Nexus HWR 11.6 Silver:
"Finally made it," Rin said, and he collapsed down on the ground. He was panting and his tongue was sticking out of his mouth, but the corners of his lips were curled up. The black haired teen wearing a tattered suit stood up and turned to look over the giant crevice he just crossed. Rin stared off for miles and whistled a cat-call, "Second time crossing wasn't as tough I guess. Less stops without Luffy," Rin stretched his arms up in the air and then turned away from the Cataclysm. "How was it for you guys?" Rin asked as he started walking away.
The other two who also collapsed after making it up the Cataclysm's cliff wall lifted their heads and looked at the teenager's back. "It would have been easier," Gray muttered between breaths. He stood up while the teen in front of him stopped walking, and he finished, "If we weren't constantly under attack by demons."
"Juvia is just glad," the blue haired girl who stood up next to Gray began. "That she is now able to see such creatures."
Gray winced as he thought about why it was Juvia could see them now. He turned to her and gazed at the side of her face cautiously, but shook his head a few times of stray thoughts and looked back at Rin's back. "You want to tell me why those demons were all after you?"
"I told you," Rin muttered. He looked back and his smile did not match the voice he just used when facing away from them. In a lighter tone he continued, "It's because I kicked the Impure King's butt back in Pyraxas. Guess I'm the closest one…"
"But on the ship," Gray brought up and Rin tssked, hoping he had forgotten. Gray stepped closer to the teen who turned back forward and kept walking along the rocky edge of the cliff towards the rolling hills to their south. "Soon after we left Awul, there was that demon who knew who you were. Why was it so interested in you?"
Rin shrugged his shoulders and kept walking. Juvia looked at Gray and then spun to face Rin's back, saying, "We just want to know why we are being chased."
Rin frowned and he slowed down his steps. His face twisted in an unsure way and he thought, It's unfair to them. I'm making it unsafe just by traveling with them. "Maybe," Rin started hesitantly. He came to a full stop, and he spun to face the mages behind him. "Maybe you two should go on without me."
"Huh?" Gray asked.
"You're right," Rin admitted. "The demons are after me. I don't think they'd go after you if I wasn't with you two. So, maybe it's best if we just go our separate ways here."
"Juvia does not think that is necessary," Juvia said and stepped closer to the younger boy. "We have handled the demons so far. Let us continue doing so, but please tell us why it is they are chasing you."
If I told you, there's a good chance you would take back that offer, Rin thought with a grim expression on his face. "I, I told you. They're just mad that I-"
"STOP LYING TO US!" Juvia shouted at him, making Rin stumble backwards and Gray spin to his girlfriend in surprise. Juvia marched towards the younger boy who kept stepping back every step she took towards him. "Juvia's friends should not lie to Juvia's face. It is a bad idea."
Juvia felt a hand on her right shoulder and she spun that way. Staring at her in a stern way was Gray, who shook his head a few times and made her lower her stern expression. Before Juvia could feel guilty about it, Gray spoke up, "She's right though." He defended her, even though she acted a little crazy about it. He did not bring it up even though Rin was staring at her oddly like he wanted to know what her secret was now. Gray continued, "We have a right to know." Rin opened his mouth to object but Gray stepped forward and held up a hand for him to stop. "But more than that, don't you just want to tell us?"
The younger boy's eyes widened and Juvia looked at Gray confusedly. "I've kept enough secrets," Gray continued as he took another step forward, "to know that keeping them from friends never makes any sense. We really could not care less about your past, and if whatever you did has all the demons hunting you down, I'm sure it can't be that bad." Gray gave the kid a reassuring smile and he lowered his arms down to his sides to show that even if Rin did not say anything, he would be fine with that answer.
Rin frowned and he lowered his gaze from the two of them. "I suppose, neither of you ever gave me a reason not to trust you." As soon as he said it, Gray winced and he looked at his left shoulder disgustedly. Juvia also frowned and she clenched her eyes shut hard. Two Fire Nation guards from Pyraxas appeared in her mind, and then the look on Nami's face when she turned and saw that her best friend had seen what she had done to them. Rin continued though, as his eyes were pointed down and he did not see the looks of guilt on his comrades' faces. "So I'll tell you, and I know you're not going to like it."
The boy lifted up his head and looked into the eyes of his friends. "You know how I'm part demon?" He questioned, and both of them nodded their heads. "Well, the reason for that, is that I'm kind of," he scratched the side of his head. "Well, I'm a demon's son… no, that's not it," he turned his head and scratched the back of it a little more nervously. "Alright," he stopped scratching and looked back forward, "I'm the demon's son." Both of them kept staring at him in confusion and Rin sighed exasperatedly. "Satan," he specified. "I'm the son, of Satan."
Juvia and Gray both stared at him blankly for a few seconds, and then their eyes slowly started widening more and more. Rin sighed and held out his arms, "Alright, let me hear it. Reactions?" He looked back and forth between the two of them, but neither really knew how to react to that little bomb drop.
"Satan?" Gray muttered. "As in the Devil? Lord of all Evil?"
"That's him," Rin muttered. "My universe's Satan is definitely evil," he agreed darkly.
"So wait," Gray shook his head a few times. "The Satan from your universe?" Gray specified, "So I guess there are Satans from all of them, that makes sense, but…"
"But the one here," Rin said. "The one whose demons have been chasing us. The one who's apparently a High Lord," Rin took a deep breath, "he's my father, at least, my biological one."
"Juvia is surprised," Juvia finally said. "Rin does not seem like the Satanic type," she whispered.
"Thanks," Rin said, actually taking that as a compliment.
Gray stayed quiet as he tried to process this information. The thought crossed his mind to use Rin as a bargaining chip against Satan, and he immediately cursed himself for the thought. He more than cursed himself, he clenched his own fingers into his palms so hard that he hoped they would bleed. Stop it! He's your comrade! But if using him against Satan could work, your other comrades would be… I suck. I really suck. Gray shook his head a few times to shake the disturbing thoughts out of it. His eyes widened as he just realized something, "Wait a second." The other two turned to the ice mage who continued, "If he's your father, then, why do the demons keep chasing us? I mean, shouldn't you be able to command them?"
"No," Rin stated plainly. He shook his head and stated in a firm voice, "I am an exorcist." Gray's eyes opened a little wider in surprise. "I hunt demons, and my ultimate goal, is to kill Satan."
"You want to kill your own father?" Gray questioned.
"He's not my real father," Rin growled. "The man who raised me, was Father Fujimoto, the best exorcist to ever live. When Satan possessed his body to try and come to Earth, my father sent him back down to Hell, killing himself in the process." Rin clenched his fist in front of him, "But Satan's not dead. And now, he has my younger brother. I don't know what he's doing with him, but I know that Yukio is alive. Astaroth told me he's in Hell right now. I have to find him before Satan does something." Rin thought back to what Astaroth and Mephisto told him and it made him clench his teeth in anger.
"You should have told us this earlier," Gray scolded.
"I," Rin quieted down and continued, "normally when people find out, they tend to change the way they act towards me."
