Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: I.S Style.
Disclaimer: I don't own IS: Infinite Stratos OR Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei but I own this fiction and my own plot and techniques. All props go to fujin of shadows for writing the original story.
Chapter 3:
Wakanda (Africa) (Ichika age 11):
Africa had the shorter end of the stick during the last world war, the reason? Japan's two dragons: His highness, Ryuuga and my grandfather Orimura Ichigo.
Those two run a path of destruction during the third world war. The two of them almost leveled Africa as a continent, and it was not pretty. Ichika should know, he has seen the evidence that were buried in the country's most secured archive. In fact that was how his bounty rose from 1.5 to 2.5 million yen. Anyway after the two of them were through with the continent, not only were the maps redrawn but some countries ceased to exist and others stated popping. Wakanda being one of them, a technologically advanced country that was once part of South-Africa. The country is only 30 years old and two thirds of that time were being sent in civil wars. The last one just ended.
Scene Change.
Going through the streets of zambia, the newest capital of Wakanda, was an armed convoyeur that guarded a pitch black limousine. Inside were two people up front driving the vehicule. At the back were four people.
"One long year" stated an elderly black skinned man while looking from his car window. The man had greying hair, and a stylish goatee who was dressed in a black Armani three piece suit with silver cufflinks. His name is N'mani Makimba, the fifteenth prime minister of Wakanda, some might say that fifteen is a big number of prime minister for a thirty year old country but with the life expentacy of expentacy of the prime minister being less than five months, they should be thanking their lucky stars. N'mani himself being the man with the longest run in the office: two years.
"One long year, we've come so far in just one short year." said the prime minister.
"That is thanks to a great leader." said a much younger, dark skinned man, with a shavled face and short black hair. He wore a cheaper grey suit with a white shirt and black tie. His name is Simba Regis, a half british half Africans concellor for the Wakandan prime minister.
"No... the will of a strong people" replied N'mani while looking from the window and many Wakandan people were on the streets buying and selling merchandise, children were playing in the streets.
"And thanks to a great adviser" said T'chka before turning his sights to the people in front of him and the said
"Although all the credit should go to you and your team, Isn't that right, Mr Sin?" Sin just smirked and said
"Just doing our job, Mr prime minister." and the nice atmosphere that was beginning to spread in the limousine was shattered by the next words that came from Sin's companion.
"Well If you were capable you would've handled it on your own, Isn't that right mr prime minister" the person snarled the words prime minister like they were venom.
"Not now panther, not now." said Sin, and the one named panther looked at Sin and was about to open his mouth but a glare from Sin shut him up. The one named panther was of African heritage. He is a massive and bulky bald man with a brown goatee and brown eyes. He also has two silver earrings on his left ear. He wore a pitch black muscle shirt and black pants, black boots and topped it all with a black trench coat. The most striking feature was a black panther necklace on his chest. The prime minister just ignored panther and continued
"I must admit, I once thought of groups like yours as opportuniste... enablers of war. But you're trained our new army well, order has been restored sooner than expected. Perhaps I was wrong about these "private military companies"." said the prime minister
"I don't think you are wrong sir. We aren't PMCs but we are called "private security provider" sir. Since most of my and my associates business is in ending wars than in starting them, also most of our contracts deal in providing security." said Sin
"Yes well, "security" can mean many things" said the prime minister
"There is a saying I like: 'One's sword keeps another in the sheath'... Sometimes the threat of violence alone is a deterrent. Sometimes by taking a life, others can be preserved. It's the code the samurai lived by..." he said impressing the prime minister
"Mm... A soldier and a philosopher. You are full of surprises Mr Sin."
"I could say the same about you. Mr prime minister." and the limousine came to an abrupt stop.
"What is happening?" asked Simba, Ichika curious as well, looked at panther
"Someone is blocking the lead vehicule... Hold on"
Scene change.
"Clear the road! This official state business!" said one of the soldiers in the lead vehicule, this one armed with inbuilt machine gun. The soldier was talking to a man who had a prominent scar over his left eye, he also had brazilian features, black hair and eyes and he had a week old beard. The man was dressed with a black shirt, a pitch black bullet proof jacket. Black cargo pants and steel plated military grade shoes. The man was armed by a simple katana with a unique sheath, the sheath had a gun like contraction on it. The man smiled at the soldier before drawing his sword, showing a blood red blade with red lightning erupting from it. The soldier seeing that tried one last thing
"We have autorisation to use for..." was all he managed to say before the man took into a sprint, the soldier opened fire, but with speed and agility impossible for a human, without magic that it, the man either dodged or blocked the bullets with his sword, when he was about t'en feet away from the lead vehicule, the samurai wanabe jumped into mode air and, after blocking three bullet from the machine gun, cut the soldier. Three other vehicules similar to the lead vehicule stopped in front from each vehicule five soldier came out, each dressed with the same uniform and armed with an AK-47, the weapon of choice for third world country military. The brazilian just smiled twirled his sword.
Scene change.
"What is happening?" asked Simba, and from his voice, Ichika could tell he was nervous.
"Stay strong." Said N'mani, apparently he wasn't the only one who realised that.
