Johnny stood outside of the Mayship as he waited for the crew to gather. He looked towards the horizon and could see a couple of figures, most likely the kidnappers. He had his trusty Japanese sword with him, just in case the situation turned sour. "Hopefully it won't come to that."
"We're all here Johnny." May said behind him.
He turned around and sure enough, the entire crew of the Jellyfish stood before him, minus April of course. "Does everyone understand what to do?" He asked.
Everyone nodded, "Good, this is going to be tricky. Dizzy, Augus, and July you'll come with me. Everyone else I want to stay on the ship and wait for my orders."
The three girls walked over to Johnny. As they did May ran up to him, "What about me? I want to go to!"
"I'm sorry May, this is too dangerous. I don't want to put anyone else in danger."
"I can take care of myself! Dizzy and April are my best friends, I have to go!"
Johnny shook his head, "I need you to stay on the ship and take my place while I'm gone. If something happens, I'll need you to pilot the ship."
"Don't say that, you'll return, you, Dizzy, April. Everyone." She said, almost crying.
Johnny wiped a tear that had formed from her eye, "Don't cry, I need you to be strong," He looked up to the crew, "As well as everyone else, we need to be to get through this."
May had never seen Johnny like this before. He was always joking and so carefree, but now he had a serious sound to his voice, it was scaring her. She had a bad feeling about what was going to happen. She nodded, "Ok, Johnny."
"Good," He looked towards Dizzy. "Are you ready Dizzy?"
"Yes." She said.
"Alright, let's go." He said to the girls, as they walked the crew waved them off. They soon gathered back into the ship, ready to act if need be. May was the last to go in, she watched as they disappeared into the darkness of the night, barely silhouettes by the time she looked away and entered the ship.
Johnny and the three girls walked a little ways until a person soon showed up in front of them. It was one of those weird robots. "COME-THIS-WAY." It said leading the way, most likely to its master. As the thing lead the way, Johnny could make out more of them around them, watching the area. Before too long, he could see a group of people standing by a car. "DOWN-THERE." The machine pointed, it then took off back where it came from.
The group walked towards the car, Johnny could see a man stand next to the car, as well as April being held by two more of those robots. About eight more of them were positioned around her and the man. "Whoever this guy is he likes to play it safe, or paranoid."
They stopped about fifty feet from the car, Johnny and Dizzy stood in front while Augus and July were right behind them. The man by the car stood up, he had red hair and a yellow over coat. He walked up a little to greet them. "Welcome, you must be Johnny correct?"
As Janus greeted them, Dizzy backed away a little, "That's the same man from before." She said to Johnny.
Johnny nodded to her and looked back to Janus, "Yes I am, and who are you and why are you after one of my crew mates?"
"My name is Janus, but who I work for and my reasons for wanting the Gear do not concern you though."
"It damn well concerns me when you kidnap one of my crew!" He said angrily.
Janus held his finger out and shook it, "No need to get impatient, look at this." He held his other hand up, there was some kind of small device in his hand. "Do you know what this is?" Johnny shook his head, "Well I'll tell you, look at your crew member." He looked and saw April being held by two of those robots with head down. She appeared to be conscious but was barely standing. He then noticed that there was something metallic around her neck. "You see that necklace? That's a little something I picked up in Zepp, it's a bomb collar. You try anything stupid and," He fanned his hands out, "Boom. You'll need a new crew mate."
"You coward! What kind of monster are you!?" July shouted at him. Johnny held his hand back to calm her down.
Janus merely laughed at the young girl's comment, "Well you are a bunch of pirates, I just don't trust you. Call this...insurance."
This angered July further but Johnny continued to hold his hand to her, "And how do we know you can be trusted?" He asked.
"You don't, that the thing. But I can assure you that all that I want is that Gear, what ever the outcome is will be determined by you." Janus said smugly.
Johnny looked towards April again, "April? April can you hear me." She didn't respond, not even lift her head. "What's wrong with her?" He demanded.
"Oh she's just drugged, nothing serious, just so that she can't do anything on her own." He waited a moment, "Well, shall we get on to why we're all here?"
Johnny looked to Dizzy, she nodded to him. "How would you like to do this?" He asked him.
"Simply send her over and we'll send the girl over to you."
"At the same time." Johnny added.
Janus surged his shoulders, "If that pleases you." He snapped his fingers at the two robots holding April and pointed at Johnny. They nodded and started to move over to them.
