're talking about."
"Insulting me like that was a rash move on your part," Plague threatened. "Explain yourself."
"You think we're all dead? Kenshin and Alena are alive… and fighting far away from here."
"WHAT!" Plague barked. 'She should have bled to death soon after I left for Earth!'
"So guess what?" Shinjo started, positioning himself in a stance, "We ain't dead yet."
"SAIYA-JIN!" Plague roared as he took out his weapon, which changed from a rod to a battle-axe. Bezel charged at Shinjo, who flared with white aura and lunged at the Tekkaman. Plague took a calculated swing, but Shinjo dodged it. The man staggered back several feet, for the axe had nicked him on the leg. Shinjo appeared behind Bezel, but Plague spun and back-fisted him hard in the face. Shinjo backed up.
'Bastard,' he thought, feeling his blood trickle. 'I'll have to fight my hardest against him.'
'Shinjo…' Aki prayed in the Mission Room, watching the battle on the view screen.
"Ryu Tsui Sen!" Kenshin yelled as he swung Akoutari sharply downwards towards Blood's left collarbone. Alena blocked with Kotukari and swiped her lance across Kenshin's abdominal region.
'It's only a superficial wound,' he thought as he grabbed his wound. 'But it burns like hell.'
"That's what you deserve for using stupid moves on me," Alena chuckled. "It was using them that nearly got you killed last time. And it was using stupid moves that certainly got your father killed as well!"
"Otosan," Kenshin whispered as the memory played back in his head. 'I was so useless in that battle; I merely watched my father helplessly die. If only I did something to save him… It's my fault…'
His thoughts were interrupted as Blood charged him again. This time, she threw her lance directly at him. Kenshin knocked it away with his sword, but that left him open to her next strike. Alena switched Kotukari to her right hand and swung it with all her strength, hoping to cut him open. However, he used his free left hand to fire a potent energy blast directly into her face. He breathed a sigh of relief as Alena got knocked backwards in the air; she retreated for two hundred feet before she could shake off his beam.
When the vision cleared in front of her, Kenshin was nowhere to be seen. Immediately, she spun around, blocking his vicious strike with Kotukari. The two struggled, trying to press their blades against each other, and the edges of Kotukari and Akoutari sparked. Kenshin soon realized that he had both of his hands gripped to the hilt of his sword, but Blood had been clutching her sword only with her right hand.
'Damn!' he thought quickly to himself. 'Her left hand is free…'
"NOVA ATTACK!" Blood yelled as the powerful blast sprung from her hand and smashed into his chest. The boy let out cry as the energy ball forced him to crash violently into the ground below. The attack exploded upon his impact with the dirt, thus sending a barrage of rocks and other debris spewing into their air. Goku and Vegita could hear their cousin's cries, but they could only wait until the dust settled.
"KENSHIN!" Rapier cried out. When the light faded away, only a massive pile of rocks and other debris filled the crater caused by the attack. There was no sign of him, and she felt her stomach sink again.
'Not again… please don't let this have happened…' she prayed before angrily turning towards Blood. "Are you happy now, you beast? Trying to kill your own cousin? Your own flesh and blood?"
"Don't irritate me, Tekkaman Rapier," Blood snapped back. "I rather like the idea of having female Tekkamen around. It would be a shame if you were removed from that miniscule population."
"Alena!" Vegita barked as he began to power up, feeling the familiar aura of a Super Saiya-jin flaring around his own body. "What you have done is unforgivable. I won't let you go unpunished!"
"Brother," Alena chuckled, ignoring her lance lying on the ground below as she tightened her grip on Kotukari. "I'd never think I would fight you like this, especially since we are family…"
"Family?" he yelled back. "You killed our mother, you bitch! You don't have any fucking family anymore! And after this fight, you're not going to have a fucking life either!"
"Come then," she smirked, watching him furiously approach.
'So amusing, these people, really…' Saber thought as he watched the three simultaneous battles. 'Look at my sister, Miyuki, standing so innocently there with Goku. And over there are my two brothers hacking at each other. I really don't know who will win that one. Shuriken with this human girl is also questionable, but I think Mieko will pull through at the end. I really do want to fight, but if I get involved, I might miss something grand. It's best if I just stand and let them entertain me with their combat.'
Saber then focused on his brothers, who fought each other with vicious energy. Both had inflicted cuts on the other's armor, and they battled equally. The one who depleted his stamina first would lose.
'You and Saber made me turn against this planet; you made me murder people,' Blade thought, swiping at Spear's legs. But Kengo whirled his lance in the opposite direction and smashed it against his brother's, effectively blocking it. Both continued to pant under their armor. Kengo hurled his spear like a javelin, but Blade avoided it in time. Using a small energy-whip, Kengo retrieved his spear and grasped it.
"One would never think that brothers would fight each other so viciously," Spear breathed hard.
