Izumo Inn
"Wow. was a delicious meal." Uzume tiredly said with satisfaction enjoying Miya's cooking, leaves the dining room with Miya discussing living arrangements with two unexpected guests they had for dinner.
" Yawn. I think I'm ready to go to bed." Uzume is ready to hit the hay, fighting with those two twins from the south and meeting with her destin one, who she learned is a super soldier from 550 years in the future of another dimension, with an advanced AI living in his armor. The most bizarre thing she ever heard. Still having a rough time understanding it. Even her bondage sisters still cannot even believe it too from their reactions.
In other words, she was exhausted from this eventful day.
Uzume made her way up the stairs, she got to the top before she could even walk down to her room.
"Psh! Uzume?" a quiet voice called out to her.
The brunette turned to her side and saw Matsu peeking out of her secret room.
"Matsu… what do you want?" Uzume asked
" Uzume, I just want to ask you something?" Matsu said.
" Ah… sure what do you want to know?" Uzume replied.
" I just want to ask you what happened, why you were all roughed up, and did you follow number 16 to find Noble Six?" Matsu asked, wondering if Uzume had found the Spartan.
Uzume went quiet for a moment, carefully thinking what to tell the spectacle-wearing Sekirei.
"Well? … What happened? I was tracking you today and somehow, I lost you on MBI's monitoring systems?"
Uzume produced a quick reply on the spot.
" Matsu, knowing you, you overheard what I said to Miya. However, I did not tell her the whole truth. I was tracking number 16 until I was jumped by two sekireis from the south before she could lead me back to their hideout." Uzume answered to the best of her abilities.
Matsu nodded," A damn shame, leave it to hostel Sekireis to ruin finding the armored giant. Still, it does not explain how you and your pursuers disappeared from the surveillance system, and your ashikabi I cannot find anything about him either?"
Uzume just shrugged and yawned," I do not know what to tell you, maybe there was a glitch in MBI's systems or maintenance. Can we please continue this conversation another time I want to go to bed."
" Fine, once you are fully awake, we will continue this conversation tomorrow morning," Matsu said leaving Uzume alone going back into her secret room, and shutting the wall
The redhead was not done with her questioning, since there were a lot of things that did not make any sense about what happened to Uzume today
"Okay." Uzume tiredly said with another yawn heading back to her room for the night.
Uzume entered her room, went straight to her futon, collapsing on it.
"What a day," Uzume said while yawning, closing her eyes, and finally falling asleep.
Hours later.
the dead of night, everyone was in bed sound asleep, except for a certain redhead.
Uzume woke up to use the restroom, after washing her hands, she went back to her room.
Before she could even lay back down on her futon.
Boom!
"What the hell was that? an explosion?!" Exclaimed the brunette.
Uzume ran to the window to see anything. She saw nothing other than the other houses around and the explosion woke more than just Uzume, she saw some of the other neighbors, turning on their lights, and looking out their windows to see what was going on.
" I cannot see anything!" Uzume complained she could not see anything beyond the houses.
Uzume then thought," Matsu! Maybe she can find out."
Uzume ran out of the room just in time to see Miya walking out of her room, looking as confused as she was.
Miya saw her and asked," Uzume. Did you hear that? It sounded like an explosion?"
" Hell yes, I did! It was loud enough that the whole neighborhood is awake now." Uzume replied.
"Uzume… language," Miya said, with her infamous demon mask appearing behind her.
Uzume gulped," Sorry." Uzume said nervously when something catastrophic happens the landlord always enforces her rules.
" Good," Miya said, satisfied , reminding the veil user of her manners.
" Miya, there are more urgent matters than enforcing the house rules right now! The explosion we just heard." Uzume reminded.
Miya's face became serious, "Right, what's going on out there?"
" That's what I was trying to figure out, I tried to look out the window to see and I could not see anything. I was going to Matsu next." Uzume said.
" Already on it."
Hearing the redhead's voice, they saw her peeking her head out of her secret room.
"Matsu we were just…."
Matsu interrupted," I know. I just heard the explosion myself. I'm looking into it now. Come in."
Matsu invited Miya and Uzume to join her. Once they were in, Matsu closed the wall behind them.
They all gathered around Matsu, Miya sitting on the left and Uzume planting herself on the right next to the redhead as the brain types started typing away at her computer.
"Matsu, do you have any idea what's going on out there?" Uzume was the first to ask.
Miya nodded with Uzume. " I would like to know who is causing such a ruckus during the middle of the night," Miya said, wanting to know who is responsible for late-night Fireworks.
Matsu shook her head," Right now I'm hacking into MBI Satellites, hopefully, they'll give us a better view of where the explosion came from." Matsu said typing away at her computer.
" Bingo," Matsu smirked, getting access to MBI's satellites.
Somewhere else in the city.
Not long after six attacked the base, MBI forces in this section of the east converged quickly on the base.
Athena alerted him and quickly drove down a dark alleyway and parked there waiting for MBI forces to pass.
As they were waiting for the enemy to pass by," Hmm?", Athena muttered.
Her hum got the attention of the Spartan," More trouble?"
" Possibly but I am not too sure, someone else just gained access to one of MBI's observation satellites," Athena informed.
Six narrowed his eyes at this troubling news," any idea who they are and are they aware of you?"
Athena shook her virtual head," No, it doesn't look like they're aware of me yet who they are I don't know."
Six nodded," There's someone outside MBI that can access their systems."
"Yes. I think I already have an idea of who it is and no doubt you probably already figured it out too." Athena already has an idea of who this mystery hacker is.
Six said nothing and just nodded.
" What do you want me to do six?"
Six thought about it for a moment and replied," For the moment, just monitor her and see what she does. If she tries something that might compromise us, I want you to immediately block her from the system."
Athena nodded and acknowledged his orders, " You can move now, that's the last of them."
Six started up the truck again and moved out.
Back in Matsu's Secret room.
" Now let us see where the commotion came from," Matsu said, going through MBI surveillance. Clicking on multiple cameras until finally came across one satellite that had its lenses on a fiery inferno.
They could see MBI vehicles and helicopters on the feed already on the scene,
That explains the explosion. The question is what happened?" Uzume commented on seeing the source of the explosion.
" More importantly, what was destroyed and what caused it? MBI made any statements yet or assessment?" Miya asked her tenant.
" Let me see if I can get through to their communications," Matsu started hacking into MBI comms.
"With all that security, we see, it must've been something important," Uzume commented.
