GA! GA! GA!

(Seriously!?)

I quickly lean over to the right, causing a bullet, an icicle, and a small fireball to fly past me.

"WHOA!!!" Ripperu yells, stretching her body in unnatural ways to dodge the projectiles.

For her, those were close calls. But for me, those were poorly aimed attacks.

"Geez! You aim like storm troopers!" I exclaim before firing my guns.

GA! GA! GA!

I hit all three of my targets in the head. Luckily for them, those bullets were concentrated shots of my rhime, so they will simply be stunned rather than killed.

"How disappointing!" I say, twirling my guns in my hands. "They really don't live up to their rep."

Above me, the camouflaged wolf spider animal tone attempts to fall onto me...

Before Sigka, in his gorilla form, jumps into the air and slams the spider into the wall.

BATAN!!!

"Indeed." Sigka says, brushing himself off. "And that's what worries me."

Ripperu lets go of the three fighters she was choking with her water tentacles.

"Why so?"

"They don't seem to be trying too hard." Sigka states. "It's as though they've given up from the very beginning."

"So... You think they have something in mind?" Ripperu asks.

Sigka shrugs.

"Following the rules is boring when it makes a fight one sided. If life is a play, it's one of the dullest around. You want a good play? Rule #1: Screw the script!"

"Shut up, Hiro."

We continue down the corridor, go down a flight of stairs, and come to another corridor lined with laser fencing.

"My turn!" I say cheerfully.

I charge my legs with electric rhime...

And easily dash through the tight openings between the laser beams.

At the end of the corridor, I walk over to the terminal for the door and the laser fencing.

Katakatakatakatakatakatakatakatakata!

"Beep!" I say, pressing the confirmation button.

With that, the fencing deactivates and the door op...

"RAILGUN! "

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Whoops!" I yelp, leaning backwards to dodge an incoming beam of electricity.

Further down the corridor from where I came, Ripperu liquifies herself to dodge the shot, while Sigka hangs onto the ceiling as a chimpanzee for evasion.

BBBBBBAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

When the beam dissipates and the wall behind us is completely destroyed, Ripperu and Sigka turn back to their original forms.

"You could have warned us!" they tell me.

"Oh, where's the fun in that?" I retort.

Pachi. Pachi.

I disperse my rhime through the air to get a better idea of my surroundings. 67 people in the room. Two standing side by side in front of the others. At least 30 more down the next corridor behind them.

Pachi. Pachi.

The guy clapping is one of the two in front. If I recall his shape from the projection...

"So, we finally meet." Jonathan says, still clapping. "Glad to see you don't disappoint."

The three of us walk into the room. The others seem rather wary, but not me! I don't sense any traps or hidden fighters surrounding us. Everybody is in the open. Many of the people behind Jonathan and the other one in front begin to talk among themselves, while backing up as we advance towards them.

"Halt!" the one man orders, gesturing with his hand for us to stop. "This is as far as you go."

"And you are?" Ripperu asks, pointing at him.

"Straight to the point." he says. "Very well. I am Jericho Hael, the current leader of our age's yakuza. Known to many as the 'Swordsman of the Sun'. And..."

He stretches out his hand, and flames erupt from his palm, taking the form of a blade.

"The one who will end you."

He then points the blade at Ripperu.

"State your name and title." Jericho says.

"Huh?" replies Ripperu.

"Contrary to what you might think, many of us do have codes of honor. For me, I wish to know the names of those I fight. Should I kill them, I wish to remember their names so that, when I fight my next opponents, I can relay the names of the fallen to them. And should I be defeated...I simply wish to know the name of the one who ended me so I can reflect on that name in my dying moments. So again, state your name."

...

(You expect us to reveal such personal inf...?) Sigka thinks.

Ripperu walks forward.

"I am Ripperu, also known as 'Liquid Wrath'. Former thief, now a Keisetsu member hoping to make things right."

(What happened to secrecy!?)

Jericho nods, then points his blade at Sigka.

Taking the hint, Sigka sighs, then speaks.

"I am Sigka, and I'm referred to as the 'Sage Beast'. I fight to aid the one who aided me when I needed help the most. I am one who honors his debts."

Jericho nods again, and finally points at me.

"It's a tragedy, but I have a confession to make." I say. "I am...a side character!"

