Queen Administrator you should have stuck to bugs.
My own party of heroes (Altpower!Taylor Worm/Multi-crossover)
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If Akane came with Saffron and Myrtle came with the Basilisk, what villain followed Richter? My guess is something lurking in his mind waiting to be born, say a malware hiding as a beneficent Sue.
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Her power doesn't give her the best answer to a problem, merely one that can solve it. If Goku fits that description, then it's because she's about to be killed by an Endbringer or similar, and her power is not about to give her All-Star Superman or something. Unless it's Kid Goku in one of the multiple times he was a moment away from getting himself killed.
But I have someone else from Dragon Ball in mind.
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Mackon
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The Villian that balanced Richter has already been revealed, you need to have another read
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"Balanced"
Hye
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Please let it be Krillin. Or Gohan. I wonder if Krillins Destructo Disk would be really effective against Endbringers
I agree............at least it wasn't Hermione, the nag that never stops. Whipping Myrtle into shape.....useless, lol.
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But Hermione, overlooking her rather obnoxious flaws and poor taste in men, was at least useful.
Spectrum
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Myrtle has to be one of the least useful HP wizards she could possibly have brought, doubly so given what a hilarious penalty she has of her given villain.
Then again with that kind of balance it's probably for the better that she did get her, because getting someone actually awesome like Luna would've gotten them stuck against Voldemort or worse the Crumple-Horned Snorcack.
Then again with that kind of balance it's probably for the better that she did get her, because getting someone actually awesome like Luna would've gotten them stuck against Voldemort or worse the Crumple-Horned Snorcack.
The Stormbringer
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The sad thing is, you've got to come up with someone whose died. Now, while some amazing heroes have indeed died, it typically isn't to something you can just shrug off. Therefore the difficult here comes from finding people who died via accident and are still useful... unless the power only grabs murdered folks.
How did Krillin die the first time? I can't seem to remember.
Ooh! Does this mean we can start the Owned Count?
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Krillin was first killed by one of Piccolo Daimaoh's sons/demons/minions, Tambourine.
ecs05norway
Zenryoku Zenkai!
Which is marginally better than grabbing someone else from that 'verse, I suppose.
Because the clear and obvious pattern at this point is that Taylor isn't summoning "a useful person and a villain".
She's summoning "A useful person and what killed them".
Akane + Saffron
Andrew Richter + Leviathan
Myrtle + Basilisk
So summoning Shirou Emiya would get us Useless Shirou With Almost No Magic Training, plus Lancer.
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LSauchelli has said that the power doesn't only apply to murdered heroes.
The problem is, of course, figuring out who would be useful, but wasn't killed by someone/thing horrendous. We may have to rely on minor background characters if we want to avoid that drawback. (For example, the heroes from Edna Mode's "No capes!" Montage. This one could be useful in all sorts of situations.)
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If not limited to Hero's how about Rupert de Giles aka Caster from Fate Zero.
An utter monser.
It would give a good contrast to have them work with the killer (Saber/Arturia Pendragon) and using Taylor's insight to hunt him down.
Edit: Though maybe a bit too dark.
An utter monser.
It would give a good contrast to have them work with the killer (Saber/Arturia Pendragon) and using Taylor's insight to hunt him down.
Edit: Though maybe a bit too dark.
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ecs05norway
Zenryoku Zenkai!
Hmm, possibly.
A TYPE would be an Endbringer-level opponent, however, and we're already doubling up on Leviathan. So I doubt the author will go there.
If you really want someone from Nasuverse, get Arcueid from the moment Shiki cuts her up. Then you get Shiki with her!
HegemonAlexandrov
Scheming Mastermind
Two other people from the Nasuverse that would be useful to have around with heroic inclinations would be Karna and Arjuna.
Spectrum
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Yeah, things potentially start getting very silly.
Summoning Shepard also brings over Harbinger.
Interlude 2.A
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Interlude 2.A
Akane was feeling bored at the moment. Thankfully, washing the dishes was one of the few chores she could actually perform without making a mess of things.
As she picked up the mug with thepoison tea she had prepared the day before, she felt something akin to lightning going through her head. A flashing image showed her Taylor, with her eyes completely white, blood flowing from her wrists.
She let go of the mug, and it broke in several pieces.
"Geez, you can't even wash a mug?" Sue mocked.
Akane didn't bother glaring at the younger girl. "We have to go to Winslow."
Sue raised an eyebrow. "What? Why?"
Akane went for her backup, which was still on one of the kitchen's chairs. She got her red mask from there. "Taylor is in trouble."
"So? She will just summon some hero that will help her, the bigger the problem, the better the hero." Sue said, winking at Akane.
Akane looked at Sue, deadly serious. "If we don't help, Taylor is going to die. Do you understand that?"
"But her power-"
"What happens if she summons a hero to solve the wrong problem?" Akane suddenly asked.
"What? Why would-" Sue frowned, and stood up. "Ok, sell me the idea, how do you know she needs help?"
"I felt it." Akane said, as if that explained it.
"You felt it." Sue repeated. "Have you 'felt' stuff like this before?"
"More than once." Akane said, nodding. She walked to Taylor's room, and a moment later came back with her wooden sword.
"Ok, you convinced me." Sue said, standing up. "Only one toy?"
"If I had a bow and arrows, I'd bring them, too."
"I didn't know you were good with arrows." Sue said, frowning as she followed Akane to the backyard.
"I don't have to tell you everything I can do." Akane commented. "And yes, I was an archery champ back at home."
"Archery champ? Like, in high school?"
