Mutant Musume!!

[JFC]

"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.

Damn right Taka-san. Damn right.

"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.

A prudent move by the military. Kinda makes you wonder if they have a habit of bringing those types of restraints with them, and if so, how many?

"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."

Well, in all honesty, most people (mutant or not) will probably be affected/knocked out by an electric shock if it's strong enough.  I mean, the only people who should be unaffected are those who are wearing some type of insulating/protective gear or are a mutant who's power naturally involves electricity.

"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.

Ah, smart move by Ayaka.  Not all the mutants have the same powers or have powers that would translate well to hand-to-hand combat. Some weapons could definitely help them out.

"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."

Let's hope (though it's unlikely) that the other side will notice and realize that the girls aren't trying to kill them if they have to start using these weapons.  What scares me is that under Hasegawa's leadership, the other side won't be so kind.

"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..."

Nothing like a little "on the job training". I wouldn't be surprised if Reina turned out to be better than she initially thought.

"Ready...Do it!" said the lead officer,

If you had made the guy say "Do It...NOW!" I would have seriously ROFL'ed.   

"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.

Typical military thinking, the solution being to bring in more/bigger muscle and firepower.

"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.

GUNDAMS!!!

"Aibon, this is serious, these robots are after US!." said Tsuji.

"Oh...right." said Kago.

Damn, forgot that these ones are after the girls...not good. 

"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.

Looks like Aya needs some lessons in aiming.

"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.

It sucks having morals like that, doesn't it?

"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

Mari's been watching Star Wars Ep.V - TESB.    I just hope Mari doesn't accidentally trip herself on the cables.


JUST 5 MORE MINUTES!!! 

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 50- Who goes first

General Hasagawa paced back and forth outside TV Tokyo, he then raised his radio to his lips.

"Status report!" said Hasagawa impatiently.

"These girls are putting up quite a fight sir, the battles not looking so good for our side." said the leader mech pilot, "We need reinforcements."

"Very well." said Hasagawa, he then looked over to Captain Kimura.
"Send in 500 of your best officers, leave the rest outside to watch over these H!P fans we've arrested."

"Yes sir!" Kimura then rounded up Bravo unit, Tokyos' best S.W.A.T and Riot team. "Head on inside and provide backup for the walkers now!"

"Yes sir!" said all of the officers, they then geared up on riot shields, bean bag guns, guns that fired rubber bullets and flashbangs.

Back inside TV Tokyo, the walkers continued their advance, while the H!P girls remained behind their barricades, continuing to fire at the walkers and hold their position.

"How much longer!" shouted Nakazawa, Kaori Iida quickly checked her watch.

"She should be finished any second now." said Kaori Iida, and she was right. Ayaka came through the large metal doors leading down into the hanger.

"That's it!" shouted Ayaka, "repairs are all done on our aircraft."

"Excellent, but we should retreat in waves. Now, there are 45 girls here all together. We're 1 short with Mai Satoda gone, so it's best if we retreat in waves of 15. Because if we all left now, the police could easily follow us." said Yuko, "Send the first 15 members down and stock your aircraft up with as many supplies as you can, then get the heck out of here."

"Ok, we'll launch the Godspeed out first, so the Berryz pilot and crew members of the Godspeed, head down to the hanger load your aircraft with plenty of supplies and head out." shouted Ayaka.

"Who will be the first 15 to go?" asked Kaori Iida.

"And more importantly, how will we decide who goes and who stays?" asked Ayaka.

"I dunno, flip a coin, draw straws, whatever!" shouted Yuko, "Just choose and choose fast!!"

"I say we do women and children first!!" shouted Koharu, everyone groaned.

"Koharu!, That's all we have here is women and H!P kidz." said Kaori.

"Oh right..." said Koharu, blushing bright red.

"Well somebody go!" shouted Yuko, continue to fire her stun rifle at the advancing walkers.

"Ok, we'll Janken for it." said Kaori, "That's the fairest way."

"Right, so everyone, Janken with the girl next to you quickly, then continue until only 15 are left." ordered Yuko. "No arguments afterwards, I mean it."

All of the H!P girls then played 1 round of Janken, the winners then quickly played against other winners, till only 15 were left.

The 15 girls to leave first were: Ai Takahashi, Ayumi Shibata, Rika Ishikawa, Kaori Iida, Mari Yaguchi, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Yurina Kumai, Chinami, Mai Hagiwara, Saito Hitomi, Miuna, Asami, Abe Natsumi, Eri Kamei and Aya Matsuura.

"Ok, that's it, you 15 girls leave now!" ordered Nakazawa, all of the girls nodded and the first group of 15 girls began to head down to the hanger. However, As Kaori Iida was about to leave, she happened to see Tsuji unconsious, sitting upright against one of the barricades. So she thought for a moment.

"Ai-chan!" shouted Kaori, And Ai Takahashi quickly reported to her. "Take Tsuji-chan down to the hanger, I'm giving up my seat to her. She needs to get out of here now."

"Yes ma'am!" shouted Takahashi, she then ran over to Tsuji, picked her up and began to carry her down into the lower levels, while the rest of the H!P girls remained behind to guard the first groups retreat.

As Nakazawa continued to shoot her stun rifle towards the approaching walkers, she happened to feel a hand rest against her shoulder. She looked up and saw Kaori Iida smiling down at her, she then knelt beside Nakazawa, picked up a stun rifle and began shooting at the walkers as well.

"I shall also stay behind with you Nakazawa." said Kaori.

"Kaori, what are you doing?" asked Nakazawa, "You must join the first waves retreat, your the Sub-Commander. Should anything happen to me, it would be you who takes over."

"I chose to stay behind, so I gave my seat up to Tsuji, she needed it." said Kaori. "Besides...we have been through much together, we've seen many hardships, stressful, sad and desperate times. Yet we got through it together...so I will not leave you now."

"But Kaori..." said Nakazawa, "Never have a Commander and Sub-Commander remained behind during a retreat, never in history."

Kaori laughed "Yuu-chan, even after all these years you have much to learn about me." said Kaori, "I don't care if it's never been done in history, infact, I take great pride in being the first in history to do it."

"But Kaori..." said Nakazawa, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Have faith Nakazawa, I have no plans of dieing or being captured just yet...nor will I ever abandon you my friend." said Kaori, "We will show the other H!P girls and the whole world what true loyalty and friendship really is, and then we shall make our way down to the hanger in the last wave together."

"Kaori..." said Nakazawa, 2 tear drops falling down her cheeks, Nakazawa lowered her head and began to sob softly, extremely happy her friend chose to stay by her side.

[JFC]

"How much longer!" shouted Nakazawa, Kaori Iida quickly checked her watch.

"She should be finished any second now." said Kaori Iida, and she was right. Ayaka came through the large metal doors leading down into the hanger.

"That's it!" shouted Ayaka, "repairs are all done on our aircraft."

Ayaka probably could have saved a few seconds if she had just used the radio.  I mean, every second counts here, right? 

"Excellent, but we should retreat in waves. Now, there are 45 girls here all together. We're 1 short with Mai Satoda gone, so it's best if we retreat in waves of 15. Because if we all left now, the police could easily follow us." said Yuko, "Send the first 15 members down and stock your aircraft up with as many supplies as you can, then get the heck out of here."

For this plan to work, they'll need their strongest/best fighters to hold out the longest to buy the time needed for the others to escape.

"I say we do women and children first!!" shouted Koharu, everyone groaned.

"Koharu!, That's all we have here is women and H!P kidz." said Kaori.

"Oh right..." said Koharu, blushing bright red.

Ah Koharu and her airheadedness.

Seriously though, they can't waste too much time trying to figure out who goes first. The troops are going to be back any minute with those police reinforcements.

"Kaori, what are you doing?" asked Nakazawa, "You must join the first waves retreat, your the Sub-Commander. Should anything happen to me, it would be you who takes over."

"I chose to stay behind, so I gave my seat up to Tsuji, she needed it." said Kaori. "Besides...we have been through much together, we've seen many hardships, stressful, sad and desperate times. Yet we got through it together...so I will not leave you now."

"But Kaori..." said Nakazawa, "Never have a Commander and Sub-Commander remained behind during a retreat, never in history."

...

"But Kaori..." said Nakazawa, tears welling up in her eyes.

Awwwwww...

Gotta love that sort of steadfast loyalty. 

[niigaki_risa]

"Have faith Nakazawa, I have no plans of dieing or being captured just yet...nor will I ever abandon you my friend." said Kaori, "We will show the other H!P girls and the whole world what true loyalty and friendship really is, and then we shall make our way down to the hanger in the last wave together."

  Tha-that made me tear up a bit. Iida san is soo loyal. What a great sub-commander.   *sniff sniff* WHA-WHAAAA~!!   

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 51- Retreat

The first retreat wave of H!P girls had nearly finished stocking the passenger compartment with as many supplies as the hold could carry, and were now ready to take off. Ayaka quickly rechecked the launch catapult once more, then ran to the control room.

"Ready?" asked Ayaka.

"Yes, we're all ready." said Miyabi, gripping her hands tightly around her joystick.

"Alright, here we go." said Ayaka, she then pulled down the catapult launch lever, and Miyabis plane began to shoot down the runway at incredible speed, it then entered the launch tunnel.

Inside the cockpit Miyabi heard a loud boom, then a rumble shook the entire aircraft.

"What was that?" thought Miyabi, knowing that it didn't sound normal or good.

Outside TV Tokyo, the officers and arrest H!P fans began to look around, they could hear a loud roaring sound, quickly growing louder. Suddenly a large object exited the side of TV Tokyo. Upon closer inspection, everyone could see that it was a jet. The jet quickly gained altitude and began to fly away at incredible speed. The H!P fans began to cheer, knowing that the jet could only belong to their H!P girls.

"It can't be, they're escaping!" said Hasagawa.

Back inside the hanger, Ayaka pushed the catapult lever back up, attempting to bring back the catapult to launch the next aircraft. However, the catapult did not come back.

"What's going on?" thought Ayaka, she quickly exited the control room and looked down the runway. She then saw that the entire catapult mechanism had broken off from the launch track, this time the damage was much more serious.

"Oh no..." thought Ayaka, she quickly grabbed her toolbelt and ran as fast as she could to where the broken launch mechanism was on the ground.

On the upper levels in the gymnasium, the remaining H!P girls continued to hold off the advancing walkers. But, Yuko spotted hundreds of officers on foot begin pour through the hole that the battering tank smashed through.

"Oh great, this is just what we needed." said Yuko, she quickly snatch the radio that was left by Ayaka during her last trip to the upper levels. "Ayaka, status report."

"I just launched the first group of H!P girls in Miyabis aircraft, they're away and safe now." said Ayaka, "But there's a minor problem with the catapult once again, I need a few minutes to fix it."

"A problem with a catapult..." said Yuko, quickly looking back at the walkers and large group of reinforcements. "Well I'd say that's a pretty big freaking problem at the moment!!"

"I'm sorry Yuko, I rushed things, but I'll make sure it doesn't get broken again." said Ayaka.

"Fine, we'll try and hold them off just alittle longer." said Yuko

The walkers were now a quarter of the ways across the gym, with the officers of foot following close behind the walkers, firing their non-lethal weapons at the H!P girls as well.

"Nakazawa, they're getting alittle too close for comfort." said Kago.

"I know, but hold your positions." shouted Nakazawa.

As the walkers got closer, their aim became much more accurate and deadly, they were also within range to use their electric stun cannons. As Kago stood up to fire her stun rifle at the approaching walkers, she was hit hard in the chest by a stray flying walker stun bolt. She flew back and slide across the ground, unconsious.

Murata Megumi sat down next to Masa Otani, both of the girls looked at eachother, then nodded. And at the same time, each of them quickly stood up, Murata pressed a button near her right temple and her visor opened up, while Masa fired a long continuous beam of energy from her right palm. Both of the beams flew towards one walker, Muratas' optic beam slammed into the walkers right leg, while Otanis' orange beam slammed into the walkers left leg, both at the knee joints. The walkers legs then shattered at the knee and the compartment fell to the ground, legs remaining standing.

Another walker beside the one that got hit, quickly fixed its' sights on Murata Megumi, then fired its' electric stun cannon at her, and she was hit with a powerful electric blast. Electricity flowed through her body, then lept from her body to Otanis who was next to her and both girls began to get shocked. The surge of electricity travelled up Muratas body, into her visor, the visor then shattered from being overloaded. Small fragments of the broken visor got into her eyes and she began to shriek loudly in pain, Otani fell to the ground and did not move.

"We're getting our butts kick now." said Kaori, "They're just too close!"

Both Kaori and Yuko looked up and saw a police flashbang grenade being lobbed over the girls barricade, it landed behind them, near Miyoshi and Yui from Biyuuden and Niigaki. It then exploded in an extremely loud bang and blinding flash of light.

Yui, Miyoshi and Niigaki all dropped to the ground and began writhing around in pain. Miyoshi and Yui were holding their hands against their ears, screaming in pain. While Niigaki dropped to her knees and covered her face with her hands, screaming as well, blinded by the light.

"Medic!, Medic!!" screamed Nakazawa, Reina looked all around her, people she knew and loved were in trouble and needed help. Reina could hear them emitting terrible shrieks of pain and suffering all around her. Reina began to shake and tremble in fear, she did not know what to do. Her sempai wasn't around to instruct her what to do and how to handle the situation.

"I can't just sit here...I have to do something, but what...I can't....I'm not strong enough." thought Reina.

Another flashbang grenade was lobbed over the barricade, it rolled along the ground towards Goto Maki, who had her back turned and was kneeling down next to Kago, checking her over. The flashbang then hit the back of Goto Makis' boot, she quickly looked back and down at the ground to see what hit her, the flashbang grenade then went off, less then 3 feet from Goto Makis face.