Seeing what just happened to the lead vehicule, Ichika ignored his charges for the moment and looked at the other mercenary in the limo
"Panther, U turn get us out of here" and the african did just that, as per protocole, they were followed by an armed escort of one armed vehicule. As they were about a mile away and as they passed a building, they didn't see a hostile with an RPG that took out the armed escort. They were about to turn back when a dozen hostiles dropped from the surrounding buildings. Ichika tapped his glasses, which doubled as his coms and said
"Hanzo, what is going on here?" and the Image of Hanzo appeared on his three
"I don't know Sin, these guys literally popped out of nowhere."
"Any clues?"
"Nope, they are most probably mercs, but no affiliation for now, I did manage to take a picture of the samurai that jumped you guys, I am running it through facial as we speak. For now, think you can handle your new friends?" said the hacker and Ichika just scoffed and got out of the car.
"Gendo, just make sure the guys are at the extraction point alright?" getting a nod from the elderly man, Ichika ended communication before looking at panther.
"Panther, take the prime minister to the extraction point five delta O, as per protocol. I will handle these clones." he said before summoning a daisho pair of his [Geneiken (Illusion swords)], the katana in his right and the wakizashi in his left. As the car sped away Ichika swinged his sword at a nearby building, causing the five story building to collapse and block the path the limousine just went through. Ichika cracked his neck and said
"Alright guys, let's play!" and he rushed at the hostiles. They were dressed in what Ichika liked to call: the typical bad guy costume, an all black attire consisting of a a black bullet proof vest, black facemask, black cargo pants, and black military grade boots. Their guns were better though: FN P90 5.7mm SMG's with all black berettas as side arms.
As the hostile took aim with their guns, Ichika disappeared, before any of then could realise what happened, Ichika appeared behind the thugs and all their heads fell to the ground, when all the bodies fell to the ground they burst into flames. Before Ichika could think about it, an incoming call stopped him, from the ID it was Gendo
"What Is it?"
"Sin, you have to get to the car, none of the others are going to make it"
"What? Why?" and the answer came from three visuals appearing in front of him, showing his comrades in combat with unknowns
"All the others have been ambushed, you are the only one free, they are almost at the extraction point." said the hacker
"Understood" answered the bounty hunter before taking a magic powered leap that made him reach over thrity feet in the air.
Scene change:
Adan C Dangli, was a war veteran and veteran mercenary. He is a middle-aged man with chiseled features, a flat nose and long spiky black hair standing upright. He has two vertical scars on the left side of his head. He wears a white and gray sleeveless camo shirt and a pair of beige shorts.
Adan's friendship with Ichika started when he, and a few of his friends created a militia group to fight the growing power of the Asian alliance in his beloved country. After many succesful operations they all had bounties on them, bounties in fact large enough that Ichika and the annoying lesbian came personally to capture them, that was during Ichika's no killing days.
Adan's magic allowed him to turn himself into a six meter tall behemoth with enough punching strength that a single punch of his in his [Titan form], a form in which he is more than six meters tall, is more than enough to decapitate someone, so imagine his surprise when Ichika not only stopped his fist, but he did it with a single finger! After the fight where his friends and him were beaten black and blue, Ichika asked why he was doing this. When the younger mercenay knew his reasons, him and the lesbian just left.
Less than a week later, him and his friends were captured, apparently one of the members of his militia sold them out, and when they were about to be executed by firing squad, Ichika came and saved them. From that day forward, Ichika and Adan became friends and fellow bounty hunters and they also did jobs together.
Currently the philipino juggernaut was on his knees, bleeding from multiple wounds on his person, he was of course in his [Titan form], the reason for that wasn't the fifty or so endlaves that attacked him while he was being he was being in charge of the harbor.
Endlaves are gigantic robots that replaced tanks since the late 2050s. An endlave has two modes: a tank like mobile form and a human like form. The tank form is mostly for transportation in which the endlave collapsed on itself. The human form is straight lined, with thin legs and a rectangulaire shaped head with two spits that serves as eyes and glow in a red light. Though endlaves are nothing to a magician, in the long run, they are a nuisance.
And It wasn't that nuisance that got him injured, nor was it the twelve magicians that came with them, and it definetly wasn't the one hundred soldiers armed to the teeth that came as well. No all these factor were literally piled up behind him. What brought this elite magician to the ground was a physically bulky and muscular man with short and slightly spiky silver hair with sideburns, and he has green eyes with cat-like pupils. His torso is covered over with crossing black straps and shoulder guards. He wears a full body suit of leather that hugs tight upon his well built form. On his right arm is a retractable gauntlet that is apparently designed to function as a taser weapon with varying degrees of voltage. Capable of sending currents strong enough to shatter stone, as Adan just realised himself.
"Who... the... Huff... fuck... are... Huff... You!?" asked Adan while trying, and failing to regain his breath.
"Who I am is unimportant, what is important is the fact I am merely supposed to keep you here, so do us both a favor and stay down." said the white haired man.