" Or a Sekirei battle might have caused it," Miya voiced her opinion.
"Could be a possibility," Matsu typing for a few minutes brought up something on her computer screen," I think I found something."
" What does it say?" Uzume curiously asked.
That did not say anything, she focused on reading the report of their outpost
" It says, One of MBI's outpost bases in the east has been destroyed." Matsu started.
" One of their outposts destroyed?" Uzume repeated what the redhead said in surprise.
Miya didn't respond but kept a serious face on hearing what the redhead had to say about this troubling news.
" That's what I just said. And not just any base either. The outpost was an armory warehousing ton of MBI weaponry." Matsu replied.
" What happened then, was it some kind of accident?" Uzume asked.
" From what I'm reading here, they believe the base was attacked. An eyewitness reported one of their trucks ramming right through the front gate before the main armory exploded." Matsu read more of the report.
"Really?" Uzume said.
"Yeah, MBI even has the discipline squad scrambled to the scene along with other MBI units converging on the base. Surveillance is looking everywhere for the missing truck and so far, they cannot seem to find it…. Like it vanished into thin air." Matsu read the rest of the report," They also believe the assailant stole some weapons too. they're not sure how much the assailant took, but it is believed they stole enough to start a small war." Matsu replied.
" Whoever they are, you think they want to start a war with MBI? If so, they must have a Deathwish." Uzume commented wondering who is suicidal enough to attack MBI.
" Seems like it," Matsu said, checking out her computer again and bringing up multiple surveillance feeds from around the city.
" What are you trying to do now?" Uzume asked.
" Right now, I am trying to find the getaway truck, checking multiple surveillance feeds around the city…. I am seeing nothing. The only trucks I see are the ones heading to the armory." Matsu replied.
"I see, if you excuse me, I'll be back," Uzume said, standing up from her seat and heading to the door.
" Where are you going?" Matsu asked.
" I need to go call my Ashikabi, just to check up on him. Be back in a sec.." Uzume said walking out of the room.
Matsu simply nodded and turned her attention towards her computer.
"Hmm." Miya hummed.
" Something on your mind?" Matsu asked.
"Matsu, you don't suppose Noble Six may be the one responsible for this attack?" Miya wondered aloud.
" I was wondering that too, but I didn't want to say it. Out of all the Ashikabi participating in the game, he is the only wildcard. Since there are no records of him ever existing in the world and more importantly, he's the only one MBI doesn't control." Matsu replied typing on her computer, " However, another big mystery, I would like to know is Uzume's ashikabi," Matsu bringing up Uzume's file from MBI.
" Explain?"
" To be completely honest with you Miya, I had Uzume following number 16 to find noble six, since they asked her to make clothing for him. " Matsu starts explaining.
Miya Didn't say anything at first," continue."
" I was monitoring her on their surveillance and then suddenly, I lost contact with her, disappearing the same way as noble six, number 16, and numbers 11 and 12," Matsu said.
Miya hearing all this, could not help but put the pieces of the puzzle together," Matsu, you don't suppose Uzume's ashikabi could Six, do you?"
"That's the mystery I'm trying to solve. Hopefully, her file will shed some light on who her mystery ashikabi is" Matsu going through Uzume's file before she could even read it.
Suddenly, she saw the words 'access denied.'
" What!" Matsu yelled.
" Something wrong?" Miya asked.
" I'm having trouble accessing Uzume's file. Let me try one more time." She tried getting back on Uzume's file again, and this time she was able to open it back up.
" Here we go," Matsu said. Reading her file.
" It says she has no….ashikabi ?" Matsu said bewildered.
"That can't be right. She told me herself unless she's lying." Miya narrowed her eyes.
" I don't know myself either … Let me try Six's file." The redhead went to look for Sixes. However, she couldn't find anywhere in sight.
" Where the hell is his damn file?" Matsu frustratedly muttered scrolling through MBI's databank of known ashikabis
Matsu spent the next few minutes trying to find Six's MBI file. Nothing.
" I can't find anything. I can't find the security footage of when he first arrived here, his battle against the eastern Sekirei… the image of his face…. It's all just gone…"
"How's that possible, MBI usually keeps a good track record of all those participating. You think he removed himself?"
Matsu replied, "Possibly… if that is true. Then I don't know how he does it, but he's able to somehow hack MBI's firewalls like they're not even there and stay undetected…. Not even I can do that, and I helped create MBI's digital security!"
" Knowing all this, can't help but question what he is." Miya pondered to herself the mystery of Noble Six.
"Definitely. From what we have seen he has the strength and speed on par with a combat-type Sekirei and is somehow able to hack into MBI systems better than brain types like me. "Matsu said, scratching her head at that last part.
Then an idea popped into her head," Wait a minute. Let me look at number 16's file."
Matsu logged into her computer again, bringing up number 16's file.
" Let's see," the redhead opened the file, and under ashikabi, it said she had none.
" That can't be right. Let me try numbers 11 and 12." Matsu brought up the file of the lightning twins, opened them up, and saw they had no ashikabi.
Matsu before she could even say anything.
" He doesn't want to be found," Miya commented on this latest discovery.
"Hmm. It's not going to stop me from trying to find him!" Matsu said with determination.
Miya let a laugh escape her seeing the perverted redhead's determination. Then her face became serious again, "Uzume if she is truly bonded to Six. Then she'll do whatever she can to protect him."
" If that is the case. I could tell her the discipline squad is after him and see how she reacts. " Matsu produced an idea.
Miya shook her head," No. I think we should just keep a close eye on her for the moment."
Matsu nodded to agree.
Miya got up from her seat and prepared to head back to her room to go to bed," I'm heading back to bed. Tomorrow morning tell me if anything else has happened I should know about."
" I will," Matsu replied.
" Night," Miya said walking out of the room...
"Night," Matsu said back.
Miya shut the wall behind her and went back to bed.
Somewhere else: Seventh Heaven Sake bar.
"Finally. Time to lock up." said a tired Ayumi, locking the bar up for the night. For her, it was another long day- working, dealing with the usual customers, and the rowdier ones at night, and breaking up a fight or two with drunk customers. Especially from one of their regulars who wears a revealing cocktail dress that pops in every so often, passed out at the bar.
The only thing that was out of the norm today, was receiving a call from Uzume's landlord asking if she had been with her since at Uzume's workplace she had disappeared.