Metal shrapnel from the grenade hit Goto Maki in the torso, the extreme heat of the blast at close range to Gotos face severly burned her face, a large 2 inch piece of matal flew straight into her neck. Goto Maki feel back and held her hand against her neck, blood then began to flow from her neck, spilling to the ground.

Reina looked over and saw the girl she idolized in trouble, "Goto-san..." said Reina, her heart rate began to speed up, her hands trembled, "That's it, I won't sit here ANYMORE!!"

Suddenly, Reina felt like a sense of tremendous energy was just released inside of her, it was so powerful it was almost scary. But Reina quickly stood up and ran towards Goto Maki, she knelt beside her and placed her palm against Goto Makis neck and a white light glowed around Reina Takanas hand. The metal shard came out of Goto Makis neck and her wound began to heal up. Reina then placed her hands over Goto Makis face and the wounds and burns from the explosion began to heal up as well and in a matter of seconds were completely healed. Reina then placed her hand over Goto Makis stomach and those wounds that were on her body began to quickly heal. Soon Goto Maki was completely recovered.

Reina then ran as fast as she could over to Murata Megumi and placed one palm sideways across both of Muratas' eyes, a small stream of bright white light began to leave Reinas' palms, going into Muratas' eyes. Soon, Muratas' eyes were completely healed up as well. But she quickly shut her eyes to avoid hitting Reina with her optic beams.

"Thank you." said Murata, quickly digging her glasses out of her pocket and putting them on.

Reina didn't even have time to respond as she quickly ran over to Miyoshi, Yui and Niigaki.
She carefully took Miyoshis' hands away from her ears and placed her own over Miyoshis' ears. As Reina healed Miyoshis' damaged eardrums, the pain and extremely loud ringing sound Miyoshi once heard were now gone. She could hear perfectly normal once again and was no longer in pain. Reina did the same to Yui, then healed Niigakis' eyes.

Nakazawa and Kaori were looking on the entire time, "I don't believe it, the girl finally leared how to control her healing powers to her full extent, without her Sempais help."

"I think it's more then that Nakazawa." said Kaori, "Mai can only heal exterior wounds like cuts, scrapes, burns and other lacerations. But she cannot heal broken bones, shattered eardrums, damaged eyes. I think Reinas unlocked a new level of mutant healing."

"Yes, I think so." said Nakazawa, a red energy bolt then hit the barricade both the girls were hiding behind, snapping them back to reality. Nakazawa quickly peered around the corner and saw the walkers and police officers were very close now, less then 50 feet away.

"If we stay here any longer, they'll be right ontop of us." said Yuko, "I didn't want to have to do this, but it looks like we'll have to retreat down into the hanger and continue our defensive from there."

"I understand and agree Yuko." said Kaori, Kaori then pulled out a whistle that was attached to a string around her neck, which was hidden underneath her S.M.A.T uniform. She then began to blow it loudly.

"Fall back into the hanger, FALL BACK!!" screamed Kaori. She and Yuko then stood up and began to run away towards the metal hanger doors. The other H!P girls quickly stood up and began to follow Yuko and Kaori. Reina began to run towards Otani and Kago, who were still unconsious. But Yuko grabbed Reina by the arm and began to pull her along with her.

"Let me go!" screamed Reina, "Otani and Kago, I have to help them!!"

"Then help them!" screamed Nakazawa, "Help them by escaping with us, if we're all captured now, we cannot save them later. So it's retreat for now, rescue them at another time."

Reina clenched her teeth together for a moment, then nodded her head, "We'll come back and save you, I swear it!", she then began to run away with Nakazawa and the others.

The walkers then made it up to the girls barricade and continued to fire at the quickly retreating H!P girls. Red stun bolts hit the ground all around the H!P girls feet as they continued to run as fast as they could towards the hanger doors. One of the stray flying red bolts hit Michishige Sayumi hard in the back, causing her to trip and fall, she then lay on the ground as other H!P girls lept over her and continued running.

A walker just behind them charged up its' electric cannon, then fired it, the blast of electricity hit Konno Asami, then spread to Ogawa who was running beside her, the two girls then fell to the ground and didn't move.

"Keep running!" screamed Yuko, she then lept over Konno and Ogawa, "I'm sorry girls..."

The remaining H!P girls then went through the large metal door leading into the hanger, Yuko hung back for a moment and looked back at the girls they left behind. Police officers were climbing over the girls barricades now and arresting the unconsious girls who were on the ground.

"Sorry girls." thought Yuko, she then slammed her palm against a control panel on a wall beside the door and a large metal door began to lower from the ceiling, that quickly sealed the entrance way leading to the hanger shut.

[JFC]

Inside the cockpit Miyabi heard a loud boom, then a rumble shook the entire aircraft.

"What was that?" thought Miyabi, knowing that it didn't sound normal or good.

Oh, don't tell me something blew on the plane? 

Back inside the hanger, Ayaka pushed the catapult lever back up, attempting to bring back the catapult to launch the next aircraft. However, the catapult did not come back.

"What's going on?" thought Ayaka, she quickly exited the control room and looked down the runway. She then saw that the entire catapult mechanism had broken off from the launch track, this time the damage was much more serious.

Nevermind, this is much worse.    Considering how big those H!P jets are, there's almost no way they can launch if they can't use the catapault.

Another walker beside the one that got hit, quickly fixed its' sights on Murata Megumi, then fired its' electric stun cannon at her, and she was hit with a powerful electric blast. Electricity flowed through her body, then lept from her body to Otanis who was next to her and both girls began to get shocked. The surge of electricity travelled up Muratas body, into her visor, the visor then shattered from being overloaded. Small fragments of the broken visor got into her eyes and she began to shriek loudly in pain, Otani fell to the ground and did not move.

Oh shit!   Hopefully Reina (or Mai if they can ever get her back) will be able to help poor Murata.

"Medic!, Medic!!" screamed Nakazawa, Reina looked all around her, people she knew and loved were in trouble and needed help. Reina could hear them emitting terrible shrieks of pain and suffering all around her. Reina began to shake and tremble in fear, she did not know what to do. Her sempai wasn't around to instruct her what to do and how to handle the situation.

"I can't just sit here...I have to do something, but what...I can't....I'm not strong enough." thought Reina.

You can do it Reina! YOU CAN DO IT!!! 

Metal shrapnel from the grenade hit Goto Maki in the torso, the extreme heat of the blast at close range to Gotos face severly burned her face, a large 2 inch piece of matal flew straight into her neck. Goto Maki feel back and held her hand against her neck, blood then began to flow from her neck, spilling to the ground.

Reina looked over and saw the girl she idolized in trouble, "Goto-san..." said Reina, her heart rate began to speed up, her hands trembled, "That's it, I won't sit here ANYMORE!!"

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh...now it's ON!!! 

Suddenly, Reina felt like a sense of tremendous energy was just released inside of her, it was so powerful it was almost scary.

...

Nakazawa and Kaori were looking on the entire time, "I don't believe it, the girl finally leared how to control her healing powers to her full extent, without her Sempais help."

"I think it's more then that Nakazawa." said Kaori, "Mai can only heal exterior wounds like cuts, scrapes, burns and other lacerations. But she cannot heal broken bones, shattered eardrums, damaged eyes. I think Reinas unlocked a new level of mutant healing."

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO REINA!!!   

"Fall back into the hanger, FALL BACK!!" screamed Kaori. She and Yuko then stood up and began to run away towards the metal hanger doors.

Aye. Better to fall back and put some more distance between them. The more distance, the longer (hopefully) they can hold them off. They can't last much longer with the military forces almost on top of their position.

Reina began to run towards Otani and Kago, who were still unconsious. But Yuko grabbed Reina by the arm and began to pull her along with her.

"Let me go!" screamed Reina, "Otani and Kago, I have to help them!!"

"Then help them!" screamed Nakazawa, "Help them by escaping with us, if we're all captured now, we cannot save them later. So it's retreat for now, rescue them at another time."

Indeed. Reina won't (nor will any of the other H!P girls) be able to help anyone if she's captured. It might not be the most courageous move to retreat, but strategy-wise it's definitely the smartest, given the situation.

The girls WILL be back for them. Oh yes they will.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 52- Second Launch

Ayaka was continuing to work on the broken catapult, when she heard many voices and footsteps coming down the walkway leading into the hanger. She looked over her shoulder and saw all of the remaining S.M.A.T members running into the undergound hanger.

"What's going on?" asked Ayaka, Nakazawa quickly approached her.

"The walkers and police force got too close and we had to pull back. We have no where to go now. So I need you to finish repairs on the catapult ASAP." said Nakazawa.

"Well I guess since your all down here that might be good for me." said Ayaka, "Get Ogawa for me, she can help me with her mutant megnetism powers."

"She got captured just now..." said Nakazawa, Ayaka bit her lower lip.

"Ok, how about Konno, she can help weld the catapult into place with her heat powers." said Ayaka.

"Captured." said Nakazawa.

"Ok, then scratch what I said about all this being good for me." said Ayaka, alittle angry.

"Watch that tone of voice missy." said Nakazawa, "I'm still in command here."

"Sorry, it's just that, I've still got quite abit of work to do and very little time to do it." said Ayaka.

"Well then I suggest you quit talking and get back to work, we don't have very long until the police are down here." replied Nakazawa. Ayaka nodded, rushed back to the broken catapult mechanism and continued to work on repairing it.

Back on the upper levels, the police force was now at the sealed door that led down into the underground hanger.

"Radio Hasagawa and tell him we have several mutants in custody and have taken the upper levels of TV Tokyo." said a senior officer.

"Yes sir!" said a junior officer, he then radio Hasagawa and told him the news.

Outside of TV Tokyo, General Hasagawa recieved news of the recent events.

"Excellent!!" said Hasagawa, "Hurry up and capture the remaining H!P girls, you've done well to capture this many already."

Down in the hanger, the H!P girls were gathering large cube shaped metal crates and setting them up into more barricades and walls they could hide behind to hold off the police force until Ayaka had finished repairs.

"Ok girls, this is it!" shouted Nakazawa, "Now we've fallen back as far as we can, so there will be no more falling back. We hold this point or we die trying."

"Hai!!" shouted the remaining girls.

"Fight for our captured friends, we have to make it our of here so we can rescue them later." shouted Kaori.

"Almost got it!" shouted Ayaka "Just another 10 minutes!"

Back on the upper levels, the police force finished wiring more powerful shaped explosive charges to the sealed metal door, after running to a safe distance, the police detonated the explosives. Once the smoke cleared a hole was blown through the metal door, wide enough for 3 large broad shouldered men to walk through and tall enough for even the tallest NBA player to walk through with ease.

The police force then began to charge down the descending walkway into the hanger.

"Here they come!!" shouted Nakazawa, everyone ducked behind the wall of metal crates and prepared to fight. The police force then came into view as they began to get closer.

"FIRE!!" screamed Nakazawa, and from her side, dozens of blue stun rifle bolts began to fire towards the police force, along with many colored energy spheres, blasts of energy from Muratas eyes, strings of blue electricity from Niigaki, and various other mutant powers.

Nakazawa quickly looked over her shoulder, "Come on Ayaka!" shouted Nakazawa.

"I'm getting there, just give me afew more minutes!" shouted Ayaka back, unlike the other girls. Ayaka was not afraid to challenge Yukos raised voice with her own.

The police slowed their advance and quickly formed up. The front lined officers lined up shoulder to shoulder, and held their shields together, while the rest of the officers behind them held their large shields over their heads. The police were now in turtle formation, which was good for shielding themselves from the H!P girls stun bolts, but slowed their advance to a walking pace.

As Nakazawa saw the police forces new strategy, she became worried, so she quickly left the barricade and ran over to Ayakas' side

"Come on Ayaka, They're getting too close once again."

"Ok ok, I've got an idea." said Ayaka, "But it's quite dangerous and it might only work once."

"Then what is it?" asked Nakazawa

"Have another load of our girls fall back and load up onto the aircraft justice." said Ayaka, "I'll then open the landing gateway located on the roof of TV Tokyo. We'll then have the Justice take off vertically and exit through the landing gateway and out into the open sky."

"Why am I just learning of this now?" asked Nakazawa.

"Because it is quite a dangerous move." said Ayaka, "I didn't want to have to do it, unless I had no other choice. Once that door is open, more police can come through that way and they'll most likely block it off. So even if we get one aircraft out of here that way, the other will have to wait until I'm done repairing the catapult."

"Well that just means more of our girls will be safe." said Nakazawa, "Very well, you get the gateway open and I'll get the next retreat wave ready."

Nakazawa then quickly ran back to the barricades, "Ok we need another load of girls to leave, so who's going?" asked Nakazawa, the remaining H!P girls quickly looked at the girl who was on their right, then the girl who was on their left.

"I'll stay till the end!" shouted Kaori.

"So will I" said Kago

"Me too!" shouted Yossi

"And me!" said Yasuda.

"I've never been one to back down from a fight, so I'll remain here as well." said Goto Maki.

"Very well, but that's it!" said Nakazawa, quickly cutting off the other girls before they could volunteer to stay behind. "The rest of you, get onto the next aircraft and get out of here!!"

The remaining girls nodded, then quickly left the barricade and ran over to Risakos' aircraft the 'Justice'. As they quickly piled into the aircraft, Ayaka ran as fast as she could to the control room and quickly flipped a large lever. On the rooftop, TV Tokyos rooftop began to split open and the nightsky could be seen through the opening.

Outside TV Tokyo, as police and other helicopters continued to circle TV Tokyo, one of the pilots happened to notice TV Tokyos rooftop splitting open.

"Sir, we've got a situation here. It looks some kind of door or gateway is opening up ontop of TV Tokyo. I'm not sure what it is yet, but I'll fly in for a closer look."

