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Her body ached, and ached, and ached. Pain seemed to be the only thing she could feel as she squirmed in a struggle to open her eyes.' What's going on?' hazy and weak her voice echoed within her mind. She continued to struggle but the pain limited her.
When her gear-like eyes did open she looked with a puzzled expression at a creme-colored world that seemed to sparkle with the loose edges of red threading. It was a weird world for sure but what she saw next was even more terrifying.
Nui Harime and Ragyo Kiryuin were pressing against her, their warm flesh meeting hers. It felt so real but it could not have been they were all nude or were they? She struggled to move her features to scream but they remained puzzled as the two sinister women glowered at her in a sadistic vigil.
"You see it now don't you Ryuko? The pleasure of being worn by Junketsu?" Ragyo's words rolled into her mind like long strips of velvet. Everything was so smooth and convincing her guard was lowering even subconsciously.
"I bet it feels out of this world!" the meek giggle of Nui Harime rang through the air. Ryuko wanted to shiver but she could not instead she was comforted by it, almost as if the voice was that of a sister.
Ragyo caressed the teenager's side with her slender finger the delicate touch somewhat exhilarating." You see Ryuko only you and I know what is like to feel the pleasure of being worn by Junkestsu," Ragyo smiled calmly her ruby lips sparkling within the weird zone. Nui moved next to her as if called by the white haired women's will alone." Poor Nui can never know this pleasure. She can wear a Kamui but never gain any benefits from it," the woman smiled mouthing the words and caressing her lost daughter's body.
Nui smiled her blonde coils of hair moving smoothing as her hands followed the path that Ragyo set." She's right, so I became the Grand Couturier," Nui giggled lightly following the lead of the white haired woman across the body of their captive." If I could not wear the perfect Kamui! I would instead make it!" Nui clipped her two fingers as if they were the parts of a tailor's scissors.
"You do understand me point of view now don't you Ryuko?" Ragyo chuckled feeling the goosebumps ride up the skin of her second child. It was almost intoxicating to break the will of such a stalwart and stubborn individual.
"The only purpose of humans is to serve the Life Fibers," Ryuko said almost lulled forced by some unknown force. She was not there physically, her mental facilities were currently being manipulated and her perspective on the world changed.
Ragyo smiled seeing the red threads binding her daughter lift upwards as if Ryuko were nothing more than clothes on a hanger.
"Yes, that is correct. We serve the apex of life on this and any other planet," the CEO's smooth hands raced down her daughter's body one last time. A slight shiver ran through the woman's body before stopping as she opened both ruby eyes." That apex is the Life Fibers! Now, Ryuko show you allegiance and use Kamui Junketsu!" Ragyo laughed ordering her second child into service.
"Yes mother," still lulled and completely lacking of character Ryuko responded. Swiftly, tenderly, Ryuko's index and middle fingers delicately moved down the metallic band and white fabric over her left shoulder. Each latch was strung into place the metal spikes on the inside of the cuff boring through flesh and into the blood stream with an eruption of light and sound.
"Life Fiber: Override! Kamui Junketsu!" the world hummed to life around her the imprint of Ragyo though never fading.
Everything exploded out into a vibrancy of light. Her blue eyes grew, a power and pleasure almost too much to bear in both regard, ripped out from within her body. A pleased shudder escaping from every muscle of her being.
Inside Honnoji Academy...
Shinko rolled off of the ground where he had passed out only moments prior. His frame was suddenly hit with a massive sense of shaking and goosebumps rode through his entire body. Every muscle tensed and his breath seemed to be stolen from his as if a solid blow had struck him in the kidney.
'What is that?' blue light hung over the entire campus casting a shadow even within the thick gray concrete of the building. Power rolled through the very foundation as if there was a tremor but from above.' It is almost unreal,' panic started to find its way into him.
Shinko threw thought from his head and instantly headed towards the place where his Kamui supposedly resided. The Sewing Room was on the first floor, but considering where Satsuki had exited he was a few minutes of top speed running away. Curses left the teenager's mouth as he pressed his first step into the ground to run away. A tingle shot through his senses as the cold flooring seemed charged with electricity.
Teeth grit he winced through all of it the sensation not causing him to slow. Shivers ransacked his body as the faint sounds of a once great and rebellious voice whimsically rang through the hall. Several painstaking minutes separated him from the nearest help and even more if that illusion was just an illusion.