Ayumi said no and she would keep an eye out for her, worried, hoping something didn't happen to Uzume. Her worries were put to rest hours later after getting a call from Uzume herself, saying she was all right, and that she was attacked by two Sekireis from the south to be forcefully brought back to Mikogami to be a part of his collection.
Ayumi was shocked and apologized for not being there to help save her; Uzume tells her not to worry- she found her Ashikabi and was rescued at the last minute.
Ayumi congratulated Uzume, the red-eyed Sekirei hoped to find her destined one soon in the future.
After the call, Ayumi went back to work, finishing her shift. Once everybody left, she cleaned up the bar and was ready to lock the bar up for the rest of the night.
Now she had to deal with the one customer who did not leave.
"Come on, Kazehana Let's get you to bed," Ayumi said, walking over to the drunk woman.
Kazehana hunched over at the bar, with a still-full bottle of sake. Kazehana drank enough that would have killed a few normal humans.
"I'm…ne… I can still… drink some more." Kazehana drunkenly muttered.
Ayumi let a little laugh escape her throat, "I'm sure you could." she said, with a little sarcasm.
Ayumi carefully grabbed Kazehana by the arms and carefully lifted her off the bar, Ayumi got Kazehana's arms over her shoulders and carried her piggyback style.
She carried her to the upstairs section of the bar. Upstairs was the home of the owner.
Ayumi's adjuster's family owned this place; her adjuster's husband was the owner, and that is how they had met at this place.
Since she was released into the city, her husband let her stay here as long as she helped. Ayumi did not mind, and it was fun to learn how to be a server at a bar.
Ayumi brought Kazehana to the guest bedroom a.k.a. her room. The red-eyed woman carefully dropped the drunken big-breasted woman on her bed, gently putting her head on the pillow.
"Hiccup… thank you ... Ayu…mi… you're…. The best." Kazehana drunkenly thanked her before passing out.
Ayumi let out another small laugh before sighing, "No problem… I guess I'll sleep on the couch tonight. Again." Ayumi said, leaving the room before she could even shut the door. . .
She heard what sounded like an explosion off in the distance.
"What was that?" Turning her attention back to her room.
"Kazehana did you hear that?" Ayumi asked only to get no response as the purple-haired woman was out like a light.
"I guess not…" Ayumi said aloud, realizing that was a stupid thing to ask. With how drunkenly asleep Kazehana was, Gojira could be stomping through Tokyo, and she would sleep right through it. The brunette walked towards the window of her room to see what the commotion was.
Opening the window and peeking her head out, turning her head in every direction. . . she saw nothing, it was a quiet street. There were very few people walking down it who also heard the faint explosion wondering what that was.
"Maybe if I get to higher ground, I can get a better view of where that came from," Ayumi said, looking at the rooftops above. Climbing out the window, she jumped several stories until landing on a rooftop above.
"Now let's see if I can find the source of the explosion from up here." She said aloud to herself. Looking in every direction until she saw something caught her eye.
She saw smoke far away in the distance, in the eastern part of the city.
"… that can't be good."
Around the same time.
Takami made it back to MBI headquarters, receiving medical attention, from the injury she received from number 43.
Now her major concern was trying to get number 108 back safely. Since she was now lost in that maze of plants.
She sent orders to a retrieval team to go in there and retrieve her and actions against Mikogami.
Now she was in the medical center of the tower with one of their doctors, wrapping a bandage around her eye.
"There we go," the doctor said, finishing putting the rest of his medical supplies away," you're very lucky, the blade missed your eye by a centimeter."
"Hmm... tell me about it." MBI's researcher plainly said with a bit of sarcasm taking a cigarette out of her coat but not lighting it just yet.
" I would leave that bandage on for at least 24 hours to let the wound fully heal. " The doctor said, paying her sarcasm, no mind.
Takami gave only a nod and got up off the table," If that is everything, I will be taking my leave. I have some important business to do."
Takami said leaving the infirmary, the doctor only gave a nod as she walked out the door.
Takami lit her cigarette, inhaling and exhaling the smoke. After what happened today, she needed that.
She then pulled out her cell phone to see if the retrieval team got number 108 back. What she saw instead was her orders were redacted.
Her cigarette fell out of her mouth.
" Don't tell me he." She scrambled through her messages and saw Minaka give new orders to the retrieval team not to extract 108.
A furious look appeared on her face. She started marching to her boss's office.
Once she made it to her destination. Instead of knocking, she just kicks in the door, letting them fly open.
"Minaka!…why did…." The angry researcher stopped mid sentence, seeing her boss was nowhere in sight.
Then there was one place she thought he could be, and it was the most obvious one. The roof.
She made her way to the top of the Clocktower, the moment she opened the door, she saw him standing at the edge of the middle of the tower, in his hand she saw him texting something on his phone.
With no hesitation, she ran up behind him and gave him one quick painful hit to the head.
Minaka, despite getting hardly hit, was able to keep his balance as he almost fell over the edge, and he still has a good grip on his phone.
"Aw! … what was that for Takami, that hurt!" Minaka complained rubbing the back of his head.
" You know what for. Why did you cancel #108 rescue?" Takami demanded.," You better have a good reason why?"
Minaka fixed his glasses and then gave her an evil," Easy, she's participating in this game too."
Takami's eyes widened in horror," Minaka! You cannot be serious, Kusano is just a child she can…"
Minaka interrupted her," Now, all 108 sekireis must compete in this game, regardless of if they are a child… and besides"
" Besides what?" Takami did not hide her anger in her voice.
" 108 is the only little bird that has not received a proper adjustment. Making her another wildcard like number seven…. Speaking of number seven I just sent a text to all the Ashikabis where to claim her." he happily announced.
Takami was ready to beat the shit out of him before she could even raise her hand. Something out of the corner of her eye caught her attention.
She saw it look like a flash in the distance.
" What is that?"
" What is what?" Minaka turned his head in the direction she was looking at.
In the distance, they saw this faint light and smoke coming from the eastern part of the city.
Right where they see the smoke coming from, both know an MBI base was right somewhere in the vicinity.
" Could it be a Sekirei battle I missed!" Minaka concluded, seeing all that smoke in the distance, "Ahh! Then that means I just missed a great battle if it caused this much destruction!"
Takami just groaned at his comment, preparing to hit him again.
She put that aside for the moment and pulled out her phone ready to call observation to see what that smoke was all about. Before she could even dial a number, the phone had already started ringing. She saw that observation just from the caller ID. She answered it.
"Takami here, I can see the smoke in the distance on the rooftop of the tower.
