Chapter 8: Repairing X Fusion!
Aiden stared at Garlic Jr. as he kept on smiling. The rest of them had their attention on the Killachine as it crept forwards and got closer. Aiden's eyes flash yellow and power's up.
"I'm not gonna let you achieve your goal here Garlic Jr!" Garlic Jr. smirks and crosses his arms.
"Let's see if you can keep that attitude of yours up!" Garlic Jr. then rushes at Aiden and clashes in a fist with him. They would keep punching until they started to raise off the ground.
"And there they go…" Jason looked off towards the direction where Aiden and Garlic Jr. flew off too. Jason soon gets told by Austin to pay attention to what they are about to face off against.
"Here we go!" Noah flies at the Killachine and punches it directly at the face, but recoiled his fist and blew on it.
"MAN! What is this thing made out of!?" Noah looks back at the Killachine and gets smacked by it's Mace and hits the ground.
"Noah!" Rhyel runs over and helps him up.
"You good?" Noah nodded.
"That thing is definitely stronger than any metal back at home." Noah dusts himself off.
"Well I guess there's no other choice then…" Rhyel watches as the girls, along with Jason and Austin are fighting it out with the Killachine.
"Let me guess, hit it hard enough…" Rhyel charges up as Noah said that.
"Hit it hard enough!" Rhyel rushes into the fight and leaves Noah to sigh to himself.
"Of course…" Noah then transformed into a Super Saiyan and followed Rhyel. The both of them punch it in the face, moving it back a little. This gave the girls a breather from the attacks it was laying on them. Rhyel went to kick the Killachine in it's Axe arm, throwing it off balance slightly. Noah goes for the other arm, but backed away as he was almost hit by the Killachine's tail. Jason and Austin both rush behind the Killachine in Super Saiyan, but it would notice and swipe it's Mace at them. They would dodge and fire ki blasts at the Killachine, but it had no effect as the blasts evaporated on contact with its metal body.
Rhyel uses this as a distraction and starts a combo on the Killachine's lower body, but it still has no effect. Rhyel was next hit hard with the flat side of the Axe and slams into a wall. IF would fire at the Machine and barely dodge the attacks. Red runs in and gives support by using her Yo-yo. Compa rushes over to help out the four warriors that were smacked by the Killachine. Nepgear went HDD and gave air support, but there was still no effect.
"This thing won't budge!" IF yelled out as she kept firing. Isabelle throws fire at the Killachine in her Neko form and notices something happening to the Killachine.
"I think it's absorbing our attacks!" Isabelle then dodges a strong swing from the Killachine's Mace arm.
"If that's so, I guess the only option here is to retreat…" Austin said as he got up slowly, along with the other four warriors walking up to him, along with Compa.
"Is that all we can do now?" Nepgear lands and returns back into her human form.
"Yeah! We have to get back to the Oracle and find a way in defeating this thing!" IF, Red, and Isabelle ran back to the group.
"What's that, planning to run away? Heh, like that's gonna even make any difference! You'll all be smashed into goo before you can even scream!" Underling laughed, upsetting Red and Jason.
"Ooooh, Challenge accepted! I'll never run away from someone who threatens me and my wifeys!" Red's eyes had a flame of determination.
"Agreed, I'm gonna make sure I will send you flying!" Jason yelled out.
"Can you two ignore her! If she's letting us go, we should take it. Come on!" Jason tsked at what IF said, but she was right.
"Grrrr! I'll beat you really good next time!" The group then fled.
-Back with Aiden-
Aiden kept trading blow for blow with Garlic Jr., they then clashed their fists together and back away from each other.
"Seems like they finally understand their struggle was pointless." Garlic Jr. smiled and Aiden was confused.
"What?" Garlic Jr. pointed back at the ground, Aiden looks and sees his friends fleeing and leaving an Underling laughing.
"You're friends just found out how their efforts are useless against the Killachine." Garlic Jr. crossed his arms, Aiden looked back at Garlic Jr with fury.
"We can continue all you want and if we do, your friends will be hunted down when I give the order to tell the Killachine to do so." Garlic Jr. laughs and Aiden gets angrier.
"So what's it gonna be, the death of your friends or facing terror as we dominate Lowee?" Aiden looks down and slowly regains his composure. After he does, he looks back at Garlic Jr. and points his finger at him.
"I'll make sure that will never happen and I'll make sure that your Immortality won't save you for what I'm gonna do the next time we meet…" Aiden's eyes flash yellow again.
"Oh how scary, I'd like to see you try and keep that threat." Garlic Jr. smiles with confidence in this victory. Aiden turns around and flies off to the direction his friends went. Garlic Jr. flies back to the ground and looks at Underling.
"Are the other ones ready yet?" Garlic Jr. asked.
"In a few hours maybe?"
"Well make sure you do it in a few minutes. Now get on with it…" Underling tsked and walked off.
-Lowee (6 A.M)-
"So, the Killachine has returned…" Aiden and the group would nod to Mina.
"You ran away because you were scared of some giant robot? Jeez, you're all super lame!" Ram complained. The group would ignore her comment and stay focused on collecting information on the Killachine.
"Are you okay Mr. Aiden and Ms. Nepgear…?" Rom was concerned.
"We're okay Rom." Aiden reassured her by giving her his casual smile and with Nepgear smiling too. Rom smiled, glad to hear that they're both alright. Ram stuck out her tongue at the sight of this.
"No, don't do that Rom! Don't worry about those dummies!" Ram flair her arms around and Aiden chuckled nervously at Rams attitude.
"Can you tell us more about the Killachine? We attacked the thing but we didn't get a single dent in it." IF asked Mina.
"Arfoire was the one who created the Killachine for a tool of destruction. It's power… well, you were able to witness it firsthand." Mina said.
"There's also hundreds if more, all sealed away." The group wide eyed at this, they already struggled with one and it was absorbing the energy of their attacks and using it against them. Now hearing that there is more than one was gonna make this day much worse for them.
"Oh you can't be serious!" Jason sweated.
"Psst, numbers are dumb! Just have me and Rom take care of it, we'll blow 'em all away!" Ram said pure confidence.
"Ka-boom…" Rom replied.
"Good luck with that, seeing how those things absorb our attacks. It's guaranteed that machine will absorb your magic attacks…" Noah told the twins.
