Me: Hey all! Nobody can talk still. You know, with the girls being captured and Rito being trained. Speaking of which, let's get back to the story.
A/N: This is narration, "this is speaking," and 'this is thinking.'
Disclaimer: At this point, I shouldn't need to have this in here, but still. I do not in any way, shape or form own To Love Ru or any of it's characters. *Starts crying*
Ch. 6: Mind Freak
"What?!" yelled the king of the Universe, pissed beyond reason, or rather, for a very good reason. "Somebody has captured not only the crowned princess but her two sisters as well?"
"Yes, and a few others." Rito calmly replied, while silently wishing for more underwear.
"Then I'm going to get them myself, and may the heavens have mercy on them, because I certainly won't." growled Gid, getting up.
"No!" Rito yelled, stopping Gid in his tracks. "They said that the girls would die if anyone else came instead. They want a ransom."
"Of how much, pray tell." the king growled.
"One quarter of your treasury. But-"
"One quarter?! Your joking! No! I'll just... just..." he stopped talking, defeated, and stared at the floor in front of him. 'The girls are
going to die.' he thought dejectedly.
"No, they won't." Rito said, interrupting his thoughts.
"What? I missed what you said."
"Why did you say that, Rito-dono?" Zastin, Chief Royal Guard of the Crown, asked.
"Gid said that the girls are going to die." he said, confused. 'Did Zastin not hear Gid?'
"No, I thought that. You read my mind. What other powers do you have?" Gid asked, now curious.
"I don't understand. I have powers?"
"Yes, Rito-dono." Zastin answered. "The members of the royal Deviluke family are each born with an inherent gift, or power. Lala has technical genius, Momo talks to plants, and Nana talks to animals."
"That's correct, Zastin." Gid nodded. Turning back to Rito, he began again. "Now, Rito, what powers do you have?"
"I think... the ability to move things with my mind?" he wondered aloud, remembering the morning.
"Telekinesis too." Gid mused. "Not that It'll help you. The girls are a few galaxies away, probably guarded, and here you are on Earth.
What can you do?" he demanded.
"I'm going to save them!" shouted Rito, thoroughly pissed off. "Why does nobody think that I am strong enough to save my friends, to protect them?" he yelled.
"Alright, you have ammo, but no gun." Acknowledged Gid, now calm. "Zastin!"
"Yes, Deviluke-sama?" Zastin saluted, stepping forward.
"Give Rito one of your new suits, a size small, I think. Do not question my methods!" he shouted, stopping Zastin's doubts. "Rito is a devilukian now. If the boy cannot handle that suit, he cannot and will not succeed me. And give him a fighter to get to his destination if he survives. After all," he added, "teleportation only gets you so far." And with that, Gid's transmission ended.
Zastin sighed. "As you command, Deviluke-sama. Rito-dono!"
"H-hai!" Rito stuttered.
Zastin pressed a button on his phone, and a suit appeared that looked like Zastin's, standing on it's own. "Put this suit on."
"Okay. Does this go on over your clothes?" he asked.
"Of course not. It is form-fitting and needs to conform to your entire body." he said before turning around, respecting Rito's privacy.
"Right." he muttered, before properly donning the armor.
"Now," began Zastin, turning around, "match my moves." he said, swinging his sword in a complex display of techniques.
Unknown to Rito his armour has a neural linkup, which allows the suit, and in turn the user, to remember everything he sees. This allows for the user to mimic, remember, or block any attack used against him/her. This causes the entirety of an army using these suits to become very skilled, very fast. This might explain now the Devilukian Empire became as big as it is in the first place.
So, when Rito tried to swing his blade, and succeeded, he flinched and dropped his blade. "Whoa!" he exclaimed.
"Yes, the suit will do that." stated Zastin, and explained the suit's capabilities. "Now, watch me." And so Rito observed Zastin use every technique that he could think of, effectively giving him years of battle experience in one hour.
"Now you have a chance. Go!" he pointed towards the door. "your ship is out there. Save Lala-sama and the others!"
Rito nodded. "I will!" he said, leaving.
As Rito got in the pilot's seat, Zastin walked out behind him. "The ship is on auto-pilot. You will be there in one hour. Good luck!" 'You'll need it.' he thought.
"Thank you. And yes, yes I will!" Rito smiled, and disappeared with his ship into the skies above.
As he hurtled through space and towards the girls, Rito thought, 'I'm coming, girls.'
-Chapter Transition-
Because this universe is so messed up, and almost every planet has the same atmosphere, language, and environment, Rito's ship told him that it was okay to leave, and so he did. His first fight wasn't worth mentioning, aside from the fact that the guard honestly didn't expect anybody to show up. His mistake. Also, it is worth mentioning that kidnapper didn't hire any real help, just a bunch of artificial intelligences to do his dirty work, all inside robotic bodies. So, Rito didn't feel bad about thrashing them.
When Rito encountered the next group of security, they were expecting him, and charged. Except for one guy, who smirked and assumed that Rito was going to die. Rito assumed that this was the squad commander.