"One would never think that you would betray our people like you did," Blade shot back, and he took the opportunity to charge forward. Spear readied himself, and the two resumed. It was a matched fight – strike after strike, parry after parry, evasion after evasion. The Aiba brothers battled with ferocity.
"You stupid monkey," Plague grunted as he took another hack at Shinjo. The Saiya-jin had begun to get on his nerves, for he was actually making the Radam work. Shinjo easily dodged Bezel's attack and appeared behind him. With a grunt, Shinjo kicked the warrior in his backside, and Plague lurched forward.
"You're really annoying me," Plague said, turning around. The Radam's backside was facing the mountain, seventy feet below. Slightly above in the air was Shinjo, who smirked knowing that he was doing all that he expected of himself – just buying time. Yet, he gulped as Plague disappeared from view.
'He's got to be behind me,' Shinjo thought as he spun, quickly dodging to his side as the battle-axe whiffed by his left. 'Damn shit, that was close! I would've been gone! That weapon of his is giving him too much of an advantage. I have to figure out a way to get rid of it. Yes, that's it; that's what I'll—'
Before he could complete his thought, Bezel appeared in front of him and smashed his armored fist into Shinjo's other cheek, cracking it. The man howled in pain as blood flew out, and Plague cocked his arm for a lethal swing. He swung, and the axe's head approached the man's chest closer and closer…
'Now!' Shinjo thought, quickly forming the extra chi he'd been gathering into a kien-zan. With a flick of the wrist, the razor sharp energy disk cut through the pole of the axe, severing off its deadly head.
"How'd you like that, you stupid ass?" Shinjo chuckled, seeing the head fall away harmlessly.
"You've annoyed me enough!" Plague replied gravely. "Now let me show you a real weapon."
"What?" Shinjo asked, only to soon find out. Bezel opened his armored palm and fired a potent chi blast at him, speedily knocking him backwards and downwards. The man, as well as he energy blast that directed him, painfully crashed into the side of the mountain. A huge explosion resulted in which rocks and debris were sprayed into the air. Shinjo screamed as the blast burned him; it was all too familiar a feeling. He soon fell towards the base of the mountain and was knocked senseless by the falling stones.
"You shouldn't have called me a stupid ass, stupid ass," Bezel snorted. 'What a way to die…'
As Plague looked back towards the side of the mountain, his eyes widened with discovery. The blast had blown away the rocks covering a metal wall, exposing it clearly. Bezel began to fire more blasts.
"Shinjo," Aki cried as she witnessed the explosion detonate around her brother. The base shook violently, and she fell to her knees. The view screen buzzed with static, and even the lights around the room faded in and out. Space Knight personnel quickly evacuated the room, fearful for their lives. They had been survivors of the last Tekkaman attack, and they didn't want to be anywhere nearby this time.
"Brother…" she whispered as she tried to stand up. "I know you're alive… you have to be…"
"Holy Jesus!" Balzac gasped as he rolled out of bed upon feeling the vibrations. He tried to stand on his feet, but the floor continued to rumble. 'What the hell? Is there an earthquake going on here?'
Suddenly the door opened, and a security guard screamed at Balzac with fear.
"Get the hell out of here!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, terrified.
"What's going on?" Balzac pressed, still in a mournful state over the death of his loved ones.
"The base is under attack by another Tekkaman," the man replied, his breathing heavy and his heart racing. "You're free; just get the heck out of this place or else you'll get killed. See you, Balzac!"
Stepping out of the room, Balzac could see him running down the hall, screaming his head off.
'I've got to get out of here,' he thought, remembering the last time this had happened.
"Gotcha!" Vegita yelled, delivering a strong kick to the back of her head. Alena somersaulted forward due to the impact and tried to shake off the dizziness that ensued. Vegita pursued her again, and this time he tried to strike her from the top. Raising his clamped fists together high in the air, he planned to smash them down on her facemask. Alena looked up, witnessing the fury that flared in her brother's eyes.
Alena thrust Kotukari upwards, preventing him from carrying out his attack, and she managed to graze his forearm in the process. Vegita didn't let up, however. He reappeared at her side, landing a strong kick to her left ribs. Blood flew rightwards due to it, but she soon regained her stance and her balance.
"Alena, how could you forget us? How could you forget our father's cruel death?" Vegita demanded, his voice scraping. "How could you go on to kill our mother, the woman who loved us?"
"O…Otosan… Okaasan," Alena said, then firmed her jaw. "They deserved it, those Saiya-jin."
"Imbecile!" Vegita said, charging her again. Before this Radam conflict, he had easily been stronger than her. He used to train with her often, but he would always win. Yet, he noticed the golden aura about her, realizing she had reached his level of strength. The two crashed into one other; Vegita had smashed his fist in her stomach, but she had smashed her knee in the area where no man should ever be hit.
