Hey you all! Its Alito again! Time to put up another chapter of this. I really do appreciate the love and support I've been getting for this. I hope to actually get [PROTOTYPE 2] soon to see what that game's like since all I have for reference are you tube videos and [PROTOTYPE] Wiki.
Anyway, here's chapter 3!
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Chapter four: The search and rescue, Sekirei battle
Minaka was happily sitting in his chair, over-looking the city from the highest point of his tower in his own private office, smirking at the fun he was having with this game. He then heard his door suddenly open and looked to find a familiar guest enter.
"Ah, James. Such a pleasure to see you." Minaka greeted. "How did Natsuo take his "early" departure?"
"No hassle at all." Heller said rather darkly as he stopped at Minaka's desk, "So I consumed him, now what's next?"
"Well now the game can finally commence, my dear Heller!" Minaka said with a big grin on his face. "Now you must search for his Sekirei and re-wing them again!"
"Re-wing?" Heller questioned, "The hell does that mean?"
"You must reawaken the power hidden within them and from there they will be stronger in helping you to destroy Alex Mercer and his slowly growing Sekirei numbers." Minaka explained, "Two of them will be a simple task for you…however the third one will be a hassle."
"How so?" James questioned.
"You'll see for yourself. Now then, here are their pictures." Minaka gave three photographs of Sekirei for Heller to keep in finding them. One had pink long hair in a side pig tail and matching pink eyes, the other had graying shoulder length white hair and piercing eyes, and the last one looked the most sinister as she had dark grey long hair in an up-do ponytail and dark piercing eyes mixed with a twisted smirk. All of them were attractive girls though.
"So these three are mine now?" Heller asked.
"Correct." Minaka nodded.
Heller took a look at the photos again. He did admit that they did look attractive and all, but he was never one to want a gaggle of women surrounding him all of a sudden. The loss of his wife still pained him and he didn't want to try and start over like this. Plus what would Maya think of this? He was glad she wasn't here right now and with Dana. Then the sudden thought of Dana appeared in his head; how would she feel knowing that her insane brother was alive somehow?
Heller jumped out of his train of thought, and slipped the pictures in his pocket. "I'll see if I can find them."
"No need. I already know where they are. Warehouse # 5, Teito Warf." Minaka grinned, "You better hurry. Mercer's going that way too, and judging by his movements, he's got plans with them."
"Not before I get to them first." Heller said as he walked to the door and had his hand on the door handle. But before he left, he said one last thing to Minaka without looking at him. "And remember; this partnership between you and I isn't for free."
"But of course." Minaka nodded, "In return for doing all that I say, I will have my scientist bring back your dead wife, Collette Heller. If we brought back Mercer, then we can definitely bring back your wife. However also remember she'll have a bit of the black light virus in her due to being killed by an infected. But she'll be very much alive and will show no signs of infections."
"Good." Heller nodded. Though he didn't want to show it, he was starting to feel comfortable again. Soon he'll be able to reunite with his wife, and he, Collette, and Maya could be a family again. They'll be able to go on the roller coasters that Maya likes so much, and eat as much cotton candy as possible. They'll be a family again. But such wishes had to be held back until Heller did what he needed to do; be part of these Sekirei games, kill Mercer, and soon he'll get his wife back.
He finally opened the door and walked out of Minaka's office, closing the door behind him.
"Well now. Looks like things are getting more and more interesting." Minaka grinned darkly, "But this is just the tip of the iceberg…"
XXX
Minato slowly awoken to the sight of darkness before him. After his eyes quickly got use to it, he could see a bit of light from the roof windows, only to find himself in a large warehouse with large boxes stacked on shelves. He tried to move, but could only find himself tied up with his arms behind him.
"W-Where am I?" Minato muttered.
He then looked to the side of him to find someone standing next to him. It was a pink haired girl in a black kimono like top. She was checking a phone that looked familiar to Minato.
"Wait a second, that's my phone!" Minato exclaimed.
"Relax, I'm just borrowing it." Said the pink haired girl. "Not that it matters though. Because once I get number 88 on the phone to come here, I'll simply destroy her."
"Number 88? You mean Musubi-chan?-!" Minato feared.
"Obviously. Now shut up." She ordered.
"Hey! Who's back there?-!"
Both Minato and the pink haired girl heard the sound of another voice coming their way. It seemed to be a worker at the warehouse, acting as a security guard for now.
