Apr 25 s.h. 100, The void between worlds.
Blank. That is what the void between worlds is. A vast endless expanse of neon white nothingness. There is no beginning, no end, no passage of time, no life and no death. It is nothing more than empty nothingness. And it is a nothingness that Chikane Himemiya is all too familiar with.
"Seriously I just can't win. I thought that with Yamato no Orochi gone I could finally be with Himeko. Only for me to get dragged into more stupid shit. Getting turned into an angel, and then getting split in two with everyone turning evil. And Ogami becoming a perverted horn dog. (shudders) If I ever see Ogami's thing again. It'll be too soon..."
The silence is broken when a girl lands on top of Chikane. Himeko Kurusugawa lands on top of Chikane. Landing face first in between the miko's cleavage while clasping her breasts with her hands. A furious Chikane slips into tranquil fury stating. "Get of my boobs whomever you are. Or I will. Kill. You." "Chikane it's you! I finally found you!" The incredulous Chikane starts crying and screaming. "What kind of sick joke is this?!" :No Chikane it's real! We came to get you out!" Refusing to listen Chikane continues to mourn and curse the gods. When darkness parts the ether and a voice comes from within. "With an attitude like that. You will prove to be an useful ally." Chikane snaps out of her funk and grabs Himeko instinctively not realizing that she buried the poor blond inside her boobs. Smothering her until she passes out. "Who's there?! Is this another trick of the gods?!"
The darkness opens a portal from which Kagemusha and Monika come out with the former stating. "No Gods here. Only devils." And Monika sheepishly says hi while carrying some boxed lunches. Chikane looks at the masked man in black armor and remarks. "So Darth Vader I presume? I suppose you want me to join the dark side so we can rule the galaxy as father and son?" Kagemusha chuckles for a bit and then says. "Cute, but no. I have a dream. When people like you can be free to live and love as they please. Where mortal men like us are the masters of our destiny. Where the cruel capricious gods and brought to heel thru superior firepower." Chikane doubtful of the man merely replies. "I heard that sales pitch from that weird Orochi nun with the big tits." Kagemusha merely states. "But unlike that big tittied nun. I delivered on my promise. To reunite you with Himeko. And set you both free."
"Oh crap, Himeko!" Chikane realizes as she lets go of the girl who seems to be delirious yet strangely happy. "Chikane's breasts... Heh, heh, heh. I can die happy now..." Chikane reluctantly asks. "If you let us go. What's in it for you?" Monika upset at Chikane is about to attack only to be held back by Kagemusha. "Quite simple. To remake the cosmos. Not the way that Ame no Murakumo or Yamato no Orochi tried to. But a true utopia. Where people like you no longer have to kill and die for the sake of the status quo. And don't worry. You won't have to be concerned about Souma Ogami getting in your way this time." "This sounds to good to be true." "Of course there are certain tasks I will require you both to perform." Kagemusha then summons both the Tsukoyomi mahou driver. Which catches the girls attention as she senses great power from the sword. "Himeko already agreed and I also gave her power. That's how we found you here."
After a few moments of contemplation and looking at Himeko. Chikane gains her resolve and states. "If I can be with Himeko. Then I don't care if I have to sell my soul to you." With that the Tsukoyomi manifested in Chikane's hand as well as the Amaterasu in Himeko. Causing all four to be transported out of the void and land on the surface of the moon.
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 has come. And what this new era entails will soon be made clear.
Chapter 27: Blight hunt
Jul 6 s.h. 8932, Green Hills General hospital
Inside Naugus room inside the hospital. The wizard is being interrogated by King Nigel about his current situation. "So Naugus, how did you end up here?" Naugus looks inwardly in loathing as he begins to recount his dive into the depths of the green tower. The horrors that lie beneath and finally the mysterious human city that was seemingly frozen in time. "A human city?" O'Malley asked. "How could you tell?" "When I said the city seemed frozen in time. I wasn't kidding. Its as if a war, no a wholesale slaughter happened there. Ruined bombed out buildings. Dismembered and brutalized corpses strewn about the city. And a giant monolith placed in the center. I have seen many battlefields in my long life. And let me tell you that city was a monument. A monument of defeat and humiliation. Whatever used to live here buried the city and turned into a mausoleum. An eternal reminded to the universe of their conquest." King Nigel asked. "Was that the Ixis?" To which Naugus remarked. "No, its as if the Ixis never existed." O'Malley shocked at hearing it decried it impossible. "It can't be! What about the mystic caves of Westside? There are Ixian artifacts located there!"
Nigel then remarked. "Actually it is possible." Something that both O'Malley and Naugus noticed. "Right after my father died. A prophet came to Green Hills. He was a strange being covered in head to toe with black mechanical armor, a mask for a face, and a long green scarf. I'm sure you are both familiar about Charles robotizer?" Naugus scoffed and remarked. "That failed experiment?! I still can't believe that Robotnik thought it would work." "Yes, the prophet warned us that it wouldn't. He also warned us about Eggman's coup and saved my life in the process. He also told me where Sonic was located." O'Malley shocked at hearing these revelations remarks. "That's unreal! I've heard that someone leaked the invasion plans. But you're telling me a prophet was the one who did it?!" Naugus then points out about Silver and how he also was a prophet from the future as well. Silencing the elderly guard captain who can only stew in embarrassment.
