Mutiny at Honnoji
"As of today you are an enemy of Honnoji Academy and you will die!" Satsuki roared in her demanding voice. A single swing of the sword shed the blood that had been upon it. Satsuki's gaze locked onto Ragyo as if to stare a hole through the practically crucified woman's head.
"People do not live for the sake of clothing!" Satsuki directed the blade of the Bakuzan down towards the stage. A bursting aura of white light radiated from her body applying pressure to the world around them." I am rising up to stop the Life Fibers and to destroy you!" the teenager roared angrily keeping her blade firmly planted in the ground.
"For years I've waited for this day pretending to obey you," Satsuki started by clicking the heels of the Kamui Junketsu against the ground. This was going to be a long rant for sure." Fear is Freedom! Subjugation is Liberation! Contradiction is Truth!" she snarled loudly keeping her mother's ire raised." Those are the facts of this world! And you will abide by them you pig that fawns over clothing!" her voice echoed out in a long string. The entire top of the stage glowing a vibrant white hue.
Down below Rei adjusted her lab coat its sleeves becoming long daggers." You will not get away with this!" the true loyalist to Ragyo Kiryuin shouted throwing both arms forward. The white sleeves raced forward like two guided bullets heading for Satsuki with the intent on plowing clean through her. They never made it, instead they shattered against something that was definitely not human.
"That is where you are wrong!" Ira Gamagori's voice boomed out from behind the shield Guide Book. The three golden stars on the collar of his Three Star Goku Uniform all ignited with a streak of rainbow color, the power within being unleashed.
The threads linked together forming a large swatch of golden material that morphed itself into a massive juggernaut of a Goku Uniform. Large white gauntlets wrapped around both of the blonde man's hands and forearms as a chest plate fell into place over his torso. Massive boots grasped around his ankles and legs and a white armor-like suit filled in the gaps in between.
"Three Star Goku Uniform: Shackle Regalia!" he crushed his knuckles together releasing a massive boom of bio-electricity in the process. The Mark Two Goku Uniform was indeed a formidable piece of attire indeed.
Back on the stage Satsuki looked down at Inumuta, who was positioned just a few steps below. The teal haired teenager rushed up to the Student Council President's side awaiting her command.
"Inumuta release the spectators," she commented snidely keeping both blue eyes trained on her mother's trapped frame. The young man pulled out a personal computer and quickly made a quick few keystrokes to open it as fast as he could.
"Will do," the teal haired genius remarke dass thecollar split to show his mouth. By the time it closed several buttons had been pressed in and panels along the inside of the arena opened to reveal gattling guns aimed at everyone of the fiber-bound spectators.
With the sounds of instant release the guns started turning. Their rounds were thin needle-like projectiles that raced out at an insane three hundred rounds per second. Each silvery spike pierced through the thick walls of Life Fibers with eac though it took a massive quantity to even get close to breaking down the cacoons of Life Fibers.
Soon though every single bundle of alien Life Fibers broke apart leaving the people that had been within them to gasp in shock. Rei freaked out her round eyes lancing around at each freed person, why was it so easy?
"How did you do that?" she had to ask all the while being tucked tightly by Gamagori's shackle bondings. The grip was very powerful and her struggle was cleary in vain.
Inumuta fixed his rounded glasses taking a quick look down at the executive of REVOCs Corps." The projectiles were specialized jamming rounds made to deactivate Life Fibers. It is Nudist Beach technology that I modified myself," he snickered before the collar of his Goku Uniform closed back over his face.
Ragyo growled seeing the horde of people that were glaring about surprised by their imprisonment being ended." You damned teenager scum," the white haired woman snarled. It was strange that she was not angrier considering she had been impaled and stabbed in the back by her sole daughter.
"It would be best if you did not underestimate them," Satsuki said with a faint curl to her mouth. Before her in the center of the courtyard hundreds of tuxedos and gowns were hurled up to the sky revealing a mass of One Star students." We are not nor are we weak. Every teenager at Honnoji Academy earned their place here. Their place to stop you!" the heiress hissed.
Behind her they all fell into massive formation. Rank and file the entire length of the courtyard they aligned, the One Star base to the pyramid of Honnoji Academy. Massive sparks of rainbow stars raced out as their uniforms activated in full. Satsuki glared forward proud of them knowing fully what they could do if need be.
High in the Arena...
"So that was your game Lady Satsuki," a bubbly voice stretched out over the dizzy spectators. She stood high above all of them from behind the light walls that was situated behind the army of gathered students." I'm impressed," she laughed before jumping down from where she as to a lower concourse, purple Scissor Blade in hand.
When she touched down however there was a sparkle of light and the firm edge of a sword drilled into the ground before her. A young man with black hair that hung in a messy array of spikes had landed there to greet her. His features were stone-like and his body rigid with a flow of power that was within every fiber of his clothing.