"Heh, looks like a rat just picked the wrong time to crawl out of his hole." The pink haired girl grinned as she closed Minato's cell phone, "Good. I could use a good warm up anyway." She put the phone in her pocket, and clenched her fist tightly until a small ounce of aura was radiating off of it.
She then ran to the end of the dark hall and disappeared within the shadows of that hall, unable to be seen by Minato.
"Oji-san! Run!" Called Minato, "Before she—!"
"CHI MATSURI!-!" Minato suddenly heard the girl's voice, along with a very powerful smack-to-skin contact, quickly followed by a sudden rumbling, and the sound of very heavy debris falling to the ground with a very loud clanking noise!
The vibration had ceased as the pink haired girl walked back to Minato, only to be dragging a worker behind her who had blood all over him and seemed to be dead. She then threw the body at Minato only for him to see that the poor worker's face was punched in, to Minato's horror.
"That's what he gets for interfering with the Red Sekirei, Benitsubasa." The one called Benitsubasa proclaimed arrogantly, "And if you try anything funny, you'll end up just like him."
Minato trembled in fear at the sight of the poor worker who was laying dead right before him. He knew that this girl meant business, just as she did the night he helped a Sekirei and Ashikabi escape.
"But even so…" Benitsubasa then smirked as she cracked her knuckles, "…I did feel a little adrenalin punching this bastard in the face. I'm sure a broken leg or two wouldn't be too bad."
Benitsubasa cocked a regular clenched fist back and sent it flying right at Minato with no time for him to try and get out of the way! He simply clenched his eyes shut, waiting for the sure pain to follow. However, that fist was quickly intercepted by another fist punching square into Benitsubasa's fist, creating a small gust of wind from the sheer impact.
"W-What?-!" Benitsubasa gasped.
Minato opened his eyes, only to find another woman had come just in time to intercept the red Sekirei's punch with her own fist. "That's enough." She said sternly, "I won't let you hurt someone for your own gain."
Benitsubasa jumped back from this new female and stood in a battle ready stance. "You! You're a Sekirei aren't you?-!" Benitsubasa said bitterly, "Who are you?-!"
The Sekirei with her light brown hair and black short dress stood before Benitsubasa in a perfect distance from her and held her hand out. "Number 84; Yashima," Suddenly from a black ooze-like substance appeared a giant black metal hammer. "Moving in!"
"Heh, just because you got some huge hammer doesn't mean you're gonna stand a chance against me!" Benitsubasa said cockily, "Besides, it's going to take more than just one of you to defeat me!"
"Then let's make it so."
Suddenly, a small flow of wind blew into the warehouse as sakura petals entered into the warehouse, however these petals were different. They were blood red as they flowed through the warehouse area that they were all in. Suddenly a small sharp wind wisped behind Minato's hands and he could feel the ropes that constricted him unbind. Minato finally stood up, massaging his wrist from the tight bind they were in.
"W-What the hell?-!" The pink haired Sekirei exclaimed.
She then saw another woman appear with Yashima from a small twister, and once that twister vanished, it was replaced with another woman with long black hair and a short black Chinese dress. "Glad to see we're not too late."
"Kazehana-san!" Minato said in relief.
Kazehana turned back at Minato and winked, "Ah, Ashikabi-kun. It appears you put yourself in a bind once again. That's not good~"
"S-Sorry…" Minato said sheepishly.
"You seemed to take longer to get here then your friend." Benitsubasa noticed.
"Why of course." The wind Sekirei said as she held up a long bottle of sake and proceeded to hold it tightly like a cute stuffed animal. "This warehouse happens to hold the most quality sake and I just couldn't pass that up at all!"
"Really?" Yashima sighed.
"Whatever. Either way, it appears two Sekirei have decided to go against the discipline squad. How stupid of you two." Benitsubasa proclaimed, "It's a shame really. Now I'm gonna have to kill you both myself!"
All three got ready to battle as Benitsubasa put up her fist, Yashima held her giant hammer over her shoulder in readiness, and Kazehana help her palm out ready to send a powerful wind blast at her.
"Begin!" Benitsubasa started as she rushed to the two.
