Well here it is, the next chapter. Another long one. I gotta tell you guys, don't expect this story to follow the original to any great degree. I'm adding an extra piece of equipment I just thought up of, and I'll probably make more if I get any ideas. Keep your notifications up, I'm introducing a new character in the next chapter (this is all I can give before it becomes a HUGE spoiler)
Finally, I'd like to clarify that Gaim isn't my original creation, it's an actual TV show. Obviously I don't own it, but I'm writing (or typing?) this down because of some reader's comments (I'm not gonna name that person, but you can check out the comments and put two and two together). But enough from me, just enjoy the story!
-CHAPTER 5-
-THE FIRST DEATH-
Hideyoshi grinned and held out his hand. Kinji got up and embraced his friend.
"Easy, man. Though I admit it's always a wonderful thing to meet ME…" Hideyoshi chuckled.
"Hideyoshi! I've not seen you since we graduated from high school! Where've you been?" Kinji asked.
Hideyoshi shrugged.
"My folks moved to Shinjuku, so naturally I had to move with them."
"Other than that, how'd you become Gaim in the first place!?" Kinji finally said. He had a whole ton of questions to ask, but this seemed to take priority above all others.
"Yeah, life story time… I remember it like it was yesterday… though it was, like, two months ago…"
Hideyoshi rushed to the school, opening his overcoat as he walked in, welcoming the cool interior of the staff room.
"Weather's hot today. Damn. And I've got a whole stack of worksheets to mark." Hideyoshi grumbled, referring to the ungodly stack of unmarked mathematics worksheets on his table and got a strong smack in the back.
"Hideyoshi! You're slacking again, aren't you?" His colleague yelled. His name card identified him as Kitamura, the PE teacher.
"Kitamura-sensei… not really. Just gotta finish marking these worksheets, and I'm going for lessons."
"Ha, I'd have thought that you'd never want to set a foot in this high school again. And I'm not your teacher anymore. Stop calling me sensei!" Kitamura said.
Hideyoshi smiled. In around a few hours, he completed the marking, and went up to the class with the proud and shining clean metal label with the words 'CLASS 2-A' embossed on the surface. He slid open the door and stepped back as the chalk duster fell on the floor and threw up a cloud of white dust. Hideyoshi smiled, picked the chalk duster up and put it on the ridge at the blackboard.
"You still think you'd be able to get me with that? Less pranking and more studying!" Hideyoshi called.
His students groaned at another failed prank, then submissively took out their textbooks.
Hideyoshi began conducting lessons, consisting of textbooks, worksheets, and more talking.
After lessons, Hideyoshi rushed. His gut was aching. He finally found The Place. The place which would rid him of all suffering. Most people knew it as the toilet. He rushed into an empty cubicle and pulled down his pants. He heard zipping, though he dismissed it as someone else unzipping their pants. As he sat down, he fell all the way through. After a long fall, he landed on what felt like soft grass.
"What the heck?" Hideyoshi surveyed his surroundings, seeing gnarled trees and strangely-colored flowers all around him. "A forest?"
He looked up and shouted in shock, seeing the view of the toilet above him through a portal that looked like a zipper opened in mid-air.
"Shit! Now where do I take a dump!" Hideyoshi shouted, slamming a fist on the ground in frustration.
He looked around, trying to find the exit.
He didn't find it. He did find something more interesting, though. A Japanese style castle, complete with archer towers and a moat.
"Damn…" Hideyoshi muttered, suddenly feeling compelled to walk in.
As he entered, he saw something. He went forward, and picked it up. It was a rectangular belt buckle with a small blade at the side and a hexagonal hollow in the middle. The other side was a black plate which fitted the belt buckle perfectly. At the top was a silver piece of what seemed to be metal with a hole at the middle. At the side, Hideyoshi saw a Lock Seed and a booklet.
"Holy! An Orange Lock Seed!" Hideyoshi breathed. Hideyoshi had only seen it once before. It was quite rare, such a powerful Lock Seed. Hideyoshi stared at the round orange with tiny indents to replicate the surface of the fruit and the words 'L.S. 07' on it. He went to the booklet. The front page wrote 'Sengoku Driver Instruction Manual'.
"Pfft, what is this, a kids' toy?" Hideyoshi scoffed. But then he noticed that the back of the Lock Seed fitted the hexagonal hollow. Weighing his options, Hideyoshi decided to flip through the manual.
"Place buckle on waist…?"