One of the guards charged straight at him, so Rito responded with an uppercut swing, cutting the guard in half. Another tried to stab him in the side, so Rito decapitated the guard with a fluid motion. A third approached with caution, thinking, 'He's reading our minds.'
Which he was, of course. Not that he told them that. So, Rito threw the blade, and impaled the guard in the chest.
The commander was watching all of this, so he ran as fast as he could away from the monster that was a pissed of Devilukian prince, toward where the leader was keeping the girls captive. Once he reached the chamber, he reported in, "Sir, this Rito guy is insanely skilled and powerful. He got the rest of the squad and is advancing!"
"Set up for an ambush! From the shadows!" the kidnapper ordered, causing the remaining guards to sit in the corners of the room, the lights to dim, and creating the perfect environment for an ambush. The guards that could not reach any shadows took cover behind
anything they could find. "Fire only on my order!"
When Rito forced open the door, he expected more guards, or at least something more than this toad-like thing. "Where are they?" he growled.
"They are here." The kidnapper pointed toward a black tube in the corner of the room. "Where is my ransom?"
"You kidnap my friends, my lover, and my sister, and you still expect that I'm going to pay you a ransom?" asked Rito, now extremely pissed off. "No, I don't think so." You finish, ripping his sword firmly. If any of the guards were really paying attention, they would have noticed how his hair was floating, and how random things started to levitate. Just thought I'd point that out.
"I thought as much. Kill him!" It yelled, and about 50 guns fired at Rito, and the most incredible, and predictable, thing happened. The bullets all stopped about halfway to Rito, who was now advancing.
He looked around, seeing all of the guards doing nothing, just staring at the impossibility. "You try to have me killed as well? No! I won't let you stop me!" He yelled, sending waves of psychic energy out, forcing the bullets back to their owners, silencing them all. "I won't let you keep them from me!" He declared, charging forward, and attacking of a new group of cards, who had teleported in.
When he had sent out that psychic wave, it had done more than simply destroy the guards. It also cracked the stasis device container. The girls watch in amazement as Rito hacked, slashed, and otherwise annihilated the guards with a cold fury that surprise everyone, even Yami, who could honestly say that she thought he was week.
"We should help him." Said Lala, getting up.
"No, princess." Stated Yami, "We would only get in his way." She said, knowing all too well his state of mind. 'Now he can, and will, kill without hesitation.' She shuddered at the thoughts. Not because she was scared, oh no. Assassin's are never afraid. No, what bothers her the most was that a solid, definite, and I'm changing thing, Rito being gentle and caring kama had shifted dramatically. In other words, Yami was in shock.
Now, the kidnapper knew that he had to change the status quo, or his plan would fail. So, thinking that he could still blackmail Rito, he grabbed Yami. Or rather, he tried to.
As soon as the kidnapper extended an arm towards the girls, his hand exploded. He look at Rito. "If you try to touch Yami, or any of the girls again, your heads next." Rito growled, lowering his outstretched arm, having dealt with the remaining guards.
The kidnapper dropped to his knees, screaming.
Rito just glared. "Shut up." And he forced the kidnappers mouth shut. Rito looked at the communicator on his wrist. "They are safe now, Gid. Come pick us up." he spoke.
"So you did it, kid. Good on you. There might just be hope for you yet." Gid sounded impressed. "Just put him in stasis. I'll have him killed- I mean tried- later. Stupid laws." He muttered, ending the transmission.
All of this was hurt by everyone. The kidnapper tried to run, but was hit by Rito's stun gun, paralyzing him.
"Now that that is taken care of..." He began, turning his gaze upon the girls. But instead of the warrior that they saw a few seconds ago, they saw the gentle, kind hearted young man that they knew and loved. "Are you girls okay?" He asked softly, his gaze moving to each girl, stopping longer on Lala and Yami.
"Rito!" Lala cried, running up to him and tackle-hugging him. (That is definitely a word) to the ground, crying.
"Its okay, Lala. Everything is all right now." He said, cradling her head. "Let's go home." He said, picking her up, bridal style.
"Yuuki Rito." Yami said, getting his attention.
'Great, now she's gonna kill me.' "Yes, Yami?" He asked, turning around. But instead of the hard expression that he and everyone else, minus Mikan, were used to seeing, she was blushing profusely. "Thank you for saving us. I am ashamed that I could not deal with it myself."
Rito would have scratched the back of his head, but he was carrying Lala. So he used his tail. "It was nothing, really." he smiled. C'mon. Let's go home." he said, as Gid's ship landed.
Me: Alright. I'm out of ideas. I'm likely going to change the story to M, because of things, and probably put the harem idea back in, but I don't know. I need inspiration.
Rito: Do that, and you die.
Me: *Jumps* Rito! When did you get here? *Inches backwards*
Rito: A few second ago. *Cracks knuckles, threateningly* Did you have something to tell the readers?
Me: Uhhh... Yeah! Read, review, favorite, follow! See you later! *Runs away*
Rito: Get back here, you bastard! *Give chase*