Chapter 12
His hands were sweaty, limbs all heavy, some vomit on his plate, but his mind was racing.
Yeah, he did it to that rhythm, he didn't care, Hideaki Tyler had seen enough shit that he didn't give a zombie's shit about any lawsuits in his way.
The thundercunt had nearly fried him alive, well, she did that to all Watchpoint. Possibly since they drilled and de-winged her pet, then the Lt managed to get her through the leg. She took her pound of flesh by nailing Yinsen and then deconstructing the Lt's suit. Tyler had to say that despite the pain, the Lt had taken one of those colored cards Yinsen had told them were energy capacitors and used on of them to get another set of spook armor. Thankfully that had distracted the thundercunt from keeping Watchpoint plugged to the livewire and allowed them to regroup.
The systems on his armor told that it would be a 100% integrity in 75 seconds. Which hopefully they would all get, thanks to the Lt.
Lieutenant Aikawa looked weird, the armored plates on her new armor were whiter than the Raider one, also she had pink streaks over all her plates. Her faceplate looked like a four-winged eagle plastered over a windshield. And boy, was he glad he wasn't nearby when she let out that roar that managed to make the freak's pet dragon enough for it jump somewhere else.
And she was going at the monster in human disguise with a pair of red swords that were slowly coming closer to tearing that bitch apart. The thing looked as if her mother tried killing her in her sleep (did those things even have mothers?) but couldn't retaliate since her left arm was missing and the sword was buried in someone's guts.
Ah, yeah… Yinsen got a full salvo without armor, didn't he?
And going by the way the Lt. had begun looking at the spook since they arrive at Kanata's…
Well, things were going to turn for the worse for that thing suffering her wrath.
He knew, he'd been on watch duty that time they got some R&R and she took out an entire bar.
With a fucking pencil.
Ah, the dragon climbed back up. It doesn't look happy.
As he raised his Tridenta he thought: Nothing some close-up finishers can't fix.
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My mind was swimming. My body still twitched as shocks ran across my limbs. It was hard to breathe.
Oh yeah, I got hit by Tohka's combo…
[ZEA Notification: Warning! Critical damage to organic platform! Integrity at 12%! Seek immediate assistance!]
[ARK Notification: Warning! Power Overload! Cycloneriser Rebooting!]
My eyes opened, and I could barely see, but someone was laying a beatdown on Tohka, a Rider suit I didn't remember darted around hitting and cutting the Herrscher.
And something obstructed my sight…
I'm impaled, aren't I? The claymore was still sending arcs of electricity…
[ARK Notification: Power at 1200% over capacity! Emergency Vent on standby!]
No…
Ark, Zea..
Reroute all energy to the S2 Engine… And initiate contact!
[ZEA Notification: Reroute completed. Compression Complete.]
[ARK Notification: S2 Engine, Contact Start!]
The next moment, the world turned white.
I woke up in a grey landscape, it looked like rain clouds gathered and then used as paint for this place. For a moment I thought I'd died again, but then again, I knew it wasn't the case when I saw Izu and Azu, getting up from… somewhere…
"Zea Notification: Unknown location" she sounded close to Izu's actress voice, but Zea's had more of a metallic undertone and had a slight echo.
"Ark Notification: Primary Core located… Status, Confirmed." The one that now I knew was Ark looked around and saw me. She had a bit of a deeper voice, not enough to be strange, even if it sounded that someone was screaming in terror in the background while she spoke.
"Hello there. I believe this is the first time we me like this, isn't it?" I stood up and reached down to the sitting Intelligences. One key difference from Izu and Azu from the show: These girls standing would barely reach my bellybutton, and I wasn't the tallest of guy out there, even with my reincarnation. The duo looked at my hand and then at their current state, I'd admit that Izu's uniform looked very, very cute in these two. One with blue and the other with red replacing the green part of her dress. Their expressions were adorable. Ark's expression shifted through various emotions and she simply took my hand, Zea looked to be fascinated by the fact that she now had hands. I imagine that Ark 'remembered' being Ark-Zero and that's why she took to having a 'physical' body faster than Zea. Speaking of, she'd finally stopped looking at her new body, and now looked at my hand intensely. Then she took it and pulled herself up. She didn't let go of my hand, neither did Ark.
These two might give me diabetes.
"So… do either of you know what to do next?" Both kids shook their heads. "Huh… wonder if…" I thought that maybe, just maybe, the bit about being a human sized Evangelion was more than just the physiology.
Just as that thought crossed my mind, something appeared behind us. It looked like some pedestal, with an orb on top. The orb looked big enough that maybe the children holding my hands could fit inside. And it was red, not like Ark red, but more of blood red.
Perhaps, could this be?
"Hey girls, do you want to see something awesome?" Their blank stares were my answer, but I raised our hands to touch the orb. The thing felt cool to the touch until it began to shine.
[Soul Trinity Operating System: Online]
[Full Power Restored.]
