"NDS: Book 11: Chapter 75: Transformation"
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"Here goes!" Jet declared as he ran forward with the long hilt of his sword in hand. Bringing it from the side in a wave Jet let out his desire to protect Filgaia, "Raven's Wing!" As the metal panels along the floor and walls rip up due to the wind, Nobuo moves around the gust of wind, just barely, and quickly darted for the gray haired young man. With a swing of his sickle, Nobuo had missed Jet who moved to the left and with the Raven's Wing he then grazed the older man's right forearm, leaving a bloody slit behind in the flesh. Without a moment's hesitation as Jet seemed satisfied with what he had done, Nobuo was back in action. The man charged forward at Jet with his sickle, and in defense the Filgaia Sample could only block with the middle of his Raven's Wing. While he had successfully blocked, Jet was not prepared for the strike, and easily toppled over due to being off-balance. Once on the floor lying on his back, Jet was soon rolling away from downward thrusts made by Nobuo and his sickle. Jet quickly stood as he came out of a roll and turned to face Nobuo. "Raven's Wing!" The wind attack hit Nobuo dead-on, but the older man had blocked it by quickly using his energy wave to act as a shield. All Jet was able to do with his attack was send the black and green haired man flying into the wall.
"You'll have to have more luck than that!" Nobuo declared as he sent out a wave, sending to the floor in a plop. Jet landed on his feet like a cat though, so the moment he was out of the momentum Nobuo's attack caused, Jet was moving right back at Nobuo, swinging the Raven's Wing as Nobuo dodged by moving under it and then behind Jet. In that instance a wave emits and throws the android forward.
Jet quickly threw out his legs and made the turn around, "Raven's Wing!" Once more the floors and walls are ripped apart, but Nobuo survives it to Jet's dismay and annoyance.
"I've warned you before to not damage my precious Eon!" Nobuo erupted. "Eon demands that I punish you for the sins of damaging him!"
Jet shook his head in disbelief. Confirming what he had hoped against. "Any part of you worth saving is long gone and dead."
"Don't you understand, boy?" The older man roared. "This will be the end. The end to all humans, and I will start with you!"
Before either could move the whole body of Eon shook with a tremendous tremor. Once there was a brief pause, Jet looked around the dimly lit corridor. "What the?" Another tremor rocked the ship. "What the Hell is going on?"
Jet looked to Nobuo as he let out a maniacal laugh. "My dear Eon…will evolve to it's final form. The form I will use to wipe out all mankind."
Jet did not understand what the man meant, but as the ship continued to shake, he grew worried. When the sounds of machine whirring and gears came to his ears, he realized what was going on a bit better.
It was outside of Eon, on the Maxwell Gang's sandcraft that the view of what was going on was clear. Eon seemed to be expanding, and empty sections of the ship unfolded to display new weapons. In the end, it seemed that Eon would become much fiercer, but it's final form was just beginning to manifest.
"Defeating it will be so much harder now." Amigone announced sadly. She looks to Virginia and Clive. "I leave this in your very capable hands."
"Wait," Virginia gasped. "You mean to say that you're leaving?"
She nodded. "I'm no longer needed here with you four. I am with Gaea, and I must suffer the same fate as them. But no matter what…I will continue to support you. So if you're about to give up, just remember that I'll be right behind you, with a hand on your shoulder."
"But wait," Sakura interjected. "I just don't understand how we will win. How is it that we have 'very capable hands' and not you?"
"If you were not the ones capable of winning, then you wouldn't be here now. I'm sure as soon as the others return you will realize what to do." Amigone replied with a confident smile. "The one thing to remember, is that showing up is mostly what success is all about. I think it was ninety percent of success in fact. So…you've already done the hardest part." Amigone had by now had her back to the wall next to the door, and in the seconds after her last words, had already opened the doors. "Please, take care of Gallows and Shane for us. We probably won't be back to do so ourselves." With that she jumped backwards just in time to latch onto the Gaea sandcraft that was passing by. They passed along the purple harpoon wire that stretched for four miles as Eon had completed it's transformation from Generator, to a machine more suitable for genocide. It's beam cannon was thrust out in front for better aim and use, and there were missile launchers and two cannons ready and waiting from strategic spots along the ship. While the insides remained the same, for the most part, the outside was given a makeover. It's width had also increased, as it lowered it's body and spread the lower portions of the ship outwards to broaden it's reach. As soon as it was complete, Eon began to move slowly for the Ark.
In her confusion, Virginia dropped to her knees on the metal floor of the bridge. "But…I don't…understand what we should do now. How…how…how can I be the leader…if I can't even do this?"
"Virginia," Sakura softly said as the brunette looked to her. "Do you see those purple beams that keep hitting Eon, even if they don't seem to do anything?" Virginia looked away from the floor to see another one of Adven's Negative Cannon attacks fire from above.
Virginia stared even after the blast had passed and a new one hit Eon. She nodded and stood upward, leaving her doubts on the floor. "Right, listen up. Our only option is to keep on attacking, keep on fighting, until either Eon or ourselves remain." She ordered with confidence. "Adven hasn't given up, and he keeps on trying, even though there is no point to it. Maybe the best battles to take up are the ones without that sort of thing, but I know, that as long as we are doing the right thing, we can win." She looked to Clive. "We've fought enemies like this before, where it looked like we had no chance, and we did pull through that, injuries and all."
Clive fixed his glasses. "It's good to have you back again, Virginia."
"Tell me, what is Gaea up to?" Virginia wondered.
