Parasite Eve II: Armegedon
Things will turn for the worst, as a wounded Shizuko is fighting for her life as Ryu and Kanata are still being overwhelmed by their assailants as ZECT arrived just in time to help, though the unknown assailants have a master plan in mind that would ensure their escape.
As Ryu was staggering back, Sasword readily prepares to execute the Rider Slash and released his Yaiba Blade's energy slash wave but Shizuko shoves the blue-haired Class Q member aside and took the hit instead, almost slicing off her chest from the rest of her body, and she screams out in pain, blood splattered on the ground and his sweater. He went glow in the dark upon seeing this and his musing interrupted upon feeling her body slumped on his chest.
His heart beats faster and saw Sasword snickering at the sight and yet all he could do is sit down.
"That was stupid...that bitch took the hit meant for you...well since I have her blood sample, I guess there's no point in keeping her..."
"You...DAMN YOU!!!!"
"I'd be more worried about staying alive for your own than keeping her alive..."
With a snap of a finger, three vans opened and several men dressed like cops came out, and slowly changed into Artificial NMC, and as the SWAT-like troopers make their escape, ZECT Troopers and Shibuya's SWAT team members began focusing their attention on their mutated opponents.
Period by Chemistry
(4th Opening Song from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
owari naki tabi no tochuu tachidomari sou na toki
fukai tameiki kobosu bokura wa
tsukami kakete wa mata hanarete itta
demo ima wa mou nani mo osoreru koto wa nai
kokoro o tsunagu tsuyoi kizuna wa
keshite hodoke wa shinaisa
sagashi tsuzukete tadori tsuita
kono basho de Period ni
ai ni michita nukumori karadajuu kakemeguru
nido to kieru koto nai kioku ga
kanarazu yakusoku hatashite kimi o tsureteku yo
afureru yume o negai daite subete uta ni nosete
genjitsu kara me o sorasazu ni
tachimukau yuuki o
kanashimi ikari chikara ni kaete
unmei wa sugu soba ni
mukau saki wa hora
kirameku sekai
boku o furuwasu kono kansei o
uragiru koto wa shinaisa
tomo ni ikiteku mirai no tame ni
kono basho de Period ni
shinjitsu o yubisaki ni
11: Hanto part 6
With Kanata still unconscious, and with the Artificial NMC starting to work on their "meal", Sasword and Golem # 9 started to retreat, with no one stopping them due to their "contingency plan" as the Shibuya SWAT team and ZECT Troopers tried to fend off their mutated predators, and are slowly being devoured.
Ryu, on the other hand, was torn in between helping the others and helping Shizuko, who is losing blood fast, and tried to apply first aid in slowing her blood loss, though he seem to know that at this rate she may not survive. In reality, she has little chance of surviving at all with the wound so big, which busted her lungs, tore off some parts of her heart, and with scorpion venom now spreading over her blood stream, her fate is sealed.
"Shizuko…please…hold on…"
"Koff-koff…kaff…"
He already applied bandaging her wounds though he finally realized that Sasword has already used his Yaiba Blade in poisoning her, and he frantically looked around, seeing that everyone is busy at the moment, though a few ZECT Troopers finally came to their aid, but with grim news.
"Sorry…but at this rate…and with wounds this grave…she won't make it…even at the nearest hospital…I'm sorry, lad…but she's good as dead…we can't do anything for her…"
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT!!!! YOU WILL HELP HER AT ANY WAY YOU CAN…"
"R-Ryu…s-stop…it…it…it's okay…"
"Shizuko…"
Meanwhile, TheBee initiated Cast Off and assume his secondary form and is now giving instructions to the ZECT Troopers on what to do with their opponents as a tactical thought hit him and hope this would work.
"Spread yourselves around and confuse them…then catch them off-guard so we can deal with them faster! Regroup and divide! That's the only chance we have!"
