Saiaku Mono Chapter 4
Back to Bari Pt 2
In the year 2050, people started to develop strange abilities. 4 generations into the future, they are known mostly as a blessing, but in 2050, it is only the opposite. Those who gain these "quirks" are treated with nothing but discrimination and hate. In the United States, quirk use of any kind is treated with automatic jailing, and if they're unlucky, shipped to a testing facility for experimentation. This is the story of how a group of quirked people rose up, overthrew the president, and became the heroes that changed the world. The story of Saiaku Mono!
Current members:
Name:Kari Age:15 Gender:Female Quirk:Leech palms
Through the circular leech mouths on her hands, she can absorb energy from the living things she places them on. She can control whether or not that energy goes to speed, strength, both, or if she just wants to store it for safekeeping. She can also sense a person's energy by using her mouths to look for energy, but the farther away they are the harder it is to sense them, so she usually goes after powerful energy signatures. She can use her leech tongue like a frog can, and can stretch it out to about 4 meters. Because of its strength she can also use it to grapple(swing like spider-man). She has an upbeat attitude and rarely cares what other people think and also rarely thinks things through along with believing she's in the right most of the time, though she can be shown that her ideas are bad if the person either puts a lot of effort into showing her that, or she's attached to them, however she's quite self conscious of her quirk, and becomes less outgoing to a person once they see it, which is why she wears gloves, along with not wanting to absorb the energy of any living thing she touches. If the person stays with her despite knowing of her quirk, she goes back to normal and becomes very attached to them. To use her quirk to its maximum effect, she taught herself hand to hand combat.
Name:Neran Age:16 Gender:Male Quirk:Crystals
He can produce crystals from body, and through training he can produce them so fast he propels him self forwards. He most commonly creates poles from his hands and feet to properly combat foes(similar to Gajeel from Fairy Tail). To produce crystalline structures such as the spherical he must clap his hands together and slam them down to create them in the area around them. His crystals and eyes change color depending on his mood. Similar emotions are grouped into one color. Happy is pink, red is annoyed and angry, purple is embarrassed. He wears shades to hide emotion but when he's around friends he puts them away. He considers Kari an ally because they'll be working together and a friend in the near future, so he puts his shades away. He can make his structures take on different colors with some time and effort and make them disappear into a dust cloud with the snap of his fingers. Kari's quirk can easily destroy them because they're made from his energy. Because they're made from his energy, he and the crystals are linked and he feels the damage they take, this drives him to be quick to avoid battle at times. After living in the forest alone for 6 months, he's socially awkward, which is one of the reasons he disappeared when people saw him in the past.
When we last saw our heroes, they were off to Bari forest, in hope of finding the other being in the forest, only to find it surrounded and flooded with military officers. Neran stated he had a plan that would allow them to get in, but will it work?
"This will never work." Neran said as he prepared himself to carry out his plan.
"What are you-? It was your idea!" Relied Kari in shock as she stood behind him with her arms stretched to her sides in having been on the hill for hours, she was getting tired of waiting around.
"Yeah, that you pressured me to come up with on the fly!"
"Well, we have to get to that forest to get the person who may or may not still be in that forest to join Saiku Mono."
"Okay, do you ever think that maybe people live in a forest alone because they don't want to be around other people?"
"What are you implying?"
"I'm saying that maybe whoever this guy is doesn't want to join your group."
"… You speak the words that make and have a distinct lack of sense."
He stopped working to think about what she said. His face scrunching up in thought."….. Are you trying to say nonsense?"
"That's what I said."
"… I'm just gonna finish this." He said leaning back into his creation.
"What is it anyway?" She said leaning down to where he was crouching. down to meet his level.
"If the design is right, the thing that will allow us to slip into the forest unnoticed." He said taking a moment to stand up, walking back and admiring his creation. It was similar to a slope in 3D image, however, it was made of purple crystal and had a hole in the middle of the rectangular front.
"It looks like some kids' bad art project, and why is it purple?" She said, critiquing his work.
A tic mark appeared above his head, and he suddenly appeared right in front of her face."DO NOT MISTAKE MY ART FOR A MERE CHILD'S BAD ART PROJECT, THIS IS SOOOO MUCH MORE THAN A KIDS FAILING GRADE!"
"OKAY! Okay!I get it! I get it!" She said, immediately backing off, the fear being almost palpable in her eyes.
"Good, now it is meant to launch a ball of compressed crystals into the camp, and before impact , I snap my fingers, creating a blanket of dust to cover the camp, the smoke screen will give us time to escape into the forest, and since they should assume we'd flee the forest, give us less military men inside said forest." He said with a proud look on his face." And it's purple because of my ever growing suspicion that this will go wrong.
