Kill the Mad Scientist: Night Raid Faction 1

Dr. Stylish had kept on our trail with genetically-enhanced minions by his side; one sniffing our scent with his elongated nose(Hana), another keeping watch with binocular-like eyes(Me), and the only girl listening for faint sounds with her enlarged ears(Mimi). The Doctor himself was getting extremely cocky. "Ohohohoho! Ah, how precious that they tried to cover their scent and hide their footprints! But since I brought my super-enhanced soldiers, it won't do any good. Hoohoohoo! I knew there was something tré funké about that boy! You wouldn't expect a blacksmith to adjust that quickly, am I right?" That was when he discovered the base, and attacked us. "Bingo! Peekaboo, Night Raid, I see you!"

I had already told everyone about the Jaegers, but they temporarily shook it off for my homecoming party. That resulted in many of us becoming drunk. I, on the other hand, was keeping my guard up, but I decided to take Mine, Akame, and Sheele to their rooms, to put them in bed. Then, Leone came to. "Oh, ugh! We may have celebrated a little too hard last night for Tatsumi's return. Guess we all crashed out here." She walked past Ieysayu who was knocked out on the floor, to make her way to the pond. Leone kneeled down at the edge of the bath, and was prepared to splash some hot water on her face. But she was surprised to see something hazy below the water's surface. Curiosity getting the best of her, Leone leaned in closer to get a better look. The blonde's golden eyes shot open when a sinister looking face appeared in the water below her. Leone barely had time to gasp, before a small blade suddenly rocketed toward her face. With a wet thud the blade impacted, and Leone fell face first into the water.

"Haha! I've done it, master Stylish..." One of Stylish's creations said, as he crawled out of the bath. "...your trusty assistant, Trooma has done it!"

Mimi received what he said. "Good work, now let's continue the mission. He got the first one, Doctor Stylish."

"Marvelous! That's my little knight-in-shining armor; flying straight into enemy headquarters. Alright, go beautiful team Stylish! The capper offensive is officially underway!" Numerous masked soldiers leapt out of the canopy.

"The soldiers have made their way into Night Raid's base."

"Let the show begin! I'm tingling with anticipation."

Inside:

The invasion didn't go unnoticed—Lubbock, who just regained conscious, was picking up every single vibration with Crosstail. "Holy crap! Where'd they all come from all of the sudden?! They're already on top of us!" He then cameLubbock gasped in surprise when someone burst down from the ceiling behind him. "So you assholes are already inside the base?"

"Enemy..." The intruder snarled in a twisted voice. "Must eliminate..." With incredible speed, the attacker rushed at Lubbock, swiping at him with razor-sharp claws, but the greenbean managed to jump to the side to dodge, and at the same time, wrapped several strings around the soldier's neck, in an attempt at snapping it. —"This is bad! I need to find the rest of the team now!"—However, it didn't, and the soldier slashed directly at Lubbock.

Dr. Stylish was given all the little details on what was going on by Mimi. "It sounds like they got one!"

"Well, my enhanced fighters are more resilient than humans. It takes SERIOUS finesse to put even a scratch on them!"

Mimi noticed something wrong. "Ugh!"

"Is there some kind of problem?"

"Not really. But they seem pretty resilient themselves."

Luckily for Lubbock, he already wrapped strings around the area he was supposed to be hit at. "You'd be amazed how many awesome tricks I can do with this little bit of string. Check this out!" Lubbock bunched strings together, forming a solid spear. "All I hafta do is bind them together, and viola!" He threw the spear into the soldier's chest, killing him.

"So...creative..."

"Saw that in a manga one time; you wouldn't believe it, but those crazy things are full of ideas on how to manipulate string." Then many more soldiers appeared behind him. "Another one?! No, more than one. Uh, sorry, I'm not so good with groups. I think I'm just gonna pass on you guys, if that's cool." He took off in an extremely comical manner. "Uwaaaahh!" But the soldiers were keeping up to pace no problem. "You don't have to be so fast!"

Then, Akame leaped in front of them from behind. "Get behind me!"