" Madam, one of our bases in the eastern sector has been destroyed!" Reported the operative observation.
"What!?" Takami was surprised at what she just heard.
" What happened? Did anybody get hurt?" Takami silently prayed hoping nobody got killed.
"Luckily, there were no casualties, madam. No deaths or wounded." Observation replied.
Takami sighed in relief. Glad to hear nobody got killed.
" For what happened we don't know yet, right now we have all nearby forces converging on the base as we speak." The moment the operator said that on the other end of the line, Takami and Minaka saw a dozen or so helicopters heading towards the destroyed base.
" What about our security feeds if they pick up anything?" Takami hoped at least their cameras caught something.
"Well, Madame… none of our security caught anything."
Takami's eyes widened, she was already guessing about what to hear from the observer.
" Let me guess, neither of the cameras inside the base nor are observation cameras caught anything?"
The observation replied," Correct, Madame. None of our cameras caught anything both on the ground and in the sky…. I'm Just at a loss here… wait a minute."
Takami replied," What now?"
"Just got eyewitness testimony from one of our guards, he said he saw one of our trucks go full speed and rammed the gate of the main entrance right before the armory exploded."
Hearing this Takami came to this conclusion,' six?'
" Madam?"
Takami snapped out of her thoughts," I'm listening."
" We have no proof yet, but we believe the base was infiltrated, and the suspect, whoever they may be, has stolen a large stash of weapons from our armory." Observation reported.
" Then I want you to find that truck immediately who knows how much damage this individual can cause," Takami said with all seriousness," And the discipline squad is on standby to have you search for it, and then report back to me if the situation changes."
" Roger." Then the call ended.
Takami put her phone back in her pocket and before she could even dwell on the situation, she heard a maniacal chuckle from her boss.
"What are you chuckling about now?"
Minaka laughed," Oh, it's obvious who handled this attack, I see the Spartan has chosen to take up arms against us… I knew he was going to make this game more entertaining!" Proclaimed with such joy in his voice.
Takami groaned, angrily seeing her boss as usual, not taking the situation seriously at all, especially when the suspect stole a huge stash of weapons.
"Minaka…."
"My dear Takami. I think we've already had this discussion earlier today about number 10. We both know it was him responsible for this destruction. "
As Takami wanted to argue with him about who was responsible, deep down she knew he was right, just as always, she wished he were wrong. Right now, more importantly, she wanted to change the conversation back to Kusano and get her back. However, she knew the conversation would not go anywhere. So, it was time to inform the guardian about the situation.
"We shall see I guess," Takami said walking away from the game master, who still had his sights on the smoke in the distance.
Takami pulled out her cell phone and scrolled for Homura's number, clicking on it the phone started ringing.
A second later, "Hello, Takami. I take it you are about to tell me about that explosion. Aren't you?"
" Yes, and I do have a second assignment for you too," Takami informed.
" Another assignment?"
" Yes, I want you to locate the last number," Takami said closing the door to the roof behind her.
Minaka, still staring at the destruction, another maniacal laugh escaped his throat," Well then, my Spartan friend, I hereby accept your declaration of war! Will you stand against me like King Leonidas against the Persian empire? Will you triumph or be vanquished? Either way, you will make this game way more entertaining than it already is!"
Minaka proclaimed, excited to see what the Spartan would bring to the table for the rest of the tournament.
Back with Six.
Six continued on his path back to base. However, he had to take an alternate route going down back streets, with the help of Athena, checking their movements, through the satellite and hacking into their COMs. MBI forces are now out in force. It wasn't even five minutes after the raid that helicopters and ground forces mobilized converging on the destruction of the base.
How quickly they responded gave him a clever idea about how great their alert status was. Once he starts hacking away at their forces their response time will dwindle. With fewer soldiers and vehicles on the streets.
" Six with MBI out in full force like this. I would recommend stashing the truck somewhere and claiming it in the morning." Athena advised.
Six nodded," Is there anywhere nearby we could Stash it for the night?"
" Give me a moment." Athena looking through her digital map of Tokyo.
" Here we go, we're not too far from a storage facility, we can probably borrow one of their units to store the truck in for the night," Athena informed.
Six nodded.
" Marking it on your map." Athena brings up the directions to the facility.
Six saw the directions on his HUD before he drove to that location," is our path there clear?"
Athena checked MBI surveillance and their COMS, " You have an opening move now."
Six started up the truck driving in the directions indicated on the map.
Athena paid close attention to MBI forces in the area and instructed six where to avoid coming troops and vehicles.
After a few minutes, they made it to the storage rental area.
Six stared in front of the gate in front of them.
" Give me a moment six I'll have the gate open for you in a second?" Athena said, a few seconds later, the gate automatically opened sliding to one side. six drove right in.
Driving through the roses of storage units six ask," Are there any particular ones that are empty?"
Athena Went through the inventory of this rental place and found one, a smirk appeared on her face.
" I found one. And you'll get a kick out of it."
"Hmm, what do you mean by that statement?" The Spartan was bewildered at her comment.
" The storage unit you're looking for is 117."
" hmm, what a coincidence." Six muttered, knowing who that number belonged to.
Not dwelling on it any further, six took the truck to storage unit 117. Parking just right outside of it.
Got out of the truck he walked up to the slide-open door that had the number 117 on it. Wasting no time, he broke the lock off the door and effortlessly slid it open.
Inside the storage unit, it looked like it was big enough to fit the whole truck in there.
" Looks like it might be a tight squeeze" Athena commented
Six Expecting the unit a bit further it was enough to fit the truck in but not enough for him to get out.
"I might have to do this manually," Six said getting back into the truck, back in the driver seat he turned the truck around and had the back facing the inside of the unit. carefully he backed the truck in, but only halfway.
Six got out of the truck again and pushed the rest of the truck into the storage unit using his Spartan strength to push it in there. Once it was fully in, he slid the door down.
" We must remember to come back and get it once the heat has died down," Athena stated.
"Right." Six acknowledged activating his active camouflage disappearing again into plain sight.
" I'm now mapping our route back to base." Athena brings up Tokyo's map again and shows the Spartan what routes to safely take.
" Be careful too, I was just monitoring MBI COMs they scramble. The discipline squad came to the scene and an eyewitness saw your escape. Now MBI is going through their truck manifest to know what trucks are there and which one is missing." Athena informed.
" Acknowledged."