"And then there is the monster." Naugus added. "A monster was eating the magic that was sealing the city. A monster in the body of that Omochao thing." "Omochao?!" Both Nigel and O'Malley reply with the latter noting. "Now that I think about it. It has been a long time since that nuisance showed its face. I thought he was off annoying someone else." Nigel then remarks. "Sally said the same thing. But nobody likes Onochao so we didn't really care to look for him. To be honest I kinda hoped that he died."
Jul 8 s.h. 8932, Dolphin resort, Spagonia
"I am Tsurugi Kagemusha..." The masked man thinks to himself as he witness the visage of the town he is in. A coastal resort in the coast of Spagonia with clean waters and numerous olive trees. And the full moon in the cloudless sky above setting the stage for a vivid nightscape full of hotel, casinos, and other attractions. "My past, if I had one is dead. There are things from my old life I can still recall. Strong feelings of anger, hate, and despair. I hate those feelings. So I choose to forget. My dream, is to kill the past that hurt me. I am Tsurugi Kagemusha. I have no past, no dreams, no hope. Only grim purpose and the will to do whatever it takes. I am Tsurugi Kagemusha. The man I was. Is dead." Kagemusha then leaps down into the city like the ninja that he is. Silently sneaking thru the shadows to find his target.
Status report...
TSN-001: Dire: Destroyed
TSN-002: Juggernaut: Destroyed
TSN-003: Spinner: Alive
TSN-004: Enka: AWOL
TSN-005: Turbine:Alive
TSN-006: Rin: Alive
TSN-007: Isaac: Destroyed
She seeks to steal the treasures of the Mediterranean sea
TSN-005: Turbine
Ost: Centaur man's stage: Megaman 6
In the ground below Uncle Chuck is aiding one of his companions to stay upright. The man is Professor Dill Pickle an elderly human with gray hair and eyes that are always shut who wears an elegant brown suit. "Seriously Dill, you didn't have to drink that much!" Chuck remarks to the Professor who merely boasts that he can handle his booze before keeling over a bridge and vomiting.
Charles "Uncle Chuck" The hedgehog
Honorary uncle
"Are you done?" Chuck remarks as Pickle nods. "Good, then we're taking you home." The duo begins to walk when they are ambushed by a group of Skullraisers who pull out their weapons at the old men, surrounding them. With one of them who has his head covered in puke pulls a blade on Chucks throat stating. "You do know that it's not nice to vomit on people right?" "And we apologize for that don't we Dill?" Dill merely cusses the raisers out in German that translates roughly to. "I apologize for nothing you filthy tar babies." Chuck can only swear before the group beats the duo up and ties them up. As the Raisers leave with their war plunder Uncle Chuck can only remark. "This is what happens when I go to a wedding."
The duo are taken to an underwater spacecraft where they are stuffed alongside a lot of money and valuables where they meet the leader. The beastly blight known as Turbine who looks at the two and muses if they are related to that hedgehog somehow. Chuck realizes that they have been kidnapped and tries to sober up Pickles only for him to pass out from alcohol. As the two are left inside the room after Turbine leaves locking it from the outside. After a few moments Chuck begins to break free of his binding stating. "Don't underestimate the special forces you alien monster! This isn't the first time i've been behind enemy lines!"
Outside in the city Kagemusha is still on the hunt. Running across the rooftops until noticing a group of Skullraisers leaving the scene with some ill gotten loot with the police in hot pursuit. With police cars and helicopters following. And one of the Raisers using his skills to toss their sickles into the glass of the police vehicles. Decapitating the drivers one by one and causing them to crash into each other. With the helicopter crashing into a high rise exploding and causing a rain of glass to fall down mauling the civilians wandering the streets. "Interesting." Kagemusha remarks as he pulls out the Pandora driver which glows when pointed to the direction of the sea. Which Kagemusha follows as he takes flight towards the coast. But not before vaporizing the Skullraisers with a sphere of black burning fire. Consuming the bodies in fire as hot as the sun.
As Kagemusha flies above the ocean where the ship is hidden underneath. The cultists notice that the traitor killer is above them and start freaking out and descending into anarchy before Turbine screams at them to shut the hell up. "Relax everyone. We're down here for a reason after all! The traitor killer can't swim after all." A Raiser asks. "But can't Kagemusha just use his magical Sith lord powers to drag the ship to dry land?" Turbine merely scoffs her minions comment stating. "Hah! Look at this place! It's full of innocent civilians! There's no way he would hurt innocent people just to get to us! In fact i'm so confident that we a completely safe under the water than I will start mooning the guy!" And moon Kagemusha she does. Behind the safety of water and metal complete with gratuitous twerking and butt spanking. "Minion! Activate the speaker system and set the music to All I do is win, by DJ Khaled!" The minion reluctantly starts the song and after a few moments of mocking dancing which can somehow be heard by not just by Kagemusha above. But is also drawing a crowd of curious onlookers.
