Chapter 49- First Wave
Ishibashis' eyes slowly began to open, he had changed back into his normal form, no longer big and muscular. He was inside a military tent, locked up in what looked like a jailcell, must of been close to TV Tokyo, because he heard many other police officers voices outside the tent.
As he looked down at his hands and feet, he saw he was wearing large, seriously advanced handcuffs and ankelcuffs, there were small lights flashing all around the handcuffs. Colors of blue, red, yellow and white.
"I see your awake now." said a voice, Ishibashi raised his eyes and looked up at General Hasagawa, "You put up quite a fight now didn't you?, I think we lost count of how many officers you assaulted after about 100."
"And I'd do it again, to protect the girls I love." said Ishibashi weakly, General Hasagawa chuckled.
"Yes, I'm sure you would." said Hasagawa, "But if you even think about changing back into the big brute once again.", Hasagawa then pressed a button on small remote device he was holding. Suddenly, Ishibashi began to get shocked by powerful electricty which flowed through the handcuffs and ankelcuffs, Ishibashi fell to the ground, shaking wildly. Hasagawa then let go of the button.
"And that was minimal setting." said Hasagawa, He showed Ishibashi the remote, it had a small dial, on the dial were numbers, indicating the amount of volts of electricity that the handcuffs could put out, on it's lowest setting was 5,000 volts, highest setting was over 100,000 volts of deadly electricity.
"I thought it only best to use these, since I saw how easily you got knocked out by our walkers electric stun cannons." said Hasagawa, "So you may be strong and immune to blunt force strikes, but your not immune to electricity. That seems to be your achillies heel."
Ishibashi sat up, shaking and feeling woozy from the shock. "I'm sure you must feel like a big man. but I can rest assured knowing that...you wouldn't feel so confident and sure of yourself if I was free."
"Yeah maybe, But now, I must take my leave, have 40 more mutant girls to arrest, see ya." said Hasagawa, he then exited the tent, handing the remote device to an officer waiting outside the tent. "If he moves shock him till he stops."
"Yes sir." said the young officer, saluting Hasagawa before entering the tent.
Inside TV Tokyo, Ayaka quickly returned to the surface levels which the gymnasium was located on, she was wheeling a large cart infront of her. Nakazawa turned around and spotted Ayaka making her way towards her and the other girls.
"What are you doing?" asked Yuko, "You should be down in the hanger finishing repairs on our aircraft."
"I know, but first I wanted to hand out some new weapons I developed." said Ayaka, she opened a compartment on the cart and pulled out a futuristic looking rifle.
"This is my newly developed stun rifle. It fires little, non-lethal energy bolts, which can knock out a full grown man, without doing any harm to him. I suggest those of you who don't have mutant powers which you can use from a distance to grab a rifle and be prepared to use it. Don't worry, they are totally non-lethal and safe to use. I know you do not want to kill any police officers, and with these you won't."
Yuko nodded, "Ok, thank you Ayaka, we'll be sure to use these just to be on the safe side."
"Everyone, grab a rifle and be prepared to defend yourselves."
The H!P girls who didn't have powers they could use in long distance combat quickly grabbed a rifle. Matsuura, Murata, Otani, Yuko, Niigaki and afew others had powers they could use in either long distance combat or short ranged combat, so they did not need a stun rifle.
Back outside, Hasagawa looked towards TV Tokyos main entrance, he saw officers finishing wiring large square shaped charges on the sealed entrances of TV Tokyo. The officers then quickly ran to a safe distance, and the charges went off.
Inside TV Tokyos gymnasium, the H!P girls heard a loud explosion, and felt the entire building shake.
"I think they're inside now." said Nakazawa, the other girls nodded, ran towards their barricades and waited. Nakazawa checked her watch, "We have to hold them off for another 15 minutes people."
"Hai!" shouted everyone.
Reina Tanaka paced back and forth, rubbing her hands together nervously. Matsuura who happened to be near her looked over and saw Reina
"What's wrong?" asked Matsuura, Reina looked over at her, Matsuura could see fear and doubt in her eyes.
"What if someone gets hurt?" said Reina, "I mean, my sempai isn't here, I don't know what to do if someone on our side gets hurt and needs my help. I know I'm the healer, but I'm only a beginner. Nowhere near as powerful and skilled as my sempai Mai Satoda is, so my healing powers are limited..."
"Hey, don't worry, we know you'll do you best. And that's all we ask for." said Matsuura.
Back outside TV Tokyo, a large hole, wide enough for 3 men standing shoulder to shoulder to make it through, was ripped wide open by the explosives.
"Excellent, we're in." said Hasagawa, smiling, "Best send in 2 teams in first, to see what we're up against."