I don't need eyes to sense the glares Ripperu and Sigka give me. The others in the room likely have confused expressions on their faces.

"Shut up, Hiro!" they exclaim, angry.

"Hiro?" asks Jericho. "You wouldn't happen to be Hiromu Limelight, would you?"

?

In that instant, my urges to come up with something comedic disappear. Perhaps it was the way he said my name. Perhaps it's because he knew my name. But, if he knows me, what pieces of my past will I have to remember here and now?

What...memories?

"You seem to resemble his picture they posted in the obituary for you and your family."

!

(My obituary. My death. Their...deaths.)

Jonathan bursts into laughter.

"What's so funny?" Jericho asks.

"I knew the rumors were true!" Jonathan remarks, walking past Jericho.

"What rumors?" Ripperu asks.

Sigka, panicking, gestures for Ripperu and Jonathan to stop talking.

"The rumor of a man who died internally, and his body went on a rampage." Jonathan continues. "The battle that his family died in was finished with both sides becoming nothing but piles of corpses. All at the hands of one man."

"Don't go any further!" Sigka yells.

My index fingers, my trigger fingers, begin to twitch, but otherwise I remain motionless.

"A man who died and came back a demon. An empty shell consumed with rage. The 'Raging Pistol'."

With electric tone speed, Jonathan "teleports" in front of me. He's fast.

Faster than I am.

"It was you, wasn't it?" he asks me.

I remain silent for a time. Everyone, save for Sigka, awaits my response. To sate their curiosity, I open my mouth and say...

"You're overthinking it. People die when they are killed."

Those who didn't facepalm themselves perform face faults.

Enraged, Jonathan grabs me by the neck and slams me into the wall behind with his enhanced speed.

BATAN!!!!

"Wrong answer!" he yells. "Tell me!"

I remain silent, then look at him.

"And why should it matter?" I ask.

"Show me..."

I remain silent.

"Show me your strength!"

"Jonny!" Jericho yells. "Don't go changing up the plan!"

"So there IS a plan." Sigka notes.

(Shit!) Jericho thinks.

Jonathan removes me from the wall and lifts me higher. I don't struggle.

"All those years..." Jonathan says. "I fought in another civil war around 16 years ago and was said to be the strongest Electric tone! All those years gone to waste when my title was taken away by a myth! My reason for fighting, for joining the Kyusen and yakuza, was to become stronger and surpass this legacy!"

He brings my face closer to his.

"But all I see is a lie." he says.

?

"All this time, I've been jealous of an empty shell."

??

I begin to open my mouth, but he covers it with his other hand.

"You're only deceiving yourself. Your humor hides your sorrow. Your rambling voice hides a silent mind. An empty mind. A broken mind...and a broken heart. You call yourself alive? I know your type. You aren't alive. You aren't here. You only live in the past. You cannot let go of life, just like you can't let go of your memories."

He slams my head back into the wall.

BATAN!

"But if you can't bring yourself to live in the present, can you really say you're here?"

He lets go of me...

!!!

And charges towards Ripperu!

I speed myself up, and get between them just in time...

Only to get stabbed on the left side of my chest with a . Jonathan removes his hand from my body. I'm lucky to have a high pain tolerance.

Then again, it makes me seem less alive, doesn't it?

"Fight with all your strength." he tells me. "Or I will make you. Do you think...you can 'live' through more loss?"

I grab and cock my guns.

This time...with real bullets.

Jonathan smiles...

And I dash towards him.

PACHIN!

The barrels of our guns clash.

(Seems...things finally are getting interesting. For better or worse.)

"Hiro!" Sigka yells, advancing towards me...

Before a blade of flame is within a centimeter of his neck.

Sigka quickly jumps back to get distance between himself and Jericho's blade.

"You have your own opponents." Jericho says calmly.

"You're right...we do!" Ripperu yells, liquifying her arms.

She quickly stretches one arm and aims for Jericho's stomach. Right before she makes contact, he leans to the side to dodge the punch.

(What the!? He's almost as fast as an electric tone!) Ripperu thinks.

"Don't die on me too quickly." Jericho says to Ripperu before charging at her.

Some of the underlings move towards Ripperu, but are stopped by Sigka.