"Indeed, such an action isn't realistic. That's why we had the Mascot use its power to seal away the Killachine… but..." Nepgear went ahead and finished the sentence for Mina.
"The disc shattered… The Mascot…" Nepgear looked down at the pieces of the Mascot.
"This situation must be addressed. Fortunately, ASIC is not one to take hasty action." Mina said.
"Which would mean that ASIC is taking it's time to make a plan." IF shared.
"Great, now we have to be cautious if they have some type of backup plan…" Noah smack his hand into his face and sighed.
"Yes, but we can use their hesitation against them." This perched up the group's attention when Mina said that.
"How?" Austin asked.
"This is a selfish request, but may I ask for your aid to protect Lowee and gather information?" Mina asked politely.
"We don't mind helping out, we'll do everything we can and help undo what's been done." Nepgear brimmed with determination.
"Agreed, but there is one more problem though…" residents of Gamindustri moved their glimpse on Aiden.
"Aiden's right, we have Garlic Jr to worry about too…" Austin brought his hand over his mouth in a thinking manner.
"Who's this Garlic Jr you refer to?" Mina question.
"Garlic Jr is the son of a demon know as Garlic… There are no records of him or his son because they don't exist in your dimension…" That confused Lowee's Oracle and the twins.
"In short, me and the four guys here comes from the same dimension as Garlic Jr. That part isn't important… Anyways, in our dimension we had something know as the Dragon Balls and Garlic Jr use them to make a wish…" Austin brought his arms down and turned to face Mina.
"What did he wish for?" Mina said with interest about this information.
"He wished for Immortality…" Rhyel said seriously, getting a few gasps from the rest of the group.
"But that's impossible, no one can possibly attain immortality." Mina said.
"In normal terms yes, but not when it comes to the Dragon Balls… So, not only we have to deal with possibly hundreds of Killachines… We also have to deal with an immortal being and has a power boost that's similar to the monster's viral powers…" Rhyel looked at that the ground.
"Leave Garlic Jr to me then, I got a technique that will take care of him. The only problem is that I need to get up close…" Aiden told the group.
"This will be a challenge, but I believe it is best for all of you to rest for the night." Mina smiled.
"Oh.. um, are you sure..?" Aiden asked.
"Yes, you all must be tired after that ordeal. Please, follow me to the guest rooms." Mina brings the group over to the guest rooms.
-Lowee (8:00 A.M)-
"This is fantastic, we can protect the city all we want but the enemy has made no move whatsoever." IF complained out loud.
"Even if the Mister Killachine's do come, I don't believe we can protect the city by ourselves." Compa also complained.
"Not only that, the Mascot is gone and Garlic Jr is here too… This is such a pain…" Aiden puts his arms on his waist and sighed. Red then lets out a loud groan.
"I hate thinking… why don't we just glue the Mascot back together? If my Wifeys work together, they can make it possible." IF would shake her head at Red's comment.
"Like that's gonna be that simple." IF said.
"Still, that's our only option left. Let's try and find a way of how we can piece the Mascot back together." Nepgear said.
"We need it's help to seal away the Killachines and for the CPUs." Everyone except IF nodded.
"Yeah, but who would know how to fix a disc? It's not like we'll run into someone that convenient who knows how to repair a broken disc."
"It can be fixed, nyu" A random voice caught everyone off guard.
"Wait what?" IF turns around to see a little girl wearing a uniform, with a yellow hat with cat ears and was riding some type of strange yellow ball like creature.
"Ummm, who are you?" IF asked the little girl.
"My name is Broccoli, nyu."
"Oooooooooook? So do you really know how to repair this disc?" Kito asked.
"Yes, all GAMERS magazines had an article on how to fix a disc, nyu." Broccoli said plainly.
'How did we not accept something so simple to have the answer?' The entire group had the same thought said in their heads.
"Besides the convenient magazine, what do we need to do?" IF asked.
"There are certain materials that you'll need to fix the disc, nyu." Austin sighed at knowing that this is going to be a fetch quest.
"What do we need to gather?" Nepgear asked next.
"Just two things, Rare Metal and Datanium, nyu." Jason shows a dumb fold look on his face.
'Treasure Gem was something, but the materials of this world are slowly getting weirder.' Jason thought to himself.
"That seems simple enough… but where do we find them?" Aiden crossed his arms.
"The Lowee International Expo has plenty of interesting monsters, so you should have a chance to find at least one of the two materials there, nyu." Aiden nods at the information that was told to him.
"Well then, we should get a move on." IF said and everyone except Broccoli nodded.
"I will wait here, good luck out there, nyu." The group then left for the Expo to attain the materials.
-Lowee Expo (8:45 A.M)-
As the group arrived at The Lowee International Expo, they have fought against all types of monsters to at least find a monster that wasn't like the rest. Soon they had reached another section of the Expo and found a monster that was made out of rocks and gems for teeth and claws, it also had yellow glowing eyes in its mouth, and was also covered in dark energy.
"This must be what Broccoli was referring too." Nepgear readied her beam saber.
"Welp, we won't know unless we find out." Aiden got into his stance and charged in. It wouldn't take them to long to defeat the monster, as it dissipated it would drop a shining metal onto the ground. Aiden walks over and picks it up.
"I believe this is the Rare Metal that Broccoli was talking about." Aiden proceeds to put the Rare Metal in his pocket for safe keeping.
"Well seeing that we have the Rare Metal, where will we find that Data-whatever thing?" Jason looked around the group for any answer.
"Well seeing their no other monster like the one we fought, I believe we should head back to the World Labyrinth." Isabelle suggested.
"But we'll be attacked by the Killachines if we go back there…" Nepgear said.
"Yeah, but there's no option at all and if we go back to the dungeons at Lastation or Planeptune, we'll be leaving Lowee defenseless…" Austin shared.
"Seems like we have no choice, let's get over there." Rhyel starts walking out, along with the rest of the group. Nepgear walks behind the group and becomes nervous about if they run into another encounter with the Killachine or Killachines. Aiden notices and slows his pace to match Nepgears.
"Hey…" Nepgear looks at Aiden and smiles sadly.
"Y-yea…" Aiden suddenly grabs Nepgear's right hand with his left, this caught Nepgear off guard and made her blush. She looks at Aiden with wide eyes and with confusion.
