12.1 – (Leviticus Wilkes)
[Evangelion/Attack on Titan]
"Ikari? Ikari? Wake up."
"Who is that"
"It's me."
"Class rep? Why..."
"Where's Arlert? Where has he gone to Ikari? I made this for him with all my heart. It's just a lunch... but... I can't find him. Ikari... please... being him back."
"No! I didn't do it! I didn't kill Armin!"
"Kill? Is... is Arlert dead?"
"IT WASN'T ME! I TOLD HIM TO STOP! BUT FATHER... GENDO KILLED ARMIN!"
Karula Ikari (typically Carla Yeager) opened her eyes and escaped her nightmare. Or... did she wake up in this... this nightmare Loop? "That ceiling... it's familiar."
"I imagine it is," said a rugged, calm voice. Ryoji Kaji, Kaji to his friends, was in the room. "I guess you've 'regained consciousness'. You sure you don't want to be unconscious a little longer?"
Karula sat up, feeling her entire body groan under the mental stress she had been under. 'Armin... Oh Armin...' Karula's eyes widened as she remembered her dream, and how her class representative, Mikasa, had arrived.. "Mikasa... oh god she'll... she'll be..."
Kaji sighed quietly, but in the painfully silent room, he may as well have fired a gun. "I guess this is something that shouldn't be avoided. Your father wants to see you."
Karula snapped out of her stupor over having to tell her Unawake daughter that Armin had died. "He... he wants to see me?"
Kaji nodded solemnly. "He wants to see you. He said that you need to see him, even if you need to crawl." Kaji looked dead to Karula. "That's how he put it."
Karula steeled herself and sat up. "He wants to see me. Then I'll go. I want to see him to."
The walk through NERV's headquarters was a blur to Karula. Her memories kept intruding on her walk. Nerdish, playful Eren walking around in Kensuke Aida's shoes. Mikasa managing the class with Hikari Horaki's stern fist. Timid Armin Suzuhara, joining the Eva program to save his little comatose sister, Christa, just like Toji had before him.
The memory of her hands closing... of her hands crushing Armin... killing Armin...
Karula was standing in the dark room that was Gendo's office. In front of her, the man that laid claim to the title of 'her father' sat, hands clasped. Behind her, neither supporting nor oppressing her, Kaji stood, silent.
"You look better than I expected," Gendo said emptily. "Now then... Destruction of NERV property. Willful possession of Eva for personal usage. Disobedience of lawful orders. All of which are criminal acts." Gendo looked Karula dead in the eyes. "What do you have to say for yourself."
Karula inhaled, and exhaled slowly. She could hear the blood in her ears rushing, her heart pounding. The urge to scowl, to scream, to lash out, threatened, something to fight against Gendo. Instead, she said nothing.
Gendo adjusted his glasses. "If you have nothing to say for committing these crimes, then you are to be punished accordingly. You are to spend a month in solitary confinement for your actions." Gendo's stare was void, lacking emotion, depth, humanity. "Go, and think upon your actions."
Karula twitched. "My actions."
Kaji read her tone instantly. Gendo didn't even hear her tone, and remained silent in incomprehension.
"Possession of Eva for personal use. Destruction of property. Murder." Karula sneered. "Those are your crimes Gendo. And your sentence..."
Karula didn't move her feet. She didn't lunge, didn't jump, didn't rush. Instead, her feet remained perfectly planted. Her arms though...
Gendo couldn't explain the surge of water that lifted him up and engulfed his head. Karula was staring at him with fury etched in her face, not that he could see it. "You killed Armin. His blood is on your hands! And your blood is on mine."
Karula threw Gendo out the window, liquified, and left the building. Kaji, standing in the room, was unable to move. Seeing your boss killed by their daughter with her having drowned him on dry land would do that to you.
-x-x-x-x-
Shinji Horaki, Hikari's brother this Loop, was a very smart person. You tended to end up a smart person when you were billions of years old. His smarts were what led him to a small alcove between two buildings, a gap occupied by bushes and grass and vine plants. It was a small garden, tucked away within the city of Neo Tokyo Three.
Shinji knew it well. It was a place he had gone to many times to brood. It was prime brooding territory. Some of the best, honestly. It was where he found Karula Yeager, sitting still on a bench. She was utterly still, save a single motion: the trailing tears on her face. Shinji sat down next to her and gently wrapped her hand in his.
The silence crept on, Karula sniffling and Shinji gently patting her shoulder. Finally, Karula's crying eased. "Do you want to talk about it?" Shinji asked politely.
"I... I killed him." Karula tucked her legs against her chest, trying to curl up into herself. "I killed him."
"Gendo? No, don't answer that." Shinji pressed a little closer to Karula. "I know that it's hard. It's hard to take a life."
"No... it's easy," Karula gently asserted. "I've killed before. I've killed good men before. I... didn't know who I was. I wasn't asking who I was. I didn't care. I was Sloth. I killed because I was told to. This isn't the first time." Karula's tears flowed anew.
"You knew him," Shinji intuited. "You knew who Gendo was. But... you regret killing him?" Now he looked a little lost. "What, didn't you want to kill him?"
Karula choked on her words. Comprehension dawned on Shinji. "You knew him after he started Looping. And when you met him here, he wasn't-"
"He wasn't Gendo. That monster isn't the person I know." Karula dragged another gasp of air into her lungs. "I was the only person who knew him, and didn't judge him."
Shinji sighed. "Not everyone hates Gendo. They, and you, are exceptions to the rule though. Nanoha, Naoki, millions despise him. He's a new Looper, compared to the multiverse. We're billions of years old. He's nary a handful of millennia old. As old as you, if I'm correct."
Karula didn't answer Shinji. "Karula, you know that you were one of a select group who had never seen Gendo when he was himself. You had the fortune to know another him. The Gendo you know is in pain. He's struggling to fit into the Loops when everyone is trying to kick him out." Shinji squeezed his fist, an old nervous habit. "When my father is Awake, he wants to be accepted. He wants to atone. He just wants to be... left alone."
"When he's Asleep, Gendo is... lost. He's flailing, bumbling through life, grasping at the final straws he thinks will return Yui to him. My father wants to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Yui will return to him. It's driven him mad."
Shinji sighed and looked up at the hot, painfully clear blue sky. "Awake, Gendo simply wants to grieve in peace. Asleep, he wants to reunite with Yui. This doesn't excuse his actions though. He isn't the first person to have lost a loved one. He should have moved on. He just... Gendo, when he's like this, deserves his punishment. He and Seele damned the human race. Looping though, he just wants to find peace."