A bored Kagemusha simply pointed out his arm stating. "Chaos control!" And with a wave of his arm made the entire sea vanish in a split second and causes a mountain to erupt from underneath the ship. To the shock of everyone else. Turbine screams out in horror screaming. "How? How is this possible?!" Kagemusha simply lands on top of the ship. And when he landed the ships engines, weapons, and shielding immediately rusted into nothingness. Kagemusha merely boasts. "This is chaos control. The techniques of Sonic, Shadow, and Silver are a mere taste of what it can do. And with the power of Chaos control. I can control the very concept of time itself." As hordes of Skullraisers surround the masked man readying their weapons. Kaemusha simply raises his arm and states. "Including Hakai." Evaporating the monsters into purple dust as the masked man casually entered the ship from the gate that the Raisers opened.
As the battle continues Kagemusha wanders through the cramped halls of the ship beating up any goons that get in his ways. As he searches for the bridge he stumbles into the room where Uncle Chuck and Professor Pickles were held. Chuck is surprised as the door is ripped open while he was trying to break the lock. Realizing the identity of his rescuer. "You're that man! The one who warned me of the roboticizer all those years ago!" Kagemusha stands down and politely talks back to the hedgehog. "Chuck, it's been a long time. I didn't expect to see you here." Chuck remarks that he and Pickles were invited to a friends wedding. And Pickles here got smashed in the process." Kagemusha looks at Pickles and tells Chuck to take the man and leave then going his own way.
As Turbine stands alone in the bridge waiting for her opponent. Readying her chest turbine and scanners to ensure a sneak attack the moment that her opponent gets near. As Kagemusha tries to enter the bridge he is blasted by gale force winds of 100 miles per hour that at first takes the masked man by surprise. Demolishing the cabin door and smacking the masked man with it as well forcing the hunter back until Kagemusha grips the floor by magnetizing his boots into the metallic floor and starting his walk again. Turbine merely boosts the output with winds reaching over 500 miles per hour and destroying a good portion of the space ship in the process. Kagemusha still soldiers own ripping apart the steel cabin door and tossing them away. Turbine in a panic rockets forward slamming into Kagemusha, crashing into a wall, and then running away in an attempt to escape into an open space where she would have the advantage.
Uncle Chuck is trying to escape the ship as it is torn apart while carrying Pickle on his back until he's forced to duck for cover as Turbine careens past the two and into the outside with a sonic boom crashing the hallways. "That thing is as fast as Sonic?!" Chuck remarks in shock as Kagemusha follows suit flying with an equal supersonic speed. As the chaos subside and Professor Pickle drools on his quills Uncle Chuck can only complain. "I am never going to a wedding again."
Both combatants fly into the sky and get into an aerial dogfight. With the two trading multiple blows as they fly across the heavens striking with blows akin to thunderclaps across the heavens. With Turbine using her full power to summon a tornado that falls on top of the ship itself with a fleeing Uncle Chuck fleeing for survival while spouting a rapid fire stream of profanity until he got stuck in the edge of the mound surrounded by the sea. Being forced to watch on as Kagemusha and Turbine trade blows around and inside the tornado itself. With pillars of fire, bursts if wind and lightning, and multiple explosions all around. The two combatants then get up close and begin brawling as they are swallowed up by the ever expanding tornado. The battle continued until the two traded elemental based blows until the tornado caught fire and meteors crashed all over the surrounding area.
With the fight continuing until Kagemusha decides to push. By grabbing both of Turbine's arms and tearing them off from their sockets causing the Blight to scream in pain and then state. "Who are you?!" To which Kagemusha remarks. "Who am I? I'm the goddamn Batman! That's who." Before vanishing from sight and then punching straight thru Turbine's head while using the Pandora driver on her. Which then goes off to reduce what's left into a mass of dark energy that it absorbs into itself. As the storm dissipates and the town return to normal. Kagemusha flies off into the distance while Uncle Chuck looks on after barely surviving the carnage. That is when Professor Pickles wakes up. Having sobered up and being unaware of all that happens. "Oh my, I could go for a cucumber sandwich right about now." Which causes the elderly hedgehog to pass out from stress leaving Pickles confused about what is happening.
Jul 9, Ghibi jungles, Planet Flora
She is the wicked hunter of the jungle of the stars
TSN-003: Spinner
Ost: Napalm man stage: Megaman 6
In the jungles of Planet Flora Spinner is busy with her training. Which sadly involves, stalking, hunting, and killing the local villagers who have locked themselves in hoping for a miracle. After finishing and webbing off a mobian like rabbit with long ears and a bow tie. The arachnid like monster used his right arm to hold down the corpse as she bit into it and started to liquefy its insides in order to drink it down. The monster is then struck by something with incredible speed and force. That bounces all around the foliage in order to smack the blight around some more before landing on the ground.