"Akame!" A perverted thought went through Lubbock's head; "Oh, nice! She didn't have time to change."

With a few swings of Murasame, Akame diced the attackers.

"For being the enemy..." A new voice caused Akame and Lubbock to whip around. That was when three more came - The leader of the three newcomers was a tall, lean man with dark hair and glasses. He was flanked on both sides by two hulking men."Despite being an enemy, I stand in awe of your ability."

Lubbock was alarmed by their sudden appearance. "They've got backup!"

Akame, "He's strong..."

"You may call me 'Toby.'" Out of Toby's arms, sprouted axe blades, as he launched himself at Akame, also sprouting blades on the bottoms of his feet.

"That feeling; this one's different from the rest. Has his whole body been turned into a machine?"

Lubbock, "Akame!" then, the two larger men stood in front of him. "Shit...I wanna help her but...These guys...are in the way...!"

Outside:

I smashed out of the wall using Incursio, and started using Neuntote to shred the soldiers. "Doctor Stylish's personal army."

A new, gruff voice exclaimed. I turned my head, and I was face to face with the newcomer. I spotted a massive man standing amongst the corpses of Stylish's troops. "Hey there, armored brother. Seems like I'll be your opponent for today."

I noticed that he had Extase on his back. "You have Extase?!"

"Huhu...Like it? My Imperial Arms and I are still getting to know each other, you see."

"They don't belong to you..." I muttered, as I tightly balled my fists, my anger reaching the boiling point.

"What'd you say little boy?" the man asked, raising a hand to his ear. "I didn't quite hear you."

"I said...Those NEVER belonged to you...!"

Fight

I threw three punches, and an uppercut, and then juggled the man with three high kicks. He tried to punch me, but I ducked, and countered with a low kick, chained with a rising scissors kick. I tackled the man, and shot him five times in the face with both my pistol and revolver. He slashed me with Extase. I then summoned Neuntote, and slashed him six times(three of them were juggles). I took him down with a roundhouse kick.

Tatsumi Wins

"They belong to Sheele...So keep your filthy hands off of them."

Mimi, "Sounds like we have the upper hand against Murasame, but not Incursio."

Dr. Stylish, "Exactly how I planned the first one, though the polar opposite of the second."

"But still, we've already lost quite a few soldiers. There's too much noise in the area for me to determine the exact number, but the death count is extremely high."

"Oh dear, what a tragedy." Really, he could care less. "Just kidding! Those silly pawns are wonderfully dispensable. They're just criminals, anyway. Poor adults are always happy to cut with me, if they think it'll shorten their sentence; little do they know, they're nothing but fancy fodder waiting to die!"

I went to recover Extase, only for the man to try to hold onto them in a sort of tug-of-war. "Who the hell is Sheele?! If you really want to die that badly" He was taunting me, "I'll chop you up as much as you like!"

Then, "What, are you having a hard time out here?" It was Mine. "You're as undisciplined as ever!"

"Mine!"

She was shocked when she saw he was holding Extase. "Shoot. So the small fry couldn't keep them busy inside, eh? Didn't they all converge in there?"

"I'll take care of this one. Seeing Extase in the hands of the enemy" Mine wasn't pleased by the slightest, " just makes me sick!"

"'Take care of,' you say?! Hey, think about your situation and try saying that again, sweetie! Your hideout has been discovered. Enemies are inside it as we speak. And you yourself are about to be attacked!"

"Attack this!" I punched him in the nuts, like either Mr. Cage or Cassie would do.

"Aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhh-ho-hooooo!" In tremendous pain, he unwittingly tossed Extase; which stabbed into the ground. With my other fist, I launched him into the air with an uppercut. Mine pointed Pumpkin at him, and fired away; completely obliterating the man. Then, Ieysayu and Sheele came rushing out.

Ieysyu, "Whoa! What's going on?!"

"You're a little late, guys." I pulled out Extase—"Welcome back, Sheele."—and handed it to Sheele.

Mimi, "Kaku is dead...There are very few infantry still living."

