Openings song: The walking dead of Dropkick Murphy's.
I wanted to do this with my previous chapter, but I found out that I'm not so good with large chapters, so I decided to split it up.
But this is going to be one of my longest chapters after all, so be prepared.
After they heard the windows shattering, Kerlongsj and Chifuyu ran through the mall, taking out guards and helping hostages escape. Why Chifuyu had weapons with her, was a mystery for Kerlongsj, but he was glad that she was armed. He took a rifle from a dead man.
"They're surprisingly well armed for an attack." Kerlongsj said when he looked to the bodies he and Chifuyu left behind. They jumped out of the air, both killing two targets and before she advanced towards two guards armed with swords. They didn't stand a chance against Chifuyu and with two swipes she took the two down.
Kerlongsj decided to take his targets down in another way. He jumped on the wall, made a swirl of 180° and when he got at the two, Chifuyu found that he had a mix of elegance and brute strength.
"These guys are too well armed for a robbery or taking hostages. They're something else." Kerlongsj said when he turned his last kills on their back.
"Why do you think that?" Asked Chifuyu. "If they were terrosists, I expected AK47's or older weapons, but these guys use modern weapons like STG-90 and I don't think that the swords they got are cheap models either."
Chifuyu looked at them and when she looked to the logo their enemies carried, she had a huge shock so much, she fell back and Kerlongsj had to catch her. "Something up?" He asked. Chifuyu was terrified what was very disturbing and painful for Kerlongsj to see.
He got in her body and started to hack and she calmed down. "What happened to you? You were terrified." He said with a calm look on his face. "Kerlongsj, I don't have time to explain everything, but for now, we need to get Ichika, Anaton and the rest of the kids and get the hell out of here." She stood up, but felt his hand tightening around her wrist.
"You know what or who're fighting and I find it weird that you're afraid of your enemies."
Chifuyu turned to him and Kerlongsj cursed himself for saying such words. "Yes, I'm afraid and I'll tell you anything you want to know. But for now, we need to save those kids."
"And everyone else." Kerlongsj thought as he took a few guns and began to ran after Chifuyu.
Meanwhile at the restaurant.
The guys were shocked that the light got out and looked to Ichika. "That normal here?"
"No." Said Ichika. "Something happened?"
They heard a scream and saw how an attacker had floored Kanzashi. "Kanzashi." Ichika now noticed that his friends has followed them. Thanks to the training of Anaton, he quickly used his partial deployment and attacked her attacker. He rammed his light saber and cut through his opponent. While Anaton was glad, he adapted to his training, Ichika didn't payed notice to the other attackers. Two more had entered the restaurant and aimed at Ichika.
Before they could fire, they saw how an arrow took one out and how a grappling hook pulled the other one passed him. Ichika turned around and saw how Thazalof had his huge bow deployed and Izolf let his target fell on his other hook what killed them. "Thanks lads." Ichika replied.
"Before you act as an hero, think before you act." Said Anaton, prickly about the rash attack. "But you did the right thing. And you can come out." He said. Ichika turned around and saw his friends sitting.
"Everyone, why are you here?" The hackers face palmed themselves about Ichika didn't notice that his friends followed them the entire time. The five girls came out with red cheeks of shame. Anaton walked to them and the rest of his friends followed him. "If you wanted to come with us, you just had to ask. You didn't have to sneak around. That wouldn't work."
"That's impossible for amateurs to notice us due to my training and instructions." Laura crossed her arms. "You think that we're a bunch of amateurs?" Izolf asked, still with his hooks active.
"Enough! Now is not the time nor the place. I think the whole shopping centre is filled with guys like these. If we want to survive this, we have to work together. So a truce for the coming twelve hours?" Anaton asked to the girls. They looked at each other. Sure, they were good trained and consider the best of their countries, but those guys showed that they were better than them. If they wanted to have a chance on gaining Ichika's affections, they had to listen to the hackers.
"Whoever those guys, they're damn good. They shut down our communications with the rest of the world."
