[RP Practice I] :: Back to Arms

[Keto]

(Nope, I'm not deleting this one like previous ones. I'd rather keep the proof of my stupidity.)

[RPP Status] :: Closed

[RPP Participants] :: Keto + side-accounts

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It has been some time since the scourge of professor Kyuki was stopped and he was silenced by the hands of justice. After that he was never heard from again. All of his creations, linked to his body and mind, were shut down as a consequence of Kyuki's fall. Washington, city that tasted the madman's wrath more than anybody, started to rebuild with the aid of Silver Knights and Eden. It took a while for reconstruction to begin with periodical attacks from Chrono Elite who still have not been defeated in all of the chaos. However, without Kyuki's aid, chances they have against Silver Knights are quite miserable. They began to gather terrorists from other organizations; mainly from those who have fallen to the hands of Silver Knights before such as Infernal Order. Due to political tensions between them and the government, Silver Knights decided not to rebuild their Headquarters that Admiral Asuka Izumo purposely destroyed. If government thinks they can survive without the help of only organization that does his job then they got their wish fulfilled. Administration of Silver Knights, until another solution is found, has been stationed in Eden's Paradise Anchor along with the administration of Eden. 

Silver Knights had many other tensions aside the political ones. Admiral Maria Zenovia has been deranked to the position of High Officer, which is directly below the rank of General. With Silver Knights missing two Admirals, FBI and many other organizations have been working hard to shove their nose into Knights' business and try to dig up information on their forbidden weapons or rare technologies that the rest of the world still does not possess. Andrew Andersen, one of the lost Admirals, who was in control of Kyuki had been liberated and after proper tests of Admiral Asuka Izumo he returned to his old position and rank of Admiral filling up one of the two remaining spots. Knowing how famous and righteous Andrew used to be in his day and age many did not dare to pursue their espionage quests. Admiral Andrew, with his Elysian Dragonoid, possesses power to rival that of Admiral Asuka and her Ares. Competition for the third Admiral has begun among the existing Generals and High Officers who want to become an Admiral, but only time will tell of any results.  


Meanwhile, Silver Knights have been eliminating any threats left over by Kyuki. Such threat is known as the Redvein; a drug produced by processing the Black Matter- slimy and thick liquid found around the former laboratories Kyuki had. Redvein caused people to lose control eventually turning into zombies that hunger for flesh of other living beings. And some other 'creations' that did not shut down on Kyuki's disappearance- such is his revived wife, Fina. She became mad through the process of revival and is now a threat just as big as Kyuki. If she is left unchecked she might be able to use his knowledge to rebuild his empire of madness and violence. So that would not happen, Admiral Asuka Izumo personally went on a chase for the mad woman and is ready to put her down if it comes down to it.

[Fina]

Fina has been on the run for some time already. Even though she was mad and crazed she could not hide her fear from what had been going on. That stubborn Admiral, Asuka, has been chasing her for three days and through seven laboratories. It appears that the Admiral is camping every single one of those and waiting for her to pop up somewhere. Those laboratories have been hidden for a very long time and Silver Knights had no means of finding them so how come the Admiral knows their positions all of a sudden- could someone have said something to them? A traitor? Whoever it is, Fina is set on finding him and skewering him. This Admiral has wounded her way too many times on this chase; there was blood coming out of everywhere and scars could not be counted by hand. "Ugh... annoying bitch..." Fina insulted while running through one of the laboratories, running away from the woman she knew was in there for sure. She could not hear anything, but could just sense it... smell it.

"It... fucking hurts..." She whined silently.

She ran towards one of the panels. She was pressing some buttons and pulling levers. As consequence, sounds of large machinery could be heard through the laboratory. The moment she turned around she saw the Admiral standing a few meters away from her with Ares. Sweat began running down her face and chills went through her spine. "You're too late!" She yelled. At that moment a hatch on the ceiling opened up and several large scorpion-like monstrous creations came out. They all lined up in protection of Fina as she took out a small round device and pressed a button. With a single flash she disappeared as the scorpions swarmed towards the Admiral.

[Asuka Izumo]

Stingers of the foul beasts charged at the shining armor of the holy knight.

Their tips curved and shattered the moment they made contact with the sacred metal of Ares's armor. The disgusting odor coming from their half-rotten bodies are to be frowned upon- the sole presence of such ugliness made Asuka and Ares feel sick. Whatever that wretched fool of a woman thought she was doing it was not going to work; best option she had was to stay away from laboratories since Asuka had them under surveillance. That woman is not stupid; she knows this, but keeps returning to them- there must be something of great value here that she could not grab in time due to being chased. Perhaps by waiting and observing Asuka could take hold of whatever that is, but it might be risky and bring innocents to danger so capturing and forcing Fina to speak is a better option.