The silence established itself, and began to stretch on. Shinji and Karula sat in silence, thoughts and emotions and fleeting glimpses of understanding whirling in a tumult in their heads. The wind whistled through the vines, and clouds had gathered when Karula spoke again. "In my home Loop, my husband loses me. Grisha is distraught... so sad. And yet... He doesn't find Eren or Mikasa. Instead, he waits a week and goes to the Reiss chapel. He kills them all. He takes the Coordinate. And he gives it to Eren."
"My husband has kept so much from me. So many painful secrets. And when I died, he couldn't take it. But where Gendo broke and plotted to take Yui back, Grisha gave Eren the Coordinate. He hid the Coordinate within Eren. He died to ensure the safety of mankind."
Karula stared at her hands. "I guess... Grisha used his final hours well. Gendo didn't. But at the same time, there are so many, so many reasons that are left unanswered. I can't... I can't begin to fathom how he knew about the Coordinate, how he became a Titan Shifter, why he acted when he did. I don't even know if what he did was right. At least with Gendo, I knew."
Karula sat there in silence, before tears welled up and began to seep from her eyes into her hands. "I'm a terrible person."
Shinji squeezed her hand. "No, you're not. You're better than you think you are. You, like everyone else-"
"No, it's that I've killed Armin, your sister's sweetheart, and I'm... I'm torn up about killing, killing a monster." Karula looked to be on the edge of a full psychological breakdown leaning hard over her hands. "I'm a horrible, shitty person and a horrible, shitty mother."
Shinji gently pushed Karula up to a sitting position. "Carla, I need you to look at me. Just look at me."
Karula turned to face Shinji. Shinji's blue eyes were as hard as steel. "Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone wishes they could go back and repair the damage. But no one, not even I, can do that. Karula, in the Loops, people are going to die. It's not a question of if, it's a question of when. When their time comes, you must promise me something."
"You must be prepared to let them rest in peace. Fight for their life, fight to save them, and never stop fighting to protect what you love the most. But when their time comes, and you see what has happened, you must always remember that no matter what, what you did was your best. You made mistakes, but blame does not fall to you. Merely a responsibility to save what you once failed to save."
Shinji gently pulled Karula into a hug. "I'm sorry that Armin is dead. I'm sorry that Gendo is dead. You just always remember this. Keep moving forward. One day, you'll see how your journey affected you, and you will love it."
Karula hiccuped. "But... Armin... Mikasa..."
"I know. I've lost people dear to me as well Carla. What sustained me was a drive to see what would come of my choices and a hope that the next day would always be better than the last. Feeling pain, even guilt, is natural. Just remember. The past is gone, and all you can do is learn from it to change the future." Shinji stood up, his hand still in Karula's.
Karula gently stood up, unfolding in stiff sections like a fancy ruler stick. "Shinji, do you-"
"Yes, I do." Shinji's smile assumed a different, ever so lightly pained, appearance. "You'll get better. And everything will be alright. I did, after all."
12.2 – (Tabac Iberez)
Sitting in Saori's apartment, Hana, Yuukari, Mako, and Saori were huddled around cups of oolong tea, under blankets. For some weird reason, time was repeating itself for them! By Mako's count, it had been four times so far, and each one was different. There had been the time they hadn't repeated, the first time, then they'd won the cup. Then another normal one, and another normal one where Miho all assigned them their tanks and they ended up driving the Pz 38 (t), then the really weird one with spaceship things, then a normal one except that Rabbit team all had followed Yuukari like ducklings, and then one that had, well, gone kablooy because Miho vanished, and then this one.
"Do we bring Miho in on this?" Saori asked, sipping her tea. Miho vanishing had forced her to be their tank commander, and that plus Momo's inability to plan anything other than "UTE! UTE! UTE!" had hurt them badly.
Mako nodded, and Hana looked a little withdrawn. "Ok..." the flower arranger said, shrugging. "I mean, so far we haven't actually seen her be aware of the time-loopy thingy like we are. What happens if she forgets all this when time does the reset thingy?"
Yuukari snorted into her tea, bravado pushing her on. "Nishuzimi-domo would never forget something that important!"
Mako just ignored her and poured herself another cup of the oolong. Mako was being very quiet, because for some reason Miho had decided the appropriate way to wake her up was rigging a blank 20cm shell to her alarm clocks, and then setting said alarm clock to 5:30. AM. 5:30 in the blasted morning! The sun wasn't even out yet! And where did Miho even get a blank unitary 20cm shell, anyway!? The 20cm guns were bag guns! Mako even had Yuukari check, to make sure!
"So it's decided, then? We'll talk to Miho tomorrow, during practice?"
The rest nodded.
-x-x-x-x-
Sitting down in the commander's seat, Miho sighed. Aside from the occasional Fused Loop, she didn't have many people to talk to. As she considered this, the autopilot she had developed for coaching and directing her team kicked in overtime, and started the practice.
Down below, the four newest Loopers looked at each other, and heard the sigh faintly through the rumble of the tank. Their Pz IV had been a loyal companion, and they all loved it like a friend. Coincidentally, like a good friend, it could be tuned out when they needed to talk.
"During lunch?" Mako asked, calmly. Three sets of double-clicks on their mikes confirmed it.
-x-x-x-x-
As the quintet of tankers pulled out the small rice cooker they had learned how to wire in back when they had been in the spaceship-things time loop, Saori broached the question to Miho.
"Miho, what would you do if I told you that time occasionally, well, looped in on itself, and we remembered every time it happened?"
Miho dropped her chopsticks and rice bowl.
"Nishuzimi-domo?" Yuukari asked, cautiously. "Does this happen to you too?"
Miho nodded, and sniffed. Grabbing her teamcast mike, she radioed all the tanks. "All tanks, say again all tanks, afternoon maneuver practice canceled. Do gunnery drills or something. Miho out"
Mako just looked at Miho, and put her hand on Miho's shoulder. Miho's reaction was to dive foreword, enveloping her entire team in a huge hug. When they got the group hug sorted out around Miho, Miho just made a happy little sound like a bell.
"You have no idea how happy I am to see you guys, do you?" she asked, quietly.
"No," Hana said, "But you were lonely before, weren't you."
"For every one Loop that an average Looper endures," Miho said by rote, "An Anchor, who would be me, experiences between five and ten, and has experienced several hundred in addition to that. This would have been my hundred and first."
The group hug just got even closer. They had been a team, before. Now they were family.
-x-x-x-x-
This abruptly ended when Miho saw Erwin of all people on top of Rabbit-san, sword in one hand, C96 Mauser in the other, yelling at the crew mercilessly in heavily-accented German, telling them to drive her closer so she could hit them with her sword.
