Samurai Jack: The Sword Awakens

Chapter 1: Two Destinies Intertwined pt.1

Earth

The Future…

The Future that is Aku

The Earth's future was brought forth with catastrophe, devastation, and carnage brought down upon the innocent and weak, all because of a countless millennia reign of Tyranny, oppression, fear, and Evil. A reign brought down upon the immortal evil shapeshifting wizard known as Aku. Since the beginning of time, the Immortal Shapeshifting Wizard, Aku, had begun his ruthless quest to take over the Earth, plundering its resources as he saw fit. But it was still not enough, not fast enough. He used his powers to open ports across the galaxy so that he could take the riches of other worlds. As a consequential result, his unsavory affairs had brought intergalactic criminals, mindless stooges, and questionable mercenaries and bounty hunters alike onto the pitiful planet, making Earth a planet hard to live on. There was no way to defeat him. No hope at all.

Until the Samurai appeared. The Samurai known as Jack. Ever since he arrived, he fought against monster, machine, beast, or otherwise to lead to his goal of defeating Aku.

But fifty years later, the Samurai had disappeared between the time he arrived and the time that he vanished happened. Around the same time, Aku had disappeared from the public eye, possibly due to his enemy vanishing as well. The Immortal Wizard Aku still ruled the world, but the Samurai slipped into legends and rumors. Some believed Aku got lucky and killed him, keeping the Sword in his possession… and might have slipped into a slight depression knowing that his mortal enemy, his purpose, had been taken and was in a slump due to it. Others believed that time finally got to the Samurai, and that he died of old age. Nobody knows the truth, and some merely speculate on it and have given up on him returning.

And then there are those that took his legend and example, being inspired by his selflessness, courage, sacrifice, honor, the way of the Samurai, to the point of building Rebellions. Many have tried to take the fight to the Evil Wizard and have all but failed. Hope was slowly becoming a fleeting sentiment as the stalemate was stretched on what felt like an eternity compared to the time that Aku had taken to build his Dark and Merciless Empire of Darkness.

However, there were those that had not lost hope. They believed that Samurai Jack would return to defeat Aku and save the world, in the past, present, and future.

But hope wouldn't be enough to encourage to find him. There would have to be those to find him and remind the samurai of his destiny to defeat the evil Aku.

But what hero could possibly do such a thing? What destined individual… or individuals… could show or bring hope to the one that brought hope?

Location: Emojio Village

The hope of the Emojio was a calm and lively valley of green hills and blue skies. It was a farming community that used windmills to help produce foods. The people themselves were humanoid but had light or aqua blue furry bodies, with black button noses, pointed ears, silky white hair, and two little antenna atop their heads. The harvest was plentiful and life among the village was peaceful. Although it wasn't a culture based on technology, they had something that could only be described as utopia. But even that wouldn't last forever.

KA-BOOM

Suddenly, an explosion erupted from the village, as screams and cries of panic echoed through the village. And then more explosions erupted throughout the village. The strong windmill that towered at the left side of the hillside toppled over like a tree cut down through the forest. Pillars and mushrooms of black smoke bellowed from the village and blackened the once blue skies. The village was under attack.

Running from the village was a young mother, carrying her newborn son in her left arm, while she held onto her young eleven year old daughter with her right hand. They were dressed in brown tattered dresses, possibly they were stripped down and put into rags when the village was invaded and almost taken prisoner, but escaped before anything else had happened. They were doing their best to get away from the unforeseen invaders that raided and destroyed their home; the mother doing her best to protect her children from the war and carnage that Aku's forces wrought everywhere they went. It didn't matter if they ran into the wilderness, it would at least provide a chance for her children's survival. Though sadly, they didn't get far, as the daughter looked behind her.