"Don't bet on it!" he says during his transformation into an elephant.

(Hiromu...) Sigka thinks. (Don't do anything you'll regret.)

PAOON!!!!!!

Sigka charges in, swinging his trunk, knocking away some of the opponents in front who don't jump into the air. Those who do dodge prepare projectiles, mainly wind and ice. They fire, and Sigka transforms into a gray parrot to fly around the shots. Descending, he goes underneath the legs of more enemies and transforms into a gorilla, launching the enemied below him into the air and startling those around him long enough to slug them with strong arm swings. Every time those surrounding Sigka attempt to hit him, he quickly transforms into either a more slippery animal, like an anaconda, or something small like a gray parrot or chimpanzee. Like me, he has experience fighting large numbers of opponents. Though I can see him still getting grazed by a few attacks, he seems fine.

Wish I could say the same for Ripperu.

"Don't take your eyes off your opponent!" Jonathan yells.

GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA!

I ready my guns and fire bullets of my own to counter his.

GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA!

And miss one. It grazes my right shoulder, causing me to cringe in pain. I may have a pain tolerance, but I can still feel these things.

Taking advantage of this, Jonathan dashes towards me again and knees me in the stomach, making me gasp. He attempts to hit me in the back of the head with his gun, but I kick upwards and hit him in the chin, knocking him back.

PANCHI! GA! PANCHI! PANCHI! GA! PACHI! GA! GA! GA!

At lightning speed, the two of us alternate between long-range gun shots and short range attacks with our guns. To the untrained eye, it would look as though we were in multiple places at once, as we are creating afterimages.

But ultimately, I am getting overpowered.

I continue to get grazed and hit. Grazed and hit.

And all the while, I cannot seem to focus. Why?

Sssssssshhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuu.......

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!" I hear Ripperu scream.

I glance over at her and see that her liquid hands are quickly evaporating. It's as though her rhime is literally being burnt up.

Ripperu can only use her liquid arms as a shield, for every time she throws a punch, Jericho either blocks it with his sword, causing Ripperu's arm to evaporate on contact, or he dodges to the side and attempts to parry.

(If I don't help her...!)

PANCHI!!!

Jonathan presses his gun against the two of mine, and he's still overpowering me.

"Don't you see?" he asks me.

Sssssssshhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuu.......

PAOON!!!!!!

I glance over to Sigka, once again in his elephant form. As before, he grows within the group, launching them away with his sudden transformation. But this time, he's covered in many cuts and bruises. It seems we've underestimated these people after all.

"You don't fight to protect." Jonathan says. "Unlike you, we fight for one another. But you... You only fight for yourself. You fight out of fear of loss. You fight the same fight over and over. Fighting to protect those long gone. As long gone as you."

PANCHI!!! PANCHI!!! PANCHI!!! GA! GA! PANCHI!!!

"Either put everything on the line, or DIE!!!"

With his open hand, he prepares another and slashes upward with it, ripping my shirt apart and making a clean cut across my chest. Blood spills out. Jonathan finishes with a kick to the chest, knocking me into the wall.

BATAN!

"You really are an empty shell..." he says again.

"Don't listen to him!" Sigka yells while transforming his arms into gorilla arms. He lands a few clean blows on those surrounding him.

Jonathan looks at me, likely in disappointment. I cough up blood.

(So... This is the strength of those that fought alongside Hisao and Katsumi...)

I focus on Jonathan again, and he looks at Jericho.

With his superior speed, he dashes over to Jericho and Ripperu...

And kicks Ripperu in the stomach, knocking her a few meters away from Jericho!

!!

"Jonathan!" Jericho yells. "What are you doing!?"

Jonathan dashes over to Ripperu, who is gasping for breath.

"Awaken from your shell. Unleash the monster within!" he says over her.

"Don't!" I yell.

"If you don't, then say goodbye to this girl!"

"RIPPERU!!!" Sigka yells.

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jonathan...gets hit clean in the chest...

With...my railgun...

"GGGGAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!" he yells in agony.

When the beam of electricity dissipates, he is pressed a few centimeters into the wall, his clothes nearly burnt off.

Everyone goes silent for a few seconds.

Until Jonathan chuckles.

(No. No! Oh please, no!) Sigka thinks.

