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Hello, guys! This is MegaRdaniels bringing you a new chapter for Ultimate ga Kill! Sorry for the unplanned, month-long hiatus, I had a LOOOOOOOOOT of stuff to deal with. I mean a lot! But now that I am back, I could give you some delicious fanfic entertainment! I hope you all enjoy this fic as much as I have written it! Please always leave reviews, they are always appreciated. Thank you!
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XXVIII: Kill the New Form
Akame and Ben walked in the woods together in silence. For the first few steps, it was out of wary from each other, however, Akame became to slowly realize something about the boy. Every time she tried to make a move, Ben would react in kind by reaching for his watch. She watched carefully and noticed that when she does not reach for her sword, Ben does not reach for his watch. Then something popped up, an overflow cognizant thought poured into her worrisome mind, flooding her fears with knowledge and understanding.
Though it was slow to really process this, Akame started to breathe. Ben was no threat. Though she was still wary of the Ultimatrix, the man wearing it was no threat at all. Though she was still a little cautious, she walked a little closer to Ben.
"Are we close to Mt. Fake?" Ben asked.
"A little," Akame said, "Though I do want to confess to something."
"Confess to what?" Ben asked, confused.
Akame took a deep breath and held Ben's hand, stopping him. Ben rose his left brow; Akame released his hand, "Ben, I would like to apologize to you for earlier as well as the previous days and nights I was..."
Suddenly, the woods began to crack from afar.
"Hold that thought...," Ben said shielding Akame as his hand reached for his watch. He and Akame walked towards the sound until they arrived at an open area of lush blue streams of fresh water from the diamond blue waterfall up yonder to the east. The mountains yon in the woods blanketed by the slim fog from the hot springs in distinction to the diamond-shining streams.
Yet despite its beauty, there were a few depressions both great and small in this valley. Ben, predictably, was curious. "So this must be Mt. Fake is it not?"
Akame nodded, "Beautiful isn't it?"
Ben nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes it is."
Beyond the bushes to where they stood was a beautiful landscape. The rivers quietly fell into the streams; the rivers, acting as the diamond white blood of the valley added the heavenly feel of this otherworldly forest. Ben felt his anxiety lifted up from his shoulders. He actually totally forgot the beating he received from the boss, and the hunger for revenge he also wanted.
Akame, though was wary of Ben, started to wane a bit. While listening to Sheele confronting Najenda at the Conference Room, she had to agree that what the boss had done was wrong and pretty much suicidal. Akame knew right off the bat that Ben was a powerful ally. So having him would serve as a deterrent against the Empire, plus Ben had shown time, and time again that he could be trusted. However, she was still wary of him though. Every time he turns back around, her hand is always on her hilt. However, knowing Ben, she was aware, that at any point Ben could dodge and transform into a being that could counteract against her sword strikes.
She was afraid of him, and it was a fear that she needed to face.
Ben noticed that Akame was walking closer and closer to him by each mile. She was at a healthy 2 feet away from him, but now she was no closer than 10 inches. In fact, he began to notice that any noise that happened to occur, she would always reach her hand over his shoulder and try to drag him back to protect him in some way.
Ben was powerful, but he was not knowledgeable about the land around him which was why everytime Sheele and Ben walked together, she always dictated where Ben should go and always been his avant-garde even though Ben could ably defend himself against any foe that crosses him.
Akame felt the same way.
Though Ben saved Akame less, he proved to be more powerful than anything she imagined and day after day, he had proven that he was no threat at all. Proving to her that she was wrong about him - as well as everyone else.
She noticed, even though Leone strongly disliked him, secretly respected the man for keeping his ground firm. Even Lubbock had to admit he respected him. Mine already likes the guy, and there was no contest with Sheele. Akame was the only one who kept her emotions shut. She didn't know how to respond to the guy who could transform into anything.
The only logical thing to do was to trust him. He had done nothing wrong.
Akame draped her hands on Ben's shoulders, finally, and cleared her throat, "Ben?"
Ben rose his brow and turned his head around to Akame, "Mmhm?"
"I never got the chance to thank you," Akame began.
"For what?" Ben asked.
"For everything," Akame twiddled her fingers, "The reason why I acted so cold was that I never met or seen a person as powerful as you - besides Esdeath and my sister to an extent. I had to be on guard at all times in case you betray us. I had to."
"That didn't surprise me," Ben sighed.
"Huh?"
"My powers are unpredictable, but that doesn't mean that I'm evil," Ben explained, "My Ultimatrix contains every sample collected from a database called the Codon Stream. It acts like..."
...
Meanwhile, Wave, now as Grand Chariot was getting up after being smacked around by a red-headed female stranger. However, he got a rude wake-up call when he saw a young man with a green jacket as well as the young, and infamous Akame.
"Looks like Tatsumi and that orange criminal would have to wait. Night Raid is here, and it looks like one of their strongest is out here all alone. This should be fun!" Wave growled.
...
"Noah's Ark. And you're Noah guiding it," Akame intercepted.
Ben nodded.
"I never looked at it like..." Akame paused.
"Like what?" Ben asked.