Ristar
The shooting star
Ristar's theme
Pray! Pray! Play!: Ristar ost
Ristar a young yet battle tested starchild. As in a star with a face and stretchy arms and legs. Clasps his fists as he faces a furious Spinner with the two squaring off for a fight. And with a roar that shook the canopy the battle started.
In another part of the jungle Kagemusha is searching for the location of the next Blight while walking thru the jungle admiring the beauty of nature. "Ah this is a nice place. I really missed this kind of greenery." Suddenly the Pandora Driver begins to glow stronger with Kagemusha noticing that another Blight has appeared. Causing the masked man to start speeding up and leaping across the trees and floating platforms.
Meanwhile Ristar is facing off against Spinner. Dodging both the webbing she fires and the eight spider legs that compose her right arm. To the point where Ristar grabs the limbs and uses his skills and momentum to headbutt the monster over and over again. Until the fight is interrupted by a gravity blast that crushes Spinner with ease. While a confused and unaffected Ristar wonders what just happened. "Who is there?" Spinner comments while moaning in pain. "So it's true... Enka, you've betrayed us." Ristar looks on confused as Enka reveals herself while happily stating. "Yes, and now i've obtained both Issac's power and next I will steal your power." Spinner gets up and then vomits a stream of poison at Enka that manages to melt her armor to an extent. While Enka starts firing both energy shots and gravity blasts that obliterate the jungle around them. Ristar after seeing the annihilation is forced to join in a three way battle. Using his stretchy arms to punch out both of them in a flurry of punches. With an enraged Enka countering with an energy sword and attacking the starchild. Which Spinner takes advantage by firing webs at Enka as Ristar bounces off. Spinner attempts to kill Enka by sinking its claw and fangs only for Enka to counter the lunge and causing a massive explosion that knocks her back.
Spinner and Ristar then try to take out Enka with the former launching a massive poison blast and the latter with a speedy headbutt. Enka in desperation shatters his limbs and escapes the webbing allowing her to escape and flying upwards. Causing Ristar to get splattered face first by the acidic poison. And Ristar unable to stop his surge crashes into Spinner covering her as well with the poison. Leaving both screaming in pain and rubbing their faces trying to get rid of the poison. Then a flying Enka pointed her limbs forward and began charging a series of beams that combined into one giant laser beam that she fired at the duo. Causing a massive explosion that incinerated the area and started a wildfire. Enka then landed on top of Spinner and devoured her regenerating her injuries and preparing to kill Ristar.
Kagemusha was still running until he ran into the explosion. Powering straight thru it and finding Enka about to execute Ristar. An angry Kagemusha asked. "What the hell did you do?!" Enka merely remarks. "You got lucky freak." To Ristar and fired numerous shots at Kagemusha with her buster before teleporting away. Kagemusha then rushed to Ristar and tried to ask what happened. Ristar meanwhile is worried about the forest which caused Kagemusha to fire off a massive ki burst that snuffed out the inferno around him. Sadly Ristar passed out due to his injuries forcing the masked man to search for help
Later that day in Mt. Morol, Planet Morolia
She hides within an endless blizzard at the top of the world
TSN-006: Rin
Ost: Frost man's stage: Megaman 8
One of the highest peaks in Planet Morolia. Mt. Morol is a land of vast snowy fields littered by strange candy colored trees and stone pillars. Kagemusha uses an improptu snowboard to speed thru the snow. Heading thru a series of tunnels and canyons. Moving around briskly thru hairpin turns, leaping thru a series of pits, platforms, and obstacles. And outrace an avalanche afterwards before reaching a large fortress that has been taken over by the Cycles cult as well. With crashed flying saucers and a Supressor class craft that has also crashed landing sideways with a saucer having collided with the bridge of the giant flying pyramid ship.
Kagemusha heads toward the perimeter and as he looks around seeing the corpses of Skullraisers, Morollians and their respective weaponry and equipment in various states of ruin. "Whatever happened here it was recent." Kagemusha mutters as he clenches his fists in anger. "Even now people are fighting. And they will continue fighting. Idealism like yours only leads to annihilation. Madoka Kaname." As a giant frog monster began hopping his way. This twenty foot biomechanical monster composed of Cycles cult and Morollian weapon parts alongside corpses from both sides repurposed and melded together into a hideous skinless horror with metal plating and numerous gun emplacements using several Morolians. Short and squad humanoid aliens with large upward pointing antenna and TV screens for faces being used as a power source against their will. By being sewn into the machine as if they were frog eggs. With their pain and anguish being milked to power the horror. With their broken face screens being visible buried under the flesh.
