ChumChum: I- am- weakest- member- of death squad-
Kogo snaps his finger causing the bones to pierce all the way through. ChumChum goes limp.
Kogo: I wonder if the rest are doing fine.
--- Chapter 33 ---
Ame walks down the abandoned, and completely silent road.
Ame: Man, it's kinda scary at night.
???: I KNOW right?!
Ame twirls around, minigun at the ready.
Ame: Who’s there?! Show yourself! His voice sounds familiar.
???: Well, if you insist.
From the shadowy hall of an alleyway, a man walks out, dousing himself in street light. He looks familiar… Stacy, it's Stacy. But there's something off about him. Ame can't quite point it out.
Ame: So it's you, I wondered when you would crawl back here.
Stacy: Aw, did you miss me that much? Im flattered.
Ame: We won't be having a friendly chat this time around.
Stacy: And whys that-
Ame cut him off by pulling the trigger, releasing a bullet hell barreling towards Stacy. Stacy straifs to the left to avoid the pounding and piercing bullets. He quickly dives into a nearby alleyway.
Ame: I'm not falling for the same trick twice.
The minigun snaps in two and shifts to two one handed shotguns. She walks over to the alleyway but doesn't enter. She begins looking around. No sewer grate. No windows or doors. She looks up and nothing. A wave of fear washes over her.
Ame: Where did he go?
Forward, Left, Right, Down, Up. He was gone.
Ame: Wait.
Ame swiftly turns around to see Stacy wielding a large glaive and smashing the blade into the ground where she had stood before dodging.
Ame: That's new. Magic item?
Stacy: Indeed. Spatial Glaive Colaby.
As he says this, the shadow of the building crawls up the glave, and his hands too. Quickly it envelops him entirely, and he gets absorbed within the shadow. Ame quickly runs into the middle of the street, to prepare for this weapon.
Stacy: Wise choice.
He says standing on top of a building. He stabs the blade into the ground with a crash, almost like its weight had increased from the slash on Ame moments ago. He lifts his hand, aiming his palm towards Ame.
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Stacy: Princess Amelia Misasaki, of the Misasaki Metalmorph clan. It's a shame what happened. Y’know, with few people actually living through it and all, and most importantly id say is the burning and stealing of your libraries. So much history, so much passion. Gone.
Him revealing this fact, and keeps pushing starts to anger Ame.
Stacy: But I must say, the elimination of your city was one of MY greatest delights.
The world, going dark and cold around Amelia, as she gasped for air but it's like she was in a vacuum. HE aided in the death of everyone…
Stacy: Though at the time I didn't do much. I was still very much a noob. I killed a couple but for the most part that was all The Doc and Nero. Speaking of, with the knowledge they acquired, they are able to do some interesting things.
Stacy's fingers begin to rotate around his palm and arc forward. His palm glowed a fluorescent green, as a green ball began to form in it.
Ame: That energy?! Its MMFE(Metal Morphic Fusion Energy).
Stacy: I thought I'd beat you at your own game. They asked what kind of combat and I chose ranged, just to rub it in.
The ball releases with a burst and flies towards Ame. Ame in a panic shoved the guns together, forming a bronze like shield, and a green energy shield projects from it. The ball hits the shield in an explosion, causing both the ball and the shield to burst into nothing.
Ame: How?! How can you use that! And your hand!
Stacy brings his left hand to the bottom of his shirt, and hooks the ledge of it with his middle finger. He pulls it up, exposing a glass-like dome near the lowest part of the sternum. Its filled with a green liquid.
Stacy: The doc did his magic with your books, and infused my body with MM tech, and made liquidized Fusion energy.
He says tapping the glass. He lowers his shirt.
Ame: But you can't make that stuff, that knowledge was-! Burned…
Stacy: Indeed, the recipe was in the books. Along with many other secrets about this stuff. How are you progressing without this knowledge? Its not really something you can just find out.
Ame: …
Stacy: I see, you have been plateauing for a while now.
