And we are bizack! I think it took a little over two weeks this time, so if you're irritated, throw some complaints if you want. X( Now with the story.
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Chapter 39: As Haruko would say…IT'S THE CLIMAX!
…Yami Shinobu comes slashing down to attack Brandon. Brandon manages to block, but Yami quickly recovers and narrowly misses the left half of his chest. His hand still burning in pain, he backpedals and tries to offer ki support to Shinobu.
Brandon: Shinobu! My left hand's being a liability, so I'll provide cover!
Shinobu: Don't worry, get that hand healed!
Drgnmastr comes running over (really fast for a little guy, well, as a puu-chuu, anyway), and begins using his ki to regenerate and heal Brandon's hand.
DrgnmastrAlex: Just to warn you, regenerating broken bones and burnt and torn tissue is-
Brandon: GYAAAAAAAAAAAGHGHHGH!
DrgnmastrAlex: …going to cause massive pain, as the nerves are connected to them. sigh
Shinobu: Is Brandon okay! (parries another blow)
DrgnmastrAlex: He's going to be fine. He's just having his hand regenerated, which will hurt like a sonofabitch.
Shinobu sweatdrops, then gets knocked to the side by Yami Shinobu.
Yami Shinobu: Pay attention! Teacher's giving a private lesson on HOW TO DIE!
Meanwhile, out in the caved-in corridor…
Kaoru: . Crud. There's no way to blast this apart without getting sucked out into space…
Himeko: Not to mention that the only other pathway takes fifteen minutes to get there from here.
Barbara teleports behind them.
Barbara: There you two are! I was wondering what was taking you guys so long. Figures Peter or Su would blow something up in this place.
Himeko: They're on the other side, trying to get to us. However, we had to stop because there's a gap that, if we open it, will cause the corridor to open up to space. And you know what'll happen when it does.
Barbara: …eeeewww…I don't need that visual…Come on, I'm teleporting you all to where the brainwashing ray is.
Kaoru: Huh? This is news to me.
Barbara: Quit it. We're going. NOW.
They step to the sides of Barbara, and the three are teleported to the other side of the cave-in, where Su, Peter, Kanako, and Motoko are.
Kaoru: Okay everybody, let's ge-
Su: Let's get moving, before that ray goes off! Hehe…maybe I'll be able to salvage some components from it.
Everybody sweatdrops, and are transported to the room with the brainwashing ray.
Peter: …damn. That's one big beam…
Kanako: No time for admiring a weapon of mass destruction. We need to wreck it.
Kaoru: But…it doesn't cause destruction.
Kanako: (sweatdrops) …Just work with me here, okay?
Motoko, taking no time, uses her Boulder Cutting Blade, Second Form move to destroy the device behind them. Unfortunately, their clothes get shredded, showing only their underwear.
Himeko: Yaaah!
Kanako: Goddammit…HAVEN'T YOU BEEN WORKING ON THAT MOVE YET!
Motoko: S-sorry. I got flustered this one time…
Peter, meanwhile, gets a nosebleed from seeing Himeko's assets.
Himeko: Aw, crap. Sorry, Peter.
Peter: (holding his nose) No, id's albighd. (grins)
Motoko: Let's…just help Brandon and Shinobu out, okay?
Kanako: (veinpops) ..When we get back, I'm kicking your ass.
Barbara giggles a bit, and then teleports them back to the throne room.
Shinobu was having one hell of a hard time. She would block, parry, dodge, attack, and overall do everything she knew how to fight, but she was only doing slight damage to Yami Shinobu. On the other hand, Yami was gaining ground and overall acting like the final boss in Ninja Gaiden. Shinobu was getting irritated, and decided on using what little she had left to try and critically injure Yami Shinobu.
Shinobu: pant I won't lose to you!
Yami Shinobu: Ohohoho…but you are! You're barely keeping up with me as it is right now!