Hideyoshi followed the instructions and the belt buckle formed a yellow belt that fitted perfectly around his waist. The black plate at the side glowed and changed. There was now a side view of a green helmet with visor resembling stained glass.
"To use, activate Lock Seed and fit into hexagonal groove…" Hideyoshi continued, following the instructions on the manual.
He opened the Lock Seed, and the lock opened and the fruit shone orange.
[ORANGE]
He heard something above him and looked up, seeing a large metal orange materialise.
"Damn! What's going on?" Hideyoshi cursed.
He fitted the opened Lock Seed into the groove and consulted the manual.
"Close lock and push end of blade down, cutting the Lock Seed." Hideyoshi read aloud.
"Like this?" He pushed down the lock.
[LOCK ON]
"Then…" He flicked the butt of the knife upwards with his finger, and the knife sliced open the front of the lock.
[SOIYA! ORANGE ARMS! HANAMICHI… ON STAGE!]
The orange landed on his head, folding into four parts. The front folded into a breastplate, whereas the sides halved themselves and folded down to become shoulder pads. The back folded downwards to form armor protecting his back while revealing the grey inside. A sword with a blade that resembled an orange slice materialized in his hand.
"What the!" Gaim cried out.
He dropped the manual in shock and saw the next page.
"Weapons: Daidaimaru and Musou Saber? This weirdness is too much for one day…" Gaim mumbled to himself.
He looked at his sides and saw a katana-like sword at the side. It matched the diagram for the Musou Daber, and the one in his hand matched the diagram for the Daidaimaru.
"This orange sword looks stupid." Was the first thing Gaim said before he flipped to the last page.
"Caution: the first transformation on this first-edition Sengoku Driver will attract huge mobs of Inves wanting to eat you. Have fun!" Gaim read aloud. Beside the instructions was a smiley face with a victory pose.
"Inves? Aren't those just used for heavy labour?" Gaim wondered. He heard snarling, and a bead of cold sweat ran down his forehead under his armour.
Gaim slowly turned around, failing terribly at hiding his panic, and jumped as a single Inves lumbered into view.
"Oh… that's it? All right! At least I might be able to deal with one of these…"
Or at least, that was what Gaim thought. Then the Inves opened its mouth. The grey shell on its back, what Gaim thought to be the Inves's shell, opened with the front of the face into sections that looked like tendrils. It was lined with several rows of sharp teeth resting on blood-red gums, with what looked like bits of raw flesh hanging off the teeth. Gaim felt bile rise to his throat. Before he vomited all over himself, however, a small army of the same Inves poured into the room through the door.
"Oh shit!" Gaim said, drawing his weapons.
He slashed and hacked, but the Inves never faltered. They kept coming, more replacing the ones Gaim slew.
"Hey now… I have a stomachache! How do you expect me to hold off these guys?" Gaim called out to nobody in particular, panic rising in his voice. Ignoring his stomach, he fought for survival.
He slashed and hacked, managing to hold off the Inves.
Eventually, the Inves looked up and all ran away. Gaim turned and saw a dark figure. He brandished his sword and slashed at Gaim, and Gaim fell.
Another shadow used a long staff to hit Gaim as he stumbled, and he collapsed to the ground.
"Know your place, worm," the one with the sword snarled. "Kneel before the King!"
Gaim looked up and saw a hooded man, the two shadows bowing deeply to him behind him. Under his hood, he smiled. It seemed really cruel. He reached for the instruction manual and flipped through it.
"Well," the hooded man said in a smooth, velvety voice. "Seems to me like the first one is fully functional. Good job. Now, Hideyoshi-san, you've been chosen to fight a battle for ownership of this forest, the Helheim forest. You are currently the first one, but do not fret. I shall gather more and you shall have a battle like no other in history!"
"You think I'm a kid? A toy instruction manual, seriously? And then you send Inves after me!" Gaim muttered. The shadow with the sword got up, kicked Gaim and caused him to drop to the ground.
"You ought to respect the King, Hideyoshi-san." The hooded man said patronisingly. This infuriated Gaim and he lunged forward. The shadow with the staff went forward and swiftly rapped Gaim's shins and although he had armour on his shins, they felt like they had caught on fire.
Gaim collapsed to the floor, only to be yanked up by one of the shadows, a sword pressed to his belt.
"King-sama, please allow me to kill this man!" The shadow implored.
"No need. Now, Hideyoshi-san, I've chosen you to fight in a really fun battle. The rules are simple. See, the Driver you just got, it lets you transform. You already know that. But you need to smash other's Drivers to eliminate them from the battle. Survive until you're the last one standing, and you win."
