So here's another chapter with songs! Again I'll link the songs that appear. I will drag all of you down to Akb hell with me.
"I've Been Waiting to meet you" and "Stand Up Girls" Belong to AKB48
Gibson and Otto were working on the control panel in the training room. The others arrived with Trent and Brittany excitedly talking about the group.
"Rosella was the best! I mean her backstory was so nonsensical and great and she is just so unrealistically perfect!" Trent said.
Brittany snickered.
"Thanks, I'll tell her that." She muttered.
Trent blinked.
"What?"
Brittany blinked before her cheeks turned a bright pink.
"Uh nothing! Nothing at all!" She squeaked.
Trent frowned but didn't press on.
Gibson stopped messing with the control panel and went over to the others.
"Alright we're ready. We had to do a bit of searching for the right one but we found it." He said as Brittany smiled.
Finally she was going to see a live concert, just to get some references.
Otto pushed a few buttons and rushed over to the others as the room changed to a slight landscape with some large pits. It was evening and they were in one of the said pits but much higher up than below, and there was a bunch of people in the bottom of the pit.
"Whoaaah, this is Natulis?" Otto asked.
Brittany nodded as Willow frowned.
"You know I thought I'd be happy to see this place again but...nah." She said shaking her head.
Amanda nodded, understanding.
Otto noticed other people near them and ran towards them.
"Otto! They're not real!" Gibson reminded him before chasing after him.
Mandarin snickered and sat down.
Chiro looked at him.
"You ok?" He asked.
Mandarin nodded.
"I'm fine, just tired from this." He said, rubbing his abdomen.
Chiro nodded as loud music started. Everyone turned to see a largely lit craft coming down to the pit. Brittany and Trent rush over to a few large rocks in front of them and intently watched.
The crowd cheered loudly as the song began to play.
"I've been waiting,
I've been waiting,
I've been waiting, yes!"
They could see the various female singers, each of them looked vastly different from each other. Including a girl with hair colors that reflected a sunset and pink eyes.
"I've been waiting,
I've been waiting,
I've been waiting,"
"Yes!" Brittany cheered.
"To meet you!" Each of the girls pointed to their audience with love and cheer in their voices.
Trent nearly squealed as he saw the sunset haired girl, Rosella, front and center of the entire group.
"I pedal my bike with all my might,
as I make my way up this long hard hill."
Trent and Brittany watched in joy as the others were very awed.
"So these are Sueronians.." Mandarin muttered as Otto went up next to Brittany and Trent.
"Even with my shirt against the wind,"
"They're gorgeous..." Jinmay muttered.
"Well that's Sueronians for you, they're always gorgeous." Amanda said, rolling her eyes.
"It's the only thing in my way." The singers sang as they rushed towards one side of the stage.
"I have finally realized," two of the many singers waved.
One was in gothic clothing with long dark black hair, while the other was wearing a school uniform and had two pink pigtails.
The group then rushed to the other side of the stage and waved to their fans.
"On how I feel about you!"
Mandarin blinked, it was very poppy and girly but it wasn't so bad.
"They're actually good." Willow breathed.
Brittany and Trent were silent before the two started singing along with the next line.
"From this moment I'll be honest,
And with this path that I've put myself on, I'll run towards it!"
The girls all continued to dance and sing along with the song, Trent hyped up as hell.
"They're even amazing in person!" He sighed as Brittany nodded.
Willow then noticed one of the girls who had blue hair with red streaks in it, alternative clothes like her, and a curved cat like mouth. She looked...awfully familiar.
"If you are in love," her voice was mixed with the others, but Willow felt she had a certain power to it.
"Then why don't you just say so? Let's not hide it, let's be true to ourselves." Brittany sang, copying the hand movements they were making as the others continued to watch and enjoy the concert.
"If you are in love, then why don't you just say so?" One of the other girls, who had dark green hair and elfish characteristics sang with the others before looking at Rosella.
"Aunt Emmy…" Trent muttered.
"Aunt Emmy?" Chiro asked.
"Trent's adopted aunt, her grandparents adopted her when she lost her parents." Willow explained.
"Man no wonder you're into this group so much." Sprx said.
"Then just be earnest and let it show!"
Then the stage spliced as different members were placed on different sides of the pit. Some rose up , some went down, and some went to different sides.
"I've been waiting,
I've been waiting,
I've been waiting, yes!"
