CHAPTER 6

He did so with such a mannerism that I had a numb sensation in the back of my mind. He stared.
"What you don't remember me, you dick."
"You're such an idiot."
"What's up, Angelo?" I said, questioning my thoughts.
"That's what they call me."
"What –"

A faint ripple passed my eyes as a boom hit next. One second I was talking to a friend I hadn't seen in a while, the next I was pinned against a wall, spinning. Angelo, already in action, had begun to run towards lon. I slowly began to come back to real time. I saw my pistol fall from my side in the blast, now I had to find it. As if in response, I stepped and slipped on a dismembered arm with a pistol in its hand. I picked it up and aimed straight down the sights into lon's exposed chest. But all my instinct told me not to shoot.
"Don't be an idiot, just shoot," Nicolai said calmly.
The seconds passed by and Angelo was starting to lose.
"Are you retarded? He's tearing your man up! Get him already!" Damien said.
I threw the gun to the side and charged lon, open stance and everything. Getting closer by the second, only taking seconds, right as lon had turned to stare at me I pushed my fist clean into his face, a nice crunch beneath it. lon came off the ground from landing square on his back, out of air. He slowly got up and stared, gawking at me.
"How did you do that?" he said as well he could with a broken jaw.
I looked at my hand; it had felt like I punched a pumpkin, maybe.
I looked at him then and pointed two fingers. A warm tingling formed at the ends. All I could think was straight and a blue bolt shot out and nailed him in the chest. He jumped up and set his jaw. A wisp and several red eyes opened over his body. He placed his hands together.
"Shadow titan: a thousand hands." His shadow had reached mine and I was frozen. From his body exploded a bunch of featureless arms hundreds of them, all of them shot at me pushing, punching, grabbing, and twisting me. I hit the wall and I heard him laughing. His shadow was off of mine but the arms still attacked me. I wriggled around, trying to get out, pushing forward pushing; pushing till eventually energy built up in my hand cut through the shadows into lon's chest. He staggered back a bit, bleeding from the chest, his eyes drooping. I took a step and was instantly in front of lon. I cocked my fist back as far as I could and swung. I felt the impact and everything went white.
It felt like forever but it eventually got darker, then my vision was coming back. All I could see from where I was was pink hair bobbing up and down. I looked down as I realized I was on my back and saw none other than Sakura from Naruto.
This isn't real, I thought.
"Oh, it is, Andrew, haha" Angelo laughed. I turned my head to see what Sakura was working on.
"Wait Andrew, don't bro."
Too late. I saw my hand, that or what was left of it. The fingers were shattered and the knuckles sat by my wrist in a pile outside my body. I blacked out.
I awoke in the central medical hub of the base. A lone girl was in there. Her red copper hair pulled all my attention; she had velvet eyes and a white complexion. She turned swiftly to see me.
"So you're awake," she said in a cool tone, a hint of idolism in her voice.
I nodded in response.
"Do you know who I am?"
"Sorry, but I have no recollection of the past 17 years or so."
A single tear slipped from its cradle in her eye and hit the chemically cleaned white linoleum floor and made a barely audible splash.
"Well this should help," she stuck two of her fingers to get her and poked me in the center of my head. I felt a slight numbing sensation going throughout my body. Then a flash of memories.

The absorption of Damien and Nicolai, a fight in the desert. ARC PLANET, Bryan, "where are you going dad?", and lastly a hand going through the chest of Gilgamesh...it was my hand.
Sirens wailed and an alarm saying "UP under attack, UP under attack." Angelo ran in to see a flash of light and me missing.
"Where did he go?" a solider asked.
"No clue, but we have to get to the United Powers building," Angelo said.

I was going through a tunnel of light, the memories taking over me. Wrapping me like a blanket. I popped out of the tunnel and in front of me was a massive ship, easily 65 miles long, just massive. Below me a giant building. A deafening boom and a blinding light headed out me. The memories took control. I lifted a hand and absorbed the energy, holding it in my body. My body glowed a white light that flowed through me like water. I pointed at the ship noticing other smaller ships around it, about 14 ships in all. I, or rather my memories, released the energy into half a dozen concentrated beams, destroying all the ships but the big one, which was very damaged. The ship began pulling away. As it did I saw a speck fall from the ship until it hit the ground in front of me.

It was a man and all he said was "Thanks, brother," and he threw me a locket. I caught it and stared at him.
"What did you call me?" I asked. His eyes began to spin and I was getting light headed.
"It's true then, well eventually that'll be of use to you and I can help you. Till then, bye." He turned and disappeared.
I was losing my balance and slowly my vision. I turned and saw four figures approaching me. One was obviously Zaraki, the others were getting harder to see. One had big blonde hair and a red coat, the next was in all white face unseen the last and I blacked out.