"Yes, it was before Ranma came over, I had to fight this girl who thought she had hawk's eyes and for some reason made her better at archery… I ended up winning by piercing all of her arrows, hitting the center of the targets."
"Sounds… Robin Hood-ish." Sue said, nodding to herself. "So, hey, why are we in the backyard?"
"We're going roof-hopping to Winslow, and I don't want every neighbor to notice us." Akane said, looking at Sue as if she was an idiot.
Sue smiled, and tapped her arm. The green LED started blinking again. "There, done. The neighbors won't notice us." She tapped another hidden button in her arm, and suddenly a metallic armor surrounded her body, she had a helmet that resembled a T-Rex head, and on her feet she had claws similar to raptors. .
Akane glared at the younger girl, but nodded. "Ok, let's go."
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Richter was finishing eating a hamburger, wondering why they called it 'the challenger', he still felt hungry by the time he took the last bite. He went for his soda when his screen was taken over by the emergency comms.
Sue's face appeared on the screen. "Dad?"
He drank from his soda, before pushing the button that unmuted his microphone. "Hey Sue, what's up?"
"We have a situation. Akane says Taylor is in danger!" A quick look at the background told Richter that they were moving at more than 50 miles per hour.
"Ok," He said as he grabbed a paper napkin and did his best to clean his face. "How is she in danger?"
"I don't know. But Akane says she has some sort of ability to tell this kind of things, and I believe her." Sue said, gritting her teeth as she tried to keep up with Akane.
Richter started typing on his keyboard and frowned. "Ok, about thirty minutes ago, the protectorate got a call by one of Shadow Stalker's friends. Apparently there's an unknown parahuman murdering kids at Winslow."
"What? Crap. We have to go faster, someone is killing the students!" Sue yelled at Akane, and increased her speed.
Richter typed some more, and nodded to himself. "The protectorate and the PRT are already there, make sure to let them know you're there to help a teammate, we don't want them to sideline you."
Sue nodded, a bit annoyed. "I know, I know!"
"I will let Dragon know about this, she'll arrive in about thirty to forty minutes." Richter said, still typing wildly on his keyboard.
"What about Scatha and Rodan? They can help!"
"Scatha is tending to something delicate, she can't get away without blowing up. Rodan I can't spare at the moment, her body is still unfinished." He took a sip from his drink and sighed. "I could ask her to wear one of Dragoon's suits, but it wont be much different than just have Dragon show up with a bunch of bodies."
"How many bodies?" Sue asked.
Richter quickly typed a command on his console. "We have seven operational Dragon suits."
"Ok, ok, but let her know she has to hurry!"
"I will." Richter said, and ended the communication.
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When Akane and Sue got the Winslow, it was already surrounded by pretty much all the active PRT agents, and next to a few vans, they saw Miss Militia talking with one of the higher ranking PRT troopers.
A couple of PRT officers jumped when they landed next to them, and pointed their weapons their way. "STOP! This is a quarantined area!" Said the one closest to them.
The other one was trembling, clearly afraid. "You can't be here!"
"We're heroes." Sue said, taking over the conversation when she noticed that Akane had both hands closed into fists.
Miss Militia noticed them and stopped talking to the squad leader. She approached them. "You, you're the hero who captured Bakuda, right?"
Akane flinched at the memory of the bomb tinker, but nodded. "We want to help."
"I know you want to help, but this is over your heads. Even the Wards are only permitted to stay in the perimeter as backup." Miss Militia told them, speaking softly, almost like a middle school teacher.
Sue's helmet smirked, showing dinosaur teeth. "We have a teammate in there, we need to recover her."
Miss Militia swore under her breath, she took a radio. "This is Miss Milita, we have two young heroes here who say there's a cape inside, a teammate of them, over." She turned to Akane. "It's the teleporter, right? Blue?"
Akane nodded. "She still hasn't picked a name, so Blue will do for now. But I decided on Red Kaze."
Miss Militia squinted at her. "Really." She said, humorless.
"Really!" Sue said, almost jumping up and down. "Now, will you let us through? We are wasting time here!"
Miss Militia's teacher-like voice was gone. "You won't be of any help, Armsmaster is already inside. He will handle the situation."
Sue was about to reply, but suddenly, she stopped herself when her communications channel opened. "Armsmaster isn't responding. I- I think- I think he might be dead." Came Dragon's voice from inside her.
That caught Miss Militia off guard. "What? who are you?"
Sue frowned. "That's Dragon, my big sister."
Dragon's voice was sad, almost as if she had been crying. "Miss Militia, please, let them go. I lost all access to Armsmaster's suit a while ago. I need to know if he's OK."
Miss Militia looked like she was going to change her mind, but ultimately shook her head. "You can't be here, if you don't leave now I'll have you two arrested."
"What?" Akane said, stomping the ground. "We're going inside, with your permission, or without it!"
"If it's true that Armsmaster died in there, I don't think you stand a chance!"
"We have to help our teammate!" Akane complained.
"I don't care! The protectorate is going to handle it." Miss Militia frowned at Sue. "Dragon, are you hearing me?"
"I'm on my way with seven units. ETA is fifteen minutes." Dragon suddenly said. "I need these two for early recon."
"If what you're saying is true, if Armsmaster just- just died in there, then this is a way worse situation than we initially thought. It's an A class threat at least. You can't expect me to let these kids inside and-"
Akane silently tripped Miss Militia by spinning and low kicking, throwing her to the ground. Before anyone around could react, Akane grabbed Sue and jumped over the PRT vans, and before anyone knew, they were already inside the building.
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"They're so going to arrest us!" Sue said.
