Terror Infinity Side B
Chapter 35, HxH Greed Island
Capital City Limeiro.
Two and half hours have passed since Shin and Team Japan entered Limeiro. Far to the west of the castle where the final battle would take place was another battlefield. A battlefield of pure madness and chaos. Corpses filled the streets of the city and fire raged hard as the west side of the city was swallowed up in flames... but the battle that started here was not yet over. Directly in the center of it all was a monster.
A large muscular monster with green skin and chaos shinning within its two black eyes. This monster with the Hulk Mutation, Klaus was currently engaged in combat against with over a dozen Nen Users. These Nen Users knew that they were no match for the green beast in front of them, but the sadness of fallen comrades and the adrenaline of combat neglected the "flight" of their fight or flight instincts... so they could only do one thing at that moment.
Random G.I Player: "Get him!!!"
Of the twelve Nen Users present, seven of them charged at the green beast with weapons reinforced by Aura. The remaining five used this time to charge their respective attacks to kill the monster... but it was no use. The green beast that they feared as an unstoppable monster that claimed many lives within the city lived up to its reputation. Klaus, unconcerned about those before him simply screamed with fury. Its voice alone caused some of the Nen Users to stop as they were dazed and before they realized the end had come.
With speed unexpected for its giant status, Klaus swiftly evaded the incoming close range fighters and tore them apart. His fist could bend reinforced steel and it blew away all his enemies and turned them into pancakes of flesh and blood. The Nen Users who were about to attack from a distance were stunned by this scene and Klaus took this chance to approach and smash them one by one. When he was done their corpses didn't resemble anything close to a human form.
Klaus: "Me smash!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!!! Me did good, right!?"
Klaus rage filled roars traveled across the city of Limeiro and at that time he began to recall what previously happened. Before they had separated Abigail had ordered Klaus to destroy everything in sight. Team Japan, the Greed Island players, and even the buildings. Even in his state of madness he could recall this order perfectly, yet he couldn't have known that Abigail thought of him as a sacrificial tool.
Abigail only hoped that Klaus would gain Team Japan's attention and kill a few members before eventually falling. The normal Klaus would have found it strange to follow Abigail's orders to the letter, but his previous rage at the loss of so many comrades, transforming into the Hulk, and the many battles that increased both his adrenaline and rage led him not to question orders that would lead to his own demise.
Klaus: "Smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash!!! Hahaha, I'm so powerful and strongest!! Who's will I tear apart and destroy next, and next! Hahahahahahahahaha!!!"
Aqua: "Fucking retarded! If you're looking for a challenge how about taking me on green ass hole! Or what am I too much for you?"
Klaus: "!!!"
Hearing the provocation Klaus turned around in a hurry with fury in his eyes. *BANG*. As he did a bullet from a large caliber held by a woman with red hair in her early 20's hit his face. The bullet had high penetrating power, yet it bounced off his skull. The woman, Aqua clicked her teeth and had an upset look on her face as she witness her high power magic gun doing zero damage to Klaus.
Aqua: "Damn, you really are all muscle! Not an ounce of magic or special energy within you. Well, lucky you. We get to play a bit longer freak!"
Klaus: "Girl with red hair needs to get smashed!!"
With that little bit of provocation Klaus charged towards Aqua in a fit of rage. His reason for doing so wasn't because she was an enemy who attacked him or a member of Team Japan, but because she had looked down at his strength and that angered him to death. Klaus's situation in the mission had was not bright and he was all alone as he only had Abigail's last order to follow. The order to destroy everything and Klaus found solace in it and his own strength to bring forth chaos and destruction. And so, for strength that he had pride in, a strength that even brought fear to his comrades and almost previously brought Team Japan's leader to death, for Aqua to make fun of it was unacceptable.
Klaus: "Diiieeeeeee!!!"
Klaus clenched his giant sized fist hard and threw a right punch towards Aqua. It was a punch that would reap Aqua's life away. Even Shin needed various skills and abilities to survive taking hit from Klaus. Aqua possessed an adamantium exoskeleton that wouldn't break or bend under normal circumstances, yet everything else in her body would be flattened into a red paste if she took this punch head on... so she didn't.