"Juvia also thinks Rin should have told us," she said with a frown on her face.
"I don't see what the big deal is," Rin muttered. Neither of the two in front of him looked very happy and he looked down as he continued. "Everyone's got their secrets. I just, didn't want to burden you guys with mine."
"A secret is one thing," Gray said. "Not mentioning you were Satan's son, that's totally fine."
"But if Rin's brother is in danger," Juvia continued.
"Then why didn't you ask us for help?" Gray and Juvia asked at the same time.
The teenager in front of them opened his eyes wide. He opened his mouth but did not have anything to say to that question. Gray stepped up a few more feet and he put a hand on Rin's left shoulder. "I could have told you a while back where we could find Satan's strongholds." Rin's eyes opened wide and Gray continued, "If you had mentioned this before we split up- come on man, you know that I know things about this continent, I would have told you exactly where to find him."
"You know where Satan is?" Rin asked in shock.
"Of course," Gray replied. "Everyone knows where he is. We can't just go waltzing in like with the Fire Nation. No, Satan is a little different-"
"I can handle it," Rin countered, but Gray held up his hands defensively.
"Let me rephrase that," he requested. "Satan is different because the city he's in isn't on this world." The other two looked at Gray in shock and Gray continued, "Apparently, Satan can't use too much power up here, so he stays down in Hell for the most part. When he does come up, he has to possess very powerful hosts in order to keep his power from leaking out."
"How do you know this?" Rin asked.
"Juvia is also confused," she mentioned to let Gray know he was not explaining himself very well.
"Satan has possessed a lot of good people. Remember how Riku had to give himself completely into the darkness for Ansem to take over?" Gray asked and the others kind of remembered Riku doing that in those memories the Forever Knights made them watch. Gray continued, "Well Satan, he does not need a huge amount of darkness. If you've got a little bit inside you, he can make that grow out of control and use it to take over your body. A friend of mine, he went into a rage when one of our comrades got killed. It was a righteous rage, for all the right reasons, but that rage let Satan in, and he burned out my friend's body in a few minutes, while also burning an entire town to the ground with…" Gray's eyes opened wide and he whispered quieter, "blue flames. I should have realized."
"It's a big world," Rin admitted. "Blue flames aren't as much telling signs here as they were on my Earth."
"Yeah, I guess," Gray muttered, though not being able to put the pieces together before this did aggravate him.
"Juvia thinks we should continue," Juvia brought up. The others looked at her and she was facing south. "It is not safe here."
Gray and Rin thought she was saying they should continue so they could go regroup with their friends sooner, but when they looked the same way Juvia was, they saw five different creatures coming up over the top of the hill closest to them. Gray grimaced and he said in a quiet voice, "We should go." His friends looked at him in surprise but Gray continued in a dark tone, "Those are Vajra, A-class monsters." The five creatures became six as another climbed up the hill, and they looked over towards the three people who were heading south towards them. "Come on," Gray said, and he started jogging in the direction of the suns. "We'll head around them to the west and then go south, that way we're still-"
The six monsters lifted up their heads and roared. The teen and his older friends turned and looked over at the beasts standing on four legs. Each of the large dark legs were as tall and wide as the people near them. The huge tiger-like creatures were dark colored with orange spots on them and they had strange flat organs sticking out of their backs like capes. Those capes started to spark electricity, and after the monsters roared, a few more started coming over the hills.
"It's a whole pack of them," Gray whispered in panic, and he sped up his sprint. After only a few seconds, he came to an abrupt halt and his friends almost ran into his back. They were going to yell at him for it, but they saw the reason he stopped and looked west at the two Vajra who stepped out from behind a smaller hill, but one that still kept their presences hidden until now. "Damn," Gray cursed under his breath. "Vajra are Aragami, very hard to kill if you don't have the proper weapons, which we don't."
"What do we do?" Rin asked. He reached his hand up to his back to grab his sword, but before his hand was even on it the monsters started running forward.
"Looks like we have to fight," Gray said. "But listen, if we get the chance, we should…" Gray's voice faded off. His friends looked at him in a panic but Gray was no longer paying attention to the approaching monsters. He was solely staring at the visible breath of air that just left his mouth. The two behind him suddenly realized that they could see their own breath as well.
"What, is this?" Rin whispered and he started shivering. It looked like the monsters nearby were having similar qualms as they stopped charging to instead look around with their big scary brown faces. They had swirling horns sticking out the tops of their heads, and orange beards on the bottom of their ravenous-looking mouths.
"Juvia, is cold," she said, shivering with her arms crossed in front of her. "Is it not summer anymore?"
"That's not it," Gray said. Juvia perked up right after he said it and Gray nodded his head, "Something's coming. There's a strange presence that-" Gray froze with his mouth half open. He did not literally freeze, not like half of the landscape around him, but he did stop moving. Both of the others found it hard to breath as well. Every single Aragami standing on the hills around them was frozen, all of the hills too, it was all just… ice.
"What, the Hell," Rin whispered.
The strangely pink ice did not reach them, but it came close. And from the speed it covered anything and everything in its path, they knew that whoever just froze everything was not trying to freeze them. At least, they really hoped that whoever it was, was not there to kill them. Rin unsheathed his sword just in case. His friends glanced at him as his body burst into flames and he whispered, "No ice is going to freeze me while I'm on fire."
"I would beg to differ," a man's voice called over to them. They all turned and looked back at the hill to the west that they were originally running for. They were closer to it than most other hills, and the person who spoke to them was still not in sight. Still, just from the sound of his voice, Gray felt a weird prickling sensation on his skin. Gray took a step forward but froze again as a figure stepped out from behind the hill. The man walked out and past one of the Vajra, then turned towards them when he was between it and the one next to it. "Flames are not hard to freeze. Then again, I have not frozen demon's flames. Though I assume they have similar properties."
Gray still could not speak. He just stared ahead in shock at the muscular figure before him. The man had black hair slicked back and spiked up on all sides behind his head. He wore a suit of armor and on the left side of his silver chest-plate were the words 'ABSOLUTE ZERØ.' He had two earrings with silver crosses dangling off them, his shoulder plates were purple, and underneath his silver tunic was a green undershirt that was a lighter color than the darker green gloves and pants he was wearing.
The man had stubble on his chin and cheeks, but the most defining characteristic about his face was the long scar that went from his hairline on his forehead down over his left eye and to the side of his face where it got thinner and then ended completely. Rin and Juvia were also shocked to see this person though, as they had seen him before. Well, not him exactly, but they recognized his face from the instant they saw it. "Oi Gray," Rin began. "Why does this guy, look a lot like you?" The half-demon wrapped in blue flames sniffed a few times and then whispered, "Smells like you too."
"Who are you?" Gray asked, his voice darker than the other two had ever heard him speak. "I recognize your face, and your voice, but…"
"That's right, son," Silver Fullbuster said, smirking menacingly over at the young man and his friends. His tone of voice and his words did not match. However, Gray took a step towards him anyway with a growing smile, so Silver continued, "But, to say that I am really your father, would be misleading." He smirked as Gray stopped walking towards him and the sudden hopeful look that came to Gray's face vanished. "I am someone much more important, destined to fight you."
