Erio looked at the boyish-looking enemy in front of him. "You..."
"Surrender, I do not wish to harm you or your friend." The girl with long hair said as she pointed her blade at Caro. When Erio growled at her and gripped his spear tighter, she sighed softly. "Otto, deal with the girl, I will handle the boy." She snapped her fingers and Erio found himself wrapped up in binds.
"You..." Erio growled at her. "Damn you."
"Caro! Erio!" Subaru yelled as she rushed towards the young children, Ginga and Quint right behind her. "Stop!"
"I would listen." A male voice spoke up and the two that were in front of Erio and Caro looked up to see Yuuno and Fate, the latter with Bardiche in Zambar form, looking down at them with narrow eyes. "I'd hate to have to hurt you too badly because you harmed those two."
"...Deed, take her, I will go against him." Otto said as she floated upwards, followed by Deed.
Lutecia watched them float upwards to meet their opponents before looking at Caro, Erio, Subaru, Ginga and Quint. "...Garyuu, are you okay?" She had other concerns on her mind other than her enemies at that moment. When Garyuu nodded his head, she smiled at him. "Good boy."
"Garyuu, that is you, isn't it?" The insectoid summon turned and looked at the older woman as she walked towards Garyuu, her hands held up in front of her. "It's me, Quint, you remember me, don't you? I was your mistress's friend."
Lutecia looked at Garyuu as he took a step backwards. "...You know her, Garyuu?"
"Yes, he did." Quint smiled at Lutecia. "Because I knew him, and your mother." Lutecia looked at her, her pupils shrinking as she digested that. "Please, Lutecia," Quint held her hand out to the young girl. "Come with me. I can help you."
Before Lutecia could answer, several pink bolts bombarded the area around her, kicking up a lot of dust in the process. When the dust settled, a redheaded girl wearing a black body suit, a red thin belt or something around her waist, was next to Lutecia. Her red eyes sparkled in mirth as pink spheres surrounded her, Lutecia and Garyuu. Her hair was done up in a ponytail that was pressed up against the back of her head as she grinned and leaned against a board of some sort. "Hey, Lu..." She narrowed her eyes as she saw Ginga make a move. "Ah ah ah..." She waggled a finger, "I wouldn't try anything..."
"Wendi..." Quint looked at the girl, who looked at her, blinking in shock. "What the heck, is everyone I've met in the past going to show up or something?"
Wendi bit her lower lip. 'Maybe we should have had Cinque come in instead?' And where the heck was Due anyway?
Meanwhile...
Otto grimaced as her opponent easily blocked her Ray Storm. Granted, it wasn't her strongest ability anymore, but it was still a little worrying to see her taller adversary block it so easily.
"I don't know what you're playing at, boy, but..."
"That's a girl, boss."
Yuuno blinked and looked at Otto, tilting his head. "...You sure?"
"No Adam's apple. If she wasn't wearing those pants, I bet that outfit would be just as tight on her as it is on that other cute girl."
"Leave my sister out of this." Otto said, narrowing her eyes at Yuuno and Thoth Driver.
"Boss, it is every man's dream to get two cute sisters after you at the same time, do it."
Yuuno just palmed his face and sighed as the girl twitched and glared at him. "Regardless of my device, I do respect women a lot more than that. Unless you and your sister both would want to do that, I wouldn't ask that of you."
"Good, because I do not like your device." Otto said, her face red as she fumed silently.
"Listen," Yuuno held up his hands to try and keep her calm, "I don't really want to fight, but you were threatening someone who I look at like a daughter. But, tell me, what do you want right now? If it's something that we can help with, the Bureau would be glad to help you. Or at the very least, my friends and I would help you."
Narrowing her eyes, Otto brought her hand up to her face. "I am sorry, but I doubt that you could help someone like myself."
"Hey, boss, how come she has a tail?"
"What?" Yuuno blinked and looked at Otto's waist, his eyes widened as the thing he thought was a belt suddenly unwrapped from her waist and stuck out. "...You're a Dragon?"
"Ray Slice." A thin green beam rushed out towards Yuuno, forcing him to throw a hand up to block it. Grimacing at the strength of the blow, he looked at his device.
"Thoth!"
"On it boss, Reflect."
Otto stared as Yuuno tilted his barrier slightly and her shot was reflected right back at her, though slightly to the right as the beam missed her by only a few centimeters. Her body trembled as she looked at him with fear in her eyes. "...You could have..."
"I didn't want to." He said, his eyes narrowed as he looked at her. Between the glint on his glasses, the scar on his face and his narrow eyes, Otto really was scared. "Listen, again, I don't want to hurt you, but you need to stop before I have to."
"None of us really have a future, we lost that chance. No one will accept most of us for what we are, just remember that."
Uno's words were harsh, but Otto knew that they were true. Taking a deep breath, she tried to remind herself that she had a very durable piece of armor on. "I am sorry, but I do not have a choice." Before the smaller girl could say anything, her head throbbed and she clutched her skull, groaning. 'What, what is this?'