"Like hell I will! [Wanted Punch]" roared Adan while sending a punch covered in an orange aura at his opponent, the punch was easily avoided, then countered by a punch to the guts by the shorter man, who using his gauntlet sent a discharge into Adan's body. The discharge was enough to kill a normal man three times over, so that should be enough to bring Adan down. That assumption was what caused the white haired man to let his guard down, and that caused him to take a punch to the face from the philipino. The man was sent flying twenty meters before he managed to bring his feet to the ground and stopped his flight, even still, the black clad man was still dragged an additional ten meters away from his opponent
"Got you know pretty boy!" said Adan, the white haired man just brought his finger to his lips and saw blood, his eyes changed from the bored look they had when he first appeared, they became as sharp as rasors, his body was surrounded by lightning and he said
"Alright, you wanna dance, let's dance [Raitoningu Sutorēto (Lightning Fight Endure Encounter Mandatory Ejection Encouraging Sword)]" and he charged at his opponent while his fist was surrounded by lightning.
"Alright asshole [Wanted Punch]!" and Adan did the same, with a fist covered in an orange aura.
The two attacks met in a shockwave that surrounded both the fighters in a dust cloud.
Scene change:
Squall Meusel, Ichika's oldest partner in the mercenary business and a french national even if she hated the country, is a beautiful woman with long blonde hair, red eyes with a mole under her left eye, a beautiful face, voluptuous body and a large bust that been described as very attractive by Ichika. She was dressed in a business suit and skirt that were two sized too small which left nothing to the imagination genrally. Now her attire wasn't the problem for her, the problem was that she was currently hiding in a building after the entire sniper unit she was responsible for was shot down by an unknown shooter, then she was ambushed by a dozen or so unknowns, not that that mattered since they were all killed instantly by her, with three bullets no less. The problem was that the shooter that had her pinned was good, as good as her, and in a corner of her mind, one that she refused to aknowledge, even better. She was using an old fashioned Kimber Model 8400 Advanced Tactical.
The shooter was using a Knight M110C automatic sniper rifle, a proof of his skill since automatic are the hardest to use as sniper riffles and the man didn't waste a shot. Twenty shots fired, twenty kills. Her only shot at survival was waiting for help, so she contacted the nerd at HQ
"Hey nerd, I am completely surrounded here, I need help."
"Negative Squall, all the others are busy at the moment and I am on my way there myself."
"Putain... What's the ETA."
"ETA... Thirty minutes. If any of the others finish first I will direct them to you."
"Fine, what are the others doing?"
"Panther is driving the prime minister to safety, Sin is covering for him. Adan is being attacked by a magician who by the way can take him on in a fist fight, and Maria is being attacked by a loli swordfighter."
"Son of a bitch, well see you nerd when you get here." said Squall
"Alright kid see you... over" said Hanzo before cutting his connection. Squall sighed before preparing herself to survive the longest thirty minutes of her life.
Scene change :
In another part of town, stood Maria, or as her enemies call her jack the ripper. She had a caucasian pale skin, dark golden eyes, short jagged purplish hair, a petite figure, yet she is quite small. She wore a small skin tight suit with a circuit pattern on it and also wore a black leather jacket over it.
Around her on the ground were around one hundred hostiles, all dead. The manner in which they died was all similar, cuts. That would coincide with the weapons that Maria had in her hands, two swords similar in design, a falchion. One was as black as the night the other as white as snow, Kansho and Bakuya, Maria's signature weapons.
Maria was a genetically engineered girl made by the Vatican in order to bolster their anti magician program. Out of the entire batch of one hundred child that were produced only Maria was deemed combat ready, the others were disposed off in different maners. The funny thing was that they called the whole thing the "holy sword project". Maria, number was sent to many missions at the age of five, after having finished her training to be "god's weapon on earth", and around three years later, when she was seven and Ichika eight, the infamous "immortal sin" was spotted in Sardinia, the execution order was given and she and her fellow executors were snet to give him divine justice. Needless to say they were all beaten into an inch of their lives. But in that fight Maria found a kindred spirit, a fellow human weapon, this one willing to be one instead of being made into one like her. She defected and seeked him once more. After another fight, Ichika decided to take her with and since then he took care of her, teaching her everything she now knew and lived by, since that day he became her everything, her father, her brother, her gardian angel, her Gabriel.
After seeing the ambushed by the pathetique men that she just killed, she decided to do what she was born to do, serve her Gabriel and fight by his side. But before she could do her duty she was intercepted by two black swords that were about to deacapitate her. She easily dodged the attack, stopped and glared at her attacker.
Her attacker was a short girl with black hair and red eyes. She dons a small dress with many intricate designs in the middle areas, connected to a bottom skirt that covers her entire lower body. The dress's blouse displays a set of lighter color edges on either side of the loose shoulder garments. Around her neck, with lighter outlines visible as well, the blouse is gifted with a hole revealing a small portion of her chest. Further; her stomach is covered by a slightly thicker adornment that spots a display of complex artwork. On the back, the girl dons a piece of clothing that allows her to sheath her double blades. Finally, the bottom of the dress that covers her lower regions seems to have two layers of clothing, resembling petals, and being of a light color
"Wow, nee chan is really fast, usually when I use this attack I simply kill my opponent." said the black haired girl, not at all concerned with the fact that her attack was just avoided.
"..." was Maria's answer
"You aren't really a talker are you? Well that's fine I guess I can talk for both of us" and just like that the black haired girl rushed her silent opponent with her twin wakizashis as her opponent retaliated with her twin falchions.
