Update (10/10/20): Okay, i'm currently editing chapters in order to connect better with other chapters and avoid any kind of plotholes. But not to worry, nothing important will really change. Not to mention grammar corrections to make the reading more fluid.
Chapter 10: Takeover
It was another unusual day at Honnouji Academy, and quite unusual indeed. The whole school looked hella' different. Rather than being the usual look, it now bared similarities to a medieval fortress with a game-themed structure and with one part of the sky being white with some black flashes and the other half had that trademark rainbow light Satsuki's mother is known about. In fact, in the other side of Honnouji Academy, the REVOCS tower stands proud and was themed after black chess pieces. The whole courtyard had those black and white squares that resemble a chess board, with civilians being literal pigs in human clothing. A good number of One-Stars students who were wearing One-Star Goku Uniforms resembling pawn chess pieces and also had masks with bandages covering the part of the eyes were guarding the entrance and the hallways of the entire game fortress. At the center of the "Game-board" stands a giant golden trophy of Atlas holding the Earth.
But what was really important, it was Satsuki Kiryuin herself who had Junketsu taking the form of a fleshy and pulsating outfit similar to a King chess piece, was sitting on a throne in the shape of a King chess piece with a deck of playing cards without the 2 Jokers on her side of her chamber. She was also holding a Book with cover being labeled "The Truth of the World", and she seems to wait a certain group of thieves. The chamber also was quite different, from her behind, there was a map of the entirety of japan with red crosses over the countries and regions taken over, similar to the Risk board game. Below Satsuki's throne, there were 4 other thrones, one with a symbol of a standard playing card. The Orange Club, the Pink Heart, the Cyan Diamond, but the throne of the Green Spades looked smashed and destroyed, as if they didn't want to associate to whoever sat there ever again. But the most interesting thing was an empty throne next to the Kiryuin's, not only themed after the queen chess piece, but also themed after the Joker card, if the jester hat didn't made it obvious.
"You seem to arrive 4 minutes late, Joker. What took you so long?" Satsuki asked a group of teenagers wearing thief outfits and with Akira leading them with the Shadow-self voice.
"We just had to prepare ourselves, that's all. I know you won't handle the treasure that easily, so…" Joker then pulled his dagger and pointed to the ruler of Honnouji. "In the name of everyone you made miserable, we're here to dethrone you!"
Satsuki was silent for a brief second before closing her book. "So… You still persist on destroying an invincible castle with pebbles? You're all so adorable thinking that your thievery will crush my ambitions."
"Don't get full of yourself. Even the mightiest of castles can fall from pebbles if you hit them on their weak spot or with a full rain of pebbles." Akira countered the dictador's argument with confidence.
"That reminds me, I forgot to congratulate all of you from defeating my trio of elite card soldiers. You even managed to recruit my Ace of Spades on your sides. But friendships will not take you far on the game of war." Satsuki tried to demoralize the thieves about their "Power of friendship".
"Game of war my ass! How sick are you in the head to compare a full-scale war to an effin' board game!? You're literally ruining hundreds of people's lives for your sick wishes! And I don't want to hear any bullshit about this being for the world!" The blonde and rude thief with the skull mask cursed at the ruler's face.
"You're no better than your mom! You're both disgusting women in different ways! I mean, I know that REVOCS's trying to end human-kind for the sake of an alien species, but being controlled by you for eternity is no better!" A blonde thief wearing a red leather jump-suit exclaimed in anger while she gritted her teeth.
"You even bought up the media in order to give your cause and your organization a good name, and kill all news reporters who talked bad about you with mental shut-downs, not to mention that you manipulated the people's perspective though the Life Fibers on their clothing for your own gain." Another thief who had a fox mask that reminded her to Mikisugi spoke out.
"Not only did you manipulated the media, but you also put your hands on the political and magisterial part of the world in order to tilt the world leaders to your favor and eliminate any country that opposes your ideals using Psychotic Breakdowns by giving them a bad image. Not even Shido would think of something so elaborate and evil as this. And I swear, if you would had the audacity to hunt down Sae Nijima…" The female thief with brown hair wearing a metallic mask made a point of how inhumane Satsuki's plans are and gritted her teeth.
"You used the metaverse in order to fulfil your twisted desires. My mother would regret all the research she has made her entire life if she would ever find that her research is being used by a witch such as you!" A thief with orange hair who had a green and black technological suit bellowed to the queen of Honnouji.
"You even too advantage of my father's death in order to absorb Okumara's Foods into your conglomerate to poison the company's food with Life Fibers and manipulate the people's cognition with Mind Stitching! I know my father has done horrible things in the past, but he would never go to that extend!" Another female thief with fluffy hair shouted out her hatred and anger.
"To be frankly, raising teenagers into emotionless killing machines is taking it too far, it reminds me of my childhood years. Your tactics has some shady morals, but how you managed to get away with your crimes is quite astounding, I must admit that I'm even impressed." A thief with a mask with a red long nose complimented the tyrant on a mocking manner.
"And so what? Even though I have exceptions, my students are nothing more than game pieces. I could care less over the death of a Two-Star. And besides, it's not that I'm doing anything wrong. The term of good and bad doesn't even exist on this world. Only those at the top of the power hierarchy decide what is right and what is wrong. My mother desires the same thing, so I'm asking you, why don't you go after her instead of me?" The queen of the Palace asked the Phantom Thieves with intrigue.
"That's easy." Morgana walked in front of the crew. "If we were to target your mother first, you would take advantage of the situation by reclaiming the Kiryuin Conglomerate for yourself. And with the political and economic power of 90% of the world, you could easily dispose of us and make society worship you like some sort of goddess. Admit it! You don't want to take over the world for the sake of the people, you only doing this in order to humiliate your mother who has been abusing you during all of your childhood! Hence the question, what makes your ambition any different to Ryuko's?"
There was a silent moment for 1 minute. Then, Satsuki started to chuckle, then her chuckle turned into a maniacal laughter. "Seems you hit the spot, pussycat! And what if my ways are "Evil"? Weak people are destined to serve the strong because they lack power! This world always belonged to the strong and powerful, and that's the truth of this world! Hence why, I shall become the most powerful woman in the world, in order to show everyone in this pathetic planet who is truly in charge!" Satsuki bellowed before recovering her cool. "Although…" The queen then looked at the throne beside her. "If you decide to become my second in command, I shall spare Ryuko and your "friends"."
"Heh… I told you once and I won't tell you again! Forget it, Satsuki Kiryuin! The Phantom Thieves were formed in order to help the weak from degenerates like you! We were never wanted to be worshipped as gods! So I'll tell you again!" Akira exclaimed out. "In the name of everyone you have murdered and corrupted, we shall steal your heart and make you confess your crimes!"
"So, it's treason then… Very well… Seems that your friends tend to hold back your ambition. But…" Junketsu started to pulsate faster and faster, slowly mutating Satsuki into a monster. "NO OPPOSING ORGANIZATION LIKE THOSE NAKED APES OR A BAND OF TEENAGE ROBBERS SHALL TUMBLE DOWN MY DESIRES! NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, OR WHERE THE FUCK YOU COME FROM, YOU'RE ALL PIGS! PIGS IN HUMAN CLOTHING! AND YOU, ALONGSIDE EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE IN THIS PATHETIC PLANET, SHALL BOW TO ME AS THEIR MESSIAH OF THIS WORLD!"
"GAH!" Satsuki gasped as she woke up from her chair at her room in Honnouji Academy. She then hold her chest, feeling that her heart was pulsating faster from the nightmare she had.
*Seconds latter*
"You seem nervous milady. Is there something bothering you? Perhaps it's that syndrome you were having lately. Maybe you should't wear Junketsu for today." Soroi recommended his master while serving her a cup of tea.
"It's was just a nightmare… It was about Kurusu and some other people trying to stop my plans. But I don't know how they knew everything about… me…" Satsuki was still surprised how well elaborated that dream of hers was.
"Lady Satsuki?" Iori who was on the entrance of his ruler's room appeared. "Me and Inumuta have finished the upgrade of the Elite Trio's Goku Uniforms."
"Thank you Iori." Satsuki thanked her sewer. "Inform the rest of the Elite Trio and gather them in my chamber."
"Yes milady." Iori leaves her ruler's room to gather the Elite Trio.
*Sometime later*
"Forgive me for summoning you this early, but you know it has come to our attention about the desertion of Akira Kurusu, or Joker as he likes to call himself. Not only that, but it seems that our Club Presidents weren't that powerful to begin with." Satsuki announced out the total overhaul of Honnouji's System.
"What!?" Inumuta cried out in shock. Never knew that someone like Satsuki would like to start her system all over.
"I won't repeat myself. If Kurusu and his Fight Club could defeat us so easily, then that means that the other Clubs weren't worthy of their Uniforms to begin with. Akira has officially become our number 1 enemy, even more dangerous than Ryuko Matoi, and we need to prepare everyone for his outcoming assaults."
"So, were you testing them?" Nonon asked, feeling a bit empty inside. She still was in love with Akira, but something in her died once Kurusu renounced Honnouji Academy.
"Don't question the motives of Lady Satsuki. Everything she does, she does it with absolute consideration!" Gamagori scolded Nonon for questioning their leader. "I knew that good for nothing delinquent would only bring harm to the academic environment…" Gamagori grunted.
"She's right." Satsuki replied to Gamagori. "For I, plan to rebuild Honnouji Academy's order from the ground up. And the first step is, Calling the unworthy from our ranks!" Satsuki exclaimed her plant to sort the powerful from the weak in Honnouji Academy. "Tomorrow, everyone shall have their ranks and authority removed. And even if I hate to say this, you won't be an exception…"
The Elite Trio gasped, knowing that they even will be targeted by their once fellow allies.
"Although, Inumuta and Iori have taken their times to upgrade your Goku Uniforms." The leader of Honno reminded her subjects as Gamagori and Nonon looked at their Goku Uniforms they're wearing. "They managed to inject a small portion of Persona Fragments onto your Goku Uniforms, in case you ever cross path with Joker and his crew ever. So, you won't have problems into going berserk. Keep in mind that your Uniforms can't fully overpower our new threat, but they're strong enough to at least defeat him if you know what you're doing. Although, I still forbid you for facing Akira. Don't take it wrong, it's just a prevention method to protect your Goku Uniforms."
"So, does this mean that the empty seat of the Elite 4 shall finally be full and thus, restore balance to Honnouji Academy?" Gamagori asked to her lady.
"Only time will tell. And if we don't get another member of the Elite 4, I'm fine with guiding the Sports Division towards Osaka all by myself. At least I know Takarada the most, so I can easily predicts his tactics. As for Sanageyama and Hakodate, I've liberated our new Life Fiber-Infused Shadows and deployed the perfect Club to combat Uzu in order to track them down. To all of you, I wish you the best of luck tomorrow, and I expect you the 3 of you to make it to the finals."
"Roger!" The Elite Trio saluted before disappearing like nothing, preparing themselves for tomorrow.
It was the next day. Satsuki was slowly walking toward the elevator of her room that takes her down where she was going to. She was closing her eyes and thinking about what happened. To be précised, it has been a whole week ever since Akira declaring war to Honnouji Academy. No one has heard from his whereabouts, not even the Mankanshokus who haven't heard of him for a while, and they doubt that Ryuko would cooperate and not even Inumuta could locate his location. Although, Innumuta informed her about the robbery of food and stuff from the 2-Star disctricst, and thinking that Joker was behind the stealing was pretty obvious. She knew that Kurusu was not only a powerhouse, but also a good strategist. Even she feared that he and his band of bandits would ruin her new project.
The doors of the elevator opened, revealing a new day for her and her ambition.
The Elite Trio and even Iori were standing and waiting for her speech and announcement and every single student from No-Star to Two-Star were all gathered on the courtyard for her announcement.
HEEL CLICK
"Today, we embark on a complete overhaul of the Student Council. If you participate, You'll have free range to attack your peers. There are no restrictions on weapons or tactics. Those who survive will meet here in 7 days. These survivors will then fight to claim their social standing! A fight, for change! An election, In the form of a battle royale!" Satsuki shouted out about her Natural Elections.
"Elections my ass…" Ryuko muttered a bit angry.
"Unlike traditional elections, you will not choose someone to represent you. You, will represent yourself, your status, your strength, your way of life! In 7 days at 8:30 A.M. The survivors who have assembled here, will have a sudden death run-off!"
The faces of all Students then turn into ones of malice and darkness when hearing that all rules shall be broken.
"And, if you emerge victorious, I shall not only grant you a Brand-New S.M.T. Three-Star Goku Uniform I, but the winner shall become part of the Elite 4!" Satsuki announced out, without forgetting something more important. "Before you start, you must know that certain students have recently defected Honnouji Academy!" Satsuki told everyone while Inumuta showed a hologram of Wanted posters of Tsumugu, Sanageyama, Hakodate, Morgana and Akira who had the highest bounty and also said "Only Alive". "The Student Council has recently placed Wanted signs of the criminals that threat the order and prosperity of Honnouji Academy. If you manage to capture or neutralize the following pigs, I shall raise you to the highest status. But, if you miraculously capture Akira Kurusu, I shall make you Vice-President of the Student Council!" Satsuki exclaimed, motivating the students into going against Kurusu.
Satsuki then proceed to slam her Bakuzan on the ground. "Now! Students of Honnouji Academy! FIGHT!"
When the Student Council President gave the green light, all of the students start to murder eachother. One-Stars pulling punches against One-Stars, No-Stars murdering everyone with really questionable weapons, Club Presidents breaking necks of other Club Presidents, classrooms being fully annihilated, Students ganging up against Two-Stars, a lot of property being destroyed into an unfixable state, it was total chaos and anarchy.
"Begin, Iori…" Satsuki ordered her sewer into deploying her shield to protect herself in the top of Honnouji.
"Yes milady. Activating the Life Fiber high-velocity jam emitter!" The President of the Sewing Club activated a Life Fiber shield, protecting her, Soroi and Iori from the anarchy that is happening.
"That cocoon is made out of finely made-up Life Fibers. Rotating into a hundred meters per second. You can stab it, shoot it, nuke it, that damn thing is pretty much impenetrable." Mikisugi told Matoi and Mako from Class K while the tomboy tried to defend herself from the students who were to attack her. Even with Senketsu's help, I doubt that it would help you break through that cocoon."
"I though that this would be the time that I could finally get her, but no! She just had to sit there and watching in her bubble!" Ryuko fumed out while fighting the One-Stars. It was a full blood-bath.
"It's all part of her plan. She rules this place with an iron fist. It was obvious that she would do this on desperation once Akira declared war on her. So, she forced everyone to kill themselves in order to sort the strong from the weak. See?" Mikisugi pointed out at all the organs and blood spilling out on the courtyard with One-Stars chopped in half, No-Stars losing their heads or getting their spines broken.
While with the Elite Trio, they're having a breeze taking care of the opposition, if them walking so casually and smacking everyone who dared to challenged them wasn't obvious, I don't know any other reason. "I still don't fully get it! Why does Lady Satsuki broke the system she carefully built over 3 years? She always takes thing to the extreme." Inumuta asked after defeating a Two-Star.
"Tear it down and build it back up. That's Lady Satsuki in a nutshell." Nonon who knew Satsuki the most replied. "Whathevs, at least she's gives us some excuse for some down-time."
"Good idea." Gamagori contested. "I think I'll take a few days off." Gamagori then showed a car key on his hand. "See you next week, and don't let Kurusu defeat you before you can make it." Gamagori said his regards before going away to who knows.
"How odd… Is it me, or did I heard a car key?" Inumuta asked.
"Neh… He just recently got his driver's license. Lady Satsuki needed a chauffeur, so he told him he would do it." Jakuzure explained why of the car key sound.
"How odd… I thought that you didn't needed a driver's license here at Honno City, but I must admit that his loyalty is impressive." The brains of the Elite Trio commented.
"Alright, see you in 7 days doggy. I seriously doubt that any of us suck so bad to not make it." Nonon mocked Hokuta while getting out alongside the others while leaving behind a mountain of Student corpses.
Chaos continued to happen in Honno City. Without the Disciplinary Committee or Satsuki applying punishments, the full island has become lawless. No-Stars started to loot shops from the 2-Star districts, One-Stars began to demolish the 1-Star condos for their entertainment and the 2-Stars were destroying good parts of the slums.
