With another world done it is time for Emerl and co to meet another member of the mysterious Psycho Organization
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DM77's Chain of Memories Chapter 14
Remembering the Name
The group exit back into the familiar white wall room of Castle Oblivion, there bodies and armor returning to there normal look.
"Phew….it was cool but a bit bulky for my taste." Hiro said
"I don't know kind of like the style" Lilac said with a smile. "How about you J?"
"Well I will…" J began but then looks ahead and gasps "Oh not you" She said angry
Confused Emerl and the others look and gasp as ahead of them was Emerald whose helmet retracts to show her face
"Happy to see my you walking tin can?" Emerald said with a smirk.
"I'm going to shred you if you keep talking like that to me!" J said her claws deploying
"Wait J, who is she?" Togami asked as every gets fighting ready "Does she work with Brutaka?"
"Yeah, in a way, she's Number XII of the Organization, Psycho Pink, the Mirage Mistress" J said.
"Oh, so clever." Emerald said mockingly "If you want an actual name, it's Emerald. Anyway, you enjoying your stay at the castle? I bet you find it nice to peel away all the worthless memories and awaken the true memories…that lie deep in your heart." She chuckles.
"True memories?" Emerl asked her
"Don't let her confuse you Emerl, take it from me, she can't be trusted to be honest." J said
"Oh, be quiet you're machine, I am talking to the Gizoid" Emerald said and looks to Emerl "I will say…you're still forgetting the most important thing here."
"What would that be?" Doom asked.
"Oh, when that poor girl hears that you forgotten her name, why…it'll just…it'll break her heart." Emerald just says
"Poor girl? Do you know her?!" Emerl asked shocked and glaring
"Wait…how do you even know about that?!" J asked her
Emerald chuckles "Wouldn't you like to know Drone." She smirks.
"Is she…here?" Emerl asked her
"Why, yes she is." Emerald said with a nod "You see the bad guys are holding her captive somewhere deep inside the castle. And you obviously are the hero, so you have to go save her. Although…"
Emerald then vanishes surprising Emerl as she was then behind him and she punches and kicks him into the air and making him to drop a yellow star like charm onto the ground.
"I'm a bad guy, so you have to go through me." Emerald told him and looks to J "I know Marr said you were to travel with him, but you can come back with us if you want."
J looks at Emerl on the ground and glares at Emerald "No way…I'll be sticking with these guys…un…until master Marr says so" She was clearly hesitant saying that.
"Hmmm…" Emerald just lets out at that, seems Marr's little pet drone is getting some independence the more she hangs out with this lot.
"Emerl!" Hiro said concerned.
"What's that?" Emerl said looking at the charm that fell off him. "Is that thing mine?"
"What a shame…you've been wearing it all this time and forgot?" Emerald said in fake shock "No…that's not possible. The memory has to be engraved somewhere deep inside your heart. Emerl, you think carefully now. What, oh what could it be? And who gave it to you?"
"Wi…Wi…nd…?" Emerl said trying to remember.
"Emerl… Emerl…You're getting it now!" Emerald said grinning "Release the memory from within your heart!"
Emerl goes to get up slowly with J and Lilac helping him as he said "Windb….Windblade."
"Well, it's about time." Emerald said approaching the charm "That's right…Windblade. Yes, she's the one that gave you that tacky little good luck charm." She then picks it up "Not that you even bothered to remember."
"No surprise, seeing as you also couldn't remember her NAME." Emerald said in mocking fake sounding upset "Talk about heartless! I can't believe you! It'd serve you right if I decided to smash this piece of junk!"
"Let it go!" Emerl said knocking the charm out of Emerald's hand with his keyblade and J swipes at her to get her to back away. He catches it and glares at Emerald "Windblade gave me this. It's very important to me!"
"Oh, it's important to you?" Emerald asked as her helmet reforms over her head putting her in full armour and she summons her weapons, two green sickle like weapons that double as revolvers appear, her weapons the Thief's Respite. "Ten seconds ago, you didn't even know what it was!"
"Either way, I've been waiting for an excuse to punch your lights out!" J said ready to fight.
"Then let's get this fight started then" Emerald said smirking under her helmet.
-Arena Authorization: Psycho Pink, Number XII-
Emerl and J were brought to a similar arena where they faced Brutaka only this time it was with Emerald.
"Don't go getting confused now!" Emerald said smirking and vanishes from their sights
"What where did she…?" Emerl asked shocked.
"Look out!" J said seeing Emerald come down and swipe at Emerl knocking him away
J aims her weapon and open fires on Emerald which go through her and she yelps as she is shot in the back by Emerald who vanishes again.
"She's fast" Emerl said recovering.
"Sort of, it's her ability mirages, they are fake but they can actually hurt you" J said growling
Several more Emerald mirage clones appear surrounding them and Emerl whispered "I got an idea, fire all around after throwing me into the air."
J knows and throws Emerl up into the air and spins around firing machine gun bullets, all the clones motion to block the shots and Emelr sees them go through all but one. He throws a Fire Blitz at her and knocks her away making the mirages vanishes.
J seeing this charges in and attacks Emerald to prevent her from vanishing from their eyes. However Emerald then pulls out a Teleport Rush quickly in one of the small opening and gets behind J and slices at her and kicks her into the invisible wall.
"Pathetic machine, I can't believe Marr after finding you chose to repurose a piece of scrape!" Emerald said aiming a revolver at her.
