A/N:Love Hina belongs to Ken Ass-matsu, Lord Dominator belongs to Disney, Def Jam belongs to EA, Samurai Jack to Genndy and everyone else belongs to their respective owners. I only own my plotlines, the Blackthorn name, and my OCs. Please review, follow, and favorite this and enjoy your read.
"Long ago, in a distant land , I, Aku, the shapeshifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku..."
(Aku leaves and a new chilling voice has taken its place)
"However, unknown to the foolish samurai or the bumbling Aku, was a new evil coming to swallow him up in the void of darkness. Unaware that this threat had knowledge of their world to a tee and a badass crew. With that in tow, the world will suffer under a new evil, under the wrath of I, Jōshō."
The Fall of the Future
Jōshō Arc 5
Chapter 2: (XCII) Distorted Villains being Heroes
It was a peaceful day in one of the many desert villages. They had paid tribute to Aku and managed not to piss anyone off. Despite this, the village was still attacked by new and improved Beetle Drones. Only one family managed to flee, the Emoji family. The mother Bue had fled with her daughter Hali, and the infant son in her arms Te. The husband was long dead and crushed under a drone. As they fled, Hali fell into a pile of oil voicing her disgust through her antennas. This family communicated by making images between their antenna hence they got the surname Emoji. Bue now wished they had another ability instead because they were now surrounded. Bue turned to her daughter Hali to hug her one last time.
"I-love-you!" Bue said through her antenna.
Before the Beetle Drones could even attack, they were frozen as ice encased them and froze the ground around the fearful family. The source of it, Josho stabbing the ground with Paradise Lost. Normally, he'd let the drones kill them, but he realized he'd be flipping off Aku if he did stop them. Josho and his crew rode up to the family. They were in rags and shaking in fear of the newcomers. Josho got off his bike and walked up the huddling three.
"I see you were about to be killed there." Josho said. "Me and my team can slay them off for you…at a price."
"No-$." Bue stated through her antenna while still frazzled.
"The price we're asking for requires no money, am I right guys?" Josho said.
Delia, Motoko, Shinobu, and Keitaro all agreed.
He rolled a hand through the alien dog mother's hair and she caught on to exactly what they wanted.
"The look in your eyes tell you're catching on. Just you...we'll leave your kids out of this." Josho stated. "Blackthorn's honor."
Bue nodded.
"All right, who wants to off them?" Josho asked his crew.
"I'll do it." Michiko remarked unsheathing the Hina Blade. "I need some fun."
Michiko got up with her blade glowing red. With several strikes, the robotic mooks were in pieces and Motoko hadn't broken a sweat. Bue had hoped it would have taken longer than three minutes so she could mentally prepare. She really didn't like these "saviors" as they felt like savage wolves ready to devour her. Either way, the borgs were dead and Bue had to pay up. The mother was shaken as she could feel Michiko and Keitaro eyeing her. Bue had those wide purple eyes and her rags hung loosely to her nubile turquoise body. Using a simple bout of warper's will, Shinobu and Josho caused Hali and Te to fall asleep long enough.
"I have some sense of decency, but you won't have that for long." Josho said lewdly.
Bue needed to do what was needed for her family. She sighed and begin to the removes rags covered her body revealing her nubile body to them all. Bue had no idea she was going to pleasing all…of them.
(A/N: As a mercy, I won't write a lemon of that. Bue's just too cute.)
It had been an hour, and Bue was exhausted. She was on the ground shivering. Her rear sore and bruised, bite marks on her chest and neck, fluids seeping out her orifices, and her mouth tasting of sausages and clams. Josho and the crew was re-dressed and all relived.
"Well cutie, you took it like a champ. Surprised you're into have your ass smacked." Josho remarked. "While I'm not a nice guy, I'll give you this."
Josho dropped a capsule near her face to which Bue fumbled with being opening it. It revealed a spacecraft to travel it fully stocked. Bue was rather surprised by this act of kindness. The team got on their bikes.
"You'll find some better clothes to wear in there and food. Least I could do." Josho said revving his bike as he and his team rode away.
"So, we're going to save the village attacked by Scaramouche?" Delia asked.
"No, I used up all my kindness. We'll go into the woods and rest in the ship." Josho remarked coldly.