Scene change :
Ten minutes, It had been ten minutes since Ichika tried to catch up to the bloody limo, and seeing that the thing only had like two minutes head start, and that Ichika was simply even faster than the fastest the car could go. Ichika should have caught up by now, so why didn't he? Well it's simple actually, every few meters some idiots tried to box him in, of course he never wasted more than a minute killing the idiots that tried, but time and time again and he was losing patience, so after dispatched the tenth group, Ichika stopped and muttered while glaring his Psions
"seal level one release..." and circuit like pattern appeared on his body "Access Orimura clan magic first tier magic..." the pattern started lightning up in a crimson color "Password: The crimson knight under the white moon." and in an explosion of crimson light Ichika's magic was further unlocked and he felt a sudden increase in body heat, he looked at the sky and said
"It's 1600 hours, around three hours to sun down more than enough time to save N'mani"
Ichika's magic was different from other Orimura's before him. While other Orimuras had a prefered type of energy to absorb and manipulate, they could still use other energy, Ichika is incapable of using any other than the one he is attuned to. Also unlike other Orimuras Ichika's magic wasn't just an energy manipulation magic but body manipulation as well. For reasons of secrety and because he can't use a magic frequency jammer on his energy manipulation spells unlike his [Geneiken (Illusion swords)] he seals them, the seal that he just released allows him to use first tier spells, the weakest of all his spell. Another reason is that the energy that he is attuned to is dangerous: light and solar energy, that makes it very hard to control and use but very powerfull, proof of that, all but one of his third tier spells are strategic class spells. The last reason, a reason that Ichika would never admit to himself or others is that Ichika was simply scared of using his magic, scared of its potential.
Ichika simply closed his eyes eyes and said "[Yata no Kagami ("Eight Span Mirror")]" after that he formed light between his hands, and reflects it on many mirrored and windows. When the light reached his wanted destination, Ichika then transformed into the light in order to get to his desired location. When he arrived he was given a welcoming commity in the form of a large laser. Even in mid air he simply dodged the beam. And when he hit the ground he analyses the situation.
Scene change :
'Why am I doing this?' thought panther, or as he is called by his partner outside of work, T'chaka as he walked out of the limo after being cut off by the unknown hostiles. As he exited the limo, he flared his psions causing the panther necklace on his chest to glow before turning into a black liquid that covered his body. The liquid turned solid becoming a a black and silver-lined combat suit that is composed of a specially-designed Wakandan Vibranium-mesh weave akin to chain mail that is light-weight, vibration-absorbent, nigh-indestructible and renders him immune to most physical damages especially from collisions and conventional weapons such as firearms. The suit is accompanied by two sets of extendable and retractable Vibranium Claws embedded in the fingers of the gloves like nails and the Black Panther helmet which have similar properties with the suit, and is adorned with silver trimmings and slight pointed arches on either side of the top that mimic the ears of the animal. The helmet seems to have some kind of safety lock in the rear area, enabling it to attach firmly to the user's head. The whole thing was made by Ichika as a gift, he called it the panther habit. As T'chaka was about to engage the twenty or so hostiles he thought about how he met Sin
After being torn apart by the two dragons of Japan during World War Three, The newly formed Wakanda alongside many other old or new African countries decided to start a new military program that they called, ironically since it was being spearheaded by a japanese researcher, the Shin Jinrui Sōzō keikaku (New Human Creation Plan), the outline of said program was simple:
Africa is overwhelmed by the power Japan possess, pushed into a corner and left with no other option but to experiment on humans; experiments which were inhumane and unthought of before the deadly magicians tore the whole country to pieces. There were two directions in which the experiments took.
An experiment that was performed during this time period was one which utilized Adamantium alloy to craft the strongest soldiers: Mechanical Soldiers. By replacing a human's innards or limbs, the human itself was able to manifest power foreign to men.
The other was by using a super soldier serum and special radiation, the goal was to create soldiers that were faster stronger, took more damage to put down and healed more severe injuries easily. That was the direction that T'chaka was subjected to.
The program was shut down because of it low success rates, seeing that only 5% were battle ready, the rest weren't because of many reasons: mental instability, adamantium poisoning, death, comas... etc... etc. But what really shut the program down was the fact that two of the test subjects just turned psycho and killed everyone at the facility: researchers, test subjects, guards... Everyone was killed. T'chaka barely escaped and since then had been on the run. A few years later, he met Sin and Maria on a hunt, and Sin saved his life, since then he has been his loyal partner on most of his jobs and his most loyal confident, other than the catholic zealot but that was just him of course. And that is why since Sin told him to save prime minister asshole, even though he hates this entire damn continent, Panther was going to save prime minister asshat.
As he exited the vehicule, he was shot by one of the mercs, he lazily dodged it, a perc of being enhanced biologically was that his reflexes were ten times better than an average human being, he was also a few times faster, add self enhancement magic, his speciality, and the runes entraved on the habit to the mix and even guns were not enough to slow him, from there he had multiple choice in how to kill the hostiles, lacerations with his claws, caving their chests with his punches and kicks, breaking their necks, you name it. Anyway, less than two minutes later, all the hostiles were dead, he was about to get in the car and drive away to another location under the orders of the nerd when the biggest endlave he had ever seen jumped from the water.