Stylish, "Oh poo...I guess I was mistaken...*sigh* I suppose there's no other choice, huh. We'll have to retr-"

He was interrupted by the big-eared girl, "In the sky...! Something is coming!"

"Huh? What do you mean, someth-" He was interrupted again by a flying danger beast. "That must be danger beast, air manta!"

"Someone is riding it." Me spotted who it was. "Ah...It's her! Ex-general Najenda! And others...! I see two other figures riding with her!"

"Ooh! Delightfully dramatic; valiantly riding on a danger beast she tamed herself! Now, don't get yourself all warmed up!"

Najenda brought reinforcements with her. "Headquarters was proud of their fortune-telling arms; predicted trouble near the hideout, and it came to pass. Glad I flew back as soon as I found out." She turned to the two hooded figures with her, "This is your shot, recruits; time to show me what you're made of!"

Stylish, "Well, isn't this a fun surprise! It actually works out great, for me! Every one of you is going to become a test subject for my experiment! It's time to unveil my trump card!"

Inside:

Akame was waiting for a good opportunity to strike Toby. When she saw an opening, she sliced off his left arm. "If I can't finish you in a single hit, then I'll have to chop you into pieces, and it's gonna hurt. You better get ready."

However, Toby didn't seem to feel anything; he only scoffed, "That's where you're mistaken; given my condition, I can't feel pain anymore." He charged at her, and swung a blade that shot out from where his left arm once was. With their blades locked, Toby opened his mouth, revealing a gun barrel, and shooting at Akame. Luckily, she dodged it, and then sliced off his right arm; Only for another gun to pop out of the socket. She then sliced off his right leg, at the knee, but Toby kept balance, and pointed the gun at her again. In the nick of time, Sayo shot an arrow through Toby's chest, impaling his heart. This time, it actually hurt. "Damn you. This wasn't even your fight."

Sayo, "My home and all of my friends are in danger; do you really expect me to just sit back and watch?!"

Toby realized something, "Well...as it was going, I would've lost that battle, anyway; even if she hadn't interfered. Akame, please tell me; Why was it impossible for me to win against you?"

"Your fighting style was extremely aggressive...but you left me too many openings...obviously."

Ultimately, Toby accepted his death. "Ehehehe. I should have focused more on defense, right. A sense of pain is quite the useful luxury, after all."

Akame swiftly decapitated him.

Ieysayu spotted the air manta just then. "What is that, more enemies?!"

Mine, "Hang on, I'll check." She took out a pink scope-lens that was stored in Pumpkin. "Whaddya know, it's the boss!"

"Sweet! Perfect timing! Wait, that's not fair!"

Sheele, "What's not fair?"

"How come they get to ride on a giant flying fish?! I wanna ride a giant fish!"

Mine, "Uh...I'm not sure how to respond to that."

Me, "I am...Do you realize how idiotic you sound, Ieysayu?!"

I heard rustling; it was Trooma, about to attack Mine. "Hehuhuhuhu! Oh, the adorable lady!" He leapt out with a knife drawn. "You seem to have left yourself wiiide open!"

I noticed him, and simply counted down, "In three, two, one..."

Leone in beast form kicked Trooma in the face. "You've really caught me off guard, didn't you?!" She was definitely pissed off at him. Trooma tumbled six feet, and Leone approached, cracking her knuckles. "I was passed out and hungover, and you throw a knife at me?! That's grounds for serious ass-kicking, my friend!"

Mine and Ieysayu, "Uuuulllllhhhh?"

Me, "Right on queue."

Leone ferociously grabbed Trooma by the neck with both hands, and began strangling him.

"Put me down!"

Leone, "Word of advice; I'm a huge fan of surprise attacks—but if there's one thing I hate about them, it's when they happen to me! Your body looks like it's been enhanced, but I wouldn't expect that to make your death come any easier!" Trooma sprouted a blade from his toe, and thrusted it at Leone's face, but she caught it with her teeth.

"Well, she's just filled with surprises, isn't she?!"

