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Chapter four-The Evolved's Strike
(Nighttime-A bedroom)
The faint sound snoozing filled that air. Caused by Alice sleeping, changed into makeshift sleeping clothes.
Toshimi also had loose fitting clothes for sleeping. The teen girl tucked Alice in.
'There we go; she must have one hell of a day. Then again, we did have one,' thought Toshimi with a sigh.
Finding out there is a group of people trying to do something horrible, along with finding one of their group is no longer a human. Even she didn't know what to think about Kotha. He looked so lost when they told him that he wasn't human.
'I don't know if anyone could take that and be sane. Even I'm having trouble with that,' thought the pigtail girl.
They kept on seeing horrors. Toshimi snapped out of it by Alice's muttering. Toshimi smiled softly at young girl.
'At least you're doing well,' thought Toshimi remembering at what the little girl once did.
Shizuka once mentioned that Alice crawled into her bed. They didn't discourage it. Even Saya helped in raising the girl. They both were trying to keep innocence of hers. Sadly, they didn't know how long that will last.
Toshimi lightly stroked Alice's hair. She looked out the window to see Kohta. It looked like the otaku was thinking hard about something.
'Hirano-san has it the worse right now. I'm only able to imagine what that's like. What are we going to do?' thought Toshimi concerned.
Luckily she and Alice were able to calm him down, but what about next time? The pigtailed girl couldn't come up with an answer.
'What is Hirano-san up to? Why not go and see,' thought Toshimi walking toward the otaku.
She made her way to the spot. She saw that Kohta had his claws on. With a gulp she kept walking.
"Um Hirano-san…what are doing?" asked Toshimi reserved.
Kohta looked at the pigtailed girl calmly.
"I'm practicing my abilities," he answered while changing his hand again, this time into its tendril using form.
"Oh," Toshimi replied with relief.
"You couldn't sleep?" Kohta asked while looking at the girl.
Toshimi nodded. "Yeah, this has been one hell of day. I don't know what to think about it."
"Your right, sadly this might be the beginning of more problems," Kohta replied turning his arms back to normal.
Toshimi sighed and leaned against the doorway.
"Yes, to think that a…group of people like that are running around. It's disturbing to say the least," said Toshimi while rubbing her eyes.
Kohta only remained quiet, thinking about earlier. They did manage to recover the hummer, but it needed to be fixed up. So Takashi found another vehicle to use, it was a little smaller, but still something.
The might even leave tomorrow along with everyone else. Soichiro's group finished with arming there busies. Still, he was weary of going with them. He heard whispers about him and they weren't pleasant.
"You don't seem surprised about me wanting to practice my abilities," said Kohta looking at Toshimi.
"Under the circumstances, you need all the advantages you can get," replied the pigtailed girl.
"You have a point," Kohta agreed.
"Are you just practicing you're arming?" asked Toshimi curiously.
"No, I'm also going to practice my other abilities that I might have," answered Kohta.
Toshimi tilted her head confused.
"What I mean is my so-called speed," Kohta answered the unspoken question.
"Oh," replied the pigtailed girl in understanding.
She remembered around the time they meet, how the otaku saved her with his speed. That was in back of her mind, with everything that had happened to them.
"So is Komuro-san going to help you?" asked Toshimi.
Kohta shook his head. "He doesn't know anything about physical training, but Momoi said he would."
"He's a very interesting person," muttered Toshimi with a hand on her chin.
Kohta only nodded in agreement.
Toshimi let out a big yawn and rubbed her eyes.
"Why don't you get some sleep," said Kohta to the girl, concerned.
"Your right Hirano-san, I need some rest for tomorrow. So I'll go to sleep, but you better try to get some also," replied Toshimi.
"Okay, I'll will in a little bit," Kohta said with a nod.
Toshimi left the otaku. Kohta only watched her leave.
As for Toshimi, she arrived into the room that kept Alice. The pigtailed girl could see that Alice was starting to move franticly.
"Sorry," muttered Toshimi moving toward the girl.
Toshimi lay down by the troubled girl. Instantly, Alice calmed down when she hugged the older girl.
Toshimi softly padded the girl's hair.
'There we go. I'm wonder about Hirano-san, what to do,' thought Toshimi while falling asleep.
A part of her wanted to embrace the otaku, but she didn't know what to think of such feelings. The brought a sigh to the teen.
'I've always have a fascination with a knight in shining armor,' Toshimi thoughts coming to a conclusion.
Or in this case a super powered, gun loving otaku. This made Toshimi giggle and with that. She fell asleep with Alice.
(Nearby)
Kazuyoshi looked out the window in thought. There were hardly anyone out there working, but they just stopped fifteen minutes ago.
