February 13 2024, Operation Unmasked world
Homura Akemi finds herself regaining consciousness in what is essentially that scene in Clockwork Orange where Malcolm McDowell was strapped to a chair. Her eyes forced open, and forced to watch a whole bunch of monitors. With the monitors revealing Kagemusha dressed up in a suit and top hat with a cane accompanied by a bunch of circus freaks. Including a flying baby, a large bearded woman, an man with two heads, a very skinny and lanky juggler, and a cyclopsian smiling midget all with devious smiles smiles on their faces with taped cheers on the background.
"Well, well, well!" Kagemusha boasts. "So glad to have a captive audience for this little number I like to call... Going loony. Take it away boys!"
Kagemusha and the circus freaks begin dancing as a jaunty tune begins to play all while Homura is forced to watch in rage in disgust.
"Just get it over with you sadistic clown bastard!" The demon screams as she is forcibly shut up by a robotic arm stuffing a dirty sock into her mouth.
When the world is full of care.
And every headline screams despair
All is rape, starvation, war, and life is vile...
Then there's a certain thing I do.
Which I shall pass along to you.
That's guaranteed to always make me smile. YES!
I go loony...
AS A LIGHTBULB BATTERED BUG!
Simply loony...
SOMETIMES FOAM AND CHEW THE RUG!
Misses, life is swell in a padded cell.
It'll chase those blues away!
You can trade you gloom for a rubber room.
AND INJECTIONS TWICE A DAY!
Just go loony like an acid casualty.
Or a moonie. Or a preacher on TV
When the human race.
Wears an anxious face.
When the bomb hangs overhead.
When your kid turns blue.
It won't worry you.
You can smile and nod instead.
When you're loony.
Then you just don't give a fig.
Man's so puny.
AND THE UNIVERSE'S SO BIG!
The pictures then shift to the sight of Madoka Kaname being gruesomely murdered and mutilated while the song continues over and over again while Homura screams in horror and tears.
If you hurt inside get certified.
And if life should treat you bad.
Don't get even.
GET MAD!
With the coup the grace being Madoka's lifeless head being squashed like a grape underfoot. Leaving a pool of gore and blood and Homura snaps and explodes in rage destroying the chair and equipment holding her hostage with mere shockwaves of her power. As she transforms into her demon form while the song crescendo's into its conclusion.
"YES!"
Meanwhile in Oriko's manor. A still very alive and well Madoka Kaname was having tea and eating cake with Oriko Mikumi and Kirika Kune whom are calmly explaining the current situation towards the former.
"And that is why we need your power to save the universe and restore the proper balance of the cosmos." Oriko comments as she sips the last of her tea while Kirika provides a refill.
Of course the former is mostly ignoring the explanation too focused on the delicious cake to really care.
"This cake is great! It's so delicious and moist!"
A doubtful Kirika comments. "Is this really a good idea?" As the shock wave from a massive explosion reaches the Mikumi manor and shakes the entire area to its core. Causing the wild child to spill the hot tea all over her mistress. "The bloody hell was that?!" Kirika screams out before realizing her mistake and hurrying to dry Oriko off.
Oriko simply remains calm and remarks. "Stick to the script Kirika. Stick to the script."
Chapter 19: A robot's sidestory
Arc... Gattai... Systems designed to surpass Gods and devils. Originally the Arc system was meant to stand alone as the key to defeating the Great Calamity. But an act of betrayal made this impossible. instead. By combining using forms known as machines multiple drivers could evolve and become a more powerful giant. This traitor due to their actions has had their name stripped from history and speaking about them is a taboo topic around the populace. In order to compensate the art of Gattai was developed
It is now the year 8932 of the second history. And thanks to this advancements made many years ago. The galaxy is heading towards a period of revolution. A new era is dawning. But what this new era entails is still unclear.
Jul 5 s.h. 8932, Metal harbor, civilian sector
The civilian section of Metal harbor. A small strip of prefabricated buildings that serve as the border between the Metal harbor installation in the ocean and the swamps that surround it. Monika Tama the essential right hand of Kagemusha is sitting by herself in a cafe looking at her coffee. A mocha with cream and sugar unable to contain her disappointment at being left behind. Not helped by the fact that a group of men were checking her out from a distance. Something she could tell. And was not amused at all as they got closer.
"Hey baby you're looking fine! How about you join the two of of us for a good time? One of the men a blond tanned man with his bare naked chest. Began hitting on Monika. Monika herself was just silently annoyed at it all ignoring the virgin.
Then came the other man. This one dressed in a fine suit and slicked back dark hair who attempted his own pick up line. "Hey Steve! A hot mama like this one is here to suck my dick and make my dinner!" Monika simply sighed and used her ax to smash the men into the swamp where the men where devoured by the nearby wildlife to the astonishment and cheers of the nearby patrons.