Anglerfish just looked at Miho while she laughed and laughed.
12.3 – (Dalxein)
[Gurren Lagann/MLP]
"Kinda' hungry..." Simon the Digger muttered.
"Oh?" Kamina wondered, pausing the video game the two were playing.
"Yeah. Maybe a sandwich? I dunno." the younger grunted noncommittally.
Kamina grinned. Simon shrugged.
The elder immediately leapt to his feet, the younger at his heels. Grabbing up his sword, he struck out with it when they left the building. The poor cow didn't know what hit it, as its meat was splattered onto their mech. The two jumped into the cockpit, flying it up into the sky and searing the meat with atmospheric friction as they broke into orbit. There they found their target.
"Gettai! ARC-GURREN LAGANN!" They shouted as they combined with the spaceship, launching themselves at the moon, which was- oddly enough- actually made of cheese this Loop. With a mighty punch they broke off a massive chunk of lunar cheese and proceeded back to earth, disconnecting from the space cruiser as they went. They landed in a wheat field, coming down like a meteor and vaporizing the plants, somehow leaving only the seeds behind, which their mecha swooped out and grabbed many thousands of in one handful.
The lot of it was mercilessly crushed before being dunked in a nearby lake, and raised up above their heads. "This hand of mine is burning red!" Kamina yelled. Man he loved that Fused Loop... "Its proud roar demands sustenance! Shining Burning Finger!"
After the wheatmeal was crushed with the burning fury of a thousand suns, the hand opened and into it was sprinkled bits of moon-cheese and the meat from their original ascent.
-x-x-x-x-
Sandwiches made, Kamina glanced over to the woman they'd inadvertently dragged along through all of that. "You want one? It's pastrami on flatbread."
The young woman, one Cheery Lee Littner, glanced down at the oddly well-made foodstuff before shaking her head and muttering to herself. "Please, multiverse, can't you send me somewhere that at least pretends to make sense!?"
The man shrugged. "More for us, then."
12.4 - (Kris Overstreet)
[Haruhi Suzymiya/Adminspace]
"Are you trying on purpose to get yourself kicked out of Heaven," Skuld asked in exasperation, "again?"
Susanoo sat at his console, turned in his chair to face a trio of very unhappy gods. Skuld, of course, was Yggdrasil's chief debugger and, therefore, one of the leaders of the repair attempts that included the Infinite Loops. Next to her stood Tyr One-Hand, Yggdrasil's chief admin. And next to him stood Susanoo's sister, the usually silent Amaterasu, glowing eyes staring at him with deep disappointment.
When his bosses brought Amaterasu in for one of their little discussions, Susanoo knew it was serious.
"Look, honest," he said, glancing at the three of them, "this time it really, honestly, is NOT my FAULT!"
"We agreed that your little project would remain read-only indefinitely," Skuld pressed. "Let me go over the reasons.
"First, you created an embryonic god. Her Baseline is that she rewrites her local multiverse on a subconscious level. She is on the absolute cusp of Ascension... if she hasn't done so already." Skuld looked around. "You haven't had any unscheduled visitors lately, have you?"
"Look," Susanoo said, "Suzumiya is in control of her abilities on a subconscious level. She does nothing which would actively jeopardize her reality. Rewrite, yes; destroy, no. In fact she activated a subset of herself to arrange for a divergent timeline in order to preserve her Baseline world from collapse."
"Yes," Skuld nodded. "Listed here under 'multiple divergent and convergent timelines.' Moving on. Second: significant use of, and reliance upon, time travel for the continuation of the Baseline world."
"Predestination paradox protection," Susanoo countered. "With the exception of the presence of two time travelers, all time travel is done solely because it had already been done. Ouroboros patch, job's a good'un."
"Third," Skuld persisted, "multiple lesser reality-altering beings."
"The data entities are emergent and generally static. They're generally incapable of comprehending the higher levels. They're safe."
"Fourth. Extended time loop running in Baseline universe."
"That's a bum rap and you know it. It's impossible to terminate a major Loop while within a local Loop. Nesting doll protection law."
"And finally, the aforementioned divergent and convergent timelines. Granted that all of these factors are category 2 or lower, the fact that they're all in the same universe- AND the fact that that universe, being one of your personal hobby pieces of chaos and disruption, has no resources required for current repairs on Yggdrasil, makes the whole universe a prime read-only candidate." Skuld waved her clipboard at the storm god. "We discussed this. You agreed. You signed the forms yourself. In triplicate. No carbons. And yet," she pointed to his console, "the Suzumiya universe is reading as an active Loop!"
"And what I'm trying to tell you is," Susanoo said, "I didn't activate it. It activated ITSELF."
That shut Skuld up.
Amaterasu gently pushed Susanoo away from his console and keyed up the relevant readout.
UNIVERSE: SN-NT-2002-PRIME
STATUS: LOOP PROTOCOL ACTIVE (variable 2 or 6 years duration w/Ouroboros Loop enclosed)
LOOP CONDITION: STABLE
And then the font changed to rainbow colors for the next readout:
ADMIN: YASUMI WATAHASHI (SUSANOO, SUPERVISOR)
ANCHOR: KYON
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: HARUHI SUZUMIYA
Amaterasu pointed at the readout, then walked away, rubbing her temples.
The other three gods groaned.
"Looks like Epona's going to get a promotion," Skuld said. "You're going to have to give up admin duties on the Zelda Loops. From now on your full time job is making sure that this," she jabbed a finger at the screen, "doesn't break anything else."
Susanoo shrugged. A chaos god knows to be philosophical when his own chaos bites him in the butt.
12.5 - (Harry Leferts)
[Hellsing/Land Before Time]
From where he stood, hidden in the shadow of a large crack, Alucard watched the scene unfold in front of him. Some might have been surprised at how he decided to simply enjoy himself and stick to the shadows, but others would have just rolled their eyes. However, Alucard always did admit that he was somewhat interested in this Loop. After all, the Land Before Time Loopers were an interesting conundrum. Some Loopers, such as those from Jurassic Park, gave them respect. However a large number of others, on the other hand, treated them like children. After all, that's what they were and how bad was their Loop if they could handle it without special powers?
Snorting, Alucard shook his head in more than some amusement. 'Fools.'
Alucard had managed to Loop in before "The Great Earthshake" and had to whistle at the devastation that literally tore a continent in half. Though it was more the fight between an Unawake Helen and the Sharptooth which had caught his attention. It wasn't every day that he saw a 10 ton, non-supernaturally powered predator jump nearly forty feet, and twenty feet into the air. The fact that Helen's back didn't snap from the strain of the Sharptooth landing on it caused him to raise an eyebrow.