The police helicopter then quickly swooped down low and made a pass over the opening, once he peered down into the opening he saw a large black jet in the middle of the gateway opening down below.

"Sir I can see now that it is an opening that leads into the underground hanger, it looks like they're getting ready to launch another S.M.A.T aircraft." said the helicopter pilot.

"That is unacceptable you hear me!" shouted Hasagawa, "Now, I order you to move your helicopter over the opening and prevent that jets escape."

"But sir..." said the helicopter pilot.

"That's a direct order!!" said Hasagawa.

"Yes sir, moving into position."said the helicopter pilot, he then began to move his helicopter over the opening and remained there in a hover.

As Risako finished up her launch preperations, she happened to look up and see a police helicopter hovering over the opening.

"Uh...Ayaka we've got a problem here." said Risako into her helmet mike.

"What is it?" asked Ayaka.

"There's a police helicopter hovering over the opening...what should I do?" asked Risako.

"Um...hold on a second." said Ayaka, she quickly switched to the channel that Yukos radio was on.

"Nakazawa, we've have a situation." said Ayaka.

"What?" asked Nakazawa.

"There's a police helicopter blocking our escape route, what should we do about it?" asked Ayaka.

"Well this shoulda been expected." said Nakazawa, she then rubbed her chin as she quickly thought of what to do. "Proceed with the launch!!"

"What?" said Ayaka.

"You heard me, continue with the launch." said Nakazawa. "If it comes to it, I'm sure out aircraft can withstand the impact of smashing into the helicopter."

"But Nakazawa..." said Ayaka.

"It's either him or us, and I'm not willing to lose anymore of my girls." said Nakazawa.

"Very well, it's your call." said Ayaka, she then switched back to Risakos channel, "Proceed with the launch, your aircrafts armor can handle the impact if you smash into the helicopter, but let's just hope for both our sakes he's not crazy enough to sit there while your coming up."

"understood Ayaka." said Risako, risako then began to power up her aircraft, the engines letting out a loud roar as they quickly powered up. The remaining H!P girls quickly looked back as they continued to fight, staring at Risakos powerful aircraft in awe as it continued to power up. The noise was incredible as the engines nearly reached full power.

"Ready for take off!" said Risako.

"Alright, lift off!!" said Ayaka.

Risako then moved the turbo fan engines towards the ground, and her aircraft began to rise off the ground.

"Everyone hang on back there, we might experience a rough impact very soon." said Risako

Inside the Justices passenger compartment. Niigaki, Otani, Murata, Miyoshi, Erika all lowered their heads down and got into brace position. While the girls in the crew compartment quickly tightened their harnesses and held onto the sides of their large chairs. Some of the girls quickly began to pray for their lives.

"Alright, MAX POWER!" said Risako, she then cranked the vertical thrust lever to the maximum and the jets engine quickly let out a powerful burst of air as her aircraft began to rapidly gain altitude vertically.

Risako kept her eyes on the opening as her aircraft quickly began to gain altitude and near the exit. "Come on!, Come on!!, come on, move!!!" shouted Risako, the helicopter getting closer and closer every second.

Down in the hanger, Ayaka and the other girls stopped fighting for a moment, and looked back and up towards the opening that Risakos plane was rising towards. All of them held their breath, expecting the worst.

"Oh please, oh please..." said Nakazawa as she held her hands together in prayer.

The helicopter pilot continued to look down at the rapidly approaching S.M.A.T jet. "Oh no..." said the pilot.

A collison looked imminent, Risako quickly clenched her teeth together and shut her eyes as her aircraft rapidly approached the exit.

"oh, hell no!!" said the pilot, and at the very last second he pulled his helicopter away from the opening and Risakos aircraft passed by him, missing him by just a few feet. Risako then opened her eyes and quickly looked out of her cockpit window and saw that the helicopter had moved out of the way and she was clear and safely away from TV Tokyo.

Risako could not contain her joy and shouted "YEAH!!" as loud as she could, her crew members and passengers began to clap and cheer as well.

Back down in the hanger all of the girls began to cheer and scream wildly, extremely happy that another S.M.A.T aircraft had successfully made it to safety. Nakazawa was so relieved that no one died that she fell to her knees then fell backwards and laid on the ground, staring up at the ceiling.

Outside of TV Tokyo, Hasagawa saw yet another S.M.A.T aircraft exit TV Tokyo and quickly fly away as fast as it could from Tokyo City. Enraged he quickly grabbed his radio.

"What is the meaning of this!!" shouted Hasagawa, "I ordered you to remain where you were and keep the girls from escaping!!!."

"Sir, that's like telling a car to stop a Locomotive train." said the helicopter pilot, "Fire me if you wish, but I have a wife and kids to think about."

Hasagawa squeezed his radio angrily, then groaned.

Back inside TV Tokyos hanger, Kaori quickly stood over Nakazawa as she continued to look up at the ceiling. Kaori then smiled down at Nakazawa, a tear drop fell from Nakazawas eye.

"You kept your word, you remained behind with me until the last retreat wave." said Nakazawa.

"Of course, I always keep my word." said Kaori, "Next it will be our turn."

"Think we'll make it out of here?" asked Nakazawa.

"I know we will, I give you my word that you and I will both make it out of here safely." said Kaori.

"Thanks Kaori..." said Nakazawa, Kaori then reached down and helped Nakazawa to her feet.

[JFC]

"The walkers and police force got too close and we had to pull back. We have no where to go now. So I need you to finish repairs on the catapult ASAP." said Nakazawa.

"Well I guess since your all down here that might be good for me." said Ayaka, "Get Ogawa for me, she can help me with her mutant megnetism powers."

"She got captured just now..." said Nakazawa, Ayaka bit her lower lip.

Crap.

"Ok, how about Konno, she can help weld the catapult into place with her heat powers." said Ayaka.

"Captured." said Nakazawa.

Double-crap.

Back on the upper levels, the police force finished wiring more powerful shaped explosive charges to the sealed metal door, after running to a safe distance, the police detonated the explosives. Once the smoke cleared a hole was blown through the metal door, wide enough for 3 large broad shouldered men to walk through and tall enough for even the tallest NBA player to walk through with ease.

Damn, that's one big hole.

Nakazawa quickly looked over her shoulder, "Come on Ayaka!" shouted Nakazawa.

"I'm getting there, just give me afew more minutes!" shouted Ayaka back, unlike the other girls. Ayaka was not afraid to challenge Yukos raised voice with her own.

Well, someone has to.

Let's just hope that the police don't realize who Ayaka is and what she's doing. If they do they'll definitely target her to prevent the girls from escaping.

The police slowed their advance and quickly formed up. The front lined officers lined up shoulder to shoulder, and held their shields together, while the rest of the officers behind them held their large shields over their heads. The police were now in turtle formation, which was good for shielding themselves from the H!P girls stun bolts, but slowed their advance to a walking pace.

Ancient Roman legion tactics...still effective.

"Come on Ayaka, They're getting too close once again."

"Ok ok, I've got an idea." said Ayaka, "But it's quite dangerous and it might only work once."

"Then what is it?" asked Nakazawa

"Have another load of our girls fall back and load up onto the aircraft justice." said Ayaka, "I'll then open the landing gateway located on the roof of TV Tokyo. We'll then have the Justice take off vertically and exit through the landing gateway and out into the open sky."

"Why am I just learning of this now?" asked Nakazawa.

"Because it is quite a dangerous move." said Ayaka, "I didn't want to have to do it, unless I had no other choice. Once that door is open, more police can come through that way and they'll most likely block it off. So even if we get one aircraft out of here that way, the other will have to wait until I'm done repairing the catapult."

The plan could work, but like Ayaka said, it's likely going to be a one-shot deal assuming they can pull it off at all. The cops/military forces will quickly realize what's going on and will surely try to capitalize on it.  With the helicopters and walkers out there now, it's not like the aircraft could safely stick around and provide air support either. They'd have to get out of there ASAP and meet up with the first plane.

"Sir I can see now that it is an opening that leads into the underground hanger, it looks like they're getting ready to launch another S.M.A.T aircraft." said the helicopter pilot.

"That is unacceptable you hear me!" shouted Hasagawa, "Now, I order you to move your helicopter over the opening and prevent that jets escape."

"But sir..." said the helicopter pilot.

"That's a direct order!!" said Hasagawa.

That's just reckless, is what it is. What the hell is Hasegawa thinking?

continue with the launch." said Nakazawa. "If it comes to it, I'm sure out aircraft can withstand the impact of smashing into the helicopter."

"But Nakazawa..." said Ayaka.

"It's either him or us, and I'm not willing to lose anymore of my girls." said Nakazawa.

"Very well, it's your call." said Ayaka, she then switched back to Risakos channel, "Proceed with the launch, your aircrafts armor can handle the impact if you smash into the helicopter, but let's just hope for both our sakes he's not crazy enough to sit there while your coming up."

Looks like we have ourselves a good old fashioned game of "chicken" right here. Who'll blink first?

The helicopter pilot continued to look down at the rapidly approaching S.M.A.T jet. "Oh no..." said the pilot.

A collison looked imminent, Risako quickly clenched her teeth together and shut her eyes as her aircraft rapidly approached the exit.

"oh, hell no!!" said the pilot, and at the very last second he pulled his helicopter away from the opening and Risakos aircraft passed by him, missing him by just a few feet. Risako then opened her eyes and quickly looked out of her cockpit window and saw that the helicopter had moved out of the way and she was clear and safely away from TV Tokyo.

Trying to picture the helicopter pilot going "OH HELL NO!!"

"What is the meaning of this!!" shouted Hasagawa, "I ordered you to remain where you were and keep the girls from escaping!!!."

"Sir, that's like telling a car to stop a Locomotive train." said the helicopter pilot, "Fire me if you wish, but I have a wife and kids to think about."

Hasagawa squeezed his radio angrily, then groaned.

Glad to see the pilot has his priorities straight. Even if he gets fired from the force, he can always get another job somewhere else.

"Think we'll make it out of here?" asked Nakazawa.

"I know we will, I give you my word that you and I will both make it out of here safely." said Kaori.

"Thanks Kaori..." said Nakazawa, Kaori then reached down and helped Nakazawa to her feet.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 53- Got Guts?

As General Hasagawa watched Risakos' aircraft fly off into the distance, he cursed to himself.
He then brought his police walkie talkie up to his lips and spoke.

"I wanted all police and civilian helicopters to fly over that opening located ontop of TV Tokyo
and blocked it off. We can't let anymore of these H!P criminals get past us." ordered
Hasagawa

"Yes sir!" said one of the pilots.

"They won't get past us sir!." said another.

All of the police helicopters then began to fly towards the open rooftop of TV Tokyo, where
they all hovered over the opening, completely blocking it off as they hovered over one
another in a stacked formation of helicopters.

Ayaka leaned out of the control room door and looked up towards the ceiling, seeing multiple
helicopters hovering over the opening.

"Well, so much for getting out that way." said Ayaka, she then pulled down a lever on the
control board and TV Tokyos' rooftop began to close up once again, sealing off the way that
Risakos' aircraft escaped.

"Better get back to work." thought Ayaka, and she quickly ran towards the broken catapult
and continued to work on repairing it.

Meanwhile, Nakazawa and her small handful of S.M.A.T members continued fighting the
approaching police force. But with so few H!P girls left to defend the hanger, they wouldn't be
able to hold back the police force for very long once they reached the H!P girls last blockade.

"Keep firing!" screamed Nakazawa, "We need to hold them back for just a little longer."

The police force was now less then 50 feet away, continuing their march in turtle formation.

"Alright, on my command." said a senior police officer leading the officers in turtle formation.

"They're too close now, get ready to fight hand to hand." said Nakazawa.

Ayaka quickly tightened the last bolt to the catapult, wiggled it around abit to see if it was
secure. Once she was certain it was safe and ready to use she quickly stood up and cupped
her hands around her mouth.

"FINISHED!" screamed Ayaka.

Nakazawa quickly looked over her shoulder at Ayaka.

"NOW!, Break off!!" ordered the senior officer and all of the police officers broke away from
turtle formation and began to charge at the remaining H!P girls.

"Alright, Berryz and C-ute members get to your Jet and prepare for take off!!" yelled
Nakazawa.

The remaining Berryz and C-ute members from the last remaining S.M.A.T aircraft the 'Valor'
quickly left the blockade and ran as fast as they could towards Momokos aircraft. While the
remaining S.M.A.T members continued shooting their stun rifles at the quickly approaching
police force. They managed to hit a few officers as they fell to the ground after being hit,
other officers quickly leaping over their bodies of their fellow officers and continuing their
charge towards the remaining H!P girls.

"They're getting too close..." thought Nakazawa as she quickly looked over her shoulder at
the Berryz and C-ute members, who were now just climbing into their aircraft. It would still
be atleast 3 more minutes before the girls got the aircraft up and running. But those 3
minutes would be the longest 3 minutes of their lives.

As Nakazawa looked back at the charging police force, they were now just 20 feet away.

Suddenly, 15 very bright blue stun bolts descended from the ceiling in rapid fire and hit many
of the charging police officers, knocking down atleast 20 of them in less then 5 seconds.

"What the..." thought Nakazawa, she and the other girls quickly looked up at the ceiling and
saw a large, double barreled turret coming out of the ceiling, the turret then quickly swung
to the left and continued to shoot at the charging police officers. 2 more turrets then
appeared from the rooftop and began to fire blue stun bolts at the approaching officers.

"What's this?" asked Goto Maki, Ayaka stepped out of the control room beside the launch
track.

"Automated defenses." yelled Ayaka, "Programmed to activate if hostile forces get too close
to our launch track. Those should cut down on the number of officers you need to fight before
they reach you."