He remembered Kohta's request. There was no reason to deny it.
"You also having trouble sleeping?" asked a female voice.
Kazuyoshi looked to see Shizuka; she had on clothes for sleeping.
Kazuyoshi nodded. "It's been a hell of a day."
Shizuka sighed in agreement, that it was.
"This is becoming more and more complicated," said Shizuka.
"I know, it was bad enough with 'them', but with another group up to something. I'm afraid, it's only going to worse," replied the young man tightly.
Shizuka nodded sadly. She was well aware of the toll of current events. Everyone was trying to stay sane, but this made it worse.
"I'm more worried about Hirano. We need to help him, but how?" Shizuka asked mostly to herself while rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
"That's not going to be easy. If what those two said were true, he will be very isolated," Kazuyoshi explained.
"Yeah, that's a problem," muttered the blond nurse.
"The only thing we can do is help him. He first needs to control his power. I know that denying it wouldn't help him. If anything it will hurt him," said Kazuyoshi with melancholy.
Shizuka raised an eyebrow. It sounded he knows about Hirano's problem.
"It sounds like you have experience with this?" asked the blond woman curiously.
Kazuyoshi nodded. "That I do. You're from Fujimi High academy right."
Shizuka only nodded confused. About anyone would know where they were from, by looking at the student's uniform.
"Is Wakisaka-sensei still a social studies teacher?" asked Kazuyoshi.
The nurse's eyes only widened, shocked at this question.
"I'll take that as a yes," replied the young man simply.
"How did you know that? Not just anybody would know, well some people would know," said a lost Shizuka.
"I was a student there," he answered. "I'm not sure if heard of me, but I was called the cheetah."
Shizuka hummed in thought, she heard that name before. She now remembered it.
"Oh, I know who you're talking about! The so-called cheater!" said Shizuka.
Kazuyoshi slumped. "They still are going on about that," he muttered.
"Well actually they don't. That was the most striking part to me," replied a sorry Shizuka.
"That makes sense," replied the dark-haired man.
"So you're going to help measure his abilities," said Shizuka.
"Yep, it could help him. We still don't the effects of the Blacklight virus, so the only thing we can do is help find his limits," replied Kazuyoshi simply.
Kazuyoshi yawned with Shizuka following soon after.
"Finally, I'm getting tried. We better go to sleep," muttered Kazuyoshi.
Shizuka nodded with statement. The two went off to their perspective rooms for the night.
(The next day)
"Okay, your set," said Matsudo to Takashi.
Takashi nodded in a small vehicle. He started to drive the Argo 8×8 Military Proto pretty good.
Close-by was Kohta and Kazuyoshi. Kazuyoshi had a stop watch ready. As for Kohta, he was stretching.
"Okay, just run to spot over there," Kazuyoshi said while pointing at the spot.
Kohta nodded and ran toward the spot.
Kazuyoshi whistled at seeing his speed. The otaku even left marks in the ground.
'He wasn't lying about his speed. With that much leg strength, he could out run a slow moving vehicle easy,' thought dark-haired man.
Kohta headed back to Kazuyoshi's place. As for his watcher, he noticed the otaku's form.
"How did I do?" asked Kohta not winded at all.
"Your speed is beyond excellent; even I'm envious at it. However, your form needs work," Kazuyoshi replied to Kohta.
Kohta only nodded. Kazuyoshi instructed the otaku on his form.
"Those two sure are busy," muttered Saya close to the hummer.
It was ready for use. Saya wasn't alone either. Alice was standing by, watching everyone curiously.
After a few minutes, Kohta had gotten the hang of the new running form.
"Not bad. Where did you learn to pick up forms like that?" asked the otaku's teacher.
"I'm still haven't gotten it down totally, but I've learned a thing or two from my training with firearms," replied Kohta.
Kazuyoshi nodded in understanding, you do take positions when shooting.
Kohta hummed in thought about something.
"What's on your mind Hirano-san?" asked Kazuyoshi.
"I'm wondering if I can only run and jump. It seems like I can do something more," replied Kohta uncertain.
"There's no telling, but give it a try. That's the only way we're going to find out," said Kazuyoshi.
Kohta nodded and started running. He runs close to the wall and amazingly. He was able to use his feet to climb it. More like, he was able to cling to the wall. Kohta started to wall run.
"Dang, he keeps on surprising me," muttered Kazuyoshi in awe.
Kohta jumped up to the air. He then did an air dash and positioned himself.
Takashi, Matsudo, Saya and Alice looked at this in shock.
"He can fly now," muttered Matsudo in awe.
It did look like Kohta was flying, but.
"Oh no!" exclaimed Kohta in fear.