[Core YSN: Online]
[Core ARK: Online]
[Core ZEA: Online]
[Eva Series 3 Mark.1: Online]
[AT Field: Online]
[Defense Protocols Initiated]
Inside a little Universe, a red orb was surrounded by three equidistant revolver hammers. the trio were cocked and, as they pulled back, enormous arcs of electricity were created in the space between then and the red orb. Power filled that pocket universe, the arcs of electricity somehow creating… music?
Until three voices echoed in the white expanse.
"LET'S GIVE YOU POWER"
In the next moment, the three hammers fired. The red orb was cracked. And that world became alight.
Himeko Aikawa, Kamen Rider Wing, laid upon the Third Herrscher the beatdown of a lifetime.
Her new suit had given her a pair of swords, and now she was using to their maximum effect, given that they took in electricity to increase their sharpness. The Herrscher's shield began visibly distorting the air around it as it tried to stop the blades from reaching her, but Himeko's swords managed to cut deeper with each slash.
Watchpoint had woken up again, and while not at 100%, they still offered their suppressive fire to Himeko. 5.7 and 50 cal flew and created explosions and more flames, it was the latter sight that drove Himeko to move faster, for some reason.
The Third Herrscher looked surprised at the sudden raise in martial ability Himeko received, especially when a sword nicked her neck and left a smoldering wound that she found, Honkai energy couldn't heal. "What travesty is this?"
"Human defiance, thundercunt." Himeko's answer wasn't well received and the Herrscher spread her arm to call for her own sword… But the blade never came. The Honkai Queen was once again left astonished at what was stopping the sword: its last 'kill's hand. The man looked every bit as hurt as one would think, his armor plates had left behind still hot patches on his clothes before they'd vanished. His whole body looked like it would be a giant bruise if he survived the next day and blood was flowing out of his mouth and that hole in his chest.
His eyes were another story. While there was pain in them, they were glowing violet with unadulterated power. As the man held the sword impaling him to the slab of flying concrete, it began coursing more electricity on itself, until it finally dissolved into shining cubes drawn in by the silver belt in the man's waist. Something propelled him towards arena the battle against the Herrscher of Thunder raged on. He landed, his armor covered his body once again, only difference was the glowing purple eyes that promised pain. In a flash he disappeared. Himeko got a brief proximity warning before a golden lance went through where she had stood a moment ago.
It pierced the Herrscher's shield and buried itself on her abdomen as if the former hadn't even been there. The monster mimicking a woman had a moment to show her pain and surprise before something kicked the lance and sent her up in the air. Another kick set the lance perpendicular to the 'ground' and a third downward kick nailed the Herrscher down.
"JACKRISE!"
The Herrscher of Thunder could feel her essence being drained by this weapon. The one using it showed no hesitation into pressing the lance's trigger, something on the back of its handle hammering down on her once again.
"JACKING BREAK!"
Thousands of Volts were sent down the weapon into the Herrscher. She screamed as her insides were fried by amperes going into the hundreds. She felt every single of her nerves become a conductor for the absolute pain born of her own powers. She learned why in ancient times humanity regaled lightning as the weapon of the Gods.
Himeko looked at Yinsen, the golden Spear in his hands and the screaming monster below him. "Yinsen, you aright?" She got a look and a thumbs up, and then he went back to electrocuting. Himeko had learned more about the usual bravado soldiers did and she decided she couldn't see any of it in Yinsen. The armor might hide more but she could tell he was alright. Somehow. "You will tell me later how you pulled that off…" Her voice almost broke at the end.
"Later, definitely later." He answered, his voice rough and dry. Himeko didn't know how close he was to giving up the ghost back there and she hopefully wouldn't know. Ever. "Where is the dragon?"
Himeko blinked behind her visor… "Uh…" she looked at the rest of Watchpoint, who all shrugged as some still were covered in soot and burning… stuff. Some of them had holes on their plates that were sealing themselves, the others had various cases of cracked visors and one walked with a limp. They all began looking around for the lizard. The Herrscher still screamed in the background.
The lizard chose that moment to climb from wherever it had been… oh yeah, it had jumped when Himeko switched armors… did it climb all the way up with no wings?
"SAN… DAL... PHON! YOUR… QUEEN…!" Amid her screams the Herrscher managed to squeeze some words. "DEMANDS…! YOUR…! POWER!" and then she disappeared. The lance was still stuck into the concrete, but she was nowhere to be found… The dragon too had disaapeared.
Until they looked again to the electrical ball, which now had begun glowing more as it shrank in size. It took the form of the Herrscher of Thunder, which now had wings, an arm ending in a dragon head, a bigger sword, and a lewder outfit. "Rejoice Humans, for now I shall purge the world of your existence, once and for all!"
"PIERCING BLAST!"
"INVADING BOLIDE!"
"FLYING BLAST!"
"TYPHOON THUNDERER!"
Her answer was a hail of gunfire and Finishers once again.