"Thanks Ayaka!" shouted Kago.

The turrets then stopped firing once the police force reached the H!P girls barricade. The
police then began to climb over the wall of the H!P girls last blockade. Yossi and Yasuda
powered up their mutant powers, Yossis' body turning to steel, while Yasudas' changed into
rock. Nakazawa and Goto Maki quickly took a fighting stance, while Kago opened her palm
and a sword made of brightly glowing fire appeared in her right hand. Reina quickly took a
few steps backwards and tried to stay out of the fight, as she was the medic of the S.M.A.T
forces and tried to avoid fighting to concentrate on her duties as being the teams medic.

The first few officers over the blockade quickly jumped down and began to fight the S.M.A.T
girls who stood their ground. Yossi and Yasuda began to walk towards the officers, knocking
out officers with a single punch from their metal and rock hard fists as they walked around.
Nakazawa being the oldest H!P member fought hard as she used the numerous martial arts
fighting styles she studied. She was kicking officers hard with kicks from her Tae Kwon Do
style.

An officer then grabbed Nakazawa from behind and tried to hold her tight. But Nakazawa
grabbed his forearm and flipped him over her shoulder with one of her slick judo moves. She
then ran towards another police officer and did a hard karate side kick. Knocking the officer
back into 5 other officers behind him, sending them all to the ground.

Kago was dodging police baton swings, slashing officers with her flaming sword. Causing
their vests and clothing to catch on fire, making the officers stop fighting to put out their
flaming clothes.

Goto Maki was an expert at Capoeira as she was doing flips, cart wheels and somersaults all
over the place. She was doing high flying kicks, spins and hand-plant kicks to police officers
all around her.

Despite there being so few H!P girls left, they were fighting and holding their own incredibly
well, since they were all experts at close combat fighting.

Ayaka quickly looked out of the control room window towards the fighting going on between
the H!P girls and the police force, she then quickly spoke into her hand held radio.

"Are you girls almost ready?" asked Ayaka.

"Yeah, Jet's powered up and we're ready to move into position." said Momoko.

"Alright, set it on auto pilot and it'll roll into position towards the launch catapult." said
Ayaka.

"Right!" said Momoko, she then quickly pressed a red circle button on her forward control
panel and the plane switched to auto pilot and began to slowly move forward.

Nakazawa quickly looked over her shoulder, "The jet's getting ready for take off, everyone
pull back!!" screamed Nakazawa. And all of the H!P girls quickly began to back up while still
fighting.

"Great, what are we going to do about all of these police officers." said Kago, quickly ducking
under a high baton swing, then slashing the police officer across the chest, setting his vest on
fire.

"I've got that covered." said Ayaka, she then quickly pressed a series of buttons.

Just then a large hatch began to open on the ceiling of the hanger, and 6 small flying robots
began to descend from the rooftops. They were large Oval shaped robots and had what
looked like a large fan or spinning blade in the center of the Oval, helping the robot fly. The 6
small robots then began to fly towards the police force. Suddenly 4 small doors began to
open on the outsides of the small robots metal body and 4 little guns appeared. The small
robots then began to spin around, starting off slowly, then building up speed. Soon they were
spinning at blinding speed, and then they began to rapidly fire small blue stun bolts at the
police force.

The robots had incredible aim as they managed to hit police officers around the H!P girls, but
not hit the H!P girls themselves. Officers dropped to the ground around the H!P girls feet and
they had their opening.

"Ok go now!!" said Nakazawa, she and the other girls quickly began to run towards Momokos
aircraft.

"Take those damn robots out!!" said a senior officer, and the police officers quickly put their
batons away and took out their lethal handguns and semi-automatic rifles. They then aimed
up at the small flying robots and began to shoot at them. The small robots began to fly
around the hanger, dodging the flying bullets.

One of the small robots stun bolts flew towards an officer holding a semi-automatic rifle, the
bolt hit him, he screamed and began to fall back, still wildly firing his semi-automatic rifle all
over the place. And afew of the stray bullets hit Reina Tanaka in the legs, causing her to fall
to the ground and groan in pain.

As Nakazawa and the other girls continued to run towards Momokos aircraft, Goto Maki
quickly looked over her shoulder and saw Reina on the ground, holding her bleeding legs in
pain.

"Reina!!" screamed Goto Maki, and she tried to go back for her. But Nakazawa quickly
grabbed ahold of Goto Maki and began to drag her with her.

"Leave her, we can't risk going back to save her!. There's just too many police officers back
there." said Nakazawa, Goto Maki struggled to break free.

"No!, I can't!." said Goto Maki, "She saved my life once, Now I have to save hers now."

"I said No!" said Nakazawa, "Just get on that ship, that's an order!!."

Just then a few police officers happened to notice Reina laying on the ground, separated from
the group.

"Arrest that H!P member!!" said one of the officers, and a large group of 20 police officers
quickly broke away from the main police force and began to run towards Reina Tanaka as she
lay on the ground. Her wounds were healing, but just not fast enough for her to get up and
run.

They then circled around her and quickly took out their batons. Reinas' wounds were fully
healed now and she quickly tried to stand up and make a break for it. But one of the officers
hit Reina Tanaka hard in the back of the legs, just behind her knees with his metal baton.
Reina screamed in pain as she fell to the ground. She then tried to scurry on all 4's past the
officers, but they then began to hit her repeatedly with their batons.

Goto Maki continued to struggle, trying to break free from Nakazawas' almost frighteningly
strong grip. As she watched Reina getting beaten by the officers surrounding her, tears
began to fill Goto Makis eyes, "Reina!!" screamed Goto Maki, 2 tear drops falling from her
eyes.

"We've got to go now!" said Nakazawa, continuing to drag Goto Maki towards the ship
against her will.

Reina covered her head and quickly stood up. But the officers continued to strike her hard
with their batons. Hitting her in the stomach, across the back, over the head and across the
face as Reina staggered around.

Goto Maki could take no more, "If we make it out her here, please don't hold a grudge
Commander..." said Goto Maki, she then quickly spun 180 degrees and smashed her elbow
into Nakazawas・mouth, causing her to lose her grip from Goto Makis・waist. Nakazawa fell to
the ground and laid there, while Goto Maki ran as fast as she could towards Reina Tanaka.

Kaori Iida looked back as she was running, she saw Nakazawa on the ground and quickly
went back to her side. "You ok, Yuu-chan?" asked Kaori Iida, helping Nakazawa to sit up.

Nakazawa brought her right hand up to her mouth and touched the side of her mouth, blood
stained her finger tips from cut she received from the elbow thrown by Goto Maki.

"I have to admit, that girls got some guts." said Nakazawa.

"She'd have to if she ever struck someone like you." said Kaori Iida.

Nakazawa took a deep breath, then exhaled. "I actually do hope both of them make it back."
said Nakazawa.

Kaori Iida helped Nakazawa to her feet and the two of them continued to run towards
Momokos' aircraft.

Goto Maki then reached the large group of officers who were pounding on Reina Tanaka with
their batons. She grabbed one of the officers and pulled him away from her, she then
grabbed another and pushed him off to the side.

"Get off of her!!" cried Goto Maki, just then another officer brought his baton back, then
swung it at Goto Maki. The baton hit her hard on her left right cheek and Goto Maki
staggered for a few steps. She blinked hard a few times as the hard hit caused her to see
bright white spots infront of her eyes.

The officers who were hitting Reina stopped and all of them turned to face Goto Maki, none
said a word as she slowly brought her right hand up to her right cheek and placed it against
her cheek. She had a dark purple bruise where the baton hit her, tears welled up in her eyes.
Then she dropped her hand to her side and slowly raised her eyes up and glared at the
officers.

One of the officers brought his baton up and screamed as he prepared to take a swing at her.
Goto Maki quickly opened her right palm and a long purple katana composed of raw psionic
energy formed her in hand. She dodged the baton swing, then slashed the officer across the
chest, leaving a glowing purple slash mark across his chest. The officer screamed, dropped
to his knees and fell to the ground, unconscious.

The other officers back up momentarily, then all at once charged at Goto Maki. She ducked
and dodged baton swings, slashing officers left and right with her purple energy sword,
sending them to the ground with one slice.

An officer brought his baton back and began to bring his baton down on Goto Maki. She
grabbed his wrist with her left hand, slashed him across the stomach with her sword she was
holding in her right hand. Ran around him while still holding his wrist, slashing 3 officers who
were standing near him. Then with a quick downward move of her hand flipped the officer
around in a front flip, sending him to the ground.

Another officer quickly swung his long wooden baton at Goto Maki, she ducked, then slashed
the officer across the back, leaving a glowing purple slash mark down his back as the officer
dropped to his knees and fell forward to the ground.

One more officer tried to grab Goto Maki from behind and hold her. But she threw her head
back and slammed the back of her head into his face, then turned around and slashed the
officer across the chest.

Only one more officer remained from the group that was attacking Reina Tanaka. Goto Maki
stylishly swung her sword around a few times, slicing through the air in lots of loops and
curves with her purple energy sword, then faced the officer and glared at him.

"No don't cut me!, No please don't cut me!!" cried the officer, he then turned around to run
away, but ran straight into a metal beam and knocked himself out. Goto Maki looked down at
him, then chuckled to herself.

But she quickly looked at Reina Tanaka, she was laying on the ground and not moving. So
Goto Maki quickly ran up to her and knelt beside her, as she looked down at Reina she could
see numerous bruises and cuts all over her head and face.

"Her wounds...they're not healing!" thought Goto Maki, knowing Reina was a mutant with
healing powers. "If they're not healing...does that mean she's..."

Suddenly Reina let out a soft moan, "Oh thank goodness, she's only unconscious and unable
to use her powers at the moment." said Goto Maki. She then turned and looked towards
Momokos' aircraft and saw all the other members quickly piling into the passenger
compartment.

"Hang on Reina, I'll get you back to the ship." said Goto Maki, she then closed her right palm
into a fist and her energy sword disappeared. She quickly helped knelt down, grabbed Reina
Tanaka and placed Reinas unconscious body across her shoulders, holding onto her legs with
her left hand, and holding onto her head with her right hand. She then began to run towards
Momokos awaiting aircraft.

[niigaki_risa]

Yay~! updates! i needed that cuz I got four teeth pulled. T_T

"No don't cut me!, No please don't cut me!!" cried the officer, he then turned around to run
away, but ran straight into a metal beam and knocked himself out. Goto Maki looked down at
him, then chuckled to herself

What an idiot. *tries to visualize that but Simon Cowell was the officer* 

[JFC]

Ayaka leaned out of the control room door and looked up towards the ceiling, seeing multiple helicopters hovering over the opening.

"Well, so much for getting out that way." said Ayaka,

Hey at least they were able to get the second aircraft successfully launched. Now once the catapult is repaired, the third can be as well.

"They're too close now, get ready to fight hand to hand." said Nakazawa.

Now THIS is gonna be interesting.

"FINISHED!" screamed Ayaka.

Nakazawa quickly looked over her shoulder at Ayaka.

"NOW!, Break off!!" ordered the senior officer and all of the police officers broke away from turtle formation and began to charge at the remaining H!P girls.

Damn those police have lousy timing.

"They're getting too close..." thought Nakazawa as she quickly looked over her shoulder at the Berryz and C-ute members, who were now just climbing into their aircraft. It would still be at least 3 more minutes before the girls got the aircraft up and running. But those 3 minutes would be the longest 3 minutes of their lives.

As Nakazawa looked back at the charging police force, they were now just 20 feet away.

Oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit, oshit...

Suddenly, 15 very bright blue stun bolts descended from the ceiling in rapid fire and hit many of the charging police officers, knocking down atleast 20 of them in less then 5 seconds.

What the...did one of the other planes come back to cover the launch of the final jet? Wait, no, they couldn't have, because Ayaka closed the ceiling doors.  But then...how...

"What's this?" asked Goto Maki, Ayaka stepped out of the control room beside the launch track.

"Automated defenses." yelled Ayaka, "Programmed to activate if hostile forces get too close to our launch track. Those should cut down on the number of officers you need to fight before they reach you."

Sweet!

But, shouldn't Yuko have known about the automated defenses, or did she just forget about them?   It could also be that they thought the systems were disabled in the initial attack, and thus they never bothered to check.

The first few officers over the blockade quickly jumped down and began to fight the S.M.A.T girls who stood their ground. Yossi and Yasuda began to walk towards the officers, knocking out officers with a single punch from their metal and rock hard fists as they walked around. Nakazawa being the oldest H!P member fought hard as she used the numerous martial arts fighting styles she studied. She was kicking officers hard with kicks from her Tae Kwon Do style.

Yuko and Maki going all martial artist on the cops is kinda hot.   I totally don't remember if this has been covered though (it probably has), but what are Yuko's mutant powers? 

"The jet's getting ready for take off, everyone
pull back!!" screamed Nakazawa.

...

"Great, what are we going to do about all of these police officers." said Kago,

...

"I've got that covered." said Ayaka, she then quickly pressed a series of buttons.

Just then a large hatch began to open on the ceiling of the hanger, and 6 small flying robots began to descend from the rooftops. They were large Oval shaped robots and had what looked like a large fan or spinning blade in the center of the Oval, helping the robot fly. The 6 small robots then began to fly towards the police force. Suddenly 4 small doors began to open on the outsides of the small robots metal body and 4 little guns appeared. The small robots then began to spin around, starting off slowly, then building up speed. Soon they were spinning at blinding speed, and then they began to rapidly fire small blue stun bolts at the police force.

More of Ayaka's automated defences I see.

The robots had incredible aim as they managed to hit police officers around the H!P girls, but not hit the H!P girls themselves. Officers dropped to the ground around the H!P girls feet and they had their opening.

They might be programmed to not fire at mutant DNA. If so, pretty slick move there by Ayaka.