*CRASH*
"Damn, that had to hurt," muttered Matsudo with a winch.
Even everyone else winched in sympathy for the otaku. He crashed landed on the ground.
"Onii-chan, are you okay?" asked Alice walking up to the downed teen.
"I'm fine, but I thought. That I was flying," replied Kohta while getting up and dusting himself off.
"That was more like gliding," answered Saya with a hand on her forehead.
Kohta sweat dropped at jab.
Unknown to them, Saeko watched this. She giggled at the scene, but felt a little jealous. Kohta has excess to incredible powers, even those claws looked…exciting.
Saeko shook her head to clear those thoughts. She didn't need that side of hers coming out. She continued walking toward to room where Soichiro was at. He asked for her.
She arrived at the room. It was simply furbished with a sign in the background.
"You summoned me, Takagi-sama," said Saeko while sitting down.
"Yes Busujima-san, I wanted to talk with you," replied Soichiro.
Saeko looked at the man.
"I need to know, what you think about Hirano?" asked Soichiro.
Saeko hummed in thought. She could lie about him, but that wouldn't help any.
"He has a good heart, but I'm afraid for his sanely. He now has a heavy burden placed on him. I don't know what to think about it," Saeko replied truthfully.
Soichiro nodded. "Your right Busujima-san, not many can take that and be okay. Even the most steeled person can break," Saya's father said wisely.
Saeko also nodded in agreement.
"I'm glad you told the truth, I would expect nothing less from my sensei's daughter. Now on to the other reason why you're here," said Soichiro while picking up a katana.
He handed the sword to the teen. Saeko took the katana while unsheathing it. While katana in design, it didn't have a flat edge.
"Murata-tou, it was forged in the Meji era. I'm giving it to you for protection," Soichiro answered Seako's unspoken question.
"Do you want me to give this to my father?" asked Saeko while sheathing her gift.
"If that what it takes," said Soichiro.
Saeko smiled sadly. "I'll do that."
"Here's the next gift, information," said Soichiro giving Saeko a folder.
Saeko raised an eyebrow at seeing it. The folder had a big g on it. Looking at it some more, it was written in Kanji.
Saeko opened it and browsed the contents. Her eyes widened in shock.
"T-this is," muttered the teen girl in shock.
Saeko looked Soichiro, who only nodded agreement.
"Take that to Hirano, he needs to know that information," answered the man.
"You're sure about this? I mean…it seems right in way, but…"
"No good, will come from keeping this away from him. He needs to know the origins of the Blacklight virus and what it can create," Soichiro stated firmly.
Saeko only bowed in respect to the man. She left the room with haste.
Soichiro only watched the young woman leave.
"Dear, do you think that was right?" asked Yuriko walking into the room.
"It had to be done. He can't be ignorant, not with those evolved running around. This is the best move I could think of," said Yuriko's husband.
Yuriko only nodded in agreement. Nothing will be gained by them keeping that knowledge from the otaku.
(At an underground parking lot)
The bus used by Shizuka was parked there. Around the bus were pieces of lead and other materials.
The moans and cries of pleasure came from the bus.
'They couldn't wait for it. Oh well, they did earn it,' thought Shido looking at the students having fun.
They were about to go at that Takagi mansion, but had a change of plans. Shido remembered seeing that man.
(Flashback)
"Oh, you did well. Please wait a minute and we'll be there," Shido talked into his cell phone.
His students were in the process of getting it on. Shido was about to tell them the news, but saw someone moving around.
"Who is that?" he muttered at the site.
He couldn't make out the person's face; they had it covered with a hood.
This brought a smile to the teachers face.
'A perfect target,' thought the teacher darkly.
As for the person, it was Loki for anything useful.
'Hmm…this could come in handy,' thought the man looking at parts of a car.
That was only thing he could find right now, food would be scarcer. Even though he received his payment from his employer, those MRS wouldn't last for forever.
'Then there was those delivery boys, why did they look at me like that?' thought Loki remembering the two.
They looked at him as if he was a bug. He had his share of dealing with…rough people, but those two. They seemed very dangerous despite their lean builds. Whatever the reason, they handed over his payment with an interesting piece of information.
With that information, he prepared for the EMP attack.
"Excuse me sir," a voice called out to him.
Loki cursed under his breath. He should have been more careful.
Loki looked to see Shido waving at him with a smile. The mercenary tensed at seeing him, he looked like trouble. Calmly, he walked close to the man, but had a hand ready on his silenced pistol.
"What do you want?" asked Loki bluntly.
"My, you're direct," said Shido with a smile.
To Loki, that smile was layered with deceit.