From the distance, but coming fast right at them, huge black mechanical beetle-designed robots were after them. They had black armor all over their bodies, two huge sharp black pincers in front of their faces, and red lifeless compound insect eyes that spotted the family fleeing. These were the Destroyer Beetle Drones, the infantry of Aku's robot army. Their little legs were no match for the two small insect legs as well as the front scythe arms that skittered across the ground, and then cut them off, like wolves circling their prey.

Nearly a full army swarm of the Beetle Drones denied their escape, continuously circling them in a cage of their own armored bodies. It was evident to the family that there wasn't an escape; holding each other for a fading sense of comfort, the family knew their time was up.

The mother knelt down to her daughter, gently tipping her chin up to her, as she closed her eyes. Once that happened, her antenna lit up, sparking electricity across one another, as words and the emjoi of a heart formed as her last words were spoke to her daughter, "I. Love. You."

The daughter grabbed her mother's hand and closed her eyes, responding with the same message, "I. Love. U2." She then gave her mother a final embrace, as she feared it would be the last one.

Her baby brother remained silent and his eyes shut, unaware of what was happening, as the drones stopped, all their compound eyes glowing right at them.

However, from the distant, something caused the drones to turn and face the distance. The Emojios looked as they heard the same noise. From the distance, they heard the silent but loud roar of a motorcycle engine coming from the hills. One of the Beetle Drones from the rear turned around and stood up on its hind legs, extending its scythe arms out ready for any incoming or foolish intruders or invaders.

The Emojio girl's antennas flashed, "?" curious as to what was going on or what was heading for them.

Then they saw it. The profile of a motorbike appearing out from the horizon, shrouded in the shadows, lit only by a single headlight. The Beetle Drones all responded as they stood up, raising their scythe bladed arms at the ready. As the unknown lone rider came closer, his features appeared more apparent, as did his bike.

The motor bike was armored up on the front and the back, with two powerful bulky wheels in front and back. The back sides appeared to have big black weaponry built into it looking like they were part of the engine. On the front was a small windshield with two horn-like handles for the rider to hold on. And mounted on the front was a single lone yellow head-light with a Spartan Mohawk on top like a crown.

The rider appeared to be a male in his build, possible twenties, slim with small muscle underneath from his build on the armor. His armor was stylized in a samurai kind of style, colored in Silver Mist Gray, with the under armor colored black on the arms, legs, neck and armpits. The armor was stylized in a bio-armor style but retained details of a Samurai Armor. He had strong metal gessan thigh protectors and back guard that hung from his waist going down to his knees with a loin shawl up front held by a black and brown belt, holstering a blaster on the right as well as a duffel pouch on the right thigh. His boots were silver mist gray on the inside but on the outside were black Kevlar under armor with two silver mist gray buckles. The ankles had silver mist gray ankle guards while the boots' toes, heels and ankles were in silver mist gray metal armored guards with the sides black Kevlar and the top tongue silver mist gray as well. He had Silver Mist Gray knee guards as well. His arms had the same metal on the outside of his biceps with black Kevlar on the inside, with his forearms in samurai styled kote gauntlet guards, while both wrists had bolt-like wrist guards, and his hands were in black Kevlar gloves with silver mist gray hand guards. The right shoulder appeared to have an Eastern Samurai touch, a large sode style shoulder guard, while the left shoulder was bio-mech designed with a shoulder neck guard, similar to a European knight's armor. He had a brown belt going down the chest and ab guard, both of which were designed bio-tech than eastern armor, with a collapsed staff piece strapped to his back, as well as what appeared to be a shoulder mounted plasma caster on his left shoulder. His helmet was Samurai Style, with arrow-shaped eyebrow visor pieces on the front with a sharp fin-like blade atop, and hiding his face was a silver gray Oni faceplate with blue eyes, a silver pointed downward nose, and a demonic black smile frozen on his face, acting as a smoke/poison gas respirator.