Johnny looked to Dizzy, "Be strong." He said as she started to walk away from them. July and Augus followed with Dizzy. The two groups stopped when they meet. The two holding April were about to hand over her when there was a flash of light and a loud crackling sound off to one of the far sides of the fairgrounds. Everyone looked to see what it was.
Ky tracked the pirate ship to some old abandoned fairgrounds outside of Paris. "Why in the world would they be way out here?" He pondered. As he made his way up to the grounds, he saw two figures up ahead. They didn't look like any of the pirates, as he looked at them one of them turned towards Ky. He could see the person's eyes glowing, the person then tapped the other one and they both went up to him. He noticed that the men had Holy Knight Uniforms like him, in fact, just like his. They had blonde hair also. But as they drew closer he could see that these weren't really men at all, but robots, and they looked similar to him.
"HALT. NO-ENTRY-PAST-THIS-POINT." One of them said in a murmured tone.
Ky recognized them now, they worked for the PWAB. Ky shook his head, "So the Post War Bureau is up to no good again I see?" He said to the doppelganger.
"WE-WILL-NOT-ALLOW-YOU-TO-INTERFERE."
Ky drew his weapon, "Then I guess there's no other way." He flicked his sword upward to one of them, "Stun Edge!" An arrow shaped bolt of electricity shot from his sword and impaled into the robot knocking it backwards, it made a loud cracking noise as it hit. The other one swung its sword at Ky, but he deflected with his own. As he did, Ky kicked the machine hard in the chest, knocking it off its feet for the moment. He took this chance and stabbed the machine directly in the chest and channeled some electricity through the Fuuraiken. The robot convulsed as Ky's sword electrified it. Ky relinquished his sword from the machine's chest and stood ready for the other one to attack. The robot stood there for a moment, it was making some kind of buzzing sound and its eyes were blinking a little. "What is it doing?" The robot turned around and took off, "Hey come back here!"
Everyone looked up where the noise originated, it looked like three figures were fighting. Janus turned towards Gregory, "What's going on up there?"
Gregory down at a display panel in the car, "It appears that Ky Kiske has arrived and is engaging two of the RKs...oh, make that one RK."
Janus turned back to Johnny, "I said no outside interference! What are you trying to pull?!"
Johnny held his hand out in front of him, "Hey, I have no idea why he's here! I don't even like the guy!"
Janus held out his hand with the bomb trigger, "Don't lie to me!"
"No, wait!" Johnny shouted.
Janus continued to hold his hand out, but hesitated at first. He looked where the pirate was, she was right next to Dizzy. "Damn! The Gear is too close to the girl!" He put his hand down, he pulled something out of his pocket with his other hand and spoke into it, "All units converge!" With the command issued, all the Robo-Kys drew their swords and began to encircle Johnny and the girls. July and Augus took out their swords as well attacked the two holding April. The robots let her go as the girls attack them, dropping her to the ground.
"Dizzy! Get April!" July shouted.
Dizzy grabbed April and dragged her over to where Johnny was, she was still unable to move. Johnny pulled a communicator out of his pocket, "Go to Plan B!" He said into it.
"Roger that Johnny!" May said on the other end.
Johnny smiled, and then put the device away. July and Augus managed to fight the two Robo-Kys back and fell back to where Dizzy and Johnny were. The four of them had their back to April as she laid on ground still in a dazed state. About eight of the machines were around them, more were most likely on their way.
They were surrounded by all sides, those robots blocked the way and were keep them from escaping. Janus walked up a little, "Don't tempt me to throw everything away." He said holding the trigger in his hand. "Give me the Gear!" Something black flew past Janus's hand, as it did he pulled his hand back, "Ow!" He looked at his hand and saw small scratch marks across it, the remote was also missing. "What!?" Janus looked up and saw a large raven with the remote in its claws, it was hovering a few feet away from him.
"I've warned you once, leave the girl alone!" A voice shouted from the darkness.
"Testament?" Dizzy said.
"Show yourself!" Janus shouted.
Appearing right below the raven, Testament seemed to walk straight out of the shadows. The bird landed on his shoulders, he retrieved the remote from the bird's feet. "Relying on cheap tricks again?" He said to Janus as he crushed the remote in his hand.
This was getting frustrating for Janus, not only did Kiske show up, but now Testament. And he just lost one of his bargaining chips. He retrieved his other device, "All units attack!" All the Robo-Kys around them drew their swords.
