As I am about to strike the robot with spirit destruction, I feel spirit energy coming towards me fast, so I use my tails as a shield to block the attack. Whatever hits me sends me flying to the side, and after I regain my composure, I look at where it came from, and I see the other robot looking at me.
Where the hell is Orb? Suddenly to the far left of me, I see Orb falling down from the sky. I run at full speed while the robot fires at me, but since all its blasts are spirit energy they are rather easy to dodge.
As I get closer to the edge of the building, I use leg breaker to give me enough strength to jump off my tail and grab Orb. After I grab Orb's battered body, I use my tails to swing me to another rooftop.
Φ Opening my eyes, I see Suzuka rather beaten up in front of me. Shit, she must have saved me after I fell from the building. Before I even have the chance to say something, Suzuka uses her tails to shield me from the robot shooting at us.
The blast of its cannons is ridiculously intense, still Suzuka is blocking it, but I do see her foothold move back. While Suzuka blocks the attack, I suddenly hear something approaching us at high speed, and moments later the robot with two swords appears.
“Don’t let your guard down, you dumb dogs.”
Suzuka can’t move while she is protecting me, so I jump in to intercept twinswords while saying, “Suzuka move.”
Following my instructions, Suzuka moves out of the way letting the blast hit the rooftop of the building. While our footing is removed, I use my legacy to freeze my legs to a piece of the exploded roof, and then I jump towards the robot.
The robot with twinswords has loads of cracks on its body, Suzuka must have been pulling her weight, so I have to as well. As I jump towards the robot, I use my weapon to cut it in one of its cracks which causes damage towards it.
But the robot stops moving and says, “Don’t interrupt my fight you trap.” Suddenly the robot moves towards me and starts swinging his blades at incredible speed. The other robot has nothing on this speed, but it still isn’t enough for me to be totally out sped, so I am able to dodge and when I see an opening I counterattack.
While my weapon blade moves towards the robot, his speed increases and he is able to move his blade to counter mine. When our blades clash my weapon is cut in two, and as his blade follow through towards me, I dodge backwards just in time.
My crescent moon-shaped weapon has been cut straight down the middle, but the side I am holding still has the part with the chain. Even though his blade is sharp, without the ability to create ice directly from it I can defend as easily as I want to.
The robot quickly follows up on its last attack. In the moments before it reaches me, I try to use my legacy on my weapon, but just like all the other times I tried that it failed. Dodging the robots swings my mind is completely preoccupied; what the hell, why can’t I just do this, I can’t let any harm come to anybody, I can’t let anyone die from my choices, I have to win.
Due to my mind being somewhere else, I am a few seconds late to hear the twincannon robot shooting at me. Its attack lands, and in that moment of weakness the twinsworded robot comes for my neck.
Before my neck is taken, Suzuka comes and kicks the robot in its side sending it away from me, then she picks me up and dodges all the shoots from twincannon while moving away with me.
Fuck, why does this keep happening, every single time I am stuck someone always saves me, Maple saved me from Porto, and Cyrus saved me from that minus, I am supposed to be helping them, not the other way around.
As Suzuka dodges suddenly all of the robots shots stop, then at that moment Suzuka throws me on the floor. “Sorry about my uselessne-.”
Cutting me off Suzuka kicks me in the stomach, and says, “WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU RUINING THIS FIGHT FOR ME!” Looking at her, I see that she has a completely crazy look on her face as if she was a crazy beast.
Picking me up by the collar she says, “LISTEN HERE YOU BRAIN DEAD IDIOT, I DON’T CARE EVEN A LITTLE BIT WHAT THE HELL YOU’RE GOING THROUGH, BUT IF YOU’RE ON THE BATTLEFIELD YOU FIGHT AND ENJOY YOURSELF, THINK ABOUT COMPLICATED SHIT LATER.”
Φ I stop my blasts at my foes below because I sense it. 36 degrees southeast, 1.3 kilometres away. Target analysis; family of three, mother 42 years old, father 28 years old, child 6 years old. Exactly 1 meter in front of the child is TARGET A PET CAT.
Putting both my cannons together I charge up my energy and release a long-distance shot at the cat. As an explosion goes off, I activate analysis mode again; target terminated, family unharmed.
“THIS IS THE REASON I WAS BORN, TO ANNIHILATE THE EVIL OF PETS. NOW INSTEAD OF LOVING THAT ANIMAL, GO LOVE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.”
Now to finish off both of my opponents,” I say charging my cannons.
Φ Back when I used to hunt with Willow, I used to have all the fun in the world, I was strong confident and carefree back then. Getting up I slap both my cheeks and say, “I guess you’re right.”
Suddenly twincannons start shooting at us again, so Suzuka says, “I need to go teach that piece of trash manners,” as she moves towards it.
While Suzuka moves towards twincannons, I see twinswords going after her. “Don’t overthink it, just enjoy the fight, the hunt.” Taking a deep breath, I focus on my weapon, and for the first time, I am able to use my legacy on it. “Now that’s what I am talking about.”