" Here, I took the liberty of mapping out what routes to take to avoid MBI patrols." Athena brings the map of Tokyo again showing safe routes," I should start charging you for being your navigation system." Athena jokes, paying her teasing no mind, six went on the move again leaving the retail complex, with Athena, opening the automatic door again for him and closing it, now back on the street at Tokyo like before moving through the alleyways and back streets like a phantom. Avoiding contact with MBI forces and wandering civilians looking out from their windows, and on the streets, who woke up because of the explosion. A few times to make a few stops. When his cloaking energy was getting low, he found a few places to hide to let the cloak recharge.
6 made a particular stop in a back alley for one of these occasions where he was shimmering in and out of existence before he was fully visible. Looking around his environment, he saw nobody around, letting his cloak recharge.
Before his cloak fully recharged, Athena appeared on his HUD," Six!" Synthetic called his name with urgency.
"More MBI forces incoming?" The Spartan thought from how intense she sounded. preparing to cloak again.
"No. There are no more military forces in this area. However, I was just monitoring MBI COMs again. More importantly, the game master cell phone." Athena said, bringing up a text.
The Lone Wolf made an annoyed groan, not in the mood to deal with the madman right now, "What's the mental patient up to this time?"
"Seems like during the raid, he sent out a text to all competing Ashikabi about a new and rare powerful Sekirei," Athena informed.
Now that has raised some interest, "Really, what's so special about this one?"
"Sadly, I don't have time to explain, Mikogami and 4 of his sekireis are already on the move to go claim her as we speak." Athena brought up MBI footage of his limo and showed the route they were taking. They were just a couple of blocks away.
Six narrowed his eyes.
" For now, I'll feed you details on the way there. Right now, all you need to know is she is traumatized, and alone and MBI made her a target. we have no time to waste, I'll mark her position on the map." Athena brings up where this rare sekirei is.
Six saw it was only a few blocks away, at some local park. Without even a six turned on his camouflage and quickly headed towards that location as fast as he could.
Athena fed Six all the details following the path on the map.
Athena brought up a mugshot of a young woman with short, light brown hair and dark gray eyes.
However, the more noticeable feature is the crimson Sekirei mark adorning her forehead instead of her back.
" This is sekirei #7, Akitsu. A powerful ice user. Before you ask why the symbol is on her forehead, apparently She's winged to herself." Athena said, bringing up another file.
Six as he came to the end of the alleyway, peeking his head out checking no one was in sight before moving again. Did he hear that right, "Winged to herself? You mean she…."
"Yes, it is what it sounds like. She doesn't need an Ashikabi to unlock her full power." Athena finished the Spartan sentence, more like answering it before he had a chance to ask.
"Hmm. Interesting." Six said out loud to himself moving down another alleyway, "How's that even possible for her not to have an Ashikabi to unlock her full potential?" Six asked, wondering if this would be the key to severing the bonds he had with his Sekireis, and if they could finally go their separate ways after Six put an end to this barbaric game.
Athena began to read the report, "From the reports I'm reading here, apparently, something went wrong with her adjustments, causing her to be winged to herself. Designating her as a 'scrapped number'…. or washout the term used for the failed Spartan IIs that were killed or crippled by their augmentations if you wanted a better understanding."
"She doesn't sound like much of a washout if she can still use her powers. Since I doubt Minaka would be trying to auction her like a prize if that's the case." Six replied. Thinking no way Minaka would give out a Sekirei that couldn't use their powers.
Athena nodded in agreement with him. "Very true, also incoming MBI vehicles stop!
Six stopped in the middle of the street, straight ahead of him on another road. He saw a couple of MBI vehicles driving at high speed going down the road.
" They're gone," Athena confirmed after checking the MBI troop's movements.
Six continued following the coordinates to Akitsu," Now that I asked, why did MBI release her if she was considered scrapped."
" They didn't release her, she escaped," Athena replied.
" Escaped?"
Athena nodded," Yes. From MBI's reports, Akitsu's adjuster screwed up her operation, causing her to be winged to herself. He was immediately fired. However, before he could clean out his office, he tried to kill Akitsu."
" Since she escaped, his attempted murder failed?"
"Yes, Akitsu before she escaped, killed her adjuster in self-defense with icicles, I have an image here of it. "Athena brought up an image to show him.
In the image, he saw an MBI being impaled with icicles just like Athena said, with a scared look on Akitsu's face as she killed the man in self-defense.
He had become numb to the visceral nature of armed conflict. Akitsu was sheltered by MBI in that respect - it was plain on her face. The mixture of disgust and horror at the sight of her ice spears skewering Human flesh... he knew that look... he had worn that look.
The poor girl had the unfortunate additional fact that she commanded those spears of ice. She reduced that living being - someone she had known for years - to flayed meat with a single thought. No one could blame her for running away in the heat of that traumatic experience.
Now she was lost and alone.
"Ouch!" Athena comments on the death, " Another scientist killed by a powerful Sekirei, MBI must have the unluckiest scientist in the world," Athena still has the data on the scientist Karasuba murdered years ago when Toyotama was a child.
" Or the most incompetent." Six commented," Either way I don't blame her for what she did."
Athena nodded; I think anybody would have done what she did to defend themselves… the poor thing." Athena said with sadness in her voice.
" I'm more worried about her psychologically, I want to get to her before Mikogami does. because I don't think being under that brat is going to be good for her mental health." Six realizes what would happen if that rich kid got his hands on her.
As he said that six, was correct, running through Back-alleys Street, trying to get there before the south could. At the same time, paying close attention to his motion, tracking, and avoiding civilians if it could be helped and his stealth energy was still good for the moment.
" Spoiled rich kid, getting his hands on a traumatized woman with powerful ice powers, equals disaster," Athena comes to the same conclusion," I can only imagine the damage he would have her do. Having another single number on his side would be troublesome."
" Another reason why I want to get to her is to deny him another asset. I want to get in and get out before he can reach her." Six said.
"We're almost there, just down the street," Athena said. Showing the map again.
"Got it." Six acknowledge continuing, following the marker down the road until reaching one of the entrances to the park, standing right outside of it.
Athena's avatar appeared on the screen "Let's hurry Six, Mikogami is almost here. In about a few minutes so let's get in and get out!" The synthetic warned.
Six nodded, took out his assault rifle and walked through the park entrance.