Ichika looked outside. "Eh, everyone, you might wanna see this?" The walked to the windows and saw how soldiers armed with different types of weapons were gathering hostages to one spot. Some were carrying guns, other swords and other different types of weapons.
"Let's get to them." Houki said, but she was floored by Kashal. "Start thinking. If you attack them like that, they'll kill the hostages. Better think out a plan and then act."
"Oh and you have a plan?" She asked with pride in her voice when they got up. "No, we're busy realising that we're under attack. First we're going to start thinking and after that, we're going to act."
Anaton looked to his friend. "Thanks, but let me first think what we have as warriors. I have three close and three long range fighting. I can be a close one as well. Ichika is excellent at close range, so I would use him as well like that. What about you seven?"
"Charlotte and me are both long range fighters." Cecelia answered. "I can be used as a midrange and close range fighter." Laura replied. "I can be midrange as well." Charlotte added.
"What about you three?" He turned to Kanzashi, Houki and Rin. "Me and Rin are both close range fighters, but we can use long range attacks."
"Better keep it even." Anaton answered. "And what about you?" He looked to Kanzashi. "Me, I'm not as good as them and." She waved her arms upside down, but got a soft slap in her face.
"Listen. I don't know how many of them are here, so we can use everyone here. I don't care what you're good at or not, but you'll have to fight."
Anaton spoke severely and she listened to his reasoning. "I'm good at long range." She answered with a certain power in her voice.
Anaton nodded. "Good. I have an idea, but you'll have to listen to me. We're going to divide ourselves in groups to cover more ground."
He began to explain and everyone listened to his part he or she had to do. They sat down and Anaton draw out where everyone had to be stationed. They were surprised he used their first names, but decided to settle for it.
"Cecilia, I need you and Thazalof at the top of the ceiling, providing cover for the close range fighters. Thaza, I need you to escort her to that place and take out snipers. Be sure to activate your IS after I said so. That's for all of you." Everyone nodded and he went on with his plan.
"Charlotte, you and Raton need to take cover here. You're going at the other end of the place." She nodded, but Raton made a complaint. "How in the world do I get there? I don't have a stealth weapon." He remarked Anaton's smile. "Hey, I'm making the plan. Rin, you and Kashal need to escort to that place. Take people out quietly."
The two looked at each other and they saw how they were pissed, but decided to listen to him. "Good, we have six, now we need divide the rest of you. Laura, you and Erzof need take post at the doors. I want you to take out larger threats who are stationed outside. Understood?" The soldier nodded and Erzof clenched his fists. "Don't kill each other on the way oh and Laura? You're the stealth of your group, so you need to take care of enemies." She nodded.
"Okay, we have Houki, Ichika, Kanzashi, Tizof, Izolf and me left, right?" Ichika looked around. "That's right. Okay, Kanzashi, I want you opposite of Charlotte and Raton. Izolf, you need to help her. Okay?"
"Sure, I can do." Izolf replied. "Okay, the four of us are going to work together. Houki, Houki." The kendo champion was dreaming.
"Sorry to break it to you, but Tizof is going to help you. Ichika, you're my partner." He looked to the male pilot." Okay, I listen."
"Good, everyone knows their places. Now for the plan, we're going to draw them in."
Everyone went to his place when they heard about the plan. Laura and Erzof took Thazalof and Cecilia with them. Anaton promised that they could go back to their war, but now they were allies. They had to treat each other like that.
"Laura, you and Erzof need to go the entrance of the mall. If you're there, Thazalof, use the stairs and climb up to the highest point and come back. That's the safest way." The two did what Anaton asked. Laura saw two guards standing. She nodded to Thazalof. He aimed an arrow and shot through the head of one and before the other guard noticed what was going on, Laura had impaled his heart with her knife. When they got at the place, Erzof and Laura took cover. They bid their friends good luck and Thazalof got first and took out any remaining soldiers on the higher floors. Normally, you would notice them, but because they were going to work fast, it wouldn't matter.
Cecilia was pissed, but she knew only how to fight in an arena. Fighting in the open was a step higher and she wasn't used to these situations. So she listened to Thazalof who was surprisingly reasonable for a hacker. He shot an arrow to the ceiling and without asking, he took Cecilia with him and they got at the place.