Aqua: "I have no obligation to get into a punching match with a freak like you!"
- *TEAR*!
As Klaus followed through with his punch a loud tearing sound could be heard. Something incredibly tough and resilient was being torn apart. This was a confusing sound to Klaus who couldn't find Aqua after throwing his deadly punch and it took him a moment to understand what had happened. What had happened to him? Something large and heavy had fallen to the ground and only did Klaus notice that his right arm from the elbow down had been cut off.
It was a shocking sight to see green blood dripping out from the blood wound that was once an arm, but Klaus paid it no mind as he looked towards Aqua who he finally found to the side. Aqua was completely and unharmed and she had entered the Second Stage of Unlocked Mode. Green blood dripped from three adamantium blade attached to her hand glowing with an orange light of her Aura. Aqua, with a swipe of her hand, flung off the dirty blood and pointed her blades at Klaus threateningly.
Aqua: "Ha, not even a scream. Damn, monster! Well, you're not that tough. While you do have extreme power and a speed to match... that's about all you are. My adamantium blades reinforced with Nen can easily slash and cut you down to size. Ha, Shin only struggled as much as he did against you because he didn't understand your potential. He also had comrades nearby, so he couldn't risk dodging the attacks he could and risk two girls getting attacked instead."
Aqua was saying all of this, but she was bluffing about how easily it was to deal with Klaus and she had to praise Shin for staying alive like he did. To face off against the green hulk monster in front of her now while protecting two girls was more than anyone, including herself could have done. Klaus was an extremely tough opponent by any standards. He had power, speed, and enough technique to pose a threat to anyone. Aqua had the benefits of two mutations and a whole enhancement, one of which was A tier, the Second Stage of Unlocked Mode, and a weapon in hand that would not break or bend, yet it took all of her strength to tear off Klaus's arm from the just the joint. If she were to aim for his heart protected by layers of muscles or the brain incased in thick bone, she didn't have the confidence to take his life in an instant. For Aqua, she believed that it would take a lot of hacking in slashing to reach those to vital organs and she couldn't imagine Klaus just standing there.
Aqua: (And look! His wound where I had cut off his arm had already closed... fine, let's fall back to plan B.)
Aqua, who believed it would take too much effort on her part to cut Klaus down decided to go with another plan. There was possibly a greater threat within Limeiro's castle waiting for Team Japan, so Aqua didn't want to commit to a do or die battle just yet which would leave her at the very least weakened for the remainder of the mission. Aqua’s goal for meeting Klaus was to gain his attention and see if it was possible to kill him then and there.
Klaus: "I'll kill yooouuuu!!!"
Aqua: "Haha! I definitely gained his attention!"
Aqua laughed and started to run away and Klaus gave chase. The two began to run through the streets of Limeiro in a deadly game of cat and mouse with Aqua taking the lead and escaping capture every chance Klaus tried. Klaus was incredibly fast and not slower than Aqua herself, but Aqua wouldn't run in straight lines. Aqua would zigzag, take sudden turns through alleyways, and ran through abandoned homes. Klaus gave chase and powered through everything, but slowly he was beginning to lose her.
Not so much that he would lose sight of her, but never enough to catch and strangle her by the throat like he wanted... and that should have appeared odd to him. Aqua had a few chances to completely lose Klaus using the complexity of the terrain and the guidance from Hikari's Game Map downloaded into her head. Even if Klaus didn't know about the latter it should have occurred to him that he could be being lead into a trap, but the rage occupying his mind made him only see red and Aqua's retreating back.
Klaus: "Woman, stop running and fighhhtttt!!"
Aqua turned a corner and Klaus followed after her, yet before his eyes she had disappeared. Klaus looked around and found that he had been lead to an empty town square. Then in the distance he found Aqua running away at a speed surpassing anything he had seen so far. In the Second Stage of Unlock Mode and reinforcing her legs with as much Aura as possible Aqua was running as if her life depended on it and it was in fact running with her life on the line.