We see a No-Star with a shotgun running from a gang of 6 One-Stars who were ganging to kill him. The No-Star then tripped from a rock, leaving him open for the evil One-Stars to pummel him.
"Well, well, well… Looks like the prey tried to hopelessly escape its destiny." One of the One-Stars taunted the boy while cracking his knuckles.
"It's a shame that prey will always be prey, no matter how much they resist the hunter's power." A female One-Star laughed while looking at the boy squirming.
The No-Star didn't though it twice before pulling the trigger of his Shotgun, but the bullet didn't do anything to the One-Star.
"Are you dumb or something? Bullets are worthless against Goku Uniforms!" Another One-Star chuckled as he and the other were about to gang up and beat the ever living shit out of the No-Star.
"The how about this!?"
BANG!
One of the One-Stars got hit by a single Needle on a weak spot, paralyzing the One-Star and make him fall to the floor.
"What the!? They took out George!?" A One-Star shrieked in panic on seeing his comrade being assaulted by one of Nudist Beach's preferred weapons. "It's the Anti-Uniform Guerilla! Everyone, on your positions!" A One-Stars ordered his companions as the 4 made a battle pose. "Attention! We as Soldiers of Honnouji Academy won't go down against naked apes like you! There's a price for your head, so give in and face the consequences of opposing the might of Honnouji Academy!"
"Ha! How naïve of you thinking that the guerilla was assaulting you. Don't you recognize my voice, perhaps?" The familiar voice reminded the group of mooks who was, before more needles strike the lights around the student.
"Wait, that voice, that cockiness! Shit, shit, shit, shit!" The One-Star started to panic as a spotlight flashed where Joker and Mona were.
"We're the robbers of the twisted desires!" Morgana exclaimed while doing a dramatic pose.
"We're the guardian demons of those who seek freedom and justice!" Joker shouted out, showing a black glove on his left hand and a needle-gun in the shape of his usual gun.
"You may wonder, who we are, don't you?" Morgana teased the One-Stars while summoning Mercurius to intimidate them.
"It's simple, my fellow classmates." Akira did the same by summoning Raoul.
"We're the Phamton Thieves of Hearts! Here to steal your heart!" Both thieves exclaimed as then jumped from the roofs they were standing and engage the students.
"U-uh… Y-you're those traitors to Honnouji Academy!" The poor No-Star shrieked out, seeing how these delinquents saved his butt.
"No time for questions. Just sit back, and enjoy the show!" Morgana winked at the No-Star before engaging the One-Stars. "It's Showtime!" Morgana exclaimed Kurusu's catchphrase before starting to fight Stasuki's henchmen.
"Don't stand there, CHARGE!" A One-Star cried out, initiating the battle.
"Then charge this!" Joker launched his grappling hook against the One-Star, but he managed to dodge it.
"Ha! Seems you failed!" The One-Star was full of himself, thinking that Kurusu missed his target.
"You know that a good thief always, IMPROVISE!" Akira exclaimed, pulling his hook that managed to grab a wood crate and in result, it hit the One-Star on the head and knocking him down.
"One down, 4 more to go!" Morgana exclaimed in joy before being ambushed by a No-Star hopelessly trying to capture him, but his face would soon meet a boxing glove due to Mercurius' Miracle Punch.
"I got you now!" A One-Star shouted while charging with a flying kick, but Joker smiled before doing a back flick high-jump, with Mara ramming the One-Star with his chariot.
"Not even in your dreams pal." Akira teased the knocked-out One-Star.
There was still one enemy left, but he seem confident, like really confident. "Ehehehe! Funny, isn't it, dessertor? Because that dream's about to become reality once I deliver you to Lady Satsuki with THIS!?" The One-Star cried while the other one whistled, causing an Udentified Flying Angel to descend where the One-Star was, not before leaving a trail of bullets.
The Shadow in the form of an angel seem to bare resemblance to a medieval knight of a crusade. And the most bizarre part is that it had jet engines on its behind and wielded 2 GODDAMN GUNS!
"ANALYZING AREA. SCANNING, SCANNING… SCANNING COMPLETE! 2 HONNOUJI STUDETNS OF THE ONE-STAR RANK AND 2 THIEVES. ATTENTION ENEMY TO HONNOUJI, IN THE NAME OF LADY SATSUKI AND EVERYTHING THAT YHVH STANDS FOR, THOU SHALL BE TERNIMATED!" The mechanical angel exclaimed on a robotic voice as it trigger its guns, liberating Life Fiber bullets against the Phantom Thieves, causing them to scatter.
"Yeah! Terminte them, Terminator!" The One-Stars started to cheer for the Life Fiber Shadow as it continued to attack with lighting bolts and blessing skills.
"What the!? What kind of Shadow is that!?" Joker shrieked as he dodged 2 pillars of light by ping passing them as if they were red lasers.
"I don't know, Joker! I've never seen this Shadow before! Maybe Satsuki's twisted desires were so strong, it brought or even created these shadows! Or maybe it's the result of watching too many Hollywood movies" Morgana exclaimed while hiding on a wooden crate, before shooting a bomb out of his slingshot at the Terminator, causing it's armor to be damaged.
"DAMAGE SUSTAINED! LEFT WING HAS A MALFUNCTION! ERROR 404! BALANCE HAS BEEN DAMAGED, REPAIRMENTS ARE NECCESARY!" The mechanical angel shouted out as his head started to uncontrobably spin and his jet-pack initiated to not work well.
"Then how about a re-charge of energy with this! ZIODYNE!"" Joker called the god of thunder Thor who unleashed a straight beam of lightnings against the Shadows, resulting in asserting on its weakness.
"ERROR! ERROR! I AM ERROR! CORE HAS REACH AN OVERHEATING STATE! HAS STOPPED WORKING! PRAISE YHVH, SHUTTING DOWN…" Terminator announced before exploding and liberating that black and red goo.
"I-it doesn't matter! W-we still are standing s-strong!" A One-Star frightfully stammered while he and the other one tried to look tough.
Joker stood still, and with his usual grin. He just looked at the top of a building where Omiko Hakodate who wore the Nudist Beach uniform was holding a Bazooka, aiming it at the One-Stars.
"Lock on! FIRE!" Hakodate cried as she pulled the trigger of her bazooka, impacting against the One-Star on a colorful explosion, leaving them dizzy.
"They're stun! It's time, Morgana!" Joker ordered Morgana to pull out his weapon.
The cat gratefully nodded as both Phantom Thieves raised their weapons. Rather than being the usual ones, Joker and Morgana had versions of their weapons, each one with 3 blades attached for each one. They were dubbed the Tailor's Dagger and the Tailor's Saber each one respectively.
"All Out Attack!" Both shouted out before hacking and slashing on such speed against the One-Stars just how they do it with Shadows back at their world.
Morgana descended and landed on a couch, holding a cigarre, and just when he turned his chair around…
"Mission Accomplished!" The cat exclaimed, causing the One-Star's Goku Uniforms to be destroyed in a same fashion Ryuko's Scissor Blade does it, causing Satsuki's goons to be naked and unconscious.
Results:
EXP: 700
Yens: 900
Item: Life Fiber leftovers X5
The thieves smiled after a successful battle. "Alright, it's safe now."
The No-Star got up terrified. He still couldn't believe that Satsuki's arch-enemy could save his life. What was his motive? And he proceed to ask that same question to Joker.
"It's quite simple. We saw you being hunted by One-Stars. Honno has become Chaos incarnate just for Satsuki Kiryuin to filter her most powerful troops amongst the school, and she won't care what the hell happened to any of the Low-Rank students." Morgana explained the situation to the student as clear as he could.
"If you don't think you can survive the following week, then take my hand." Joker reach out to the Student in case he wanted safety under the Phantom Thieves' capes until the end of the Natural Elections.
The No-Star didn't had any other way. He acknowledged how weak he was compared to the students with Goku Uniforms, and his shotgun would barely scratch them. He hold Joker's hand and exclaimed he wanted to be safe.
"So the contract has been signed…" The Phantom Thief whispered before summoning Raoul to use Phantom Show, causing the student to get drowsy and fall under a deep slumber.
When the No-Star woke up, he saw that he was lying on some kind of cheap futon. He also noticed that he wasn't on the slums anymore. Rather, inside Honnouji's sewers, at least that's what he thinks. The weird part is that the smell of the place was rather "normal" instead of the supreme stinks sewers produce.
"Welcome to your new temporal home. Don't worry, there aren't any rats around here. We fumigated last week." Morgana who brought the No-Star a rice ball answered the student question.
The No-Star quickly grabbed the rice ball the cat was carrying and ate it. Ever since the Natural Elections started, students had it difficult to nourish themselves without being taken advantaged by other students. "So it this some sort of hidden base of sorts?" The No-Star asked the cat on a casual way while eating his rice ball.
"Yup, it's a temporally base of operation for us. We call it, the Thieves' Den." The burglar cat told the No-Star. "By the way, seems someone here was dying to see you." Morgana pointed at a female No-Star who ran to hug the male No-Star.
"S-sakura?" The No-Star gasped at seeing her girlfriend was fine and in one piece. He thought that when the Natural Elections initiated, he though that Sakura would be dead for the count.
"Yamato! You idiot! I though I lost you forever!" The girl exclaimed while ejecting a sea of tears from her eyes. She was happy knowing that her lover was safe.
Morgana just smiled and left the lovers alone.
Back at a room of the Thieves' den that consisted of another part of the sewer, only being a bit bigger than the first one, the band of thieves and Omiko were relaxing on a worn-out sofa they found on the slums' dumpster. In fact, most of the furniture on that room was mostly either stolen furniture from the 2-Stars districts and trash on the slums.
"Urgh… just, geez! Just how do these people fight with these on!? I guess is kinda flexible, but how can you survive cold temperatures with these things?" Hakodate who was laying on the sofa after a day in the job of a new member of Nudist Beach panted while drinking a bottle of fresh water.
"There are 2 things you must know. 1: That's how Nudist Beach works by stripping ourselves from any sort of clothing to prove our opposition to the Life Fibers. 2: If you don't like the uniform, grab that fat ass of yours and get the hell out." Tsumugu who was lying his back on a dark corner snarled at the former Club President. Ever since Honnouji put a price on its head, he was constantly being hunt down by not only students, but also citizens as well. Mikisugi forced him to refuge himself alongside Joker and his band of rebels in order to be more closer to enemy's territory and without being noticed.
"Well, it's kinda understandable when a high-school girl like Hakodate needs to wear such a ehh… "Peculiar!" outfit." Akira added out.
"Ehhh… umm… I'm actually 19 years old…" Hakodate revealed her age a bit embarrassed. She tried to hide that someone so old for a Third Year Highschooler would still be there.
"Still, why do you even bother in saving these brats? It doesn't matter if they're just doods, they're still enemies to our cause. They can snitch our location at any moment, you know?" Tsumugu questioned Joker's actions about helping the students of Honnouji Academy.
"it's quite simple, Tsumugu-san, here are 2 reasons. 1: No-Stars are not our enemies. They're victims of the system the Kiryuin has forced upon us, I'm trying my best to save them from it." Joker explained his motives to the nudist while sitting on a chair nearby. This wasn't a Palace of the Metaverse, Honnouji Academy was a real torture castle with extreme methods. If the No-Stars were just cognitive people, he wouldn't mind, but they are real people made out of flesh and bones who were being brutally abused. "2: If they were to snitch us out, they just wouldn't. they fear me, even when I hate it…"
"Tch… You're a lot of things Kurusu, but a naïve and yet brave soul is something I at least appreciate. You're as much as a goody two-shoes as Aikuro." Tsumugu grunted before lighting up a cigarette. "So anyway, ant news on the green haired monkey?"
"Oh, about Sanageyama… He told me that he was patrolling the One-Star apartments in search of Shadows. I gave him orders to not engage in combat with them, it's not that I consider him weak, it's just that Shadows are in another level." Joker muttered, hoping that Uzu hasn't done anything stupid yet.
That's when Mikisugi entered the room with his teacher alter-ego. "Yawn… Well, guess I arrive late, I see…" The teacher sighted while rubbing his blue hair.
"Tch… there's no need for you to keep acting. It's annoying for me." Tsumugu fumed at his leader for his tendencies.
"Geez, still looking at the bad things at life, don't you Tsumugu?" Mikisugi teased the nudist while removing his glasses and some buttons of his shirts.
"I almost forgot; we must thank you for presenting us this hidden part of Honno. We didn't want to live with the Mankanshokus anymore since we didn't want to envelop Mako, her family and Ryuko on our thievery. And also, these new weapons you provide us with are quite useful. What are you? Part-time weaponsmith?" Morgana thanked the leader of Nudist Beach for giving them a home to stay on a sassy way.
"No need to. I initially built this place in case my teacher façade got uncover and I would need a hiding spot. That's why for 3 straight years, I blew my teacher's payment on building this tunnels." Aikuro affirmed the Phantom Thieves. "But, since I know you need a hideout the most, I'm gladly giving you the ownership of this sewer part. And I don't even mind the company of the No-Stars here. You sure have a good heart taking your time rescuing all those students. And I must say, you 2 sure know how to use those Anti-Life Fiber weapons, including your modified Needle Gun." Mikisugi complimented Joker, even he must admit that he was a bit jealous…
"Thanks, Mikisugi-Sensei." Akira replied back.
"No need to be so formal, you can just either call me Boss or just Mikisugi. After all, you're no longer a student of Honnouji Academy, so I'm not your Sensei anymore."
"That reminds me, has Ogure managed to find a way to break that Life Fiber barrier?" Hakodate asked while still laying on the couch and playing with a tennis ball.
"Yeah, I heard you!" The infamous and former trap designer walked by now wearing the Nudist Beach Uniform.
"So, did you thought about something?" Akira asked his new confidant of the Wheel of Fortune. Ever since he allied himself with Nudist Beach, he was able to form a bond with his former enemy. But she's still mad about what happened in No-Tardies day.
"I just can't think on anything! Satsuki Kiryuin is being protected by a barrier of Life Fiber spinning around who know how fast! If you touch it, you'll be shredded like paper on a paper shredder." Maiko reaffirmed to the group.
"Typical of Satsuki, she fully knew well that once she started all this crap, most students would rally against her and dethrone her. So she decided to stay on that bubble like some kind of coward animal." Tsumugu grunted about Satsuki's scheme.
"Shit! That reminds me! Are Mako and Ryuko alright?" Akira asked Mikisugi, showing a lot of concern about if Mako and Matoi were safe out there from the civil war that was happening among students.
"Relax. Mankanshoku told me that she would just stay on her home with her family at the slums for the whole week. Well, it was what she told me, but she could leave her home at any moment, you know how unpredictable Mako is. As for Ryuko, I think she can take care of herself with her Scissor Blade and Dr. Matoi's Kamui." Mikisugi just hoped that Matoi hasn't become a giant target for the rest of the participant of the Natural Elections.
"So yeah, what's the next plan? Do we infiltrate Honnouji Academy with every noisy teenage brat there being too busy killing each other?" Asked Tsumugu who was loading his needle gun.
"It won't do, Tsumugu. I know Honnouji's Security as any other. I'm sure that she at least hired elite security guards with the money of the Kiryuin Conglomerate until the Natural Elections are over. Not to mention her new troops of her army patrolling Honno City." Ogure then showed from a tablet the recording of the video-cameras of Honno City the Life Fiber-Infused Shadows holding the Wanted signs of the members of Nudist Beach and searching where they are. "I've managed to get the recordings out of the cameras all around Honno."
"And we can't forget those assholes of the Elite Trio being out there, mostly trying to find us. These Honnouji kids are just like lap dogs..." Tsumugu sighted in frustration while putting another cigarette on his mouth.
"No need to worry about the Elite Trio. I've managed to discover that they will be mostly apathic on the Natural Elections. It's normal that those bastards who are full of themselves decide to just take a vacation If they know they're really strong among the school's circle." That's what Mikisugi thought off.
"And even still, with Mr. Son Goku doing who knows, how are we exactly are we going to solve that barrier problem? After all, if we capture Satsuki, we have a major advantage." Hakodate added to the conversation.
And that's when Mikisugi's lightbulb of ideas flashed. "Now that I think about it, maybe here at Nudist Beach won't have any gadget, but I'm sure Dr. Matoi has something."
"What are you thinking about? Do I need to remind you that Isshin is no longer with us?" Tsmugu still tried to not think about his old days as a researcher of Life Fibers.