Yami Shinobu comes in for another thrust, but instead of parrying it, Shinobu slides as close to the lightsaber's right side without touching it, and back-knuckles Yami Shinobu in the nose, breaking it, and slices Yami's lightsaber through the emitter. Yami Shinobu falls to the ground, landing on her back, and Shinobu readies herself to kill. However, she stops herself.
Shinobu: ….no. I won't be like you. I won't kill you. It's not who I am.
She stares at Yami Shinobu clutching her face, trying to stem off the tide of blood coming out of her nose, and wants to kill her badly.
Shinobu: For all the pain you've caused the world. For all the pain you've caused me and Brandon, I still forgive you. I've now faced my dark side, and I've won.
Shinobu turns around, and as she walks over to Brandon to help him, Yami Shinobu begins to laugh hysterically.
Yami Shinobu: You've won? You honestly think you've WON! When I'm not even dead yet! You give fools a bad name, you're an imbecile. I can still recover, and come back just as strong! You stave off your attack, thinking that your forgiving me has made you the victor. Well, bitch, I'M NOT DEAD YET!
Yami Shinobu gathers all her remaining energy, and glows in a vivid red aura.
Yami Shinobu: I've relied on Su's technology for too long. THIS, is my power. My rage, my anger, my passion. You honestly think that, while being gone all this time, I've only worked on gathering an army? What took me so long to return was the fact that I was training myself. Allowing my hatred for you to fill my being. And THIS is the power I have received!
Yami Shinobu screams at the top of her lungs, and the entire complex begins to shake, some loose debris and objects falling down and being thrown around.
DrgnmastrAlex: SHIT! If she keeps this up, we're all dead!
Brandon: (to Alex) How much longer until my hand is back to normal!
DrgnmastrAlex: Fifteen more seconds! Shinobu, hold her off until Brandon's back to normal!
Shinobu: Gladly…
Shinobu doesn't rush in, she FLYS in, and delivers a massive punch to Yami Shinobu's midsection, gaining her attention, and the two of them go into a fight similar to the first part of the final battle in Matrix Revolutions. Each one slugging the other with massive ki-powered punches, kicks, and elbows to the side. The amount of power being expended is astounding, and the shockwaves from the impacts are enough to shake the supports of the station.
DrgnmastrAlex: Aaaand…DONE!
Brandon flys in, actually five feet from the ground, and collides into Yami Shinobu's back, catching her in midair from a flying kick from Shinobu. They crash into the side of the throne room, the steel wall crumbling under them like an aluminum can, and Brandon head butts her in the face, causing a massive gash in Yami's head to open up, spilling a good amount of blood. Brandon flips to the floor, and prepares a Kamehameha.
Brandon: GyaaaahhHHHH! GO TO HELL, YOU FUCKING CUNT!
He unleashes his full power into the blast, the wall buckling under the pressure, until it burst and Yami Shinobu was shot several rooms over.
Brandon: (panting)
Shinobu: …There's rooms to the side, but nothing but space to the back?
Brandon: At this point, I don't care…I just want her dea-
A streak shoots out and bashes Brandon into the opposite side, and batters Shinobu into the entryway. Yami Shinobu lands, bruised, battered, bloodied, yet willing to continue the fight, fueled by an inhuman rage. She lets out a frenzied, guttural roar that sounds animalistic by nature, and cusses out the both of them.
Yami Shinobu: FUCKERS. I CAN'T DIE! NOT YET…
DrgnmastrAlex steps up, still in his puu-chuu form, looks up, and sneers.
DrgnmastrAlex: …Heh. Damn, you were looking good about five minutes ago, but now you're inner self reveals itself.
Yami Shinobu looks down at Alex, and throws a blazing punch, which he catches.
DrgnmastrAlex: Whoa, whoa! Don't go screwing with someone who has powers over time, space, and creation, lest you want to…I dunno…get creamed?
Yami Shinobu: BASTARD!