He ignored the plume of smoke coming from the village as they took to the woods. Once in the woods, they got to a clearing big enough to release the Pavlovena. They parked their bikes inside it before going up to the living room of the ship to crash for a bit. Michiko practiced her katas, Shinobu got to cooking, Keitaro worked on upgrading Haruka wanting to add a freeze option, Delia was eating a piece of leftover chocolate cake, and Josho pulled up the holo-screen to check on the status of bounties.
"Seems my bounty shot up like a rocket." Josho said getting the crew's attention. "The Warper News Network* put it at number 4 on the most wanted list."
"What about our bounties?" Keitaro asked.
Josho pulled them all up on a list.
"Amoral Ace" Josho Shadow Blackthorn - 50,000,000 – 10th Rank – Active
"Doombringer Dominatrix" Delia Dominator-Blackthorn – 47,000,000 – 6th Rank – Active
"Survivor Swordswoman" Michiko (formerly Motoko Aoyama) – 46,800,000 – 6th Rank – Active
"Hina Hellraiser" Keitaro Urashima – 46,500,000 – 6th Rank – Active
"Shy Snake" Shinobu Maehara – 998,000 – 6th Rank – Active
"Oh, come on, I don't even have a million to my name!" Shinobu said upset.
Keitaro was pleased with his bounty.
"Who comes up with the epithets?" Delia asked.
"Someone who gets paid way too much." Michiko said. "At least they have a good image of me for my poster."
Michiko's poster picture was her slicing a tank in half, Delia's was her having a death grip on some random mook, Keitaro's was him beating up Chiang, Shinobu's was the most innocent of just her in yukata cooking, and Josho's was him using Paradise Lost for the first time.
"You know, Kenji has a team name, but we really don't." Josho said. "I think we need to fix that. Any ideas?"
"The League of Shadows?" Michiko suggested.
"The Insiders to invert the Outsiders?" Shinobu suggested.
"Chaos Faction?" Keitaro remarked.
"Maybe the Tribe of Darkness?" Delia suggested.
"DC did it, that's dumb, good but no, and lastly that one's taken by some warper who thinks he's tough." Josho said in thought. "It needs to match our theme."
"How about the Amoral Shadows?" Michiko suggested.
Josho stopped pacing and smiled gleefully. That smile confirmed that this ragtag team was now the Amoral Shadows. After Shinobu finished cooking a meal of ramen that Naruto would envy, the Shadows ate before starting their training regimens. Josho and Delia fought in a similar style in using any weapon they have on them. Delia was able to piece together parts from her old suit make a new sword similar to Paradise Lost. It was a graceful o-katana was a literary name just it's "husband", Masque of the Red Death. Delia kept it stored in the BlackTab to make it a surprise attack. Michiko was training in her hand to hand combat. Keitaro practiced how to quick draw Haruka and his aim. Shinobu was practicing with on fighting style focusing on leg work like Elena, Juri Han, and Sanji by lifting weights with her legs.
The High Priestess was at her wits' end with one of her daughters. Ashi kept raving that the samurai was already dead, even though it "proved" otherwise. The High Priestess called Ashi crazy, but even Ashi felt her mother wasn't all there. Unlike the canon universe, this Ashi was a bit more defiant and questioning.
"I feel it, mother! The samurai is already dead!" Ashi raved.
"Isolent child! The samurai is alive! Don't make me discipline you!" The High Priestess said threateningly.
Everyone in the cult knew it was an idle threat. Just a week ago, Ashi beat her mother up to a bloody pulp over trying to punish her by taking her meal away. The sisters kept on with their training as they didn't want to stir Ashi's wrath. Ashi was rather more competent than her sisters, but not enough to question why they worship Aku in the first place.
Finally, after some time, Josho and the Amoral Shadows arrived at the village attacked by Scaramouche to find one woman alive missed by the robot assassin. Keitaro promptly shot her with Haruka in the head.
"Oh…thanks, baby for finishing her off." Scaramouche remarked. "But who are you guys?"
"We're the Amoral Shadows." Josho said. "And we're here for you."
"I don't do teams, babe." Scaramouche said scatting a bit in his word.
Keitaro's response to shoot the robot assassin's flute out of his hand.
"We're not here for you join us. We're here to kill you. No hard feelings, babe." Keitaro said coldly.
"Let me do the honors, I want to prove I'm worthy of a million-dollar bounty!" Shinobu said cracking her knuckles.