One of the small robots stun bolts flew towards an officer holding a semi-automatic rifle, the bolt hit him, he screamed and began to fall back, still wildly firing his semi-automatic rifle all over the place. And afew of the stray bullets hit Reina Tanaka in the legs, causing her to fall to the ground and groan in pain.

...

"Reina!!" screamed Goto Maki, and she tried to go back for her. But Nakazawa quickly
grabbed ahold of Goto Maki and began to drag her with her.

"Leave her, we can't risk going back to save her!. There's just too many police officers back there." said Nakazawa, Goto Maki struggled to break free.

...

"Arrest that H!P member!!" said one of the officers, and a large group of 20 police officers quickly broke away from the main police force and began to run towards Reina Tanaka as she lay on the ground. Her wounds were healing, but just not fast enough for her to get up and run.

Shit, Reina's not in full control of her newfound powers yet either. If the cops/military find out just how powerful Reina can really be, things could get ugly.

Reina covered her head and quickly stood up. But the officers continued to strike her hard with their batons. Hitting her in the stomach, across the back, over the head and across the
face as Reina staggered around.

Goto Maki could take no more, "If we make it out her here, please don't hold a grudge Commander..." said Goto Maki, she then quickly spun 180 degrees and smashed her elbow into Nakazawas mouth, causing her to lose her grip from Goto Makis waist. Nakazawa fell to the ground and laid there, while Goto Maki ran as fast as she could towards Reina Tanaka.

Oh crap, this can either turn into something heroic (and even sort of romantic)...or a really, REALLY big mistake on Maki's part. 

The cops repeatedly beating Reina is just mob-mentality fueled by their fear of the unknown. If the circumstances were different, they'd be in shock and disgusted that they were behaving in such a manner. I mean come on, 20 grown men collectively beating a teenage girl who's probably half their size? Not exactly the image the cops/military want to foster. However, since Reina's a mutant, they figure it's okay, because she's not really "human".

Damn fuckers. 

"Get off of her!!" cried Goto Maki, just then another officer brought his baton back, then swung it at Goto Maki. The baton hit her hard on her left right cheek and Goto Maki staggered for a few steps. She blinked hard a few times as the hard hit caused her to see bright white spots infront of her eyes.

White spots? Isn't that supposed to be signs of a concussion or something?

She had a dark purple bruise where the baton hit her, tears welled up in her eyes. Then she dropped her hand to her side and slowly raised her eyes up and glared at the officers.

Shit, Maki, remember your orders! No killing! Don't do anything rash because it sure won't help the situation in any way!

One of the officers brought his baton up and screamed as he prepared to take a swing at her. Goto Maki quickly opened her right palm and a long purple katana composed of raw psionic energy formed her in hand. She dodged the baton swing, then slashed the officer across the chest, leaving a glowing purple slash mark across his chest. The officer screamed, dropped to his knees and fell to the ground, unconscious.

You said unconscious, right? Maki's psionic sword didn't actually kill him, right? RIGHT??? 

she quickly looked at Reina Tanaka, she was laying on the ground and not moving. So Goto Maki quickly ran up to her and knelt beside her, as she looked down at Reina she could see numerous bruises and cuts all over her head and face.

"Her wounds...they're not healing!" thought Goto Maki, knowing Reina was a mutant with healing powers. "If they're not healing...does that mean she's..."

No, you can't kill Reina!!!

Suddenly Reina let out a soft moan, "Oh thank goodness, she's only unconscious and unable to use her powers at the moment."

Yokkataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!    Maki saved Reina!


Now let's just hope Yuko doesn't beat the living crap out of her for doing it.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 54-

Nakazawa stood by the passenger compartment door, underneath the S.M.A.T aircraft, The
Valor. Her eyes were wide with surprise as she had just witnessed Goto Makis amazing mutant
power, she truly was one of the greatest close combat fighters of all the S.M.A.T girls.

"Well I'll be...she actually saved her." thought Nakazawa, "But at what cost...", seeing the many
officers laying on the ground, she did not know if they were alive or dead after being slashed by
Goto Makis energy Katana.

Goto Maki and the unconscious Reina Tanaka were getting closer to Momokos aircraft,
Nakazawa lowered her head and shook it back and forth slowly. Goto Maki and Reina then
reached the passenger compartment door.

"What have you done?" said Nakazawa.

"What do you mean?" asked Goto-san, "I just saved Reina from being captured by the police."

"No, not that." said Nakazawa, "You may have just killed 20 police officers just now, and I
ordered everyone to try their hardest not to kill any officers. They already believe were murders,
you may have just proved them right."

Goto Maki sighed, "Well don't worry about that Commander." said Goto Maki, "Because I did
not kill ANYONE!!. My energy Katana only stunned them and knocked them out, despite how it
looked. But, if I wanted to, I could of killed them easily with one of my more powerful attacks .
But I remembered your orders."

"Really, well good work then." said Nakazawa, "Now get on board and quickly!!"

"Yes Ma'am!" said Goto Maki, she and Reina then disappeared into the passenger compartment.

"Well that's everyone!!" shouted Nakazawa, up to Ayaka in the control room. "Now let's get out
of here!!."

"Alright, I'm just about finished setting a timer to the launch catapult and I'll be down there
shortly." said Ayaka, as she pressed a series of buttons on the control panel. "Ok finished!", she
then exited the control room and began to run down the stairs leading to the launch track.

Nakazawa pressed a small blue button on the intercom located next to the passenger
compartment door, "Are we ready to go??" asked Nakazawa to Momoko who was in the cockpit.

"Yes, as soon as everyone's onboard and strapped in we can leave!." replied Momoko.

"Good to hear!." said Nakazawa, Ayaka then rushed passed Nakazawa and sat in one of the
empty passenger seats and quickly buckled in. Nakazawa quickly pressed a small button on the
intercom. "Everyone's in, so let's get moving!!"

"Yes Ma'am!" said Momoko, "Preparing for launch."

Momoko then began to slowly move her throttle forward, the engines building up power and
growing louder with each passing second.

Ayaka quickly raised her radio to her mouth, "Now Momoko, don't take off to early, it'll still be
about 2 more minutes before the auto-launch system is activated. So you need to time it just
right, otherwise if you go to early you could wreck the launch catapult."

Momoko took a deep nervous breath, "Alright, I'll sync my watch to the auto-launchers timer."
She then quickly dialed in 2:00 minutes and pressed enter and the little clock timer on her control
panel began to count down. With each passing second, Momoko eased the throttle forward.

Nakazawa and the remaining H!P members kept their eyes fixed on a little screen at the front of
the passenger compartment, it showed the same countdown to launch as was displayed on
Momokos control panel. While the Valors crew in the crew compartment kept their eyes fixed on
their own individual screens, watching the same countdown.

The timer was now at 1:30 and counting.

"Almost there..." said Nakazawa softly, rubbing her hands together nervously as she sat in her
seat.

Beads of sweat were forming on Goto Makis forehead as she nervously watched the count down
to launch.

Meanwhile the police force continued to try and shoot down the little flying robots as they
were weaving back and forth across the ceiling, dodging the hundreds of flying bullets.

But one lucky officer managed to hit one of the small robots and it began to trail a tail of greyish
black smoke as it flew around the room out of control, the small robot then began to spin out of
control towards the launch track control room.

As Momoko was finishing up launch preparations, she happened to look out of the window of
her cockpit and see the small robot spinning out of control. She also saw that it was heading
towards the control room for the launch track.

"Oh no....no no...please NO!!" said Momoko.

The small robot then crashed through the window of the control room and slammed into the
control panel, exploding on impact.

Momoko closed her eyes together tight and lowered her head and shook her head back and forth
slowly. She then pressed a red circular button on the countdown clock.

"Countdown Aborted, countdown aborted!" an automated voice said.

"WHAT!" said Nakazawa, "What's going on!"

All of the H!P girls groaned loudly, Kaori slammed her fist into her seat and cursed loudly.


Just then Momokos voice came on over the passenger compartments intercom.
"Nakazawa-san....I'm sorry to have to say this, But the control room has been destroyed. We can't
take off now..."

"No..." said Nakazawa softly, "There must be something we can do...isn't there??"

Nakazawa looked around at the other girls, many of them had their heads lowered, in defeat.
Ayaka was staring down at the ground, thinking hard.

"There is!" said Ayaka, everyone heads shot back up and they all looked to Ayaka.

"What, tell us!" said Kaori Iida.

"There's an emergency switch for the launch catapult on the left side of the runway." said Ayaka,
"But..."

"But what?" Asked Nakazawa, quickly rubbing her hands together nervously.

"It's a manual launch procedure." said Ayaka, "Meaning, someone has to get out, head over to the
emergency launch switch, flip it on and remain behind."

"Alright, I'll do it." said Nakazawa, quickly undoing her restraining devices and standing up.
"Just tell me where to go."

Everyone gasped, "Yuu-chan no..." said Kaori.

"If anyone's gonna do this, it has to be me." said Nakazawa, "Now, everyone after I'm gone,
Kaori will be in charge. I expect you to listen to her and show her the same amount of respect as
you've shown me."

"hai..." everyone said sadly.

"Alright, I'll just show you where to go." said Ayaka, undoing her restraining device, she too
stood up and walk side by side with Nakazawa towards the passenger compartment door.

Nakazawa pressed the intercom button and Momokos helmet mike switched on.
"Momoko, open the passenger compartment. I'm staying behind to help you launch the jet and get
everyone out of here."

"Y-yes ma'am." said Momoko softly, she then pulled down a small black lever and the passenger
compartments door began to slowly open. Nakazawa stood in the doorway, next to Ayaka.

"Ok, Nakazawa-san, you see that small red box on the far side of the runway..." said Ayaka,
slowly reaching into her pocket.

"Yeah, I see iiiiiaaaahhhhh!!" screamed Nakazawa, the other girls in the passenger compartment
quickly looked over to Nakazawa and Ayaka.

Nakazawa fell to the ground and was shaking and trembling slightly, the girls then happened to
notice a stun gun in Ayakas' hand, she then dropped the stun gun to the floor and took a step
backwards.

"What are you doing!" said Kaori Iida, quickly undoing her restraining harness and running up to
Nakazawa.

"My Aircraft, My hanger, My inventions...my responsibility." said Ayaka, she then took a few
more steps backwards. "Now, close this door and get ready for take-off!!", Ayaka then turned
around and began to run towards the emergency launch lever.

The police had finally managed to shoot down the remaining automated defense robots and
refocused their attention on the fleeing S.M.A.T members. One of the officers spotted Ayaka
running across the runway.

"Stop her!" he shouted, and all of the police officers took out their beanbag shotguns and pepper
ball filled paintball guns. They took aim at her and began to shoot at her, dozens of beanbags
bounced along the ground, nearly clipping Ayaka, while dozens of pepper balls flew past Ayaka.

Ayaka quickly dove to the ground and rolled along the ground, until she was behind a large, cube
shaped metal crate. She sat up and pressed her back against the metal crate and peered around the
corner at the police force, they were slowly walking towards her while they continued to fire
beanbags and pepper balls at her.

"I've got to do this...I can do this!." said Ayaka, her eyes then shifted up towards the ceiling. and
she remembered her automated defenses. So she quickly pulled out a small remote device and
began to push a series of buttons on the pad, and the 3 large double barreled turrets reappeared,
then fixed their aim on the police force and opened fire.

Many large blue stun bolts began to hit the ground near the police force as they scattered away
from each other, aiming their weapons up at the fast firing turrets.

Ayaka saw her opening and quickly stood up once again and ran as fast as she could towards the
emergency launch box. She then reached the box, opened it and began to wave her arms wildly
towards Momokos aircraft. Momoko saw and quickly gave a thumbs up as she moved her
throttle all the way to full power, the aircraft's engines glowing brightly as flames shot out the
back of engines.

"Good-bye guys..." said Ayaka softly, she then wrapped her left hand around the handle of the
emergency launch lever, then pulled it down hard.

Momokos aircraft then went from a stand still to incredible speed as it rocketed down the
runway, then entered the launch tunnel and disappeared.

Back outside of TV Tokyo, Momokos aircraft quickly exited the side of TV Tokyo, then quickly
gained altitude and climbed into the sky and disappeared into the clouds. All of the H!P fans
erupted into joyous cheers and shouts as they knew their beloved idols were safe now.

Ishibashi looked out the barred window of his jail cell and smiled, "Be safe Gottsuan." he said to
himself.

Back inside the hanger, Ayaka continued to look down the runway, towards the launch tunnel
that Momokos aircraft entered just moments again. Just then she felt the barrel of a gun press
again the back of her head.

"On your knees NOW!!" said a police officers voice, Ayaka took a deep nervous breath and
nodded her head.

Ayaka held her hands up and slowly dropped down to her knees, "Ok...I surrender." said Ayaka.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 55- Promotion

Miki Fujimoto slowly began to open one of her eyes, she was laying on her side on a cot, the
back of her head hurt and she had a severe headache. As she opened the other eye, she happened
to notice she inside a large, wide green colored tent.

She then tried to sit up, "Please don't move, I've almost got all of the glass out." said a female
voice. Fujimoto then laid back down and remained still.

"Is she awake yet?" asked a familiar voice, Syther then entered the tent, followed closely by Flea
and Quake.

"Hey guys..." said Fujimoto weakly, she managed to crack a little bit of a smile.

"Glad to see your awake, we were very worried about you." said Syther.

"What happened?" asked Fujimoto.

"I don't know all the details, but it seems Seraph brought you back after some kind of big brawl
between the Tokyo police force or something. You were knocked out cold by a flying whiskey
bottle."

All of the memories of the past events suddenly came back to Fujimoto.

"Angel!" said Fujimoto, "Is he ok?, where is he!?"