"Nui Harime," he said with a hint of distaste in his mouth. The blonde cocked her head to the left side confused as the who or what the young man in front of her was." You aren't getting close to Ryuko. Not while I still draw breath," Shinko said taking a quick glance over at the stage Ragyo had not moved from her crucifixion
The Grand Couturier looked at him slightly confused." Ooh you have that third Kamui! I remember you!" she squealed almost with a glee. Shinko smiled as well keeping his sword in place before him.
"Yeah, I bet you do," he snorted arrogantly keeping himself steady in the face of the pink donning girl that had killed his father. Shinko's muscles though stressed were not overly tensed he was ready for a fight.' If I keep her in front of me during this I'll be able to beat her. Her skill though isn't going to make it easy,' he took a breath in quietly and let it out a moment later.
'She is strong still even with the strides we made. Fighting he without my aid is like suicide Shinko,' the Kamui warned his wearer already sensing the heart rate that was pumping through the roof.
"Keep it cool will you. I want to see what I can do for a little bit," Shinko whispered keeping his eyes deadlocked on the blonde standing before him.
"You should count yourself lucky. Most of the guys I mess around with I forget when I change my underwear!" Nui laughed drawing the purple half of the Scissor Blades. A swing from the sword raced out and blew into Shinko's chest throwing him back in a gale of wind. His right foot planted and his grip on the sword did as well, he fired off with as much running force he could only to find his target bobbing directly to his left side.
'Shit!' the purple sword swung over and into his raised green edged katana, his feet dug and scraped over as his right hand tried to hold off the teenager's force. Teeth grit the black haired youth turned and gripped the second sword on his back, in a single razor-edged mover it slashed down missing Nui by a hairbreadth it was all she needed though.
Their blades danced forward, one taking on two as if it were not a difficult task as well. Left and right Shinko kept alternating his blades when his hands got close to one another, the larger and broader Scissor Blade was more than capable of keeping the offense at bay. Nui's blade pushed hard and he threw all the force he could between the twin swords he wielded. The air exploded as the platform they were on broke away into a million different pieces.
Nui pressed and slashed him several times over chipping away at the crossed blades and sending sparks into the air as they descended before one of the giant screens Satsuki had added to the coliseum. Sweat began to stream from Shinko's forehead as he was pressed down by not only gravity but Nui's strikes he needed to transform and she was not giving him the time to. The ground was getting closer.
"MEN!" a loud voice pierced the air and the broad tip of a kendo stick drilled Nui in the abdomen. A ripple rocked out and she was sent careening into the stand which shook around as she collided against them.
Shinko was grabbed by the scruff of his collar and sat on the concrete like a child rescued from a tree. Towering above him in sheer white armor was Uzu Sanageyama, his Goku Uniform had evolved as well.
"Kurosaki leave this one to me. She and I have some business to settle," Sanageyama said through the mask hiding his face while his hands kept a firm grasp on the solid kendo pole in his hands.
"Sure whatever," Shinko responded clutching at his hands, marks had made their way across them. Blood had come from small nicks that Nui's slashes had left there almost with painless precision.
Sanageyama smiled as his foe emerged from the seats relatively unscathed.
"Very impressive indeed Satsuki," Ragyo patronized from her position of humiliation: stuck against the star that looked awfully like her scars. Her ruby lips were curled into a smile even though she was losing or so it seemed." Tell me though Satsuki before your army destroys me or whatever plan you bear to take me down. When did you turn against the Life Fibers? And me?" the woman asked her vibrant hair glowing slightly against the outline before her.
Satsuki smiled, her lips curling slightly upright, Her grip on the Bakuzan's hilt grew tighter as the sounds of combat continued to ring out in the background, Uzu was fighting at this point for sure." I was never on your side to turn from it. The day I learned the truth from my father was when I laid these plans out against you. That special day was one that bothered me..." she glared her long black hair dangling behind her.
"He said 'Satsuki, this will be your wedding dress,' he was referring to the Kamui Junketsu," Satsuki said as solid as stone though her blue eyes wavered with the words she was speaking. Ragyo looked at her now with distaste for the girl or rather her weakness." He also said that when I put Junketsu on 'I would forever be a slave to clothing.' Then he started telling me about you," Satsuki paced to the side slightly keeping the gleaming edge of the Bakuzan focused on the woman before her.
"He was such a brilliant scientist with a large heart. One that you took advantage of," the young lady sighed looking firmly into the glowing red eyes of her deranged mother. A few seconds passed eerily silent before Satsuki started talking again." You used him for his mind and the ability to give you children," the heiress said with the daggers in each word almost flying from her mouth.
