"Wait, that's not the right wait to think about this thought..." rubbing his chin he pondered as he slowed down his steps "if i go around mindlessly killing people, won't I become a psychopath of sorts then?" he was somewhat troubled by the thought, but fighting was something he truly did enjoy.
"hey uhm...sir!" An hesitant voice interrupted his thoughts, turning around it was a teen covered in sweat as he raised his hands, showing that he posed no threat, judging from his outfit he was probably one of the inmates that got saved from earlier.
"ah..thank you for not shooting at me!" The teenager smiled, "Are you the one who saved my group? If so, may I know your name?"
at his question the protagonist froze, but from his perspective he wasn't the only thing that had frozen, but so did the world around him, everything was in slow motion in that instant as his brain began burning the accumulated energy within him, allowing him to think at a speed that was usually impossible to the normal human brain.
but before he could even process what was going on or feel fear, he felt as if his consciousness was being dragged out of his body, his lollipop falling from his mouth being the last thing he felt before being surrounded by endless darkness.
What was the name? a name was something which represented someone, the name was responsible for giving someone a sense of self and without a name , it was hard to tell whether or not if you could consider someone a human, a good example of this was when in movies numbers were assigned to lab rats instead of names.
"Why the fuck do i feel so sad all of the sudden?..." he struggled to keep his eyes open as thousands of hands pulled at his body, and every second that passed his body sank deeper into the ground as it was being dragged away by those dark monstrous hands.
"...ah that's right, my name"- he chuckled "how could i have one when it was stripped from me?" he glanced up, his eyes looking as if they were seeking pity, but they were no stars to answer his prayers, no higher being who would spare him, in this dark space he was all alone, just him and his pain
a tear ran down his face as he felt his existence being torn apart from the hands
'Is that truly all you amount to?'
"hah...i guess yeah....but who the fuck are you to judge me!? this rude is really cruel...too cruel...it's even worse to a sinner like me"
'yet you dared to try to go against the heavens? where is that determination of yours now?'
"oh please...what kind of strong person cries so easily?" he bit his lips forcefully as his watery eyes trembled
'crying...that is also one of the signs of humanity and it also is a sign of strength, truthfully.'
"Damn you bastard! how can you be making fun of me in a moment like this!!" he sniffled as he stumbled forward, his sadness slowly converting into anger.
even in moments like this they were assholes who would go out of their way to make fun of people, how could he die in a piece like this!? He'd probably have a heart attack even before he suffocated to death .
"SHOW YOURSELF RIGHT NOW IF YOU DARE AND SEE IF I WON'T BEAT YOUR ASS!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.
the mysterious voice chuckled, amused. 'You dare bare your fangs at the hand that feed you and bark at the dogs, yet succumb to depression and get into an existential crisis so easily?' it mocked
"you...YOU. YOU!!" the red energy that was asleep deep within him awoke in that instant, going haywire all throughout his body, his hair standing on end as arcs of red energy coursed over his body, his muscle mass rapidly increasing as he tore the hands off of his left shoulder, he then aimed his hand at the sky and shouted furiously "What the FUCK do you want from me?"
he couldn't even die in peace. this was truly a dogshit world.
'Good... very good, this one is very pleased with your performance...before all this you too had given me a name so consider this the favor returned.'
Suddenly the dark aura surrounding the sky began vanishing rapidly, showing a clear sky: 'Henceforth thou shalt be addressed as Rai.' the beaming voice announced grandly, ripples forming and beneath him clear water as far as the eye could see reflected the blue sky that stretched above.
In that instant, his soul evolved, going from a flame susceptible to burnout or getting blown out at any time to a crystalized ember,his spiritual powers forcefully advanced to the next level as he was dragged back into his corporal body.
the gears within his mind spun in overdrive.
Rai....no, i.
I was suddenly reminded of my falling lollipop, quickly i snatched it from the air before it could fall and brought it back to my lips "I am Rai." I responded to the teen's question, giving him a cheerful smile as i responded
"Thank you for saving us sir Ray, my name is Lucas. I hope that we can meet in the future, and please do accept these " Lucas returned my smile with a bit of uncertainty from what i could tell
well who cares, looking down at his offering , a belt with a sword of sorts strapped to it, I was in no case an expert so I didn't know which type it was and a communication device?...oh! a walkie talkie
Having no reason to decline, I of course took them, before he left Lucas flashed me another smile "also please be careful...they are also some dangerous inmates around so keep your guards up in the future!"
"well...that felt unnecessarily gay" I bemoaned as I put on the second belt on which the sword's holster was attached to, being ambidextrous I did not care much about which hand I used to fight, placing the Walkie Talkie in my jacket's top pocket made it easier for me to listen to what the guards were saying amongst themselves as i finally left the main building.
it was starting to get dark out there
"I should figure out where those blackbirds are before anything....hm" Looking around, I only saw going up a good enough choice for recon. but before I could I picked up the faint sounds of foot steps heading towards me so I quickly put up my guard and my prison ball.