"What?" Gray became confused and he looked into the older man's black eyes cautiously. "Just, who are you?" He stared discerningly at him, "Now that I think about it, your appearance does not make sense. Neither do your powers." Gray shook his head a few times, "Even if my father did come back to life on Nexus, there is no way he could have-"
"On Nexus?" Silver questioned. He chuckled darkly and said, "No. After that day in our village, I spent seventeen years in this body, on our world."
"Impossible," Gray shouted. "I saw you die! Deliora killed you!"
Silver started to chuckle some more, and then he started straight out laughing. "'Deliora killed me?!'" Silver repeated questioningly, his voice like ice on Gray's spine, sending chills down it and down the spines of his friends. He stopped laughing and his eyes narrowed, the air dropping several degrees, and he said, "Just who, do you think I am?"
None of the other three could speak. This man's words had them frozen to the spots they were standing on. Gray's eyes were widening more and more and the man spoke, "That's right. I am not your father. No, I am the demon who murdered your father, your entire family. I forced your master Ur to sacrifice herself, and it was all for nothing!" Silver spat at him and Gray reeled back in horror. "Your master's sacrifice, it didn't stop me."
"You, you are," Gray began.
"Deliora," the man standing between two frozen monsters stated. He swung his arms out and the frozen Vajra on his sides shattered. They fell as hundreds of pink ice shards down to the frozen floor beneath them while Silver, or Deliora, stood there smirking menacingly back at his "son." As Gray stared at the man's evil face, he could see the shadow of a monster behind him, a giant monster with sharp teeth and red eyes. It made shivers run down his spine and his body to cover in a cold sweat. "And I have come," Silver continued, stepping towards Gray, "to finish what I started."
Gray took a step back, and then his eyes widened as two figures stepped in front of him. "Not a chance," Rin shouted. His blue flames burned brighter and he held his sword out in front of him while baring his teeth at the demon.
"Juvia will not let you hurt her dear Gray-sama," the girl proclaimed.
The man facing them grinned for a moment, and then he looked between the two of them at the older man standing behind them. "Are you going to let them fight for you, little boy?" He chuckled and swung his right arm in front of him.
Rin slashed his sword down and a slash of blue flames flew at their enemy. They made it halfway, and then froze. The flames literally turned pink and froze solid, and then the gust of wind hit them a second later. Both him and Juvia thought they were done for, when a wall of normal-colored ice rose up in front of them. It blocked the pink ice and Gray panted heavily as he stood back up, having had to slam his hand on the floor to make that Ice Wall fast. "You two," Gray said in a stern voice. "Get out of here now. Go south, get to a-"
"Yeah, not gonna happen," Rin said. Gray spun to him angrily but Rin continued, "There's one of him, and three of us. He's pretty strong, but we can take him. Just you, not that I doubt you dude, you just don't have as good a chance."
"This is my battle to fight," Gray growled.
"I know, I heard what he said," Rin replied grimly. "But I let my brother get kidnapped, and taken by Satan, and you were just willing to come help me with that. That was my problem. Just 'cause you've gotta fight him, doesn't mean you have to do it alone."
"Juvia will not let Gray-sama get killed by this monster," she promised, and rose up her hands into a fighting stance.
Gray looked back and forth between the two of them, and he finally nodded. "Alright," he said and turned back to the demon, while lifting his right hand and creating a longsword of ice in it. He stepped forward powerfully and shouted, "Then let's fight!"
Eight Thousand Miles Southeast of Gray's Group
"Sorry again about this bro," Franky muttered, his voice hoarse. "My back's the only part of my body I can't work on."
Kirito had a giant heavy robot on his back and he struggled to keep walking south as he had been for two hours straight now without rest. The two of them were walking in mostly silence, or more precisely he was walking in silence while Franky stayed quiet because the boy beneath him kept grunting and did not sound like he would be able to hold a conversation. "It's not your fault," Kirito muttered. "My Shadow Clone got defeated by those two girls and I wound up not being able to help you or Nami. You both got hurt because I couldn't even stop one measly mage." He stumbled to his left but ground his teeth and pushed down hard on his feet to stay standing despite his shaky legs.
Franky thought about telling him to take another break, but he knew the teen would just shrug him off and say they had to keep moving south like he did the last three times Franky suggested it. Instead, the cyborg who could not feel his legs after getting hit in the spine by Juliet Sun during their battle quieted down again. He tilted his head right and looked out into the distance of the grassy plains they were walking down. He stared at a few large rat Pokemon, but something seemed to spook the Raticates and the scurried off. A few seconds later some large snakes came slithering through the brush and one of them caught a smaller purple mouse Pokemon, a Rattata that could not escape in time.
As the snake dug into the tiny Pokemon, the other snakes around it slithered away fast. The one too distracted by its meal did not notice the black bird dropping down towards it until it was too late. The Grimm with four legs like a lion, a Gryphon, grabbed the snake and mouse with its front claws and then soared back up in the air while digging into the creatures' flesh.
Kirito ignored the monsters as long as they were going to ignore him, and he kept trekking across the wild. "So Kirito-bro," Franky began after they had walked in silence for another hour. Kirito grunted to show he was listening, and Franky continued, "Just wondering, but why haven't you been using your wings recently?" Kirito frowned, but the cyborg on his back could not see the teenager's face, so he continued his question anyway, "Back when we fought those Spriggans, or even before it couldn't you have used them to search the-"
"I lost them," Kirito muttered. Franky stopped talking with his mouth open, and he groaned internally as he just shoved a foot in his mouth. "A man named Ra's al Ghul ripped them off."
"I'm sorry man," Franky said. "That sucks," he added, as he knew what it was like to lose a part of himself.
"Could have been worse. Ra's cut off Gray's arm, and he killed Juvia," Kirito continued quickly, "though we brought her back to life."
Franky's mouth that shot open in shock closed, and the cyborg calmed his heart rate that had skyrocketed. It took him a minute to process what Kirito said, and then he shivered and his teeth chattered. "Well I know one thing," he began, trying to keep their mood up despite the dark turn that conversation took, "I do not want to run into that guy."
"You won't," Kirito assured, actually chuckling in a dark voice as Franky succeeded in lifting his mood. "Because I killed him." Kirito smiled as he thought about how he avenged Juvia and his own wings, (though thought nothing about Gray's arm). Franky fell silent after Kirito said it though, deciding that maybe walking in silence was a good idea, solely to save his strength.
"How are you doing?" Kirito asked after they had walked for a while longer. The suns were going down in the west, and he had no idea how far east they were, though he assumed it was pretty far considering when that magical light flashed, the suns in the sky were suddenly a lot farther north and instead of in the east they were already in the west. He was just glad he appeared near at least one of his comrades, and since he did not know Franky too well it was not the worst thing to get some time to know the cyborg better. The two of them had talked early on in their journey to Aebrith about his inventions and repairs done to the ship over the long time the Thousand Sunny spent on Nexus, but other than that they had not had many one-on-one conversations. After they fought together in Pyraxas though, Kirito felt closer to the cyborg than ever, even if he did not know much about him.