One of the girls, who had bright red hair, dark skin, and was very pretty, blew a few kisses to the audience. It caused a few male audience members to swoon.
"I've been waiting,
I've been waiting,"
"I've been waiting!" Trent breathed.
"Yes!" Brittany cheered.
"To meet you!" The blue haired girl sang along with the others and Willow still couldn't stop watching her.
Why was she so familiar?
"I've been waiting!"
Loud cheers were heard as small ships started flying menacingly towards the concert. Willow saw this and stood on the rock.
"Those ships...they're Sueronian hunter ships!" She exclaimed, noticing an insignia of a heart with angel wings with a slash through it.
Everyone gathered to watch.
"But...this was their first concert here! Why are they here?" Willow asked.
Brittany rubbed her arms.
"Probably because they didn't want them to spread throughout the galaxy and 'screw things up'." She explained.
Nova looked at her.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"I'm guessing what she means is destroying the status quo is against reality...or something." Brittany said, trying to remember what else was there.
Otto looked around.
"We gotta do something! They're gonna-!"
"It's fine, the last I heard they escaped from the hunters before anything got too serious. Watch." Trent said, pointing at the ship as the next song plays.
Small fighter ships then started to leave the much larger ship and one of the members, the elfish girl from before, noticed this.
"Arexes?" She questioned as her communicator went off.
"Emerald, the sueronian hunters are also on foot, we're sending out the Gary Stu ships after the ones in the air. Can you do one more song?" A sultry male voice asked.
Emerald smiled and nodded.
"Can do!" She chirped.
The Gary Stu ships and the sueronian hunter ships started fighting each other as the group did their last song.
"I wonder which one of the stars in the sky, would glow the brightest of all."
The fighter ships blasted at each other, however several Gary Stu ships would defeat the hunters.
"You can just ask anyone,"
"And they still won't know." Rosella and the girl with the blue and red streaked hair lead the group as some of the girls on the ship's main stage had to fight hand to hand with a group of hunters.
"But beyond the darkness, a new light awaits us."
Rosella and the other girl turned as the ground troops started to make their way in and capture some of the fans.
"Are you shitting me?!" The blue haired girl asked as she darted towards the other side.
"Arey wait a second!" Rosella huffed before Arey froze the ground troops.
She turned to Rosella and shrugged.
"What?"
Meanwhile the goth girl from before kicked down a hunter and saw the sailor uniform girl getting knocked to the ground. She growled and rushed over to her, knocking the hunter out with a black ball of energy.
The uniformed girl looked up.
"Marie!"
"Get up Ami,we got some ass to kick!" She said pulling her up.
Ami huffed.
"All I wanted to do was to sing some kawaii j-pop. Not get my sailor outfit dirty!" She huffed.
"Only you would know what that means Ami." Marie sighed as they went back to back on the hunters.
"Stand up girls! The dawn is nearly here.
We've barely begun the road to our dreams."
Trent placed a hand over his chest as Willow continued to watch.
"That blue haired girl..." She thought.
"Stand up girls!
There's no reason to lose hope.
Shake free from all your sadness."
"I can't help but feel I know her from somewhere...somewhere really important." Willow thought as she stared at her.
Arey dodged a few of the lasers attacks and threw ice shards at them, still singing.
"Almost like...we've met before." She thought.
"With all our might, with all our might,"
Mandarin noticed this too.
"She almost looks like..." The both of them thought as she glowed brilliantly and familiarly.
"We'll take off running!"
She raised a hand in the air, singing with all her might.
Ami and Marie kept fighting off the hunters but then a blast of water nearly hit them.
"Aqua! Control your aim you'll get my makeup wet!" Marie yelled.
"This is too much!" Ami whined.
Then one of the Sueronian hunters ships began to land before the Gary Stu ships kept it away.
"Emerald! We have to retreat until this planet's protectors deals with them! The fans and your team members are in danger and the protector could take several hours!" A very handsome man with red hair said from inside.
Emerald nodded, really not wanting to do this but...for her fans.
"Everyone! Let's make this last verse count!" She declared before hitting a hunter with what seems to be a magic staff.
"Stand up girls, the dawn is nearly here!
We've barely begun the road to our dreams."
Each of the members went back to the ship as the stage began to come back together. Rosella turned to her audience and bowed.