Before the Beetle Drones could act, the Rider acted first, as he pushed a button on the right steering handle. Popping on the right side, a cannon-sized rocket launcher fired a high-explosive rocket right at the first wave of Beetles before they made a move. Unable to split up or didn't have enough time to act, the rocket made impact with the first swarm, blowing a pass through the left flank, as the rider turned to make his way through before the beetle drones closed up the gap behind him, as he made it through the center towards the Emojio family. Once in the center, the rider then pressed a button on the left handle bar, and on the left side, a Gattling Gun popped out the left side, as he steered the bike to encircle the family in a protective donut move, keeping the Drones at bay. Once his donuts were in perfect fluid motion, he flicked the safety shield off the firing trigger button, and pushed it, firing at a rate of 1200 rounds per minute right at the Drones, showering them with full-metal jacket shell round with explosive cartridges, downing the black Beetle Drones. Their steel plating could do little protection, as the beasts were being downed, thinning the ranks as best they could… until the shells were spent, and all the drones saw now was an empty clicking sound and smoking barrels. Their opponent was out of heavy artillery; the time to strike was now.

The lone warrior stopped the donuts as the weapon holstered back in the sides. He then propped up his bike into a wheelie position. Suddenly, a set of metal spikes extended from within the front wheel. He revved up the bike, spinning both wheels dangerously, turning the front into a spiked wheel saw at a single charging Beetle Drone. It proved a fatal move for the robot, as the wheel came down, rapidly ripping the drone down to its lower body as the rider drove forward, using the remaining stump of the robot as a ramp, jumping upward and sending the rider and bike above everyone's heads, as the rider deployed a second set of spikes on the rear wheel, and proceeded to run over the other drones, riding atop them, ripping their exposed heads, shredding and crushing great numbers as the forces were coming down to dwindled single digits.

Though before any more of the drones fell, one drone got lucky and leapt forward, knocking the Samurai off his bike, it's leg blade wrapped around his waist. The Drone was close to taking him out, but it didn't think to disarm the warrior. He drew from his side a laser pistol, and aimed for the whole head. He fired a single plasma bolt, blowing off the whole drone's head. The drone's downed body crashed on the ground, as the warrior landed crouched style like an animal, as he holstered his pistol.

The drones were about to swarm him, but stopped, as they heard the noises of metal and part shifting. They turned to see the bike transforming before their eyes. And much to the surprise of the drones and the Emojio, it had become an eight foot robot. The rear had become the upper torso with the headlight becoming the head. The head was human shaped with the single headlight as the eye, with a Mohawk and two Mohawks as part of its jaw, with a grill for its mouth. The rear tire was built up to its back, with two exhaust pipes connected to the rear light shoulders to make it more Mecha anime-ish. Its legs were humanoid with the front tire split and formed the lower legs, with metal parts acting as the front toes, side stabilizers, and a small bit acting as an ankle.

The mecha looked to the drones, as he spoke in a calm and polite voice, "Hello. My name is OTTO, and I will be the one to smash you to cubes now."

And then launched forward, smashing a hole through one of the drones with just a punch. Some of the swarms piled on him, but the pile on his right flattened them like a stack of pancakes. Another came from behind to slash OTTO, but he kicked it, locking its face with his toes and ankle. The tire spun to life, as the spiked wheel tore through the drone, splitting it in half. The polite bike mech seemed to be taking down the drones with little to no problems.

The warrior spun around, firing a barrage of shots at the drones closest to him, while maintaining to protect the family. The light blue blasts cut through the bots with ease, blowing off limbs and heads, but ultimately turning them to metallic versions of swiss cheese. He holstered the gun again, and drew from his back a collapsed bo staff. He whipped it down to his right side, which extended it on both ends, the front end splitting into a jagged trident with a hook on the top, and on the back into a pronged fork prod end that sparked electricity. Now it had gone from a long range to a close quarters melee fight between man and machine vs Beetle drones. The remaining flank of beetles surrounded the warrior, as they sprung into action. The Warrior thrusted the trident end into one of the closer beetle drones, sticking it right into its gut. And with a twist, he yanked it out of the still functional drone, tearing out wires and leaving them exposed like organs freshly torn out.