The ZECT Troopers did so and it slowly worked though the Shibuya SWAT team members were the first to fall as they were chomped to death, leaving ZECT as the only line of defense. By now Kanata woke up and shook off the headaches as the final body of a SWAT team fell on top of him, surprising him yet he saw an Artificial NMC coming towards him and immediately the Class R member inserted the CHANGE SPIDER card inside his Club Buckle, forming the belt and initiated his transformation to Leangle.
Club Buckle: "OPEN UP!"
The projection wall materializes bumping the mutated predator down as it head towards Kanata and enveloped him, encasing him in his green armor, and Leangle went in to action, taking out his Club Staff and began attacking the Artifical NMC and stabbed and slashed it until it was down and dead. Never in his life would he encountered something like this, and this one is a lot different than the previous versions of NMC, and then saw Ryu trying to keep Shizuko awake. As he went there, he was surprised to see the gravity of her wounds and that Ryu's orga belt and phone wrecked beyond repair.
"Ryu…how is she…?"
"Kanata…help us…we got to save her…"
The brown-haired teen was taken aback by Ryu's pleas…never in his life to see him this desperate…he was normally cool and collected, but now what he is seeing in front of him is a stark contrast of the Class Q member, and nodded as he had to do something to help them in any way possible. He took out the Club Queen: ABSORB TIGER, throwing it up in the air while swiping the Club 10: REMOTE TAPIR, unsealing the Tiger Clow Beast, and instructed her to take Ryu and Shizuko to the nearest hospital, which she did so, taking the two teens away from here and from there Leangle began to help out in dealing with the Artificial NMC.
"Fujima…what the heck are these??? I though you guys already took care of them???"
"They're different! I believe someone acquired their DNA samples and fuses them with human DNA…allowing them to create artificial versions of NMC…allowing them to assume human forms…though this seem to give them short time span assume their human guises…"
"Who could do something like this???!!! I thought that the Cult of Illumnites is disbanded???!!!"
"We have no idea! Once we took care of this problem we'll conduct a probe on this matter…"
"We'd better…Kyuu's house is under attack…by silver-colored goons almost dressed like ZECT Troopers…are you sure they're not from your department???? I had to ask…"
"No…they even attacked us…Ryoma is involved…there's a possibility that a survivor of the Cult is leading this…right now we must first take care of them before we move on to the next step…"
"Fine…"
And so TheBee and Leangle began to exert efforts in dealing with the current problem as more SWAT team members from Shibuya and nearby prefectures arrived to provide support as the streets are now littered with bloodied corpses.
At the Renjou house…
The troopers continue to open fire at the house that is still enveloped in Sakura's SHIELD card's powers, and they intend to bombard it, and even more vans arrived and are bringing out their boombox devices and tried to counter the force filed, but surprisingly it had no effect. The DDS students inside were relatively safe for now, but are far from feeling safe as they still have no idea who they are facing against and why are the troopers attacking them. Agumon, Tailmon and Gabumon remained injured and Sakura couldn't use the HEAL card as she is concentrating on keeping the SHIELD card online.
But suddenly the troopers ceased their attacks and started to fall back, and within two minutes the neighborhood is safe, leaving the neighbors shaken as they slowly got out of their houses upon seeing the attackers retreating. Sakura lowered her Star Staff as Kyuu and Kyo slowly went outside to talk to the neighbors asking them if their phonelines remained "dead", in which the neighbors said that "yes".
However, Daisuke emerged from the house with startling news which shocked the hell out of everyone, and causes panic within the neighborhood and both the Renjou brothers were taken by surprise at what the Class C leader just spitted out.
"GUYS!!! THE SCANNERS AT KYO'S COMPUTERS PICKED UP SEVERAL TRAILER TRUCKS COMING THIS WAY!!!! AND THEY'RE FULL OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS AND A TICKING TIME BOMB!!!! THEY INTEND TO BOMBARD THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!"