Aqua had kept her speed at 85% so she wouldn't lose Klaus till it was now and now that she had lead him into the trap she reached her top speed and escaped. Klaus was then about to give chase when, *BANG*, something hard and heavy hit his right eye. A long distance attack from the Ibis blinded Klaus in one eye and temporary stopped his movements for another comrade to make a move.
At that moment a shot from afar impacted Klaus's eye the ground underneath his feet began to sink curiosity of a certain Earth Elemental. Before Klaus realized it a pool of quicksand formed under him and by the second his was sinking. Klaus had enough sense and power to escape the quick sand, but disturbing him even more was a sudden blinding light around his one good eye.
Klaus: "Rrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
All the little tricks to hinder his movement left Klaus in a state of rage so great that he could no longer form proper words and could only scream to convey his feelings... and taking this moment to attack Team Japan's secret weapon was released from the magician and mastermind strategist. Klaus could no longer see it, but a mass of metal with flames coming out of the back was flying towards him. What was flying towards him was something anyone from the modern age and had a good pair of eyes would recognize. It was a missile fired from a rocket launcher.
- *EXPLOSION*!!!!!!!!!
An unearthly explosion occurred in the Capital City of Limeiro that shook the land.
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Portable Surface to Air Missile.
This was Team Japan's trump cards that was exchanged for 2000 Points from Drebin893 for the sole purpose of wiping out Team Germany. Team Japan's magician and mastermind strategist Jin was the one who paid for and thought to use it against Team Germany. Jin had guessed that the final event of Greed Island would be a large scale event with the majority of players actively participating, and so he wanted a weapon to eliminate both the players and Team Germany at once and when he had visited Drebin893 along with Shin his eyes fell to the portable surface to air missile launcher.
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This was a weapon like its original that could destroy and burn everything within a kilometer. It was a weapon that didn't exist in portable form in the real world and Jin couldn't resist testing it out on the enemy. Jin exchanged for the missile launcher, but only having one missile and one that he couldn't test he could only save it for the day of the final battle. In the few days beforehand, Jin had Connor teach him how to fire it. Shin kept the missile launcher in one of his Na Rings and handed it back to Jin and his group who went out to take out Kurt and Klaus.
Jin: "...Maybe I should have taken the risk of it getting intercepted and fired this monster at Team Germany when they were all together. Once the woman with the Defensive Force Field died nothing would have saved them from being blown away of it hit. Team Germany's leader could have slashed at it from a distance with her light string, but-."
Shuai: "Ahhh... don't talk to me! Don't speak! Every little sound is killing me!"
Shuai was next to Jin as he fired the portable surface to air missile at Klaus and despite being a good distance away when they fired... they were still caught up in the blast. There was a grand explosion that blew apart the street Klaus was standing on and along with dust an intense shock wave of heat and sound hammered into them. When they looked around they confirmed the results, but they couldn't even see one inch into the distance under the heavy cloud of smoke from the blast and dust from the unearthed ground.
By pure destructive power no one who was still alive would question the reason such a powerful weapon cost only 2000 Points was because it's effective firing range gets the shooter and comrades nearby caught up in the blast. Jin, Shuai, Connor, and Aqua who had all escaped the blast felt dizzy and ached all over. They felt happy for the power, but were glad that they only had the one missile on hand.
Jin: "Hahaha! At least we're alive... even if the pain from the shock wave makes us want to die. It's kinda funny."
Shuai: "Enough with the talk about dying!"
Jin: "Fine, but contact Aqua first. I didn't get a notification from God so the hulk freak should still be alive somewhere in this mess."
Shuai: "Wait, that guys still alive after that!? No human can survive that!"
Jin: "He's not really human Shuai. He's the hulk, or more accurately a degraded copy of him at the very least. He's alive, but definitely barely at that. He was just saved by his abnormal Muscle Density and endurance based Mutation. I doubt he can fight anymore til he heals and is just cowering in this cloud of dust some-"
Then as if he jinxed himself it appeared as Jin turned his back towards destruction that he caused. A large shadow of a giant swiftly moved through the cloud of dust towards Jin and Shuai. Shuai was the first to notice the green, no, now black and bloodied giant burned by the surface to air missile as it stood behind them. Jin saw Shuai's petrified face and felt something was off, but it was too late.