Ame sits in silence looking up at him.
Ame: If he really has more advanced tech, and techniques than me with my own abilities, than how am i supposed to win.
She had just noticed some of the things they were off, his left iris was a neon, glowing green. A bump on the middle of his torso. His right arm has a shine. A new ball begins to form before it's hurled at her. She begins to run out of the way down the street. The ball hits the ground with an explosion, leaving a deep crater. Another ball forms, and his fingers click forward. He squeezes the ball, squeezing into 5 balls. The 5 balls launch forward toward Ame. They hit the ground around Ame, making smaller explosions all around her, sending her flying forward. She hits the ground and rolls. Her weapon clangs around the ground. She swiftly darts to it and hides in an alleyway, as a ball hits where she had fallen. She looks to her right and he's standing there, again the glaive seems to have increased in weight, to the point where it's sinking in the ground.
Stacy: Wow, with this kinda strength, this could be more than a test run for the doc. I might actually get on the Kill squad.
Ame: But it was the cost of your humanity!
Stacy: Honestly, it was a small price to pay. Humans are garbage anyway, the way they rule over the other races. Hmm that makes me wonder, what race would I be? One of the 7? The forbidden eighth?
He says the last line with wiggling fingers, as to give a spooky vibe.
Stacy: Or maybe a ninth. Eitherway, this is the future!
Ame takes the time he was distracted to form it back into a minigun and fire. He raises his right hand up, and the circular glow appears again making a circular energy shield. The bullets bounce right off. She turns a knob to up the intensity. She pulls the trigger and one shot charges up. She releases it, and it bursts over the shield. Stacy smiles through the semi-transparent green shield. Ame feels utterly crushed, but the shield cracks no matter how small, she feels invigorated, a new will to fight. A fight for her people. Ame starts to have a green glow. She lifts the minigun up releasing a barrage of these charged shots, they repeatedly hit and cracked it more and more. Panic rushes over Stacy. With his left hand he grabs the Glaive and begins to teleport. She quickly runs into the street to see where he ends up. She sees him exit an alleyway around 20 feet away. He doesn't seem to have the glaive, to which Ame assumes it's gotten too heavy for use. They stare each other down. Ames hair begins to rise, and a green static flows through it. Stacy reals back surprised.
Stacy: Guess I have too.
A green energy flows around Stacy and hair stands up, similar to Ame. Three his air and aura flare so violently that his shirt disintegrates in upward motion. Three green streaks course over his hair. Ame Pulls the trigger and releases a powerful bullet hell, but Stacy just stands there. Each bullet is met with its own small energy shield. She throws two smaller rectangles on the ground. She steps on them and they form around her feet. The green energy flows into them and allows her to float up. She straifs in a semi circle around him, releasing bullets 180 degrees around, but all were met by mini shields. He smiles and his right hand turns into the blaster mode, but instead he starts firing a beam that he waves around trying to hit her. She looks at his chest and gets an idea. She turns the minigun into a large greatsword. She flies in as fast as possible, using alot of energy. She swings at him, a bunch of small shields form, stacked ontop of eachother. She slashes them, causing many to break, it sends him back a bit. He notices her looking at his chest. He makes a small shield over it, and pulls the glove off his normal left hand. That small red gauntlet is still worn. He grabs a blade out of thin air and runs in.
Ame: He's coming in too fast, it's not going to work!
???: Amelia, this energy flows in both you and me. Its power is incredible once mastered.
Amelia: So, is it possible to use it without a weapon? Since its inside us?
???: You always ask the strangest questions. But yes, you can fire out energy. It hurts alot and you shouldn't do it, but if it's your only option, go for it.
Stacy swipes her sword out of her hand, and goes in for a psycho stab. She falls backward, but before it hits, she puts her fingers on the dome. A green energy flows around her fingers, as they release a beam. As Stacy was falling into the stab, he hits into the and clutches his chest. His eye and right arm go limp. It looks like he's gasping for air but gets none. He eventually stops moving.