Gaim gritted his teeth.
"What makes you think I'll be interested?"
King chuckled and held out his hand. Immediately, vines sprouted from his hand and grew outwards. The reddish-purple fruits grew, and turned into several Lock Seeds.
"Simple: pure power to match the gods. You see, if you win, you get to inherit my power. I have total control over an entire world: this forest. I can control the plants' growth and can even control what kind of fruits sprout out. You become King, you'll be able to-"
"No." Gaim said without waiting for more.
"What?"
"You heard me. I don't want this." Gaim muttered.
King's smile fell and he splayed his hand. Gaim was thrown backwards and was forced into a gap in the castle walls.
King slowly turned his hand palm-up, clenching it as he did.
The wall slowly closed on Gaim. His armour began making ominous cracking and creaking sounds as he groaned.
King relaxed and dropped his hand, and the cliff reopened. Gaim fell out, and the cliff rejoined and it seemed as if it was untouched. He saw bits of his orange armour on the ground around him.
"How about now?" King asked.
Gaim remained silent, and King chuckled.
"Hideyoshi… you know I can put you back in there and squish you into a gory mess any time, so better decide quick!" King chirped.
Gaim kept silent, but nodded his head once.
King seemed satisfied, and gestured for the shadows to make way for him behind him. Before he did, he turned his head back and spoke.
"Now, Hideyoshi-san, just a little warning. Don't try to destroy this Driver to get out of this. If you do, well, let's just say you won't like it. If you're so curious what'll happen, kill the others, smash their Drivers and find out. I'm sure there'll be plenty of others raring to fight." King said.
Gaim grunted and kept silent as the hooded man, or King, as the shadows called him, left, the shadows walking right beside him.
"Oh yes," King called. "I opened up a Crack at the entrance. You can go home. I'll get you when I've gotten enough players. I've got a list here."
King held up a device that looked like a smartphone and waved it in Gaim's face.
Gaim caught a glimpse at the list. The one name he saw… this wasn't good. King kept the and walked off with the shadows, chuckling to himself.
The name he saw, beside a purple-coloured Lock Seed…
Kinji Akahoshi.
"It can't be… but what if it is? Kinji's in danger…" Gaim said to himself.
He slowly got up and saw a zip. It opened and he saw the school interior on the other side. Gaim closed the open fruit and opened the lock, then removed the Lock Seed. He proceeded to exit the forest through the zip, or as King called it, the Crack.
"And that, kids, is how I became Gaim!" Hideyoshi announced proudly.
Kinji had been listening intently and suddenly a thought occurred to him.
"Hey, Hideyoshi… what about your Lock Seed?" He asked.
"Ah… about that, since you busted my Ichigo Lock Seed, you're gonna look for a new one for me!" Hideyoshi announced, dragging Kinji along.
"Wait, what!?"
The next day, after treating their wounds from the previous battle the best they could, Hideyoshi and Kinji wandered through Helheim, having found a Crack. They wandered the forest, picking Lock Seed Flowers as they passed. They'd already found an Ichigo Lock Seed, but Hideyoshi had claimed that he needed more if he was to train Kinji as well as himself.
"We need a place to store these…" Kinji muttered, his hands full of Lock Seeds.
"No problem. Here." Hideyoshi called, pulling out a huge cloth bag and tossing his Lock Seeds in.
"You had that the whole time?" Kinji said in disbelief.
"Don't sweat the details. Oh wait, that's my job. Thinking smart is yours. Anyway, we've found an Ichigo Lock Seed already, and lots of others, so we should head back now. Maybe after I get a few more Seeds." Hideyoshi grinned, walking towards another tree.
He reached out for another two Lock Seed Flowers at once and pulled. They transformed into weirdly shaped, bulky Lock Seeds, one with a white and pink cherry blossom design and the other with a red rose design.
"What the hell are these?" Hideyoshi said aloud.
"Hm? New Lock Seeds? Well since we both don't know what they are, we should test them out." Kinji advised.
Heeding Kinji's advice, Hideyoshi tossed the pink and white Lock Seed to Kinji and they both opened their Lock Seeds. Strangely, it made no announcement. They closed the Lock in the Driver and sliced, but the Lock Seed didn't open like they usually did.
"Wha-?" Hideyoshi said, rapidly slicing on the blade such that it made an extremely rapid and irritating clicking sound.
"It… doesn't work…" Kinji muttered.
"Quite the contrary." A voice called. They turned their heads swiftly to the source of the sound, to see a black Rider. Kinji recognised him as one of the Riders without a Driver at the throne room.