"You tried your experiments on me didn't you Ragyo? Your firstborn daughter at the tender age of one year old was merged and manipulated with Life Fibers trying to make a hybrid," a lone tear shimmered in her eye as she thought of what was going to happen next." When it failed with me. You used your second born child, when they were barely ripe from your womb. Their body could not hold up to the stress of being fused with Life Fibers and died quickly after," her free left hand clenched tightly.
"Failed by his genetics you forced him to flee and you killed him sometime after. Ragyo Kiryuin you are no mother but a monster obsessed with clothing!" Satsuki hissed angling her eyes at the woman on the cross before her. Ragyo's head tilted slightly disappointment settling in a few seconds later.
"Calling you very own mother a monster?" Ragyo gasped feigning shock. Her right hand was pulled from the spike that had been ran through it to wipe the blood away from her mouth.
Satsuki's right heel clicked and a robotic arm reached out and grappled the arm back over the spike. Blood spurted only for a second as red fibers linked the skin back together almost as good as new." You have been impaled, stabbed through the heart, and hung up like a piece of meat and you are still alive. No mere human would have survived that, you are a monster!" Satsuki spat." A monster that gave every ounce of her humanity up for some scraps of cloth!"
"But attacking your own mother?" Ragyo gasped once more patronizing her firstborn.
"If attacking my mother and stabbing her in the back is a crime. I will gladly accept that burden," Satsuki hissed eyes glowing with a fiery determination. Hand firmly wrapped around Bakuzan she took a step forward." If it makes me a monster, my ends by far justify the means," her eyes close for a brief moment as a blinding light sparked out around her body.
"I am Satsuki Kiryuin and if to further my ambitions of ridding this world of Life Fibers I become a monster. I accept that and bear it as a banner to truly end their reign of tyranny you have placed here and around the world!"
"Dare I say how cute your monologues are getting?" Ragyo laughed still latched to the star like a display piece. Her face was crooked and contorted into a sinister smile and her body was just as arranged the spike still appearing through the center of her sizable bosom.
"You get no such pleasure! Monsters like you have no right to speak in my presence!" Satsuki shouted angrily.
Beside the stage...
"Wait! Satsuki has been working against her mother this whole fucking time!" Ryuko gained an angry snicker, one that ran parallel to Satsuki's second paragraph. Her fist were shaking with rage that could not be determine." Then why the hell did you spend so much time trying to fucking kill me and those Nudist Beach dorks!" she went on as Shinko was sat down by Sanageyama.
'Matoi! Very few actually knew about Lady Satsuki's true intentions,' Gamagori's face appeared on one of the screens as he scaled the rows of seats to try and get his hands on Nui Harime. The white donning colossus had a very fair point, even the Elite Four were mostly in the dark when it came to the Student Council President's plans.' It was a way to insure that Director Ragyo would never find out the truth behind the plan!' he said exerting himself to climb up to the scene of the battle.
Satsuki's face soon displaced Gamagori's even though she was only a few dozen yards in front of her and up from the floor. The Student council President was focusing on her mother still but took the time to respond to the rebel's calls for answers, something that she had refused to do only a few short days ago when Ryuko met her in Osaka.
'I can not have half-baked allies,' Satsuki's voice came through the speakers around the quickly emptying arena. The heiress was glad about that but did not have the time to bow her head with thanks.' I simply tested you, Matoi. And Kurosaki's presence helped you grow even stronger in the test that I planned out,' she said almost enigmatically conveying two messages in a massive blur.
"That doesn't answer anything you bushy eyed bitch! Why were you trying to kill us so much!" the red highlighted teenager shouted seeing Satsuki's glowing aura grow from her position on high.
'It was a test to show me just how useful you would be in the fight against Life Fibers,' Satsuki pointed out glaring firmly still at her mother though presenting her ideas through the screen.' If you wish to do battle about this gripe afterwards I will gladly engage you but for now Matoi you are either with me or against me. And against me you will fall.'
"There you go again look down on me!" Ryuko growled until Ragyo laughed with a cherishing smile.
"What is it that you find so funny?" Satsuki pointed her words back to her mother. The white haired woman smiled and kept her mouth shut as a means to follow her daughter's orders in the most obnoxious of ways." Speak!" she ordered the glowing aura around her bursting our in a flash that lit the entire now empty arena.
Ragyo opened her mouth and a croaky laugh escaped instead. Her red eyes closed slowly, the laughter grew almost insane in its pitch and heft as she kept a straight face." You success here is nothing more than a small battle of many to come. If you rid yourself of me the Life Fiber's will not simply disappear! They will claim their dominance one way or another!" Ragyo kept laughing in the disturbed manner.
Her daughter however cut in with a short and sweet scoff that made Ragyo stop. The still trapped woman growled almost angrily seeing that smug grin still present on her privileged child's face." Do you mean the Original Life Fiber? If so I am afraid that it is being dealt with as we speak," Satsuki added smugly, her mother winced with those words as a live feed appeared on the screen.