Leone slammed the enhanced man into the ground, killing him, before retracting back from pain. "He did manage to get in a good one, and man does it hurt! Whoops! Aw crap, I think I killed him!"

Me, "Don't worry about that right now, Sis."

Lubbock, Akame, and Sayo came running out of the base. Akame, "Is everybody okay?!"

"Yeah."

Mine, "Good, I think we're all her!"

More masked soldiers ran out of the surrounding woods. Ieysayu raised Belvaak. "It's not over yet!"

Sayo prepared spreader arrows. "Looks like we've still got some work to do!"

Lubbock checked Crosstail for the source. "This doesn't make sense; How'd they get in without setting off my traps?!"

Leone tried using her enhanced senses, "I'm not picking up anyone else's smell, either."

"I know where they are...You guys stay put; I'll go it alone." I was about to head towards the cliff when everyone else—aside from Ieysayu and Sayo—collapsed.

Sayo, "Akame?!"

Ieysayu, "What's wrong with you guys?!"

Mine, "I c-can't move my body!"

"Dammit! I forgot about the toxins just now!" I immediately turned around to assist them.

Me, "Seems to be working perfectly on all targets, except for the two masked ones, and the one wearing Incursio."

Stylish, "Hehehehe! That's the effect of my trump card; a fast-acting paralysis agent I made all by my stylish self!"

Hana, "Wha?! But won't our allies be poisoned too?!"

Mimi, "Obviously, the good doctor remembered to treat them with the antidote, moron."

I swear, those three freaks are major suck-ups. "Ooh, Master Stylish, you're like a super-genius!"

"It's not like I intended to try out my latest concoction on such promising subjects, you know. See? It's a very valuable creation, I went through great lengths to make it! But I had no other option; they were wiping out my lovely cohort so quickly!"

Ieysayu, "We're holding up better than the others."

Sayo, "Tatsumi, you said you know where the enemy leader is. Go ahead and take them out!"

Then, a man wielding a giant club came down from the sky, and smashed into the skull of one of the many soldiers; actually, he was the human Imperial Arms, Susanoo.

Everyone else seemed confused.

Leone, "An ally...Right..."

Najenda was still in the air. "It seems dangerous for me or Chelsea to drop down. For now, I'll give orders from here."

The other hooded figure, Chelsea, responded, "Roooger."

"Now, exterminate the enemies before you! 'Susanoo'!"

Even from that distance, he received those orders from Najenda clearly. "Understood." He walked towards the charging soldiers, held out the club—which popped out blades from the seams—and literally shredded every single one, with no effort at all.

"Wha...! It can't be!" Me was in shock. "A new guy is sweeping through all of our infantry! As long as they're an organism, there's no way the poison doesn't work!"

Stylish, "...I don't know. It may be an unknown Imperial Arms." he pulled a detonator out of his pocket. "If that's so, I don't need any material for experiments and," Stylish pulled the trigger. "Like this." All the dead soldiers literally exploded. "Human bombs for special situations. With this, it's finished."

They were shocked already to see Susanoo had survived; they were baffled when he regenerated—a staple for Biological-type Imperial Arms—"That ally...an organism-type Imperial Arms...A HUMAN IMPERIAL ARMS!"

I was fixing Mine's hair, and Susanoo noticed that Sayo's—who was knocked back by the explosion—hair was also messed up. "Wha...What."

"Better!"

Sayo was dumbfounded. "What is?"

Me, "It's about time..."

Susanoo looked at me. "You were expecting me?"

"I also know where the toxins are coming from..." I pointed to where Stylish was, "Over there, the Southwest!"

Najenda, "Susanoo! He's right on the money! Squash them, no survivors!"

"Understood!"

"Come on! You as well, guys!" I said to Sayo, Ieysayu, and Susanoo, as I hucked Akame onto my back, and then called out to Najenda. "Boss! Get the others up there! We'll take care of Stylish! Just make sure he doesn't escape!"

"Alright, Tatsumi!"

Those four enemies were panicking.

Mimi, "We've been spotted!"

