SBS Time!
darkcol9: I forgot… Does that mad scientist have some kind of kin to him?
Game2002: Akemi's his niece.

Guest: Wow, this is bad…
Game2002: What's bad?

Chapter 7
Cure From Above

Nue and Mamizou floated in the air in front of Dr. Akihiro, and the former said to him, "This is as far as you go! We're going to put an end to your plan right here and right now!"

"You will not stop me! You have no reason to stop me too!" Dr. Akihiro told her. "I'm making the life of everyone much better, so by stopping me, you are making yourself an enemy of mankind!"

"You are the enemy of mankind! You have no right to transform people into monsters without their consent! You'll only make things worse!" Mamizou angrily said to him.

"They will be glad once they've experienced firsthand what their new bodies can do! They will all thank me for doing this! They will realize how great of a man I am! They will praise me nonstop!" the scientist loudly said.

"This guy's insane! There's clearly no use reasoning with him anymore! We'll just have to destroy that machine before it does its thing!" Nue said, and then she charged at Dr. Akihiro.

"Wait! We're not supposed to destroy it!" Mamizou called out to her.

Nue trust her trident at Dr. Akihiro, but he caught it and then flung her away. After that, Mamizou sent birds made of blue energy after him. The scientist flew at them and easily destroyed them by swinging his arm at them, and then Mamizou quickly moved out of the way before he rammed into her.

Dr. Akihiro turned around when his snake tail saw Nue heading for the cloud-making machine, so he quickly flew at her and forced her to move out of the way by threatening to ram into her. He then turned back to the machine and stood in front of it with his snake tail coiled around it to protect it. "You're not going to stop this thing from doing its job!" the scientist loudly said to the nue.

"I'd like to see you try your worst protecting it!" Nue said to him while holding a spell card in her hand. "Unidentified: Red UFO of Rage!" The card created several red UFOs that went and flew in circles around the scientist while firing nonstop, so he turned around and used his body to cover the machine.

Mamizou smacked Nue in the back and said to her, "You're not supposed to destroy that machine! We need it to change the people who turned into nues back to normal! Have you forgotten?!"

"Oops… I forgot…" Nue said.

With his body still covering the machine, Dr. Akihiro pointed his wings at the air and fired laser beams nonstop to shoot down each of the UFOs until there were none, and then he got back up and glared at Nue and Mamizou.

Chiyuri was still trembling when she walked down the hallway. She really thought it was the end of her back there, but she was thankful that Dr. Akihiro wasn't interested in killing or hurting her, but only taking the machine from her. The latter happening wasn't something to be happy about, however.

She came across Yumemi when the former appeared from around a corner, and the latter said to her, "Chiyuri! Did you find the machine?"

"Doctor… Machida… took it…" Chiyuri replied. "I'm sorry… I was too scared and couldn't do anything… My gun didn't scratch him at all…"

"I see… It's all right," Yumemi told her, and then she showed her a test tube containing clear green liquid. "The cure has been created. With this, we can simply change everyone back to normal if Doctor Machida's plan succeeds. Let's head over to the rooftop now!"

Chiyuri nodded, and then they wasted no time in running to an elevator and took it all the way to the highest floor. Once there, they stepped out onto the rooftop and looked around for those three, and then they saw Dr. Akihiro and Nue fighting in the air. "Quick! Let's get to the machine before he spots us!" Yumemi said to her assistant.

They ran around to look for the machine, and then Mamizou called out to them from the higher part of the roof. "Is the serum ready?"

Yumemi held up the serum and said, "It's ready!"

She shouted too loud, so Dr. Akihiro was able to hear her. Seeing the green serum in her hand and the fact that she was making her way to the cloud-making machine, he deduced that she must be holding a cure that would change the victims of his serum back to normal. Not wanting that to happen, the scientist growled angrily before charging at her.

"Hey! Your opponent is me!" Nue shouted at him.

Yumemi and Chiyuri ran as fast as they could for the machine, and the scientist was closing in on them from behind. Suddenly, Mamizou flew at him from the side and smacked him in the head hard with her karakasa to stop him. However, Dr. Akihiro wasn't dazed by the attack very much, so he quickly recovered and grabbed the tanuki by the neck to fling her away.

Yumemi got in front of the machine and was going to reach for the serum placed in the slot, but then Chiyuri shouted for her to watch her back. Yumemi turned around just in time to see Dr. Akihiro firing laser beams from his wings at her. She quickly picked up the machine to run, but when the beams struck the part of the floor behind her feet, small explosions were created that sent her flying forward a bit. The machine and the green serum both flew out of her hands, too.