"I'm just wondering if you like to join us? We've found a safe haven over there," replied Shido pointing to the Takagi home.
"Not interested, so go to that death trap," replied the man flatly.
Shido raised an eyebrow at statement. Even though he was mad at the bluntness, he seemed to know something.
"You're sure, we wouldn't mind-!"
Shido stopped talking at the site of Loki's pistol. Shido raised his hands slowly.
"I'm tired of your blabbing. I have more important things to do, so either you leave me alone or if you want. I can just shot you," Loki said very calmly.
"I-I'll stop with that. But I'm curious about you calling that place a death trap?" asked a shaky Shido.
Loki hummed in thought. Shido only sweated nervously, hoping not to get shot.
"If you're that interested, we can come to an arrangement," Loki offered to the teacher.
Yuki showed herself to man, they could hear everything going on. Some of the students stayed in bus.
"Don't even think about that, I'm only interested in food or ammo," replied Loki coldly.
He didn't trust this bunch to be that lax.
"A practical man, I think we have some rations for you," said Shido with a wave to his students.
One of the students saw this and came out with their…borrowed goods. Loki calmly watched him with his weapon ready for anything.
"Just put them on car and we'll back away," Shido ordered to his student.
The student nodded and did that. The two survivors backed slowly away, but stayed close. Calmly, Loki looked over the items.
"Not much for barging," muttered the man.
"Sorry, but we've tried to get what we could," Shido replied sheepishly.
"It will do for a down payment for the information," said Loki.
Shido nodded whatever he knows. It sounded pretty important.
"I'll tell, but don't think this will be enough. I'll expect more from you," said Loki calmly.
Shido's student looked mad, but didn't dare try to attack. Shido smiled at the offer.
"I will, just give us a few days please," replied the teacher.
Loki thought it over. With a nod, he told them about upcoming EMP attack.
Shido's eyes widened in shock at this, even his group looked surprised.
"I thank you for this information, but how will we get a hold of you?" asked Shido.
"You have a cellphone?"
"Well yes, you want to exchange numbers," replied Shido.
"No, I'll call you or find you, and you better be ready," Loki threated the teacher.
"That's acceptable," Shido answered with a smile.
Loki calmly took the rations and left, but still on guard.
Shido watched to mercenary leave.
'I better ready for him. For right now, we have work to do,' thought Shido with a smirk.
No one had seen this.
"Sensei, what do we do now?" asked the student.
"I'm afraid your play time is over. We have to prepare for this right now," Shido stated firmly.
"Awe, I was ready for it also," said a disheartened Yuki.
"You can later, but right now. We have a job to do," replied Shido with sympathy.
The students nodded and went back to the bus. As for Shido, he called his spy to return.
(Flashback's end)
Shido stopped his remembering. Then there was that one student that showed concern for his family, naturally they threw him out. Strangely, he disappeared instantly when thrown out. Also, there was a strange sound, like a whistle.
Shido only shook his head, no point in worrying about it. He had to ready for the EMP attack and that damn mercenary. Shido smirked cruelly at killing the man and collecting his supplies.
'For now let's just watch the show,' thought the teacher watching his angels in glee.
(Takagi mansion)
Takashi was by the hummer with ATV. The rest of his group was there also, but not Saeko.
Toshimi had a backpack designed for carrying arrows. It was filled up, with another carrying case in the hummer.
Rei had changed back into her usual clothes. She waited close the hummer, ready to leave.
As for Saya, Alice and Shizuka were dressed the same as yesterday. They were also ready to leave. Even Kazuyoshi and Kohta looked ready to leave.
Kohta felt a little strange with ammo vest, but still wearied it. It was like…he didn't need it. Kohta turned blue at those thoughts.
"Okay, we're all set to leave," Takashi said to the group.
They nodded in agreement. Soichiro walked up the group.
"I see you're ready to leave," said the man calmly.
Takashi nodded. "We can't stay here. We need to find Rei's father or my family. If we do find Rei's father, maybe he can warn the police about those evolved," said the teen.
Soichiro nodded in agreement. "We've also been trying to get a hold of them, but so far no luck."
Saeko showed up dressed in outfit when getting here. She also carried the folder, unsure about showing it to Kohta, but was going to do it.
"Wait a minute!" exclaimed Shizuka in realization.
They looked at the nurse.
"You still have your cellphone?" asked the nurse looking at Takashi.
Takashi nodded while showing it.
"Let me borrow it?" asked Shizuka.
"Okay, but why Shizuka-sensei?" asked the teen while handing over the cellphone.
"I might get a hold of my friend," replied the blond woman while punching in the number.
"Any other reason as to why?" asked Saya this time.
