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Chapter 44

Both Uni and K-Sha had moved the instant that they pulled their triggers, jumping to the side as bullets filled the air and ripped through where they had been just moments ago.

K-Sha quickly rolled to her knees and fired several explosive shots at Uni, who ran into the nearby alley as trash cans, parts of the building and even a cat exploded...

...The last one rather messily.

K-Sha sneered and ran into the alleyway after Uni. "Are you really that mad at me for turning you over to master Enzo?" K-Sha asked as her eyes scanned the alleyway. Not seeing Uni, she looked up to see if the CPU Candidate had taken to the air.

"Considering that I fed you and listened to your problems, I'd say I have a right to be upset." Uni's voice came from right behind K-Sha. The girl's eyes widened and she spun around to see...

Empty space, with some Progbots and others of the organization fighting the others further to the back. "What?"

"It's called voice projection." Uni's voice came from above her and K-Sha took a step back and didn't see anyone. "It's pretty useful."

"Stop hiding you, coward!" K-Sha growled as her eyes started to gleam while looking around. "Go ahead and hide, I'll find you anyway." She declared while running into the alleyway.

When K-Sha turned to her left and ran down the intersection, the air near the entrance to the alleyway shimmered and Uni stepped away from the wall, sighing in relief. 'Good thing she didn't look to the right.' She thought to herself and looked at her wrist. "Thanks, Steamax." She smiled as she thought back to a couple of days ago.

*Flash*

Looking at the blue ninja robot, Uni had a determined look on her face. "I want you to be with me when I take that bitch down for what she did to me."

"Lady Uni," Steamax began, "you know that giving into your negative emotions might trigger your transformation into a Void." He stepped back as she growled at him. "But, just in case, I do have something for you."

Uni stopped growling and held out her wrist when he asked. She blushed softly as he gently pulled her gloves off and then slipped a watch-like device over her wrist before putting her glove back on. "This is..?"

"A superior cloaking device." Steamax answered her. "Most can be spotted by several clues if one knows what to look for. Even scanners can, if advanced enough, see through stuff like that. However, this is far more advanced, even my scanners can't pierce it. But it's still not perfect, but it should protect against most detection methods."

Uni smiled and hugged him. "Thanks, Steamax."

*End Flash*

"Still..." Narrowing her eyes, Uni reactivated the device and ran after K-Sha. As she turned the corner, a shot rang out and a bullet nearly clipped Uni's ear.

K-Sha stood at the other end of the alleyway, her eyes glowing blue and green. "Spectral scans a success." K-Sha intoned and fired another shot at Uni, this time she clipped the stealth device, causing Uni to appear in front of her normally.

"What the hell?" Uni pointed her Uzis at K-Sha. "You... You're a cyborg?"

"Master Enzo decided that I wasn't good enough, so he had Gernia G. remodel me." K-Sha said, as if it wasn't a big deal and fired at Uni, who twisted to the side as the bullet went past her and exploded while hitting the far wall behind her. "As a bonus, I now have enough physical abilities to destroy you."

"Remodel?" Uni muttered softly, before her eyes widened in horror. "No! She didn't... To remodel someone means..."

"Yes," K-Sha nodded and fired another bullet, even as Uni jumped into the air. "I was dissected, had my organs removed and replaced with superior cybernetics and weapons systems." She smiled at Uni. "Isn't it great, Uni? Even if you get away from me, I can hunt you forever. Because, even if you are a Goddess, you still need to rest and eat. But now that I'm a cyborg, I never need rest or food." A spray of bullets tore into K-Sha, who merely jerked from them.

"You gave up your humanity?!" Uni yelled as she jumped into the air. "For what?! Some misguided attempt at revenge?!" She twisted and bent, even in mid-air, as K-Sha fired back at her.

"I guess you could say that this is my Void transformation." K-Sha told her. "After all, to become a Void means you have to give up your heart." She smirked at the look on Uni's face. "Just like your stupid bitch of a sister."

Uni snarled at her as she got close to a wall and used it to launch herself at K-Sha. "DON'T CALL HER THAT!" She screamed as she tackled K-Sha to the ground and both tumbled over and over before sliding out of the alleyway and back onto the street. "She's got more of a heart than you ever did!"

The two tumbled for a bit and Uni ended up on top of K-Sha as they came to a halt.

Uni grabbed K-Sha's wrists and pinned them above the cyborg's head. "Listen you, I won't..." She stopped as she felt K-Sha move and shift, pushing up and off the ground, forcing Uni to put her feet on K-Sha's chest and push off to jump away.

K-Sha fired more shots at Uni, who twisted, spun and dodged each one. "You're pretty good."

