"NDS: Book 12—Neon: Chapter 86: Past Sins"

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As I was thinking about it, Ken is a lot like Kanon from WA2. Just in the fact that they both have machine parts to them. Also, the wire-guided fist that she had is basically the same idea for Ken's Hammer Fist, just that the Hammer Fist is a lot bigger and has two studs that make the punch hurt even more. Other than that, it is his hand as well. The right one.

Also, up to chapter 92 isn't really far away and long. I mean, we're only six from it now, and I will tell you, I probably could have finished it by 90 like I wanted to, but then the story wouldn't be the same. It has to be separated instead of being in the same chapter. Chapter 92 is in fact, short itself, and is just the aftermath of everything.

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Clive came falling from the gray sky as he landed hard on a new rooftop as the last one he was on blew apart into the air. He was quickly on his feet and aiming his ARM at Ken who was coming down from the air after him. The shot Clive fired out was deflected by the armor on Ken's Hammer Fist.

"Accept the future, and your death, Clive." Ken grimly noted as he slowly walked toward his ex-partner. "You know you can't stop me or my plans."

"Humankind is stronger than you know, but not having much of it left I can understand how my words can confuse you." Clive mocked Ken. "The simple truth of the matter is that greed of the human heart is a sin, but it is a virtue as well. Humanity can change and cast off the greed that you have condemned them for, but your drones are constant."

In anger Ken fires his Hammer Fist off at Clive who dodges the attack as it landed into the roof, ripping a large hole. As the Fist came for the second attack Clive dodged them without even looking as the fist then return on it's invisible wire to Ken's right arm. "That's exactly the point!" Ken bellowed. "Emotionless with no minds of their own. It's too bad humans will never have that."

"And that is the reason they must die?"

Ken's left arms alters like the A-Type drone and a beam sword emits from it. "Yes, but first, you!" With his vernier Ken quickly moves his heavy body for Clive. Though he swung his blade, Clive was able to duck under it and roll away. "You have always laughed at me in my dreams!" Ken bitterly cried out as he keeps swinging the blade at Clive who is able to always be one step ahead and dodge it. In anger Ken let off his Hammer Fist causing Clive to immediately move to his right to dodge the right hand of Ken. However, that placed him right in the way of Ken's left arm that was his beam sword, and Ken quickly took advantage of the situation and slashed off Clive's right arm at the spot above his elbow. Clive jumped away as his left arm cradling his now right stub. "Humans are weak…just like your right arm was."

"I will…show you…just…urgh…how strong a human can be!" Clive declared as he kicked Ken off of the roof and into the adjacent building; shattering the windows. Glass shards broke apart and fell about the cyborg as a glass wedge showed itself jammed into Ken's left eye camera. "So be it…" Ken warned.

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Jet tapped a drone as it simply fell over onto itself. "Looks like these won't trouble us." Jet said as he noticed that all the drones had been shut off.

"Right…so what now?" Emilia questioned. "Find Virginia and get out of here?"

"Some reason…I don't think it will be that easy." Jet replied as he looked upwards.

"No?" Emilia questioned.

"Look." Jet nodded to the rooftop behind Emilia and she slowly turned to find a man with black hair that covered the right side of his face. It blew in the wind along with his yellow scarf. His body was much like Ken's however, but the armor was thinner and his design more like the A-Type drones who were built for hand-to-hand combat while the B-Types were for distance attacks.

"Who are you?" Emilia shouted out at the man. The man jumped from the roof to land before the two.

"You don't remember me, Emilia?" The part man-part machine grimly noted with a dark voice. "You're the one who replaced me…after leaving me for dead.

"Like I remember such a thing." Emilia scoffed.

The cyborg let out a mocking laughter. "So the rumors are true. I heard that you lost your memories and swore off killing and the past as an assassin. In that case, let me fill you in on some things. I am Rufus Riber, and until you came along with Aries, I was the best assassin around, but then, in order to test you they sent you after me in order to replace me as I was getting old…and you won." Rufus informed the woman. "You must have thought I was dead, but I survived, only to be found by Ken Ninomara and brought here, to be taken as property of the Ark of Destiny." Rufus laughed. "I've truly have become the ultimate weapon."

"So…you just want revenge?" Emilia questioned. "So pathetic."

"I'll show you who is the pathetic one!" With his right arm at his side it turns into a beam sword like so many drones before him. Rufus looked to Jet. "Hey, you, the guy with the gray hair, you don't intend to stop me do you?"

"I trust Emilia, and I know she doesn't need my help against someone like you." Jet paused. "Besides…I know what battles are mine and not. As much as I hate to leave her with an undetermined fate, I have to. I know she'll be fine in the end." Jet gives a mock salute to Emilia and runs off for the Hawthorne building leaving the two ex-assassins to deal with one another.

"Eat my blade!" Rufus immediately decreed as he charges at Emilia who dodges with a leap in the other direction; drawing her blade as she does so. "Astral Blade!" Rufus shouted as a light attack familiar to Emilia's Transcedent the Blade came at the woman who swung her shinobi-zue and deflected it to explode a nearby garbage can instead.

"It's too weak." Emilia commented. "Too weak to be used against someone like me."

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Next Time: Adven and Sakura find trouble blocks their path, and Clive fights his battle without his right arm as the two ex-partners continue to fight and have their ideals clash.