"Well, she is member of SAT so maybe, she can help in spreading the word," replied Shizuka simply while waiting for an answer.
Her group looked stumped at the information, but wasn't too surprised. Her friend did have excess to military hardware.
"Yes, she is answering!" exclaimed the blond in joy.
She started talking with person franticly.
"Takagi-san, we have a problem!" yelled a man running toward them.
Soichiro looked at man with a raised eyebrow.
"What is it Yoshioka-san?" asked his leader.
"It's that a military base is under attack!" replied Yoshioka in fear.
After hearing this, everyone looked shocked.
"What, who is dumb enough to attack a base?!" asked Saya.
"I don't know, but at first. I thought it was a joke," replied Yoshioka.
"Explain," stated Soichiro firmly.
"They said that a young woman was attacking them. However, she was using her hands to destroy tanks!" said the retainer.
"What! How can something just destroy a tank with their…oh shit! It's those evolved! It must be I mean could one of them do that?" asked an uncertain Kazuyoshi.
Soichiro growled. "Yes, it's possible. If one of them has hammerfists, then they could take on a tank," answered the man.
Everyone else looked lost at the name, but didn't dispute it. They knew nothing about the evolved abilities.
"I can't believe there that strong or foolish enough to take on a base," muttered Saya.
Suddenly, a bright flash of light appeared. Everyone become lost at site.
"Ow," screamed Shizuka in pain.
They looked at nurse. Shizuka tried to use the cellphone, but couldn't get it to work.
"I'm sorry Komuro-kun, I've broken your cellphone," Shizuka apologized to the teen.
Takashi raised an eyebrow at this. They then heard various people saying there electrical devices stopped working.
"What's going on? Why are all the electronics shorting out?" asked Kohta.
Saya looked up to sky and hummed. She growled at coming to a conclusion.
"Darn it, that was nuclear warhead going off in sky," said Saya.
"Huh?" asked Kohta lost.
"You see when a nuclear warhead goes off, it generates an electrometric field. So all electronics will be destroyed by it," Saya explained.
"Pretty good Saya," Soichiro praised. "You did excellent to know that from…damn it!"
Saya looked lost at her father's change. Soichiro gripped his sword in anger.
"What's wrong Takagi-san?" asked Yoshioka concerned.
"They knew this was going to happen. They somehow found out and used it to their advantage," he answered in anger.
"If that's right, then we lost a big asset," said Kazuyoshi with a frown.
"Yes, those bases they are attacking could help protect people or relocate them. This is very bad," Soichiro agreed with the statement.
The rest of the group became very afraid of this. There problems just got worse.
(Moments ago-a military base)
"Banzai!" yelled a female while falling down on to a tank.
This would have been funny if not for the girl having giant fists. They looked out of place on the girl, but then.
*Bang*
The tank couldn't take the blow, destroying it. Strangely enough, spikes sprouted around the area where the girl landed.
The soldiers all around stood shocked at such a feat.
"What are you waiting for?! Shoot her now!" ordered a sergeant to his man.
They snapped out of it and took aim with her rifles. As for their attacker, she looked at them with a smirk.
"Ma, I didn't know you liked to play rough," she said with a sickly sweet tone at them.
The group of soldiers only aimed there weapons at the girl.
"Too bad, I'm too much for you," muttered the girl while hopping down from the ruined tank.
"Fire!" ordered the sergeant.
*Slash*
"What the?!" exclaimed various soldiers in shock.
Every one of them had there gun slashed. They looked to see it was the girl that did it.
"You're starting to bore me boys," replied the girl with a smirk while showing off her whipfist.
The soldiers turned blue in fright at such a sight. First the dead come back to life, but this.
"I'm getting the hell out of here!" said one of the soldiers trying to run away.
Even others were about ready to run away.
"What are you doing?! We have to fight her!" said the sergeant to his man.
"How do we do that sir? She just destroyed a tank and our guns by herself! I'm getting out of here, I didn't sign up with for this shit!" replied one of his man still running away.
"Damn you!" he yelled to his man.
With a grunt, he talked into his radio.
As for his target, she only walked calmly to the sergeant.
"They aren't much on courage are they?" she asked calmly.
The sergeant only drew his pistol and fired at the girl.
As for his target, she blocked the shots with her hammerfist.
"Damn you, what in the hell are you monster?" asked man completely out of ammo.
He didn't hit her main body with one bullet.
"I'm your worst nightmare bastard," replied the girl with rage.
"No you're not, that is!" replied man with a smirk while ducking for cover.
The girl only smirked at the statement.
"To easy, dumbass," she muttered now leaping at the tank.
It tried to attack her from behind, but she knew it was coming. She hit it with a hammer toss.