Uni narrowed her eyes as she put her Uzis away and pulled out a short barreled gun. "Let's go, Ash." She pulled the trigger and K-Sha was blasted and launched across the street. Uni gently rubbed the barrel of the gun. "How do you like my boomstick, you bitch!?"

K-Sha slid to a stop and got up as her outfit tore open, revealing her skin was in chunks and under said chunks of skin were metal and wires.

"...You really did it." Uni sighed softly and shook her head. "Fine, I'll put you out of your misery personally!"

K-Sha's eyes glowed as she pointed her guns at Uni and fired again. "You'll die trying!"

(-)

Ram let out a shriek of fright as two girls, both with slender bodies and identical body suits and visors over their faces rushed at her. One of them had an electrical whip in her right hand while the other one had a tonfa in each hand. "D...Don't... STAY AWAY!" She yelled and blasted out with a burst of wind, knocking the two away from her, but they were replaced by two more, these ones were male with one of them having a flaming sword and the other one had a staff in his hands. "R...Rom! Big Sis! Someone! HELP!" Ram trembled as she fired another blast at them, but these ones were able to dodge it and dove in close to Ram.

The little girl was able to avoid the attack from the tonfa, but she cried out as the whip cracked against her back, shredding her clothes, leaving a mark on her back and sending her falling onto her face.

Ram pushed herself up, her eyes sparkling as she felt a breeze over her back. "These clothes..." She growled and stood up. "Were given to me by my big sister..." Winds and fire erupted around Ram as she trembled while her shirt fell mostly apart, leaving her in tatters. "AND YOU RUINED IT!" She screamed while energy flowed around her. "INFERNO CATACLYSM!"

While her Burning Typhoon attack had been a tornado of fire, this was nothing less than an out-of-control maelstrom of fire and wind that quickly turned progbots into slag, burned the rest of Ram's outer clothes away and was damaging the buildings around her. In her anger, Ram didn't care about the injuries she was causing her attackers. "These were from big sis! How dare you ruin the clothes she got for me!?" Tears fell from her eyes but were evaporating quickly in the heat around her. "My big sister got me these with her love! How..." Her eyes widened and her pupils shrank as a memory of just after Neptune became her big sister came to her.

*Flash*

Ram looked bit her lip as Neptune bandaged her arm up. She had tried to climb a tree to look around and had fallen down, crashing into some rocks. "Um, big sis... Why didn't you hurt the people when they were asking for me and Rom to die?"

Rom, who was sitting on a nearby rock, looked at Neptune curiously.

"Because," Neptune began, "a CPU, a Goddess, should never give into their worst emotions and try to get revenge on humans because they wronged us." She sighed at the looks they gave her. "I knew two CPUs who lost themselves to their hate and anger towards humans and both tried to destroy the world." Rei had tried to destroy the Hyper and Ultra Dimensions and Kurome had tried to take it a step further with her attempt to crash the Zero and Heart Dimensions into the Hyper Dimension while using her and her friends to create Dark CPUs to do horrible things to the multiverse. "I know it's hard." She gave them a small smile. "I've had my nation taken away from me by a human. It turns out that she did it by accident and now we're friends."

"...You're friends with someone who stole your nation?" Ram asked, getting a nod from Neptune.

"But that... That seems so..." Rom frowned in confusion. "Why? Big sis? Why?"

"Because you're a Goddess." Neptune told her. "You have super amazing powers and you're supposed to use them to protect and guide people. You should never hurt humans for no good reason."

Both Rom and Ram looked at each other with uncertainty, but both of them nodded, trusting Neptune's instructions. After all, she was an actual Goddess, so she would know better than them.

*End Flash*

Ram gasped as her spell gutted out. "Oh no! I tried to hurt people because they ruined the clothes big sis got me." She put her hands to her mouth and looked on in horror at the people who were laying on the street and barely moving. "What did I..?" The girl, who was now just in her panties, yelped as two people pounced on her, grabbing her arms and legs and lifting her up. "What are you, OWWW!" She cried out as they pulled on her arms and legs to the side in an attempt to pull them away from her body. "STOP IT! OWW!" She cried out in pain as she felt her body screaming at her with how much pain she was feeling. "IT HURTS! STOP!" Tears fell from her eyes. "Big sis..." She sobbed when suddenly she was dropped to the ground as she was covered in blood and wires.

"Get away from her, you bastards." Chrome growled as her razor wires were covered in blood as the ones who tried to rip Ram apart were split into bloody chunks. "What are you doing, Ram?!"

"But..." Ram sniffled and cradled her arms and legs close to her. "I'm not supposed to hurt humans. Big sis said so."