Acting fast, Chiyuri ran for both the serum and the machine, and she managed to catch them both. When she turned around, she saw Dr. Akihiro swooping down at her. When he knocked her onto the floor, he snatched the machine away from her, but the serum remained in her hand. Dr. Akihiro turned around in the air and said, "So you're working with those two, Professor Okazaki! I see that you have devised a cure to reverse the effect of my serum, too! Too bad you won't get the chance to use it! There are only a few more minutes before the cloud is created, and then everyone will become like me!"

"Why are you doing this, Dr. Akihiro?!" Yumemi shouted at him. "This is not the correct way to make the life of people better! As a scientist who strives to reach that goal, you should know better than anyone else!"

"This new body has made me realize that this is without doubt the best way to make the life of people better!" Dr. Akihiro told her. "Power, flight, durability, and fast-healing wounds! Are these not what people strive for? I am doing this world a huge favor!"

"You're crazy! Nobody wants to give up their charming good looks just to obtain those!" Chiyuri shouted at him. "I'd rather be weak and retain my current cute looks than to become an ugly freak like you!"

"What use is beauty and looks if it does not bring you power and such? You will be thanking me after you…" Before Dr. Akihiro could finish his line, a fly that was flying in front of him "transformed" into Nue and tackled him, pushing him back through the air.

Nue raised her trident over the scientist and then plunged it into the top of his head. Dr. Akihiro cried in agony and dropped the machine, and Nue quickly caught it before it hit the floor. She then turned to Chiyuri and shouted, "Quick! The cure!"

Chiyuri nodded before running over to the machine in Nue's hands to take out the blood-red serum, but then she saw Dr. Akihiro pulling the trident out of his head and throwing it in their direction, so she shouted for Nue to watch out. They quickly jumped out of the way to avoid getting hit by the trident, and then Dr. Akihiro swooped down at Chiyuri and lifted her into the air by the neck. "Ack! Let me go!" she cried.

Dr. Akihiro headed for the edge of the building, obviously planning to drop her onto the street below. Mamizou quickly flew in front of him and clapped her hands to create a large amount of smoke that blocked out his view. Mamizou then flew into the smoke and emerged from the other side with Chiyuri in her arms.

Nue looked at the machine and saw that there was not much time left. "Only fifteen seconds left!" she shouted. "Quick! The cure!

Mamizou placed Chiyuri in front of Nue for her to reach for the blood-red serum. Suddenly, Dr. Akihiro flew out of the smoke at a fast speed and swung his hand upwards at Chiyuri's hand to knock the cure into the air and all the way over the edge.

"NOOOO!" Nue shouted before quickly flying after the cure. She managed to catch the cure, but she was suddenly struck in the head from above by Dr. Akihiro's fist and sent shooting downwards. The nue turned around and looked up to see Dr. Akihiro flying down after her. Acting quick, Nue removed the serum from the machine and replaced it with the cure. Dr. Akihiro caught her by the shoulder immediately after that, and then they both spun horizontally as they fell through the air.

Exactly one second before the machine did its job, Nue was positioned above Dr. Akihiro, and the former had it pointing at him.

"Zero," the machine said. Suddenly, the "turret" at the top of the machine released a powerful green blast that exploded into a burst of smoke upon hitting Dr. Akihiro.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

The green smoke, or cloud, that was created quickly grew in size and spread throughout the air, and green dust-like particles also slowly floated down onto the streets. When the people who were transformed into nues came in contact with the dust particles, they slowly returned to their original appearances, much to their surprise and joy.

As for Dr. Akihiro, he found himself no longer able to fly, and his body was slowly changing back to normal. "No! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he shouted while watching his fur falling off his skin in horror, and his wings and snake tail both disintegrated into dust-like particles. Just before he fully changed back to normal, he hit the pavement.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

Several people gathered around the fallen scientist, who hadn't fully changed back yet. When finally changed back to normal, he reached his hand into the air and cursed angrily under his breath about his plan being thwarted, and then he passed out.

Nue looked at the result of the green cloud that was still floating in the air and said in excitement, "I… No… We did it! We did it!"

TO BE CONTINUED

I know… It's not a longer chapter, despite the fact it took a while to come out… I still hope you enjoyed it, though.