Akame subtly pointed Ben to the threat. He got on his kata seeing a man, similar to Incursio heading straight for them.
Akame and Ben both dodged the attacker's vicious strike. Ben rolled on the ground and landed in the stream, "God!"
Akame landed on her feet and quickly pulled out her sword, "Ben!? Are you okay?"
"Define okay?"
"You Night Raiders have terrorized this country too long! The Incursio guy might have gotten away, but at least they sent a legend soon to fall! Akame!" Wave yelled.
"Ben, this guy is dangerous. Stay put okay?" Akame said.
"Looking after your boyfriend huh? You should have thought of having one before you became a terrorist!" Wave screamed charging at Akame at full force only for her to dodge his attacks ably and strike. Akame managed to hold her own against Grand Chariot, even to the point of jumping off the sword he held to strike her with, fell down and gave him a left hook with her feet, pushing him a few feet before he got up. Akame, with great speed, combined her blade strikes and kicks to an already exhausted Wave.
Ben, however, sat back and started to recollect his thoughts to what happened. A rampaging knight guy chasing a ninja chick. That was something. It was a lot to take in. However, when he opened his eyes, he was welcomed by Akame viciously fighting Wave - and winning!
"Yeah! you show that asshole what for!" Ben cheered.
Meanwhile, Akame was on the offense fighting against a rampaging Grand Chariot giving his all against her. However, things were about to flip. After she heard Ben cheering her on, she flushed which took her out of her element and got sacked in the face added by a slash to the shoulder.
"AHHH!" she cried.
She dodged the second wave of attack from the enemy.
"What's with the blush huh? Scared for your boyfriend?" Grand Chariot taunted. Akame, though stayed cool during the fight was starting to lose it a bit as she continued to dodge. Ben saw this and tried to tell Akame to ignore him, "Don't worry, after all of this is over after I kill you, I'll kill him and put his head on a pike for the public to see how WEAK you guys are!"
At that point, Akame lost it.
She quickly dodged his first strike and collided with his massive blade, "IF YOU EVER TOUCH HIM..." She swept her blade against his pushing him back. Akame dashed over to him, jumped over him and swung her blade at a downward slash only for him to dodge ably. Though she couldn't see it, Wave was smiling, "I WILL DESTROY YOU! AND YOUR ENTIRE CAMP!"
That moment when Akame was about to pierce her sword through his aorta, Wave dodged, grabbed her arm broke it with his knee, swung her around like a lasso and slammed her down to the ground. Akame was in incredible pain.
Ben, snapped out of his gaze and angrily activated his Ultimatrix...immediately.
Akame tried to move, but Wave's boot on her stomach; he hovered his blade above her face.
"Goodbye Akame," Wave said about to strike her down until he was smashed in the face, flying in the air until he struck a boulder by a muscular, squid type "Danger Beast" that wore black armor that had a white stripe on the chest. It had spikes on its knees and shoulder pads and had six green tentacles dangling in the front of its face. Its tentacles and arms fade to brown, and it wore black fingerless gloves. It had green sacs on the side of its head and had rosy red eyes. It wore the Ultimatrix on its chest.
"GAX!" Gax yelled flexing his muscles.
Akame looked up at the now transformed Ben, "Ben?"
Gax looked down and saw an injured Akame trying to get up, "Stay down, you fought well."
"You...you..." Akame tried to say, now realizing that Ben was literally no threat at all. Her limbs shook from the echoes of pain.
"SQUID FACE!" Wave screamed in anger.
"Hey, that was racist! I should beat your ass for that!" Gax joked, "Wow, I should really apologize to Vilgax," he said to himself, "Nah!"
"I don't know where you came from, or who you are! But if you are with them, you'll be just as dead as her!" He threatened.
"Is that a threat or you getting your panties wet? I'm confused," Gax said earning a giggle from Akame, which was rare.
"You think this is funny?" Wave screamed getting annoyed.
"Funny? Nah. I think its hilarious. But please, bitch some more so I can whoop your ass for harming a woman of dignity!"
"You know, I eat fish like you for breakfast! I'm the man of the sea!" Wave bragged, "So tread lightly, fish!"
"Damn, I'm so not threatened by you," Gax said popping his knuckles, "Work on your insults and only then you can make me mad. Plus, "Man of the Sea"? Was that you trying to be all tough or you just some Mama's boy waiting to be read a bedtime story before you go to bed?"
Without warning, Wave struck at Gax's left cheek only to discover that Gax had little to no reaction to that hit, "Good job, Jimmy! You get a sticker for effort!"
Wave continued to strike Gax only for his immense disappointment. Gax was way too durable to be hurt. Wave tried again this time with his sword which coincidentally...broke.
"You're done?" Gax yawned. Wave backed away, "That's impossible!"
"Of course it is!" Gax said, "Watch me!" And with one blow, Gax struck Wave from out of his armor, breaking it into pieces, through the air in hyperkinetic speed before he crashed into a wall by the waterfall, knocking him out.
"The sad thing was that I only used 1/10 of my strength. Sad," Gax said before turning back to Ben only to be hugged by an injured Akame before she knelt down from the pain she induced.
"Whoa what was that?" Ben asked shocked.