'Shit! Damn! Ouch!' Shinko repeated the only three words that ran through his currently one-tracked mind. The building's sudden charging made every single step feel like it was hitting a live wire and the pain did not go away since it was racking with each footfall.
Then everything stopped when the building exploded with force. He was flung back several feet as the sound of cannon fire rang through the entire structure. His back hit the wall. Winds blew through the breaking windows and swirled against his nude frame, a chill racing through caused by something exploding off at incredible speed.
'What the hell was that?' the teenager hissed adjusting a disheveled bit of black hair from in front of his right eye.
'Doesn't matter Shinko keep running!' he shouted to himself continuing on his path forwards.
'Even if I get Sento, this is fruitless. Humanity is going to fail,' he huffed, stopping.' But I have to get him back, no matter what!' he pressed forward again though the sinking feeling of what just happened grew more and more.
Seconds Prior...
"Lady Ragyo I am afraid to inform you that Satsuki has escaped," Rei bowed humbly even though there was literally a pillar of blue light reaching to the sky in front of her. Her loyalty to Ragyo though was something that was nigh-unbreakable and any strangeness was quickly pressed from her mind, in fact the only thing there was Ragyo's reaction to the news.
"Satsuki did? Humph," Ryuko sighed her head still angled up as the new Kamui's form began to part the light around itself. Ragyo turned towards her as if the red highlighted girl had not been an enemy only minutes previous.
"If you wish go and get her," Ragyo sighed nonchalantly her rainbow hair and shining eyes glaring at her daughter.
The Kamui that Junketsu had become was something enticing just to view. Two horn-like protrusions of a pure white color stuck up through the feather-like black hair that covered Ryuko's head. Her torso was covered almost completely in white cloth with blue highlights, the eyes of Junketsu on either shoulder showing that indeed it was a Kamui. The long sleeves of the top reached down to her hands which were matched with gloves of the same snowy color. Her waist had a small ring of cloth around it before it reached down to the two long pant legs of white that covered everything but the boots beneath.
"Of course mother," Ryuko lowered her head. She was smiling wickedly the power of the Kamui coursing through her almost out of the world in its potency. The god robe had completely taken over the vessel that it was wearing.
"Hey, Ryuko-chan does this mean you forgive me for the whole killing your dad thing?" Nui asked curiously her sole eye locked on the towering figure hovering in the air before her. It was weird to see Ryuko on their side after all considering how rebellious she had been in ever prior encounter.
A firm right hand cupped Nui by the chin and brought her forward almost like a gardener dealing with a prized flower. Ryuko locked lips with her partial sister for several solid moments before placing the blonde back down to the structure in a single motion." Something to feel good about," the possessed young woman said before kicking her left leg up and firing off with building rattling ferocity.
"Does this mean Lady Ryuko had been awoken?" Ren asked still bowing even though the force should have blown her away.
"Indeed, all it takes is some existential terror to awaken any form of Life Fibers. That means even those that Soichiro locked away can be snapped back to form," Ragyo took steps away towards her assistant." Onto other matters gather everyone at REVOCs I am heading to mansion," she continued. Nui slipped away almost instantly heading towards work once again.
'Whatever it was it can't set me back. Finding Sentokitsu should be my only goal,' any doubt that had been in his mind was shaken free as he continued down the buzzing hallway. The power coursing through the buildings had dropped though the fact that much power rode through anything meant keeping balance on the cracked ground was difficult.
His bare feet continued to scrape over the tiles of flooring for what felt like hours as he finally turned down the hallway to where the massive sewing room had been positioned. His heart nearly jumped from his chest when Nui Harime casually bobbed into the room as if she had just been out for a normal stroll oblivious to the crazed noise that had been displayed.
'Harime,' he growled, hands clenching. His speedy blind run would prove ineffective now.
Quickly, his demeanor changed and he slumped down towards the ground shoulders low and legs bent slightly so if he had to run he could without delay. He moved solely on the toes of his feet as the large door of the room shut back, the humming of the strange blonde dying out behind it. The freed teenager stalked quietly with a silent march keeping his hands down towards the ground.
A swallow rang through his throat and that was when hell decided to break loose. Through the nearest wall a COVER crashed in and nearly grabbed him by the head, he dodged barely. That evasion of course meant the blow slammed into the opposite wall. A sigh of relief left him, Ragyo knew he was free she just did not want to dirty her hands with catching him again.