Akane shook her head. "I don't care. Let's go!"
They ran past the front door and stopped just a few feet inside. There were at least twenty teens dead and a few adults as well. A couple were standing, with a terrified expression drawn on their faces.
Sue examined a petrified boy. "Interesting." She said, and touched boy. "He's completely frozen solid, but he's warm. An effect not unlike Clockblocker's."
"Who?" Akane asked as she walked through the hallway.
Sue shook her head and hurried behind Akane. "One of the wards, has the power to freeze someone in time. This is a bit different, because it seems physics do work on the petrified people, and-"
Sue stopped talking when they heard some soft sobbing. They slowed their pace as they went around the corner, and found a rather petite girl that was crying over another girl. She was muttering something, it almost sounded like praying.
Akane recognized them. "Two of the three bitches." She said, and to Sue's raised eyebrow she explained. "They are Taylor's bullies."
Sue's expression hardened. Her eyes widened a moment and she nodded. "Madison Clements," she said, pointing at the crying girl, "and Emma Barnes."
Akane stared at Madison crying for a moment. She wondered how would Taylor feel, knowing that her former best friend was now gone. Would she care? Or would she shed a tear, to honor the memory of their lost friendship?
She shook her head, and approached Madison. "Hey, you."
The sobbing girl raised her head, noticing them for the first time. She almost recoiled, looking at Sue's dinosaur helmet. Akane rolled her eyes when the younger girl flashed a smile with sharp teeth.
She went back to Madison, and said, "relax, we're heroes."
Madison gulped, she didn't look like she believed them. "I- huh, my friend." She closed her eyes, and started wailing. "She's dead! What am I going to do now!?" She was heavily breathing , "I can't live without her, I don't- I don't know how, she- she just- she just died!"
Akane nodded. "Do you know how she died?"
"I don't know! OK?"
Sue growled under her breath. "Come on, Red Kaze, she's just a clueless girl, we have to find our teammate right now."
But Akane shook her head. "Madison." She said, and the girl widened her eyes at her. "Yes, I know your name. I can see your soul."
"What? You- you can-?"
Akane nodded. "Now. Tell me. What was Emma doing before she died?"
"She was calling Sophia, we were desperate!"
"Why was she calling Sophia?"
Madison looked to the side. "I- I can't tell."
Sue started tapping the floor in exasperation. "She is not useful. We have to go on. Remember? Armsmaster? Blue?"
"One second, Su- I mean, T-rex." Akane said, starting to lose her patience herself. She glared at Madison. "You can't tell?"
"I would get sent to juvie if I tell!" Madison exclaimed, raising her hands. "It's not important, Emma was calling Sophia but then- then that' thing showed up!"
"That thing." Sue said, suddenly more interested in whatever Madison had to say.
"What thing? How did this cape look like?"
Sue frowned. "A case 53 gone bad?"
"Case 53?" Madison blinked. "I don't think it was a parahuman."
"Why not?"
"Well, it- it was a giant snake? I don't think I have ever seen a parahuman that looked that much… inhuman."
Akane and Sue exchanged a quick look. "Ok." Akane said, nodding to herself. "Have you seen any cape?"
"Well, yes." Madison said, suddenly calm. "There was this girl with the blue mask, she had some sort of green fire around her body. A while later Armsmaster showed up."
Sue pointed to the exit. "Ok, that's enough, you better leave now. The coast is clear, if you stay any longer you're going to get yourself killed by this 'giant snake'."
Madison stood up, but kept looking down at Emma. Akane couldn't help but think the dead girl looked completely at peace, almost as if she had gone to heaven. She gritted her teeth, at the perceived injustice. Madison seemed to interpret it as a warning, so she nodded and left as fast as her feet could carry her. She never looked back to Emma again.
Akane sighed. "Ok, giant snake? Is that common around here, in Earth Bet?"
"Not really." Sue said and motioned them to keep going. "But a cape could be behind it. A Case 53 is possible, but a Changer is also possible." Sue said, as they walked. "Also, some types of Master, and even some Tinkers could be behind it."
"Shh." Akane raised her hand in a silencing motion. "I hear something else ahead."
Sue examined the next hallway, it was filled with lockers. "My sensors don't detect anything." She said, but remained quiet.
Akane frowned at the left row of lockers, and turned to the right side. "There's someone in one of the lockers." She said, sure of herself.
They walked past more dead bodies and Akane nodded at one of the lockers. "Someone- someone is crying in here."
"Wow, you must be feeling some heavy deja vu, right?" Sue asked.
Akane tilted her head at her. "It's not Taylor." She extended her hand and violently opened the locker.
Sue blinked. There was no one inside. "Well, that's anticlimactic." She turned to Akane. "Come on, we have to go on, find Taylor and Armsmaster."
Akane pointed ahead. "Well, there's the big guy."
Sue turned and nodded at the blue-armored hero. He was stuck in an expression that looked like he was about to hit something with his halberd. The weapon was still pulsating with power.
But instead of examining the petrified hero, Akane kept her attention to the locker she had opened. "I swear, there's someone in here."
Sue shrugged her shoulders. "Whatever, man." She said, and opened communications with Dragon. "Hello, sis?" She said, sighing.
"Tyrannosaurus." Dragon said in a regal tone.
"We found your boyfriend." She said, almost like a joke, but not quite with the same tone.. "Relax." She said before Dragon started sobbing. "He's not dead."
"Not dead?" Dragon asked. "I'm five minute away. Where are you?"
"By the lockers." Sue said.
"Some kind of blaster power?"
