Robot Vyser: Greetings…I have returned with the next chapter.
Tech: Yes that's a good robot. Now as long as Vyser doesn't return we're good to go.
Robot Vyser: Right master Tech.
(Vyser walks in with a coffee, but drops it shocked to see the robot Vyser)
Vyser: What the bloody hell!
Tech: Oh boy…this is bad.
Vyser (fully pissed off): TECH! DID YOU TRY TO REPLACE ME WITH THIS CHEAP PIECE OF SCRAP!
Robot Vyser: WHO ARE YOU CALLING SCRAP!
Vyser: YOU! YOU STEAM DRIVEN JUNKYARD!
Robot Vyser: SHUT UP MEAT SACK!
Vyser: It's on!
(Tech just sighed out loudly as Vyser and Robot Vyser began to fist fight.)
Tech: You'll never see a weirder sight…better get this chapter started. Vyser doesn't own ToS or the characters you all submitted. And now on with the chapter!
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Chapter 43: Machine and Oil VS Flesh and Blood
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"Zeek…" growled the metal covered Tech. "You've…you've…impossible!"
Zeek's aura sent his hair flowing upwards, his eyes full of determination. Everyone was shocked to see that the Zeek they had all known, and thought was dead on the spot was alive and willing to fight.
"Simply amazing! I wonder where Zeek acquired such a power," thought Locke while Tech shook his head.
"No matter! I've still have enough power to defeat you!" laughed Tech as Zeek walked over to Sera. When Zeek reached her, he knelt over while Lloyd and Kratos were back on their feet.
"Thanks," muttered Zeek before he spun around towards Tech. "Tech, you'll pay for all you've done!"
"Tech's new form maybe too much for Zeek…we need to fight together!" yelled Lloyd as Kratos nodded.
"Right Lloyd," replied Kratos as he and Lloyd ran up to the left and right sides of Zeek.
"You punks can't beat me! Not after I've come so far!" roared Tech before he shot multiple blasts from his blasters on his wrists. Lloyd, Zeek and Kratos managed to jump out of the way at the last second. "WHAT!"
"You must be getting rusty Tech!" yelled Kratos as he ran from where he landed and quickly charged towards Tech with his sword ready to slash. "You've out lived this life!"
"NO! I haven't finished!" yelled Tech as he shot many blasts towards Kratos who managed to dodge each one while still charging towards Tech. "Stay back fool!"
But it was too late; Kratos was just underneath the barrel of Tech's blaster. He then began to slash as…
"Take this!" roared Kratos before he slashed upwards, his sword cutting right through the metal. The barrel went flying into the air, as Tech's robotic eyes seemed to bugle out at the sight of a part of him went flying.
"GRR! I still have my other blaster!" yelled Tech as he pointed his right hand towards Kratos…before Lloyd came charging towards him from the right.
"Not so fast!" commanded Lloyd, as he reached Tech then slashed downward on Tech's other barrel.
"Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooo!" yelled Tech after his barrel crashed to the ground. "You…you…you bastards! Activate Tech barrage!" All of a sudden Tech's metallic chest opened up to reveal multiple silos for missiles. "FIRE!"
As the many missiles fired from Tech's chest and towards Lloyd and Kratos, a second large twister of silver energy slammed into the missiles. The missiles exploded on contact causing much smoke to appear in the room. As the smoke began to dissipate around Tech, Zeek flew directly towards Tech.
"Forget about me?" asked Zeek before he slammed his the bottom of his foot into Tech's head sending Tech dropping backwards.
When the smoke cleared, everyone saw that Tech was bending backwards with his feet planted on the ground.
"Ouch! That has to be a pain in the back," commented Jet as Tech quickly jumped back onto his feet.
"Foolish flesh and bones!" cursed Tech as he cracked his metallic neck. "Those foolish attacks can't hurt me…I'm fully metal!"
"Ah, shut up you full metal jackass!" commented Zelos as Tech began to make steam come from his metal skin.
"Grr…As soon as I'm done with this four I'm going to rip you all apart!" growled Tech as he pointed towards Zelos. "Starting with you! Pretty boy!"
"And I'm going to enjoy that," commented Jet before Zelos knocked Jet on the head.
"Anyway," started Tech as Jet and Zelos fought each other. "Zeek. This power…this is the power that was hidden within your soul! This power that I needed."
"Is that why you killed my father?" asked Zeek as he drew his dagger.
"You'd better believe it! That power was for my first plan," Tech answered as an aura began to engulf him. "However I was only able to make a less powerful duplicate. But when I win…I'll be able to take that power for myself!"
"We've managed to prove that we're stronger than you," stated Kratos before Tech began to laugh.