"I hope that we can act quickly." She complained. "Me too."
Charlotte and Raton left with Rin and Kashal. They relied on Kashal for taking out the fighters. They went the other way. To their surprise, they didn't find so many guards. After a while, they turned back. Charlotte and Raton took cover 50 meters from the guards and made sure that Kashal and Rin could get closer to them.
Izolf and Kanzashi did the same thing. They were twenty meters away from the group. The same distance Kashal and Rin were. Anaton was glad that they listened to him. He found it weird, but his Old man was right. If runners and pilots work together, you could get some nice results.
The remaining group was waiting. If the plan was set in motion, it could work very quick. Anaton counted there were fifty warriors. Impossible to attack frontal, so they had to use the element of surprise and heavy fire power.
His group waited until they saw Cecilia in the ceiling. "Everyone in position."
"We're ready." He heard from Erzof. Because they were his gang members, they still had the internal connection, even if everything else was out. "Good, wait, until I give you permission."
"Don't worry, Anaton. There is enough for us to do."
"We're ready." Raton let him know. "And we as well." Kashal got in. "I can see Izolf."
"Okay, but wait, until I give the signal."
"Just give us the order. Me and Cecilia are getting impatient." He heard Thazalof butting in. "Okay, you'll get your fun. Listen me and Ichika are going to jump in after my count down. That's my signal to activate your Infinite Stratos. When that happens and my shield is up, I want you to attack. The set up should take five seconds. You know what you have to do. Don't fuck this up."
He ended the call. "Ten, nine, eight." Kashal and Izolf made themselves ready. "Seven, six, five." Erzof started to give his nanites the order. "Four, three, two." Houki and Tizof climbed up, ready for the jump. "Now."
He and Ichika jumped taking out. In a flash, the Infinite Stratos were activated simultaneously with the hacker tech. In their jump, Ichika and he took down two guards. They saw the guards turning to them. "Hacker shield, activate." A shield came up throwing off the guards and deflecting their bullets. Houki and Tizof jumped down. They took two guards down and took the guards down who were busy firing on the shields.
Houki used her kendo knowledge, by advancing to her enemy and using stances to take them down. Tizof worked different. He took one enemy down with one sword, before advancing to the next while his first sword was left in the body of his first victim. When a swordsman wanted to attack Houki, a huge spear flew in the man. "Thanks, Rin." She said. Kashal had advanced to a few others and he started attacking them. He was saved by the heavy fire of Charlotte who aimed at the right side, taking out her bunch, Raton on the left. It took not more than four minutes before their side was done.
The terrorists couldn't take out the long range fighters, because when they started to advance to them, the close range finished them off. The close range fighters relied on each other. On the other side, Izolf got to his sword man, covered by the rockets of Kanzashi. He saw his friend fighting and saw how one fighter got back up, levelling his gun at the head of the sword fighter, but his gun was got out of his hands. He looked up and saw how Izolf jumped up and got his hook through his skull.
Tizof gave a short nod to him and they saw an arrow blowing a few attackers up. They looked up and got the greetings from Cecilia and Thazalof. They covered each other weaknesses by aiming for the same targets and moving to the next. Thazalof had accuracy, Cecilia had fire strength. It worked very good. Outside, Laura blown the door to pieces and Erzof took out the heavy vehicles using his canon. The soldiers left were completely surprised and they were outnumbered.
Not that inside that great number mattered. They didn't expected an attack. Okay, they foresaw that Infinite Stratos could attack, but not that seven personal Infinite Stratos users were in the attack. They also didn't count the seven guys helping them. That's not weird. Hackers are known in most parts of the underground, but that never reached Japan. Whoever they were, they saved their bosses the efforts of killing them.
After four minutes of fighting, the time Anaton foresaw the fight was over. Everyone came out. "Wow, that worked better than I hoped." He said. When he deactivated the shields, the hostages began to sheer. Tizof whipped the sweat of his face, Thazalof and Cecilia came down. Charlotte and Raton were glad the intense fire fight was over. Kanzashi walked together with Laura and Erzof to the place.
