Chapter 9: Brains Against Brawn
Inumuta smirked as he looked at Ryuko as they waited for Satsuki to start the match. And meanwhile, Mako was still sitting in her seat when a big thump caused her to bounce as someone big sat next to her.
Mako turned to face the new person next to her, and saw that it was Gamagori, who was currently dressed in only a towel.
"What are you doing here?" The girl asked, surprised to see him sitting next to her.
"Relax, Mankanshoku. I lost, so I'm a no-star like you now." The former disciplinary chair replied. "It's only fitting that I sit in the no-star section." He added.
"Oh yeah? Well I'm here to cheer on Ryuko with everything I got! So if you're here to start trouble I'll fight right here and now! Come on!" The girl taunted, throwing mock punches at the man.
Back in the arena, the information chair and Ryuko continued their standoff before the red streaked girl spoke.
"Let's get this over with. I don't have all day." She stated. Satsuki nodded as she looked down at them.
"You're right. Begin!" The woman yelled.
Inumuta nodded. "M'lady." He said as he transformed. "Three Star Goku Uniform: Probe Regalia!" The tech wiz intoned as he activated his suit.
"Hmph." Ryuko scoffed as Inumuta started typing on the keyboards all over his body.
"I don't like the way he's looking at us. It feels like he's stripping us down." Senketsu said.
"Yeah, I'm getting the same feeling." The girl replied before she pulled the pin on her trigger. "Life Fibers synchronize: Kamui Senketsu!" She yelled as her Kamui activated.
"Hmm, so this is your first standard form. How you always start a fight, interesting." The boy said as he continued typing before Ryuko charged at him and his sensors started anticipating her moves. With those anticipations, he was able to evade each of her attacks.
"Okay, what the hell?!" Ryuko growled, though she switched her footing and slammed her scissor into the boy's chest faster than he could predict and sent him tumbling back.
"Hm, you struck me faster than originally anticipated. I wonder why that is." He mused.
"You think I haven't seen your type before with your 'I've analyzed all your data' and 'I can anticipate all your moves!' I've seen it all before!" The girl said before she started charging at him again. "And there's only one way to beat people like you! Get reckless!"
"Well, she's not wrong." Terry commented. The Kamui user then started moving as quick as she was before and was about to attack, when Inumuta suddenly shimmered and then disappeared just as she was about to strike him.
"What the-? Where'd he go?" She wondered as she looked around. Back with Mako and Gamagori, the larger man recognized the move that was just used.
"When Inumuta's goku uniform shimmers, it becomes like a white butterfly on top of a snowman. He isn't invisible, IT'S OPTICAL CAMOUFLAGE!" He added with a yell.
"But there are no butterflies in the winter! They die in cold temperatures!" Mako exclaimed, the point being lost on her.
"You missed the point entirely, typical Mankanshoku. Honestly, how are you even in high school?" The man stated.
Back with Inumuta and Ryuko, the girl was currently pinned by the information chair and was just barely able to avoid falling over the edge.
"Senketsu, I need you to do something for me." Ryuko said as she continued to block the boy's barrage of kicks.
"What do you need?" The Kamui asked.
"Surprise me!" She said before the uniform suddenly started making itself larger at the eye and then it grew and grew and grew until it covered the entire arena. The cost was that Ryuko was showing more skin, and Terry couldn't help but appreciate how sexy she looked… Though he found Senketsu's giant eye a little creepy.
"Here we go! Time to get even more reckless!" She yelled as she slammed the eye down and crushed Inumuta under it, causing him to face plant into the ground.
"HA! Oh man, that's funny!" Terry barked in laughter. Satsuki just shook her head with a small smile at his antics.
"Alright, let's end this!" Ryuko yelled as she charged at the blue haired boy, but then stopped when he suddenly turned back to normal.
"Hold it!" He said, holding up his hands. "I forfeit!" He added.
"Wha-? Just like that?!" Ryuko asked in disbelief.
"Just like that. I don't want to lose all the information and data I've gathered." The boy nodded as he turned and left.
"Guess we should've seen that coming." The host mused.
"Can't argue with that." Toxin nodded. A minute later, a procession of the female marching band with Jukuzere as the leader stepped down. "What is that god awful sound?" He groaned.
"That would be Nonon and her music club." Terry sighed, not liking the sound himself.
"Well she knows how to make a cheerful entrance." Senketsu said as Jukuzere stepped up to him and Ryuko.
"Alright, let's get this show on the road!" The pink haired girl exclaimed with a cocky grin. "Get ready new girl, because you're about to be defeated cheerfully, jauntily and utterly one sidedly!" She said before she transformed. "Three Star Goku Uniform: Symphony Regalia, Grave!" She called. Ryuko looked at the 'uniform' with a dumbstruck look on her face.
"... How the hell is that a uniform?!" She asked loudly.
"It is, and it's about to blow out your bones!" Jukuzere said before the giant speaker started blasting out a classical music tune at a deafening volume that shook the ground.
"AGH! FUCK! I CAN BARELY HEAR MY OWN THOUGHTS!" Ryuko screamed as she covered her ears, which didn't do much.
"It's so hard to think with that noise…!" Senketsu got out as if he was gritting his teeth. Up with Terry, he was otherwise occupied as one of the small symbiote spiders he learned to make listened in on a conversation Mikisugi was having with Tsumugu.
"Senketsu is evolving too fast, Tsumugu. The same goes for the symbiote. It's already at Kamui level, apparently." He stated.