The endlave has a very humanoid appearance. Its most prominent features are its wide, flared shoulders, long, back-curving antenna on either side of its head, and the three "stakes" mounted on the left arm of the machine. It was a silvery white color. It also had red jewels on its joints and a big one in its chest.
"Hanzo, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" he asked with a shaky voice on the inbuilt coms in his habit.
"Seeing, still working on believing" answered the eldest member of their little group.
"Any idea what I am facing?"
"It's called the gespenst, a german UME prototype model, It wasn't supposed to be on the market for another year at least."
"UME?" asked the Wakandan mercenary, unfamiliar with the term
"UnManned Endlave, they are the new thing I guess. Why fight in wars when you can have machines do it for you?" answered the hacker
"So can you hack the damn thing?" asked T'chaka
"Sorry kid but I would need two hours from where I am to do that"
"I see, well I suppose I am going to have to see how good this endlave really is" said T'chaka preparing himself to fight the machine in front of him. Until he had to duck under the limo that was sent towards him. Looking at the one who did that, T'chaka felt his blood run cold.
The person who flung the car was a pale, lean man, with slicked-back, grey hair; reaching to the back of his neck, and moderate sized ears. His entire face is, however, covered by a white mask, only leaving portions of his jawline exposed. His most intriguing accessory is a white mask that covers his entire visage. The mask itself is simply design with a mischievous smirk running from its cheekbones down to, slightly above, the jawline and arching back up to his opposite cheekbone. Granting him visibility are two crescent-shaped spots flowing downwards, forming a wicked portrayal along with the mouth piece. Kagetane's upper body is completely covered by a connected jacket with three buttons on either side. The jacket's collars are flipped, giving view to a plant-like design on the inside and several diagonal lines on the higher areas. The jacket's end spots a split cape elongating to his feet. Underneath the jacket, Kagetane dons a white shirt with many buttons and a small collar, as well as a small bow-tie around his neck. His lower regions are covered by a pair of pants spotting multiple lines jutting downwards. Circling around his thighs are two straps, where he keeps both his custom Berettas. The man covers his hands with white gloves, and wears a magician's hat on top of his head.
The man's appearance was terrifying enough, but T'chaka's reaction was beyond being frightened, it was just his instincts that made him take two of the hostile's FN P90 and emptied both of the magasines on the man who simply watched as the bullet neared him, when they were about five feet away the bullets just dropped in front of the masked as if they lost all their energy. As the masked was about to open his mouth to infuriate his opponent two smoke grenades exploded at his feet covering him in thick smoke. T'chaka jumped into the smoke, trying to use the smoke in order to kill his opponent but that was not to be as the battle ended with a single word
"[Immusionary Gimmick]" was all the warning T'chaka had before being hit with the force of a train and sent flying away into a wall that broke like a biscuit. The man in the suit looked at his opponent and said
"Always the brash one T'chaka" said the man as he slowly walked towards the limo and pulled Makimba who tried to run away by the legs. Before knocking the prime minister out and putting him on his shoulder.
"What... are you... doing here... Huff... Kagetane?" wheezed T'chaka while trying to stand up, a task that proved to be impossible with the damage that he had just taken. Kagetane just looked at where T'chaka should be since he couldn't see him because of the rubble and said casually
"Nothing you should be worried about." he then looked at the gespenst and said "Kill him" the endlave turned towards T'chaka and aimed using an inbuilt machine gun at T'chaka who just tought
'I never thought I'd say this, but Sin if you can hear me get your ass here' and as if he heard his prayers a golden beam hit the endlave on the head causing it lose balance and miss T'chaka before the beam hit the ground and turned into Sin.
Scene change :
As Ichika landed on the gound, he quickly analysed his surroundings. Noting the presence of the man in a suit that definetly gave off a bad vibe and a giant Endlave twice the size of a normal one. But the most important information was T'chaka that was buried in a wall, a quick magical analysis and he already knew all of the man's injuries
'All his ribs are broken, as well as both legs in at least three different locations but the most important injurie is the broken spine' after finishing his analysis Ichika pointed his gun CAD at Panther then squeezed the trigger, a yellow light surrounded the dark skined mercenary before he stood up as if all his injuries disappeared. He stood by Ichika's side getting himself ready for a fight.
"Who is he panther?" asked Ichika
"His name is Hiruko Kagetane, his psycho daughter and him are former members of the of the Shin Jinrui Sōzō keikaku (New Human Creation Plan). They were also the psychos that shut it down."
Ichika looked at Kagetane before asking T'chaka another question
"Which path they took with him?"
"Mechanical Soldier. They replaced his organs with adamantium ones and that allows him to create a force field around himself that can stop a tank shell point blank." Ichika nodded and then pointed at Gespenst and asked "A Gespenst?" but It was Gendo that answered
"Yeah and a UME to booth and no I can't hack It from where I am." Ichika merely shrugged and said
"I wasn't asking you to, who is the closest operative to here Hanzo?" asked Ichika
"Maria's about ten minutes East of your location."
"Panther, go back Maria up Gendo will guide you to her." Panther was about to argue when a glare from Ichika shut him up, so panther just nodded and jumped away. Ichika looked at Hiruko who said
"So you are Sin, I must command you for your training, these troops were some of the best in the world after you were done training them." Ichika merely ignored him to ask his own question
"What do you plan to do with the prime minister?"