Once Helen had knocked the Sharptooth into the chasm opened by the earthquake, Alucard had shrugged it off. He did leave when Littlefoot came across his dying mother so they could have a quiet moment. After which, the old vampire once more began to follow Littlefoot as he began his journey toward the Great Valley. And when the Sharptooth had shown up, despite all it had been through, he had grinned. Seeing the group of children outsmart and outrun it again and again caused him to laugh. The fact that it managed to survive so much including a small volcanic eruption hitting it in the face made him even gleeful at what was coming and now, at the end of their journey, Alucard watched in rapt attention at the final confrontation. Even better, it seemed that none of them were Awake yet. "Let's see if you can defeat a monster, even though none of you are men."
It was then that he realized Littlefoot's plan and his grin widened a touch more. "Clever..."
When the group managed to knock the boulder, with the Sharptooth on top of it, off the cliff and into the water, he gave a soft clap. "Very nice." He waited until they were gone before finally stepping out of his hiding spot as he looked down into the deep, water filled sinkhole where the body of the now dead Sharptooth lay. Chuckling, he shook his head as he looked in the direction of where the group of young dinosaurs had gone. "This should prove to be an... informative Loop..."
None of the other Loopers Awoke until much later on which allowed Alucard to observe how they acted without foreknowledge of what would happen. And even after they Woke up, he didn't see a single one use any non-Baseline powers, which caused him to laugh. Littlefoot never did understand why much later on, in another Loop, Alucard tipped his hat to him. Or why the vampire did the same with his friends…
12.6 - (Solaris Requiem)
[Undertale/Assassination Classroom]
Toriel exhaled as put down her red pen, rubbing her fatigued eyes as she finished grading some of the last tests that her students turned in before winter vacation. She looked outside towards the snow-covered campus of the school she usually found herself teaching at with a soft smile. For some reason it had been much easier to grab the required funding needed to build and run the school compared to previous times; something that she was genuinely grateful of. Unfortunately there were still some... problems with the local neighborhood that she never did manage to get over. Finding teachers that would willingly teach monster and human students alike had been somewhat challenging, sometimes their parents outright refused to let their children near the 'freaks' and the 'animals'.
It seemed that prejudice and suspicion still ran rampantly around her despite her best efforts. But she held hope in her heart that someday that might change; the Loop that she found herself in lasted around 20 years or so after the barrier was broken.
There were three precise knocks on her office door that brought Toriel out of her musings, "Come in!" she answered.
Toriel recognized the visitor instantly by his short blue hair and patient smile, after all it was one the most talented teachers in the school. "Nagisa, it's good to see you."
"It's good to see you too, Toriel" Nagisa replied back, "Did you finish grading everything?"
"Yes, it was a challenge but it's all finished."
Nagisa sighed, "I'm about half-way through with mine... But I should be finished with them by the time we have to submit the grades for processing."
"Sounds like you're having a grade time," Toriel chuckled. Nagisa gave a small laugh before before calming himself down.
"There's going to be a faculty meeting in a few minutes, are you going to head down there soon?" Nagisa asked, causing Toriel's eyes to widen.
"Oh my. I forgot about that completely. Thank you very much for reminding me," Toriel got out of her seat and filed away the tests neatly for later retrieval. "Shall we get going?"
Nagisa nodded kindly before they both exited the small but homey office and departed. As their footsteps echoed throughout the relatively empty halls Toriel glanced towards Nagisa's confident stride.
"Why did you become a teacher?" she asked him. Nagisa contemplated her words for a second before he smiled.
"One of the people that I looked up to most in life was a teacher. He did so many things for me during that time that I couldn't really see myself doing anything else."
"Oh? He sounds like a wonderful person."
Nagisa chuckled, "He was a bit weird sometimes, but he always had a good heart. He was the kind of teacher that I wanted to be."
"What about before you met him? What did you want to do then?"
The moment Toriel asked those words, Nagisa's expression shifted slightly but the change was gone in an instant.
"There was... another option that I was considering. I don't like to talk about it though, suffice to say that I don't have any regrets choosing this path."
Toriel considered Nagisa's words before choosing not to pry on the subject. After all, she had her secrets as well; but on the other hand a little joking around couldn't hurt.
"I see..." she replied before grinning impishly. "Did you want to be one of those... Power Ranger people that I've heard about?"
Nagisa shook his head, amused by Toriel's guess. "Not even close to it. I did want to help people as a teacher though, so I guess it does count?"
"I guess it's close enough..." Toriel drawled as the two of them walked further down the hall. She did not notice Nagisa tense up nor did she she see his fist clench. "What do you have planned fo—" "I told you I don't want to anywhere near those.. filthy animals!" an irate voice cried out. Toriel flinched as they saw the open door of the Principal's office. Principal Allen was arguing with yet another xenophobic parent, the third one this year.
"Mrs. Barnes, you haven't even met any of them yet. Please calm down."
"I don't need to meet them. They're just... monsters! They're freaks. They should have just stayed down in the damn cave where they belonged!"
Toriel could feel the rage boiling up in her chest despite her attempts to remain calm. How dare she-
Before she could even contemplate torching that idiotic woman, Nagisa laid a hand on her shoulder. Within almost a millisecond her anger simply... vanished without a trace. It was completely inexplicable.
"Can you wait out here please?" Nagisa asked gently. "I'll deal with her."
"But she-," Toriel began to speak but she calmed herself down within a second. If she lost control of her anger, it would only prove that human woman right. She had to be the better person, no matter what happened. With a sigh, Toriel relented, "Alright then, I'll wait here."
Nagisa nodded as he stepped pass her towards the office, stopping right in front of the door. But then he exhaled and Toriel felt him completely change. His posture, his very nature, shifted imperceptibly in a way that couldn't be explained, only felt.
It was as if a switch had been flipped; Nagisa no longer held the patient warmth that radiated from him like the sun but an almost suffocating aura of dread. Toriel almost felt like she was drowning in the tide of pure, undiluted, killing intent. But then an instant later the pressure vanished and Toriel let out a ragged breath she hadn't known that she was holding. Nagisa closed the door behind him with a soft click.
What was Nagisa? How could a human hold that much malice yet still be so kind?
-x-x-x-x-
It had been a while since Nagisa felt this much much anger in his body. He could feel the swirling emotions fill his body but he clamped down on it, holding it in check and using it to enhance his killing intent. He had Loops of practice to keep a handle on his rage rather than to let it control it like it had done many times before, and as such the boiling rage in his chest iced over into cold and sharp killing intent.
