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"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 multiverse will fear a new evil, under the wrath of I, Jōshō, and the Amoral Aces!"
The Fall of the Future
Jōshō Arc 5
Chapter 6: A Secret Revealed and A Clean Sweep
Josho and his team wasted no time flying the Vladilena straight to Aku's headquarters. Josho had a plan in mind and got into the "Volt Armor". Delia's opted to swap out the blouse, sarong, and heels for a tracksuit and her usual sneakers. Shinobu wore the same clothes as her usual, but had fingerless gloves on. Michiko decided to break out the black ninja bodysuit seeing this was a worthy battle. Keitaro slipped on his yellow tinted goggles. Weapons at the ready, they were ready only for the ship's computers (and their devices) beeped with a news alert.
Delia took up her BlackTab and swiped at the screen to unlock it.
"News alert. Seems they updated your cousin's bounty. In fact, his whole team got new bounties." Delia remarked.
"And so?" Michiko asked.
"One's got a bounty of nearly 81 million." Delia said.
"Is that Kenji's bounty?" Josho asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No, love. Sadly, his bounty is still higher than yours, but the 81 million bounty is for his team's camp whore. Blackthorn's Camp Whore, Jillian Wilcox." Delia said projecting the image of the bounty.
"And what's Kenji's?" Josho asked curiously.
"75 million." Delia said flatly.
"Let me get this straight. The Camp Whore is considered more dangerous than Kenji! How?" Josho said insulted at this information.
"Apparently, there's a lot. Apparently, her stamina and endurance are inhuman, hell right below Endurion standards. It's been discovered she can drain people's energy through sexual contact and physical contact ala Rogue." Delia said to Josho.
This new information got Josho to freeze, and the shock was enough for him to propel the ship up into space for her to continue. Delia pulled up the file the Order had and Josho's jaw dropped to see Jillian was label a high-level threat.
"Ok, now I see why. She can absorb the abilities of those she drains too! Like that Pinkamena monster or Majin Buu." Michiko said frightened.
"Is there a list?" Josho asked trying not to look nervous.
They got a list, but the page stated the list was incomplete and was not all who she absorbed. What they got a list of twenty people and the Amoral Aces were sweating.
List of People Jillian has absorbed:
(This list is currently incomplete and will be updated soon. Jillian's number of absorbed could be anywhere between 20-40. The Order can only confirm ten victims.)
Super Buu
Rick Sanchez
Rogue
X-23
Lady Deadpool
Starfire
Chun-Li
Itachi Uchiha
Nora Valkyrie
Batwoman
"Oh shit." Josho said blankly. "If she's absorbed from those people, that means…"
"She's been faking her idiocy for months. Hell, I don't think Kenji and his crew knows." Delia said flatly. "According to the psychologically report, she has the abilities of who she absorbs, but only minor parts of their personalities. She's basically an idiotic genius….a walking oxymoron.'
"The moment the Outsiders find out about this, they'll use this to their advantage. And while I could hack the Order to steal the information, they could just ask Jillian herself, but even that's unlikely. One thing Kenji doesn't have is perception. That's why he will not get far. Ryder's gotten far because he is quite perceptive due to that Gamer effect enhancing his senses! Ryker was always a creative kid able to sketch out ideas through his drawings and put extreme attention to details. Ace and Evie would not be prodigies without being perceptive! My siblings share it too...and so do I." Josho explained.
Josho sighed pinching the bridge between his nose.
"Simply put, Kenji is smart and somewhat savvy. But compared to all of us, he's a fucking moron with no purpose or drive!" Josho ranted. "And it sickens me how lucky this dumbass has gotten as he doesn't even deserve the bounty he has. All of his opponents so far are either on par with or weaker than him for fuck's sake!"
Josho was tempted to kick Kenji's ass, but decided to deal with his own issues. Kenji could always wait for another day. The Amoral Ace brought down the ship on Aku's fortress with Josho in a rather steamed mood. The original plan was furtive and meant to be swift, and Josho would spam Warper's Will to calm himself calm to not generate bio-electricity which started to spark around him. The team of five Henged into familiar face with Josho being the High Priestess and the rest being the Daughters of Aku. With their Henges up, they easily were about enter into the fortress to gain audience with Aku. The shapeshifting master of darkness rose from his throne to greet them.
"Greetings, Aku, oh mighty master of darkness!" "High Priestess" said. "We have come to inform you of good news. The samurai has fallen!"
Aku's jaw hit the dirt as Josho produced the sword. Aku broke out into a victory dance. Had he looked closer he would have realized that sword was tainted. With his back turned, Josho slashed at Aku by chopping off his ring faster.
"What are you doing?! What?!" Aku said in shock as the Henge broke to reveal it was all a ruse.
"Yes, we lied about who we were, but I did not lie about the samurai. He is dead, and you will join him!" Josho said.