"SHIT!" Vegita howled as he bent over in pain. He felt so stupid; he should have seen it coming, especially after he had been gaining the upper hand. Taking advantage, Alena smashed her fist into his face. His body twisted to the side at the strength of her blow, and she continued to sock him in his ribs.
"You bitch!" cried Vegita as he writhed in pain, backing away from her. "That was so low!"
"Don't blame it all on that particular one," Alena replied, her voice purring. "At full strength, you may be stronger than me, but now, you're nothing. You're going to lose by our trademark technique."
"Oh… fucking… shit," Vegita said, realizing at once what she was going to do. He weakly raised his hand, gathered some energy, and fired. But Alena dodged it effortlessly and stuck her own palm out…
"BIG BANG… ATTACK!" Alena yelled as it erupted from her palm and sped for him. Vegita cursed and mustered his strength to counter, but his retaliatory blast was too puny. The Big Bang absorbed it and slammed into him. Vegita shrieked in agony and felt himself being plowed into the ground, causing another crater. He lay in the middle of it, badly injured and unmoving. Alena nodded with satisfaction.
"Now, I will show you why the Radam will always be better than the Saiya-jin!" Blood called, gripping her sword. Firing her thrusters, she blasted herself towards him, ready to create another casualty.
She didn't even get within fifty feet of him before she felt a strong kick land hard in her exposed midsection. Alena suddenly stopped her attack as she whirled to her left, and she gasped upon recognizing the identity of her attacker. There he stood, in his damaged clothes, ready to do battle. The look on his face was one of determination, yet there was a glint of hope written in his eyes. He had come for her.
"Son Goku!" she said, frowning underneath her visor. "I didn't expect such a move from you."
"He's your own brother," Goku replied as he relaxed his stance. "He was defenseless."
"You shouldn't have interfered. You owe me for saving you back there," she replied grimly.
"Yes, and I'll return the favor by saving you from Radam," he said. "They've only kept you as a slave, Alena. Look inside of you, and you'll find your real self. Bring it out, and remove their influence!"
"Don't preach to me, Goku," she said, hesitating a bit. "But I don't know if I want to fight you."
"If you keep this up, then the battle between us will be inevitable, my love," he nodded sternly.
"I have to kill the Saiya-jin," she replied, her voice starting to quiver. "I have to prove myself."
"Prove yourself to who?" Goku shot back. "You should prove yourself to those who care."
"People who care?" Alena replied sharply. "I will prove myself to Bezel-sama and Radam, and I'll show them how grand an Empress I can be! If you truly love me, Goku, then don't stand in my way!"
"I do truly love you, Alena, and standing in your way is my way of showing my feelings."
"Then, my… love… I have no other choice but to do this," Blood sneered, crouching into a stance. Goku stood calmly, refusing to adopt one. Alena noticed this and hesitated before rushing in for an attack.
"Oh, Kami…" Aki whispered as Plague tore through eight layers of reinforced steel and created a hole opening to the Mission Room. He landed hard on the floor and looked at her trembling form. Aki tried to back away into the corridor behind her, but she found that she could hardly move due to the fear.
"I remember you," Plague said, emitting a soft chuckle. "You're Kisaragi Aki, that young lady that restored humanity back into Tekkaman Blade. Saber told me about your special ability to do that, and I find it rather odd that a human has that sort of ability. Tell me, do you have any special type of ancestry?"
"No, I don't even know what you could mean by special," she replied, her voice quivering. 'So this is what Chief Freeman must have felt like – being trapped in a room with a bloodthirsty Tekkaman…'
"Liar," Bezel chuckled, stepping towards her and generating a weapon that looked identical to Blade's. "It won't matter, since I will kill you shortly. I just thought it would be fitting that you would die by his weapon. Just imagine how devastated he'd feel knowing you were murdered while he was away."
"Get away from me!" Aki yelled firmly, backing into the hallway until she reached solid wall. To her left and right, the passage extended for many meters. Plague stepped closer, pointing the lance at her.
"Before you die, I'll let you know that I'm Bezel, the same being you saw when you converted Blade back to your side. Now, rest in hell!" he spat before thrusting his lance at her. Aki closed her eyes in terror, and Bezel heard the stomach-churning sound of his lance tearing through human bones and flesh.
Blade and Spear circled each other. Both had been fighting for a long time, and it was clear that their match was coming to a draw, for they were showing signs of apparent weariness. Spear snorted.
'This has been going on forever,' Spear thought. 'We'll both reach a stalemate at this rate!'
'This has dragged on for too long,' Blade muttered in his mind. 'Time to end this now.'
"VOL-TEKKER!" they yelled in unison as they simultaneously revealed their blaster cannons and fired the crystalline energy towards each other at point-blank range. All the warriors that had been fighting paused their battles in order to witness the showdown – Goku and Alena halted, as did Shuriken and Saki.