The cyborg whose usually brightly colored body was mostly rusted silver now cracked a smile on his scary-looking face that did not have any of its beige paint on it either. His blue hair was all gone, even if it was mechanical, and the nose on his face that he could press in to change his hair-style was malfunctioning. He grinned though and rose up his arms that were still working at least, "Super… tired," he added, and yawned after shouting his catchphrase.
"Haha, ha," Kirito chuckled, though he did so between panting breaths as he too was feeling tired. "You can get some rest if you want," Kirito suggested. "I'm going to keep heading south and hopefully I'll find some people by tomorrow morning."
"You planning on walking all night?" Franky asked in surprise.
"If I need to," Kirito muttered.
Franky groaned and decided to suggest a break to Kirito again, but like he thought, the kid just denied him and said that they had to keep going. Franky did not feel like passing out though and leaving the teen alone to deal with whatever might show up, even if he did not know how much help he would be without the use of his legs. He tried to stay awake despite his exhaustion and they kept moving into the evening.
Right as Franky's eyes were finally starting to close on their own, he noticed something through his blurry vision and his eyes snapped back open. He blinked a few times and rubbed his face wondering if he was seeing this correctly. Kirito grumbled in annoyance since Franky was moving around and making his legs ache even more, but Franky spoke up quickly, "Yo Kirito. There's something behind us."
Kirito stopped and turned sideways so that he and Franky could both look to the north. They faced that way and Kirito opened his eyes in surprise as he was not expecting there to be something like this. He was expecting to see battling monsters or even monsters heading towards them that he would have to take on by himself. What he was not expecting to see were people, even less so people on motorcycles. He and Franky stared out into the distance where five clouds of dust were lifting up behind five motorcycles moving in a 'V' formation with the point closest to them.
"Think they're on our side?" Franky wondered.
"We are pretty far south," Kirito muttered. "I can only hope we're deep in Resistance land."
They watched as the motorcycles got closer to them. They were on a pretty open field and the grass was short so that they had nowhere to hide. Kirito and Franky were hoping they did not have to hide though, they were hoping that these bikers could actually help them. The bikes shot over the landscape fast and within a minute of the two seeing them, the motorcycles were almost at their feet. They slowed down and their engines dulled to a low roar. The bike at the front was painted bright red and had a sleek body, a curved windshield over the front of it, yellow racing stripes on the sides, and gorgeous rims on the tires. It was the nicest of the bikes, though Franky thought the coolest one of the bunch was the one that pulled up a few yards to the right, as it was dark red but covered in bright orange flame patterns. On the other side of the front bike was a deep purple one, with a black one next to it. And on the other far side of the group as the black one was an orange bike without any stripes or symbols on it, though it did have the word 'KAI' written across the front directly beneath the windshield.
Only one of the bikers was wearing a helmet, showing that the rest were either stupid or badass, or both. Kirito just examined each of them up and down, watching as the gang parked their bikes and got off their rides. The leader of the bike gang (at least Franky and Kirito guessed he was the leader since he was in the center) had on an orange leather jacket, and he had short black hair with bangs and a little bit of wind-blown messiness to it. He had a thin body but stood with a powerful stance as he walked towards the two in front of him. "Who are you?" The leader asked the teenager before him, looking no older than Kirito. "And what's up with that hunk of junk?"
"Who are you calling a hunk of junk?" Franky snapped down, his eyes darting down and glowing red at the teenager who took a step back in surprise.
"It's alive," a shorter boy, the one who got off the all orange bike with his name on it, exclaimed. Kai backed up but then walked forward and looked more carefully at the metal man on the strange teenager's back. "Though it doesn't look like it's doing very good."
"You know where any Resistance bases are around here?" Kirito asked, ignoring all formalities with the people in front of him. They all looked at the teen in surprise and Kirito's eyes were pretty dark. "We got separated from our friends. They're most likely heading to whatever Resistance base they can find south of here."
The teenager who seemed to lead the gang, the guy in the orange jacket and matching sweatpants, glanced left and right at the two members on either side of him. He looked back forward and shrugged his shoulders, "Guess we could lead you guys there. You part of the Resistance too?"
"Kind of," Kirito muttered back.
"What's that supposed to mean?" a muscular teen who got off of the black bike started in an annoyed tone. He sauntered forward leaning back and forth as he did, wearing a black vest, pants, and sunglasses, and a red shirt with the sleeves ripped off under the vest. His hair was longer than the gang's leader and much messier like the shorter boy's on the opposite side of their crew. "You're either one of us or you aren't. You gonna play sides to see which one comes out on top? Huh?" He got up in Kirito's face and glared down at the shorter teen.
"Don't I recognize you?" Kirito wondered, not looking at the larger teen in front of him who grew enraged by the shorter teen ignoring him.
"Yamagata back off," the teen straight ahead of Kirito said. He had a look of confusion and a small grin on his face as he saw where Kirito was looking. The teen was looking to his right side and the leader of the gang looked that way at the only woman of their group who got off of the deep purple bike. She had been frowning with a toothpick between her teeth the entire time and now she looked confused as the teen questioned her.
The young woman had blonde hair tied back in a ponytail, a black leather jacket over a blue tee, a full steel right arm, dark brown eyes, and a strange black tattoo on her upper left arm. She frowned at Kirito and opened her mouth, "Ehhh?" She asked, lifting up her eyebrows and tilting her head back to glare down her nose at the kid. "I've never seen you before brat."
"Oh," Kirito mumbled. He could have sworn he knew her from somewhere, but he shook his head as he guessed he must have imagined it. "Well, if you're going to take us somewhere, thanks," the teenager offered, hoping that these gruff and rowdy bikers did not decide to revoke their invitation.
"You still haven't answered my question," Yamagata growled at the teen with longer but straighter black hair than him, and whose black hair was partially covering and shadowing his eyes at the moment. "Are you with the Resistance or aren't you?"
"I am," Kirito said. He looked up into the more muscular teen's eyes, "I just haven't become an official member. But I killed the leader of the League of Assassins, Ra's al Ghul." The older teen took a step back and Kirito continued with dark eyes, "I fought the Fire Nation and beastmen and demons and the Spriggan 12. And I am tired," he said, sounding as exhausted as Franky looked. The cyborg was not even speaking as he realized he might actually be able to pass out now that they were being brought to the Resistance.
"Wow, you did all that huh?" The teen in the front of the group asked with a laugh. "Well then, guess I might as well introduce you to my gang. We're the Capsules. Over there is Kai," he motioned at the short boy near the orange bike, "and you've already met by buddy Yamagata there." The taller, more muscular teen humphed at Kirito and then shoved his hands into his pockets and walked back towards his black bike. "And my name's Kaneda, Shotaro Kaneda," he finished, pointing a thumb at himself. "The three of us came from the same world, but these two are from somewhere else," he motioned with his head at the bikes on either side of him.