"This here is my favourite puppet, he's called Kurokage. Nice name, eh?" King's voice called. He stepped out from behind Kurokage. "Anyway, seems like you found a Lock Vehicle. They're a little experiment of mine I want to try out. You're supposed to open the lock, then throw it to the ground. Go on, try." King said, gesturing to Kinji's Lock Seed.
Kinji hesitated, then opened his Lock Seed and tossed it to the ground.
Midway, the Lock Seed unfolded into a shiny black motorcycle, a rose as the headlight. There were red and green accents here and there, the part around the wheels green.
Hiseyoshi's became a white motorcycle similar to Kinji's, but with a cherry blossom motif, as well as pink and gold accents instead.
"Damn…" Kinji muttered.
"These Lock Vehicles are powered by their own energy, so they don't really need any gas to fuel them." King explained.
"Useful…" Hideyoshi muttered.
"Well, since you don't have helmets or safety gear, I'd advise you both to transform before using that thing. Also, go fast enough and you'll open a temporary Crack. So go on!" He chirped.
Heeding King's advice, the two activated their Lock Seeds, closing the locks simultaneously and slicing.
[ORANGE]
[LOCK ON]
[BU-DOU]
[LOCK ON]
[SOIYA! ORANGE ARMS! HANAMICHI… ON STAGE!]
[HAIII! BU-DOU AARMS! RYU! HOU! HAHAHA!]
"Uh… thanks…" Gaim muttered.
"Don't sweat it. Oh yeah, by the way, I decided to add yet another nifty piece of gear. Only the Musou Saber has a sheath, but I decided to make others for all the weapons. Kinji-chan, go try your gun holster!" King said.
"Don't use '-chan' on me…" Ryugen said, looking at his waist.
He noticed a gold, triangular holster in his right hip, which fit the shape of the Ryuhou perfectly. The side of the holster facing outwards had Ryugen's symbol, a stylized version of his helmet on an octagon, in purple
Gaim also acquired a sheath for his Daidaimaru, a simple metal clasp which clamped the bottom of he sword hilt firmly.
"The other players also got that, so it's fair! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a long day of kingly duties to see to, like torturing Inves! You should try it someday. It's fun." King called, walking off with Kurokage.
They remained silent as they got on their motorcycles and decided to try opening a Crack by going fast on their Lock Vehicles as King instructed.
Gaim raced beside Ryugen, swerving occasionally to avoid crashing into random trees.
"When can we open the Crack like King said! He said we'd be able to open one once we reach a high enough speed!" Hideyoshi complained.
As they passed by another tree, Gaim saw a white figure, followed by a bright flash. Something hit his bike and it fell off balance, making Gaim fall onto the ground.
"God! What the hell!" Gaim barked, tumbling onto the soil. The figure stepped out, his visor catching the light and glinting. The attacker brandished his sword and brought it slicing towards Gaim's neck. Rolling aside, Gaim brought out his Musou Saber and Daidaimaru, dual-wielding them. He adjusted his footwork and brought an onslaught of powerful slashes upon his attacker, who raised a green shield with golden fixtures.
"You're not gonna interfere again, Gaim. I'll handle you personally." Zangetsu growled, bringing his own Musou Saber swinging diagonally upwards. Although the strike only hit Gaim's breastplate, it was enough to push Gaim back a good length, also at the same time hurting him.
Ryugen swerved and braked, getting off the bike and trying to draw his gun. Then he remembered the sheath. He felt one button on each leather strap, then pressed it. The leather clasps faded, and Ryugen yanked his gun out, ready to help Gaim. Just then, something slashed his side, causing him to fall.
"I said I'd get revenge, didn't I?" Baron said, cocking his head arrogantly, his spear in his hand.
Ryugen pumped his gun and shot, though the strike seemed to only mildly irritate Baron more than harm him.
Baron prepared for a strike, lifting his spear and getting into a fighting stance. Ryugen saw an opportunity and slashed once on his Driver.
[BU-DOU… SQUASH!]
Tendrils of purple energy trashed about until Ryugen pulled the trigger, and the energy formed spheres, which shot forward to hit Baron. Baron cried out in shock, not pain, for he was used to pain already, and staggered back. Ryugen pulled the tab behind his gun and pulled the trigger, resulting in several bullets firing at rapid speed at Baron. He kept pulling the tab and shooting, not letting Baron have any time to retaliate.