"What I mean is that maybe all of his inventions and investigations wouldn't haven been destroyed once that tragic night." Mikisugi then turned where Akira and Morgana were. "You see, Dr. Matoi had an underground laboratory under the Matoi's residence. He used to create Anti-Life Fiber technology like the Scissor Blades and the weapons Nudist Beach uses to combat the Kiryuin's forces. Maybe there's something on his own lab capable of taking down that barrier that Satsuki is using." Aikuro then pulled out a small map where Ryuko's old home was ubicated. "These are the locations where the remains of Matoi's home. It is located outside Honno city. By the way, you better put this on." Mikisugi then gave Joker a biker helmet that could hide his face.
"Wait, I know what you're going to give me right know." Joker already knew the leader of Nudist Beach's gift.
"Huh… Seems you're good at superstitions. There's a bike out there and its all yours. Although, I recommend you to change some clothes and put on a jacket until you're out of Honnouji Academy. I know that you're strong and all, but your mere face could bring a lot of unwanted attention." Mikisugi then handed over a black rain coat to Kurusu. "But make sure to check the deadline. We only have 11 days until Honnouji employ its Tri-City School Raid Trip against the Kansai Region, but the day after that will be the Cultural and Sports festival, its where the Kiryuins shall put their more complex plans for humanity's enslavement into motion."
"In other words, it will be Game Over for all of us. And there won't be any arcade coins to give us a continue or an extra life. So its either defeat Satsuki and Ragyo or die." Tsumugu told Joker about the consequences if they don't stop Satsuki's scheme in time.
So in other words, Joker and Morgana now have a deadline to fulfil, just like back on their world.
Days Until
The Cultural and Sports Festival: 13
Crush Satsuki's Ambitions
「Find a way to break the Life Fiber Barrier protecting Satsuki」
Akira turned off his Phantom Thief mode, causing his clothes to turn back into his more casual wear. He then put on the coat and the helmet. "I'll be back for Christmas. Morgana, stay here to attend the No-Stars!" He called his feline friend before going where Mikisugi parked his brand-new bike. He maybe not have a license to drive, but he can at least drive decently a vehicle due to videogames.
Still, Tsumugu felt unsure about something… He was still frowning with his eyes closed…
"Hey, is something bothering you? I know that this dilemma with Satsuki and the Life Fibers can cause a lot of stress, but you can tell me everything." The Phantom Thief cat asked his fellow comrade.
"Don't know… With Honnouji Academy trying to find ways to obtain Akira's power, I'm not sure if our advantage against Ragyo will last forever. Ms. Eyebrows will inevitably find a way using those things one way or another…"
Back at Honnouji Academy's Sewing Laboratory, Iori was on a control panel of a special crystal chamber where the Goku Uniforms are infused with liquid Persona Fragments using tubes with stingers and special stitching machines. Right now, Satsuki ordered him to infuse Junketsu with Persona Fragment, and there it was. The Kamui inside the chamber was tied to a metallic table and hopelessly trying to get out, but without any success. The only thing Iori needs is the fat fish's permittion in order to proceed with the infusion, and he was still worried that this could endanger the Kiryuin's life.
Satsuki then arrived from the fast door of her chamber where it connects to the Sewing Club's laboratory while reading an ancient book about the Kamuis her ancestors heritage her with. "Is it ready Iori?" The ruler of Honno wanted to know if all the preparations are complete.
"Yes Lady Satsuki. Junketsu was successfully translated to the S.M.T. Goku Uniform chamber, ready to be infused with Persona Fragments.
"Excellent. And about the S.M.T. Goku Uniforms, are there ready for mass production?" Satsuki added to the conversation, to know if her new life of Uniforms are ready for battle.
"We're almost finished the development of fully-stabilized S.M.T. Goku Uniforms. With the data Mankanshoku provide us, we managed to point out the flaws of the Uniform. For now on, we're planning into infusing small quantities of Persona Fragments into the Life Fibers of the Goku Uniforms, so our soldiers don't suffer a "Shadowfication" as I like to refer to, but if more data is collected during the Natural Elecctions, then the S.M.T. Uniforms will finally be finished. I'll assure you Lady Satsuki, I'll have your new line of Uniforms ready before the Tri-City School Raid Trip." The Emperor reassured the feme fatale about the development of the new and more powerful Goku Uniforms, before looking directly at Junketsu's eyes. "Although, are you still sure to proceed with the infusion? It seems that Junketsu has drastically affected your mental health. Ever since you donning Junketsu, you seem to act more savage and reckless, it almost remind me of Matoi. But don't get me wrong, I will still follow any order you give me without hesitation."
"Don't hold back, Iori. Kurusu has become our enemy for now, and if I want to submit him to my side, I need to overpower him, even if it risks my life. After all, power is everything on this world. If you don't have enough power, you die. So don't hesitate and begin at once!" The Kiryuin ordered her sewer to initiate the Kamui's transfusion of Persona energy.
"Y-yes Milady." Iori replied before swallowing some of his saliva. It was one of those rare occasions where Iori wasn't confident about his next invention. Even when one of his creations fails, he always takes it as a good thing since it allows him to evolve the development of his masterpieces. But if the Infusion fails, not only it will cause grave consequences for Junketsu, but for Satsuki too. "Initiating infusion. 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%."
The hoses then pumped that liquid Persona Fragment into the Kamui, causing its eyes to bulge and become more violent. But he was not the only one suffering the effects of the infusion, but Satsuki Kiryuin as well as she began to squirm and cry out of pain due to her negative impulses, with her eyes twitching that golden yellow color.
"Lady Satsuki!" Iori and the rest of the One-Stars went to Satsuki's aid as the Student Council President tried to resist her inner darkness trying to take control of her.
"D-don't c-come! P-pROc-cEEd WiTH tHe INFUSION!" The Kiryuin exclaimed with a demonic voice while holding her head, screaming out of the agony as she sweat like crazy.
"Lady Satsuki! We must shut down the infusion before we lose you! This is too much for you!" Iori wanted to reason with his master, but it seems that her iron will seems to overpower her darker side.
"Don't hesitate AND FINISH YOUR TASK, GODDAMIT!" Satsuki roared out before releasing an explosion of dark and blue energy all around her, causing the One-Stars to be blown away.
The words the matriarch gave the sewer made him realize that Satsuki was still in control, although he's still as worried for Satsuki's health and how the use of Junketsu could alter her mind. "Understand, Lady Satsuki…" Iori went back to the control panel and continued to fuel Junketsu with Persona juice. "Continuing with the infusion! 60%, 70%, 80%!"
But when it was about to hit 90%, the machines all around the Sewing Club started to overheat, showing a WARNING spot on their screens, forcing the entire club to shut down the computers before they explode.
After that, both Satsuki and Junketsu managed to calm down with the empress of Honno laying on the floor.
"Lady Satsuki, we finished the infusion. Although, it will take us time to stabilize the Kamui in order to adapt its Life Fibers to the Persona Fragments. We also discovered that somehow you and Junketsu have linked in some way, hence why the sudden impulses. Please, I beg you, don't put Junketsu during this whole week until you feel better." Iori bent where Satsuki was in order to give her the news.
"Th-thanks for your advice Iori… I'll take that in mind… make sure your team has absolute carefulness with Junketsu. The Kamui tends to act on a savage way…" Muttered Satsuki while crawling to her room. To think that she is now linked to that monster of a Kamui made her want to puke. "Just tell me when Junketsu is stable enough. I-I want to train more if I want to defeat Kurusu. And also, if I can achieve a certain form with a Kamui… But to do that, i need you to make me a dress, Iori."
Both Ryuko and Mako arrived at the Tomboy's old home. It was all burnt out and destroyed, as if a fire enveloped the entire thing out.
"Where are we?" Mako asked with awe and confusion.
"My dad's place." Ryuko replied immediately.
"No way! This dump? Then I guess you're poor just like me!" Mako theorized, making her bond with Ryuko even stronger.
"No, I didn't live here when it was just like this." Ryuko reaffirmed the state of her house. "It used to be a really nice mansion before it got burned out." She said while walking toward her former home.
"Oh, it was? WAIT! Does that mean you're loaded!?" Mankanshoku gasped by just hearing the word mansion. Seems that she still has a great interest in money.
"No, of course not." Ryuko told Mako before proceeding into explaining her backstory like how she told Akira when both became great friends.
"They were times I hated the old man for preferring his research over his only daughter, but his death was a wake-up call for me. Cuz' I realized, I didn't really know anything about him." Ryuko muttered before stabbing her Scissor Blade on the ground. "And I decided here and then, I will find out who kill him and why. I'm not avenging him, i-I just want answers. Who is my dad? Why did he created this Scissor Blade and Nudist Beach, but most importantly, I want to know the meaning of your existence, Senketsu…" Ryuko then hold her Kamui to show the importance she has over Senketsu.
"I appreciate the words Ryuko, but seems that you, Mako and me weren't the only ones who came back home." Senketsu then looked at Kurusu's bike parked nearby.
"What the hell…?" Ryuko gasped when she noticed the same bike. She then activated her Kamui to transform and picked up her weapon. "Mako, don't move where you stand. If you see someone, scream at the top of your lungs, okay?" Ryuko ordered her best friend as she slowly approached the mysterious vehicle.
"Don't worry Ryuko, I'll sit here as if it was the last time I would do it!" Mako exclaimed with enthusiasm, humming a happy melody while waiting.
Ryuko then inspected the vehicle. She then noticed a black sticker on a part of the bike. When she pull the sticker off, it revealed the symbol of Nudist Beach.
"Those goddamn assholes! Can those freakin' creeps just leave me in peace for once?" Ryuko snarled in frustration. It seems that she can't catch a break.
"Wait Ryuko! Something smells off…" Senketsu started to sniff the bike. It seems the motor has that odor when recently turns off. "I can still smell the gas out of the motor. Someone must be here."
"Hey Ryuko, I don't mean to bother you, but did you had some kind of pet monster here?" Mako asked her friend by pointing a trail of footprints to the same secret entrance when she fell off and found Senketsu.
This proven that someone here must be searching for something in her dad's old lab. "Mako, stand back for a moment." Ryuko ordered her friend again as she stabbed her Scissor Blade on the ground, causing the platform where the 2 were standing to fall off and creating a hole to Isshin's secret laboratory.
"Hmmm… There's nothing in here…" Ryuko still doubted the exstance of someone here lurking between the mountains of sailor uniforms.
She then heard footsteps coming closer, and closer…
"I finally got you, ya' naked asshole…?" Ryuko couldn't believe that from all people who snuk here, it would be Akira on his thief attire, her long lost friend.
"R-ryuko…?" Akira gasped at the awe of his old friend.
"W-wha…? F-fuzzy hair!?" Ryuko was about to release tears, but she tried to resist the urge.
Akira was about to say something to her, but he got taken down to a pile of School Uniforms by a slap coming from Matoi.
"Why!? Why the fuck did you abandon me like that!? What's wrong with you!?" Ryuko demanded answers about the whole situation. She normally tends to just beat the shit out of people, but punching a good friend to a pulp could prove to be really difficult. "Just what the hell are you!?"
Akira rubbed his cheek before standing up. "It's classified…" He muttered while crossing his arms.. he hated hiding things to his most trusted people, but it was necessary to the situation.
"Classified? CLASSIFIED!? Who the hell do you think I am!? First you show up to save my ass, then you reveal that you have some kind of magic ghost thing, then these goddamn Shadows appear out of thin-air that oh look, you seem to have knowledge about those assholes, then you gain a new outfit and now you declare war toward Satsuki?" Ryuko listed the things that were still unclear to her about Kurusu's mysteries. "And don't get me that "Oh, I'm all mysterious and all that shit!" You're now working for those creepy stalkers of Nudist Beach to peek me, don't you ,pervert!?"
Joker was silent for a moment before confessing about what's going on. "I don't want to tell you because I want to protect you!"
"Protect us? What the hell don you even mean!? You know fully well that me and Senketsu are strong enough to slice Satsuki's ass into tiny pieces! We both want the same thing, don't we!? Do I even have to remind you that when you banished out of thin air, I had to endure your whole week disappearance all by myself? I had to beat the crap out the rest of Honnouji creeps that keep coming at me! If you really want to protect me, then why didn't you help me those times then!?"
"It's not that simple! Just listen to me at least this time! Senketsu, you can at least calm down Ryuko just for this once! Satsuki's underlings are the least of your problems if you ask me..."
Senketsu sighted for a moment. Ren wanted to confess something really important to her, but Matoi's stubborn attitude sometimes. "I think that you should hear Kurusu for a moment, Ryuko. I know you feel frustrated and confused, but I'll assure you that this solution will be better rather than engaging on a pointless fight." The Kamui advised Ryuko to not start a fight with the trickster. (That, and I felt too lazy to write the whole battle.)
"Fine… But you know we want to push down that Satsuki Kiryuin out of her throne, right?" Ryuko told Kurusu in hopes of him coming back to her.
"But this isn't about a grudge I have against Satsuki! We're declaring a full war against the Kiryuins and the Life Fibers, for the sake of all those slaughtered, tormented and humiliated by them and their subordinates! Satsuki Kiryuin is a dangerous woman, and with me now as her enemy, she will get as strong as or even stronger than me, one way or another, so going against her now unprepared would just be suicide. I-i… didn't want any of you to be involved on any of this. I-I'm sorry, but we have to cut ties for now…" Kurusu then turn on his back to keep searching.
"Is that it…? That's why you abandoned us…?" Mako who managed to get down by a nearby rope sob in tears.
"Mako! I…" Kurusu felt something on his heart hurt when he discovered that Mako heard everything.
"Why did you abandon us Ren!? Why did you run away? When you went missing, mom, dad, me, Mataro and Guts were waiting you to return back at the slums! Heck, we even put a sanctuary for you waiting outside, with balloons and cake! I-I though that even if you weren't there, I though that we were still friends! You don't need to admit it, but whenever you like it or not, I still consider you my friend until you hurt Ryuko or my family! And I know you still are our friends, and friends support each other! So please, why did you want to cut ties!?" Mankanshoku was about to cry if Kurusu demonstrates if she still is her friend.
"I just want to protect you! I still love you 2, but you know how Honnouji Academy goes to the extremes whenever they want to achieve their goals! Ryuko, what would happened if Satsuki's Shadows would gang upon you? If that snake Shadow gave us a pain in the ass, imagine a whole army of those with even more power!." Akira bellowed out, almost as if he was also going to cry.
"Is it because of your old friends, isn't it?" Ryuko added to the discussion. "Look, I don't want to get all "Friendship is magic" and all that bullshit, but I think I understand why do you want to leave us behind. You don't want us to die, but death occurs to anyone. I would do the same, but right now, I'm enjoying Mako and you as friends, that of course if you still haven't rejected our friendship. Hey, we can still be friends even if we don't see more often."
"Since when you get all that philosophical?" Senketsu was surprised about hearing those words coming out of Ryuko's mouth.
Akira thought it for a bit. If Morgana was here, he would though it the same thing. And after Matoi admitted that she had a hard time dealing with Satsuki's troops. Not to mention that if they weren't for them, he couldn't come all this way up here. "Now that I think of it, I think you're right… I think I let my fears get the best out of me." Akira then holded both of the tomboy's hands. "when I crush the Kiryuin's empire once and for all, I'll promise you that I will find out who killed your dad."
"Well, it's not that much of a vendetta…" Ryuko replied, causing both Kurusu and Mako to gasp. "I, just want to know who he really is. Why did he created Senketsu and why did he doesn't talk to much about my mom…? I'm just… confused. Don't get me wrong, he's still my dad and well… my only parental figure…"
"It's okay. Life is full of mystery, and that's what makes it so interesting. I'm glad that you have a better reason rather than revenge. I'm sure the Kiryuin are keeping information about him, and we know how much of information hoarders are they." Kurusu then expressed how much Satsuki's family had that obsession of keeping the world's secrets up to themselves. "And I guess this is the place when you first met Senketsu, right?" He deduced by looking at the mountains of female uniforms, thinking that they could be failed attempts to create a Kamui.
"Yes. I just woke up here and that's all that I remember. That's until I met Ryuko." Senketsu told Akira how he first met the tomboy.
"And then tell me Mr. Fake Glasses, why the hell did you came here?" Ryuko asked with sarcasm.
