DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BEN 10 OR AKAME GA KILL. THEY BELONG TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS. BEN 10 IS OWNED BY CARTOON NETWORK MAN OF ACTION AND AKAME GA KILL IS OWNED BY SQUARE ENIX.
Author's Note: Heyo there everyone in the comment section! This is MegaRdaniels coming at you all for the new chapter for Ultimate ga Kill: Volume II. I have been thinking many ways as to how Akame would react to the modern world. How powerful she could be while using alien tech. Will she be more adept at alien tech or would she only use Murasame? Who knows. Anyway, I hope you all had a great Holiday, and please always leave reviews, they are always appreciated. Thank you!
大きな物語を終わらせる
Chapter 4: Kill the Big Story Pt. 3
Jimmy lied on the floor just thinking to himself, surrounded by his own thoughts. He kept on revisiting what he saw.
He was stumped.
Confused.
Was he being gaslit? Was the plant monster hiding, or was he just going crazy?
The young journalist couldn't piece it together. If an alien plant monster did not attack him, then what did?
He had all these questions flooding in his head but with no leads.
What's worse was that he was made a fool of by his own personal hero, Ben Tennyson, the very young man that inspired the young boy to capture and report on otherworldly sightings.
He took a deep breath, trying to forget the night. Unfortunately, it would prove to be difficult once he heard a crack from his window.
The young boy opened his eyes and turned around and saw a young woman around the same age as Ben with long, raven black hair that reached down to her knees, wearing a dark sleeveless top with a white collar and a red tie; she wore a red belt that has a red side skirt cover over a black, pleated skirt. She wore it with long black socks and black shoes. She also wore red gauntlets, and black gloves. She climbed over the window sill to his floor. What was captivating about the young woman was her striking, ruby red eyes piercing through his soul.
Jimmy quickly got up, his initial reaction was to call his mother and run, but then his memory started to replay on the moment where he showed his hero to the very cave to where he claimed he saw the alien plant monster.
His eyes squinted, "Hey," he started, "I remember you."
"Jimmy, was it?" the young woman asked.
"Y-yes. You're…I never caught your name," Jimmy said.
"Akame…just Akame," she answered; "You made a claim about an alien plant monster, is that correct?"
"Well…yes. You're not gonna label as crazy, are you? I swore I…" Jimmy began.
"I believe you," Akame said, shocking the young boy.
"You're joking?" Jimmy said, "You were in the cave with us. Ben and I did not see…"
"Ben Tennyson wasn't searching for anything. He was surface-looking, allergic to peanut brittle, and the cave had a small hole on the roof, probably for no more than a meter across," Akame explained.. "I may not have known Ben for too long, but I know about him enough that Ben would mostly look around, probably look for clues, scratches, other incidents here and there. He'd spawn an alien transformation, most likely Clockwork to see if the claims you stated were true," Akame stated.
Jimmy was impressed. "Wow, you sound like you've known him for years."
Akame smiled, "He was easy to read; he's not the type of person where you go and ponder about his mind," she said, her expression now turning serious. "Now, tell me what you know about this creature, and about the belt you have found." She knelt down to his level, her eyes in his direction, focused.
Jimmy's eyes were wide open, he forgot about the belt he mentioned earlier.
Dang it!
He looked away for a bit, then focused on the young woman.
"The belt was…weird looking, the buckle on it I mean. The design had weird inscriptions on it. It was silver, metallic. Hexagonal…" Jimmy explained.
Akame's eyes went wide and leaned in forward towards Jimmy with intrigue. "Did you see anyone there?"
"Aside from the plant monster? No," Jimmy admitted. "Sorry. Even if you do believe me, they won't! Maybe I…"
Suddenly, his computer beeped, sending him various notifications on his computer, something that spooked Akame quite a bit. Jimmy got up, knowing exactly what that was, or at least he thought.
"What is that?" Akame asked.
"Heh! Thank you "Always looking for Weird Stuff Algorithms!" Jimmy said, "They have tons of weird and cool stuff!"
"Now, what have we found?" Jimmy asked, getting up from the floor and onto the computer. Akame got up and followed him; when she got shoulder-to-shoulder with the kid, she was confused at the amount of intensity Jimmy was feeling, though it did seem that the level of determination was crawling back the moment he got his proof.
On the computer, a graph of water usage data displayed a series of unusual spikes.
"…This can't be right," Jimmy said.
"What doesn't?" Akame asked, curious about the graphs and data on his computer.
"It's like everyone in town flushed the toilet at the same time," he then turned to Akame, "For TWO DAYS STRAIGHT! And who uses water, Akame? Plants. That's who."
This alarmed Akame. Jimmy WAS right, and the data was backing him up. She had to applaud the young man for his investigatory work; however, her attention was now on this alien plant monster. She had her doubts on Ben's investigation within the cave. It seemed too strange and too robotic a little bit, almost as if it was rehearsed. So in a way, Akame felt something was off, but this proved it.
"I'm not imagining this," Jimmy finished, standing up.