"He's fine, that fight really drained him of energy, so he's resting. Guess transforming into a super
mutant really takes up alot of your energy." said Flea, the others nodded.

Fujimoto felt a sharp sting on the back of her head and winced in pain, "Sorry sorry." said the
female medic, she then continued to pull out tiny pieces of glass that were stuck in Fujimotos
head, out with small tweezers.

"And that should be the last one." the medic said as she pulled one more piece out of Fujimotos
head. "Ok, ready to be healed?"

"Yes please." said Fujimoto, the medic nodded and placed her palm against the back of
Fujimotos head and a glowing white light covered her palm and Fujimotos wounds began to heal
up, her headache quickly disappearing.

"There we go, all finished." said the female medic.

Fujimoto sat up, rubbed the back of her head and was surprised to not feel any cuts, scrapes or
even scars on the back of her head.

"Thank you!" Fujimoto said, smiling brightly at the young medic.

"Your welcome." she said, returning the smile.

"Don't think I got your name yet." Fujimoto said, extending her hand out in a handshake gesture.

"Oh, I'm Hime Nakamura, but please call me 'Doc'." Doc said.

"Sure thing Doc." said Fujimoto, "Always good to meet another fellow mutant, hope I can think
of you as a friend from now on."

"Absolutely, I'd be honored to be your friend." said Doc.

"Oh, and before I forget." said Quake, "Overlord wants to see you when your feeling up to it."

"Alright, guess I'll go and see him now." said Fujimoto, she then exited the tent and began to
walk around.

She was surprised to see she was in the middle of a gigantic encampment inside a large and vast forest,
there were also thousands and thousands of other mutants walking around the large encampment.
"Where am I?" thought Fujimoto "More importantly...where do I go to see Overlord?"

Doc then exited the medical tent, "You lost?" Doc asked, Fujimoto nodded her head.

"Guess you weren't here, or rather you weren't awake when we moved on from our old compound
outside of Tokyo City." said Doc. "Apparently we're all heading to Hokkaido. ALL brotherhood
compounds all across Japan are going to rendezvous in Sapporo."

"All brotherhood compounds?" asked Fujimoto, "Just how many are there?"

Doc laughed, "Well, I've never been to them all, but I know there are at least 100."
Doc then motioned around the large encampment.

"You see all of these mutants." said Doc, Fujimoto nodded. "So far, we've met up with 9 other
brotherhood compounds on our way to Sapporo...so that should give you an idea just how many
of us there are out there."

"Wow..." was all Fujimoto could say, "And to think that I used to be lonely because I thought I
was like the only mutant in all of Tokyo."

Doc laughed, "So, where are you headed?" Doc asked.

"Well I'm trying to find Overlord, but I don't even know where to begin to search." replied
Fujimoto.

"Ah yes...well I'll show you the way." said Doc, she then began to lead the way. Fujimoto
following close beside her.

"So, tell me a little more about yourself." said Fujimoto.

Doc chuckled, "Well I'm originally from Kagoshima city, but after discovering my mutant power.
I kind of became afraid of what others might think of me...so I ran away from home at 16 and
never looked back." said Doc, "After being on my own for a year as a beggar, I was soon
discovered by another mutant. He had the ability to know who was human and who was a mutant
by their power levels. Mine was higher then a normal humans, so he could tell that I was a
mutant. He offered to take me to a place where there would be many others like me, our kind,
mutants."

"Reminds me of my own experience." said Fujimoto.

"Yeah, I'm glad he found me, it was the loneliest I've ever felt in my entire life. That year on my
own, thinking I was a freak, whom no one would understand." said Doc "And with this war that's
coming, I'm glad I'm on the more powerful side."

Fujimoto nodded, "Yeah, I guess so." said Fujimoto.

Doc and Deluge then stopped just outside of a large black tent in the middle of the encampment,
with guards posted at the entrance. "Well here we are." said Doc, "So I guess I'll leave you to it."

"Thanks, and see you later." said Fujimoto, she then walked towards the tents entrance. The
guards blocked the doorway with their rifles crossed together in an X formation.

"What's your business." asked one of the guards.

"I'm here to see Overlord, he specifically asked for me, Miki Fujimoto to come and see him."
said Fujimoto.

"Oh, so your Fujimoto." said one of the guards, "Congratulations on your help of the destruction
of Mori Tower."

"My what?" asked Fujimoto.

The guard shook his head, "Never mind, Overlord will explain it to you." said the guard, he and
the other guard then uncrossed their rifles and let Fujimoto through.

Once inside, Fujimoto saw Overlord standing infront of a table, with 9 other men standing all
around the table. As Fujimoto got closer, she saw that they were looking at a large map of Japan.
And all over the map of Japan were dozens of little needles with large red circular balls attached
to them, each with a different number. She happened to see that, 9 of the needles on the map
were grouped together in the mountain forest between Nagano and Saitama City.  and she guessed that that
must of been their current encampment.

"Have Brotherhood compounds, 14, 15 and 16 all meet up in Nagano, compounds 19,20 and 21
meet up in Saitama. Once those compounds are organized, we'll continue uniting all of the
brotherhood compounds in stages." said Overlord, he then looked towards the entrance and
spotted Fujimoto waiting.

"Alright, that'll be it for tonight's meeting, everyone is dismissed." said Overlord, the other 9
men then saluted Overlord and left the tent.

"Who were they?" asked Fujimoto.

"The headmasters of their respected Brotherhood compounds." said Overlord.

"So they're like you then?" asked Fujimoto.

Overlord smiled, "In a way yes, and also a very big no." replied Overlord, "I'm in charge of all of
the compounds across Japan, while they're only in charge of their own small compound and
answer to me."

"I see." said Fujimoto, "So, you wished to see me?"

"Yes, I have a matter to talk to you about." said Overlord, Fujimoto nodded her head and stepped
closer.

"It seems you and Angel have once again proven yourselves as great fighters,
eliminating over 5,000 Civilians working for the police force in Roppongi earlier this evening."
said Overlord, "So in recognition for that, I'm promoting you to Super Elite status as a fighter,
allowing you more privileges and benefits from the Brotherhood. As well as the chance to form
your own Elite fighting team and becoming the leader of that 6 member team."

Overlord then reached under the table and pulled out a large suitcase like bag. He then laid it on
the table and unclipped the straps. He opened the suitcase and turned it around so Fujimoto could
see.

Inside was a fancy black uniform, with black combat boots, black leather gloves, black socks, a
small black T-shirt, a black Trench coat, with a crimson red armband on the right arm with the
brotherhoods emblem on it, written underneath the emblem was the word "Super Elite", as a
ranking system.

"Really?" said Fujimoto, eyes wide open in surprise.

"Yes, you may go now and choose your teammates for your squad." said Overlord, "But choose
wisely, you'll want fighters experienced in all aspects of fighting. Including close combat, long
ranged fighting, power, and bravery."

"Thank you sir." said Fujimoto, "I'll get on that right away."

"Your dismissed." said Overlord, Fujimoto bowed to him, took her uniform and quickly left
Overlords tent.

As Fujimoto slowly walked around the encampment she carefully thought about who she wanted
on her team.

"Flea is an excellent close combat fighter, but he lacks the powers to fight long ranged...but still,
I think he's a perfect match for my close combat fighter." Said Fujimoto, "hmmm, Syther is
excellent at long ranged combat, because he can throw his scythes with extreme accuracy and
he's very good at close combat fighting. So he's a no brainer choice."

Fujimoto then bumped into Doc once again, "Oh, Hey Doc, what's up?" asked Fujimoto.

"Not much, have you settled in yet?" asked Doc, then Fujimoto remembered she that she had not
yet chosen a tent, or any other place to stay.

"No, I completely forgot about that." said Fujimoto, "I don't even have a tent picked out or
anything."

Doc laughed, "Ok, come with me once again, I'll get you set up." said Doc, Fujimoto nodded and
followed Doc once again.

The two girls walked side by side, as Doc showed Fujimoto a large tent she could stay in.

"Here we are, Home sweet home for the next few days." said Doc, "We need to wait afew more
days before other Brotherhood compounds link up with us."

"Alright, thanks for everything." said Fujimoto, but just as Doc was about to leave. Fujimoto
realized she could use her for her team.

"Hey Doc, wait a second, I need to ask you something." said Fujimoto, and Doc quickly returned.

"Yes?, what is it?" asked Doc.

"Well, I kind of got promoted to Super Elite statues by Overlord just now. And he's letting me
choose members for a Super Elite team of fighters, of which I'll be the leader. And I realized that
every team needs a medic. So...my question is, will you please be apart of my team, I could use
your skills as a healer for my team."

"Really?!?" asked Doc, "You want me to be on your Elite team...wow....I'm both surprised and
honored and of course I'll join...Ma'am", Doc then saluted Fujimoto, causing her to blush and
giggle.

"Thanks...guess I'll have to get used to that kind of behavior from my teammates." said Fujimoto,
returning Docs salute with her own. "That's all I wanted to know, your dismissed."

Doc bowed respectfully then left Fujimotos tent, "3 teammates chosen, just 3 more to choose."
thought Fujimoto.

Fujimoto then sat down at a small table inside her tent and thought carefully, "Angel seems like
another good choice, he's extremely powerful and can fly, giving him the advantage of flight. He
could be our scout I guess...so he's in." said Fujimoto to herself, "And Quake, I've seen him fight,
he's extremely good at destroying tanks and other armored vehicles. So he's my next choice."

But as Fujimoto continued to think about who to choose next, she couldn't think of anyone else.
"I'll leave it at 5 for now, I'll choose the next member of my team when I can see what some of
the other members of the Brotherhood can do."

And with that, Fujimoto retired to bed, to rest up for tomorrows challenge of finding the last
member of her team.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 56- The forgotten

Two police officers were entering a small convenience store, as they walked around the store, the
store, the male shop keeper kept nervously glancing at them as he cleaned the top counter where
the cash register was located.

"I'll be right back, I just need to make a quick stop in the bathroom" said one of the officers. The
male shop keeper nervously began to tap his foot on the ground, his heart beating faster and
faster as the police officer got closer to the bathrooms, near the entrance to the backroom.

But just then his wife, came out of the backroom with a mop and pail, "I'm sorry sir, but I'm just
about to mop here."

"Oh, that's quite alright, We'll make a pit stop elsewhere." said the officer, he and his partner then
exited the store. The male shop keeper breathing a deep sigh of relief.

"That was close my dear...alittle too close." said the male shop keeper.

"Well, I got them out of the store didn't I." asked his wife, the husband then looked down at the
mop pail.

"You didn't even fill it with water!" said the husband, his wife looked down at the mop pail and
blushed bright red.

"Well, at least he didn't notice." said the wife, she then pushed the mop and pail away and
quickly ran to the front, grabbing a large plastic tray and placing sandwiches from the fridge as
well as some pieces of fruit and iced tea in 2 cups.

"I don't think it's such a good idea to let them stay here." said the husband.

"Why not?, they saved our store from being robbed once. I think we can trust them." said the
wife.

"You do realize what'll happen if the police ever find out that we're hiding them here right?" said
the husband.

"Yes I do, but I also know I'm forever in their debit for their great kindness they've shown both us
and our store." said the Wife, she then began to take the tray of food and drinks towards the
backroom, she pushed the back storage room open with her back and went inside.

"How's everything back here?" asked the wife.

"We're fine thanks." said Inaba Atsuko.

"Just a little hungry and thirsty." said Maeda Yuki.

"I've got some food and drink here for you." said the female shop keeper, she then set the tray on
a small table beside where the girls were sitting on the floor.

Inaba tried to get up, but winced in pain as she put weight on her badly twisted ankle.

"Don't move, I'll get it for you." said Yuki, she then got up, walked over to the table, grabbed one
of the sandwiches and cups, handed it to Inaba, then grabbed her own and sat down beside her
once again.

"How's that ankle doing?" asked the female shop keeper.

"It hurts, but I don't think it's broken. I'll be fine." said Inaba.

"Ok, hold on a moment, I'll go and grab you an ice pack." said the female shop keeper.

"Thanks, and I don't think we got your name." said Maeda.

"I'm Mrs. Yuko Koyama, my husbands name is Hiromi." said Koyama.

"Thank you for all of your kindness and shelter." said Maeda bowing as she remained sitting,
Inaba bowing as well.

Koyama returned the bow, "I'm forever in your debt for the kindness you first showed us,
stopping 2 armed gunmen from robbing our store of all it's money." said Koyama

"Thanks, but that wasn't us." said Inaba.

"No, but the girls who helped were wearing the exact same uniform you are right now. They must
be on the same team as you I guess." said Koyama.

"Yes, they are." said Maeda.

"Oh, guess I better go and grab that ice pack for your ankle" said Koyama, she then exited the
backroom.

Maeda took bite of her sandwich, then laid back against the wall, "How fortunate we were that
we managed to find such a welcoming place...given the current circumstances." said Maeda.

Inaba nodded as she took a long drink from her iced tea, "I'm sorry I kept us from getting back to
TV Tokyo with my twisted ankle." said Inaba.

"Nah, I don't mind, I wouldn't want you injure yourself further by forcing yourself to walk on it."
said Maeda.

Inaba laughed to herself, "You wanna know the sad thing?" asked Inaba.

"What?" asked Maeda.

"I bet no one even noticed that we were missing, we seem to get that alot even in non-emergency
situations." said Inaba.

"Probably, I bet they didn't even wait for us either." said Maeda.

"Guess that's what we get for being some of the least popular girls in H!P." said Inaba.

"Not our fault that we get so little exposure, those others girls are just younger and more able to
impress the younger fans." said Maeda.

"Guess we really fit into our nicknames." said Inaba, "The forgotten girls."