"Shall we finish this? Woman is getting bothersome." Asuka questioned.

"Yes. I have tracked her already." Ares informed.

Before using teleportation to Fina's current physical location Ares decided to cleanse the world of these abominations' presence. "Die." Ares said and stabbed his lance into the ground releasing a golden wave of holy light bathing the abominations in it and turning them into light; melting their skin and bones and then burning it out of existence. Not even an atom of their bodies was left. Two then disappeared out of the laboratory in a blink with aim to stalk on Fina for a moment so possibly obtain her plans and then give them what those like her deserve.

[Fina]

Fina escaped Asuka once more, but only temporarily. 

Her teleportation serves her as long as it does not involve laboratories. Seeing how Asuka teleports with ease from one to another proves she has surveillance over them and can sense anyone inside so force jamming in Fina's teleportation would not work. Only way to survive is to teleport between checkpoints that have absolutely nothing to do with laboratories. However, that will not help her anyhow since all precious items are stored in laboratories. Because of how desperate situation is Fina used the checkpoint created in Rome two years ago; she was teleported in the middle of Rome where it was already like 22:30; streets were practically empty. Fina did not want to be seen so she moved in between the buildings and hid in the shadows.

"Argh... this pain..." Fina whined in the shadows stabbing herself with syringes filled with chemicals that are supposed to accelerate regeneration.

"Why aren't there working!? That annoying bitch..." Fina complained. It appears Asuka did something with those wounds that they cannot heal.

Chills ran down her spine. She turned her face up. "I know you're there..." Fina said into the distance. Could Asuka really have tracked her all the way to another continent? Even with those safety checkpoints that cannot be tracked? With that kind of speed there is absolutely no way she can do anything productive or heal without being detected. Then there is no way of attempting to restore Kyuki's memories and knowledge he had of Silver Knights... 

[Asuka Izumo]

The moment psychotic woman made her comment a golden flash lightened up the sky and Ares spawned with Asuka on his left shoulder. He descended towards Fina with lance and scepter ready for any resistance and six elemental swords serving as backup. She is dangerous; cornered or not there is always a few dozens of aces up her sleeves. Knowing her psychotic mind she will send some other abomination at them and then teleport again. Recently, Ares wounded her with a hazardous sword that leaves a Blood Trail ailment that makes Ares permanently aware of wounded one's physical location. There is no running anymore. "Make this easy on yourself, little rat, for you shall not escape justice." Ares advised the crazed woman. He could have killed her hours ago on this chase, but she is more valuable alive and captured so he kept wounding her and giving her opportunity to just give up with this fruitless endeavor.

"We would highly appreciate if you stopped running. Otherwise, we will have to hurt you more and more until you cannot." Asuka 'advised' to her prey.

"We have some questions." Ares added.

Ares pointed his lance towards Fina's face, obviously, not giving her an many options for an answer here. She was either going to come along or die. Her face turned pale and eyes red; she lost a lot of blood on this chase and had probably become overly desperate over how to escape and survive the blood-loss. Unlike her dear husband she is still bound by limits of simple mortals.

[Fina]

"I've got your answers right here!" Fina yelled.

Asuka and Ares have expected it; minions were summoned to Fina's aid. What they have not expected was the amount of enemies. Dozens of portals opened at Fina's call; numerous gigantic hornets and flies began pouring out. Those are known as Nightmares- creatures brought to life from organs of murderer creatures and shaped as insects that carry horrifying poison, infections and plague with them. Those who are unfortunate to get bitten by just one will have their wound swell and burn like hell; plague and infections will eventually claim the victim's life. Once victim is dead or severely weakened they burrow inside them and lay eggs that eat the victim out from the inside. Yes, truly disgusting. Kyuki never resorted to such strategies, but Fina is very tricky when it comes to strategies she is willing to use against enemies; she will unleash shocking brutality that not even Kyuki can match. 

A giant centipede appeared from one portal and leaped at Ares binding him with its own body and squeezing him. That attack prevented Ares from doing anything to Fina or defending himself from flying scourge. This bought time for Fina to escape. "Go back to sucking dicks and leave me alone, you rotten bag." Fina cursed and then took out her device for teleportation. This time she slammed her fist against the button causing the device to break, but as a consequence a green blink of teleportation was followed by a burning green flame that lasted for 3 seconds and disappeared along with Fina. She escaped again.

[Asuka Izumo]

"Oh my..." Asuka said under her breath and sighed.