"Oh yeah… About that. I was just looking for something that you father left that I could use to pierce that Life Fiber shield protecting her. If we capture her, we can easily kiss Honnouji Academy bye bye. I could easily say that if all the inventions and technologies down here weren't destroyed or burned out. Seems the killer planned it out on every field, I assume." Joker had to acknowledge that the dedication of whoever killed Dr. Matoi sure planned everything out. "Sorry for behaving like such an idiot. I guess the tragedy of my old friends got the best out of me." Akira then begged before Matoi. "Ryuko, Senketsu, please promise me that whenever I need help, you 2 can come to my aid, and also stay out of trouble. I know I sound a bit contradictory, but you know the deal."
"Neh, I don't make a promise on the second one, but you can count on the first one." Ryuko then fist bumped Akira as a sign of friendship.
"Good luck you 2, I'll catch you later." Kurusu sent his regards before disappearing like thin air.
"Geez, Fuzzy Hair sure is a weird fella…" Muttered Ryuko.
Ryuko and Mankanshoku were heading back to the slums by driving the scooter Barazo managed to adquire from a bike shop. Mako has already fallen asleep due to the long way they have to make to reach Honno.
"Well, that was a total waste of time. I was hoping that I could find clues, but it seems that there was just trash and rubble." Ryuko sighted in disappointment while driving her scooter.
"At least you know that Akira will be there when you most need him. If he's now working for Nudist Beach, there's a high chance that he could contact Mikisugi. I'm sure that he knows one thing or two." Senketsu proposed to his wearer.
"Maybe…" She doubted. But her train of thoughts would be cut short once the scooter stopped working.
"Well, that sucks. Seems dad got me a messed up scooter." Mako sighted while walking as Ryuko pushed the scooter.
"Nah, the gas is just busted, that's all." Matoi replied.
"Seems you need help." Akira's voice was heard from a distance as he arrived where the girl were on his bike, wearing his helmet.
"Ren! You came!" Mako went to hug the Phantom Thief out of joy. Seems that their reunion was pretty soon.
"Kind of convenient, don't you think? So anyways Fuzzy Hair, here for a hand?" Ryuko joked while Joker got down from his motorbike.
"Kinda. Seems that you 2 have trouble with your scooter I presume. Let me see…" Joker then took a good look at the scooter to see the problem.
"See Ryuko?" Mako grabbed Ryuko's attention. "You're not alone anymore In your life. You got a lot of people having your back like Senketsu and me and Ren and my family and even Mikisugi. They all love you and support you a lots and lots! You know they love you, and they will always stand for you for everything."
Ryuko had to acknowledge that. She felt the hole of her heart full for once.
Ren has deduced that maybe he could transfer some of the gasoline to the scooter, until he realized that his bike was almost going to run out of gas. "Well, this is quite the uncomfortable circumstance." He said awkwardly. He couldn't just left the girls because it would be a really big dick move.
"Oh, I know! Let's ask for a ride!" Mako exclaimed as she raised a sign out of nowhere where she was requesting for a ride to the slums.
Then, a nearby car rushed near, leaving trail of gas nearby the trio.
"Hey! Watch where you're driving jackass!" Ryuko cursed to the driver who ran nearby.
The mysterious driver then drove backwards revealing to be none other than the chair of the Disciplinary Committee himself, Ira Gamagori driving on a pink sports car.
"Gamagori! Mako, get back!" Both Ren and Ryuko step in front of their best friend as they prepared themselves if the former member of the Elite Trio would attack them.
"I have no intention to fight the both of you here. First for you Kurusu, I want to make sure that Lady Satsuki is the one who defeats you and those naked apes, also Matoi's face-off shall take place on the sudden death run-offs. Second, this is a public highway, and I don't want to put in danger civilians who pass by. And finally, it's my duty as chair of the Disciplinary Committee to aid those students in need that are off campus, even if it's you, Matoi. I also wanted to talk with you Akira, or Joker as they like you to know." Gamagori explained his intention. "So don't waste my time and get in."
"Hey! But I ca-"
"Woohoo! These seats are comfy! Is this a new car? It looks new!" Mako interrupted Ryuko out of her words while rolling and seemingly floating from the seats.
"You must admit, that this is quite a comfy ride." Kurusu admitted while seating in the co-pilot's seat.
Ryuko had no other choice but to get on the ride.
Gamagori was driving his car on the highway, with Mako singing a typical annoying road trip song.
"Can you make her stop that god-awful singing please, Matoi?" Gamagori asked Ryuko while still driving.
"Sorry big guy, but when she's on a roll, no one can stop her." Ryuko contested while looking at the nighttime at Honno city. Even on a chaotic city as Honno, the highway under the moonlight was quite calming.
"Heh! Seems that even red lights can't stop her." Kurusu joked while looking at the calming highway.
"That's right! Because the traffic signs of my life are always in yellow!" Mankanshoku contested with enthusiasm, making her stop singing.
"Hmm… Proceed with caution. Quite an odd, yet nice philosophy." Gamagori softly smiled after hearing that. there was something in Mako that made him have a small bias over her, and he still didn't knew why.
"Hey, I know this sounds a bit odd. But aren't you too old to be on high school? Seeems that someone like you would be on college or whatever." Akira was still intrigued about how someone like Gamagori would be on a high school.
"About that, when I swore my loyalty to Lady Satsuki, so I held back my studies for 2 years in order to graduate alongside her. In other words, I'm 20 years old, so I'm not that old." Gamagori replied to Joker's question. "By the way, I forgot to thank you about something…"
"Huh? About what?" The thief asked.
"Thank you for saving Mankanshoku from the dark path of the Two-Stars." The giant man thanked Ren for saving Mako from the Kiryuin's system.
This made both Matoi and Kurusu gasp. To think that Ira Gamagori, the most loyal minion to Satsuki Kiryuin, would thank Ren for foiling his master's plans.
"Don't get the wrong idea, I'm still loyal to Lady Satsuki, but about how Mako secretly resented us made me re-think my position as chair of the Disciplinary Committee. I always though that Mankanshoku just looked at the good side of things all of the time, but it was mostly a mask she put on… I thought that she could end up much worse if power took her over. I just can't imagine than a pure soul as Mako could become a heartless monster. I'm still wondering if… All of the No-Stars secretly hate me…" Gamagori was doubting his position as chair of the Disciplinary Committee.
"It's normal that they secretly resent you, Gamagori. Oppressed people tend to hold their hatred for themselves. If a dog who's master treats him like worthless crap has the chance to murder the master, the dog won't think it twice. If you catch my drift. That special Goku Uniform that Mako wore, seems that it made her Shadow-Self to take her over. Kinda weird that even if the Shadow still showed all that hatred Mako saved for herself, she showed traces that her soul wasn't rotten or corrupted and was Just, tormented… I'm still worried that the next set of Goku Uniforms will have that same flaw as that 2-Star Goku Uniform." Akira's mind couldn't stop thinking about the new Goku Uniforms powered by who knows of what Shadow Energy.
"Speaking of Shadows, I'm also must thank you for getting rid of a good batch of them. Even if Lady Satsuki is preparing an army of them, I must admit that I'm against the idea. And now with those "things" being infused by Life Fibers, it just makes me want to puke. Something tells me that those things will bring more harm to Honnouji Academy and our students than to our own enemies." Gamagori blurted while looking at the sky.
"No need to. Killing Shadows is just like a job for me." Kurusu joked about the whole Shadow issue that Honnouji is having. "Guess this make us friends, I think…"
"Don't get the wrong ideas Kurusu, we shall resume into being enemies once the sudden death run-offs end and the order on Honno is restored." Gamagori responded. "But, for a cocky and rebellious fellow, you seem to consider the others in need first rather than yourself, and I can admire that. Not to mention that if it wasn't for your services back then, not only would the Osaka spy would get away with one of our uniforms, but that 5-Star would have destroyed the entirety of Honnouji Academy. To be honest, you remind me of my early days in middle-school." Gamagori admitted that he had some sort of respect to Joker, even if their alignments are the exact opposite.
"Huh? What? Don't tell me, you were some kind of cocky criminal or something like that, don't you Gamagori?" The Phantom Thief smirked as he teased the burly man.
"I would never stain my dignity by going against the law. What I'm referring is how you act so selfless with others, inspiring them to become better in life…" Gamagori felt off, as if he was hiding some kind of grief.
"Gamagori… You seem off…" Mako pointed out looking worried for the man.
"I-it was n-nothing, Mankanshoku." Gamagori seem to just forget it, but rather than making the 3 passengers forget about what he is hiding, it made Ryuko and Akira's curiosity stronger.
"I know you're hiding something, Gamagori. It's okay to tell us. After all, we're just the 4 of us here." Kurusu tried to reason with the member of the Elite Trio.
"Hmph… And how do I know you won't use it against me when the time comes?" Gamagori questioned Akira' trust if having a therapy session with a criminal wasn't odd enough.
"Heh! Do I look like I could sink that low? Unless it serves to inspire of course." Kurusu replied out with a smirk.
"Speaking of which, how did you even met Satsuki in the first place? I mean, it's not like she came to your home one day and offer you the job." Ryuko asked the toad on a bit rude manner.
"Come on, Gamagori. Would you tell us? Pleaaaaaaaaase?" Mako asked really politely. She really wanted to know the backstory of the chair of the Disciplinary Committee.
For a tough guy as Gamagori, he couldn't negate a request to Mako. After all, he has a soft spot for the girl. "Fine then… but a curse upon you if you ever tell anyone else! Is that clear, Kurusu?" Gamagori narrowed at Akira's eyes in a sign of warning.
The Phantom Thief nodded in response.
"Well, hope you brought a snack or something." Gamagori sighted out before starting to tell his story. "It all began 5 years ago, at Rinne-Do Junior High School, at my days as the Student Council President…"
*Flashback*
A group of students were on the roof, seeing if a nerdy student had the guts to jump off a fence from the roof that prevents any type of falling down.
"Come on then, jump!" One of the students persuade the victim.
A female student by the name of Imagaware then chuckled. "You spilled milk on my skirt, ya clumsy dork!"
"B-But that was an accident! I swear!" The nerdy student stammered, trying to defend himself.
"That's why we're giving you a chance. You jump, and we're even." A male student named Hojo replied while the others had the cameras of their phones ready to record the fall.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?" Gamagori's voice echoed through the entire school, making the students look where he was. He was still tall and muscular for his age, but he had longer hair.
"Well, well, well… If it isn't our student council president. Hey! Why don't make yourself a favor and don't get involved?" Hojo spat at Gamagori's uniform in response.
"I have to do this Gamagori! Otherwise, they will fire my dad from their job!" The nerdy student exclaimed about why he was about to jump.
"Yeah! That piece of crap works at my old man's company." The snotty brat exclaimed on a boasting way.
"And my daddy is the chief of police of this town. And he's not gonna bust his little girl." Imagawa teased Gamagori, giving some clarification that the juridical system of the town wasn't all that pure.
"This is inhuman! No one deserves to be treated like this!" Ira snarled at the 2 spoiled brats. If he only knew how of a hypocrite he would become in the future…
"This isn't inhuman, Mr. goody two-shoes? He have the status and the power, so we have the shots. This world only has 1 rule: Survival of the meanest and fittest! If you don't like it, then go kill yourself." Hojo threw out the crude truth of this world.
"And if he dares to jump to save his daddy's job, then that means that he's being a good member of society." The girl gave an evil smirk to the student council president. "Well, get it over with and jump for once!" Imagawa persuaded the nerdy boy into jumping, making him tremble.
"You call yourself students of this school, and all you do is abuse the weak…?" Gamagori gritted his teeth in rage and clenched his fist. "Snotty brats like you, are the reason I exist! TO PROTECT THE WEAK FROM DEMONS LIKE YOU!" Gamagori roared before rushing his way onto saving his fellow student, with the other members of the gang trying to block his path, but his willpower seem to overpower the gang. "DON'T DO IT!" Gamagori then extended his hand to catch the student.
But it was already late…
The poor student jumped from the building, presumably he was dead the moment he hit the floor.
"NOOOO!" Gamagori cried out while the other students laughed. The student council president felt, empty… he felt that he failed his mission as student council president. The villain has won, and now, a fellow student is now dead. He didn't had no other choice, but to bent on his knees and being swallowed by the giant void that is despair.
"Hahaha! Now that what I call entertainment of pure comedy!" Hojo said while filming Gamagori's despair. "Go ahead! Keep acting like if you were superhero, but at Rinne-go Junior High, we make weak chumps like him do our bidding!"
Gamagori felt a giant grief on his chest and an accumulated rage on his insides. "GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" He screamed out as he started to cry out of disappointment of himself. He knew he couldn't forgive himself for letting those snotty brat get away from the unforgiving crime they did. He deserved a great punishment for this, a punishment for failing to save someone's life.
But the faces of those evil students would have a surprise shock when they saw the nerdy student, bouncing?
"What the hell…?" Gamagori's mind couldn't compute about how does a trampoline was conveniently placed there to save the student's life.
And that's when she showed up on hid life.
"The Kiryuin Trampoline has a nice spring to it, don't you agree, student council president Ira Gamagori?" The voice of Satsuki Kiryuin alone sent shivers down the spine of the students, but not for Gamagori. She was standing on a place higher from the students alongside her butler.
The soon-to-be chair of the Disciplinary Committee quickly snapped himself out of the trance and quickly grabbed the student from the trampoline.
"No! Let me die! If I don't do it, my dad will get fired!" Seems that the kid prioritized his dad's job rather than his own life. That's messed up on so many ways.
"You won't need to worry about that anymore." Satsuki declared out as Jakuzure came from her behind showing a contract. "For the Kiryuin have purchased that despicable company, and we latter shut it down in spite. You pigs think you're gods just because you cling up to your parental figures? Well, I'm afraid you're nothing more than false prophets compared to me."
"What? The Kiryuin? Who the hell are you? Ragyo Kiryuin's daughter or some shit like that? Seems that you crossed into the wrong school or something!" The Hojo shouted at the young Kiryuin, thinking that everything she was saying were just lies.
"Heh… Foolish teenagers… Thinking that they are always right, won't you agree, my dear daughter?"
"Yes, mother…" Satsuki, Jakuzure and Soroi then quickly kneel when they hear Ragyo's voice coming.
"Oh shit…" Imagawa quickly recognized the voice.
HEEL CLICK
From that rainbow light the kiryuins seem to emit, Ragyo who wore a female office suit resembling a COVERS stepped on alongside Rei from her behind.
"Good to see you, Auntie Ragyo." Jakuzure then greeted the Kiryuin matriarch and envoy of the Life Fibers who came from the door.
"Gah! R-ragyo Kiryuin…? CEO of the REVOCS c-corporation and the Kiryuin Conglomerate!? Shit! Shit!" Imagawa trembled in fear by looking at one of the most powerful women on the entire world.
"Huh… Seems that this pigs didn't knew who they were talking to. Forgive me into drag you into this, my daughter." Ragyo seem to apologize to her daughter on a calm and warm tone fit for a mother.
"No need to mother." Satsuki then stood up. Only Satsuki Kiryuin was allowed to stand up due to being a pure Kiryuin. "Speaking of which, if you're still In denial, here's the truth." Satsuki announced, making Hoomaru show a tablet with a contract about the Kiryuin Conglomerate totally absorbing the boy's dad's corporation.
And this, made Hojo grit his teeth in wrath. "WHY YOU!?" Hojo then rushed to attack Satsuki like a mad bull, but Rei quickly swing into action as she swiftly and quickly stopped the student and gave him a lethal hand chop on the neck, causing him to fall on the floor, possibly dead.
"Forgive me for stealing your kill Lady Satsuki, but as your mother's secretary, it's also my duty to secure your safety." Rei apologized to Satsuki while rearranging her glasses.
"No need for apologies, Hoomaru. In fact, I want to thank you for not making me waste my strength on such simpletons." Satsuki replied to the secretary.
"The sin of wrath… The sin of a human being fully consumed by desires of anger and revenge…" Ragyo muttered between her lips while watching the unconscious body of the student. "And do not worry my child, we made sure that your father would not be left unemployed. In fact, he has been given a job on the REVOCS corporation." The superior Kiryuin told the nerdy boy.
But Gamagori felt somewhat angered and frustrated at the Kiryuin's action. Even if that Hojo deserved a heavy punishment, he still thinks that death was too much. "Are you insane!? What kind of people are you to think that letting a fellow student hospitalized is okay!?"