The so-called reinforcements had arrived, and it didn't seem like they came to play... to think that they would straight up bring a rocket launcher?
I quickly moved my hand to my back in order to retrieve my rifle, but it was too late, the one in the back which carried the rocket launcher had fired his shot, out of pure reflex i threw the prison ball forward in the same direction as the rocket as I darted to the side, leaving a sole shaped dent in the ground as my whole leg became limp from the strength used
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"fuck...."missing a step caused my whole body to be flung forward, the aftershock of the explosion causing my body to crash into a wall with a loud grunt., seemed like the explosion had reached the enemies, the idiot must've carried more ammo on him which resulted in a deafening explosion, my vision soon was as good as incognito barefoot shoes, totally useless.
so were my ears, as a matter of fact, I could only vaguely sense the surrounding energies and that was about it aside from the heat of the explosion, groaning in discomfort I circulated a round of energy inside of my body, hoping to get rid of the ailments quickly
In less than a minute my eyes were all good and so were my ears mostly... but the guards had been reduced to ashes and no prisonball could be seen in sight, I sighed "rest in peace old friend. you will be missed" after paying my respects I quickly ran away from the crime scene, as one should.
Climbing up a building with my sharp nails was surprisingly easy, well mostly due to them being made out of concrete from what I could tell.Soon more guards came to the scene, one of them was cussing out loud "damn prisoners! they got all of us concerned thanks to their numbers...hopefully the reinforcements arrive soon."
"we should keep calm for now, after all nothing bad can happen if we stay together right?"another replied as he looked at the crater left behind by the explosion
my lips perked up, 'This guy just set a flag for himself, wouldn't I be punished for not taking it?' in the nick of time, I launched myself off of the wall with my intact leg stretched out as I landed perfectly on one of the guard's heads, his neck shattering under my weight before I jumped back and unsheathed my blade.
taking advantage of the shock that the guard next to him suffered from to plunge my blade into that one's eye socket, piercing his skull. he let out a blood gurgling sound as i did so, alerting the others.
I quickly snatched his rifle and began shooting at the others while running off to the side while they returned the shot out of panic, on the other end I felt extremely calm, even though my left arm was bleeding.
silently taking cover i tried to come up with a plan, looking around I didn't find anything I could possibly use aside from my gun so I had to do with it, peeking occasionally I began shooting at the four guards left, they were speaking among themselves as they also hid, too bad they were smart sighing i threw out this rifle as it had run out of ammo, I took out the one i had looted from the corpse on my way out and put it by my side as i used my belt to hold my wound tightly , if i suffered from an injury I could use energy to speed up the healing process, but who knew what would happen if i ran out of blood? that I did not wish to figure out
"This is squad D8 we have lost two units, please send help !" the voice echoed out of my talkie walkie "oh my...., seems like this is going to be a test of my acting skills" I smugly took out the communication device and replied D8 ,please advance and apply pressure to the target, we have your back."
in this instant, they seemed really foolish to me as the leader of that team simply replied with a "roger" not even bothering to ask where I was or which squad I belonged to....
"Oh, here!" Knelling down I readied myself and unleashed a rain of bullets upon the idiots the second they appeared within my sight crippling if not killing smiling I then walked forward to go collect my loot.
It seemed like all the team leaders had a thing for carrying swords of sorts around, so now i had two of them alongside some ammo, but there was still one thing I needed to confirm so after confiscating their weapons I went to the one who was in best shape and aimed at his head with my weapon.
"Blackbird...where are they?"
the man panicked so naturally I had to make him feel safe and "talk and I'll spare your life."
his lips trembled...his whole body was trembling as i held the bloody sword I had recovered to his face "east...all the way" he said timidly
"Thank you" I smiled kindly and with a precise stab I transitioned him from him to Eunuch ,ignoring it's scream I quickly moved on after throwing away the stick of my lollipop
the other ones didn't meet a fate so kind as their heads soon rolled before I left for the east, and as it had said soon enough i caught sight of a big brawl happening, the guards were fighting against the inmates, some of whom were armed as both parties stopped each other from reaching the jets.
the floor was covered in corpses, guts and bloodied bones with occasional limbs, looking up i quickly realized why, most of them were now using melee weapons to avoid friendly fire, but seeing such sight made my blood boil as I firmly gripped my sword handles.
with a breath I pulled energy into me and allowed it to do its thing, my heart meridian drew some of that energy as I moved
Following my will, the energy was expelled through my feet, allowing me to reach my top speed from the first step I took, I rapidly approached the brawl as i couldn't help but praise
with my soul only achieving one breakthrough, I could now use such a technique for a long period of time, I really felt like a super human in this moment.
a guard having noticed my movement quickly strode forward and attempted to slice at my stomach, unsheathing both swords with a reverse grip allowing me to bring the blades up just at the right time to parry, slowing myself down I then spun around and kicked him in the side, sending him rolling.