"Maybe, I don't know. But some of the people affected didn't die, they became-" Sue looked uncomfortable. "Armsmaster is one of the people that didn't die. He's just- terrified, or something."
"Do you detect a heartbeat?"
"No. But from what my sensors can tell, the state he's in is similar to Clockblocker power."
"So, there's hope." Dragon said, relieved.
"Hey! Come! Quick!" Akane called out. Sue turned and blinked at the sight before her.There was a slightly transparent bluish girl floating in front of Akane, half of her body was inside the locker she had broken open.
"Dragon," Sue said, still looking at the spectral figure. "I have to go, but I'll keep you in line, OK?"
"I'm almost there, Tyrannosaurus."
Akane tried to touch the transparent like girl. "Are you really a ghost?"
"Yes! Can you be more insensitive!?" Ghost-girl exclaimed. "I am trying to cry in here! Why won't you bloody give me some privacy!"
"Sorry." Akane said, and frowned at the transparent girl. "Wait, you're british, right?"
"Yes. So?"
"You're not a Winslow student, are you?"
"No. I am a Hogwarts student!" the girl said, puffing herself a bit, trying to look proud.
"And you died?"
"Yes! That monstrous snake stared at me with its disgusting eyes and then- then- I was dead!"
Akane gave Sue a serious look. "It kills with its eyes."
Sue nodded and approached. "Sorry, what's your name?"
"Myrtle" The ghost said. "I shouldn't have tried to help! I am not a hero like her!"
"Like her?" Akane said. "You're not from around here, right?"
"No." Myrtle said, a bit uncomfortable. "Someone- someone summoned me here."
Akane smiled. "Really? Yes. She saved you, right?"
"You know the crazy girl?"
"Yes." Akane said nodding, "I died once, too. It was horrible. I had lost everything and everyone. I was gone from the world of the living. And she brought me back to life."
"You really died?" Myrtle asked, "so- so she wasn't lying. She really did save me?"
"I think so, yes." Akane said. "What happened?"
"She just- she jumped at the monster so the other kids would be able to leave. Most died anyway." Myrtle said, motioned to all the bodies on the hallway. "But she saved a few. Then, that big man in the blue armor showed up and scared the snake for a moment. But before he could attack, he just sort-of, like- stopped moving."
"Do you know where they are now?"
"Over there." Myrtle pointed upstairs. "She said something about leading the monster to the rooftop."
Akane nodded and turned to Sue. "Did you get that?"
Sue nodded. "Dragon is already landing on the roof. She says she's seeing the giant snake there."
Akane nodded, turned to Myrtle and half-smiled at her. "I am sure Taylor will be able to bring you back with her power. If she could do it once, she can do it again."
Myrtle numbly nodded. "I- I would like that."
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As they ran upstairs, there was a loud noise, as if something had crash landed. Sue almost tripped, but Akane caught her just in time.
"What was that?" Akane asked, dreading the answer.
"Dragon." Sue said, little or no emotion in her voice.
"Dragon?"
"She's- she's gone." Sue said. "I think she thought the monster wouldn't affect her. But she's now- frozen. Her code is stuck."
"Her code." Akane said, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, come on, you can't be that dense!" Sue said, still running upstairs. "We're AI, this body is mechanical!"
"Huh, so you're some kind of robot?" Akane asked, blinking.
"No time to explain, I need to make sure my sister is OK."
They sped up and reached the roof. The door was broken and bits of bricks were gone. Apparently the snake was too big for it. "Close your eyes." Akane said. "Do you have some other way to sense the environment?"
"My dad can come up with something." Sue said, and nodded.
Akane closed her eyes and threw herself outside. When she felt the monster coming her way she raised her wooden sword and slashed. The monster screamed and zigzagged, dodging a second attack from Akane.
The monster then screamed and recoiled. A volley of seemingly invisible strikes hit it multiple times on the back. "Haku Dato Shin Shō!" A shadow jumped back, hiding behind one of the dragon suits, Akane had only now noticed were scattered around the roof.
"Hey!" Akane exclaimed, as she jumped away from a giant tail whip from the monster.
"What?" The shadow asked, trying to make their voice sound gruff.
"Taylor, how come you're using Umi-Sen-Ken!?"
The shadow materialized into Taylor, who winked at Akane. "It's the only thing that can give me an edge!" Taylor massaged her fist and growled under her breath, "Damn it, I feel my own attacks more than the damned snake does.".
"It's a sealed technique! I didn't tell you about it because it's banned!" Akane complained, and slashed her sword around, hitting the side of the snake, but it seemed like she was only making superficial cuts.
"Banned? Look, it makes me virtually invisible, if the snake can't see me, then it can't insta-kill me with its deadly eyes, I don't have time to go around caring about that! I'm not really a martial artist, you know!" Taylor exclaimed as she jumped out of the way when the snake started struggling, attempting to hit everything around it.
Akane grumbled, "fine, but we're going to talk later about this." She flipped back, escaping a large bite by a hair's breadth. When she landed, she started furiously slashing at the monster. "T-rex, a little help?"
The snake tried to hit Akane with its tail, but suddenly, Sue jumped to intercept, facing at it without fear, seemingly unaffected by its deadly gaze. The snake tried to bit the small armored girl, but she just parried around the attacks..
Sue smiled, and tapped the side of her helmet. "Richter-tech, bitch. I have a censor filter for your pretty little eyes." And with that, she high-jumped at the monster with claws for feet and stabbed its eyes.
The snake screamed in pain and recoiled. It started thrashing about, moving fast, fast enough to get a qualified as a speedster. It bit to the left, then to the right.