It had been a fairly interesting Loop thus far, monsters who had been previously trapped underground had risen to the surface to make peace with humanity. When the first monster and human school had opened, he naturally signed up immediately. He had met Toriel, a kind monster that seemed to be earnestly working hard to make every student's life happy and pleasant. It was a sentiment that he sympathized and he found himself quickly becoming great friends with her.
Alas, not all of the humans were as accepting as he was, and as such Toriel suffered as a result of that. This was one example he refused to ignore.
"Nagisa? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be-" Principal Allen asked before Nagisa politely cut him off.
"Toriel and I were heading to the meeting when we overheard your argument," he replied simply. The woman scowled.
"You're friends with that goat bitch? Are you that desperate that you'd whore yourself out to a filthy anim—" The parent was cut off the moment that Nagisa turned towards her and focused a small portion of his killing intent directly towards her. The woman froze instantly as if paralyzed; her eyes were wide as the primal centers of her brain sent signals into her body to lock up and not move.
Even during Baseline, his ability to manipulate his killing intent to paralyze and intimidate people had been a gift perfect for assassination. If he chose to, he could give her a heart attack and kill her right then and there by focusing all of his malice upon her. But that would prove nothing. Besides, he wanted her to remember what he was about to tell her.
The woman struggled to speak and breathe; it felt as if she as much as twitched she would die. If she so much as blinked she would die. If she so much as breathed she would die. A single wrong movement, and the blue-haired man in front of her would kill her in an instant. The woman was completely and utterly terrified of Nagisa.
As he fixed the woman with a small but intense glare Nagisa began to speak, "Toriel puts in three times as much work as most of the teachers here. She makes pie for the other staff members, including the janitors and the grounds-people. She treats every single person she comes across with respect and kindness. She always is willing to help out whenever and wherever it is needed."
The woman tried to speak but she couldn't take in enough air to whisper a single word. It was if as she was being strangled by a viper, its cold and scaly skin trapping her arms to her sides with a vice-like grip. She felt completely and utterly helpless; too terrified to even so much as whimper.
"Your attitude towards her is completely disgusting. I wonder... who's really the 'monster' here? Toriel herself is more human than someone like you will ever be."
Nagisa strolled forward towards the woman that was paralyzed by the pressure of his intent as the woman began to shake uncontrollably; wishing to flee but being unable to so much as blink. When Nagisa finally spoke, his warning was laced in a icy venom; like how a cobra bares its poison drenched fangs before it took your life.
"Leave and don't come back, or I will MAKE you leave."
With those last words, Nagisa sealed away his malicious intent and allowed the woman to fall flat on her rear. The woman babbled terrified before she rushed out of the room and ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
"R-Remind me not to piss you off Nagisa," Principal Allen panted, "And thank you for resolving that... conflict."
"It's no problem. If that's all we'll be heading over the meeting now." Nagisa smiled before opening the door again and leaving the principal to his thoughts.
"Beware the quiet ones indeed..." the principal sighed, "Who knew he had it in him?"
-x-x-x-x-
"I hope I didn't scare you," Nagisa told Toriel after the meeting had concluded. He did not know that monster such as Toriel were more sensitive to killing intent, and he was worried he had lost one of the friends he made this Loop.
"It was just... surprising that's all," she replied, rubbing her arm. "You just looked so... nice and quiet. I didn't think you could well, do that."
"It's a skill that I didn't want to use if possible." Nagisa's expression darkened for a split second before it vanished, "It's just that I just couldn't let them say something like that."
"Oh stop it, you're making me blush." Toriel teased with a gentle laugh, glad to have a chance to change the topic. Nagisa laughed along with her as the two of them walked side by side out of the school. "Although I am not quite sure if I approve of the way you did it... Thank you anyway."
Nagisa gave Toriel a kind and patient smile, and she knew instantly that it was genuine, "It's the least I can do for you. You're doing amazing things for the students. I'm sure that they're grateful to have you teach them regardless of what other people might think."
"I do hope so," she replied as the two of them exited out of the building and into the cold air. The monster watched the falling snow with no small amount of wonder; no matter how many times she saw it, the dancing crystals of ice had always intrigued her. She doubted that she would grow tired of it even if a dozen more lifetimes were to pass.
"Well, I'm meeting with a few friends in an hour or so. I'll see you in a few weeks Toriel." Nagisa stated with a gentle smile. Toriel returned the gesture cheerfully as the two of them set out on their separate ways.
"Have fun and stay safe!" Toriel called out.
"Stay safe." Nagisa replied warmly.
With those last two words the two Loopers parted, not knowing the other was Awake but choosing to treasure their friendship regardless of the circumstances.
Epilogue (Several dozen Loops later):
Toriel thumbed through the class registry as the new school year began, quickly memorizing the names that had appeared on the roster with ease. She was now teaching high-school students rather than middle school and elementary, haven taken a considerable amount of time studying various things between Loops.
It was a different experience than it was before, but she welcomed the challenge. After all, a teacher learned as much from her students as they did from her. That was what she had learned so long ago.
There was a knock on her classroom door that caught her attention immediately. Strange, class wasn't supposed to start for another 15 minutes. Toriel shrugged before she set down the roster and headed towards the door and opened it.
"Sorry but can you-" her breath caught in her throat as she saw the student who was on the other side of the door. The child's blue hair and warm eyes gave him away instantly.
"Nagisa?" she whispered. The way that the boy's eyes widened helped her bridge the gap in her understanding. Somehow, he remembered her too.
"You're Looping?" Nagisa asked, bewildered. "I thought you weren't Awake."
"I thought the same of you." Toriel replied before she smiled. "Do you want to come in and catch up? So many things have happened since that Loop ended."
Nagisa smiled warmly, "I would like that."
12.7 – (DrTempo)
[Kill la Kill]
Ryuko Awoke to find herself in an odd tower. Temeni...something. Looking at her clothing, she was wearing a red coat alongside her usual attire. Noticing she was carrying twin handguns, she smirked.
'A Devil May Cry Loop, huh? This'll be fun as hell!'
-x-x-x-x- "I take that back."
Ryuko had recovered from being on the business end of her sister's katana; she'd gotten arrogant, and got impaled for her trouble. Although it did have the effect of unlocking the Devil Trigger form, which looked a little like Ryuko had when she'd gone berserk. Ryuko shook this off, and decided to continue he adventure. But first, she had to escape the Leviathan...
A while later… "Well done, everyone, well do—URK!"
Jester had been bragging about his successfully unleashing a portal to the demon world, but Satsuki (who had shown that her Devil Trigger form looked a lot like when she used Junketsu during the fight Ryuko had just had with her) had sliced him to ribbons.