Using my legacy on my legs, I create a large pillar of ice which puts me in front of twinswords. When he sees me he tries to slash me, so I meet his blade with my weapon, and when we clash this time, my blade doesn’t spilt.
“So, you have come back for more, you unwanted disgrace of a man.”
“When I destroy you, I am going to repurpose your body into a toilet.”
Enraged by my comment the robot attacks me with a flurry of swings. I meet all his attacks with my weapon. Whenever our blades meet, I create a bit of ice on his blade, and slowly but surely it makes it more and more brittle until when our blades clash his starts to chip.
Surprised by this the robot slows down for a second, and I use that opportunity to kick it downwards. After doing that, I turn the pillar I was standing on into snow and fall downwards with the snow falling in front of me.
Twinswords recovering from my blow, flies upwards through the snow towards me, but as its leg is about to leave the snow, I convert it all into ice and all his momentum stops, as he is pulled downwards. Then while falling down after him, I slash his body leaving a giant gash on it.
My heart is beating so fast, I forgot how fun this is. While I am overtaken by excitement, the robot uses its great swords to break all the ice I made, and then flies up towards Suzuka and twincannons.
Φ Moving towards twincannons I use Fox art; Moukd hand on all four of my tails, so as I continue to run towards twincannons I deflect all its attacks. Then when I get close enough, I use Fox art; leg breakers and lunge towards twincannons giving him a knee to the face.
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After the blow I jump away, but I use my tails to grab onto twincannons, so I don’t move too far, then I pull myself closer and continuously step on his face.
But feeling the spirit energy of twinswords closing in, I dodge away as it tries to cut me. Landing on a rooftop I turn my leg breakers into bone breakers and clash with twin swords.
As we exchange blows, I feel twincannons spirit energy shots. Is he crazy? there is no way twinswords will not get hit, but to my surprize, twinswords dodges all the attacks perfectly.
This wasn’t a once-off occurrence, no matter how many shots twincannon lets off, they never hit twinswords. Their coordination is perfect, they fight as if they share one mind, HOW FREAKING AMAZING, I CAN’T WAIT TO KILL THEM BOTH.
Hearing Orb's thoughts, I dodge twinswords blows and continue towards twincannons. As twinswords follows me, I feel Orb finally arrive at the rooftop.
Φ Seeing the twinsworded robot following Suzuka, I use my legacy on my legs, then the moment I take off, I create lots of snow to send myself forward (Snow boost) at high speed over the head of twinswords. I hit twinswords with a bicycle kick, and the moment I do, I create lots of snow to send him backwards.
Then when I land, I take note of Suzuka's situation, which causes me to manoeuvre my chain in front of her.
Φ Twincannons shoots me with a scattershot, but instead of blocking, I ready my attack. The chain of Orb's weapon appears in front of me, and when it does it intercepts all of the shots, and when they hit it, the shots freeze and shatter.
Jumping forward at that moment I say, “Fox art; bone breaker fourfold,” as I hit the robot directly in the torso with it. When I land, I turn around and switch targets with Orb; I head for twinswords, and he heads for twincannons.
When I see twinswords, I tackle him off the rooftop. As we fall down, he says to me, “I thank you, esteemed human.”
“What for?”
“Fighting you has helped the spirit within me evolve and has allowed me to get closer to my dream. So now, let us continue our fight to the death, you deformed cunt.”
Φ Rushing towards twincannons, I manoeuvre my way across buildings and rooftops to try and get closer, as it shoots relentlessly at me. When I get close enough, I try to slash it but it moves away, so I throw my chain around its leg and create lots of ice to weigh it down.
Then using snow boost, I propel myself towards it landing a slash. I use my chain to redirect my body for another one, but twincannons shoots its leg off then it uses it cannons to propel itself out of my way. Twincannons then starts moving towards Suzuka's position.
Φ Landing on a lower rooftop we continue our exchange. We go at it head to head, with both of us not slowing down a bit despite our injuries, but I notice that a huge amount of snow has crept toward the robot's left side and it suddenly spikes up and freezes.
This must be Orbs doing. Not wasting any time, I move towards its body and relentlessly beat down on it. But then I sense twincannons shots, so I back up.
After backing up, I see Orb land beside me, as twincannons lands beside twinswords. “This has been fun but don’t you think it is time to wrap this up.”
“Don’t worry you depraved hounds, this will be your end.” Twinswords rushes at us, as twincannons fires.
Orb moving forward creates a wall of ice blocking the shots, but in that moment, twinswords hits Orb with the fuller of his sword right on the head. Seeing this, I use Fox art; mould boundless hammer and crush the rooftop, but this time I let myself fall into the hallways of the building.
Moving through the hallway, twinswords keeps up his relentless attacks as I parry each of them. Seeing that we are about to reach the end of the hallway, I kick away from twinswords and prepare my attack.
But with the speed twinswords is moving at, his attack will cleave my head before I am ready. So, all I can do now is rely on, Orb. Coming down from the roof, he slashes both of twinswords wrists, removing the swords from them.
In that moment I use my right arm to hit him with Fox art; bone breaker fourfold, and when my blow lands, I also use Fox art; spirit destruction to send my spirit energy into him. The combined force from these two techniques sends him flying out of the building through the hole I created.