"I'll make sure those Killachine's will not kill you or the others ok." Aiden smiled at her. Nepgear's mood lighten and smiled back, as Aiden was about to let go her hand, Nepgear grabbed his with her left hand and Aiden was confused this time and saw Nepgear's blush her redder.
"I-I want to h-hold your hand for a little l-longer." Nepgear asked Aiden shyly. Aiden lightly blushed and smiled and intertwined his fingers with hers, making Nepgear smile. The both of them walk faster so they can catch up with the rest of the group.
-World Labyrinth (9:20 A.M.)-
The group sneakily walked around the dungeon to not get spotted and the warriors lowered their power so it wouldn't be detected, if the enemy somehow had the ability too. This was going to be hard, keeping their presence hidden will be problematic if they are engaged. Fighting the monster that they are looking for will be hard as it is, so they kept searching and keeping hidden from the Killachine or Killachines that might have been activated.
It would be as easy as the last monster, but one of the Killachines or just Killachine came around the corner. Lucky the group was able to hide from it as it came into sight, as it was leaving, Kito and Noah decided to follow it. When the Killachine came to a stop, the two warriors noticed it stopped in front of an army of Killachines, ready to siege on Lowee at any moment.
"We better get out of here now…" Noah said as the both of them ran back for the group and told them what they had seen. Without any waste of time, the group rushed back to the city to talk with Broccoli.
-Lowee (10:20 A.M.)-
"We're back Broccoli!" Aiden yelled out as they entered a room that looked like a server room.
" Great job, now pass them to Nepgear, nyu." Nepgear had a surprise look on her face as Broccoli said that.
"W-wait, why me?" Nepgear questioned.
"Because I have the feeling that you are better at repairing than all of us, nyu." Aiden takes out the Rare Metal and the Datanium and give them to Nepgear. Nepgear puts both materials on a nearby table and the remains of the Mascot on the table too.
"Give it your best, nyu!" Broccoli encouraged Nepgear.
"We should probably head to the Basilicom, I think it's best we have the Oracle around when the Mascot recovers." Nepgear than grabs the materials and remains in a safe place and the group heads off to the Basilicom, with Broccoli tagging along.
-Lowee Basilicom (11:00 A.M.)
Nepgear was at a table near the desk of the Basilicom, she was carefully creating a replica of the old disc. The rest of the group was either watching silently to have Nepgear concentrate or sitting on the chairs nearby.
"So… this piece goes there… and that one goes here…" Mina walks over and watches Nepgear at work.
"I see that you're making a replica disc for the Mascot…" Nepgear looks at Mina and smiles.
"Broccoli was kind enough to lend us her aid and tell us this method." IF walks over after having her own conversation with Compa and Isabelle.
"Let's save the praise after we're able to pull this off." IF smirk as she joined to watch Nepgear work. Rom and Ram peaked over the table and watched as well.
"Whoa, this is rad! Lowee's Mascot is gonna come back and be fine, right?" Ram asked.
"Uh-huh, Uh-huh…" Rom nodded. The rest of the group walk over and watched as well, and hoped that Nepgear can pull this off.
"So I just need to put that right there and have this go over there, and… Yay, I did it!" Suddenly the disc began to glow and soon came the Mascot. Everyone was glad as it worked and Nepgear went and suddenly gave Aiden a hug, she blushed and immediately let go and left Aiden to laugh a little.
"Where… is this…?" The Mascot asked no one in particular.
"Score! The Mascot is back!" Red jumped.
"Yes. It's wonderful to see you once more. Do remember who I am?" Mina asked the Mascot.
"You're Lowee's Oracle… what's happening… I was destroyed… and yet…" The Mascot started to sound a bit panicked.
"Calm down, Nepgear here made a replica of your old body and brought you back." Aiden explained.
"I see… Thank you… But what about the seal?" Everyone in the room fell silent when the Mascot asked that.
"It has been broken I'm afraid. The Killachines must be sealed again as soon as possible… " Mina sighs.
"It pains me to use you as a tool, but…" The Mascot floated towards Mina.
"No need to feel that way. Time is at an essence." The Mascot then floats to Nepgear.
"Sister of Neptune, I must ask a favor of you." Nepgear looks at the Mascot.
"Yes, what is it?" Nepgear asked.
"As you have noticed, fighting isn't my forte. I am unable to return where I have to reactivate the seal." Nepgear nods as she understands where this was going.
"I understand, we will help escort you to where you need to go." Nepgear told the Mascot.
"I'm going too, nyu." Broccoli announced.
"Why Miss Broccoli, we're going to a very dangerous and scary dungeon." Compa said concerned.
"There is strength in numbers. I can be helpful, nyu." IF smiles a little.
"No need of biting the hand offering to feed us, right?" Nepgear smiles at the aid that Broccoli was lending.
"Thank you."
"Don't mention it, nyu." Rom stares at this scene and brings her hand close to her heart and clenches it, Ram notices this.
"Hm…?" Nepgear looks at both of Lowee's CPU Candidates and thought it would be a good idea to bring them along.
"Um… Is it ok if Rom and Ram came with us? We need all the help we can get." Rom was happy and was about to agree, but her sister prevented it.
"N-No! That's stupid Rom, we can't go!" Ram yelled at her sister, surprising Nepgear. Rom looks at her sister.
"Why not…?" Ram tries to think of an excuse to tell her sister.
"Um, 'cuz… We're Lowee's CPU Candidates, so we gotta stay here and protect the city, duh!" Everyone couldn't argue with that, if something were to happen to the group or if the Killachines somehow get passed them, it's a smart move to have forces stay back in the city and protect it.
"But…" Rom really wanted to help Nepgear and Aiden because she wanted to return the favor when they helped her. She knew that protecting the city is a good idea, but she also wanted to help in the fight as well.
"Rom, me and Nepgear will be fine. Besides, someone needs to make sure everyone in the city doesn't get hurt okay." Aiden smiled at Rom, making her smile and reassuring her.
"Yeah, that's right! Anyway, me and Rom are gonna play over there by ourselves. C'mon Rom!" Rom was still worried as she was pulled away by Ram, but she had faith in Aiden and Nepgear.
"You know… If her sister didn't have that brat-ish tone… I would be a little bit happy right now…" Noah complained on Ram's behavior.
"*sighs* They're still children after all…" Mina said.
"I'm greatly sorry to task you with this burden when it should be dealt with by Lowee Authority…" Mina gives the group an apologetic bow.