Taylor thought she had the opportunity to attack. She dropped the Umi-Sen-Ken, now useless with the snake blind, and focused all of her battle aura in her fist..
Taylor jumped at it, with her fist shining like a star. She was rocketing upwards, almost flying at the monster. But the snake seemed to sense the incoming attack, and as it sniffed the air, it moved its head to the side. Taylor's punch almost missed, but connected just below the snake's head. A large chunk of meat exploded.
Taylor bounced and fell to the floor. A second later the Snake dropped on top of her.
"We did it!" Taylor exclaimed, as the light around her fist faded into nothing, and she tried to get the snake out of the way.
"NO, GET AWAY!" Akane was running towards her at top speed. Taylor idly wondered why the other girl had her wooden sword to the back, preparing herself to slash.
That's when she noticed the snake was twitching. She raised her eyes to see the monster's head moving clumsily. Its jaws open, something like acid coming off its giant fangs.
Taylor tried to summon her ki again, punch a hole in the monster a second time, but she was exhausted. There was nothing she could do. She closed her eyes, hoping that at least one of her contributions to humanity, bringing back Richter to life, would lead to the destruction of the Endbringers.
She waited for Death to embrace her, but it never came.
She opened her eyes and her mouth was agape. "Akane?" She said and raised her arm.
Akane was standing next to her, with her sword implanted deep in the monster's head. It was now truly dead, but one of its fangs was also stabbing her shoulder. Akane's face was completely devoid of color, there was no life there. Then, buckets of blood flowed from her mouth.
Taylor fell to her knees. Sue stayed a few feet behind, shocked.
She felt her power finishing recharging itself, and she grabbed it. "Bring her back." She said in a low voice, ordering her power. "BRING HER BACK!" She yelled.
Suddenly a giant sphere of light appeared above them. After a moment, black clouds came from nowhere and completely darkened the sky. Only seven stars were visible. And when Taylor looked up at them, the stars began dancing around, and then fused into one large being.
A giant chinese dragon appeared before them, looking at them expectantly.
Akane was feeling bored at the moment. Thankfully, washing the dishes was one of the few chores she could actually perform without making a mess of things.
As she picked up the mug with the
She let go of the mug, and it broke in several pieces.
"Geez, you can't even wash a mug?" Sue mocked.
Akane didn't bother glaring at the younger girl. "We have to go to Winslow."
Sue raised an eyebrow. "What? Why?"
Akane went for her backup, which was still on one of the kitchen's chairs. She got her red mask from there. "Taylor is in trouble."
"So? She will just summon some hero that will help her, the bigger the problem, the better the hero." Sue said, winking at Akane.
Akane looked at Sue, deadly serious. "If we don't help, Taylor is going to die. Do you understand that?"
"But her power-"
"What happens if she summons a hero to solve the wrong problem?" Akane suddenly asked.
"What? Why would-" Sue frowned, and stood up. "Ok, sell me the idea, how do you know she needs help?"
"I felt it." Akane said, as if that explained it.
"You felt it." Sue repeated. "Have you 'felt' stuff like this before?"
"More than once." Akane said, nodding. She walked to Taylor's room, and a moment later came back with her wooden sword.
"Ok, you convinced me." Sue said, standing up. "Only one toy?"
"If I had a bow and arrows, I'd bring them, too."
"I didn't know you were good with arrows." Sue said, frowning as she followed Akane to the backyard.
"I don't have to tell you everything I can do." Akane commented. "And yes, I was an archery champ back at home."
"Archery champ? Like, in high school?"
"Yes, it was before Ranma came over, I had to fight this girl who thought she had hawk's eyes and for some reason made her better at archery… I ended up winning by piercing all of her arrows, hitting the center of the targets."
"Sounds… Robin Hood-ish." Sue said, nodding to herself. "So, hey, why are we in the backyard?"
"We're going roof-hopping to Winslow, and I don't want every neighbor to notice us." Akane said, looking at Sue as if she was an idiot.
Sue smiled, and tapped her arm. The green LED started blinking again. "There, done. The neighbors won't notice us." She tapped another hidden button in her arm, and suddenly a metallic armor surrounded her body, she had a helmet that resembled a T-Rex head, and on her feet she had claws similar to raptors. .
Akane glared at the younger girl, but nodded. "Ok, let's go."
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Richter was finishing eating a hamburger, wondering why they called it 'the challenger', he still felt hungry by the time he took the last bite. He went for his soda when his screen was taken over by the emergency comms.
Sue's face appeared on the screen. "Dad?"
He drank from his soda, before pushing the button that unmuted his microphone. "Hey Sue, what's up?"
"We have a situation. Akane says Taylor is in danger!" A quick look at the background told Richter that they were moving at more than 50 miles per hour.
"Ok," He said as he grabbed a paper napkin and did his best to clean his face. "How is she in danger?"
"I don't know. But Akane says she has some sort of ability to tell this kind of things, and I believe her." Sue said, gritting her teeth as she tried to keep up with Akane.
Richter started typing on his keyboard and frowned. "Ok, about thirty minutes ago, the protectorate got a call by one of Shadow Stalker's friends. Apparently there's an unknown parahuman murdering kids at Winslow."
"What? Crap. We have to go faster, someone is killing the students!" Sue yelled at Akane, and increased her speed.
Richter typed some more, and nodded to himself. "The protectorate and the PRT are already there, make sure to let them know you're there to help a teammate, we don't want them to sideline you."
Sue nodded, a bit annoyed. "I know, I know!"
"I will let Dragon know about this, she'll arrive in about thirty to forty minutes." Richter said, still typing wildly on his keyboard.