*Boom*
The poor tank didn't stand a chance.
As for the sergeant, he only sweated in fear at this.
"Arg," he said in pain.
That monster woman grabbed him with her whipfist. It didn't kill him, but hurt like hell. He went flying toward the girl, like a fisherman reeling in a fish.
"Now what to do with you?" asked the girl calmly.
The man was about to spit in her face, but was blocked by her hand. Blood was drawn from this, her other hand was bladed.
"That's not nice," she said. "As for you, goodbye buddy."
With that said, she threw him into the air. The man screamed in fear, and with a yank. He landed on the ground with a crunch.
"That's for calling me a monster, bastard," the girl snarled while bringing back her whipfist.
She went back to her attack.
Close-by, three soldiers watched this behind a hummer. Each one had a rifle to use.
"Having any luck with reinforcements?" asked one of them to another.
"I'm working on it," replied one with a radio.
"Shit, shit, this is so messed up! We have the dead trying to eat us and now this! This is beyond my pay grade, I'm out of here!" said the solider about ready to bolt.
The first grabbed him tightly.
"Don't think about it," he ordered sternly.
"Let go of me!" he ordered. "You're the same rank as me, so you don't have the rank to order me."
"Maybe, but if you leave now, she will kill you," stated the man firmly.
The scary cat cursed under his breath, he was right.
"Anything?" he asked the one with the radio.
He growled in anger. "Damn it, this brood has friends! Other bases are being attacked like us! I'll try all channels," he replied while calling anyone.
"Do it, I'll take anything, even the SAT would help," replied his comrade looking out of there attacker.
A bright light lite the sky, and the one with radio cried in pain. His radio gave off a load hiss. Depressingly, he tried to use again, but didn't work.
"Shit! That's just great! We've lost our radio!" exclaimed the solider throwing the radio at the wall.
"What did you expect; I had information on that EMP attack. I don't want to take on another platoon, so that helped me," a female voice said smugly.
The three soldiers turned blue at the voice. They looked up in fear to see the girl standing on top of the hummer.
"Oh shit!" muttered one of the solders in fear while readying his weapon.
The girl only smirked at the useless action. A wind blew in, the girl hummed at feeling it.
"That's right on the mark," she said smugly.
"What are you talking…about?" asked one of the soldiers lost at a site.
The girl's skirt was flipping in the wind, making the trio of man eyes widening in shock at seeing her underwear.
"What the…she is wearing kiddie print panties!" exclaimed one of them in shock.
This…monster girl was kicking there assess and she was wearing something so…childish.
"So what of it," she replied coldly.
"How can you wear that, when your!"
He stopped talking and started coughing violently. He comrades were also starting to cough.
"What is going on? Oh no, she most have used poison gas, but how is she-."
The man fell down and curled into a ball, with his fellow soldiers doing the same.
She looked around the base seeing similar soldiers falling down to the ground, unmoving.
"You wish it was poison buster. That's one base down and with it. A new hive is about to be born, hopefully Parish-sama is pleased with my work," said the girl working out the kinks in her arms.
She wasn't that old as an evolved, but still strong enough to do her job.
"Time to relax for a bit, I did earn a treat," said the girl sitting down on the hummer calmly.
She brought out a secure box that contained the Blacklight virus for infecting the base, but it also carried something.
"Hmmm, that's good chocolate," moaned the girl while eating her treat.
She wasn't sure on how long they could go without food, but this was mostly a treat for her. From her knowledge they didn't need much food, or in this case biomass to survive.
She only watched the base starting to change while eating.
(Takagi mansion)
The group of people became worried at what is going on.
*Crash*
They looked at one of their vehicles crashing. Almost like a signal, 'them' appeared out of the woodwork.
"Great they just had to appear, like uninvited guest," muttered Takashi at this.
"Close the gates," Soichiro ordered.
The man with control tried to do that, but it wouldn't work.
"Darn, we need to close it manually," said Yoshioka to them.
They nodded and closed the gate, but it wasn't holding. There were too many of 'them'.
"Darn it," muttered one of the men at the gate.
*Bang*
They looked at Kohta in shock. The otaku only give them a thumb up with a smirk. He showed them.
"What now? There coming in here to fast, we need to get away," said Takashi to everyone.
"I agree, but the hummer might not work," said Saya.
"Saya-san is right, but the ATV is okay," said Matsudo.
"Okay, we'll take it," replied Takashi with a nod.
Yuriko ripped her dress, getting out her hidden Luger pistol. Kohta blushed at this with Kazuyoshi.
"Saya here," said the woman handing over the gun.
Saya took it, confused.
"You'll need that, I used during my years in New York," Yuriko answered her daughter.