"See for yourself. Even though we're being towed by Eon, we can see along the right side of it." Sakura pointed ahead at the smaller sandcraft. Gaea was quickly burning their engines to the brink to pull ahead of the slowly accelerating Eon. Finally the ship gets in front and the Gang loses it's view, but hear and see the shots Gaea fires at the front of Eon. But soon after that came the flash of Eon's beam weapon, as Gaea was shattered apart into just a burnt-out hull. And like the Ark of Destiny Navy before it, the Gaea was soon run over and crushed. While it had been impossible for the Maxwell Gang to see that, they could see the hull as they passed it later on.
No one spoke, and Adven halted his insane attempts just to look at the ex-vessel. There were no chance of survivors, and suddenly, the Gang felt very alone. What allies they had left had no vanished from the face of Filgaia. Clive hung his head as he wiped the left lens of his glasses with a handkerchief. Sakura felt her stomach sink as she did as well to her seat. With a paleness to her she stared forward, "Just…like that? Is that…how easy…it is to become nonexistent?" She muttered quietly, but everyone heard her aside from Adven who was not inside. "You…spend so much time to exist…and…it's over just like the flame on a candle."
Clive stood firmly as he walked up and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Death may be quick, but you want it to be that way. Life is the thing that you want to keep on going, but…we all know that life is destined to end, and new ones begin." He comforted her as he ran his hand along her shoulder.
She placed her hand on his which caused it to stop. "Don't you…don't you die on me." He creased his brow in confusion. "Something about you…tells me…that you will become important to me in the future." She simply concluded and she understood that he agreed.
"So…Clive, you seem to understand this all the most." Virginia began. "I want to know all our possible options to win."
"Our best bet, is to do like Amigone told us, and wait for the others." He remarked. "It's not like I would like for them to be in there when we attacked anyway. If we can get them back here we can attack without guilt."
Gallows suddenly erupted with a sneeze. "You okay?" Carole wondered as they walked through some tattered hallways that looked like they were stripped. Sparks were shed from a damaged wire that was exposed in the wall. "Looks like Nobuo and Jet were really going at it." She remarked. They had come to the setting of Nobuo and Jet's fight, but the two were no longer present, for some reason.
The halls themselves had since grown quiet since the transformation, and the lights were mainly out when you got to where Jet and Nobuo fought. If the lights were not out, they flickered. Fluorescent bulbs cracked and falling from the ceiling. "I wouldn't want to get between those two if this is just what the area they fought in looks like."
The two noticed the hole in the wall at the end of the hall, and then the shadowy figure that came to a halt in front of it. "That's my daughter, is it not?"
"Yo, Emilia!" Gallows rudely called out as the young woman ran to meet with them. "Your mother came to her senses." He noted as Emilia looked at them silently.
"Emilia," Carole began, "I know you can not forgive me, but I hope that one day you will."
"Mother…I…I don't know my past, and what happened between us…but I know what I know…and based on that…I can forgive you." Emilia hung her head. "I saw father, here in Eon."
"Clyde?" Carole questioned with a smile and hope, as her memories began playing scenes she had recorded.
"He's dead, mother. He…he…he died…right in my arms. Right after we had reunited." Gallows noticed that a tear ran down her face and fell to the floor, and beside him the older woman held her breath. "Eon…Eon killed him without hesitation."
Carole remained like stone. Her heart cracked, and fell to her knees. "No…that…that can't be…because…because he and I. We're supposed to be together. We were meant to move back home, and we would pick…pick right back up, and…we would have our daughter…and peace…no, this can't be right."
Gallows watched the two women and became fed up. "Listen here!" The two looked to him at the sound of his loud and obnoxious voice, that seemed harsh to them. "You both can live without him, just as you have for all these years. You seem to forget that you both still have each other, and if that's not enough, there's me and the others as well. So no matter how weak you feel, you can't give in to emotions such as these you feel now. I'm sure he wouldn't want to have you both acting like this over him."
Silence enveloped the corridors once more. "Mother," Emilia began, "Gallows is right. We still have one another. In the end, that's all we can hope for. So…please, be strong one more time."
Carole weakly nodded as she used Gallows to stand up once more, but her body remained weak and her heart broken. "Where are Jet and Nobuo?" She questioned softly.
"That's not important." Emilia interjected. "We have to go back to the sandcraft."
"How do you plan to get to that when we're in the middle of the damn ocean?" Gallows blurted.
Emilia grinned. "Don't worry. Help my mother along, and follow me. We're going to the stern rooftop."
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Some reason this chapter felt very odd. The reason Eon's final form sounds odd and vague is because even though I wrote it, I never actually drew or designed Eon in any form other than the Inner Eon form. I have drawn what SAND would look like (the name of the ship the heroes of NDS use, which differs from what you see in this story). Still, while I can imagine what Eon would look like in it's first form, I have very little idea what it's second form would be. This chapter also set up a plot in Book 12, so I had to add that for Sakura and Clive. I'm not going to lie or cover it up, because it's not much of a spoiler, but Sakura, being the bastard daughter she is, never had a father figure, so Clive, being the father figure of the Maxwell Gang, will become a father to her, because even though she is an adult, she is a fragile person, and she wants that father she never had. So in Book 12, don't be surprised if she calls him Father for real. It was also hard to have Carole and Emilia meet back up, because that never happened in NDS, plus, it is a difficult thing to get across, because not only are they meeting back together after being estranged for so long, Emilia also has to have the news that Clyde is dead. All hard things to get across, and at two in the morning it's even harder. But thanks for reading anyway, and I'm sure someone will review, so thank you for that, even though NDS shifts between being good and understandable, to crappy and making no sense. Plus it seems like the character's personalities are altering with each chapter, but hey, it is a stressful thing, and they've been at this since the early morning, and next chapter I will be telling you the sun will be rising, so they have been at this same fight for hours…
Well, at least 5 hours from when Nobuo comes to take the Twilight Lone to the next chapter.