Hasagawa then pointed to S.W.A.Ts red team and blue team, both teams having 10 officers each, he then waved them towards the building. The officers nodded and quickly headed inside. Once inside they quickly began to scout the interior, after quickly checking out the inside, they saw that all doors leading to other sections of TV Tokyo were locked, leaving only 1 way the H!P girls could of gone, towards the gymnasium.
The team of S.W.A.T officers then proceeded towards the gymnasium, the lead officers of both teams carried a large, 5 foot high, 3 foot wide ballistic riot shield. Once they got to the gymnasium doors, an officer at the back of each columns of officers, brought out large battering rams. The lead officer waved these officers to the front, each of the officers carrying the battering rams, ran to the from of the column and stood at ready with their battering rams, ready to smash the doors wide open.
"Ready...Do it!" said the lead officer, the 2 battering ram officers smashed the gym doors in, then quickly stepped off to the sides, while the 2 lead officers carrying the riot shields ran into the gym.
"Fire!" screamed Nakazawa, as she and everyone else began to use their mutant powers to shoot concussive beams of energy, bolts of electricity, while the other H!P girls began to shoot their stun rifles, which fired out blue energy bolts.
Murata Megumi fired her eye beams of concussive energy at the officer carrying the riot shield, the beam hit his shield but he still stood. Murata then turned the dial on her visor, the slit on her visor began to grow wider, allowing for a much more powerful blast to leave her visor. Murata then pressed the button near her right temple and a large beam escaped from her visor and flew towards the officer, the large beam slammed into the officers shield, sending him and his shield flying backwards.
The invading officers quickly decided to retreat, the amount of firepower coming from the H!P girls side was just way to intense. And the officers had no where to hide once they entered the room. The entire side of the gym they were on was completely bare, no objects or anything to hide behind.
"Hold your fire!" shouted Nakazawa, and everyone stopped firing. 4 unconsious officers were on the ground, the others had retreated. "They're testing us, to see what we're going to be throwing at them. Those officers were just the tip of the iceberg, I'm sure others will come shortly."
Kaori Iida quickly checked her watch, "Just 10 more minutes guys, then Ayaka will be finished repairs and we can get out of here."
Back outside TV Tokyo, the first 2 teams of officers who entered the building, quickly reported the situation to General Hasagawa.
"The H!P girls are well defended, once we entered the gymnasium where they were located, they opened fire on us with such intensity that we only lasted a few seconds before pulling back." said the lead officer of Blue team.
"I see, well then, looks like this will be yet another job for our land walkers." said Hasagawa.
Hasagawa reached for his hip radio, radioing his mech walker pilots and telling them the update.
"But sir, the hole is not wide enough for them to get through." said blue leader.
"Don't worry, I happened to have a battering ram tank on standby." said Hasagawa, he turned a dial on his radio to another station. "Bring in the battering tank."
An enormous tank then began to roll towards TV Tokyo, just behind the police force. The walkers all lined up behind the tank.
"Alright, time to make a hole." said Hasagawa, he then waved the tank forward, the enormous tank began to roll forward slowly, then began to pick up speed, it slammed into TV Tokyo, and continued to plow through the building, straight towards the gym, the land walkers following behind.
"What in the world is that..." said Yuko, fear in her voice.
The H!P girls began to look around as they heard a loud rumbling, and saw the lights begin to flicker on and off inside the gymnasium. They then heard loud booms and crashing, followed by an extremely loud engine roar. The doors and wall on the far side of the gymnasium blew apart and the tank came to a stop, it then backed up and chunks of brick and concrete began to fall off the hull of the tank, to the ground.
"Oh I have a bad feeling about this..." said Matsuura.
The girls then heard what sounded like loud footsteps, but it was from something much larger then a human or even most large animals could make.
Nakazawa took out some electronic binoculars and looked towards the large hole that was torn open by the enormous tank that smashed through the building just moments again. Pressing the zoom button, she happened to see what looked like 2 giant yellow eyes, she pressed a button and the binoculars began to zoom out. She then saw that they were not eyes, but headlights from a giant, metal robot.
"What in the world is that?" thought Nakazawa, she then saw another robot behind it, then 2 more, then 3. "Oh no..."
"Girls, I dunno how to tell you this, but it looks like we're up against some kind of gundam wing looking robots." said Nakazawa.
"What?" said Koharu.
"Oh I love that show." said Kago.
"Aibon, this is serious, these robots are after US!." said Tsuji.
"Oh...right." said Kago.
The first land walker then appeared through the dust and smoke that was billowing out of the hole left by the battering tank. It then began to shoot red bolts at the H!P girls, Nakazawa lowered her binoculars and ducked down behind her barricade.
"Ok girls, it's a whole new ball game, we've got to hold these robots back for as long as we can. But I can honestly say, it will not be easy." said Nakazawa, red energy bolts flying over her head.
"Right!" shouted Matsuura, she then quickly stood up, fired a long yellow energy beam from her palm towards the walkers, it missed and slammed into the wall just behind the walkers as more began to slowly walk through the giant hole in the gymnasium wall, Matsuura then quickly ducked down once again behind her barricade.