Φ Seeing Ikaros fly out of the building, I catch my brother's body. “Sister, I am sorry for this.”
“Don’t worry, I won't let them get away with this.” Flying up into the sky I put both my cannons together and charge up my final attack to destroy the building they’re in. “PET EXTICINTION.”
Φ Creating a pillar of ice at our feet, I take me and Suzuka out of the building, where we see twincannons charging up a big attack. Then suddenly four of Suzuka's tails disappear and she says, “Don’t miss.”
Understanding Suzuka’s intent I say, “You can count on it.” She gets on the floor with her legs tucked, then jumping on her legs, I use snow boost as she uses all her strength to send me flying at high speed in the direction of the robots.
Φ As I am about to fire, I suddenly see something zoom past me, and then my arms are pulled upwards, as my shot hits the barrier around our home.
Looking at what happened, I see that a chain has been wrapped around my arms, and then I notice the boy. He must have wrapped the chain as he moved past redirecting my arms. Before I could even move my body the boy cleaves both mine and Ikaros heads off.
As both mine and Ikaros heads are falling, all we can do is lament at the failure of our missions.
I was so close to becoming the ultimate pet annihilator. I can’t let it end like this.
Φ Dammit, I almost had that girl. I want a rematch right now; I can’t just let it end like this.
But suddenly a creature stretches and catches both me and Buster. Moving its body back to base, I see that what caught us is a wonderbeast; the nord cat.
The cat is malnourished, but I see it bringing food to towards us. I guess other races.
Φ I guess pets.
Unison(Aren’t all that bad.) And with that, all the light vanishes from the eyes of the robots.
Φ Looking at the detached head of both Ikaros and Buster, I say, “You two really exceeded our expectations for you, I can't wait to see how you grow from this point on.”
As I try to pick their heads up, I see the cat protecting them, so I grab it as well. “You’re a cute one aren’t you.”
Φ While falling down from the sky, I expand my suit to soften my landing. When I land I run over to Suzuka, but I see her laying on the ground with her head to the floor with her heartbeat going crazy.
Walking over to her I ask, “Are you ok?”
But she shouts, “I AM SO SORRY!”
Φ Now that my post-fight clarity has kicked in, I realize how embarrassing and mean I was being. I even looked at Orb with that disgusting face. Oh no, what if he actually sees me as a monster now, I did say I don’t care about his feelings, oh no, oh, no, oh no.
Picking me up and turning me to face him, he says, “Don’t apologize for anything, your words saved me. Thank you Suzuka, without you I couldn’t have won this,” with a bright smile.
His smile is so bright that I start to cry.
“Suzuka, are you ok?”
-Break-
Φ While I patch up Iancu, I suddenly feel a strong weight fall down on me. turning my head all I can I see three aliens on gravity vehicles. “Sorry for the inconvenience, but we will be taking these kids now.”
As I am pinned to the floor, they pick up some of the kids including Iancu and start to fly away. “STOP YOU BATARDS!”
Completely unable to move I start to panic, this can’t be happening, not again.
But then I hear, “AVARAM.” It was Orb's voice.
He throws Suzuka at me, and says, “I am going after them.”
Φ Pushing my exhausted body to its very limit, I chase the three aliens. I am able to catch up to the first one and I use my blade to cut his legs off, then I create an ice platform in the zero gravity for the kids to land on.
Moving to the next one, I use snow boost to close the distance and swing my chain around its neck, pulling it off of its gravity vehicle, and then I create another platform for the dropped kids.
Now going after the last one who is holding both Iancu and Morrigan. I try to close the distance, but my legs are giving out, so I use my legacy on my suits shuriken’s and throw them at him, but I am unable to hit him with any of them.
When I am down to two left, I formulate a plan. This is all or nothing. Throwing one shuriken, I throw another one and when it hits the first one it propels it far enough to hit the alien, and due to my legacy, it freezes him.
As he drops Iancu and Morrigan, I dash forward and am able to catch Iancu but before I grab Morrigan a fourth alien appears and takes him. This alien is holding the two robot heads and a cat. “How unfortunate for you,” the alien says flying away towards the castle in the sky.
As he goes away Morrigan screams, “NINJAMAN SAVE ME!” While stretching out his arm.
Summoning all my strength I create a pillar of ice to bring me towards them, I try to reach for Morrigan’s hand, and due to all of his movement, Morrigan’s hood comes off. Getting a clear look at his face, I see he has ears like an animal.
Then the alien says, “A beastkin, what a rare find.”
Looking at Morrigan’s ears and hearing the words beastkin a feel a sudden surge in my body, which causes me to stop moving a fall on my ice. Then suddenly I am completely overtaken with numerous sensations, but the one that stands out the most is unbearable pain, it feels as if my flesh is being ripped off constantly.
Then I see images start to flash in my head. All of this eventually causes me to pass out, but right before I do I hear Morrigan’s constant screams as he is taken through the castle's barrier.
Fox arts: The martial arts Suzuka Gozen has developed over all her battles with minuses. It uses Gozen martial arts as its base.