As pandemonium ensued, Kyuu was willing to assume Parasite Form when Sakura stopped him, as she stated that she'll "take care of everything". Hiding within the bushes, she exerted all of her physical and mental strength and will, using the SHIELD card's power to cover the entire neighborhood while waiting for the approaching trucks to arrive, and upon seeing the trucks arriving, she channeled the SHIELD card's power to cover the trucks, and when the trucks exploded, it unleashed a powerful wave that are laced with radiation, and Sakura had to use another card to make the radiation energies dissipate and so the neighborhood is safe…but at a cost as Sakura was again exhausted from the physical and mental strain and she collapsed, with Tomoyo helping her.
At the Shibuya Hospital, doctors were trying their best to patch up the wounds on Shizuko. Ryu was beside her while the Tiger Clow Beast (in her human guise of Hikaru Jo) was outside the emergency room. She knew what the outcome would be and knew she couldn't tell Ryu that Shizuko will never survive the ordeal, and all she can do now is just wait.
As the doctors were trying to do everything they could, Shizuko glanced at Ryu, who is beside her. She knew her time is up and wanted to say goodbye to Ryu.
"Ryu…thank you for everything…and I'm glad…that I…met…you…"
"No…you'll be fine…"
"Thanks you…and I…love…you…"
After that, she expired, and doctors knew what this mean, and chose not to try and revive her as they knew that they couldn't do anything about it, and Ryu could only stay silent while tears fell from his eyes.
At the Shibuya proper, TheBee and Leangle, along with a few surviving ZECT Troopers, managed to defeat al of the Artificial NMC, and though the streets are safe for now, it had an impact as the citizens there are again feeling the effects of what happened six months ago and felt that it was déjà vu all over again.
To Be Continued…
Shukan Sentimantal by SCANDAL
(4th Ending Song from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
kawashita hazu no nai yakusoku ga
kyou mo bokura no mirai o ubaou to suru
hoshigatte ita mono o te ni shite mo
sunao ni umaku waraenai no wa naze darou
afureru namida wa yowasa ya koukai janai
ITAMI ga unda KAKERA de
donna shunkan datte unmei datte
hitotsu dake tashika na mono ga aru to shitta
hitori de kangaechatte ima o mayou yori
ashita o mukae ni ikun da
zutto mottetai kokoro no jirai SUICCHI wa kittenai
KAWARANAI MIRAI KOWASHITAI
itsumo boku o miteru arifureta MERODI ga
kudaranai to hito ni warawarete mo
KIRAKIRA naosara kagayaku no wa naze darou
nani ga honto de uso ka RIKUTSU ja nakute
kanjite itai KOKORO de
kitto aijou nante gensou datte
gomakashitaku nai yo kizutsuita to shite mo
wakari aitai to tsuyoku negau hodo
butsukaru koto mo aru kara
nakeru kurai aozora kousaten de te o nobashita
juunen go mo konna fuu ni irareru kana issho ni
donna shunkan datte unmei datte
hitotsu dake tashika na mono ga aru to shitta
genkai datte konnan datte akirametaku nai yo
kono mama hanasanai de
kataku nigirishimeta kimi no migite no nukumori
koko ni aru kara
A tragedy…
Ryoma's an asshole…
Kyuu almost lost his life…his family…and home…
Who is behind all this???
Preview:
A conflict is brewing as ZECT is suspected of being behind the attacks which ZECT itself deny, and this puts a strain on the alliance between DDS and ZECT.
Author's Notes:
Okay...I got a vote 2 against 1, with "Shizuko survives" vote...as Emissary-X and Twilight Kyu voted in favor while Umeko voted against. So naturally, majority wins, but then I'm in a dilemma here. I told Shzuko's character, Rhapsoding Riyoko that I'll borrow her character for only 10 chapters, and I couldn't possibly ask her to let me borrow her again, and since my original intention is to have her appear for only 10 chapters, I had to come up with a decision.
It took me four days to decide her fate, and regretfully, I decided to have her kill off. Sorry if I didn't take your votes, but as a writer, I had to choose, as the next upcoming chapters will be darker and more dramatic as conflict ensues, and everything else, but at least Ryu gets to experience "first love".