"Everyone back to the ship!" Johnny shouted as he drew his sword and cut down one of the robots in their path. It made a loud buzzing scream and sparks flew from it as he cut it with his sword. Dizzy picked up April and ran behind him, July and Augus followed right behind. About four of the robots followed in there path, while the other five were concentrated on Testament.
Testament looked around, the robots were all around him, he laughed. "You think your toys can stop me?"
"Kill him!" Janus shouted.
Testament manifested his red scythe from the air and immediately attacked one of the robots to his side. The quick attack was unavoidable and the robot was sliced in half. A demonic purple head arouse from the ground behind one of the robots and attacked it. The robot lost one of its legs and fell to the ground, Testament sliced the fallen Robo-Ky and turned his attention to the other three. One of the unharmed RKs made his attack towards Testament but was stopped dead in his tracks by a spider web that looked to be made of blood. Testament impaled his scythe into the machine's head, tearing it off from its body. The remaining two stood there for a moment trying to calculate what he would do next, Testament took this opportunity and held his hand up high. With this gesture a large runic symbol appeared in front of him and a large gusher of blood came out of it, the front of the blood formed a skull face and attacked the two robots. Both of them were knocked several feet back and crashed into the side of a small carnival booth. Testament looked towards Janus and ran up to him swinging his scythe downward. His attack was stopped by Janus's own weapon, a double bladed sword.
"Don't think I'm as easy to kill as those stupid RKs!" Janus said as he pushed Testament back a little with his weapon. Janus then started to spin his sword rapidly, so fast that it was generating wind. "Take this!" he swung his sword upward and caused a force so strong that it was cutting the ground in a straight line. Testament quickly dodged as the attack passed him and hit a booth behind him, cutting it in half. Janus repeated the attack two more times but Testament was able to dodge both of them. "Stand still!" Janus shouted as he attacked again. Testament merely laughed at his attempts to hit him. "Keep laughing," Janus said as he took his sword into both his hands and held it in front of him, he started to spin the sword very fast. "See if you can dodge this!" His blade created a large wind tunnel that started to blow Testament off his feet. Once he lost his footing, he flew several feet back and crashed into one of the broken booths behind him. Janus stopped spinning his blade, he was breathing heavily.
"Get in, we have to leave." Gregory said from the car. Janus looked up to him with frustration, but calmed and nodded to his request. Janus got inside the car and it soon speed off in the opposite direction. "Well this is an unexpected turn of events." He said to Janus.
"Dammit! The whole plan is in jeopardy!" He said angrily.
"Hopefully the rest goes smother."
"Yes, we haven't lost yet."
Testament stood up from the wreaked booth, pushing aside some debris that had fallen on him. He saw as Janus made his escape in the car, he wanted to follow him, but he was more worried about Dizzy at the moment. He followed where the pirates had made their escape.
"Hurry!" Johnny shouted as he saw the robots closing in on them, there was five of them now, one must have joined up during the chase. The three girls were running right behind him. One of the Robo-Kys behind them thrust itself towards them and grabbed onto Dizzy's leg. She let out a small scream as she fell to the ground dropping April in the process.
The rest of the group turned around to see one of the robots had a hold of Dizzy, as they were about to go over to aid her four more showed up and blocked their path.
Dizzy looked behind her and saw that the robot was still holding on to her foot, she hit it in the head with her tail. It made a slight buzz sound as she hit it, she repeated and kicked it with her other foot. It released its grip on her, as it did, Necro formed at her side and attacked the robot with a giant axe. It smashed into pieces from the impact. A slight moan came from where April landed, "April?" Dizzy asked, "Can you hear me?"
July and Augus teamed up against one of the robots while the other three encircled around Johnny again. "Don't you guys know when to quit?" He said as he sliced out with his sword, decapitating one of the immediately. The two other robot's eyes flashed a little and made a slight beep sound. Johnny attacked again but this time the robot dodged his attack. Johnny saw the other one slash its sword out at him during his attack, he managed to get out of the way in time. As he did the robot continued its assault on him. He deflected its sword with his own, has he defended himself, he noticed the other one was doing something strange. It was motioning its hand in a circle.
"SACRED-EDGE!" The machine said as a long line of electricity flew from its eyes and into Johnny. He was knocked down by the blast.