The female shop keeper Koyama then returned with an ice pack for Inabas・ankle, "Here you
are." said Koyama.

Maeda then stood up, "Would you mind staying with Inaba for a moment, I need to head outside
to see what the police activity is like." said Maeda.

"Yeah sure, I don't mind." said Koyama.

Maeda then took a deep breath and closed her eyes, her entire body then began to vanish and
within a matter of seconds she was completely invisible. But as she began to leave the backroom,
Inaba and Koyama could hear her footsteps and see little footprints her boots left on the ground.
The backroom door then opened, seemingly by itself as Maeda exited the backroom.

Hiromi was restocking shelves near the backroom when he heard footsteps approaching, he
turned towards them and yelled in surprise, "Please don't do that, it's scary when that happens.
Turn to see no one, but you can hear them."

"Sorry" said Maedas・ voice, she then continued to walk towards the front door, pushing it open
and leaving the store.

As Maeda walked around in her invisible state around the block, she happened to notice that the
police activity wasn't as high as it was before.

"Seems to be slowly dying down." thought Maeda to herself, "We'll just wait a few more hours
before we try to make it back to TV Tokyo.", and with that Maeda quickly headed back to the
convenience store where Inaba was.

[JFC]

Chapter 54-

"What have you done?" said Nakazawa.

...

 "Well don't worry about that Commander." said Goto Maki, "Because I did not kill ANYONE!!. My energy Katana only stunned them and knocked them out, despite how it looked. But, if I wanted to, I could of killed them easily with one of my more powerful attacks. But I remembered your orders."

Question now is, what will those soldiers/police think when they regain consciousness? The last thing they're likely to remember is seeing Maki's energy sword coming down on them before they thought they "died". Will they realize, "hey, she could have killed me but she didn't...maybe they're not murderers like we were told?"  What will Hasegawa about this when he finds out about this? Will he get even more paranoid? Or will he try and spin this to fit his propaganda again?

Ayaka quickly raised her radio to her mouth, "Now Momoko, don't take off to early, it'll still be about 2 more minutes before the auto-launch system is activated. So you need to time it just right, otherwise if you go to early you could wreck the launch catapult."

Let's just hope that no more of the police/military guys get in there within those two minutes. They could shut off/sabotage the launcher if they did.

But one lucky officer managed to hit one of the small robots and it began to trail a tail of greyish black smoke as it flew around the room out of control, the small robot then began to spin out of control towards the launch track control room.

...

The small robot then crashed through the window of the control room and slammed into the control panel, exploding on impact.

Momoko closed her eyes together tight and lowered her head and shook her head back and forth slowly. She then pressed a red circular button on the countdown clock.

"Countdown Aborted, countdown aborted!" an automated voice said.

Dammit. Couldn't help but see something like this happen. Well now, if the girls are going to get away, Momo's either going to have to suddenly punch up the throttle full blast, in which case they would risk incinerating the police/military guys that are in the base...or someone's going to have to stay behind and activate the launcher manually.

"There's an emergency switch for the launch catapult on the left side of the runway." said Ayaka,
"But..."

"But what?" Asked Nakazawa, quickly rubbing her hands together nervously.

"It's a manual launch procedure." said Ayaka, "Meaning, someone has to get out, head over to the emergency launch switch, flip it on and remain behind."

"Alright, I'll do it." said Nakazawa, quickly undoing her restraining devices and standing up. "Just tell me where to go."

...

"Alright, I'll just show you where to go." said Ayaka, undoing her restraining device, she too stood up and walk side by side with Nakazawa towards the passenger compartment door.

...

"Ok, Nakazawa-san, you see that small red box on the far side of the runway..." said Ayaka, slowly reaching into her pocket.

"Yeah, I see iiiiiaaaahhhhh!!" screamed Nakazawa, the other girls in the passenger compartment quickly looked over to Nakazawa and Ayaka.

Nakazawa fell to the ground and was shaking and trembling slightly, the girls then happened to notice a stun gun in Ayakas' hand, she then dropped the stun gun to the floor and took a step backwards.

...

"My Aircraft, My hanger, My inventions...my responsibility." said Ayaka

Dammit. Of course Ayaka would choose defy orders and stay behind herself.  As much as I hate to say it, the girls need Yuko more than they need Ayaka.


Chapter 55- Promotion

"And that should be the last one." the medic said as she pulled one more piece out of Fujimotos head. "Ok, ready to be healed?"

"Yes please." said Fujimoto, the medic nodded and placed her palm against the back of Fujimotos head and a glowing white light covered her palm and Fujimotos wounds began to heal up, her headache quickly disappearing.

"There we go, all finished." said the female medic.

Too bad it isn't that easy in real life.

"Apparently we're all heading to Hokkaido. ALL brotherhood compounds all across Japan are going to rendezvous in Sapporo."

"All brotherhood compounds?" asked Fujimoto, "Just how many are there?"

Doc laughed, "Well, I've never been to them all, but I know there are at least 100."

Geez, that's one HUGE mutant army right there. Overlord must have been planning this for quite some time.

"What's your business." asked one of the guards.

"I'm here to see Overlord, he specifically asked for me, Miki Fujimoto to come and see him." said Fujimoto.

"Oh, so your Fujimoto." said one of the guards, "Congratulations on your help of the destruction of Mori Tower."

"My what?" asked Fujimoto.

The guard shook his head, "Never mind, Overlord will explain it to you." said the guard, he and
the other guard then uncrossed their rifles and let Fujimoto through.

Heh, the first slip-up. They weren't there to destroy the tower, it just happened to be the end result after that mob incident. Maybe now Miki will start to see what the REAL intentions of Overlord are.

"It seems you and Angel have once again proven yourselves as great fighters, eliminating over 5,000 Civilians working for the police force in Roppongi earlier this evening." said Overlord,

Question is, has Miki now become like him? Is she to the point now where she is no longer troubled at the thought of "eliminating" non-mutants (particularly civilians)?

"So in recognition for that, I'm promoting you to Super Elite status as a fighter, allowing you more privileges and benefits from the Brotherhood. As well as the chance to form your own Elite fighting team and becoming the leader of that 6 member team."

Overlord then reached under the table and pulled out a large suitcase like bag. He then laid it on the table and unclipped the straps. He opened the suitcase and turned it around so Fujimoto could see.

Inside was a fancy black uniform, with black combat boots, black leather gloves, black socks, a small black T-shirt, a black Trench coat, with a crimson red armband on the right arm with the brotherhoods emblem on it, written underneath the emblem was the word "Super Elite", as a ranking system.

In other words, he's put her into his mutant version of the Gestapo.

Being part of a "super elite" group, Miki's now going to be included in more of the "down and dirty" type missions that, up until now, they likely haven't known about. Will they fall in line with Overlord's propaganda, like Hasegawa's troops fall in line with his? What if Miki's team is ordered to "make a move" (i.e. to assassinate) someone in the S.M.A.T.?  Will she blindly obey and follow her orders?



Chapter 56- The forgotten

"I don't think it's such a good idea to let them stay here." said the husband.

"Why not?, they saved our store from being robbed once. I think we can trust them." said the wife.

"You do realize what'll happen if the police ever find out that we're hiding them here right?" said the husband.

...

"How's everything back here?" asked the wife.

"We're fine thanks." said Inaba Atsuko.

"Just a little hungry and thirsty." said Maeda Yuki.

What the, these two managed to find a place to hide out?  The store owners are sure running a big risk in doing so.

Inaba tried to get up, but winced in pain as she put weight on her badly twisted ankle.

Damn, if they're found out they won't be able to attempt an escape with Inaba injured.

Koyama returned the bow, "I'm forever in your debt for the kindness you first showed us,stopping 2 armed gunmen from robbing our store of all it's money." said Koyama

"Thanks, but that wasn't us." said Inaba.

"No, but the girls who helped were wearing the exact same uniform you are right now. They must be on the same team as you I guess." said Koyama.

Ah so that's why they took them in like that. They recognized the S.M.A.T. uniforms and realized that they were part of the "good guys".

Inaba laughed to herself, "You wanna know the sad thing?" asked Inaba.

"What?" asked Maeda.

"I bet no one even noticed that we were missing, we seem to get that a lot even in non-emergency situations." said Inaba.

K, I admit, I totally didn't notice that they were missing.

"Guess that's what we get for being some of the least popular girls in H!P." said Inaba.

"Not our fault that we get so little exposure, those others girls are just younger and more able to impress the younger fans." said Maeda.

True enough. In the entertainment world these days, it's all about exposure and how much of it you get.

Maeda then took a deep breath and closed her eyes, her entire body then began to vanish and within a matter of seconds she was completely invisible. But as she began to leave the backroom, Inaba and Koyama could hear her footsteps and see little footprints her boots left on the ground. The backroom door then opened, seemingly by itself as Maeda exited the backroom.

Hmmm...so Maeda can turn invisible, so that no one notices/sees her. Parallels real life a little to closely, doesn't it?

"Seems to be slowly dying down." thought Maeda to herself, "We'll just wait a few more hours before we try to make it back to TV Tokyo.", and with that Maeda quickly headed back to the convenience store where Inaba was.

Crap, neither of them know that TV-Tokyo has been evacuated. More importantly, Hasegawa's forces are there. If they head back (unless they can do a really good job of staying out of sight), they're gonna get captured.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

That's part of the reason my 3rd chapter was so short.

haha...even though I'm the writer I completely forgot to include Inaba and Maeda Yuki. I didn't notice until Sakura_Momusu pointed it out to me later.

I was like "Oh crap, I knew I forgot someone.", but I knew I could fix it, so I thought this little story of what happened to them and why they weren't there afterwards.

And Maedas Mutant Power seemed to suit her, she is kinda like the "Invisible girl" in H!P, half the time I forget she's a member and when I see her I'm like "Who's that??"

[JFC]

^ Nice one dude.

[niigaki_risa]

lol nice Tyler. I didn't know Maeda was a member until I watched the SALT5 PV. 

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 57-Selflessness

Ai Kago had just begun to wake up after being unconscious for over an hour after being struck by
the walkers stun bolt. As she looked around she happened to see that she was still inside the
S.M.A.Ts hanger. She also saw that she was sitting in a large circle with Otani, Ayaka, Konno,
Ogawa and Sayumi. All of the girls were staring down at the ground, with a look of defeat on
their face.

"What's going on?" asked Aibon, "What happened?"

"Keep quiet!" shouted a police officer standing behind her, "No talking!!". The officer then raised
his shotgun and threatened to hit Kago with the butt of his shotgun. Kago closed her eyes and
moved her head away.

"I don't have to take this." thought Kago, "I can make it out of here, I know I can.", Kago then
closed her eyes and began to concentrate on using her mutant fire abilities. But she suddenly
began to get shocked by electricity and began to shake and tremble as she laid on the ground. She
then heard a slow, steady beeping sound.

"I wouldn't try that again." said a voice.

Kago looked over and saw General Hasagawa begin to enter the hanger with a light police escort.

"While you were out, we fitted you with that necklace you're wearing." said Hasagawa.

Kago touched her neck with her hand and discovered she was wearing some kind of silver, metal
necklace.

"You only felt it's first response to trying to use your mutant powers." said Hasagawa, "First is an
electric shock, to discourage you from trying to use your mutant powers. But if you persist, then
the necklace itself will explode. Probably taking your head with it."

Kago gasped and quickly took her hand away from the necklace.

"Now, for your own safety I suggest you full co-operate with what we tell you to do." said
Hasagawa, Kago nodded her head.

Hasagawa then began to walk around the hanger, looking at the gun turrets, destroyed robots
laying on the ground, the runway, the hangers and Ayakas' other inventions.

"Would any of you mind telling me what all of this is?" asked Hasagawa, none of the H!P girls
spoke. But Ayaka raised her head.

"This used to be the hanger for our S.M.A.T aircraft." said Ayaka.

"S.M.A.T?" asked Hasagawa, "What's that?"

"It's the name of our organization." said Michishige, "It stands for Special Mutant Assistance
team."

"Really, and who are you assisting." asked Hasagawa.

"We were allied with the Tokyo police force." said Michishige.

Hasagawa nodded, "Is that true?" said Hasagawa to two young Tokyo Police Officers.

The officers looked at each other, then at the girls, both of them then shook their heads.

"No, that's not true, not to our knowledge." said one of the officers.

All of the girls then looked at the officers in shock and disbelief.

"I see." said Hasagawa, "As you already know, earlier Takayama city was destroyed by a mutant
army. And from the looks of it, it looks as if your girls were in fact ready and well prepared for a
war."

"That's not true!!" screamed Ogawa, "All we've ever wanted to do is have mutants and humans
co-exist peacefully. We were never a part of that attack."

"It sure doesn't seem like some of you girls believe in peace." said Hasagawa, "Earlier this
evening, Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills was completely destroyed by Miki Fujimoto. One of
your fellow Hello Project members."

The H!P girls all looked at each other, "What are you talking about?" asked Ayaka.

"Yeah, it seems that when we tried to arrest her, she resisted and completely destroyed Mori
Tower, along with 5,000 civilian volunteers and dozens of innocent Mori Tower employees."
said Hasagawa.

All of the H!P girls looked at each other in shock and disbelief.

"Are you certain it was Miki Fujimoto?" asked Michishige.

"Without a doubt, just as it was her who participated in the attack on Takayama City." said
Hasagawa.

"Listen...we can explain everything here." said Michishige.

"I don't need to hear your explanation." said Hasagawa, "You've already proven your guilt by
resisting arrest, assaulting numerous police officers and fleeing from police authority."

"But..." said Michishige.

"That's enough, I want these prisoners up on their feet and lead out of here." ordered Hasagawa,
the dozens of police officers guarding the H!P girls nodded, got the H!P girls on their feet and
began to lead them out of the hanger and into the streets of Tokyo, outside of TV Tokyo.