"I've got her!" Yashima announced as she ran in first at her. Though she, herself knew that the discipline squad was nothing to mess with, she still knew she had to fight hard for her master's sake. She slammed her hammer down with a heavy impact, but Benitsubasa simply jumped into the air before the hammer could hit her and soared at Yashima with quick speed. Yashima flipped over her hammer's pole to be on the other side of it before the red Sekirei's fist slammed into the ground.
Yashima then grabbed her hammer, and spun to be able to get her with the hammer then, but just as the Hammer was about to hit her, Benitsubasa blocked it with a single fist with little effort! Yashima then brought the hammer in close to her, and effortlessly spun it around her to get a proper grip on it again and hold it in front of her before Benitsubasa striked.
"You still have a long way to go." The pink haired Sekirei smirked, but then her smirk faded as she felt a powerful wind blast her away from Yashima and into the wall on the far side of the warehouse! Yashima looked behind her to see that Kazehana was the one to do so, to her relief.
"It seems you do too." Kazehana smirked, "And you call yourself a discipline member."
"Kazehana-san!"
Kazehana quickly turned back to Minato, only to see him being held captive by another woman, but this time she had claws on her. This attractively deadly woman was a slender pale woman with bandages around her body, while draped in a black kimono. She had narrow eyes and disheveled white hair and a black chocker. Her hands were instead long clawed gauntlets that had Minato in a bind as one was pointed right at him!
"Took you long enough, Haihane, where were you?" Benitsubasa questioned.
"Sorry. There was this show that I desperately needed to record." Haihane said coolly, "I wonder if I recorded it in HD?"
"Forget that!" Benitsubasa ordered, "These Sekirei need to know who's in charge of them. Cut him up a bit to prove a point!"
"Got it." Haihane grinned evilly as she lifted her claw in the air, ready to cut Minato a bit. Both Yashima and Kazehana watched in horror at Minato about to be sliced up, but quickly stopped themselves from going to save him, and simply sighed in relief for some reason.
"It's about time." Yashima said with relief.
"I guess we'll see whose claws are better." Kazehana smiled.
Haihane was confused as to why their worried faces disappeared off of them and better yet why her partner had a shocked agape mouth, but she then understood why as she felt a very tight grip around her wrist that seemed to tighten even more to the point it was bothering the clawed Sekirei. She quickly looked over her shoulder to find that a man had her by the wrist. But the strangest thing about this man was that his face seemed to be punched in brutally with blood all over hi uniform. It was the worker that Benitsubasa had punched earlier!
"Nice claws..." Said the man as he suddenly disappeared within black ooze-like veins that surrounded his entire body, and once in disappeared, the worker became a man in a hood and a leather jacket with piercing dark eyes from under his hood and a sadistic grin on his face. "…Let me show you mine."
Alex then summoned his claw for one of his arms and quickly slashed the white haired woman's claw clean off her own arm. She instantly screamed in agony and total pain as she let go of Minato and held her profusely bleeding arm in suffering as she watched it bleed out!
"Pathetic." Mercer said as he threw her clawed limb to the side.
"Do you have to be so violent to her?" Yashima said in worry for the Blue Sekirei who was still screaming at the pain of her missing hand.
"Techniqually, she started it first and was going to hurt Ashikabi-kun." Kazehana reminded Yashima, "So it was only necessary to do so."
"Exactly, one hand for another; or in this Minato's." Alex shrugged.
Y-You bastards!" Benitsubasa exclaimed to all three of them. She then called to her companion; "Haihane! Are you alright?-!"
"Gah! Does it look like I am?-!" Haihane said with pain in her tone. Even so, she still stood up with no problem at all or struggle to stand. Though she still held her arm in pain, she seemed to have been trying to ignore it all of a sudden. "Never mind me…! Once I get my claw back, I'll be good…!"
"Alright then!" Benitsubasa said angrily, "we'll just have to kick their asses and get your claw back so that we can end it once and for all!"
"You can try." Alex smirked as he now had both his claws ready and willing to slash, but he was stopped by two hands disabling him to go any further.
"Please allow us to battle, Mercer-sama." Yashima asked politely.
"This is a Sekirei battle. And as such, Sekirei have to fight." Kazehana winked.
Alex could honestly say he was a bit disappointed by this. He actually was interested in having a little fun, but it looks like he'd have to play coach this time. He then sighed and made his claws into normal arms again. "Alright. But you got ten minutes. After that, I get to step in, got it?" Both nodded, "Oh, and try not to kill them. They could be useful as Sekirei once they tell me who and where their Ashikabis are."