'This is it,' Goku thought. 'The first person that gives out will be completely destroyed.'
"TAKAYA!" Spear yelled as he struggled to maintain the volley from his shoulder cannons. Kenshin had severed one of them, but he had grown it back in a healing spore pod on the Orbital Ring.
The two Tekkamen stood at most eighty feet apart and could not even see the other's face due to the energy. As Spear continued his attack, he remembered his adolescent days; they had been the most fun for him. He continued to remember the moments with his family – with mother, father, Takaya, Shinya, and Miyuki. His past had come back to haunt him now, but that didn't stop him from fighting at his best.
"KENGO!" Blade yelled, also struggling. He winced as the memories of his childhood also entered his mind. Their mother had died when he was young, so he didn't remember much of her. Yet, he felt a strange feeling pass through him, for the result of this contest would decide which of Aiba Kouza's children would die first. Blade remembered that his father instructed him of his importance, and there was no way he was going to fail his friends and the Space Knights. Then, Kengo's beam began to weaken…
"NOW!" Blade boomed. With a roar, he released a massive surge of energy towards Spear. All watched silently as the green crystalline beam overpowered Spear's orange one and smashed into him. The elder of the brothers shrieked in agony, only to see his younger brother hurl an item at him with great force.
In an instant, the lance of Tekkaman Blade tore through him, straight through his abdomen and out his backside. Kengo's mouth hung open with shock, and blood began to trickle out. The last of Blade's crystalline beam burned him before fading, and the Radam crashed to the ground, unable to move anymore.
"Kengo," Takaya whispered, and everyone else fell silent. Blade lowered softly to the dirt and knelt besides his fallen brother. Tekkaman Spear had finally been defeated, and Saber felt the anger well up inside of him. Seconds later, Kengo's armor faded away, only to reveal his human body lying weakly on the ground. Miyuki gasped upon seeing the large hole torn into his abdomen, and she too knelt by him.
"KENGO!" Shuriken shrieked as she flew down by his side and de-transformed. Blade knelt on the opposite side, and Mieko viciously glared at the man who had killed her lover. Takaya watched as Mieko desperately squeezed Kengo's hand, and the woman smiled sadly and desperately.
"Takaya," Kengo gasped, struggling to breathe as he said his departing words. "I am finally free –free from the bondage from which Mieko and Shinya still suffer. I am human again, Miyuki."
"Oniisan," Miyuki cried as she watched over her dying brother. A solitary tear dropped from her cheek and splashed itself on his forehead. The young man looked upwards at his sister and smiled.
"Miyuki," he whispered, coughing. "Be strong, my sister. I will always love you…"
"Kengo!" Mieko whispered, her throat tight. "You can't leave me like this…"
"My dear Mieko," Kengo whispered, smiling at her. "You have a long life ahead of you. You have someone to take care of. Take care of that person for me, and give that person my love."
"Yes, I will. I promise, Kengo," she said tearfully. She quickly brought her face down towards his and softly planted her lips onto his. Takaya and Miyuki watched them shared their final kiss – a kiss signifying their final separation. Mieko soon slowly raised her teary-eyed face away from a sad Kengo.
"Brother," he struggled to raise his left arm. Blade opened his mouth, seeing Spear's orange Tek-crystal lying in his hand. "Take my crystal. Merge it with your own, and it will amplify your powers. You will be stronger, Takaya. You'll be strong enough to beat the Radam and save Shinya from them as well."
"Kengo… I'm so sorry I hurt you…" Blade whispered, his tears welling as he accepted the item.
"Brother…" Miyuki whispered, squeezing Kengo's hand.
"Everybody, I am so sorry… for the wrongs I have done… and the crimes… I had committed as Spear… I love you all," he whispered. Seconds later, his eyes slowly closed, and he uttered his final word.
"Good bye…" he whispered before his soul departed from its physical container.
Mieko gasped, for she could not utter a word due to the lump in her throat. The young woman broke down completely right there in front of the fallen man's body, weeping heavily. She could not believe that he had left her already. There was only one person to blame for this – Tekkaman Blade.
'I will never forgive you, Takaya. You took him away,' she screamed in her mind as her head began to throb. Unable to control her grief any longer, Mieko soon collapsed unconscious on the ground. Miyuki, still crying, knelt by Mieko's side, taking care of her. Takaya continued to weep as well, unable to fight any more, and the remaining Aiba family member watched from a distance, lost in his thoughts.
'… I cannot believe my brother has been killed… my dear brother, Kengo… I must report this to Lord Omega at once,' Saber thought before he suddenly blasted upwards towards space. Everybody had turned to see where he had gone, but nobody attempted to follow. They all turned back around in order to gaze at Kengo's fallen body, lying magnificently in the light of the sun – as a fallen warrior's should.