Relaxing her Scissor Blade. Ryuko laughed. "How long have you been Awake, sis?"
"Since shortly before you made it to the top of the tower. I figured I'd let the clown have his fun. The blade he was trying to acquire is what will stop Mundus when he shows up, so I decided to play this foolish man's game." Ryuko shrugged. That was typical of Satsuki..always planning ahead. "Then let's go, sis. After we get that sword.…"
Satsuki chuckled. "Round 3?"
"You're on!"
12.8 - (krspaceT)
[Lyrical Nanoha/Bleach]
When she had heard tales of the Original Seven, Nanoha learned of each of their stories, and their large ensembles of fiendish foes.
Unlike many of her own 'enemies', most of them were motivated by greed and hate.
The genocidal Voldemort, the god complexed Aizen and the mad scientist Orochimaru were just a few of them.
However, there was only one villain among them that Nanoha actually hated, with no pity whatsoever.
-x-x-x-x-
His name was Tsukishima, and he was a Fullbringer, a kind of empowered human that came from the world Ichigo Kurosaki was anchor for.
It had been a simple Variant Loop where a group known as X-Cution was running around, comprised of several Fullbringers who were after magical power for some reason Nanoha really didn't recall, for her memories of that Loop were fixated solely on what Tsukishima did, not long after the conflict over the Book of Darkness.
He hadn't looked that dangerous at first: a tall but thin man with black hair dressed in white, armed only with a sword. Fate had went to fight him while she had stopped a time controlling old man and a probability altering punk.
While he had escaped, nothing had seemed wrong at first. Fate hadn't even suffered a stab would from their battle, even though she could have sworn she had been cut.
This had continued for a few more conflicts between her (aided by Fate and her allies in the Time-Space Bureau), with a few more confrontations between her friends and the white swordsman.
Yuno, Chrono, Vita, Signum, Arf… he had escaped them all, his blade having left no marks.
Eventually, he had been the last X-cution member standing: their normal leader Ginjou apparently not in the Loop. Nanoha had thought it was about to be over.
She had been wrong.
-x-x-x-x-
"Ah, Nanoha. Welcome back, hope you and Hayate had fun. Oh, I don't think you ever met, but one of your mother and I's old friends dropped by. He was one of my friends from..."
Nanoha didn't register what her father was saying, as she just stared in shock at who was sitting at the table, looking comfortable and happy among her family, who seemed to all adore him.
It was him… Tsukishima.
"Oh, this must be your little Nanoha" he said in a tone that would have sounded friendly to most, but it just sent shivers down Nanoha's spine about how wrong this scene was. "It's been years, your the spitting image of your mother you know"
Nanoha just stepped backwards in shock, before she rapidly changed gears and manifested Raising Heart in staff form, causing everyone at the table, bar Tsukishima, to stare at her in surprise.
"What… what did you do!?"
"What did I do? How odd of you to ask, your the one who just manifested a magical wand out of nowhere" Tsukishima said in a conversational tone.
-x-x-x-x-
As one might expect, it only got worse from there.
"Stand down Nanoha, your not well. You would never attempt to open fire on the person who taught you magic if you were. You obviously need help"
"What are you talking about Chrono!? Yuno taught me about magic, not that man!"
Everyone had gone crazy. Every, single, person.
Breaking out of the binds Chrono had restrained her with, Nanoha pointed Raising Heart right at the white dressed man, who had a look of false concern that made Nanoha's blood boil in a way it rarely did. Nanoha later reflected that moment could have put her in the Red Lantern Corps.
"Undo whatever it is you did! Divine Bust—"
She got punched in the chest by Arf for her efforts and crashed into the side of a building.
"Nanoha!? I don't know what's wrong with you, but I can't allow you to hurt the person who convinced Fate to live again" the busty familiar declared solemnly as Nanoha stood back up from inside the ruined building.
"That wasn't him..." Nanoha said in a faint voice.
But worst of all...
"Nanoha"
Was that Fate was just the same way.
"Is this a curse from one of X-Cution? Did they really make you this crazy" Fate, with a scythe-mode Bardiche, sounded sympathetic, which just made it worse really.
Her own best friend, the person most important to her, the other half of her she had never known she was missing...thought she was crazy.
"You once helped me hear your words, allow me to help you the same way you helped me. Please hear what we're trying to tell you Nanoha, Plasma Smasher"
-x-x-x-x-
However, it had been only her and Raising Heart Awake that Loop, which meant that Nanoha was far more powerful than anyone else there.
She had managed to take down each and everyone one of her friends, though only to a point of them being unable to stop her, as she confronted that man.
No...that title was too good for him, really.
Said Fullbringer found himself pinned to a wall by bind magic, with Raising Heart pointed right at him. His sword, the Book of the End, put inside her subspace pocket where he wouldn't be able to get it back.
"You know, I have always enjoyed my power" he told her as Nanoha ground her teeth in fury "I feel like one of those characters who can go back in time and change things. But why worry about stepping on butterflies and loosing the ability to speak as a result, when you can simply change people's memories. It's much more effective. But really, I just feel sorry for you Nanoha. All alone in this world, with your false memories..."
"Shut up!" Nanoha had tears of fury in her eyes now as she felt a loathing flow through her the likes of which she had never felt before "Avada Keda—"
{MASTER!} Raising Heart shouted in concern as the spell in question began to be cast.
-x-x-x-x-
Nanoha to this day still didn't know if she made the right call in sparing him, but what she did know was one thing: she hated Shukuro Tsukishima.
12.9 – (ThanosCradik)
[DBZ]
Vegeta was pissed. He was back in this stupid little pod flying to Earth for a freaking year, and the other reason was-
"Hey Vegeta, there's a Wally World over there! Let's go!"
"Oh my god Nappa, will you shut up! No we're not going to Wally World! We can't even steer these stupid things!"
"Aww."
The other reason was he was stuck with Abridged Nappa for this Loop. Again.
He was wondering if he should kill him or not. On one hand, if he's dead then he's stuck being haunted by Ghost Nappa. On the other, if he doesn't kill him then he's stuck with regular Abridged Nappa. Screwed if you don't, screwed if you do.
He guessed he could keep him around, it may be fun to see how another saiyan around could change what happens. Nappa was pretty loyal to him, and he...
He was singing something.
"Nappa, what the hell are you singing over there?"
"Some song my pod picked up. Come on Vegeta, sing with me! 'Mi-ia Hii~, Mi-ia Hoo~, Mi-ia Ha~, Mi-ia Ha-Ha~'"
'That's it. I'm ditching him with the first person I see.'