Before he could attack, defend, or hope to escape Klaus used his remaining hand burned black to grab and lift Jin into the air. Jin's body was completely grasped by the giants's hand and slowly Klaus's grip on Jin increased till he began to throw up blood and internal organs. Jin could only helplessly stare at Klaus as his life was being squeezed out of his body and it was only then that his other comrades arrived.
Aqua's Adamantium Claws were out and ready to tear the enemy, Shuai had summoned Gnome and readied the recently retrieved M41A-M Pulse Rifle, and Connor raised the muzzle of the Ibis Trigger charged by Trion and Demonic Power at Klaus's head, but the giant in control of Jin's life sent a quick glance to everyone that spoke volumes. No words were exchanged, but it was made clear that if anyone of them approached he would tighten the vice grip on Jin till all of his innards spilled out. Thirty seconds past like this and once Klaus was certain that no one would try anything he spoke. His words were clear. After accumulating so much rage and frustration in this battle he had reached a temporary calm in the storm and madness of his emotional state.
Klaus: "I will now leave here. Don't follow or attempt to surprise attack me unless you want this man here to be flattened to death like your previous comrade."
Aqua: "Bastard!"
Aqua immediately wanted to hack Klaus to pieces, but she didn't move just yet. Klaus was no longer the fool from before who only had thoughts of destroying things and bringing chaos. Aqua didn't know what Klaus had in mind to survive, but she could guess that he wanted time to recover. Klaus had taken massive damage. Herself, Connor, and maybe even Shuai could kill Klaus in his current condition. Team Japan also had a Persona/Psyche Force user still alive, so escape was not possible.
That's why Klaus instead of fighting or escaping pointlessly, Klaus choose to take a hostage to drag out the clock til he fully recovers. Aqua didn't know what else Klaus had planned, but maybe that was it. He had no other plans and was just following his instincts to stay alive just a bit longer. Aqua found this this type of enemy more troubling than anything else. A desperate enemy that would do anything to live, yet had short term plans. Klaus was resolved to do whatever it took to survive, yet gave no thought to the future. As Aqua had feared... the current Klaus was incredibly dangerous to deal with without a plan, and Team Japan strategist was currently-
Klaus: "Now all three of you, leave or else I'll kill him here! I'm not playing-"
Jin: "Ha... Ha..."
Klaus: "Huh?"
Jin: "Haha... Hahahahahaha! How, *COUGH*, hilarious of you! The formerly green and now black and crispy freak is calmly giving out instructions. That, *COUGH*... so funny that I I'm about to die of laughter. Literally! You wouldn't be in this mess if you were like this from the start retard! Even trash like myself can see, *COUGH**COUGH**COUGH*... "
Klaus: "!!!"
Shuai: "Stop speaking moron! There are too many ways that you can die now!"
Shuai yelled filled with concern for his comrade, yet Jin couldn't hear him. Only the sounds of his bones breaking and Klaus's voice could be heard in his current tormented state. Jin was also only looking towards the enemy before him who had bloodshot eyes that conveyed his desire to kill him. Jin found that funny that the person Klaus currently wanted to kill the most was also keeping him alive by holding the enemy at bay. It was so funny in his mind that Jin for the very first time in his life thought someone was even more pitiful than himself... so it was unacceptable.
Like Shin who didn't desire a death from a low level villain, Jin wouldn't accept being killed by an insect in his eyes lower than himself trying to kill him. It was so unacceptable and combined with his own desperate struggle to stay alive... and recalling his own dark past something unlocked within him.
The First Stage of the Genetic Constraint.
Jin's eyes went out of focus as the sign of his awakening. His emotional state as he walked the line between life and death forced him into Unlocked Mode for the first time. Combat instincts flooded his mind and gave birth to countless ideas to escape his dilemma with his life intact. Jin's power, speed, and reaction speed increase in the First Stage, but those were of very little use while in the vice grip of a powerhouse like Klaus. Still, Jin came up with a last desperate act to save himself.
