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Chapter 14: Aquatic Circus
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'' Who, who are these people?'' Hideki asked, fearfully watching the hijacked forklift.
'' They're Enforcers.'' Butch answered grimly.
Slate eyed Chirol and Kurohige with a look of disapproval. '' The Enforcers have fallen a long way since I was one…''
'' Shut up!'' Kurohige spat. '' Diveman, blow them out of the water!''
The hatch on Diveman's bow opened. '' Dive Ball!'' he shouted as several bombs shot out of it. The navis leapt away as they landed.
'' Terrence, we'll take on Circusman, just like before.'' Slate ordered.
Terry nodded. '' Right. We'll beat him again!''
'' Wrong answer!'' Circusman said. '' This time you're the ones that'll be beaten!''
Slate responded by taking out two chips and slotting them in. '' Areasteal and Machinegun, double slot in!''
Zero vanished and reappeared high in the air. His right hand morphed into a double barreled machine gun. Still in mid air, he began to fire upon Circusman, who hadn't spotted him yet. Circusman yelped as the shots made contact, but one of his four hands appeared near the falling Zero and backhanded him, causing him to fall and hit the ground on his stomach and much harder than he intended to. He glanced up at Dash, who hadn't moved. '' What are you doing?'' he shouted. '' Do you want to be deleted? Attack him!''
'' Sorry sorry!'' Terry said hastily. '' Markcannon, slot in!''
Dash's hand was replaced by a green cannon with a small metal shield. He took careful aim and fired, but Circusman moved one of his hands in front of it. While the hand did the meta cube deletion animation, it reappeared in a shower of pixels, making it an expendible shield.
'' Gloom Cage!'' Circusman shouted, before proceeding to vanish.
'' Wha? Where did he go?'' Dash said, confused. He then noticed a shadow forming beneath him. Quickly, he leapt to the side as Circusman, now resembling a circus tent more then a clown, came down on that spot.
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'' Smart Missile!'' Diveman shouted as he launched two missiles. Karla selected a chip on her PET's hologram screen. '' Barrier!''
A pyramid shaped energy shield surrounded Tyria and Crushman, and the missiles harmlessly exploded against it.
Karla then selected a Mega Energy Bomb and dragged that over. It appeared in Tyria's hand and she threw it at the submarine navi. Diveman swallowed his pipe and sank into the floor as if it were water. '' Not again…'' Tyria groaned.
'' Don't worry, I got this one.'' Butch said, carelessly waving his hand. '' Drillarm, slot in!''
Crushman's hand was replaced by a drill. He waited patiently until Diveman's periscope appeared, then he leapt over to it and jammed the drill downward, resulting in a yelp of surprise and pain. The periscope retracted and Diveman emerged from the floor a distance away, rubbing his head. '' It looks like you've gotten smarter since our last meeting- dearu.''
Tyria smiled. '' Yep. Which is why we're gonna beat you even easier this time.''
'' I wouldn't count on that.''
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Circusman was sent sliding backwards from the barrage of attacks he had just taken.
'' Circusman!'' Chirol shouted. '' Use your special ability to end this!''
'' Special ability?'' Circusman asked, sounding confused. '' Oh! That!''
'' Special ability? What do you mean?'' Dash asked.
'' Hee hee. The show's over for you now!'' Circusman exclaimed. He then reached over to his torso and pulled it apart! Spreading the remains of his 'jacket' away from his body, a black void was visible.
'' What the devil is that?'' Zero cried.
Dash felt is footing slip, and then realized that he was being sucked in!
'' What are you doing!'' Terry shouted at Chirol.
'' Before I was an Enforcer I was a doing menial work as a secretary.'' Chirol answered. '' I customized my navi so that he had a very large memory capacity. Since a secretary needs to keep track and record lots of data, I used him to store the data. When I became an Enforcer, I modified it so that it could be used offensively.''
Dash started to run, but it was like trying to run through a gale. He aimed his buster behind him and fired blasts into the void, but it simply sucked them up.
'' Plug out, now!'' Slate said, thumbing the button. Nothing happened, the void was interfering with the signal.
'' Arrg.'' Zero grunted as he started to flee the vortex, his blond hair blowing behind him. '' Saberwave!'' he managed to shout, bringing his Z-Saber down to unleash the energy wave. Unfortunately, the gluttonous void sucked that it too. There seemed no way of escape.
'' Crazy Locomotive!''
Something smashed into Circusman from the side, sending him flying across the floor and nullifying the suction.
'' What the… Chargeman?'' Dash said in confusion.
The train navi puffed steam from his smokestack. '' That's what you get for messing with Ironsould!'' he bellowed towards Circusman.
Terry turned to see Kurogane standing nearby, his PET pointed at the forklift. '' I thought that there was some sort of commotion going on.''
'' Thank you Kurogane-san.'' Slate said in relief.
'' Chirol, Kurohige, you can't win against all of us! Give up!'' Dash shouted.
'' That green brat is right. Plug out.'' Kurohige grumbled, plugging his navi out.
'' I'm sorry Circusman…'' Chirol sighed. '' But we can still use the forklift to crush the humans!''
The forklift backed up towards the rebels at a high speed, smashing into the building again.
'' Vick, Lloyd, what are you doing!'' Slate demanded.
'' Virus busting!'' Ryn answered as he sliced a Lark in two. '' They're all over the drive system!''
Beta stood before a command window which was in front of the spherical core. '' They have it on an auto program. I'm having trouble analyzing it, let alone hacking it!''
'' Ah screw this.'' Lloyd said. '' Ryn, destroy the drive program!''
Ryn nodded and threw his spear at the core. The spear hit it, making it spark. Then it exploded. In the real world, the forklift shut down and smoke began to pour out from the undercarriage.
'' That did the trick.'' Lloyd said, plugging Ryn out in front of an indignant Vick.
Chirol and Kurohige, meanwhile, had been slowly backing up, looking for an escape route. Instead of safety, they encountered an angry mob.
'' You cause trouble in our town?'' one person said in broken English as he cracked his knuckles.
'' Y- you can't hurt us! We're with the government!'' Chirol said shrilly, eyeing a heavy looking club.
'' We not care.'' the man said. '' We may work for government, but we not like it. Or you.''
At this, Chirol let out a little scream and started running, with Kurohige hurrying after her. The mob surged forward in pursuit.
'' What's gonna happen to them?'' Butch asked Hideki.
Hideki shrugged. '' They're probably just going to be run out of town.''
'' Well, now that that's over with…'' Slate sighed. '' We'd better get moving.''
So the rebels bade goodbye to both Hideki and Kurogane and began on the final leg of their journey. But were they fully prepared for what lay ahead? Of course not.
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The battle was almost completely rewritten, cause the one I had before was crap.
Dash and Zero stole the spotlight again, curses!
Circusman's suction thing is canon, as he used it in EXE6 to absorb the Cybeasts. On an interesting note, in the FMA manga Gluttony has a similar ability.
This is the end of the filler, I swear! From now on, you'll get straight up plot.