"For no good reason!" Chrome told her as she spun around and swung her arm out in a wide arc, cutting three more of the bastards apart while throwing her staff like a missile at one who was trying to get the drop in on Ram, sending him flying while the staff dropped next to Ram. "If they're trying to harm you and you can't make them stop with a quick show of power, then you have the right to fight back."

"Really?" Ram asked, getting a nod from Chrome. "I won't become a Void then?"

"Even if you lose your temper like you did," Chrome said while looking at the girl, who was sitting there in her underwear. "I promise you, you won't become a Void for losing your temper like that. You need to feel nothing but hate, anger and other negative emotions after all."

Ram let out a sigh of relief as she got up and blushed hard. "Um..."

"First priority," Chrome said as she ran over to her staff and picked it up while slicing another one of those cyborgs apart. "Stay alive. Second priority, make sure your team stays alive. Everything else, including your modesty, comes after that."

"Um..." Ram looked at Chrome, who sighed.

"I'll tell you about the times I ended up fighting monsters butt naked when I was a CPU Candidate later!" Chrome snapped at her. "Just keep yourself alive and remember." She smashed a girl that got too close to her down the street and into a far building. "If they don't retreat after being intimidated, you can maim them. Killing them..." Chrome narrowed her eyes. "In this case, they aren't humans anymore. They're robots or something."

Ram nodded and blushed while she fought in her underwear, but at least she was able to focus more on the enemies after Chrome gave her that pep talk.

In the sky, unnoticed to the fighters below, explosions erupted across the sky in and around the buildings.

(-)

Singe narrowed his eyes as he watched the fights unfold. "I have to say, these CPUs from the other lands are quite impressive." A video screen of Kei appeared in front of him and he gave her an expectant look. "Yes?"

"It's time." Kei said softly. "It's time to create a weapon for the future of Lastation. One that's loyal to us."

"Of course." Singe grinned as he pushed a button and Azna=Leb's face popped up on the screen. "It's time. Get your personal toy into position and have her put the collar on."

(-)

On the top of a random building, not far from the action...

Azna=Leb nodded and pushed a button on the watch on his left arm. "K-Sha."

"Yes, Master Enzo?" K-Sha asked him over the communication.

"It's time. Put the collar on her."

"Yes." She said as the communication ended.

"I see," a voice from behind Azna=Leb spoke up and the redheaded man turned to see Steamax just a few feet away from him, "you are the one that Uni told me about, the one in charge of AZL." He narrowed his eyes and took a stance. "You are also part of Noire's inner council. I shall deal with you personally."

Azna=Leb chuckled as there was a flash of light and he was covered in a power armor, complete with a large sword and a cape. "Come then, Steamax. Allow me, as Affimojas, to deal with you."

Steamax was silent as he looked at the towering, imposing figure in front of him. "...Part of me wonders why I'm feeling some trepidation. But if you wish to fight me, then I shall oblige!"

The two jumped at each other, their weapons clashing as they got close to each other.

(-)

Meanwhile...

K-Sha threw her guns to the side and ran, full speed, at Uni, who tried to jump away, only to find K-Sha in her face. Before Uni could react, a hole in K-Sha's chest opened up and something was launched at the CPU Candidate, latching onto her neck before snapping shut. "Got'cha..." K-Sha grinned slowly. "Bitch."

"What?" Uni asked, before gasping and screaming as the collar that K-Sha had slapped onto her suddenly started to glow and her body was covered in red energy that crackled and spasmed over her, forcing her to her knees as she screamed in pain.

"I know you probably can't hear me, but I'm going to tell you anyway..." K-Sha began as she walked towards the spasming and screaming Uni. "That collar will allow Master Enzo and his associates to control you. With that, they can make you sit up, eat, sleep and even control when you go to the bathroom." She giggled softly. "Ahh, it's so nice to see a lousy, worthless, pathetic CPU like you like this. It's almost too bad that the next stage will end you for good."

"Wh...what?" Uni gasped out in pain.

K-Sha smirked at her. "You'll find out soon enough... When a beam of pure Fearicite energy is blasted from the C.I.D. onto you. I wonder what kind of Void you'll become."

Uni's eyes widened as she arched her back in pain while trying to do anything to get the collar off of her neck.

Above her the C.I.D. pointed a glowing red satellite at Uni.

"Goodbye, Uni." K-Sha smirked and turned to walk away. "When you come to, you'll no longer be yourself." She chuckled as the C.I.D. fired the energy beam towards the spasming and twitching Uni.

To be continued...

Well, crap! This isn't good! HELP!

Also, I got the idea of Affimojas being a power armor from SacredGearsy44.