"It's alright, we'll make sure that those Killachines get sent packing!" Aiden smiles. The group, along with the Mascot head out back to the World Labyrinth and stop the invasion before it starts.
-Few Minutes After The Group Left-
"Hey Rom, you wanna draw pictures together? I've gotten really good y'know!" Ram asked her sister. Rom was currently sitting on her bed silently, still thinking about Aiden and Nepgear and wanting to help. Ram took this silence as a no and asked her another question.
"Don't wanna draw? How about video games! Mina just bought us some new stuff!" Rom still didn't answer, even if Aiden told her it will be alright, she still wanted to go and help.
"Ram… I want to help Mr. Aiden and Miss Nepgear…" This made Ram's mood take a 180 and looked at Rom with an obvious look of anger.
"No! I said no, so no! Okay? No!" Tears then form on Roms eyes. This made Ram even angrier, why would those two people be so important, Ram asked herself that.
"Why are you crying!? I didn't do anything! Stoppit!" Rom looks at Ram with a strong sorrowful look mixed with regret.
"Miss Nepgear and Mr. Aiden are doing their best for Lowee… and we're just playing around… I don't like it…" Ram got much angrier hearing them getting mentioned again.
"Get over it! It's not like WE were the ones who asked them to do it!" Rom kept tearing up more.
"But they are trying to save our sister…" Ram felt a shock of betrayal wash over her.
"What're you telling me? You like them more then me? Is that it!?" Rom wipes away her tears and calms down.
"I like Ram best…" Ram's mood changes again immediately after she heard that.
"Of course you do! So let's just play and-"
"That's why I want you to come and help Mr. Aiden and Miss Nepgear with me…" Ram was taken back by that statement.
"Oh…" Rom starts to tear up again.
"Please, Ram…? Please…." Rom slowly starts crying once more. Ram couldn't bear seeing her sister cry.
"Stop crying! Stop looking at with those stupid puppy dog eyes!"
-World Labyrinth (12:05 P.M.)
"Now I got 48 of these creepy things activated! But isn't 48 an unlucky number, 48 should be enough but I can't have any trouble with this number." Underling talked to herself after she activated the 48th Killachine.
"That should do it! Haha!" Underling laughed after she activated Five more Killachines. The group soon arrived with the Mascot and immediately went behind one of the walls.
"Wowzers, they are a lot more when we last came here!" Red said as she saw a few more Killachines being activated one by one. The chances of getting the Mascot to the seal was becoming more slim.
"We struggled against one of them, but against this many…" Nepgear was slowly losing hope of pulling this off.
"There are no alternatives. In order to reactivate the seal, I must be taken to the depths of this dungeon." The Mascot clarified that this was the only option they have and if they mess up, there will be no chance of doing this again. They had to take this chance for Lowee and the people.
"Iffy, do you have any kind of very super cool secret agent plan?" Compa asked IF.
"Hmmm… Well, we can bank on them not to be completely operational yet. So if we're able to sneak around them, then…" Austin finishes her plan for her.
"We'll be able to successfully get to the seal unnoticed and reactivate it with no problem, right?" IF nods.
"Seems like that's the best course of action…" Isabelle looked around the corner as she saw a few of the Killachines moving around the area.
"What will we do when they start moving?" Red answers this question.
"Then we'll beat 'em up until they stop!" This gained some smirks from the warriors of the group.
"I am highly doubtful of that idea. Anyways, let's get moving. This is our only choice for now." IF said and received nods from everyone else. IF would be the first one to sneak forwards and carefully walk slowly, so she does make any noise that would trigger off the Killachines or the ones that were still rebooting. IF then signs the others to get over to her as quickly as possible. As the group slowly sneaked towards IF, the Killachine that IF sneaked passed became fully operational and slowly starts to look around.
"Crap, this ain't good…" Isabelle said quietly.
"I can't use any of my abilities either, nor the instant transmission technique if I can't focus…" With this tension, their plan will end very easily and quickly.
"I got an idea…" Red said. The Killachine started to turn around more and more, still scanning its surroundings for any intruders for it to eliminate. As it turned around to where the group was, it only saw a giant red Manga standing out. It moved closer and scanned it and found nothing, so it turned away and went to scan somewhere else.
"I can't believe that just worked…" Jason had low hope in Red's plan to actually work. Seeing that he was proven wrong, was making him question how she pulled this off.
"Let's forget about that and get a move on…" Austin told Jason. Jason scoffs but listens and everyone moves slowly over to IF safely.
"Phew, that was close…" Nepgear commented
"Yeah, but let's get over to that seal now before we really do get caught…" IF then asks the Mascot on where to go and it leads the way. As they kept moving, more Killachines were being reactivated. Their chances at success dropped faster than they anticipated.
"There…" a magical circus in front of what looked similar to the Mascot's shrine. So far no Killachines were around the shrine, so they walked out of the open, cautiously. The Mascot floats above the circle and said circle and Mascot begin to glow in sink.
"There is one problem…" The Mascot glowed more, IF turns around and looks at the Mascot.
"What is it?" IF asked.
"It will at least take 20 minutes for me to seal away the amount of Killachines that were reactivated…"
"So we're gonna have to keep an eye out for a half an hour huh?" Aiden looks around.
"Unfortunately that will not happen…" A voice said. Everyone looks for where the source of this voice was coming from, they would look up to see Garlic Jr. floating above them.
"Garlic Jr…" Aiden stared directly at Garlic Jr. This time he will make sure that Garlic Jr. will be taken out once and for all.
"Look!" Jason points everyone's attention to an approaching mob of Killachines.
"We're in big trouble now, nyu!"
"Hope you guys remember our plan!" Aiden lets out his black-purplish aura.
"Leave Garlic Jr. to you while we deal with the Killachines? Yeah we got it!" Jason yelled out.
"Let's do this everyone!" Nepgear cries out and receives nods from the group. The group gets into a defensive position to protect the Mascot, while Aiden flies upward to face Garlic Jr.
"I hope that you and those fools down there make this more entertaining for me then last time." Garlic Jr. grins as he slowly floats towards Aiden.