"I realize that…so you'll have to see my next form," replied Tech as more of the metal in the room began to form around Tech. "And now I saw rid myself of even more humanity! That way I can become perfect! OMEGA TECH ACTIVATE!"
"Ridding of himself of his humanity…what does he hope to accomplish?" Kratos questioned as the metal began to take shape.
In Tech's place appeared an even larger metallic being. A crimson tri spiked helmet covered its (it didn't have a specific gender to call Tech 'him' again) fully dark gray metal armored head. From it's head a neck made up of thick and powerful wires connected to the torso that had red chest plates covering a black metal chest. Its arms had pitch black and crimson shoulder pads over its thick wire arms. It had pitch black gantlets that had two powerful looking cannons on each arm. Its hands were thick with pitch-black armor. It had no legs…instead it had four turbines in the legs' place that kept it hovering over the ground. On the metal being's back appeared to be two more turbines.
"That's a change," commented Zeek as 'Tech's yellow eyes began to glow with intensity.
"My body is not a shield…" said Tech as he raised both of his cannons towards the four. "But rather a sword to thrust to my future! OMEGA CANNONS!"
The cannons began to charge while everyone who was behind the barrier began to run while Lloyd, Kratos, Zeek and Sera prepared to dodge. When the cannons fired, two bursts of extremely powerful amounts of energy fired from the barrels. Lloyd, Kratos, Zeek and Sera managed to barely get hit by the attacks…but the force sent them flying into the barrier. The attack however continued till it hit the barrier. The barrier began to stretch as the blasts pushed against it, crushing any part of the build it hit…Till the power was too much that shattered the barrier and disintegrated any part of the building that was caught in the blast. When the attack died down Lloyd was the first up and saw that the top floor was no longer existing…Tech was no where to be found while Zeek, Kratos and Sera began to get back to their feet.
"I hope the others are okay," Lloyd thought as a noise began to fill the air. "What's that?'
Suddenly the new Tech appeared from the outside of the now shortened building, the turbines on its back fully activated and pushing the Tech upward into the sky.
"DEATH TO NON MACHINES!" yelled Tech as his cannons began to charge.
"Everyone! Fly to the sky!" yelled Kratos as the four made their wings appear and run to the edge of the building.
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A second powerful blast filled the entire city causing Exodus and Vezerini to cease their fight for a second time. Exodus had his wings out while Vezerini seemed to be floating in the air. Both of them seemed to have many cuts and bruises caused by their opposition…each other.
"Tech is really letting himself go," commented Exodus as two orbs of darkness and light appeared in his left and right hands. "He's gotten very powerful…but in the process he lost something even more important."
"His sanity as well as his mind," finished Vezerini as he began to gather a powerful white light in both of his hands.
"Without a trained mind, power's nothing but an empty threat," said Exodus as he flew backwards.
"That's odd coming from you!" yelled Vezerini as he threw his attack. "JUDGEMENT!"
"LOST PARADISE!" roared Exodus as he threw the orbs of Darkness and light towards Vezerini.
"LOSING ISN'T ANY OPTION!" Exodus and Vezerini both yelled at the same time just as both of their attacks began to collide with each other.
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"Man that was nuts!" commented Duke as everyone managed to barely get out of the way of Tech's Omega cannon.
"Such power…" Raine said as he walked towards one of the windows (that were still intact). "…"
"Raine…what's wrong?" asked Genis as everyone managed to get to the window to watch their friends fight the metallic fiend in the sky.
"…Such technology! It's similar to Magitechnology! Maybe even better!" announced Raine before everyone else anime dropped to the hard metal ground.
"That's the professor for you," stated Colette as a third explosion filled the air.
"Sounds like their raising quite a hell out there," Sheena said as the light began to fill the sky once more.
"Makes me want to just jump out and fight with them," Jet said as he drew one of his swords.
"Oni-chan you wouldn't even be able to fight along side with them," pointed out Suzu as Jet slouched over.
"Besides, you're too short to even be noticed by Tech," added Zelos before Jet tackled him. "HELP! It's attack of the munchkin!"
"So do you think they have a chance?" Colette asked as everyone ignored Zelos and Jet fighting.
"It's going to be a slim chance," said Kerro as he crossed his arms.
"However, I sense no more of Tech's mind in that overgrown tank," thought Locke. "Tech is now just basically an automatic gun that can fly on its own."
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"OMEGA CANNONS!" announced Tech as he fired off both of his cannons sending a large amount of energy from them again. The blast missed the four fighters, but the force managed to damage them greatly.
"Dang it," growled Lloyd as he gripped tighter onto his swords.
"Even if he misses, he still manages to cause damage with the air current caused by it," explained Kratos as suddenly two futuristic blades erupted from both of the barrels on Tech's arms. Tech grabbed a hold on both of them with the opposite hand.
