Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN BEN 10 OR AKAME GA KILL. THEY BELONG TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS. BEN 10 IS OWNED BY MAN OF ACTION AND AKAME GA KILL IS OWNED BY SQUARE ENIX.
Hey there guys, this is MegaRdaniels writing to you once more. Sorry for the hiatus, I was threatened by a man that if I don't finish he will slurp either one of my reviewer's arms. Yes there is a serial arm licker on the loose.. Be aware. Anyway back to the story!
君主を殺す
XLV: Kill the Monarch
It was just one of those days for the Grand Emperor of the Empire. The Emperor sat on his throne looking bored as his Prime Minister was out and about taking care of "business". All the soldiers were out patrolling the city, crime was under control, and the infamous terrorist group, Night Raid, was nowhere to be seen.
However, his curiosity about the young teen in green had spiked his interest. He didn't want him dead - unlike his Prime Minister who wanted him drawn and quartered. He wanted him to serve as a soldier for the Empire - much like Esdeath in a way. He was confused and did not know what to do. The poor young ruler yawned as he was about to get up and lay on his royal bed...until he heard a voice.
Click. Click. Click. Click. He heard footsteps coming forward, "Oh Emperor?"
The Emperor faced forward and saw a very happy Seryu spawning a blue buttoned-down shirt, opened exposing some of her cleavages, tucked in some blue jeans, and boots. She wore her hair down. She carried a bucket, some paint brushes, a color palette filled with paint and black gesso. Korro accompanied her carrying the rest of the supplies.
"Officer Seryu Ubiquitous!" the Emperor leaped off his chair exclaimed, "What brings you here?"
"I'm just here relaxing," she said with an innocent smile, "You wanna paint with me?"
"Sure!" the young ruler said, following the young woman down the hall, "What are we gonna paint?"
"Some happy little trees is all," Seryu said as they both walked down the hall together.
…
Later, Prime Minister had returned from his "business trip" outside the boundaries of the Capital. He walked over to the throne room to check on the young Emperor. He wasn't there.
"Emperor? Where have you gone?" The Prime Minister asked. He looked around the room until he stepped into something...wet. He looked down. His face paled.
"Blood?" he spotted. He followed the massive trails of blood to the Prime Minister the dark hallway which was...unfortunately was painted in all red. Blood drenched the hallway. At least 13 soldiers...maybe more were ripped to shreds or melted down. The Prime Minister shuddered.
"Oh Holy God," he said.
"God isn't coming to save you," said a voice. The Prime Minister stopped in his tracks and saw a young woman painting on the walls. She had a painting knife forming red mountains in an all red environment. There were red evergreen trees, a red river, and red grass.
"There," she said.
The Prime minister paled once more.
"What the hell?" The young woman turned around with an innocent smile while covered in blood. The site was horrific. Instead of the plain paint brush she once had, it was still a paintbrush, but the handle was made of a ripped femur bone, chiseled up, some hair to play as the bristles, and some more bone to play as the ferrule and the heel. The ferrule part was dipped in molten aluminum. All brushes were like that from the 2" to the narrow handled. The paint, though the wall was painted in black gesso, the entire environment painted varied in various shades of red.
"We don't make mistakes...just happy little...incidents. Is that right Minister?" Seryu asked.
"What in God's name is the meaning of this Seryu?" Prime Minister Honest asked sternly. "AND WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THE EMPEROR?!"
"You're looking at him," she faced back at the painting.
"Y-You did this? Th-this is the Emperor? You're lying...I'm not playing..."
Seryu happily gave the Prime Minister the bloodied sceptor belonging to the Emperor. It was covered in blood and muck. Speckles of bone and skull glued to the top. The Prime Minister gasped and took a few steps back, "You're just a sick, little..."
"Sick?" Seryu did not face the man, she still kept the smile, "I'm sorry but, would a sick person commit the following crimes: tyranny, oppression, slavery, corruption, murder, abuse, genocide, jingoism, terrorism, homicide, and treachery? I made a promise to the people to protect the Empire against evil. And I believe the evil, the greatest one of all has come to confront me right?"
"You are crazy! Wait until Esdeath comes..."
"Esdeath is gone to a mission to take down Night Raid, I staged a cold to stay behind...and once I'm done with this mission, I can sneak out and rid the world of Ben Tennyson. Because with him around, they are invincible. So I conducted a plan to rid the outer leadership of the Revolutionary army, cripple them, and finally rid the resistance from Najenda. Once she's gone, Night Raid has no leader...and I doubt Ben 10 has any leadership skills. Once Najenda is dead, and predicting from an old wive's plan, the group will split to try to fight me, and I will pick them apart one by one until...BAM! Or...I could only target Ben while my goons target the rest. He's the only dessert worth eating for me."