"Now..." Jonathan says as he charges his gun with electricity. He chuckles again.

"This...is what I've been waiting for!"

Ripperu looks over to me...

Ripperu...

She...isn't my concern...

"Hiro...mu?" she asks weakly.

Biri.

I slowly rise from where I stand.

Biri. Biri.

I can sense...everyone..save for Jonathan...Ripperu...Sigka...and Jericho...are stepping away...

Biri. Biri.

I can feel it... The electricity surging out of my body... Enough electricity...to even make my electric tone hair stand up...

Biri. Biri.

Enough electricity...to be dangerous even for an electric tone...

I reach for my blindfold...

"Hiro! Listen to me!" Sigka yells.

I grab hold of it with my left hand...

"Don't do it!" Sigka continues.

With my right hand, I reach for my music player... It was made to handle this amount of electricity...

(What...is he doing?) Jericho thinks.

I remove my blindfold...and let go of it...letting it drop to the floor...

Revealing my closed eyes...

I go through my songs...and instinctively scroll through my playlist...until I find...the perfect song...

Mell's..."Red Fraction"... IO Drive Mix...

"It's Hiro time..." I say in English.

As I open my eyes...

My pupilless eyes...giving off a flourescent glow...and streaks of electricity whenever I move my head...

"Let's begin..." I continue in English.

When the first notes of the song play on my music player...my body radiates electricity... And with this electricity...sound waves... It's as though...my body is producing the song...

And...at the first guitar note...

I dash over to Jonathan...at a speed he cannot match...and grab him by the throat.

(What!?) he thinks.

With every note...I send more and more electricity into my hand...shocking his neck... When like this...I have a stronger grip...as I can push myself even harder than usual... Pain means nothing...

All I have is rage... Blind rage...

This is why...my nickname...is "Raging Pistol"...

At the part where the guitar gets even louder...I quickly remove Jonathan from the wall...

And smash him face first...into the floor...

BATAN!!!

With every guitar note...I step on the back of his face...

BATANBATANBATANBATANBATANBATANBATANBATAN!!!

To avoid another stomp, Jonathan jumps up and points his gun at me.

I walk slowly towards him...

GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA!

He fires his gun... The sound of each shot...is drowned out by the sound of the song...

Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi!

A centimeter from my body...I block each bullet with the barrels of my guns... Unlike before...there are no afterimages...

To many...it looks like I never moved at all...

(What in the!?) Jonathan thinks again, fearfully.

I continue to advance slowly...

GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA! GA!

Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi!

And I block every shot... With every shot...Jonathan...panics...more...and more...

When the guitar gets louder again...I dash behind him...

And use my ...to stab through his chest...near the shoulder... I avoid any organs... It should be...right above his right lung...and heart...

I want to make this as slow...and as painful...as possible...

Thrusting my whole arm through...I reach upwards...and tightly grip his head with my hand... My hand...stained with his blood...

And I send electricity though it...frying his face... His screams...muffled by my hand...

I withdraw my hand after shocking him for a bit...and toss him into the air...

BATAN! BATAN! BATAN! BATAN! BATAN!

I ricochet...off the walls...floor...and ceiling...slamming Jonathan into all sides of the room...with my guns' barrels... To those watching...it's as though a bolt of lightning...keeps attacking Jonathan...

Living lightning...not a human...

The note...before the first word in the song...I kick him over the crowd of underlings... They watch him in fear...letting their guard down...

A fatal mistake...

I have a big gun.

I took it from my lord.

Sick with justice.

I just wanna feel you.

Unseen, I knock them off their balance by tripping them...giving me a chance to kick four of the mobsters into the wall...

BATAN! BATAN! BATAN!

I dash over to one of them and grab their face...pushing them further into the wall. I run across the room...dragging their face through the wall...

I'm your angel.

Only a ring away.

I hurl the thug into the frightened group...knocking them all down when the thrown one smashes into them...

I dash over to them...and begin my close quarter assault...

A kick to the chest...

An uppercut with the barrel of my gun...

Headbutts...

All done...while charging electricity into my guns...

You make me violate you

No matter who you are.

I kick ten of the opponents upwards... When aligned with those I've hit before...at least fifteen form a relatively straight line...

Get down.

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perfect...for hitting them with a railgun...