"You're gonna be very disappointed once we beat you." Aiden slowly floats towards Garlic Jr. as well. Their speed slowly builds up as they get closer and closer, until they bursted into a burst dash towards each other and clash fists. Aiden throws his right fist to make contact with Garlic Jr.'s face, but was caught by Garlic Jr.'s left hand. Garlic Jr. throws Aiden towards a nearby wall and Aiden would land against it safely. Garlic Jr. rushes at Aiden at full speed, Aiden would dodge and Garlic Jr. Would fly through the wall and cause it to collapse.
Smoke built up after the wall fully collapsed, Aiden slowly walks towards the smoke cautiously. Garlic Jr. flies out of the cloud and reels back his right fist and as he gets closer, he extends his fist to collide into Aiden's face. Aiden however, dodge to the right and maneuvered his leg to get a clear shot at Garlic Jr.'s midsection. Aiden then knees Garlic Jr. and sends him flying back into the air, Aiden follows and strikes Garlic Jr. with a series of kicks and punches. Aiden gives one last kick to Garlic Jr. and uses the last kick to push himself away from Garlic Jr. and fires off a quick Kamehameha wave. Garlic Jr. Blocks the attack, but was still being pushed back. Garlic Jr. moved his hands upwards and redirected the Kamehameha into the far distance. Garlic Jr. and Aiden then rush back at each other to start a clash.
-Back with the Group-
Somehow the Killachines were slightly weaker than last time, it was probably due to the Mascot's power in activating the seal that somehow gave an effect to the Killachines. This thought ran through everyone as they were now able to stand a chance against these machines.
"Don't let any of these things pass you guys!" Noah cried out in his Super Saiyan form, as he kicked away a Killachine.
"These things are still hard to put down, even without their absorbing ability!" Rhyel punched Killachines one after the other. Isabelle dodges a swipe from a Killachines axe arm and throws fire at it.
"These things just won't let up!" Isabelle lets out her ears and tail and fires a barrage of fire at several Killachines, pushing them back. Nepgear transforms and uses Isabelle's assault as an opportunity to use Mirage Dance against the same Killachines Isabelle attacked.
"Keep pushing through guys!" Noah cried out, as he fired a ki wave at Five Killachines. The Killachines were knocked into the other Killachines and they short circuited and removed them from the fight, but the other Killachines would replace them and continue the attack.
"Ha!" Nepgear slices through the Killachines and fires after each strike she made. Nepgear soon points her Gunblade at three other Killachines and fired at them, removing the arms and immobilizing the machines. More Killachines just kept coming and making the space the group had smaller and smaller. This time, Underling appeared with more Killachines she activated as the group were defending the Mascot.
"Great, no wonder why I was hearing all of this loud noise! I can't believe you Brats came back here for another beating, sure you may have destroyed some of them but I still got plenty of more!" More Killachines popped out left and right and the space the group had was getting smaller quickly after each activation.
"This is really bad, nyu." Broccoli smacked Five Killachines with her strange bounce ball cat thing that she always rides on. IF infused her Qatar's with fire and sliced six more and used Demonic Inferno on another eight Killachines.
"Today just had to be the worst type of day!" IF dematerialized the Qatar on her right hand and pulled out her Beretta M9 and fired at Nine more, but more kept on coming. The group was backed against the seal magic circle and were now surrounded.
"This is just great!" Jason said sarcastically as he punched a Killachine on his right. The Killachines in front of the army brought their Maces up to finish the group off, as the Maces were about to slam into the group, said Killachines were then impaled by large spikes of ice. The group was suddenly confused by this sudden attack and looked among each other to see who did it, but none of them did.
"Jeez, what're you dummies doing by standing here?" Ram would appear in her CPU form, Rom would soon appear right next to Nepgear and she was smiling.
"Rom, and Ram what're you doing here?" Rom turns around to answer Nepgear.
"We came here to help! Hurry and seal them away!" Rom summons Ice Shards with her wand and throws the Shards at the Killachines, destroying at least 10 more.
"Aw crap, it's those twin CPU's again!" Underling yelled out, but smirks.
"Doesn't matter anyways, because there is something that you Brats don't know about!" Underling laughs and gains an angry response from Jason.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Jason stared at Underling with a vein popping out from his head.
"This!" The ground of the dungeon begins to rumble violently and pillars of blocks from within the dungeon start to fall over and crumble. When the rumbling slowly came to a stop, the Killachines were standing still with their heads looking down to the ground and their arms being limped.
"What was that-" A strange dark energy would leave the Metallic bodies of the Killachines and form onto a huge flame at the center of the room. It grew more and more until it sank into the ground and caused the ground to shake once more. The ground begins to crack and crumble and collapse downward, a huge cloud of smoke was created as the ground caved in. A giant figure covered in smoke rises from the ground with large glowing reddish orange eyes. The smoke slowly fades away and reveals a huge Killachine that was taller than Planeptune's tower and was much bulkier than the other Killachines. It's axe and mace were sharper and spiker and outlined with a red glow.
"I hope you Brats are ready, because this thing was a pain to reactivate! Behold, this is the Goliath Killachine!" Underling declared as she pointed to the huge machine.
"Something like that has been hidden this whole time!?" IF cried out at the site of the Goliath.
"Tck!" Jason turns Super Saiyan and flies at the Goliath and strikes it straight in the head. The Goliath was unfazed and smack Jason into a wall effortlessly.
"Jason!" Noah yelled, but was immediately smacked by the Goliath's mace and was slammed into a husk of a Killachine. Rhyel charges up and fires ki blast at the Goliath, along with Rom and Ram using their magic to create a powerful gust of wind. The Goliath was still unfazed and fired beams from its eyes, Jason and the CPU twins jumped out the way before they could get hit.
"Holy..." The ground where Jason and the twins were once standing at was vaporized into a huge hole and was still melting along the rim of the hole.
"Okay, that's a bad sign…" IF proclaimed.
-Back with Aiden-
"What is that!" Aiden saw what unfolded earlier and believes that the plan has just gone downhill. Garlic Jr. Laughs psychotically and Aiden turns to look back at Garlic Jr.
"This fight between us is now in favor of me! Your friends are nothing more, but inconvenience Hahaha!" Aiden's eyes narrow in anger.
"Let's end this!" Garlic Jr. takes a powering up stance and begins to yell. Garlic Jr. slowly begins to turn silver, his eyes turning red, and his aura taking a darkly color. Garlic Jr. stops yelling and grins at Aiden with malice.
"So you also have the same form that Raditz took…" Aiden takes his stance and thinks about what to do.