"this is impractical..."swinging two large swords around was by no means easy ' I had never practiced swordsmanship before...but I did watch some anime ' smiling I planted one of the swords into the ground and with one stomp, shattered the blade in half, turning it into a short sword
one blade for blocking, one for attacking..."this is how this works, right?" I asked no one in particular, uncertain as i used the short sword to parry an incoming attack, then using the long one to stab the man in the rib cage' "how was it the other way around?"
at the same time rapidly approaching the island was Johnny alongside two other aircraft he had met along the way, these were full of reinforcements in order to retake control of the island. the jets were faster than his mech by a notch, which slowly made the difference become larger so when the island came Johnny's view the aircraft were already on top of the conflict and had slowed down in order to drop their troops, soon 50 army men added to the rapidly decreasing number of guards and began to slaughter the inmates on one side.
Johnny finally had a better understanding of the situation so he finally relaxed, with a jerk of his hands he controlled the motions of the DR34M unit and made it land in the middle of the brawl, causing even more chaos.
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"damn it, they have reinforcements!?" I was somehow surprised, but it made sense that reinforcements would come so i did not let it get to me too much as I kept on defending myself, but these new guys were harder to deal with as they had proper Armor on and their strength almost rivaled mine,just as I was in a stalemate with one a massive mech appeared out of nowhere and landed a few meters away from me, the shock wave from it's made one subconsciously
it was simply majestic, that was until it began moving...the movements were clunky and unrefined, truly making it seem like a marionette.
"wait no I'm not focusing on the right thing! it has it's sight on me now!?" frowning I took advantage of the soldier loosing his footing from the shock wave and impaled him in the neck with my shorter sword just in time to jump back, dodging the massive mechanical leg that landed on the spot i was previously stepping on, grabbing onto the leg I then propelled my body up it and scurried onto it's back where i latched on and began trying to stab it open with my short sword
Johnny who had decided to help random soldiers instead of just standing by idly was simply dumbfounded at such a savage and fast man, but he was even more scared of what the doc would do to him, using DR34M's speakers he could communicate with the outside world so he quickly turned it on " YOU! get the fuck off right now!" he shouted
"how about...no?" Realizing that he didn't seem capable of taking care of me right now, I decided to use it to my advantage as I kept on hacking at the mech's armor with my short blade. It didn't seem like the soldiers would shoot me either, so I felt relatively safe.
Johnny was debating on using his own hands to take the young man off of the mech, but decided against it. what if he accidentally crushed a piece of armor that contained some emitters? then he'd be screwed so he could only shout again as he made the mech shake itself: "This is an order, get off now you filthy criminal!"
Realizing that he did not try to remove me directly made me even more willing to poke at the flame, I swiftly moved to the front and began hacking at it with my blade too,soon noticing a keypad with numbers on it "I don't wanna!" I then lazily replied as i looked more closely to it , there seemed to be peanut butter on some touches... 012 and 9, so i began clicking on them in random orders as the one piloting the mech made it dance around, dealing severe damage to both sides
"What the hell is this idiot doing?" Johnny muttered to himself, seriously bothered, if this guy didn't give up he would have to ask someone to remove this parasite from him. just as he was thinking about it, the cockpit door slowly pulled down, revealing a black and red haired young man with a beaming smile
"Sir, may I have your papers?" I asked after finally having guessed the pass code thanks to my supreme hacking skills.
Johnny's face turned red, he was about to reach out to grab his weapon when he was struck in the side of the head by the pommel of a sword, knocking him out for sure.
"hm...seems like that suit of his controls the mech partially so I'll need that if i wish to still this thing" sighing i lifted his body around and began looking for where to take off the bodysuit the blondie wore,after taking his glasses for myself that is.
after some prodding around, I pressed on his collar which caused the suit to disintegrate, leaving behind what seemed to be a belt.
"Just what is it with me and belts today..." I sighed and kicked the nude Blondie out of my mech before putting on the belt "do I have to say some sort of catch-phrase? huh... Hen-shin!" I shouted while pressing on the belt's buckle.
soon something black covered my body and the clothes i was wearing, it felt like I was wearing a haptic suit of sorts, the suit itself had a vague feeling to it as if it was there but not at the same time...thinking along those lines I could not help but look out at the Blonde pervert in disgust which now lay with his butt up in the midst of the battle
"Now then..." getting comfortable in my seat I pushed on what appeared to be the mechs control sticks, before I knew it the hulking mass of metal was sent flying sideways into the parked blackbirds, then the bunch of them all fell into the ocean in the most anti-climatic way one could imagine.
how bothersome.