The Emojio family stood in awe and shock of the technological gore and carnage from this scene, as the straggled charged all at once at the lone warrior. But so far, no avail, as they did not count on this human having such skill and combat talent against these drones. The samurai warrior ran the shock prod into another drone, hitting its power cell right away; it caused an overload as it spasmed and blew up, twitching around like a downed cockroach.

He swung his staff again with superb control and ease of skill, taking the limbs and heads off of all his enemies to follow. Until one lucky drone swiped at him, knocking him at the head, which sent him staggering back and his helmet flying off. The helmet on the ground, his face and identity was revealed to be a Caucasian boy of twenty-six, with dark brown shaggy hair up front in a bang framing the right side of his face, an antenna on the back, and two piercing glaring brown eyes glaring at the Beetle Drones.

The boy leapt at the two remaining drones as he cried out a battle cry, driving the trident end down into the head of the first drone, spraying oil out like a bloody sprinkler, and yanked off the head, as he leapt off the falling body. The drone, realizing it was outmatched, was about to retreat, until its head was crushed by two hands from OTTO, as it was torn in half, catching the boy's attention.

OTTO threw the two pieces away, as he looked to the young man, and asked, "You alright, Mako?"

The boy relaxed his stance, seeing an ally, as he nodded, "Yeah, I'll be fine, OTTO."

The oily substance from the downed drones almost touched the young girl Emojio's feet, as she hugged herself to try and shake off the uneasiness of what she had just seen. She even looked disgusted, even as an Emoji of a disgusted face popped up between her antennae.

Mako looked to her, and shrugged off, looking away, "Not my problem."

But then everyone stopped as they heard the rattling of skittering bug legs. The Warrior and his Bike Mech turned to look behind them to see coming from the town… another beetle drone swarm heading towards them. Mako held his staff at the ready as he pulled out his pistol, and asked his partner, "How much ammo you got left?"

OTTO brought up his right arm which displayed a holo screen, showcasing 0 amounts of ammo, "Roughly… zero."

Mako then pulled out a sword hilt which he whipped out, and then extended into a black samurai blade. He whipped the two weapons spread out at his sides, as he glared, "Guess today's a good day to die fighting."

"For you, you die," OTTO stated, as he took a boxing stance, "Me, they'll probably recycle into aluminum cans and chrome wheel caps."

As the armies of the Beetle drones charged forward, the two warriors stood behind the family that hid behind them, unprepared for what was to come. But suddenly, an explosion blew up the first wave of Beetle Drones, as Mako and OTTO, even the Emojio family turned around to see what was going on.

Then coming out of the horizon, much to which the now halting and battle ready drones stood up to see it as well. From the same direction that Mako had driven through, more motorbike-riding samurai warriors were driving forward. They all had similar armor that the lone warrior had, but each were different colors and/or designs. Especially with the faceplate and other bits. For instance, their leader, riding on a gold and white stylized speed motor was a gold and white armored samurai rider. His helmet had two horns curving upwards to the back, and had a grinning golden Oni face on it. His shoulder pads were of Eastern European design, and the leggings were more puffy on the thighs, like puff pants or something, and he had two sword holsters sticking out his back.

The girl's antennas lit up, as she smiled with hope, as the words lit up, "THE ARMY OF THE SAMURAI."

Mako just frowned, as he spat out in disgust, "Sure took their time to catch up."

"Well, not to split hairs, but Baron did trick you into going first," OTTO reminded him.

Mako sighed, as he grumbled looking back at the halted Bettel Drones, "Yeah, but that doesn't mean I had to swallow up and like it."

The golden Samurai shouted, "FIRE!"