Ira's complain then caught Ragyo's attention. "So… You must be Ira Gamagori, the student council of this school. Well, it won't be long until Satsuki dethrones you." Ragyo told Gamagori while slipping her fingers on his uniform. She felt disgusted by the natural fabric of the uniform rather than the pleasant Life Fibers that run on most clothing. Her plan for absolute domination that the Kiryuin have plotted over so many generations won't come in play unless all schools are under her control. "You really though that selflessness and virtues could convince those pigs to stop their ways? I think you're living on a fantasy world, my dear. If you want to maintain control and gain rule over the masses, it's either by 2 ways: Fear, or sin… You either make them fear you, or reward those ignorant fools with blissful sin. You want proof?" Ragyo then slowly pointed at the rest of students who were kneeling before the Kiryuins.
These words would mark Gamagori's future. Maybe he should have been stricter with others, as if they were prisoners, but he was still in doubt.
"But what makes your offspring any different from those bastards? She using your influence just like them!" Gamagori tried to counter the Kiryuins by comparing Satsuki with those bastards.
"To the contrary. Unlike those criminals, I don't cling off my dear mother because she has better and more important business rather than a petty argument about who parent beats the other's parent. I, like the Kiryuin, am different! Because no matter who's power it is, I will exploit it all to its fullest potential! I will not share it with anyone! I will take it, absorb it, steal it, and wield it as I see fit! Because this world belongs to the Kiryuin clan, and that's a truth of the world!" Satsuki's words made Ragyo cry tears of joy. Her precious Satsuki is now becoming a woman.
"What the hell do you mean?" Gamagori thought that was the most selfish speech he ever heard.
"It's simple, Ira Gamagori. Resolve is everything, and you seem to lack it. Without resolve, you couldn't even wipe away your own tears. No wonder a wimp like you is the student council president." Satsuki told Ira while Jakuzure opened the door the stairs. "Soroi, Jakuzure, Hoomaru, mother, we're done here. Let's go home."
"Right behind you Lady Satsuki. Hey Auntie Ragyo, can we pass to get some ice cream? I heard they're selling a cotton candy with cherry flavor." Nonon requested the Kiryuin.
"Of course my dear Jakuzure, you're just like the niece I never had after all." Ragyo then patted the girl on the head.
Gamagori was just there, staring… He felt that he has hit rock bottom.
*End of flashback*
"Geez… That's…" Joker was so surprised about how much Gamagori tried to save a student from suicide, it didn't made him come up with something in response. "But… you're not the only one who experienced something similar." Joker then told Gamagori about the Shiho incident and also about Kamoshida. Without the whole metaverse thing, of course.
"Hmm… at least I'm glad that bastard of a P.E. teacher got what he deserved… No student deserves such fate… Well, that's what I would say back when I was student council president of my school. But I'm telling you, stop being so selfless to others, otherwise, you'll end up on a terrible situation." Gamagori still tried to put some reason to Joker.
"Hey! speaking of which, you still don't told us why did you choose to become Satsuki's lap dog. I mean, you seem to be against her back then." Ryuko still looked intrigued about how Ira joined Satsuki.
"That's when I'm going, so don't get desperate Matoi." Gamagori reaffirmed to Ryuko. "It all started at my school's graduation… Unfortunately, I happen to discover the conspiracy of the Kiryuin to enslave humanity by buying out all the schools in Japan. It so happens that the kid I saved told me everything. After that, I received noticed that the kid just ended his life himself due to the Kiryuin blackmailing him. While the adults seem suspiciously apathetic about the situation, I wouldn't have my arms crossed out. If no one would stop Lady Satsuki, I, as student council president needed to step up. I didn't seek fame or recognition by stopping her, I only did the right thing back then. For the sake of the students, and the rest of the world…"
*Flashback again*
It was graduation day and Satsuki Kiryuin hasn't managed to acquire Rinne-Do due to Gamagori being her final obstacle to do so. But she was still confident that she will take control of the school, no matter how.
Satsuki and Gamagori were facing one another and standing still. There was that silence between them, as they let the leaves of the cherry blossoms fall and the wind blow. Gamagori has took Ragyo's advice to heart and became a bit more tough and strict toward his fellow students, but not to much to not be compared to a tyrant.
"Well, this is quite unexpected. Why has our student council president skip his own graduation day? I though you were an ally or justice and followed the law of the school system." Satsuki seem surprised that from all people, Ira Gamagori would break such a rule.
"I know your true plans, Satsuki Kiryuin. You didn't came to our school to learn like the others. You came here to absorb it to the Kiryuin's system in order to be one step closer to your ultimate plan with the Life Fibers, don't you?" Gamagori told Satsuki while preparing himself to fight. "I don't care how powerful you are or if you're the daughter of Ragyo Kiryuin, as student council president, it is my duty to protect it's students. So I'm here to stop you, once and for all!" Gamagori exclaimed. "I cannot leave this place or graduate until I'm sure this school is safe from you, and your tyranny!" Gamagori then charged with all of his might toward the lady in war.
"Foolish…" Satsuki muttered before slashing the giant's stomach without opening the case of her Bakuzan. She thought that she wasn't worthy of her blade, but for her surprise, she discovered that she has some kind of steel armor inside of his uniform.
She didn't think it twice to start slashing the rest of Ira's uniform, revealing that he was wearing a full armor.
"Steel armor, kind of clever. Since you knew you were going to lose this fight from the beginning." Satsuki taunted Gamagori as he turned around were his opponent was.
"I know. I have relatives who run an iron works." Gamagori told the Kiryuin. "So good luck cutting through it without the blade of your sword!"
"Your selflessness is quite pathetic. No matter what type of armor you wear, you cannot defeat the Kiryuin." Satsuki reminded Gamagori about the truth about the world.
"I fully know that. And believe me, I know I'm not strong enough to give you your just desserts." Gamagori told while standing tall. He may not be that strong compared to the Kiryuin, but his sense of justice and self-sacrifice far exceed them.
"Well then, so why are you opposing me and my ambitions?" Satsuki still doesn't understand the reason why these kinds of people try to defend others.
"I may not be able to defeat you, but as long as there people I want to protect and I stand still with my iron will, you won't be able to defeat me. I am this school's shield and protector. I lost a student, and I won't make the same mistake again!" Gamagori roared out as he seem to tower Satsuki as if he were a titan from attack of titan. "You will never defeat me because I will never kneel to an arrogant monster such as yourself. So as long as I'm alive, this school is off limits to you and your mom! I'll show you that no matter how much you try to stop it, there will be people out there standing against your tyranny! That is my purpose in life!"
"You talk much for a weakling." Satsuki sighted out. "If you prefer to die standing rather than living kneeling, why don't we put your resolve to the test?" Satsuki then prepared her weapon again. "But you won't get any mercy if you fail!"
And thus, Satsuki and Gamagori continued battling. While the Kiryuin hacked and slashed the remains of Gamagori's uniform, Ira's determination and willpower were enough to resist her attacks. Satsuki continued to attack as she seem that she was already starting to tire down Gamagori, but the "Pig" seem to still resist.
"No matter how much you decide to oppose humanity's destiny, you're just denying the inevitable!" Satsuki cried out as she thrusted the point of her sword against Gamagori's stomach. Instantly defeating him and destroying his armor.
"You… Bitch…" Gamagori cursed with the little air he had that Sqatsuki made him expel from her lungs. "But, I'll never kneel, not to you! I'll rather die!" Gamagori then grabbed the case of the Bakuzan to pull it out. "I'LGH GNEVER GNEEL TGYO GYOU!" He roared with his last breath before collapsing to the ground face up. In the end, he involuntarily kneel before the Kiryuin, but a kneel is a kneeling.
Gamagori had his mind and moral destroyed. He failed, well, everyone and everybody… He failed his duty, his school, his deceased student, to himself… He felt as if he failed in life and a giant wave of grief and despair took him over. It was over… The Kiryuin conglomerate has absorbed another academy to its red thread of fate. At this rate, he now hated himself than ever. He was the only one who could give himself a proper punishment.
Moments later, Satsuki managed to wake Gamagori up by giving him a chop at his neck, causing the giant to snap out.
"D-did, I really lost…?" Gamagori groaned in grief as he looked at the case of the Kiryuin's sword still plucked onto his chest. A humiliation he will never forget.
"Gamagori…" Satsuki then approached the young teenager as she pulled out the case of her sword out of his chest. "Although for a worthless pig trying to stop my goals, I must admit that your will is strong, but not enough to defeat me." Satsuki's light then shine brighter. "You know, I could just execute you right here and now for knowing too much about the Life Fibers, but I can change your punishment. So, join me and be my shield and warden to watch over the inferior pigs with fear and order and I shall put your resolve in much better use."
"You're planning something big, I know it will change humanity forever…" Gamagori trembled before Satsuki's might. "But… what am I thinking…? I'm just…" Gamagori was so mentally destroyed, it couldn't even gather enough confidence.
"A pig in human clothing? The ignorant masses, yes. But you, you're an exception trough my eyes." Satsuki smiled on a sinister way. "But in order to make those pigs the true meaning of this world, I shall fight against everything this world stands for and remake it for the better. In 2 years time, I shall grant you new strength and a new purpose. It shall be a proper punishment for you. Going against everything you stand for."
Gamagori just watched in awe. He has now lost everything. And also, something in Satsuki was telling him that he couldn't defy her desires. Could it be an inner darkness, or a light of ruin? Whathever the reason, Gamagori didn't had any other choice. He has become a man with nothing to lose. "Very well… I'll wait 2 years for you…" He has finally bowed down before Satsuki, with some signs of grief inside of him.
Both teens then shook hands (Or finger in case of Ira). But the student council president felt a cold and twisted feeling on Satsuki's hand. She seems that her intentions are pure outside, but there was a sinister and rotten reason for why from the inside…
*End of flashback*
"You joined her… by your own grief?" Joker couldn't believe that the reason why Gamagori joined Honnouji in the first place, was just due to grief. As if he was reflection of the Phantom Thief if Satsuki managed to control him. Not to mention how much Gamagori hates himself.
"That's why I'm telling you. If someone like me couldn't stop Lady Satsuki, what chances does a band of criminals like you have? I'm telling you Kurusu, your selflessness and sense of justice will only get you killed. Just give it up already, you're just delaying the inevitable…" Gamagori sighted while driving.
"But… there's no reason to hate yourself for that! you're only getting yourself worse! There's nothing worse in life that hating your own existence! If you continue like this, you're only letting others take control of you!" Akira tried to reason with the chair of the Disciplinary Committee.
"And what gives? The Kiryuin will enslave humanity soon enough and there's no one out there that can stop them! And with those Shadows and the new Goku Uniforms only boosting their arsenal, why even try? Believe me, I haven't forgiven myself for letting this happened…" Gamagori sighted with despair running him over.
"Don't say such things like that Gamagori!" Mako then shouted out. "There's no reason to hate yourself! That's the worst, worst, worst thing that you can do! Even if I hated how you and the others treated the No-Stars, I-I still loved myself. Loving yourself is as important as breathing or eating! Please, I just don't want you to continue despite yourself!"
Gamagori gasped at Mako's word. He thought it for a moment. She is maybe right, but the things he has done are still convincing him that he doesn't deserve forgiveness. "I'll… Take that as consideration, Mankanshoku…"
Inside of Joker's soul, he could feel that his bond with Gamagori was starting to bloom out, but not that much to make a Confidant.
"By the way, I want to ask you one thing, Matoi." Gamagori caught Ryuko's attention. "Why are you fighting for? Just a petty vendetta?"
"Yeah, and what's your problem?" Ryuko snarled back.
"Look, I can understand how it would feel to not have any other family member left. The point I want to say is, that if you have a better motivation than just a selfish demand, forget about defeating Lady Satsuki. At least she will make a world a better place once she rules the world. Well… that's what she says…" Gamagori muttered.
But his time would be interrupted once the honks of nearby cars caught their attention. This caught Gamagori's attention. No a lot of civilian cars would drive at this hour, and much less at Natural Elections.
"Looks like we have company." Gamagori told the others as the looked behind to see a group of cars and flying vehicles behind them, being covered on gold and other modifications straight out of a Mad Max movie, not to mention a good swarm of flying and floating Shadows.
"What the? Who are those clowns behind us?" Ryuko asked while preparing to transform, only to be stopped by Gamagori.
"Don't know, but I heard rumors that some Clubs have made alliances and merge in order to raise victories. Don't alarm Matoi, even if they got their hand on your Kamui, the couldn't find a way on how to use it, if Ogure is a good example. They probably go for my Goku Uniform, or for Kurusu if their adrenaline is on the roof." Gamagori explained while getting more serious.
One of the enemy drivers managed to be ahead of Gamagori, only to reveal One-Stars similar to Jakuzure's wearing Goku Uniforms of a royal trumpeter, and also they prepared their weapons resulting to be… Trumpets?
"Everyone! GET DOWN!" Gamagori bellowed, forcing Akira to duck alongside Ryuko and Mako.
The One-Stars blew out super-sharp Life Fiber confetti from their trumpets, causing scars all around Gamagori's car, but Ira managed to deflect the incoming projectiles with the whip of his Uniform.
Joker then peek out to see who the hell they're dealing with. "What the? Are those members of the Tabletop RPG Club? But how in the hell managed to recover their Uniforms? It just doesn't make sense!"
When Gamagori heard about the Tabletop RPG Club, something inside him just snapped. To think that recently formed Club would come her so soon. "In that case, better prepare to fight for your life, Kurusu. Old sins are coming back to haunt you!"
"No time for sins when there's a giant acorn nuke coming down!" Mako cried, looking at a flying garden helicopter above them dropping a giant acorn full of TNT.
"Seems that it's time to cut some we-"
SLASH!
Matoi now fully transformed slashed the acorn into shreds with her Scissor Blade, causing it to scatter the dynamite and causing it to explode into their enemies' faces. But there were cars left to get rid off.
"Huh! Nice one, Ryuko!" Joker complimented while standing over Gamagori's cars bonnet, but on a position to not hinder Gamagori's sight of the road. "Gamagori, seems that our current situation will affect the both of us! How about a temporal truce?" He offered a small alliance while blowing up a bunch of Book-Type Shadows with Raoul's Maeigaon.
Gamagori acknowledged on how his predicament would end up on a really bad situation if something is not done. "Fine! But once this is over, we return to our old alignments." He replied while pressing a button on the wheel, causing missles to appear on the sides of the car, and then being launched against a group of helicopters themed after sports, completely demolishing them.
"Huh! Though you wouldn't be convinced that easy." He joked while still slaying Hableries with his Tailor's Knife who tried to approach them. "Ryuko, you an me will deal with the hooligans! Gamagori, be sure to keep driving and ke-"
"Keep Mankanshoku safe, right?" Gamagori predicted Kurusu's words without any effort. "I know what I must do, so I don't need to take orders from a criminal such as yourself!" He exclaimed while pressing the gas pedal harder, causing the car to go faster.
"They're getting away! Don't let them escape!" One of the One-Stars on a killer clown car straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie declared, causing the other drivers and Shadows to become faster.
"Shit! They're ganging us!" Ryuko cursed while blocking the projectiles coming at them. "If we don't take care of those helicopters, we're gonna end us as road shit! Hey Fuzzy Hair! Care to lend me a hand?" Ryuko asked for help from Joker, but the Phantom Thief was pretty busy slaying Chris the Cars and Oborogurumas taking the form of black cars. Kinda fitting for a high speedway chase. "GAH! Forget it!"
"Hey Ryuko, why don't you fly?" Mako innocently asked while dodging the pies being thrown by her.
"What do I look like, Mako? Like a fucking supersaiyan?" Ryuko exclaimed while deflecting a missile coming at them.
"Ryuko! I think I have a solution for this, but you need to trust me!" Senketsu wanted Ryuko's trust for the stunt they're going to perform.
"Oh! Now you decide to show me one of your forms! I swear, I just hope this doesn't become oversaturated! I don't want to be the next Goku or Ichigo!" Ryuko fumed while still fighting a group of One-Stars who jumped to assault the car.
"Believe me, It won't. Now, jump!"
"You're the talking Uniform with powers, but if we both die, I swear to god!" Ryuko followed the Kamui's instructions, causing her to be enveloped by a red and black light and cause a burts of explosion all around her, knocking out some of the vehicles.
Ryuko opened her eyes, and noticed that she was actually and legit flying at the speed of a rocket. "Holy shit! This is hardcore as balls! Even that skirt is replaced by badass pants!" She looked at her behind, looking on how her under-part of her Kamui became pants.