Meanwhile Monika muses to herself. "No matter how many centuries pass. Creeps like them keep popping up. It doesn't help that Tsurugi is only interested in his revenge plot and only sees me as a lieutenant instead of a woman." Monika then shrugs and continues her thoughts. "Not that I don't mind! It's not like i'm an easy woman or anything! I just wish that he would see me as a partner in more ways than one." Monika slams her fists together while blushing. "Yeah that's right!"
Unaware that E-102 Gamma is now behind her and has been staring at her for a while. Silently and stealthily. The brunette is stunned when she returns to reality and finds an eight foot tall robot essentially waiting for orders. To the point where she falls of her chair.
"What do you want Gamma?" Monika asks with annoyance in her voice.
Gamma in his typical emotionless manner replied. "Why am I alive?"
Monika actually kept silent for a moment unable to answer that question. "Wow... Nostalgia." As Monika gets up with the help of Gamma the girl ponders alongside the robot and essentially comes up with a conclusion. "Well basically this is one of those things you've gotta figure out on your own you see. I guess..."
"I see..." Gamma then turns around and walks away.
"Where are you going?"
"To figure things out." Gamma then walks off into the distance until he no longer could be seen.
As the robot wanders around the town catching the attention of two Guardsmen police who contact Snively who is currently busy working on his Atlas prototypes. With the latter essentially telling the former to discreetly follow the robot and find out what he is up to and get backup if necessary.
"Why is one of Ivo's robots just wandering the streets all alone anyways?" Snively wonders aloud as he works on one of his giant robots left arms.
Gamma continued his wandering with the cops in hidden pursuit. Interacting with an alligator that ignored the robot. Sinking into the water and belching out a half digested Rolex as it left. A drug dealer in a corner who actually tried to sell Gamma some crack even though he was a robot. Hangs around a group of people who are listening to a skeleton with blue eyes who is playing music with an electric guitar in a fountain for change. And finally meets with a talking mermaid statue that gave Gamma a scale whom the robot later traded the scale to a shady guy in a trench coat for a briefcase full of cash, then Gamma went back to the drug dealer and exchanged the briefcase of cash for a Mexican looking woman from a dark alleyway and then the two head to the other side of town where they meet the guy with the Ferrari of Outrun who hands gamma a can of motor oil. Takes the woman, and drives off. With Gamma going off his way and the cops looking on in confusion.
"Did we just witness human trafficking?" One of the cops remarked to his partner. The partner comments. "Well we are in the fictional equivalent of Florida." As the duo continues their pursuit.
Gamma meanwhile continued his trades as he exchanged his can of oil to a fellow robot. This one a red, barrel shaped one with long spindly limbs who opens his mouth and chugs the oil down in one go who trades the oil for a rusty sword. Then Gamma head to a smithy who fixes up the rusty sword turning it into a white sword. Which Gamma shows off in the classic Zelda item get pose.
The officers who are still watching are essentially thinking. "What the hell did we just see?!"
Metal harbor
A bus parks itself next to the closed gates of the entrance of Metal harbor's main entrance as Guardsmen point their blasters at the vehicle and cautiously approach it demanding identification.
A girls voice comes from the bus and states. "Whoa, whoa, chill down. Chill the fuck down."
The Guardmaster's leader lowers his weapon and states. "This area is classified ma'am. Please identify yourself."
The bus adjusts itself as the girl remarks. "We are merely humble orderlies from a school. Come on a trip to study your humble abode."
"Oh yeah?" The guard answered with suspicion. "Where from?"
"Texas." The girl replied as a screen of machine guns poured from the bus and gunned down the guards reducing them to mulch in a barrage of gunfire for a good minute and a half. When the slaughter was finished. A tiny bean monster in full lime colored body armor with a buster for a left arm and holding a machine gun in the right. With large bulging eyes and sharp jaws, and vines for hair screamed out. "Oh shit! Looks like we need more prayer in school!" As a squadron of Skullraisers followed behind her holding guns in tow. "Alright you undead bitches! Time for a special assignment!"
Enka
The Bad mouthed bomber
Blight's theme
Ost: Awaken: JoJo's bizarre adventure
The Raiser forces surge thru the base defenses whom are taken aback by the surprise attack. Enka the tiny bean blight spreads out roots from her feet which merge into the walls and floor of the base. Hacking and taking over the facility and turning its weapons and defenses against its defenders. With Enka using her powers to create literal bridges made of plant matter, concrete, and metal to connect the interconnected buildings over the sea. Destroying hangars, mechs, and vehicles along the way.
A Guardsmen rushes to the bay where Snively was located. Only to find that the bald midget was activating an Atlas to escape the base much to the Guardsman shock.
"Sir, what are you doing?"