"What are you...?" Suddenly, slime dropped on the Prime Minister's shoulder. He turned around and saw a terrifying sight. It was a giant purple bird-like creature. It had a sharp beak with hooks & boils and four eyes. The Nemetrix was on a red spiked collar. The creature growled as it drooled.
SQUAWK!
The Prime Minister screamed. His final sight before being devoured was the jaws of the giant bird. It bit half of Honest's torso off like a boy ripping through stereophone popcorn. As Korro, now as this giant bird creature, munched on its meal, Seryu continued to paint.
"There," she finished painting what looked like a boy being ripped in half as she signed her named on the bottom-right corner. "I think we have ourselves a finished painting," Seryu said, "Careful Korro, take it nice and easy when you chew. You'll get yourself a bellyache," she advised. Korro continued on munching on what remained on the Prime Minister.
...
Back in the Hide Out, there was a meeting about something. The Alien Force and Night Raid had gathered together to hear out the plans from General Najenda. Even though most of Night Raid had accepted Ben in their ranks, they were still wary of Gwen and Kevin. It even went as far as protecting Ben from them! Gwen would give them a stern look to make them back off, after seeing how powerful she was, they instantly obeyed.
Akame was one of the few who trusted the Alien Force entirely. Sheele only trusted Ben, somewhat with Gwen, but not with Kevin. After hearing what Kevin did in the past, she became protective of both Gwen and Ben - mainly Ben unaware that the two had been friends for a while now.
"The Revolutionary Army is rising up," Najenda began, "As such, I would like to take this opportunity to explain our first order of business," she continued, "I assume you all are familiar with the religion, The Path of Peace?"
"Nope," Kevin interrupted, "Is it like Christianity or something?"
No response.
"No Christianity? Mormon? Islam? Judaism? Yeah, I'm guessing Christian," Kevin said. Gwen simply nodded while others stared in confusion.
"What's Christianity?" Tatsumi asked. Ben groaned.
"Anyway," Najenda spoke up again after recovering from the confusion, "I assume you heard of it?"
"They're the ones who believe that a person's good deeds determine their happiness and longevity of life," Chelsea answered.
"Oh...just like Buddhists. Nice," Kevin said putting his foot on the table next to Akame, annoying her. Gwen had to slap the top of his head to get his foot off the table.
"Oh yeah, they used to practice that religion in my village," Tatsumi opened up, "Before I left, they gave me a statue of their god," Tatsumi said.
"In the last ten years, more and more people are joining. Its influence is quite high in the eastern part of the Capital. We have reason to believe that they are taking up arms. They are looking to start a religious rebellion," she said. Everyone, including the Alien Force, seem intrigued.
"So its like the American Revolution but with magic," Gwen said to herself as she took some notes.
Tatsumi stood up, "Hey now wait for just a second..." Kevin sat Tatsumi down, "Calm down kid, wait for her to finish her to chew her food before she swallows. It's kinda rude, kid," Kevin told him.
"But..."
"We don't everything about the plan. Besides, she said THEY are launching a rebellion, not WE. "They" is an epicenity, meaning it's clarifying a group of people outside of the ones speaking it. Be patient and listen, and besides, you won't end up like this guy," Gwen thumbed to Kevin who was a bit offended.
"Oh ha ha!" Kevin said sarcastically.
"Can we focus?" Ben said, "We have to know about the plan before we butt in," Ben said. Gwen nodded.
"Thank you, Tennyson," Najenda said, "Anyway, we're allied with the tribe in the west. They're set to begin their invasion when the uprising starts to move. When they do, they will be forced to defend themselves on both sides of the border. That won't be enough to bring them down entirely. The Revolutionary Army will stage a riot in the south. As soon as they march into the Capital, we'll bring the Empire to its knees."
"I get it. We're planning a three-way offensive," Ben said.
"Wouldn't that leave the Capital vulnerable?" Sheele asked.
"Yes," Najenda said, "The Empire has a long history of underestimating us," she continued, "and now they're thankful of gathering all the people who oppose them into one place. The Revolutionary Army stronghold is located in the Empire's border. They have to break through all the checkpoints in order to get to the Imperial Castle. Lucky for us, we're already in secret talks with the castle's viceroys. Many of them used to work diligently only for them not to be renegaded. So they were happy to cooperate. It should be quite a site. Our forces will storm the capital, capturing castle after castle without spilling an ounce of blood. Of course, the Empire's response is to get their trump cards, the Great General Budo and the Royal Guards. But that'll drain the palace's defenses. Which works in our favor," she said.
"Making it the perfect time to assassinate the source of all this," Akame said. Ben sat back. As Najedna continued, Gwen and Sheele saw Ben's uncomfortable stance.