"Much like Senjin, this is a form that prioritizes domination and freedom over the skies. I like to call this form, Senketsu Shippu!" The Kamui informed to his wearer while flying against the helicopters.
"Hey assholes!" Ryuko pointed her weapon toward the helicopters while activating Decapitation Mode. "Shove this down your ass!" Ryuko then fueled her weapon with red energy and started to spin like a drill, causing her body to be covered on that red energy. "Finishing Move! Spiral Rebel Slash!" She exclaimed, piercing through the whole band of helicopters, completely destroying them.
"Wow! Way to go Ryuko!" Mako cheered her friend from the passengers seat of Gamagori's car.
"Thank Mako. I can get used to this form." She replied while descending where the others were.
"Speaking of which, do you think you can lift someone on your back? Maybe Mako, perhaps?" Joker asked while burning down Fuzz Shadows riding over more Oborogurumas with Decarabia.
"Sure thing! Mako, get on me!" Ryuko ordered Mankanshoku while blocking incoming bullets.
"Right behind you Ryuko!" Mako exclaimed while jump toward Ryuko's back.
"We're taking blast-off!" Ryuko exclaimed while boosting herself against the other cars.
But it didn't matter how many vehicles they destroy, 5 more take their place. It seem that there was no end to these goons.
"Shit! These assholes seem to have no end!" Akira cursed out while launching a Morning Star with Lucifer, causing a grand majority of them to be destroyed, but more appeared instantly. "Gamagori, you know Honno city much more than I am! You think you could find a shot-cut to outrun them?"
"Heh… About time you admit that you couldn't do it alone." Gamagori grinned while holding the steering wheel tighter. "You see, good driving not only takes speed, but skill as well!" Gamagori exclaimed before pressing a button on the wheel, causing the car to activate its rocket boosters similar to the One-Star public bus. Launching them even faster, not to mention that he bruscaly spin the wheel, causing the car to spin and spin like a wild top, covering their vehicle in flames, but with the cost of the car losing control.
"YOU CALL THAT SKILLFULL DRIVING!? YOU'RE GOING TO GET US KILLED!" Akira cried out in panic due to Gamagori's horrible driving skills. Not to mention that it was giving the Phantom Thief motion sickness.
"Ha! Doubt that you could do a better job!" Gamagori exclaimed while laughing like a maniac. Until he realized that he had lost control of the steering. "Gah! We ran out of control!"
"No shit Sherlock! That's what happens when you crypt the whell like that, you ass!" Ryuko cursed at the member of the Elite Trio while battling the other drivers.
"Gah! Just give me the wheel, damnit!" Akira forced Gamagori out of the steering wheel before trying to stabilize the balance of the car while pushing the brake button as strong as it could, but one of the remaining Shadows casted Megidola on one of the bridges, making a dead end.
"Gah! Watch out!" Mako exclaimed while riding Ryuko.
"Hey Kurusu, I doubt that you now have an idea how to solve this problem!" Gamagori told Akira while they were approaching a dead end, but the thief seem to had a plan.
"I sure have, Gamagori!" Akira exclaimed. "If the highway runs out of road, then create your own!" He exclaimed while summoning Jack Frost, who released an icy breath that created a ramp for them. "Hold tight to your safety belt!" He exclaimed as the car made the leap of fate over the destroyed road, seeming to not make it.
But they did, kind of.
Using Jack Frost, the Phantom Thief created a road made out of pure ice, and also managed to stabilize the car's balance.
"Holy…! You…" Gamagori's jaw instantly dropped, seeing how Akira save his life with some improvision.
"I told you that you can create your road! But you know how ice physics work on videogames, right?" Akira informed Gamagori while surprisingly driving quite well the car on the icy road.
"Don't worry, the car's wheel are all terrain, so our traction won't be affected. But who the hell teach you how to drive like that?" Gamagori asked while deflecting incoming projectiles with his whips.
"Let me tell you, a lot of Mario Kart kinda helped me!" Akira replied. He wasn't the best driver in town, but he at least knew a thing or two.
Both the Toad and the Fox switched seats. While Kurusu was busy with the driving, Gamagori was protecting the car and giving directions who where to go.
"I must admit, you doing a good job, for a criminal." Gamagori had to admit that Joker was killing it on the wheel.
"Thanks!" He replied while drifting a la Mario Kart from a really tight curve, with the other drivers on his behind not being so lucky.
"Ha! Now that's what I call fury road!" Ryuko called out, until she noticed an object falling down. "Look out!" She cried out, with the object resulting to be a giant Boxing Glove nuke falling down.
When the nuke hit the ground, it caused a gigantic explosion, making Akira, Gamagori, Mako and Ryuko to crash into a nearby wall.
"Damn… I hate sports…" Ryuko cursed while trying getting up.
Gamagori got up with some visible bruises and instantly went where his car was to check if it is destroyed. "The motor mas miraculously survived alongside its essential parts." Gamagori opened the bonnet before taking a look at the rest of his vehicle. "But I'm afraid I cannot say the same thing for the tires." Gamagori then looked at the tires who have been deflated or turn useless due to the explosion.
Joker made sure to cast himself a small healing skill on himself wth Ame-no-Uzume. "Well, shit…"
But their luck would become worse when the cars they chase them surrounded them all over them, with a bigger and more detailing car being in the front.
"Ryuko! Ryuko!" Mako helped her friend to get up. "I have you know, that I know a lot of techniques about Mako-Fu! Kiyaa!" Mako tried to intimidate the other drivers while doing karate poses, but she then was holded by Gamagori.
"Don't waste your time on battles you can't win. The 3 of you, Hide on a safe space." Gamagori ordered the trio while preparing herself to fight.
Ryuko didn't had any other choice, but to follow Ira's order, taking Mako alongside her to the passenger's seat of Gamagori's car. Mostly because Senketsu told her that the explosion debilitated her, and thus, was forced to safely de-transform.
"Hey, bunch of hooligans!" Gamagori then caught the attention of the hostile drivers. "If there's something that I hate most in life that arrogant assholes who think they're above else, are drivers who violate the driving rules!"
But then Akira took a step further. "I'll help you, Gamagori I think this drivers have some bones to pick with me." Akira said while pointing his Anti-Life Fiber Knife toward the major car. "Think about it! If my superstitions are right by the theme of this cars, I can guess that you're Clubs that got dismantled by me, Ryuko and the Fight Club. Isn't that right, Takaharu Fukuroda?"
When that name was brought to the table, there was a silence occurring on the road, it lasted for 10 seconds until the driver of the major car left its vehicle revealing to be none other than the ex-President of the Boxing Club, now wearing a post-apocaliptic, Boxing Goku Uniform.
"My, my, my! Well what do have here? It's Mr. Mcmuscles, Ms. Almost-fried fucker, Ms. Edgy whore, and Akira Kurusu, the one asshole who humiliated me in front of everyone back at Honnouji Academy… Been quite a while, hasn't it?" The arrogant boxer seems to have a cold tone on his voice.
"Nyehehehe! After all, we all here have some unfinished business with you, pathetic twerp! And we also get to have the chair of the Disciplinary Committee as a bonus!" Yagumura alongside his cousin came out from a helicopter with that same post-apocalyptic look.
"Don't think you're going to have the last laugh! Gyukukukuku!" Fizzy who now wore that killer clown Goku Uniform straight out of an asylum cackled up while getting out of his vehicle.
"Because we, the ones chosen by the gods, shall reclaim our titles once we emerge victorious!" Yamada boasted himself while taking the scene.
"Ryuko, look!" Mako pointed at the other drivers who took off their helmets. "The Rakugou Club, The 100-Poets Club, the Baseball Club, the Ping-Pong Club! It's every club we defeated! Run!" Mako freaked out on a comical way.
"Heh… I thought that Satsuki didn't gave losers like you second chances! What made her think you give you once so you can disappoint her again, asshats?" Ryuko shouted while trying to recover some strength, but she wasn't on a good condition to transform. That car chase drained her.
That's when Tahkaharu started to laugh. "Disappoint her? Oh, I think you're wrong, Kamui hoe! You see, when your friend Kurusu decided to defect Honnouji Academy, I've gathered all the Club Presidents that you and that pretty face have dismantled. From the ashes of our Clubs, comes a new monster ready to make your lives a living hell!" Takaharu made a pause before posing maliciously. "THE ANTI-AKIRA CLUB!"
"And so what? Rotten and spoiled people like you deserve to live among the trash!" Akira exclaimed "And besides…" Akira then pulled out his needle gun on a flamboyant way. "I beat you once, and I can do it again! And I'm afraid that the term of Third Times the Charm won't save you in the near future, if there's a future for garbage people like you, of course!"
"Hehe! But for your dismay, there won't be a round 2 or 3 for any of you! Including you, Gamagori!" Fukuroda exclaimed while pointing his giant glove to the group. "With the help of Innumuta and the Robotics Club, we created the ultimate weapon using all of the collected data about all of you, including your weaknesses!"
"What the? The Robotics Club?" Gamagori then used her analytic mind to solve the President of the Anti-Akira Club. "That means… But that's just bonkers! There's no way a request so bizarre could come into action!"
"Really? From transforming boys, demi-god ghosts, living stripper outfits, talking anthropomorphic cats and all the freaks in Honnouji Academy, a giant mecha is the shit that weirds you the most?" Ryuko sighted out on a comical way.
"It's just because that why even use Metal when Life Fibers are lighter and more effective. Unless you're just too blind to see the obvious." Gamagori narrowed at the group of vengeful people, still not letting his guard down.
"That's easy, ya big brute! Because here at Honnouji Academy, we will always find a way to get away with everything! Just who the hell do you think we are?" Fukuroda then raised his right arm to the sky resembling a certain blue-haired pilot. "Everyone, deploy the big boy!"
With that order, the cars of Fukuroda's gang started to tremble and transform, resembling limbs of a giant mecha. Yamamura's Vehicle transformed into 2 plant-like giant arms with a giant spiky fist. Fizzy's clown car then turned into the main body that resembled a clown attire. Aizenrenbo's vehicle became the legs of the giant that looked like giant Ping-Pong paddles. The rest of vehicles and One-Stars became the complementary parts as they hold hands and legs as if they were monkeys from a barrel of monkeys, Yamada's royal cars then was turned into a golden King's crown with a samurai crescent moon that is usual for giant mechs, and Fukuroda's car then became the head.
"Holy shit! Just how much budget did those freaks spent on that thing?" Akira gasped seeing such monstrosity in real life. It wasn't a cognitive creation, it was a real life 50-meters high giant mecha.
Inside the mecha, it seem that Takaharu Fukuroda was the only one controlling completely the giant, while the rest of Presidents were pedaling on bicycles to fuel the machine.
"Now you shall feel the glorious wrath of the Mecha Champion the Third! And yes! I Trademarked my mech!" Fukuroda cried out as his giant mech crossed his arms.
"Kyah! Look at the size of that thing! The road's going to collapse when he does the first step!" Mako panicked while still exitly taking photos of the giant mecha.
"No need to worry Mankanshoku. The part of this road has been built with them most resistant of metals and Life Fibers, so even if you nuke this part, it won't do any difference." Gamagori explained to Mako about the security of the road, unlike the other part that was destroyed. "And as for you, band of hooligans, I know that due to the Natural Elections, my position as both chair of the Disciplinary Committee and member of the Elite 4 has been taken out from me." Gamagori took a step forward, with a great determination burning within his soul. "But even if I'm no longer on a higher position as you, I won't let you harm students who don't desire to fight! That's why I won't let you teenage scum to enter the Sudden Death Run-Offs!" Gamagori cried at the Anti-Akira Club as he began to activate his Goku Uniform.
The Goku Uniform seem to take the form of a devilish and quite kinky bondage suit that had some mummy-like features.
"Three-Star Goku Uniform, Shackle Regalia!" Gamagori shouted after finishing transforming. "Come on, Takaharu Fukuroda! Punish me! Today I've been a very bad boy, so give me all that punishment to me, if you dare!"
"Uhh… you know we're you know, ABOUT TO DIE AND YOU DECIDE TO HAVE YOUR SEXUAL FETISHES FULFULLED!? I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCK MAN!" Ryuko cursed out, not believing that Gamagori from all people would have a kinky suit that could rival hers.
"Oh I see, so you're a secret a machinist, right?" Fukuroda then proceed to laugh his ass of by the look of the Goku Uniform. "But since now I'm the big man in charge, I CAN JUST EASILY SQUASH YOU LIKE THE WORTHLESS BUGS YOU ALL ARE!" Mecha champion then raised his right foot to then drop it down, ready to make the squad into delicious human pancakes.
"Not on my watch!" It seem that Gamagori grew somehow big enough to protect the 3.
"Hey! Get out of the way, ya' pebble!" Fukuroda's mech then continued to stomp Gamagori, but the toad seem to resist every attack due to his great will and durability.
"You're committing a fatal mistake, Fukuroda!" Gamagori warned the arrogant boxer while his Goku Uniform seem to… Inflate? "YES! PUNISH ME HARDER…!"
"I see!" Joker has finally figure out how Gamagori's Regalia works out. "it's seems that his Goku Uniform is centered around more in the defense. The more the enemy attack him, the more power he accumulates! I don't know what happens if he were to explode, but I'm sure that it will be pretty terrible for his enemies!" Akira gave the girls the obligatory exposition. "To think… that even his Goku Uniform would relate to his self-hatred…" Joker felt some pity for Gamagori and how much he has suffered.
Gamagori ow looked like one giant balloon ready to explode in any moment. "YES! HITTING CLIMAX! I FEEL… LIKE I'M GOING TO EXPLODE! GRAAAAAH!" Gamagori cried out as he suppously exploded, although hitting the robot, it barely scratched it.
"Sorry Mr. Gamagori, but Mecha Champion's metallic body is made out of the finest Metals and Life Fibers! So it will take you more than that to expel me! That position on the Elite 4 will be mine!" Fukuroda shouted while recovering the balance of his giant robot due to the explosion.
"I told you already, Takaharu Fukuroda! I won't let a snotty kid like you abuse the power of Honnouji Academy for its selfish desires! As chair of the Dissiplinary Committee and in the name of Lady Satsuki…" Gamagori Goku Uniform seem to take another form. The Uniform now looked more humanoid with now arms, a black spiked chakram on his back of his armor. "I SHALL PUNISH YOU PROPERLY! THREE-STAR GOKU UNIFORM! SCOURGE REGALIA!"
"HA! You? In the name of Lady Satsuki?" Fukuroda seem to not take Gamagori's loyalty seriously. "You only follow Lady Satsuki due to your own grief of being too weak for saving other from her glorious will! And yes! I heard your small chat with that pretty boy of Akira!" He bragged about him being most worthy for the title of member of the Elite 4. "But enough chattering! Special move! Giant Meteor Rocket Punch!" Fukuroda shouted, causing Mecha Champion to launch a giant energy blast against the girls, but Akira instantly summoned Raoul to cast Makarakarn just like his first time against the boxer.
"What? You really thing I was going to fall for that again eh? Well then think again!" Mecha Champion then materialized a giant Ping-Pong paddle and served the energy missile back at Kurusu, hitting him and causing the Phantom Thief to be launched into a wall.
"Gahahahaha! So how does it feel to now be the one suffering that deflecting trick, huh? Seems that the cramped space of the road gives me more advantage!" Fukuroda laughed out and boasted himself, believing that he has this battle won.
"Heh… Thanks for remind me about that!" Gamagori chuckled before pressing a button of a remote, causing both roads to merge. "There! Now we both have more space to run off!" Ira then looked at the damaged Joker. "Hey! Get up! This isn't time to be slacking off. We have giant rusted bucket to destroy."
Joker carefully tried to get up since the wounds that energy blast sure hurt like hell, if the bruise on his forehead wasn't obvious. "Y-yeah… Seems that the Iron Giant will not be easy to overcome alone." Even when mortally wounded, he joked and laughed. His charisma was like no other. "Gamagori, let's go!" Akira looked at Gamagori, telling him that he was ready. The tall man then nodded in response.
"Hey! You didn't think you would ditch me out of the party, didn't ya!" Ryuko still standing approached the 2, still as reckless as always.
"I told you to stay with Mankanshoku, Matoi! You're too weak to fight!" Gamagori remined Ryuko about how much was she drained of energy.