However, it failed, and Baron escaped the torrent of bullets, then proceeded to punch Ryugen in the face. Instead of breaking his nose, Baron seemed to hurt his fist on the mask, cursing and reeling back. Ryugen stumbled back from the sheer force, then returned with a low sweep. His foot made contact with Baron's ankle, and Baron fell. Ryugen punched Baron in the gut, rendering him vulnerable for a moment, then sliced once on his blade.
[BU-DOU… SQUASH!]
This time Ryugen leaped up high into the air, and came down with purple spherical energy spiralling around his right foot. He cried out, plummeting towards Baron. As Ryugen continued his descent downwards, Baron snapped out of his trance, having only a moment to take in the scene.
But for someone like Baron, a moment was all that was needed.
Baron leapt aside, and Ryugen's foot kicked the ground instead. The ground rumbled, and a gigantic cloud of dust was thrown up. Ryugen only heard the sound of a blade on the Driver slicing twice in rapid succession, accompanied with two flashes of bright yellow light as each slicing sound was made, followed by an announcement.
[BANANA AU LAIT!]
As the dust settled, Ryugen saw Baron holding his spear in his right hand, the back of his hand facing the ground, and his other hand splayed open, lightly touching the back of the handle. The spear glowed with yellow energy, making the air around it tremble. Seven energy replicas of the spear materialised, spinning in a circle behind Baron, tips all pointing at Ryugen, who stepped back. The energy spears flickered, like mere holograms which were seemingly harmless. Baron was motionless, and he seemed perfectly calm. Then he made his move.
Baron, grunting, thrust his spear, and the energy solidified and shot out, the surrounding energy spears doing the same. Ryugen leapt to the left, one spear hitting his shoulder padding from the side. The impact was immense, and Ryugen felt like his left shoulder was breaking. He had his arm broken before as a kid. He imagined that the pain was similar.
Ryugen fell to the ground, his mind numb and slightly jarred from the impact. He turned his head to Gaim, who was crossing his two swords to block Zangetsu's Musou Saber. Then Gaim was pushing and managed to push him back. Gaim slashed… but parried away by Zangetsu. Zangetsu slashes. Gaim falls. Though he was quite numb, Ryugen could still hear the sadistic laughter of Zangetsu.
Now back to the battle at hand, Ryugen thought to himself, turning his head back.
"I'm going to end this… you're going to regret ever crossing me!" Baron growled, slicing once on his Driver.
[BANANA SQUASH!]
He leapt into the air, imitating Ryugen's kick, except that for Baron's, yellow energy gathered around his foot like a spearhead. Ryugen had a horrible sense of déjà vū as he recalled being beaten up by Baron the first time.
"No… this isn't like last time… Kurusu-san has trained me already… I CAN FIGHT!" Ryugen said with gritted teeth, his determination becoming his strength. He rolled to get on his back and at the same time dodging the attack. He got up, and leapt away to a safe distance. Ryugen's shoulder was howling in protest, but Ryugen ignored it and sliced twice on his Driver, then aimed his gun at Baron.
[BU-DOU… AU LAIT!]
Small spheres of energy swiftly gathered into a large cannonball of translucent energy in his gun, and he pulled the trigger. The force was immense, and his shoulder creaked dangerously. It hurt like hell, though he knew it would've been worse if his right shoulder was hurt. If that happened, his master hand would have been pretty much immobilised. It kept shooting, once, twice, thrice, reloading immediately as it began moving out. It slowed Baron down, but he was still on-course. His foot made contact with Ryugen, though it was soft and barely did any damage. Due to the strikes, though, Baron lost balance and tumbled awkwardly to the ground.
Ignoring his wound, Ryugen sliced twice on his blade again.
[BU-DOU… AU LAIT!]
The energy built up again, and the large purple cannonball-like projectiles shot out, crashing into Baron, who was thrown back as he gave an almighty scream and was engulfed in an explosion before he even landed.
The battle between Gaim and Zangetsu stopped as they froze and stared at the explosion.
As the smoke settled, they saw Baron kneeling, his head lolling in a circular motion. His Sengoku Driver was cracked, extremely bright yellow light spilling out. The light was replaced with vines, long thin vines like those on the trees of Helheim, except that the vines coming out of the Driver didn't have the Lock Seed Flowers. Baron's back arched, and he collapsed face first into the ground. The vines kept growing and growing, until eventually they engulfed Baron completely. It was rather gruesome, with the thought that, under the bundle of vines Ryugen normally wouldn't give a second glance, was a human being.