"M'kay, m'kay, I think it's a great idea, however, I think it would be way better, if weeee, oh I don't know, attack the camp with it?."
"That is the most stupid, dumbass, idiotic thing, I've heard from you, which is something I thought impossible since you used my socks as a bathing towel, when we were stuck in that cave We just need to get into the forest, literallly, know one needs to get hurt, in anyway. S please, for the love of whatever watches us, please don't attack anyone." He said all while putting his hands on her shoulders.
"Okaaaaaay, fiiiiiiine." Her shoulders lagged.
"Great, now put this coat on." He said throwing a military looking coat at her.
"Why?"
"Just do it!"
…
Under the dead of the night, they walked towards the forest. The uniforms they were wearing were naturally dark, so they had little to fear from being spotted.
"SOooooo, what rank are we?" Kari asked out of curiosity.
"What?" Neran asked in kind, a confused look on his face.
"What military ranks did you give us?"
"We're simply privates, lowest military rank, any higher and we'd risk being drawn into the important decisions, which we have absolutely no knowlegde of."
"Okay, how does a boy living in the forest know so much about military rankings?"
"It's- It's just one of those hobbies I had before living in the forest, okay?"
"Speaking of which, what was your life like before the forest? Given you've dodged every one of my questions about your past when we were in that cave, I know practically nothing about you."
"I could say the same about you."
"HEY! I'm the leader, I'm allowed to keep secrets from you."
"How is that fair in any way?"
"... It just is."
" Okay, shut up we're here." He said as they were approaching the encampment.
They hid behind a tent and with a clap, Neran launched the cannon ball from afar.
"Okay, now all I need to do is wait for the cannon ball to land on-OH SH*T!"
While that would've been the ideal situation, nothing ever truly goes according to plan. A helicopter had flown into the path of the crystal ball, causing it to plummet towards the ground and explode in a fiery blaze. This, naturally, had some negative effects on the men in the area.
"AAAAAAH!"
"OH MY GOD IT BURNS!"
"MY SKINIS MELTING OF MY FLESH!"
"WHAT CARING PERSON WOULD DO THIS TO USSSS?!"
"SOMEBODY KILL MEEEEE AND FREE ME FROM THIS PAIN!"
These screams filled up the night as the two members put their hands to their mouths. Their eyes wide in shock and terror.
"So what was it you said about no one getting hurt?" Kari said.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Neran said as both ran towards the forest, fully intent on completing their quest and forgetting the horror they just witnessed/totally caused.
…..
The woman from before had walked towards the encampment, mildly shocked to see the chaos that was occurring. She could've done something, but it wasn't of any interest to her. What a pity that they had been nothings. It was their own fault, if only they had mattered, then she would've saved them. Now those two running into the forest on the other hand, were a different story. She walked towards them in a nonchalant fashion when her leg was grabbed by one of the nothings injured in the crash.
"H-help… please." The nothing begged. It was clear it was having trouble speaking.
'Best to put him out of his misery.' She thought as she stomped down on his head.
Squelch
And now her boots were bloodied, even in death this nothing was a nuisance, and even when she had been so kind to actually interact with a mere nothing.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Great, another nothing had the audacity to actually talk to her.
"Why did you kill him? We could've helped him!" Was this nothing close to the other one? Eh, it didn't matter, it would be joining their fellow nothing soon.
Suddenly a man came running over and bowed towards her right in front of the nothing. They didn't say a word, however, upon leaning her down she could see him. Her mood brightened considerably.
"Ah, Señor Brigadier General Vise! It's been awhile! How have you been?" She said in a cheerful tone.
"I have been doing great mam! I trust you yourself have been great as well!" He said with great volume in response.
"Thank you for asking. Sorry about the men in the fire, I would've helped had I known they were your men." She said in a tone that implied awkwardness as she sheepishly scratched the back of her head.
"It is fine mam! They were not worth your time!" See, this is how people should talk to her. Absolute respect, no hatred for things she did that would cause hatred. Just pure, undying admiration and obedience. Honestly, it was the entire reason she acknowledged him, along with the fact that he always follows orders and is willing to do whatever it takes to get his mission done, his photographic memory didn't hurt either.