"Leaving obviously." Snively remarks as he closed the chest cockpit and blasted open the roof with its mech beam rifle. Taking off and ditching the base. "Time to save my own skin. I'll just say that I was the sole survivor of the attack. As long as one of the Atlas managed to survive i'm sure that the Commander will cut me some slack." As Snively took off from the base and tried to make his escape. He was intercepted by Enka slamming into the Atlas who slammed from below and tossed it to the side with Snively's piloting skills being the only thing that prevented a crash.
"Tiny little shit!" Snively mutters as he aims and fires at Enka with his beam rifle only for the target to shatter and the beam to reflect back at him to his shock and horror. With the mech landing knees first on the ground once more while being looked down upon by another Enka that appears above Snively and begins using her buster cannon to fire upon the Atlas.
The other soldiers were meanwhile desperate trying to hold off the Skullraisers while calling for reinforcements. Barricading themselves inside the main control room as the horde of zombie monsters banged at the door.
"This is Metal Harbor! We're under attack by monsters!" The commander screams at the radio while the rest of the crew is freaking out trying to hold down the fort.
"Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh crap! We're all gonna die!" A soldier huddled in the corner screams out while clutching a rifle.
"Shut up Carl!" A specialist screams out while holding back the heavy door. When suddenly the horde leaves for some unknown reason.
"What in God's name?" The commander replies in utter shock.
"Are we... safe?" Another of the soldiers ask as the group looks at each other in confusion.
Outside the Metal harbor base a Skullraiser was taking a leak in a nearby set of bushes. After he finished he went back to the van while yawning and stretching. Seemingly unaware that he is being watched by a red furred wolf with nerdy glasses with a strange gun like device on his arm. Heavy duty olive gloves and boots. And a belt with several pouches. The Raiser grunt noticed the wolf and got closer drawing his weapon.
"Freeze punk!" The raiser yelled to the young teen but the latter just looked at the former silently. "Yeah you! The redheaded one!" The raiser gives the wolf a look around and pokes him a bit. "You're a quiet one aren't you?" The Raiser then got cocky and began firing at the wolf. Barely missing at the wolf at each shot while chuckling. "Man, you are retarded little quip!" And started laughing only to get booted in the face by the wolf and into the van before getting shot by an explosive round that caused a massive explosion that took both the Raiser and the van.
Gadget the Wolf
The rookie
Gadget's theme
Ost: Fist Bump: Sonic Forces
He is then met by two more Raisers who notice the aftermath of the destruction and freak out pulling out their machine guns and firing at Gadget who avoids the shots via some fancy flips and launches his grapple at the legs of one of the mooks causing him to fall over. With the other one getting stabbed in the head by a suddenly arriving Gamma using the previous White sword he had traded for. Gadget surprised at seeing an Eggman robot went on the defensive. Only for Gamma to look at him and walk away.
"This area is dangerous. Please evacuate to a safer location."
Gadget looked on in confusion before noticing the secret agents behind him and backing off.
"It seems that our base is under attack." One of the guardsmen commented.
"Indeed. We need to get reinforcements." The other one commented.
The duo looked at Gadget and stated. "This area is dangerous young man. You should get somewhere safe."
With the other one adding. "Here have some candy." Before handing the young member of the resistance a lollipop much to his annoyance before the twosome left to gather aid.
After the two guardsmen leave Gadget swallows the lollipop. Because its free candy. And bursts into the base ready to join into the battle. Inside the base Gamma was fighting off Skullraisers with his cannons and launchers. With Gadget using his Burst wispon to light aflame the retaliating roots that try to defend the Raisers. Leaving them open for Gamma's attack much to everyone's surprise.
"What are you doing here?" The robot asks as he smacks around a pair of Raisers of a window and into the ocean only to receive no answer from the rookie. Who merely uses his grapple to jump over the crowd heads into a crowded passageway and fires rockets into it killing off a good number of mooks. Leading Gamma to ask. "Do you even talk?" The entire room where Gamma is in quakes and erupts as vines lift it up high leaving Gadget distracted and alone as he is forced to fight the horde of Skullraisers swarming the hallway causing a fight to break out. With the zombie mooks basically piling on Gadget ending up in a bitter drag down fight. With the Raisers trying to slice apart and shoot Gadget and Gadget lighting the Raisers on fire, downright blowing them up, and even using some as human shields. With the fight continuing until the entire horde was taken down.
Gadget went on thru the hallways until he found the locked door that led to the main control room. Gadget looked at the door noticing it and knocked on the door several times only to be ignored. Only being met by silence. The wolf tried to use the door handles only to find them locked and even tried to jailbreak the lock to no avail. Only to hear a random gunshot blast coming from behind the door much to the kid's shock.
Gamma meanwhile was lifted up to the sky alongside the room where the robot faced Enka whom blasted the rooftop open and floated down where the tiny two foot tall bean creature stared down at her robotic opponent.