"For your information, that asshole was about to kill me at my first day at Honnouji Academy! Now come here!" Ryuko ignored the warnings and rushed against the giant mecha! Just to be easily flicked by Mecha Champion back into the passenger's seat of Gamagori's car, giving her a knockout.
"Ryuko!" Mako cried out in worry looking on how quickly Ryuko got defeated.
"At least with Ryuko out of the way from killing herself, we can proceed our fight!" Gamagori announced to Joker as both made a battle stance and quickly ran against the giant machine.
"You still believe you can defeat me?" Fukuroda mocked the 2 once again. "Yamamura! Release the missles!" Takaharu ordered the gardener who pressed a button of his bike, causing a barrage of Pinecone Missiles to be launched against Akira and Gamagori.
"Watch out!" Akira exclaimed as he summoned Yamatta-No-Orochi to launch Oni Kagura against the proyectiles, making them explode. But those Pinecones also released small bombs that exploded all over Kurusu's face. "AAAAHG!" He cried out in pain as he started bleeding out.
"AKIRA!" Mako cried in panic.
"Haha! How you like that, Mr. Burglar?" Fukuroda laughed out as his giant mecha made out gestures.
It was odd, but Akira could hear weird sounds from the machine. As if it was a giant puppet pulled by… Strings! "I have an idea!" Akira cried out. Akira then went with Gamagori and whispered to his ear that if they took out the legs, they could have a mayor advantage.
"Hmm… So like that one Star Wars movie, I see." The plan made Gamagori feel odd, but maybe it is crazy enough to work out. "Alright, let's move out!"
Both of them scattered on each direction of the giant mecha to disrupt Fukuroda's concentration.
"You think you're so damn clever of splitting out, eh?" Fukuroda then pressed a button, causing Mecha Champion to release a bunch of mini-versions of itself to attack both Gamagori and Akira-
The Mini Champions then jumped against the giant, completely overwhelming him.
"Initiating Autodestruction!" The small robots exclaimed, commencing to start a countdown that would made them explode and end Gamagori.
"Grah! You little rascal! Scourge Spin!" Gamagori exclaimed, causing the whips of his Uniform to whip out all over the place near its area, freeing himself and destroying the robots that were on him.
But, things were not as bright for Kurusu. Not only was he struggling with not only the mini-bots piling themselves against him like the zombies of World War Z, but also the self-mechanism the legs have like missiles and drills trying to pierce his organs. But playing a lot of Shadow of the Colossus helped him with climbing giant enemies. "This won't do! I need to be faster! Masukukaja!" Joker summoned Horus to give him extra agility which helped him climb easier and faster.
"Almost there!" Akira almost arrived at the waist there the legs would be connected. When he got into the destination, he noticed that the insides of the machine were not only controlled by gears and rotors, but also One-Stars holding their hands together and a great amount of banshis.
"Hey Pervert! Stop Peeping around on my private parts!" Fukuroda mocked Ren as his mecha was about to swat him like a bug with the robot's giant glove, but his gigantic arm would be stopped by a bunch of bandages pulling his metallic limb.
"What? How can you…!?" Fukuroda was in shock in how not only Gamagori with his whips, but also Ryuko who recently woke up and Mako were pulling off the arm together.
"Hear me clear, ya creep! Fuzzy Hair is alot of things, but a creepy perv is one he isn't!" Ryuko cried out. "Go on then! What are you waitin' for bastard? Cut that creep's legs for once!"
Akira looked about how Gamagori, Mako and Ryuko now saved his life, which was quite poetic. "Right! Here I go!" He shouted as swiftly cut the Banshi and the Goku Uniforms of the One Stars with his Anti-Life Fiber Knife, causing a gigantic explosion on Mecha Chanpion's crotch, leaving a rain of Naked One-Stars and other weird things.
But the weirdest part is that the robot left a suggestive moan after its under-part was shattered to pieces.
"Uhhh… Who the hell even designed that thing? Some sort of weird dumb-nutt who has a weird fetish with robots?" Matoi awkwardly asked while cringing at the mere sight of the robot.
The Trickster gracefully descended near them as he dusted off his clothes. "Whoever designed it is not important right now. I, just got this feeling that Fukuroda hasn't given up yet." Kurusu doubted that Takaharu has conceded. And he was right.
From the fiery dust of the explosion, Mecha Champion crawled down still standing strong. "Ehehehe! You think you won? Well I still have one more trick up on my sleeve! MINIONS! ACTIVATE OVERDRIVE MODE!" Fukuroda ordered the other Presidents, causing them to pedal on counterclock, causing the core of the giant mecha to activate another mode.
The under part of the torso started to emit some kind of electromagnetic energy, causing the machine to gain the ability to float.
"Mecha Champion! Overdrive Mode!" Fukuroda shouted out as Mecha Champion did a mighty pose to show off his 2nd form.
"Heh… No problem! I dealt with enemies who can change forms way more stronger than you!" Akira pointed at Fukuroda while walking sideways.
"Oh yeah? We'll see if that's true RIGHT NOW! DEPLOY THE BOXING ENERGY MISSLES!" Fukuroda commanded his robot, making it spit out a hail of boxing glove missles against the team.
"Look out!" Akira quickly summoned Raoul to protect everyone with its wings. The whole rain caused explosions strong enough to blow up parts of the road that aren't resistant.
After the aftermath of the explosions, Akira stopped with using Raoul. "Is everyone alright?"
"Maybe for now, but this one will not make you feel that way!" Fukuroda exclaimed, seeing how the group was vulnerable for a kill. "Yahe, Kaze, HIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Mecha Chamion launched a giant lazer beam from its hands that's totally original and isn't stolen from another Shonen anime against the group, seeming that it would be their end…
"Hihihi! These piggies and their dumb machines. They just never learn!"
Miracuously, Nui opened her umbrella as a shield, capable of saving Akira, Ryuko, Mako and Gamagori from the blast as if it was nothing.
"What the…? Nui?" Akira was shocked that the insane blonde would save their lives.
"Nui? You mean that girl? A-and… how is she able to deflect such an attack?" Gamagori was in an awe of confusion of seeing that young girl on a pink dress.
"Oh! I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Nui Harime, Lady Ragyo's personal Grand Courtier, and you must be Ira Gamagori, Lady Satsuki's so called "Shield". Nui turned where Gamagori was to say hi while still shielding the team from the Kamehameha. "And why am I saving you? It's pretty simple sillies. I was just trying to help Akira. After all, that's what friends are?"
"Oh! Seems that Lady Satsuki's right. You do have a lot of chumps having your back, don't you Kurusu!?" Fukuroda has acknowledged Akira's strength of gaining more allies before ending his Kamehameha. "As for myself, I don't like having friends. They're just bother me! So I conclude that if I would have a best friend, IT WOULD BE MYSELF!" Fukuroda pressed a button, making Mecha Champion launch humanoid figures into the sky. When those figures landed on the highway, it revealed to be none other than clones of Takaharu Fukuroda himself. But the difference was that they had black skin and clothes, green eyes and yellow hair.
"What the? How the hell does the bald bastard managed to do that?" Ryuko was in shock in knowing that one of her first enemies was able to make exact copies of himself.
"It's Honnouji Academy's cloning technology." Gamagori added. "By using data Honnouji Academy has gathered and memories, it's able to create perfect copies of someone out of Life Fibers. Although, their personalities will be based on the indivivual's data they gathered that date or how their memory portrays that individual. Either Fukuroda convinced Lady Satsuki to make her his own cloning machine, or he stole the blueprints of our cloning device." Gamagori muttered as he explained how the clonification works.
"Woah! How did you know about that Gamagori? Is that how you make One-Stars Students?" Mako got fully intrigued by what Ira revealed.
"If you had a cloning machine at your disposal, then why didn't just make a clone out of Fuzzy Hair and solve your crappy problem Mr. "Muh Rulez must be follwd"?" Ryuko fumed at the Chair of the Disciplinary committee while making a mocking tone on the Mr. part.
Gamagori seemed indifferent by Ryuko's question, so he turned to where Ryuko was. "To answer your first question, we can't make a stable clone unless we have all the parameters to create one: Abilities, a base for its personality, height and weight. It just so happens that slithering rat you call a friend is so blasting sneaky, it is almost impossible to gather data of him, unless you're Innumuta. Not to mention that if we make a clone of your friend with memories, he will instantly betray us." Ira cleared out the teenage girl's question.
"H-hey! Could you stop with the exposition and HELP ME FOR ONCE!?" Akira cried out for some back-up as he was struggling with the Fukuroda clones. It was not that they were overpowering him, since he was able to destroy them with Arahabaki's Flash Bombs, damaging a good bunch and giving others the dizzy ailment, causing them to attack other clones, but the insane amount of minions being pumped by each second. It seems that there was no end to the Fukuroda Clones.
"TEN!" Mecha Champion managed to take Joker by surprise with a left jab of his giant boxing gloves, causing the thief to spit some blood.
"KEN!" Fukuroda then continued with a right hook, causing some of Akira's bones to break.
"FU!" The evil mecha then gave him a painful uppercut, causing Kurusu to scream of pure pain.
"SAI!" Fukuroda gave the last punch with an arm slam with both gloves, causing Akira to be launch into Gamagori's car, bleeding everywhere and full of bruises.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! At last! Who would have thought it out!? I did what Lady Satsuki dreamed of doing!" Fukuroda was too busy boasting himself for dealing the final kill to Akira, which was a relief.
"Akira… NO!" Gamagori roared in anger and worry as he slain all of the Fukuroda clones on his area with a twister of whips.
"Oh! Seems that Mr. Muscles isn't there to just flex." Nui told to herself as he came nearby Akira with her usual smile, rather than a face of worry.
"Oh… SHIT!" Ryuko had a mixed bag of both pure wrath and anguish, and without mention now a sheer hatred against Fukuroda. First, he wanted to kill her, and now, he almost killed one of the closest things she could kinda refer as a big brother.
"Akira! Akira, don't die! T-there's still aloto f things to keep living for like all those unstasted candies, video-games un-played, things to try out, friends to spend time with!" Mako was crying a waterfall on both tears, wanting to Akira to resist.
"D-don't worry… I've dealt with w-worse…" He coughed out while giving a smile. "I-I j-just *COUGH!* need t-time to recuperate…"
"Recuperate!? Dude, you're about to fucking die! We need to take you to a hospital! Just how the hell can you smile on this situation!?" Ryuko still couldn't understand how could he be optimistic on this state. Now that she thinks about it, she was kinda jealous.
"It's b-because i-I always have someone t-to back me u-up…" Akira then tried his best efforts pointing at Harime who came closer.
"You again girl? B-but how did you even managed to block that laser beam?" Ryuko still wasn't sure how Harime was able to deflect Fukuroda's attack.
"Hihihi! That's as simple as life, my dear wattson. My Parasoul is stitched by the most resistant of Life Fibers, so I can technically block anything." Harime raised her trusty umbrella into the sky. "And also that dreadful fire…" She though in spite before bringing out a small cherry with Life Fiber patterns. "Here, take this. I'm sure it will make your tummy feel better."
"Huh? A… cherry?" Ryuko said in confusion.
Nui just ignored her and forced Akira into chewing the small berry and then swallow it. And that's when miracles stars.
A rainbow light similar to Ragyo's enveloped Akira as his body glowed, making him enter in some sort of psychedelic trip.
Some few seconds latter, he managed to wake up from his acid trip, looking anew without any bruises and all of his bones fixed. "What the!? Am I in the real world again?" He said a bit numb. But his face of baby who has recently woke up then turned into a dizziness as he vomited a large trails of liquid Life Fibers out of his body.
"Oh! Seems that your body couldn't digest Life Fibers. That's odd, since most people that eat this poop out Life Fibers." Nui added a bit curious while putting her index finger on her lips.
"Huh? That thing has Life Fibers?" Mako asked.
"Yup. It's Life Fiber therapy. By inserting a special kind of Life Fibers into a person's insides, they're capable of stitching out bleeding places and even rearrange bones. The Kiryuins mostly use them if they are wounded, but I decided to make an exception here since you know how much of a big fan I am of Kurusu's work." Nui explained the miracles of medical Life Fibers. "So Akira, how was your funny trip?"
"I saw… lots of things… Spiral, Magic, Space, Demons…" Akira muttered a bit.
"Gotcha!" 2 Fukuroda clones were about to attack Kurusu, until Nui pulled an oversized needle blade and instantly chopped the clones into Life Fibers.
"You know, I hate when Life Fibers get wasted on garbage like that." Nui said playfully while looking at the other clones. "And let me tell ya', you're not the only one her who is a living printer. Mon Mignon Prêt-à-porter!" When Nui chanted her move, thousands upon thousands of Nui Clones popped up into existence, with those trademarks unsettling jiggles and grins.
"What the…? How did you?" Ryuko's jaw dropped at seeing such technique.
"Hihihi! It's just that I posses some advance Life Fiber techniques that not even Lady Satsuki knows." Nui told them as she looked at her exact copies. "Attack!" She commanded her armies, causing the Nuis and Fukurodas to clash out. "Well then Kurusu, let's kick that poophead on his heebie jibbies!"
Joker felt uncomfortable by having Nui on her side, but an ally is an ally. "Right! We need to cut the rest of that thing's limbs. Nui, go for the right one! Gamagori, take down the left one! Remember to do it at the same time! I'll go for the head!" The trickster gave the 2 clear instructions to follow, making them nod in response. "Alright, it's showtime!"
SHOWTIME!
"Let's tear his limbs quickly, shall we?" Akira told the 2 as he casted Matarukaja with Kikuri-Hime to the party and latter scatter.
"Lalalalala! Walking through a grassy arm, as if I am on a pretty park!" Nui sang a catchy song as she hopped trough the giant's right arm, cutting the human-size flytraps that tried to eat her alive.
"YUCK! There's a bug on my arm!" Fukuroda said in disgust. "Oh well, I'll just squish it!" Mecha Champion was about to swat Nui with his other arm, but Fukuroda seems to have some difficulty of controlling the left arm.
"Trying to squish a girl, don't ya Fukuroda? Where does your degeneracy stop!?"
"Yarr! We have the kraken on our left, sir!" The former President of the Pirate Swashbuckler Club pointed at the left part of the mecha, just to reveal another giant figure.
It was Gamagori who inexplicably grew taller than the robot himself and was trying pulling out the other arm.
Fukuroda slammed his 2 boxing gloves into the command pad, that thankfully were resistant enough against his Goku Uniform. "Is that how you want to play, eh? Fine! Activate the-"
"Not so fast!" Akira who was climbing the back of the giant robot in order to de-activate the cloning machine shouted. "Norn, use Nocturnal Flash!" Joker then summoned the Persona of the Wheel of Fortune that got from Maiko Ogure, causing the Clock to spin its markers counter-clockwise and cast a radiant light that formed aa crescent moon, making Mecha Champion's circuit malfunction.
"Sir! The main circuits are getting out of control! We don't know if the One-Stars are able to resist into putting Mecha Champion together!" A One-Star informed Fukuroda while a red alarm was lightened all over the room, causing the majority of the operatives to panic.
Fukuroda was losing his patience. "I'M THE GODDAMN PRESIDENT OF THIS BLASTED CLUB! IF IT WASN'T FOR ME, YOU WOULD BE LIVING AMONG THE GARBAGE! SO EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU, MAKE YOUR BEST EFFORT TO HOLD MY MECHA TOGHETHER!" Takaharu furiously roared at the One-Star's face while grabbing him by the collar.
"Y-yes S-si-"
"HARIME! NOW!" With Gamagori's order, Nui giggled before while preparing her needle blade as she and Ira sliced and tear both limbs successfully.
"Yay! Go Team! WOOHOO!" Mako was cheering over the 3 other as Akira and Gamagori landed on ground while Nui elegantly descended with her umbrella.
"Now it's not the time to celebrate yet, Mako." Akira turned where Ryuko and Mako were before looking again at Mecha Champion. "We still need to destroy the head. The only think we have done so far is debilitate it…"
"Ehehehe… You think that was my only Ace up my sleeve?" Fukuroda chuckled before Mecha Champion pulled out 2 knitting sticks and started to use the Fukuroda Clone's Life Fibers to knit himself a…
"Drill?" Ryuko saw in confusion.