(Cues: Fierce Battle – Metal Slug 5)
Amoral Aces vs Aku
Before Aku could strike, Shinobu got in front of her teammate. Positioning her arms and hands spread over her forehead, she released a Solar Flare. It was intended to merely blind Aku, but she unintentionally give Aku a bit of damage. The sudden intense light burned at Aku's skin of darkness getting him to howl out in pain. The blindness effect may have taken his vision for a while, but Aku fired out his eye beams down at the five.
"Scatter!" Josho ordered as the five leapt away into different directions.
Keitaro fired his sidearm, Haruka, in rapid fire mode after Aku using Warper's Edit to make the plasma blast capable of harming Aku. However, Keitaro lost Haruka to a well-timed palm strike from Aku crushing the sidearm and nearly got Keitaro's side.
"Bastard nipped at my jacket!" Keitaro said as he fired a Shine Shot right at Aku.
Aku regained his vision used his body to unleash electricity on all five of them. That proved to be futile when Keitaro, Shinobu, Michiko used Josho at a living lighting rod. Delia boldly used her Spark Spear as a lighting rod and got her weapon supercharged for her risk.
"Hey Aku, here's a taste of your own poison!" Delia said twirling her spear in her hand.
Dodging Aku's chop on the ground she stood on, she drove Spark Spear into his left hand releasing electricity into it. Having his power turned on did a modest amount of damage on the dark lord. With a rush of strength, Aku lifted his hand sending Delia tumbling to the ground with her spear out of a reach. Aku shot a column of fire down on him to which Delia rolled out of the way to avoid being burned.
Michiko and Josho readied for a team using Tainted Wrath and the Hina Blade. Both held their swords horizontally above the shoulder of their arms (left for Josho, right for Michiko), and then performed in sync a circular swing.
"720-Pound Phoenix!" Both said in snyc.
That swing launches two air compressed projectiles spiraling at Aku which merged into a bigger one. The attack hammered Aku with enough force to send him crashing out of his fortress into the cold ground outside.
"Thanks for the save, darling." Delia said getting up to snag her spear.
"Sweetheart, this is only Round 1! Time for Round 2!" Josho said unsheathing Paradise Lost to dual wield.
(Cues: Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution - 3 Way Deadlock)
Ironic, that word spread quickly that people were fighting Aku and giving the bastard a run for his money. Many were on their help to provide aid, and they would find themselves in a three-way deadlock. Josho and his team were still combatting Aku, but had to keep the "allies" out of their way. Keitaro had to shove one of Ravers out of the way to nail Aku with another ki blast. Shinobu kept up attacks with her minigun using explosives rounds not caring if an innocent flying on the giant birds got hit focusing on Aku. Delia was flying about jabbing him with his spear before flying back to get out of his range. Josho and Michiko kept up the sword attacks hammering Aku with attack after attack. Michiko and Josho were also being the sponge in taking the most damage from Aku.
"Time to finish this!" Josho said with his injuries healing thanks to regeneration.
His regeneration was a bit faster now thanks to awakening Megavolt, and Michiko had immortality patching her up.
"Going for the finisher? I'll get the crowd back!" Michiko said to Josho.
Michiko flew around forcing the "allies" back with Shinobu, Keitaro, and Delia aiding in doing so. Josho turned to face Aku and powered up to Megavolt form.
"You instead to fight me alone?" Aku said laughing at Josho's "bravado". "And finish me, how foolish?"
"It's not foolish, you arrogant fuck. This ends here and now!" Josho said holding out his swords. "Michiko, I need to battle Enteru!"
Michiko tossed it and Josho caught the handle of his with his teeth. He took a stance.
"In my family, only my uncle Akira has done this successfully. And I will be the second." Josho said calmly.
(Cues: One Piece Ost - Kiki Kyutoryu: Ashura (1:10))
Josho's ki rose causing the ground to darken several meters in diameter from where he stood and blow away a gust of wind. The clouds darkened and lightning stuck. Honing on his Shin Warper's Will, it manifested himself in a dark aura emanating from himself into a being with six arms and three heads.
"Kiki Kyutoryu: Asura!" Josho said as the aura of Ashura shone.
Aku recoiled with evident fear to see Jack's sword (Tainted Wrath) multiplied into three.
"Aku…" The left Josho head with Paradise in his mouth said.
"Death awaits…." The right Josho head with Tainted Wrath in his mouth.
Aku could have tried to grow into a giant and crushed Josho under his heel. But Aku was livid to see the "demon", and claimed he could match him. So, he copied the copier by shapeshifting to a similar state of Josho. Aku leapt up to the top of his tower looking down on Josho.
"Foolish warrior, I, Aku, am the shapeshifting master of darkness, you are no samurai!" Aku said.