Ares's armor radiated in golden light bathing the alley in gold. Every monster sent to devour them was caught by the holy light and their bodies were burned to cinder by the light that does not tolerate such disgusting existence. Even cinders were burned further until not even atoms were left. The bind of disgusting centipede was gone and Ares was freed within seconds of its bind. Ares landed on the floor in order to focus on Fina's location. "Such... stubborn woman." Asuka commented on Fina. "Like any rat- she destroys and then runs and hides from the eyes of justice." Ares replied, not very happy about the cowardice of his opponent. Not only that, but he could not feel Fina's presence anymore. The Blood Trail effect has not worn off, but it was still not working for some reason. So far she had been teleporting with that device and would disappear with one flash, but this time flash was followed by green fire; could it be jamming the trail somehow? 

"I do not sense her anymore." Ares informed.

"It does not matter- without laboratories she is helpless. And we have them under control. She will eventually have to make a move. But the next time we meet her..." Asuka said.

"Her head will not lie on the shoulders." Ares interrupted.

Golden flash wrapped both Ares and Asuka in a golden veil and they were teleported to the Training Grounds inside Eden's Paradise Anchor. There they were welcomed by Silver Knights' Subterra General, Kyle Brown and Eden's Angel of Death, Victoria Nelson. "Greetings." Asuka greeted the two before leaping off Ares's shoulder and landing. Ares's body flashed and transformed into a necklace around Asuka's neck. Without any further instructions Asuka left the Training Grounds and back to the office she was given temporarily by Eden.

[Alex Andersen]

[Meanwhile... Training Grounds of Eden]

"Sheesh... what's with miss Death?" Alex asked sarcastically after seeing Asuka. 

"She is being herself, Alex." Dante commented; unclear if that was a joke on Asuka or justification on Asuka's behavior.

Alex and Dante were also moved to Eden for some time. Meanwhile Jason, Marcus and Seth were stationed inside the S.T.A.R.; the Silver Knights' Helicarrier that usually soars through the skies of North and South America and serves purpose of second Headquarters thanks to its overwhelming size. It is also the Headquarters where Marshal mostly resides. Asuka, weirdly, has not left for M.O.O.N.; her own Helicarrier, but she decided to use Eden's hospitality. Guess it is nice having the strongest Admiral so close. Could it be that she stayed in Eden on purpose for Victoria? That's a question for another time. As for Alex and Dante, they were in a match against Michael and Metallius; two of these guys have changed a lot over time and even surprised Alex with their new strategies. Not to mention that Michael AGAIN passed the Trial of Twelve which, now, even involved Asuka's special trial. That means Metallius either has way better stats or abilities or a new transformation.

"Okay. We're done for today." Alex said. He and Michael have been brawling for the past hour and a half without even using any transformations or other secret powers. That was an improvement; since the moment Dante left his tank nature he had become much more of a threat in combat. "Wanna fetch some coffee with us?" Alex asked Michael who also seemed to be getting tired of the brawl as well.

[Michael Schulz]

"You know that's bad for your health? And yeah, sure." Michael replied.

"Could get a bit of rest after this one. Good match." Metallius commented.

After ten minutes of walking through the cold streets of Washington, two Knights have arrived to one of their favorite coffee shops and sat down to discuss whatever colleagues should be discussing. Knowing Michael and his 'interesting' nature Alex already had anticipated on what the topics might be and it was as creepy as always; mostly creepy stuff on girls and all 'views' Michael managed to get. He was even talking for three minutes on one of the Angels, Shabelle Carter, telling Alex she would be a real catch for him since both of them are as awkward as pineapple on pizza. Alex, of course, kept quiet and let the man say all he had and shut up like a normal person. Micahel decided to stop and give it a sudden jump on another topic.

"Did you hear? Kyuki's wife is causing trouble around." Michael informed.

"That is bad..." Metallius added.

[Alex Andersen]

"...Seriously?" Alex facepalmed and sighed in disappointment.

Alex grabbed his cup and finished his coffee in one sip. The moment he heard the news he got stressed out. As if one nightmare had not been enough. "That's unsettling. Very." Dante commented, but he did not seem as stressed as Alex; he thought that perhaps, as Kyuki's underling, Fina could not be as problematic as her husband. Fina might not be as tricky and resourceful as Kyuki, but she is much more brutal, sadistic and dangerous not only murdering out of use like Kyuki, but for personal pleasure. It is wrong to think she is not a dangerous threat. 

"Isn't she supposed to be the madman's creation, too?" Alex questioned.

"Perhaps she is like your parents and some of those Knights we've seen?" Dante theorized. 

"Huh...?"

"Kyuki sometimes makes his creations obey him, but have their own existential independence." Dante said recalling what has been happening. Some strong Knights Kyuki revived had their own potential even as his revived servants. Same is with Fina, Andrew and Jennifer- they have been altered, but given independence. If Kyuki dies they do not cease to work. "That... could be. Are Knights working on it tho?" Alex questioned.

[Michael Schulz]

"I've overheard our strongest redhead has been on her ass for some time. Didn't catch her though." Michael informed. His information, indeed, was correct.