"I want him dead, nothing personal of course it's just that Africa is getting a bit too peacefull."
"What?" asked Ichika but he was ignored
"Well you see for a few years business hasn't been the same since the rest of the world is stopping wars, it's just you asians that are still going at it you know." Then Kagetane did quotation marks " 'A clean break from the war economy' they said, but some of us liked that economy, how is an honest war monger supposed to make a living"
"This is your answer?" and his answered was a laughed from Kagetane and a drawn beretta
"Don't do It" said Ichika
"Don't worry now I won't. Now while he is still useful." that got him a glare from Ichika
"So long." and Hiruko was gone with a magic enhanced jump. Ichika was about to give chase when the gespenst blocked his road. Ichika merely smirked before summoning one of his [Geneiken (Illusion swords)] and prepared himself to duke it out with the Endlave.
Scene change :
The docks were a mess, the whole place was as if a typhoon had hit the place, containers ruptured broken ships and machines and the ground was turned to dust and glass here and there. The cause? The two titans that were ducking it out in the middle of It all. Adan had seen better days, all his ribs were broken one of his eyes was shut by the swelling and an arm was hanging limply by his side. His opponent was pretty much in The same boat, cracked ribs one eye shut by the swelling, a broken nose a few missing teeth and a broken arm.
But all these injuries were not enough to stop the two titans from coming to blows one more time, and another and another, when they were about to go at it one last time, a phone rang, quickly calling a time out Adan's opponent took a cell phone from his pocket
"Hey, I am in the middle of some thing here!"
"..."
"Yeah he was more troublesome than I thought"
"..."
"No, I am not getting soft"
"..."
"Alright I will leave now." and just like that the silver haired man crushed his cellphone while mumbling some that sounded like "stupid boss not letting me do what I want."
"Hey..." roared Adan as he was about to stand up and get ready for another round "Where do you think you're going?!" as for his opponent the silver haired man just looked at Adan with an irritated look and said
"Look man, I would love nothing more than to keep slugging it out with you until one of us dies here but my boss just told me to withdraw from here. Besides consider yourself lucky, my orders were to just keep your dumb ass here. Another thing is you ain't fooling no one, you're on your last legs buddy, so just tap out, there ain't no shame in that." As much as Adan wanted to deny that, he knew pretty boy was right, he could barely stand let alone fight, so he settled for turning into his normal mode glaring at his opponent. The unknown hostile took Adan's silence for a surrender and turned around and was about to leave when Adan asked him something
"Who are you?" the unknown magician just looked over his shoulder and said
"Normally our identies are secret but for such a good brawl I'll make an exception, my name is Raiden." and just like that, the newly known Raiden disappeared leaving Adan to collapse as his injuries finally caught up with him, the last thought on the philipino's mind was 'Damn you pretty boy!'.
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Maria and her opponent were locked in a furious blade dance of slashing, thrusting, dodging and blocking. It was a dance so dangerous that a simple miscalculation could easily cause the death of one of the participants, Maria ducked under a slash from her opponent before countering with a thrust at the black haired sociopath's throat, an attack that was easily dodged. The red eyed swordsgirl lunges at the former executor and attacked with a flurry of slashes that were either dodged or evaded. Maria having enough of being on the defensive decided to counter attack, after dodging an over extended attack from her opponent she decided to counter with a thrust to the chest of her opponent, the attack was perfect, the timing, the speed, everything was perfect, the attack would have landed on an ordinary opponent, even a well trained one but the red eyed girl was anything but ordinary, the proof of that was when she used her sword to receive the enemy's blow but instead of redirecting the force behind her, as many swordsman would do, she made a circular motion and redirects the force back at Maria. Such a manoeuver would have worked on many people, but the former executor dodged it receiving a simple paper cut on her neck. The black haired girl just grinned and said
"Wow, you're good nee chan, not many could dodge my [Madoka (Circle)], that just makes worth killing!" she said with a sadistic smile
"..." Maria's answer caused the black swordsgirl to sigh
"Still with the silent treatment huh. No matter talking isn't my thing anyway!" she screamed before rushing Maria again with many attacks, but this time Maria didn't want to get into a contest of skill an speed and opted for strength, she reinforced her body with magic and stopped the charge by entering a deadlock with the other swordsgirl, the executor and her opponent both jumped while keeping their swords locked and while they were in mid air, the red eyed girl decided to slice by using another one of her techniques "[Oboroguruma Adanotsuji (Hazy Wheel - Foe Crossing)]!"She said before loosening the grip on both her swords then proceeds to spin them in a wheel-like fashion to slash Maria in a spinning manner, such an onorthodox not to mention dangerous manoeuver was unexpected by Maria and that caused her to take a hit in her right shoulder, but Maria wasn't done yet and she countered by stabbing her opponent in the future stopping the black haired from following through with her attacks lest she gets killed, as both girls landed they both grabbed their injuries with their hands
"Damn... your reputation... doesn't do... you justice... I don't remember... the last time I was... this injured..." said the girl before some sort of white mist covered her injury and then just like that it closed, but the red eyed girl looked a lot more tired.
"Attacking even when in the face of defeat, that is how I was thought." Said Maria for the first time in the fight
"Well look at you, talking and all that, I almost thought you were mute."