"Ben, are you okay?" Sheele asked.
"I may not know who this Prime Minister Honest is, but I don't think we should...well kill the guy?" Ben said.
"What would you have us do?" Sheele asked.
"In our universe, our most dangerous criminals were banished to a prison dimension, one where they will never get out," Kevin said. I'm thinking Ben might be thinking in putting your guy in the..."
"Null Void," Ben said.
Akame caught wind of this, she listened intently.
"The Null Void is an interdimensional prison. He would be put on trial, and if the Cosmic Courts hear the case, I wouldn't doubt that they wouldn't sentence him to at least 400 years in there. Plus, killing him is like giving him some sort of escape from persecution," Kevin said.
As Akame listened, she took mental notes about this dimension.
"So, your Vilgax...he was trouble so he was sentenced..."
"For a thousand years...consecutively," Kevin said.
Suddenly...
"What about Ben's plan?" Everyone overheard Akame's outburst.
"What about it?" Najenda asked.
"You nosy little woman!" Ben stood up.
"Perhaps killing him wouldn't be a proper punishment for Honest," she said.
"So putting him in prison will do?" Leone snickered.
"Yes," Akame said.
"Damn, I was just joking. You're really serious?"
"There is no time for jokes," Najenda said.
"I'm not joking," Akame said now turning to Ben, "Ben can you explain it?"
Bens sighed. He stood up; Kevin only nodded.
"In our universe, we call it The Null Void Projector, it's a device that will suck any person assigned into an interdimensional prison. There are little to no humans in there, so I highly doubt that Honest would even survive without getting beaten...or worse."
"So banish him from a living dimension to...well hell," Leone said.
"Pretty much," Ben answered.
"Hmm...seems...interesting," Najenda asked, impressed shocking the Alien Force, "Do you have this...Null Void Projector?"
Ben's eyes widened. Well...um...you see?"
Kevin slapped a Null Void Egg onto the table. Everyone, including Najenda, all leaned in to take a look. The device was egg-shaped with two metal plates covering half of its two hemispheres and on the center was a yellow, bullet-proof, specialized glass. It was beeping red reading: OFF.
"All you have to do is throw it, and they get sucked in," Kevin said.
"That is impossible," Chelsea said, "How can someone so big fit into something that small?"
"Ask Humungasaur and or Way Big how they fit into a device so small while they are gigantic!" Mine said with a smug, "Besides, in Ben's world, their technology, as strange as it is, is advanced enough to take down anybody here."
"I highly doubt that," Chelsea added.
"We do have debts to pay, I promised the Western Tribes we'll give them their land in exchange in some assistance. However, I would rather do a co-punishment. If this Null-Void Egg does not work, then my team will have no choice to kill the Minister," Najenda said.
She went on until she got to the part of what was very important, a warning to them all, "Now then, there is one problem with The Path of Peace."
"Let me guess...Catholic Pedophile Syndrome right?" Kevin joked. Gwen slapped the hell out of Kevin, making most of Night Raid to laugh, "What was that for?"
"Not appropriate," Gwen said.
"It may not be appropriate, but accurate," Najenda began, "A man named Bolic serves as an assistant to the charismatic figure they called The Lord. However, he is a spy appointed by the Minister. Bolic seeks to take control from the religion's leader and prevent the church from rebelling against the Empire. So here's what I like you to do: for Ben's team; you go there and use your Null Void Projector to send him to this prison you seek; but if my team comes, we'll kill him." she said.
"Wait, how come Ben's Team have a special kind of jurisdiction from us?" Tatsumi asked.
"From Be's technology and the knowledge I gathered on where they are from, I assume the Null Void is just a fancy word of saying hell right?" Najenda asked.
Ben and his team nodded.
"I am way more comfortable telling my team this because this is the world we live in. Bolic has been secretly drugging his followers, getting them addicted and making them his slaves. Do not hold back," Najenda told. The Alien Force did not like this one bit - especially Kevin. He wanted nothing more but to smash this Bolic guy through a wall. Gwen wanted to go full Anodite and give him the lesson he deserved. Ben, he wanted nothing more but to use ALL of his forms against him.
"So he's a serial rapist?" Ben asked.
Najenda said. Akame saw the hatred in Ben's eyes. She was drawn towards it. Sheele got close and held his hand, "He will pay for his crimes," she told him, relaxing Ben a bit.
"Ben? Can I see you after the meeting?" Akame asked.
"Why do you want to see him?" Najenda asked.
"Contingency," she said, "Just in case things go south."
AN: Welp, looks like another chapter well done. Thank you for your time in reading this! Please always leave reviews, and until next time.
PEACE!