Saya nodded sadly while getting on the ATV with the rest of her group.
"I'll clear the road," said Soichiro getting out a stick of dynamite.
"Don't," warned Kazuyoshi.
Soichiro stopped and looked at man.
"You'll only bring more of 'them'," answered Kazuyoshi.
Soichiro nodded in agreement and put up the dynamite.
"Let's get going!" said Takashi starting up the ATV.
His group got into the vehicle, but it was a tight squeeze. Kohta was about to get on, but stopped.
"Hirano-san, what's wrong?" asked Toshimi with Alice looking worried at this.
"I'm going to help them," replied the otaku while handing over his gun and ammo vest.
Kazuyoshi took them.
"But how, I mean there to many of 'them'!" exclaimed Toshimi in fear at this choice.
Even Alice looked scared for him.
"True, if I was a normal person, but," Kohta armed his claws. "I'm not normal and I need to test these bad boys out. I'll find you when I'm done, so get going," he ordered.
Takashi only nodded and punched it. He ran over one them, but some were walking toward them.
Kohta appeared with his tendril using hands and launched a black hole at the group.
"Dang," muttered Shizuka at this.
Almost all the zombies were killed, but two survived it. However, they weren't able to move as well.
They left the area, as for Kohta.
*Slash*
He was slashing zombies left and right. He just slashed one at the waist, but it grabbed him.
'Darn, remember hit the head,' thought Kohta pulling off the corpse.
Surprising, it was easy for him.
'I must be stronger then 'them', or something,' thought Kohta.
He saw another one coming at him, so he threw the zombie in hand. Right into the other ones right in the head.
"Damn, he needs to share that virus with me," muttered Matsudo, envious of the otaku's strength.
Kohta was amazed at how easy it was for him to take on the horde. But there was a problem.
'I can't do this all day, they only keep coming. I could just leave now, but I'll be nice. This is for them giving me shelter and bullets,' thought otaku after using another black hole.
This attack was best used on groups, but he wasn't sure about bigger targets.
He looked at the ruined gate and came up an idea.
'That's it, make a barrage for them! I need something to start it,' thought Kohta looking around for something.
While this was going on, the other survivors fought the corpses. Some fell to 'them'; others were able to keep killing them.
"I'm grateful for Hirano's help, but they only keep coming," said Yuriko shooting at the walking corpses.
"I agree we need to block the entrance. Or this will ever end," replied her husband fighting with his sword.
He moved swiftly and accurately.
Kohta saw a car, he smirked.
"Time to see how strong I've become," he muttered while running toward the car.
He was able to lift the car. Kohta couldn't help, but feel good at this. He now has more than one skill to use.
The otaku took off running toward the entrance with his stolen car.
"Great, now he's stealing a car. In a new way!" exclaimed Matsudo at seeing this.
Close enough to gates; Kohta threw the car at them.
*Bang*
Luckily, the walls were very sturdy.
"What is he doing?" asked Matsudo.
Even others were confused at this.
"He's making a barrage for us!" Yuriko answered.
Soichiro nodded. "Hirano, use those blocks to reinforce it," he ordered.
Kohta nodded and found them. He used them to reinforce the car. Kohta looked at Soichiro calmly, finished.
"Go ahead and leave, you did more than enough," he answered the otaku.
Kohta nodded and leaped over the wall. He was gone instantly.
"Dear, you could have told him to stay," said Yuriko walking close to her husband.
"Yes, but he needs to leave. If we make him stay with us, we would only slow him down," said Soichiro.
"Slow him down?" asked Yuriko with a raised eyebrow.
"I've been thinking about him, he might not be evolved like those two, in fact he might be a prototype," Soichiro answered.
Yuriko's eyes widened in shock, she know the whole truth about Mercer. Thanks to Soichiro letting her read the file that Saeko has.
"A prototype, the same as Mercer!" exclaimed the red-head.
Soichiro nodded. "I'm not entirely sure, but he seems like it. If he is one, then it would be best for him to out there. Hirano has the potential to fight the evolved and win. Also, he can protect our daughter."
"Your right," said Yuriko with a smile.
Soichiro also smiled with wife, but then looked at everyone serious.
"Everyone we're safe for now, but don't let down your guard. Those corpses might still be alive, so decapitate them to make sure they are dead," he ordered to them.
They nodded and started their task. Yuriko looked where her daughter left.
'Good luck Saya, I'll come for you later. So please, be safe my daughter and please know, we're proud of you,' thought Yuriko sadly.
Yuriko became serious and started to help secure the area. Even though they are safe for the moment, they can't relax just yet.
(With Kohta)
As for the otaku, he was gliding toward a rooftop. With a grunt, he landed roughly on it.