12.10 – (Theburper)
[One Piece]
Robin walked up to Franky as he tinkered in the engine room of the Sunny.
"Franky, are you sure about this?"
"We need to make a SUPER stand. I can't think of any better way. Sabaody was evacuated in case of war spillover. G5 is all at Marineford. So the debris will fall safely. The only ones who will go are those bastards. And I've asked Sabo to clear them out."
Robin chuckled. "You really have thought this through, haven't you?"
"Hell yeah! I'm SUPER like that! But we'd best go up to the deck."
As they walked onto the deck, they found the rest of the crew waiting there.
Zoro spoke up. "Are we all ready for this?"
Sanji yapped back. "Of course, shitty Marimo!"
"Luffy, it's your call when we're ready." Nami stated.
"Then let's go!" Luffy pulled the lever to launch the Sunny into the air.
As they flew toward the Red Line, Nami shouted to Franky. "We've got the trajectory wrong! We're gonna crash into the Red Line!"
"Ahh! We're all gonna die!" Chopper bawled as he hugged Sanji.
"Not so fast! I've rigged a countermeasure!" Franky yelled from belowdeck. "SUPER GAON CANNON!"
The Thousand Sunny sailed through the hole in the Red Line... And then the hole started crumbling.
The entire crew watched in awe as the Red Line began crumbling below Marejois. "Impossible... That scared me out of my mind! SKULL JOKE!"
As Marejois fell, the Straw hats could make out the slaves and the revolutionaries standing on the edge of the gaping hole in the Red Line, looking down.
As they landed, narrowly dodging some debris, they stared at the final form of the crag. Or rather, the gaping hole in the Red line. One that went all the way down. Even Robin was just gobsmacked. "No way..."
-Some time later-
Nami came running into the mess hall. "Luffy! Big news!" She laid out bounty posters.
Humming Brook 500,000,000
Giant monster Tony Tony Chopper 500,000,000
Cat burglar Nami 600,000,000
Sniper King 650,000,000
Demon child Nico Robin 700,000,000
Cyborg Franky AND Ship of destruction, Thousand Sunny 1,200,000,000
Black leg Sanji 1,300,000,000
Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro 1,400,000,000
Straw hat Monkey D. Luffy 1,500,000,000
12. 22 – (GioGio)
[Naruto/Jojo]
Naruto could not help but feel a slight bit of disappointment as the guards of Gato's safe house instantly allowed him to pass. "Why are all cliche mooks such perverted morons?" He was disguised in his Sexy Jutsu form wearing a tight kimono sure, but anyone who had half a brain cell should be able to tell a new girl they had never seen before walking in saying that she was someone recently hired was a red flag.
Especially since Gato never 'hired' his women.
"Oh man, the boss sure got some good ones!" One of the two 'guards' of the safe house declared, his tongue waving lewdly as Sasuke (Whose Sexy Jutsu looked exactly like Naruto's only without whisker marks and black hair instead of blonde). "We should do a 'body check'!"
"Nah, the boss might get pissed if we touch the hired help!" The other one, who unsurprisingly had a pig-like face, spoke while giggling.
"Naruto, I swear I'm going to kill these two." Sasuke spoke through a mental link to the blonde.
"Come on Sasuke, you can do that after we take care of Gato." Naruto had to stop himself from laughing at his teammate's expense. "Our sensei's coming up next. So just wait until..."
"Hello boys! I brought tequila!"
A manly voice that was obviously trying to sound girly rang through the air, making the two disguised Shinobi look to see in front of the mooks was their 195 centimeter tall 'sensei' of the Loop Joseph Joestar. However instead of being disguised in the Sexy Jutsu like Naruto taught him, he was instead dressed a kimono that barely fit him. Its bottom only reached the middle of his thighs, and showed all of Joseph's obviously masculine muscles. His feet were in high heels and his hair was slicked back to help 'complete' the disguise. However to really finish the disguise Joseph also included two coconuts under his shirt as 'breasts', some red flush on his cheeks, lipstick on his lips, and purple eyeliner under his eyes which were probably all generously donated by Sakura.
"Can I pass, hot stuff?" Joseph asked in his shrill 'girly' voice, winking at the guards while waving bottles of tequila in his hands.
"...Is he serious?" Naruto and Sasuke asked simultaneously, unable to believe the actions of their fellow Looper.
And it turned out that the mooks themselves had some smarts, as they just stared disbelieving at Joseph.
"Where the hell do you think you're going!?" The pig-faced guard demanded as they both unsheathed their swords and pointed them at Joseph.
"Eh? What's wrong boys?" Joseph asked in his 'disguised' voice, approaching the two.
"Don't come any closer you freak!" The long-tongued one declared, solidifying that they were not falling for it.
"Damn! You guys are as good as the krauts! You saw straight through my perfect disguise!" Joseph cursed in his normal voice, dropping his disguise completely.
"How the hell was that even remotely 'perfect'?!" Sasuke and Naruto shouted once again in sync.
"You idiot! No broad is that buff or big!" The pig-faced guard declared with a laugh.
"Can't you tell what you look like moron!?" The other asked in a mocking tone, making Joseph glare at them.
"I'm tired of hearing that from low-level idiots like you!" Joseph shouted before pointing the two tequila bottles at the guards. "Ripple Overdrive!" The blue light of the Ripple flowed through the bottles, and the two corks popped out of the bottles, nailing the guards in the noses. As they cracked and spewed blood everywhere Joseph ran forward and kicked the two in the head with his left leg.
"SASHIMI!" The guards yelled simultaneously before falling blissfully into unconsciousness.
"Okay, time out." Naruto sighed as he and Sasuke dispelled their Sexy Jutsus. "Why didn't you do what we planned? I mean I taught you how to use Chakra and everything..."
"Well, I wanted to see if my disguise skills have improved." Joseph admitted with a chuckle.
"That had to be the worst female disguise I have ever seen. And I've been Looping as long as this idiot." Sasuke thumbed over to Naruto. "How can Caesar deal with you if you're like this all the time?"
"Well, lets just say little Caesar isn't above doing a few little tricks like this now and then." Joseph then began to drag one of the guards away, probably to strip him and disguise himself in the guard's clothes.
Naruto sighed, but could not help but grin at Joseph's antics.
Even for a 'young' Looper, Joseph Joestar was pretty interesting.
12.12 – (kingofsouls)
[Eyeshield 21]
If there was anything Sena was good at, it was running.
Specifically running away from something that intended to cause him bodily harm, or running towards something that intended to cause him bodily harm, dodging it, then immediately running away from it.