The white suit turned from the wall and charged again this time the teenager springing onto its back and using it as a spring board to grab onto an overhanging pipe, his legs wrapping around it to give more support as he thought things through.' How am I gonna get out of this one? These last hundred feet are going to be a real struggle,' he swallowed keeping a tight two handed grasp around the piece of cold iron.
An idea hit him a moment later as he barely evaded getting plucked down like an apple from a tree. The back of the COVER was towards the door and some basic knowledge of geometry told him that a jump from there would easily provide enough power to get to the room, he would worry about Nui when he got there.
A second later he fell both calloused feet planting firmly between the shoulders of the Life Fiber monster. A kick sent the hybrid flying through the air only to be grabbed around the ankle by the very same COVER, in fact he had only made a few feet from the jump and the ground was a really long way from him now.
"Damn it!" he spun using his left heel to slam into the top of the suit. A stinging sensation rode up his entire leg as his heel was split open over the fibrous being's shoulder.' Ouch,' he growled, noticing the blood spraying from him.
The wound was closing fast the bloody spray ending almost as soon as it began.' right, I'm infused with Life Fibers too,' he was relieved at the fact he had not wasted his leg, this though did not help him escape.
An overhead throw landed him spine first against the nearest wall, cracks spidering out around his frame as he fell forward. He nearly hit the ground but that was not meant to be as he was grappled around the back of the head by the COVER's two gigantic hands. Another aggressive throw tossed him down the hallway, his rolling body tearing up the tiling and shredding around the cloth he had tied around his waist.
His back hit the ground after a final roll through some ceiling tile rocked his body. Shinko looked up to see that door to the sewing room just a few feet from his prone frame. The only issue was he was absolutely decimated from the COVER assault. Shinko clawed across the tiles, blood running down from the cuts and scrapes along his frame, bones and muscles were stitching back together surprisingly fast but would it be fast enough?
'Gotta try for it,' he huffed looking at the door. His toes bent against the ground and he leaped for the door handle, his blood still rippling in a crimson stream down his arm.
'Open! Open! Come on!' he shouted, trying to force his damaged arm to work the door. Everything hurt as his left hand slipped the handle down and opened the door to the sweat shop-like room, his gaze turning back to the charging COVER.
The light of his entrance cut across the room drawing the attention of the blonde girl, who was twirling some fabric away with her left pinkie." Ooh? You didn't make it too far did you?" she giggled standing up as the red thread split apart.
'Heal faster body! I can't see her down like this,' his black hair was stained with a faint streak of blood that ran down from a wounds caused by his brutal beating. Firmly, he tried to press up but by then Nui Harime hopped across the tiles with the purple Scissor Sword in tow, like an old cop with a baton.
"Teehee, Shinki-chan I bet you wanna play with your Kamui right?" the pink frilly girl laughed leaning down over his recovering frame with that lone blue eyes boring down into his own. His body rose only to fall a moment later, she too had some sort of overpowering aura about her as well not as much as Ragyo though; for that he was thankful.
"Too bad, I'm not done fixin' it yet," she pouted keeping the purple blade firmly at her side. Shinko grunted pushing up to his knees coming eye level with the leaned over Grand Couturier.
"You aren't messing around with my fucking Kamui," he spat the bones and flesh healing more exponentially now, perhaps it was because the Kamui was indeed safe. He pressed up to his full vertical base and at full height he towered over the girl, though she still had the high ground in every other aspect." Let him go," he hissed looking down at Nui, he payed no mind to the COVERs that were slowly pressing in around him.
"Silly, the Kamui is so bland and tasteless. I just wanted it to become more fashionable," she giggled with a smile, drawing the blade up onto her shoulder still so casual about the whole thing. Never serious Nui seemed like the perfect girl barring her overwhelming power and ego tripping with Ragyo.
"He is mine Harime. I want him back," Shinko growled lowly his body growing rigid as his senses began to kick into overdrive. Everything in his vision dulled slightly as he felt the presence of the giants behind him." I guess, I lose again don't I?" Shinko's right foot pivoted as he locked eyes with the lit frame at the far edge of the sewing room.
"Too bad," Nui swung and struck something she did not anticipate. The left sleeve of a COVER had been brought down by a toughened grasp of the teenager, he had slipped by. Shinko's near nude frame stormed through the aisle as Nui seemingly phased out of sight.