"If words are silver, then silence is golden, another lesson"
"I can't say I disagree but good things must come to an end. As a gift before sending you to hell, let me give you my name, Hiruko Kohina" said the newly named Kohina before her body glowed with Psions.
"Maria" answered the former executor before she got ready for whatever was coming. But nothing prepared her for what happened next, multiple slashes appeared in front of her and try as she might more than two thirds hit home. After the salvo ended Maria was covered in cuts, a small mercy was that none of them were deep but they still hurt like a bitch. Seeing her handywork Kohina whistled in aprouval
"[Kengeki Umenoki ("plum tree swordplay")] is a slashing attack like the branches of a tree, limitlessly expanding. The fact that you managed to block any of them is beyond impressive" and then her eyes turned psychotic "But the next one is going to kill you nee chan, if [Kengeki Umenoki ("plum tree swordplay")] is like the branches of a tree, then the next attack is ten times faster and like the scattering of millions upon millions of flower petals." and her body glowed with even more Psions than the last time "Die! [Ouka ("cherry blossom")]!" but before the attack could start Kohina was kicked with enough force to send her head first into a building and collapsed said building on her after that, Maria looked at her savior and saw T'chaka who simply grinned at the Italian magician and said
"Hey there Jack how have you been." the answer was simply Maria glaring at him and saying
"Shut up... kitten.'' that caused the dark skinned teen to just sigh before saying
"How are you feeling Maria? Did she hurt you to much?" Maria merely shook her head before saying
"It's not really an issue, more importantly we have to reach Gabriel and help him." she tried to walk away but her legs betrayed her injuries and forced her to one knee, T'chaka saw this and said
"Nope top priority is getting you help kid, and before you start arguing remember, Ichika would never forgive for letting you fight in this condition." At the mention of Ichika Maria seemingly agreed with her comrade before letting him carry her to one of the many rendez vous points throughout the city. If they had just remained for a few more seconds they would have seen Kohina exit the demolished building with a bruising in her face as she was talking in a cellphone.
"Hai boss sama, I have finished my objective."
"..."
"Yep, she was just as good as you said she would be leader sama."
"..."
"Nope, my injuries are not that severe."
"..."
"Haï, I will take a break." and just like that she left the area while still continuing to talk on the phone.
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As both opponents stared each other down, one mechanical the other human, both Ichika and the gespenst were analyzing each other, one based on the intelligence it had in its database, the other by using his beyond normal eyesight to analyse the component of its mechanical nemesis. After what seemed like days, but in reality was less than a couple seconds, the gespenst decided to act first, by pointing its arm at Ichika and opened fire with a M61 Vulcan, a six barel machine gun that fires 20mm rounds that were either dodged or knocked away by Ichika. Knowing that the rate of fire of this type of weapons is 6000 rounds per minute and that the bombardement lasted for 2 minutes, then you're can say that Ichika managed to withstand a 12000 round barage. When he was about to counter attack with his swords, the endlave eyes shined before it said in a robotic voice:
"Enemy recognised, Codename: Sin. Commencing engagement protocoles. Activate zeus canon." and it opened its 'mouth' before firing a beam as large as a coin at Sin who wasn't fast enough to dodge and ended being pierced by the attack. Sin staggered backwards for a few seconds before glaring at the tin can while his wound closed up before holding out his right ornemental pistol, charging multiple [Kudou dan] around its barrel simultaneously before firing them as a barrage at his opponent while saying "[Mugen Dangan Kudou Dan (Infinite Ammunition Hollow bullet)]" the endlave didn't even bother to move as the jewels situated in his joints shined
"Attack analysed. Commencing damage simulation. Damage simulation complete. Commencing defense protocols. Activating Baryon shield." and a transparent red shield appeared in front of gespenst stopping the barage of energy bullets. When said barrage ended, Ichika was nowhere in sight. Just as it was about to start scanning the area for signs of life, the endlave heard a voice from above, it turned its head upwards and saw Ichika aiming with his left ornemental pistol at it before shooting a yellow, sparkling sphere. The bullet split up into thin arrows that moved in all directions but according to its calculations would impact from various direction on it as the target.
""Attack analysed. Commencing damage simulation. Damage simulation complete. Commencing defense protocols. Activating Ajax shield" and the central Jewel in its chest glowed a fait pink before a barrier with the same color scheme appeared forming a dome around it. When the attack ended it opened its 'mouth and took aim
"Commencing engagement protocoles. Activate... Error... Error! Damage to the legs. Mobilty severely compromised." the reason for such an anouncement was the many blades that appeared from the ground and impalled the UME's legs, damaging them beyond repair. Ichika simply landed on the ground before saying
"Your AI is quite primitive, though the armements were state of the art, anyway it's time to end it [Yasakani no Magatama ("Comma Jewel of Eight Shaku")]" Ichika crossed his arms in front of him and uses both hands to fire a torrent of deadly light particles at the endlave, the endlave simply said
"Attack analysed. Commencing damage simulation. Damage simulation complete. Commencing defense protocols. Activating Baryon shield." and a transparent red shield appeared in front of gespenst stopping the barage of light particles. When the attack ended, as per its protocol Gespenst dropped its shields and was about to start offense protocols when Ichika appeared inside its guard in a flash of gold, with a black sword in hand and cut off both is legs and vulcan wielding arm before jumping and forming a black sword five times the bounty hunter's size and driving said sword inside the endlave's chest, permanent shutting it down. Ichika didn't bother waiting time with the now shut down endlave and instead contacted Hanzo while running in the general direction Kagetane left from
"HQ this Sin, endlave down I am now in pursuit of client."