She comes in with a blazing kick, which he doesn't catch, but knocks to the side, and he zooms up to her face really fast.
DrgnmastrAlex: For hurting those two over there, as well as the entire world, I'm giving you an excruciating death. One that's going to be burnt into your soul for eternity.
He raises his arm and shoves his hand in her chest, causing her to gasp for air, not because he's suffocating her, but because he's ripping out her soul. His arm begins to vibrate faster, and in mere seconds, he pulls out an opaque, indistinct, topless version of Yami Shinobu.
Yami Shinobu's soul: wh-what…are you…doing…?
DrgnmastrAlex: (sings) "You're my favorite mistake…"
Energy from his hand pours into her soul, causing her to scream in agony, until the soul burst into vapor. He then turns to Barbara, who just transported into the chamber and saw the whole thing, with a solemn look.
Kaoru: ..oh my god…
Alex drops Yami Shinobu's soulless body to the floor, and floats down to his feet.
DrgnmastrAlex: Sorry you all saw that. It's a move I'm not really proud of, but I only use it in the most dire of situations. She smacked the hell out of Brandon and Shinobu, and would've probably gone after you guys hadn't I stepped in.
Peter: …Is it possible for you to teach that move to us?
DrgnmastAlex: No, I'm never teaching it to anyone. Ever. It uses the power of a star to work, and I don't plan on using it more than five times. You'd be surprised how even a star, hundreds of millions of light-years away, can have an impact on a dimension. Now c'mon, we've got to get out of here. I need to inform the U.S. Government of what happened. And you all need to get back to your normal lives.
They gathered up Brandon and Shinobu, who were still alive but beat up, and headed back to the Mecha-Tama, taking it back to Earth. Along the way, Shinobu and Brandon woke up.
Brandon: nnhhgh…
Su: Glad to see you're alright.
Shinobu: Same here.
Brandon: God…wait, why are we in the Mecha-Tama?
Himeko: You guys beat Yami Shinobu. And Motoko destroyed the beam before it could fire, so, we've really accomplished what we came to do.
Shinobu: But, if we beat Yami Shinobu, then where is she?
DrgnmastrAlex: She's dead.
Shinobu: …Why?
DrgnmastrAlex: …she was stark-raving mad. She was so overwhelmed by her hatred for mankind, that I had to kill her before she did any damage. I'm sorry, but there was absolutely no chance of her being even a remotely decent person.
Shinobu: So…that's it. We've won. …..I thought I would feel better than this…
Brandon: Shinobu, we're still here, and we're still alive. Everything's been set almost back to normal. There's nothing more that we can do.
Brandon holds Shinobu, as she lays her head against his shoulder.
Shinobu: …I know. (she closes her eyes and goes to sleep)
Brandon: ….sighs…..she must be exhausted.
Peter: Well, bro, we've got some good news for you.
Brandon: What is it?
Su: (smiling) Naru and Keitaro just had their kids.
Brandon: Awesome! What'd they name them?
Su: One's a girl, Izayoi, and the other is a boy, Suguru.
Brandon: Heh, awesome. I guess, life goes on.
Meanwhile, Shinobu was soundly sleeping.
…phew…Gotta say, this chapter took quite a bit out of my head, but it's finished. After this, there's Brandon and Shinobu's wedding (OMG YAY!) and their honeymoon (which I plan on rating a lemon. . …I pray to god that doesn't kick me for it). I plan on making the two fillers two to three chapters total. Although, who knows? Btw, I got the names Izayoi from Inu-yasha (Inny's mom's name, lol) and Suguru from Mahoromatic (Suguru is the male lead character, and is a lot more perverted than Keitaro is. Not that Keitaro's son, Suguru, will be perverted. Lol). Many thanks to all who have read and supported this fan fiction, and I hope to entertain you in the future. As I said before, I am contemplating a sequel to this fic, so if you want it, voice your opinion. For now, happy reading/writing!