"OMEGA BLADES!" announced Tech as he charged towards the four…mainly starting with Kratos.
Tech brought the first of the two blades down on Kratos, who managed to dodge easily. Then Tech used the other blade to perform a horizontal slash…only to have Kratos block the attack with all of his strength as well as his sword.
"Resistance is futile!" yelled Tech as he raised his other blade ready to slash Kratos vertical.
As the blade was being brought down, Lloyd managed to fly fast enough to raise his swords to block the attack that Tech brought down. And before Tech managed to get another attack in, a powerful Judgement attack slammed into Tech's chest sending him flying farther into the air. Lloyd and Kratos turned to see Sera floating (as well as glowing).
"Pain is not an option for me…doesn't effect me," stated Tech as Zeek landed on Tech's back ready to stab him in the back.
"Take this!" yelled Zeek before Tech's head turned around 180 degrees with its eyes glowing. "Uh oh…"
"Zeek…threat level minimal…TECHNOS RAY!" announced Tech as yellow laser blasts shot from his eyes, crashed into Zeek sending him flying off Tech.
"Now!" yelled Lloyd as Tech turned its head just in time to see Kratos, Lloyd, and Sera slash him across the chest.
Tech floated backwards with slash marks appearing on his chest armor. Lloyd smirked as Tech began to stammer in the air…till he regained his flying pattern with his slash marks gone.
"You've got to be kidding me," commented Lloyd as Zeek flew next to him.
"Lloyd…I've got a plan," muttered Zeek as Tech began to charge.
Lloyd and Zeek managed to dodge while Sera and Kratos were attack Tech while he was charging.
"What is it?" Lloyd asked as Zeek smirked.
"I just need you to distract him," replied Zeek.
"You didn't answer my question," Lloyd said before Zeek flew towards Tech who was preoccupied dealing with Sera and Kratos.
"Just do it!" yelled Zeek as he landed on Tech once more.
"Zeek…your impudence is amazing…TECHNOS RAY!" announced Tech before Lloyd managed to slash Tech in the face causing him to forget about Zeek. "FOOLS!"
"Hope this works!" thought Zeek as he raised his dagger then quickly. "Here we go!"
Zeek then stabbed his dagger into one of the thick wires located in Tech's neck. Tech all of a sudden stopped moving (aside from floating in the air)…Then suddenly; oil started to spray from the wire where Zeek's dagger pierced and into the air. A non-human scream erupted from Tech as he began to plummet to the ground.
"Zeek did it!" announced Lloyd as he saw the rest of his friends cheering from the sky scrapper.
"Zeek! Get off of Tech!" yelled Kratos as Zeek nodded.
Zeek quickly ripped his dagger from Tech's wired neck, and quickly began to fly from Tech. But as he was lifting off, Tech used his mechanical hand to pull Zeek with him to the ground!
"I won't…go a…alone!" announced Tech as his yellow eyes went black and the speed of the fall began to increase.
"ZEEK! NO!" yelled Lloyd as Zeek tried using his dagger to free himself from Tech's grip.
"It's no use," Zeek thought as he put away his dagger, his scarf flowing upwards through the wind. "This maybe it my friends…thank you. Thank you for helping avenge my father!"
"Zzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!" Sera cried as a loud crash filled the air…followed by an explosion that forced the air to push everything that wasn't mobile.
As the explosion died down, the buildings began to disappear into a large flash of light. Multiple minutes later, the entire city of Techno City was gone and returning to its original form of Iseillia. The only thing different about Iseillia was the remains of technology, the scraps of the tech droids, and the crashed remains of Tech with Zeek lying on the ground freed from Tech's grasp. Lloyd and the others were standing in the middle of the village watching as everyone who was in the town was walking around as if nothing had happened.
"What just happened here?" Zelos asked as he scratched his head.
"Apparently, with Tech most likely no longer alive," explained Raine. "His presence to maintain his city couldn't last."
"Okay…and what's that in English?" asked Luna.
"Basically, with Tech gone he took his city with him," simplified Genis as everyone now understood.
"What about Zeek?" asked Sera as everyone finally looked over towards the scrap metal of Tech seeing Zeek right next to him.
"…Is he?" asked Colette as everyone ran over to Zeek.
"It can't be true…" added Suzu.
"Zeek," sobbed Sera as mostly everyone began to have tears in their eyes. "You idiot."
Just as everyone was about to burst into tears, a slight noise got all of them to look more closely at Zeek. Zeek wasn't dead! His snoring was proof enough for that. This caused everyone to either sweat drop and anime fall at the same time.
"He's asleep!" yelled Lloyd as Zelos walked closer.