"You think it's a worst case scenario, then?" The mohawked man asked.
"It's starting to look that way." The man nodded. "We'll need to take care of them, and fast." He added.
"I'm on it." The guerilla soldier replied before hanging up. Terry narrowed his eyes at the exchange.
'Try it, you damned zealot. See what happens.' He hissed mentally. Elsewhere with Jukuzere and Ryuko, symphony Regalia had taken another form.
"Symphony Regalia: Presto!" Jukuzere called as her uniform changed into a jet. This caused Ryuko's jaw to become uncomfortably well acquainted with the ground.
"Okay, this is bullshit! You have to be disqualified now!" She exclaimed.
"That's only the case if I actually leave the arena, but as you can see, I'm not going anywhere." The pinkette retorted with a grin.
"It's gonna be hard to beat her like that." Terry noted as he looked at the flying 'uniform'.
"For my first piece! The Cavalry Overture!" Jukuzere called as the sound of bugles started to play. As the music plays, music notes of all things start flying at Ryuko, forcing her to dodge and start running to avoid being hit by the weaponized music.
"Okay this is seriously nuts!" The Kamui user yelled. Then she got an idea. "Hey Jukuzere! Quick question, you and my big sis are old friends, right?" The girl called up to her opponent as she wrapped a thread around her blade while she was out of the pinkette's line of sight underneath the plane above her.
"Yeah. What of it?" The girl replied.
"No reason!" Ryuko called as she waved her sword over her head like a cowboy would a rope. "I'm just curious because it seems like you have a real lady boner for her is all!" She added as she threw her sword around to dig into Symphony Regalia. Senketsu then sent out several anchors from the skirt section of himself and Ryuko started pulling Nonon out of the sky.
"WHAT?! Why would you think that-WHOA!" The girl yelled before the plane started to fall out of the sky.
"Now that's some good thinking." Terry commented with a smile. Satsuki nodded in agreement.
"Now get down here and fight me!" Ryuko yelled as she forced the plane down, only for it to catch itself by sending sound waves at the ground to stay airborne.
"I'm not gonna get grounded by you, of all people!" The pinkette exclaimed as she launched a syllable at the cord connected to the scissor blade to get free… Only for it to bounce off. "Huh?!" She got out in surprise.
"Nice try! Senketsu is 100 percent made of Life Fibers, so anything you have won't be able to cut him!" She exclaimed with a grin. Meanwhile in the stands, Inumuta had joined Mako and Gamagori and was dressed in a tracksuit.
"It's true. Jukuzere won't be able to cut her Kamui." He stated. "The ground on the other hand…"
"You seem pretty chipper after the fact you just lost." Gamagori huffed. "And what are you doing here in a tracksuit? Haven't you any sense of shame?"
"You're one to talk. There are no specific conditions for being naked after losing." Inumuta retorted. As the two argued, they unwittingly squeezed Mako between them.
"Oh man, it's starting to hairy in here!" The girl whined.
Back with Ryuko and Jukuzere, the saw blades chopped up the stadium floor below and as an added measure, the pinkette suddenly started firing flute missiles!
"Bye bye, bitch!" Nonon yelled. She then launched the ridiculous projectile at the scissor blade wielder, who started running.
"Like I said, how in the motherfucking blue hell is that a uniform?!" The girl exclaimed before she was sent flying by the missile.
"... I gotta ask, Satsuki, but are you and Jukuzere really, ya know, that close?" Terry asked as the stadium blew up.
"No, but considering that she and I have been friends since childhood, it would make one think so." The woman replied as the wind blew around them.
"Oh." The boy nodded as they suddenly saw a red flash zoom off out of the smoke and up to Jukuzere. It was Ryuko, and her boots and skirt had morphed into jet boosters and its chest pads into fins.
"Whoa!" Mako exclaimed as shoved Inumuta and Gamagori aside to look at what her friend had just achieved.
"Kamui Senketsu: Shipu!" The girl yelled as she hovered at eye level with Jukuzere. Mikisugi, meanwhile, grimaced.
"Tsumugu, I really hate to say this, but we may need to pull the plu-." He started to say before he stopped when he felt a needle thin spike touching the back of his neck.
"Hang up, now." A copy of Terry ordered. The insider gulped and hung up. "I warned you that if you threatened Ryuko and Senketsu I'd kill you. Do you have a bad memory? Or were you just not listening?"
The blue haired teacher had no idea how to respond to the situation he landed himself in. Meanwhile with Jukuzere and Ryuko, the pink woman looked like she was about to blow something.
"The sky is my domain, damn it. So now the gloves are coming off... You stinking BITCH!" The conductor yelled as she nearly leaned out of her plane.
Things were getting intense. Can Ryuko pull this off?
ThermalsniperN7: This tournament is heating up for real, and it looks like Mikisugi fucked up and got caught by one of Terry's doubles.
Dragon Emperor0: I never really liked how they were so willing to kill Ryuko. It really rubbed me raw.
ThermalsniperN7: When Ryuko finds out about that detail, they're up shit creek without a paddle since she'll cut her ties with them and join Satsuki and Terry.
Dragon Emperor0: And why wouldn't she? Satsuki is her big sister, and it's about time they started acting like a family again.
ThermalsniperN7: Fucking right it is. They've been apart from each other long enough, and have a lot of bonding to do. Anyway, see you guys next time.