"This is enough to convince me," Akame said, "If this plant monster is loose, it could pose a threat to everyone in town, if not the whole world if we do not stop that thing.
Jimmy turned to the young woman, "You have a plan?"
"You need proof, I need a weapon," Akame said.
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Not too long after, the duo approached a shotty, not well-maintained pawn shop in the middle of town.
The building looked like it could give way any moment. No sane person would ever want to shop in that death trap let alone live there. The place smelled like rotting wood burning in a furnace, dust accumulated on flat surfaces. The lighting was dim at best, shotty at worst; unfortunately, the worst of it was the ominous, electric humming.
Jimmy clasped onto Akame's arm, kinda scared…and not to mention creeped out a bit. There were a lot of guns in this place. Lots of guns.
Akame wasn't the type of person to use such a weapon like that, it didn't mean she was not experienced in it. She was, it just was not her flavor of weaponry.
It's like walking into an ice cream shop, you walk in and you see various flavors: but it's that one flavor you crave the most, one that defines your specific taste in frozen treats, and in the case of Akame…that taste was in weapons.
She looked around, she didn't really see all to which would use…that was until she stumbled across something deathly familiar.
Her eyes popped the moment she saw sitting right above the rack of the merchant was a blade. A blade of familiar origin! It had an ominous purple glow: within said glow was a blade inside of the blood red saya. The handle of the blade had the familiar Kanji.
"Murasame," Akame said with a soft tone in her voice, mesmerized.
"Huh? What's a…Murasame?" Jimmy asked.
"My sword," Akame said, she turned her head to Jimmy, "Stay close to me, understand?"
Jimmy slowly nodded.
"Hey!" called out a man with a tone of voice that sounded like a person who smoked 10 packs a day for dinner and a liter of hard liquor for dessert.
He wore a worn-out brown shirt, tight, underwater dirty blue jeans that looked like they had not been washed since the early days of the Obama Administration, a beard that can attract a nation of "patriotic" cockroaches.
Not a clan.
A damn nation buying the whole damn unwashed buttchin at a cheap market rate, a scalp so bad it made the local barber drag himself to an alley to get shot by a bum drunk on moonshine.
Flies flew around him as if they were helicopters looking for a criminal in the middle of Los Angeles in 1994.
And the smell was something only a mother regrets not aborting a stink bomb for a child. It was something that Akame tried to get used to.
Her mind was telling no, but her body was screaming at her to take tjay sword, run, and burn that death trap to the ground.
Honestly, that would have been a public service.
Jimmy, meanwhile, was trying so hard not to hurl as the smell was so bad that it squeezed the poor boy's stomach and churned it like a man in a lemonade.
Akame, however, ignored it…at least she tried.
"Why did you come here? This place smells like his toilet," Jimmy asked, trying hard not to wheeze.
"Kevin…" Akame replied simply.
"Hey, I asked you a darn question! Are you trying to buy or tweet and complain?" The Merchant asked.
"The sword," Akame replied, again simply, "He needs to bathe."
The Merchant raised his left brow, interested, "Oh, you're talking about this piece of crap?" he pointed. "Just found it on the ground this morning! Tried to friggin' pick up the darn thing, but my head started to hurt like a muddabucka! So wit' dat said…" he hawked, "I had to get a damn plier to…"
"How much?" Akame asked, noting that she really did not want to be in the shop any longer. Her demeanor was clear.
"Oh that thing? $2500.00!" The Merchant answered.
Akame, in response, slapped a hill of gold coins left over from her days of the revolution.
The look on the Merchant's eyes was filled with awe and trepidation! His smile grew bigger…his nasty…baked-rotting teeth, filled with holes and slime! His breath was foreign gas no human could exhale and live! He shook as he cupped the poor clean coin as his tears snaked down the dry desert of his skin.
"Mother of all Jesus!" he broke. "I am rich!" He turned.
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Bathing in the freshness of clean air, Akame took a deep breath. She opened her eyes and shook the stench off her body. Jimmy, who forgot the stench of the Merchant drew his eyes on her sword as she slid it back to the saya.
"Um…Ms. Akame," Jimmy asked as Akame turned to face him. "Where are you from? Like originally?"
"A broken world," she answered, "Let's go."
Jimmy nodded and followed the woman; has not unglued itself from Akame's mysterious origins.
Maybe after this plant thing is over, he would invest his time to investigate Akame's origins.
…
Akame and Jimmy had no idea what to expect back in the cave.
They did not have Ben to protect them, but since Akame finally had her cursed blade back, she felt more secure than ever; however, in the back of her mind, she felt the need to hold back a little.
This was not her world. No one knew who she was at all.
Her reputation was non-existent. Basically, she had to start from scratch.
They stared at the mouth of the cave, feeling the gust of cold air brushing up against them like a rush of cold water. Akame never faced any alien threats before, if any at all.
The first time she fought Ben, it was a culture shock. Fighting against him was like trying to battle a typhoon.
Now, everything was bleak. Very. She took a deep breath and held Jimmy's hand, much to the young boy's confusion.
"Are you scared?" Jimmy asked, confused.