Deed grimaced as the blonde she was facing was not only fast, but also incredibly strong. 'It is almost like facing Tre one-on-one.' It really was too, every time that Deed tried to make a move, her opponent was either behind her, at her side, or in her guard, smacking her with her large blade.
"You're not too bad." Fate said as she watched Deed's movements. "A little too reliant on how tough you are, but you do not leave too many openings in your style."
Deed closed her eyes. "Unlike most of my sisters, I am not too special, however, I recently discovered a unique ability of mine."
Fate blinked, wondering what the girl was talking about, before staring as she suddenly split into three other replicas of herself. "...What is this?"
One of the clones swung her blade out at Fate and a wave of lightning shot at her. Spinning, Fate blocked that with Bardiche, but grunted as a blade beam struck her back. "Bardiche, status."
"Yes, sir. All four are the same, no differences."
"Great." Fate grimaced and held a hand up. "Dimension Thunder!" At full power, this spell was strong enough to nearly destroy even a Bureau ship with a single shot, as her deceased mother, Precia, could have done many years ago. However, Fate wasn't aiming to kill her opponent, so she put only enough power to cast the spell and nothing more.
Fate watched as all four clones covered their bodies as the lightning struck them from all angles. "I do not wish for this fight to continue."
"I was thinking the same thing." Fate stared as not only were the four copies of her opponent not out cold, but they were also completely unharmed from that attack, other than some singe marks on their skin.
"Very well," Fate ran her hand across the flat of her blade, causing it to glow white. "You leave me no choice, Dimension Zambar." She still didn't want to kill anyone, but she didn't know if she could afford to hold back too much against this girl who could clone herself.
A blast of cold air struck out at Fate from behind, forcing the Ace to spin and cut upwards to diffuse the energy. Turning to the side, she swung outwards, cutting through a blast of wind as she looked at the clones with her eyes narrowed. "You cannot hope to win like this." When one of the clones suddenly looked afraid, Fate gave a grim smile and turned to slash the one across from that copy in half.
Deed stared and trembled as that Zambar sword turned from white back to yellow. The reason she was afraid?
That woman cut through the Valkyrie body armor with ease. If Deed's state of mind was more calm, she would have realized that it was because of how large the sword was, and that Tre's own blades could do similar effects.
But seeing a clone get chopped down so easily, it didn't sit well with the cyborg, who gulped as Fate spun and pointed Bardiche Zambar at her face.
"Please surrender, I do not wish to harm you for real."
Before Deed could answer, her head throbbed and she was forced to grab at the top of her skull as she groaned in pain. 'What is this?'
Sighing as she saw what was happening on the screen, Levi felt the urge to take off a pair of glasses and wipe them down.
Never mind the fact that she didn't have glasses to begin with, she still felt the urge to do so.
"Worthless Dragons." She muttered to herself. 'What's the point of giving you those nanites if they activate when you're stressed out?' Oh well, she could have Quattro fix things later. "Quattro..." She said, grinning as she heard Quattro's voice in her head.
"Yes, my master?"
"It's time..." Her purple eyes flashed as she connected her mind to Lutecia's. "Lutecia..."
Lutecia gasped softly. 'Master Levi?'
"Good girl, now, I need you to create a summoning signal... Oh, about twelve feet into the air for me."
"Yes, master." Lutecia said as she closed her eyes and focused.
"Wendi, what is..." Subaru trailed off as she noticed Lutecia's summoning circle appear under her.
"...That's a big summon." Wendi said as she looked up into the air.
"And that's why we're going." Wendi turned to see Due and Agito, though the former was clutching her ribs while trying to grab Lutecia. "Sorry about disappearing, but that woman down there hits pretty damn hard, broke a couple of my ribs." She looked up at Otto and Deed. "Dammit! Wendi, you grab them, I'll get Lutecia, Agito, get us out of here."
Agito saluted Due and a Belkan triangle appeared under her. "Ready when you are, Meister."
Up above, Wendi grabbed Otto and grinned at Yuuno. "Sorry, but you can't have her, and I don't want to stick around when that thing shows up." She pointed at the summoning circle and Yuuno could only blink as, by the time he turned back, both Otto and Wendi were already over to where Fate and Deed were.
"...She's fast."
"Bet she's like that with more than just flying, boss."
"Not now, Thoth." Yuuno grumbled as he saw Wendi grab Deed and rush both Otto and Deed back to Due, Agito and Lutecia. "What is..." His eyes widened as five gadget drones came out of the summoning array, followed by the largest humanoid machines Yuuno had ever seen.
Even though he was the tallest person on the field, the machine was more than twice his height, pure white in color, wide enough that it took up most of the street when it touched down, its feet were very jagged and its hands looked like knives, on its right arm was a large cannon while its face reminded Yuuno of a shark for some odd reason.
When the eyes flashed red, Yuuno gulped. When the Gadget Drones suddenly split into two and tubes came out of them, only for one gadget drone to latch onto each arm, one to each leg, and one to the chest while the other half latched onto the thing's back and a bubble suddenly appeared, six feet in all directions from the thing, Yuuno wondered what the heck was happening.
One thing was for certain, it wouldn't take long to find out.
See other episodes by Philip Weigel
(Posted Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:27)
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