Meanwhile not to far from the park a limo was making its way towards both Six and Akitsu's location. Inside the limo was none other than Mikogami Hayato, the Ashikabi of the South, along with three of his Sekirei in tow. There was #38 Mitsuha currently looking out the window of the limo thinking about her defeat by #16, when she and her sister tried to catch #10. Next to her was her Ashikabi, Mikogami who was in the process of biting his thumbnail in both anticipation and impatience. Across from him was another Sekirei, she was both tall and thin with brown hair and eyes, she wore a black gown with red accents, along with matching gloves and stockings with a red ribbon around her neck; this was Sekirei #43, Yomi who was also impatient within the limo as she could have just carried her Ashikabi there and they would've been there in half the time it took to drive there. Finally across from the three of them was Mikogami's heavy hitter, Sekirei #05, Mutsu who had his katana by his side while he crossed his arms together and a woman with grey hair, violet eyes with a curvy body who was wearing a elegant dress was Sekirei #65 Taki, all of them waited patiently until they arrived at their destination.
While Mutsu was meditating he started to feel a vibration going through the bottom of the limo. Upon closer inspection he saw that it was Mikogami tapping his foot against the ground "You know. you tapping your foot and biting your nails isn't going to get us there any faster." Mutsu said. Mikogami stopped and looked at his first Sekirei "I know that, Mutsu. But I'm just so worried ever since Mitsuha and Mitsuki failed to get #10 for me. What if this Armored Ashikabi swoops in and takes that rare Sekirei away before I get the chance to claim her?" Mutsu sighed and said "That's not going to happen."
Mikogami replied with "How can you be so sure, Mutsu? It happened before and it even happened to the Ashikabi of the East. Also from what I heard this Ashikabi is strong, possibly as strong as a single number. Already he has four Sekirei in his possession and I can't say why, but I know we are going to encounter him tonight. Trying to take away what is mine again." Yomi decided to try and calm her Ashikabi ``Don't worry master. If this Ashikabi is there I'll slice him to ribbons for you before he can take the scrapped number." she said proudly.
Mikogami looked at her with a face full of disappointment. "You mean like you'd help in securing the green girl? cause if I recall you failed at that." Yomi was flabbergasted "Hey now that is not fair, Master Mikogami. I got that MBI scientist out of the way and you had a clear chance to claim her, we had no idea how unstable her powers were." Mikogami sighed as he looked away "Regardless the fact of the matter is that trying to obtain #108 still ended in total failure." This deflated Yomi's mood.
Mitsuha on the other hand said "Well if the armored Ashikabi is going to make an appearance I just hope he has that bitch with him." she said as she remembered her loss to #16. Mitsuki gave her so much flak about losing to a weapon's user that was unarmed. Because of Mitsuki's big mouth everyone knew that she lost embarrassingly and was now the laughing stock of the whole flock, with the exception of Mutsu.
Mutsu decided to speak again, coughing to get everyone's attention. "If that Armored Ashikabi and his Sekirei appear I'll handle them. So until then let's just wait until we arrive." Mikogami looked at Mutsu and said "While I know that you could handle him, Mutsu. That still doesn't change the fact that I hate waiting, who knows by the time we get there she'll be gone." looking ahead Mikogami called out "Driver, hey driver are we there yet?" The driver began saying, "We will be there in 5 minutes, Master Mikogami." Mikogami roared in frustration "Can't you drive any faster?!" Mutsu looked at his Ashikabi, sighing that Mikogami can act like such a brat at times.
As Mikogami grew increasingly impatient, Six and Athena were getting close to the Scrapped Number's location. It wasn't long until Athena appeared on Six's HUD "What's wrong, Athena? Has the Sekirei begun to move?" Six asked.
Athena shook her head and said "No, instead I'm getting a call from Toyotama. If I had to guess, she is probably wondering where you are. What do you want to do Six?"
The Spartan thought about it; on the one hand, six could just ignore the call, continue the mission, and deal with the consequences later. But if he did, that might affect his team, as they would feel that six doesn't trust them, and that could prove to be detrimental to their teamwork, and their trusting not only him but each other too.
Six sighed as he said, "Alright open the call, Athena." The smart A.I. nodded and answered Toyotama's call.
"Yes, Toyotama?" Six answered.
"Six, where are you? We went looking for you and we couldn't find you." Six felt a little pang of guilt, but he ignored it. "You don't need to worry I am fine, as for where I am, that is classified."
Just then Six felt his ears ringing as Hikari screamed out "THAT'S BULLSHIT!" The next Hibiki was the next to speak, "Six do you know what's going on? There was an explosion at one of MBI's bases, they are mobilizing both their forces and the Discipline Squad to find out who was behind the attack."
Six knew that they would want to find out who hit their base, but he knew that they had no proof that he was there "Six, I need to ask. You didn't have anything to do with that explosion, right?" Toyotama asked in a worried tone.
Before Six could say anything, Athena drew his attention "Six, we're here." Stopping in the bushes he crouched into a prone position and looked in front of him. There he saw the Sekirei he was looking for. She was sitting alone on a bench, looking at her Six could see that the lab coat that she wore was the only article of clothing that she had on her.
Six could also see trace amounts of blood, both on her skin and the lab coat, looking at her face the Spartan could see the Sekirei crest on her forehead, but what took Six by surprise were her eyes.
What Six said in #07's eyes was hopelessness and despair. Six saw the eyes of a woman who believed that she had no future, no one that was important to her, and primarily the desire to end her life as there was no meaning to it.
Six was remarkably familiar with this look, he had seen it in the eyes of civilians who were able to survive a Covenant attack, at the cost of their friends and family, he had seen it in the eyes of soldiers who despite fighting as hard as they could lose their entire squad to the enemy. Six knew that look well, for when he lost everything, he had the same look in his eyes.
"Six, Six you there?" Six snapped out of his thoughts, with Toyotama asking if was still there. Six focused back on the scraped number and said, "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to call you back."
Right after he said that six felt his ears ringing as Hikari screamed "SIX DON'T YOU DARE HANG UP ON..."
"Athena." Six said and immediately the call ended.
Athena looked at Six in his HUD "You know they are going to be less than pleased with you for doing that, right?" Six ignored his AI partner holstered his assault rifle and turning on his cloak made his way toward the scrapped number.
Akitsu looked at the ground as she replayed what happened repeatedly in her head,
"Scrapped Number... Unable to be winged... Useless." These words continued in her mind as she said to herself "I am broken." She thought sadly. She then brought her legs to her chest and began to cry,
"Hey, are you alright?"
"Scrapped Number... Unable to be winged... Useless." She replied, "Scrapped Number... Unable to be winged... Useless."