"If you come to the world with no fear, you are not human," Akame said. "Jimmy, I will not lie to you. When I first met Ben, I was scared. Even when he joined our cause, I was still scared. I was scared of him, the Empire, everything. Being brave doesn't mean you act tough and strong, being brave means you are scared but you do the things you know can hurt you anyway because it's the right thing to do," she turned to Jimmy, this time with a smile, "Ben Tennyson did not show me that it was okay to be scared, he validated it because he was scared too. Though, I doubt he would admit to it."
"Mr. Tennyson was scared?" Jimmy asked, confused.
"All heroes are, but they fight anyway. That is the nature of bravery," Akame explained.
Jimmy nodded, smiling at Akame.
"Let's go," she offered her hand to the young boy. Without hesitation, Jimmy grabbed her hand as they walked together inside of the dark cave.
As they walked, Jimmy's head started to ramble around with questions. This time, it revolved around Akame. Where did she come from? She looked like and sounded like she was not from around here. Anytime there was some semblance of technology here and there, she would be fascinated - well scared and then fascinated. It was strange, but for this instance, he would have to park the question for later. He pulled out his camera, his grip tightening Akame's hand.
Akame noticed it immediately, Jimmy was scared. This prompted her to grip the handle of her cursed blade.
When they finally got to the end of the corridor. Suddenly, something fell, a few crumbs of rock fell from above. With the smallest of taps, Akame narrowed her eyes and halted Jimmy from moving further, her arm acting as a gate pushed him back a little.
"Stay quiet," Akame ordered.
"What's wrong?" Jimmy asked.
"I don't think we're alone here," she said. They took cover behind a pillar; Akame pressed Jimmy against the wall as she looked forward to see who the opponent was.
The cave was dark, but she could make out three silhouettes: two humans and a large being in the front. Her eyes narrowed further, thinking that be anybody. Imagine her surprise, her shock to see two familiar figures on their knees bowing down to a pale, ovaloid pod plant with purple roots. It had one demonic purple and black eye with a dark purple outline facing the front, it looked more like a ripe vegetable than any carnivorous plant, although it could take on the physiology of one. It was the strangest plant Akame had ever seen before, and she thought Ben's world just couldn't get any stranger.
"Your will is our command," said the young teen and the young woman in perfect, synchronized unison.
Her heart skipped a beat. Catching her eye were two people she immediately recognized: one was a young, curvaceous woman. She had short blonde hair with two long tufts that framed the sides of her head and golden eyes. She wore a revealing outfit with a black tube top, detachable sleeves with what looked like gold bands, pants, boots and a scarf around her neck; the other was a teen boy who sported a black short-sleeved T-shirt, blue jeans, and a green jacket with white stripes on his left sleeve and the number 10 on the right, white socks, and black and white Converse-style shoes.
Akame was beyond shocked.
Leone and Ben…working for this plant? Why? Something was not right about this at all.
All of her emotions circulated all at once. She didn't know how to feel.
Jimmy, curious, was asking Akame what was going on, but judging based on her facial expressions, something was off.
He pushed her arm away and turned to see the horror show that froze the assassin in place.
"Ben's in on it!" Jimmy gasped, tugging a hyperventilating Akame to the wall.
She wasn't sure what waa scarier: a well-trained senior Night Raid member, who happened to be your best friend, or the young man who took your heart who, by far, has the powers that could rival God!
"Akame? Are you okay?" Jimmy asked.
"I failed," she whispered, a lone tear snaking down her face like a river to a shallow hill. Her heart stopped, her limbs trembled, her emotions flared. Her trance was cut when she heard a sharp flash to her right, seeing Jimmy backing away. Acting quickly, she grabbed Jimmy and ran out of the cave.
They hurriedly ducked behind a large boulder; Akame tightened her hand on Jimmy's mouth, muffling his screams.
She took one look at them. As Ben and Leone exited the cave, they looked around. However, something was strangely off.
Ben, normally in these circumstances would, by and large, would use the Ultimatrix to sniff them out, but…he is not. Leone would have pounced and destroyed half the damn forest!
Akame loosened her grip on Jimmy, allowing him to breathe.
"Ben's…" Jimmy slowly began.
"Not at fault. At least I don't think he is. Whatever is controlling him, whoever is controlling them poses a great risk," Akame replied in realization.
"What makes you think that?" Jimmy asked.
"Leone. She is too calm. If a leaf drops, she will be on the forefront to fight off an intruder for, how Kevin would put it, "funzies"," Akame said.
"Come to think of it, Ben looked sort of…dead," Jimmy said, "We need to get Gwen and Kevin. They'll know what to do!" Jimmy said, dragging Akame away from the woods.
A/N: Hey y'all! So another slow burn, but with . Leone is here! An explanation as to how she got there will be explained in Part 4! Akame got her Murasame back and Sheele got her Extase back from the previous chapter! That said! If you enjoy this chapter, please leave them down in the comment box down below, and if you are new, leave a like and share lol! That said, until next time!
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P.S.: Shouts out to my co-writer Toy2711 for editing this Chapter!