The thing croaked in rage as the two faced each other spewing a crimson colored oil all around the field before firing a stream of fire into it. Igniting the field somehow even though the ground was covered in snow. Kagemusha was forced to fly as the monster from fired all of its cannon into the sky above. Which Kagemusha dodges as he fired back with both his gun and energy shots. Kagemusha eventually managed to shoot down all of the turrets only for the monster to inflate its body and launch a massive array of tendrils into the sky which managed to tangle Kagemusha before electrocuting him. And then tried to eat him only for the masked man to blow up the frog from the inside. Causing a shower of blood and oil to fall on the ground and spreading the inferno all through the fortress.
"What the fuck is going on?" A strange voice remarked coming from inside the castle. "Seriously if you're either the filthy locals or salesmen then the fuck off my property!" A groggy Rin remarked as his castle burned all around him. "Which considering I now rule this planet. Is everywhere." Kagemusha says. "Big talk for someone whose everything is burning down all around him!" Rin merely looks around and responds. "Oh this?" Before opening his mouth and eating all the flames everywhere before swallowing it all and burping loudly like a frog ninja Kirby and screaming "EMERGENCY MEETING!" Which caused a horde of Raisers to spring out of the ground and bum rush Kagemusha whom proceeds to beat down all of them before killing them all via double taps to their heads. "Well that was sus..."
Rin then appears from out of nowhere and clocks Kagemusha in the face screaming. "Dead meme loser! Just like you!" Before vomiting a massive stream of burning oil at her enemy which lands a direct hit and is so strong that it shatters the ground beneath it causing a localized earthquake powerful enough to cause the fortress to crumble. Before Rin gently lands on the floor and laughs maniacally. "I win! I win! I win!" Before her neck is snapped by a spiders web and lifted into the sky where Enka was waiting. "No, I win!" And proceeds to consume the ninja and steal her powers. Growing into a seven foot tall and voluptous bean monster with her armor becoming much more form fitting and her hair becoming long and straight. Yet her face still looks like a hideous freak.
Enka laughs in elation remarking that she will reach perfection and kill her so called masters. As Kagemusha gets up and regains his footing. After noticing that Enka's power has grown and that she is the sole Blight left a furious Kagemusha flies toward her with murder on his eyes. "Screw you! You team killing fucktard!" Before phasing right thru her and realizing that she teleported away. "Great! Just great! What else can go wrong?!"
A communication then appears in front of him showing a panicked Himeko. "Kagemusha! Monika has gone nuts! She has stolen the chaos emeralds and is now rampaging all over the central tower!" "Don't worry you two i'll be right there." Himeko nods and cuts the comms as Kagemusha looks to the sky above. "I guess it was inevitable." While remembering a conversation he once had with Kagami Ichijin.
"Remember Tsurugi. In this world there are two types of people. The strong who embody the power. And the weak who covet the power. That is why people and the universe refuses to change. The strong abuse others because they have power. And when the weak overthrow the strong they are seduced by the power. Then the weak abuse others and the cycle continues. A cycle that never ends. And will never end. That is why is Pandora is necessary my apprentice. To create a god that will pacify the people. A god that will ensure that there is no strong or weak. A god who will create peace and destroy all who would oppose it."
"But will people truly change sister?"
"They will my apprentice. Once they have been annihilated enough times they will. Once again people will be righteous. Because an all powerful being will destroy those who sin. We will remind the universe to fear. To fear the darkness. And with that fear in place there will be peace."
Kagemusha then teleports away leaving a barren ruin in his place.
The next day in what is the ruins of Metal Harbor
She betrayed the Cycles cult and now hides inside a ruined base
TSN-005: Enka
Ost: Magma Dragoon's stage: Megaman X4
After dealing with the situation in the tower. Kagemusha continued his hunt of Blights. As the driver detected that Enka fled back to Mobius. Kagemusha went planetside in hot pursuit leading to the ruins in Metal Harbor. Whom are still being scavenged after the invasion and attack of the cult. As Kagemusha touched down it was clear that Enka had killed everyone in the zone before hand and left the corpses to rot. With the nearby town and base being abandoned due to the chaos within GUN.
As Kagemusha walked across the devastation he saw a small girl in a black and red dress with auburn hair. Recognizing her he pulls out his gun and aims it at her head. "What are you doing here, Professor Touka?!" Touka Satomi merely remains still and remarks. "So, you still call me that? Even after all of this?" "What?" Kagemusha remarks in shock. "We never saw eye to eye. But at the very least I thought you would be better than this." Touka merely responds. "Have you heard Tsurugi? Nemu-chan is dead." Kagemusha looks on with shock and surprise shown in his body movement while the little genius continued. "Apparently Mami Tomoe did it." "Why?" "As a test of loyalty. To Barragan Natch and the three old men." Touka referring to three officers who also became immortal like them during the last battle of Incubaa. Barragan was among them and was their leader of sorts. "They were planning to slaughter the senate and take over the universe since the magical girl war. Tsurugi, head to the forbidden sector. That is where the Calamity castle is located. There we will face each other one final time. Well if you manage to stop Enka at least."