"Why do you think you're broken and useless?" The scrap number heard someone talking to her. Lifting her head, Akitsu was surprised to see her reflection staring back at her from the glass of a dark helmet.
Akitsu got a good look at this newcomer; he was almost 7 feet tall, wearing some kind of futuristic armor, she could also see that he was armed as well. Akitsu couldn't tell if what was before her was a human or a robot "Are you okay?" the man she assumed asked again
Akitsu went back to bury her face into her knees. " I'm broken, I can't have an Ashikabi and therefore I am worthless."
Six, before he could properly respond to the ice user's statement Athena appeared on the screen," I would be quick. Mikogami just arrived and is heading towards this location."
Athena showed footage from MBI's observation satellite, showing Mikogami and four of his sekireis getting out of the limo and wandering into the park. He saw two familiar faces, former disc disciplinary squad number five Mutsu and the Sekirei Toyotama who fought earlier today, Mitsuha.
" Roger, I'll try to make this quick before they get here." Six took his focus back to Akitsu. Six was not in his element, he had never tried to talk to someone in a state like this. Mostly his missions just involved him killing high-profile targets, striking the enemy where they least expected, and above all helping the UNSC against the Covenant in any way he could. The Spartan had no training in being a therapist.
However, he remembered the SPARTAN-II washouts. The ones crippled by their augmentations. Most of them still found purpose in the military even after the incident. If they can find purpose, so can she.
"Why do you think you're worthless?" Six kneeling before talking to her at eye- level.
She just continued to breathe softly with the occasional sobs wracking her body, " My purpose in life was to find my Ashikabi... Now I can't have the things the others can." Six looked at her and let her continue letting out her feelings.
Six saw a tear going down Akitsu's cheek as if each of those words were painful to say.
Akitsu rubbed her eyes and sighed "Now that I can't be winged …. and experience all the things the other Sekirei can, I see no point in continuing to live." Akitsu stumbles over her words of it. Genuinely believes her purpose in life is gone.
At that point Six put his hand on Akitsu's shoulders, making her look at him straight in the visor, "Humans don't have means to symbiotically bond with others like sekireis, and yet they still find purpose in their lives, doesn't mean you can't either."
" Six, they're getting closer. They'll be here in a minute!" Athena alerted six of the approaching hostiles.
Six then offered his hand to Akitsu, the Sekirei looked at the Spartan as he said, "You could come with me, while I can't promise you'll react to me, I can promise you that you will be surrounded by comrades who will help you and protect you as you search for a new reason... a new purpose." Akitsu thought about it for a while as she looked from Six's hand to his helmet, and slowly reached towards the offered hand. But before she could take Six's hand, inside Six's helmet on the motion sensor, the Spartan saw five red dots.
" Six I hate to tell you, they're here." Athena appeared.
Then they heard.
"That will be enough of that." The two looked in front of them and saw Mikogami with his Sekirei behind them.
"Damn, and we were making good progress too," Athena said.
Mikogami had an arrogant smile, but Six could see the slight hint of anger in Mikogami's eyes, "Alright now you, back away from my rare Sekirei." Six felt his anger begin to ignite "Bastard only sees her as a toy in some stupid game." the Spartan thought.
Six turned to Akitsu and asked her "Do you want to go with him?" Akitsu looked between both Six and Mikogami, and after thinking about it the discarded Sekirei shook her head no.
Six turned his head to Mikogami "She doesn't want to go with you. So, if I were you boy, I'd leave before I got hurt." Mikogami was beginning to get angry.
The young Ashikabi looked at the Spartan glaring at him and said "I am not going anywhere, that Sekirei is coming with me. You see when something catches my eye I want it, and I'll stop at nothing to get it until it is mine." Six started to clench his fist in anger "I'm not surprised. After all, this is what I would expect from a rich, spoiled, little brat. Sadly, you remind me of someone I know." Six said.
Unknown to either Ashikabis within Six's home realty,
A Spartan III sneezed "Ah...ah AHHHHHH! Dammit, I sneezed in my fucking helmet. Now there's fucking snot in here, man." The Spartan behind the one that sneezed asked "What's the matter, Baird? Is your ass getting sick? Yo, I thought that armor would protect your ass." Laughed the one behind Baird.
"Cole we are on a swamp planet filled with bugs, mud, Covenant shit, and god knows what else. I wouldn't be surprised if I got some sort of infection from this shit."
A female Spartan ahead of Baird said, "Could be worse though, Damon. Remember when you and Cole had to travel through the sewers on that one mission?" Baird looked at the woman in front of him
"Dammit Saeko, you said you'd never bring that up again. I had my armor disinfected numerous times and I can still smell that shit." Cole laughed
"Oh, come on Baird, it wasn't that bad." Baird on the other hand disagreed "If it wasn't for the fact that I knew it would kill me, I'd gladly have stayed on that world as the Covenant glassed it, at least that way I'd know I'd be clean."
"Aww is poor Baird sad that his armor is dirty," Saeko said. Baird just looked at her and responded, "And you, your crazy woman is the reason I need a therapist."
Heading back to the Sekirei universe with Six and the others.
Six sighed and said "Look kid, I've had a very long night, so I don't have the time or patience to deal with you. Now why don't you leave before you get hurt."
"I don't know if you noticed, we outnumber you four to one… I even have my most powerful sekirei here with me and you're alone." Mikogami arrogantly said.
" It never stopped me before." Six plainly said.
"Hm, whatever I tried to warn you. Enough of these boring negotiations, attack him and bring me that rare Sekirei!"
"Let me be the one to settle this one master. I have scored a settle since he is the Ashikabi of the bitch that defeated me earlier!" Mitsuha is determined to get paid back for what happened earlier today.
"I don't care, just get rid of him!" Yelled Mikogami.
" With pleasure!" Mitsuha charged towards the Spartan before jumping up in the air and screaming out "I'm GOING TO KILL YOU!" as she brought her whip back before striking at Six, throwing the whip as hard as she could.
Seeing the lash coming towards him Six brought up his left and as soon as he felt the whip hit his forearm Six wrapped the whip around his left arm. Using all his strength, Six brought it down his arm as hard as he could while bending his knees as low as he could without messing up his balance. This had the added effect of bringing Mitsuha towards his position like a meteor, Six had his right fist cocked back and once Mitsuha was just two feet away Six threw a haymaker at Mitsuha's left cheek holding back 10% of what he could do. Unknown to both Six and Mitsuha the blow from the Spartan caused #38's brain to rattle within her skull at great speeds.