Weak...

So...weak...

As the guitar plays loudly...I slowly get up...

I'm bleeding... Not from my opponent's attacks... These...are self induced...

But I don't care... I don't feel them...

"Hiromu!" Sigka yells. "Calm down!"

Words...I cannot hear...

Before the next verse...

I turn around...to block Jericho's fire blade...with the barrels of my guns... Barrels of orichalcum... Indestructible...

It's all up to you.

No one lives forever.

Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi!

His blade clashes with my guns... He's fast...but I still have the advantage...

Jericho sees this...as he is getting overpowered and pushed back...

(Fire Drive: Dual Dyrnwyn!)

Been burnt in the Hell

By all those pigs out there.

Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!

Our attacks pick up the pace...

It's always been Hell

From when I was born.

Jericho performs...a downward cross slash...

I block with one gun...and the blades collide...

They make me violate them

No matter who they are.

And hit him...under his jaw...with the barrel of my other gun...sending him airborne...

I jump to his elevation...

Get down.

BATAN!!!

And kick him into the floor...with a high speed...axe kick...

I charge my guns...and aim for the ceiling...

GA!

The shots' recoil push me downwards...

On your knees.

BATAN!

Allowing me to land on my feet...on Jericho's back...

Jonathan rushes towards me...and I jump away...to dodge a vertical slash of the barrel of his gun... He spins around and fights with his back to me...

GA!

Panchi!

And I block the shot...

Jericho gets up...

And the duo charges towards me...

Get down on your knees.

Get a good head on your shoulders.

GA!GA!Panchi!Panchi!Panchi!GA!GA!GA!Panchi!GA!GA!

I take the defensive...blocking sword swings...gunshots...and gun barrel attacks...

The duo work well in tangent... They are in perfect sync...not once risking a hit on their partner... And they are picking up the pace...

For once...a real challenge...

I don't notice her...but Ripperu looks at me...with a face of astonishment...and fear...

(I didn't know he was capable of this!) she thinks. (Is...Is this really Hiro!?)

If it's for your guys

Go to the end of the earth.

GA! Panchi!Panchi!GA!GA! Panchi!Panchi!GA!GA!

Do what you think.

Give it with dedication.

I'll put out your misery.

PANCHI!!!

They sandwich me... Jericho's two blades blocked with one gun...and Jonathan's gun with the other...

I push them back...with my enhanced strength... I can push my muscles harder...and the pain won't stop me...

With the two fighters on both sides... Jonathan fires his gun...

GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!

While Jericho swings his sword...creating airborne slashes of fire...

I counter each gunshot...with perfectly aimed counter shots...

And run the barrel of my other gun...along the streaks of all the fire slashes... Canceling them out...

I charge up my gun...countering Jericho's slashes...

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And fire another railgun...while spinning rapidly...

A shot...that hits both Jericho and Jonathan...

And nearly hits Ripperu...if Sigka had not shielded her with the turtle shell on his back...

I would normally be concerned...as I can see that Sigka is injured...

But not now...

I feel nothing...

Ripperu looks at Sigka...as he tries to endure the pain...

(This...isn't the Hiro I know!) she continues.

Have no prayer.

So, I keep the gun with me.

I dash over to Jonathan...who is pressed into the wall...and grab him by the face... I also instantly do the same to Jericho...

For my safety,

I'll do it with no sweat.

BATAN! BATAN!

I plant their faces into the floor...and run forward...

They mean business.

No time for sissy pig.

BATAN! BATAN!

I slam them...into the wall I was running towards...

Then toss them behind me...

And grab their closest legs...

Queen of ocean

Sing "the volga" to you.

I spin rapidly...and toss them one at a time...into the air...at the same point of my spin...

When aligned...

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I turn to the remaining assassins in the room...

And continue my assault...

Sigka and Ripperu...with Ripperu carrying him...leave the room...

Sigka weakly reaches into his pocket...for a communication crystal...

(I pray she can hear me.) he thinks.

GA! GA! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! GA! Panchi! GA!

I continue...my one-sided onslaught...

No need to think about it.

You do it or you die.

Panchi! Panchi! GA! GA! Panchi! GA!

"Claire! Claire! Can you hear me!?" Sigka yells.

Those aren't tears.