"How did those rats get into my Mansion!" Ragyo hissed glaring at the grainy feed.
Satsuki smiled and snickered slightly to herself before taking the time to inform her mother." This was all planned the night I stayed over. Everyone else was dealt with that same night," she said firmly. In her mind's eye the butler and his stooges were wriggling around in their underwear in one of the numerous closets lining the home.
"Ungrateful," Ragyo hissed as the live video continued to roll on.
The bottom of Kiryuin Manor...
Through the grainy footage one Shiro Iori was pushing through the doors at the entrance to the holding room. Behind him dozens of students all wearing armor-like suits and wielding large cannons attached to packs along their back. The blonde in the orange mask was in the front glaring at the glowing sphere of orange and red with a certain amazement that was overwhelmed with a sense of fear.
He looked at the feed present on the visors of one of his fellow Sewing Club members and smiled before looking towards the Primordial Life Fiber once again." Fire the Coagulant Cooling Fluid!" he shouted pointing his right hand forward with a triumphant smile present on his face.
A massive cloud of white-pink raced out and snugly coated the giant orb of glowing Life Fibers. The orange light was slowly petering out as more and more ice-like smoke was shot firmly over it in a long semi-liquid stream. By the end every loose spindle and coil was coated in a thick shell of the Coagulant Cooling Fluid. Not a single blare of light remained, not even the tiniest of glows.
"Mission accomplished," Iori saluted through the feed as it died out as planned. The blonde was happy to report that their mission was a success or was it?
"Lady Ragyo!" Rei broke free from the restraints, only because of Gamagori's occupation with the the ever threatening Nui Harime. Her sleeves turned to blades that shined like polished steel.
"Back off!" Satsuki growled slashing out. It raced and bisected Rei entirely and well as leaving a massive rut in the stand behind where Rei's body had been cut. The image faded and the slash's force blew the star to smithereens, the chunks crumbling to the stage helplessly.' No impossible,' she turned towards the direction of the glowing light that seemed to reflect the colors of a rainbow.
Ragyo was standing among the students all of which turned to look at her in the angriest of ways. At her side a perfectly fine Rei smiled her aviator glasses turned down snidely as she held a bow next to her leader.
"Surprised Satsuki? Paltry restraints such as those are no where near enough to restrains what was it you called me?" Ragyo taunted holding her hands up as if to surrender. She smiled eyes still glaring out, a ring of red light." Oh, yes a monster like me," she snarled as the stunned students started to encroach, she was not worried though.
Her ruby lips curled into a sick smile a moment later." And a monster like me knows that those against her are more useful when they fight for her," tiny threads of a glowing red hue began to slowly emerge from her fingertips." And after building them up as an army against me only to be the very army that cast you as their leader down from her tiny soap box," the red fibers extended out.
Shinko from his position fighting the dozens of mini-Nui Harime clones that were spawned by the aforementioned Nui saw the long coils of thread wind their way out." What the hell?" he ended up being kicked by one of the miniatures into another that batted him down face first. Not using his Kamui to slash through the dolls was actually unwise.
The chords of red tore through every single student that was in the area and then reached out toe fringe students as well. Each one gasped as it ripped through their bodies wrapping their way up the spinal cord to the brain stem. Their mouths stayed agape as they clawed and squeezed at their heads which suddenly were buzzing with the sounds of something emerging into their brain.
In a quick tying motion their brains were bound by a net of Life Fibers, intertwined through every hemisphere and lobe. Their faces lost all color as did their attire as the binding bands constricted to their tightest grasp. White filtered through their hair and sapped the color from their eyes and Goku Uniforms entirely. Drool fell only for a brief moment as their new mission was inscribed within their psyche.
"W-what did you do?" Satsuki asked glaring at the thousands of pawns entangled by the will of her sick mother. Her heart was racing and her eyes darting around to assure that allies were still in place.
"I simply refitted their minds with a little Mind Stitching. They are my pawns now Satsuki," Ragyo grinned looking at her offspring with a coy smile that was getting scarier by the moment.
"She turned 'em into freaking zombies!" Ryuko commented looking out as they filed in around their new puppet master.
'Honnoji Academy come in Honnoji Academy. This is Shiro Iori, it appears that our mission was a bust,' the blonde's voice echoed through com-links instituted in the Elite Fours' and Satsuki's ears.' I repeat the mission is a failure. Run,' he shouted before the signal cut off.
Gasp! What sorcery is this? Honnoji's One Star army turned against their leader by a simple will of Ragyo Kiryuin. How will out heroes fair in this new fight against an massive flock of zombie students? Will they end up their themselves?
Thanks for reading,
~Herodan3