The other samurai warriors pushed a button on their handles, and each fired a rocket barrage from their bike's rear compartment. Explosions blew up the first and side halves of the Beetle Drone army, as their motor bikes rode in, passing Mako and the others. The samurai warriors jumped over or ran over the Beetle Drones that were barely lucky. But one of the bikes nearly nicked Mako, as he almost fell over. Though luckily for him, OTTO caught him in time.

The golden rider stopped, as his helmet retracted back revealing himself. He was a Caucasian male of the same age as Mako, but had silver white hair combed back, a few bangs covered his forehead and with curled sideburns, blue eyes, and a slightly pointed nose with a stuck-up smirk, looking down on Mako. He was the one called Baron, Brigadeer General of the Army of the Samurai… and Mako's superior/rival/enemy.

"Well, well, Mako," Baron chirped up a rather calm smugness to rub in to the salted warrior. "Running ahead of us without us following along? That's against the battle plan I had."

Mako growled, as he nearly got into the smugged jerk's face, though was pulled back by OTTO to be a few inches away, "I didn't go ahead, I went ahead after you said Charge!"

"That's not what everyone else saw," Baron smirked. In truth, Baron only had comms down for everyone and only Mako had heard the order, leaving him to go in first. "I'll be sure to report this to Commander Elektra. I'm sure you'll both have been dying for some alone time as always." And then drove hard into the ensuing battle.

However, as Baron only got a few yards in, a downed but still functional Beetle Drone's upper half, sliced foreward into Baron's front wheel, causing it to spin in the air. The spin caused Baron to fly off and crash onto the ground, as his Bike Mech had transformed and was fighting the half-downed Beetle Drone.

The dazed Baron tried to right himself back up, doing his best to wash away the dizzy crash spell. At that moment, Beetle Drones from all sides were beginning to charge at him.

Mako saw this and ran after him, but not before he shouted at OTTO, "OTTO! Stay your post and protect the family!"

As Mako charged in, one of the Beetle Drones got in his way, as it slashed at him. He did a slide dive, slicing up the left leg, as the Beetle drone crashed on its knee to balance itself, but still slashed at the samurai warrior, intent to kill him. Mako used his sword to block at the slash attacks, and locked at another strike, but used the Prong taser end of his staff and shot it in its eye, frying up its brain, as its head exploded, crashing down. Mako saw the three Beetle Drones charge at Baron, lined up together into a triangle formation. Without hesitation, he jabbed his sword into the ground, and with both arms, shot the trident staff into the center of the road in front of it, making a sort of fork in the road. But it was enough to cause the beetles to trip and cascaded over Baron, as he ducked whilst the Beetle drones fell onto each other, cutting and slashing themselves apart, thus saving Baron from being chewed up like paper through a shredder.

The platinum haired blonde had recovered, and saw that it was Mako's staff that had tripped the three drones. He then slowly made his gaze to Mako, who was now slashing at approaching Beetle Drones, as well as using his blaster to block melee attacks, and to blow off appendages and heads with it. It was inconceivable… the outcast, the fatherless outcast… the one that had been hated at his village since at birth and now… had saved his life. Never in Baron's life did he feel shocked at this… and humiliated.

Even more so, as Mako shot out, "I guess we're both right from earlier. I should concentrate on fighting, and you should have concentrated strength in the middle of your little charging squad."

Baron hissed, as a Beetle Drone came behind, but he shot at it without even turning around, blowing its head off, as he hissed, "Don't think this won't change anything, Outcast."

And thus the two joined in the slaughtering of the invading Beetle Drones. Today was just another day for this Army of Rebels inspired by the Samurai known as Jack. But to Mako… it was just another day in his life since the day he was born in a world torn by Aku.

Little did he know… today… his life would change forever.

Next Chapter: Two Destinies Intertwined pt.2

Now I know the first chapter has a lot to open up to, but I couldn't resist in using the same opening that Season 5 had used for Jack's intro. The next chapter will have more information on Mako and the Army of the Samurai.