"Dang, I've got to work on my lands," he muttered sourly.
He looked around the place.
'Okay, here we go,' thought Kohta with a deep breath.
He thought about Toshimi and the world turned orange. He looked around to see a ring off in the distance.
'That's where she is,' thought Kohta.
It would seem he has viral sonar; all he need was to be in range and the person's name.
'So what now, I could just go on my own, but I promised her. I'd return to her and Alice. However, there is something to do first,' thought the teen while scathing his head.
It was his clothes, they kept being the same. Before this, Kazuyoshi had felt them. From what he said, they were skin like. It was possible that he made them.
Kohta thought about the overalls that he wanted to wear. Suddenly, tendrils sprouted out from his clothes and they changed.
"That's handy," he muttered in awe.
They became exactly what he wanted. He thought about another set of clothes that he would like to wear.
"Why the hell not," Kohta said with a smirk.
He thought about clothes and instantly they changed again. This time they were black camouflaged BDUs. Specialized gloves covered his hands; they did cover all of his fingers, but his index finger. There was even combat boots on his feet.
He no long had his glasses on, he could see just as good.
"Oh right, that's what I'm talking about," Kohta said in glee at his new wardrobe.
With a smile, he went back to finding his group.
(A hive)
Close to the place infested with walking corpses. They look liked the 'them', but were different. Some of them were muscular and had a blade. Also, it seemed that they could see.
Standing on top of a building, a man watched this with cold blue eyes. He was dressed in military BDUs, but the back seemed to flash an orange color for second.
His attention was to a large pustule about to pop. When it did pop, out came a brawler, but with spikes on it.
"Good, there coming along nicely. There almost up to what happened in Manhattan," said the man.
"Parish-sama," said a male voice behind the man.
Parish looked to see a man dressed casually. He was about twenties with black hair.
"What is it Marko?" Parish asked calmly.
"From what we can gather, the operation is going along smoothly," Marko answered.
"Excellent, I also heard Naoe made quite a racket," replied Parish.
"Yes, she did, but not the only one. Almost all of them did when they attacked," replied Marko.
"Not surprising, they never knew about the evolved, thanks to Blackwatch insisting on keeping it quiet," replied Parish.
Marko looked uneasy about something.
"What's on your mind?" asked Parish.
"I'm sorry if this offends you Parish-sama, but why did you hire that human?" Marko asked with disgust at the human part.
"Oh, you mean Loki."
"Yes," replied Marko with a nod.
"For starters, he has shown to be very useful. He did give us the information on those bases," Parish answered firmly.
Marko only nodded in agreement. Loki was able to gather Intel on them. He even found that experimental Hydra or in this case, the evolved that was born from it.
Parish hummed in thought.
"Is something the matter Parish-sama?" asked Marko concerned.
"You could say that, I'm wondering about that evolved called…Kohta Hirano," he answered.
"Why is that, I mean he is like us you created," said Marko confused.
"That's the thing. I didn't create him, you and each of evolved that I made. Where specially made from me, where he had an uncontrolled on," Parish explained.
Marko nodded in understanding. He wasn't completely sure about the process of how Parish made them, but he used a calmer version of the Blacklight virus. Parish did say he got the idea from Mercer Alex himself.
"From what I heard from Ryu, his way of consuming is a little different and his arms," said Parish.
"Is this cause for alarm Parish-sama?" asked Marko.
"It might be, he could be a prototype like Mercer and Heller," answered Parish.
Marko's eyes widen at this news. If he is indeed a prototype, he could stop them.
Even though Mercer tried to evolve humanity to the next level, before he tried to stop the Blacklight virus during the first outbreak. He even consumed Parish's mother around that time.
"Do you want me to look for him Parish-sama?" asked Marko.
"Not right now. First let's focus on the new hives, and then we look for him. We have lost too much ground to those failures that I unleashed," replied Parish tightly at the mistake on his part.
He thought that he could control them, but he was wrong. The only attacked him with no regard. They only infect people they attack like a walker, but a walker has more use then them. They just keep on infecting without end.
The failures couldn't be used make a new infected creature or even bring a person to a hive. They only keep spreading there virus.
The only good thing that they did was mess up plans, whether they are human or evolved.
"As you wish Parish-sama," said Marko with a bow.
He left the area.
Parish continued to think about Kohta's position.
'If he is a prototype and gets in our way. I'll have to stop him. He would only get stronger if he consumes them, even he was an evolved. I can't have him stopping me,' thought the man with determination.
This was only the beginning and he wasn't going to fail like Mercer or his mother, Elizabeth Green.
To be continued
A/N reviews and comments most welcomed.