"What about Scatha and Rodan? They can help!"
"Scatha is tending to something delicate, she can't get away without blowing up. Rodan I can't spare at the moment, her body is still unfinished." He took a sip from his drink and sighed. "I could ask her to wear one of Dragoon's suits, but it wont be much different than just have Dragon show up with a bunch of bodies."
"How many bodies?" Sue asked.
Richter quickly typed a command on his console. "We have seven operational Dragon suits."
"Ok, ok, but let her know she has to hurry!"
"I will." Richter said, and ended the communication.
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When Akane and Sue got the Winslow, it was already surrounded by pretty much all the active PRT agents, and next to a few vans, they saw Miss Militia talking with one of the higher ranking PRT troopers.
A couple of PRT officers jumped when they landed next to them, and pointed their weapons their way. "STOP! This is a quarantined area!" Said the one closest to them.
The other one was trembling, clearly afraid. "You can't be here!"
"We're heroes." Sue said, taking over the conversation when she noticed that Akane had both hands closed into fists.
Miss Militia noticed them and stopped talking to the squad leader. She approached them. "You, you're the hero who captured Bakuda, right?"
Akane flinched at the memory of the bomb tinker, but nodded. "We want to help."
"I know you want to help, but this is over your heads. Even the Wards are only permitted to stay in the perimeter as backup." Miss Militia told them, speaking softly, almost like a middle school teacher.
Sue's helmet smirked, showing dinosaur teeth. "We have a teammate in there, we need to recover her."
Miss Militia swore under her breath, she took a radio. "This is Miss Milita, we have two young heroes here who say there's a cape inside, a teammate of them, over." She turned to Akane. "It's the teleporter, right? Blue?"
Akane nodded. "She still hasn't picked a name, so Blue will do for now. But I decided on Red Kaze."
Miss Militia squinted at her. "Really." She said, humorless.
"Really!" Sue said, almost jumping up and down. "Now, will you let us through? We are wasting time here!"
Miss Militia's teacher-like voice was gone. "You won't be of any help, Armsmaster is already inside. He will handle the situation."
Sue was about to reply, but suddenly, she stopped herself when her communications channel opened. "Armsmaster isn't responding. I- I think- I think he might be dead." Came Dragon's voice from inside her.
That caught Miss Militia off guard. "What? who are you?"
Sue frowned. "That's Dragon, my big sister."
Dragon's voice was sad, almost as if she had been crying. "Miss Militia, please, let them go. I lost all access to Armsmaster's suit a while ago. I need to know if he's OK."
Miss Militia looked like she was going to change her mind, but ultimately shook her head. "You can't be here, if you don't leave now I'll have you two arrested."
"What?" Akane said, stomping the ground. "We're going inside, with your permission, or without it!"
"If it's true that Armsmaster died in there, I don't think you stand a chance!"
"We have to help our teammate!" Akane complained.
"I don't care! The protectorate is going to handle it." Miss Militia frowned at Sue. "Dragon, are you hearing me?"
"I'm on my way with seven units. ETA is fifteen minutes." Dragon suddenly said. "I need these two for early recon."
"If what you're saying is true, if Armsmaster just- just died in there, then this is a way worse situation than we initially thought. It's an A class threat at least. You can't expect me to let these kids inside and-"
Akane silently tripped Miss Militia by spinning and low kicking, throwing her to the ground. Before anyone around could react, Akane grabbed Sue and jumped over the PRT vans, and before anyone knew, they were already inside the building.
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"They're so going to arrest us!" Sue said.
Akane shook her head. "I don't care. Let's go!"
They ran past the front door and stopped just a few feet inside. There were at least twenty teens dead and a few adults as well. A couple were standing, with a terrified expression drawn on their faces.
Sue examined a petrified boy. "Interesting." She said, and touched boy. "He's completely frozen solid, but he's warm. An effect not unlike Clockblocker's."
"Who?" Akane asked as she walked through the hallway.
Sue shook her head and hurried behind Akane. "One of the wards, has the power to freeze someone in time. This is a bit different, because it seems physics do work on the petrified people, and-"
Sue stopped talking when they heard some soft sobbing. They slowed their pace as they went around the corner, and found a rather petite girl that was crying over another girl. She was muttering something, it almost sounded like praying.
Akane recognized them. "Two of the three bitches." She said, and to Sue's raised eyebrow she explained. "They are Taylor's bullies."
Sue's expression hardened. Her eyes widened a moment and she nodded. "Madison Clements," she said, pointing at the crying girl, "and Emma Barnes."
Akane stared at Madison crying for a moment. She wondered how would Taylor feel, knowing that her former best friend was now gone. Would she care? Or would she shed a tear, to honor the memory of their lost friendship?
She shook her head, and approached Madison. "Hey, you."
The sobbing girl raised her head, noticing them for the first time. She almost recoiled, looking at Sue's dinosaur helmet. Akane rolled her eyes when the younger girl flashed a smile with sharp teeth.
She went back to Madison, and said, "relax, we're heroes."
Madison gulped, she didn't look like she believed them. "I- huh, my friend." She closed her eyes, and started wailing. "She's dead! What am I going to do now!?" She was heavily breathing , "I can't live without her, I don't- I don't know how, she- she just- she just died!"
Akane nodded. "Do you know how she died?"
"I don't know! OK?"
Sue growled under her breath. "Come on, Red Kaze, she's just a clueless girl, we have to find our teammate right now."
But Akane shook her head. "Madison." She said, and the girl widened her eyes at her. "Yes, I know your name. I can see your soul."
"What? You- you can-?"