"You fucking little shit! I'm going to mutilate you!" Enka fires multiple lasers at Gamma shooting apart the entire room and everything in it forcing him on the defensive and taking multiple blows. In desperation Gamma rams the bean slamming it into the sky and fired into her. Blasting her multiple times over with her cannons. Before switching to multi missile launchers and firing multiple salvos that land on the Blight.
Due to Gamma's attack, Enka's concentration was broken causing her clones to lose cohesion and lose power. Allowing Snively to finally escape the barrage and retreat. Locating the original and setting off to find revenge.
"How dare that little squirt dare blast me into submission?! I will have my revenge!" Snively rants as he rockets thru the skies of the harbor until noticing a blip on his radar. Which causes the bald midget to smile.
Enka and Gamma continued their shootout with the former launching her left arm like a vine and wrapping Gamma's right arm. Using her buster to shoot it off and forcing him back.
"Bitch get wrecked!" Enka yells as she summons vines to swallow up Gamma's legs and bind him. Forcing him up to the skies as she laughs victoriously.
"Suck on it! Suck on it! You pussy ass millennial bitch! Who never had to live in fear of a nuclear doomsday! Motherfucking piece of shit! I'M FUCKING INVINCIBLE!" Enka points her arm cannon against Gamma and charges it while pointing at the robot before noticing. "Say, why are you just standing there you little twat? Shouldn't you be struggling? Or at least saying, You won't away with this you evil twat."
Gamma simply replies with. "Because I don't need to..."
Enka lowers her weapon and remarks. "What the f-" Before getting tackled by a speeding Atlas at 200 miles per hour. Essentially being swatted away into the distance while the vines that Enka conjured dissolved and both Gamma and the entire building fell back down to their original positions.
Gamma merely dusted himself off before calmly commenting. "See, I warned you." As the robot watched the giant mecha rocket off into the distance.
Ost: Tank!: Cowboy Bebop theme
Enka meanwhile was hanging on for dear life after being tackled by Snively and his Atlas all the while swearing up a clusterfuck.
All the while Snively was laughing and driving like a maniac. "Oh i'm sorry? Well I don't give a fuck!"
"I'm going to kill you, you bald buzzard midget! I'm to kill you! Then rape you! Then eat you! And you better pray to Jesus that its in that order!" Enka screamed in frustration as Snively suddenly slammed the brakes on his suit causing Enka to rocket off it thru sheer momentum alone and crash into a large steel bearing essentially breaking her back in one motion. With the speed and momentum being so powerful that gravity itself was violated for a few brief moments. Enough for Snively to raise his beam rifle, point it at the Blight, and essentially put her at her mercy.
"Any last words bean?" Snively commented as he held his hand on the trigger.
Enka defiant to the end muttered out. "Your mother... Sucks dicks... In hell..."
Snively grimly uttered. "I know." Before pulling the trigger. As the beam exits the barrel of the rifle and Enka shits her pants. A massive gravitational surge consumes the beam and mech crashing both into the ocean. With the gravity surge being so powerful that even Monika can sense it. Jumping up to her feet at the cafe and looking to the horizon. Before noticing a black armored personnel truck speeding toward metal harbor which Monika decides to follow.
Back in Metal harbor, Enka is rescued by the final member of the Blights. A floating robotic turtle dressed in an lightly armored green hood. Not unlike a Tomberry from Final Fantasy who uses her magic to heal her compatriot.
"Well what do you have to say you mindless brute?" The Tomberry mocked as she looked down at Enka with a mocking tone. "That's what happens when you don't use strategy and instead brute force your way in."
Issac
Magician of magnetism
Blight's theme
Ost: Awaken: JoJo's bizarre adventure
Enka tries to fight back thru sheer force of will. But is too injured to do so. Much to the enjoyment of Isaac who merely pokes the bean warrior with the knife that she pulls out from her sleeve.
"Anyways now that you failed. I will take over the mission." Isaac comments as she looks around. "We are retreating for the time being. And coming back with a larger force." Isaac and Enka teleport away from the battlefield as a battered Snively manages to finally to regain altitude.
Barely able to contain his rage the scientist fires his rifle at anything he can target before getting hailed by his allies and being notified that the base has been retaken. Forced to return in disgrace he begins to plot vengeance on the enemy who humiliated them by hacking into the bases energy reactor.
"So that scum is coming back huh? Well I have a little surprise waiting for them when they do..."
To be continued...
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: The cake joke with Madoka and Oriko is basically a reference to the anime. Where Madoka's original wish was for delicious cake.
: The blue eyed skeleton is a cameo of Mr. Bones. A character from a Sega Saturn game who is basically a skeleton that fought evil skeleton armies with the power of rock.