"I was wrong. Had you been a spy, you would have joined him. He had no idea who you were. I was injured and you could have killed me but...you didn't. You saved me," Akame said.
"It's nothing, I just don't want a creep like..."
"I realize now why Sheele likes you," Akame said suddenly, shocking Ben, "Sheele what?"
"You didn't know?" Akame said trying to get up. Ben held her up.
"NO!" Ben yelled.
Akame giggled, "Yeah she does. She talks about you all the time," she said pushing her hair back looking at Ben with a soft look, "I understand now, and I'm sorry. I really am."
"It's cool," Ben said.
Suddenly, without warning, Ben was caught in a long kiss with Akame. She pushed herself onto him and pulled him down to lower the pain. Her other arm, which was broken forced her to stop. Blood started to creep out.
Ben was lost but then snapped out of it when he realized that Akame was bleeding immensely. Her arm dangled on the socket and the bones within it had snapped. She was in incredible pain.
"Lay down right quick," Ben told her, now worried. Akame held on to her arm, trying to dull the pain but couldn't. As instructed, Akame did just that. Ben lowered her head to the ground.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Fixing it," Ben said activating his Ultimatrix and programmed Clockwork.
"CLOCKWORK!" Clockwork stood. He aimed his left palm to Akame's broken arm.
"Akame, I must warn you..."
"Do what you have to do," Akame said.
Clockwork nodded and shot a time ray at Akame's arm. Akame shouted and screamed so loud birds started to fly away from the area. It took a few minutes, but Ben was finished. Clockwork immediately transformed back into Ben and in response, Ben was exhausted. Akame opened her eyes and realized that her arm had been fixed. She tested it to see and found out that all of her bones including the arm itself had been put back into place. It was as if it was never broken at all.
She took another look at Ben who was drained of energy. Ben had a massive headache. She crawled on him and kissed him again. "Thank you, Ben."
"No problem, oh god. My head!" Ben said.
Akame, now with all of her strength back, picked Ben up and helped him up, "Come on, let's go home," she said.
"Best thing I heard all day," Ben said before he received another kiss from Akame after being recovered from the previous shock of his life. Akame smiled, ~I was wrong about you Ben, we all were. But I promise to protect you whenever you need me.~
...
Meanwhile at the Empire, after the Paramedics discovered Wave's body, now in a coma, Seryu, who knows Ben's identity and powers, grew even more frustrated. She tried convincing people within her circle that Ben was a greater threat than any criminal combined. It also got to the point where she openly admitted that he was a bigger threat than Akame and the rest of Night Raid. She sat there in her room breathing hard, shaking in her boots.
Kurame entered her room and discovered pictures of Ben Tennyson either being maimed or torn apart. She was getting disturbed seeing Seryu obsessed over this boy. Her dog, Kuro, lifted weights to bulk up against Ben's strongest transformation, according to her journal sitting in her desk. She listed every transformation she had been told and or have seen herself. Luckily she only listed 10.
"Seryu?" Kurome asked, concerned.
"They all thought I was crazy," Seryu said, "Ben Tennyson is no walk in the park I said! They said that he does not exist! A fantasy! A show! But he's real! I know he's real! I fought him! Everyone that night saw him transform into a Danger Beast with their very eyes! Wave didn't believe me! Look at what happened to him! Transformed into a fish and beaten the fisherman. How a coincidence they would say! Hahahaha! No! NO! Not this time! No. No. No. No. I know what he is, I know where he comes from! I know everything! He's gonna die today! He is gonna die today!" Seryu said shaking drawing plans on how to kill Ben.
"Seryu? You okay?"
Seryu snapped her neck back at Kurome who's eyes immediately popped from the creepy factor, "Okay? Look at what Night Raid has? A threat! A human threat. Not a national threat. A HUMAN threat. Who says this guy is from our planet? Or our dimension? Who says this guy is not gonna destroy this world? Ben 10 is a threat and I will end him! I will eat his soul until there is nothing left! ASSUMING HE HAS ONE! And after I claim his life, I'll claim his watch and after that, I will use that said watch for good! And I will give everyone a piece of JUSTICE!" Seryu maniacally laughed causing Kurome to slowly close the door with a small smile.
"Have fun with that," she said.
After watching Seryu's breakdown, Kurome was about to turn to her room until she was stopped by Esdeath, who recovered from the Hospital after sustaining critical injuries.
"General!"
"How's Seryu doing?" Esdeath asked.
"Doing...things," Kurome said.
"You know, she's not lying you know," she said.
Kurome sighed, "About Ben Tennyson?"
"I've seen him and watched how he transformed," Esdeath said, "I may care for Tatsumi, but this Ben Tennyson character intrigues me," she said, "He struck without fear and I can assume he can transform more than just Rath and many others. I must know more about him," Esdeasth said.
"Even if this person is real," Kurome said, "How do you know he'll convert over to the Jaegers?"
"It all takes time," Esdeath said giggling.
A/N: Hello guys and girls! This is MegaRdaniels who give you the long-awaited chapter for the story, Ultimate ga Kill! I hope you all enjoyed this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it! Please always leave reviews, they are always appreciated!
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