"I guess his power must've protected him," explained Kratos as Zelos kicked Zeek in the side.
"Lazy lug," teased Zelos as Zeek moaned.
"But I don't…want to go to school today mom," moaned Zeek before everyone began to snicker.
Meanwhile, outside of Iseillia near the forest we spot Gyro, Drogue, Liminate, Sealth and a KO'd Kai sitting on the ground. Drogue was pretty beaten up and was repairing himself with some spare tools he managed to have with him.
"Dang it! Now Tech's gone and so is the city," sighed Liminate. "Just when Tech put those elevators in the main sky scrapper."
"Ah shut up! At least you didn't get beaten by an angry mob," growled Drogue as he made a quick repair to his right leg.
"Yeah well me and pretty boy here," Sealth retaliated while gesturing towards Liminate. "Were zapped by lightning and dropped to the ground."
"Not as bad as being taken over by this demon wannabe here," replied Gyro pointing towards Kai.
"Let's just forget it!" yelled Liminate causing the ex-Mecano Generals to be quiet.
"Whatever…so now what?" asked Sealth.
"We're talented, we have the skill…how about we open a traveling casino and carnival?" suggested Drogue before he received many strange looks. "What? It's a way to make gald, travel the world and possibly live near normal lives."
"All in favor?" asked Liminate as he, Drogue and Gyro raised their hands. "All oppose?" Sealth was the only one to raise his hand on that one. "Then its settled!"
"Now hold on!" yelled Sealth as the Mecano Generals stood up. "…I want to be the head honcho!"
"Whatever," said Drogue.
"I've no quarrel against it," replied Gyro as he slung Kai over his shoulders. "This guy we'll take till he's better."
"Can we stick around to watch the fight between Exodus and that weird guy?" asked Liminate as everyone turned to see that sure enough Exodus and Vezerini were in a fistfight now.
"Sure…I've got 50 gald on the weird guy!" announced Drogue.
"I'll take that bet and wager on Exodus," replied Sealth as he and Drogue pulled out 50 gald.
"I'll hold the money!" offered Liminate as Sealth and Drogue handed him the gald.
"Good, now let's just enjoy the fight," Gyro ordered as an explosion filled the air.
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Exodus and Vezerini were thrown from each other into the air. Their clothes ripped in various places. Exodus however looked to be facing fatigue while Vezerini looked like he still had energy to burn…and to prove it he was charging up his hands with a power dark energy.
"Those 4 thousand years have taken their toll on you Exodus," stated Vezerini as Exodus growled while two pitch-black horns appeared on his head, dripping with blood. "And it looks like you can't last very long here on the planet."
"Many things can change in 4000 years Vezerini," replied Exodus as he took the mirror that was around his neck and held it up. "But if you think that your attack can do the same to me then go ahead."
"Very well! FINAL JUDGEMENT!" yelled Vezerini as he fired the concentrated blast of energy towards Exodus who just raised the mirror in front of the blast.
"MYSTIC MIRROR!" roared Exodus as Vezerini's attack slammed into Exodus's mirror.
The attack kept on forcing into mirror, but the mirror looked like it was absorbing the energy into it. When the attack stopped the mirror began to glow while Exodus didn't even have a scratch on him. Exodus just smirked as Vezerini's eyes darkened.
"How…?" asked Vezerini as Exodus held the mirror back.
"This mirror is more than a memorial of my long passed wife and child," explained Exodus as he thrust his mirror forward sending the trapped energy inside exploded forth towards Vezerini with even more force. "IT'S EMPOWERED WITH THE SPIRITS TO REFELCT ANY ATTACK WITH DOUBLE THE POWER!"
Vezerini wasn't fast enough to evade his once attack, the blast engulfed him sending him to the earth plummeting. Exodus simply smirked while he returned his mirror around his neck and watched Vezerini fall.
"He's still alive…" thought Exodus as he shifted his arm. "I really need to thanks those fools…they took out Tech. Not much of a loss really, after all Tech did steal my idea to make the world perfect. I'll spare their lives for now…how long can I keep that promise?"
The in a flash of blinding light, Exodus disappeared.
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Vyser: Wow what a chapter, eh Robot Vyser?
Robot Vyser: Yes sir, totally unexpected.
Vyser: Guess we should get the preview ready for the next chapter.
Robot Vyser: READY WHEN YOU ARE.
Preview
Yuan: Tech is finally gone and we were able to retrieve the last summon spirit.
Colette: The world seems to be back to normal as well.
Vex: Don't celebrate just yet kiddies!
Exodus: Its time for my True Paradise plan to be initiated!
Lloyd: We'll stop Exodus's goals!
Chapter 44: True Ideals
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