Don't let it trick on you.

GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA! PANCHI!

"Loud and clear!" her voice through the crystal responds. "What's happening?"

I am hard as steel.

Get out of my way.

"It...happened! He snapped!" Ripperu yells.

"WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?"

Pay back all at once.

Suck away the tender part.

I can see everything in the room... Jericho and Jonathan...are fleeing...shoulder to shoulder...trying to hold each other up...

They won't get away...

They will fall...

They head down the corridor... Past the cluster of fighters I haven't fought...

That won't stop me...

You made a mess.

For Christ sake, this rotten world.

Shit out of luck.

Go with my vision.

As a last ditch effort...every yakuza member...jumps towards me...tackling me...and pinning me down...

And I toss them away...with my superior strength...knocking them into the walls...

I pursue the duo down the corridor.

GA! GA! GA!

A few bullets...icicles...and stones graze me...

Seems...I'm slowing down...

Guess...I'll have to push myself harder...

Light up the fire.

Right on the power.

Weapon... I have it all.

GA!GA!PANCHI!PANCHI!GA!GA!GA!PANCHI!PANCHI!PANCHI!PANCHI!GA!GA!

Gun barrels to body parts... Shots hitting their marks...

This line of defense is feeble...

I reach the next room...and kick open the door.

GACHA!!!

Jonathan...on the other side of the large room...pulls a lever...

Sections of the wall open...

To reveal a line of hundreds of turrets...

I remain still...watching the duo...

Jonathan presses a few buttons next to the lever...

And the guns point towards me...

I walk forward...

It's all up to you.

No one lives forever.

GAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA!!!!!!!!!

Been burnt in the Hell

By all those pigs out there.

PANCHIGAPANCHIGAPANCHIGAPANCHIGAPANCHIGAPANCHIGAPANCHIGAPANCHIGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every bullet shot towards me...I block by spinning my guns on my trigger fingers... A few bullets that I block ricochet off my guns...and graze me... But...I'm fine... When I see that very brief opening...I fire towards the turrets with electricity...continuing to advance...

DODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODODO!!!!!!!!!!

The turrets I hit explode in succession...causing a few beside them to explode as well...

In a short amount of time...all the turrets are destroyed...

Jericho and Jonathan look at me in fear...and attempt to flee to the next room...

GA!

I fire at the doorknobs...startling them...

In this hesitation...I "teleport" over to them...grab them...and toss them towards a wall...

I slowly walk towards them... Unlike before...they don't fight back... Not just out of fear...but fatigue...

Right before I get to them...

Another opponent glides in...

A young dragon humanoid...

They perform a downward slash with their claws...and I sidestep...then kick them in the face...

Get down on your knees.

Get a good head on your shoulders.

If it's for your guys

Go to the end of the earth.

GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!GA!PANCHI!PANCHI!PANCHI!PANCHI!PANCHI!PANCHI!

Between fireballs from their mouth and some slashes...they simply block my kicks...gun barrel strikes...and shots... They don't attempt to evade...so their scales get cracked...and their wings punctured...

But unlike Jericho and Jonathan...they can take the blows...

Now...it's a matter of endurance...

Do what you think.

Give it with dedication.

I'll put out your misery.

PANCHI!PANCHI!GA!PANCHI!GA!GA!PANCHI!GA!PANCHI!GA!

Whoever this kid is...

He's...good...

"Hiro! STOP!!!!!!" someone yells. I...can't tell anymore.... "Plant Drive: Spore Cloud - Ganoderma!!!"

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A cloud of spores goes through the entire room...hindering my vision...

Not...only that...I feel...ca...lmer...

You made a mess.

For Christ sake, this rotten world.

Shit out of luck.

Go with my vision.

I hear footsteps... But I cannot tell from where... My vision and hearing...and getting fuzzy...

A woman walks up to me...

Behind her...the sound of people rushing out... Two...maybe three... Likely...those were Jericho...Jonathan...and that dragonoid kid...

Light up the fire.

Right on the power.

Weapon... I have it all.

The woman stops before me...and kneels down... I can barely make her out...but I know who it is...

Claire...with teary eyes...

"Please... Stop." She says.

Weapon... I have it all.

Before giving me a kiss on my lips...

A kiss...of sedation...