The stage that was closest to the team began to go back, and Arey jumped onto it and said, "We'll be back soon! I promise!"
She waved as the stage connected with the ship as it began to take off.
The ship began to leave the pit as Trent and Brittany stood up.
"Rosella is the major reason I want to audition. To join Starlights!"
"I want to join them too.." Trent breathed.
Chiro walked up to them and smiled.
"I can see why." He said as the ship blasted off.
The room then went back to normal as Trent slumped his shoulders.
"It's over..." He sighed.
Jinmay laughed but walked over to him.
"That was actually really liberating." She said.
"Wait that was it?! Just two songs?!" Amanda huffed.
"The cameras got badly damaged after they left, so they couldn't film the rest." Brittany sighed.
"Well that sucks!" Chiro said.
Willow gripped her hands.
"Mandarin...did you see that girl too?" She asked.
Mandarin looked to her before realizing what she meant.
"The one with the blue hair? Yes, I saw her." He said.
Willow looked up at him, completely serious.
"Did she look just as familiar to you as she did to me?" She asked.
Mandarin placed a finger on his chin.
"A little bit, yes." He agreed.
Willow turned to him.
"After everyone leaves, let's go back and figure this out. I have a feeling it might be important." She said.
Mandarin thought about it before looking towards the others as they continued to talk about the concert and members. He then looked towards Willow. She was really set on this, he could tell. Her eyes were completely serious and her mouth was in a thin line. He then nodded.
"We'd have to be quick." He said and Willow nodded.
She was going to get answers, one way or another.
A few hours later, Willow and Mandarin entered the room as Willow went over to the control panel.
"Now that we got past the others, there is a way to fast forward through it. All you have to do is-"
But the room went back to the pit and the concert was quickly going by.
Mandarin turned to Willow, who was working on the control panel, tapping a button.
Mandarin frowned.
"How are you doing that?" He asked.
Willow looked up at him and shrugged. Mandarin sighed, dusting that off from her sueronian traits.
They soon stopped near the end, when Arey was near the area they were before. Willow paused the feed and went over to her. She walked right in front of her and stared. Mandarin followed suit as Willow kept staring.
Her eyes, her curved mouth, even her singing voice was familiar. Willow's mind went back to the song she sang before, and tried to remember. Her voice was strong but beautiful, hard yet kind. After a second look, Willow finally started to put the pieces together.
"Mom...it's mom!" She exclaimed, backing up.
Her breathing quickened as the truth soon settled in. Mandarin looked at her before looking at Arey.
"How do you know?" He asked.
Willow blinked and motioned towards her.
"How do I know?! How do I know?! Her face is just like mom's and her singing voice is just like hers!" She exclaimed, her voice echoing from all sides of the pit.
Mandarin looked harder before it hit him too. Have her hair longer and blond, add some age to her face and it is Arwen!
"Shrieking Shuggazoom it is her!" He breathed.
Willow stared at the younger version of her mother, flabbergasted at this revelation. Why didn't she say anything about this? Okay, she did say she used to sing but in a sueronian band?! Then it really clicked with her.
If her mom was a Sueronian then that makes her-!
She gasped and fell on her backside, hand over her mouth. Mandarin went over to her.
"Willow?"
Willow's face paled as she didn't respond.
"Oh...my god." She whispered.
Mandarin quickly went to the control panel, shut the concert off, and went back to her. He wanted to lean down to her level, but with his stomach size he really couldn't without help getting back up.
"Willow say something." He pleaded.
Willow was silent, still staring at the spot where Arwen was.
"I'm... I'm half Sueronian." She shuddered.
Mandarin flinched back but eased. She finally figured it out. Her lip trembled.
"I don't understand...the Dream givers...the bullies...my bloodline...was it all made up?!" Willow choked out, holding her head.
Mandarin looked around, praying for someone to come in.
"I-look it's not that bad! That was real to you and your family as much as all of this sueronian stuff was. You just have much more on doing whatever you want with that past than your real bloodlines. Now you can change whatever you want." He said, attempting to soothe the girl's distress.
"I don't want to change it! I never wanted it to change!" Willow exclaimed as she got up, tears stinging her eyes.
She felt a bit dizzy standing up so quickly, something internal was starting to go into a distraught and confused flurry.
"How would you freaking feel if suddenly everything you knew was a lie?! That all you knew before was completely fabricated!? That people would still hunt after you but in completely larger numbers!?" She demanded.