Touka is spirited away by a portal and leaves. Leaving Kagemusha alone with his thoughts. "I see, the forbidden sector. So that's how the calamity survived. Back then we threw her corpse in there in the hope that she would be sealed away until the Pandora driver was ready. Still if what Touka said is true, then Iroha is going to be pissed..." Kagemusha then stared at the wreckage of the Wiccan suppressor Gamma. Blasting a hole in a wall and going inside.
Enka was spying on the situation as she waited for her opponent. "I see Touka rage quit. How typical." Enka stood up and readied her buster as both parties headed towards the Suppressor's arena. As the duo go up two opposite elevators that led to a giant empty space as bright lights bathe the place. With both Kagemusha and Enka squaring off against each other. Enka smugly looks down at Kagemusha in more ways than one as she folded her arms in a way that emphasized her newly enlarged cleavage. "Well, well, well Kagemusha, did you come all this way to meet me?! Fine! I'll crush you and then teach my bosses who's the top now!" Kagemusha looked up at the taller girl and remarked. "Why don't you say to my face? So I can bash it in open!" And then the two pull pistols on each others face and shoot before dodging said shots by flipping away and start trading fire.
The two combatants continued trading shots as they ran across the opposite sides of the walls before they intersect and punch each other in the face in a series of jousting blows before going into a mutual flurry of fisticuffs. "ORAORAORAORAORA!" "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!" Until the blow back pushed both of them away as they continued the fight on the floor. With Enka firing off a gravity field that managed to stop Kagemusha in his tracks before the former sprouted a massive spike arm and skewering the latter in the heart before realizing that it was a wooden puppet. Kagemusha then shoots at Enka multiple times before kicking her into the side of a wall then boasting. "Fool! Even you can't beat my incredible power! I was built to not only match Madoka Kaname but exceed her in every way! BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" Before firing an energy blast that pierces straight thru not only the wall. But the entire ship before destroying another unrelated city far into the distance. Wiping it clean off the map as Enka regenerates from the blast. Before purging some of her dark essence via vomiting which is absorbed by the Pandora Driver and losing Isaac's power set much to her outrage. While Kagemusha muses. "So, all I have to do is kill you ten more times? Sounds like fun." Before blitzing her thru the same hole and punching her into the sky before smacking her into the ground with a pursuit,
Lifting herself off from the much Enka screams out. "Mirror buster!" Before firing a colossal beam from her buster that is avoided by Kagemusha who dives down skimming around the blast radius as the buster shot flies off into space taking out the ruins of the International space station in a massive explosion that consumed it completely. Meanwhile Kagemusha draws his gun which manifests an energy blade with its final move which Kagemusha uses to bisect Enka in a flash of light.
"Final move, Let's steal victory!" "Raikousen!"
After the obligatory explosion. Enka regenerates herself as she loses Spinner's powerset. And in panic and desperation tries to escape by flying as fast as she could. "Son of a bitch! I can't believe that he managed to wound me like that!" A familiar voice in her head then states. "Of course you didn't. After all do you honestly believe that you would be capable of winning?" "Lady Touka! Mother! Save me!" "No, you already tried to betray us and killed several of my Blights. I was sent here to kill you. But I decided to let Tsurugi do my job for me." A horrified Enka screams. "Mother! You betrayed me?!" And becomes even more terrified when she realizes that Kagemusha was chasing after her and getting closer and closer before shooting her at her repeatedly and then double ax hand into her spinal cord shattering it and leaving Enka crashed into the ground while Touka snarks. "Have fun dying kid." Before Kagemusha stomps the bean soldiers skull like a grape. Forcing Enka to regenerate into her last life and losing Rin's powers.
Enka tries to run away from Kagemusha. Broken, scared and pleading for mercy to which the masked man whom after summoning a pair of assault rifles and pointing them at the battered Blight simply states. "You know, When I was *********** I though that with enough preparation I would always win. But I was wrong. I was trapped in an unwinnable war, refusing to see the obvious answers right in front of me. The answers that are so clear to me now with victory right around the corner. To win you need to adapt, and to adapt you need to laugh away all these restraints. Everything holding you back. You see a ******** who laughs... Is a devil who always wins!" Before pulling the triggers and emptying both guns entire clips inside Enka leaving her as Swiss cheese as she slowly bled to death while Kagemusha laughed and finished collecting the remaining essence.
Kagemusha looks at the Pandora driver which shows a start map that showed the layout of the forbidden sector. With a glowing orb showing the black hole where Homura Akemi was chucked into. "All that's left is Homura Akemi and I will have power unlimited." Before summoning a portal to leave.