'Okay, how am I gonna handle this problem in front of me? I should probably take it up to Super Saiyan or Super Saiyan 2, but I need to conserve my energy so I can help everyone else with that huge Killachine… I guess I have no choice but to use this technique…' Aiden breathes in and out and gets into his powering up stance, Garlic Jr. Laughs.
"You think your Super Saiyan forms will help you? I'm immortal you fool!" Garlic Jr. keeps on laughing.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Garlic Jr.'s eyes widened and the energy output he was giving was very different. A red aura begins to manifest, Garlic Jr. immediately knows what this is and taunts Aiden.
"Seriously, the Kaioken technique? How dumb are you to think that will give you a chance to beat me? HAHAHA!" The air begins to become heavier and thick, causing Garlic Jr. to shut up.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The Red Aura starts to become more darker and expand. Aiden begins to turn completely red along with the aura.
"Wait, his power is rising dramatically! 10 times, 20 times, no wait! You are insane!"
"TIMES 100!" Aiden's aura explodes and makes shockwaves that sent Garlic Jr. flying. Garlic Jr. balanced himself after he was sent flying, he looks back up to only have a fist covered in red send him flying into a near monster and killing it. Aiden flies down to Garlic Jr., who was still flying into monsters and crashed into the ground. Aiden uses Instant Transmission and smashes his knees into Garlic Jr.'s stomach, making him spit out Saliva. Aiden grabs Garlic Jr.'s leg and throws him into the air and uses Instant transmission again to continue his assault.
-With the Group-
"Ugh! This isn't fair, we're not even making a scratch on that stupid robot!" Ram complained.
"This is really really bad, nyu." Broccoli said. Nepgear fired her gunblade from behind the Goliath and still didn't do any damage.
"This isn't going to get us anywhere if we're gonna keep attacking it head on!" Noah dodged a swing from the Goliath's Axe. Jason fires waves of ki at the Goliath from the right.
"Like we don't know that!" Jason flies underneath the Goliath's left arm when it swung it's mace. IF ignited her Qatar's on fire and slashed at the lower body of the Goliath, Compa was healing everyone to the best of her abilities.
'Tck, I guess there's no choice but for this technique to be used…' Austin yells out to Jason.
"Jason! We're gonna have to use the technique." Jason's face turned to one of hate and disgust.
"Like I would use that technique with you to win this fight!" Austin sighed.
"You got any better idea's genius? It's obvious that we won't be able to defeat this thing separately and just attacking it on all sides…" Jason had an angry look on his face, but slowly calmed down.
"Fine, but we're only gonna do this once!" Austin nodded and yelled out to everyone else.
"Everyone, hold them off as long as you can, we got a technique that'll probably give us a winning edge against this thing!" Underling laughed at this comment
"Try all you like, but it's still gonna get you nowhere!" Ryhel drops to the ground along with Noah and the group would join up.
"What is this technique they're talking about?" Nepgear asked.
"It better be a good one, if not I'm going to beat those dummies up!" Ram yelled.
"Please calm down Ram..." Rom told her twin sister. Isabelle let's out a second tail and her fire becomes much brighter.
"Best we stop pulling punches and go out!" Isabelle made huge fireballs and slammed them into the Goliath, Noah smirked.
"Alright then, let's scrap this thing!" Noah charges up and his hair turns yellow and electricity starts building up around him. His hair becomes more spikey and his eyes turn a darker shade of teal green.
"Alright then…" Rhyel's aura slowly turns pink and his eyes turn into a crimson red. Rhyel flies above the Goliath and fires a barrage of ki right at it and Noah goes in to fire a Full Power Kamehameha, huge amount of smoke was produced and Ram was left speechless after the sudden change of these three.
"Whoa! What just happened!?" Ram was wide eyed. No one would answer as the Goliath came out of the smoke intact and swung it's mace and caused the floor to collapse again.
"Wah!" Compa trips over when she dodged the Goliath's Mace.
"Compa! You okay?" IF ran over and helped Compa back on her feet.
"Yeah, I'm ok Iffy." Compa rubs her nose and sees Nepgear get slammed into a wall.
"Ge-Ge!/Gear!" IF and Compa yelled and rushed over to her. Nepgear slowly gets out and has many scratches on her. Compa pulls out a healing item and uses it on her. Nepgear's scratches and wounds disappeared and stood up.
"This isn't good, this thing is way too powerful than the normal Killachines…" Nepgear said. Rom and Ram distracted the Goliath with their magic and Rhyel and Noah keep firing ki blasts.
"If this keeps up, we'll lose…" IF said and Nepgear grips her gunblade and determination beaming in her eyes.
"I'm not going to lose again! I won't lose!" Nepgear flies at the Goliath and a Rainbow aura surrounds her body.
"Whoa!" Noah said, seeing Nepgear let out this sudden power and aura. Nepgear uses Celestial Severance, she was never able to use it due to lack of share energy. Nepgear's Determination and the power she received from the other two Mascots let her regain this ability. She used her first strikes at the Goliath's eyes and was able to do damage to them, she then went under the Goliath's chin and striked it again. Nepgear aims and fires at both of the Goliath's arms and causes them to crack, but was only able to damage the left arm the most. Nepgear flies forward and stabs the Goliath in it's chest and drags her gunblade upwards and removes it when she reaches its neck. She flies above the Goliath's head and fires a giant beam from her gunblade and damages it's head.
"I can't believe it, she actually damaged that thing!" IF was shocked.
"That's no fair, why is that CPU Dummy able to damage!" Ram said angrily. The Goliath brought it's right arm to swing it's axe at Nepgear, but was stopped by Rhyel and slammed his elbow against the axe. The strike caused cracks in the axe, but wasn't enough to break it.
-In the Distance-
Jason and Austin flew off to a safe part of the Dungeon so they can perform the technique without any distractions. Good thing the Monsters ran off during the chaos that was currently happening, but Austin looks around just in case if there's some Monsters that didn't run off.
"Alright, there's no monsters anywhere. Let's just make this quick and get it over with…" Jason walked over to Austin.
"I wouldn't have it any other way…" Austin would get into position and stood next to Jason. The both of them crouch and move close to each other on the tip of their feet. They move their arms above their heads until it nearly touches each other's arms.
"Fuuuuu-Sion!" They both mirror each other when they move their arms to their sides and make fists with their hands, and put one leg over the other.