Stylish and the other two "men" started running off. "There's no choice! We're retreating, no need to try the impossible here! Poison won't work against an organism-type! I need to either destroy the core, or do something about the user..." They were swept off their feet by the strong winds created by the air manta soaring above them. "It seems she won't let us run, no matter what..."

Ieysayu, "Hold it right there!"

Susanoo and Sayo just stood there, at the ready.

Me(Eye), "Don't worry, Master Stylish!"

Hana, "If it were chess, we could be the bishop and rook! We will definitely protect you."

Fight

Ieysayu punched Hana twice, and chained with an uppercut. Hana literally sneezed on Ieysayu, however the latter used Belvaak to throw it right back at him. He did three kicks—low kick, high kick, and spin kick—and created a spark in the ground, by slamming down one of Belvaak's two blades. Ieysayu separated Belvaak for the first time, and used the blades as projectiles, causing massive damage to Hana. He defeated Hana with a swift uppercut.

Ieysayu wins-Flawless Victory

"How 'bout that, nosey boy?!"

Sayo, "Well, Bug-eyes, you think we should do it?!"

Me(Eye), "Watch it, missy...Don't think I'll go easy on because you're a girl."

Fight

Sayo shot an arrow at Me(Eye), then charged at him, and twirled her bow around to hit him with short-range blades she attached to the sides five times. Me threw two eyeball-like grenades at her, but she shot them back at them with an explosive arrow, doing alot of damage. Sayo did two cartwheel kicks, before throwing three punches, and juggled with an uppercut. Me tried to do a crouching punch, only for Sayo to grab him, pin him to the ground, and slash him in the chest ten times with her bow blades. She finished the fight by slamming him in the back of the head with the top of her bow.

Sayo Wins-Flawless Victory

"How's it feel to be beaten up by a girl, tough guy?!"

Stylish, "They're wearing filtered masks?! Bad...This is unfair!" In a last resort effort, the mad scientist pulled out a syringe full of danger beast DNA, "When it comes to this...prepare yourself for the worst!" He injected the DNA into himself. "Trump Card number two, Danger Beast, one dose! This is all I've got!" Right before our eyes, Stylish started to mutate into a monstrosity beyond comprehension. "Here it issssss! This is the ultimate in stylishness! By becoming a danger beast myself! I'll blow all of you away!"

Hana, "Ohh, beautiful...!"

Me(eye), "As expected of Master Stylish...!"

Both of them were grabbed by Stylish. "You are my precious nutrients! Let us become oneee!" He devoured them, before doing the same to Mimi, causing him to mutate even more. "Wonderful! A hearty meal of nutritious meat, and I level up!"

I just arrived when I saw. "Dammit!"

Ieysayu, "Wha...What is that?!"

Sayo, "That's disgusting."

Me, "He turned himself into a monster! We have to put him down, quickly..." I then told Akame, "Hold on tight!" next, I jumped to the side.

"What's this, a piggyback ride? You two look pretty unsteady on your feet." The danger beast Stylish slammed his enormous left hand down. "Let me squish you!" Then, the air manta came, with Mine on board, who shot Stylish in the head with Pumpkin. "...you." toppling him.

I jumped onto his "Belly". "End of the line, Dr. Stylish!"

Susanoo thrusted his staff into the arm.

"Not yet!" Stylish threw long, syringe-like tentacles at us.

"Akame! Go for it!" I threw her right at Dr. Stylish himself; at the very top.

Akame unsheathed Murasame—"Eliminate!"—and slashed him, infecting the entire thing with the poisonous curse.

"...I...I still wanted to do...all kinds of human experiments...wh...why do I have to be...so unfortunate." The colossal monstrosity fell backwards, onto the ground, almost hitting Akame; if Ieysayu didn't grab her.

Me, "Actually, you got lucky; what you did to those people, you deserved a fate far worse than death."

Yeah, this was a long chapter. Figured I'd make some of Team Stylish's members the sub-bosses, before having Danger Beast Stylish as the real Boss battle; Though, not in the typical fighting game style, as you may have noticed. Danger Beast Stylish is both a Boss and a Level, like Kronos from "God of War 3".

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