"Excuse me?-!" Benitsubasa exclaimed, "What makes you think our Ashikabi will agree to help you?-! Matsuo isn't interested in trash like you!"
"Well technically he is gay, so hey, maybe he would." Haihane said with a small snicker on her face, but it turned back to agitation at her injury bleeding painfully still.
"Would you shut up about that?-!" Benitsubasa exclaimed, "And should you really be joking, Tange Saizen?-!"
"That's not funny; I actually have both my eyes." Haihane noted.
The three simply stood there with dead-panned expressions and watched the two of them argue with one another with the pink haired girl getting more and more annoyed with the white haired girl's sarcasm.
"Y'know what…I changed my mind, you could kill em if you want." Mercer decided.
"Yes, Mercer-sama." Yashima nodded.
"Good. Their annoying voices would make me go nuts." Kazehana smiled.
The two charged right at the discipline Sekirei and attacked first! Kazehana used her wind powers to blast Haihane away into the darkness of the warehouse! Yashima slammed her giant hammer down to attack Benitsubasa, only for the pink haired Sekirei to jump out of its path and leap onto the tall ledges of the shelves of boxes.
"Okay then, if that's how you want to play then fine!" the red Sekirei declared, "We'll end you Sekirei and then kill that bastard Ashikabi of yours!"
"You will try!" Yashima proclaimed as she jumped to Benitsubasa only for the pink haired Sekirei to leap away from her to the other side of the warehouse, and Yashima following her.
Alex simply stood there, arms crossed, waiting for the ten minutes to be up, as he could hear the heavy smashing and wind blowing of his Sekirei fighting right now on both sides of the warehouse. Though he had a sinking feeling he wouldn't be having the pleasure of ripping through those disciplinary squad leaders himself.
"U-Um…Mercer-san, right?" Minato asked sheepishly.
"What?" Alex replied in an intimidating tone.
"W-Well I was wondering…are you really Kazehana-san's Ashikabi?" Minato asked.
"Yeah, I am." He turned back at Minato with matching intimidating eyes, "Is that a problem?"
"N-No! I-I just—! I-I mean—!"
"Relax, kid. I'm just fuckin' with ya." Alex chuckled with an asshole grin. "You really are weak."
"Well you didn't have to say that…" Minato mumbled.
"And anyway, you should get outta here." Alex suggested as he was about to touch his shoulder. "Really no need for you to even—huh?"
The second Mercer's hand made contact with Minato's shoulder, he began to feel an odd burning on his hand. It didn't hurt him at all, but none the less it felt odd to him. Suddenly Alex started to actually feel the burn and it was beginning to sting him a little, so he immediately released the black haired Ashikabi and waved his hand in slight pain from the burn.
"U-Um…are you okay?-!" Minato said with horrid fear in his eyes. "D-Did I do something?-! I-I didn't mean to! I'm sorry! Really I am!"
Alex could only stare at the young boy with a confused look on his face. Why did Alex all of a sudden feel a burn on his hand just from touching this seemingly normal male? He was just a human, so why? Maybe it was him who was having the effect since that white haired Sekirei touched him, and nothing happened. It pondered him so.
"What did you say your name was?" Alex asked curiously.
"M-Minato Sahashi, sir!" Minato said fearfully.
"Minato…Sahashi." Alex repeated.
Minato may not have realized it at the time, but he just attracted attention to one of the most dangerous beings in the world.
XXX
The sun was starting to finally set into the afternoon as two beautiful women leaped from rooftop to rooftop, with haste!
One of the beautiful women had blond long hair and blue eyes, dressed in a black coat-like dress with red interior, over a white short under dress that shoed plenty cleavage, a black chocker, long brown boots with black stockings and brown straps on both her upper thighs.
The other beautiful woman had brown eyes and brown long hair in a hime-styled hairstyle with an antenna-like strand on the top of her head and a long locked pony tail. She wore a white gi with red string decoration like those of miko with the addition of a red miko style short skirt, long white stockings, and brown boots. She also wore red combat gloves.
"Quicken thy pace, Musubi!" Said the blond woman, "We must make haste in to the location of Minato!"
"Got it, Tsukiumi!" Musubi nodded as she followed Tsukiumi.
Tsukiumi hadn't felt so fearful in her life then now. To lose her dear Ashikabi like this was a disgrace to her and her pride. The only man she ever loved was now swept away from her and could potentially die. She just couldn't except that at all, and quickened her own pace.