Jin struggle and threw up even more blood as he attempted to free his arm from Klaus's grasp and by some miracle succeed. Jin felt that the left arm that was freed was dislocated at the very least, but his attention wasn't to strike his enemy. Jin's aim was simply to touch Klaus's face. Klaus paid no mind to Jin as he saw him as no threat and had yet to realize he had entered into Unlocked Mode. Aqua, Shuai, and Connor were watching Jin's struggle to reach Klasu, yet what they were really confused about was the maddening smile across his face. Then at last Jin left hand reached Klaus's face and only now did he turn to face Jin... only to see the face of an enemy with eyes filled with more despair and madness than his own looking directly at his soul.
Jin: "Hahahahahahahaha! F-fuck off green monster wannabe trash... Die!!!"
Jin laughed as he concentrated all the mana in his remaining mana in his body and channeled all of it to his hand gripping the hulk monster's face. The process of using magic or moving energy always had some kind of delay, yet in Unlocked Mode even his speed and accuracy of using special powers were sharper and resulted in a faster activation. All of Jin's mana was converted into ice magic and began to spread across Klaus's face.
At first Klaus thought nothing of Jin's ice magic that had so far done no damage to him as it hit him and was about to laugh at Jin's efforts, but he soon realized that his overconfidence was a fatal mistake. The ice didn't just spread across the surface of face, but penetrated into his inner flesh and bone. Klaus realized the danger he was in being in Unlocked Mode himself, but it was too late to kill Jin as the ice had already entered into the skull and froze the brain.
Jin: "...That's that."
Jin with what strength he had left tapped Klaus's frozen head and the next moment it started to crack in a spiderweb like fashion and burst into over a thousand shards of ice. His Team Japan comrades could only watch in shock as the difficult Hulk enhancer of Team Germany fell so swiftly and without a struggle at the very end of his life.
- SIDE QUEST REWARD 6, GC ENEMY TEAM KILL - 7,000 POINTS AND B RANK REWARD ACQUIRED!
- POINT CASUALTIES: ONE MEMBER OF TEAM GERMANY DIED. TEAM JAPAN +1 TEAM POINT AND TEAM GERMANY -1 TEAM POINTS.
TEAM JAPAN TEAM POINTS: +0.
TEAM GERMANY TEAM POINTS: -10.
TOTALS WILL BE MULTIPLIED BY 2000 BY THE END OF A TEAM'S MISSION AND DISTRIBUTED TO EACH LIVING MEMBER. MEMBERS OF BOTH TEAMS WITH NEGATIVE POINTS AT THE END WILL BE ERASED.
Jin fell from Klaus's hand after the enemy was confirmed dead and no longer was applying strength to the vice grip. Aqua then in time caught Jin and when she looked to see how injured he was she found him unconscious. Then a few moments later Aqua and the others who were relieved that one battle was finally offer could hear another one approaching from the distance. A large mob of Greed Island players had chosen this time to appear. There original purpose seemed to be to kill the monster who caused destruction to the city and killed countless comrades, but seeing his headless corpse still standing, instead of thanking Team Japan they simple changed their target to them.
Aqua: "Shit! You chose a convenient time to clock out, Jin. I already have to deal with one no good man, so I don't need another. Shuai! Connor! We did what we came here for. Time to escape!"
Team Japan had finally returned to +0 Team Battle Points and the enemy Team Germany had just two living members remaining, yet they couldn't celebrate at all. Aqua carrying unconscious Jin, and Shuai and Connor right behind her they began their escape and the mob of players with no intention of letting them get away chased after them.
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Proofread by Hoebagger
I'll like to apologies if my description of the missile attack was off. I'm not a die hard military otaku so I just used my imagination a bit here. I did some research, yet I couldn't fine the kind of portable missile that would be as destructive as I needed without going full mushroom cloud. If anyone has any suggestions even if fictional I'll fine with going back to edit long as it matches the level of destruction I described and is portable. .