"I'm Lucy," the girl standing on Kaneda's right began. She lost her hostile expression and a smirk came to her face instead, "Lucy Ashley."
"Lucy," Kirito muttered, now even more confused because he already recognized her face, but now hearing that name it sounded even more familiar. She did not like the way he was staring at her and she lost her smirk, frowning at him again. He tilted his head and asked, "Are you sure we have never met?"
"I'm sure," she replied.
As she answered, the guy on Kaneda's other side was walking forward. The guy who got off the motorcycle covered in cool flame patterns had a pair of goggles on under his helmet, covering up his eyes. His helmet covered most of the top and sides of his head, though there was a little bit of hair sticking out from beneath it. The color of the hair was strange, and even stranger was the fact that it oddly matched the bottom half of the face visible to Franky and Kirito.
Franky tensed up on Kirito's back and Kirito knew why as the young man in front of them reached up to his helmet. He had started speaking as he reached for his helmet and his voice was so familiar that they could not mistake it. "Do you guys like my bike? I have another seat on the back of it so one of you can ride with me." He lifted up his helmet and tucked it under his right armpit. Kirito and Franky's eyes opened huge as the guy in front of them shook his head around to get all his messy hair to go back into its usual spiky shape.
"What the Hell is going on?" Kirito muttered, a bead of sweat rolling down the left side of his face. The figure in front of him lifted the goggles off his eyes and slid them up his forehead, showing his confused eyes beneath them and his slightly blushing face as he was uneased by the stares Kirito and Franky were giving him.
"What, you recognize him too?" Kaneda asked skeptically.
"Yeah," Franky mumbled, though something was seriously wrong here. The young man in front of them had spiky pink hair, but was not as muscular as the spiky pink haired man they knew very well. He had on a red jacket with yellow cuffs at the end, tight black pants, and brown boots. He looked very nervous by the ways the two of them kept staring at him and he actually took a step back in his anxiousness, making him look even weirder to the two who thought they knew him.
"Do you recognize me?" the pink haired man asked. Both of the people in front of him nodded, and the biker tilted his head to the side. He looked at the others but they all shrugged at him while Lucy kept staring at the two who said they recognized her too in a confused way. They definitely looked like they recognized her friend a lot more than they did her. The man wearing goggles turned back forward and he scratched the back of his head sheepishly, smiling at the two and deciding to just introduce himself. "Well, sorry if I forgot about you. My name's Natsu Dragion."
"Natsu, Dragion?" Kirito muttered. What the fuck is going on? Is this for real? Are there, alternate universes that I exist in? Is this just Natsu, from a different world? This is way too weird.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Natsu asked.
"It's just," Franky started. The robot scratched the back of his head with one of his huge hands and he said in a confused voice, "We know a Natsu Dragneel. It's weird, you look just-"
"You know Earthland's Natsu?!" This version of Natsu exclaimed. Franky and Kirito looked at the man in even more surprise as it seemed this alternate version of Natsu apparently knew about his other self. The boy started laughing and he looked over at Lucy who was also grinning now at the sound of this. "That's great," the guy said. He looked at Kirito and Franky who looked absolutely confused and explained, "The Natsu you know comes from a world connected to our old one, two very similar worlds that had different rules in relation to the use of magic. Our world was called Edolas, so the people from Earthland, including the Natsu you know, called me Edo-Natsu, and Lucy over there Edo-Lucy."
Kirito looked back over at Lucy and he suddenly realized where he recognized her from. The Forever Knights. The Perfect Day. We escaped during the memory that this girl was in, the memory that Natsu wanted nothing to do with. The memory where her "Earthland" version died.
"What's wrong?" Edo-Lucy asked him, wondering why he was still staring at her with such a serious look.
"Nothing," Kirito responded quickly. He turned back to Edo-Natsu for a second, then looked at Kaneda again and started, "If you could get us to a Resistance base that would be amazing. I'll find a way to repay you somehow, but Franky needs to do some repairs on his body."
"A lot of repairs," Franky muttered, wondering if he would even be able to do it all on his own without being able to work on his own back. If I use some mirrors and advanced arms that curve around my body, maybe… but I should get a doctor to help me if I can.
"No need to repay us," Kaneda said and leaned back where he stood. "This is a crazy world. That white light sent us a thousand miles away from our last destination, so we've gotta figure out our own bearings before we do anything else anyway."
Kirito grimaced. How far did that light spread? It was the battle we were in that caused it. How strong was that woman Riku was facing that she could rearrange the entire continent? "Thank you," the ninja finally said. He took a step forward and then collapsed under the weight of the cyborg now that his mind finally told his body that he would be able to take a break. He tried to convince himself he was not there yet, but he could not trick himself and just fell down to his other knee as well.
"Whoa there," Kaneda said, rushing forward and grabbing onto Franky to help Kirito out. As he grabbed the cyborg, he realized he would not be able to pick up the cyborg and would barely be able to help lessen the burden on Kirito's back. "Damn, guess I shouldn't be surprised if I'm to believe you took down Ra's al Ghul." Kaneda turned to his more muscular friend, "Yamagata, give me a hand with-"
"I've got it," Lucy muttered in an annoyed tone, walking over and grabbing the cyborg, lifting him up with a grunt and carrying him over to her own bike where there was room for him.
"Here, you can come with me," Edo-Natsu told Kirito as he helped the teen back up to his feet. Kirito staggered with him over to the bike covered in cool flames and Edo-Natsu smiled while he helped the teen. "I'm glad to have met you. I can't believe you really know Earthland's Natsu. Does that mean my counterpart is here somewhere?" He asked.
Kirito nodded his head and in a whisper added, "He's one of the ones I'm trying to find." This made Edo-Natsu's mouth curl up even more and the young man fist-pumped. As he started ranting about how he met the Natsu that Kirito already knew, the teen who sat down on the back of Edo-Natsu's bike found himself glancing over at Edo-Lucy who was strapping Franky onto her bike. I'm sorry, not all of your counterparts are still here. And Natsu, I'm sorry. I know that bringing this girl to you is only going to bring up bad memories. Edo-Lucy felt eyes boring into her and she snapped her gaze over at Kirito who she glared at, but the teen just stared at her sadly for a second before leaning back on the bike and closing his eyes. Within a few seconds, Kirito passed out just like Franky had thirty seconds earlier.
Somewhere in Awul
Brmmmm-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr… The path under the truck turned bumpy and the twenty figures in the back of it holding onto metal bars sticking out of the wall grabbed on tighter so as not to fall. Each of the figures looked ready for a full-blown war; they wore all black uniforms that were tight to their skin and showed that most of them had toned figures. They were carrying black rifles, swords, and hand-cannons, though the two closest to the back doors of the truck had nothing in their hands. Also, every single one of them wore a black ski mask that covered their entire faces except for their eyes.