While running atop buildings, she happened to notice another person besides her and Musubi also jumping roofs. She happened to take great detail of his attire and seemingly dark atmosphere that seemed to radiate off of him. Finally she put two and two together in realization of who that man was!
"Musubi! Gander at the one who follows with us!" Tsukiumi stated.
Musubi looked to the right as well and saw a man who was practically keeping up with the two in running across buildings with seemingly no hassle at all. "Wow! I see 'em all right! He's really fast, and looks strong too!"
"Care not of his physical stature! Care only about his physical description!" Tsukiumi pointed out. "He is the one Land lady Miya had informed us of."
"Hmmm, yeah he definitely looks the part." Musubi agreed, "But is it really him?"
"Let us test his merits." Tsukiumi said as she formed a water-made ring around her hand.
XXX
James rushed over to the appropriate location as quickly as he could to his soon to be Sekirei. He wasn't told in detail by Minaka why they were even at a warehouse, but figured as long as he gets to them, that won't matter. Anything for Minaka to fulfill his end of the deal.
"Alright, I think I should be almost there." Heller said to himself, "As long as I don't get side-tracked, I should be there soo—"
"WATER CELIBRATION!"
Heller heard the sound of a female voice calling out something, and suddenly Heller saw a blast of water shoot at him. Heller leaped out of its path as it hit a nearby building and almost destroyed it with the amount of pressure it carried. Heller landed on another building, looking for what was responsible for that. "What the fuck was—?"
"EAT THIS! KUMA-KEN!"
Heller then heard another female voice as he looked up behind him and saw a girl flying towards him with a fist clenched. Her fist also carried a pink shinning aura about it as she sent it right at the black man! Heller quickly turned his hands into the Hammerfist; giant red and black armored fist and arms, and sent one of the fist at Musubi's incoming punch! The two punches clashed with a heavy impacting gust of wind exploding from the two powers connecting.
Musubi finally landed on her feet and back flipped to the other side of the building they and Tsukiumi were currently on.
"Let me guess; Sekirei, huh?" James figured as he made his giant fist turn back to his normal arms.
"I see. So thou really are contaminated with the so-called 'bio mass". Miya did not jest it seems." Tsukiumi noticed.
Heller looked towards Tsukiumi with a confused expression. Not for the way they both dressed, but more so to the way Tsukiumi was speaking. "Uh…Why're you talkin' like that?"
"What does thou mean?" Tsukiumi wondered.
"That right there. That "thou" crap; what's up with the Shakespearian tongue?" Heller questioned.
"Oh, so that's what it's called!" Musubi said with understanding and a smile, "I always thought it was a speech in-pedi-ment."
"Does thou even understand the meaning of such a word?-!" Tsukiumi exclaimed angrily at the brown haired Sekirei, "And the correct word is "impediment!"
"Now why would I pet a mint, Tsukiumi?" Musubi said thinking the blond Sekirei was talking crazy. Tsukiumi herself could only face palm at Musubi's lack of skill in words.
"Uh, yeah, I'm just gonna go then…" Heller said as he was about to leave, but was stopped by the call of the blond woman.
"Halt the foot, sir Alex Mercer!"
Heller instantly turned around with a confused and almost disgusted expression on his face. "What did you call me?"
"Oh yeah! We know it's you Alex Mercer!" Musubi called out, while pointing at him, "You fit the description just as Miya told us; a hoodie, a black leather jacket, and biomass power which I guess is what you have!"
Heller actually took a good look at himself, and was surprised at how close he actually was dressed to Mercer in terms of someone simple describing him. Plus the biomass factor only made it worse. "Wow, bein' mistaken for Alex Mercer; that's a new low for me." James muttered.
"And since thou match this description to a T, we shall not allow thee to escape from our grasp! Prepare thy self, Alex Mercer, and tell us where you have hidden Minato!" Tsukiumi proclaimed as she gathered a large degree of water to form around her body and materialize into large watery spheres around her!
"Hope you're ready for this, Mercer!" Musubi smiled confidently as she clenched her fist and got into a battle stance. "'Cause we're not gonna go easy on ya!"
Heller could only stand there as the two charged at him with attacks ready to strike as he made his right arm into his giant blade and sighed irritably; "Fuck my life…"