Akane nodded. "Now. Tell me. What was Emma doing before she died?"
"She was calling Sophia, we were desperate!"
"Why was she calling Sophia?"
Madison looked to the side. "I- I can't tell."
Sue started tapping the floor in exasperation. "She is not useful. We have to go on. Remember? Armsmaster? Blue?"
"One second, Su- I mean, T-rex." Akane said, starting to lose her patience herself. She glared at Madison. "You can't tell?"
"I would get sent to juvie if I tell!" Madison exclaimed, raising her hands. "It's not important, Emma was calling Sophia but then- then that' thing showed up!"
"That thing." Sue said, suddenly more interested in whatever Madison had to say.
"What thing? How did this cape look like?"
Sue frowned. "A case 53 gone bad?"
"Case 53?" Madison blinked. "I don't think it was a parahuman."
"Why not?"
"Well, it- it was a giant snake? I don't think I have ever seen a parahuman that looked that much… inhuman."
Akane and Sue exchanged a quick look. "Ok." Akane said, nodding to herself. "Have you seen any cape?"
"Well, yes." Madison said, suddenly calm. "There was this girl with the blue mask, she had some sort of green fire around her body. A while later Armsmaster showed up."
Sue pointed to the exit. "Ok, that's enough, you better leave now. The coast is clear, if you stay any longer you're going to get yourself killed by this 'giant snake'."
Madison stood up, but kept looking down at Emma. Akane couldn't help but think the dead girl looked completely at peace, almost as if she had gone to heaven. She gritted her teeth, at the perceived injustice. Madison seemed to interpret it as a warning, so she nodded and left as fast as her feet could carry her. She never looked back to Emma again.
Akane sighed. "Ok, giant snake? Is that common around here, in Earth Bet?"
"Not really." Sue said and motioned them to keep going. "But a cape could be behind it. A Case 53 is possible, but a Changer is also possible." Sue said, as they walked. "Also, some types of Master, and even some Tinkers could be behind it."
"Shh." Akane raised her hand in a silencing motion. "I hear something else ahead."
Sue examined the next hallway, it was filled with lockers. "My sensors don't detect anything." She said, but remained quiet.
Akane frowned at the left row of lockers, and turned to the right side. "There's someone in one of the lockers." She said, sure of herself.
They walked past more dead bodies and Akane nodded at one of the lockers. "Someone- someone is crying in here."
"Wow, you must be feeling some heavy deja vu, right?" Sue asked.
Akane tilted her head at her. "It's not Taylor." She extended her hand and violently opened the locker.
Sue blinked. There was no one inside. "Well, that's anticlimactic." She turned to Akane. "Come on, we have to go on, find Taylor and Armsmaster."
Akane pointed ahead. "Well, there's the big guy."
Sue turned and nodded at the blue-armored hero. He was stuck in an expression that looked like he was about to hit something with his halberd. The weapon was still pulsating with power.
But instead of examining the petrified hero, Akane kept her attention to the locker she had opened. "I swear, there's someone in here."
Sue shrugged her shoulders. "Whatever, man." She said, and opened communications with Dragon. "Hello, sis?" She said, sighing.
"Tyrannosaurus." Dragon said in a regal tone.
"We found your boyfriend." She said, almost like a joke, but not quite with the same tone.. "Relax." She said before Dragon started sobbing. "He's not dead."
"Not dead?" Dragon asked. "I'm five minute away. Where are you?"
"By the lockers." Sue said.
"Some kind of blaster power?"
"Maybe, I don't know. But some of the people affected didn't die, they became-" Sue looked uncomfortable. "Armsmaster is one of the people that didn't die. He's just- terrified, or something."
"Do you detect a heartbeat?"
"No. But from what my sensors can tell, the state he's in is similar to Clockblocker power."
"So, there's hope." Dragon said, relieved.
"Hey! Come! Quick!" Akane called out. Sue turned and blinked at the sight before her.There was a slightly transparent bluish girl floating in front of Akane, half of her body was inside the locker she had broken open.
"Dragon," Sue said, still looking at the spectral figure. "I have to go, but I'll keep you in line, OK?"
"I'm almost there, Tyrannosaurus."
Akane tried to touch the transparent like girl. "Are you really a ghost?"
"Yes! Can you be more insensitive!?" Ghost-girl exclaimed. "I am trying to cry in here! Why won't you bloody give me some privacy!"
"Sorry." Akane said, and frowned at the transparent girl. "Wait, you're british, right?"
"Yes. So?"
"You're not a Winslow student, are you?"
"No. I am a Hogwarts student!" the girl said, puffing herself a bit, trying to look proud.
"And you died?"
"Yes! That monstrous snake stared at me with its disgusting eyes and then- then- I was dead!"
Akane gave Sue a serious look. "It kills with its eyes."
Sue nodded and approached. "Sorry, what's your name?"
"Myrtle" The ghost said. "I shouldn't have tried to help! I am not a hero like her!"
"Like her?" Akane said. "You're not from around here, right?"
"No." Myrtle said, a bit uncomfortable. "Someone- someone summoned me here."
Akane smiled. "Really? Yes. She saved you, right?"
"You know the crazy girl?"
"Yes." Akane said nodding, "I died once, too. It was horrible. I had lost everything and everyone. I was gone from the world of the living. And she brought me back to life."
"You really died?" Myrtle asked, "so- so she wasn't lying. She really did save me?"
"I think so, yes." Akane said. "What happened?"
"She just- she jumped at the monster so the other kids would be able to leave. Most died anyway." Myrtle said, motioned to all the bodies on the hallway. "But she saved a few. Then, that big man in the blue armor showed up and scared the snake for a moment. But before he could attack, he just sort-of, like- stopped moving."