The H!P girls then began to open fire as well towards the walkers, firing their stun rifles at the walkers, and their various mutant powers as well. From the walkers side were dozens of red energy bolts being fired towards the H!P girls. While on the H!P girls side, dozens of blue energy bolts, mulitiple colored beams, long blue bolts of electricity were being fired towards the walkers.
Nakazawa placed her back against her barrice, then carefully peered around the side of her barricade, timing the walkers pace, to the length of the gym. At the walkers current pace, they would cross the gym and to where Nakazawas group was in just a few minutes. She quickly thought of a plan.
"Tsuji!" shouted Nakazawa, "We need to slow those walkers advance, ice the floor."
Tsuji nodded, then carefully leaned out from her hiding spot and placed her palm against the ground just infront of the H!P girls barricade. The area around the outside of Tsujis hand began to freeze, the sheet of ice then began to move towards the walkers, soon it slide underthem and continued on until the entire floor on the walkers side was covered in a slippry sheet of ice. This slowed the walkers pace considerably, now they had to proceed forward much slower to avoid falling over.
The lead walker pilot quickly moved his joysticks, positioning his crosshairs directly over Tsuji. He then squeezed the trigger and a red bolt exited his walkers cannon, flew forward and slammed into Tsuji. Tsuji was thrown backwards, she then slammed into a large sheet of metal and was knocked out cold.
"Nono!" cried Aibon, quickly getting up, rushing over to Tsuji and dragging her behind another barricade. "Reina!, get over here!"
Reina Tanaka, began to make her way towards Tsuji and Kago, keeping her head low as she ran, narrowly avoiding the numerous red energy bolts that flew over her. She then knelt down next to Tsuji and Kago.
"Is she going to be alright?" asked Kago, Tanaka quickly checked the unconsious Tsuji over.
"Yeah I think so, she just took a powerful hit from that walkers stun bolt, it appears to be non lethal as well." said Reina, "She'll be fine."
"Can't you heal her?" asked Kago.
"There's nothing to heal really, that bolt just knocked her out that's all, she's not hurt, just unconsious." said Reina. "Listen, if she doesn't wake up in the next few minutes, come and get me. But right now, I need to be free incase someone gets really hurt."
"Alright...I understand." said Kago, she then carefully placed Tsuji upright against the barricade and stayed beside her.
The walkers continued their slow advance towards the H!P girls, their pace now the same as an elderly mans leisurly walk through a park.
As Nakazawa watched the battle continue, she noticed the stun rifles blue bolts weren't having any effect on the walkers, the energy beams from the other girls had little effect as well.
"I don't like the looks of this." thought Nakazawa, "But I won't resort to lethal force just yet."
"Nakazawa!" shouted Koharu, "Our rifles are useless against these armoured robots, and we're not using enough of our mutant energy to do any serious damage to them. Request permission to increase out mutant powers."
"No, if we use anymore of our energy, we'll destroy the walkers, killing the officers inside them. Request denied!" shouted Nakazawa, Koharu groaned and continued to fight.
"I've got an idea." said Yaguchi, she quickly ran to the back of the gym, grabbed a long metal cable and ran back to where Nakazawa was.
"Request permission to head out there and tie up the walkers legs, I'm sure that will stop some of them." said Yaguchi.
"Are you insane!" said Nakazawa
"Don't worry, I promise I'll be back." said Yaguchi, Nakazawa looked down into Yaguchis' eyes, then nodded.
"Ok, I trust your word." said Nakazawa, "Everyone, hold your fire, Yaguchi's going out there."
The H!P girls stopped firing, while Yaguchi quickly slipped some steel spikes to the bottom of her shoes, so she could have steady footing while out on the ice.
Yaguchi then placed a 20 foot length of steel cable around her shoulder, closed her eyes and exhaled. She then opened her eyes and as quickly as Nakazawa blinked Yaguchi was gone, she looked towards the walkers and saw an object moving at incredible speed towards the walkers, it looked like a blur it was moving so fast. The blur then began to run circles around one of the walkers legs, then quickly ran back towards Nakazawa and the H!P girls, once it stopped they saw that it was Yaguchi. She had incredible speed as her mutant power, it was near impossible to guess how fast Yaguchi had just moved. But it was faster then anything anyone's ever seen. Made a drag racing car look like a turtle in comparison.
"Yagu..." said Nakazawa, trailing off at the end as she heard an incredibly loud screeching sound, she looked back at the walkers and saw one of them had it's feet tangled up in cable, it then fell forward and slammed into the ground.
The H!P girls cheered loudly, "Got one! got one!!" screamed Matsuura.
Nakazawa quickly checked her watch, "Just 5 more minutes and we're out of here!" said Nakazawa.