"Sin this Hanzo, I am ten minutes out from your location. I am sending you a real time tracking of N'mani on your glasses." and just like that a display appeared on his glasses that showed his position in red and N'mani's in yellow. Seeing that Ichika thanked the hacker before asking a question
"The others?"
"Adan is a little roughed up but nothing a little rest won't fixe, Jack is pretty banged up but nothing life threatening and Squall is still an unknown since I am headed towards her right now." Ichika nodded before giving his orders
"Hanzo, regroupe with the others before coming for me. I'll be fine. Also capture one of the hostiles alive and analyse his blood for me and take the endlave and analyse the thing for me."
"Roger that, see you in fifteen Hanzo over and out." With the communication done for the moment Ichika started running while analyzing his prey's movements
'What is he thinking? He should be trying to leave the city not get deeper in it.' Normally Ichika would chalk it up to being green, but this guy is no amateur, he is a pro, so why was he getting deeper in the city when he should be trying to leave it? Not seeing an answer Ichika decided to keep running and ask questions later.
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Hiruko was running through the streets, using the prime minister N'mani as a human shield he managed to pass multiple check points controled by his men with his speed. The masked man knew that his men were going to die, but they were going to die doing their part in this venture, slow Sin and the mercenaries with him down. He had to admit that the six mercenaries were some of the best in the world:
Hanzo Gendo the human cyborg, the best hacker on god's green earth, a former japanese army general before leaving the country disgraced two decades ago.
Squall Meusel, a french national and the best gunslinger in the world, equalled only by the man that is currently keeping her occupied. She uses her telekenisis alongside her firearms to great effects.
Adan C Dangli, a Born Specialist magician with the ability to manipulate his body size. An ability that is deadly and that he made even more deadly with his experience in combat.
Jack the ripper Maria, an enhanced magician and human made by the Vatican, the girl had a kill count in the triple digits before turning rogue on her own organisation. She was an extremely close range fighter, so good that it was deemed suicide to fight at that range no matter the numbers.
T'chaka the panther, an enhanced human from the Shin Jinrui Sōzō keikaku (New Human Creation Plan) that Hiruko and his daughter destroyed a few years back. While he volunteered for the program and his daughter was born from another participant, T'chaka was sold to the lab, the same with many other children. He was a close range hand to hand combat specialist one of the best worldwide, second only to The Asian alliance's Lu Gonghu and Japan's Chen Long.
All of the above mentioned names were impressive, some even superhuman, but none of them was of a threat than the man that brought them all together.
Sin the bounty hunter, a child soldier with unparalleled skills in combat, a combat pragmatic and a weapons specialist, capable of hunting any prey as long as he had time to prepare for it. He was a skilled strategist and an even greater leader, his charisma was known far and wide, the most important aspect of his and what made him such a threat to their plans was his verstality, from close range to mid range to long range combat, from assassination to espionnage to leading entire opperations, from swords to guns to bombs even, the child soldier was capable of it all, the fact that he could take a lot of damage and that it took a lot to keep him down was also an added problem when dealing with him. The masked man stopped his musings when he realised that he was surrounded from all sides by army personnel armed to the teeth, one of the soldiers looked at Kagetane and said
"Surrender now and drop the prime minister!" and he made a signal for his teammates to start approaching the surrounded Kagetane. Hiruko on the other hand just looked at his watch, and saw the time '16:36, It should have been here by now.' just as he was about to kill all the soldiers, his enhanced bearing heard a sound, the sound of a moving train.
"You deaf, I said..." Was all the grunt could say before Kagetane jumped with a magic enhanced leap that allowed him to get on the cargo train that was passing by over a bridge. The soldiers were amazed by what just happened and they failed to see a red blur pass by them. The bluer was Ichika who was running while enhancing his body with magic, he stabbed his sword on the ground and used as a lever to change directions and continue following the train, after that he started running up a wall and then he jumped on the train just as it left the city.
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After killing a couple hostiles easily he might add, Ichika found himself in front of Hiruko Kagetane, who chained the prime minister into the engine, he also saw the man who attacked the convoy in the first place sitting on a crate, Ichika watched as Hiruko took one of his Custom Beretta, It was a black, oddly-shaped gun, called Spanking Sodomy if what he read on the barrel was right. Prominent features from Spanking Sodomy are the three spikes surging from the top of the gun's barrel and a Sabre-like metal elongating from the ejector rod to the gun's muzzle, meant to be used to mortally wound one's opponents by stabbing them. The user, from what he could tell as a gunshot, is able to remarkably shoot multiple targets at once whilst having their back turned to them, the gun allows for a flexible change of aim. As he got ready to save the prime minister, his instincts told him that he was in over his head, and Ichika for once in his carreer should have listened to said instincts.
AN. Hey guys here is another chapter done. So please review, like and share. I'll see all next time.
Will Ichika save the prime minister?
Will he be defeated?
Until next time
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