"Johnny!" Augus said turning her head to see him being knocked down by one of the robot's attacks. The robot that she and July were fighting seized the opportunity and hit Augus with its free hand, also knocking her to the ground. It took its sword and held it above its head, posing to strike at her. July swung her sword into its side but it clanged off it. The robot backhanded her causing her to drop her sword and stagger back. Augus looked up from the ground and saw as the machine turned its gaze back at her and began to trust its sword at her, but it stopped. Something long and skinny impaled it from behind and was sticking out of its chest, the robot jolted a little and then seized to function. The dead robot was tossed aside and where the robot once stood revealed their savior, Ky.
"Are you alright?" The man said.
"Yes, but Johnny's in trouble!" The girl said as she looked at where Johnny was fighting the other two Robo-Kys.
Ky saw Johnny on the ground and the two machines were about to attack him, "Two can play." He said motioning his hand, "Sacred Edge!" A large arrow shaped bolt of electricity shot from his hand towards one of the robots. They both looked up, but by the time they did one of them was hit by it, sending the machine flying to the ground. It convulsed rapidly on the ground as electricity coursed through its body. With the other one distracted Johnny kicked outwards with his legs, tripping the robot. He then sliced the robot in half as it fell to the ground.
Johnny got back on his feet, dusting himself off a little and looked towards Ky and the two girls. "Well I never thought I'd be glad to see you." He said to Ky.
"It seems we share a common foe." Ky said.
Johnny looked back and could hear the Mayship approaching on their position. Within a few moments it would land and they could finally leave this place. He turned back to Ky, "Sorry but I'm kinda in a hurry." He looked towards July and Augus, "Are you two alright?"
"Yes, we're fine Johnny." They said.
"Now wait a minute, I need you to answer some questions for me." Ky said.
Johnny looked around and saw that Dizzy was by April, he turned and started waving towards the approaching Mayship, "Love to, but not here!" The ship started to land near them.
Dizzy kneeled down next to April, she shook her a little, "April? Wake up April." April began to move a little, she picked her head up and looked up at Dizzy.
"Di..Dizzy? Ach!" She held her head with one of her hands.
"April! What's wrong?" Dizzy asked concernedly. April continued to hold her head, she looked to be in pain. Dizzy looked towards everyone else, "Johnny! There's something wrong with Ap–Ah!" Dizzy felt a small prick, she looked and saw a syringe in her side. And the one that had stabbed her with it was April, Dizzy could see she had a glazed expression on her face. "Ap...ril..." She felt suddenly light headed and couldn't keep herself up and fell down beside her.
"Dizzy!" Johnny said as he ran over to her but was blocked off by another Robo-Ky that showed up, two more came from the shadows. "Damn! How many of them are there?" Johnny said about to cut down the robot when April ran in between him and it, she held her hands out. "April, get out of the way!" But she didn't, she seemed to be protecting the machine for some reason, he noticed that her eyes were very dull, like she wasn't awake. "What's wrong with you?"
The robot behind her took its hands put them around April's head, "RESIST-FURTHER-AND-I'LL-KILL-THE-GIRL." Its grip tighten around her forehead and under her chin, he was going to snap her neck. The weird part was April didn't seem to mind at all, she still had a dazed look on her face.
Johnny could see the other two robots, one was starting to pick Dizzy off the ground; the situation was getting worse by the second. Ky and the two girls were behind him but they were too far away to act, Johnny needed to do something and fast.
"Dizzy!" Testament shouted as he ran up from behind the Robo-Kys. The two by Dizzy stood up and could see he was about to attack. The one holding April started to look at where Testament was approaching, this was Johnny's chance. He drew his sword with extreme haste and slashed above April's head and decapitated the robot holding her.
It fell to the ground, April ran up to Johnny and started to hit him. "April stop it!" He said grabbing her hands, she then kicked him in the leg, "Ow! July! Augus! Hold April!" The two girls ran up to him and held April down, she was resisting heavily. Both Ky and Johnny ran over to where the last two robots were, they were engaged with Testament who had begun attacking one of them. The Robo-Ky managed to deflect the blow and counter attacked with its sword, but Testament dodged out of the way. The other one turned around and could see Ky and Johnny approaching fast, it picked up Dizzy and begun to retreat.
"No, Dizzy!" Testament said as he managed to cleave the robot in half with his scythe. He started to run after the fleeing Robo-Ky. All three of them were chasing after it, but to no avail, the machine was much faster then them. It disappeared into the night, along with Dizzy.