"Sento! Come on!" he jumped trying to grab the cloth from its pinned position, a stream of blood ran from his right side and he quickly fell back down. The blonde's left hand was held out casually the Scissor Sword's gleaming edge standing out with it.
Her lone eye seemed to be lit up as he struggled to move forwards towards the Kamui." Tsk, you're so cute when you struggle Shinki-chan," Nui chided, the purple weapon spinning down to be aimed at his back.
"C'mon you should know better than to fight me. Especially without your Kamui," Nui giggled looking down at him as the blood continued to rocket out from his side. Her left pump heel drove down onto the leading hand of the warrior." Oopsie, I guess you can't help those humans can you?" that was when Shinko's features changed.
The freaked out look at having his side tore open had turned to a stern scowl. His free hand clenched and his body shivered with a pent-up aggression that had been embedded there by the cruel blonde." Humans? I don't want to help any humans. They'll have to struggle through this themselves," the black haired teenager had not come around to his senses, or so it seemed.
"I want my damned Kamui though and that is about it," he reiterated his point keeping the composure as his side began to close up. His right hand was suddenly relieved on the pressure as Nui took a shocked step back." You and Ragyo put it in my head how stupid fighting against the Life Fibers was. I just wanna live my life until the end comes. When the Life Fibers win," he snickered placing his left hand over the geyser that currently was at his side.
"Really?" Nui looked confused, that temporary lapse seemed purposeful as Shinko rolled and stood back up. His left side coated in thin veil of fresh crimson he reached for his Kamui again this time unhindered by the blonde." Shinki?" she said in shock as he grabbed the Life Fiber garment from the frame.
"I'm leaving go on and continue doing what you're doing. Tell Ragyo though that if any COVERs get in my way they aren't going to be COVERs long," Shinko growled, his hands clenching." The same goes fro either one of you," he quickly folded the Kamui over his arms and headed towards the exit.
Nui was speechless the rather unpredictable actions of the jet haired human made even her actions seem normal. He pushed the door open after a few seconds of walking and shut it a moment of two later leaving her to go back to sewing her ultimate project or whatever it was she was stitching.
SS Naked Sun...
"Projectile Object in bounds. Twenty meters, fifteen meters, ten meters," Inumuta pointed out looking down at the sonar as a roaring sound suddenly flooded their collective ears. His glasses were covered in a sheen of light as the ten meters became none and a rush of vaporized water flowed over the bow of the ship leaving a thin mist around them.
Shocked gasp rang out over the entire ship as the figure hovering in the center touched down on the ship. The waves on either side flew up in large caps of foam as if her appearance had bogged the boat." That is Matoi isn't it?" blind, Sanageyama had to ask. The aura of the arrival was too much to ignore so it had to be someone that was dominate, someone fierce.
"Yes," Gamagori roared his body shaking in the fearsome sight. There standing on their ship was the single entity that could shake his spirit, the Kamui Junketsu with an angry vessel by the name of Ryuko Matoi.
Then the sound of shoes clicking against the flooring calmed all of them a white-yellow light erupting from the back of the ship. The heels clacked with a domineering presence capable of stopping most in their tracks. Long blue-black haired whipped back and forth with each step as a rather tall young lady appeared next to the tanned giant." Do not waiver now. Ryuko Matoi is no longer our ally, her donning of Junketsu assures that much," the young lady commented sliding the blacking blanket from around her shoulders.
Her top was that of a traditional sailor uniform barring its unique color scheme: black fabric highlight with red makings, the red scarf sticking out even more against it. A lone eye bulged on the scarf focusing on the sight before them. A pleated skirt hung at her waist held with the suspenders that connected in three places to the top.
"Lady Satsuki," the Elite Four bowed humbly at her presence drawing the attention of the arrival. Ryuko's head cocked to the side seeing the young woman towering over her whilst wearing the Kamui that had humiliated her so.
"Oh. Em. Gee. Lady Satsuki is wearing Senketsu!" Mako shouted loudly for all to hear. The heiress smiled casting a glare down at Ryuko as the possessed girl scowled up from below.
Satsuki took a step forward towards the DTR ramps that were bound to lead to the lower platform." Indeed I am. Our goals are the same and our intentions indeed pure, not wearing Senketsu would be one of the largest mistakes any of us could make," the former Student Council President said before stepping into the slide.