"Ha!" Jason and Austin lean into a 60 degree angle and connect their pointer fingers from both arms. Jason begins to glow blue and Austin starts glowing orange. They start glowing brighter and they begin to merge, the glow becomes brighter and brighter and starts turning into a tornado of orange and blue.
-Back with the fight against the Goliath-
The bright tornado vanished, leaving girls surprised at the sudden appearance. Nepgear would concentrate back onto the Goliath and kept attacking. Noah gets behind the Goliath and sends a barrage of punches to it's back, but was then knocked out of the way by the Goliath's tail. Rhyel flies upwards and infuses ki into his fists and punches the Goliath in the face, pushing it back a little. Rhyel was about to deliver the last punch, but he got smacked away by the Goliath's right arm. The Goliath brought it's cracked up axe above its head and sent it towards Nepgear. Nepgear was going to block the attack with her gunblade, but didn't happen as she saw a silhouette appear in front of her and caught the axe with both of their hands.
The mysterious person pushed the axe back and the Goliath stumbled a little. The figure was a man who had spiked black hair that's shoulder length and went upwards, a black and orange vest with white pants, black wrist bands on each arm, a blue cloth belt wrapped around his hip and two other cloth wrappings on his legs that were connected to his shoes.
"W-who are you?" Nepgear asked as she brought her gunblade to her side. The man turns around and looks at Nepgear.
"Me? I'm the combination between Jason and Austin, just call me Jatin." Jatin crossed his arms and looked at the Goliath as it readied its axe. Nepgear widens her eyes at what Jatin said.
"H-how's that- wait, is this what you meant by technique. Did you mean the fusion technique?" Jatin nods in response. The Goliath swings it's axe at Jatin, but he grabs the axe and shatters the axe blade. The Goliath turns it's axe so it can use the other blade that wasn't broken, Jatin frowns and his eyes turn green. Jatin closes his eyes and turns Super Saiyan, but his aura took the shape of his figure instead of bursting out like flames.
"Let's get this nonsense over with." Rhyel and Noah join with Nepgear and Jatin as they rush at the Goliath. Rom and Ram would join in too and provide support.
-With Aiden-
Aiden's strikes were powerful to the point where Garlic Jr. couldn't block at all, but Garlic Jr. did get a few hits on. Aiden strikes Garlic Jr. in the face and knees him in the stomach and kicks him with both feet and sends Garlic Jr. flying. Aiden flies pass Garlic Jr. with the boost of the Kaioken x100 and punches Garlic Jr.'s back with consecutive punches. Aiden kicks Garlic Jr. upwards and pulls out the sword he got from Kei, he flies up to meet Garlic Jr. and strikes with his sword. Unfortunately Garlic Jr. regained his composure and stamina and Parries the strike with his nails. Garlic Jr. and Aiden were parrying and blocking each other's strikes and sparks were created during each strike. Aiden was impressed with how light this sword was and it felt very similar to a certain material from his dimension, a thought came to him when Garlic Jr. and him got back into a stand off.
'Is this Katchin? How can a metal like this exist here in this dimension?' Garlic Jr. screams loudly, bringing Aiden out of his thoughts and ready his sword.
"I'm the Great Garlic Jr., I will not accept defeat from you!" Aiden tightens his stance.
"Too bad, you aren't just gonna be defeated…." Garlic Jr. Smirks.
"What, you're gonna banish me to the Dead Zone, I'll find my way back!" Aiden's eyes are then shadowed by his hair.
"No, I'm going to kill you…"
"How, I am Immortal! Your chances are zero!"
"Then let me show you!" Aiden flies at Garlic Jr. and hacks and slashes all over his body, catching the immortal demon off guard. Aiden keeps slashing and makes each slash stronger than the last and axe kicks Garlic Jr. on the head and slams into the ground. Garlic Jr. Slowly gets up but is met with Aiden already in front of his face. Aiden brings his left palm in front of Garlic Jr.
"You both know that a simple ki blast won't-" Garlic Jr. suddenly feels a strange energy coming off of Aiden's palm and gets a sudden feeling of dread.
"W-wait, you couldn't have possibly learned THAT move!" The feeling of dread would come stronger as Aiden said the move he feared.
"Hakai…"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Garlic Jr. screamed in agony as his body slowly begins to fade away.
"I'm Garlic Jr.! The greatest Immortal Demon that has lived I can't die here, I'm immortal! I can't! I can't-" Garlic Jr. then faded away, he was no more. Aiden's arm pulsates and drops his sword.
"Aagh!" Aiden grabbed his left arm with his right one. The Hakai puts a big amount of stress onto his left arm, this is due to being that Hakai can only be used by Destroyer Gods and Aiden is only a mortal.
"I'm glad that I only got to use this move only once today." Aiden looks over to see the Goliath in a somewhat damaged state and is getting pushed back. Aiden walks over to his sword and picks it up, he drops his Kaioken x100 and flies over to help in the fight against the Goliath.
-Back with the Group (Again)-
Jatin was kicking and Punching the Goliath at different angles where the Goliath wouldn't be able to reach. Jatin flies back and throws a bright orange ki blast at the Goliath's face and makes a huge amount of smoke. The Goliath was stunned and wasn't able to see, this also destroyed the Goliath's right eye too. Aiden appears when this all happened.
"Aiden/Mr. Aiden!" Rom and Nepgear said. Aiden flies over to them and the group and gives a smile.
"Sorry it took me awhile, Garlic Jr. was very persistent then I imagined and no thanks to him having that dark power boost." Aiden lets go of his left arm and chuckles.
"What happened to your left arm Aiden?" Nepgear looked at Aiden's arm as it pulsates and shakes a little.
"I used a move that's only meant to be used by Destroyers, using it put a strain on my arm." The Goliath would let out a metallic roar and fired a laser from it's left eye. Jatin, Aiden, and everyone else who was in the air dodged. The Goliath brought its arm up to strike with it's axe, but Isabelle used her flames and turned it into a burning chain. Isabelle throws it at the Goliath's right arm and it wraps around it, Isabelle then throws the flame into the wall and it barrows deep into the wall. The Goliath struggled to get it's arm free, but it was useless as the flaming chain wrapped around its arm tighter and the other end went deeper into the wall.