Now seemed to be the best time to do that as a horde chased the Anchor with vile intent.
The horde consisted of humans with metal seemingly growing out of their bodies, the steel and wires entering and exiting the skin at irregular intervals. They clearly had a zombie vibe, even though they were clearly alive, and significantly smarter than a zombie while being just as dangerous.
Thankfully their metallic mutations hadn't made them any faster, so Sena was easily able to outrun them to the point of triviality.
Dodging them was a different can of worms, as a mob of easy five dozen was in front of him eager to impede his journey towards salvation.
With a shout, Sena charged ahead without a moment of hesitation; the path that lay before him glowing in his mind's eye.
The mob roared back and each of them lunged at Sena with the intent to kill. The leader of the mob lunged first, his metallic first racing towards his target.
"The Devil's Fourth Dimension!"
In a flash Sena dodged backwards without losing any speed, racing past the attack. The leader groaned in confusion as Sena raced towards the rest of the mob. They lunged in turn, but Sena dodged them in such a manner that made the attacks seem to go as fast as a snail.
Just as quickly as it began, it ended as Sena ran away from the mob he had evaded, not looking back at the mob that struggled to comprehend how they were beaten.
"I hate apocalypse Loops." Sena moaned as he raced towards...well he didn't know where he was going, but it beat where he currently was that's for sure.
He didn't get a chance to think on that any longer as a fist came out of nowhere, Sena tumbling to the ground and skidding across the pavement, stopping only when he smashed into an abandoned car.
A single scream escaped Sena's mouth when his body hit the car, followed by Sena sliding off the car and into the ground. With labored breath Sena struggled to get up, the blaring screech of the car alarm not doing him any favors. Though his eyesight was blurry, he saw his assaulter: A muscular metal-skinned human with more metal than skin. His left eye was odd to say the least: It seemed to be less of an eye and more of a glowing servo.
"Target acquired. Scan indicates that subject is not appropriate for the Horde's needs. Proceeding to terminate."
The metal man then charged, his fist raised with the intent clear as day.
Wasting no time, Sena got his feet, bracing himself for the attack. At the last moment, Sena countered, sweeping his arm aside and catching the metal-man off guard for just a moment. "Devil Stun Gun!"
Sena then followed up with a punch to the face, the blow forcing the meta-man back.
This did not deter the attacker whom charged yet again. The attack was quicker, not by much but still faster than the previous attack, Sena almost deterred the attack with a quick Devil Stun Gun to save his face - and his life - from the attack.
A Second trust followed immediately after the deflection, and Sena yet again barely avoided grievous harm with his other arm, the two arms locked in combat, never yielding to the other.
The impacts of powerful blows against his skinny arms seemed to catch up to the teen, Sena struggling to keep his arm from pushing the more powerful arm of his foe from approach. Noticing the struggle's subtleties, the metal man grinned as his single robotic eye scanned Sena. "Surrender to assimilation. Your physical stature cannot stand against us. Join us, and be one with us."
Sena's narrowed eyes told the machine man all it needed to know. "Very well then. Termination it is. Pray that there is a God."
A quick retreat of his engaged arm caught Sena of balance for a fraction of a second, and the next thrust hit like a truck, sending Sena to the ground on his knees.
The metal man then raised this hands above his head, clutched together like a hammer aimed at a rock.
*Beep-Beep!*
"What...?"
Both Sena and the metal man turned to face the sound, originating from a bus skidding out of an unseen corner, horn echoing through the mostly empty streets.
Sena realized what the bus was going to do. He got off of his knees and leapt backwards.
The metal man did not, trying to process what his optics was seeing, and thus did not react fast enough - or at all for that matter - when the bus rammed into him, launching him several feet away and smashing into the ground with a heavy thud.
Sena sighed. He was saved.
The door to the bus opened, revealing the driver: A familiar blond driving the bus with a familiar machine gun on the floor by his side.
"Hiruma!"
"'Get in ya damn pipsqueak!
Sena wasted no time racing to the bus's door and to safety, but fate had other
A heavy hand gripped Sena's leg, crushing it with overwhelming force. Sena fell to the ground face first, which scrapped along the road as he was pulled back. If he had to hazard a guess, the metal man recovered faster than expected and was not going to give up.
The man then lifted Sena up by the leg, dangling him into the air. The expression of his assaulter was unchanging, stoic and calm despite the violence.
For the first time in a long time, Sena felt fear.
A chorus of bullets came from the machine gun, each bullet striking their mark, but to Hiruma's horror the metal skin of the metal man was bullet proof.
The metal man almost laughed, facing Hiruma. "You are a man. I am a monster. A man can never defeat a monster."
At that Hiruma burst into laughter. "Oh really? good thing I have a monster of my own!"
From out of Sena's eye was a blur racing towards him.
A familiar one, that of a rival.
The metal man saw the newcomer out of his eye's corner, and that was all he could see before the newcomer tackled him, lunging his arm into the metal man like a spear.
The force of the tackle ended all resistance, the metal man falling to his knees, causing Sena to hit the ground on his head. Thankfully the distance was minimal and thus the damage.
Shaking his head, Sena got a good look at his savior. "Shin!"
Shijuro Shin said nothing, simply helping Sena get to his feet. Hiruma, ever the impatient one when he wanted to be, honked the horn. "Come on ya damn kids, get in!"
Sena and Shin didn't need to be told twice, quickly entering bus just as a horde of metal infected people emerged from the horizon, eager to end the three.
12.1 – To wear the face of man, but have nothing of mankind left within you, is the mark of a monster. Pity them if you wish, but do not spare them judgment.
12.2 – Ooarai oohrah! Team Anglerfish represent!
12.3 – I know veggies aren't very manly, but what good's a sandwich without lettuce at least? C'mon guys, seriously.
12.4 -The SOS Brigade has drafted Yggdrasil itself as it's newest member. Abandon ye all hope, for there is no escape.
12.5 -Respect is earned, not given. And Alucard recognizes that which is deserving of his.
12.6 – Friendship, unlike bigotry, recognizes neither race nor creed nor species. Mercy is given unto all equally.
12.7 – Looks like the jokes on Jester.
12.8 – Everyone has a limit. A point at which no more can be allowed to stand. Nanoha just found hers.
12.9 – Saiyan warrior Numa… er, I mean Nappa. Yes, that's what I meant. Yes.
12.10 – Clearly Franky has been getting tips from Alex Mercer on Red Lines and how to cross them.
12.11 – Well. Um. At least he's got his lines right?
12.12 – Zombie Apocalypses: still less dangerous than a Super Bowl fan riot.