He let out a small gasp of shock as the bundle of vines sank to the ground, as if the ground were parting to let the body through. In no time, there was no indication of Baron's existence, save for the Ichigo Lock Seed that he stole, where he sank.
Zangetsu, for his part, seemed unimpressed and took his Lock Seed out without folding the opened section, and fitted it into the groove in his Musou Saber, then closed the lock.
[LOCK ON]
Zangetsu got back into a fighting stance as his blade glowed green.
[1-10-100-1000-10000]
The countdown gave Ryugen and Gaim time to react, and Gaim shoved Ryugen aside, slicing once on his blade.
[ORANGE SQUASH]
His Daidaimaru glowed orange, and he slashed as Zangetsu's blade finished charging.
[MELON CHARGE]
The green and orange waves of energy collided, and sent a huge shockwave throughout the area, throwing the three Riders off their feet.
"Bastard… should've known you'd do that!" Zangetsu growled.
"You should have, and you were doing such a wonderful job of reacting to it!" Gaim commented mockingly, much to Zangetsu's chagrin.
"Die!" Zangetsu shouted, swinging his Musou Saber.
"Kinji!" Gaim called, tossing his Daidaimaru to Ryugen.
Ryugen stretched out his right arm to grab the sword, nearly dropping it as his hand slipped, holding his gun in his aching left hand. He remembered King
"Really smooth." Gaim commented sarcastically. Ryugen made a mental note to get him back for that one.
Ryugen adjusted his grip on the sword. He didn't actually have any training in sword fighting, but he'd seen plenty of movies with sword fights. He figured that that'd be good enough.
Ryugen tilted the sword and slashed down diagonally. Zangetsu brought his shield up and blocked the strike, then twisted his hip to avoid Gaim's strike to his belly.
Ryugen pulled out his gun and shot Zangetsu. Zangetsu cried out and stumbled back, and Ryugen sliced once on his blade, tossing the Daidaimaru back to Gaim, who then sliced once on his own blade.
[BU-DOU… SQUASH!]
[ORANGE SQUASH!]
Ryugen pulled the trigger, but this time bullets larger than his normal ones shot out rapidly, and hit Zangetsu's belt. Gaim's strike, however, hit the belly portion of Zangetsu. Zangetsu cried out in shock and collapsed. His Lock Seed was damaged. Obviously, since he didn't seem to be dying, his Driver was intact.
Green light enveloped Zangetsu and dissipated, revealing a man in a finely tailored black suit and shining leather shoes. He had a cleanly shaven face, and chiseled features. Ryugen couldn't tell how old he was. His eyes were covered by his sunglasses. His cheek had a thin scar running through it, like his cheek had been cut open once. His black hair was neatly combed. His mouth twitched into a scowl, and he slowly got up.
"Well, you've seen me, now you know who I am. To use a severely overused phrase, it seems that my goose is cooked." The man who was Zangetsu said. His voice was still as arrogant as when he was in his Rider form. He held his hands up in surrender as Ryugen pumped his gun.
"All right, I surrender." He said, holding his hands up in surrender. Ryugen and Gaim glanced at each other, then lowered their weapons slightly. Zangetsu grinned at that and quickly slipped behind them.
"Shit!" Gaim turned around, only to see the man dashing towards Baron's Ichigo Lock Seed, the one Baron stole from Gaim.
"He was aiming for that!" Ryugen fired a few rounds, but all of them were dodged with ease. Zangetsu gave a mocking chuckle and picked up the Lock Seed.
"Find me… if you can…" Zangetsu waved at the duo with a Seed hooked onto each finger, then backed away just as a Crack opened up.
"Wait!" Gaim ran towards the Crack and pulled the tab on his Musou Saber. He fired several bursts of yellow energy into the Crack, but failed to hit Zangetsu. Just as Gaim neared the Crack, the zipper quickly zipped itself up, as if taunting him.
Gaim stumbled and fell on his butt, then sighed in defeat.
"He got away…" Gaim slammed a fist into the ground in frustration.
"As usual." Ryugen commented as he sighed heavily.
"Now what?" Gaim flopped onto the ground and started rolling from side to side, which wasn't easy with his armour clinking and getting in the way.
"Get up. We'll go meet Kurusu-san and decide where to go from here," Kinji pulled his friend up and the duo found their Lock Vehicles and boarded them, getting ready to leave.
And.. done! I'm gonna end it here. Hope you enjoyed that! Go on and leave a comment for suggestions! Well, not strictly for suggestions, maybe just asking questions? In those cases I'll PM you when I see the question. I don't mind criticism, as long as it isn't flaming.