She descended the ramp landing a few feet away from her sister." I would have never thought that you would be my sister," Satsuki said stoic as ever hands still clasping tightly around the twin blades forged from a single one. Ryuko looked at her bored the angry eyes of hatred burning with a passion.
"Ah don't try that big sister shit now. Let's just get to it eh?" Ryuko popped her shoulder drawing forth the crimson Scissor Sword. Satsuki tensed the blade seemed more powerful now in the hands of the hybrid than it ever had.
A gentle exhale left the former head of Honnoji as she pulled her left hand up the ruby Sekki Tekko positioned firmly there." Senketsu are you ready?" Satsuki asked rhetorically as the pin was shifted slightly over the clip. It was ready to wedge out the clip and engage the transformation. The black Kamui was hesitant but it tensed at the motion signaling it was indeed ready.
'Yes,' he said silently not sure if Satsuki could hear his plea. He knew though that Ryuko was glaring a hole through him that luckily was only psychological as the two siblings stared.
"Very well," the clip was pulled and everything lit into a ball of light that shone out wildly.
The needle poked into her smooth milky flesh drawing only the needed amount of blood to start the transformation. The matrix of stitched Life Fibers was filled with the iron rich blood as it worked its way through the cloth work. Satsuki's blue eyes closed as the prickling sensation in her wrist contrasted the upper arm jab of the now rival white Kamui.
A beast composed of primal energy emerged from behind her its long eye bulging and swirling around atop the pillar of moving flames. A massive clamp down consumed Satsuki as if she were nothing more than a morsel. Then a lone cord of red spun around the hungry beast contracting it until it exploded out in a massive plume of light and energy.
"Life Fiber: Synchronize! Kamui Senketsu!" the words that many would have thought nearly impossible were uttered by Satsuki Kiryuin as she appeared in the standard transformed state of the god robe.
"She activated Synchronize so fast. That's Satsuki for you," Mikisugi remarked watching the stare down take place. His tasseled blue hair rolled in the wind as the two sisters seemed ready to square off.
"Let's go!" Sanageyama seemed ready to descend upon the action by a light hearted voice kept him from doing so.
"Wait!" Mako said among an invisible chorus of 'Hallelujah!' and a spotlight that descended upon her brown bowl-cut head.
"What is it slacker!" Nonon hissed looking at the girl with a certain disdain.
"Lady Satsuki had a plan!" Mako said holding up her hands to show everyone what was going on.
"She thinks of everything too," Aikuro laughed nodding to Inumuta, who was residing comfortable behind the console.
Tokyo...
The barren streets of one of Earth's most dense populated areas cast a somber feeling upon the figure that was wandering through the streets. His top was a white jacket with a pair of green spots on either side with a red shirt underneath a pair of short red and black gloves wrapped around either hand. White pants were slowly coated in the dust of the empty streets as he walked away from the massive complex in the middle of the harbor.
"I got you back now we can watch the world die together," Shinko commented going back to that broken teenager that had come from a month of near endless torment. His cheery goal had been obtained there was nothing he could do for now especially not with the odds stacked as they were.
'Very funny Shinko. You know we made a promise. I expect you to live up to it,' the Kamui responded to the commented as they stopped as a four way intersection. The teenager looked down at his hands the lone silver stud in the center glimmering in what remained of the flickering neon lighting.
"To help or destroy the world yeah," Shinko added remembering the conversation in full. The power in the distance was something that was messing with his already unsettled stomach.
'You know that those comments were completely pointless. I know you have been banking on this which explains why we have gone this far past Honnoji,' the garment commented, his new form whipping in the hollow wind that raced across the city.
Shinko smiled staring towards the graying sky overhead. The foreboding electrical charge racing through the sky buzzing and popping, keeping his attention drawn towards the city of Osaka. His black crown of spiky hair whipped around the feelings of getting tired fading away with the sudden noises spinning across the skyline growing even more intense.
"You're right. Just don't tell anyone that I cracked so easily," Shinko grabbed at the stub on his right hand the silver reflecting his hope.
Don't lose your way indeed! Here we go the end if definitely coming but is it really that bad? Can Satsuki overcome Ryuko on her own or is it truly the end of humanity's resistance?
Thanks for reading,
~Herodan