She started walking towards the flaming hunk of metal.``As they were, anyway, let me do you this one favor nonetheless." She said as she raised her hand to what used to be the helicopter. Instantaneously, the metal, fire, and dead bodies were all sucked into one, golf ball sized sphere through the accompanied by a disturbing squelching and crunching sound. The men that had been standing by watched in horror as she picked it up and tossed it towards Vise. The man caught it in a panicked state, clearly disgusted and frightened by it."Sorry, but since I can't bring them back from the dead, cleaning up the mess and making them easier to transport, don't worry about weight, I've made it as light as a golf ball. Though do try and convince the families to have a combined funeral, if only for the interest of time and money."
"Y-yes mam." He stuttered in response.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Yelled the man as he pointed a gun at her."This b*tch killed a man and destroyed the corpses of others! And not to mention she's a quirked freak! Why the hell aren't w-UGH!" He fell to the ground as Vise punched him in the stomach and once again bowed to his knees.
"Forgive him mam! He is ignorant of your greatness and I take full responsibility for it!"
The woman in question looked at the nothing who had spoken out of turn. He of course deserved death for his transgressions, buuuut, she had to counterweigh the Brigadier generals begging for the exact opposite to that.'Uuugh, what to do, what to do? Ah! That should work!'
"For the grand and horrid crime of insulting me in such a reckless and gruesome manner, you would normally face a death most gruesome ." Vise's face fell in response to that, though the man still stood there with a confused and enraged look. "However, considering the Brigadier Generals begging on his knees for me to spare you, I shall decide on a lesser punishment." Vise's face brightened at this while the mans face remained the same. "For insulting me in such a manner, you will lose your arm." She said in a tone that implied her decision was and will always be final.
"The hell are you talking about?" The man said, raising a hand gun with intent to riddle her with bullets.
She raised a hand towards the nothing and said in a menacing quiet tone."mini compresa voladora."
"AAAAAAAH!" The nothing screamed in agony as the hand holding the gun started to collapse into itself as the helicopter from before had. Once it had finished, all that was left was a bleeding wound where his arm was, along with a ball no bigger than a gumball.
"See to it the nothing is treated." She said, lowering her hand back down to her side and waking towards the forest. "I'm going to go deal with two that entered the forest."
"W-Wait! It would be inconvenient for you to go without help, let me send myself and my men."
"Your offer is quite appreciated, but I should be done within the hour." She said as the air around her became heavy."Besides… YOUR MEN WOULD BE DESTROYED IN MY WRATH TO KILL THE BOY."
Everyone in the area was frozen stiff not at the words but at her menacing tone, and somehow they knew that she meant every single word.
"Why did we not try to capture her, sir?" A soldier asked Vise.
"Because of who she is." Was all he said in response.
…..
"Soooooooooooo, how are we supposed to find the person here anyway?" Neran asked as they both walked through the forest.
"Oh yeah, I'll just use my leech hands to find them like I did you!"" She said, showing her ungloved hand. The tongue comes out in an up and down curved fashion.
"... How did leech hands find me?" A questioning look on his face.
"Well, using their energy sucking capabilities, I look for where quirk energy is the highest, then I just head in that direction. My gloves interfere with though, so I usually do it when I'm alone."
"..." His mouth was left agape.
"Is something wrong?"
"THAT IS THE MOST STUPID, IDIOTIC,LAMEBRAINED IDEA I'VE EVER HEARD!"
"JESUS!, When you get mad you get loud."
"What if they had been bank robbers, pedophiles, serial killers?" He said, emphasizing the last phrase
"Well, it's not like I had any other options."
"I… Okay fair point. SO shouldn't you have noticed there were two people in the forest?"
"I honestly just thought whoever was here was super strong, you're actually weaker than I thought you'd be."
"..." he had gone still at that point."I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that. So which way do we go?"
"..." She had gone still at that point. "Run."
"Uhh, Kari?" He said, waving his hand in front of her face.'Wait, what's with her eyes?' Why had they gone wide with fear? What did she mean by run? Suddenly, a hand touched his back and he felt like he weighed ten tons. He turned as he fell so that he was facing the other way but he was still on his stomach. He was looking up at a woman with purple hair and stone cold blue eyes, and he could feel the wrath emanating from her, though her smile did a poor job of masking it.
"Sooooo, you're the boy Kari travels with now. Well, I am Orgullosa, one of the most powerful people on the continent, and one of the Tsumi Ha, a warrior sanctioned by the president. I'd ask your name, but you're already dead." She raised her hand, and slammed it down.
The only thing anyone in the area could hear at that point was Neran's screams as his spine snapped in half.
Somewhere outside the universe…
Okay so the chick's name is Orgullosa and she's caught up to them! This is gonna be good, I'm getting popcorn!