"W-What….are you on…about?" J asked
"Doesn't matter I will just tell Marr you went rogue to explain scrapping you" Emerald said smirking under her helmet "After all you're just a toy"
"Hey Pink forget something!" Emerl called out and Emerald looks in time to see Emerl come down and slice down at her ending the fight as she is knocked away
Emerl looks to J who was in shock and helps her up. Just then a Blue card appears and Emerl takes it, it was a magic card for Thunder magic.
"You okay J?" Emerl asked
"Y-Yeah…I will be" J said
"This is not over" Emerald said standing up.
"You…!" J said and deployed her wings
-End of Battle-
Emerald jumps back and throws one of her scythes which J deflects and Emerl jumps up and attempts to slam his Keyblade down but she gets out the way and makes her weapons vanish.
"Heh, you both not as bad as I thought." Emerald said smirking as her helmet opens up "J you might be worth serveing alongside Marr, with a few alterations and Emerl you really are a hero, a heartless hero."
"Who asked you?!" Emerl said angry.
"Just get out of here Pink!" J said just as angry.
"Oh, does it hurt because it's all the truth? You both are such robotic babies." Emerald told them mockingly and then holds up blue card "And if you're both gonna be babies, then here you go."
Emerald tosses the card and J catches it and she along with Emerl look at it.
"I created another card from your memories Emerl, you know." Emerald explained "Be a good Gizoid and say thank you" A corridor of darkness opens up around her "See ya!" She leaves.
"Wait, Emerald!" Emerl said attempted to catch her but it was too late. In his anger he swings his Keyblade "Where are you? Don't you dare hide from me! Show yourself!"
The others look at Emerl with concern and worry, Lilac goes to J and comforts her.
RiCO appears and hurries to Emerl "Emerl! Calm down! She's not coming back."
Emerl calms down a bit. Hiro goes to him "Emerl?"
"I hate this…" Emerl said sadly "Why'd I need someone like that to bring back…Windblade's memory?"
"Well….I think we should check on J. With what Emerald told her it must have been a shock" Togami said as they look over at the female drone.
"I…I always believed I was…always with Master Marr." J said sitting on the floor with Lilac comforting her "But…Pink said Marr found me and…repurposed me…How can that be?"
"Maybe she was lying, it's clear the two of you don't get along" Doom said approaching.
"I guess….both of us are close to Master Marr, though I am aware she has been by his side the longest." J said nodding "But…what if it's true?"
"Then we will cross that bridge when it comes to it" Lilac said to her "and if you want you can come with us when we leave this place."
"Yeah, I wouldn't mind that" Emerl said smiling
"R-Really?" J asked
"I suppose it won't be two much of a problem, you are skilled and been helpful" Togami said
"I second it" Hiro said happily.
"So what do you say?" Emerl asked
"I…I'll think about it." J said with a yellow blush "Anyway…seems she gave us 4 new world cards" She shows them.
"Guess this won't be over too soon." Doom said and the others nod.
We come back on the higher floor where Brutaka was learning on a pillar as Emerald appears from the corridor of darkness.
"Phew…throwing that battle wore me out." Emerald said with a stretch.
"Really? Because from where I was watching from J's POV it looked like you straight up lost." Brutaka said with a smirk.
"How dare you!" Emerald said angered "You don't appreciate the nuances of…"
"An ungainly effort." A robotic monotone voice said and appearing in the room from a corrodor of darknes was a purple robot with an arm cannon for one hand and his Psycho Ranger mask separates to reveal a singular yellow optic
"Shockwave!" Emerald said surprised.
"It's Psycho Con." He said to her.
"Please, you're the only one who sticks to the Psycho Organization titles" Emerald said
"Whatever, how could you be humbled by someone of such limited significance?" Shockwave said approaching. "You shame the Organization."
Grrr…" Emerald said growling as he glared at the purple robot.
Brutaka steps in to ease the tensions. "How can we help you Shockwave? It's not very often we see you topside. Something up with Blue's operation downstairs?"
"Not at all, things are progressing smoothly with just Blue and Soldier handling it" Shockwave said "I came to lend you a hand with my genius intellect."
"You still so humble" Emerald said sarcastically
"You obviously believe this Emerl has much potential, but I remain unconvinced he is truly worth such coddling. As for J, it is clear letting her keep her free will is causing her to move away from her loyalties." Shockwave explained.
"So, what is your idea?" Brutaka asked.
"I have a solution for J but it will need time to get it ready and set up." Shockwave said "As for Emerl, I believe an experiment would show if he really is of any value to us."
"Oh geez, here we go again." Emerald said "This is all just an excuse for you to carry out your little experiments. No matter how you phrase it."
"I am a scientist. Experiments are what I do, yes." Shockwave said nodding.
"Sure. Whatever, you can do what you want." Brutaka said shrugging. "But you know, not sure what you have planned for J but I think testing Emerl is just a cover for testing your valet."
"Valet? He's a product of pure research." Shockwave told him.
"Please, what he actually is, is a toy." Emerald told him.
"Hmph. You Pink should learn too just be quiet." Shockwave told Emerald.
"Moving on…" Brutaka said and holds up a world card which depicted Destiny Islands "Since you came all this way, you're going to need this. A humble gift for my elder. I hope you use it to put on a very good show for us."
Shockwave looks at it and nods. A figure walks up clad in dark purple armor with red feet and Shockwave looks back at him. Beside the figure was a tank containing what looked to be a mass of data and darkness slowly forming into a shape. It was nearly complete but it needed a bit more time and one final piece.
Shockwave, the Cybertronian Scientist was going to have a lot of fun with these experiments.
Oh my, what could Shockwave have planed, we have to wait an see
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