Michael had been staring for some time into his coffee cup before picking it up. He was thinking on on the matter as well; Fina was not anyone they could underestimated. Worst-case scenario would be if she managed to reconstruct Kyuki in some way. Then they'd all be in serious trouble and there is a high possibility that she is in the process of doing it already. Just a thought of it brought shivers to Michael's spine. His parents nearly died in one of that madman's attacks and so many families did die; if they let this lunatic woman slide then all that fighting against Kyuki will be sent down the drain.

"Can't believe what'd we have to live through if she brought Kyuki back... Hope the Admiral can do something about it." Metallius commented.

"I wouldn't worry. She is smart and strong. Fina will have her buns toasted once Asuka finds her." Michael said.

[Alex Andersen]

Michael was way too optimistic about this one. Asuka was powerful far beyond their imagination, but putting all eggs in one basket in these harsh times surely was not a method to use. It looked like Michael did not want to participate in this so he simply assumed Asuka would solve all of their problems like she usually does. However, this is not paperwork, diplomacy or wiping out an army; this is Fina they are talking about. She is something far more serious than any of this combined. "I wouldn't bet on that." Alex doubted Michael's assumption. "Fina might be weak by herself without Kyuki, but she is still tricky. I think threat should be taken more seriously." He said. At least, one or two more Generals should be sent after the lunatic woman to ensure her path of madness finally ends.

"Kyuki lost his empire and suddenly everyone is letting their guard now. Nice." Alex said in disappointment.

"Someone has to put a stop to her, madness..." Dante suggested.

[Victoria Nelson]

Two Knights have been discussing Fina and the whole chase after her. They were not aware that a familiar face, a young woman, had been observing them for some time. She approached the duo and spoke up: "You two seem like volunteers." 

Her comment disrupted their conversation and certainly got their attention. It was one of Seven Angels of Eden; Victoria Nelson, the Angel of Death. She has a tendency of being very silent around people and listening to their conversations; some time she comes across some valuable knowledge from people who would not normally share it with anyone. People dislike that kind of behavior, but who can stop her from overhearing things? There is no rule against it in public places; it is others' fault if they decided to talk about sensitive things in coffee shops. She found idle attitude of these two fairly annoying; they are among people who could cut that annoying lunatic into pieces and they are wondering why no one does nothing. 

"I have heard you two are now very powerful with evolved Bakugans or did that strength go down the drain when Mighty 5 had fallen apart, Knights?" Victoria provoked. 

[Alex Andersen]

"Where did you come out from...? Actually, nevermind." Dante said in surprise.

"You think fighting her is a cakewalk? Power plays a small role against people of her level." Alex replied to Victoria.

He and Michael might be strong, but Fina is too tricky to put all eggs into one basket. Admiral Amagi was overwhelmingly strong and had the strongest of Necro Dragonoids on the planet and Vestroia, but was defeated by a mere phoenix who tricked him and that trickery was not even very smart. Now take all that and put a smart+insane person there instead; they will give hell to anyone who approaches them. It would be recommended if Asuka or Generals Ivanna Zima or Yami Yin took care of the threat since they are practically invincible. Ares is like a gamer who hacked into the system and gave himself power of every weapon and skill in the game, infinite health, stamina and defense. And plus, both Asuka and Ares are very tricky and smart themselves. Ivanna Zima has a Banshee Bakugan who would not be defeated by anything Fina is left with and that duo is probably the smartest among the Generals. Yami and his Necro Dragonoid (Curse Dragonoid) is like a mixture of a ghost and a Dragonoid giving him same advantage as Banshee and the duo is very cautious so they would not fall to Fina.

"I mean, we got so many 'invincible' people? Can't they just find her and be done with it?" Alex questioned.

[Victoria Nelson]

"Sounds like cowardice to me, mister Andersen." Victoria replied with a straight face. She was not even mocking or joking about that one. Unlike many 'badasses' these days Victoria can understand why someone would not want to do certain things; cowardice is a completely justified thing in some cases. Knights like Alex are quite humble when it comes to showing off their power so they naturally think their powers will be flawed in the face of evil such as Fina. They would, naturally, expect someone else to do this. With Kyuki, it took two Legendary Soldiers and tons of people to finally get rid of him so it is natural that two people are scared going off alone against someone like Kyuki. Reason why Knights are not focusing solely on Fina are many risks on the sides that have to be dealt with. "You realize there will be a worthy reward if you bring Fina in, do you not?" Victoria inquired.

Reward is actually a number with a lot of zeros. Victoria was tempted to take mission on her own, but was prohibited from leaving Headquarters for a certain period of time since Eden was doing an important research that requires strong personnel to be present in case something happens... like corruption of professor Reyes. Too bad since that big reward would come in nicely for Victoria who wanted to buy a thing or two.