Afterwards in Castle calamity
Ost: Zero area stage 2 (Sigma rave party): Megaman X6
After dealing with the rest of the remaining Blights. Kagemusha finds himself in Calamity castle. A massive black castle surrounded by four giant pillars and mounted on top of a giant obsidian asteroid entering thru a seemingly empty port in the back of the asteroid. Placed above a massive engine at the very bottom of the asteroid. After entering the port a horde of Wiccan's of all three types tried to intercept Kagemusha whom he easily destroys before a Supressor class tries it luck. Firing its massive weapon compliment to blow the masked man up. And inadvertently destroying the port by accident causing the place to explode and cave in while Kagemusha sneaked away. Leaving the giant pyramid trapped inside much to Touka's frustration.
"It's because of nitwits like them that I made the Blights to begin with! What the hell is Kuro thinking?!" Touka fumes as she searched for Kuro only to find her making out with a Devil Homura danmaku pillow. After shutting down the feed in frustration Touka screams and then asks. "Where is everyone else?" Only to find that Oriko and Kyubey have cut off communications and abandoned their posts. Leading Touka to facepalm in frustration as more emergency alerts blare around her laboratory. Leading the young girl to pop open and down an entire bottle of wine. "(sigh...) Needs antifreeze..."
At that time Kagemusha was still storming the base and killing everything in sight. With the panicked minions tossing anything they can at the masked man. With countless robots, mechas, and drones which are getting smacked around and destroyed in increasingly brutal manners. With a panicked Raiser screaming out. "Why are you doing this?!" Kagemusha remarks. "I have a license to kill." With Kagemusha actually showing his actual license to kill much to the surprise of the underling. "And revenge. Plain and simple revenge." Before grabbing the mook and killed the guy by skewering him with an iron bar. Multiple times actually. Long after the Skullraiser died from catatonic shock.
As Kagemusha continued his rampage. He finally reached Touka's laboratory. As he dove deeper inside and found the pods and mechanisms used to create the Blights he asked. "Why are you doing this Touka?" When he is shown the image of Nemu being dissected alive with her organic components being fastened into a mechanical body. All while Mami Tomoe and Barragan Natch watched. While Mami looked in disgust at the procedure Barragan himself was overjoyed. Gleefully noting that Mami should just grow up and give up her ideals. "Noblesse Oblique, what a foolish concept. The strong should do whatever they feel like. Instead of helping people and society." Mami asks. "Did you ever believe in the ideals of the IFS?" Barragan scoffs at the idea and confesses. "No, this was always about power and domination. After all that's what all politicians want at the end. You aren't any better Mami. For all the praise you get as the perfect magical girl and the strongest magical girl in space. All that you're interested in is in not being left alone. And in killing Homura Akemi." Mami half hardheartedly denies the claims only for Barragan to state. "Yet here you are allowing children to die. All so you can satiate your grudge."
Kagemusha simply ignores the video and continues with destroying the laboratory. "So you're trying to justify the destruction of Reibai with that?" When a massive modified Skullfighter that is akin to a tank. Complete with treads and turrets breaks thru the walls of the laboratory. With Touka the one at the controls stating. "Yea, verily, though I charge through the valley of the shadow of death. I shall fear no hero, for I am driving a house sized mass of fuck you." Before firing the main turret which causes a fiery explosion that consumes the entire area using a hyper incendiary shell that consumed all of the oxygen in both the lab and everywhere else in a 10 mile radius. Consuming all of the oxygen in the station and causing the environmental management systems to explode in a chain reaction that eventually destroyed the entire engine room.
The explosion also consumes most of the castle's interior incinerating everyone who hasn't died yet. And Kuro who was for some strange reason crying while her danmakura was smoking a cigarette. Had the entire floor under her explode. With Kuro screaming. "Now i'll never get married!" As she plummeted downwards towards the abyss.
As for Kagemusha, he survived the explosion to the shock of Touka who is left sputtering curse words at the fact before asking. "How the hell did you survive that?!" Kagemusha simply mentioned. "Philosopher's stone." To which Touka ejected the main cannon and revealed a lot of guns all pointed at the masked man while screaming. "FROM HELL'S HEART I SHOOT AT THEE! BITCH!" And fires everything. Causing Kagemusha to run and dodge all of the guns, missile launchers, shrapnel cannons, and three napalm fueled flamethrowers. The latter of whom failed to ignite because of the previous shot that consumed all of the oxygen in the station. Touka in frustration yells out. "That's it where's the cyanide?! I need to give this little gypsy rat the final solution!" Only for the battle between the Skulltanker and Kagemusha to reach said tanks and the tank to fire a volley of missiles that Kagemusha dodges and instead hit the cyanide causing another massive explosion that takes them out.
In desperation Touka calls for backup from the remaining generals. With Oriko laughing off the request stating that she always hated them and only joined to get revenge for Oriko. And Kyubey who was outside eating a bucket of popcorn watching the Cycles cult main base getting annihilated. Before cutting the comms with a burst of mocking laughter. Leading the young child to lament. "Was everyone around me just an opportunistic backstabbing bastard?!"