"Do it now you guys!" Isabelle yelled out. Rom and Ram used their magic and trapped the Goliath's tail in ice so it wouldn't have a chance to escape. Jatin brought his hands above his head and created a bright orange and yellow ki ball.
Aiden went Super Saiyan 2 and prepared to fire the Crimson Star Crusher, Noah puts his hands on his forehead and Rhyel puts his left hand in front of his right one and pivots the top of his body to the right.
"Let's end this in one attack guys!" Aiden charges a red orb in front of his fists.
"MASAKO!" Noah throws his hands forward and fires a yellow beam.
"GALICK GUN!" Rhyel infuses his pink aura into his hands and infuses it into the purple orb when he fired it.
"CRIMSON STAR CRUSHER!" Aiden lets out his signature attack and Nepgear fires a beam from her gunblade and it infuses it with the crimson beam. The orb above Jatin starts to attract lightning and closes his eyes and steadies his breathing. Concentrating his energy into the orb and starts to compress it into a smaller ball, Jatin opens his eyes and yells out.
"Inferno Burst!" Jatin let's out a huge beam that infuses itself with everyone else's attack, turning it into a combined attack. The blast hits the Goliath head on and it begin to melt and crack fast, it's metal plates start to peel off and evaporate. The Goliath let out one final roar until nothing was left, some of the deactivated Killachines that were laying around were destroyed as well as making a huge crater within the dungeon and wiping out any monsters as well.
"H-how, What the actual Hell did this happen!" Underling couldn't believe what just happened in front of her eyes.
"These punks weren't even phasing it and somehow they were able to destroy it! This ain't fair at all, it makes no sense!" Underling threw her arms all over the place in frustration and slammed her iron bar on one of the shut down Killachines. Jatin defuses and Jason and Austin would come back, they would float back down to the ground with the others and Nepgear would release her transformation and return to her normal form.
"Return to scrapyard heaven, you piece of junk! Now it's time to fill on my promise." Red beamed at Underling with a burning glare.
"Yeah, I ain't staying around here! Seeya you chumps!" Underling runs away, letting Red get angry and shouting lots of nonsense.
"Hey! Where do you think you're go-" IF grabs Red's arm.
"Forget about her, we got more important things to do." Some of the Killachines begin to reactivate after the Goliath was destroyed.
"We need to get these Killachines sealed away!" Nepgear said.
"Of course, one moment." The seal begins to grow bright and the Killachines would also glow bright as well.
"Terminal Error Detected, Terminal Error Detected, Terminal Error Detected." The Killachines began twitching uncontrollably as they glowed brighter, the Killachines then gone limb and the glowing stops. The Killachines fell over and disappeared.
"Are they all gone?" Aiden asked.
"Yes, all the remaining Killachines are successfully shut down and resealed. As long as I'm here, they will never be reactivated." The Mascot said in its neutral tone.
"Phew! We're in the clear." Compa said as she sat down, with clear exhaustion in her voice.
"Lowee is safe, thanks to you. No words can describe my level of gratitude." Nepgear walked up to the Mascot.
"We did what was right. But… This means you can't come with us, doesn't it?" Nepgear was saddened at this result. Both Mascots from the other nations couldn't join them, Lowee's Mascot unfortunately was the same.
"That would mean the reactivation of the Killachines." Nepgear closed her eyes and sighed in defeat.
"We can't let that happen… Sorry I brought it up…" Aiden walked over and patted Nepgear's shoulder.
"There is still one way that the Mascot can help us." Aiden said, getting everyone's attention.
"Seeing that both Mascots stayed behind in the other two nations, but they did lend Nepgear their power. So why can't Lowee's Mascot not do the same?" This made everyone in the group feel dumbfounded at forgetting this certain event that happened twice.
"Unfortunately, I lack the ability to...huh?" The Mascot glowed very bright, making everyone cover their eyes from the light. Once it died down, they would be shocked at what just happened. The Mascot was floating right next to another Mascot that is completely similar to itself.
"H-how is this possible?" The Mascot as the Second Mascot and it responded with the same level of confusion.
"I wish I could tell you, me. So you're not sure either?" This phenomenon was quite interesting to say the least and quite confusing. No one could tell which Mascot was speaking.
"I'm soooooo confused right now!" Compa held onto her head.
"Patchwork with generic materials will cause some glitches in the disc, but this glitch is good, nyu." Broccoli said to clear up some of the confusion. IF scratches the back of her head.
"So… The Mascot made a clone of itself just in case its physical body got destroyed?" IF theorized.
"I guess that's the solution, nyu." IF sighs.
"How ironic, considering the efforts we made to bring it back to life. All's well that ends well, I guess." Nepgear came to a conclusion on what this might mean.
"One of them can come with us, pretty confident." Aiden chuckled.
"Yes/Yes" Both Mascots said.
"I can now heed your request. I will stay behind and maintain this seal." Said the one that was floating above the seal, while the other one floated towards Nepgear.
"And I will aid you in whatever way possible." The Mascot turned to the one that was above the seal.
"Good luck, me." This moment would get interrupted by Ram who stomped on the ground.
"Come on, are you all done yet? I'm so bored! Let's head home!" Aiden sighed, and Noah just face palmed. Everyone else chuckles.
"Thank you, Mister Aiden and Miss Nepgear…" Rom smiled. Aiden crouches down and rubs Rom's head.
"No problem Rom." Rom giggled, earning a smile from and and Nepgear.
"We should be thanking you two. We couldn't have done this without your help." Ram walks over and huffs.
"Pssh, whatever. Let's go home already! I'm hungry!"
"Man… Kids… She has a point, though. Let's get back to inform the Oracle." The group and the now clone Mascot start to head back to the Basilicom. Red then realizes something and slows her pace to walk besides Aiden and Nepgear.
"Sooooooooooooooooo."
"Yes Red?" Nepgear looked at Red.
"Do you two have some type of relationship now?~" Nepgear's eyes widen and becomes very red, Aiden blushed lightly and looked straight head.
"H-HUUUUUUHHHHHHH!?"
N/A: Sorry I haven't posted a Chapter in awhile, I've been very lazy lately and thinking up ideas on my other story and doing or at the same time with this one. So I will be pretty slow on this but I'll get chapters out. I'll see you all in the next chapter.
*Took out a cup of pudding and ate it. Suddenly hears a familiar voice screaming outside my room*
Oh great...