Keitaro stepped back and Scaramouche got back his flute.
"Well little babe, I won't have mercy because Be-bee-ba-boo-bo-da... I'm Scaramouche the Merciless! The Pied-Piper of Ruination, the Crooner of Carnage, the Ambassador of Annihil….gurkk!" Scaramouche said as Shinobu vanished to reappear to slam a fist in the robot's face.
"You talk a lot of shit." Shinobu said heated.
Scaramouch cracked his neck glaring at the girl who interrupted him. No body interrupts Scaramouche and lives…except Aku. Music had kicked in signaling the start of a battle.
(Cues: [Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 Music] – Big Gete Star)
Scaramouche vs Shinbou
FIGHT!
Scaramouche got up his flute and played a tune to start his musical telekinesis. Forming a golem out of rocks, he set it on Shinobu. Shinobu flipped back to avoid being crushed bouncing off a house to kick the golem through another house. The golem trudged up as Shinobu took a stance. Scaramouche used his flute to make three more golems. Shinobu focused ki around her body as the golems leapt to strike.
"Destruction Dome!" Shinobu said releasing a huge amount of ki from her body forming a red dome around her.
The technique was a rip from a certain geist's technique, but the dome was designed to shred anything that near the dome. The dome tore up the golems and Shinobu dispersed it shocking Scaramouche.
(Cues: One Piece Soundtrack – FIGHT)
Before Scaramouche could use the flute, Shinobu used Rapid Movement/Shave to vanish from his vision.
"Where are you, babe?" Scaramouche said looking and moving about.
"Behind you, baby!" Shinobu said.
Scaramouche turned around only to get kicked right in the chest from the front from the shy snake. Scaramouche staggered but threw his own punch.
"Iron Body!" Shinobu said right before his punch handed on her face.
The part he hit had turned silver as steel and hurt the robot's hand. Scaramouche's face contorted in pain only for Shinobu to challenge ki in her fist to uppercut him into the air. Vanishing with Rapid Movement into air, she charged ki into her hands to double axe handle him into the ground leaving a crater. As the music ended, she landed the coup de grace in crashing her feet into his back to cripple him.
(Music End)
"Well done, Shinobu. Not too bad at all." Josho praised.
"Most impressive." Michiko said.
"You da woman!" Delia cheered.
Keitaro had a small smile on his face proud of Shinobu of holding her own. The team crowded the musical assassin before Josho took Scaramouche's smartphone to crush it.
"Here's a little secret for you. Samurai Jack is dead, because we killed him." Josho said showing the assassin Jack's tainted sword. "That doesn't mean, Aku's going to live. We'll kill him too. You can keep that secret to your grave."
Using Tainted Wrath, he silenced the musician for good and Shinobu had the honor of absorbed the warper energy off him to empower herself. Josho took up the tuning fork sword to pocket.
"Now with that over, the Daughters are soon to come. So, we decided on which one to take." Josho asked.
"Why the Daughters of Aku? Hear me out when I say this, but the Scotsman's Daughters would be much more useful. One would be hard to break, but more use in the long run." Keitaro said.
Josho was surprised at the assessment.
"Well, I guess I should make you the team genius bruiser." Josho said with a smile. "But you're right. However, we'll still capture the Aku daughters and sell them off."
"Can we do the direct route?" Delia asked. "It'll save us time, plus we'll have more time to gather energy off the planet itself."
"Fine with me, my love. Let's roll out, on foot." Josho said as the group capsulized their bikes.
The group walked away having no idea that Scaramouche had missed another one, a man who witnessed the fight and the fact they said they killed the Samurai. He had to go something about this, and trudged away in the opposite direction despite being injured. He had to get help….
"Your training is complete, now go KILL THE SAMURAI!" The High Priestess said before Ashi threw her mask at her.
The Daughters of Aku raced out with Ashi only wanting to prove this was all futile. The Daughters of Aku were hoping their numbers would be enough against the Samurai. They had no idea they would face a foe worse than the Samurai and just as cruel as Aku.
(A/N: XCII is done. This one was rather quick, but it nailed the points I wanted to set up. Look forward to more next time! Due to the hurricanes, this will be on hiatus. I need my home to have power and my laptop's dead key fixed before I can focus on my main works. This applies to the other big ones too.)