While Touka was distracted Kagemusha destroyed the tank by using his gun's beam blade form to slash the Skulltanker apart. Cutting in half from with a swift slashing motion. Destroying the tank in one shot. Causing it to shut down and leave Touka defenseless. Touka grabs her Circe driver and yells. "You think this is over?! I didn't spend 20 years reverse engineering your tech to fall here!" Kagemusha simply cuts apart her driver with the same iaido techniques he used on the tank. Leaving the driver useless and broken while Touka was left unharmed. Kagemusha merely stated. "It's over Professor. You lose." Touka refusing to quit tries to pull out a grief seed in desperation only for Kagemusha to disarm her. Literally. Cutting up both hands and the grief seed to pieces. And causing the traitorous cultist to fall. Kagemusha then walks away heading to his final target.
Before passing out Touka can only mutter. "Are you really that blind Tsurugi? Has hatred consumed you that completely? If you go thru with Kagami's plan you will also die." Before losing consciousness.
Kagemusha finally heads to the throne room. While reaching it thru another elevator he quietly wonders how is he going to break the news to Iroha. Before he could think of anything the elevator reached the throne room. Which was completely empty much to Kagemusha's surprise. He also discovers that the energy signature that the Pandora driver was tracking was a decoy beacon possibly another one of Touka's inventions. Which Kagemusha destroys. "If the Calamity isn't here. Then where?" Kagemusha then realizes. "It can't be! Has it been hiding on Mobius all this time?!" He then leaves the throne heading to the nearest exit in order to teleport away. Well aware that the castle has barriers that block unauthorized teleportation inside the facilities.
As Kagemusha flees the castle. Kyubey looks on with glee stating that "Soon it will be my turn."
Jul 11, Emerald hill, Westside island
Ahiru and Fakir finds themselves in a small beach house that managed to survive the destruction of Juggernaut's attack. Sitting on a bench eating shaved ice together and musing about what to do next. "Hey, Fakir. What are we doing here anyways?" Ahiru muses as she sucks on a spoon. "Well you're being unusually philosophical today. We're eating shaved ice in the middle of a disaster area." Fakir remarks in a half sarcastic manner. The redhead annoyed at Fakir's response comments. "No, its not that! I mean what about our mission to stop Drosselmyer?" Fakir puts down his ice and remarks. "Honestly I kinda wish we would never meet him." A remark that grabs Ahiru's attention alongside Fakir's solemn look. "Even if we find Drosselmyer and stop him. I don't think things are going to get better. Also because of my powers. Because of my bloodline. I will always have a target on my back." Ahiru clasps Fakir's arms and while holding back her tears states. "Don't say that! Even if the bookmen kept coming after you! I would still be there! I would protect you!" Fakir touched by the sentiment actually smiles for once but reminds Ahiru that she has no offensive capabilities. Much to the Duck's embarrassment who could only smile sheepishly at realizing it.
As the two calmed down. A teleportation portal opened above the two as a figure carrying a thief bag lands on top of Ahiru's head. "Are you alright Duck?!" Fakir remarks in concern as Ahiru tries and fails to get out of the girl with Fakir helping her up as the two realize that the unconscious girl was Monika. With the pair placing her in the nearby bench and helped her heal until Monika recovers consciousness.
Calamity castle
Amidst the ruins of Calamity Castle an explosion rocks the abandoned station. Kuro in her Damocles form used her fusion cannon to free herself from the rubble and after looking around the devastation asks. "What the hell happened?!" Only to notice a communication from the Calamity Homun which she read simply stating that it was time. Kuro smiles and states. "There's still a chance." Before slipping into a love struck attitude saying. "Don't worry Akemi-san. Your loyal Kuro will do anything for you! And I mean anything!"
To be continued...
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The crack on Omochao is part joke and part real life. As I had simply forgotten all about Omochao for most of the story's run. He was going to have more of a presence but I forgot he even existed until the time I wrote Chapter 22.
Since the Blights were inspired by the Robot masters and their descendant boss types. The Blights have been given the TSN moniker or Touka Satomi Numbers. With the intros to each fight basically being a parody of the Megaman Boss intro screen.
Centaur Man's theme is a reference to the fact that Spagonia is considered to be the Greece and Italy of Sonic's world. Just like Centaur Man was a Greek made robot master.
Spinner homages both Napalm man and Web spider. And the location is in Planet Flora. The first level of Ristar. Also Ristar is canon to this universe and was planned to have a larger role alongside Alex Kidd but the plans failed to materialize
Mt. Morol is an area in Planet Morolia from Space Channel 5 based off the descriptions of the planet in supplementary material and is an Ice age so...
Enka is more or less a Magma Dragoon expy now even if she was originally inspired by Enker. And of course Metal harbor is an important locale.
Mami's nickname of the strongest magical girl in space. Is a reference to Gokaiger's Damaras who had a similar role and title as the main enforcer of an evil space empire. With Mami's current role being based of the character.