As the captured H!P girls entered the street, they saw the thousands of their fans, sitting on the
ground with thousands of officers and walkers guarding them. Once the fans saw their capture
idols, many of them began to cry and sob for them.

"We're SO SORRY!" cried one fan.

"We all tried our very best to save you..." said another.

"But it just wasn't enough." said another, lowering his head as he began to cry for his capture
idols.

"They tried." whispered Sayumi to Kago.

"And that's what truly matters." whispered Kago back.

The H!P girls were then lead towards large police patty wagons. Once the doors were opened,
they saw that Ishibashi was already sitting inside with oversized hand and ankle cuffs and a silver
necklace just like the ones the H!P girls were wearing.

"Taka-san?" said Kago, Ishibashi slowly looked over and his eyes grew wide.

"Aibon?...Konkon...Ogawa." said Ishibashi, he then quickly looked at the other girls, "Where's
Gottsuan?"

"She's safe, she escaped with the other girls." said Kago.

Ishibashi closed his eyes and leaned back, smiling brightly, "Thank goodness she's safe." said
Ishibashi.

"Ok, that's enough chit chat." said one of the guards, he then pushed Kago with the back of his
rifle into the back of the patty wagon, the other girls were then loaded into the police patty wagon
as well.

Once the girls took their seats, the police patty wagon began to leave TV Tokyo.

"Any idea where we're headed?" asked Michishige.

"No idea." replied Ishibashi, "But I just know it can't be good.", the other girls nodded their heads
and remained silent as the van continued to drive on.

Meanwhile back at Takayama, on the outskirts of the city. Mai Satodas・intense interrogation
continued. She had endured hours of torture and abuse at the hands of Tokyos army generals.

"I'm getting tired of asking you these questions over and over again." said a high ranking army
general, "So I'm gonna ask you once more."

"Where is the rest of your mutant army hiding."

Mai weakly raised her head, "I don't know what your talking about." answered Mai.

The general became enraged, quickly undid Mais・arm and leg restraints and quickly stood her up
on her feet. He then grabbed Mai by the throat with his left hand and with his right hand he took
out his sidearm pistol and placed it underneath Mai Satodas・chin.

"One more lie and I'm gonna blow your head off." screamed the general.

"I'm swear to you that I'm not lying." cried Mai.

"Stop screwing with me!!" roared the officer, pulling back the firing pin.

"I don't know anything." said Mai, tears streaming down her face.

The general pressed the barrel even harder against Mais・ Chin, "Then what good are you."
growled the General, placing his finger around the trigger on his pistol.

Just then a young soldier in his early 20's entered the tent, "Sir!, we've just got a request to bring
the mutant prisoner to Tokyo City to join more Hello Project girls that were captured just now."
said the soldier.

The General cursed, then took the pistol away from Mais・ chin and placed it back into his waist
holster. He then forcefully shoved Mai Satoda away and she fell to the ground.

"Then get her out of here!!" screamed the General angrily.

The young soldier carefully bent down and softly grabbed Mai Satoda by the arms and helped her
to her feet, "Come on, let's go..." he said softly, and Mai slowly looked up at him.

The way he spoke to her showed respect and concern for her well being. Something she hadn't
experienced since she was captured.

So Mai Satoda nodded and began to follow him. Once outside the tent, Mai and the young soldier
were joined by an Army Captain and 11 other soldiers.

"Let's go!" said the Captain, the Captain and his group of soldiers then began to walk towards the
outskirts of the military encampment, towards 3 large military trucks.

"Hurry up and get that....thing into the back of the awaiting truck." said the Captain.

"Yes sir!" said the young soldier, he then looked over at another soldier on his left and nodded to
him. He did the same to another soldier on his right.

Suddenly one of the soldiers quickly raised his rifle and smashed the butt of the rifle into the
back of the Captains head, sending him to the ground. While the young soldier next to Mai
Satoda quickly undid Mais・ handcuffs that she was wearing.

"What are you doing!" screamed the groups captain.

"Helping our idol that's what!" said the young soldier, aiming his rifle down at the Captain.

"You realize that this is mutiny!" said the captain, "And the penalty for Mutiny is death!!"

The young soldier looked over at his fellow soldiers, they looked down at the ground for a
moment then nodded. Staying by their idols side.

"Yes sir, I realize that." said the young soldier, "But there's one thing that I also know. The very
first time I ever felt real loyalty was towards my female Idol Mai Satoda. So my first loyalty is
towards her, my allegiance is with her." said the young soldier., he then looked back at Mai
Satoda. "I'd gladly die to protect her."

"That goes for me too." said another of the young soldiers.

"Me too!!" said another.

"Hai!" said the others.

"Then so be it!" said the Captain, quickly pulling out a whistle from his pocket, he then began to
blow it loudly three times, calling for help.

One of the soldiers quickly rushed forward and slammed the butt of his rifle into the Captains
face, knocking him unconscious.

But not in time, The army encampments sirens began to wail loudly, while spotlights began to
turn on and wave back and forth in the sky. Army dogs began to bark loudly, soldiers
ran around, grabbing their rifles and other equipment. Other soldiers quickly jumping into
army jeeps, others into their large tanks.

"Come on, let's get out of here!!" screamed the young soldier next to Mai. He quickly, but
carefully grabbed Mai Satoda by the arm and began to run with her, the other soldiers in his
group following just behind them.

Army Jeeps then began to exit the encampment, soldiers with guard dogs following close behind.
While large tanks rolled out of the camps exits, hundreds of more soldiers following beside or
behind the column of tanks.

One of the first jeeps to leave the army camp quickly pulled up next to the unconscious Captain.
The gunner looked down at the knocked out Captain, spotting a pair of undone handcuffs next to
him and no soldier escort for the Captain.

"Status report?" said an army generals voice on the jeeps radio.

The jeeps driver quickly grabbed the radio and raised it to his lips.

"Looks like we've got a couple of traitors on the run with the enemy mutant." said the driver.

"Then they're not Japans' soldiers anymore. They're mutant allies, eliminate them and the fleeing
mutant." said the General.

The driver looked back at his jeeps gunner and he nodded to him.

"Yes sir!, Gun safeties off, shoot to kill." said the driver, "I repeat shoot to kill!!". The jeep then
began to drive after the quickly retreating group of soldiers allied with Mai Saotda.

The group of soldiers loyal to Mai continued to run down the road as fast as they could.

"Where are we going?" asked Mai Satoda.

"We've got an army helicopter waiting for you." said the young soldier, "It'll take you to safety...if
we can get there."

Just then the headlights of a pursuing army jeep could be seen behind the group of soldiers.

"We've got company." said one of the soldiers.

"Looks like we'll have to detour." said the young soldier beside Mai, he and the others quickly
took a left turn and ran towards the tree line of the woods. The jeep was getting closer.

3 of the 11 soldiers stopped in their tracks, took the safeties off of their rifles and quickly took
aim at the approaching Army jeep.

"Keep going!" yelled the brave soldier, "Get her out of here!!"

Mai looked back at the 3 brave soldiers, "Thank you!!" she yelled to them as she and the other
loyal soldiers continued running towards the tree line.

The jeep then spotted the 3 soldiers on the road, "Wipe them out!" he said to his gunner. The
Gunner then fixed his sights on the 3 now enemy soldiers and squeezed the thumb triggers of his
jeeps large machine gun, firing at the 3 soldiers on the road.

The 3 soldiers quickly began to return fire at the fast approaching jeep, the jeep then stopped and
pulled off to the side of the road as the gunner continued to shoot at the 3 soldiers.

One of the soldiers on the road was hit and fell to the ground, the other was also mowed down by
the fast firing machine gun. The 3rd took three bullets to the midsection and fell to the ground, he
pushed himself up from the ground and remained on his knees as he raised his body and looked
at the jeep.

"Crush him!" said the jeeps gunner, the jeep then started up again and began to drive towards the
last remaining soldier.

The last soldier quickly took 2 grenades off of his belt and pulled both of the pins with his teeth
and flicked off the top caps of the grenades with his thumbs, he then held them against his chest as
the jeep approached.

"For Mai!!" he screamed, the 2 grenades exploded in a huge ball of fire just as the jeep was about
to hit him. The jeep flew into the air, engulfed in flames as it then crashed into the open field and
exploded.

Mai and the other retreating soldiers quickly looked back and saw an enormous ball of fire rise
into the sky through the trees they as continued running.

"Keep going!" said the young soldier.

More army jeeps and tanks quickly rolled past the destroyed army jeep and continued on down
the road.

"There's only one place they could be heading!" said one of the tank drivers, "To the heliport just
down the road."

Mai and her group of loyal soldiers then exited the other side of the forest. Once out in the open,
Mai Satoda saw an army helicopter waiting for them, along with 2 army jeeps and 1 tank loyal to
her ready to defend the heliport.

"We're almost there!" said the young soldier, "Keep running!"

Mai and her group then ran as fast as they could, Once they were just 300 feet from the heliport,
they quickly looked behind them and saw a large column of jeeps and soldiers running down the
road leading to the heliport.

The two army jeeps and tank loyal to Mai quickly started their engines and began to drive
towards Mai Satoda and her group. Mai Satodas・ eyes began to well up with tears, for she had
never seen such loyalty directed towards her.

Soon the 2 army Jeeps and Tank drove past Mai Satodas・group and set up a road block just
behind them. with the tank in the middle of the road, and the 2 jeeps parked sideways on either
side of the tank, completely blocking off the road.

The remaining soldiers of Mais・original group stopped in their tracks and were running back to
join the road block. While the young soldier who helped Mai escape stopped momentarily.

"Wait Koba-chan, brother wait!" yelled the young soldier to one of the other soldiers, "Come
with us!."

"No, just get Mai Satoda to the helicopter Kobai-chan." said Koba, "You keep her safe little
brother you hear me!!"

3 more soldiers from the helicopter rushed towards Mai Satoda and Kobai, one grabbed Mai and
began to lead her towards the helicopters doors. While the 2 other soldiers quickly grabbed Kobai
and started to drag him towards the helicopter.

"NNNOOO, Brother!!!" screamed Kobai, "Koba-chan!...KOBA-CHAN~!!", Mai was then
loaded into the helicopter, with Kobai and the 2 other soldiers. The helicopter then continued to
start up, the helicopters blades slowly spinning ontop of the helicopter.

Koba, being the highest ranking soldier, quickly took charge of the brave defectors.

"Just hold them back for a few moments." yelled Koba, "Keep them away from Mai Satoda."

"Hai!" screamed everyone,

The tanks large cannon began to rise up, then fired off an extremely loud shot and a few
moments later, one of the jeeps speeding towards the heliport exploded, soldiers on either side of
it were thrown away by the blast. The 2 jeeps and soldiers defending Mai then began to open fire
as well with their rifles, the jeeps large machine guns sweeping back and forth, firing wildly at
the approaching enemy army.

The helicopters blades were now spinning at top speed and they were ready for take off. Mai
Satoda quickly rushed towards the window of the helicopter and looked back at the brave
soldiers defending her. More tears fell from her eyes as she watched them fight hard for her.

But just then, a large column of tanks rounded the bend of the road leading towards the heliport.
The tanks then lined up side by side, raised their large gun barrels and began to fire as they
continued to drive towards the heliport.

Explosions were going off all around the soldiers at the roadblock, but none hit them as they
continued to fire at the large approaching army, they were impossibly outnumbered over 100 to 1
as the rest of the army became visible.

"Ok, lift off!" shouted the helicopter pilot and he pulled back on the controls of his helicopter and
the helicopter began to rise off the ground, then tilted forward and fly off into the distance, Mai
and Kobai continued to looked out the window at the tiny group, holding back the rest of the
army.

Koba looked back at the helicopter as it flew away. Bullets then hit the jeep infront of him and the jeeps gunner fell to the ground and died. So Koba quickly lept up onto the jeep, reloaded the jeeps machine gun and cocked the large gun back.

He then took aim at the advancing soldiers, and squeezed the thumbs triggers and the gun began to fire rapidly as Koba swept the gun back and forth across the approaching army. He quickly looked over his shoulder once more at the fleeing helicopter.

"Good bye Mai-chan, Goodbye little Brother." said Koba, he then refocused his attention on the approaching army.

But some of the enemy jeeps gunners fixed their sights on Koba and began to shoot at him. Koba was then began to get hit multiple times by the enemy machine guns, but he kept as tight a grip as he could on his guns thumb triggers, still shooting as he continued to get shot. One of his hands let go of the gun as he continued to fire his machine gun. Then he let go completely and fell from the jeep and hit the ground.

He had over a dozen bullets holes in him as he slowly raised his head and looked at the fleeing helicopter once more. He reached out his hand towards the helicopter.

"Mai-chan...." he said, his hand then dropped to the ground and he slowly lowered his head to the ground, closed his dying eyes and passed away.

Just then, one of the jeeps exploded into a ball of fire, the other following just after the
explosion. The soldiers standing around the jeeps were blown away and died.
The tank was then hit with numerous tank shells and finally exploded as well. More
explosions went off all around the destroyed jeeps and tank as the enemy tanks continued to
shoot shells at the roadblock.

Mai closed her eyes tight and placed her forehead against the window of the helicopter as it
continued to fly away.

"No...." said Mai, feeling so sad for the soldiers who just scarified themselves to save her life by
giving theirs.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Just because I can't think of a good mutant power for Inaba Atsuko.

I'm gonna "ASK THE READERS!!" their their opinion and suggestion.

Who here and suggest a good mutant power to go with Inaba.

One that suits her personality and life in H!P.

Up till now, I think me and Sakura_Momusu have done a good job pairing girls with a very very suiting mutant power. .

But for Inaba, I'm stumped, I can't think of a good one at the moment.