Mandarin glared.
"I just had that experience a few weeks ago. So I do get how you must be feeling, don't think I don't." He snapped and Willow's eyes softened.
"Y-you did?" She asked.
Mandarin nodded and crossed his arms.
"I really do not feel like talking about it right now because it's very long and this is more important." He said, making Willow smile a bit.
However, her smile dropped and she sighed.
"I just...I just don't know how to take lol of this in..." She sighed as the two heard someone come down from the transportation tubes.
Willow turned to see most of the others, including Brittany and Arwen, enter the room. Willow's skin went cold as she saw her mother.
"Willow we heard yelling is everything ok?" Antauri asked.
Their answer was given as Willow looked down, biting her lip. Mandarin tried to explain, but the words couldn't come out.
"Oh...she figured it out hasn't she?" Brittany whispered and immediately regretted whispering.
Willow whipped her head up.
"You knew?!"
Brittany stepped back but stood her ground.
"Yes, now listen I came to this planet to talk to you about it." She said, stepping forward.
Willow looked between her mom and Brittany.
"When were you going to tell me this?" She asked.
Brittany and Arwen looked at each other.
"We were going to tell you on the day Trent was kidnapped but...clearly things did not go as planned. We told you while Diamanda took over you, but you couldn't remember anything afterwards." Arwen explained.
Willow's eyes widened.
"So that's why Diamanda felt weird..." She breathed and began to back up.
She began to feel all sorts of emotions, but betrayal was what she felt the most.
"Willow when I bullied you, that wasn't me. You secreted an aura that made everyone on Natulis think differently of you. They didn't mean to hate you, your aura just screwed them up." Brittany explained, walking towards her.
Willow continued to back up, now starting to feel very strange.
"Believe it or not, when I found out that you were half sueronian I was so happy. I finally had someone who was like me. But when I tried to talk to you, I felt different and started saying all this terrible stuff. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?" She asked.
Willow didn't react, instead she looked at her mom.
"Why...why didn't you tell me? Why did you lie to me about-?" Then she paused.
"Oh what am I talking about?! I know! I know why you didn't tell me anything! It was because of those damn hunters were they?!" Willow asked.
Arwen flinched before looking down.
"They were starting to disappear for a while...then around the time you were four they started to come back and really began hunting full swing. I would have told you in secret but I was too afraid that we would have been found out." Arwen said, remembering the day where Emerald pointed out the huge amount of Sueronian hunter ships in one of the smaller pits.
She remembered the amount of fear she had, not only for her and her friends, but for her daughter's as well.
She remembered her and her friends demanding the hunters to leave, in fear they would be hunted. She remembered them getting denied again and again. She remembered the fearful times of nearly getting caught with her own sueronian powers.
She remembered creating the Dream givers story just to cover their asses.
Arwen then looked at Willow, trying to look serious.
"I didn't tell you to protect you, when you would have decided to leave Natulis when you graduated that was when I was going to tell you. However you and your friends were already going off and having your own adventures. After a few years it got really hard to tell you..." Arwen explained.
Willow shook as she explained this. She then looked towards the Hyperforce.
"I...guys I had no idea I...that I..." She shook.
Antauri stepped forward, a smile on his face.
"Willow it is fine, we still-"
Suddenly Willow lurched forword and she fell to her knees. Mandarin quickly backed up, sensing a lot of dark energy coming from her.
"What's going on?!" Otto asked, backing up.
Gibson looked at his scanner.
"Team something's-!"
Before anyone could react, a dark mass erupted from Willow's back, causing her to scream in agony. She fell to the floor as the dark figure changed into someone familiar.
The figure turned to the group and everyone realized it was Diamanda. She looked nearly the same as before, but her facial features were sharper and different from Willow's.
"Dia-Diamanda!" Arwen exclaimed.
Diamanda backed up in fear and ran off, phasing through the wall.
Arwen turned to Amanda and Trent.
"You two, you go with Jinmay and Sprx to get her back! We need to talk to her!" Arwen said.
The four nodded as they ran off, while Chiro held up the unconscious Willow.
"She seriously needs to stop doing this!" Mandarin huffed as Chiro shot him a glare.
It's about dang time Willow. Anyway thanks for reading!
watch?v=AA1VAl37-6c I've been waiting
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