One of the figures in the truck, one far towards the front, did not have the same physical stature as the rest of his comrades. He stood a little shorter than the rest, with no weapons in his hands, standing near an opening that led to the seats at the front of the truck where two men wearing delivery-service uniforms were sitting. The burly figures looked like delivery men, wearing white uniforms and blue hats with rims that covered their eyes. Standing behind them in between the short figure and the two men in the front seats was another man who looked smaller than most others in the truck. He was the only one other than the two in the front who did not have a ski mask on, letting his green hair remain visible, and on his wrists over the black sleeves of his uniform similar to all the men in the back's he had two golden devices full of strings, his Perfect Cross Tail.
The smaller, but older man standing farther back in the truck glanced around at everyone, then turned and inched his way towards the front of the vehicle. Lubba did not turn around, but in a quiet voice he hissed at the man behind him, "Get back to your position."
Takao gulped. "Lubba," he whispered. He got right behind the younger man and continued whispering straight in his ear, glad that the truck's engine and the bumpy ground they were driving on made enough noise to drown out his voice to the others. "This mission, it's insane. So many people are going to die." Lubba did not say a word and Takao glanced back to see if any of his fellow Underlord soldiers were looking his way. If they were, they must have turned away from him when he glanced back, so he turned to Lubba again and continued whispering, "So, how do we let Najenda know? Do you have a plan-"
"Najenda already knows," Lubba stated. Takao's eyes opened wide, and then he grimaced as he wished Lubbock would keep him in the loop on those things so he didn't feel like he was uselessly being a member of this criminal organization. "Now get ready," Lubba said as he continued to stare straight ahead and could see tall buildings coming close. Takao somewhat caught a glimpse out the window and he took a deep breath before walking back to his metal pole to grab onto.
Alright. If Najenda knows, then we can expect heavy resistance. I don't want Laxus or someone attacking me, so once I see them, it's time to take off my mask and turn on the Underlords. Today's the day we take them down! Takao started grinning behind his ski mask and although a bead of sweat dripped down the left side of his face, he looked smug to the man directly across from him in the vehicle. The truck was slowing down and the Underlords' men filling the truck readied themselves, clenching their weapons tighter and letting go of their metal poles to instead face the back of the truck. There were two large rectangular steel doors there that had handles only on the outside.
Lubba turned from the front of the truck and stepped into the back as their vehicle reached an even slower speed. He spotted a guard post outside their windshield and once he did, he stepped into the back and closed a door behind him to block everything in the back from sight. The other side of the door closer to the driver and passenger's seats would not look like a door, but part of the wall so anyone checking the front of the vehicle would not be able to tell there was a way to get into the back other than the back doors. Lubba stepped back through the aisle of his masked soldiers without a mask on himself, speaking the whole time, "Prepare yourselves. Turn on your radios. Listen to my orders every second of the mission." Others tapped buttons on devices in their ears and a few tapped the microphones at the top of their uniforms to check if they were all set.
Outside the vehicle they heard some loud voices. People were calling to each other, and they heard the driver of their vehicle start explaining what was in the back. Despite him saying all types of goods, one of the guards he was talking to must not have believed their disguises, as someone called out, "We're searching the backs of all these vehicles. It's just a precaution, should not take more than a few minutes."
The driver of their vehicle did not say anything back for a few seconds, then they heard him call out, "Understood." There was more noise outside, and Takao's body covered in sweat as he heard two knocks on the hidden door close to the front that was the signal that guards were coming around the back. Takao looked ahead at Lubba all the way in the back, right on their side of the thick steel doors. He's gotten even more influence since I joined. A full-blown Underlord now, while actually a spy for Pao. He's so much better at this than I am. He already had a plan in action and I'm here at the city about to be attacked without anything ready. Well, maybe today I can finally help out. The young man clenched his fists at his sides, And Dawn, will have to forgive me. She just has to.
They heard clanks on the back door and everyone gripped their weapons tightly. The steel doors started to move, Lubba rose his arms, the doors pulled open, two guards smiling and talking to each other turned their heads to look inside, their faces took on expressions of shock, then two thick strings shot out of Lubba's wrist weapons and shot straight into those men's chests. Takao's heart skipped a beat, his eyes opened wide, his bottom lip dropped, and before the two men out the back of the truck could scream, Lubba clenched his hands into fists and the strings that wrapped around the men's hearts pulled taut, crushing their hearts into nothing.
The guards collapsed and Lubba's blood-soaked golden strings pulled out of their bodies and back into his weapons. Takao's jaw was still dropped, This is too far! He's going way too far! If they're already here, waiting for us, then there was no need for that! Everyone in front of Takao started jogging towards the back of the vehicle and jumping out after Lubba who landed on one of the guards' corpses and wiped his feet off on the man's face. He turned and walked around the side of the vehicle and looked to the west while men and women in all black clothing flooded out of all the vehicles around him. Takao stepped out of the truck nervously and stared at Lubba's back while Lubba stared forward at a large city right on the water, a massive port, the biggest one on Awul's west coast. Lubba chuckled as he stared at the big city, "I always wanted to visit Port Maple."
Balbadd City
Laxus floated above the Capital of Rhodar glaring around the city with a look of increasing frustration on his face. Across the sky, a white dot appeared and got bigger as it got closer. Laxus clenched his fists tight and they sparked, but he unclenched them a second later as he recognized whose ki he felt approaching. Yamcha flew up to him, and the martial artist looked around in confusion. "They still aren't here? What's happening?" The former desert bandit questioned.
"I don't know," Laxus snarled in response. Yamcha understood the anger in Laxus's voice, and he looked down at the city wondering what was going on. Laxus spoke what they were both thinking, "Lubba breaking radio silence meant it was worth risking losing him as our spy. He knew that! So what the Hell happened?!"
"Maybe they just haven't gotten here yet?" Yamcha suggested. "Or maybe they're hiding in the city using power blockers. They could be setting up-"
"I've looked all around the city," Laxus growled. "I didn't see any sign of anyone here. Lubba would have made sure to make himself known to us after sending that message." Laxus's face turned really dark and his eyebrows narrowed as he looked outside of the city. "Something's very wrong."
Port Maple
"Somebody help us!"
"AHHH-"
"Oh God! Please! No! NO! Ack-ugh…"
"I have a family! Please stop- Eeeh!"
Takao stared around in horror as the entirety of the guards' forces outside of Port Maple were being shredded by the heavy firepower of the Underlords. Fifteen trucks lined up outside the city unloaded over two hundred men total who were tearing through Port Maple's forces without any trouble at all. The remaining twenty or so guards started retreating back to their guard post, but out of two of the Underlords' trucks rolled six Knightmares each. The mechs on long legs with wheels at the bottom rolled after the guards and gunned them down with the heavy machine guns attached to their right arms.
Lubba stood there behind dozens of his men who charged forward and joined with more and more of the Underlords' forces spreading out from their trucks. There were six other figures around their army not wearing masks, all walking forward either in front of or behind their troops. Wilson Fisc, otherwise known as Kingpin, a fat bald man in a nice suit, stepped forward and lifted up the cannon onto his right shoulder. He pointed it at a small hut near the outskirts of the city, seeing some citizens running inside it to get off the streets as it seemed they were under attack. The Kingpin smirked, then fired a rocket straight at the building and it exploded.