"Do you know where they are now?"
"Over there." Myrtle pointed upstairs. "She said something about leading the monster to the rooftop."
Akane nodded and turned to Sue. "Did you get that?"
Sue nodded. "Dragon is already landing on the roof. She says she's seeing the giant snake there."
Akane nodded, turned to Myrtle and half-smiled at her. "I am sure Taylor will be able to bring you back with her power. If she could do it once, she can do it again."
Myrtle numbly nodded. "I- I would like that."
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As they ran upstairs, there was a loud noise, as if something had crash landed. Sue almost tripped, but Akane caught her just in time.
"What was that?" Akane asked, dreading the answer.
"Dragon." Sue said, little or no emotion in her voice.
"Dragon?"
"She's- she's gone." Sue said. "I think she thought the monster wouldn't affect her. But she's now- frozen. Her code is stuck."
"Her code." Akane said, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, come on, you can't be that dense!" Sue said, still running upstairs. "We're AI, this body is mechanical!"
"Huh, so you're some kind of robot?" Akane asked, blinking.
"No time to explain, I need to make sure my sister is OK."
They sped up and reached the roof. The door was broken and bits of bricks were gone. Apparently the snake was too big for it. "Close your eyes." Akane said. "Do you have some other way to sense the environment?"
"My dad can come up with something." Sue said, and nodded.
Akane closed her eyes and threw herself outside. When she felt the monster coming her way she raised her wooden sword and slashed. The monster screamed and zigzagged, dodging a second attack from Akane.
The monster then screamed and recoiled. A volley of seemingly invisible strikes hit it multiple times on the back. "Haku Dato Shin Shō!" A shadow jumped back, hiding behind one of the dragon suits, Akane had only now noticed were scattered around the roof.
"Hey!" Akane exclaimed, as she jumped away from a giant tail whip from the monster.
"What?" The shadow asked, trying to make their voice sound gruff.
"Taylor, how come you're using Umi-Sen-Ken!?"
The shadow materialized into Taylor, who winked at Akane. "It's the only thing that can give me an edge!" Taylor massaged her fist and growled under her breath, "Damn it, I feel my own attacks more than the damned snake does.".
"It's a sealed technique! I didn't tell you about it because it's banned!" Akane complained, and slashed her sword around, hitting the side of the snake, but it seemed like she was only making superficial cuts.
"Banned? Look, it makes me virtually invisible, if the snake can't see me, then it can't insta-kill me with its deadly eyes, I don't have time to go around caring about that! I'm not really a martial artist, you know!" Taylor exclaimed as she jumped out of the way when the snake started struggling, attempting to hit everything around it.
Akane grumbled, "fine, but we're going to talk later about this." She flipped back, escaping a large bite by a hair's breadth. When she landed, she started furiously slashing at the monster. "T-rex, a little help?"
The snake tried to hit Akane with its tail, but suddenly, Sue jumped to intercept, facing at it without fear, seemingly unaffected by its deadly gaze. The snake tried to bit the small armored girl, but she just parried around the attacks..
Sue smiled, and tapped the side of her helmet. "Richter-tech, bitch. I have a censor filter for your pretty little eyes." And with that, she high-jumped at the monster with claws for feet and stabbed its eyes.
The snake screamed in pain and recoiled. It started thrashing about, moving fast, fast enough to get a qualified as a speedster. It bit to the left, then to the right.
Taylor thought she had the opportunity to attack. She dropped the Umi-Sen-Ken, now useless with the snake blind, and focused all of her battle aura in her fist..
Taylor jumped at it, with her fist shining like a star. She was rocketing upwards, almost flying at the monster. But the snake seemed to sense the incoming attack, and as it sniffed the air, it moved its head to the side. Taylor's punch almost missed, but connected just below the snake's head. A large chunk of meat exploded.
Taylor bounced and fell to the floor. A second later the Snake dropped on top of her.
"We did it!" Taylor exclaimed, as the light around her fist faded into nothing, and she tried to get the snake out of the way.
"NO, GET AWAY!" Akane was running towards her at top speed. Taylor idly wondered why the other girl had her wooden sword to the back, preparing herself to slash.
That's when she noticed the snake was twitching. She raised her eyes to see the monster's head moving clumsily. Its jaws open, something like acid coming off its giant fangs.
Taylor tried to summon her ki again, punch a hole in the monster a second time, but she was exhausted. There was nothing she could do. She closed her eyes, hoping that at least one of her contributions to humanity, bringing back Richter to life, would lead to the destruction of the Endbringers.
She waited for Death to embrace her, but it never came.
She opened her eyes and her mouth was agape. "Akane?" She said and raised her arm.
Akane was standing next to her, with her sword implanted deep in the monster's head. It was now truly dead, but one of its fangs was also stabbing her shoulder. Akane's face was completely devoid of color, there was no life there. Then, buckets of blood flowed from her mouth.
Taylor fell to her knees. Sue stayed a few feet behind, shocked.
She felt her power finishing recharging itself, and she grabbed it. "Bring her back." She said in a low voice, ordering her power. "BRING HER BACK!" She yelled.
Suddenly a giant sphere of light appeared above them. After a moment, black clouds came from nowhere and completely darkened the sky. Only seven stars were visible. And when Taylor looked up at them, the stars began dancing around, and then fused into one large being.
A giant chinese dragon appeared before them, looking at them expectantly.
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Sorry. I erased that abomination from my mind. It's regular Shen Long from Dragon ball. One wish.
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