Ichika looked around. "Wow. But why did I had to help you?" He asked to Anaton. The boy came up with a smile. "If I needed help, you could act immediately. That's why." Everyone was glad it was over. Before they could get close to Ichika and Anaton, two of the hostages came up and took each one of the boys and grabbed them by their necks.
"You dirty rats. How dare you interfering with our plans and killing these soldiers? I'm going to enjoy this."
"Ichika!"
"Anaton!" The two groups shouted. "Stay there, unless, you want that we kill your friends." One of the woman clicker her finger and from one of the hallways a group of large, modified Infinite Stratos appeared.
"Phantom Task!" Houki shouted. Tizof shook his head. "No, they're something bigger."
"Now, we lost, but we're going to enjoy killing you."
They saw how the enemy pilots got closer and the groups looked from the pilots to them. They couldn't take out that many on their own.
At the other top of the ceiling, two veterans made their way. They saw how their students made them proud, but now, they had to rely on a teacher.
"Ichika, Anaton." The two heard in their minds. "Don't let your friends get closer. I got an idea. Ichika, you need to activate Yukihira when I give you the signal. Anaton, the same with Hell's Punch. Give everything that you guys have left. Wait for signal."
They heard it really quick and started to shout not to come closer. Kerlongsj looked to Chifuyu. "You still have an IS, right? I'm asking you a lot, but you have to use it, including Yukihira." Chifuyu was shocked. "I don't ask you that for me, but for him." Kerlongsj looked to her. "Listen, I understand you don't want to use it, but."
"I don't have her with me. I can't use her now." She said. "Okay, understood. Than I have another task for you. Get Ichika of there. Your skills, speed and strength are unmatched in the world, even by me. So can you do that?"
"Sure, but why?" Kerlongsj smiled. "Because, for that hall way and those Infinite Stratos will be nothing left after I'm done. If you threaten that kid, you lose your life."
"Ichika, new plan. Make sure that you can off that pilot and close your eyes. Anaton, Hell's Punch in forty seconds."
Chifuyu and Kerlongsj looked at each other. Swiftly and silent, they got at the place. "Count down in five, four, three, two, one. Now." He and Chifuyu jumped or rather flew to the two units. The two groups made enough room for them and luckily the hostages had backed off.
"Yukihira." Ichika shouted and with his right arm. She slashed on the pilot, destroying her suit. He felt how he was taken away. "Chifuyu-nee." He whispered. She took the boy in his hands.
"Anaton." The boy made a fist and rammed at the pilot. It had an impact that the pilot was forced to let him go. After that, they saw an older version of the boy jumping, swinging his left fist.
"Land of Saeftinghe." A huge amount of nanites flew through the pilots and with his right arm, he took the boy with him. He landed after the wall was completely destroyed. Normally, the pilots would have foreseen such an attack, but they couldn't react. The saving of Ichika and Anaton happened in the same second how Kerlongsj destroyed the mall.
The two landed with their younger siblings in their arms. "Chifuyu-nee." Ichika said. "Good job, Orimura." She responded with a proud smile before she dropped him.
Anaton was placed down. He looked up and his face cleared up. "Old man." And the kid flew to the boy and grabbed his waist in a hug.
"Been a while, Anaton." He said when he rushed through the hair of the boy. Everyone except for the Orimura's and Anaton were shocked at the destruction Kerlongsj left. Chifuyu knew how good he was, Ichika learned from his sister to never be surprised about what Kerlongsj could pull and Anaton learned it from just living with his Old man.
"You really didn't hold back." Chifuyu said with a hint of anger in her voice. Kerlongsj looked at her in a weird while Anaton walked besides him. "Of course, I wouldn't. Didn't have much of an option."
Houki turned to Tizof. "That's?"
"Yeah, that's Kerlongsj Evert Orlejov. Fourth leader of the nanite hackers, caretaker of Anaton. World's best hacker and second best soldier."