"Hehehe, now this is what I'm talking about!" A man with long spiky blond hair that looked like a mane around his head only it went far down his back too yelled. He had on a yellow coat jacket opened down the middle revealing his muscular torso and a pair of black pants with the legs rolled up above his knees. He held up two hands and black and purple flames exploded on his palms. The Flame God Slayer, Zancrow, threw one arm towards a high-rise skyscraper near the center of the city and he laughed madly as the ball of fire made a massive explosion on the twenty-second floor. A helicopter lifted off from somewhere inside the city and turned towards the east side, and Zancrow spotted it just before he threw his second fireball. The helicopter had miniguns on the sides of it and he smirked before leaping high in the air and throwing his second attack at the chopper.
The guards at the edge of the city spun around and watched as the helicopter they just called in from the police station burst into a explosion of purple flames. As the wreckage of the chopper fell from the air, they heard loud creaking behind it and watched in horror as the top stories of the building Zancrow attacked collapsed down on the flaming section that quickly burnt through the supports holding those floors up. Screams echoed through the whole city and as the massive skyscraper collapsed, smoke and dust billowed down every single street in the port. Boats took off from port and people sprinted to the sea to get on and out of there without even knowing what was happening on the other side of Port Maple.
"We have to give the citizens time to escape!" Vice Admiral Maynard yelled as he arrived at the edge of the city. He was not a part of the outer guards, having been in the center of the city leading an unrelated investigation with a small squad of elite Marines. He stepped out of the city, and the surviving guards in the area cheered seeing some Marines there to help them. Maynard and the six Marines around him got ready, and ten other soldiers, a few of them bloody, picked themselves back up or rose weapons towards the Underlords and their armies.
"Lubba, Lubba this is nuts," Takao hissed into Lubbock's ear. The green haired Underlord was at the back of his troops so no one noticed that one of the figures in their group had stopped and taken off his ski mask. Takao grabbed Lubba by the right shoulder and shook him a few times as Lubba stared straight at the flaming city. "Infiltrating any farther isn't worth is," Takao said, sweat covering the older man's face as he shook Lubba some more, trying to get him to stop smiling and break character as he could hear the screams of citizens burning alive all over the city. "Come on man, we have all the Underlords in front of us. We should take them down with those Marines, or get Najenda here sooner, or-"
Lubba turned his head to Takao and shook his head. "Najenda will have everyone going to Balbadd City. They have no idea Port Maple is under attack."
Takao's jaw dropped, and in a scared, desperate tone he whispered, "Why?"
"Lubbock was quite good at keeping his true thoughts hidden," a voice said behind Takao. The scrawny man with blond hair spun around and snapped his head down to look at the boy with a football-shaped head who was standing behind him with a dog at his side. The dog with white fur was not looking at any of them though, Brian Griffin was staring out at Port Maple in horror. Stewie continued talking to Takao as he walked right up on Lubba's side, even as Lubba did not look down at the kid and instead turned back to Port Maple with a calm grin. "He believed he could hide what his intentions were from me forever, but he was wrong. In fact, you helped bring his true thoughts to the surface, so thank you."
Takao's horrified look grew even more distressed, and he spun around as he heard louder screams start closer to him. He watched as the Underlords' forces swarmed the Marines and guards, and even with a Vice Admiral on their side, the battle did not look good. Another of the Underlords, a snow leopard with gray fur speckled in black, golden eyes, and wearing a purple gi, charged at Maynard and dodged the first punch the man threw at him. Tai Lung dodged left and right with his Observational Haki, then slashed forward and Maynard did not leap back fast enough, getting the front of his uniform ripped down the middle in three lines, blood splashing into the air.
Maynard went down and Takao heard Stewie speaking behind him, "You may wonder why I did not break Lubba's cover to the boss. It is simple, I wanted Lubba as my own pawn." Lubba said nothing while Stewie said this all within earshot of him. Takao turned back and looked at the kid in horror, and Stewie continued, "Now I have the voice of two Underlords. Soon I will take over the others' minds, but I am not the only telepath in the Underlords. I must make sure my mental ability is powerful enough first." He put a hand up to the side of his head fast and narrowed his eyes at the man in front of him.
Takao stumbled backwards and grabbed the side of his head in pain. "What's, happening-agh…" Listen to Stewie. What the Hell?! Do what I say. AGGHHH! Destroy Port Maple!
Ebon Evans turned around as he had been keeping an eye on what was going on behind him the whole time. The metahuman with the ability to control shadows narrowed his eyes at the struggle back there, but those eyes opened huge as the young blond man stumbling back shoved his arm to the right and out of nowhere, a portal appeared in thin air. Even Stewie's jaw dropped as this happened as Takao had not used his powers since joining the Underlords, getting in instead because of his experience as a spy. Stewie stopped trying to infiltrate Takao's mind and instead went for damage, but Takao jumped into his portal before Stewie could crush his mind.
"Damn," Stewie growled as the other man vanished. How foolish of me. I have let a simpleton like him escape my clutches. No matter! He will not be able to get help for this city soon enough.
The kid and his dog stepped forward and Lubba walked with them, not once mentioning anything about Takao. They walked towards the city and stopped with the majority of Underlord forces right outside the guard post where almost all the guards and Marines who tried making a last stand lay dead around it. A couple barricaded themselves inside the guard building but not all those outside were dead. One man was still alive, but two burly men were tying up Vice Admiral Maynard as another strapped a power-nullifying collar around his neck to prevent him from fighting back any longer.
"Let me finish him off," Tai Lung snarled. The snow leopard brought a claw right up under Maynard's chin and his nails cut shallowly into the skin on his neck.
"Not yet my furry friend," a crazed voice said from the middle of the pack. Everyone in the main force turned towards the middle where one of the random soldiers wearing ski masks stepped forward. He was not very big compared to the others, but he sounded crazier than any of them, even the God Slayer who never returned to them and was rampaging around Port Maple causing huge purple and black explosions all over the place. This man who stepped forward in the crowd though, he stepped right up to Tai Lung and the men holding Maynard down, then walked past them. He had a flamethrower in one hand spewing flames unstably out of the end of the barrel. He reached up with his other hand and grabbed the bottom of his mask, pulling it up over his head and making most men behind him gawk at his appearance as he turned to face them.
His hair was long, curly, and green, and when he turned around they all saw his face was covered in pale white makeup except for the red smile of lipstick right over the scars he had carved into his face. The Joker held his arms up at his sides and waved his flamethrower around in the air on his right side, shooting some flames up in the air as he did. "Chaos, is a wonderful thing." Behind him, three of the tallest buildings in the city started to collapse and the Underlords roared cheers. Joker smiled madly and turned around, "Safety, is a lie governments tell these people to keep them docile. Buildings and guards cannot stand up to chaos. The most powerful thing we can control!" He brought his flamethrower down and they heard the screams from inside the guard post yelling at him not to, but the Joker fired his flamethrower anyway and the building engulfed in flames. "Hahahaha! HEEAHAHA!"
"AHHHH!"