"That's right, ya worms! I got a full deck of cards out of Aces! Don't matter how many times you try, Mecha Champion will never die!" The boxer cried out as he placed the drill on the right stick of the giant robot and initiated to spin it. "Final Ultimate Attack! HYPER MEGA ULTRA PAINFULL SPECIAL MAXI DRILL PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Fukuroda cried out with all the power of his lungs as he was about to thrust.
But Gamagori quickly turned back into his Shackle Regalia form to block the attack while Akira tried to freeze the drill with Yamata-No-Orochi.
"Can't… Stop… It!" Gamagori gritted his teeth as he and Akira were struggling too much. "That's too much power! I don't think I can't block this thing for much longer! BUT I HAVE TO TRY, AND I WILL OVERCOME THESE MONSTERS! THAT'S WHY I'M LADY'S SATSUKI'S SHIELD!" He cried out while at the edge of bursting.
"Waaa! Ohnononononono! Come on Gamagori! You can do it! You can't let this Club Presidents take over the school council! It is just impossible that more than 1 person can be in the same position!" Mako tried to give moral support toward Gamagori, but something on the bubbly girl's words gave Akira an excellent idea.
"I-I got it! Nui, do you have some kind of Megaphone we can use? And if you h-have, give it to Ryuko!" Akira asked Harime while still trying to stop the drill.
"Oh! I knew that I was right bringing a megaphone anywhere I go! Take that, Hoomaru!" Nui jiggled as she pulled out a megaphone and threw it to Ryuko, who managed to catch it.
"Uhh… What the hell do you want me to do, Fuzzy Hair?" Ryuko didn't had any bright idea on how Akira's plan would work.
"Ryuko, it's time to put your sailor mouth in good use!" Akira smiled at Ryuko before putting her attention again at the drill.
That made the teenage girl smile maliciously as she finally knows what to do. So she turned on the megaphone and prepare her throat. "Hey assholes! You it seems that you finally realized about how shitty you are and decide to combine once more. Puh-lease! If they first time didn't work, why try again? Also, why are you working together if only one of you can win this damn thing your big eyebrows' bitch made you compete in? Someone here is going to betray you, you know?"
The words Ryuko threw made the other Presidents stop paddling.
"Hey… That bitch is right! There can only be ONE President who can become the new member of the Elite 4!" Yamamura was the first to realize that.
"Ha! Literally I've been a clown for my entire life at Honnouji, and now I'm truly acting as one!" Fizzy snapped out as he was about to explode in anger.
"I was doing the job of a commoner all this time? Fukuroda, this is low! Even for you!" Yamada gor super angry about how he got played like a damn fiddle.
The other One-Stars and Two-Stars then looked at Fukuroda with glares of anger and frustration and slowly approached the boxer.
"W-wait! I-I also didn't thought about this! W-we can t-talk about this! Just please! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Fukuroda cried out as a whole fight occur inside the giant robot. It was a free-for-all. Meanwhile, the robot was starting to power down due to the Two-Stars nod paddling, thus, stopping the drill from spinning.
"Akira! DO IT NOW!" Gamagori exclaimed to Akira as he ordered the teenage thief to give the final blow.
"Right!" He replied as he summons Valkyrie. "Care to share this dance with me, Harime?" He reached his hand to Nui, causing her so softly smile.
"Oh! You know how I love a good waltz!" Nui accepted as she reached for his hand.
Showtime!
A spotlight flash where the 2 were as they start to dance a delicate and elegant waltz. Akira was doing it quite well thanks to Kasumi's lessons on ballet who were quite useful on his heists. The performance ended with Akira throwing Nui into the air, just for the 2 to stare at the mecha with sinister grins. And Sazzz! Both dancers delivered a powerful slash, with Nui with her Needle Blade and Akira with Valkirie's Rising Slash, completely destroying the mecha with a giant explosion.
"Now that's what I called an explosive performance!" Nui jiggled after the attack.
"Ryuko! NOW!" Akira ordered Ryuko to finish up the Anti-Akira Club.
"Ha! Bout' time I can do anything!" Ryuko thankfully exclaimed since she was fully recovered. She transformed and changed into her Shippu mode to give the finishing touch. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
SLASH!
"Finishing Move: Sen-I-Sochitzu!" Ryuko exclaimed as she sliced ALL of the Goku Uniforms of the Anti-Akira Club, leaving them completely naked.
"Move over Matoi! It's my duty in expelling these bastards!" Gamagori informed Matoi as he was charging up one of his fists as it took the form of a spiky fist. "I may not be in the power to expel all of you… But, I WILL MAKE SURE YOU WILL NEVER TAKE A FOOT INTO HONNOUJI ACADEMY! CONSIDER YOURSELF BANISHED!" Gamagori cried out with his entire soul. "Finishing Move: Final, Disciplinary, Punishing…" Gamagori recited the words of one of his most powerful attacks as he was about to deliver the final punch against the members of the Anti-Akira Club. "PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNCH!" Gamagori roared out as he delivered the gigantic fist against Fukuroda and his goon with a gigantic gust of air.
"I-impossible! I had the upper hand in power! HOW DID I LOSE AGAIN!?" Fukuroda who was flying alongside the other Presidents still hasn't discovered the cause of his downfall.
"Heh… A simple answered is required for such a trivial question." Akira took a step forward. "You treated your teammates only as numbers and pawns. Meanwhile, I treat everyone that helps me as human beings! That's why whenever I'm in trouble, I have someone to watch my back and thus, overcome every obstacle as long as we stick together. Something all of you and the other Club Presidents will never Understand!"
"This isn't over! remember? Even if I can't return to Honnouji Academy, Lady Satsuki will beat you to death and show you that all of your efforts were in vain!" Fukuroda cursed Akira while still flying. "In the meantime…"
"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!" All of the members of the Anti-Akira Club cried in panic as they crashed into Tokyo Bay with a big SPLASH!
Both Kurusu and Gamagori were panting due to the exhaustion the battle gave them, with Gamagori de-transforming back in order to cool down. But what he didn't noticed is that he dropped something very important.
"You don't fight that bad, for a cocky teenage criminal." Gamagori complimented Akira as he bent on one knee in order to catch breath.
"R-right back at ya, big buddy…" The thief responded back. "I can give you the same compliment to you, Harime…"
"Nah! Don't need to. I'm already the clothing designer of REVOCS. What other thing can a girl life me ask for?" The Teenage Lolita asked on a playful matter. "By the way, I've manage to fix the tires of your pink car by replacing them with the wheels of some of those other cars chasing you."
"Wait, you're REVOCS' Grand Courtier?" Gamagori was in shock that he immediately bent over Nui.
"Daw! How cute of you." She jiggled at Gamagori's loyalty.
"Hey! So… I know that you have shit to do, but… are you participating in this thing?" Ryuko asked Harime a bit confused.
"Nope. I was just having a good ol' stroll on Honnouji at the best possible time. I can tell that seeing students killing each other is quite fun." Nui responded while spinning with her umbrella. "Oh well, I guess is an adios for you." Nui was about to go as she was opening her parasol.
"W-wait! I have something to ask you!" Ryuko exclaimed since she wanted to know something else.
"Yes?" She asked as she turned around where Ryuko was.
"I… I want to ask you, if you know who killed my dad…" Matoi asked with some melancholy on her voice.
This made Nui smile on an innocent matter. She couldn't tell her the truth right now, she just needs to wait a bit more until the sudden death runoffs to put her plan into motion. "Mm… Sorry hun, but I'll tell you once Lady Satsuki's natural elections are over. I'm telling you, a lot of surprises will await you at the sudden death runoffs." Nui told Ryuko as she changed her attention to Joker. "By the way "Joker", I can tell that your set of clothes make you look quite handsome." She told her "friend" as she caress the fabric of Ren's thief outfit.
There was something odd with his clothes' fabric. They seem to, make Life Fibers have some sense of fear, as if they weren't able to either leech of synch to the human. It was like 2 magnets repelling each other. But rather than being of the both of them have the same pole, it was because they were opposites. Non-dormant Life Fibers need human force to sustain themselves, so they become clothes for the pigs to wear. Life Fibers need to also be stitch together with other Life Fibers in order to share that energy. But if a Life Fibers goes against a Human who wears clothes with 100% Life Fiber free, they wouldn't be able to leech a human since their clothing is protecting them. Not to mention that the Thief's fabric wasn't either Life Fiber or normal wool or fiber. It was some kind of magical robe that was making her Life Fibers to become quite violent. "Oh well, hope you all have fun." She said her goodbyes before opening her umbrella and floating like Mary poppins
All was silence until Mako found something quite peculiar on the floor. "Uh? What's this?"
Gamagori and Akira were talking something until Mako came in to interrupt.
"Hey Gamagori, I think you dropped this." Mako then showed Ira a Senpuku Knife with his initials.
This made Gamagori snap and quickly take the Knife before anyone could see it. "To the car, NOW!"
The ride back to the slums was kina akward. No talk, just driving until they arrived at a nearby gas station, making the trio exit Gamagori's vehicle, not before giving some fuel to the car.
"Make sure to take care of yourself, and don't talk to strangers on your way." Gamagori advised Ryuko due to Mako's concerns. Honno City's streets can be really dangerous, and more with the natural elections.
"Okay dad." She replied back to tease him.
"I see you at the end of the sudden-death runoffs. I'll make sure to pick the perfect spot for our fight." Gamagori Promised Ryuko about their future fight. "As for you Kurusu, just because I respect you more doesn't mean we are friends. You're part of Nudist Beach and I'm part of Honnouji Academy. So the next time we face again, I'll make sure to give it all in order to arrest you." Gamagori told Kurusu.
"The same goes for you. I won't hold back the next time we meet." Akira replied back as Gamagori drove his car back to who know who. "Well, I guess that's all for today's. Ryuko, good luck on the sudden death run offs. The Elite Trio aren't a laughing matter and you know it. And make sure to not lose sight of Senketsu." Akira then pointed his grappling hook into a nearby building and swing his way back into the thief's den like Spider-Man.
So the results of the heist weren't quite successful. He couldn't find anything to destroy that Life Fiber Barrier, but managed to comprehend Gamagori more. And to think he always carries a Senpoku Knife whenever he goes is, really sad…
Now his greatest concern is to know if Sanageyama has stumble upon big trouble…
"GAAAHH! Aw shit…" Sanageyama moaned in pain after being slammed to a wall.
What happened is that he was strolling the One-Star districts in order to slain more Shadows, but his luck ran out once he stumble upon a Club that it could be his ultimate weakness.
"What's the matter Sword boy? Thought you were all-mighty and powerful with your Shingatsu!" A Club President wearing a Goku "Uniform" That is mostly his head stick to a car taunted the ex-member of the Elite 4. "Don't take it personal Sanageyama, Lady Satsuki has gave us direct orders to get rid of you since she has acknowledge the strength of the newly merged Automobile-Airsoft Club, and me, its Club President! Ryosuke Todoroki!"
The President was right. The sound of the motors were so high it was hard to concentrate, not to mention the nasty odor of the gas the escape tubes were producing. If he didn't sewn his eyes shut… "I-I w-won't give up… I-I still have some unfinished business with Satsuki… I-I just want one last battle with her…" He grunted absolutely weakened.
"I'm sorry, but it will be the end of the road to you! Pun intended! What! Are you still blind? It's all fun and games when you sit on the top of the world, but it's way more fun watching someone fall from grace! I mean, you were the sensation on the school! And by that the new laughing stock! Oh… If you were only just following Lady Satsuki's orders like the royal pawn that you were…" Ryosuke mocked Sanageyama as he ordered his goons to shoot him more, causing the kendo duelist to scream more.
"So… How does it feel to be among trash, Weenie Jr.? To be the one the higher ups step their boots on!? It feels nice, eh? By the way, speaking of Lady Sastsuki… If you were ever thinking of her forgiving you, then you're WRONG! She told us directly to end your life since you were the most disposable of the Elite 4, she doubted your inclusion ever since she recruited you. Oop! Sorry for dropping the reality bomb into you! NOT! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Todoroki then laughed alongside the other members of the Automobile-Airsoft Club seeing how Sanageyama bent over his knees and arms feeling that same huge despair taking over his soul. The small inch of faith that he had with Satsuki vanished like thin air.
Sanageyama then entered an empty state. He was remembering all the abuses he has done and how Honnouji's culture corrupted his soul. All those broken backs he has delivered, all those sports balls he threw at the No-Stars, he has finally realized that all this time became the villain he swore to defeat. His faith toward Satsuki vanished once he got demoted to No-Star, and his spite grew larger once Ryuosuke told him that she was already ready to dispose him once she stopped being useful to her, except when he shut his eyes. He felt that the fait Satsuki had in him grew a bit, but it was when he still blind fully believed in Satsuki. Blind… Like how he used Life Fibers to shut his eyes. That's when he remembered Kurusu's words. He was now relying too much on the Life Fibers! He knew his Nudist Beach uniform didn't had Life Fibers, so how about finally take out that bandage made out of his ego and finally see the world once again with his own eyes! He will not defeat Satsuki for some selfish desires, rather to cleanse his sins and become one of the selfless villains this city needs, but secretly being the hero of the movie! Like those Super Sentai and Kamen rider shows he used to love as a kid, and thus, become part of the gang in Kanto he loved so much!
That's when Sanageyama got up and started laugh. "Wow! You know, I must thank you!"
Ryosuke and the rest of the Club were a bit confused on what Sanageyama was referring to.
"I thank you for remembering me on why am I fighting for now! You know, I admit that once I got admitted into Honnouji Academy, I though that everyone below me were just either toys or pawns. My only bond I had was with Satsuki, but seems that the bond was pretty fragile. But when I finally woke up from the conformism of the Kiryuin, I felt again the joy I had with other people and how they helped me become a better person! Cliché? Kinda! But those bonds are now important to me, and I'll do ANYTHING to protect them, alongside the No-Stars that are suffering! I will make sure to free them alongside Joker from the tyranny of the Kiryuin and the Life Fibers! But I guess that there's no salvation for any of you… So if you're hearing this, Satsuki Kiryuin, Hear me out clearly! Uzu Sanageyama, member of the Elite 4 is now dead! And from the ashes of it, gives birth to a new Hero! Uzu Sanageyama, member of Nudist Beach! And you know what? You, alongside you shitty school can take you fucking big-ass eyebrows and shove them down your asshole!" Sanageyama cried out with all the strength of his soul.
And that when it awakens…
"It's surprising how much it took you to finally catch my attention." A voice that seem to be both angelic and heroic echoed through Sanageyama's soul, causing the green-haired teen's eyes to become yellow and wide his eyes.
"What the…!? What the fu-AAAGH!" Sanageyama cried in pain as he started to stammer due to the massive headaches he was facing.
"Seems that the woman you worshipped long ago was already ready to discard you once it was necessary. You gave her all kinds of tributes, but it was nothing more than throwing your most valuable things into the void! And even when you choose to finally oppose to the enemy of freedom, you still shamelessly wear that mask of blindness they call Life Fibers!"
"Graah!" Sanageyama started to twirl in pain as it seem to never end, but then he finally stood up straight. "I see… Then let's forge the pact then! I was getting k-kinda bored!" Sanageyama them grabbed his eyeballs and tried to break the Life Fibers that were keeping his eyes closed.
"It shall be signed with blood then! I am thou, and thou art i… A contract of our own choosing shall be signed. Throw away you mask of your past and miserable life, put on the mask of rebels and ride your flying steed of willpower to take revenge against the gods of society who rejected your heroics!" The voice recited the Persona oath as Sanageyama finally pulled out the life fibers out of his eyes, making him cried in pain since it also pulled out parts of his skin. And that's when he opened his eyes for a long time.
"Wohohow man! Phew… Dude! I forgot how good THIS feels!" Sanageyama panted while rejoicing about his sight returning to normal while a mask was slowly materializing all over his face.
"oh yeah? You're still one miserable man, and we're a gang of wielders of Goku Uniforms! What are you going to do?" Ryosuke, alongside the other members of the Automobile-Airsoft Club prepared their weapons once again, but Sanageyama chuckled for some seconds.
"That's easy. Showing you my other self!" Sanageyama exclaimed as a Phantom Thief mask resembling an emerald traditional Oni mask materialized on his face rather than just the part of the eyes. "Take flight, Bellerophon!"
Confidant Summary:
Maiko Ogure – The Wheel of Fortune: a short-tempered No-Star and former member of the trap division of the Disciplinary Committee. She has recently joined Nudist Beach to take revenge against Honnouji Academy, but once I joined the organization, we became quite the friends.