The force behind Six's punch caused Mitsuha to fly backward towards one of the streetlights in the park, the moment her head contacted hard metal Mitsuha's brain was once more bouncing within her skull. Once Mitsuha made a dent in the metal her body skidded down on the pole and onto the ground and once she came to a stop, she remained on the ground knocked out cold.
Six stood up and removed the whip from his forearm before tossing it to the side "Next?" Six said while getting into a boxing stance.
Mikogami was starting to get angry when he saw Yomi begin to step up "Do not worry Master Mikogami. I will deal with this trash and then you can claim your new Sekirei." Yomi approached Six with her scythe in hand with a wicked smile on her lips.
Six asked Athena to do some research on the Sekirei coming towards them. Seconds later Athena had her profile up "This is Sekirei number 43, Yomi. According to her abilities, she is a weapons type like that of Toyotama. But her abilities are different from Toyotama's as she can use her scythe to control the wind around the weapon and launch what MBI calls "Vacuum Blasts". As for her Personality, it says that Yomi here has a Sadistic side to her as in some of her fights against other Sekirei she would play around with them before finishing them off or bringing them to Mikogami. I'm pretty sure her sadistic nature also crosses over into her sexual perversions."
Six sighed "So I'm dealing with a perverted weapon user, wonderful." Yomi then moved her scythe so she could hold it with both hands and after giving a sadistic smirk began to charge towards Six.
When Yomi was close, she brought her scythe up in a vertical slash hoping to cleave Six from groin to head, but the Spartan saw it coming and easily dodged the attack by side-stepping the strike. Yomi turned her body to face her opponent and went for a horizontal strike at the Spartan's chest, instead Six ducked under the attack and delivered a palm strike to Yomi's stomach. Yomi saw this coming and jumped back before Six could hit her, once she landed on the ground again Yomi pushed off the ground speeding towards Six with her scythe trailing behind her. When she closed the distance Yomi went low and tried to cut the legs of six out from under him with another slash. Six this time jumped in the air, dodging the attack, and countered with his attack by turning his body in mid-air to the right and giving Yomi a good kick to the face sending her back. Six held back a lot of his strength as he wanted to see Yomi's fighting style and abilities.
Yomi was able to stop herself by backflipping and landing on her feet. She then brought back her scythe and sliced the air in front of her, after the swing ended there was a huge gust of wind barreling towards Six. The spartan rolled to the side to dodge the attack, and once he was on his knee, the Spartan saw the vacuum of air destroy some of the benches, trees, and bushes that were behind him.
"Six incoming!" Athena warned as Six turned and saw another vacuum blast coming towards him.
Six dodged once more moving left instead of right this time, ending up in the same position he was in last time "So that is what that Vacuum Blast of hers does. It is indeed destructive but compared to what #01 was able to do it might have been a light breeze. Still, I want to try one more test before I take her out." Six then stood up and began to run towards Yomi.
Yomi smiled as she brought her scythe back again. "Thanks for making yourself an easy target." She then swung her scythe, summoning another vacuum blast rushing towards Six, only this time though the Spartan just kept running forward "Has he lost his mind?".
Once Six was close he raised his arms in a cross to protect himself and was hit by the blast. Six's shields lit up all around his body as he took the hit and he was pushed back a couple of feet, but the blast only removed 1/4 of the shield's strength "Well would you look at that. It seems that Yomi here can't get past your shields in one attack. Still though do try to be careful Six, I am not looking to meet my end just yet." Six smiled as he continued to run forward.
Yomi was shocked that her attack didn't slice through him "What the hell are you?!" she screamed as she continued sending wave after wave of vacuum blasts at the Spartan who dodged most of the attack with some quick footwork and for those that he couldn't he took the hit and continued to run forward. Once Six was close enough he ducked under another swing, once the arc of the swing was at its end Six exploded upward and delivered a strong uppercut to Yomi's jaw, sending her head back and lifting her out of the air. Six then did a spinning hook kick knocking Yomi to the left, as she slid on the ground Six quickly moved on top of her, and using his left hand on her shoulder to keep her in place Six delivered several powerful punches to her. After the fifth punch, he could tell she was knocked out.
As Six was making his way back to the pathway, Mikogami and Taki were shaking "Damn it. How is he so strong? I could understand if he was some sort of Sekirei, but he is just a regular human. So why is he so strong to take out two Sekirei and make it look easy?!" Taki looked at Mikogami and asked, "Maybe we should retreat, Master Mikogami."
Before the Ashikabi of the South could berate her, Mutsu began to step up "There is no need for that. I'll deal with this guy." Mikogami smiled at "Alright then, Mutsu. Deal with this jerk so we can take the rare Sekirei home." Mutsu moved to stand in front of the Spartan.
Once they were on the bricked path again, Athena began to speak to Six "Looks like you have another challenger." Six saw Sekirei #05 stand their hand already on the hilt of his sword "I take it asking for you to stand down and take your master home is out of the question?"
Mutsu nodded "Yeah, I also think I can't convince you to just move out of the way and let my Ashikabi take the scrapped number, right?" Six pulled out his M1 combat knife and held it in front of him ready for a fight "You're correct on that. Looks like we're at an impasse." Mutsu then bent his knees as he got into an iaito stance
"Shame, well then let's see which one of us can get the other to move." Both men stood there not moving a muscle as a strong gust of wind blew past the two warriors. The wind then began to slowly die down, and only when the wind stopped, and everything was still and quiet once more did both combatants begin their attack.
I like to apologize I took this long to get this chapter out. If you've read my previous notes, then you understand why it took this long.
Also this chapter went through a number of rewrites too, I'm hoping this chapter is good. Since I don't really have my original editors anymore and I've been using Grammarly, Microsoft Word and Google docs help me fix grammar and spelling errors and 54godamora who's been helping with editing as of lately.
and for those who are wondering how I'm doing. I'm doing fine just trying to keep my mind distracted with other things. And that's all I will say. things feel different now and I'm just dealing with it one day at a time.
I also like to say thanks too revan193 and SPARTAN-626, who beta readied for me and SoTaWoB who didn't do any editing for this chapter, but criticized the original draft I had and that's why it went through all those rewrites.
The Son of Sparda 343, big thanks to him for doing the fight scenes for the chapter.
So give me your thoughts and comments on this chapter. Because this chapter kind of went through development hell abit I'll be honest about that.
I hope the next chapter won't take as long as this one, so see you all next time.