"HELP US!"
A window smashed and a man on fire tried climbing through it, only to get cut up by the glass on his way out. He crawled away from the building, his flesh melting off his bones, his body torn up all over. A little kid with a misshapen head watching all this lost his smirk and his eyes opened wide as the man reached an arm out for Maynard, the Vice Admiral screaming at the Underlords around him to stop and let him go. All of them ignored him, and Maynard looked into the boiling eyes of his subordinate as the man finally died in front of him.
Joker frowned at his flamethrower as he had kept firing a pillar of flames until he was all out of fuel. He shook around the weapon a few times, then dropped it on the floor with a shrug. "Go, burn the city," he said, a wide smirk re-emerging on his face. "Leave some survivors. We want them to be able to spread the terror, the fear they feel today, to every city on this continent. We want them paranoid, we want them afraid, I want another war!" As Joker shouted, his army ran to either side of him, screaming and waving their weapons around before lowering them and firing at every person, vehicle, and car they passed on their way into the city. Knightmares rolled in and lifted their left arms now, firing rockets at buildings and blowing holes in any safe haven the citizens thought they had. Explosions and screams filled the air as much as smoke and dust. It truly was, pure chaos.
Thousands of miles away from Port Maple, near the southern border of the RNG, but just north of it, two figures were walking down a recently paved road in Pao Town. One was a panda with black and white fur, and the one next to the furry creature was an eighteen year old girl with bleach blonde straight hair going down her back all the way past her butt. Po and Yuri lived next door to each other, and the two were heading back to their homes from an emergency meeting at Fairy Tail's Guild Hall.
The blonde girl was about to respond to something the martial artist panda said, when a purple glowing circle appeared in midair right in front of them. Yuri's eyes popped open much larger than Po's, and she sprinted towards the portal before the older man even fell through it. "Takao!" She shouted.
Po jogged after the girl who ran over sixty miles per hour to reach her friend in a second. He looked down at the man and saw Takao grabbing the sides of his head and screaming the entire time. He was wearing all black and had a pistol in a holster on his right side, and all the veins in his forehead were pulsing like mad. He was in excruciating pain and it felt like his head was going to explode as he let out another bloodcurdling scream that made some other people leave their houses. "Takao, what's wrong?" Po asked the man on the ground who writhed around in agony.
"What's happening?!" Mirajane yelled as she came running down the road with her younger sister.
"Is he alright?" Gwen asked, coming to a stop on the other side of the street as she saw the man on the ground grabbing his head in pain and screaming bloody murder. Takao, she thought, a frown coming to her face as she remembered he was the man who let Luthor know when the council was going to take place, who let Luthor know where her Grandpa would be, who let Luthor kill him. Still, seeing the man scream like this did not give her any pleasure, and everyone running over looked at Takao confusedly as he did this.
I need, to tell, them! Takao kept screaming for a few more seconds, but he clenched his teeth hard and snapped his eyes open. He reached up and grabbed Yuri by the collar of her shirt as she was leaning down over him with a concerned look in her eyes. "Port Maple," he growled in a raspy voice, before letting out another scream and biting his own tongue to stop and put pain somewhere else other than his mind. Stewie may not have been able to destroy his mind, but he definitely damaged it before Takao got out of there.
"What about Port Maple?" Yuri asked, not understanding one bit. The tall girl spotted someone else running over and she looked up a little to see Dawn slowing down and dropping her bottom lip at the sight of Takao squirming around. Dawn sprinted forward a few steps like she was going to run to Takao's side, then came to an abrupt halt and lost her worried look, an angry one spreading across her face instead.
"Takao!" Mira yelled at the man. She got close to them and yelled down, "What happened to you? Where have you been?"
"Port Maple," Takao repeated, his mind starting to blank. His eyes were blinking shut slower and slower, and his mind was shutting down. No… no, stop it. No… NO! Takao's closed eyes snapped back open and the hand about to lose its grip on Yuri's collar gripped tighter. He pulled his head farther up and blood seeped out of the corners of his eyes while the veins on his forehead popped larger than ever. "Not, Balbadd," he rasped out. "Lubba, lied," he coughed and the others who were just discussing this at Fairy Tail's guild hall dropped their jaws at what he was saying. Seeing the looks of horror on their faces let him know that they understood, and a small smile came to his face. He let go of Yuri's shirt and fell back, but as the back of his head hit the ground, he mumbled one last time, "Port Maple."
Takao faded out of consciousness, but before he was fully gone he heard some shouts in his head.
"Port Maple?!"
"Gohan and Vegeta just left for Balbadd!"
"No one can get there fast enough!"
"What if he's lying?!"
"Didn't look like he was!"
"We have to let the RNG know!"
"It's too late! Everyone already sent their troops to Balbadd!"
"What do we do?!"
A/N Lubba noo! Twists left and right this chapter. Gray's dad shows up after Rin admits who his own father is, only it's not Silver but Deliora! Edolas versions of Natsu and Lucy appear with the biker gang that Tetsuo was a part of at the start of Akira. Stewie took over Lubba's mind and got him to redirect all the forces of Awul away from the Underlords' true target, and then he mind-blasted Takao who barely managed to get out his message, though it seems like it was already too late. Hope you all enjoyed!
God Eater: Vajra, Aragami
Fairy Tail: Gray, Natsu, Juvia, Silver Fullbuster, Deliora, Zancrow, Edo-Natsu, Edo-Lucy, Mirajane, Laxus
Towa no Quon: Takao, Yuri
Akame ga Kill: Najenda, Lubba
Kung fu Panda: Po, Tai Lung
DC Comics: Joker, Ra's al Ghul, Lex Luthor
Marvel: Kingpin (Wilson Fisc)
Family Guy: Stewie, Brian
Akira: Kaneda, Yamagata, Kai
One Piece: Franky, Nami, Luffy, Maynard
Blue Exorcist: Rin, Satan, Yukio, Astaroth, Mephisto, Father Fujimoto
DBZ: Gohan, Vegeta, Yamcha
Pokemon: Dawn
SAO: Kirito
Ben 10: Gwen
Static Shock: Ebon Evans
Magi: Balbadd
Code Geass: Knightmares
Limit-Breaking chapter 73 . 16h ago
Poor romeo becoming a slave, well at least he was able to escape from the king. Besides that i just remember that goku mention the fusion when fighting with luthor so will that ever be used or no. I also can't wait to see more from everybody nobody, though i got to admit it's weird how they act sometimes. I figure they would have some personality of the people they are. Besides that i look forward to the next chapter and (cough.. cough.. ssj4) more story development XD.
Thanks for the review! Goku did mention fusion, but last time he brought it up was for an enemy that it seemed like none of them would be able to beat without it, so maybe if one of those shows up this time he'll bring it up again? Who knows? The Nobodies keep some of their Somebodies' personalities, like Nami and Manix loving money, or Bronxi and Robin being smart, or Sanji and Jixsan loving women, but they're also heart-less SOBs so... XD Thanks again everyone who read, faved, followed, and reviewed! 'Till next time!