Mission 07 : Bushido

"For some, death is only the beginning."

Ontario, Canada. Total Mission Time : 8 days.

Dante and Jack sat in a coffee shop around noon, they arrived only one day ago and had merely been waltzing about the city aimlessly. Dante sighed and said "We've been doing nothing but sightseeing since we got here, why did we come here if we're not going to do anything?"

Jack took a sip of his coffee and replied "Patience isn't just a virtue Dante, it's also sometimes a necessity, even with our capabilities." Dante groaned and finished his coffee with one slug and sat up saying "I'm going for a walk." Jack sighed and took a drink of his coffee before saying "No tea shops anywhere in our mission area, wasn't this supposed to be a British colony, you'd think they'd have more tea shops."

Ontario streets, around 7 pm. Total Mission Time : 8 days.

Dante walked with his hands in his pockets, bored out of his mind and wandering from pizza parlor to pizza parlor aimlessly. Dante then stopped and seemingly said to himself "You can come out now, I know you've been following me for an hour now."

A girl with blue hair and wearing a black overcoat walked out of the alleyway in front of Dante. She smiled and said "I know you're looking for me. I've met your commander, Ray Zenji. There are things about him you could never guess." Dante replied "Try me". Still smiling, the girl said "My name is Asakura Ryoko, and I know more about Ray then even Naruto-kun." Dante smirked and said "By kun you're implying he's weaker than you. Yes I've studied not only the Japanese language but also their culture, sometimes I get one of their youma around my shop, their preachy little bastards.".

Ryoko giggles and replies "Correct, his capabilities are below mine, but just by a small amount. Back to the earlier subject I should caution you that if you continue to work for Zenji-san, you'll end up regretting it." Dante summoned Rebellion, grinned and said "I'll repeat, try me."

The sky lit up snow-white and Asakura said something, but it was too fast for Dante to comprehend, but he knew enough to dash twice to his right as ten energy spikes blasted where he was. Dante dashed again towards Asakura, driving Rebellion at her. Asakura countered by constructing a white sphere of energy around her which deflected even Rebellion's power. Dante backflipped and sent a hailstorm from Ivory and Ebon, which he rapidly drew as he jumped. The bullets also were deflected by the sphere and time seemed to stop, but Dante quickly recovered and said "That won't work on me kid, though clap clap for matching the Quicksilver ability." Ryoko smiled and waved her arm, sending thousands of energy spikes at Dante who flickered out of sight and appeared behind Asakura, swinging Rebellion at her. Asakura was cut in half by the strike, but her lower body quickly regenerated and she sent Dante flying to the left with a roundhouse kick. Dante rapidly recovered and smirked, then said "Thank's for the appetizer kid. But it's time for the main course!" Dante flickered again and slammed right from under Asakura, lunging from underground and smashing into her with Beowulf on his fist.

Ryoko flashed out with green wireframes and reappeared behind Dante and forming a Swiss Army Knife in her right hand. Dante jumped back and Ryoko dashed forward with the knife, only for her hand to be caught by Ray. Ray threw her around and sent her flying across the street, his eyes vibrant with the Rinnegan.

Dante shouted "Hey hey, don't ruin my fun!" Ray scoffed and said "She is able to fight me as an equal, you're out of your league." Dante shouted again, saying "Screw you, I'll beat her up with or without your permission." Ray laughed and said "Fine, you go right, I'll go left. Buy me one minute!." Dante replied "Yeah." and rushed at Ryoko while dragging Rebellion across the ground.

Ryoko dashed back and muttered something, but Ray perceived it as "Attack Data Pattern:Sixty Spikes.". Ray sent strings of chakra and pulled Dante back as sixty energy spikes rose from the ground where he was. Dante recovered and the strings detached from his back. Ray began forming hand seals as Dante began firing Ivory and Ebony repetitively at Ryoko, who gracefully dodged the shots constantly at high speeds, not even getting scratched. Dante continued to pour bullets at Ryoko, preventing her from closing the distance towards Ray, who she began to throw energy spikes at only for him to dodge them effortlessly whilst making hand signs.

About a minute later Ray slammed his hand against the ground, shouting "Summoning Technique:Barrier Piercing Recall!". Like glass, the ground shattered and Jack jumped out, wearing a white samurai's kimono and having to his left a black Katana sheathed, the hilt having a gold diamond pattern. Ryoko frowned and began dashing back a distance, she seemed unable to retreat for some reason. Jack noticed this and said "They severed the link, she's a liability to them now." Ray grinned and said "Good, attack pattern theta, tactic grace." Jack nodded and dashed at Ryoko as Dante cease fired and grabbed Rebellion and shaped it into Cerberus.

Jack rapidly closed the distance and Ryoko slammed her fist into the ground. Jack jumped at an incredible speed and hight as a forest of energy spikes drove out of the ground beneath him. Jack created a blue air hike similar to Dante's and positioned himself above Ryoko who was recently restrained by Ray's puppet strings. Jack drew his Katana and air hiked down towards Ryoko, he spiraled like a ball and sliced the air several times, causing green lines to appear and shatter. Ryoko gasped and expulsed a blast of energy in a perfect sphere around her, sending Jack across the street and destroying Ray's chakra strings attached to her. Ryoko dashed back and panted heavily. Ray then said "She's permanently severed from the IDTE, Dante, freeze her!." Dante nodded and began twirling Cerberus rapidly and charged at Ryoko who drew her combat knife and pulse a green energy blade from it, increasing the knifes cutting range. Dante got close and she swung her blade which Dante flickered away and appeared behind her, slamming Cerberus into her side, sending her flying across the street towards Ray, who grinned as she began to freeze as if being bathed in liquid nitrogen. Ray then said "Because she's a data terminal she won't shatter, I'll seal her and dismiss the data sphere around us."

After sealing Ryoko in a scroll and putting it on his back, Ray formed three hand signs and slammed his hand against the ground, causing the white sky to shatter with blue auroras and they returned to the coffee shop, all sitting down at a table as if they were all there and never left.

Dante then said "Whoa, jet lag." Jack ignored this and said "We only have one more person to recruit and we'll be ready to assault Nishinomiya.".
Dante sighed and said "Who's the poor bastard this time?" Ray was silent for while and then he said "This will be our hardest fight, before we go after this person we assemble all the members of our special operations, that's all of us, plus Dexter and Naruto." Dante grinned and said "So who's the special party guest?" Ray said "A chimera with a grudge against all mankind, a Japanese Daimyo once captured her and convinced several shinto priestesses to seal her simply because she refused to marry him. The tale around her inspired a company to name a character with her name as some kind of sick joke. Her name is Kasane Teto, and she will force me to use all of my powers to even level the field slightly. Without full coordination we will all die, even you. Dare I say it, she's stronger than even Virgil." Dante said nothing for a moment, then he said "Why not just ignore her? If you need to match Virgil, I'll be enough.". Ray sighs and says "You don't understand anything at all. Not only do we have to recruit her for our operations but we have to convince her humanity is not a uniform blob of which everyone will have the same prejudices. That and she'll wake up in a few months and ravage humanity. The Mayans had visions on this, I know her location, I'll undo the seal early. She'll be at 20% her power, which is the power I explained, at 100%, she will be unstoppable."

Dante said nothing, and merely sipped his coffee.

To be continued...