Aku spins around quickly in a circle while using elongating his body to gain extra momentum and spin faster, and then launches a massive crescent moon-like projectile of compressed darkness down at Josho. The attack was large enough to wipe out the entire army if it hit the ground, and Josho leapt up flying right at holding the swords so the blades are pointing towards Aku. Josho slashed through Aku's attack turning into a dark mist blinding Aku for the moment to allow to Josho to powerfully slash through Aku with all nine of his swords at once. The wrath of three of Tainted Wrath caused demon blood to spray out of Aku grievously injuring him. Josho landed on the tower a foot away ending in a position where all the swords are held to fan out with Aku's blood dripping off them.
(Cues: [Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 Music] - Cutscene 3)
Josho's transformation faded as Michiko used telekinesis to recall her sword out of Josho's mouth to which he let go. Josho allowed sheathed Paradise Lost and walked up to the fallen demon.
"Hey Aku, since you're going to die, allow to me to tell you a secret. This sword of darkness was the Samurai's blade tainted by me, and you're going to complete the sword with your power. I will bring chaos, and you're merely the stepping stone." Josho said a low whisper before driving Tainted Wrath through Aku's skull.
Aku screamed as Tainted Wrath glowed absorbing his darkness and destroying him. Aku would fade into white Flames of Creation with Josho securing a chunk of it in an energy bubble. Tainted Sword's metal grew blacker and reeked of pain and sorrow as Josho sheathed it away. His job was done and he powered back down to base form.
(Music Ends)
With a brust of Shin Warper's Will, he knocked out all of the non-warpers in the area. He had to work fast for this. His teammates got to editing their memories. It was a simple matter of Josho looking an alternate universe where Jack perished and bringing that Ashi to this one, and get a Jack who lost Ashi by returning to the past to slay Past Aku to this one. When Josho and his team left there, the army awoke, and they praised Jack for slaying Aku due to their altered memories. Jack was completely confused and would have said something if not for Ashi tackle hugging Jack. Both were immensely shocked to see each other, but glad nevertheless. This time, Jack decided to stay in the future…for Ashi's sake. If only Jack knew…
Josho's Log Entry Number XXX
The trip to gather more powers and abilities was a total success. Tainted Wrath is a lot more dangerous now even able to burst into flames, bouts of ice, and electricity. The weapons the team and I gained were rather impressive. Keitaro had to go without due to Aku crushing his gun. Either way, those fools think Jack killed Aku and I'm fine with this. All and all, a good run. However, we ended up gaining new crewmates to my surprise. It seems that Emoji mother hunted us down asking us to join our crew. Apparently, they got attacked and Te got killed in the crossfire. Bue wanted to join us for Tali's safety. So, that's how we got our own camp whore in Bue. Tali would be our assistant, specifically for tasks in cleaning and in the kitchen with Shinobu. She was a bit young, so we had to slowly train her in combat. So, this trip went from good run to excellent.
Josho out.
Josho finished typing his log and closed his laptop mewling with a bit of pleasure for his orgasm. Under his desk, Bue was obediently oral servicing her new boss. Bue was initially a bit against being the team's camp whore, but she quickly realized they were a team of mercenaries (on their good days). Plus, Josho did offer to take in the daughter. So, Bue bucked up willing to serve, but cut a deal with Josho that Tali was not be "touched". Josho had no issue with it and was willing to enforce that part of the deal. As Josho got up to zip up his pants, Bue got out from under the desk swallowing the seminal fluid from him. Bue was dismissed to her and Tali's new room while the core crew gathering in the lab. They were all currently in space away from the Earth not wanting anyone on the planet to see the chunk of Aku's essence they boosted.
Josho held the bubble up.
"I'll split it in five. Absorbing these Flames of Creations might give us a new ability." Josho said being dispersing the bubble.
The five absorbed the flames and tried to see if they got any new abilities of it. Delia, to her joy, gained Aku's regeneration. Keitaro gained Aku's eye beams to his disappointment considering most could do that with ki.
"At least they look cool." Keitaro muttered.
Shinobu, to the shock of the entire team, gained Aku's necromancy and corruption powers. Michiko gained Aku's near-immortality, but it was canceled out by Michiko's already immortal body.
"Oh, come on, really?" Michiko complained.
Josho gained Aku's elemental control to project and control the elements of the physical world, combat skills, and telekinesis (since Josho had that already, it was merely enhanced).
"Well team, I say we pay Kenji a visit." Josho said turning to the fourth wall. "Time Kenji got some character development…"
The group all had devious looks on their faces, especially Shinobu. Considering the Dragon World was ripe with dead and powerful villain, she could practice her new necromantic powers! The Vladilena's course was set….next stop….Kenji.
Josho Arc 5 – Complete
(A/N: And so, it ends fairly well with Kenji in for it now. Yes, Josho has gained Nine Sword Style under his arsenal of techniques, but here's an interesting fact. Akira's version is very different in context as it off more angelic and heroic bases. Josho basically did it close to the original version. And with the new powers, the team has now, they are definitely going to be a major threat in the future. Josho's adventures will continue over at Not Another High School Fanfiction, so head over there and stay tuned. By the way, nobody expected Jillian to be wanted for being Pinkamena Lite! Haha!)