"What do you mean? You didn't have an option?" Chifuyu asked. Kerlongsj began to laugh. "Chifuyu, I have been sitting on trains for four days. I'm rugged as hell. I only could use fifteen percent of my actual strength. So I wouldn't hold back."
That caused even more effect in which the hackers and pilots mouth's hit the ground. Chifuyu only raised her eyebrows. "Why are you so strong?" Kerlongsj only had a smirk.
"Easy. It doesn't matter how good I get, you'll always be better. So that's the reason I pushed myself like this." Chifuyu was amused. "I have to say. You impress me." She looked to the destruction he left.
Everything what was left of that wall was blown up. "Good that the old man of the computer store delivered his goods already." Anaton said when he looked up to his brother.
"Building servers. Can't blame you." After that, Anaton crawled in Kerlongsj back. The most normal people couldn't believe it. A person, a man, you should know, destroyed a a Large nummer pilots, and he said, he wasn't at full power. And now, a young kid, who saved them, crawled in that man's back like it was normal.
"Let's get home. I'm beaten." Kerlongsj proposed. The rest followed him. All used their units or hacker powers to get around. Chifuyu got on the back of Ichika.
A few hours later at the ISA.
In the classroom 2-1, the group watched the news. "There was a terrorist attack, but thanks to the actions of a few pilots and unknown warriors" which relieved the hackers. If they could remain secret, that would mean less nagging from feminists. "The situation was quickly dealt with. Only after a few attackers who turned out to pilots and they assembled a lot of other unknown pilots . They took two of the defenders hostage with the threat to kill them and they were saved by two unknown warriors and one of them destroyed the building. The identity of the pilots or warriors is unknown. All the hostage takers were killed in the attack, but there were no casualties at the hostages. Further on. The identity of the organization"
Chifuyu turned off the screen. "You did a reckless job saving the hostages. What if someone would recognize you? Outside that, using your Infinite Stratos and powers? You really broke some rules."
The group listened to it and they were quite terrified from the voice.
"But considering you, were the only things that could take them on, you did a good job. Your training with the hackers payed off, Orimura." She said while she turned to Ichika.
"Consider yourself lucky that you guys only get a warning."
"And be fucking glad that I made sure no one would recognize you ever again." Kerlongsj said. "I fucked the camera's up and destroyed all the hard evidence that someone would have."
He smiled. "You're dismissed. Your lecture can go on tomorrow." Chifuyu ended the talk. They all left the room, except for Kerlongsj. He gave a short nod to Anaton who left with his friends. Ichika said the group good night and left for his room. Tatenashi would be pissed. The other girls were beaten of the day and didn't think of anything else, but a bed.
Kerlongsj stayed behind with Chifuyu. She knew why he stayed behind, he wanted an answer." Before, I went to you, I went to talk with someone else. I hold that secret and I'll only tell you when you tell me who those attackers were. But I have an idea." Chifuyu was relieved, but she moved on to another subject.
"Why did it took for you a week to get here?"
"You remember what you and I talked about when you visited Flanders last summer. About the things that could happen. After that, I did some research and I have to say. You went to a lot more than I did." He ended with eyes and a smile that expressed empathy.
"What do you mean?"
"Your parents didn't abandon you, right. You ran from them. Not that I can blame you." He walked to the window and looked outside. "A matriarch clan that got back since the crusades, so a thousand year ago. In which perfection was keen and where the training the children received was so rigorous that the Spartans looks like softies. Your family, am I right?"
Chifuyu had a shock on her face when she turned to him. "The reason you fled with Ichika was, because when he was born, the feeling empathy got back and you didn't want him to die. You did a good thing." He said with a smile. Chifuyu was silent for a while when she looked back to the guy. He turned a bit more serious.
"They're back." He said breaking the silence. "I did some research and I didn't find anything of you after the Second Mondo Grosso Champion ship. Only after that, I learned of your clan. They're idiotic. Those things, they don't apply in normal life anno 21st century."
He looked back to her with a smile. "Those attackers, those Infinite Stratos, it was their organization right? I can't find anything like them and such power, except my own in Flanders.
Chifuyu collapsed on the ground. "Chifu." Kerlongsj got to her and she was shivering. "If that's true, Ichika is in danger. We all are." She said with tears in her eyes. She felt how he hugged her and it calmed her down for some reason. She responded that. "Don't worry. When it comes to that, I'll protect you. You can stand up for yourself, you've been strong for roughly twelve years, but you need to trust your equal. You need a cry out." He said.
She began to cry and silently sobbed until she calmed down. "I don't know who they are, but 'I'll keep you safe. Promised." He said.
She smiled again and let him go, but changed thoughts and got up when she still had her arms around her neck. "Could we go on?" She asked. "Ready whenever you are." He said while she returned the kiss and the two enjoyed every second of being together when their lips touched each other.
The Sunday was peaceful in the academy. Chifuyu nor Kerlongsj were nowhere to be found and Ichika visited the dorm houses being welcomed as one of their own. Much to their dismay, Anaton left arm began to have a similar bracelet like Ichika.
Monday was calm. The hackers went to their seat and Anaton gave Ichika a nod. Only after Chifuyu came in, the class settled down. "Everyone, your attention please." She shouted and like always, it shut up the girls. "We have someone new in this academy."
The girls began to sigh. "Again, a transfer student." They asked their teacher.
"No, a baddass transfer teacher." A rough voice said. Kerlongsj walked in and touched the electronic board at which his name appeared.
"Yo, everyone, my name is Kerlongsj Evert Orlejov and I'm the new teacher on this academy. I'm here to support the classes with hackers in it. I take some subjects over from Miss Orimura and I'll also be a fighting instructor."
"KENGI." A loud voice said and Anaton jumped at the young man who he grabbed in a hug. "Yakedak." He shouted when he fell on the floor. "Oh and I'm also the caretaker, mentor and brother of Anaton."
It remained silent for a second until a loud "EEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" came from everyone except Chifuyu, Kerlongsj who crawled up and Anaton who still had a good grab on him.
The hackers got off their seat and greeted a man who became a legend. Tizof got out and returned with the other gangs who were the most euphoric they ever been.
On a hotel room.
"You better start talking, M. Before I really get angry." Squall said. Madoka was tied to a chair and she spit quite some blood. "You really think that I wouldn't notice that go talking with that boy." Squall paused. "Maybe, a night of pain will make consider what you've done."
She and Autumn left. "Please, can I stay longer?"
"No, Autumn, let her think."
After they got out, she looked to the necklace she got back from Kerlongsj.
"Why do you want me and her to be family again?"
"Don't know. Because I don't have a blood family on my own?" She reminded her words. After that woman fled the clan, her treatment got much worse to the fact she ran away as well. Phantom Task took her in and raised her. But was Chifuyu's dead really worth it?
"If you ever need me, you can contact me through your IS" It was the first time that someone had been kind to her. If she judged him, he could save her and maybe protect her for Chifuyu and Phantom Task. Even from them.
And I'm done with this chapter. It took my last free midday of summer.
I'm glad I'm done with it, but I didn't foresee that it would take twelve chapters to introduce my main character. Well, I'm glad I did it now.
For those who hoped, I would make an OC X Chifuyu. I hope you guys are satisfied.
I'm going to tell you guys something. I'm going to have some romance between the two, but don't expect that I'm going too far. Reminder, this is still T-rated. Don't start thinking weird about lines, please.
I'm glad that I'm done. This was one of my largest chapters that I put directly on the computer and I didn't prewrite on my notebook. I hope you guys enjoyed it. For now, I need to think about some inspiration.
Maybe, I'll get you guys a new chapter coming week, but I'm not sure of that. I'll try to.
The week of the 17th of August I'm off to PukkelPop. Festival in Belgium.
Guess who's going to watch Linkin Park?
After that, I don't think I'll get something done, but I'll try to.
You guys can be sure of a new chapter after this, but after that, it will be until September.
Again, reviews are always nice.
Greetings from Flanders.
Kerlongsj.
12/08/2015